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Live from downtown Memphis, this is the Chris Vernon Show. on YouTube at Grind City Media and the official Grind City Media app. Now, here’s your host, Chris Vernon. [Music] Once in your life, won’t you do what feels right instead of waiting for the next big compromise? Stop running your mouth. Get out of the house and shake it all out tonight. Here we go. It’s noon on grind city media.com. It’s Chris Vernon show. Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. It is the Friday, October 31st, 2025 edition of the show. Happy Halloween. Today on the show, Grizzlies got a big game tonight. a NBA Emirates Cup game at FedEx Forum as they’re going to be playing against the Los Angeles Lakers. Late tip 8:30 tonight and it matters. We’re going to give you reasons to hate the Los Angeles Lakers. We’re also going to give you our Sky Dog of the game. We’ll get you ready for the upcoming football weekend as well. Gary Parish from the Gary Parish Show is going to join us in studios as he does on Friday and it is a Halloween edition of the Chris Varnish Show and it’s nice outside. Smile. Let’s do it. Turn it up. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Oh, [Applause] [Music] once once in your life, won’t you do what feels right instead of waiting for the next big thing to strike? Stop running your mouth. Get out of the house. Get yourself downtown and sh [Applause] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hope everybody’s having a good day. All right, bunch up to get to on the show today. Not the least of which is the Grizzlies are playing in an Emirates Cup game at FedEx Forum New Court and they’re playing against Jake Laravia and the Los Angeles Lakers at FedEx Forum. We will get to that and everything else that’s going to be going on this weekend. Before I get to anything, I welcome John Roser to the show. John Roser aka the cologne ranger the body spray pan is in your sack. Johnny backpack the grim roer. John asparagus. Johnny net carb. John Lance. He’s Yogi Roser. He’s Dr. Thunder. He’s John the polluter. The stay puffed marshmallow man. If you know, you know. I cried when he died in the OG Ghostbusters movie. First time I remember crying over a movie. Shout out to the marshmallow man. Back and better than ever. His legend lives forever. Devin Walker’s here. He’s the microphone mangler. Senoradella, Mr. Mad Navajo Joe, the reporter, the photographer. He’s Sir H. He’s Walker 93. You can’t hear me. Huh? You can’t hear me? I hear you. Yeah, we can hear you. You hear me? Yeah, you can hear me. What’s up, good people? I’m the I’m the dopest horse you know. You know what I’m saying, dude? Hey, I’m not I’m not gonna lie. Like if you actually see Devon’s like full like it’s a fit. My full fit is like it really is. The shoes match the horse head. Stop glazing, bro. It’s true, bro. You didn’t say that about mine. You look like a freaking carrot, bro. That’s what I am. Yeah. Carrot man. I am a carrot. Somebody a What do you mean? You could have been a buddy. Carrot man. All right. I’m carrot man. So what? All right. Gary Parish from the Gary Fer show is here. You can listen to his show every morning at 10 o’clock. He wasn’t gonna get involved in this at all. No. Oh, no. And now he’s He’s been bullied now that we’re all dressed up. He’s been bullied into it. Yeah. He’s been bullied into it for the party. And with the way his nose is launched in that thing, he looks He looks like the bad guy from Billy Madison. The revolting blob. Revolting. Not the revolting blob. Jaylen, you have got to find the revolting blob picture. What’s a turn his microphone on? Got to have a microphone. Least you can do. Good grief, Roser. You got one job. Oh, there glazing the marshmallow man. Can’t even turn your mics on. You’re still a producer. No matter what you’re wearing, you’re still the producer. Blonde. Gary. Gary is now he’s now he’s walked into it because he’s the revolting blob. That’s his wrestling name. I don’t know what that means. Let me see. You don’t you don’t remember Billy Madison? I remember the the revoling block. I don’t remember that part of it. He’s the school principal. Oh my god. Oh my god. Hold on. Let me get my nose right here. Is that it? Yo, I’m dead. Yo, I can’t breathe, bro. I can’t breathe, bro. Oh my god. [Music] Bro, I can’t breathe, bro. I can’t breathe. I ain’t saying I ain’t saying I’m proud of it. I’m not saying I’m proud of it. You really don’t remember that? That was a school principal, but he moonlighted as a wrestler. He killed a guy. He killed a guy in a wrestling match. I’m not saying I’m proud of the comparison. Do the hand. Yo, I can’t breathe, bro. I’m not saying I’m proud of the comparison, but I get it. I can see it. I see what you’re seeing. I understand what you’re looking at. Lord almighty. All right. You look ridiculous. You got a horse on your head. Well, tell me I look ridiculous. Oh my god. I’m surprised you didn’t dress up as Lamar Jackson. Hey, I almost did, bro. My dog is back, man. Oh, we know. We know. We know your dog is back. We know your dog is back. We didn’t have to hear his name for six weeks. Yeah, we back now, baby. We back. All right. And by the way, I loved Tua Takabova this morning complaining that they couldn’t get their plays off because of the visiting Ravens fans. That’s always a tough one. That’s a tough one when you come in and you start blaming the opposing fans and it was a home game. But we’re neither here nor there. All right. Grizzlies are playing against the Lakers tonight. Before I get to that, did you end up watching? I can’t. God, you’re going to take this take you serious? No, I take you more seriously as a horse. I can’t breathe in this one, bro. I watched the game and we suck. You watch Memphis versus Auburn. So Deon Deon sent us a link with like an Auburn password. Yeah, shout out to my Barbin people, man. But I ended up having to uh drive my son to a football game last night. So I wasn’t able to uh watch the uh Memphis game. So tell me what I missed. It it I saw I Gary was chronicling this morning that they’ve lost two games by an average of 27 points. So let’s uh Is there anything good? They can’t shoot. Oh, that’s good. And that sometimes they forget what team they play for. So they throw the ball to the other team all the time. Yeah, it was like 20 something turnovers. You said they had 17 in the first half. So did you watch it? All right, I actually had I left the Monica and Brandy show and I turned it on. I watched it. You did watch Wait, you went to Monica and Brandy? Yeah, bro. By the way, shout out to all the baddies that was at that show last night, bro. I I swear the amount of baddies that were at that show last night, bro. Really, bro? The It was premium baddies at that Monica and Brandy show. Premium baddies. Wow. Premium baddies. Not just lower level baddies, not trial level baddies. Premium plaza level baddies. Like plaza level baddies. Angel of No, they bro, I’m telling you, if you were Were there any dudes except that weren’t boyfriends? There were like seven dudes. That’s why I was like, I got to get out of here. Oh, okay. I don’t want to be confused by, you know. Yeah. Right. And I was I was dooo, too. So, I didn’t want to be confused with a Was it fun? I mean, the part I was there for. Yeah. Okay. I got in and out, but I went home to watch the game and it was bad. freaking orange, bro. I This is so hard to do. Did you watch When you watch it, did you think Memphis sucks or did you think Auburn is awesome or did you think both? So, my Auburn person, they they said that Auburn was supposed to be bad. So, I had the expectation, okay, we’re we’re going to be all right cuz they lost Dy Broom and they lost. Yeah, they still had uh what’s the little short pedophile transfer the long dude that was dunking on everybody. Kean was dunking on everybody and they started playing. I was like, “Hold on, they don’t suck. We suck. We suck.” I will say this. We They don’t suck. We suck. I went and did the math on it because look, Memphis got up on Arkansas early. Yeah, they were up 15 points in the first half. If you stop it right there and say, “Okay, Memphis is up 15.” Now, from that point, what happens the rest of the week? Yep. The Tigers were outscored in 68 1/2 minutes, 186 to 118. Oh, no. 186 points were scored on them in 68 and 1/2 minutes. They lose the two games by an average of 26 and a half points. The numbers don’t number. The numbers. I mean, I don’t know. I mean, they need they need they need some of uh Tumas Iselo’s data collection because that is gnarly data to collect. Three points a minute. They can’t shoot, bro. They get No, forget the can’t shoot. He just said they gave up three points a minute. They turn the ball over and give up a layup. I mean, the the points off turnovers last night were like 33 to7. Yuck. I mean, that’s your game. That’s the whole game right there. Yuck. So the concern Wait, wait, wait, wait. Oh, points off turnover. Shot. Yeah. Got outsc scored by freaking 26 points and lost again by 29. So that’s that’s their whole game right there. You’re just giving the ball away and then and then creating easy opportunities for the opponent. Um I liked them in the first half against Arkansas. The first 10 minutes against Arkansas, buddy. They look sharp. Um I think that’s one of those things where Arkansas’s probably like Memphis ain’t very good. We don’t even know who these players are. You sleepwalk through the first 10 minutes, then you turn it on and run away from them. This is concerning, like real concerning because even based off of computer projections that have literally nothing to do with these two blowouts we just watched, they’re expected to go six and seven in the non portion of their schedule. Like that’s that’s not good. That that that basically will eliminate them from at large from the atlarge conversation. I want to say I ran into a guy that was like I last night and he stopped me and first thing he said was, “My god, Cedric Coward, I’m in love.” And then he was and he started asking me about he’s like do you know what happened with Memphis and Auburn? I was like I don’t. Um and he was like man he’s like I just he’s like he’s like you know I’ve been a Tiger fan my whole life. I love Penny but I don’t know dude. He’s like why does nobody play for him for two years. And I was like I don’t know. He’s like he’s like outside of like DeAndre and like Lommax like that first group with East. He’s like nobody comes back for even a second year. Well you look at all you can look at all the turnover on staff too. Yeah. There’s been a lot of player like dang. I was like I was like that’s kind of dark. Well, I mean it is but it is true. I I didn’t know what the answer is. Honestly, I didn’t know what the answer is. Like why does why do we never have this any of the same players two years in a row? I think what happens is people get used to saying, “Well, this is just the state of the game. You know, everybody’s moving everywhere, so this is normal.” For sure not. It’s exaggerated here. Yeah. Like there there are 365 division one men’s college basketball teams. Yeah. Yeah, there’s roster turnover everywhere. Only 11 of the 365 have completely new rosters. Not one returning player out of 365. Only 11. There are only 11 schools that literally returned nobody. And Memphis is one of them. Are any of the other ones good programs? I mean, are they just ones that got poached? Baylor. Oh, okay. That’s a good program. Like Baylor lost everybody. Everybody. Everybody. Yeah. And did they replace it with awesomeness? More awesomeness than Memphis did. Bro, they lost freaking VJ Edgecom who is already awesome. Yeah, I feel like we have good players, but I don’t know. Like I don’t know, GP. Is it just cuz we’re playing like high level talent or is it just what it is what it is? Well, this is the problem. It doesn’t matter why you’re bad against high major talent. That’s who you’re playing. Yeah. Starting next week. Like that’s the schedule. That’s why you’re expected to go six and seven. And that’s six and seven based off of them being ranked 52nd at Ken Pom. If you were to, and you shouldn’t, to be clear, this should not happen. But if Kim Pom were to decide, you know what, just for the fun of it, I’m going to calculate in I’m going to run the exhibition numbers and now see what it spits out. Memphis would torpedo Yeah. after these two performances. So, it’s concerning, but I I will I’ll wait until it’s a non-exhibition because you probably shouldn’t be, you know what I mean? Like, again, the Grizzlies are way better than they looked in the preseason, right? We we look like literally the worst team in the world. We were like I mean good grief. We were overreacting. It was like good. How bad are we? But that’s fine. But that’s playing five games without John as opposed to them playing five games with John Mar. We don’t get to add John to the Tigers on on you know next week. You tell me Doug McDaniel is not John. I’m going to tell you Doug McDaniel’s not Doug John. I know they’re the same grill. Well then we need to find you hear that from me then somebody else. Then we need to find somebody from Overtime Elite or the G-League or something. I saw ISO going crazy about that. Yeah. What is crazy? Who who added somebody added like a pro. He was like and they don’t want to fight it because they lose every time they go to court and Iso was like at some point you’ve got to be able to go to court. I you know I mean not be scared to say no to something. He’s like, “We can’t just be getting professional basketball players and saying, “Hey, well, they never played in college.” And Tom Mizo and I like we disagree on a lot of these topics. Yeah. You know, cuz it’s an old school way of thinking and a more progressive way of thinking. But I don’t even mean that I’m always right and he’s always wrong. I just mean we just we think about it differently and it’s a nuance situation. We’ve talked about it a lot. And um that point is one where I totally agree with him on. If you want to have any kind of structure to college athletics, at some point you have to have the fight. You have to say we’re saying no and we’re going to fight you all the way because right now they’re scared to have you lose your amateurism when you turn professional in the same sport. Again, it’s different if it’s Chris Wanky. It’s different if it Right. But if you’re playing the same sport, you should lose your amateurism if you play professionally and get paid. So, let me just walk you through this and and tell you how we got here. So, what just happened is a G-League guy who was in the G- League for three years. He come out of high school. Not even like threeyear pro in the G. He was in the GL for three years. Um that’s not a he did not coming out of high school. He could have gone to college and just decided to sign a either an overtime elite deal or G-League deal, whatever, pro deal of some sort. Well, the NCAA has started allowing international players who only made so much money. First, let me backtrack. It used to be if you made any money playing professional basketball anywhere in the world, you cannot play college basketball. That was the rule. Cut and dry. Mhm. Recently they started allowing international players if you know they only made this amount of money. It was just a little bit more above room and board and whatever we’ll allow them to come. So then American players started saying well if they can do that they’ve been professional and they’ve only made 40 grand. Well I’m a professional and I’ve only made 40 grand. Why can’t I play? So they try that and now here we and and so Santa Clara got a G-League player eligible and then Louisville tried it and now they’ve got an eligible player. So what Tom’s point I think is this because the people who are okay with what’s happening they say listen it’s not that big of a deal. It’s just people who are yeah they’re technically professionals but they’re nothing players and they want to come back to college now that money is available and and and that’s why this is happening and it won’t go any further than this. My point and I think Toms is too is the only reason this is happening it’s not because the NCAA quote changed the rules. It’s that people started testing the rules. Yeah. And then they wouldn’t they wouldn’t fight them for anything. So here’s his point is here’s the slippery slope. Stop some at some point you got to have the fight is what he said. Yes. So here’s the slippery slope right now. What what people will tell you at the NCAA they’ll say hey listen this all this is is guy was never in the draft. If you’ve ever been in the draft you’re ineligible. Our rules are clear. If you’ve ever been in the draft you are ineligible to play college basketball. So that we’re not it’s not going to go all these places other people are saying it’s going to go. And my point to that person who told me that is this. Yeah, that’s what the rules are. But your rules used to be. If you’ve taken a penny, you can’t play college basketball. If you’ve ever been a professional, you can’t play college basketball. You’re already adapting the rules because you’re scared of lawsuits. So, and this is a hypothetical. What happens when something like this happens? Liam McNeely last year played at Yukon, right? One and done player gets drafted, first round pick. I don’t know what he’s doing right now, but let’s say for the sake of the conversation, he’s a net. Okay. He gets a two-year contract, rookie, normal deal. And let’s say he just is terrible, terrible, and the Nets, this doesn’t happen almost ever, but it does. It can’t happen. They just decline the team option, and they say, “After two years, we’re done with you. Go.” If Dan Hurley then picks up the phone and calls Liam McNeely back and says, “Uh, hey, you’re out of there. I got you $2 million. Come back to Yukon. Come on, let’s try it.” Yeah. Is that the fight then? That’s a new fight. Or if GI Jackson just said, “You know what? I’d rather just go be a kid again and go be South Carolina. What is the I’m not playing for the Grizzlies anyway. What is the actual difference between a G-League player and an NBA player? Coming back to this, you’re just drawing arbitrary lines. It’s like, well, the G-League player only made 70 grand and the NBA player made 2 million. Okay. Still, so what what’s I guess in that case, you would just pray that the NBA fights it because then they’d say, fine, GG. Then you can enter the draft again. I I don’t even know what you would do. I guess the team would still keep your right to All of this is a mess. It’s a mess, though. The problem with coaches on one hand, they’re tired of complaining because they know people don’t want to hear multi-millionaires complain, particularly now with everything that’s going on in the country, but they also like I’m trying to win a championship and you’re telling me I could have recruited a specific G-League player instead of the 17-year-old high school? I had no idea I even could. I was at Big 12 media day last week and I’m sitting there. I’m talking with Scott Drew, Bill Self, men who have won national championships and they’re literally looking at me and saying I don’t know who we can recruit and who we can’t. We don’t I’m I’m in the Hall of Fame and I don’t know who I can recruit and who I can’t. This is crazy. Ridiculous. I should I should at least know who’s available. I should at least know. And I had no until Louisville signed this G-League player. I personally had no idea we could do that. Kelvin Samson talked about it. He said, “I heard about this and I went to my staff and I said, “Are we on this stuff?” And Kell, his son, said, “Dad, we already we got a target on one guy.” He’s like, “But it was not known to me that we could take G-League players.” And I’m I’m Kelvin Samson. This is crazy. Wow. It is crazy. the whole thing. Do you think I’ve been wondering this and I’m interested in your thoughts when we’ve been keeping up with college football now the talk every day Kevin’s like the most desirable human in the world right and and I think you agree with me just stay at miss bro and he probably will right because if he goes seven to five next year they’re okay rest of the places the other thing I noticed this morning and these are just things that factor in he retweeted a clip did you see this it’s his son being interviewed by the local news. Oh, he’s in Oxford. He’s a sophomore starting quarterback at Oxford High or wherever. Like, do you really want to rip him out of that? Yeah, sure. I mean, all these things matter. Well, and so here here’s the deal. That set aside, you’re talking LSU, you’re talking Florida, you’re talking Penn State, like, who knows what other jobs could possibly come open, right? Like, we’re we’re literally two weeks away from anybody like we just talked about earlier. If Kayn D’Vor loses this week and then loses to Auburn, like it’s like, oh crap. I mean, like, are they going to pull the plug on this? because they don’t put up with that, right? And the impatience is at an all-time high. Do you think this will flip to basketball as well in the same way that it has with football, right? Because one of the things that has happened with this new era, and I do my opinion is everybody’s just going to have to adjust cuz ain’t no way for everybody to be good. But the expectations are still that you’re going to be good like you’ve always been good like the whole 40 years of my life my team has been good right and it may not be so anymore. Um do you think that the impatience will hit basketball in the same way that it has hit football? Yes. Yes. And I think it’ll work a variety of different ways but to your point it’s just it feels like you’re random. You have boosters throwing millions of dollars around for NIL to buy players. And if they don’t see the results, they’re going to believe the problem is that the coach couldn’t get what they were supposed to get out of the players, and they’re going to be hesitant to reinvest into the program. So, if you’re an athletic director or university president, you got to consider that it’s much easier to get people to throw money at something new than it is to throw money at the something they just watched underachieve. They’re having this problem at Ruckers. So, it is the boo. That’s interesting. I I haven’t thought about this that a major reason for this is that people are It’s not the five guys that always kind of put up the money so you could under the table it. There’s a huge group of people that feel invested in it. It’s almost like, you know, it’s almost like the Packers, right, where they’ve got like the public ownership Yes. of said program is now the case. And so, you feel like I have a stake in this. You got 100 people who are throwing real money at this thing and they say, “We’re not giving our money to this guy again.” Right. So, they’re dealing with this at Ruckers right now. They went for it last year. They go out and get Dylan Harper. Oh, and Ace Bailey. They buy Ace Bailey. They spent millions of dollars with no result. Yeah. Terrible result. Terrible. They were bad. And by the way, Dylan Harper is absolutely awesome. And Ace Bailey should have been amazing at I mean, he was he was they were both good. They were both good. The thing they did there, think of it like they were the Phoenix Suns. They had all this money invested in like two dudes and the rest of the roster was bad. So the problem they’re having now at Ruckers, you go back to these same money people and you’re like, “All right, we need another five million to build a basketball team.” And they’re like, “What? We gave you $5 million last year. You had two top five picks. Didn’t even make the tournament. I’m not giving money back to you. Wake me up when you got a new coach who can do something with top five picks. And that’s when you’ll get my money again.” So now Ruckers picked at the bottom of the Big 10 and it’s the beginning of the end for Steve Pel probably because once they give you all the money to go do the job and you don’t do it, it makes it much more difficult to get him to give you the money the second time around. And that’s where the AD, even if he likes you, understands, hey, I’ve got to pull the trigger on you because I can’t get these guys to give me money anymore for this program until I get rid of you. just feels like college is just going to be a constant revolving doors, you know, because as we were talking about, put your opinions aside, right? Whether it is Brian Kelly or whether it is maybe you didn’t think Billy Napier was good, but he was good before he went to Florida or it’s James Franklin or it’s Hugh Fes or it’s Mike Norville. All of these guys that we accepted are good. Dan Mullen. Yeah. All these guys that we accepted are good are now deemed not good. Right. And so it’s like, is it them and their inability to coach or is it now that this stuff is going to be infinitely more random? Like our guy Mike, I mean, I saw I told them yesterday, the Florida State guy I follow who’s an alum, uh, he’s actually in the golfing world, and he posted, he was like, “Okay, that’s it. Bye, Mike.” And it was a screenshot of StubHub that there were lower bowl tickets for eight bucks, right? Like that’s the end. I you can’t have $8 seats on the 10 say when you’re playing your football coach you’re playing Forest you’re not playing Samford right like that’s it’s untenable it’s going to be hard for him to survive this um I to your point to answer your question directly I think it’s more random and I think it’s more random now because the things that used to be advantages for just like a handful of schools they’re not really advantages anymore everybody’s kind of working at the top of the sport with the same type of resources and your I mean, like think about the guy at Texas Tech. Yeah. Nobody knows who that You go around and poll people say, “Who is the football coach at Texas Tech?” Nobody knows. Nobody. It’s Joey Maguire. They spent a billion dollars on the roster and they ended up in the top 10. Same thing at basketball at Texas Tech. Same thing of basketball, Texas Tech. They’re preseason top 10. Why? How? They paid $4 million to JT Toppin, right? And they spent like $5 million on a softball player. So is that’s what is that I I wonder if this is what’s going to happen. The talent is more spread out than it’s ever been. No, no, no. What’s happened in the NBA, which is in 90% of the cases, the coach is not highly paid. Oh, yeah. The roster is right. And I wonder if that’s going to change in college athletics now. Right. Just buy the mill get the million-dollar coach and the billion dollar roster. That’s right. I’ve been talking about this for a while. coaches get mad when I say it, right? Cuz cuz you’re not important anymore in the same way cuz they watch a basketball player and the numbers have increased dramatically in recent years, but like at the beginning it was like, “And we just gave this kid 750 grand.” Now it’s like 7 million, but a few years ago it was like, “And we gave so and so 500,000.” And and they were bitching about it like, “Can you believe?” And I’m like, “Bro, you make five million, right?” And he’s like, “Yeah, but” and I’m like, “Think about this at the professional level.” Yep. The manager of the Mets does not make more money than Francisco Lindor. No. All right. The coach of the Grizzlies does not make more money than Jiren Jackson Jr. College athletics is still the only place where the coaches are making more money than the players. All about them. And when that that should get flipped. It will. It should. Doesn’t it feel that way? Coaches should not be making Listen, I don’t care what anybody makes, but like the idea that the the football coach at a university makes 10 and the best football player at that university makes seven. In reality, what we know is that that coach should maybe make five and then nobody’s going to want a coach because and the player should make 12 or in reality the player should make 40 and the coach should be making seven. It’s literally the only place they have authority except for the Miami Heat and for years the San Antonio Spurs. always out there. Rick Carle, right, probably matters more. I remember I remember like Mickey Callaway. He’s from Germantown and he got the Mets job. But but in fairness, if if if Tyrus Hallebertton hated Rick Carile, Rick Carl would be going. I he might be the the type although they got him. I know Luka got him out there. Luke got him quick. The what I find interesting is that the the majority of coaches don’t seem to recognize they are Is that thing talking, bro? Come on, man. Bro, I’m being I’m being dense here. Bro, you didn’t know that. Did you hear that? Yes, we heard it. Does it talk? I think so, bro. You didn’t know it? Did you hear that? Yes, we heard it. What does it say? I don’t know. Is it It’s not supposed to talk. Now we’re really freaked out. I would prefer it not talk if it’s not supposed to. Yo, you can’t make her talk again. I don’t know how you do it. How do you do it? Surely you Where’d you find her? Last night at that concert. Don’t do that. Don’t do that. Oh, there go she goes. There she goes. Come on. We need to be together. Oh, no. We need to put that over here. You need to put that up. Send that to Drake. Yeah, you got that over there, bro. Yeah, put this over here. That’s a demon child. You got that, bro. Yeah, you got that. The thing that I was trying to say is that most coaches be careful where you touch that thing. Good point. Yeah. Yeah. Put that thing. Put that Put that over there. Be careful. So, we don’t need that bad mojo. Put that screenshot. Yeah. Yeah. That’s a sick old screenshot. Be careful. Me dress up like a doll. Yeah. Yeah. We don’t need that. Most coaches don’t seem to realize that they’re still so much on the right side of this. They still work in an industry where coaches make more than players and that is not the way professional sports works almost ever and we are dealing with professional sports now. The point I was making Mickey Callaway from Germantown I just remember like man he got the Mets jaw and I was like I looked up a set he’s making two two million bucks. Yeah. I mean to manage the New York Mets like you know it’s not nothing it’s Yeah. But like relative to But that’s not even a that’s not even a prospect that the every basketball coach in the SEC makes more money than the Mets manager was making. That’s the point. And that’s going to get So you think it what we’re going to look at is that these buyouts are not going to exist this way. So the the Louisiana governor is way out of line and has made this way tougher than it should have been. But did you read Ross Dinger’s by the way? I don’t read Ross Dinger has like the sorted history of LSU or whatever. Dude, they had a governor named Huie Long that called plays. Wait, for real? Yeah. In like the 50s. He’s like He’s like, “To hell with it. I’m calling plays.” And they’re like, “Politics in football is always intersected in Louisiana.” I’m like, “What?” They have literal pictures of him with referees at halftime talking to referees about calls he disagreed with that happened in the game that were happening in the game. The Now this guy, look, you think he’s overstepped his bounds? He once had a governor that said to hell with it. I called the governor. I know she is. So maybe he’s just doing what you’re supposed to do when you’re the governor. The the thing that he is right on though, these contracts are crazy crazy. One-sided and insane. Ear muffs Jimmy and they have my guy Jimmy want to hear that. But it’s like Jimmy is and he’s at the forefront of it. But it’s Brett just it’s all these guys. They have manipulated the entire industry in a way where these contracts are so bad. Well, here’s what I would say in fairness. Three years ago, your coach was the most important person on the campus. Seriously. Yeah. Your football coach matter. I just think this happened so quickly, so rapidly that like it’s impossible for the coach to be the most important because of the turnover. The paycheck’s the most important thing. Now the the money you have to offer somebody you can be well because as you said these advantages the recruiting advantage like everybody now if Texas Tech can outre you because they got more money than you. You could be Kirby Smart and sit in a young man’s living room or Lane Keifin and sit in a young man’s living room and 10 years ago Kirby Smart comes with every advantage unless it’s a Mississippi kid. Yeah. Now who’s got the bigger check? Yeah. Kirby, how much you got? 2.2. Tooth Lane, how much you got? 2.5. I’m going to Mississippi. And he would have never lost that player ever in a Sabbin knew this. Yeah. Yeah. Sneeze. He knew this was coming. He got ahead of it, right? And even Cal when he was talking to you. Yeah. You could tell he ain’t he ain’t long for this. Honestly, I think he’ll be the next one that walks away because he says he he keeps he’s he’s you know when he transactional. That’s what he said. And he coins a phrase and it’s like transactional rather than transformational. when he says it over and over and over in every interview he does. When it becomes transactional instead of transformational, I don’t want to be a part of it, bro. He’s letting you know. Yeah. This is in his head and he’s going to do the Jay Bilis or the Jay Wright thing and the just walk away and he would be unbelievable on television. Unbelievable. Yes. I would put him in a studio every night and he just will. Yeah. I’d put him in a studio every night. He’d be great. Um I I do like in the I don’t know whether this is true or not but I can tell you it’s true that people say this or at least theorize it like you know Bill Self just had the worst two years of his career at Kansas and it happens to coincide when schools are allowed to buy players right and so I mean they were caught up in a recruiting scandal you know and so the theory would be well yeah now it’s not as easy to just get better players than everybody else right by doing things that other people weren’t doing now everybody’s doing the same stuff well they were and they were involved of every other story in the last 20 years. That’s right. That’s right. So, it’s not it’s not some kind of state secret that Kansas, Kentucky, North Carolina, Duke, like these guys, they didn’t go there for funsies. So, like Bill, like the two years, past two years have been relatively relative to his own standard, not good. John got pushed out of Kentucky, had a bad first year at Arkansas. Yeah. Oh, so you’re saying it’s already happening. You can connect some dots or at least at least some people do connect some dots. those guys used to have, you know, a a stronghold on some most of the best prospects in the country on some level along with Duke of course and now it’s just not as easy as it used to be. And then also you can’t just like John could just go out and get the five best high school players he could get once upon a time and that would give him a final four contender every year. You can’t do that now. So maybe this is another feather in the cap of the uh University of Memphis and how they do it because Penny and Silverfield are lowly paid considering considering right amongst their peers. That’s right. Yeah. You know what I’m saying? Like they don’t make a ton of money, right? And it’s like I mean if you did have to replace a coach like we’re still kind of in that range where mo I I wonder who the next one’s going to be because even Indiana went and signed a guy cheap, right? Big 10 standard wise and then they gave him $90 million. That’s the not lose him. But it is hard to say. And here’s the thing. You ready for this? One day they’re gonna buy that contract out at like 30 million. You’re gonna pay that money. 20 million because he has totally created his own monster. And if Indiana because when he wins when he wins eight games three years from now, people are going to go, “Ah, what’s going on here?” It’s not the same anymore. Yeah. Do you consider just not the same? You consider Mark F is one of those. I’m looking at contracts for college basketball coach right now. Mark only makes $2 million. Two 2.5. No scenario where he only makes 2.5. I bet it’s double that. This is just recorded. Yeah, but that remember it’s a private university. Private universities don’t have to. I remember that USA Today every year USA Today does their annual report of college coaching salaries and I just remember somebody at Duke one time telling me regardless of what that says just always know Kay is at the top he is making so much money that is not reported for that that they don’t even know but the highest paid I had somebody at Duke tell me this because I referenced the USA Today thing one time and they they said just know Every time the conversation ever comes up, who’s the highest paid men’s college basketball coach, it is always Mike Shashes. Yeah, that’s funny. Damn. Josh is 66 on this list. So, to your point, it’s not even to your point about Signetti. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, he will become a victim of his own success. And this is They do. They all do. And like this is what Buzz Williams talked to me about a long time ago when he left Marquette. He left Marquette after six years. And he said, and so people were like, “Why did you do that? Why why did you go to Virginia Tech?” He said cuz I looked at my first six years and it was I’m off the top of my head here but it was like four sweet 16s in Elite 8 Dwayne Wade Jay Crowder he Dway was a little before him but that was Cream but he had Jay Crowder he had Jimmy Butler what’s the do with the hyphen name that was called there I can’t remember his name I remember so anyway here’s what Buzz just whether you agree with it or not here’s what he decided he said I took a honest look at myself and I said what are the odds that I that my next six years at Marquette will be as good as my first six years at Marquette. Four sweet 16s in Elite 8. Keep in mind we’re moving off of ESPN as a big E school going to FS1. So we’re off of the ESPN stuff. Can I maintain this? Not can I still be good. I can still be good. But can I do four Sweet 16s in the next six years? Because if I don’t, my fans are going to say, “We used to go to Sweet 16s all the time and now we’re not. What’s wrong? Nothing’s wrong. I was just amazing in my first six years and I’m still good, but now you don’t think I’m good enough anymore.” Right? So, no, I’m bouncing. And he said, “And I figured this out after I had dinner with Frank Hay and Cono Martin.” There you go. Right. Those guys would always Oliver Pernell was the best at it. Like, oh yeah, take a bad thing, make it was like house flipping almost. Buy a bad house, get it good, sell it, get out of there, go get a new house. Like Oliver Oliver Pernell, I think, never went to an instant tournament and coached at the high major level for 20 years. He would just get or never won a tournament game. Maybe that was it. just keep on moving on. Yeah. And so, um, the the the the the thing that’s going to happen here with with Signetti is that he’s obviously off the charts right now and it’s going to come back down to earth a little bit. He won’t be the king of the Big 10. He’ll be fifth in the Big 10. And your own fans are like, we’re paying $11 million. Yeah. And then there’s then then you’ll look up in seven years from now and it’ll be Indiana is buying out Kirk Signetti for the remaining $20 million on his contract. These contracts are crazy. That’s the one thing the governor of Louisiana got right. These contracts are insane. And I don’t know, look, I’d never win an argument with the fans of these perspective of these respective schools. But I will tell you this, if someone we talk about football every week, we all watch football every Saturday. I refuse to believe Mike Norvel’s Hugh Freeze and James Franklin suck. I just there’s no way. I wonder if there’s no way you cuz you actually have to coach now. I feel like now you’re forced to coach more so than just stack. You know what I’m saying? Like I feel like on both sides like football and basketball, you have to actually be a coach. Oh yeah. opposed to being like, “Okay, I’m going to get the best players.” Motivator delegator. That’s why that’s why if I were a a university right now, the things that used to matter to me in hiring coaches are like, they don’t matter to me at all. It used to be like, is he a recruiter? Does he to your point that might be why Signetti is amazing because he’s awesome at coaching 100%. He’s a real If you if you hired him 10 years ago, he might just be getting his brains beat out in Indiana, but now he’s Mike Leech. Yeah, maybe. Yeah, like Kelvin Samson is somebody like who actually coaches the game of basketball. X is and you know what I care about now. I don’t care if you can recruit at all cuz I know if I give you the money, you’ll get the roster. That’s what recruiting is now. I don’t need to know. Well, is he good with people? Is he good in the living room? I don’t care. Is he good on the basketball court? Is he good on the football field? Go. So maybe they do stink. Go Right. The most amazing division two coach, right? Go Drake did this last year at uh in college basketball. Ben McCollum had won four national championships at the division two level, but he’s just a division two coach. You never know if those guys can recruit at the high major level, whatever. Drake goes out and hires him, wins 30 games, wins the MVC, gets the Iowa job. Now, if they set him up, it doesn’t all the [ __ ] that used to matter. Yeah. Relationships with AU coaches, relationships with Sunny Vicero, relationship. It’s now if you have an administration who will support you, then it just comes down to can you run a football program. And that’s that’s the secret to Signetti. And if I were trying to hire, that’s I’d be looking for somebody just like that. an awesome coach. Just an awesome coach because I can do the other stuff you and if you would have talked to me 10 years ago, I would have said the opposite. I would have said, “Yeah, find me the recruit.” That’s Cal Perry thing. There’s a lot of people that criticize Cal Perry for in-game coaching. I never think John is as quote average of a coach as some people think. People like bang on him all the time. I think he’s a good basketball coach. Like he went to the final four at UMass, but he also had more talent than everybody and didn’t win. He did. Yeah. But not always. Like that stuff at UMass was not just overwhelming people with five stars. The only thing he had and he also won with Anthony Davis. Yes, he is. Give me a break. Yeah. I just He’s a he’s a he’s a better basketball coach than his critics say. That’s what I would say. But clearly the the strength the strength of the strength of his career is recruiting. And I would have always told you for the history of college athletics, if you have a choice between the good coach and the good recruiter, hire the good recruiter because the good recruiter will at least have a chance. A good coach with bad players can’t win. And that is kindly that falls in the James Franklin tub. A bad coach with good players can maybe win. A good coach with bad players can’t can’t. No chance. So I would always go with the recruiter over the coach. Now give me the coach. I don’t need the recruiter. Money will get me the players. Who is the best that in college basketball right now? As far as like we eye we give me my roster, bro. I know you can coach him up. Is it Kelvin? Kelvin would be right up there. Matt Painter would be up there. Dan Hurley would be up there. He’s crashing out in preseason though already. You see that video, bro? He can’t help it. You got to calm down, bro. Did you see the video weed or something, bro? Yes. Smoke some weed. Take a milligram or something. He can’t help it. He is one of those people when you talk to him. I I’m fascinated by him. like he I I he when you sit down and talk to Dan Hurley, he’s he sounds like this. Yeah, you know, I know I need to, you know, I’ve got to get this under control. He’s very monotone and very self-reflecting and he un There is nothing you could say about Dan Hurley that he doesn’t know about himself. Yeah. Yeah. But then he can’t help it. He’s like Grayson Allen. He just can’t He gets in that moment and he can’t he can’t help it. Look at him. I think it’s the ball head, bro. He’s just so intense, bro. He’s so intense. It’s like, calm down, coach. And the Zoom doesn’t help either, bro. I ain’t gonna hold you. That guy at uh that guy at Kraton’s really good. Greg McDermott, really good. Ben Mcllum at Iowa, the division 2 coach. I was just tell these are the type of guys I would hire. Give me the great coaches. I’ll buy them the team. Now, let’s go. That’s the secret. That’s the recipe now. I think I’m with it, kid. You got to extra hoop now, bro. I love it. It’s all about exe. They got new players every freaking year, right? So, it’s even harder to coach them, right? It’s not that I mean, it used to be we would get to the NCAA tournament and that team that’s been together for four years. I mean, there’s very little. And that’s the other way where where the randomness that you mentioned earlier, part of the randomness is you were like, this is the way people recruit now. So, like Scott Drew, they lose their whole team at Baylor. Do you know how they started rebuilding that roster? literally just running numbers into a database. Yeah. And seeing, okay, here’s a two guard, six foot five, shoots this, does they they they without sight unseen, they’re just getting names out of databases. Then they go to Synergy and they look at it and they go, “Okay, it looks the way we want it to look now. Let’s go see him.” Well, that’s the hard part, right? Cuz if Baylor plays Drake in the NCAA tournament and a guy and the shooting guard from Drake drops 38 on him and knocked him out of the tournament, they just signed the kid from Drake. Yeah, he’s going to be That was not the case. You know what I mean? Like they would just get him. Like, hey, that guy’s I mean, Hell Penny literally did that with the whole conference. He just said, “Oh, you’re good. Come here, baby.” Well, Dusty May is now at Michigan. Yeah. They signed what was considered the number one transfer in the portal, Yakel Lindenberg. Oh yeah. From UAB. You asked Dusty. So why did you Because if you remember like Michigan season’s over and they got they got Yaxle quick and so you asked him. I did. We were at Big Tim. I said, “What made you prioritize Yaxle that early?” Well, I coached against him at FAU. I seen it up close. He cooked us. And what’s what’s crazy about that is that’s always happened in coaching. years ago, I remember having Dan Mullen on the show when he was the coach at Mississippi State, and I was like, he had hired a like a 20some year old defensive coordinator, Manny Diaz, who’s now the coach at Duke. And I was like, why did you hire Manny, you know, like where did that come from? Was there a prior relationship? He goes, we played Middle Tennessee last year. And I was like, what are these blitzes? You know what I mean? Yeah. He just played against Middle Tennessee at the beginning of the season and he was like mega impressed with the guy. And so he’s like, “Oh, hell, just come to me.” Well, isn’t that the Brian Kelly story with your buddy who’s the old Chip? Yeah, Chip. Well, the same thing like Brian Kellyy’s like, “Who is this offensive coordinator? I’ll hire him.” Something like that. Right. So, here’s the point I was making. The randomness of it all. So, that’s the way you recruit. It’s like out of a database, look at it on Synergy, get him on Zoom, sign him to a, you know, for for $800,000. You just signed a player. You don’t know him. Yeah. You’ve never met him. You don’t know his mom. That’s crazy. You don’t know his nothing about him. sign a you got his name off of a database because the numbers fit because somebody like John Hollinger told you you need to look at this guy so then you do and then you sign him and so it might hit but they’re going to be teams and it could be this one where you just look up and you got 15 new players none of them know each other none of them ever played together in in on the computer screen it made sense in the basketball gym it doesn’t it by the way Andre Godala II is on the Baylor basketball team what that’s not Andre I’m looking at right now. Andre Godal II 67 guard 170 freshman at Baylor. What? Andreal Arizona. H how did he not go to Andreal the second? Huh? Yeah. Yeah. LeBron’s Bryce, right? Getting old dog. Is he good? No, he ain’t good. Why is he in Arizona then? His last name is LeBron. His last name is James. Like I think the real question will become like if you’re Tommy Lloyd, why would you take him? Like why do you want to deal with all that? Because it was a headache at USC with Bronny. I think this will be less of a headache cuz LeBron is not putting the same stuff on Bryce that he put on Bronny. He’s never said anything about Bryce that he said about Bronny. But I mean I wondered like if you’re Tommy, why do you take him? And then the answer comes the other night at a Lakers game. There’s LeBron in street clothes wearing an Arizona jersey. And by the way, to your point, bouncing around after we just criticized him for sitting there like a freaking five-year-old child on the bench. Is he traveling? LeBron, you notice that you’re starting LeBron slander? I’m Are you turning on your No, I would never turn LeBron. I’ll never turn on. Sounds like it. I will. I will never turn on bra. Sounds like it. But sounds like you are. I did not like that. LeBron was sitting there like a pouty 5-year-old and then he decides to put his son jersey on. He wants everybody to see the damn jersey. So, you’re back to bouncing around and doing your little I don’t like that. Is he traveling with them? He was not He was not He’s not in Minnesota. He was not in Minnesota. He’s not He’s not the leader. Jason guy that lost in the playoffs and said he would have been able to play game five if they would have made it because of his MCL and then like a day later was like film doing the stanky leg and the butterfly and like the butterfly is crazy. Like all these all these things that would for sure tear your MCL immediately. Hey, I I will never turn on my king, but I’m just saying there’s some things GP that our king, we got to start some chinks in the armor, as they would say. Well, he’s going through a little bit. Jason Jason Tatum travels with his team and he’s not playing. Jason Tatum travels. Is LeBron not going to be here tonight? He wasn’t in Minnesota the other night. Wow. I mean, it’s unclear, but he has not he has not made it to every game. It’s weird. What do you mean I look ridiculous? Are you talking about G? You better be talking about Gary. No, you look insane. Wow. Bro, you were wearing a horse head for like a half hour. You had a horse head on. I did have a horse head. I thought you I literally had to stop myself from laughing. You’re like a limp carrot, bro. You get limper and limper as the day. Shut up. You do keep tilting over. Is it like a limp? He’s getting limper and limper as pour some water on that carrot. Shut up. Get him some.com. Get you a honey bag. I put some honey on you. Get you a 100 milligrams of him.com. You guys, you guys ditched me, too. You got You were wearing the horse head. You were wearing a mask. Next thing I know, we’re having a serious conversation about college athletics, and I’m Nobody cares about you. And hey, I just the marshmallow man. I just couldn’t take I I just saw GP in the mask and I was like, I just can’t like listen to this conversation dead serious while he’s like in a mask squashed over his face. Why not? Cuz it’s now Now he looks like a Brooklyn wussy. a Zoron vugger. Oh, he’s a member. Get him beside. I can’t wait to come back to New York and get all my free groceries. I can’t wait. I I got four trips next month. I’m just going to go up there. I’m going to get off the plane being like, I ride the bus for free. Yeah, I’m going to get off the plane. You always walk through CBS studios like free. I’m going to be standing out in front of the Marriott now like waiting for us. You know, everything’s free. I’m jumping off the plane being like, “Throw me stuff. Where’s my stuff? Throw me my stuff.” Oh my god. All right, I’ll put my horse back. Put the horse head back on. Let’s go. All right. Thanks, Gary. How does How many free throws does Austin Ree shoot tonight? 12. 16. What do you say, Gary? 16’s a big number. I know it is. It’s a lot of free throws. These Jokers go to the line, brother. It’s a cup game. It matters. I’ll take the under. I’ll take the under. I’ll take the under. I’ll take the under on Austin Reeves free throws, but he is averaging 34 points. Oh, this is where I can actually say, Gary, they don’t all count the same. This is for the cup. We want a cup championship. I was surprised Bennett and new both cup champions. It is, if you’re curious, is the Lakers and the Bucks are the first two cup champions. We are one and seven in cup games all time. We’re one and seven. We need a win. We need a win. Damn. Who we beat? Huh? Who did we beat in the cup? I don’t know. We lost to Portland by beat. I remember we beat the throw that one. We beat the Pelicans. We beat the Pelicans last year. Oh, by the way, have you heard the update? They they got John Chanty dead to Right. What happened? They still like taking away his chicks, bro. I mean, they were like he was cheat he was actively cheating in the poker games. He was he was he was doing the cheating allegedly. Do you know what’s super crazy? So, I don’t know if you guys saw the story yesterday about Terry Roier. He you know, he put his house up as collateral to get out. So it’s like he didn’t have the money to to post right when you put your house up. They said what the hell is he doing with 26 million a year? Bro, they said he had an over8 million tax lean and I’m like and you remember the whole Malite Beasley thing where you’re like how did he get underwater? Dude, I think these guys and you know what dawned on me, Roser? I even mentioned this to Jacobe when we recorded this morning because I said it like glowingly in the offseason and again I’m not trying to connect dots but it is interesting now. There was only one current athlete or coach that was omnipresent the entire weekend that we were in Chicago for the National Sports Collectors Convention. Who? Chanty Bips. Oh [ __ ] He did every appearance there. He went to the trade night where nerds trade cards and everybody was like, “You know who’s the best?” And I was like, “Who?” They’re like, “Chanty Phillips.” The next day he’s like breaking boxes. I was like, I’m like, “Is he doing this for appearance?” Yeah, he was up there with eBay. He was doing stuff with eBay. Really weird. So, is he just out there trying He’s like a current NBA coach and he was like, it was just odd. And I didn’t think anything of it until all this stuff comes out. I’m like, bro, is he just trying to scrunch together money cuz he’s so under? It’s like Bruno Mars, bro. It sounds like he’s It sounds It sounds like he might have just been trying to get money wherever he could get it, which seems crazy to me. Which seems crazy. These guys do. You never know. Yeah. Like you don’t know. Like I listen to the latest publicatory podcast and you know they they got more on this stuff and it’s not looking good for Roier. It’s also not looking good for Tyoo just because he’s in these rooms with these people all the time. Like Tyoo is Like Pablo does a great job of breaking it down. He’s like on record I’ve got Chanty Bilip saying Tyoo is my best friend and Damon Jones saying Tyoo is my best friend. And it’s like it’s it’d be like if it’s also I will say I’m going to tell you this. It’d be like if you and Devin got arrested in this type of stuff and Roser was with you guys every time but but Roser was like I ain’t done nothing. Be like yo man you was around these guys every day and your best buddies. Yeah. And what what is really strange too is I I don’t think the general public understands how much money these guys gamble just with each other much less like I mean I have heard stories of guys getting underwater that not our players this was a this was like a I think a Ray Allen story where a guy got under he was he was roll shooting dice with like real gangsters right like in Chicago and Ray Allen just like flipped him the keys to the car to take care of it for a teammate. Yeah. Like just take the car because otherwise this is going to be and I’m saying these guys they gamble so much like they I know I know personally of hundreds of thousands of lost. I know of cars. I have Look, we even told the story on the show. Tony pulled up to my studio one day in a decked out van, PlayStations, TVs, the whole thing. I said, “You get a new freaking van.” He goes, “Nah, I won that thing playing cards.” There you go. Right. What? From who? He said, “Ed Davis.” I said, “What the Him and Ed are like this?” But Ed was under and just flipped them the keys and said, “For I’m not going to give you 25 grand. Here, take the van.” I’ve had these conversations. Jesus, man. I had these conver like I I work with a bunch of former NBA players. Obviously, TA’s up here. You You have these same conversations. Here’s what I’ve been told. multiple players have said, GP, if you ever hear about a longtime NBA player going broke, and you will, it happens. It is never the things people try to point to that they see on Instagram. Bad investments. It It’s never the cars, right? It is never the houses. Like one of the players was like, “Dude, I make $20 million a year. I could buy five houses if I wanted to, 10 cars if I wanted to.” That’ll never get you. If you hear about them going broke, it is all it is usually these things. Gambling. Yep. and kids. Yeah, I gonna say kids and women. Kids and women. Women that make you go broke quick. It’s It’s kids with It’s multiple kids with multiple women and gambling. And next thing you know, you I’m making $10 million a year. Well, that’s really four after taxes. And now boom, you look up, you ain’t got nothing. That’s how it happens. And then and then you’re living a lifestyle based on what you’re making. Yeah. And it stops. And it stops when you’re in your third. like you were you were 25 years old once upon a time making whatever you made and you could reasonably assume based on the trajec trajectory of your career. You’re going to make more money next year and the year after that and the year after that and for a while for the for these guys it’s backwards. They make all this money upfront and then it’s it’s just okay I’m 32 and I’m unemployed now what I just don’t think people understand the extent of the gambling problem these guys have like the the ones that have like real gambling addictions. I mean, they lose fortunes. Millions. Not like not just hundred thousand. It’s millions of millions. Maybe Anthony Edwards was ahead of his time, GP, paying a girl off the dribble and they could lose it in a week. So, he can pay that million for one night. They can lose it all. Bro, you read those stories about And it’s not just athletes, bro. You read those stories about Bruno Mars. Yeah. Say he had to open a club because he was so under. Bro, he’s doing a residency. Yeah. And he had to open a bar instead of like, why is he still doing a residency at the MGM? the longest running residency ever. Right. And it’s like because like there was reports out there he owes these casinos. Oh yeah. Tens of millions of dollars. There’s a gambler that is I saw it on Instagram or Tik Tok. It was on there and he’s like I know it’s true because I was there. Yeah. Yeah. And it just it never you know kept waiting for the hot streak that never came and next thing you know you’re down tens of millions. It’s like what? Tens of millions. And they’ll keep giving him that marker cuz they know we got you know he got that. You know he got that pinky ring spot at the Bellagio now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like he Come on. He’s got his own club. Come on, bro. Like you think that’s cuz he just wants to open a club in Vegas. Like Dana White’s another one you hear about? Oh, yeah. He said he cut himself off now. Yeah. That was that was like last week. Yeah. Because it’s you in the long run, you’re never winning. No, not in the long run. You’re not going to sit in there every day and and and survive that. Never. No. You that that type of thing. But it’s that competitive. That’s why these guys have started playing golf. Yeah, I’m not kidding. Not for the gambling. It’s the thing that can fill their competitive drive. Why do you think we play golf the way we do? The only thing they do to fill their competitive drive is gamble. That’s a real thing. You and I and we we all grow up competing at stuff. That’s right. And then we get to an age. I can’t call my friends at 48 and be like, “Don’t let’s go hoop. Let’s go play baseball this weekend. We play golf.” PS we talk crazy to each other and it’s it’s the most fun we have. It’s the most fun we have. But that that is what it is. There’s a real No, that there’s tons of There’s a lot of athletes. You see LeBron now on the golf course and you can tell he’s like in it. Yes. He like wants to be good at it. Yes. Because it feeds another Did you watch the Curry one? The break 50. I did not watch it, but I they broke it, right, dude? He’s unbelievable. He’s great. Unbelievable. And he said from 13 to 16, he did not play AAOU and his dad dropped him off at a golf course every day. Yeah. and he played 36 holes and they pick him up at dark. Yeah. I was like, “Oh, no wonder you’re awesome.” Yeah. But like, no wonder. But he’s also the type I bet you he’s awesome at bowling. I bet he’s great at everything. Oh, he’s good at everything. There’s one there’s some people that are just good. Mike Conley. Mike Conley was like that. Yeah. I like I like I envy those people. Like I played golf with Mike Conley one time. Unbelievable. Like Yes. And I was like, “So, when’s the last time you played?” Like I four months ago, you know, just picked them up and brought got them. I’m like grinding every day to natural athlete. He just now he could just naturally pick it up and do it. He’s just He could do anything. If you said, “Hey, it’s a dart tournament.” I I give you one week to prepare. He win a dart tournament. Just anything. GP, I got something you can do without having a competitor. You can play video games, bro. There too many. Like I know this is an old man thing to say, but like we grew up with a Nintendo controller and the the the PS5 controllers are just there’s too much going on. It’s like four buttons, bro. This is confusing to me. I I I I set it up by saying that I know this is an old man thing to say, but when you are used to two buttons, four games, when you were 20, it was a PS2. I never I never played video games as an adult in any sort of real way. I would dabble every once in a while like I mean, we’d still be playing the Nintendo. We’d be 23 years old playing the Nintendo till 5:00 in the morning. Sega Genesis had introduced a third button. Yeah. A, B, and C. Yeah. Like something like something happened. Something happened between I was just like on my normal Nintendo controller and then I clocked out and by the time I tried to come back y’all had like 11 button. I can do any of the PlayStation ones just because I cuz PS2 is basically the same controller as PS5. Yeah. And in my 20s when I was playing Madden all the time I played PS2. Chad said I grew up playing a Pac-Man. That’s one button. That’s a stick. I can do that. Look at me. This is how I play Pac-Man. Are you Are you calling it Pac-Man? No. Kelly’s got a Pac-Man machine at her store. He is the Hey, I will say this cuz I used to think it was like, oh, this is just a This is just old man bragging about [ __ ] But then we did a fullon tournament. He really is the best RBI baseball player I’ve ever seen. Wait, we would play RBA baseball till 6 o’ in the morning. We had a We What was the name of the place that was in Bartlett? Uh, no. We did it right here. No, but what was the name? They sponsored it. Oh, it was like a It was like a retro gaming type place and we went and got I don’t remember. Like Replays or something. I think they Yeah, it’s gone now. They do like They did like video games and movies like old video games and movies, but they had they brought a bunch of different NES like the old Nintendos and we did it across the Gillians across the street from Flying Saucer. Whatever the name of that club was. Club Chill. Chill. Club Chill is a great club chill. I think that’s what it was. But we did it. I love that place. And Gary was awesome at it. He was like for real awesome at it. We used to have a bar down in Dotto County and we we had a Nintendo in the bar. Oh, really? And we would just like play it. I remember one day cuz we’re just just degenerates. Yeah. We’re in there gambling on RBI baseball on like a Friday afternoon at 2:00 and some dude’s wife came in and she had been looking for it. Oh god. He’s playing RBI. He was like supposed to pick his kids up from school. He’s He’s drunk in the middle of the day playing RBI baseball. His wife walked in. She was like, “What the That’s the life I want to live.” I was like, “Tom Brunky’s up.” Bro, you got Bro, you got to go home and figure this out. You just got busted. Your kids are in the car rider line waiting on you. You play RBI baseball. You just ordered another Miller Light. That is the worst. That is sick. That is sick. Shout out 2K, man. Have a good weekend. I see. Are you dressing up tonight with your with your kids? 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Chris Vernon, happy Halloween everybody. All right, uh with the football games that are coming up this weekend. Congratulations uh to the Baltimore Ravens and Devin’s guy Lamar Jackson for getting back on track last night against the Miami Dolphins. Figure all this out, right? Like the Miami Dolphins finally like looked pretty good last week and then they looked terrible again, right? They wouldn’t they didn’t they score like 34 last week? They turned around and scored six and Tua said they couldn’t get plays off. Yeah, because of the Baltimore fans. Yeah, right. They had a home game. Pretty rough. Hey, my guy Cal Hamilton back, bro. We good now, bro. We about to be back up now. Yeah. By the way, if you look at uh the betting side of it, the Ravens are the betting favorites to win that division, even at three and five because they’re only a game back of the Steelers. Wow. Uh Memphis in action tonight against Rice, the Owls. Rice is 1 and3 in the American Conference. They are 4 and4 coming off a double overtime win against Yukon. Um they have uh the the week before they lost 61-13 to Texas San Antonio. They did play Navy close at Navy 21. Wait, what was the score against UTSA? 6113. Okay, cuz last night that’s belt to ass. It is built to ass cuz last night bro too lane got belt to ass by UTSA bro. So it’s it’s American trap season bro. American trap season. UTSA is a trap. Huh? You know what I’m saying? Do not be do not be too lame, bro. Tain walked into UTSA last night and got belt to ass. Do not walk into Rice. Do not walk into food right tonight. Do not walk in there. Yeah. You got to wait. You’ve already had your lost focus game. Exactly. No more. No more lost. Unacceptable. unacceptable. And we know what that’s but but like Tulain like you that is not the place you want to go play on the road is UTSA. We know what that’s like. That ain’t fun either. Well, they have your playbook. Yeah, exactly. They also and they also like pipe in noise apparently. They literally had our playbook. Yeah, they pipe in noise, too. They had Yeah, that’s what the streets were saying last night. There was piped in sound noise in there. Boy, if you would have told me at the beginning of the season, Penn State Ohio State, nobody will give a crap about it. I don’t know. I don’t know what kind of odds you could have gotten on that, but I mean Penn State has fired their coach and they’re three and four. So, that was going to be like I mean that’s a game of the year. Yeah, it’s crazy the way this stuff plays out sometimes. Uh, also crazy if you would have told me that Vanderbilt at Texas would be a banger. A banger. Yeah, Vy’s in the top 10 now and they’ve got a chance to boy I mean just a murderer’s row of a uh schedule where they’re playing it seems like I mean it went to Alabama, Missouri now at Texas. Um boy if Pavia pulls this one off. Hey, he already that would be unbelievable. So that one’s at 11:00 a.m. Then we’ve got the Miami SMU game is early, too. That was one that Brian Edwards liked on the SMU side of things. Uh Georgia, Florida cocktail party is at 2:30. Again, a dud cuz Florida’s three and four. Um then we’ve got uh later in the evening we got Miss South Carolina. You know, South Carolina is like they’re dangerous. They are dangerous. They had Alabama Morris is good. He is good. The rest of the team is not, but he is good. And they they’re just like one of those scary teams. It’s kind of like the Arkansas thing. They’re a scare they they are better than a three and five football team. And they’re good enough to like if they played awesome. They’re catching you, right? They’re sc they’re just a scary team to play. Not they’re they’re no great. They’re not great, but they’re scary because and they’ve got a good player at the position that matters the most. It’s just like Taylor Green. Yes. And it’s like, oh jeez, man. Like, if South Carolina was in the Big 12, they’d probably be like a top four team in the Big 12 for sure. They’d be a top four team in the Big 12. Um, Oklahoma, Tennessee, I don’t know what to make of it, honestly. But I think it’ll be cool cuz aren’t they doing the blackout at Tennessee? It’s the last time they’re doing the Nike Blackout. They’re doing the blackout at Tennessee. Uh, on that Saturday night, 6:00 Oklahoma so lit. It’s going to be great, bro. Neand is one. I know I talk crap about Tennessee, bro. But the times I’ve been in that Neand stadium, boy. Oh, buddy. It’s probably like up. It’s unbelievable. I remember every trip to Neland that I’ve had. Also, barely, but also my favorite uh what’s it called? In the world. My favorite concession in the world. They got I didn’t make it to the concession stand. No, it’s called And they only have it in Knoxville. Like because I’ve like I was like, do they have place? It’s You can look it up. It’s called Pro. Pro. Pro. It’s a It’s a like It is kind of like a walkie taco. It’s chili, but it’s got like onions, cheese, Fritos, all this stuff. And it comes like in a little cup. Yeah. Pro chili and chips. Oh, it’s unbelievable. Petro chili and chips. Unbelievable. And they have a famous hint of orange iced tea. It’s unbelievable, dude. They have that. I surely they still have that at the stadium. I haven’t been in years. Oh, they definitely. But it’s my favorite concession. Okay. So, at the bottom, so they got the breakdown. At the bottom is corn chips. Then they put the special recipe or original or vegetarian chili. Then they put the cheddar and jack cheese. Then they put the fried diced tomatoes. Then they put the sour cream and diced onions on top. It’s unbelievable. It’s called a pro. It’s unbelievable. It’s my favorite concession I’ve ever had. Shout out Cool Beans, man. You know what I mean? cuz I I I for years I had a I had a uh real soft spot for when I was a little kid. They used to have Hunter hot dogs, which is just a local brand. They had those at Cardinals games and I loved Hunter hot dogs. That was my favorite thing. But pro took it when I went there. I went to two games in 1998. I Yeah, my college roommate the the title season. Have you been since uh once? Okay. since but since since 2010 uh 2010 probably not cuz 2010’s no because that’s when William was born. Okay. Okay. He was born in 2010. I don’t think I’ve gone since. Dang. So yeah, it probably would one time between whatever in the 2000s. Let’s make a trip. Yeah. No, for real. Let’s make a trip to Knoxville. Let’s make a trip. I’m dead ass. I’ll go. You know Tennessee guys? Tons. Yeah. Yeah. Go balls. Okay. I’m not I’m not going that far. That’s slow down. Slow down. Slow down. Okay. Shout out our guy Ty in the chat. Ty brought me the orange overalls. Evan, I am a carrot. I’m wearing Tennessee color. Big VS, guys. But we ain’t got to We ain’t got I hope they make the playoff. Big V energy. I do hope they make the playoff. Stop. I hope they make the playoff. Tennessee. This is what this game is. The loser. I mean, they did last year. They got killed. So like both teams has two both teams have two losses. So like the loser is not going to make it. The loser is going to be eliminated. Yeah. And they’re gonna hate their coach. Yeah. Damn right they are. They already kind They already kind of like low-key hate hyper right now. Like on a very low low scale. It’s cuz they can’t win on the road. Yeah. The big games on the road. Big games in the road. Hey, speaking of But I mean, dude, dude, they yacked that Georgia game away. They did. Now, in fairness, they yacked the Mississippi State game away and got away with it, right? So, you know, fair is fair. Yeah, right. And but look, they could have been in that Bama game, too, and they screwed that up. Like I like they messed that up, too. The pick the pick six 99 yard pick at halftime. Yeah, that’s a that’s a whatever up. And then they just magically like started running the ball like crazy and then they just all of a sudden stopped deciding to do it. It was just Yeah, I get why they’re mad at you got to run the ball and stop the run. This is still had on a hat. You got You got to run the ball and stop the run. Have you seen the Neielson thing? They released the 10 most watched college football teams of the year according to television ratings. Oh, according to television. It’s crazy. All right, give it to me. You want to take a guess at it? No. The mo I don’t know what it’s all dependent on who was on ABC, CBS. Okay, so nine of the 10 are SEC team. Ohio State’s number seven. That’s the only Big 10 team. South Carolina, Florida, Miss, LSU, Oklahoma, Texas, Georgia, Tennessee’s number two, and Alabama’s number one. It is not surprising, bro. These are the premier games. It just means more, bro. And nobody cares about the Big 10 games on CBS or Pack 12 or ACC or ESPN. Also, these like, you know, Tennessee Oklahoma is 6:30 on ABC. Yeah. There’s not a television in the world that doesn’t have ABC on it, right? Like, I mean, unless you’re a YouTube TV subscriber. I mean, That being said, hey, that being said, didn’t you see the you seen the ratings for the uh NBA? No, for sure. They had their highest rating since Hold on. I’ve got it here. Let me see. I didn’t even I I NB is doing well on NBC. I saved this for the mismatch this morning and didn’t even use it. Is it doing well on NBC? Bro, I’m about to tell you this. Hold on. I’m about to tell you. All right. All right. Wait, where is it? Um, their presentation is so good, man. Right here. Bob is doing that. All right. NBC’s debut of Coast to Coast on Tuesday featuring unique by coastal NBA double headers across NBC and Peacock was the largest NBA Tuesday audience in games played before Christmas since 1996. Yeah. 15 years ago. It was Jordan versus the Lakers. Like, and these numbers across the board have been outstanding thus far. 37 million people. Shaq would have been there too. 37 million people. 37 million. 37 million people across the US watch opening week across NBC, Peacock, ESPN, and Amazon. That NBC NBC production of the NBA. Plus, just putting it on big national TV other than a Sunday afternoon. Exactly. And access when everybody’s at church. Exactly. And accessible as apps that we all have like we got we got Prime, we got Amazon, we got Peacock. Oh, people are going to be fired up tonight, aren’t they? Oh, cuz on Prime cuz they’re not going to be able There’s going to be a lot of people that aren’t that don’t know. Oh, yeah. The the Facebook people that don’t know. And Facebook people, Facebook crew, I’m telling y’all, this is a message for my Facebook Grizz fans. The game is not on FanDuel. It is on Prime Video. Take me serious. Guy in mask and a hat. We’re not doing the game tonight. I was about I was about to text my mom, but she’ll be there. So, I mean, yeah, she Yeah, she’ll be the Facebook group. They’re going to find it at halftime. So, I’m telling y’all now cuz the Facebook group is always a little bit delayed. The game is on Prime Video, not FanDuel. Yep. Yeah. You We going to have to send some messages out. Darnell, happy birthday. And also, make sure you send that out on the Grind City Media Facebook page tonight. People are going to be confused. And tickets are still available. Get some tickets. Oh, no. If I would not have told my mom this morning. So, my mom goes to the games and my dad watches them on TV and he he No chance. No chance. She’s like, “Why can’t I find the She’s like, “I always Because she she’s like, “I always set up a recording for the games.” She calls it toing still to this day. Still in 2025. She’s 77. Oh, she’s locked in. She said, “I ted it for your dad.” I said, “Mom, nobody on her sling box.” Sling box. Remember that was She calls it to it. It ted it. What did we call it for what we called it? What? DVR. DVR for sure. Record it. We’re DVR recorded. But yeah, tonight, bro, it’s gonna be a little tough. How many How long How long will it take for you to get messages about it? You think? Will it be like by halftime, by second quarter, or you get tweets? Uh, Verno, I think it will. I can’t find the game. Vero, that’s not who text me. Um, why why would you imitate my friends like that? Like on my Duski video. All right. I would say some of my friends do sound like that. Um, it’ll be when they see tweets. Oh, okay. They’ll say, “Where the hell is the Grizzly game?” Okay. Or, “Are you not on tonight?” There will be I’ll get a couple. I’ll get a couple. Okay. But yeah, the Amazon Prime thing is going to throw people for a loop. It’s just the first time and nobody’s used to that. I tell you this, the other night I I wasn’t used I’m not used to it yet. I’m not used to the national TV being every night because I was looking for I was, you know, I always go through my uh score app and I just find whatever is the best game and I turn it on. And I went through League Pass and it wasn’t on League Pass and I’m like, where the hell is this game? And I had to like sift through until I found it on Peacock. I mean, it’s new. I’m not used to searching Peacock to find the game I want to watch. Imagine you doing that and you want to you want to go seek it out. Just imagine somebody who’s just like on the couch like, “Yo, where the hell is that? Where is that game? Where is this game? What is this game? Like, you know what? Screw it. I’m not watching that [ __ ] Yeah, it’s very very very few are are going to be like this, but it’s the cup. The cup and it’s just bigger. Who’s broadcasting? Uh, we should have We should We should have tried to get them in. Who is calling video? Who is this? Taylor Brooks does their like pregame stuff, doesn’t he? That’s on site, though. Yeah, that’s Can’t wait. That’s in their She No, that’s in their studios. Uh, see who’s calling the game tonight for Amazon? Who’s on the broadcast? So, the Prime Video, Jen, if you hear us and you know, you have that list of like people that are coming in town or whatever. It says Ian Begley, Ian Eagle, my man. Ian Eagle, Kevin Harland, Michael Grady, and Eric Collins. Well, those are those are the four play analysis uh analysts, Stan Van Gundy, Brent Barry, Dale Carrier, Jim Jackson. Okay, so those are four possible sideline reporters. We got some we got a great group. We might get Charlotte’s team. Does Charlotte Charlotte played last night? Does Charlotte play tonight? The Hornets. I think Charlotte is Do they have a game? If they’re off, they are off. So, he might be And we might get Eric Roberts. Oh my god. He might be in town, but he still won’t come on the show, though. Huh? Collins. That’s what I meant. Is Eric Roberts an actor? I think so. By the way, I guess we got to note this out. Somebody just asked this while we do. Somebody just asked, “Will Brevin and P be on tonight?” No. No. Grizzly fans and Amazon Prime exclusive. Why didn’t they ask if I was going to be out, bro? They didn’t ask about you. They didn’t give a crap about you. Watching the Chris Varnish show and didn’t even ask about. Damn, dog. Like, we hear enough for your ass every day, bro. Damn, dog. That’s crazy, bro. Only if you wore the carrot costume. That’s crazy, bro. That’s crazy, bro. Are you wearing that tonight? Hell no. What? What you Why would I wear this to a grizzly game? You think I am a child? Yes. Look at you. Stop looking at my stock. Stop looking at my st looks wild. Stop looking at my looking at my Grady, Brent Barry, and Ally Clifton tonight. H. That’s who’s calling the game. Who? Michael Grady, Brent Barry, and Ally Clifton. That’s who’s calling the game. Ali Clifton. All right. Next time around, we’ll get somebody in here. Yeah, we got We don’t have another prom game. What’s our next Cup game? We don’t have another prom game. We don’t. That’s the only one all season. Oh, no. Well, we’re going to get flexed into that. I think we got like Philly, I think, somewhere. Cuz we’re going to be good because they probably got Orlando and some of them. They’re going to get flexed out cuz they’re buns. They’re going to hit them with that flesh buns. Buns. And we’re not. We’re funs. And we’re going to go all the way to Berlin to beat their ass. Yeah. You going to let that slide, bro? Huh? You going to let that slide? Please not let that slide, bro. I mean, you know how many years ago I started ignoring him? Did you hear that? Yeah. Huh? They’re buns and we’re funs. Can’t let that slide, bro. Cannot let that slide. We got a Peacock game on uh We have Philly. We play Philly, don’t we? NBC. I know we have an NBC game against which, by the way, that game’s really fun now. The Philly game. By the way, have we have we are we the reason why Ryan Rollins is good at basketball now? Okay, so Ryan Rollins Yeah. is awesome at basketball and he’s 6’3 with a 610 wingspan and he had 32 points last night and you saying who is Ryan Rollins three days ago set his career on absolute fire since you said that he has had two games and he has scored 25 and 32 in successive games and we did a whole bit today on the mismatch about it bro when you Google his name like the arrest comes up the Target stuff. Yes. Yeah, bro. He did it seven times. Wait, you know, and I made I didn’t see that part. I made an exc span. I made an excuse for him. You know what I said? It was crime was legal in San Francisco at the time. No, no. This was when he was playing for the What’s the Wizards? Oh, bad barcodes. That’s Yeah. Okay. It’s selfch checkckout, bro. If I scan the candle twice. Okay. And it doesn’t go through. Okay. Put it in the bag. Okay. Okay. No. No. No. Okay. I can excuse you for one. Put it in the bag. I can excuse you one time. Look, it’s body. But that, you know, it’s a selfch checkout thing because it’s body wash, candles, this kind of stuff. That means he wasn’t scanning things and putting them in the bag because that this is not items. You don’t need a ski mask and a big jacket to take some Old Spice body wash. Yeah. You know what I mean? There’s levels to this. There’s levels to stealing. He definitely didn’t think they would catch him, bro. That’s why I just keep I You know, it’s self. He was skipping the selfch checkout on the Well, yes. He was throwing it in the back. I guarantee it. I guarantee it. No, it wasn’t like No, it wasn’t I’m trying to scan it. It was Yes. It’s for sure. Yeah, he just straight was stealing. So stealing stealing seven times, but it’s not stealing like you think about stealing. That’s still stealing. It is. But my point is I am so anti-selfcheckout and they should just hire people to be checking people out that this is what you deserve at some level. Yeah, we got to have Yeah. No, no, because No, this is what happens. Like they just basically, you know what I’m saying? They get real stuff. Buy like a stereo with Target. I got to go through selfch check the damn thing up and then find the damn barcode or pull the little shotgun off the thing. Target yesterday. Target yesterday at Colonial was freaking slammed and they have two cashiers. The line is literally backed up to like the frozen food section. He’s a victim of one and they only have three chain. He did it seven times. I know. Well, get a get some people to check out people. Seven times. Hire checkout people. If your line goes all the way back to the frozen food section, then you got the damn money to hire more. You know how childish you have to be to steal from Target. Bro, I will say you are got to be challenged. All right, let’s let’s get to the real point, which is if he does end up like awesome. Oh, yeah. Which is a thing. It could happen. It could. It appears he is. Yes, it appears he’s awesome, dude. That trade is going to end up looking like one of the wor. So he signed with them for like three years, 12 million bucks. Great deal for the Bucks obviously thus far. He was on the Wizards. The trade was Jordan P, Ryan Rollins, and two first round picks, one in 27 and one in 2030. The 2030 Warriors pick might be unbelievable. Like Steph Curry ain’t playing at 45. Okay. And guess who the So it was Pool. Yeah. Rollins. Two first rounders for Chris Paul. Oh my gosh. That’s unbelievable. Wow. Dang. That’s unbelievable. And what if he ends up awesome? No, for real. Crazy. That’s cra That’s a crazy deal, dude. a crazy deal. Um, you got news? They they have uh Lucas playing tonight for sure. He’s they have now Cup matters more. He has been upgraded Emirates Cup. He has been upgraded to prob probable now from questionable to probable. Marcus Smart also expected to play. Let’s see Emirates Cup. Marcus M’s playing tonight. Yeah. You know, he’s gonna want to get revenu Clippers uh Lakers. We already hated on them. Um, obviously these are just jokes. We don’t mean any of it, except we do probably mean most of it. Um, but here’s a way to build up the proper vitriol for the opposing team. Reasons to hate the Los Angeles Lakers. All right, let’s start with uh DeAndre. Oh, Mr. Airpod himself. Plays like AirPods in laziest man in the world. Nobody has done less with god-given abilities than you. Good TFN. Yes. Good TFN. He also, bro, he also was one of the sweatiest people in the NBA. Is that right? First team all sweat. Yeah, for sure. Next one. Luca Donic. Oh, now you can play cuz it’s a cup game. Or now you can play because white guys outshining you. Yeah, he’s like, “How dare I not be the primary white guy, bro?” Enough with this Reeves and Lorravia thing. I’m King Whitey. King White’s crazy. By the way, you must be mega irresponsible for somebody to trade your ass when you’re when you make five AllNBA teams. What do we not know about you, bro? Hookah Danches, bro. Put down Put down the hookah beer. I know a bad be down the street that loves some hookah, too, bro. Oh, so we know you’re on that GLP. You ain’t fooling us, bro. Next one. Ru, you haven’t gained any muscle, Ru. Oh, go to hell. Yeah, screw you. This guy. Oh, yeah. The only time I’m amazing is against the Grizzlies. Yeah. What do we do? Why don’t you play against everybody else? What do you do the other 78 games out of the year? I never hear your name. I never hear you. And then you come in here and every time you shoot the freaking you set the rim on fire. You’re a flat shoulder ass dude. Flash shoulder ass dude. Get on out of here, bro. All right, next one. Jackson Hayes. I hate this mop top idiot. Yeah. Get him out of here, man. Yeah. Also, how did you get that domestic abuse thing to just go away? I know, right? Yeah. He got LeBron. We saw it. We saw the video. We saw it. You’re a crepo. Yeah. On video, bro. On camera. Next one. Bronny James. No way. Do you travel with the team? Yeah, he does. He’s the mascot. Oh, he does. He’s the mascot. He’s the mascot. My boy was duded in this photo. Well, we need to We’re going to be doing We want Bronny chance tonight. Yes. Well, hey, Bronnie, don’t forget you earned this. King Nepo. King Nepo himself, baby. All those all those days you were shooting in the backyard. You earned this, man. With your Hall of Fame dad. Next one. LeBron James. Oh, he’s not playing right. I’m not saying anything. Oh god. Black trucks. Black truck. Oh, you guys are all scared of LeBron James now. I’m not scared. I like that Jaylen Brown called him for hairline advice. Y’all got it, bro. You’re the last person to call. Black truck’s going to pull up on y’all. No, they’re not. All right. We’re not worried about it. All right, bro. Clutch don’t play. You don’t have sciatica. Yeah, they don’t want to come to Memphis. You don’t want to play for the Lakers anymore cuz you’re not the favorite son anymore. You don’t get to call the shots anymore. So you’re like, “Oh, my back hurts.” Soon as soon as they stopped listening to you and sold the team. Ow. Can’t play. Next one. Maxi Cleba, I had no idea you were on that team. Perfect beard. Yeah. Why are you on that team? By the way, you know what you look like? You look like a The picture is in when you buy a wallet at Nordstrom Rack. That’s on the inside. Yeah, you’re just missing your wife and kids. Oh, dude, you look like wallet pitcher. Wallet picture. Wallet picture is dude. Next one. Dton connect. Oh my god. They said they had to attach a firstrounder to get rid of you. I mean, you should more like Daltton Radioactive. You’re the only white guy on the team that doesn’t get minutes. Oh, he really is. Literally. Why is your hair so wet? Yeah. And what what is that? He did the Triple H before his BJ photo. You’re never playing if you can’t play for JJ Reic. He love He loves guys that look like him and you wear the same number. You still can’t get on the court. Yeah, you got to be buns. Next one. Christian Koko. There’s no way. Who are you? Generic black dude. I swear to He looks Bro, generic, bro. Generic four. Generic four, bro. 2K generated player. Christian just looks totally average. Totally average, dude. In every way. Small face, man. Average. I am average, man. This man’s got a tiny face. All right, next one. Jake Loravia. Pasty man. Oh, yeah. Jakey Jake, [Music] that’s my brother. Hey, hey, hey. Don’t miss it tonight. Hey, hey, hey, hey. I’m back in the M tonight. You know what I’m saying? Hey yo, don’t Hey, don’t miss me one night. It’s f to be a movie. It’s going to be a movie. Hey, don’t miss me. Just meet me there. You know what I’m saying? Your boy Jake in the building. You know what I’m saying? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know what I’m saying? Yo, I’m back in Memphis tonight. I brought on my PSA T. It’s about to be a movie. It’s about to be a Wait, wait, wait. Yeah. I got my boy Rosa with me. You know what I’m saying? We going We going to sell some sports cars. You know, it’s about to be a movie. It’s about to be a movie. We in the M tonight. Turn up. It’s a movie. It’s about to be a movie. I’m here with the kid. Me and the kid. All right. Chris Manning. Oh my gosh. Who are you, bro? Who is this dude? Chris Manning. He look like the light-skinned dude in the Tyler Perry movie. What? He the lightkinned dude in the Tyler Perry movie. He is for sure. That’s still your girl. Yep. He is that dude. And he’s really a scumbag deep down cheating on that girl. Yeah. Yeah. He steals your girl and he cheats on her. He cheats on her. Does she come back to you? She comes back to you. There’s a Hey, Tyler. There’s the movie. Go make it. It looks like they had a front office meeting. They were like, you know, we need a guy that look it looks like that guy that we once had. And they’re like, who? Like, you remember like the guy guy kind of had like kind of curlyish hair, but he’s kind of lightkinned. They’re like Jordan Farar. He’s like, yeah, find whoever looks like Jordan Far. We need a mix between Jordan Farar and Rick Fox. We need him. There we go. We got him. Next one. Austin Reeves. Oh, I’m Austin Reeves. I’m from Arkansas. I’m from Arkansas. And I’m Austin Reeves. And I can I can get buckets, bro. Did he kind of look like Cory Moore? He does. He does like Cory Moore. Cory, Cory Moore for us. Cory Moore with a headband. It’s crazy. Man, I don’t know about all that. I’m just trying to go out there and win for my team. You know, as long as these guys as long as these guys are looking to pick them up, I’m going to do the best I can. And he said he hooa dip in. I’m dead. Shut up, man. Go to the co-op. All right, next one. Marcus Smart. Oh, snap. I hope you brought our money back. Yeah, bro. In a briefcase, man. You owe us. Disconnected beard ass dude. Hey, the man who robbed Memphis. Flop God himself, man. All right, next turtle looking ass. Nick Smith Jr. I had no idea you were still in the league. Didn’t he get cut by the Hornets? He looks like he’s in a costume. No, he is for sure in a costume. NBA player. NBA player. That’s his costume. Nick Smith Jr. Hey, go play for the Tigers. Or Zoro. Zoro’s crazy. One of the other Where’s your sword? Zoro. That’s crazy. He look like Yeah, he looks like he works at like a record store in a Friday movie or something. Yep. Next one. Uh, Adiro, bro. Oh, wow. Oh, that’s Musa Cece. Yeah, it is. You’re not fooling us, Musa. You just changed your name. Adu Chiro. His dad played for Memphis. His dad played at Memphis. His dad was here on Monday. He was. Oh, word. Yep. Happy for you, King. Your jerseys ain’t got a number on it. Yeah, this guy stinks. Your number ain’t got a got a number. It doesn’t say Lakers on it. Yeah. Next one. Jared Vanderbilt. Vando. Vando. Vando. Vando saw a ghost. Boy, is he terrified. Yeah, he saw a ghost. Wow. Dang, Vando. He just watched uh what’s that thing I had to promote last week? Welcome to Derry. The new saw that doll sitting right there. Yeah, that’s what it is. Dang, Vano. Why is he so scared? He looks surprised as hell. Yeah, the headband. Every time Every time I think about Jared Vanderbilt, all I think about is when’s Jared Vanderbilt coming back? No, for real. That’s like his life story. Put on his tombstone. When’s Jared Vanderbilt coming? And that might be the one of the biggest headbands I’ ever seen in my life. What do you What are you hiding? Gabe Vincent. Oh, he never mind. I take it back. He is the lightkinned dude in the Tyler Perry movie. Absolutely. Cuz he got the beard and the bra. You Shamar Moore looking. Yeah, he is. Sheamar Moore, bro. That’s him right there. Yep. Yeah. He’s for sure, man. He He says, “It’s going to be okay, baby.” Premium lightkinned, dude. That’s his favorite line. It’s going to be okay, baby. Hey, baby. Just Just call me, baby. Yeah. Hey, baby. It’s going to be Oh. Oh. Oh, he treating you bad. Yeah, it’s I got you, baby. I got you. Don’t let Don’t let Don’t let him treat you like that. You’re a queen. Yeah, you’re a Yeah, you’re a queen. You’re in my You a queen in my eyes, baby. You should never let a man treat you like that. And in his like whisper voice. That is the worst type of dude to be around, by the way. Yeah. Gave Vincent looking mom. I hate you. All right. All right. Reasons to hate the Los Angeles Lakers. All right. Sky dog of the game. Who are we talking about after tonight? Amazon Prime Emirates Cup showdown between the Grizzlies and the Lakers. All right, what we got? Who gets to pick first? Who won last time? I don’t I think me. I know. No, you can’t just say Oh, Roser won by like default. Yeah, that’s Well, that still counts as a dub. It’s a joke. Still a dub. All right, shut up, Roser. Not a big dub, but it’s a dub. Go ahead. Go ahead with your first pick since you won. Um, Jake Loravia. What’s wrong with you, bro? I’m kidding. Typeish. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, Ros. Hey, Ros. Hey, hey. I got to do Shoot Ride at 5:30, but if you want to get some trades off, if you want to get it on and popping at 6:00, I brought my collect. I brought my collection. I brought my collect. I brought my collect. Hey, we’ll do it backstage. It’ll be a movie. It’ll be a movie. Be a movie. I heard you on the show. You gave me the sky dog. Yeah, you’ve been my dog since day one, John Roser. My dog right there, man. All right, so who you picking for real? I’m going to say J goes for 30. Lame pick. Well, yeah, there’s only like three guys on our team. You could pick four. Is it my turn? Four guys. No, I’m Whose turn is it? Go ahead. I’mma go with number 46, John Kar. What? been making impact plays coming off the bench every night. He going to hit two or three trades tonight. We maybe get like a little tip out or something like that. Give me John Contra, man. Jit man. Shout out Jit man, man. King of the dunk shot. I’m going to go with Santi Aldama. There you go. I say he responds after being called a clown and a sucker by Draymond Green. Now you fired him up. He was called a clown and a sucker on the Draymond Green podcast and now he’s going to show his worth. What if he showed up? What if he showed up? Plus, they don’t have big guys. What if he showed up dressed as a sucker for Halloween? That would be funny. By the way, and and they that’s not his personality. Did you see the clip they posted on Grind City Media yesterday where Jessica Benson says describe Memphis in one word and Jaw’s like home and Jiren’s like 100 and another guy’s like history and another guy and then they get to Santi and he goes describe Memphis in one word Memphis. I was like I should have edited that out. I mean what? I feel you, bro. And then Omax Prosper was like rich in history and something. It’s like she said one word, you idiot. God, I will say describe Memphis in one word. And he goes, Memphis, you want rolling? I just don’t understand why that was like that does not No, that’s unacceptable. That’s unacceptable. You need more thought. It’s unacceptable. You need more thought. I will say, man, I was going to go with Jiren cuz I think tonight is the night when Jiren has a big game. I think I’m I am I think tonight’s the night. You got no bigs. He snaps out of it tonight. So, you’re going to switch? I’m going to switch. Give me Jiren. 25 plus tonight and a dub. Give me Trip, man. Okay. Give me Trip. My dog. I’m going Santi. I wanted to go coward, but I’m going to save it. Yeah. And Tri going to go 20 25 and seven. I think Howard’s going to play a lot cuz we need him to guard. Yeah, we do. And because he’s one of our five best players. Jiren has to get 30. 30. I’m with it. I’m I’m going to go 30 on 12. 30 on cuz he been kind of inefficient. I’m going to go 30 on 17 shots. All right, we’re gonna go with that tonight. Game at 8:30 tonight and it’s on Amazon Prime. Tip off is 8:42. I mean, why are you doing that? True. Just cuz this that’s your own pet project. We want people in the arena. We don’t want everybody standing there waiting to get through security at 8:30. Roser thinking thinking, “Hey, the game’s going to start.” I was just trying to tell people exactly the game’s going to start later. No, that’s how you heard a guy. I heard a guy on the internet say he was wearing a stay for pillow costume. Part of the problem here. Did he just call it the State Farm pillow costume? The what? My bad. He’s in the State Farm Stay Puffed Marshmallow Man. Oh, my bad. Stay puffed. Yeah, Google it. Stay puffed. Yeah. Stay puffed marshmallow man. Yeah, that’s what you are. Yeah. Yeah. So, you’re going to be like, I saw a guy in a stay puff costume say 8:42 on the game time. Why? Why? Why is that how everybody talks now? Because those are the people that y’all be talking to. No, it’s not. No, it’s not. Other than Jake Lar. But no, you going to link up with Jake though? Type [ __ ] I don’t think so. No. Have you DM’d him? No, I haven’t. It just sounds Don’t act like y’all ain’t homies. That sounds so weird. Stop acting like you ain’t homies. Why you act like you ain’t homies? Don’t try to act too cool. Stop acting like you ain’t homies. Cuz when he walk up with you, he like, “Hey, hey, hey, Rosa. Hey, Rosa. Hey, Roser. Hey, my dog Rosa right there, man. My dog Rosa.” Hey, when Hey, hey, hey. For real. When them tops finest dropping, bro. I don’t know. When them tops finest dropping, bro. I’d like to know, too, man. Hey. Hey, you seen that new top? Ooh, some of them are fire. I like Hey, I like them comic ones. I like the all kings, but Oh my god. Yeah, you’re so corny. Is he going you going? If he comes and dabs you up tonight, you going you going you going? He Ros is going to go seek him out. No, I’m not. Yes, you are. No, I’m not. We’re going to get it on video. Don’t you worry. Okay, don’t worry. I know they got came. Don’t worry. It’s going to be a movie. It’s going to be a movie. The John Rose or Jake Leavia link up going to be a movie. It’s going to be a movie. What? We’ll be back tomorrow. We’ll be back Monday. Everybody have a wonderful and safe weekend and a safe Halloween until Monday.
Happy Halloween! (3:00). Gary Parrish joins the show in-studio and the gang talks about the Tigers loss to Auburn last night in an exhibition in Atlanta (6:59) before going into a conversation about Lane Kiffin, coaching changes, LSU, and if we’re going to see College Head Coaches eventually get paid like Professional Head Coaches and it’s the players who make more money in college going forward (20:15). We’ll hit on the College Football games this weekend including Memphis/Rice, Texas/Vandy, Tennessee/Oklahoma, Ole Miss/South Carolina and then a little about NBA and Ryan Rollins (1:08:07). We’ll give you Reasons to Hate the LA Lakers and pick our SKYDOG’s of the Game (1:29:02).
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It was Replayes. They used to have bootleg concert Cds back in the day.