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Jay Skeets
Good morning sweet word and welcome to the no Dunks podcast presented by FanDuel. It's Wednesday, January 21, 2026 and this is Squad, the show where we draft teams like we're the General manager. The only catch, the very specific draft pool we're pulling from. I'm Jay Skeets here in the classic Factory along with my rival GMs Tas Melas, Trey Kirby and super producer JD Gentlemen, welcome back to the War Room. Yeah, going to be a fun one today. If you're joining us live on YouTube, hit the like button. Subscribe podcast listeners, five star ratings and Reviews before we get to today's squad, let's quickly address a few things from last night. Hi. Oh yeah, we're going to start with Willboy of the night because why the hell not? Yeah, what? Yep, well, Boy of the night goes to Emmanuel Quickley who matched his career high with 40 points. He had a 10 assist as the Raptors ran away from Golden State for the 145, 127 win in the warriors first game since losing star Jimmy Butler to a season ending right knee injury. Quickly shot 11:13 from the floor. He made all 11 of his free throws and Emmanuel Quickley became just the second player in NBA history to drop at least 40 points and 10 assists in a single game while shooting over 80% from the field. Joining Wilt Chamberlain. Nice because when I think of Wilt Chamberlain, I think of Emmanuel Quickley. Incredible game from him and he honestly looked more like Klay Thompson playing against the Golden State Warriors. All those catch and shoot threes as they got the victory tasks. So quick get to a boy.
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Tas Melas
13 shots, 40 points. Pretty cool. Obviously went to the line. Super efficient. The Raptors going super small essentially. Scotty Barnes starting at center, Scotty Barnes, Brandon Ingerman. Three guards out there and them just running sort of off. Ball picks, lots of pick and slips where you saw Scotty Barnes just get to the rim as the warriors were just a little, little off. And yeah, Manuel Quickley does not run pick and rolls. He's there to catch and shoot. He only runs like three and a half pick and rolls a game as a point guard. That's what Rojakovic wants.
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Jay Skeets
It Was a perfect night.
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Tas Melas
An absolute perfect, perfect night for the Toronto Raptors.
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Jay Skeets
Raptors look good when they play against small teams. Oh, my goodness. And the warriors are small.
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Trey Kirby
Yeah, it was just easy buckets for the Raptors for the entire night. Like these delayed rim runs. They would get the ball down into the corner and then Barnes or Mamu or even Mobo sometimes would cut down the lane for an easy layup. And there was zero resistance from the Warriors. Then Golden State starts to collapse. They're collapsing.
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Tas Melas
Too much.
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Trey Kirby
Turns into wide open threes for the Raptors. This was not good for Golden State. I didn't think.
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Tas Melas
Yeah, not a good first game without Jimmy.
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JD
No.
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Trey Kirby
It is going to be a long couple of months for Steph Curry. He's going to play the rest of this season with a person attached to him. You saw Shed and Baji wouldn't leave him, period. They're like, all right, you guys go play four on four. I'll stand here right next to Steph Curry. So not a lot of other offensive options for Golden State. Steph just has to stand there and, like, run around and try and get open. If he has a sliver of daylight, he's going to shoot it.
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Jay Skeets
Yeah.
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Trey Kirby
Because he's like, this is the only way I'm going to get a shot up. This is the only way we can have efficient offense.
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Jay Skeets
Uh, yeah.
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Trey Kirby
It looked exhausting to me the way they were guarding Curry.
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Jay Skeets
Oh, absolutely. And then before the game, too, warriors general manager Mike Dunleavy told reporters that he has no plans to move Jimmy Butler's contract before the February 5th trade deadline. He said, quote, I think he's got a style of game that can play for a long time with his skill, his physicality and his mind for the game. Again, that's Dunleavy talking about Jimmy Butler. I can't say I agree with that. I'd say the opposite of the way Jimmy plays. Maybe as he gets older. I don't see Jimmy playing into his, like, 41, 42nd season by any means. Maybe I'm wrong, but that's what Dunlevy's saying, because they did trade Melton's contract when he was injured, obviously, back in the day. So they thought, oh, maybe he will. He says no. But then he had other things to say about Kaminga tas, and this got all the headlines right. Dunleavy acknowledged Kaminga's trade demand, but said, quote, when you make a demand, there needs to be a demand on the market. Like Dunleavy. My God, man, was that needed. I don't know. But Kaminga played, you know, he played even played well. 20 points in 21 minutes, made seven to 10 shots. He did help lead a bit of a comeback as the warriors got back into the game. But yeah, your thoughts on Dunleavy's comments here last night?
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Tas Melas
He basically said, come here, go play basketball. I mean essentially that's what it feels like to me. You got a two week exhibition here. Go out there and see what, who will take you. But yeah, essentially calling him out. It was interesting to see coming to come off the bench and not take that Jimmy role. They tried Brandon Pajemski in that Jimmy role instead. I thought it would be my man, d' Anthony Melton. I thought pods, because who's been playing really well off the bench would continue to do that. But yeah, we've got two weeks of Kaminga. I don't know if Kaminga gets inserted just to get more reps, but I guess he's. He isn't a connector and so that makes sense that he's not starting, but you just want to play him a lot. You know, he played 20 minutes in this game, 7 of 10 from the floor. I guess that's what you're going to do with, with Jonathan Kaminga. See if he can drop 30 and help out Steph and see what they can get for him.
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Trey Kirby
Yeah, he didn't score until it was 91, 65. I wasn't that impressed. He basically had a half of garbage time to score points and he scored points. It was similar to the thing, the way things went down in the playoffs last year. When we're down to it, we need you to score and he can score points. But this is I guess, good for the warriors because any playing time for Jonathan Kaminga, anything he does on the court is better than what's happened for the past month when he hasn't played. So Dunleavy's right. There's not demand on the market and this maybe could help.
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Tas Melas
Yeah, are. Is Steve Kerr going to trust him? He played 4 first half minutes, not a lot of minutes. And then. Yeah, when this was a blowout, essentially. Okay, here you go. And they gave him the keys. I don't know, maybe. Maybe two weeks is just isn't enough to sell Jonathan King. Essentially he's healthy. We saw that.
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Jay Skeets
Oh, his back's healthy.
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Trey Kirby
Yeah, he is indeed healthy.
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JD
That's it.
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Tas Melas
But yeah. Do you think he needs to play more? Do you think he needs to start? Essentially it doesn't bode well for what the warriors have done perfectly over the seven game homestand, they're six and one. And every little part that they inserted was working perfectly. So I understand why they wouldn't insert it, but I don't know. It's also.
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Trey Kirby
They had Jimmy when that was happening.
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Tas Melas
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's why I thought my man Melton would be there. Pods is that sort of guy. And, you know, they. They put up points in this game, but the Raptors put up a hell of a lot more.
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Jay Skeets
And The Raptors scored 70 points in the first half. Yeah, and then they were playing catch up all night. And everybody's just tired of the Jonathan Kaminga. Will he be traded? Will he not be traded? Will he play? Will he not play? Everybody's over it, so we'll just wait until the deadline here. If they actually move him, what they get back, if anything? Because, my God, if we got to go through this again, oh, boy, they.
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Trey Kirby
Got to trade him and they got to get something back because between him and Jimmy Butler, that's like $76 million that they would be getting nothing from. So they need to literally get a human back.
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Jay Skeets
We will take a human.
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Trey Kirby
We will take any human.
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Jay Skeets
It's all Dyn Levy's looking for.
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Tas Melas
Yeah, I thought the warriors would lock in after a half. Like we saw the Lakers Nuggets game. Lakers also gave up 71 points in their first half. They locked in in that third quarter and the fourth quarter, and they turned it around after a weird start to their game. And they took away Jamal Murray from that game. But Raptors just got too many weapons.
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Jay Skeets
Man, despite missing a lot of guys, like you said, a lot of big guys. No column Murray boils. No Yaka purdle. Surprise, surprise. No R.J. barrett still. Yeah. So good victory from the Raps there in the bay. The other big game last night, Fun one, I guess it was a rivalry game, was it not?
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Trey Kirby
Oh, yeah, that's a rivalry game.
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Jay Skeets
The Rockets and Spurs. Shen Goon just missed out on a triple double, but he led the Rockets comeback to win over the spurs, though. Reed shepherd was huge in the fourth quarter. Trey, I think, scored 12 of his 21. And yeah, they rallied here. It looked like the spurs were on their way to another victory, but Houston gets it done in this rivalry game brought to you by aws.
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Trey Kirby
Yeah, they were hosting it. It was a coverage provided by Kia on NBC. Peacock during AWS Rivals week. At least they started with a good R and a good game because this was awesome. Yeah, shepherd was Great in the fourth quarter, 12 points. Three threes. He had one assist, but it was from 80ft away on that super outlet pass to Kevin Durant. He blocked a three pointer in the corner. He had one steal they only credited him with. He forced at least two more turnovers as well. Finished with 21 points, four assists. He really started getting going in the third quarter, but hit a couple of threes, had that nice reverse with the touch off the glass. This is a good Reed shepherd game. Sometimes he looks like Seth Curry, sometimes he looks like Steph Curry. This was a Steph Curry game for Shepherd. He was just completely feeling it. Jabari Smith, I thought, hit some big jumpers as well. And the spurs offense just kind of dried up. I think they end up scoring 14 in the fourth quarter and they just couldn't really get Victor any sort of a look that wasn't. We're entering the ball to you at the elbow. Try and shoot over somebody. Rockets were doing a great job of being physical with Victor and being handsy with Victor. Like a lot of low strips, a lot of deflections. He was just completely taken out of the game and just looked out of sorts a little bit. It would have been good to see the spurs figure out a way to get him moving towards the basket rather than catching. Having to figure out a move and score over the top. It just wasn't happening last night. Maybe some of it was. I think they were on the second night of a back to back. I don't know. The Rockets look awesome in the fourth quarter though. I think it was a combination of good defense and good offense from Houston.
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Jay Skeets
I would add to that. I didn't think it was the greatest game management from Mitch Johnson and the spurs there. There were a couple of times like call a timeout, man. Because like you said, these, these possessions we're getting here is just like Wemby Isos and they're being challenged and there was like a two for one situation. He could have been smarter with. I really thought he let this one get away with him just in terms of managing the game as they gave up the lead. But your takeaways.
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Tas Melas
They also tried to stop the momentum by saying, hey, the rim's not working for. Because it started, it happened, it happened pregame.
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Jay Skeets
Yeah. 22 minute delay.
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Tas Melas
Yeah. Because Stefan Castle is hanging on the rim pregame. And it, you know, it did go crooked. So 22 minute delay. Then in the second half they're shooting on that great rim. I mean it looked, it looked right, it looked straight. And then it was three minutes into the fourth quarter, when they started, they had started that fourth quarter clanking, and then they said, that rim is crooked. And they got out there pretty quick. We even got an email from somebody working in the building. Not going to reveal a name. Whoa.
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Jay Skeets
We got sources.
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Tas Melas
Basically, he said, what are the spurs doing? I mean, he didn't really give any details. He basically said, what are the spurs doing saying our rim is crooked? Because they went out there. Credit to them. They got on there with the level. It was switched. It was. It was precise. It was quick. And the spurs continue to clank. So was it the rim or just missing shots? I mean, the spurs give up big leads throughout the season. That's what they do. It happens. So they went over 13 from 3 in the fourth quarter. I don't think it had anything to do with the rim, but you could say Mitch Johnson was trying to stop the momentum of the Rockets as they close that lead, but they're also just not getting back on defense. That was a problem. But, yeah, the spurs allowing comebacks is a thing. And I don't think it had anything to do with the rim. And thankfully, it wasn't long. That one wasn't long.
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Jay Skeets
No, that one wasn't.
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Trey Kirby
Noah Eagle was killing it. I thought he was hilarious during this. And I didn't know that the protocol for figuring out if the rim is level was bring out the level, as Noah Eagle called it the big dog.
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Jay Skeets
Oh, they got the big duck, too.
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Trey Kirby
And the guy just pulls out his iPhone, takes a photo of it, comes down and shows the rest. Like, look, the bubbles in the middle. It's fine. It seems like something should be a little bit more precise than that. That's how I would measure the rim at my house. I think the NBA could do something additionally. But we got to fix this.
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Tas Melas
Yeah, but it meant to fix rims.
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Trey Kirby
We got to fix shot clocks. Too many failures of both this year. The hardware is letting us down in the NBA.
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Tas Melas
Yeah, this doesn't happen a lot.
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Trey Kirby
It should happen zero percent of the time.
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Tas Melas
Yeah, well, I don't know. Like, a spring isn't perfect in there. Like, they can be crooked. Like, did you see.
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Jay Skeets
I mean, you saw the dunk that did it? I mean, it was Castle. He was holding on it. He did.
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Tas Melas
Like the Westbrook pregame. Pregame you're talking about. But then they showed a closeup of it. Well, actually, I take that back. They must have showed the closeup of it from in the fourth quarter of the pregame because they showed a man, Thompson, hanging on the Rim.
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Trey Kirby
Well, that was the. Fixed it right in the fourth quarter.
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Jay Skeets
It was hilarious.
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Tas Melas
That was way off. It was literally. It looked way off when Amend Thompson fixed it. And you can see Keldon Johnson's first three of the quarter was long. And it was on that left side of the rim that was facing down. So, you know, it was tilted down, I should say. So maybe they're onto something.
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Trey Kirby
We're both shooting percentages higher on the rim. That was fixed pregame, isn't it? They literally showed a graphic of left rim versus right rim field goal percentages, which was pretty funny.
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Tas Melas
Yeah, the north rim, or the south rim as our emailer called them, because that's all you gotta do when you're in the arena. Yeah, they were. They were on. They're precise shooting on that shot on that rim. Very weird.
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Jay Skeets
I liked before the game when we had the big 20 minute plus delay, like the who done it of it all. Like, who was to blame for it because obviously Castle seemed to be the one that did sort of break it. But then there was like, there's other reports going, oh, it was this dunker that did it or Kelly Olenek. You know, it's like so funny to me, like, who actually did it. Like it mattered. But they got it fixed, I guess, enough. And signature win for the Rockets. Like, that was not a pretty win. That was a gritty win. And you know, they've turned it around here after that little rough stretch after I jinxed the hell out of them. But I'm glad you brought up Jamari Smith Jr because Reed shepherd getting a lot of headlines and deservedly so. He was awesome. But that guy to me is like, he's sort of their Mobley. Right? It's like when he plays really well, I'm like, oh, I like their chances in, you know, obviously one game or a series because he hit that corner three.
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Tas Melas
I love.
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Jay Skeets
Like Durant. You can see Durant anytime Jabari Smith Jr. Does something, he's pumped. I feel like he's like, yes, man. I feel like he's trying to build up his confidence. Hit that corner 3. Hit that jumper to put them up. And then some good defense too. Like as well as you can play on a guy that's 7 foot 5 and wembanyama when he was matched up on him. So fun game. Any other games you want to address before we get to squad here?
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Tas Melas
Yeah, well, as far as the spurs goes, they do give up these big leads. They're up 16. That's something to watch. Just going forward with the Spurs. So we had those. The funny moments there. I think we had a funny moment in the Lakers game because as I said, they gave up 71 first half points. They gave up. I think it was nine points in the last minute of the second quarter. And what was hilarious is that Luca scored and won and he got a technical. So one of those points went the other side just because he complained about it. I thought that was.
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Jay Skeets
Which he says he. Is that the one? He says he's, you know, writing to the league to get that one rescinded.
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Tas Melas
Oh, I didn't see that.
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Jay Skeets
Said I didn't say anything all that crazy. He said, like he got hit on the arm is what he said. That's all. Or something. So maybe he gets that one taken away because I think he's up to 13, something like that.
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Trey Kirby
He's very high.
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Jay Skeets
It's getting high. So, you know, certain point he will miss games.
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Tas Melas
Yeah, yeah, that is. That is very funny, the Lakers, because everybody has to talk about the Lakers. They're on an eight game road trip. That's their first game. So it's a good win for them to limit the Nuggets to 36 points in that second half where they just, they just said, hey, Jamal Murray, you ain't scoring, man. Just two points for him in the second half. So it is a good start for them as this long road trip happens. They gotta go all the way back to LA to visit the Clippers in their next game. Long trip, but it is a longer trip. We'll see what they can do.
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Jay Skeets
Any other games, tk?
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Trey Kirby
Yeah, Jazz Wolves was pretty weird. Minnesota, I didn't think played very well at all. They were still up by 12 going into the fourth quarter and went completely cold from the field. Went 3 of 15 from three. Okay, that's bad. But they also went 5 of 12 on dunks and layups. And some of it was contested by the Jazz for sure. But you know, they're playing Yusuf Nurkic out there, had his second career triple double. Filipowski was a big guy for him. They didn't have Walker Kessler, he's been out forever. Lowry Markkanen is sick. So no real rim deterrence for Utah. And still the Wolves just could not score, could not make a layup. It was ridiculous. Also couldn't stop Isaiah Collier. He had 18 and 10, 12 in the fourth quarter looking like a human bowling ball. And Keonte George had his career high, another career high for this guy. 43 points, 6 of 13 from 3 point land. And the Broadcaster just kept saying that cat is cool.
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Jay Skeets
That cat is cool.
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Trey Kirby
And then be like, how cool is that cat?
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Trey Kirby
A lot of cat talk with regards to Keonte George. I guess he is a little feline in nature.
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Jay Skeets
Yeah, yeah, a little bit. I sort of see he had some big shots.
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Trey Kirby
He was good.
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JD
Yeah.
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Tas Melas
Feline in nature.
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Jay Skeets
Ziller wrote in his newsletter this morning how he's been trying to think of players like Keonte George when it comes to like their age, their skill set, their potential developmental curve. So he ran some like numbers through Stathead Ziller did. And this is pretty wild. This is a fun one. That again, this is all Ziller from his Good morning it's basketball newsletter. Players 23 or younger averaging at least 22 points per game with an assist percentage of at least 25%, a usage percentage of over 26% and a true shooting above 60%. These are really good marks. Obviously seven players spit out from stat head. James Harden in his first Houston Rockets season, Devin Booker in his fifth season. Shea Gildous Alexander in his second OKC season. Trae Young in his fourth season. Luka in his fifth season. Zion Williamson in his fifth season. That was a weird one. And then Keonte George this year. So obviously some pretty good company. He's putting up incredible numbers and you know, he's not making an All Star game, I don't think, but holy crap. I mean he's got to be the classic like top of the list snub type guy if he doesn't get there and isn't selected by the coaches.
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Trey Kirby
This year.
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Jay Skeets
Yeah, this year. Yeah, yeah. He's not going to be. Yeah. Why are you laughing at that?
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Trey Kirby
I don't think he's going to even really be mentioned when people talk.
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Jay Skeets
He will guarantee be mentioned.
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Trey Kirby
Well, you just mentioned him, so.
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Jay Skeets
Yeah, exactly.
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Trey Kirby
Self fulfilling prophecy. But I'm just telling you.
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Jay Skeets
You don't think we'll see Keonte George on another snub list besides my mouth?
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Trey Kirby
No. I mean Zach Lowell will put him on a snub list.
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Jay Skeets
Okay, well, there we go. So I'm right. He will be a snub this year.
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Tas Melas
That's good. Staying with it.
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Trey Kirby
Anybody can score 20 points like people.
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Jay Skeets
Score 20 all the time. You're making a bet going to bat for Michael Porter Jr. Being a lock for an All Star game in the Eastern Conference. And this guy can't be a snub in the West.
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Trey Kirby
How many snubs are the Jazz getting? They got like five wins.
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Jay Skeets
He would be their pick.
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Trey Kirby
Is my point over marketing as a snub?
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Jay Skeets
Yeah. Hell yeah.
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Trey Kirby
So it's marking and snub. Getting snubbed now.
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Jay Skeets
Well, now he's. Who's. Nobody's got marketing on their list except for you.
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Trey Kirby
I would never have him on my list. Everybody knows that. They got 15 wins and you're telling me they got two All Stars.
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Tas Melas
Well, sticking with the Utah Jaz, it is interesting here, two weeks before the trade deadline, who's going to be dealt because they've got so many bodies that are older guys. Like do they finally say to a bunch of these guys, there will be some people that say, Yusuf, Nurkic. The Toronto Raptors need a big. Now that's a big number, big salary. So it doesn't work one for one really with the Toronto Raptors because they've got a lot of guys, the top of the roster that make money and then there's a big drop off after they're four or five with Jakob Hurdle and depending how you look at it. So his triple double you slipped in there, Trey. That's a, it's an interesting thing because this is Nurkic's, you know, last year of his big fat contract at $19 million. Maybe it's time to say goodbye because he's not going to be long for Utah. Maybe they go get something. Maybe the Raptors can in a three team deal, get him to help out.
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Jay Skeets
Nurkic to the Raps.
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Tas Melas
They, they need something. They need a big guy to set picks. You're not wrong essentially that they need, just need a large, large human.
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Trey Kirby
Another team looking for a human. Yeah, it was on the table last night. He looked good. Usually he hadn't played in like weeks, but he was looking fresh last night.
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Tas Melas
Yeah. Do you, do the Raptors go get somebody super cheap like, you know, can they get a day run sharp or can they get a Goga Bataze or Jay Huff? Bakers ain't let him go. Or you know, do they do what they did last year with Orlando Robinson, like that type of thing where they go, they go deep into the G League. Here you go.
- [22:54]
Jay Skeets
We already tried Mo Bamba for one game.
- [22:57]
Tas Melas
Yeah, that was short.
- [22:58]
Jay Skeets
Yeah, no, but I hear you. It's a good point. I like now the idea of like teams when they're talking about trades, they're always looking for young players or prospects, draft picks and now just humans. We'll take a human.
- [23:12]
Trey Kirby
Exactly one human.
- [23:13]
Jay Skeets
We're interested.
- [23:15]
Tas Melas
This is Rob Gronkowski and Julian Edelman.
- [23:17]
Jay Skeets
From Dudes on Dudes with Gronk and Jules. Rob, I've never asked, are you a dips guy? Like the workout? You can't tell.
- [23:26]
Tas Melas
No, I mean for your chips.
- [23:28]
Jay Skeets
Oh, I knew that. Yeah, of course.
- [23:32]
Tas Melas
You got to try this new Daisy's French Onion Dip. Goes great on Sundays.
- [23:38]
Jay Skeets
Daisy like the sour cream brand? Yup. That's how you know it's going to be fire. I use their sour cream all the time.
- [23:46]
Tas Melas
Goes perfect with my Taco Tuesday dinner.
- [23:50]
Trey Kirby
Oh Jules the chef.
- [23:53]
Jay Skeets
I love it.
- [23:54]
Tas Melas
Yep.
- [23:55]
Jay Skeets
And now I've added the Daisies French.
- [23:57]
Tas Melas
Onion dip to my Sunday spread. They make it with all natural herbs and spices.
- [24:03]
Trey Kirby
I like the sound of that.
- [24:05]
Jay Skeets
Everyone knows you need a good dip for game day. Personally, I like to dip everything I can.
- [24:11]
Tas Melas
Veggies, crackers, chips.
- [24:14]
Jay Skeets
Heck, I might even dip a buffalo wing in there. That reminds me, they also have Daisy's Ranch dip.
- [24:21]
Tas Melas
Now you're speaking my language.
- [24:23]
Jay Skeets
Sundays on the couch just got even better. Yup, seems like a no brainer on game day. So get out there and give the.
- [24:32]
Tas Melas
French Onion Dip a try. You won't regret it.
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That's 40% off@lifelock.com iheart terms apply. All right, those are a few of last night's games. Let's get in to the real meat of today's podcast. It's time for Squad. Today's Squad is all about celebrating 20 years of classics as we've been selling celebrating it for the last couple days now. Had bones on yesterday Leon last week sharing some fun videos on our YouTube page as well. Some classics. Certified classics at that because believe it or not, we are creeping up on 4000 episodes in totality of this show. We did 1000 plus as the basketball Jones. We did another 1300 plus as the starters and we're at 1500 plus and counting here as no dunks. And yes, yes, yes. We did seven episodes as the Free Agents too. God, people love to remind me about the Free Agents anytime I share anything about the history of our show. Don't forget about the time you guys did seven episodes in JD's basement don't and we don't. So yeah, we're going to be drafting from some fun categories. Looking back here over 20 years, this is our sort of way to celebrate this big anniversary. So we got six rounds today guys instead of the normal five. In the first round we're drafting our favorite pick them Payoff. Pretty self explanatory. Are you a fan of silly payoffs? Scary payoffs? Painful payoffs? Really dumb payoffs? Your pick. In the second round we'll be drafting our favorite special episode. So this could be a number of things. Maybe a holiday themed episode, maybe a live show that we've done. The starties would count. Our award show with Kristin Ledlow, those type of things. Not, not this normal generic three dudes talking hoops type of show we do 99% of the time. Can't pick that. In the third round we're drafting our favorite guest. No shortage of NBA legends to pick from. So I'm excited to see who everybody goes with there. In the fourth round we're drafting our favorite musical number. My first thought when we put this category in is like there's not going to be enough to pick from. What are we doing here?
- [30:05]
Tas Melas
There's a lot of.
- [30:07]
Jay Skeets
More thought into it and holy crap, do we like music? What are we, Grand Hill? We've done multiple music videos. There's In Memoriam, sing alongs, there's rap battles. Like there is a lot. There's a lot. So that's gonna be a fun music.
- [30:24]
Tas Melas
In the bones of everyone here. Of JD obviously. Yeah, yeah. It's happened.
- [30:28]
Jay Skeets
That's right.
- [30:29]
Tas Melas
20 frickin years.
- [30:30]
Jay Skeets
In the fifth round we're gonna draft our favorite recurring segment. So I don't think they have to necessarily still be a recurring segment but over the 20 years, you know, something that we did frequently enough. This will be maybe weekly, monthly. I guess somebody could make an argument. We did stuff yearly that can maybe count. So we'll get into that. But think your crossfires, think you're maybe your tweet of the week shoutouts.
- [30:56]
Trey Kirby
Wow.
- [30:56]
Jay Skeets
Maybe your pun guns. You know there's some classics.
- [30:59]
Tas Melas
Call whatever you want. Whatever you want. No Fox given.
- [31:02]
Jay Skeets
Okay.
- [31:03]
Tas Melas
I, I went back and saw that we did a, a Rick Fox segment. Wow. Called no Fox. That fox only showed up a couple of times thing.
- [31:15]
Jay Skeets
No foxgivet is good though.
- [31:17]
Tas Melas
Yeah, it's good. Yeah, that was a great one.
- [31:19]
Jay Skeets
Let's bring it back. In our sixth and final round we're drafting our favorite off air moments. So this Is like, you can look at this as like a little story time about something that didn't happen on a podcast or on a show or live show, but like something behind the scenes or maybe traveling together. Whatever you want. I mean, go nuts. All right. We have traveled together a lot. That's off air moments. Yeah, we have. So the rules for squad, if you're new here, the no Dunks Incorporated official rules. All four of us will get a crack at at least one of the number one picks across one of the six rounds here. And we're going to draft these squads, we'll talk out our selections, maybe make a trade or two. Please don't. It's always tough to keep track of. And we determined the draft order yesterday. And would you look at that. Tas Melas, you have the first pick in the first category, Favorite pick' em payoff.
- [32:17]
Tas Melas
With the first selection of the pick' em payoffs, I will select something you guys don't give a poop about, in all honesty. So don't worry, your pick will still be on the board. After Vince Carter left the Toronto Raptors, I had to go, what? You're picking that?
- [32:32]
Jay Skeets
I had it very high on my list. Continue.
- [32:34]
Tas Melas
Oh, interesting. After Vince left, I had to confront Toronto Raptors fans outside the Raptors arena and pretend like I really loved Vince Carter, while every one of them basically hated Vince Carter. And that's understandable because of the way he left. So that was just a fantastic segment, I gotta say, overall, I mean, because it was guttural, it was visceral, how much everybody hated him and how much I could feel it in my own body. We actually just aired our pilot episode, which was just a podcast, you know, from 2006. So Vince had left about a year and a half prior to that. And I could hear it in my voice, that guy is never going to win anything. And essentially, I had to go in front of all those fans out there and basically, you know, reverse that and say, I love this guy. I love this guy. And there's a lot of people saying, f you, F you. There was somebody who came by. I don't remember, don't know if you remember this great video, JD of the person who slapped me. Yeah, of course, of course. Yeah. We asked her to slap me, but then she really.
- [33:39]
JD
Yeah.
- [33:39]
Tas Melas
And that's what the good thing about it is. She sees my face, she slaps she. You could see her reaction in the slow mo. Whoa, I just slapped that guy really hard. But then she turns and said, well, I'm proud of myself type of thing while she's wearing her Jermaine o' Neal jersey. So the whole thing, the whole thing was just great because it was. It was real. Was that our first pick and pay?
- [34:02]
Jay Skeets
Yeah. Okay. It was one of the first ones for sure. And maybe first.
- [34:06]
Tas Melas
Yeah. Nothing like the first one.
- [34:07]
Jay Skeets
Here's.
- [34:08]
Tas Melas
So that really hit. That hit.
- [34:10]
Jay Skeets
I. I was looking at. I had this on the short list. Vince Carter's number one fan. Tas Melis down at the acc. Then called the ACC in Toronto before the nets wraps. I always remembered this game being the game where you're out there, you're in the Vince Carter jersey, you got a photo of Vince Carter, and everybody's like, f you, man. F you. I always thought it was the game where Vince hit the game winning three against the Raptors.
- [34:33]
Tas Melas
It's funny. That's how what our brains do, eh? Our brains just say, oh yeah. You remember that time Vince came back and didn't shot? That must be the same connects them. It's not.
- [34:41]
Jay Skeets
And you know why it's not? Because that game winning three by Vince in Toronto was on January 8, 2006. That's 10 days before our first ever podcast.
- [34:51]
Tas Melas
Yeah.
- [34:51]
Jay Skeets
So that's. So that's probably why I'm doing that. But this must have been in the 06.07 season. Like the. Our next season. Our first full season or whatever.
- [35:00]
Tas Melas
I don't know if it was.
- [35:01]
JD
Yeah, 100%. Because we weren't doing video.
- [35:03]
Tas Melas
We weren't doing video. Yeah. That's why I thought it may be.
- [35:06]
Jay Skeets
A little later because maybe 07.08 even.
- [35:08]
Tas Melas
Yeah, that's why I'm thinking it was later.
- [35:10]
Jay Skeets
Yeah.
- [35:10]
Tas Melas
Because we were just doing audio podcast 06.07. So I thought, yeah, maybe we're just connecting all. He got traded in 04 and we do a video years later and you start to connect all these things. But the guttural feelings of everybody was still there. Oh, they hated me. But there was, you know, there was a guy who definitely loved him and. Well, not really. He just had a jersey on. I take that back. Anyway, it was fun.
- [35:35]
Jay Skeets
All right, good one.
- [35:36]
JD
That was a brutal shoot, though.
- [35:37]
Jay Skeets
It was freezing cold. Yeah.
- [35:39]
Tas Melas
Yeah, it was.
- [35:41]
Jay Skeets
And we were like, inside. We were in like a big, like, tunnel to the acc, but it was still freezing cold. Oh, yeah. All right, good one. I did have it on the list. I liked it. That's one of my favorites. I didn't know where to go with this one. Like painful or fun? I was struggling. Do I take the most embarrassing one of all time, because that one's easy, but it's so old, and I feel like no one ever saw it. So I'm going to go with a bit of a wild card one. I'm going to go more recent. So maybe people remember wearing a dog shock collar here in the classic factory. So not that long ago. This is a no Dunks one. And I go with this one because I think we had talked about doing it for years. Yeah. Like, it came up years ago, and for whatever reason, we didn't do it. And we thought maybe it wasn't safe. Maybe we shouldn't do that.
- [36:38]
Trey Kirby
We definitely tried it in the office at the starters. Just like, hey, let's do this for.
- [36:43]
Tas Melas
Fun to see how bad it is.
- [36:44]
Trey Kirby
Oh, no, we can't do this.
- [36:45]
Tas Melas
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Jay Skeets
So we ended up doing it, or I ended up doing it, and I just watched, like, the little compilation. It's up on our YouTube page. You can just type it in and it's funny and it's, like, actually sucked because JD's operating it and you don't know, like, I say it on it. I like. The worst part is you just don't know when it's happening. So you're, like, always on edge and, like. Yeah. Also sort of hurt. Zapped in the neck, wearing it on my neck. So I'll go with. I'll go with that one.
- [37:12]
JD
Do we have it on the lowest.
- [37:13]
Jay Skeets
Setting or you didn't have it super high.
- [37:16]
JD
Yeah, but it was.
- [37:17]
Jay Skeets
Oh, still massive jolt.
- [37:19]
JD
And there was a lot of anxiety, as you say, because you just didn't know.
- [37:23]
Jay Skeets
And then, like, I could start to get into the cadence. Like, you haven't done it in a while. And I know the way your brain works. You're like, oh, I want to get them here now. Keep the people watching here every couple minutes. But then that got weird. So I'll go with the. The dog shock color for a favorite.
- [37:37]
Tas Melas
Good one.
- [37:38]
Jay Skeets
Third pick goes to jd.
- [37:40]
JD
That's me.
- [37:40]
Jay Skeets
Oh, yeah.
- [37:41]
JD
I mean, yeah. There's the painful ones, there's the weird ones. God, there's so many.
- [37:48]
Jay Skeets
What's the dumbest one? Let's just talk it out. Right.
- [37:50]
JD
The dumbest one is Lee in the wetsuit. That's the dumbest.
- [37:55]
Trey Kirby
That's the worst. He says it's the worst. Unbearable.
- [37:59]
JD
Yeah.
- [38:00]
Trey Kirby
Think of how many men have peed in this. I do like that he changed up. Usually he was just complaining about the smell, but, yeah, he finally let off that it was the pee that he was thinking about the whole time.
- [38:12]
JD
Too.
- [38:12]
Jay Skeets
Good.
- [38:13]
JD
Yeah. Oh, God, I love. Repeat after me. Shout out to the.
- [38:18]
Trey Kirby
That one is a good one.
- [38:20]
JD
Yeah. I think that's one of the funniest ones.
- [38:22]
Jay Skeets
But explain that for someone that has no idea.
- [38:24]
JD
So it's basically impractical jokers before impractical jokers. It was the old Letterman thing where he would get in the ear of Rupert or the guy next door and. And tell. And basically he would have to say everything that Dave would say. So Skeets was. No. It was Tas.
- [38:40]
Jay Skeets
No. Yeah, go ahead.
- [38:41]
JD
Tass in Skeets Year on the streets of Toronto in winter, of course, another freezing cold shoot. And basically you were out there for about a half hour or so, and he would have to just man on the street interviews. But you had to repeat everything that Taz said.
- [38:59]
Jay Skeets
There's a couple funny parts, for sure.
- [39:01]
JD
Oh, my God. The funniest is when you ask he. You ask for a sip of a woman's Starbucks.
- [39:08]
Tas Melas
Yeah.
- [39:08]
Jay Skeets
Yeah.
- [39:09]
JD
And then he starts guessing what it is.
- [39:14]
Jay Skeets
So I go, chai latte. She's like, no. And then she has, like, hot chocolate. I'm like, hot chocolate? Like, no, she let me drink it, too.
- [39:21]
JD
Yeah. It was fine for a guy. Anyway, I'm not going with that one. I'm going with hot peppers. Great choice, because I have never laughed that hard in the. In. In the booth, like, never. I could barely direct the show because Lee had to eat these hot peppers. And it worked out perfectly because we had a dial. Right. That he had to spin. And he got the habanero, which. Which we wanted him to get. And I think he started off sort of fine, but then he ate the habanero, and he randomly gets up in the middle of the show while we're doing the show, and he's like. Like, just.
- [40:04]
Jay Skeets
We thought he.
- [40:05]
JD
We. He could be injured almost for some reason. Like, we just thought we didn't know what was gonna happen and. Oh, my God.
- [40:11]
Jay Skeets
And a part of what made it even funnier to us, to you, is all day, he was like, no big deal.
- [40:16]
Tas Melas
Yeah.
- [40:16]
Jay Skeets
He was approaching this. Like, it was the easiest pick and payoff of all time. These are very hot peppers, man. You are on live television. You do have to talk.
- [40:26]
JD
Yeah.
- [40:27]
Trey Kirby
He couldn't stop, like, hiccuping.
- [40:29]
Tas Melas
Yeah, yeah, that too.
- [40:30]
Jay Skeets
Yeah.
- [40:31]
Trey Kirby
The whole time.
- [40:36]
JD
We thought maybe he'd barf, like, on live tv, which would have been awesome. Which has happened before with eggnog.
- [40:43]
Trey Kirby
Right.
- [40:44]
Jay Skeets
While we went to black.
- [40:44]
JD
I was puking in the Back. It was so good. But, yeah, I'm going. Hot peppers. It's just felt the most dangerous in a weird way, and I just have never left that.
- [40:55]
Jay Skeets
All right, Trey, lots to pick from. You have a final pick.
- [40:58]
Trey Kirby
Hot peppers was very high on my list. I'll just run through through a few that I'm not gonna choose. Tas doing flirty girl fitness. Very funny.
- [41:07]
Tas Melas
Classic.
- [41:08]
JD
Too good.
- [41:09]
Trey Kirby
Also, TAs outside for a whole week, just, like, right out here. And then finally snowed the last day. Beautiful. That was a really good one.
- [41:19]
Tas Melas
That was a great week.
- [41:19]
Trey Kirby
Yep. Tas sitting up in the rafters. This is, like, in our first NBA TV studio. Lee dressed as Mrs. Doubtfire. I thought was pretty funny. It was pretty weird. But what I'm gonna choose is when we had a guy shave a face into the back of Lee's head.
- [41:36]
Jay Skeets
Oh, yeah, good one, Kadir.
- [41:40]
Trey Kirby
He's like, yeah, I can do it. Don't worry. He was over there for a half hour, and he cut, like, two inches, only his hair off, and did, like, a stick figure version of a face in the back. And the turnaround after hour for us, hours of like, what is this gonna look like for the viewer? 25 minutes of wow, this must be intricate. So rudimentary. I thought it was hilarious.
- [42:07]
Tas Melas
It was hilarious because you just can't help but think it's got to be something freaking.
- [42:12]
Jay Skeets
I thought it was gonna be good.
- [42:15]
Trey Kirby
Because, like, it was, like, a thing. Right. Like, somebody maybe had, like, a Matte Bonner in the back of their head, and it looked, like photorealistic and 3D with all this kind of shading. So that's what we thought we were getting. And then what we got was just too good.
- [42:27]
Tas Melas
Yeah.
- [42:27]
JD
And it was perfect. Like, it would have been almost disappointing if it looked good.
- [42:31]
Jay Skeets
Yeah.
- [42:32]
Tas Melas
You know, in a way.
- [42:33]
JD
But.
- [42:33]
Tas Melas
Right. What else?
- [42:36]
Jay Skeets
Any other leftovers, honorable mentions from your list of payoffs? Because this is my favorite category.
- [42:42]
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- [42:43]
Jay Skeets
I mean, the most embarrassing one of all time. And we've talked about this before, probably back in our 1000th episode anniversary show or whatever. Doing stand up comedy.
- [42:52]
Tas Melas
Oh, yeah.
- [42:53]
Jay Skeets
At Einstein Cafe and Pub in Toronto, which I think is finally closed now. Open mic night. College kids. Like, people are playing guitars. I guess people were singing maybe. And then we, like, asked if we could, like, do some comedy. The guy did not want us to to begin with, but then we did, and it was so awkward. Like, we're trying to tell NBA jokes, and, like, the crowd is like. Like, crowd wasn't booing. They didn't care enough. It was just like, it's a college publi. It was just like, okay, whatever. But, like, the guy was pissed on the board member. He cut my mic in the end because Taz went first.
- [43:30]
JD
Yeah.
- [43:30]
Jay Skeets
And, like, struggled through it. And then there's like, you know, crickets or me clapping. And then I go up and he, like, cuts my mic off. Yeah.
- [43:36]
Tas Melas
Yeah. Because you knew we don't want to.
- [43:38]
Jay Skeets
Do this anymore, but, man, like, I can feel that, like, nervousness, like, to this day.
- [43:44]
Tas Melas
Yeah. A lot of the things we're going to go through, there are gonna be some old ones that we literally don't have anymore. But that one, I'm glad we don't have anymore. I mean, the rest of them, I'm like, oh, where is that? Yeah, I can't find that. That one. Goodbye. That one was so horrendous.
- [44:01]
Jay Skeets
Why were we both doing it? Did we tie?
- [44:03]
Tas Melas
You tied, I think JD Having me shooting on a toilet. This for a full week this season. Last season, I guess.
- [44:13]
Trey Kirby
That's a good one.
- [44:14]
Tas Melas
They blend together. Yeah, that was great. Literally sitting on a toilet. Danielle basically saying, oh, you're gonna get hemorrhoids if you sit on a toilet for an hour and a half a day.
- [44:24]
JD
Yeah, that's what Rachel said. I'm like, he's not actually taking a dump. He's not pushing or anything. He's just sitting.
- [44:29]
Jay Skeets
After sitting down.
- [44:31]
JD
Yeah.
- [44:31]
Tas Melas
But you literally, the worry is you sit on a toilet and that's what happens to your rectum.
- [44:37]
Jay Skeets
Either way, you had to put underwear on.
- [44:40]
JD
I did.
- [44:41]
Tas Melas
Yeah. But, you know, the things get spread on the toilet. But after. After two to three days, I did. I did say. I did think, oh, yeah, I can get up every once in a while and that. That helps out. Yeah. Either. Yeah. Like, when somebody else is talking. Either way, that was a great one that we had another destination here. Like, we had a remote shoot essentially, you know, outside the studio. So that was cool.
- [45:01]
JD
Speaking of bathrooms, skates in the. As a bathroom attendant.
- [45:05]
Jay Skeets
Yeah.
- [45:07]
JD
One of the funniest this was at the score. You were literally handing out mints and offering towels. You were wearing a too small tuxedo. I think it was Matty O's tuxedo. And a guy actually went in there and took a dump on live. On live tv, and you offered him a mint.
- [45:24]
Jay Skeets
Did we have a sign that said, like, we're filming a live television show, so be careful if you're going to take a dump.
- [45:31]
Trey Kirby
Dump away, boys.
- [45:32]
Jay Skeets
That one was pretty funny.
- [45:33]
JD
It was very funny and it was. Yeah, I mean that for that guy I think it might have been just an urgent matter. And we actually sent him. We sent in plants as well because we thought no, no one's going to do this. No one's going to go in and use the washroom knowing that they're being filmed. But I don't know.
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- [50:25]
Trey Kirby
Because I feel like that's what Lee's hair is really gonna look like when he's 20 36. Like, the center part, really good question.
- [50:32]
Jay Skeets
We could look like that, like, in the future. And it's gold. And this one ends with, like, recurring bit of, like, payoffs. We've done everything, like, task cuts my arm off. And it's really quite graphic if you think about it for an individual.
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Tas Melas
Some people didn't like it, right?
- [50:50]
Jay Skeets
Yeah, I guess not.
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JD
Yeah. The VP of content at NBA tv, he was actually fine with it, but he just happened to put it on, and his daughter was right there and. And skates. His arm is chopped up. Oh, my God. The sound of the blood hitting the floor, like, it's just, like, pouring out of your arm. Like, dribble, dribble, dribble.
- [51:12]
Jay Skeets
And I'm going. I'm yelling, clean cut, Melis, clean cut. Lee's going, can I have your watch? It's pretty funny line because my, you know, arm that's been severed off has my watch on it. He's like, can I have that? It's good.
- [51:27]
Tas Melas
The audio effect of the blood splattering was just naturally, the blood. The blood hitting the ground, right?
- [51:34]
JD
Like, the ground.
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Tas Melas
Yeah.
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JD
No, it was. We just had it rigged up. The props people had the best day of their careers, I think, because they actually got to do some. Some makeup effects. Oh, yeah.
- [51:47]
Tas Melas
And, you know, your favorite, favorite. One of the favorite shows you did, I'm sure.
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JD
100. Of course, 100. This would have been mine if I had first pick.
- [51:56]
Jay Skeets
Yeah.
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Tas Melas
Yeah.
- [51:57]
Jay Skeets
Sorry to scoop.
- [51:58]
JD
Yeah, no, that's all right.
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Jay Skeets
And, yeah, we didn't even show. Trey had the huge, giant ass, white beard. And because he. He literally said he wouldn't shave his beard until Tim Duncan retired. But Tim. In the story of 2036, Tim Duncan was still playing so good.
- [52:14]
Trey Kirby
I got close to that look for a while. Like, 2022. If I would have stuck with it through 36, maybe.
- [52:21]
Jay Skeets
Yeah.
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Tas Melas
One of my favorite videos that I just have on my phone, on my phone, just a random phone video, is Lee Ellis sitting at our desk that we used to work at every day. He's eating lunch right before, like. Like an hour before we have to go on.
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Jay Skeets
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Tas Melas
He's just sitting there with his headphone in. And so you don't know what he's watching, but he's giggling, and he puts his headphone down. He gets up while eating. It's just.
- [52:48]
Jay Skeets
Please go back to him one more time. I just think he looks so good.
- [52:58]
Tas Melas
I mean, the makeup is really great.
- [53:01]
Jay Skeets
As the show went on, he was sweating more and More, too. And all so good. Okay, so, yeah, that was a pretty obvious pick. I was happy to have the number one pick in that one. JD, you have the second pick. Favorite special episode.
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JD
Yeah, there's a ton to choose from, as you know, I'm going semi serious one, but, you know, just one of the ones that I was most happy with. And that was the third episode that we did from Real Sports in Toronto for good pick for All Star 2016. Yeah, it was the one time that we actually, I think, nailed it. Like, our All Star coverage. We were there for an entire week because it was Toronto and it was kind of a homecoming for us. Place was packed every night that we were there. We did three nights, but the third night we did a poutine eating contest that was hilarious to me. That literally at least five minutes of just men eating poutine on national television. Yep. Made me laugh. And we shot it like a, like an actual, actual race. Like, it was awesome. I was very annoyed with Lee that day because he had eaten a full steak dinner right before we went live knowing that he was gonna be in a poutine eating contest. But whatever.
- [54:20]
Jay Skeets
That's like the time he ate three bananas before knowing you had to do a pick a payoff where he had to eat 20 bananas.
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JD
That's right.
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Jay Skeets
Same thing.
- [54:29]
JD
A creature of habit.
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Jay Skeets
Yeah.
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JD
So, yeah, All Star Toronto 2016.
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Tas Melas
Yeah.
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Jay Skeets
Those were good shows, miss.
- [54:35]
JD
I was on that show. Yes.
- [54:37]
Tas Melas
Yes, he was. I thought. I thought this was going to be on the board.
- [54:40]
Jay Skeets
Wow.
- [54:41]
JD
And then we did the. It was. It was jam packed because we had our Olympics. We had the skating race, we had the dunk contest. We had everything. So it was. And it was. I felt like we. That was the. Our best All Star coverage.
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Jay Skeets
So did we do Wednesday, Thursday, Friday?
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JD
We did Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
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Jay Skeets
Oh, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
- [55:01]
JD
And then we got kicked out of there for inside. And then we did a livestream during the game. I can't remember. I don't think we did anything for Saturday because you guys just went to the dunk contest.
- [55:13]
Jay Skeets
Yeah, we did the greatest dunk contest ever.
- [55:15]
JD
Yeah.
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Tas Melas
Yeah.
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JD
And we did like a four hour live stream during the game.
- [55:19]
Jay Skeets
But then we had a party too.
- [55:20]
JD
There was a party. Maybe. Was that Saturday? I think it was Saturday night. Yeah, you're right.
- [55:24]
Tas Melas
After the dunk contest.
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JD
That's right. That's right.
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Tas Melas
Everybody had.
- [55:26]
Jay Skeets
Dude, it was a fun party.
- [55:27]
Tas Melas
Yeah. Get out there in the snow and.
- [55:29]
Jay Skeets
Get to the party again. Theme. Very cold. So coldest it's ever been.
- [55:35]
Tas Melas
Maybe that was My pick. Damn it.
- [55:38]
Trey Kirby
2016 All Star Week. High on the list as well. And the future episode.
- [55:42]
Jay Skeets
Yeah, right.
- [55:43]
Tas Melas
Yeah.
- [55:43]
Jay Skeets
But that Wednesday year, 2016. What a year, man. Yeah.
- [55:45]
Trey Kirby
No wonder everybody's reliving it right now.
- [55:47]
Jay Skeets
Yeah, exactly.
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Tas Melas
That Wednesday show, though, that was incredible. That the opening shot you have outside of real sports bar with people, you know, food that we. We kind of staged, but they went in running up, and you finish on your. Your landing spot is a poster of us, the. The pler. And then we get in there, we tease Trey and le's dunk off in the first segment. And then we. We have the poutine eating contest where you show some of the. The skating that we do.
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Jay Skeets
We had the dunk contest footage in that one, too.
- [56:15]
Tas Melas
Yes.
- [56:15]
Jay Skeets
Jeez, that is a.
- [56:16]
Tas Melas
Then Misiri comes in.
- [56:18]
Jay Skeets
Yeah, he was great.
- [56:20]
JD
You trade as Jack put on his starters T shirt on.
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Tas Melas
Yeah. There's also the dunk on this. There's the Brent Barry coming over Lee shoulder reveal with the. The suit briefcase with the light coming out.
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JD
Yeah.
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Jay Skeets
How long.
- [56:32]
Tas Melas
How long a show do you think that was?
- [56:34]
Jay Skeets
Must have been 22 minutes.
- [56:35]
Tas Melas
Yeah, it was, because we know, but it sounds like. Oh, yeah, stuff was in there. Yeah, that was an incredible show. Incredible show.
- [56:42]
Jay Skeets
Good pick, J.D. good pick.
- [56:44]
JD
And that was the other thing. It was speaking of the. The taxi and the guys coming out, we had our.
- [56:48]
Trey Kirby
Our.
- [56:48]
JD
Our regular crew. So Larry shot all that.
- [56:51]
Jay Skeets
Right.
- [56:52]
JD
And we had Todd on the. On the jib. It was. You know, Kelsey was there. She brought in the. The. The poutine. Yeah.
- [57:02]
Tas Melas
The live audience was real sports was.
- [57:03]
Jay Skeets
Good for us there too. Perfect spot.
- [57:06]
JD
Yeah.
- [57:06]
Jay Skeets
All right, Trey, you have the third pick. Favorite special episode.
- [57:09]
Trey Kirby
Yeah. It's crazy to see your draft board actually getting depleted as time goes on, but for me, we just recently did a re watch of this you can find on our sub stack page. The Austin Powers Halloween episode from 2018 was definitely our best Halloween episode that we ever did. Like, we went above and beyond anything we had done in the past. It wasn't just jerseys and names that we came up with, like the interstitials with all of the crew dressing up in, you know, 60s garb and doing funny dances as well that we could pepper in there. Like Austin Powers movies. We had Marvin Bagley on in an eye patch. We found out at the last second he happened to be the perfect guy to come in as the number two pick. Being number two, it was just perfect. And it was really fun actually, re watching it for our substack page. But yeah, that's it for me. Just because I. I always like the Halloween episodes.
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Jay Skeets
Yeah.
- [58:05]
Trey Kirby
I thought this one's definitely the best one.
- [58:07]
Tas Melas
Yeah. Yeah.
- [58:07]
Jay Skeets
I always think it was funny with the Halloween episodes that it is, like, the start of the season, basically. We're like two weeks in sometimes even. I don't know, maybe even less, I guess. But then we're doing, like, a crazy episode. Right way. Y. That's a good one. I had that on the short list, too. So you got the final pick here. Tons to pick from.
- [58:22]
Tas Melas
Yeah. I'm going to go 2019, live outside the Air Canada center, the Raptors Arena. When we had the hottest of hot poutines brought to us, it was just great to have a live show at a game while we were outside in the frigging NBA Finals, you know, so. So that was cool. But while we're outside, we get poutine brought to us, and it was literally right off the stove with boiling hot gravy that we had to eat. We couldn't just let cool. So my tongue is burning. Feeling it right now. I just remember. I remember burning my tongue, but it was so good because it was poutine. But the whole. Yeah, the whole thing. Just being there was part of it. Yeah.
- [59:06]
Trey Kirby
Was it like a crummy day outside?
- [59:08]
Jay Skeets
Yeah, it was raining.
- [59:09]
Tas Melas
Yeah, it was raining.
- [59:10]
Jay Skeets
That's part.
- [59:10]
Tas Melas
That's. We were covered.
- [59:11]
Jay Skeets
Yeah. We're under a little tent.
- [59:13]
Trey Kirby
We were getting eaten up by the poutine. It was so hot. It was crazy.
- [59:18]
Tas Melas
Yeah.
- [59:18]
JD
That's one of my least favorite shows.
- [59:20]
Tas Melas
Yeah.
- [59:21]
JD
Because they left me in Atlanta with Matt.
- [59:24]
Tas Melas
Yeah. No, I know.
- [59:25]
JD
But you didn't get to go.
- [59:26]
Tas Melas
Yeah. You took my Raptors one from 2016. That's the one. I had. I had. I watched every moment of that. I thought.
- [59:31]
Trey Kirby
I still thought.
- [59:32]
Tas Melas
I thought it would be on the board because that specific show.
- [59:35]
Jay Skeets
Forget about it.
- [59:35]
Tas Melas
Because we were there for the whole week as well in Toronto. But I hear you.
- [59:40]
Jay Skeets
I really wanted to take a summer league show, but I was like, I.
- [59:43]
JD
Have Showgirls Vegas on my list.
- [59:46]
Jay Skeets
I couldn't decide. And I had the first pick. I had to take April Fool's Day show, but yeah, like, just summer league in general. As much as it sucked at times. Like, it was pretty fun. Like, it was like, oh, this is our show after the games are done. And that night. And with a live crowd, sometimes bigger than others.
- [60:03]
Trey Kirby
Yes.
- [60:04]
Jay Skeets
Like, I wouldn't check the time Lonzo Ball came on. That crowd. Oh, you can barely hear us.
- [60:10]
JD
Yeah, it's Insane.
- [60:11]
Jay Skeets
It's crazy when he's on, like, specifically that segment.
- [60:14]
Tas Melas
Lakers fans were there.
- [60:15]
Jay Skeets
It was so loud and, like, almost scary. Like, we probably don't have enough security right now around Lonzo. Or maybe like, it was nuts, the concourse. Like, it wasn't safe is my point, but. And they were fun shows.
- [60:29]
Tas Melas
Yeah, yeah. Maybe you're thinking of zero fox given.
- [60:32]
Jay Skeets
Ah, zero fox.
- [60:34]
Tas Melas
But yeah, the cake tosses. Like Buddy Hill tossing it into the crowd. A lot of good summer league moments. It was just hard to paint. Like a half hour.
- [60:41]
Jay Skeets
Like, even doing highlights was kind of fun. Like. Yeah, it's just different for us.
- [60:45]
Trey Kirby
And silly string.
- [60:46]
Tas Melas
Yeah.
- [60:48]
Trey Kirby
The wrong word.
- [60:48]
Tas Melas
Straight up.
- [60:49]
Jay Skeets
Yeah.
- [60:49]
Tas Melas
Shot right into your face.
- [60:50]
Jay Skeets
Like, we basically were like, let's do whatever we want. No one really cares. This is summer league. Go nuts. You know, we've been here like two weeks at this point in Vegas. That'll kill a man. So it would get wacky for sure.
- [61:02]
Trey Kirby
Yeah. Lee would always grow some kind of facial hair. Like the time he grew sideburns that went so far down onto his neck. Nobody ever seen something like that. Neck burns.
- [61:12]
Jay Skeets
Oh, I forgot. Forgotten outfit, too. Like in. In re watching the Lonzo one. I remember the mechanic shirts.
- [61:18]
Tas Melas
Right.
- [61:18]
Jay Skeets
Like that year. Yeah, but we were wearing these bright yellow starter shirts.
- [61:24]
Trey Kirby
The bowling version, kind of.
- [61:26]
Jay Skeets
Yeah, more of a bowling version. Yeah, I know. Don't remember the bright yellow, but we all had them on for. Maybe we knew it because the Lakers were there. Maybe. I don't know. We're pandering to the crowd. All right.
- [61:35]
Trey Kirby
Also have the past episode. The April Fool's one we did was good.
- [61:39]
JD
Oh, yeah.
- [61:40]
Trey Kirby
Our four hour happy hour stream that we did early Pandemic is a really funny one just because it never ends. We're just like doing the diet stuff.
- [61:48]
Jay Skeets
Drunk on that.
- [61:49]
Trey Kirby
That was really funny.
- [61:51]
Jay Skeets
By the end of it.
- [61:53]
Trey Kirby
The.
- [61:53]
JD
The 90s show, I grabbed a screen grab just because I knew the Future show was coming up. And this was a fun one because we shot it in sd and I had to go to Brent Berkman and, hey, man, we're shooting today's show in HD or in sd. And he was fine with it. He was like, oh, cool. Good idea.
- [62:16]
Jay Skeets
Any other ones?
- [62:17]
Trey Kirby
69 nuggets in 22 minutes. That was a funny one. That was almost a pick and payoff. Yeah, I don't think it was. No, I think it was just like. I think had a 20, 20, 20 game. And I was like, okay, I'll eat 60 nuggets. We just did. Was Late in the season. Just a little spice.
- [62:35]
Tas Melas
Yeah. Shows get weird in March, I guess. I can't believe that's not a pick and payout.
- [62:40]
JD
Yeah, same.
- [62:41]
Trey Kirby
I don't think it was.
- [62:43]
Jay Skeets
The time we made Lee eat fast food was a pickup pay. The other one I had on my notes Here was the 5th anniversary live show at El Macambo in Toronto. But, like, I don't even know if that counts. I guess it would. Sure. It's a special episode.
- [62:57]
JD
Sure.
- [62:57]
Jay Skeets
Of course, we did a lot in that one.
- [62:59]
JD
Too much.
- [63:00]
Jay Skeets
Too much, maybe. Yes. A musical that we actually wrote. Practice and perform, which is probably the best part, if we're being honest.
- [63:07]
JD
Yeah.
- [63:08]
Jay Skeets
Then an unhinged game show. That was the worst part. We're being honest. But the Friars Club roast at the end was very funny, too, because Trey's there too. You, J.D. trey and Matt are roasting me. And me and Tas for the most part. But everybody's taking some shots, and it's good. You guys are good. You brought it.
- [63:26]
Tas Melas
Oh, yeah.
- [63:27]
Jay Skeets
All right, let's go to the third category here. Favorite guest. J.D. you have the first pick.
- [63:33]
JD
Oh, I was gonna offer this up as a trade. Cause nobody on my list. You guys will have, I don't think.
- [63:40]
Jay Skeets
Oh, really?
- [63:41]
JD
I mean, I got Wendell. I got Peter Sawkins. I got the cast of Star Trek.
- [63:51]
Jay Skeets
No, just go ahead. Make your pick.
- [63:53]
JD
My favorite guest. Oh, God. You know what?
- [63:55]
Jay Skeets
I'm going.
- [63:56]
JD
Peter Sawkins. Peter Sawkins, the winner of the great British makeup. Just a goddamn Delight Clippers fan. And just. It was just fun. It was one of the. One of the good things about the pandemic is we got to sort of, you know, go off the rails a bit and. And. And just create content because we had to. I mean, that's how we met Ashua Kid. He was a guest. He was on my list talking about his Star wars wedding during the pandemic. But Peter Sawkins, he came. He's. You know, he was the first guest where I was like, oh, this is awesome. Finally a guest that I met.
- [64:37]
Jay Skeets
We've had, like, multiple hall of Famers, every NBA legend you can imagine, even young prospects, number one picks that would go on. Nope. JD Likes the guy that won Great British bank off. And he listens to this day too.
- [64:52]
JD
Hopefully he's listening watches and. Yeah, and he came on. Is this good? And he was just as good there. So.
- [64:58]
Jay Skeets
Yeah.
- [64:58]
JD
Shout out to Peter.
- [64:59]
Jay Skeets
Okay. Wow.
- [65:00]
Trey Kirby
Everybody's reliving 2016 on Instagram. And I saw Peter put up the time. He made A starters. Cake.
- [65:07]
Tas Melas
Yeah.
- [65:08]
Jay Skeets
Yep. All right, Trey, you have the next pick.
- [65:12]
Trey Kirby
Wow. Surprise. I mean, surprise. The Peter Sawkins went off first.
- [65:17]
Jay Skeets
But.
- [65:18]
Trey Kirby
Great guest for me. Maybe controversial. You'll have to give me a really.
- [65:25]
Jay Skeets
I have a feeling where you're going here.
- [65:26]
Trey Kirby
When I went in the locker room with the cavs after the 2016 championship and talked to all of their players after they just won the craziest Game seven of a generation.
- [65:34]
Jay Skeets
We allow it, of course.
- [65:36]
Trey Kirby
I mean, like the guys literally shouting out our show after their biggest moment, their NBA careers. That was really awesome. So, yeah, I don't know. It's like Kyrie Aman Shumpert, Tristan Thompson, Austin Carr. Their broadcaster, Channing Fry. Shirtless. Channing Fry.
- [65:56]
Jay Skeets
Yep. Nice.
- [65:56]
Trey Kirby
Yeah. Arm around me.
- [65:58]
JD
Yeah, yeah.
- [65:58]
Trey Kirby
Kind of gross when I really think about it.
- [66:00]
JD
Just played.
- [66:01]
Trey Kirby
Just played a high intensity city basketball game. No shirt on. Junior Smith. Oh, yeah. It was great. It was awesome.
- [66:07]
Jay Skeets
That's a good one. That counts for sure. Lump them all together. The Cavaliers locker room after winning the title. Coming back three 1.
- [66:12]
Tas Melas
So much of the roster there. And that's a lot of them, too. Yeah.
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- [66:16]
Jay Skeets
Third pick.
- [66:17]
Tas Melas
Third pick. I'm also going with someone who wasn't a guest, like, at the desk as well. I'm going with Big Baby Davis.
- [66:25]
JD
Okay, great one.
- [66:26]
Trey Kirby
Good one.
- [66:27]
Tas Melas
It was a good one because basically we had to talk to his people and say, listen, I look like Heo Turgolu, Big Baby Davis's teammate. We filmed something back in Toronto when Hido Turgu missed a game, and he went out that night and we said, he likes to dance. So that's me dancing. So when Big Baby Davis shows up to this, essentially a parking lot, we're gonna be dancing together.
- [66:53]
Jay Skeets
That's basically it.
- [66:54]
JD
Yeah.
- [66:54]
Jay Skeets
They're like.
- [66:54]
Tas Melas
And they're like, okay. So they. They relayed it to Big Baby Davis. He went and watched the video, you know, and he's quoted. There's an SB Nation article out there that I. I went back and read. He said, I thought it was hilarious. So he comes and shows up. There's no music. Zero music. That's the best part. JD Just asking him to do what he wanted him to do, and him do some stupid dancing. I give him a piece of pizza, he eats a piece of pizza. So that was just. Just great.
- [67:25]
JD
You got on his shoulders at one point.
- [67:27]
Tas Melas
Oh, yeah, it's a dunk.
- [67:28]
Jay Skeets
Guys are on the golf cart.
- [67:30]
Tas Melas
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [67:30]
Jay Skeets
He.
- [67:31]
Tas Melas
The trust. The trust of a current NBA player to say, do some stupid stuff. I was I was impressive, so.
- [67:40]
JD
And we shot for multiple hours. It felt like. Yeah, it was at least two hours of. Of just running around in public. No security, no nothing. Of just me shooting you guys dancing.
- [67:53]
Jay Skeets
Like, to no music.
- [67:54]
JD
To no music in public. People just walking around like. Like, it was crazy that he. He was into it.
- [68:00]
Jay Skeets
I remember I did not go with you guys to that shoot. I was doing something else.
- [68:05]
Trey Kirby
Photoshopping a lot.
- [68:06]
Jay Skeets
We were Photoshopping. That's okay. Yeah. The Photoshop Boys. Maybe one of the first time. The Photoshop boys.
- [68:11]
JD
Yeah.
- [68:12]
Jay Skeets
Really were cranking out the. The Photoshops.
- [68:14]
Trey Kirby
I think so.
- [68:15]
Jay Skeets
Probably could be. But when you guys came back, I remember, like, well, how did it go? And you guys were like, great, I guess. I think we have something here. And then you guys come cut it together, and it was amazing. All right, that's great. So I have the final pick here, and favorite guest. I think I'm cheating a little bit too. Does Shaq count?
- [68:34]
JD
Yes.
- [68:34]
Jay Skeets
Okay. Shaq came on twice, I believe. Only twice. Really, though. Played a part in a third clip that went viral with Trey. When he massaged your beard the one time. But anyway, Shaq came on and gave me a wedgie, which will probably be one of the more iconic moments from our show's history when it's all said and done. So there's that. But then I forgot. We did the wedgie video with him, the music video, which he really got into. And he's dancing like crazy, and we're all in that one. And then. Yeah, him at one of the finals, where he went by you and massaged your beard. That went viral. So I'll go, Shaq. You know, every time he came on, it was incredible. It was like, one of the best moments we ever had.
- [69:18]
Trey Kirby
It still drives me crazy thinking about that. I think it was Rick who made the cue cards for him, and he wrote I'm Shaq o' Neal on it. He read it. I'm Shaq o'. Neal. No one calls him that. Shaq or Shaquille o'.
- [69:36]
Jay Skeets
Neal.
- [69:36]
Trey Kirby
But he's like. It says Shaq o'. Neal. That's what I'm saying.
- [69:38]
Jay Skeets
Yeah. Because Shaq's whole thing was like, I'm coming in. You've got me for three minutes. Let's go. And you had to be ready to go. He crushed it. And he would just crush it. Yeah. That's how he did his commercials, right? He would crank out 10 commercials in a day. Let's go.
- [69:53]
JD
He had. He stayed longer than he was going to he also said, you ain't giving me a wedgie. By the end of it, we had had. We put tighty whities over his suit and started giving him a wedgie, and he was totally fine.
- [70:06]
Jay Skeets
Oh, yeah. He's like, this is great. This is great. So Shaq is my pick, but I can't believe Brent, Mary Brent Barry made the rounds there. Yeah. Maybe just because we had him on, but Brent Berry Gary is our best guest. Recurring guest for sure. Steve Nash. I had on here. Just going way back.
- [70:23]
JD
Yeah.
- [70:24]
Jay Skeets
When we talked to him back in whatever year that was. Oh, my God. Late 2000.
- [70:29]
JD
I want to say 2010.
- [70:30]
Jay Skeets
Yeah, maybe 2010. Yeah, that sounds right.
- [70:32]
JD
Yeah.
- [70:33]
Jay Skeets
That was to me, like, oh, my God, I'm meeting my hero.
- [70:36]
Tas Melas
Robinson's soccer event. Yeah, that's what that was at. Robinson.
- [70:41]
JD
Robinson. He walked into the. The. To the interview halfway through.
- [70:45]
Jay Skeets
Right, right. D. Mutombo, the late, great DEI Mutomo, was awesome on the starters, Vince Carter.
- [70:51]
Tas Melas
And off air, the game was great off air.
- [70:53]
Jay Skeets
We were just talking Vince Carter. I think maybe that was therapeutic for me as a longtime Raptors fan. We talked about those. We had a lot of hate in our heart for Vince when he left and how that went. But then turns out Vince is, like, the best. Was great on the show. And then one more bit of a wild card. Christian and Scooby a couple times, too, because we did talk to him in Paris. I came up with a Scooby challenge.
- [71:21]
JD
That's fantastic.
- [71:23]
Jay Skeets
To perch on a ball. So it was funny the first time he came on, too.
- [71:29]
Trey Kirby
Shameful moment for me. I couldn't hold my back tight enough, like in an all fours for Scooby to balance properly on my.
- [71:37]
Jay Skeets
Oh, yeah.
- [71:37]
Trey Kirby
That's why I had to start really getting my core strength up because I looked Scooby down.
- [71:42]
Jay Skeets
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- [72:58]
Trey Kirby
Lot of musical numbers out there to choose from. Will I draft Matt singing Sleeping in my Cup? Well, I draft Matt singing. Who gets the credit for the bat?
- [73:11]
JD
Yoti?
- [73:12]
Trey Kirby
No, those are all fair moments. Save them. Favorite musical number for me, it is a confirmed classic. Like a Bosch just went up on our YouTube page. I think it's perfect. It was a great video for me. It was special because I just recently had come to the show even though I was still living back in Illinois. But, you know, Skeets and I, I looked up the transcript today, just chatting back and forth, different little lines, and I was happy that some of them made it.
- [73:39]
Jay Skeets
Oh, wow.
- [73:39]
Trey Kirby
The video was a major success.
- [73:41]
Jay Skeets
You got a writing credit on Like a Bosch.
- [73:42]
Trey Kirby
I got a writing credit on Like a Bosch. I got scream credit. So, you know, I felt like I'd really made it at that time. So, yeah, that was it for me. That was an easy one good pick.
- [73:52]
Jay Skeets
Number one pick with a bullet there. Musical number.
- [73:56]
Trey Kirby
Musical number.
- [73:57]
Jay Skeets
JD you just obviously rewatched it.
- [74:00]
JD
I did.
- [74:01]
Jay Skeets
Did it, you know, hit like you thought it would?
- [74:04]
JD
It did. I was glad there was a big argument because it was obviously. It's a cover of Like a Boss.
- [74:10]
Jay Skeets
Yes.
- [74:11]
JD
And we had the. The under the. The original. Their track, the Lonely Island Guys track. But we ended up replacing it. And, you know, nobody was happy about it, especially me. But it felt like this is going on tv, like it went on TV in Canada. So we're like, we gotta not have it. And now I think it's. We were able to monetize it because of that.
- [74:34]
Jay Skeets
Oh, you're right.
- [74:35]
JD
So 20 years later, 15 years later, it was the right decision.
- [74:41]
Jay Skeets
It was funny. Honestly, it was funnier than I remembered.
- [74:44]
Tas Melas
Yeah, no doubt.
- [74:45]
Jay Skeets
Like, re watching it. I'm like, doing a lot of stuff.
- [74:50]
Trey Kirby
The he's got Like a tattoo documentary. Tucked his shirt in. We're like, oh, look at this guy.
- [74:55]
Jay Skeets
With his tucked in shirt.
- [74:58]
JD
And I used to have. We don't have it anymore, but just like on a flip camera, Tass doing his part. The improv, like a Bosch and all the, like, just, just the raw sort of without the backing track. It's just him in an office right next to the. The president of the company is on one side and the CFO is on the other side. And we're in, going.
- [75:26]
Jay Skeets
It's a good voice.
- [75:28]
JD
It's great.
- [75:29]
Jay Skeets
Oh, it is such a good one. And I do love. I always forget that there is the opening part with the stapler. And like, that's why we're saying like a Bosch. And then there's the button on the end which is like actually poking fun of the whole thing. Like, well, you, you're, you're exaggerating or you're overreacting. Like, he's fine. Chris Bosh is actually good. It's just. He's had a little rough stretch here. Yeah, that's pretty funny.
- [75:51]
Tas Melas
Yeah.
- [75:51]
Jay Skeets
All right, Good pick.
- [75:52]
Tas Melas
Well written.
- [75:53]
Jay Skeets
Lego Bosch goes number one. Tassie of the second pick.
- [75:57]
Tas Melas
Now I'm going back to Shaq. I gotta do it. Shaq coming in and doing the whole commercial thing, that was my number one. Sorry, man.
- [76:07]
JD
Revenge is yours.
- [76:10]
Jay Skeets
Yeah.
- [76:11]
Tas Melas
The way we just asked him to walk into our studio, this is our house, and he comes in and, and is just a super weirdo. Just perfect. Fitting. He's smelling underwear. He puts underwear right up into his nostrils.
- [76:25]
Jay Skeets
Smelling underwear.
- [76:27]
Tas Melas
I mean, he sold it with the lines directly to the camera. And because it's, you know, a lot of him just sort of ad libbing is the first, like 15 seconds of that 45 second video. It's just him. So he sells it. I mean, stick the wedges in if you want to be my friend. That's. It's, it's in your head. It's in my head. So I can understand why you wanted to pick it first, J.D. what, what other reasons did you pick it first?
- [76:50]
JD
I love that. It's, it's, it's a, basically a, an homage to Russell Oliver, the jewelry guy, the gold guy. And I want your gold. Yeah. And yeah, it was just a super fun shoot and it turned out great. And it's one of the weirdest things we've ever done.
- [77:07]
Jay Skeets
Oh, yeah. I mean, that went up on the official NBA YouTube account, which has, at this point, 24 million subscribers. It doesn't have a lot of views, unfortunately for 24 million subscribers. But the top three comments are. Well, that just happened. Second one, don't do drugs, kids. And the third one is I'm hard as a rock. Made me laugh. Also, correct me if I'm wrong. The starter's wedgie hotline. Yes, we set that up. We did, did we not? It's a 18554 wedgie. And we had something on the.
- [77:43]
JD
I think it was Shaq, wasn't it?
- [77:45]
Jay Skeets
I think you're right.
- [77:46]
JD
I think.
- [77:47]
Tas Melas
Oh, really?
- [77:48]
JD
When you called it, it was him saying, whatever.
- [77:51]
Jay Skeets
I want your wedgies.
- [77:52]
JD
I want your wedgies. Give me your wedgies.
- [77:54]
Jay Skeets
Yeah, I think so, too, which is amazing. That's a nice attention to detail right there. All right, great pick. Good pick there. I have the third pick in favorite musical number. It was down to two for me. And they're. They're oldies. I'll admit. They're. They're oldies but goodies. Scowl says the LeBron James diss track, which was maybe one of our first quote unquote musical numbers that was in the running. But I'm gonna go with the show in love music video that, you know, we. The whole bit is like everybody's asking us to show love to their team. So you don't talk about our team enough. You don't talk about our team enough. All that. So we literally wrote an RB song about us showing love to all. I was going to say 30 teams. So it was really 29. Because the joke is we forget about the Clippers at the end. And it's like the lyrics are legit funny. I remember where I was writing it with Matt Austin. I can picture us sitting down and writing this thing. A majority of it, at least. And then the music video is like, next level tassing the, you know, sort of boys to men sort of vibe. He's got the do rag, though. He was hilarious. He's doing, like, those hilarious ad libs off the top. I got this crazy wig on, too. It's good. And the lyrics are very funny.
- [79:05]
JD
Yeah, it's very funny. Shout out to Mr. Show is full on rip off of their two plus two minus one or whatever.
- [79:13]
Jay Skeets
Whatever Their.
- [79:14]
JD
Whatever. Their R B guys were fun. Shoot again. Super cold. We were outside on your roof. I think we were. Yeah, that's right. In the middle of winter. Yeah. I wish we had that.
- [79:30]
Tas Melas
It. Because we don't have that one.
- [79:32]
JD
I can't find it.
- [79:33]
Jay Skeets
So we have. There's that small part of it in the 1000th.
- [79:36]
JD
Yeah.
- [79:36]
Jay Skeets
Episode.
- [79:37]
JD
Yeah, that's a bummer. Yeah.
- [79:39]
Jay Skeets
We don't have that at all. We can't find it.
- [79:41]
JD
It's got to be surprised. It'll turn up.
- [79:45]
Trey Kirby
Maybe you still got the lyrics Somewhere.
- [79:48]
Jay Skeets
I'd have to search.
- [79:49]
Trey Kirby
Show and love. You want to remake parentheses? No Dunks version.
- [79:51]
Jay Skeets
Yeah.
- [79:52]
Trey Kirby
Now that we own the masters.
- [79:53]
Jay Skeets
Yeah. Taylor Swift. Yeah, exactly. Go to love Scooter. Bro.
- [79:57]
JD
Did we do it live at a show once? Were we planning on it?
- [80:01]
Trey Kirby
I thought so. Didn't you play drums?
- [80:03]
JD
I did, yeah.
- [80:04]
Jay Skeets
Oh, maybe.
- [80:05]
JD
I think Mat was on base for it.
- [80:08]
Jay Skeets
Oh, yeah. That would have been the.
- [80:10]
JD
That was a different live show. Not the 500.
- [80:12]
Jay Skeets
No. Oh, it wasn't the 500.
- [80:14]
JD
Maybe it was. I don't know.
- [80:16]
Jay Skeets
Yeah, I feel like it was.
- [80:17]
JD
We did do way too much in that show.
- [80:19]
Jay Skeets
Yeah. No, no, no, no, no. You're putting two shows together. There's the 500th show and then there was the five year anniversary. That's at Elman Combo where we did way too much.
- [80:28]
Tas Melas
Right.
- [80:29]
Jay Skeets
But we did other stuff at the 500th show. I think we sang it there.
- [80:31]
Tas Melas
You're right.
- [80:32]
JD
I think so.
- [80:32]
Tas Melas
Yeah.
- [80:33]
Jay Skeets
Okay. J.D. of the last pick here. You're the musical guy of the group.
- [80:37]
JD
Yeah. Scal says. Or was that what it's called?
- [80:40]
Jay Skeets
Yeah, we called it. Scal says it was good.
- [80:43]
JD
I think I'm gonna go NBA Christmas Caroling.
- [80:48]
Jay Skeets
Okay.
- [80:48]
JD
Where we went out in the streets of Toronto. Speaking of cold. My friend Derek was dressed up as Santa. He was on keyboard. And we just went around Toronto. And you guys were dressed as elves and singing Christmas carols. But changed. You changed the lyrics to, you know, to NBA stuff.
- [81:09]
Tas Melas
Yes.
- [81:10]
Jay Skeets
Jose Caldaro.
- [81:11]
JD
Yeah, exactly. And it was funny. It was a hell to shoot. But it worked out great. And then later we did like a K Tel sort of order this Christmas thing. And that was a whole new set of songs. But yeah, it was fun. It was.
- [81:29]
Jay Skeets
It a lot of funny Christmas songs.
- [81:30]
JD
Yeah, exactly. But yeah, I'm going Christmas.
- [81:33]
Tas Melas
That was a great one.
- [81:35]
Jay Skeets
Some good leftovers here. Merry Christmas to your mom, young Santa freak. More recent. Obviously Anytime Lee rapped.
- [81:44]
Trey Kirby
Oh, yeah.
- [81:46]
Jay Skeets
What was his name again? His rap name?
- [81:49]
Trey Kirby
Chuck.
- [81:49]
Jay Skeets
Yeah.
- [81:50]
Trey Kirby
Chuck D League.
- [81:51]
Jay Skeets
Chuck D League.
- [81:52]
JD
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's it.
- [81:53]
Tas Melas
That's it.
- [81:54]
Jay Skeets
Like he never find the beat.
- [81:56]
Trey Kirby
Never could find the beat.
- [81:58]
Jay Skeets
But we write funny lyrics.
- [81:59]
Trey Kirby
We did a lot of Four Bar Fridays.
- [82:00]
Jay Skeets
We did.
- [82:01]
JD
That was.
- [82:01]
Trey Kirby
That was when he was in his pride.
- [82:05]
Tas Melas
Yeah. Anytime Lee was on the mic. So all the in memoriams as well.
- [82:10]
Jay Skeets
Oh, I can't believe that I was.
- [82:13]
Tas Melas
Ready to pick that. That was up high. Matt on the stool. Thankfully, I got to pull out my recorder multiple times and I forgot the.
- [82:21]
Jay Skeets
First In Memoriam was just you and Matt. Matt, you know that I forgot. No, yeah. It was you on the recorder and Matt on the guitar. That's the first.
- [82:29]
JD
First version. Were they doing My Heart Will Go On?
- [82:32]
Jay Skeets
Maybe. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But then we did. Obviously, everybody.
- [82:36]
Tas Melas
Yeah.
- [82:36]
Jay Skeets
Eventually we're all singing.
- [82:38]
Tas Melas
Yeah.
- [82:38]
Jay Skeets
We'll step into the mic.
- [82:41]
Tas Melas
I would have known that it would have been My Heart Will Go on because I was ready. I pulled out my recorder today because I have a photo of Matt writing down the notes of what they were a bunch of C sharps. Oh, man, I gotta relearn the C sharp. And I guess that was it. The first time it was an award show we pull out, but the rest of them were the four of us singing. And Lee on the mic is just. It's gold.
- [83:07]
Jay Skeets
Oh, man. Just like. I love that one where we all stepped to the bike. That one. That's very funny.
- [83:13]
Trey Kirby
The black room.
- [83:14]
Jay Skeets
Yeah. I used the photo of us still, like the five of us. I guess because Matt's sitting on the guitar. I use that for any, like, joking, like In Memoriam. Like put like a dead rose in that photo. Like saying goodbye to something on Twitter all the time.
- [83:29]
Tas Melas
I love.
- [83:30]
Jay Skeets
Oh yeah, there it was for the catalog. Exactly. Rest in peace.
- [83:38]
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- [87:01]
Tas Melas
I'm going with a pretty standard segment. I'm going with Crossfire.
- [87:04]
Jay Skeets
Oh yeah, number one. Don't overthink it.
- [87:07]
Tas Melas
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So good. Two people yelling at each other at podiums while one person is the referee. You got the handheld camera flying to each person and flying to the referee. And and I brought that up. I Was talking about it with Danielle. She goes, why don't you guys do that anymore? It's a constant, constant thing. Why don't you do that? I'll tell you why. We don't have a camera person. Yeah. A production truck or product or control room. So that's the problem. But, you know, three basketball topics, three arguments. It's just a good segment.
- [87:41]
Jay Skeets
Yeah.
- [87:42]
Tas Melas
Done. Yep, yep.
- [87:43]
Trey Kirby
Yeah. That one, I feel like is the most. Why don't you guys do this anymore? Segment we have.
- [87:47]
Tas Melas
Yes.
- [87:48]
Jay Skeets
Yeah, it is.
- [87:49]
Tas Melas
I totally agree.
- [87:50]
Jay Skeets
I. I have to admit, though, I hated the. The first setup in the older studio at the starters. Remember, we're like, on the other side of the studio.
- [87:57]
Trey Kirby
Oh, sure. Yeah.
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- [87:58]
Jay Skeets
And did we even have a ref when we were doing it back then?
- [88:02]
Trey Kirby
Giant Mathead.
- [88:04]
Jay Skeets
Oh, the giant mad head. I think so. Yes. That's how that one went. You're right. I never loved that one as much like it was fine. Whatever. It was a different segment for the show, but it really. It went up a notch when we were in the small studio with the guy in the middle with the bricks. We're way closer. Cameraman Todd always getting his finger in the shot by accident, not knowing where to go. And the zing's flying. Like, the energy was just. That was Crossfire. That was at its best. I hated that first version. Iteration, I should say. We got there.
- [88:34]
JD
Yeah, we got there. It's what it became, not where it started.
- [88:37]
Jay Skeets
That's right. Well, I mean, actually, it's pretty crazy to go back and listen to the pilot episode. You could argue Crossfire was on the first ever pilot episode, like we call it. You know, I forget what we call it.
- [88:48]
JD
Crunch time.
- [88:49]
Jay Skeets
Yeah, something like that. And you're yelling out the question. Are given, you know, somewhat quick answers. Yeah, I guess it's like a little bit of a. It's rapid fire meets crossfire to some extent, but, yeah, good one. Okay. Crossfire gone. Recurring segment. All right, I have the second pick here. Oh, okay. I have to ask. You know, you can say no. Is the Dunk contest a recurring segment? Okay.
- [89:17]
Trey Kirby
Yeah, it's very high on my list as well.
- [89:19]
Jay Skeets
Okay. Obviously a different type of recurring segment, because a lot of these are, like, maybe weekly, whatever. But this one is a yearly one for the most part. So I will go to the Dunk contest, going all the way back then to the very first one, which was in Phoenix during All Star Weekend, where we just bought a Fisher Price Net and had kids dunk on it. And we graded those.
- [89:40]
Tas Melas
Oh, yeah.
- [89:41]
Jay Skeets
And we had a bunch of weirdos dunk on it too. And that was funny as well. So that was the genesis of the dunk contest. But then it of course turned into Trey versus Lee for three years.
- [89:51]
JD
Three years.
- [89:52]
Sponsor/Ad Voice
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- [89:53]
Jay Skeets
That was great. Some incredibly creative dunks, some hilarious moments. And then I took over for Lee and we battled.
- [90:00]
Trey Kirby
We just did it once.
- [90:00]
Jay Skeets
We just did once. Okay. We had a great one, I think in the Superdome where we're throwing down, so. So I guess five in total. A lot of dunks. Yeah, I like that.
- [90:10]
JD
Good one.
- [90:11]
Trey Kirby
I would have picked it for sure.
- [90:13]
JD
Same.
- [90:13]
Jay Skeets
Okay.
- [90:14]
Trey Kirby
I thought 2016 was the culmination. That was the one where it was the. The rubber match between me and Lee. He crushed me first year. I crushed him second year. And then the third one was the Toronto.
- [90:26]
Tas Melas
Yeah. All Star.
- [90:27]
Jay Skeets
Yes.
- [90:27]
Trey Kirby
And it was just good. Like, he did good, I did good.
- [90:29]
Jay Skeets
Yeah.
- [90:30]
JD
But we didn't actually shoot.
- [90:32]
Trey Kirby
I always have a lot of regrets is that I was out of dunks, like good dunks.
- [90:36]
Jay Skeets
By the time I got to go up against you.
- [90:38]
Trey Kirby
You were like scraping the bottom of the barrel.
- [90:40]
Jay Skeets
You still got creative, though. And then we had Matt Bonner grading them during that live show. But that one was good though. Cuz we like, we had some like talking heading into it. Like we were building that one up.
- [90:52]
Trey Kirby
That was good.
- [90:52]
Jay Skeets
We were like, all right, Lee, you've dunked enough. Now it's. Now it's Trey. But Yeah, so all five of those. That are great.
- [90:58]
Tas Melas
Good.
- [90:59]
Jay Skeets
J.D. you have the next pick.
- [91:02]
JD
Hmm. Well, you went with an annual one. I'm going to go with one. That was a huge pain in the ass for everyone. I think I'm going the awards show. The annual awards show.
- [91:17]
Jay Skeets
The starties.
- [91:19]
JD
We actually did it as a basketball Jones in the score and we always took it very seriously. Like we put on an actual awards show. Like, you know, got dressed up, we got in the starters days. We got Kristen Ledlow come to come in and host it. And she was great and she would always wear her finest gown. She took it very seriously. And you know, we got the great clip from Giannis when he accepted his. His award. Was that. Yeah, that's what happened.
- [91:51]
Sponsor/Ad Voice
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- [91:51]
JD
Did he.
- [91:51]
Tas Melas
He accepted 2016 Most Improved Player for.
- [91:56]
Trey Kirby
Hating on me.
- [91:59]
Tas Melas
When I went in. Searched on YouTube. Annoying YouTube along the. The progress bar. That shows you the most clicked part of it. And it's that Giannis acceptance. But it was 44 minutes of magic. It was.
- [92:14]
JD
Yeah.
- [92:14]
Tas Melas
Every single show.
- [92:15]
JD
Yeah.
- [92:16]
Jay Skeets
We would rate, we would do Wanker of the year.
- [92:20]
JD
Worst of the year.
- [92:20]
Jay Skeets
Yeah, yeah.
- [92:21]
JD
Which was always funny, but again, a huge pain in the ass. Like, so many elements we had to put into the show. We never did it live because there was just. It was too many moving parts. We always did the In Memoriam, which we've already mentioned, which was always funny. It's a very deadly serious song that Matt wrote that.
- [92:42]
Tas Melas
Right.
- [92:44]
JD
But just like, the funny things that sort of went away that season. So all in all, you know, it was good.
- [92:51]
Sponsor/Ad Voice
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- [92:53]
JD
I hated doing it, but when it was done, I thought it was. It was really good.
- [92:57]
Jay Skeets
The Starties.
- [92:58]
JD
Yeah.
- [92:59]
Jay Skeets
What was it called in the Jones days?
- [93:00]
JD
I don't know.
- [93:01]
Jay Skeets
The Jonesies.
- [93:03]
Trey Kirby
Hey, maybe.
- [93:04]
Jay Skeets
Yeah, I think it was, though.
- [93:06]
Trey Kirby
But we made Kristen Ludlow say the word Venus once upon a time because the Hornets, the mascot, got hit. Fall on, like, a lower third. Said Venus.
- [93:21]
Tas Melas
I forgot.
- [93:24]
Jay Skeets
All right, well, we have. Trey has the final pick here. What do you got left on your list?
- [93:30]
Trey Kirby
Oh, man. What do I got left on my list? The Clipper Bros Is off my list.
- [93:35]
Jay Skeets
Just playing Clipper Bros every show.
- [93:37]
Trey Kirby
Nobody else cares about this guy, but I love this guy. The Kate scale. Lee would rate every show based on various Kate beats. Like, if we had a really great show, was it Beckinsale?
- [93:49]
Jay Skeets
Yeah.
- [93:51]
Trey Kirby
Uncle Bob coming back and complaining.
- [93:53]
Jay Skeets
Yes. The Jared Greenberg theme song. Yeah, Greenberg.
- [94:00]
Trey Kirby
See those grill marks? Theme song for 3D. It could have been up there for favorite guest as well. But I'm gonna follow what the stream team is saying here. The pun gun. Yeah, I'm gonna draft the pun gun. It's been retired for quite some time.
- [94:15]
Sponsor/Ad Voice
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- [94:16]
Trey Kirby
I feel like it started with Hector Brito was the first thing we ever punned. But this was back when, like, thank yous on Facebook were a thing.
- [94:25]
Jay Skeets
Yeah.
- [94:26]
Trey Kirby
Just did a whole bunch of jokes, and somehow it turned into us doing different NBA names. And I don't think I'll ever be able to have another day in my life where I don't remember the name. Gray Biscuits, Dad Quest. It's impossible not to this Vasquez.
- [94:43]
Jay Skeets
So good.
- [94:45]
Trey Kirby
The pun gun.
- [94:46]
Jay Skeets
Pun gun. Yeah. That's a good one with the music too. Like the fire in. And then. Then at one point, Matt started adding, like, the horse dying after gunshots. That was funny. That's a good one. That's great. I also just had for recurring segment. Rapid fire has produced some of the funniest moments in the podcast history. Like, a lot of them come from RA Rapid Fire Tangents and answers and whatever. So good stuff. All Right. Our final category here is bit of a weird one Favorite off air moment. I have the number one pick. I. Man, I, I didn't know where to go with this. Obviously so much to pick from. So I'm going with a strange one because I wanted something like when I think of the starters days, it was, you know, I'm pulling back the curtain here, but we've talked about this before. Like we would make a 22 minute live television show, wouldn't go live on the air until what were we? 6:30, something like that.
- [95:46]
Tas Melas
We were the starters. Yeah, but you ready for the night?
- [95:49]
Jay Skeets
That's right. But to make a 22 minute television show would take hours upon hours of work. Which means we were. And because we're basically producers, all of us producers on the show, we were all there at the studio or in the office for, you know, whatever. It was like a full day, like a nine to five type of day, maybe not that long, but we would get there and like hours ahead of the show. So the point is we spent so much time together, lots of jokes, lots of obviously getting tired of each other at times, people leaving and going for walks and stuff like that. But I will always think during those starters days of us playing HQ trivia. And this really dates us too, right? Cause it's HQ trivia came burned bright and then obviously went away. But when we would, I think it would be like 3 o' clock in the afternoon or something like that. So it was like the perfect time for us. Cause we sort of had the show ready to go and now it was like sort of waiting around a little bit. So we would all play HQ trivia on our phones. And man, the one time we won that one time like we celebrated like we won the championship. Like I just like a hilarious. Like it just brings me joy thinking of those days. So us playing HQ trivia in the office. This is a weird.
- [97:00]
Trey Kirby
Awesome.
- [97:03]
Jay Skeets
Sorry.
- [97:03]
Trey Kirby
We got. We gotta take 20 minutes here and try and answer these questions and we.
- [97:07]
Jay Skeets
Would like fight with each other. Like you take that answer, I'll take this answer. I was always trying to game the system because we had, you know, six of us playing, but we could rarely win. Yeah, it's hard. It was hard. You didn't have a lot of time. Yeah. Tough questions.
- [97:19]
JD
Yeah. A lot of pressure.
- [97:20]
Jay Skeets
So that, that was going with that as a weird pick.
- [97:23]
JD
It's great pick.
- [97:24]
Jay Skeets
Okay, good. I was, I'm happy you have the second pick, J.D.
- [97:27]
JD
I'M not overthinking this. Bamboo boys.
- [97:29]
Jay Skeets
Oh wow.
- [97:30]
JD
Just hanging out at the pool in Vegas, you know, pre show, couple of beers, just decompressing before the show. You know, I liked all of the hanging out at Vegas. The hanging out part was great.
- [97:46]
Jay Skeets
Yeah.
- [97:47]
JD
Even if it was for two weeks and too long. But. But yeah, just. Just making time to. To just hang out by the pool.
- [97:55]
Jay Skeets
And it basically became our office.
- [97:57]
JD
Yeah.
- [97:57]
Jay Skeets
Because we would tell people. Sure. And come meet us at the bamboo pool.
- [98:01]
JD
Yeah, that's right.
- [98:02]
Jay Skeets
The boys will be there as we'll be there for hours before we got to go work at night to do a live show.
- [98:07]
JD
That's right. And if you showed up, you were an honorary bamboo boy right away.
- [98:12]
Jay Skeets
Yeah.
- [98:12]
JD
Whether you're a boy or a girl.
- [98:13]
Jay Skeets
Yeah, it was.
- [98:14]
JD
It's great. So a lot of. A lot of. A lot of fun times at that pool. At those pools, I guess.
- [98:19]
Jay Skeets
And then the bamboo or the bamboo pool caught on fire one year. It was a tragedy. Tough one for the boys.
- [98:26]
Tas Melas
Yeah.
- [98:28]
Jay Skeets
All right. Good pick. Really good pick. We spent way too much time in Vegas together.
- [98:32]
JD
Yeah.
- [98:33]
Jay Skeets
But those were fun, those hours. But then they were also the saddest times because he'd be like, yeah, Damn. It's like 2:30. Better go to the gym. Should we have one more?
- [98:44]
Trey Kirby
No.
- [98:44]
Jay Skeets
Yeah, we probably. I got a shower and we gotta get going. To the gym. Yeah.
- [98:48]
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- [98:49]
Jay Skeets
Okay.
- [98:49]
JD
By the end of the week, you know, we're pretty buzzed going into work.
- [98:54]
Jay Skeets
The one year in particular where you and I added a beer basically every day of that trip. How many beers can we keep adding?
- [99:03]
JD
Was.
- [99:03]
Jay Skeets
Yeah, definitely was. Had to lose a hangover at one point before a live show at night.
- [99:08]
JD
Yeah.
- [99:09]
Jay Skeets
All right, Trey, you have the next pick. And favorite off air moment.
- [99:12]
JD
Yeah.
- [99:13]
Trey Kirby
First and foremost, I got to give a shout out here. Hector Brito is in the stream team.
- [99:19]
Jay Skeets
Wow.
- [99:20]
Trey Kirby
Today. Yo, it's me, Hector. I remember it was Taz who did it. It was on a Facebook. Thank you, long timer. Oh, yeah, we appreciate that.
- [99:29]
Tas Melas
Wow.
- [99:29]
Trey Kirby
We very much appreciate that.
- [99:31]
Tas Melas
Like 2011 maybe something. Wow.
- [99:34]
Trey Kirby
Easily over 10 years ago.
- [99:36]
Tas Melas
Coming through.
- [99:36]
Trey Kirby
Yeah. It was definitely TBJ days.
- [99:38]
Tas Melas
Yeah.
- [99:39]
Trey Kirby
That's pretty crazy. So shout out to you and shout out to everybody who's been around for a long time. There's many, many decade plusers out there for me. Favorite off air moment anytime we did karaoke together.
- [99:49]
JD
Oh, yeah.
- [99:51]
Jay Skeets
Good picks.
- [99:52]
Trey Kirby
In particular, the take it easy debacle.
- [99:55]
Jay Skeets
Oh, my God.
- [99:56]
Trey Kirby
How many times do you think take it easy played in a row? It must have been 50 times in a row.
- [100:01]
JD
I was going to say 50. I think that might be an exaggeration.
- [100:04]
Jay Skeets
But I think it's a little bit of an exaggeration, but it's high.
- [100:08]
Trey Kirby
We couldn't figure it out.
- [100:09]
Jay Skeets
And I was trying. I was trying my ass off to figure it out. Why did he keep playing the start of Take It Easy?
- [100:23]
Trey Kirby
Sometimes it was like you'd be, like.
- [100:25]
Jay Skeets
So into trying to figure out the.
- [100:26]
Trey Kirby
Whole song would play, and then, guess what? Take it easy again. But we had a lot of great karaoke moments. We met a woman that we called Tall Hattie. For the rest of our lives. We watched it. Karaoke with Kobayashi.
- [100:43]
Tas Melas
Weird singing it.
- [100:44]
JD
Yeah.
- [100:47]
Jay Skeets
We did karaoke in a live bar in San Antonio, I want to say, or on the outskirts of San Antonio.
- [100:52]
Tas Melas
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [100:53]
Jay Skeets
With, like, Shea. Was Shea there?
- [100:55]
Tas Melas
I don't know.
- [100:55]
Jay Skeets
Maybe not.
- [100:56]
Trey Kirby
Shay Carl's from Runoff and Kevka Cops.
- [100:59]
Jay Skeets
Yeah.
- [101:01]
Trey Kirby
Lee did karaoke. Sang that Robbie Williams song. It was Angels.
- [101:06]
Tas Melas
Yeah.
- [101:06]
Jay Skeets
Yeah.
- [101:07]
Tas Melas
We've got video of that.
- [101:08]
Jay Skeets
Yeah. Pick them payoff. One of the first ever Pick Them payoffs was me doing karaoke at a bar in Toronto. Yep.
- [101:14]
Sponsor/Ad Voice
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- [101:15]
Jay Skeets
Good pick.
- [101:16]
Trey Kirby
He is fun.
- [101:17]
Jay Skeets
Yeah. You know, it's so funny that you went with that. I just said to Nora the other day, I want to go do karaoke.
- [101:23]
Tas Melas
Right.
- [101:24]
Jay Skeets
I just had a buzz. I was like, I just want to go sing, baby. I just want to sing it. Really? Just like. Like something I was singing in the shower. I was like, we gotta go do karaoke. All right, let's go.
- [101:33]
Trey Kirby
But is there live karaoke here?
- [101:36]
Jay Skeets
Private karaoke?
- [101:37]
JD
Oh, yeah.
- [101:38]
Jay Skeets
Private karaoke. Done it for sure. A long time ago. I was still living here. Yeah.
- [101:42]
JD
Is that when you and Nora came in arguing about who was a better singer that day here?
- [101:47]
Jay Skeets
Yeah, recently. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We've been talking about that. I'm convinced I'm a better singer than my wife.
- [101:52]
Tas Melas
There's something in, like, she doesn't like that. I don't know.
- [101:58]
Jay Skeets
We'll see. What were you gonna say?
- [101:59]
Tas Melas
Oh, no, I was gonna say something pointless because nobody lives here in Atlanta, but I was gonna say there's some in, like, the Buford Strip. Yeah, that's where they are at.
- [102:08]
Jay Skeets
All right, Tass, you have the final pick here. In this entire squad episode favorite off air moment.
- [102:14]
Tas Melas
Yeah. The group ones are. Are the best ones. This one's. It's got Shaq in it. So it's. It's great because it's Shaq, but it's also completely selfish. Shaq came up to us when we Were in that sort of communal space at Turner. We were sitting doing our thing. Shaq just comes up and says, pick a number between 1 and 10. And we all pick numbers. And I picked the right one. He goes, you win. And he threw me a phone. Like he threw me a boxed Samsung phone. And that was it.
- [102:45]
JD
That changed your life, man. You were a Samsung man.
- [102:48]
Tas Melas
I was a Samsung man for years. Years. And I loved it. I loved it. Okay.
- [102:55]
JD
All right. I was.
- [102:57]
Tas Melas
I was a Samsung man. But JD behind the scenes, I sold that one.
- [103:02]
JD
Yeah.
- [103:02]
Jay Skeets
Yeah, right?
- [103:03]
Tas Melas
Yeah. I literally didn't keep it because I tried to get to Samsung. It was a monster. It was probably. It was probably big enough for Shaq's hands. It was such a big phone before phones were huge and I just couldn't get used to it. So I sold it for a lot of money.
- [103:17]
Sponsor/Ad Voice
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- [103:17]
Tas Melas
Back then it was like a grant.
- [103:19]
JD
Wow.
- [103:20]
Tas Melas
A thousand dollars for a frickin phone. Damn. What number did you get? I gave Shaq half the money. No, I didn't. But I did eventually got to Samsung, moved to Samsung. It was great. Now I'm back.
- [103:34]
Jay Skeets
We hated it. Round trip. That was the most annoying couple of years. You stayed true for a while.
- [103:40]
Tas Melas
We have a check just coming through just in a moment where he just like, I'll give it to these guys. And then he'd come to trust us to come into studio, give wedgies. The shack experience was just fun in general.
- [103:53]
Jay Skeets
No one picking. Well, I guess karaoke sort of played a part in some of those trips. But the no off season required tour, you know.
- [104:01]
Trey Kirby
Yep.
- [104:02]
Jay Skeets
Could have sort of went with that majority. There was some funny.
- [104:08]
JD
With a pizza or something.
- [104:10]
Jay Skeets
That was me. T. Pranked me. Well, it was me and Lee's room and these guys are like. Like getting us back or whatever. You think you can prank Gary. That was the fun when he stormed out of the room and he's scaring me.
- [104:22]
Tas Melas
Oh God.
- [104:23]
Jay Skeets
You think you could break Gary?
- [104:25]
Trey Kirby
Matt's. Matt's little socks. When we would go to his room, he just had socks hanging everywhere in his room.
- [104:30]
Tas Melas
Oh man.
- [104:30]
Trey Kirby
They were every pair of his socks that he had.
- [104:33]
Tas Melas
They were in the van. Console. Opening the console. There's two socks. They're not big.
- [104:41]
Jay Skeets
Any other moments there JD had on your list?
- [104:44]
JD
List off air moments. I remember when we showed David. David Stern.
- [104:52]
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Stern.
- [104:53]
Tas Melas
Stern, yeah.
- [104:54]
JD
Drinking the water. We were in the control room and Scooter Vetino, the VP of. Of NBA tv, he. We like to say he kicked a chair. But he actually. He sort of Just put his head down and was like slamming the desk and so why would you put that on the air? Air. And we were on the air like this when we were doing the show live. Like, God damn. Okay. Sorry, man.
- [105:18]
Jay Skeets
That was early, too.
- [105:19]
JD
That was early.
- [105:20]
Tas Melas
And then we had to cut it out.
- [105:22]
JD
Yeah, we had to cut it out of the rears.
- [105:25]
Tas Melas
Yeah, yeah.
- [105:25]
Jay Skeets
Couldn't show a man struggling to drink a water.
- [105:28]
JD
That's right. My favorite. Speaking of the treehouse, which was the. With the area task where you got your phone.
- [105:34]
Tas Melas
Yeah.
- [105:34]
JD
And Shaq, my favorite sort of overheard shack moment. Or when he's. He's hugging somebody. Was he hugging one of you guys? And he says, you can't hug like that. You gotta hug dick to dick.
- [105:47]
Jay Skeets
Yeah, that was. Yeah. Yeah, he definitely was. Come through, man. It's like a goddamn tornado just coming through. Like, here you go. Hold on, everybody.
- [106:01]
Trey Kirby
Anytime somebody would come out of the bathroom, he'd say, you just take your. Every time. That's why he gets drafted in. Favorite guests, things like that. I also have the game we all. That we continue to play.
- [106:21]
Jay Skeets
Who tweeted it before?
- [106:22]
Trey Kirby
We just read a random tweet. And it's always Nate Jones every single time.
- [106:28]
Jay Skeets
Most of the time in Staples. It's got a lot of, like, unique tweets.
- [106:32]
Trey Kirby
Totally.
- [106:33]
Jay Skeets
That we can always pull from. I also had. This was a little selfish but off air moment, but when celebrating the Raptors 2019 championship because I was in Toronto for that night and for that game and then got to celebrate in the city with all my friends, like, that was just surreal. And that was our final start as well. Yeah. And. But then came. I remember, like, I stayed up all night, basically caught the flight back. And you were at the pool because we used to live in the same place. And I showed up and like, we both had Raptors jerseys on. We're like celebrating. Like, I was just. I was awake for like 36 straight hours. And then we did. I guess we ended up doing a drop podcast. And that was the final, final, final episode. Yep. We did one more show in. In our studio at the desk. Like audio show. Yeah. Because remember that.
- [107:22]
Trey Kirby
Remember you coming in.
- [107:23]
Jay Skeets
Yeah.
- [107:23]
Trey Kirby
That's Roy Williams style.
- [107:25]
Tas Melas
Yeah.
- [107:25]
Jay Skeets
Yeah, we did. That was the final one. So that was a favorite as well.
- [107:29]
Trey Kirby
I enjoyed trying the Lee pee after Lee blew our minds, saying that when.
- [107:35]
JD
When.
- [107:36]
Trey Kirby
Only when it was nighttime, he would sit backwards on the toilet. I don't even remember what his reasoning was, but I had to try it immediately afterwards.
- [107:47]
Jay Skeets
His reasoning was so random. It was like he didn't, he thought it was just made less like sort of commotion and noise. Like you didn't wake up and it was baffling.
- [107:58]
Trey Kirby
Yeah, that was, that was one of the weirdest things anybody's ever said.
- [108:06]
Jay Skeets
Well, yeah, he said a lot of crazy things. One of the best fights was me and him arguing about him having to eat a banana where I'll just lose it. I get legit upset. Oh, good stuff. All right, we'll call it there. I don't think we need to recap this one in particular. It's sort of a different type of squad. It's just a trip down memory lane. Yes, but what did we miss? Let us know in the YouTube comments. You can tweet at us. You can let us know on Spotify there in the comments section. See a lot of people using that or more people utilizing that. Appreciate that. Obviously hit the like button. Subscribe. Five star ratings and reviews for 20 years of classics. Again, a little bit of a different, different show for you NBA sickos. But don't worry, we're right back at it tomorrow. Might do check the polls with some mid season awards possibility. We are celebrating 20 years with some new merch. Limited run only available until the end of the month. Go to nodunks.com to grab one of our new 20 Years of no Dunks classics T shirts. I love this design. So this is up there till the end of the month. So. So you know, you got basically 10 days to go grab that. And that link is in the show notes as well. So we'll be back tomorrow. Until then, here's a favorite. Trey Clipper Bros. You heard it here first. Have a great time. Turn up. Love you guys.
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JD
Awesome.
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Tas Melas
Thanks for joining us. And remember, all the moments are because of everybody out there. So thank you to everyone listening. Also, I'm shocked that we didn't mention Jan the Pelican.
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Jay Skeets
Oh man.
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Tas Melas
The beginning of our run at NBA.
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Trey Kirby
Tv, we almost had a one episode show.
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JD
Yeah, it was pretty close.
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Tas Melas
Because our first episode had a guy in a pelican costume running around the studio and I, I was, I was talking about that with Danielle. I thought, was that our last show of our first week? Maybe. Why would we do that in our first show? But it was our first show.
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Jay Skeets
We had an hour to film. We had a lot of segments to fill and we filled it with that one of them.
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Tas Melas
We can't find it. That one's gone too.
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Jay Skeets
That's hilarious though.
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Trey Kirby
That is a pretty funny way to start hilarious.
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Jay Skeets
Just a weird start for a show but really, you know, set the tone.
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Trey Kirby
That's all he would do, no bit to it. Wearing his socks.
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Tas Melas
He's in his socks, socks on.
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Trey Kirby
There's like a close up of his.
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Jay Skeets
Feet.
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Trey Kirby
Or like welcome to the show everyone.
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Jay Skeets
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JD
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