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Jay Skeets (3:11)

Good morning, sweet world, and welcome to the no Dunks podcast presented by FanDuel. It's Friday, April 3, 2026. This is the Drop. I'm Jay Skeets here in the classic factory, and next to me, it's my top shot, hot boy, Trey Kirby Ayo. Hey, yo. And over yonder, making the magic happen, super producer jd.

JD (3:31)

Hello.

Jay Skeets (3:32)

There he is. Here we are. No tasks today. He's on vacation with the fam in the Dominican Republic. I guess he's flying today, so safe travels to Tessie and the crew. He'll be back later next week. We got the drop, though here for you. Worst of the week nominees. TK taking over for Melis.

Ben Gulliver (3:49)

Yeah, he keeps calling himself Positive Pete. Not me.

Jay Skeets (3:53)

Yeah, that's right.

Ben Gulliver (3:54)

Not me.

Jay Skeets (3:55)

We got little boy. We got rapid fire fun. JD's got the questions and we'll have the answers. But first, the biggest story in the NBA world last night was Luca doncic exiting the 139 to 96 loss to the Thunder early because of a strained left hamstring injury, and he was ruled out. He's going to undergo an MRI today to determine the extent of this injury. You see it here. If you're joining us on YouTube, hit the like button. Subscribe if you are here. He did appear to tweak this thing in the first half. Trey obviously played through it. They checked him, by all accounts, at halftime. And, you know, despite being down what felt like a million points, they're going to do the old, hey, let's give it six minutes, see if we can make this a game. And that's. And that is when this injury happened. And he looked, you know, pretty distraught. Head down, walking off the court, sort of pissed off, pulling at the jersey, looked frustrated. And now we just wait to hear how severe this is. Didn't look good.

Ben Gulliver (4:54)

Yeah, he was pretty upset afterwards, you know, hiding his face inside of his jersey. Looked like he wanted to tear that thing in two. Bummer, though, with a, like, with a lot of hamstring injuries, it doesn't look like hardly anything happens. Yeah, right. Like, he's just planting and stopping. Like you said, he tweaked it in the first half, but was playing through it. He missed time with a hamstring strain earlier this season. So certainly something that's happened with Luca before. But he's played like 64 games. Exactly. It doesn't seem like he'll be able to get back for any of the Lakers remaining games. At least just based on his reaction. And the way he limped off and how upset he was, makes you think it's bad enough that it at least keep him out for the end of the regular season, which would take him out of awards consideration. Takes him out of the MVP running. He won't be on an all NBA team. The only good thing for the Lakers is that they're not in the play in tournament. So they get an extra week for Luka to heal before he would need to come back for a first round series. So yeah, the timing, I mean we talked about how bad of the timing was for Kate Cunningham getting injured. That was like a couple of weeks ago at this point. The second to last week of the season when you're gearing up for the playoffs. And the Lakers have been playing great, Got smacked last night, but have been playing really well in March. Bad start to April after a great month for them.

Jay Skeets (6:16)

Yeah, his 64th game of the season. That's what Luca was playing in last night. Everybody knows you got to play 65 to hit the threshold. Lakers have five games remaining. There is an exception for players who reach 62 games and play at least 85% of their team's games at the time of the season ending injury. But that would not apply to Luca. He's played in 64 of the Lakers 77 games, which is 83%.

Ben Gulliver (6:44)

Yeah. And if it's considered a season ending injury, it means he can't play before May 31 or something like that. So I was like, I didn't even know there was a loophole to the loophole. That's what you find out when a guy gets hurt this late in the season and the games played requirement is a thing.

Jay Skeets (7:01)

And you said already he missed four games earlier this season with that pesky left hamstring injury. He missed one game with a left finger sprain. He missed five games with a lower left leg contusion, Two more games due to personal reasons, one game to a sore left groin and then one game he missed due to accumulative technical fouls.

Ben Gulliver (7:24)

Oof.

Jay Skeets (7:25)

That would have been game 65 if that were not to have happened. Now there was the whole thing where the one got rescinded and then he was good to go but then he got another one and that was enough to keep him out. I think it was maybe the, was it the Wizards game where he got that tech anyway that would have had him at 65. But he's not the only guy that's going to be off these all NBA teams. Like we're going to have an. We're going to have a super elite all NBA team of guys that didn't make the all NBA totally. Like at this point with Luka, Cade, Anthony Edwards. Yep. Just to name a few. But yeah, they were also getting crushed in this game.

Ben Gulliver (7:59)

They got smoked.

Jay Skeets (8:00)

That's why it's like this changes everything. On one hand the Luca injury potentially and also nothing.

Ben Gulliver (8:06)

Yep.

Jay Skeets (8:07)

Because I don't think this team with a healthy Luka was beating the Thunder in a seven game series if they get there. But I was thinking like best case scenario for the Lakers is the spurs have the Thunders number. The Nuggets are always a tough out against Thunder. Like another team knocks them off to help the Lakers chances to go all the way to the finals. But I don't think this squad is healthy, Luka or not are beating this team because a big part of this is they shut down luca. That's what they do. They really, really good at. They have all these defensive guys, you know, led by Lou Dort and they play them physical and it's just, just sucks for Laker Nation here that we just, they just hold their breath here this morning. See how severe this is.

Ben Gulliver (8:42)

This was almost a one quarter game. The Lakers turned the ball over eight times in the first quarter. Look completely sped up by the Thunder defense. Marcus Smart was out so no chance guarding Shay. Gildrus Alexander who dominated J Dub was really good with the playmaking. OKC hit 19 threes. They are 19 and two this season. When they make 16 or more. If they have a good shooting night, you're not going to beat them. So the recipe for the Lakers right now, they got five games left like you're saying, but they're only a game up on Denver. They have locked in tiebreakers after overall these teams that are chasing them, that's good. They just got to find a way to stay in three so that they can avoid the Thunder as long as possible. And maybe somebody else knocks them off. But I mean, I don't know. Right now they would be facing the Timberwolves in round one. Can they win that series without Luca? Questionable.

Jay Skeets (9:30)

Questionable.

Ben Gulliver (9:30)

Minnesota gets better in the playoffs. Yeah, absolutely. I mean we'll have to see if Anthony Edwards comes back. He missed time last night for an illness, so you know, that's not a long term thing. You would think that Minnesota will give a consistent effort at least in the postseason. That series at the very least becomes a toss up if Luka's not 100%. I think.

Jay Skeets (9:50)

Yeah, I agree with that. That's what I wrote in my notes. I was like, ooh, is it now better to be the sixth seed instead of the fifth seed in the Western Conference? Are the Wolves actually in better shape trailing the Houston Rockets? You know, who would obviously take on the Nuggets and maybe you get a Lakers team without Luka. By the way, Austin Rees also banged up. I mean a back injury in this one. He returned. But that guy's sort of been beaten up all season long, so maybe he's not at 100% health. You got LeBron James. You know, when those guys are gone, he's their best player. The guy's 41 for crying out loud. So look, you just start losing bodies here. But rough, rough night for the Lakers. Yeah, when they lose, their losses are so loud. Just so loud. Like either because of poor play or like something like this happening. Dan Divine, great tweet about OKC that made me chuckle. He said OKC's extended garbage time mop up crew includes four viable rotation guys. Aaron Wiggins, Isaiah Joe Jones, Jared McCain and Kenrich Williams. Yes, and a lottery pick point guard in topic. Yep, that's pretty decent roster. That's their mop up at the end of game garbage time lineup. These are all guys that would play on nearly half the most the teams in league.

Ben Gulliver (10:59)

Yeah, yeah, this is a very, very deep team. We have talked so much about the Lakers being awesome in March. We've talked about the spurs hardly losing a game, especially when Wemby plays for the last two months. Even Denver has gotten hot down the stretch. They're on a win streak right now and nobody can still catch the Thunder, right? It's like J Dub came back and then he was out a little bit. He hasn't been totally healthy since his return either. But yeah, the Thunder, they're just easy to ignore because they've been so good for the entire season. They had the little patch in the middle of the year when they were struggling playing.500 basketball for a little bit, losing their chance at chasing 74 wins. But other than that, it's like we had an awesome start. 241 now they're totally rolling right now. As healthy as they have been for the Entire season. They're still the team to beat. Absolutely. And, I mean, they really showed it last night because Luka, he was slow in the first half. He was grabbing at his leg the entire time. But the game was over so quickly that it was like, okay, we're seeing the different levels between teams right here.

Jay Skeets (12:01)

I'm going to take an L here on taking the under on OKC in the preseason. Total wins, I believe it was 62 and a half, and I went under. I thought, yeah, they take their foot off the gas a little bit here, play the long game, really be healthy for the postseason, and then try and defend the title. And, well, I mean, it looked over after 25 games, like, well, that's. They're going to smash through that, but it's a little closer than maybe some anticipated. They got to win two more games. They're at 61 wins now, two more games out of the final five. Even if they were to sit all their guys, their main guys, I still have confidence in a lot of these guys in their second and third units getting the wins. And also they still have the spurs breathing down their neck so that, like, it's not wrapped up that they have the number one seed throughout the entire postseason. So point is, I got that one wrong. They're. They're hitting at least 63 wins. I think. I feel pretty confident saying that here with.

Ben Gulliver (12:51)

Don't be too hard on yourself, man. Two losses separate the spurs and the Thunder right now. So you're right. The Thunder have to keep playing because the spurs are rolling right now just as well. But I started, like, preliminarily looking at the over unders this morning, few of them still up in the air. I think I got eight right so far.

Jay Skeets (13:12)

It's bad.

Ben Gulliver (13:13)

It's really bad.

Jay Skeets (13:13)

I mean, I, I also was looking at it when we were recently talking about teams that made us look like fools on a show earlier this week, and I was like, ooh, yeah. I mean, I, I, I want to. I think all of us were pretty rough. No one was killing it. I know I had one better conference than the other, but I was like, oh, I got a lot wrong. And I don't think we were alone. I heard the, you know, ball, you know, ball guys also are like, oh, this was a bad year for what inspired me. Yeah.

Ben Gulliver (13:40)

My good friend Built Simmons on Twitter. Shout out to Sam.

Jay Skeets (13:43)

Let's go to Jalen Duran leading the pistons past the Timberwolves. 113, 108 in a game without superstars. That's what the AP headline said.

Ben Gulliver (13:53)

I saw that.

Jay Skeets (13:53)

How disrespectful. Bit of a shot at Jalen Duran for sure.

Ben Gulliver (13:57)

Oh, okay.

Jay Skeets (13:59)

Well, who else?

Ben Gulliver (13:59)

Julius Randle's been an all NBA player.

Jay Skeets (14:01)

Okay, well, Jalen Dern's going to be. He might make a second team at this point with the bodies dropping left and right, but both lead guards out. Cade Cunningham for Detroit. They say it's going to take another week. Look, I don't think we're going to see him until the postseason at this point. He ain't playing in the regular season.

Ben Gulliver (14:16)

No.

Jay Skeets (14:17)

With the lung injury. And then Anthony Edwards was out for Minnesota, but that was more of a late game scratch, he said due to illness. I think 90 minutes before tips Ant's not playing. But the Pistons led by Jalen Duran and Dennis Jenkins, who I know we'll talk about here, leaning on their depth, leaning on their shot making of late in the game and get the victory. Your thoughts?

Ben Gulliver (14:36)

We gotta check Anthony Edwards food journal. I'm sure he keeps a detailed record of everything he eats. But he missed starting in the game. He returned because he had to go poop.

Jay Skeets (14:45)

Yep.

Ben Gulliver (14:46)

And now he's sick.

Jay Skeets (14:47)

Yep.

Ben Gulliver (14:47)

What is it? What's probably Anthony Edwards.

Jay Skeets (14:52)

Good point.

Ben Gulliver (14:52)

Late night nuts ever do that? You eat like. Like six handfuls of peanuts? Sorry. Maybe pistachios, what have you.

Jay Skeets (15:03)

I'll do that. But I don't get.

Ben Gulliver (15:05)

Oh, I wake up in the morning, feel terrible.

Jay Skeets (15:07)

Oh, interesting.

JD (15:07)

I don't know.

Ben Gulliver (15:08)

I think it's just too much oil too. Oil in these nuts?

Jay Skeets (15:10)

Possibly, but we got to check.

JD (15:12)

Same tray.

Ben Gulliver (15:13)

Right. I don't know what it is.

Jay Skeets (15:14)

Guys are snacking on late night nuts and getting sick.

JD (15:17)

Well, you sort of have it in your head. I'll have a healthy snack.

Jay Skeets (15:19)

Yeah, I think so. Don't. Then they get lodged in your bowel.

Ben Gulliver (15:23)

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Popcorn and pretzels. I think you eat those late at night. Doesn't matter.

Jay Skeets (15:28)

Yeah.

Ben Gulliver (15:29)

That's just. They're good for you.

Jay Skeets (15:31)

Popcorn is just good for you at this point.

Ben Gulliver (15:32)

So I would recommend the Brat diet. Brat diet, if you will, for Anthony Edwards. Bananas, rice, applesauce and toast.

Jay Skeets (15:39)

Okay.

Ben Gulliver (15:40)

Really binds things up okay. On the inside. That's just something I'm thinking about for him. But Dennis Jenkins is so good that we're learning how to pronounce his name correctly. They say Danish now on the broadcast. It's Danish Jenkins. And he's played so well for the entirety of this season that we found out who he is. And then we find out exactly how to pronounce this guy's name. 26 points, 8 assists last night. Only one turnover against the Timberwolves. I don't think he starts in the postseason. I'm assuming Kate Cunningham at least comes back, is healthy. He's obviously the point guard for them. They got to have Duncan Robinson out there. From a shooting perspective. Asar Thompson has been a starter as well. He's not a shooter, but he brings great defense. I can see one of those two, Robinson or Asar Thompson being the adjustment guy who goes to the bench. Like maybe they're playing off Thompson in the playoffs and it's really gumming things up for the Pistons. We put in Danis Jenkins, Dana Jenkins. This guy is so fast, he gets downhill immediately. I think that's such a cool like change up to Cade Cunningham. Kate is so much more methodical. You got the speed guy in Jenkins. I can see him getting a chance to be a starter in the postseason if things aren't going well, like if, if Duncan Robinson becomes a target or something on the defensive end. So that's cool. And I think this is just awesome. What the Pistons have done a to hold onto the one seed in the Eastern Conference is pretty impressive. Once Cade went down and has missed like what, 10 games out basically at

Jay Skeets (17:06)

this point, I think.

Ben Gulliver (17:07)

Yeah. And the Pistons haven't taken a step back at all. At the very least now when they get into the postseason, despite the lack of experience, they just got this one first round hard fought series from last year underneath their belts. But they can look back on these 10 to 15 games at the end of the season. Say Cade picks up two fouls in the first quarter of game three. At least they can go back and say, yeah, we played pretty well. Yeah, when he was down. The chemistry between Cade and Duran is more so than it is between Jenkins and Durin. But I think they figured out how to play with each other as well. So this has been a decent stretch for the Pistons. A bummer to lose Cade at the time they did, but they really found something and they figured out another way to play and it just gives them another option when the entire year we're talking about what's it going to be like for the Pistons when things get tough and they take away the number one guy in Cade. They've got reliable number twos right now in Duran and Jenkins.

Jay Skeets (18:03)

Yeah, this is one of the feel good stories of the NBA season. This guy was a two way contract player in Jenkins and now he's putting up 26, 5 and 8 in a big game against a really competitive Western Conference team leading the way. They're seven and two with okay I believe since March 17th. And they went on a run here. This was a close game like no ant for the Wolves but Pistons went on like an 110 run midway through the fourth quarter. You know Duncan Robinson was making plays through that OOP to Sar Thompson hit a big three and they took control of the game and got it done. Great big picture stat here by way of Detroit Bad boys that excellent blog Detroit two seasons ago with Cade this was still a bad team. They were a -7.7 net rating in over 2000 minutes without Cade. They were even worse -10.2 in 1800 minutes last season some improvements. Plus 2.8 net rating with Cade on the floor in a whole bunch of minutes without CADE minus 0.2. So getting closer to just keeping their head above water when Cade was off the floor this season. Plus 10.9 net rating in over 2000 minutes with Kate on the floor without him. Plus 4.8.

Ben Gulliver (19:14)

Hey, that's all right.

Jay Skeets (19:15)

That's some solid roster building by Trajan Langdon. Obviously great coaching. Part of that's Jalen Duran obviously leveling up into this all NBA like player. It's Jenkins, it's a Sir Thompson, it's Holland, it's by committee. So those that really jumped out to me like it's cool to see the progression and it's great for people that believed a couple years ago like Kate is a good player, this team around him just stinks. And once he gets some more quality players, the wins are going to start to come. So now with not him Union even on the floor, they're putting together these impressive stretch here over these last nine or ten games. Awesome stuff. Yep, Great, great stuff. All right, let's move on to Concaniple setting a Hornets record for threes in a season as they crush the Suns by 20. Con canipple man 261 threes broke Kemba Walker's 260 records.

Ben Gulliver (20:04)

Pretty impressive. And since Kemba Walker is a Hornets coach, he was there to see it.

Jay Skeets (20:08)

That's right. Smiling away.

Ben Gulliver (20:09)

Smiling through it all.

Jay Skeets (20:10)

He don't care.

Ben Gulliver (20:10)

That guy's always smiling. But yeah, we were. Yesterday one of our beach questions was who's a player that you in a blink of an eye you missed them getting a bigger role. And the first guy I thought of was Con Knippel. Not that it's been under the radar at all. We've talked about this guy since the start of the season all the way through the end. But I do think it's pretty crazy that this guy's a rookie and you can make a case that he was the best shooter in the league this year. Yes, he's a top 10 percentage guy. Leading the league in makes you look at like who's on the top of the leaderboard. It's Luke Canard and context like three times as many as he does. So look, you're going to rank him behind a guy like Steph Curry, you're probably putting them even behind like a Klay Thompson who has the track record. Donovan Mitchell makes a ton of threes. Tyrese Maxey makes a ton of threes. There are guys. But the efficiency and the volume from con, I'm like, he's. He's got a case at the very least for being the best shooter in the league this season. And he's a rookie and he just looks like a pro. The Hornets really found something with this guy. Colin Gillespie also broke the Sun's record last night.

Jay Skeets (21:15)

That was surprising to me.

Ben Gulliver (21:17)

Yeah, that was surprising. And also surprising is that Quentin Richardson held the record since like 2005.

Jay Skeets (21:23)

Yeah. 0405.

Ben Gulliver (21:25)

That's a long time. Yeah, I would. I don't know who holds the record for every single team, but I have to imagine it's in the last 10 years for most of these teams. Players just take more threes now at this point. So for Colin Gillespie to get it from Q Rich, who had it for 20 years, unbelievable to me. Just one of the biggest nights for white guys since St. Patrick's Day, I would say.

Jay Skeets (21:45)

I guess so. Yeah. Knipple's gonna. He's very likely now going to lead the NBA in three pointers made this season with Luca's injury. Like Luka was the only one sort of knocking on the door there. Total three pointers made, like I said, Canipal 261. Luca 254. But if he's out, obviously Knipple will just increase that lead. Lamelo Ball is next.

Ben Gulliver (22:07)

Come on.

Jay Skeets (22:07)

But he's at 243. So Khan's got this. I mean that's pretty amazing. And having an impact on winning basketball as a rookie is also rare. Just doesn't happen that often on a good. On a good team, which they are, they're going to finish above 500. Obviously a lot of people, like casuals are like, I hope the Hornets get into the actual playoffs. I hope they beat some teams in the plan to get in because they're a fun watch. And you know, New Blood and Seal Lamello there and Brandon Miller and Knipple and, and Moose and all these guys. Well, we'll see. But he's awesome. You're right. Like how many years, like will he lead this sort of category? Especially with Steph coming near the end of his career. He's lined up to loot a lot the way he can shoot that ball and how many gets up. So great win. And you know Mark Williams. It was a revenge game for Mark Williams. He did play. Mark played and he played. He was okay. And Dylan Brooks like also looked rusty again here. But this is, this is good for obviously the sun. Get him some reps before they're playing games.

Ben Gulliver (23:07)

Yeah.

Jay Skeets (23:08)

To try and get in on Phoenix

Ben Gulliver (23:09)

has kind of been struggling lately. They haven't played all that well. They lost their last two but like they've got long losing streaks ahead of them. I think they're three and eight maybe and their last 11. A lot of that has been missing.

Andrea Gunning (23:21)

Mark.

Ben Gulliver (23:21)

Dylan just came back, but they're definitely not peaking heading into the play in tournament. Hornets still could get out. They still could get to sixth, like it's mathematically possible. They got a kind of tough schedule, but we'll see who ends up actually playing down the stretch. That'd be cool. That'd also be cool.

Jay Skeets (23:42)

Yeah.

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Jay Skeets (26:27)

The spurs rested Victor Wembanyama last night due to a right ankle little issue. I'm sure he's okay, but they're like I'll take the night off. And it didn't matter because they still beat the Clippers. They handedly beat the Clippers. They won their third game in four nights. So that's probably part of the Wendy take a take a break equation. 11th straight victory. Yeah, I was wondering maybe they were like hey, hey alien, take the night off. Go enjoy the Artemis to keep up to date on how that's going and their expedition.

Ben Gulliver (26:57)

Did I see that he was part of like the official launch video.

Jay Skeets (27:00)

He's. You won't believe this. He loves space.

Ben Gulliver (27:03)

I do believe it.

Jay Skeets (27:04)

I know.

Ben Gulliver (27:04)

Yeah, he's French.

Jay Skeets (27:05)

He did he know that he's French?

Ben Gulliver (27:08)

He's not an American.

Jay Skeets (27:09)

Yeah, he Gave them. He gave them like a little video.

Ben Gulliver (27:12)

Yeah.

Jay Skeets (27:12)

It was actually a pretty. I mean, I don't know who wrote it for him or if he wrote it. It was like he wrote it. It wasn't like he's like, basically like I got more interest than just like hoops and stuff.

Ben Gulliver (27:22)

Like we know, man.

Jay Skeets (27:23)

Yeah. Yeah. So we.

Ben Gulliver (27:24)

We know.

Jay Skeets (27:24)

Sort of cool. I guess today they make. Today is like it's. It's time to go to the moon.

Ben Gulliver (27:30)

Today it's moon time.

Jay Skeets (27:32)

It's moon time.

Ben Gulliver (27:33)

Like they're getting out of here.

Jay Skeets (27:35)

I think that's happening.

Ben Gulliver (27:36)

Exciting.

Jay Skeets (27:36)

Yeah. But anyway, so maybe he was watching that and like I said, the spurs won. Fox had a great first half. Dylan Harper had a good game overall. 19 points, five assists, eight to 12 shooting, two or three from deep, including one from very deep from a bomb. Just over a half court. Any other takeaways from the spurs clips which could be a matchup? Like it could be a 27 matchup.

Ben Gulliver (27:59)

Definitely could.

Jay Skeets (28:00)

But you know, the spurs beating the Clippers actually hurts the chances of that happening because Clippers not in the. Are they seven, eight or. No, they got. There's a Blazers one.

Ben Gulliver (28:10)

Blazers won last night.

Jay Skeets (28:11)

Yeah. Yeah. So that actually the spurs beating the Clippers makes it less likely they maybe meet in a 27 matchup. But anyway, any thoughts on this one?

Ben Gulliver (28:18)

It'll be tough. 11 straight wins for the Spurs. And the interesting thing to me from this game is coming into the season, a lot of people, myself included, were like, how are they going to do this with three guards that need the ball in their hands? Fox, Castle, the starters, of course. Dylan Harper, they just drafted him. Number two looks like he's going to be a superstar. How are they all going to work? Are they going to move off Dear and Fox, did they regret making the trade last year instead last night? No. Wemby, all three of these guys basically going for 20 points and five assists. Exactly that for Castle, 22 and five for Fox and then 19 and five for Harper off the bench. It's pretty cool to see the way that these three can play in any mix of the three of them or all three of them together. They have just slightly different enough games that it matters. They all fit around Wemby on the offensive side and on the defensive side. Great stuff from the spurs to get the win. The Clippers are kind of struggling. I feel like getting into the play in tournament here going to be tough, especially with how well Portland is playing. Like we talked about. Portland wins, Clippers lose. Clippers down into ninth. Portland has won eight of their last 10 games. Drew Holiday is playing great. We don't know if Steph Curry is coming back or how he's going to look if he does take the court on Sunday. I'm giving the Blazers a chance to get out of the play in tournament, especially with the Clippers not playing their best right now. You know, I think it was a big undertaking for them to even get back into play in contention to be a near.500 team after starting 6 and 21. I don't know if that's wearing on them at this point, but they were definitely better in January, February, March than they have been for like the last two weeks. Meanwhile, Portland peaking, Phoenix struggling. I'm interested in Portland. And then the other thing, I noticed a lot of headbands last night for the Spurs. Kelton Johnson had one on and Harrison Barnes had on.

Jay Skeets (30:12)

Yeah, yeah, good. Good unity for sure. I'm glad you brought up Portland there or like stuck them in because Drew Holiday hit another seven three pointers. He's hooping. Man's on fire right now. But I think the Blazers more than a lot of those teams, like, they need the two chances, the two cracks at getting season. So if they stay in the eight spot, you know, you play the Suns one game, of course they could beat them. So if Drew Holiday is going to decide to hit seven or eight threes and then even if you lose that game, you got another shot against either the Clippers or the warriors, hypothetically, if it stays the way it is in the play in. So, yeah, they might get in there, they might get a dance with, you know, they might get swept, let's be honest. Or maybe win one game maybe against Thunder or the Spurs. I'm just thinking like, could they take a game?

Ben Gulliver (30:58)

No.

Jay Skeets (30:59)

Yeah, unlikely.

Ben Gulliver (31:00)

Maybe. Maybe a game against the Spurs. I don't think against the Thunder.

Jay Skeets (31:03)

I sort of agree with that. Yeah. But good win from them. And then the only other game last night we didn't talk talk about is Cleveland beating the warriors, but maybe closer than Cash fans would have wanted. But they got it done in the end. They won by seven.

JD (31:15)

Yeah.

Ben Gulliver (31:15)

Max Drew another six threes. This guy's been on fire since coming back from injury. It was like he was waiting to get on the court and he's like, how many possible threes can I make in 12 games or whatever he's going to end up playing here? But yeah, he looked good. Double digits for their entire starting lineup and just good for them to have a few reps. At the very least they still want Dean Wade back, of course, since he's like probably their best perimeter defender, gives them the crazy size. But you know, they're rolling a little bit with Streuss stepping into the starting lineup for him. So that to me is going to be a rotating spot in the playoffs depending on matchups and that sort of thing. But Cleveland, you know, maybe they struggled to put the warriors away or maybe they're like, hey, wins and losses, who cares at this point? If we stay in four, we stay in four. It's not bad.

Jay Skeets (32:02)

And just a final note on the games last night, I should have slipped this in when we talked about them, but Wemby technically has played in 62 games this season because you got to include the NBA cup final. I think you include it for this one.

Ben Gulliver (32:13)

That gets counted.

Jay Skeets (32:14)

I think so. I. Yeah, I think so. Hey, I know, I know, I know. Anyway, after Thursday, after last night, he's going to have to play in three of the spurs final five regular season games to reach the 65 game threshold for postseason awards eligibility. And for him, I mean, obviously he's in second place in the MVP race. I don't think he's winning it this year. We think he's winning a bunch of these in the future. But I think SGA is going back to back. But defensive player of the year, that's a no brainer. Yeah. If he hit 65 games and all, NBA is a no brainer as well. So he's got to play in a couple more games here. I think he will.

Ben Gulliver (32:47)

He's got to play in three of the last five.

Jay Skeets (32:49)

I think so. Yeah, I think so.

Ben Gulliver (32:50)

Yeah. They'll make it happen.

Jay Skeets (32:51)

Yeah.

Ben Gulliver (32:52)

I can't believe they count the NBA.

Jay Skeets (32:53)

Look, look, don't quote me on that, but I'm pretty sure they do, which I mean sort of the game was played a fair.

Ben Gulliver (33:00)

Yeah, but the stat, the stats don't count for anything else.

Jay Skeets (33:04)

I know, I know. Just a gp. It only counts as a gp.

Ben Gulliver (33:07)

I think that's amazing.

Jay Skeets (33:08)

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.

Ben Gulliver (33:09)

Wemby had 150 points in the play in tournament.

Jay Skeets (33:13)

Well, yeah, we've said that before. That's the thing. If somebody scored 101 points in the NBA cup final, what are we doing?

Ben Gulliver (33:19)

He puts up 150 and 50 with 28 blocks. We literally like this is the best game anyone has ever played. But it only counts for him getting to the game's requirement. Yeah, yeah, don't factor it into his stats.

Jay Skeets (33:31)

Well, what would he do if he scored 101 points in the NBA cup final? We would have the piece of paper with him in the locker room. It says a 101, but then there's a little asterisk at the bottom that says but doesn't really count because it was in the NBA cup final. So Will, you're good. Yeah, but game was played. Exactly. I'll hit the threshold.

Ben Gulliver (33:47)

Funny, man.

Jay Skeets (33:47)

Very, very strange what they're doing with that.

Ben Gulliver (33:50)

I was thinking about Tas when I was doing all of my notes for the show today. Just thinking, man, he was right. It's a bummer that the first thing you do when a game happens is like, okay, so some guys missed some time. How does this add up to their award qualifications?

Jay Skeets (34:06)

We've. I've literally said it. I've said it four times in this show alone. Yeah, Luca. Well, aunt Now's out. Kate's out, and then Wemby here.

Ben Gulliver (34:14)

Wemby for sure.

Jay Skeets (34:15)

Yeah, it. No, it is not cool. It's silly. Yeah, it's. It's silly. But not the greatest games last night. The slate overall because we thought me. Oh, maybe we'll get a fun Lakers Thunder game. No, that was over in a hurry. And now we just wait to see how injured Luke is. And then, you know, Pistons Wolves was entertaining.

Ben Gulliver (34:32)

Yes, it was down the stretch.

Jay Skeets (34:33)

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Ben Gulliver (35:32)

Yep.

Jay Skeets (35:33)

Go blue.

Ben Gulliver (35:34)

Go blue. Go big orange. That's what. That's all I'm saying.

Jay Skeets (35:37)

Okay, go big orange as well, right? Yeah. You're not here this weekend. You're taking off as well with the family break or the spring break. I guess the. The basketball bros that we play with on Thursday night are getting together at. At the pool hall.

Ben Gulliver (35:51)

That's right.

Jay Skeets (35:51)

To watch the game.

Ben Gulliver (35:52)

To watch the Michigan game.

Jay Skeets (35:53)

Yeah, I might swing by. All right, let's get to worst of the week, ladies and gentlemen.

JD (35:59)

The worst of the week.

Ben Gulliver (36:04)

Positive PD's gone.

Jay Skeets (36:05)

Get out of here.

Ben Gulliver (36:06)

Hater Harold is here. Lot of candidates this week.

Jay Skeets (36:10)

Oh, my God.

Ben Gulliver (36:11)

Some serious candidates.

Jay Skeets (36:12)

Yeah.

Ben Gulliver (36:13)

Jaden Ivy crashing out. That's a candidate.

JD (36:15)

Yeah.

Ben Gulliver (36:15)

Goga Bataze. Cheap shot on Jock Landale. That's a candidate.

Jay Skeets (36:19)

Good one.

Ben Gulliver (36:20)

But these are funny candidates. Okay, our first nominee, it's Gary Payton. Second little brouhaha between the Nuggets and the warriors this week. We got a big scrum. These guys are jostling back and forth, and Gary Payton just yoinks. Zeke Najee's headband straight off his head. Had Zeet Najee looking like Ken Griffey Jr. On the Simpsons. You can see why he wears this headband.

Jay Skeets (36:46)

Peter. Harold is bringing it. Wow. I see it. But yeah, I see why he wears a headband. No doubt. That's very disrespectful.

Ben Gulliver (36:54)

Gary Payton, that is. That is. He got a technical for it. I actually thought Zeke handled it pretty well. Yeah, guy rips your headband off and he just looked at him. Didn't take it overboard. Didn't go forehead to forehead because, you know, he would have been able to take Gary down. Should have reached over and took Gary's off, though, I think.

Jay Skeets (37:10)

Yeah, yeah, Gary.

Ben Gulliver (37:12)

Yeah, exactly.

Jay Skeets (37:13)

So you're saying Zeke does look like he's on the tonic, though.

Ben Gulliver (37:17)

The man's on the tonic.

Jay Skeets (37:18)

Ken Griffey Jr.

Ben Gulliver (37:19)

He's knowledgeable.

Jay Skeets (37:20)

Classic Simpson. Okay, good one.

Ben Gulliver (37:23)

Yeah, that was a funny one. Another funny one here. It's Josh Hart and Alex Caruso having a laugh on the sideline. Nick's thunder. Josh Hart is complaining on the sideline about some kind of call. Hart's on the bench. He's right by Alex Caruso. I guess this is a disputed out of bounds call. And Josh Hart is holding a Gatorade squeeze bottle of what I have to assume is water. So Caruso reaches for the water as a joke, and Josh Hart just gives him a little spray in the face.

Jay Skeets (37:49)

Yeah, I think that's fair because Caruso did reach for it. Yeah.

Ben Gulliver (37:52)

Yep, exactly. This would be the equivalent of Najee Ripping off Gary Payton's headband.

Jay Skeets (37:57)

Right.

Ben Gulliver (37:57)

So you reach for my water. No, I'm spraying you in the face.

Jay Skeets (38:00)

They both could have ripped each other's headband off too, if they wanted to.

Ben Gulliver (38:03)

Maybe it should become more commonplace. You know, you take my headband, I'll take your headband. That should be allowed. Did you remember Josh Hart and Alex Caruso were teammates on the Lakers?

Jay Skeets (38:14)

No, I didn't.

Ben Gulliver (38:16)

I had to think back.

Jay Skeets (38:17)

Yeah. I was like, why? I was. I was thinking, like, where did they overlap? And I. I drew a blank on the Lakers.

Ben Gulliver (38:22)

Yeah, they were both laughing.

Jay Skeets (38:23)

That seems like two decades ago to me.

Ben Gulliver (38:25)

Oh, for sure. I mean, Josh Hart's been on a lot of teams. Crusoe's now on his third team, two after the Lakers, but they did spend their first two seasons together, 2017 and 29. 2017 and then 2018 to 19. So those couple of years. Which is why neither of them got mad. They were both laughing.

Jay Skeets (38:42)

Right. Also, a lot of people say Alex Caruso looks like sort of like Porky Pig from Space Jam. Right. And I was thinking of.

Ben Gulliver (38:50)

Yes, they do.

Jay Skeets (38:51)

MJ's. What's it called? Secret. Secret stuff. Is that what the water bottle says in Space Jam? Yeah. I don't know. Something there. Josh Hart is MJ in this.

Ben Gulliver (39:01)

Okay.

Jay Skeets (39:02)

Weird.

Ben Gulliver (39:02)

So, like, if it were to accidentally get into Alex Crusoe's mouth, he would.

Jay Skeets (39:06)

He'd power up.

Ben Gulliver (39:07)

Power up.

Jay Skeets (39:07)

Yeah, yeah.

Ben Gulliver (39:08)

In some way, shape or form.

Jay Skeets (39:09)

Yes.

Ben Gulliver (39:10)

I think Porky Pig did hit some big shots.

Jay Skeets (39:13)

I think he did. After the Secret, people forget Porky Pig was a problem.

Ben Gulliver (39:17)

People do forget that. Better handles than you would think.

Jay Skeets (39:20)

Yeah.

Ben Gulliver (39:20)

For the short legs to be able to go between the legs. How does he do it? Our final nominee here, it's the Orlando Magic. They gave up a 31 to 0 run against the Toronto Raptors earlier this week. It's the largest run in play by play history.

Jay Skeets (39:37)

That's right.

Ben Gulliver (39:37)

And to me, this play was the absolute worst. The Raptors won a run, a five on one fast break. Grady Dick throws one of the worst lobs you will ever see. Probably because he couldn't decide who to actually throw it to. It's Shed and Scotty Barnes are running the left wing alongside him. So he just throws over the top of Javon Carter. Scotty catches it on the ground, looks around, plants his feet, and then makes the layup. And that's about when the Magic start getting into frame.

Jay Skeets (40:08)

After all that, there was three guys still past the three point line.

Ben Gulliver (40:12)

That was Pretty bad. No, get back from the Magic. They had 28 turnovers in total in this one. And that one, to me, was kind of indicative of, whoa, things are bad in Orlando. Nobody wanted to get back and do anything to the point where Grady Dick could just throw it up in the air. A guy catches it. Oh, okay. Okay.

Jay Skeets (40:33)

Donkey dunk.

Ben Gulliver (40:34)

Bad stuff.

Jay Skeets (40:35)

Sometimes that goes poorly in pickup runs when it's like three on one, four on one. Like, there's too much.

JD (40:41)

Too much.

Jay Skeets (40:42)

Like, you shoot it. Yes. You shoot somebody, just shoot it. But you get a little too cute with it, and sometimes it, like, backfires. You know what I mean?

Ben Gulliver (40:48)

Yes. If that was a pickup run, Scotty Barnes would have caught the lob from Grady Dick and then tried to pass it to Jamal.

Jay Skeets (40:55)

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Ben Gulliver (40:57)

Pass it again. So, yeah, it was a. That was a men's league, like, play.

Jay Skeets (41:01)

Yes, it was.

Ben Gulliver (41:02)

For sure.

Jay Skeets (41:03)

Yes, it was so. And yeah, like you said, 31 to 0 run, longest ever in the play by play era. I think we should rename that to the Schumann era. The Schumann era, yeah.

Ben Gulliver (41:14)

Okay. Because to me, marking it down, he

Jay Skeets (41:16)

created the play by play data on NBA.com. i don't think that's actually true, but to me, he has.

Ben Gulliver (41:21)

When did it start? 96, isn't it? Oh, is it? I thought it was 96.

Jay Skeets (41:26)

97. One of those years.

Ben Gulliver (41:27)

Yeah. So somebody's got to go back and watch every single game prior to this to see if there was longer than a 310 run. It's possible, but doubtful. That's crazy. That's huge. 31 points is a whole quarter.

Jay Skeets (41:40)

I mean, we're talking just, like, barrel through a guy and get a foul call.

Ben Gulliver (41:44)

Yes.

Jay Skeets (41:44)

The rest will feel bad for you at that point. Like, yeah, yeah, I'll put him to the line, hit a free throw, stop the crazy run. But yeah, this is. The fact that it happened against the Raptors right now of all teams who are not lighting up the league is. Makes it even scary. It's like, yeah, it's one thing if it's like the spurs, the Thunder, you know, sure, maybe Jamal Murray and Jokic are just cooking you forever, but against the Raps.

Ben Gulliver (42:05)

Yeah. Like, the Raptors and the Magic are in a similar tier in the Eastern Conference. And like, you're saying the Raptors haven't been playing great, but they looked like. They looked like the monsters in this season.

Jay Skeets (42:17)

They did. They did. Nice. Way to bring them back. Yeah.

Ben Gulliver (42:18)

Tying it all together.

Jay Skeets (42:19)

Good. Worst of the week nominees.

Ben Gulliver (42:21)

I got one last one.

Jay Skeets (42:22)

Okay, good I have a few too. Go ahead.

Ben Gulliver (42:24)

Do you got the Washington Wizards on there?

Jay Skeets (42:26)

You're damn right I do.

Ben Gulliver (42:27)

They pulled a Jake in a mirror.

Jay Skeets (42:28)

They sure did.

Ben Gulliver (42:29)

This is amazing. They faked out a fan making a $10,000 half court shot while blindfolded. They blindfolded. This guy said, take a half court shot. He shoots it over the backboard. They play the horn like you made it. 100 mascots come out.

Jay Skeets (42:44)

Yeah, yeah.

Ben Gulliver (42:45)

They're partying with this guy.

Jay Skeets (42:46)

Here's $10,000.

Ben Gulliver (42:47)

Haha. Guess what? Look at the Jumbotron. You didn't make it. April Fools people complained about this, so the Wizards had to apologize. And it turned out the whole thing was scripted the whole time. Yeah, even the fan was in on it. Of course, everybody knew about the joke.

Jay Skeets (43:03)

Yes.

Ben Gulliver (43:04)

What are we apologizing?

Jay Skeets (43:05)

This is the real worst of the week. Oh, sure. Why are you apologizing?

Ben Gulliver (43:09)

Yeah, we did a joke.

Jay Skeets (43:10)

Cuz like 12 people in your Twitter account said, you can't do that. It's so mean. Don't do that.

JD (43:16)

These people paid.

Ben Gulliver (43:17)

This guy paid money to see your terrible team.

Jay Skeets (43:19)

Just reply to them. Shut the fuck up. It's a skit. It was fake. Just reply to them. You don't gotta put out a statement.

Ben Gulliver (43:24)

It's insane.

Jay Skeets (43:25)

Insanity. And also, you should have. You should have given a little hat tip like you said, to college humor. Sure, I guess. It was Streeter and Jake.

Ben Gulliver (43:34)

Excuse me?

Jay Skeets (43:34)

Streeter and Amir. Amir was the one shooting. It's pre. Jake. Well, Jake I think is in the mix, but this is definitely when Streeter and Amir were doing their pranks back and forth. Because Amir did one to Streeter.

Ben Gulliver (43:45)

Sure.

Jay Skeets (43:46)

Prank at Yankee Stadium. Exactly. It was something about a proposal or something like that. The girlfriend. Amir will text me in a second here to actually explain it, but yeah, it's nuts. What are they apologizing for?

Ben Gulliver (43:58)

What are they apologizing for?

Jay Skeets (44:00)

Would you ever apologize for a joke, jd?

Ben Gulliver (44:02)

You don't even skip.

Jay Skeets (44:03)

You don't even got to apologize if that was a real fan. You know, It's April Fools 100%. But the fact that it's fake and it's a skit. You're. You're literally apologizing. Well, you're apologizing to everybody that's upset. That's an employee of the Wizards. He's like, yeah, this is silly, man. Sorry, JD, I didn't mean to.

JD (44:23)

No, no, no, I agree. 100. That's all I'm saying. Never apologize for that kind of thing.

Ben Gulliver (44:27)

Never, never, never.

JD (44:29)

Apologize period. Come on.

Ben Gulliver (44:33)

Hey, man, if you. If you never apologize, you can become the President of the United States of America.

JD (44:37)

That's true. Exactly.

Jay Skeets (44:39)

You know who has to apologize to a city, in my opinion? LeBron James. Okay, I'd like to throw a worse of the week at LeBron James. Do you see this YouTube video?

Ben Gulliver (44:48)

I did see this, where he's golfing

Jay Skeets (44:50)

with Bob does sports, who I had never heard of in my life, but apparently a big channel. Anyway, he's golfing with these guys, and he said he was asked about, hey, what would have happened if you were drafted by Memphis back in 03 with the number one pick? And he was like, I would have pulled an Eli Manning and not showed up. Okay, there's that. But then, you know, he indicated that himself and other players do not like Memphis and doubled down on this idea which we had just heard recently, like, get the team out of Memphis, move them to Nashville. Yeah. And it all seems to be because they don't like the hotel. They stay.

Ben Gulliver (45:25)

They hate this hotel.

Jay Skeets (45:25)

This one Hyatt. Come on.

Ben Gulliver (45:29)

It's a bad Hyatt.

Jay Skeets (45:30)

Yeah, I guess so. I mean, yeah, there's, like, now. Now these compilation clips, like, Derek White talking about it, Draymond Green talking about.

Ben Gulliver (45:36)

A lot of.

Jay Skeets (45:36)

A lot of them do not like it. I guess it's whatever. It's not up to their standard or it's whatever. Dirty. I think Ants talked about it, too. Yep.

Ben Gulliver (45:44)

I saw Durant was just talking about it. Zach Randolph.

Jay Skeets (45:46)

But hold on, hold on. Come on. Grizzlies fan base is good.

Ben Gulliver (45:50)

It is totally. Grindhouse was fun.

Jay Skeets (45:52)

Yeah. And they've been a very good team until recently. I don't like this. I don't. I'm not a fan of this.

JD (45:58)

Man, Memphis is cool.

Jay Skeets (46:00)

Yes. Do you think it's cooler than Nashville?

JD (46:04)

I. I do, actually.

Jay Skeets (46:06)

Yeah. You know, Nashville. Okay. The Strip is. The Strip, Broadway. But there are very cool parts of Nashville, too.

JD (46:13)

Hey, there's no shade against Nashville. But Memphis is smaller, and I like that. Their Strip is actually kind of cool. Like, it's smaller, and it's just Beale Street. Beale Street.

Jay Skeets (46:23)

Yeah, it's very small.

JD (46:25)

Why don't they stay at the Peabody in Memphis?

Jay Skeets (46:28)

I don't know.

JD (46:29)

There's. They. They have a duck parade every day. LeBron would love it.

Ben Gulliver (46:33)

You think he likes ducks?

JD (46:36)

Yeah.

Ben Gulliver (46:37)

I mean, who doesn't really dislikes ducks besides that dog?

Jay Skeets (46:41)

Who doesn't like duck?

Ben Gulliver (46:42)

Who.

Jay Skeets (46:42)

Who does like ducks?

Ben Gulliver (46:43)

You don't like a duck?

JD (46:44)

What's wrong with ducks?

Ben Gulliver (46:45)

Oh, Newborns of the week.

Jay Skeets (46:46)

Like, I mean, I grew up in Stratford, Ontario, guys. It was all about the swans, baby.

Ben Gulliver (46:51)

Oh, you're an elitist. Yeah, you're like these guys complaining about a five star hotel.

Jay Skeets (46:55)

Yeah, yeah. I only stay at hotels with swan parades. Okay, you can't. Duck parades.

JD (46:59)

Hold on. You can't have a swan. Swans. What do you mean?

Jay Skeets (47:03)

You can't have a swan parade? Every year in Stratford, Ontario, we have a swan parade. Thank you. Very indoors.

JD (47:08)

Is it indoor skis? That's what I'm saying. Yeah.

Jay Skeets (47:12)

We bring them out of the barn and put them in the river and everybody comes out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's have a good year out there on the water, boys.

JD (47:18)

This, this duck parade goes through the lobby of the hotel.

Jay Skeets (47:21)

Yes, I know. I've seen this. I've seen this. So duck everywhere.

JD (47:25)

I didn't see a single duck.

Jay Skeets (47:27)

Yeah, you know what? You don't see a lot of duck.

JD (47:29)

Yeah, exactly.

Ben Gulliver (47:30)

They're not geese.

Jay Skeets (47:31)

No.

Ben Gulliver (47:32)

Those worse, though? Yeah, geese.

Jay Skeets (47:36)

Okay, so that's a lot of worst of the week nominees there.

Ben Gulliver (47:39)

Bad week, I guess.

Jay Skeets (47:40)

Yeah, like you said, real ones too.

Ben Gulliver (47:42)

Yeah, of course.

Jay Skeets (47:43)

Because this is a silly skit or silly segment. We don't need to address those anymore. But yeah, let's hear of those five. Who deserves it?

Ben Gulliver (47:50)

Should we give worst of the week to April Fool's Day? This was the most underwhelming April Fool's Day that I can remember. Maybe I'm just out of the prank loop, but I feel like even brands ain't pranking as much as they used to.

Jay Skeets (48:01)

Not really. Well, because you're not allowed to do it anymore.

Ben Gulliver (48:05)

You got it. Everybody gets upset.

Jay Skeets (48:08)

How do you feel, though, about brands dropping the April Fool's Day prank or whatever they do online a couple days early? How do we feel about that now? They're doing it because they're like, well, we can actually trick people if we drop it March 30th. You drop it April 1st, odds are everyone's going April Fools. But some people. You can't do that.

JD (48:30)

Are you referring to the ramen?

Jay Skeets (48:32)

Yeah, the Butterfinger ramen. I guess the, the crunch dispenser at the movie theater. You're gonna be able to put popcorn in your, or, sorry, chocolate in your popcorn. But now they're saying people love the idea so much they might make the thing.

Ben Gulliver (48:46)

I don't know.

Jay Skeets (48:46)

Can't even keep track what's real anymore. I, I, a part of me is like, I don't think you should be able to do it two days before. Maybe one day.

JD (48:54)

No, it's got to be on the day. Okay.

Jay Skeets (48:56)

Okay. Well, I'm glad we settled that.

Ben Gulliver (48:59)

Yeah, that's great.

Jay Skeets (49:00)

Good, good. All right, let's hear who you think deserves worst of the week from me. Hater Harold over here. I like that.

Ben Gulliver (49:08)

That'd be a cool name for like a newspaper. Just all disses.

Jay Skeets (49:12)

It's good.

Ben Gulliver (49:12)

H E R A L D. Of course.

Jay Skeets (49:14)

Oh, nice.

JD (49:15)

I love it.

Jay Skeets (49:18)

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Ben Gulliver (50:11)

Kind of high, actually.

Jay Skeets (50:11)

Yeah. Yeah. So Kawhi playing still and still racking up to 20 plus points. And that's your whoa boy. I mean, SGA was in consideration. He had good game in three quarters. Obviously didn't play the fourth. Randall was okay loss. You know, it just wasn't really anything popping last night when it came to. Woah, boy.

Ben Gulliver (50:30)

Yeah, I mean, 24, 6 and 5.

Jay Skeets (50:32)

It's a pretty average game. I know.

Ben Gulliver (50:34)

I mean that's great numbers in 1998. Yeah, I guess this is pretty straightforward.

Jay Skeets (50:38)

But look, could have looked at Drew Holiday.

Ben Gulliver (50:40)

You know, it's up the night.

Jay Skeets (50:41)

Yeah, it's up the night. Can't do it. I mean, Drew Holliday, 27 points, nine assists, five boards, didn't shoot all that well from the floor. Hit a bunch of threes. I could have went Drew. I could have went Drew. But it goes to Kawhi.

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Great.

Jay Skeets (50:53)

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Jay Skeets (54:13)

All that's left to do, guys, is rapid fire. I think we need to make this the longest rapid fire of all time because we're just flying here. Although you gotta get on vacation, so let's just get out of here. I don't care.

JD (54:25)

I don't care.

Ben Gulliver (54:25)

I still. I said our show will be done by 11:30.

Jay Skeets (54:28)

Go. We're gonna be done by 11.

Ben Gulliver (54:29)

Yeah, no doubt.

JD (54:30)

Oh, okay.

Jay Skeets (54:31)

I mean, we did start on time today.

JD (54:34)

Yeah, we did. I wonder why.

Jay Skeets (54:35)

Yeah, I wonder. No idea why.

JD (54:38)

It's funny how the stars come into a line every once in a while.

Jay Skeets (54:42)

Go ahead, J.D.

JD (54:43)

okay, here we go. The first one. A new Jeopardy. YouTube edition dropped this week. It featured Monet x Change, Brennan Lee Mulligan, big, big DND guy, and the one and only Rebecca Black Friday. Okay, that's gonna be in my head all day. They're getting quizzed by the one and only Ken Jennings. Hey, we're all YouTubers.

Jay Skeets (55:06)

Yep.

JD (55:07)

What two Internet personalities would you want to go up against in Jeopardy?

Jay Skeets (55:13)

Okay. I have two sets of answers. If I want to get my ass kicked, I'm going up against Pablo Torre and Mina Kimes. Okay.

JD (55:19)

Yeah.

Jay Skeets (55:20)

And I'm just getting cooked. And I'm just standing there looking around going, I'd love to try and get in here on an answer to get wrong, but if I want to maybe have more of a chance. It's funny, you already brought them up. I had in my notes, Jake and Amir. I want to take on Jake and Amir and I think we'd have a decent battle.

JD (55:37)

I think so too.

Jay Skeets (55:38)

Yeah. I think I could hang with them.

Ben Gulliver (55:40)

I think so.

Jay Skeets (55:40)

I think they're smart guys. I know them personally. They are seem to know a lot about everything.

JD (55:46)

I think your wheelhouses would be very similar.

Jay Skeets (55:49)

Yeah. I mean, me and Amir especially.

JD (55:51)

Yeah. Yeah.

Jay Skeets (55:52)

Jake, you know, he's not much of a sports guy, but I'll take on them.

Ben Gulliver (55:55)

You think they'd be doing bits, Would.

Jay Skeets (55:58)

They would be doing bits. Jeopardy bits, maybe. What.

Ben Gulliver (56:01)

What was the Jeopardy bit like? Buzzing in every. Every question, saying the same answer for everyone.

JD (56:07)

Oh, interesting.

Jay Skeets (56:09)

Wow.

JD (56:09)

Nescafe.

Jay Skeets (56:13)

Jennings. I don't know how he would react to that.

Ben Gulliver (56:16)

Trebek would hate it.

Jay Skeets (56:17)

Trebek would hate it don't make a

Ben Gulliver (56:19)

mockery of the game.

JD (56:20)

Right.

Jay Skeets (56:20)

I think, you know, rest in peace, Alex Trebek. I'd have a better chance if Trebek was the host against Jake and Amir. He might. I might be able to pull on his Canadian heartstrings a little bit. He tried to help me out, but not Ken.

Ben Gulliver (56:32)

Je. Sk. They tell me you go to the Stratford Swamp.

Jay Skeets (56:37)

Oh, yeah, yeah. That would be my story.

Ben Gulliver (56:39)

Your story Every year, Alex.

Jay Skeets (56:41)

Yeah, yeah.

JD (56:42)

They. They do get into shenanigans on celebrity Jeopardy.

Jay Skeets (56:45)

Do they?

JD (56:45)

Like in between answers and stuff. And. Yeah, Monet did a like a high kick on one answer.

Jay Skeets (56:51)

Okay.

Ben Gulliver (56:52)

So nice.

JD (56:53)

It's rare to see a foot on Jeopardy. From a contestant.

Jay Skeets (56:57)

What would be your story on Jeopardy. Yeah, I might. I might pull out. Well, Ken, or I guess he sort of sets it up, but it says here Skiza, you. You mastered the 360 jump fart. And I would like try and show it off on the podium.

JD (57:14)

Yeah.

Ben Gulliver (57:15)

Oh, man.

Jay Skeets (57:16)

Cool.

Ben Gulliver (57:16)

You have to like hold it for the entirety of regular Jeopardy.

Jay Skeets (57:21)

Yeah, you're right. The whole first part. Yeah.

JD (57:29)

Okay. Trey, what two Internet personalities would you. You want to go up against in jeopardy?

Ben Gulliver (57:34)

For me, I'm going up against Clavicular and the Rizzler. This guy, Clavicular, man, he's got zero personality.

Jay Skeets (57:42)

Is he still going?

Ben Gulliver (57:43)

I don't know.

Jay Skeets (57:44)

Felt like he fell off.

Ben Gulliver (57:45)

Yeah, I mean, he made the rounds. He was everywhere. But I'm still getting fed looks. Maxing articles for the most part. I still haven't decided which of the bone smashing hammers I'm going to order. Tough to decide. I'll say. I'm a little more concerned for the Rizzler. We're not seeing as much Rizzler this these days.

Jay Skeets (58:05)

No, no.

Ben Gulliver (58:06)

He's doing something important like going to school.

Jay Skeets (58:09)

Yeah. He is nine years old, right? Ten maybe. At this point, I don't know.

Ben Gulliver (58:13)

He may have other priorities besides Internet content. But I would like to see him back on top like he once was.

JD (58:20)

I mean, I think. I think his time was well spent and now he made the most of it.

Jay Skeets (58:26)

Oh, absolutely.

Ben Gulliver (58:27)

He definitely did his.

Jay Skeets (58:28)

I always want to call them his family, but they're not related. Right. That's the craziest part.

Ben Gulliver (58:32)

Like Costco guys.

Jay Skeets (58:33)

Yeah, yeah. Costco guys. Yeah.

Ben Gulliver (58:34)

Same universe, but they had a crossover event.

Jay Skeets (58:37)

They're like. They're still, I think, wrestling.

Ben Gulliver (58:40)

Wow.

Jay Skeets (58:41)

Really? I think so. Still a part of that.

Ben Gulliver (58:43)

Leveled up. I guess that's what it was all about for the Costco guys. Yeah. Never believed it, man. You could see it in their eyes. They weren't about the Internet game. They just wanted AJ to get into aew.

Jay Skeets (58:54)

Yeah, you're right.

Ben Gulliver (58:54)

Do some body slash and it worked out.

Jay Skeets (58:56)

Yeah, interesting. Okay, good answer.

JD (58:58)

Okay, my answers for this. Well, he's not really an Internet personality anymore. I just want to meet him. Matt Johnson from Nirvana. The band.

Jay Skeets (59:08)

Okay.

JD (59:08)

Funny guy, you know, very, very talented director. I think he would hand my ass to me.

Jay Skeets (59:15)

Oh, yeah.

JD (59:15)

In trivia. I think you're Good at trivia, J.D. i'm not bad.

Jay Skeets (59:19)

You're not bad.

JD (59:21)

I can't believe none of you picked Mo Vernie, though.

Jay Skeets (59:26)

Mo Vernie? Mo Vernie on Jeopardy.

JD (59:29)

Wow.

Jay Skeets (59:30)

You literally blew my mind. Can you imagine?

JD (59:35)

Yeah. Okay. I can't, to be honest. I can.

Jay Skeets (59:38)

Holy crap. Honestly. Mo Vernier and Mo Kenny. Let's get them both out there. Wow.

Ben Gulliver (59:44)

Both of them. The Mo brothers.

JD (59:45)

Chang brothers.

Ben Gulliver (59:46)

Wow. What do you think Mo Verse would most want to see as a category?

JD (59:50)

Cars.

Ben Gulliver (59:51)

Yeah, absolutely. He seems to know.

Jay Skeets (59:53)

He actually does seem to know cars.

JD (59:55)

Cars and geography.

Jay Skeets (59:57)

Yeah. Like islands, a lot of places. Yeah.

JD (59:59)

Goes travels.

Jay Skeets (59:59)

Rafters maybe is like. He's a season ticket holder.

JD (60:02)

Yeah.

Ben Gulliver (60:03)

Potent potables. Goes out a lot.

JD (60:05)

Yeah.

Jay Skeets (60:07)

Russell Peters, maybe There's like, what's Russell Peters favorite band of all time? Kiss. Everybody knows that.

Ben Gulliver (60:16)

Okay.

Jay Skeets (60:17)

That's an awesome answer. I want more. Yeah, me too. I want Mo Verde.

JD (60:20)

Yeah.

Jay Skeets (60:20)

I'll take Mo Verde and Amir Blumenfeld for 200.

JD (60:24)

I want every Jeopardy to be that cast.

Jay Skeets (60:27)

You, me, Amir and Move. Just a week of that. Oh, good stuff. Great question.

JD (60:34)

Okay, next question.

Ben Gulliver (60:35)

About Jeopardy. YouTube Edition.

JD (60:37)

Yes.

Ben Gulliver (60:37)

This is just. YouTubers are coming on. Not that it's only broadcast on YouTube.

Jay Skeets (60:41)

That's how I.

JD (60:43)

It's only on YouTube, as far as I know, because they only played one round and then they went straight to Final Jeopardy.

Ben Gulliver (60:48)

Oh, okay.

JD (60:49)

A B. It might only be a one off because I didn't. I didn't hear them pitched like, ah, join us next time for Chocolate Rain guys coming on or whatever.

Jay Skeets (61:00)

So I don't.

JD (61:02)

That's awesome.

Jay Skeets (61:02)

Oh, yeah. I didn't even realize in setting up the question, you were like, this was a thing.

JD (61:07)

Yeah.

Jay Skeets (61:07)

Part. Yeah. Now this must have just been online.

JD (61:10)

Yeah, Yeah, I think so. And, you know, I think they should do it, but I think they should bring in Scott Rogowski, you know, to

Ben Gulliver (61:19)

host it, to be the YouTube.

Jay Skeets (61:20)

Yes. That's our guy. That's our guy.

JD (61:22)

And my only other complaint about it Is there's way too much too many YouTube questions and social media questions. Like bring on the social media, you know, and YouTube stars. But just ask them questions. Questions. Regular questions. Sure, yeah. Anyway, next one. According to gq, Cooper Flag's favorite show is One Piece. It's a very famous anime. It's also my son's favorite show.

Jay Skeets (61:49)

Nice.

JD (61:50)

Which started in 1999, seven years before he was born. It's still going, by the way, guys. It's 1155 episodes. That was in December. And it's coming out back.

Jay Skeets (62:03)

How long is each episode? 20 normal.

JD (62:06)

Yeah, I think 30 minutes is.

Jay Skeets (62:08)

Wow.

Ben Gulliver (62:08)

People recommend this show to us all the time.

JD (62:11)

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You like it? I mean, I walk into the room every once in a while and it's on and it's batshit crazy show.

Jay Skeets (62:18)

Is it? Yeah, yeah.

JD (62:19)

But yeah, it's. It's good.

Jay Skeets (62:22)

Yeah.

Ben Gulliver (62:22)

It seems so intimidating to hop into a show with 1200 episodes. Let me catch up real quick.

Jay Skeets (62:27)

Yeah, it's like people with no doubt. Very true.

JD (62:33)

Okay. But anyways, like I said, it was. It came out seven years before he was born. What's something that you love that came out before you were born? Skeets.

Jay Skeets (62:41)

Yeah, I struggled with this a little bit. I wanted to say Nintendo, but that was, you know, I was born when it did come out. So then I was gonna go Atari 2600. But that was like right around the same time. Now. It came out before I was born. I think it came out in the late 70s. But my favorite game was Pac Man. That came out in the 80s. So I had to cross that off the list. So I went a completely different route from video games. And I went with a band, a group that was described as two grumpy looking guys obsessed with making the smoothest music of all time. Steezeely Dan. Pure 70s. A lot of albums in the 70s,

Ben Gulliver (63:23)

Freeland in the years. That's right.

Jay Skeets (63:25)

So I'll go Steely Dan. That's something I do like and love. Before that came up. Before I was born.

JD (63:31)

Yeah.

Ben Gulliver (63:32)

Steely Dan is good.

JD (63:33)

Yeah, yeah, Trey.

Ben Gulliver (63:35)

I'm the same. There's so many things I love that came out before I was born. Like, all of my favorite bands are from before I was born. You know, a lot of my favorite movies. But I'm. I'm fudging the answer here. This came out the year I was born. J.D.

Jay Skeets (63:48)

that's fine.

Ben Gulliver (63:49)

1984. Amadeus the movie.

Jay Skeets (63:52)

Wow.

JD (63:53)

Milos Forman.

Ben Gulliver (63:54)

Yeah. Yeah, exactly. The man came out way before I was born.

Jay Skeets (63:59)

Yes.

Ben Gulliver (64:00)

My guy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He came out when he come out.

JD (64:04)

1700s.

Ben Gulliver (64:05)

1700s. But this is such a cool movie because it's about a guy who's like, maybe the most genius living artist at the time. Young Wolfgang. But also it's about a guy who is maybe the greatest hater. Living.

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Yeah.

Ben Gulliver (64:21)

In Salieri. It's like, equally about, like, look how amazing Amadeus is. And look how amazing this guy is at saying he sucks, even though he's really good.

JD (64:30)

Yeah.

Ben Gulliver (64:30)

An inspiration to me.

Jay Skeets (64:31)

Hater Harold.

Ben Gulliver (64:33)

And then, like, you're like. You put on the soundtrack, you know, like.

Jay Skeets (64:36)

Huh.

Ben Gulliver (64:37)

Mozart was cooking.

Jay Skeets (64:38)

Yeah.

JD (64:38)

Bangers. Banger after banger.

Ben Gulliver (64:40)

Like, I don't think releases were as widely known in the 1700s. Like, people probably weren't getting as hyped when a new notes are tracked.

Jay Skeets (64:48)

May have taken hundreds of years. Hundreds of years to get to.

Ben Gulliver (64:51)

Yeah.

Jay Skeets (64:52)

But can you imagine, like, oh, wow. New movement. New movement. Who. This movement just dropped.

Ben Gulliver (64:57)

This is great.

Jay Skeets (64:58)

Wow. It's from 1984. Eh?

JD (65:00)

It's such a good movie.

Jay Skeets (65:01)

It is so good.

JD (65:02)

Tom Hulse, I believe.

Jay Skeets (65:03)

Yeah.

Ben Gulliver (65:03)

He's just laughing.

JD (65:05)

Yes. Great. It's great stuff.

Jay Skeets (65:08)

What about you, J.D.

JD (65:09)

yeah, this is even harder for me because I'm so much older than you guys, so I had to go into the 60s, you know, Lawrence of Arabia. I'm not gonna overthink this. Great movie. 1962.

Ben Gulliver (65:21)

Great one.

JD (65:22)

I mean, goddamn epic.

Jay Skeets (65:24)

When was the last time you watched it?

JD (65:26)

I think I. A year ago. Because my kids are older now and they're getting into movies and we're looking. Looking at movies from the past.

Jay Skeets (65:34)

Oh, that's nice.

Ben Gulliver (65:36)

That's one I would love to see, like, re. Released in a theater.

JD (65:38)

Oh, yeah.

Ben Gulliver (65:39)

Because it's got, like a. You know, beautiful vistas.

Jay Skeets (65:41)

Yeah.

JD (65:42)

Oh, God, yeah.

Jay Skeets (65:43)

Where can you watch that right now? Even Amadeus, by the way? On Netflix. So that's.

Ben Gulliver (65:48)

Yeah. Here and there.

Jay Skeets (65:49)

Lawrence of Arabia. Yeah. Looks like you can buy it on YouTube.

Ben Gulliver (65:54)

Buy it on YouTube.

Jay Skeets (65:55)

I don't know. That's what it says, 3.99.

JD (65:56)

Get a 4K if you can, because it's incredible.

Ben Gulliver (66:00)

Cool.

JD (66:01)

Okay, next one. Bees, guys. This studio has been infested with bees. Every day I've come in, except for today, thankfully, there's been a bee in here which either I or Skeets has had to kill. I don't. I don't love killing them. They're pollinators. They're actually wasps. Rachel said, don't say in the show you're killing bees.

Jay Skeets (66:23)

That is true. It is true. These are wasps.

Ben Gulliver (66:26)

Yeah.

JD (66:26)

But whatever. It's. If it was a bee, I'd still kill it.

Ben Gulliver (66:31)

When I was killing them, I thought they were bees.

Jay Skeets (66:33)

Yeah. I was disappointed when I saw that it was a wasp.

JD (66:37)

Yeah. You know, it's very much a them or me situation. So they gotta go, sorry, but what's something we're all supposed to love and protect but you actually can't stand, Skeets?

Jay Skeets (66:49)

Very tough question.

JD (66:50)

Yeah.

Jay Skeets (66:51)

Because it's tough not to think of something else. Just like a bug, you know, like, there's a lot of bugs I could have picked. Yeah. I'm killing it. And I'm not supposed to, but I'm killing it. But I tried to go a different angle with this. Something you're supposed to love and protect. I'm stretching it there, but something that I think a lot of people love that I can't stand. The protection parts, weird. But fireworks,

Ben Gulliver (67:15)

okay.

Jay Skeets (67:16)

Fireworks, they're overrated.

Ben Gulliver (67:18)

Is this dog related?

Jay Skeets (67:20)

No.

Ben Gulliver (67:21)

You would feel this way even prior to Luna?

Jay Skeets (67:23)

I do feel this way. And I did feel this way prior to Luna. The thing is with fireworks, they're fun to me. They're cool for, like, eight seconds. And then I'm like, this is gonna go another five minutes. I'm not impressed. I just don't care. Like, I recently watched. What was it? I think it was SummerSlam. It was in. It was in the Middle east, that maybe in Saudi Arabia. I forget. I forget. Maybe it was in rehab. I'm not sure. But they put on at the end of the event and they love their fireworks over there. They put on the longest fireworks show I've ever seen. Probably millions pumped into this thing. So boring. It was so boring.

JD (67:59)

You're watching it on tv, televised.

Jay Skeets (68:01)

Well, I get it. I get it. A little more fun in person, but I just. It doesn't. It doesn't hit for me. Kids, of course, but I know adults that. Oh, fireworks. I don't get it. I mean, I'm up.

Ben Gulliver (68:13)

I do like a firework. I love the finale. How did they off that many?

Jay Skeets (68:19)

The finale. I'm just waiting the whole time for the finale. What is it? What is it? What, are they gonna drop a whole bunch? Yeah. So I just had to be a curmudgeon here and go, fireworks.

Ben Gulliver (68:28)

That's not a bad answer.

JD (68:29)

I don't hate the answer.

Jay Skeets (68:30)

Okay, good. Isn't.

Ben Gulliver (68:31)

I feel like there's a great clip of, like, some city that accidentally lit off all their fireworks at once.

Jay Skeets (68:35)

Yeah.

Ben Gulliver (68:36)

And that's hilarious.

Jay Skeets (68:37)

Yeah. I've seen that.

Ben Gulliver (68:39)

It's like a finale for five minutes straight goes nuts. Something I we're supposed to love and protect that I can't stand. I think we should be able to take shells from beaches.

Jay Skeets (68:52)

Oh, good one.

Ben Gulliver (68:52)

There are some places like Hawaii that they're like, don't you take a shell.

Jay Skeets (68:56)

Don't do that.

Ben Gulliver (68:57)

This is a place where a crab could live or another sort of sea creature. It's bad for erosion. I understand that.

Jay Skeets (69:04)

Yeah.

Ben Gulliver (69:05)

But I still would like to be able to take.

Jay Skeets (69:07)

But it'll look really cool in my bathroom.

JD (69:08)

Yeah.

Jay Skeets (69:08)

I mean, I would love to put it on a mantle also. I think. You got enough to spare.

Ben Gulliver (69:13)

There's enough.

Jay Skeets (69:13)

Now, I know that's a slippery slope because if everybody starts thinking that way, we might have no choice.

Ben Gulliver (69:18)

Exactly. Right.

Jay Skeets (69:19)

Yeah. Well, how do you feel about coral, though?

Ben Gulliver (69:23)

Don't touch my coral.

Jay Skeets (69:24)

Don't touch the coral. Yeah, that's the right. I was testing you on that. I'm with you on the show. If you, You. If it's on the beach, it's washed up.

Ben Gulliver (69:34)

I. I know we're not.

Jay Skeets (69:35)

No, I don't do it. But I'm not upset. The people that do.

Ben Gulliver (69:38)

But I think. I think I got free shells at the beach. I'm going to.

Jay Skeets (69:41)

Oh, yeah.

Ben Gulliver (69:41)

I think shells are allowed.

Jay Skeets (69:42)

Yeah. I'll be.

Ben Gulliver (69:43)

I'll be shelling hard.

Jay Skeets (69:45)

Nice. Bring back a shell for the. All right. For the desk. Do you think it matters on the size of the shell? Like, are we talking big old conquer. Big old conquer. A big conquer donker or like small ones? I mean, to me that's a no brainer.

Ben Gulliver (70:00)

Yeah. I don't know.

Jay Skeets (70:01)

Great question.

Ben Gulliver (70:02)

I guess the rarity of the big shell makes you think twice about taking it.

Jay Skeets (70:07)

I agree.

Ben Gulliver (70:07)

Because there could definitely be something in there, you know?

Jay Skeets (70:10)

Yes.

Ben Gulliver (70:10)

But we're looking at shells on a beach. It's all about the integrity of the shell. How whole is it? How iridescent is the inside?

Jay Skeets (70:18)

Yes.

Ben Gulliver (70:19)

You know you want a beautiful shell.

Jay Skeets (70:20)

Yeah.

JD (70:20)

Yeah.

Ben Gulliver (70:21)

More so than size. It's about. It's about the looks to me.

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Ben Gulliver (70:24)

And the personality, of course.

Jay Skeets (70:25)

We'll see what you bring back. If you bring back any.

Ben Gulliver (70:27)

I'll do my best.

Jay Skeets (70:28)

Yeah. Okay. Jd.

Ben Gulliver (70:30)

Yeah.

JD (70:31)

This is gonna be controversial. Maybe a little bit.

Jay Skeets (70:34)

You might have to apologize.

JD (70:36)

Yeah. Never. I'm never gonna apologize for this. Take. It's dogs. Let me finish that. I don't know. I'm not. If I don't know you're a dog, I don't care.

Jay Skeets (70:48)

Okay?

JD (70:49)

I've seen, like, in our neighborhood, like, I've been stuck behind. Like, a woman has stopped her car, it's still running, the door's open, and she's trying to. To lure a stray dog, like, into her car. It's like, lady, the dog got out.

Ben Gulliver (71:07)

You're.

JD (71:07)

You're making it worse. You know what I mean? It's like, let the dog run around the neighborhood, and then it'll find itself a car. What? Ha.

Jay Skeets (71:16)

That's. Isn't that the thought process to get the dog off the road more than anything? I've done this multiple times. I hear you.

JD (71:22)

I hear you. But also, if. If Hazel got out, I would be, you know, I'll be obviously devastated. There's a train track right there.

Ben Gulliver (71:30)

Yes.

JD (71:31)

Dogs get hit by the. All the time, so, yes, I hear that.

Jay Skeets (71:34)

Yeah.

JD (71:34)

But also, I need to get home now, lady. And you're blocking the way. And this dog probably lives three doors away. And you're gonna take the dog into your car and, like, take it to the pound or take it to home. You know what I'm saying?

Jay Skeets (71:49)

I hear what you're saying. You might be making something that could be easily solved much more complicated.

JD (71:55)

Right.

Jay Skeets (71:56)

But the woman doesn't know that.

JD (71:57)

Exactly.

Jay Skeets (71:58)

Or the person doesn't know that exactly. Yeah.

JD (72:00)

The dog could be in its own yard for all she knows. You know what I'm saying? Anyway, whatever.

Jay Skeets (72:06)

Yeah. Okay, that's weird if you're taking dogs from yards, but if. Because you're not 100 convinced that dog's on the right yard, don't do that.

Ben Gulliver (72:14)

Dog doesn't belong.

Jay Skeets (72:15)

But I think a dog. Like, a couple months ago now, I was driving home here from the Classic Factory. I'm going down, like, a side street sort of in my neighborhood. But, like, not Like, I don't walk in this part, you know? So I'm not always out there on these streets walking my own dog. But there was a cute little puppy running around the street. Now, it was again, it was like sort of a side street, so not a ton of traffic, but I go down it. Other cars go down. Yeah. So I'm like, what the hell? So I stopped the car. I got it. I'm like. I'm looking around. Like, my first thought is, like, where's your owner? Cute little puppy. Okay, okay. What the hell's going on? So I don't really know what to do. And then so he comes over to me, super friendly. So I sort of pick him up, and I'm like, I'm just gonna guess one of these houses is his. Like, one of them. I go, I literally just guessed. I go up, I knock on the door. This guy opens it up. He's like, you go, carl, where were you? I'm like, carl was running around the street, man. Like, I was afraid he was gonna get hit. So, you know, hand him back. Guy's super appreciative. He's like, oh, he gets out of the backyard, you know, this little guy. I'm like, okay, Carl, take it easy. So now I always go down that street. I always say, where's Carl? Because I want to see Carl. Yeah, he's super cute, good guy. To finish the story. This is wild. What was it? Oh, we had something wrong with our breaker. Like, we had, like, the weird electricity problem. So Nora looks up a neighborhood electrician guy comes over. We put our dog away. He's like, oh, yeah, I got a dog. I got a dog named Carl. Nora's like, are you serious? Where do you live? He's like, oh, just, like, not too far from here. He's like, my husband saved your dog. Your dog. Oh, yeah, I remember that guy. It's a small world.

Ben Gulliver (73:52)

Have you been ever able to link up with Carl?

Jay Skeets (73:55)

I haven't. I have not seen Carl once. I slow down. I literally am such a weirdo. I slow down hoping I'll see Carl, like, he'll remember me. I don't even see him.

Ben Gulliver (74:03)

He might.

Jay Skeets (74:04)

He might.

JD (74:04)

He's learned his lesson. Carl. Got it.

Jay Skeets (74:07)

So I don't know, jd. I mean, we had a go.

JD (74:10)

You're a better person than me. It's that simple. Actually, that boils down.

Jay Skeets (74:13)

I get home. I gotta get home and watch Lawrence of Arabia.

JD (74:17)

Exactly. If I saw a doc on my street, I'd be like. Like, I beat Larry David about it. Like, that's a shame. That's a shame.

Jay Skeets (74:23)

That's a shame.

Ben Gulliver (74:24)

That's too bad about that dog.

JD (74:25)

Sorry. I'm sorry about that dog. But also, it's probably going to find its way home. Maybe not, but I don't know.

Jay Skeets (74:31)

Some dogs are dumb. Carl didn't seem the smartest dog in the world.

Ben Gulliver (74:35)

Dumb Carl.

Jay Skeets (74:36)

I'm just kidding. He's great. Cute as hell. Cute as hell now. Yeah, he was a puppy, so maybe that was a big problem.

JD (74:40)

Maybe I'd be. Maybe I'd behave different.

Ben Gulliver (74:44)

I'm. I'm just. I'm a jealous no dog haver right now. Yeah, I see anybody's dog.

Jay Skeets (74:49)

I wish it was my dog.

JD (74:50)

Yeah.

Jay Skeets (74:51)

Are you guys gonna get Another dog, You think?

Ben Gulliver (74:53)

Maybe after the summer?

Jay Skeets (74:55)

Okay.

JD (74:55)

Yeah.

Jay Skeets (74:56)

Exciting.

Ben Gulliver (74:57)

We're gonna enjoy the.

Jay Skeets (74:58)

Oh, yeah.

Ben Gulliver (74:59)

The no pet sitter time. We haven't had the good times of not worrying about pets yet, so that's fair.

Jay Skeets (75:05)

I mean, right now, Nora and I are starting to do some summer planning. Are we gonna go on a trip? And like, it's like, okay. When? Okay. And the first thing I have to always say is like, well, call the dog sitter. Yep. Are they free? Is she free? It's like the first step here. That's fine. Turns out she is. At least for the dates where we want to go. So I might be taking vacation in July right around the corner. Yes, I know. Isn't that fun? All right, that's it. Rapid Fire. Wait, Everybody answered. Yes, everybody answered. We did it.

JD (75:36)

Yep.

Jay Skeets (75:37)

And show is an hour. Look at that.

JD (75:39)

We did it.

Ben Gulliver (75:40)

You thought it wasn't gonna be.

Jay Skeets (75:41)

I know. Rapid fire was like 20 minutes.

Ben Gulliver (75:43)

20 minutes.

JD (75:43)

Yep.

Jay Skeets (75:44)

There you go. Got to it. If you enjoyed Rapid Fire. That was not so rapid. Hit the like button. Subscribe. Five star ratings and reviews. Obviously, we just wait to see the Luka Doncic MRI results. This could be any. You could tell me anything.

Ben Gulliver (75:57)

Sure.

Jay Skeets (75:58)

You could tell me. He'll be back in a couple days. He'll be back maybe in the first round of the playoffs or his season is completely done.

Ben Gulliver (76:05)

We shall see.

Jay Skeets (76:05)

Right?

Ben Gulliver (76:06)

Yep.

Jay Skeets (76:07)

All are in play here.

Ben Gulliver (76:08)

Nothing happened. We just stopped.

Jay Skeets (76:09)

Yeah. Yeah. And. But. And again, it was like. Obviously something was twinge in there a couple times early in the first half, so then got worse at that one play on Jalen Williams, but we'll wait to find out. Monday. I'm here. So TAS is gone, you're gone. This guy's stealing shells off the beach in the panhandle of Florida. But I'm here with a guest. Mike Zakarian is going to join me to talk some hoops.

Ben Gulliver (76:32)

Excellent.

Jay Skeets (76:32)

We'll probably do some weekend winners and losers. So I'm excited to talk to Mike. Got Ben Gulliver lined up as well for the week where I'll be doing the show solo here with JD So join me next week and all my guests on Monday morning. Just subscribe either here on YouTube or on Apple or Spotify. And we'll see you on Monday. Have a great time. I was gonna say, you know, make sure you put on the sunscreen, but you're always good for that.

Ben Gulliver (76:56)

Cream it up.

Jay Skeets (76:56)

You. You like to wear the leaving the sun shirt, do you not? You're a sun shirt. Guy.

Ben Gulliver (77:00)

Yeah, I have a. I got a rash guard.

Jay Skeets (77:03)

Rash guard.

Ben Gulliver (77:04)

Got myself a rash guard. I'll take it along with me.

Jay Skeets (77:07)

Yeah, you wore it. I remember I was recently looking at photos when we went to Turks and Caicos.

Ben Gulliver (77:11)

Yeah, I wore too much in Turks

Jay Skeets (77:13)

and you weren't too much.

Ben Gulliver (77:16)

I look back on those photos, I was like, you should have been showing your plumage.

Jay Skeets (77:21)

You're playing spikeball in them.

Ben Gulliver (77:23)

Well, yeah, I mean dives, you know. Of course, dives. But I didn't need to wear it the entire.

Jay Skeets (77:28)

No.

Ben Gulliver (77:29)

I'm a little nervous though. You get a little further down on the latitudes, the sun gets even stronger.

Jay Skeets (77:35)

It is hot. Well, anyway, have fun. A well deserved break here before we get into the playing games and into the playoffs and the second season starts and the grind of all that. Can't wait for it. But again, I'll see you guys on Monday. Till then, Clipper Bros, you heard it here first.

Ben Gulliver (77:47)

Have a great time. Turn up. Love you guys. Awesome. Thanks for joining us. And this is a question I would have liked to Hear on Jeopardy. YouTube edition. This Korean pop song was the first YouTube video to top 1 billion views.

JD (78:02)

Gangnam Style.

Ben Gulliver (78:04)

Please answer in the form of a question.

JD (78:05)

Oh, what is Gangam style?

Ben Gulliver (78:06)

That's right.

Jay Skeets (78:07)

Wow. All done.

Ben Gulliver (78:08)

Thousand dollars to jd.

JD (78:10)

Thank you.

Jay Skeets (78:12)

Good. Good work, JD I was gonna say black pink.

Ben Gulliver (78:15)

I'm sure they've got a billion. They gotta have one.

Jay Skeets (78:18)

Especially with our jam. You know, me and my.

Ben Gulliver (78:20)

Yeah, the only thing working against that one is time. It'll get to a billion eventually.

Jay Skeets (78:24)

Of course. All right, embrace the weekend people.

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