The Drop | Wild Endings, No Sandals Sitting Courtside & Santa Skeets Is Back!

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No Dunks Podcast Summary

Episode: The Drop | Wild Endings, No Sandals Sitting Courtside & Santa Skeets Is Back!
Date: December 19, 2025
Hosts: Skeets (J.E. Skeets), Tas Melis, Trey Kirby, and JD
Podcast: No Dunks by iHeartPodcasts

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Episode Overview

This “Drop” episode is classic No Dunks—a loose, lively deep-dive into the wildest NBA games and headlines from the night before, plus dose of their trademark bits, listener questions, and a holiday tradition. The crew drafts their favorite NBA game stories, debates infamous ref calls, roasts Draymond and the Warriors, and shares thoughts on everything from Martha Stewart’s broken toe to the death of the Hammacher Schlemmer gift catalog. All with their irreverent, inside-joke-filled banter.

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Drafting the Night’s Best NBA Games ([03:43]–[44:49])

1. Dallas Mavericks vs. Detroit Pistons: Cooper Flagg’s Coming-Out Party ([05:01])

• Tas’s Pick: Lauds 18-year-old Cooper Flagg’s poise and clutch shot-making late (hits floater, then pullup over Cade Cunningham to force OT), plus 3 blocks.
  • “Two months into an 18-year-old’s freaking career, it just shows that this guy is ready to be a superstar.” — Tas Melis ([06:41])
• Trey: Points out Flagg’s minutes leader status in clutch, and the odd Anthony Davis-Cooper Flagg non-dynamic.
  • “There’s something weird between Anthony Davis and Cooper Flagg. These guys do not interact.” ([08:44])
• Skeets: Box score was bonkers (Pistons 18% from deep, 122 attempts; Mavs 5-27 from 3). “Not a lot of makes, but it was fun.” ([10:16])
• Coach Beef: JB Bickerstaff calls out ref John Goble by name. “That’s being a trend right now, coaches calling out particular officials.” ([10:35])

2. Charlotte Hornets vs. Atlanta Hawks: LaMelo & Trey Return, Jalen Johnson Explodes ([11:54])

• Trey: LaMelo Ball (28 pts, 13 ast, 8 3PM); Trey Young returns after 22 games. Jalen Johnson goes wild (43p, 11r, 9a). “Brandon Miller also had a huge dunk. The Hornets, man...only two and a half back from tenth in the East!” ([13:04])
• State of the Teams: Hawks treaded water without Young, are heavy trade deadline team to watch; Hornets could be feisty if healthy.
• Their Banter: Debates NBA travel logistics between ATL and Charlotte... “What, you think they do Waymos?” ([16:49])

3. Phoenix Suns vs. Golden State Warriors: Goodwin’s Free Throw Sinks GSW, Warriors Spiraling ([18:38])

• Skeets: “Extremely weird to watch a game in 2025 where neither team cracks 30 points in a quarter.” Suns win 99-98 after wild finish; Jordan Goodwin hits the game-winner FT with 0.4 left. Warriors meltdown: turnovers (20), Draymond especially (5 TOs, “he said, I gotta get better, then he wasn’t” ([21:05])).
• Trey: Warriors’ dreadful turnover and rebounding rates, thin margin for error. Questions whether Draymond stays with the team: “Who would be interested in Draymond at this point?” ([24:52])
• Tas: Rumors will link to the Lakers, but Draymond just isn’t that guy offensively anymore.

4. New Orleans Pelicans vs. Houston Rockets: Pelicans Rally, Sadiq Bey the Surprising Closer ([29:18])

• Tas: Pelicans stun Rockets, erasing 25-point deficit. Praises Herb Jones (8 steals!), Sadiq Bey, and Trey Murphy. Zion benched in crunch-time. “This team looks different...They fight.” ([29:31])
• Trey: Points out KD’s low clutch usage compared to Sengun’s. “This is Kevin Durant!” ([32:03])
• Mini Rant: Rockets’ need for Fred VanVleet’s stability; FVV’s return, podcasting habits, and deep couches also get the crew going.

5. New York Knicks vs. Indiana Pacers: Brunson’s Double Bang Three, Knicks Avoid a Hangover ([35:45])

• Trey: Knicks trail most of the way, but OG Anunoby and Brunson close. “Jalen Brunson got a double bang...I don’t think you need a double bang in that scenario.” ([37:15])
• Trivia: Skeets has a running list of double-bangs; this might be the first of the season. ([37:35])
• Afterparty: Jokes about where the Knicks might have celebrated, the redness of Tyler Kolek’s face after shrimp cocktail in Indy.

6. Portland Trail Blazers vs. Sacramento Kings: “Generous” Foul Call Ends a Wild Finish ([40:12])

• Skeets: Blazers blow 15-pt lead, but win 134-133 OT after a dubious foul call on Russell Westbrook. Deni Avdija hits FTs to win; call comes after the miss.
  • “[The ref] decided, you know what? He did get bumped. I’m going to rewind that memory in my brain…” — Tas ([42:50])

Notables

• Jokic breaks all-time assists record for centers ([44:43])
  • “He broke a record that’s stood for 36 years in less than half the games it took Kareem.” — Skeets

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Worst of the Week ([44:53])

1. Martha Stewart’s Broken Toe Courtside

   • Jalen Brunson stepped on her sandal-clad foot, breaking her toe during ECF. She powered through, but warns: “Don’t wear open shoes if you sit courtside” ([45:53])
   • Crew goes unexpectedly deep on Martha Stewart’s hotness, foot photos, and sandal fashions.
   • Confirmed: It was her big toe, per Stewart on Fallon. ([53:25])

2. Cavs’ Comedy of Errors

   • Darius Garland runs into Jared Allen, falling over—encapsulating the Cavs’ wonky season. ([49:06])

3. Marcus Smart’s “Shaqtin’” Pass

   • Over-the-shoulder outlet pass directly to Grayson Allen, who’s not even in the play, sparks debate over classic “shacked” moments. ([50:22])

Winner: Tough call, but Martha’s war story is “a one of one type of moment.”

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No Dunks Holiday Tradition: The Hammacher Schlemmer Gift Game ([56:02])

• Backstory: The wacky gift catalog is out of business after 175 years. They eulogize its glorious weirdness (“None of the $4,000 abominable snowmen this year!” — Skeets [72:47]).
• Bit: Skeets reads clearance gift descriptions; crew guesses prices Price-Is-Right-style. Notable gifts include:
  • Laser tag set ($79.99 on clearance), see-through sun visor ($29.95), door-mount foam roller system ($34.99), and K-9 push buttons for dog communication ($29.95).
• Running Gags: JD has owned the laser tag set; the dog button inspires bestial “voicing”; and regret over losing peak gift weirdness.

Quote:

“Let me know if we should keep going with this. People are going to say yes.” — Skeets ([73:00])

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Quick Hits

• Woah Boy Sponsored by Listener Mark! ([76:45])

  • Luka Doncic: 45-11-14-5-1 TO in a win. “You get Woah Boy and you got a good one.” — Skeets

• Rapid Fire ([81:09])

  • What do you want to stop being compared to?
    • Skeets: Wants No Dunks compared to bigger, less “spicy” basketball pods ([81:23])
    • Trey: Tired of being compared to the viral “old guy slapping his balls over a fire” video ([83:23])
    • JD: Hates being called Hagrid; “It’s my body, obviously, that’s the problem.”
  • What do you say at work 15+ times a day? (reminder, random NBA trivia, the F bomb)
  • What would you try at Taco Bell?
    • Skeets: Mountain Dew Baja Blast Pie
    • Trey: Red Hot Diablo Chicken Nacho Fries (“That phrase was very funny”)
    • JD: California Crunchwrap at breakfast

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Notable Moments & Quotes

• Cooper Flagg Watch: “Two months into an 18-year-old’s freaking career, it just shows that this guy is ready to be a superstar.” (Tas, [06:41])
• Warriors Woes: “Who would be interested in Draymond at this point?” (Skeets, [24:52])
• Martha Stewart Saga: “She says: Don’t wear open shoes courtside!” (Tas/Skeets, [45:53])
• Holiday Bit Eulogy: “It’s been a good run. That’s a hell of a run.” (Tas, [73:05])
• NBA Podcast Beef: “Start comparing No Dunks to the other ones...they ain’t running laps around us.” (Skeets, [81:23])
• Trey’s Viral Doppelganger: “Old guy slapping balls over fire—not me!” ([83:23])

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Fun Banter & Sidebars

• NBA Rules Talk: Quirks of games played eligibility, Cup rules, All-NBA chaos ([17:24])
• Atlanta/Charlotte Travel Debate: Planes vs. self-driving cars vs. celebrity life ([16:49])
• Knicks Party Spots: St. Elmo’s shrimp cocktail and Tyler Kolek’s red face ([39:59])
• Taco Bell Laboratories: “I have a theory they’re just opening up early to create all these wild foods.” (Skeets [95:08])
• Advent Calendars & Imaginary Elves: “Bobby comes every day to deliver chocolate... Bobby’s not real, but Bobby does it anyway.” (Tas [98:20])
• Vacation Plans: JD’s off to Puerto Vallarta, Trey’s back to Chicago winter ([98:55]–[99:48])

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Timestamps: Key Segments

• [03:43] — Drafting Last Night's NBA Games
• [44:53] — Worst of the Week
• [56:02] — Hammacher Schlemmer Holiday Tradition
• [76:45] — Woah Boy (sponsored!)
• [81:09] — Rapid Fire
• [95:58] — Substack Shoutouts & Wrap

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Closing Thoughts

Another jam-packed, insightful, and irreverent No Dunks Drop, blending actual NBA analysis (Cooper Flagg, Draymond’s decline, Warriors strife, Jokic history, KD clutch usage, trade deadline musings) with inside jokes, listener engagement, and traditions both beloved and ridiculous. The show captures the fun and chaos of the modern NBA—and keeps it spicy when other pods go bland.

Quote of the Episode:
“Start comparing No Dunks to the other ones...they ain’t running laps around us.”
— Skeets, [81:23]

Memorable Moment:
Skeets’s heartfelt eulogy for the Hammacher Schlemmer catalog and the group’s attempt to price weird clearance gifts, proving their holiday tradition is as weird and wonderful as the NBA itself.

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For the full experience, watch/listen for the crew’s infectious energy, comic chemistry, and off-book, off-color asides.

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[Skeets]

Good morning sweet world and welcome to the no Dunks Podcast podcast presented by FanDuel. It's Friday, December 19, 2025. This is the Drop. I'm J. Skeets here in the classic factory and alongside me as always, Tas Melis.

[Tas Melis]

Podcast listeners, this is for you.

[Skeets]

Next to him, it's my top shot hot boy Trey Kirby Ayo.

[JD]

Hey.

[Skeets]

And over yonder, making the magic happen, super producer jd.

[Tas Melis]

Hello.

[Skeets]

There he is. Here we are. Hello to everybody on YouTube. Hello podcast listeners. On today's show, it's a lot. We got worst of the week nominees.

[Tas Melis]

Sure do.

[Skeets]

We got Rapid Fire. We got Whoa Boy. Another sponsored Whoa Boy. We're making bank with Whoa Boy. Suddenly we got pick em. And we have a no Dunks holiday tradition that we are trying to salvage. Okay, we'll explain that later on. But first, 12 games on in the NBA last night. So let's draft a few of our favorites. Drafting last night's best games, best performances. Whatever story you want to talk about, I will say right now we won't get to it. All apologies in advance. Like I said, a lot on today's drop, but we'll do a couple rounds of drafting last night's best games. Tas, you have the number one pick.

[Tas Melis]

I'm taking the Dallas Mavericks beating the Detroit Pistons because to me this show that Cooper Flag is ready to be a superstar. He's ready for the spotlight. He does not shy away from big moments coming up. Late in this game, Detroit took the lead after trailing by 18 points. And so it looked like, okay, this Mavs young team, maybe, maybe they're going to fade away. But a minute left in this game, 50 seconds left on the clock, Cooper flag was given. The ball got a little ISO situation, a switch against Isaiah Stewart. He said, all right, I'm going to pull up, hit a little floater over top of him. They're still down one. Anthony Davis gets a block at the other end. Then here comes Cooper flag up against. In this case, it was Cade Cunningham pull up jumper to take the lead, hit two big shots to send them to overtime where he didn't score a single point in ot. Doesn't matter. I thought his possessions were really, really great. He had two key plays setting up Anthony Davis for buckets. It was a pick and roll, alley oop and then he got doubled. Perfect spot for a dump off to Anthony Davis. So in the clutch minutes of this game, the five last minutes of the fourth quarter and overtime, he's only two of nine. But that doesn't matter. The zero turnovers were key and I just thought he was ready to have the spotlight on him and make the key plays. A Detroit team that is a fricking really good team to take the lead late in the fourth quarter, he's able to say, I got this and be comfortable handling the ball. Two months into an 18 year old's freaking career, it just shows that this guy is ready to be a superstar. So I thought that was telling. Again, great on that end late, but also on the defensive end, he's just a really good defensive player. Three big blocks in this game. So I thought the spotlight on him was, was really good. He showed he's ready.

[Trey Kirby]

It's too bad he turns 19 in a couple of days. It's not going to be as exciting when he's doing all these things at 19 years old, but he's played the most clutch minutes of anybody in the league. I think he's fifth in clutch scoring total points this year. He does have a lot of opportunity and he is the go to guy for the Mavericks. I thought it was awesome to watch him and, and Cade Cunningham going back and forth with each other. You know, two recent number one picks who are doing a lot on the offensive end for their teams. Cade's a Dallas guy as well, so you know he was motivated to play well back in his hometown. Just a great game to watch, a really exciting fourth quarter, really exciting overtime. Nice game for Anthony Davis. 15 points, 14 boards, and apparently he left twice to throw up during this game.

[Skeets]

Right?

[Trey Kirby]

Two pukes and he still puts up a double double. That's pretty impressive. He also got away with definitely an offensive goaltend on that tip there. And J.B. bickerstaff was pretty upset after this game. Cause a lot of calls went against the Pistons. I thought he was heated about Asar Thompson being ejected for thumping.

[Skeets]

He made contact with the reflect. Yeah, exactly.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, exactly. That was a quick one. I thought the AD should have been an offensive interference. And Bickerstaff also didn't get a timeout call when there was that crazy offensive rebounding possession that the Detroit Pistons had on the other end where everybody was just scrapping for the ball for like nine straight seconds. Duran does come up with it. Apparently. Bickerstaff was yelling for a timeout and John Goble said, I do not hear it. I cannot hear what you're saying, jb. So Duran throws up like a weird shot and eventually makes its way to Anthony Davis. Just an epic duel between these two teams. I don't think they're like destined to meet in the NBA Finals, but it would be cool if they did. The only thing I'm telling you, there's something weird between Anthony Davis and Cooper Flag. These guys do not interact. Cooper found him for that little dish. Davis scored the gentlest high five.

[Skeets]

Didn't even have a cool sound.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, you want a firmer high five.

[Trey Kirby]

I would like to see Anthony Davis look like he cares to be on this team. He doesn't seem very enthused to be there.

[Tas Melis]

So it's more about Anthony Davis then.

[Trey Kirby]

He should be hyping up Cooper Flag. He really should. I think if that was Kyrie Irving making those plays, they're chest bumping. They just don't seem to have a relationship to me. He's also 14 years older.

[Skeets]

Yeah, he's grandpa to him.

[Trey Kirby]

Take him underneath your wing, build him up, make him the next great player. You were a number one draft pick once upon a time. You're a top 75 player. Why don't you pass down your legacy to this next guy? They should interact more often.

[Skeets]

You've said this a couple times. There's something there. Keep your eye on. Yeah, maybe there is something there. You guys said it was like a scrappy game, obviously a competitive game and some, you know, big no calls or calls down the stretch and going into overtime. Entertaining. I agree with you guys, but holy crap. Not a lot of shots made in this one, the box score is wild when you look at the numbers, because the piston shot 6.33 from deep. That's 18%. 47 for 122. Did 122 shot attempts, which is a whole lot of shot attempts in a game. Yes, it went to overtime. You're getting some more. I thought it was a error, but it's not. You gotta add them all up and you'll get there. Cause you had Cade shooting 30 times, Durin shooting 20 times, a couple other guys shooting in double digits. Anyway, that's sub 40%. But the Mavs, it's not like they were like on fire from the floor either. 40 of 89. Okay, 45%, but 5 of 27 from deep. Not a lot of threes in this one from either of these teams, but it was fun.

[Tas Melis]

It was a real Pistons kind of game. Yeah, we're not. We're not going all the way back to the 1980s for the Fighting Pistons, but it felt like this J.B. bickerstaff type of team. Let's all foul each other and the Mavs get away with scoring six points in overtime and winning a basketball game. That's not a lot of points and five minutes of basketball.

[Skeets]

Bickerstaff did say John Goble isn't objective when he works Pistons games, so he called him out by name. That's being a trend right now, it feels, with coaches calling out particular officials that they have beef with. So we'll see if. We'll see if Goble gets a Piston game. Playoff game, I guess, or series.

[Tas Melis]

JB and JG do not like each other. Yeah, I wonder if he. I'm trying to think of all the moments where JB Bicker staff gets mad and whether Goble is in those games. Because there are. There's several moments where you can see the sweat trickling off JB Bicker sass face. And he just gets mad at the rest. Gotta go back. I gotta go back. Goal must be in them. Probably is. The rivalries here are JB versus jg, AD versus Cooper. Flag. What else we got here? It's gotta be a third.

[Trey Kirby]

Cade versus Cooper, I think, you know.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Skeets]

Just for your number one picks. Going at it.

[Tas Melis]

Coop hitting a shot over him. Awesome for him. And then. Yeah, double comes. Oh, you're gonna double me, Cade. Plus another Piston. Here you go. AD and then just a tap of each other's fingers, as you said. Like, you got rushing, man. Yeah. You got to come to YouTube to see the touch.

[Skeets]

I like the sound it made when you did that too? Yeah, for the podcast listeners. All right, so that one's off the board. 11 games still to choose from. TK, your first pick.

[Trey Kirby]

I'm going to the who's back Bull. Lamelo Ball, returning from a three game absence. Feels like he's been out longer, you know, with the in and outs that he's been doing. But Trey Young also came back to the Atlanta Hawks after 22 games. We talked LA yesterday. He was poised for his return and he did make his return. But advantage Lamello in this one. 28 points, 13 assists for LaMelo. He hit seven threes in the first half and he was in shrug mode, looking like Michael Jordan out there. Finished with eight threes. Not quite as hot in the second half, but the last one he hit was a dagger. Cause this was a crazy game. Hornets got out to a big lead, but the Hawks came charging back behind Jalen Johnson who went for 43 points, 11 rebounds, nine assists. There was just big numbers all over the place. Con canipple 28, 5, 73 steals. Brandon Miller 26, 5, 83 steals as well. There was not a lot of defense played in this game, but it made it very, very exciting. Brandon Miller also had a huge dunk on Vite krechi in this 1 6th highest dunk score this season.

[Skeets]

Was it really? Oh, yeah. It was the number one play of the night and rightfully so. It was huge. Huge.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, it was a. That was a big time dunk from Brandon Miller. The Hornets, man.

[Skeets]

Oh, here we go.

[Trey Kirby]

They're only two and a half games back from the 10th seed in the Eastern Conference.

[Skeets]

They're nine and 18.

[Trey Kirby]

They're nine and 18. It ain't good. But look at the teams ahead of them Bucks. We don't know what's going to happen with the Bucs. They're losing a lot right now. They might not have Giannis by the time we get to the end of the regular season. The Bulls are ahead of them as well. I mean, they love the 10th seed, no doubt about it. But I think the Hornets could at least make a run at trying to get into a game that matters. Because you're not going to believe this when LaMelo Ball, Con Canipple and Brandon Miller start 5 and 2.

[Skeets]

Wow.

[Trey Kirby]

The problem is they've only played 101 minutes together this season. We're 25 games into the season, they've played a hundred total minutes together. But in those 101 minutes, plus 4.4 points per 100 possessions for a team that is nine games under.500. When they have their three best players, guess what? They don't look ridiculously bad. They're fun to watch at the very least. They got a lot of shooting. They got a lot of playmaking. When Lamelo is healthy alongside Con Cannipal. So hopefully Ball and Miller are able to stay on the court the second half of the season because then at least the Hornets look like a competent team. They got Kalkbrenner out there just looking big. They've got decent enough talent that it would be cool to see them take a little bit of step forward here. On the flip side of things. Hawks went 13 and nine without Trey Young in the 22 games he missed, but they're only ninth in the Eastern Conference. It felt like they played great. They did a great job to tread water with Trey out. There are only two games out of third place in the Eastern Conference. They are just one of the most fascinating teams heading into trade season right here with the assets they have going forward, including a huge expiring contract for a primetime player in Trey Young, there's a lot of moves to be made and if they really wanted to go for it in the east, they could make some noise by putting certain things on the table. So a team to watch for.

[Tas Melis]

Sure.

[Trey Kirby]

This was fun.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, the Hawks weren't ready to play in this game. Those 18 threes that the Hornets hit in the first half, a lot of them were wide open. They just were not ready to fight. They play down to the Hornets. I don't know if it's this local rivalry. I mean they're just four hours apart for a quick car ride from Atlanta to Charlotte. I don't know. They always play down to them. And so yeah, if it looks nice when you got three guys, two of them your most fairly recent draft picks, and Brandon Miller and Conkin nipple scoring 20 plus and LaMelo scoring 20 plus. You know, we don't have to mention to John Salon who's in the middle of of. Of conanipple and Brandon, he's actually playing somewhat better.

[Skeets]

Recently I have noticed that 10 points, four boards had a couple. Is that a couple half decent games here? It's maybe coming around a little bit.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, yeah. There's no stability there with Salon with not only Lamello obviously doesn't play a lot of basketball, but Brandon Miller also continuously injured. So that's a huge, huge problem for this team. But you get to play the Hawks and you're going to hit open. I mean that's what really happened in this Game to start. So they get out to that big lead and yeah, the Hawks fought good to see Trey Young back and it's good to see Jalen Johnson be Jalen Johnson, but yikes.

[Skeets]

Will Trey Young play tonight in a back to back situation or really just go straight back to the pine here for a game off? They play the spurs tonight down at the Fortress.

[Trey Kirby]

I think with a travel in between. I mean a short travel.

[Skeets]

Short travel, yes.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, sure.

[Skeets]

They were back in their bed at a decent time last night.

[Tas Melis]

They do. They do a plane ride.

[Skeets]

Yeah. They don't drive a car. Yeah, but it's like.

[Tas Melis]

But I don't know, it's like a three and a half hour door to door, three and a half hour ride. I don't know. Is it faster than taking a plane? I know the plane rides, obviously.

[Skeets]

Yes, I think the plane's gonna be faster. Private jet for sure.

[Tas Melis]

Well, yeah, yeah, but you got to get it off the plane and you gotta depart from the plane. Yeah, it's faster than us.

[Trey Kirby]

What you think they do Waymos?

[Tas Melis]

That's a good question.

[Trey Kirby]

It's actually perfect for a celebrity. No driver, I guess.

[Skeets]

You mean you have to talk to anybody? Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Hey, are you Jalen Johnson?

[Skeets]

I guess you're right.

[Trey Kirby]

I'm Jalen Johnson.

[Tas Melis]

I assume Wemby's playing a back to back. You know, he's also played last night.

[Skeets]

He played very limited minutes last night. Yep, 17 minutes. I think he. They capped him out last night. Crushed the.

[Tas Melis]

Really? Yeah. Trey only played 20.

[Skeets]

I'm hoping Wemby plays. I'm hoping Trey plays. I'll be down there tonight.

[Trey Kirby]

17 minutes is not enough for the game to count. Is that true?

[Tas Melis]

Oh, for years, yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Because he. He's close to having the 65 games. But I heard on the hoop collective today that he does get credit for playing in the cup championship. That counts as an extra game played for him.

[Skeets]

How weird is. They just are making up rules left.

[Trey Kirby]

And right and stuff.

[Skeets]

It's so weird.

[Tas Melis]

It is so weird.

[Skeets]

In a game that does not count otherwise for wins or losses or stats. It does count for games played.

[Tas Melis]

It is very strange.

[Skeets]

Okay.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. And I wonder. Yeah. The rule was it has to be a minimum of 20 minutes to discourage teams from coming on. Yeah. Coming on the floor and saying okay, you played. That's it. Aren't you allowed like 20 minutes?

[Skeets]

Aren't you allowed like 1 or 2 though of sub 20 minute games? There is a wrinkle to that too. You're allowed like a handful of those I don't. I swear I'm not making this up.

[Tas Melis]

I think you're right. Yeah, I mean, Wemby did kind of play, so if you're just making up rules that I would count it, I guess. But they got to get rid of that whole thing so we never have to talk about this in this manner ever again. It's garbage. It's going away.

[Trey Kirby]

It's going to go away after we see the all NBA teams at the end of this year.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

When nobody is eligible.

[Tas Melis]

We'll see.

[Trey Kirby]

But yeah, there's going to be some stragglers getting in.

[Skeets]

Interesting, Interesting. All right, well, I have the final pick of our first round here. In drafting last night's best games, I'm going to go with Jordan Goodwin hitting free throws with 0.4 seconds left on the clock as the Suns escaped with a 99, 98 win over the Warriors. I will say to start here, extremely weird to watch a game in 20, 25 where neither team cracks 30 points in a quarter. 99, 98, that's just low scoring, very low. And nobody having one quarter where they got over 30 is just weird and very rare, I think in today's NBA. But strange ending to this one. We had Dylan Brooks missing badly on a three pointer at the end of the game. But the masked man, David Shoemaker, I mean Jordan Goodwin, he was there. Johnny on the spot, got the rebound and he got fouled while he was putting back the attempt there. And it was. There's a lot of guys around there. So he goes to the line. He's got a wide ass, free throw stance. Those legs are way apart. Missed the first one, made the second one. That's all they needed. Just needed that one. And they escape with the win. They were up five points with like 38 seconds to go. And Dylan Brooks, this guy right now, man is involved in everything at the end of a game. He was called for a Flagrant 1 foul on Steph Curry, like slapped him, hit him in the stomach on a three point like closeout. Strange bowls of jelly. Yeah, he said like it was because he was like trying to like box him out in a weird way. So he didn't get a rebound attempt, but he was flying by him. It was dumb. He almost admitted even it was dumb. Curry hit two free throws because of the flagrant foul. And then Jimmy Butler splashed a three pointer on Dylan Brooks. It was a hell of a shot from Jimmy. It was like a line drive three pointer. So that tied the game just like that. It was tied. But then Obviously, we had the. The part with Goodwin at the end. I thought Devin Booker was hitting some clutch shots, too. I think he scored a lot of his points in the second half. And the warriors here, man, continuing to real tasks. It's. It's getting ugly here record wise. And another game where they turn the ball over a ton. 20 turnovers led to a lot of fast break points. And Draymond Green at five turnovers a day or two after I heard him on his podcast saying, you know, we'll be fine. Just gotta clean up those turnovers. He had some brutal ones. He threw it away like four times. The other one, he just got stripped.

[Tas Melis]

You're listening to the Dre podcast.

[Skeets]

I'm seeing the clips. I'm seeing the clips. I. I laughed when I saw that, though, because he said about. He talked about it and he said, like, I got to be better, too. And then he wasn't better. He was arguably worse.

[Trey Kirby]

Whoops. Yeah, my bad.

[Tas Melis]

Wonder what his episode will be about today. Blame the turnovers on somebody else, I guess, maybe. Yeah, it was hurtful for the Golden State warriors because I thought they stayed alive in this game because of the offensive rebounds. And then the offensive rebound that ended it was that offensive rebound to get Jordan Goodwin that free throw. Maybe it's Jordan good width because he. He has very, very wide legs, I'm telling you. So that.

[Trey Kirby]

That hurts.

[Tas Melis]

They obviously are lacking size, and Al Horford and his sciatica are trying to get back to normal, but the man is old and he's. He's fighting through it. Apparently. Apparently he's getting back. But that's a guy that we just never talk about. But that was an incredible signing, we thought, because it seemed like it was this guy. If there's any, you know, besides LeBron that could just play through his late 30s and early 40s and play basketball because this is the first time he's had a sciatica. He's had the first time, as he said, that he's had this type of injury that he just can't fight through. It's not a muscle, so he can't fight through. It's this nerve ending thing that's bothering him. So they are. They are something. I mean, they played Kaminga a few minutes in this game.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah. So cravenly trying to increase his trade deadline value. So obvious. Don't sign anybody after the Boston Celtics are done with them. Doesn't work out for literally anybody. Horford can't play right now. Drew Holiday has been out for a month. Chris Daps Porzingis can't play right now either. They know when it's over and they said it is over and suckered in all these other teams into getting them. Golden State in a tough spot right now. They're 6 and 11 on the road so far this season, which is tough because they're going to be in the play in tournament. There ain't no way they're getting into the top six with the team they have now. It's a rabbit with the clock meme. Time is ticking. You mentioned the 20 turnovers. They are 26th in turnovers per game, 29th in turnover rate. They've always been a high turnover team. They just can't withstand it anymore. Also 23rd in defensive rebound rate. Yeah, Jordan Goodwin had the board, but if he didn't grab it, Royce o' Neill was going to grab it. The margin for error right now for the warriors is so slim. They need everybody to play well to pull out wins. They've had good Steph Curry games. Nobody else plays well. They lose. They had a great Jimmy Butler game last night. Nobody else played well. They lose. That's just how it is with the Warriors. So they're a team that probably is going to look at making a move at the trade deadline as well, though they've been really hesitant to, like, part with future stuff. Look into the future for when Steph Curry finally does retire, but he needs a little bit of help. I thought Jimmy was good last night. Unfortunately, Steph wasn't able to bring it. And then post game, he's like, we're not gonna go basketball team right now. They've lost three straight under.500.

[Skeets]

He's right.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Skeets]

13 and 15. It feels like if you're going to, like, try and get anything out of Steph Curry's final couple of years here and maybe take one more stab at a playoff run, a championship run, if you can. You're going to have to make a drastic move here. And you do wonder, like, would they trade Draymond Green? Should they trade Draymond Green? He's elite defensively. He was really good even in this game, still on the defensive end. But he is just so bad right now.

[Trey Kirby]

Offensively, he's very much yeah.

[Skeets]

And you know, he's not out there to score. So if you're not out there scoring, just turn the ball over. Like, watch the turnovers.

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[Skeets]

They're bad. They are just like handing it to the sunset. Like that one to Gillespie at the end. He just gave it to him. He was Trying to get it to Curry because he was doing the panic thing. I better get it to Steph because I'm not going to score here.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Skeets]

And it was going the other way. Although that was the one that Gillespie completely botched the. The layup attempt. It was a real shacked in a fool. But anyway, he played good down the stretch otherwise. But yeah, I don't know if they would even do something like that. And who would be interested in Draymond Green at this point?

[Tas Melis]

I don't know.

[Skeets]

Just chucking it out there if they get really desperate.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, the issue is definitely who wants Draymond.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, that's a part of it. Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

But if he's gonna be just an average player and because he's good defensively and he's an anchor on the offensive end, he's shooting under 40% from the field this season. You don't have to guard him, which makes his playmaking not as threatening as well, he's like three and a half turnovers per game. So it happens all the time. And that's a large reason why the warriors just aren't a good offensive team.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, immediately the rumors I'm sure will be linked to the Lakers being that, you know, they have enough ball handlers and that he won't have to do much at all offensively and they just need, you know, some more grit. But he does have to handle the ball a little bit. So that's the unfortunate part. You know, in whatever scenario he's in, he just doesn't look that like that same guy with the dribble handoffs and start dribbling or else he's going to turn it over right here, right now. Yeah, it's bad.

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[Tas Melis]

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[Tas Melis]

And Doug.

[Skeets]

What a horrible call.

[Tas Melis]

Hey ref.

[Skeets]

Open your eyes, ref. You're really not gonna call that? Come on. Hey ref, why don't you customize your car insurance with Liberty Mutual and save money?

[Tas Melis]

I don't think you get what we're doing.

[Skeets]

Sure I do.

[Trey Kirby]

We're all just giving him advice. You guys on sports, me on saving money.

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[Trey Kirby]

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[Skeets]

Liberty.

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[Skeets]

Liberty. Round two. Yeah. Let's move with some pace here. Tass, your second pick here.

[Tas Melis]

The New Orleans Pelicans look like they were going to be the worst team in the NBA. Look like they were going to be a nut duster, as we called them in the nut dust Bowl. But they've won three games in a row.

[JD]

Hey, baby.

[Tas Melis]

That's half their wins this season. All of a sudden, bang, bang, bang. And they were down 25 to a Houston Rockets team. And in that quiet New Orleans arena, you'd think they might roll over and die. But this team looks different than that same team that they had earlier in the season. They fight. They literally fought against the Houston Rockets. I thought they'd be done when Alper and Shen Goon threw down that hammer in the third quarter when they're up huge. But no, they did not. The guy who he hammered on came back and fought. No problem. Everybody on that team. Derek Queen came back and fought, even though he was picked at defensively. Herb Jones was awesome on Kevin Durant, specifically causing a couple steals on him that Kevin Durant got really mad about. He had so many freaking 8 steals in this game total. That's a lot. Trey Murphy has 27. And they got there in the end with Sadiq Bay as their closer. You wouldn't think you'd say Sadiq Bay was the closer, but he was hitting some shots that you've never seen Sadiq Bay hit before. You know, get taken the bump and floating onto your. Your left off leg or your left leg and drop in shots. Does not look like Sadiq Bay, but he got him there. And so are they a good team? No, they're still not a good team. But I think James Borrego's got them playing hard. He decided, okay, we're making up this huge deficit. Zion, you're sitting. He didn't play in the fourth quarter, came off the bench in this instance, and they're relying on other guys to get that quiet arena alive. And they did again. Herb Jones was monstrous. Dairy Queen, Trey Murphy and Sadiq Bay got them there. Zion did not. So they play basketball. That's all. It looks totally, totally different than the basketball in the first month of the season. They're playing harder.

[Skeets]

So what level was the Blender on then last night in the Smoothie King Center. Because blenders can be loud, right? Depends what you got in there. It depends what you're blending up. It's not a max by any means, but maybe a little bit of sound coming from the blender. As I'm with you, you got excited when they started coming back there and got it into over time.

[Tas Melis]

Look like it'd be. They'd be done. You think they would be done?

[Skeets]

Sure. Sure.

[Tas Melis]

I guess they turned that blender up. I don't know.

[Trey Kirby]

Greg shepherd two wide open looks.

[Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

From three. They could have won this game for the Rockets and he missed them both.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. And that Chengun one fighting through everybody and it looked like it's a five footer or whatever. It was six footer and he missed. He did have to fight through a lot of bodies to get there, but yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Last two things I got on this Levi Levi J notified me about Herb Jones's T shirt. He's a baggy T shirt.

[Skeets]

Yes, indeed.

[Trey Kirby]

That thing is flapping in the wind when he's playing out there. The Kevin Durant, Alper and Shangun clutch thing is a little bit interesting to me. KD had one shot and three free throws and overtime, basically two shooting possessions. He got fouled, taken a three, but he went from the four minute mark in the fourth quarter until 50, 50 seconds left in overtime without a look. Shengoon's clutch usage rate, 31.7. It's massive. He's like one of the top 20 clutch usage guys in the league. Durant 16.9. He's behind Aaron Holiday and Amen Thompson on this team. He's like down there with Colin Gillespie and Russell Westbrook. This is Kevin Durant.

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[Skeets]

This is a night where Kevin Durant's on fire, too. Barely missed a shot in this.

[Trey Kirby]

He's like, I'm just going to grab the board and go full court for a dunk. I was like. Felt like the only way he could get the ball. So they got to figure out a little bit more interaction between Shengun and Durant because they're such a good mix for each other. They both draw double teams. They're both willing passers and it feels like they can get into their shots a lot. But Sengun shots can be tough, like when he's trying to power through right at the end of regulation. That's just a tough shot with a lot of bodies there when they know you're trying to get to the hoop. So I would like to see a little bit more cohesiveness from those two.

[Skeets]

Yeah, that's where you notice maybe you're missing a Fred Van Vliet should be like a steady Freddy point guard, get the guy the ball type of thing. Maybe that's where it's more noticeable that you miss Fred van Vliet despite 16 and 8 on the season. I mean, they've had a good year. The Rockets are good, but Pels, man, showing some fights. 6 and 22, you weren't kidding about half those wins over this little win streak. No, I thought you were exaggerating. I Forgot they were 6 and 22.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah. 4 and 12 since James Borrego took over. Hey, I mean, it sounds bad. 2 and 10 under Willie Green, you know.

[Skeets]

Yeah, there's definitely some more fight. Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

And. And hey, we're starting our. What looks to be are the future of. Of our team in Dare Queen. So that James Rigo did that and Fears.

[Skeets]

Yeah, right.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. Fears was starting earlier at some point.

[Skeets]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm just saying the. Is what we're doing.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So there's that part. I wonder on the Houston side because we both listened to hello and welcome and Fred Van Vliet coming on their pod. Is he coming back at some point? Did he hint at it?

[Skeets]

He hinted at it. I think he had another one where he was talking to Kevin Durant also about maybe the injury. And. Yeah, there's. He could be back. Could come March, I think is what they were saying. The problem with the doctor said six months.

[Tas Melis]

Whenever he's had a long time where he hasn't been playing, he always comes back slow. And this is going to be even longer. I mean, this is going to be extremely long. So that's the worrisome part. Like, when do you come back? How do you feel? You're starting a new podcast mid season, and he's already talking about whether or not he's going to be potting when he comes back.

[Skeets]

Yeah, he did.

[Tas Melis]

How do you start a pod and already not know whether or not you're going to go through the first five months?

[Skeets]

He's bored. I literally said that. I'm bored. I might as well start a podcast.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, well, the season started two months ago. The pod just started. Right?

[Skeets]

Well, he got bored. He ran out of making puzzles and playing video games and now. Now what?

[Trey Kirby]

Ordered a couch.

[Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Kevin Durant during this interview. Oh, yeah. The guy's just like, relax. He's just chilling the entire time, giving his answers. I was pretty surprised by that. Yeah, I'm having a hard time getting up here.

[Skeets]

There you go.

[Tas Melis]

You can't have a deep couch on a podcast set. That's what that is. That's like a super deep. Where you're kind of like lying down.

[Skeets]

That's true.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. That's a mistake.

[Trey Kirby]

6:11, though, man. He wants. He wants a really deep couch.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, I guess.

[Trey Kirby]

Tough call, Fred Van Blake. Not that Tall. He's like, I want a normal sized couch.

[Skeets]

All right, Trey, what's your next pick here?

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, I got Jalen Brunson hitting a deep three to help the Knicks beat the Pacers last night. Oh, my goodness. I am cramping up hardcore here. So I'm going straight legs underneath table, fully straight legs. The Knicks beat the Pacers. That ain't that surprising. The surprising thing is that the Knicks trailed for the majority of this game. People are saying, is it a cup hangover? Do you want to not win the cup because it's hard to go back to the regular old regular season? I don't know.

[Skeets]

I mean, they were sitting guys.

[Trey Kirby]

They were also sitting guys because the cup takes it out of you.

[Skeets]

Yeah, that's right.

[Trey Kirby]

These guys are probably cramping out, going straight legs under the table. But the Knicks finally took the lead at the 840 mark in the fourth quarter on a Tyler Kolek jumper. Good news for him. Played a great cup game. Didn't count for anything except for his awards, I suppose. But 16 points, 11 assists for Kolik last night in a game that mattered. And he was playing fourth quarter minutes again. I love to see it. But he hit the jumper that gave the Knicks the lead. But OG and Jalen Brunson really brought the Knicks home in this one. OG hit a big corner three to tie things up with a minute 50 left. Then Brunson hit a step back three in Andrew Nemhard's face put the Knicks up one with five seconds left on the offensive end for the Pacers. A steal by OG Anunoby. Tried to take a full court, didn't make the layup, but ran off enough clock. His old Raptors teammate Pascal Siakam challenging him at the rim. Main thing I took away from this, Jalen Brunson got a double bang on his three pointer. He did from Mike Brown. It is the middle of December. You're playing one of the worst teams in the league. There is history. There is certainly history between the Knicks and the Pacers. This was a big comeback, but that felt. Felt like Mike Breen was reaching a little bit there. You don't need a double bang in that scenario. I don't think.

[Skeets]

Was that our first double bang of this NBA season? I believe it was. I know we had a couple last.

[Trey Kirby]

I can't remember one off the top of my head.

[Skeets]

I have a running.

[Tas Melis]

We've had one.

[Skeets]

I don't think we've had one this year. I had the running list from my notes shows last Season. We got a double bang in game six versus the Pistons in the playoffs.

[Trey Kirby]

Reasonable for sure.

[Skeets]

And then we did have a weird one where Mikhail Bridges versus the Blazers in March of 2025. So last season, I think that got a double bang from Breen. We also had Steph Curry on Christmas Day 2024. That's obviously last season. So I think we had three in total last year. But now we got another one here. You're right. Hell of a shot. Big shot.

[Trey Kirby]

Big shot.

[Skeets]

He just gets caught up in the moment. Just he's excited. Bang, bang, excited to see it happening Cactus Jack style. But hell of a shot, guys. Goddamn good, man.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, he's awesome. Yeah. 25 for Brunson. Hit three threes last night. Seven assists as well. He, you know, Tim Bontemp's got the straw pole out.

[Skeets]

Oh, is it out?

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, he was a fifth. He was fifth voting.

[Tas Melis]

Okay. Yeah.

[Skeets]

Were you, Were you the only guy to.

[Trey Kirby]

I was not the only maxi voter.

[Skeets]

To vote for Max.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, he. I think Maxi was maybe eighth. After all was said and done. I do think Jalen Johnson was a one vote receiver in this.

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[Skeets]

Okay. Wasn't me. If you're looking at me like I.

[Tas Melis]

Had Brunson as my fifth vote. So did I. Yeah, he's. He's doing it, man. They're going to finish number one in the Eastern Conference. He's going to get plenty of votes. And despite them sitting some guys, I thought, yeah, maybe there is a little bit of a. An NBA Cup. You just get a little sluggish after winning it all. You're in Vegas, you put up that trophy, and quite often the NBA cup winner loses their first game. Happened to the Lakers, happened to the Bucks, but not to the New York Knicks. Despite sitting guys. They even have a couple guys who are out in Sham and McBride. So they chose just the sit guys because. Just cuz.

[Skeets]

Yeah. No Cat. No Mitchell.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, just Cat is banged up.

[Skeets]

Yeah, he was banged up. That's true. He had the calf injury at the end of that cup game.

[JD]

Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Skeets]

Or missed a good chunk of it, didn't he? I think they. Did they party in Indianapolis? Is that what I heard? Like they flew to Indiana. Really? I think that's. I was just gonna ask. Probably the only place to party in India. Indianapolis. Bring out the horseradish St. Elmo Steakhouse, which is good. Yep. It's a great place. It's the only place, but it's a great place. I'm kidding. I'm kidding.

[Trey Kirby]

Imagine how Red Tyler Kulik's face must be after eating that shrimp cocktail.

[Skeets]

You don't think you can handle it?

[Trey Kirby]

I mean, it's like a cartoon character.

[Skeets]

All right, final game to draft from. I have the last pick here. Yeah, there's tons on the board, but give me a wild ending. And it was the Blazers outlasting the Kings 134 to 133 in overtime. We had a lot of overtime games last night, and they got there, they got the victory because of Denny Abdia's late free throws. So Portland led by 15 with two minutes left in regulation and then totally collapsed. We got this classic. Demar derozan. Can't miss a shot. Yeah, he's hitting clutch shot after clutch shot. Remarkable. Down the stretch. Gets them back into it. Hits a jumper with four seconds to go in overtime to give The Kings a one point lead. No timeouts, though. And J.D. you can roll it because Portland raced down the court and Denny Abdia is going to draw a foul on Russell Westbrook. So that's the DeRozan jumper. Okay, gotta inbound it. You got time. Like 10 seconds. Go, Denny, go. And a foul was called on this play. That, to me, was a generous foul call.

[Tas Melis]

Yes. Oh, it's the super late, super late call. It wasn't called until literally the missed shot.

[Skeets]

Mark Davis from the other side of the floor, too, is pretty wild. Look at everybody in disbelief. The Blazers announcers were pretty floored by the call.

[Tas Melis]

Oh, yeah.

[Skeets]

Denny Avdia, one of the most egregious guys in the league when it comes to complaining for foul calls. Like, he's right up there with your Lucas. And maybe, you know who else? Jokic, I guess, at times. Sengoon, maybe. But Denny Havdia's up there. He did nothing. I'm convinced he did not think he was getting that call at all. Like, he was like, oh, okay, well, I had to force it up, but, you know, okay, whatever. And then, yeah, late call, like you said, Tas. And what? That's. That was brutal. Because then you see the slow motion replays and it's like, I guess they're saying there's a tiny bit of contact from Russell Westbrook a little bit earlier in the play. It is nothing. And it's all created by Abdia, who likes to barrel into guys, too. And that's just a bogus call. Kean Ellis doesn't touch him. That's a tough way to lose. I felt bad for DeRozan. There was a shot back to Kevin Durant's. Do you see DeRozan he was, like, slumped under the stanchion after, like, they're like, replaying it or considering if it was a foul or whatever.

[Tas Melis]

That's not how you referee. I don't think they teach that in refereeing school, where a guy goes down, he literally lets the ball go. The ball misses the net, the buzzer goes. Everything is over. That was when he made the call. It was way too late. It didn't make any sense. And it was the referee trailing it. So there's two other referees that could see it better who didn't call it either.

[Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

And then all of a sudden, you call it from that angle. It was literally because he missed. And that's the unfortunate part. It doesn't make sense, number one, at all. But number two, it only makes sense because he missed and he decided, you know what? He did get bumped. I'm going to rewind that my brain and see the hit. I don't understand why he made that.

[Skeets]

Bumped. Yeah, I would say he got bumped because he threw himself into guys.

[Trey Kirby]

He was. And I get it.

[Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

He forced the issue, you know, And I guess credit to that. And if you are. I guess if you're a Blazers fan, you're saying these guys aren't in legal guarding position. But this is a brutal call. Kings definitely have a gripe.

[Tas Melis]

It is.

[Skeets]

So that's the shock from the Kings cannot. They were like, the game's over.

[Tas Melis]

They thought they won. Yeah.

[Skeets]

Yeah, the game's over. We won. Good job. And Westbrook had a great game for the kicks, too.

[Tas Melis]

Oh, he set up Demar at the end there. Yeah. To get it done.

[Skeets]

Solid game. Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Kings were down 15 with two minutes.

[Skeets]

Yeah. I mean, it's amazing leaving. Got back into it. But anyway, a wild one. I just want to note here, too, before we get to worst of the week. Jokic broke the record for most assists by a center in NBA history last night. Remarkable for two reasons. One, Jokic is 30 years old. It's not super old. And the other one, Jokic has played 771 career games. He broke the record set and maintained by Kareem Abdul Jabbar, who racked up 5,660 assists in 1,560 games. So as Ziller noted this morning in his newsletter, Jokic broke the record. One which has stood for like 36 years in less than half the games it took Careem to establish it. Remarkable. Remarkable stuff from Jokic.

[Trey Kirby]

He's pretty good.

[Tas Melis]

He's pretty good.

[Trey Kirby]

I think he's good. He finished Second in the straw poll right now.

[Skeets]

Oh, yes. Was it close?

[Trey Kirby]

It was super close. This is going to be like. Who was it? Magic Johnson? Charles Barkley? Isn't that the, the closest MVP race? This one's gonna be up there.

[Narrator/Ad Voice]

Okay.

[Coca-Cola Ad Voice]

Yep.

[Skeets]

I'm excited. All right, let's get to worst of the.

[Tas Melis]

Ladies and gentlemen, the worst of the week. We've got three nominees. The first one, it's an all timer. This is a historic worst of the week nominee because 84 year old Martha Stewart had her toe broken by Jalen Brunson in last year's playoffs. She's sitting courtside late game one, the Eastern Conference final and Jalen Brunson stepped on her toe and she said she knew it immediately. She knew it was broken immediately. There's about five minutes left in the fourth quarter. Worst part is it goes to overtime and she has to sit there and fight through it. I say she has to, but she chose to. She wanted to. Martha Stewart is a fighter. So I could have made this best of the week because Martha Stewart and her 84 year old toe was a fighter. She's now 85. I think she told Jimmy Fallon this story this week. That's why we're, we're making it worse the week, this week. And she basically said don't wear open shoes if you sit courtside at a basketball game.

[Skeets]

There you go.

[Trey Kirby]

Good tip.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. Closed shoes. She remains unbroken, I imagine like she doesn't break it, I guess. I don't know. I don't know how sensitive 84 year olds toes are when somebody gets, somebody stomps on them. But you know, I didn't go check the clips of Jalen Brunson stepping on her toe if it was.

[Skeets]

Yeah, he like fell into her.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. Okay. But she fought through it, so good for her.

[Skeets]

Well, here's what I immediately thought. We were in New York City for this game, for game one of the Pacers, Knicks.

[Trey Kirby]

That was it.

[Skeets]

Yeah, that was the game.

[Trey Kirby]

The Halliburton game.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Skeets]

Yeah, that's right, the Neesmith game or whatever you want to call it.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[Skeets]

And it was May. It was like so mid May, late May. I don't remember it being warm.

[Tas Melis]

No.

[Skeets]

Why are you wearing sandals, Martha? Is what I'm asking now. She probably has a driver, just drives right up to Madison Square Garden. She's barely outside.

[Trey Kirby]

Yes.

[Skeets]

But I remember us walking around and I think we had jackets.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, for sure we had jackets.

[Skeets]

Okay.

[Venmo Ad Voice]

We did.

[Tas Melis]

It was slightly chilly.

[Skeets]

It was slightly chilly. Yeah, we did because we went to A little party before and we had like, there's like a coat check. And then we went to a bar. I remember putting it on the back of the stool while we watched that crazy game. And then we went back and all got in bed and did a podcast together.

[Trey Kirby]

Yes, we did. That's all true.

[Tas Melis]

And we even wore shoes, some of us, in the bed, I think. Kept our shoes on in the bed.

[Skeets]

Did we? Yeah, we may have. Wow. Really?

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, I think so.

[Skeets]

I think you're right.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. Didn't take shoes off.

[Skeets]

Whose bed was that? That's unfortunate.

[Tas Melis]

JD's.

[Skeets]

Damn. Sorry, JD.

[JD]

Yeah, that's fine.

[Skeets]

We wore our shoes. That's crazy. We didn't take our shoes off because we were doing like. We were doing like with our toes at one point. Our feet. I think we did take them off.

[Tas Melis]

I think when you come into a bed studio, take off your shoes.

[Skeets]

I mean, that should be a rule. Somebody look it up. Somebody in the stream team. You can find the footage of us.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, but she doesn't go outside at all. Like, she gets. She gets driven in. She gets, you know, right into the. Right to the arena, I imagine.

[Trey Kirby]

I bet you're right. Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Martha Stewart's hot. She's one of the hottest 84 year.

[Skeets]

Old women out there. 85.

[Tas Melis]

It is incredible. She does not look like she's 85. She doesn't. 65 maybe.

[Skeets]

And she's been to jail.

[Trey Kirby]

I know, that's amazing. Since courtside of games. She's like a rapper.

[Skeets]

Sort of is. Did you watch. There was that Martha Stewart doc. Did you watch that?

[Trey Kirby]

I didn't watch it.

[Skeets]

Yeah, it was good. And she was. She's hot now. She was real. She's been hot.

[Trey Kirby]

She was.

[Skeets]

She's been hot.

[Trey Kirby]

Martha Stewart versus Helen Mirren. What you got?

[Tas Melis]

All right, nominee number two.

[JD]

That's too close to call.

[Trey Kirby]

Too close to call. I know.

[Skeets]

Too close to call. This is a real Blanche from Golden Girls or Mona from who's the Boss?

[Trey Kirby]

Tough stuff.

[Tas Melis]

Tough stuff. Yeah. Very similar ages. Helen Mirren, 80.

[Trey Kirby]

We love our octogenarians.

[Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

All right, nominee number two, the Cav season in. What video is this? It's Darius Garland handling the ball. And then Jared Allen, his teammate, brings Darius Garland to the floor because Garland literally runs in.

[Skeets]

Oh, yeah.

[Tas Melis]

To Jared Allen. Now this is from. Yeah, the Cavs. Jack on Twitter summed it up this way. The Cast season one video. I know you podcasters are not watching this, but we will share it on NoDUNK's Twitter account because it really Depicts the cast season pretty freaking well. Somehow Darius Garland looks like he's going towards the rim on an offensive possession, but he runs into his own guy and collapses. And that's where the cast season is. And especially those two guys. I like how it is those two guys because, yeah, one of those guys.

[Skeets]

They may not be there easily.

[Tas Melis]

Could be dope very soon, could be both, but it feels like one. One of those guys. So shout out to the Cavs, Jack.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

For throwing that one together.

[Skeets]

We saw that exact play last night playing pickup basketball.

[Tas Melis]

Oh, really?

[Skeets]

Yeah. Our guy Greg did the exact same thing.

[Trey Kirby]

It's a good point.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Skeets]

Head down, sort of ran into his own guys. He was okay, but look bad like that. That looked gross.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[Skeets]

Like, oh, are you okay?

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

That should happen on a pickup court, not on.

[Skeets]

That's what I mean. No offense to our guy.

[Trey Kirby]

That's good.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Skeets]

But it's. Yeah, it's. I would predict you're seeing that more in pickup runs than on a professional basketball court.

[Tas Melis]

No doubt. It is weird. I like that ang the one angle because it looks like he gets his head taken off.

[Skeets]

Oh, I know.

[Trey Kirby]

He smacked them.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. Nominee number three here, it's Marcus Smart's hilarious pass. It's a real shacked in a fool move, I will say. We'll also tweet this out if you're not watching here on YouTube because it's just classic stuff.

[Trey Kirby]

This is awesome.

[Tas Melis]

You get an outlet pass. Marcus Smart leading the break, and he thinks he's passing it to Jared Vanderbilt over his shoulder. Does an over the shoulder pass like he's tossing some salt over his shoulder and it gets easily picked off by Grayson Allen. It goes the other way and it's a three pointer. So, you know, double loss right there. But we didn't show it to you because we worry about the copyrights either way. Marcus Smart. What up with that? That was just a bad one. Now they won. They smacked the Suns in that particular game. So all good because it's late in the fourth quarter and all good, but it's a good. It's a good shackton move. If we're going to define anything as shack, then it's that one. That one is a. That's a shack and play right there.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, I think the. I think the Suns, like went on a big run.

[Skeets]

They came back.

[Trey Kirby]

Smart had another brain fart a little later in this game. Full mark of Smart experience, if I'm not mistaken. But yeah, even Grayson Allen has, like, given up on the play. He's Like, I'm not going to catch him. He's just going to lay it in. Just throws it right to him. He was passing it to Grayson Allen.

[Skeets]

Good luck.

[Tas Melis]

Yep.

[Skeets]

Three worst of the week nominees.

[Tas Melis]

Those are them.

[Skeets]

What would you give it to? Sounded like Jalen Brunson for breaking our sexy Martha Stewart's toe.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, it's all how you look at it. The Cavs is the best one for this season right here, right now. But Martha Stewart, that's a one of one type of moment. You don't really hear people breaking stuff.

[Skeets]

Which toe was it?

[Tas Melis]

A really good question. She didn't tell Jimmy that.

[Skeets]

What's your guess? My guess is it was the pinky toe.

[Trey Kirby]

I was gonna guess one of the three in the middle. Those ones seem like they break the easiest to me.

[Tas Melis]

You know, I was gonna go big. I was gonna go big.

[Skeets]

We found that out. All right, let me just.

[Tas Melis]

Because it was very apparent looking at her sandals, the big toe was right up right out there, right in your face when you looked at it. But it would make more sense, I guess, if it's.

[Trey Kirby]

If you find photos of Martha Stewart's feet, send them My wife.

[Tas Melis]

Well, I. They are my desktop. Just.

[Trey Kirby]

Just Martha's toes.

[Skeets]

I've got. I've got something here now I don't saying pinky, but.

[Trey Kirby]

Okay.

[Tas Melis]

Does it here. Let's see if it. This suedes you one way. The sandals are those like the cross thatch sort of sandals. Like an X thatch that she's wearing.

[Trey Kirby]

Okay.

[Tas Melis]

You know what I mean?

[Trey Kirby]

An X thatch.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. So, yeah, I just made that up. So I guess. I guess all toes are out there. But I'm looking at them.

[Skeets]

All toes are out there.

[Tas Melis]

They are. Yeah.

[Skeets]

She's got a bit of a platform to them, you know.

[Tas Melis]

Wow.

[Skeets]

She give her some height.

[Trey Kirby]

Asking for an injury.

[Tas Melis]

Right.

[Trey Kirby]

Sprained ankle or something.

[Tas Melis]

It is weird. So she literally did not get up and go to the back or go anywhere.

[Skeets]

Oh, it's big toe.

[Tas Melis]

Yep.

[Skeets]

She said big toe confirmed.

[Tas Melis]

Oh, my bad.

[Skeets]

Yep.

[JD]

I should.

[Tas Melis]

I should have that. That's probably why I thought it was big.

[Skeets]

You're not reading people dot com.

[Tas Melis]

I read that whole freaking thing. It slowed down my browser. It slowed down my browser for hours.

[Skeets]

You're right. I get in a lot of ads right now.

[Tas Melis]

No, but literally, you know when you get that little. That little bar that says this website is slowing down your. Your browser performance or whatever. Yeah, that kept on coming up people dot com. What up with that?

[Trey Kirby]

You think Martha Stewart thinks the Nick should hang up the banner. I know she's big into, like, interior.

[Tas Melis]

Decorating and stuff, so I wonder if she has.

[Skeets]

Oh, my God. This won't stop popping up things.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Because 28 uses for the NBA cup by Martha Stewart popcorn bowl.

[Skeets]

She said, quote Jalen, who's now super duper. He's so great. I have the Brunson fracture. He stepped on my big toe on this foot. And she pointed at her foot. That's why I'm wearing open toe shoes, because that's the only kind of shoes I can wear now. Interesting. She's saying now because she broke her toe, I can only wear open toe shoes. But that was also part of the reason you broke your toe.

[Tas Melis]

Wow.

[Skeets]

All right.

[Trey Kirby]

That's wild stuff.

[Skeets]

Let's take a break. Let's everybody regroup. Yeah, exactly. And then we will get into no dunks holiday tradition.

[Tas Melis]

Well, it's Friday night. It's Friday night. I'm feeling all right. And the duel is here on the website FanDuel. They're turning it up with NBA Happy Hour every Friday from 6 to 7:30pm Eastern. FanDuel is dropping limited time specials to get you in the zone. Boosts, bonuses, surprises, all designed to bring that Friday energy. It's fast, it's fun, and it's here for one reason. To kick start your weekend before the first tip. Check this line. It's a little bit of a different line than those. Those ones I was sort of mentioning. But the spurs are now leading the Southwest division. They have the best record in the Southwest Division, and they're still underdogs on FanDuel to win it. I brought it up seven days ago. They were plus 280 while the Rockets, who were leading it, were minus 350. Now the Rockets are minus 180 and the spurs are just a plus 145. But still, they're leading the division. They're still the second best odds. Kind of odd. I guess you're wondering if Wemby's gonna stay healthy. I guess that's part of it. The Rockets are just awesome. But either way, there's a line. There's also some Fun time in NBA half hour happy hour on FanDuel. NBA happy hour every Friday, 6 to 7:30 Eastern, only on FanDuel, official sportsbook partner of the NBA.

[Skeets]

Okay. If you're still with us here on YouTube and you didn't click away after we were talking about Martha Stewart, its toes hit the like button. Subscribe. We'd appreciate it. Okay, time for a no dunks holiday tradition handing out gifts from the Hamakishlemma catalog.

[Trey Kirby]

Yes.

[Skeets]

Yeah, you're pumped. But there's a problem this year, boys. You will notice I have no Hamakishlemma catalog in my hands. There is no Hamak or Slema catalog. That's right. The 175-year-old plus catalog based retailer was acquired by a Southern California investment firm in 2024. And they started laying off staff in April of this year. And they've initiated a going out of business sale as a result. No Hamarker Schlemmer catalog was printed this season. This is very sad. And yes, we had the rip. The rip meme for us and the Hamakish lemma there.

[Tas Melis]

Which company made the purchase? I'm going to follow them.

[Skeets]

No, it's like S5 or something like that. Yeah. So that's a bummer. And I wasn't going to do this this year. At first I was like, I don't have any catalog to even flip through. That's. That's the fun. But there is one silver lining. The retailer known for hard to find, unexpected and unique merchandise is offering 20% to 50% off the original price on all online store merch and up to 70% off on clearance items. Everything must go.

[IBM Ad Voice]

Wow.

[Skeets]

Yeah, that's right. So let's get to the gift giving. And yeah, I'm cheap this year. A lot of this stuff on clearance. So I need you to take that into consideration when you guys guess the prices for these items that I am buying you for the holidays. So as always, the price is right. Rules here can't go over. Okay, Trey, I'll start with you, my man.

[Trey Kirby]

Okay.

[Skeets]

This year I am buying you the interactive laser tag game with vests and blasters we just talked about.

[JD]

Yeah.

[Skeets]

Playing laser Tag on the 44 things to do with your boys. That was a substack exclusive. So I thought I would get this for you.

[Trey Kirby]

Thank you. We haven't done it. And look. Four blasters.

[Skeets]

I know.

[Trey Kirby]

Four vests.

[Skeets]

I know.

[Trey Kirby]

This might actually be an actual purchase.

[Skeets]

The rechargeable laser tag set transforms indoor or outdoor spaces into fast paced arenas for friendly competition. Players suit up with responsive vests and lightweight blasters. Lightweight?

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Skeets]

That register hits accurately, creating immersive gameplay with without projectiles or without cleanup. Great. Yes.

[Trey Kirby]

You don't gotta find the darts.

[Skeets]

Nope. Nope. Just lasers, baby. Okay, so because it's your gift, Trey, let's. Let's let you start with the cost of this item.

[Trey Kirby]

Wow. This is. This is kind of tough. Am I Allowed to, like, ask for more information as if it were a spelling bee.

[Skeets]

Yeah, sure.

[Trey Kirby]

Is this a clearance item?

[Skeets]

I can tell you in one second.

[Tas Melis]

Good. First question.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, that's huge to me because I need to know if I'm taking 20% off my estimate. Are 70% off.

[Skeets]

This.

[Trey Kirby]

This is. This one's got to be a 20% off laser.

[Skeets]

I'm telling you right now, it's 20% off.

[Trey Kirby]

Okay.

[Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

I would guess Hammocker. Very overpriced in general, Usually.

[Tas Melis]

Yes.

[Skeets]

I mean, maybe. Maybe that's why they went out.

[Trey Kirby]

Who wants to spend that much? So, okay, I'm going to say my original guess would be $130. Okay. So if I'm subtracting 20%, give me 99.99.

[Skeets]

Okay. Okay, that's. That's Trey's guess. That's my guess. Now, task. What do you. What do you think here? You want to go higher or lower?

[Tas Melis]

That's a really good guess. Yeah, I'd go a little lower. Oh, a little lower. Yeah. 95.

[Skeets]

Okay. 95. 99 or whatever. And then. J.D.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. I've.

[JD]

I actually. Oh. Have owned this exact set.

[Skeets]

No.

[JD]

Believe it or not.

[Skeets]

Well, thank God I didn't buy it for you.

[Trey Kirby]

Does it accurately register the blast costs?

[JD]

Actually, it's pretty good. Okay. It's pretty good.

[Skeets]

Wow.

[JD]

We didn't get it.

[Tas Melis]

We.

[JD]

I think we got it at Target, and Rachel bought it, so I have no idea how much she paid for it.

[Skeets]

Okay.

[JD]

But I'm gonna. I'm low balling this. I'm going 49.99.

[Skeets]

Okay. Well, JD technically would win, but you guys were closer.

[Tas Melis]

Oh, okay. Yeah. My. My. My bet was not. My wager was not smart at all. I need to go lower. If you're going under the price is right rule. It's stupid, but I just felt like it's just a Little High anyways. 89.99.

[Skeets]

79.99. It was $100, 20% off.

[Tas Melis]

Okay.

[Skeets]

So well done on that. You had that part right. And there it is one more time. I'm happy to hear it works. Well, J.D.

[JD]

Yeah, it does.

[Skeets]

Okay.

[JD]

It's fun where the kids have had fun. The idea that there's no cleanup is just a lie because kids crashed into stuff all the time, like knocking over drinks and knocking over vases and whatnot. Plants, I think I picked up one time.

[Tas Melis]

That's not laser tags, bro.

[JD]

Yes, it is.

[Tas Melis]

You're not cleaning.

[Skeets]

Clear the area.

[Tas Melis]

But I do like how they mention indoor or outdoor fields. Where there's less things to clean.

[Skeets]

Now I want to know, does it work as well outside? Like, with the lighting and all that?

[JD]

I don't think it does.

[Skeets]

I can't imagine it would. Yeah, but we gotta get it and find out.

[JD]

We definitely had fun. The kids had fun playing with it, so that's a good gift.

[Trey Kirby]

Rap Stallion here in the stream team says no dunks versus the hoop collective and laser tag.

[Skeets]

Make it happen. Hell, yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

They got four as well. Three. Three on Mike plus Jackson.

[Skeets]

Oh, they got Jackson. Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

We're going head to head with them.

[Skeets]

All right, watch back.

[Trey Kirby]

Tim McMahon.

[Skeets]

I love it. Well, we got you. They got some. They got some height. I don't know if that is a disadvantage, though.

[JD]

Yeah, not really, because you just. You got to hit the. The thing.

[Skeets]

Yeah, but, like, we're hiding behind things. It's gonna be more difficult for a tall guy to hide behind, right?

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Skeets]

McMahon's got some height on him. Montems isn't a small guy, so. Advantageous. Advantageous. Next one here. What do you buy? The world's best driver. That's what I was wondering. And, Tas, I got something for you here.

[Tas Melis]

Can't wait.

[Skeets]

The driver's see through sun visor.

[Tas Melis]

Okay.

[Skeets]

Let me tell you about it. This tinted car visor blocks blinding glare without obstructing a driver's view. Ideal for when the sun hangs low in the sky. The shatterproof 100% polycarbonate shield clips securely to most any vehicle visor. In second, the see through visor eliminates the need to search for sunglasses or. I love this part. If they're already being worn, it provides additional glare protection. Thank you. Ha. Mocker slam a Cadillac. So, Tas, you know, I. I have said. I'm on record many times saying you're the greatest driver I know, and I think this will.

[Tas Melis]

You don't know many drivers.

[Skeets]

No, I don't. But you are a good driver, and I think this is something you could use here in Atlanta.

[Tas Melis]

Oh, gosh. Very current, actually, because I don't have sunglasses in my car. I left them out, like, two days ago, and I still haven't put them in. So each morning it's very sunny when we're driving here. Yeah, I get hit. I get hit with some bright sun. Should I pull down my visor? Oh, no, I don't have that see through one. I can't see through. I always underestimate prices. So does this 20 to 70% off factor help me? I'm just gonna go low, as I always do. Doesn't feel like there's much to it.

[Skeets]

I'm gonna tell you right now. Task before you guess. There was no clearance discount on this one. This is the price. Is the price. Okay.

[Trey Kirby]

No discount on polycarbonate.

[Tas Melis]

Give me 79.99.

[Skeets]

Okay.

[Tas Melis]

Way too freaking high. But I'm doing it because that's what Hamaka Schlemma does.

[Trey Kirby]

That's a great point.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

All right, Trey, sounds like it's lower.

[Trey Kirby]

Would it be like a blackout shades if you were wearing sunglasses? And flip that down. Seems dangerous. 49.99 for me.

[Skeets]

Okay. A little bit lower than tasks and then.

[Trey Kirby]

J.D.

[Skeets]

Where you going? We got a 49. We got a 79.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, that's right. Y. All right.

[JD]

I'm going to pull the douchebag move. $1.

[Skeets]

Oh, JD takes it home again. Very affordable. $29.95.

[Trey Kirby]

I mean, that's not bad. Not bad at all.

[Skeets]

Sunglasses.

[Trey Kirby]

This will cost you that easily?

[Skeets]

Yeah. I don't know. I don't think you should buy this or have this in your car, though. It doesn't seem safe to me.

[JD]

I'm with you.

[Trey Kirby]

I don't think you should have this.

[Skeets]

Does that only.

[Trey Kirby]

I guess it only covers the driver's side.

[Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

I didn't like, imagine having two of those side by side.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Skeets]

Only 29.95.

[Trey Kirby]

What a deal.

[Skeets]

All right, over to J.D. it's your turn, my guy.

[JD]

Oh, nice.

[Skeets]

I think I got something really nice for you. You're working a lot over there. You're, like, hunched over your computer a lot. I'm sure you play pickleball. I'm sure you're at times, your back.

[JD]

Is a little sore every day.

[Skeets]

Okay, great. Well, J.D. you're getting from the Hambocker Slender catalog, the door mounted foam massage roller system. Look at this thing. Transform any doorway into a personal recovery station with this innovative foam roller system. The wall mounted design secures quickly to standard doors, providing flexible roller heights for targeted relief of back, back, shoulder and leg tension. Durable high density foam rollers rotate smoothly to simulate professional deep tissue massage. Yeah, right. Loosening tight muscles and improving flexibility. JD this was a clearance item. Big, big percentage off. No one was buying. This is what we're getting at here, right?

[JD]

Yeah. Well, I can see why.

[Skeets]

Yeah.

[JD]

I mean, I do use a foam roller every day.

[Skeets]

Yes.

[JD]

In exactly that spot in between my shoulder blades.

[Tas Melis]

Right.

[Skeets]

Okay.

[JD]

I do the whole back, like, lower back. But when I do it, I'm like, I wish I was standing doing this rather than, you know, Lying on the ground, going back and forth.

[Skeets]

You do. You're not being sarcastic?

[Tas Melis]

I'm not.

[JD]

I'm not being sarcastic at all.

[Skeets]

What a gift.

[JD]

I am being sarcastic about wanting to be standing up because this is like the worst trust game ever. You're playing with a gadget.

[Skeets]

That's true. Wear a helmet if you do this.

[JD]

Yeah, exactly.

[Trey Kirby]

Is that like just a tension bar, you think?

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, I think so.

[Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

It's a doorway.

[Skeets]

Like, there's no way you can put a lot of pressure on that thing, right?

[Tas Melis]

Oh, no.

[Trey Kirby]

This is a pretty funny product. It's like make yourself into a bear in the woods.

[JD]

All right, give me a cost at 19.99.

[Skeets]

Okay. Okay.

[Tas Melis]

Oh, I'm putting some truck trust in this thing. I believe in this thing. I believe you can put 150, 250 pounds, whatever you weigh. Wow. Yeah, thanks.

[Skeets]

Let me tell. Let me see.

[Tas Melis]

Something to do with you. The label on there will say. Yeah, max weight 280. Like one of those. I mean, you can put.

[Skeets]

It doesn't say anything.

[Tas Melis]

You can put a pull up bar in a door frame.

[JD]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tas Melis]

I ain't falling.

[JD]

I've fallen off of a tension, like, chin up bar at least 10 times in my life. Like, it's just completely come down.

[Tas Melis]

The one that you have on a door frame. Yeah.

[Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

That's unfortunate.

[JD]

Maybe I'm just heavy.

[Skeets]

Let me tell you, it fits standard doors. Okay.

[JD]

Okay.

[Skeets]

26 inches to 40 inches wide.

[Tas Melis]

It is scary. That thing is scary because you can see those little adjustment things on there where you put your little thumbs and. Yeah. You pull it out right. It already looks like it's gonna fall apart. A little janky, but I think it's 49.99. But I guess it's clearance. I don't know. 49.99.

[Skeets]

Okay. Okay. And you, Trey Kirby?

[Trey Kirby]

I like $49.99 as a price, but I'm subtracting 70%. Give me $15. $14.99.

[Skeets]

Okay. J.D. what did you say again?

[JD]

90. $19.99, J.D.

[Skeets]

Right now, three for three with the Price is Right rules. You're doing well. 34.99. Wow. Tassa again. You were there.

[Trey Kirby]

Wow.

[Tas Melis]

That's 100 bucks.

[Skeets]

Bucks. Before it was $120. No wonder nobody was buying that.

[Trey Kirby]

That's a crazy price.

[Skeets]

Yeah. 70 off clearance item, guys.

[JD]

Amazing.

[Skeets]

I got one more gift because I thought treat yourself. No, no, no, no. I don't do that. Christmas is for others. But I thought Brianna, who Helps us out in creating a lot of short form content. A lot of the shorts you guys see and clips and stuff like that Brianna helps us out with. So I thought, because I know she has a little pup, I thought, let's get her and her pup. The canine communication push buttons. Okay, now listen to this. These are the recordable push buttons that let a canine companion communicate simple thoughts and requests. This set includes three buttons, each one enabling you to record a word, phrase, or sentence, such as, I'm hungry, let's go for a walk, or outside. After your messages are recorded, one simply trains their pet to push the appropriate button to let them know what they want and when. Each button records up to 20 seconds of audio and recordings can be overwritten if desired. I'm including here. Dog not included, but yeah, I think that'd be very nice. I like that you record the message.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Skeets]

So you're gonna hear your own voice saying, I need to go piss. Like, that's weird when I think about it. I guess you don't have to record your own voice. You can get somebody else to do it. But what do you. Let's argue tasks here on this one. The canine communication push button.

[Tas Melis]

Listen, I hope Brianna gets this. This is nice.

[Skeets]

It's not on clearance. Other. Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

I think. I think they're trying.

[Skeets]

Ass dog man. Play. I want to play. You want to play?

[Tas Melis]

It's $39.99, but you're getting every penny's worth. As soon as you buy that thing, you record, walk on that thing. And the dog just freaking knocks it and says, let's do it. Worth every penny.

[Skeets]

Okay, so you're like 39.99. 95. It usually is.

[Tas Melis]

Okay, right, right, right.

[Skeets]

39.95 from Tas. What do you got, T.K.

[Trey Kirby]

I'Ll go a little lower. 1995.

[Skeets]

Okay. And J.D. can you run the gambit here?

[Tas Melis]

Gauntlet. Run the gauntlet.

[JD]

Gauntlet, yeah. What do we have?

[Tas Melis]

We got 1999 and 39.999.

[JD]

I'm going to go. I feel like they're going to way overprice. This is not markdown, right?

[Trey Kirby]

No, no markdown.

[JD]

Put me down for $49.99.

[Skeets]

Okay. Who had the. Who had the lowest? Trey Kirby gets us, I think 29.95. Yes. You got it.

[Tas Melis]

Okay.

[Trey Kirby]

Okay.

[Skeets]

Yeah. Basically 30 bucks for that. 10 bucks a button. Come on.

[Trey Kirby]

10 bucks a button. Do you think a dog could really learn that?

[JD]

No.

[Skeets]

Yes.

[Trey Kirby]

Hey, come on.

[Skeets]

Pavlov's absolutely good dog.

[Tas Melis]

Oh, yeah.

[Skeets]

The Ding Dongs you got to put some work in, J.D. but you could. I don't think it would be that. I've seen, like, way better versions of these things. Like, this is cheap as shit. There are, like, whole, like, mats that you can get for dogs.

[Tas Melis]

You can teach a dog that.

[Trey Kirby]

Okay, you can teach a dog that. Would you do voices?

[Skeets]

Like, Yeah, I would. I would put on a voice.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, like the voice you think your dog has.

[Skeets]

Right, Right.

[Coca-Cola Ad Voice]

Boy with me.

[Skeets]

Yeah, like, yeah, exactly.

[JD]

I wouldn't put commands on. I would put like, oh, I put like. Shut up. You know? Hey, Hazel, you want to go play?

[Skeets]

Shut up.

[Tas Melis]

So you're tapping the button.

[Trey Kirby]

Two for the dog, one for the human.

[Skeets]

Definitely made one of them turn up. Love you guys. Awesome. Don just keeps clicking it. All right, there it is. Look, it's sad. I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna sugarcoat this. The hallmark of catalog is basically dying now. There was some talk that this, you know, equity company or whatever is gonna revive it, bring it into the. The new age online world, you know, whatever. But it's not the same without the magazine, the catalog, it's just different. You're right. I, like, was, like, disappointed also. All of these online gifts, some of these are okay, but, like, there was none of the four thousand dollar, eighty foot tall abominable snowman that you blow up. You know, like, none of the crazy ones. Remember the ones we were. I was like. It was like a jukebox and stuff. Like, we've done this for a long time now. Now none of that.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, Like JD Says, like, he. He got his laser tag set at Target. These look like things you could just find at a store, unfortunately.

[IBM Ad Voice]

Yeah.

[Skeets]

So anyway, let me know if we should keep going with the.

[Trey Kirby]

People are going to say yes.

[Skeets]

That's going to be okay. I do have a lot of fun, you guys. Guessing. Yeah, for sure, for sure.

[Tas Melis]

Been around 175 years. Yeah. Going out of business after 175 years. Wow.

[Skeets]

It's been a good run. That's a hell of a run.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, that's true.

[Trey Kirby]

Great run.

[Coca-Cola Ad Voice]

What a matchup we got, y'.

[Skeets]

All.

[Coca-Cola Ad Voice]

This is that classic HBCU vibe. Non stop action. The band is rocking and the crowd lit. Chance echo drum beat, everybody showing that school pride. Game like this.

[JD]

Yeah.

[Coca-Cola Ad Voice]

It calls for an ice cold Coca Cola.

[Tas Melis]

Ah.

[Coca-Cola Ad Voice]

Crisp and refreshing. That's a game changer right there. Yeah, that's the taste. Always hits the right note. Just like the band at halftime. And just like that, we're back at it. Passionate fans, school colors everywhere and an ice cold Coca Cola. That's a winning combo no matter the sport, no matter the yard. Everybody knows fan work is thirsty work. So grab a Coca Cola and keep that HBCU pride going.

[IBM Ad Voice]

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[Narrator/Ad Voice]

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[Tas Melis]

And Doug.

[Skeets]

Here we have the Limu Emu in its natural habitat, helping people customize their car insurance and save hundreds with Liberty Mutual. Fascinating. It's accompanied by his natural ally, Doug.

[Trey Kirby]

Uh, Limu is that guy with the binoculars watching us?

[Skeets]

Cut the camera.

[Tas Melis]

They see us. Only pay for what you need@liberty mutual.com.

[Skeets]

Liberty Liberty. Liberty. Liberty Savings Ferry Unwritten by Liberty Mutual Insurance Company and affiliates excludes Massachusetts. Lil Boy. Lil Bite of the night. We got a sponsor, Mark Everhart. Reaching out through email.

[Tas Melis]

Respect.

[Skeets]

Can I sponsor Whoa boy? Hell yeah, you can. Sure. Yeah. Good. Cost you, of course, but sure. So Mark, you get Woah Boy of the night and you got a good one. This is my favorite part. You don't know what player, you don't know what performance you maybe are going to get here, but you got Luka Doncic going for his 85th career triple double, 45 points, 11 boards, 14 assists, five steals from the Donk in a win over the Utah Jazz. Shot 14 to 28, 13, 16 at the line. Only one turnover. He made note of that. Only one turnover. I think the Lakers only had seven turnovers as a team in their win against the Jazz. So good stuff for the Donk there. Thank you, Mark, for sponsoring Willboy. And now we have people lining up to sponsor Lowboy. Now we have to start keeping track of Monday and Tuesday's show. They're already booked. Start looking ahead to maybe 20. 20.

[Tas Melis]

That's amazing.

[Skeets]

That's right. But we appreciate it.

[JD]

We may want to set a price, a minimum price.

[Skeets]

Wow.

[Tas Melis]

Well, Mark Everhart was good to give us $40. Yes.

[JD]

I'm not complaining.

[Skeets]

That, that's very nice of you.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, yeah, Yeah. A number would be good. Well, instead of what? Because you don't want a $99.

[JD]

It's getting overwhelming, I guess, because we got to keep track.

[Skeets]

I think right now people are respectfully putting in a fair amount of money for Woah, everything. There's not. There's not a lot of $99. The opposite is true.

[JD]

You're right.

[Tas Melis]

Okay. Yeah. I wish. I Wish Luke had 40 points. It would have been so fitting. $40 for 40 points. It was close. It was close there.

[Trey Kirby]

I like that people care more about renaming Whoa boy than who gets it. Yeah, like they're not trying to have influence over who you're picking.

[Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

But if you could call it Hoeboy or Scro boy, that'd be nice. Yeah, it's great stuff.

[Skeets]

Yeah. Mark didn't specifically ask for anything. Right. I didn't botch that.

[Tas Melis]

He wanted us to have lunch. He said lunch is on me.

[JD]

Nice.

[Tas Melis]

That's why I'm giving you $40. Because he. I guess he thought $40 was an appropriate amount for lunch for. For everybody.

[Skeets]

I know what we're having for lunch. Po boys. Po boy. Po Boys.

[Tas Melis]

That's the one. That was the name on J1.

[Skeets]

Po Boy of the day.

[Tas Melis]

We got dessert here. We got a box of.

[Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

Baklava. Etc.

[Skeets]

Yeah. Where did this come from?

[JD]

Courtesy of Meher Maher, one of our founders.

[Skeets]

Thank you. Thank you very much. There's a lot in there. We will be eating that right after the show.

[Trey Kirby]

Yes, we will.

[Skeets]

I'm a hungry boy. Okay, Tas, tap the button. Pick him.

[Tas Melis]

I'm a hungry boy.

[Skeets]

Pick em game tonight. I will say my. My streak is snapped. I got a victory last night with the Suns. Nearly blew it, but we got there. Trey also got it right. You took a rare loss here in the month of December.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is me at 11 and three trades at seven and seven, skeets at five and nine. So we've got a race here. The spurs are visiting the Hawks. Spurs are favored by two and a half points, so they got to win by three or more. If you're taking the Spurs, I'm the only one to take them. Surprisingly.

[Skeets]

Yeah, a little bit.

[Tas Melis]

Because spurs playing well.

[Skeets]

Yeah, They're a better team.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

They're 11 and two versus teams below 500. Are the Hawks below 500? No, but they're, you know, they're not too far away. And they're 8 and 5 versus teams above 500. It's a back to back for Wemby. Will he play after playing 17 minutes yesterday against the Wiz?

[Trey Kirby]

I think so.

[Skeets]

I hope so. I think so. I'm gonna be there. Come on, man.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Skeets]

I'm taking my wife to see Wemby. You gotta play. You gotta play.

[Tas Melis]

W. Yeah. If he doesn't play, what are you gonna do? What? What type of letter or note or video are you gonna send to the NBA and say, this is bullpucky. Everybody should be playing every single game?

[Skeets]

It's funny you asked that. Nora was asking, like, is he? Because I was telling her a couple days ago, like, oh, it's a back to back situation. Hopefully plays, whatever. And she's like, I'm gonna bring a sign that says, tall boy must play. I was like, that's a funny sign.

[Trey Kirby]

It's a funny sign.

[Skeets]

You should bring that. You could probably get on SportsCenter or something like that.

[Tas Melis]

So are you guys taking the Hawks?

[Skeets]

I'm going. I'll be there. I gotta cheer for the home team.

[Trey Kirby]

They're pretty good as home Dogs.

[Skeets]

Oh, this guy makes.

[Trey Kirby]

Guess what?

[Skeets]

Doing research, it helps a little bit.

[Trey Kirby]

I can't believe it.

[Skeets]

I don't know. I think it's overrated. I'm gonna be there. I like the Hawks.

[Trey Kirby]

There's a lot of good reasons.

[Skeets]

Exactly. Exactly. All right, so Tas needs the spurs to win by three or more, and we'll take the Hawks there as the underdogs at home. Rapid fire time. Tas Mellis, you have the questions this week, we have the answers.

[Tas Melis]

Let's do it. First one this week. Nikola Jokic said this about Alperin Shengun. Quote, I think people need to stop comparing us. I think he's an amazing player by himself. End quote. What's something you want to stop being compared to, Skeets?

[Skeets]

Good question, Tas, but I'm swerving on this one, Okay? I want this podcast to start being compared to the other big name podcasts. We've done this shit for 20 years, and we don't get one iota of the same buzz, praise, respect, whatever you want to call it, than a lot of the other major ones. And to which you say, well, you're not as good as those other ones. To which I say, bullshit. Bullshit. They ain't running laps around us when it comes to X's and O's, talking about the games, watching the games, and they sure as hell is ain't entertaining as ours. In fact, dare I say, some of them are quite boring. Throw a little spice. Throw a little hot sauce on your eggs once a time, guys. I don't know. That's not a sin. Throw a little.

[Tas Melis]

T shirt.

[Skeets]

Point is. Point is, let's go here. So start comparing no ducks to the other ones. So that's my thoughts. I'm soft. Launching scorched earth skeets here for 2026.

[Trey Kirby]

I think it's good.

[Skeets]

Okay. Yeah. You like it?

[Trey Kirby]

Hot sauce, egg Skeets.

[Skeets]

Yeah, there you go.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, a little hot sauce on your egg.

[Skeets]

Oh, my God. Some of them.

[Tas Melis]

Oh.

[Skeets]

Oh, my God. All right, all right. A little energy, a little laughter. Entertain me while you educate me is all I'm saying. That's right.

[Tas Melis]

Yes. We've been around a long time. Are we compared to the San Antonio Spurs? A podcast like that, we don't get the credit that we deserve. But we're freaking good, you know? I guess not. I mean, it's not an equivalent. It's not apples to apples. The spurs didn't get a lot of credit because in part, they were a little too boring, just like those podcasts. You're saying, need to put some sauce on some eggs.

[Skeets]

Well, the spurs have Wemby. We won a Webby once.

[Trey Kirby]

It is similar.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Skeets]

Very similar.

[Tas Melis]

All right, Trey. Something you want to stop being compared to.

[Trey Kirby]

The thing I want to stop being compared to is the old guy who slapping his balls over the fire. You know that guy? He's like a ripped old guy.

[Tas Melis]

Oh, this guy.

[Trey Kirby]

He's wearing a Speedo, and he's got a giant beard, so. I've had this video sent to me so many times in the past four.

[Skeets]

Years asking if it's you.

[IBM Ad Voice]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Hello, Trey, what are you doing, man?

[Tas Melis]

Why?

[Trey Kirby]

What's going on with you? Look, is that something I would maybe do as a joke? A hundred percent. Do I think it's funny every time I see it.

[Skeets]

Yeah. Let the record show that last night at pickup basketball, one of our first wins, Trey Kirby started going around doing the Josh Hart to everybody.

[Trey Kirby]

High five, thumb up the butt. Only one guy dodged out of the way. But look, I'm not that guy.

[Skeets]

I'm not that guy. That's not you. Stop comparing. That ain't me.

[Trey Kirby]

Stop comparing me to the old guy slapping his balls over the fire. Which is what I Googled to find out what the video is.

[Skeets]

I was like, I don't know.

[Trey Kirby]

What is this guy? I don't know his name. Old guy slapping balls over fire. Not me. I'm sticking thumbs up butts. Slapping balls over a fire.

[Tas Melis]

Oh, that video is so weird.

[Skeets]

It goes on way longer than you think it's going.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, yeah. It's not me.

[Skeets]

Okay.

[Trey Kirby]

It could be me.

[Tas Melis]

He's just dealing with it, too.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, it's like his thing.

[Skeets]

Guy, they adds. I mean, I assume he's doing it, like, for some health reason. Is that what he's saying? I'm sure that's what he's saying.

[Trey Kirby]

I don't know what it is.

[Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

Oh, as in he potentially had his testicles removed. Testicular cancer or what?

[Skeets]

Oh, no, no. I'm just saying he's like. Oh, man. Awakening. Yeah, exactly. Whatever the reason is.

[JD]

Fortitude. Right?

[Skeets]

Maybe I'm Fortitude.

[JD]

Yeah, you know, like your mental fortitude. Your mind over matter. Yeah. Toughening up.

[Skeets]

Oh, you're saying that was the equivalent of, like, a cold plunge or something?

[JD]

Yeah, that's. That's my theory. I don't know, though. I don't know.

[Tas Melis]

Maybe.

[JD]

Why else would you do it?

[Skeets]

I don't know. I don't know.

[Tas Melis]

For the hits.

[JD]

Yeah, for the hits.

[Trey Kirby]

For the click.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. Same thing. Yeah.

[Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, the virality has a great, like.

[Trey Kirby]

A cadence to it.

[Skeets]

Yeah, the viral. Virality. Vi. Vi. I can't say virality. I really can't say that word. Virality.

[Trey Kirby]

I can't say virality.

[Skeets]

Yeah, Virality. Okay.

[Tas Melis]

You did it.

[Skeets]

Yeah. It doesn't sound the same.

[Trey Kirby]

Vitality.

[Skeets]

Why. Why are people always getting on me? The way I say Vegas, I actually don't know.

[JD]

That's one that I don't legit.

[Trey Kirby]

Say it again.

[Skeets]

I say Vegas.

[JD]

Vegas.

[Trey Kirby]

I think because you. Most people would say, like, Vegas V A Y. Gus. And you are more of like a Vegas. V E H H, Gus.

[Skeets]

Okay.

[Trey Kirby]

Kind of like bagel. Bagel, I think.

[Tas Melis]

Huh?

[JD]

I think we said it exactly the same. But that's.

[Skeets]

That's everybody. Every time I say Vegas, there's somebody saying, what is up with that?

[Tas Melis]

It's Vegas. It's more Vegas. Vegas.

[Skeets]

Vegas.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, it's. Forget about how it's spelled. You're saying more how it's spelled. More Vegas.

[JD]

It sounds exactly the same to me.

[Skeets]

I'm literally going to. Let me start the balls here.

[Tas Melis]

All right. J.D. can you. Yeah.

[JD]

I'm getting Hagrid more and more, and it's pissing me off.

[Tas Melis]

Okay.

[Trey Kirby]

Too much Hagrid.

[JD]

Too much Hagrid. It's never. It's never momoa. You know, it's got the goddamn Robbie Coltrane with a beard. Okay, I hear you people. I'm making some changes this year. All right?

[Trey Kirby]

What are you.

[Tas Melis]

What are you doing?

[JD]

Nope. No, the beard stays. It's my body, obviously. That's the problem.

[Skeets]

Start slapping your balls over.

[JD]

I'm gonna start slapping my balls 100 times a day over a fire.

[Trey Kirby]

The fire is the key. I do think so.

[Skeets]

Just wait till you get that back roller set up.

[Tas Melis]

It is.

[Trey Kirby]

Isn't there, like. There's like a Harry Potter series coming out?

[Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

Soon. Yeah. Yeah.

[JD]

Who's playing Hagrid in that?

[Trey Kirby]

I don't know, but everybody looks the same. Jason just looks like they're running it back.

[Tas Melis]

You're still gonna be called Hagrid with the beard.

[JD]

Yeah, you're right.

[Tas Melis]

It. It ain't the weight. Nobody's saying you're overweight.

[JD]

Yeah, that's. That's exactly what they're saying.

[Tas Melis]

N ha dyed his hair once. Maybe you can dye your hair. It's non gray. All right, second one here. The question, courtesy of Jalen JL7EN on Twitter. Without naming your job, tell me something you say 15 times per day at work. We've just heard plenty of them. It could be Vegas. Vegas skeet. Start us off.

[Skeets]

I mean, yeah, it could be basketball, I assume, but I wanted to get a little more creative, so I went with the word reminder. I say reminder a lot before we do the show. Every time I say cell phone reminder, guys, computer reminder. I say make sure your volume is down on your computer. But then there's a lot of like, hey, reminder to post this later or reminder that we have a meeting on the books later. There's a lot of like reminding each other of things in addition to make sure your computer and your cell phone's off. So 15 times a day. Maybe not that, but said a lot.

[Tas Melis]

But then you put reminders on your phone. You see it many times. See the word many times.

[Skeets]

You know me, I love my Any do app. My reminder app.

[Tas Melis]

Any do app.

[Skeets]

Drink water. Click. Did that continue to live life, breathe. Did that Slap your balls around the fire? Did that. Yeah. So reminders. My word.

[Tas Melis]

Good one.

[Trey Kirby]

For me it's. Can you name the top X players who did whatever? I wouldn't say 15 times. Maybe 15 times a month, though that still seems pretty free.

[Skeets]

Oh, yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Doing random trivias.

[Skeets]

Random trivias for sure. Who's.

[Trey Kirby]

Who's leading the league in screen assists right now? Being in the top five in screen assists. What was the other one? The one the other day was top six in offensive rebounds. That lead directly to a three pointer.

[Skeets]

Oh, yeah. Yeah. We didn't do that on the air.

[Trey Kirby]

No, that was a post game.

[Tas Melis]

That was a tough one.

[Skeets]

That one was tough.

[Trey Kirby]

That was tough. Mitchell Robinson, number one.

[Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Josh number two. Isaiah Hartenstein, number three. Dyson Daniels, number number four. Tied for fifth and sixth. Eve's mece.

[Skeets]

Oh, yeah.

[Tas Melis]

Jericho Sims.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, man.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

That's just information. We know now. We just know it.

[Tas Melis]

Jd.

[JD]

Yeah. I would struggle with this one. So I will just quote the great Matt Barnes. I say a lot. That's it. That's the only thing that I say more than 15 times a day.

[Tas Melis]

Day. Okay.

[JD]

Job related. Usually, you know, you know, you think.

[Skeets]

It'S happening here in the factory.

[JD]

What do you mean?

[Skeets]

You're saying the F bomb.

[JD]

Yeah, like, oh, I went to the wrong camera again.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, yeah.

[JD]

Look at my lighting.

[Skeets]

Lighting's amazing.

[JD]

What are you talking about for you guys, I'm like, oh, yeah, we do have to address.

[Skeets]

Next on the list, somebody seems like you're in like. Like a. Basically a bathroom stall.

[JD]

Yeah. Yeah. Which is a pick them we did for Tass. Had to do it.

[Trey Kirby]

That was a good one.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. Oh, my God. That was forever ago. Toilet hat. Oh, toilet hat. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[JD]

I feel like I'm in a toilet.

[Skeets]

He's saying the one where you had to do it from the bathroom stall.

[JD]

And that's a great point.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. Toilet tenant. Yeah, that was the score. Was that me or you?

[JD]

That was. No, no.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[JD]

Skeets, did the bathroom attendant.

[Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

Oh, yeah.

[JD]

Tass sat on a toilet with his.

[Skeets]

The toilet on his hand to keep track.

[JD]

People are saying that I, I, I look like I'm in a high school stall, right?

[Skeets]

Yes.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. The lighting needs to be adjusted on that set of, well, you know, side of the set.

[JD]

It'll come.

[Trey Kirby]

It'll come.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Skeets]

It's on the list.

[Tas Melis]

Reminder.

[JD]

Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

All right, next one here, the last one has another Jokic connection. When Jokic was drafted, we didn't even see it. ESPN was famously airing a commercial for Taco Bell's Quesarito. YIC revealed earlier this year that he had never tried the now discontinued Quesarito because of that very moment. No, I'm not trying that thing. But in a turn of events, Taco Bell is bringing back the Quesarito and attempting to get Jokic to come try it. What's something you would try at Taco Bell, Skeets? Now, we did talk about Taco Bell a few weeks ago, right. So I was, you know, the direction. The question could have been, have you tried something in the last few weeks? Have you gone to Taco Bell in the last few weeks? But I assume. No.

[Skeets]

No, I rarely eat Taco Bell. I've had Taco Bell three times in my life. Same.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, great.

[Skeets]

Very few times.

[Tas Melis]

What's something you got to try when you go there for the fourth time of your life?

[Skeets]

Well, it's, it was a limited time nationwide offering in late 2025 for Friendsgiving, apparently. And it was the Mountain Dew Baja Blast Pie. That teal colored pie.

[Trey Kirby]

That was a crazy looking pie.

[Skeets]

Intrigued, though. Ah, intrigued. Now, I'm a beverage man. You know this. Yeah, yeah. So the Mountain Dew. Sure. But yeah, the pie, the key lime style pie, I guess it was with this teal colored Baja flavoring.

[Tas Melis]

It is teal.

[Skeets]

I would have liked to have tried it, and I will try it one day if they bring it back, which I assume they will. Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

That thing looks freakish.

[Skeets]

Yeah. I call it, like, radioactive.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

So there was.

[Skeets]

But it's got to be good.

[Trey Kirby]

You said it's Key lime pie. Ish.

[Skeets]

Yeah, I think so.

[Trey Kirby]

I love a key lime pie.

[Skeets]

Yeah, right. With the. I mean, it's gonna be so sweet.

[Tas Melis]

Oh, very sweet. So it's called the Baja Blast. The Baja Blast drink, yes. That's something we could get Brianna. I do think she commented when we talk about Taco Bell a few weeks ago. She said, oh, that Baja Blast is great. I want that. All right, so there we go.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, they get exclusive flavors. Currently, they've got the Mountain Dew, Baja Midnight, no dunks purple.

[Skeets]

Is that what it is?

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, look, it looked good.

[Skeets]

Okay.

[Trey Kirby]

I was going through the menu last night to answer this question, and the one that I hit on was Frank's Red Hot Diablo Chicken Nacho Fries. Frank's Red Hot Diablo Chicken Nachos.

[Skeets]

Honestly, sounds delicious.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, nacho fries that are hot.

[Trey Kirby]

What's a nacho fry?

[Tas Melis]

It's a good question.

[Trey Kirby]

That was the biggest mystery to me. I was, like, pinching and zooming on my phone, like, trying to figure out what was going into this.

[Tas Melis]

The nachos without nachos, it's just like.

[Trey Kirby]

It'S fries, cheese fries with Frank's Red Hot Diablo sauce on top. And, of course, slow roasted chicken poutine. Basically, a Taco Bell poutine.

[Skeets]

Sort of.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, but I was like that. That phrase just was very funny. That is Red Hot Diablo chicken nacho fries. You don't know where it's going after every single word.

[Skeets]

No. Put some Frank's Red Hot Diablo sauce on your podcast. Spice it up. That's right.

[Tas Melis]

So J.D. doesn't seem like you've been to Taco Bell many times in your life.

[JD]

The same as Skeets. Like, maybe three times. So, yeah, I jumped into the menu, and maybe because it was this morning, but breakfast, California Crunchwrap looks delicious. I don't know, man. Little dabs of what looks like maybe guacamole or avocado, But I zoomed in really close, and it was more like it was dribbles of liquid green something that'll look good.

[Tas Melis]

Liquid green something. Do you know anyone in your life.

[Skeets]

That has ever had Taco Bell for breakfast? Because I know they're open for breakfast. I don't know a single person has ever had it.

[Tas Melis]

That's surprising.

[Skeets]

Interesting. I'm sure somebody in the Stream team.

[Tas Melis]

Has, but surprising that it exists. Yeah, because I don't know anyone who eats it either.

[Skeets]

It's like, I have a theory that they're just opening up the place early to, like, create all these wild foods.

[Trey Kirby]

Get in the lab.

[Skeets]

Yeah, get in the lab early. No one's coming in for really anything until. Until lunch. But let's put some things together, literally throw it at the wall, see what sticks. Yeah. And the answer is all of it. At Taco Bell, it all looks like literally turds.

[Trey Kirby]

I like a bean burrito, but that thing doesn't look appetizing on the men.

[Skeets]

It does not one of the times I've had Taco Bell. Grish, our buddy Grish got it. You know the kids like it, right? And, like, it is amazing. Like, it's like a whole bunch of these, like, tacos or whatever, and you just, like, unwrap it. It's all wet. It just looks disgusting. But then you eat it and it's like, that's not that bad. But, God, it doesn't look appetizing.

[Trey Kirby]

The food scientists. Yeah, yeah. They're more concerned with the flavors than the appeal.

[Skeets]

They are. I do believe they are. All right, that's rapid fire. Not so rapid, but fire. Okay, before we go, we are continuing to thank our founding members on Substack. Really appreciate everybody that is a founding member, everybody that is a paid subscriber, and all you free subscribers. We're having a blast on Substack. We share this show every day ad free. Okay, so some of you podcast listeners get tired of all the ads on Spotify or Apple. They get inserted, right? Well, they're ad free on our Substack page. We blast out that show every day. So you want to be a paid subscriber for, what is it? 5.99amonth?

[Tas Melis]

$5 flat.

[Skeets]

$5 flat? What is this, a, huh? Mocker? Slam a camera? 5.95. No, $5 flat. You can get an ad free podcast if you want, but here are our next 10 founding members. These are the special people. This is a difficult name. Dvarikin. Thank you.

[Trey Kirby]

Thank you very much, Simon.

[Skeets]

Whatever you say, buddy. Jeremy Redburn. Jared Woodcock's. Oh, Zach. No H. Drop the H. It's cleaner. Jrb, Notorious Levi or Levy. Thank you, John Horn.

[Trey Kirby]

Hey, what's the weather?

[Skeets]

That's right. In Victoria, we got Connor. Thank you so much. And finally, here of this batch, Glenn Wright. Always right, never wrong. Glenn. Right, baby.

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[Skeets]

So thank you to the our founding members and as we continue to make our way through all of them. We just had one, a new one the other day. I will be emailing you. Well, I'll be emailing you shortly to get you a T shirt. All right, that's the drop.

[Tas Melis]

That's it.

[Skeets]

Is that spicy enough or what?

[Tas Melis]

Perfect spice level.

[Skeets]

That some spicy eggs? Some spicy eggs for sure. Okay, so we have a funky little holiday schedule coming up here next week, right? Because I can't believe it. It is Christmas next week.

[Tas Melis]

Six days. Count it down. We all. We're all like, gotta get it done. Gotta get it six. I got six days. Gotta get it done.

[Skeets]

Yeah. Are you an advent calendar household? You are the kids.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Skeets]

Toys, chocolates, chocolate.

[Tas Melis]

Bobby comes every day to deliver chocolate chocolates. Bobby, that's a made up, Made up person. Call him Bobby. As in Bobby puts in the cat. The. The chocolate. Danielle puts it in.

[Skeets]

Oh, okay.

[Tas Melis]

But it's Bobby who writes the note for the child. Everybody knows Bobby's not real, but Bobby does it anyway.

[Skeets]

Oh, they know Bobby's not real. Okay.

[Tas Melis]

Bobby.

[Skeets]

That's awesome. So next week JD is off to Mexico.

[JD]

Yeah. See you later.

[Skeets]

Wow. Well deserved. Well deserved break for you, man.

[JD]

Thank you.

[Skeets]

Gonna hit the beach, gonna dig a hole.

[JD]

I am digging so many holes. Can't wait to see what I find. Okay, what else was the reason to dig a hole? Just dig a hole with your bros, right?

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah. You never know what you're gonna find.

[Skeets]

Something to do and never know what you're gonna find. Okay, so you're gone for, you know, a week and a bit. So have fun.

[JD]

Thank you.

[Skeets]

See, the weather's amazing.

[JD]

I imagine it's spectacular.

[Skeets]

Oh, wow.

[JD]

Spectacular. 28. High of 28 Celsius. Sorry, guys, that's for John Horn.

[Tas Melis]

Okay, 28.

[JD]

Yeah, every day.

[Skeets]

Wow. Well, take your sunscreen. Oh, there's nothing healthy about a tan.

[Tas Melis]

What city? I need to know where I'm. Where I'm.

[JD]

Puerto Vallarta.

[Skeets]

Oh, yes. Classic Trey. You are not heading to the warm beaches. No, Mexico. You are going to Chicago.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah. Also high at 28.

[Skeets]

Oh, damn. Damn. Seriously? Oh, okay.

[Trey Kirby]

No, I mean, it is 18 degrees currently, but we're talking about highs and.

[Tas Melis]

40, you know, laughing.

[Skeets]

40 Fahrenheit.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, 40 Fahrenheit. Okay, 40F.

[Skeets]

So you're gone next week. JD's gone next week. So it's gonna be me, Tassel, and our old friend the kid, Eshawa Kid, here in studio for Monday and Tuesday at least. So that'll be fun. So we'll be back on Monday, do NBA Weekend winners and losers, Tass and I. And we'll have some fun on Tuesday as well. We'll have ash, like I said. And then the plan is maybe a podcast on Friday to recap the Christmas Day games. That one won't be here in the studio. Probably just jump on the yard for that one. The following week. Be back for shows here in the factory on Monday. So we'll get some content next week. Not a full sked but a few shows. So we'll see on Monday here in the factory. Until then, Clipper Bros. You heard it here first.

[Trey Kirby]

Have a great time. Turn up.

[Skeets]

Love you guys.

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[Tas Melis]

Thanks for joining us. And remember, I thought I may have a a cool line from one of our stream teamers to say it right here, right now to put a button on this show. But I got nothing.

[Trey Kirby]

Come on, stream team.

[Tas Melis]

People are saying Bobby's world. World. I guess they're talking about the character. My.

[Skeets]

I used to love that cartoon.

[Tas Melis]

Oh, I don't remember.

[Trey Kirby]

The world was good.

[JD]

Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

So good.

[Skeets]

That was good.

[Tas Melis]

Howie Mandel, legend a lot.

[Trey Kirby]

He's on a long time.

[Skeets]

Yes.

[Trey Kirby]

How are we doing it?

[Skeets]

Keep living, Howie. Keep living. Embrace the weekend people. Keep living.

[Trey Kirby]

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[Tas Melis]

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