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Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. I am Pablo Torre. And today we're gonna find out what this sound is right after this ad.
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You're listening to Giraffe Kings.
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I don't know if we've ever. All three of us have ever been in the same place, same time.
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Yeah. People have thought that you are me and I am a mean. Because no one's ever seen the three of us.
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Finally, I just realized that conspiracies can end. Oh, speaking of conspiracies. Yeah.
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I took it off last night because I had an itch and I slept with it off and I forgot to put it back on. Guys, Photoshop it on.
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Yeah, hold on. Extend your hand.
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No, it's there.
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I just going to Photoshop it onto it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Make it even a little bit. Yeah. Dan Soder.
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Oh, what a. I was going to say.
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Hold on. Three, two, one. What a beautiful ring. Definitely there one person at this table. And edit.
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I was going to say, Dan, she's really passive aggressive. This is how she breaks up with you.
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Oh, no, I forgot my ring.
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I had an itch that I needed to scratch.
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No, I did. It was literally. I can't explain it, but if you get like an itch under your ring finger when you're trying to fall asleep or under your ring, it's like, I need it off. I like need to get it off so that I can itch my.
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That's what. That's what. That's what Kate Middleton said.
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I know. How is she? All right. I don't think that video they released of her. I don't. Look, I don't want to go down the conspiracy theory, but that's not how she walks. She does not walk like that. It was off. It was not correct. She is poised. The woman at that farmer's market was like her, you know?
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So, Katie, that's how you walk.
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Yeah, I know. Like I'm here in boy clothes. I understand who I am. I know what role I play.
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Unlanded, gentle.
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I am the. I'm, you know, the people's princess. Pre princessness, Princess Dom.
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Just waiting for a Disney miracle.
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I just need a frog to kiss me or something.
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We're here to do a lot of things. Amin. As a foreshadowing, I booked a me a means here in person.
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Yeah, I did not know I walked in. Very surprised. I haven't seen a mean in pre pandemic.
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Yeah, for sure.
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At least four years.
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It was. I probably been five years. It was July 2019. It was the.
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I Thought you're gonna have, like, a real date.
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No, it was. Yeah, it was. I could probably find one if I looked at my phone, but it was the ESPYs. That was the.
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That was the last.
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Last time I seen you.
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What are your memories of the SPS from 2019, the last time you guys saw each other?
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No, it's because we did the. The go kart racing. That's. That's.
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Yeah, we did Mario Kart Go faster now.
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Katie's in my rear view. My Mila's pretty far up ahead of me.
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Yeah, it's really just too easy for me.
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Honestly.
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I'm the most merciless, the most worthless.
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My car's too slow.
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Oh.
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Always late with Katie Nolan. Shout out some cool.
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Yeah.
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So late. It's dead now.
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Mina Kime's cheated. Just gonna throw that out there.
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No, it was. Was it me that cheated?
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Gary.
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Gary had the only person who is.
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Banned from this show. Yeah, Gary Strasky.
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Because he's hot. Pablo. Pablo.
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Pablo is what I prefer to call him.
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Yeah.
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But others have suggested that he is.
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No, he cheated. And he said. He said as much. He admitted. And I got, like, legit mad.
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My favorite thing was that Gary apparent to work at a go kart track somewhere, and so he, like, consulted, like, nitrous in his. Yeah, they took the governor off of his.
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In his go kart.
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He got rid of the governor, and I was like, what?
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I didn't even know.
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I didn't know what that meant. I was like, how does the government get involved in this?
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So we'll get to Amin and Amin's week as global Internet celebrity in a bit.
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That's every week.
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Foreshadowing, chuckling, foreboding, chuckles. But I actually wanted to start with something that happened that involved all three of us and Katie Nolan's show about four years ago. Almost exactly. If you can play our first clip on Sharon Tell.
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Here's the game.
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Okay.
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The original idea was that I would just sit in a Zoom chat alone and send the link out to every famous person I know and wait and see who shows up. But then Zoom got hacked, and I was like, no one's gonna click on it. So now we're trying. We're doing a thing where all of us are in on this game, and the goal is to get the famous person to join our Zoom. But we're trying to decide. You look nothing like yourself. It's freaking me out.
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When are we going?
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Right now. Go.
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All right. How do we win?
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Damn it. That's a Good one.
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I'm on the board.
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What's happening? Oh, wow. Jesus Christ. The only way I can see Kaden Nolan is through a impromptu Zoom. Oh, J. A's phone.
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Oh, I went too soon. Yo, what's up, man? Welcome to Leo White. I should have held. I should have held on to that one. I went too soon.
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Wait, we're gonna. We're gonna. We're gonna walk through some of this down the memory lane of April 2020. Of course.
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Damn. It was April. It was early.
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It was the beginning.
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It was the beginning of the. But. But Zoom had already gotten hacked, which I forgot about. Yes, but I remember Zoom got. People were, like, showing up at other people's Zoom meetings right before we were about to do this, and I was like, no, it's going to do it.
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Zoom bombing. People were playing, like, hardcore porn and, like, college lectures, so I was worried.
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People weren't going to show up.
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And meanwhile, Amin was, like, texting Urkel Jaleel White, like, hey, join. It was like, join this meeting.
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We had come up with, like, a specific thing you could say, a prompt that you couldn't, like, deviate from that was like, hey, join this meeting. Looking back on it now, I'm like, why didn't we just text everybody and say, I'm trying to get the most famous person I can to show up?
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Because people would have said no.
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We were challenged. The goal was we needed to only have our. Our. Our pull.
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Our own charisma.
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No appeal. Exactly right. Our vibes.
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Also, as I'm sure we'll see throughout the clip, I ruined the thing by the every time yelling, who brought you? The second somebody famous shows up? Because I wanted to keep track of who brought who, and then I didn't because I got hammered. Very drunk.
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Oh, I didn't know that.
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I didn't know that, but that all makes sense.
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The whole time I'm doing two. Two hands of wine.
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Yeah. So Nick Wright begins it. You Nick Wright again, we're in. For those not paying attention to our show now and then, Amin brought Urkel. Very good.
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Very early.
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Hate to. Hate to keep on Urkelizing you, but the night goes on.
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Oh, Andrew Schultz. Hey, Andrew Schultz. Who invited you Here? There she goes.
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Amin, Am I allowed to. Sage.
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Yes. Carmel, who invited you?
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It was a meme, dude. I came heavy hitters early Mike shirt.
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You just missed Jaleel White.
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Mike. Sure. Who invited you?
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Ryan. God damn it.
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Mike's here.
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Mike Ryan. He's assembling the Parks and Rec writers room at this party. Let's go. Let's go.
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With the background. Wow.
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This is Chris. Chris on. Was that Diana Rossini invited Chris Long or.
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I think so.
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I think so. But bearded Bob Lee with the tropical zoom background.
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Yeah.
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Who had no idea what was happening and then left almost immediately.
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Did not stay.
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I think Bob. Bob left with the speed of someone who could leave to catch a predator if they were allowed to leave to catch a predator. I just remember him being like, no.
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To be clear, Bob, that's the only relation to. To Catch a Predator. No other correct relation. I will also say this was my own personal hell that I didn't see coming, was that people would log on with their friend's account so their name wouldn't be their name. And they all don't look like, you know, Bob Lee was. Had glasses on and was, like, over. And so I had this moment where I was like, oh, as a lady who. When it comes time to name someone, I panic. I don't have, like, that facial recognition brain thing, but I do panic when it comes time to say anyone's name out loud. My brain goes, you're gonna get this wrong. You're gonna get this wrong. And so every time somebody came in as the host, having to be like, that's the guy. That guy.
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She looks at Pablo like, Jack Black.
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Yeah. I'm like, somebody say the name of this. Whoever. Whoever invited this person, say their name out loud. But no, it gets worse. Yeah, it only gets worse. You can now you can text whatever you want.
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Honestly, God's got the.
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That's my coaching tree.
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Who texted you?
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My teammate, Adam Lepko. Oh.
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Lefkoe brought Dwayne Wayne Lefkoe brought a lot of people.
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This was where it started getting crazy. He was pissed. He's the only one who was legitimately angry to be a part of this.
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Clayton Kershaw.
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I think it's Scott Hansen. It's actually technically Clayton's iPad. Who brought Clayton?
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You're welcome. Why am I here?
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Who.
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Nobody knows why anybody's here.
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Who invited you? Brandon McCarthy. There you go. Thank you, Brandon. Yes.
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Welcome to the show.
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We got to acknowledge that in the editing of that clip, we just did the thing that happened. Earnestly and genuinely to the person who is now one of the biggest stars in America.
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Oh, yeah.
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So beyond Clayton Kershaw showing up shirtless and confused and disoriented, when Lin Manuel Miranda showed up, he showed up, like, maybe 5, 10, 15 seconds right after someone else. Do you remember who that person is?
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No, I. I think I remember I think I know who you're talking.
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Oh, was it.
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Yeah.
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Was it Taylor Swift's boyfriend?
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Yes, that's right.
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Yeah.
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Travis Kelsey.
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I forgot he was there.
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He showed up.
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My good friend Travis Kelsey.
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I mean, his good friend Travis Kelsey showed up and had a line that reminded me of, like, at the time. Was like, is he doing, like, an Adam Sandler impression? He was like, I still don't know why I'm in here. It's like. It's one of those things.
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Yeah.
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Hey, what's going on there, guys? What up, Dud?
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Hey, guys, what's up? I'm on my phone. I didn't even notice that he was there.
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Me, too.
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I'm.
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I'm still just a little confused on what's going on.
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But.
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Yeah, let him know. Let him know what's going.
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What the. Okay, someone just. Juan, like, Hamilton's here. Yeah, man, screw that guy.
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I just want to. I just want to say right now, Travis, you my dog, man. I was excited for you to be there, even though I was on my phone.
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Sounds like he was in between accents.
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No, stop.
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It sounds like he was in his.
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Transitionary period one day. I'm going to.
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From the way he talked to the way he now talks. You understand what I'm saying?
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I do, yes.
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We're not going to do.
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It's like the reverse.
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I don't follow your lore. You have a lot of lore on the Internet.
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Yeah. What's going on with the.
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You guys are actual friends. This is a bit.
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I just want to say that the. The end, which I'm assuming isn't here, is Jeffrey Wright shows up. And then Jeffrey Wright, he stayed for a long time, and he spends, like 25 minutes.
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He was awesome.
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Talking about the state of the world and like. And people.
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People.
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Let me just say this. Regular people. I'm not going to name names, but, like, friends of ours, man, you should be lucky. You in here. We're dropping off. And I'm like, are y' all serious? Jeffrey Wright is sitting here talking to us. Like actual conversations.
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You remember the names? You remember who it was? That wasn't.
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I do.
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On the bleep it. I had to say mine. Oh, yeah.
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You know, not a Westworld fan, you know?
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Yeah, it was a coach who hung out for a while, too.
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Oh, my God.
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Who was it?
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Alvin Gentry?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Alvin. But my favorite. I think one of my favorite subplots was that magically, both Scott Hansen and Andrew Siciliano, we brought the Red Zones together for the first time.
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I Don't think we've ever seen them allowed. I don't think so either.
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I don't.
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I think when they showed up and saw each other, they were like, well, he's got to leave first.
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Wait. Scott and I can't be on the same screen at the same time. The world's gonna explode.
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It was like.
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I cannot imagine.
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It was like, you got served.
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Yeah. They did a dance battle. Yeah.
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My misses Were so poorly received that I think it ended my actual relationship.
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I was gonna say, my regret is I. I did reach out to people I like, cashed in favors that did not pay off. And I'm like, I wish I had waited.
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And, yeah, I'm gonna tell you right.
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Now, I messaged Kimmel. I should not have done that.
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I messaged Ed Hockey.
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Oh, boy. And you said, hey, bud, sun's out, guns out.
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Hey, hop on the zoom real quick. It's nothing bad. I'll explain later. And he has left me on red every time.
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Oh, no. And before that, he was answering, yeah.
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I'd interviewed him for a story. And you're a clown. That's done. I'm merely trust. I'm that guy Barkley. Honestly. No, Barkley. I said, hey, hop on the zoom real quick. It's something that'll explain later. 9:58pm Eastern, April 7, 20, 23 hours later, 11:01pm, he responds, Brother, just got this. Was golfing. Has not responded to any text since.
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Nah, I'm gonna Chuck. Chuck is. That's just Chuck. Sometimes he doesn't hit back. But I will say, I. I've always thought, like, yo, I think me and Jalil's kind of friendship changed after that day. Like, real cool. And now it's kind of like, hey, what's up, man? And I'm like, damn.
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Gotta say, I kind of feel like I didn't help you in that.
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Cause I ruined your guys's friendships with people. I'm so sorry. Good segment, though. Real good segment. Didn't save the show, but good segment.
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It was one of the most memorable things that happened in.
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It was arguably my favorite. Oh, no. My daughter was born.
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No.
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So say second.
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Second.
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Maybe second on the metal stand. So the reason I brought Amin here to New York City to this table was not to talk about what I think we have to talk about in the course of talking about the thing I wanted to talk to him about.
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That's a lot of talking.
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Because, I mean, everything that's been happening to you this week, you're a viral Internet celebrity, which we'll get to. I want to bury that lead because actually, what I wanted to talk to you about is Rabadon, because I feel like I don't appreciate what it is that you and lots of athletes, let alone gas bags are doing right now. So can you give us like a Ramadan for Dummies? Is that, is that a thing you.
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Can help me with? I've done this every year since. Since the pandemic. I do a little. I had a video that I did during the pandemic, and I always post it at the beginning of Ramadan. But I'll give you guys a spiel. 30 days, sun up to sundown, every single day. You can't eat, you can't drink, you can't smoke, you can't ingest anything, you can't engage in any sexual acts. And you. Which is this, that's just the physical part, but the mental part is you have to be kind of a nicer, better version of yourself.
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That's your challenge.
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That is a huge. Honest to God, that is the hardest part for me is just to keep my mind pure and not to be kind of reactive. And especially as that's, you know, when you're hungry, your nerves get on more on edge a lot easier, which I've.
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Learned from marriage and Snickers commercials.
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There you go. Exactly. That's right. But yeah, so the idea is you do this for 30 days and it is meant to do a lot of things. One thing, it, it forces you to focus and be a better version of yourself. Another thing is it puts yourself in the shoes of the less fortunate people who can't get something to eat whenever they want or can't get something to drink whenever they want, but are allowed.
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To be if they want.
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Yeah, I mean, yes, but that's because that's their 365. The way I, I was talking to Byron was one of the guys who works here, and I was telling them my philosophy is for 335 days a year, I'm a piece of. So for these 30 days, I try to be like what I should be every day, but I'm not. So it is what it is. But it is an interesting thing because as you go through it, you meet different people and you're like, oh, you're fasting, you're Muslim or whatever. And that is a cool feeling when you discover, oh, someone else is going through this same shared experience.
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Right. I realized as I was sipping my.
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I don't do it right in front of you. And oat Milk.
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So this is a great segue to, like, the number one of the number one things. Like, oh, my God, I'm so sorry. Like, are we.
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Are we cartoon stakes to you? I mean, on the desert island of Ramadan, did all you see a tall. A literal tall glass of water when.
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The sun goes down? You can.
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You can. You can eat. Yes. And drink, and so.
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And sex can use sex, which is the best time, probably, I'd argue, to do that.
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So sex. This is the funny part. So sex. Yes. If you're married. Right. It's because that's the rule in general. 365. Right. You're not supposed to have premarital sex. You're not supposed to have extramarital sex. So for some people, they just go letter of the law. Like, can't have sex during the day. During night, I can't have sex. I'm of the belief that, like, yo, I. I'm trying to do everything right. So I don't do anything sexual in nature for 30 days. Not even.
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Even a solo act.
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Not even solo acts.
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All right.
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Yep.
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Well, yeah. So you're. And then you have to wake up and be nice.
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And then I gotta wake up and.
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Be nice for 29 more days. That's wild.
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Yeah.
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How far into it are we now currently?
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This. This is day nine.
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Oh, my goodness.
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So we just finished week one. Yesterday was eight days. You know, the first Monday after the first Monday we started, and I have.
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Dropped six pounds, just like my Invisalign.
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We're on the same journey, you and I. We're not so different. What. When it comes to again, the thing that I go to, which is like, what are you craving the most? Does that change over the course of these weeks?
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So it's weird because for the most part, I don't get hungry. I really don't get hungry. I do get thirsty, especially when it's in the summer months and given what I do for a living, I talk all day. So thirst does become an issue at some point, but for the most part, I don't get those cravings. But the weirdest thing, like, I'll be watching tv and then a Red Robin commercial will come on. I'm like, oh, my God. And I'm like, I don't. Never wanted to go to Red Robin. I've never demanded to go to Red Robin, but a Red Robin commercial come on and I'll go crazy. There's this new thing that Little Caesars has. I don't know if you guys have seen them. They're like these mini pizza puffs or whatever, they're supposed to be the new. The, like, the Popeyes chicken sandwich craze of 2024. And I'm looking at them.
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Yeah.
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I'm looking these up, and I'm like, oh, my God. I just want, like, a full tray of them and just open my mouth like, yeah. Like a pelican and just.
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Yeah.
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Take it into my gullet.
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Of course, somehow Photoshop. Pelican Amin Guzzling Little Caesars. Crazy Puffs.
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Crazy, crazy Puffs. Oh, man. What a name.
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What a name.
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So one thing that I have come to understand also is Ramadan is not the same month every year.
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Yeah.
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Huh.
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And so where does, I guess, April rank in your power rankings of months for Ramadan to happen?
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This is. This is. Now we're going. We are steadily heading towards the better part of the calendar. So it moves back 10 days every year because it's on the lunar calendar. So every year, it's 10 days earlier than it was the year before.
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Oh, wait, it's March.
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Yeah, we're March. Well, it'll end in April, but then next year it'll be mostly in March. And then the year after that'll be February. So, like, the number one seed is December. January time. Because it's just, like, short days, cold weather.
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But. But. Well, I guess you don't celebrate Christmas.
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Oh, it's, by the way, one of.
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The most Holiday Idiot.
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One of the most.
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Eat some more crazy puffs, you Christian.
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No, but it is weird because I look at Christmas as the biggest inconvenience in the world for you guys. I don't care. I get. It's like a day off. I just have fun, whatever, and just hang out. But for people who celebrate it. Oh, I gotta get. What kind of Christmas gift? Oh, I gotta get. Oh, I wrap it. Oh, the milk and the cookies for Santa.
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Turbo Man.
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That is what we.
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Christmas.
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Oh, boy.
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I wonder what this is. Oh. Oh, it's socks and a tie again. I like. I don't have to go through any of that. And it's so freeing.
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That's nice. Can I ask you if somebody wants to. If somebody has that urge to say happy Ramadan, what is the way to say that?
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Well, Happy Ramadan works.
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It does?
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Yes. Believe it or not, Ramadan Kareem is like. If you want to get real, like, oh, I'm sophisticated.
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Yeah, Ramadan Kareem.
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Yeah, Ramadan Kareem. That's an easy one. Ramadan Mubarak is another one. Those are the three main Ones.
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Eid Mubarak. What's that for?
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Eid is the festival at the end of it.
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Got it.
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When it's done.
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Oh, let's talk about the end of it.
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Yeah, you guys have. What's. Is there, like a traditional food that is eaten at the meal the way.
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That turkeys at Thanksgiving? How do you celebrate finally getting to do the stuff you couldn't do?
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So the day after Ramadan, the day after the last day of Ramadan is Eid. And you start off. First of all, it's very important. Important, like religiously, they're like, you have to eat when you wake up because you have to signify, I'm not fasting anymore. So you can't be like, I'll get to, you know, I've got a busy day. I'll eat at one o'. Clock. No, like, you gotta wake up and start eating just to say, hey, yep, it's done. Then there's a big prayer. If. If I'm pretty sure whatever major American city you live in, you're going to be driving by a convention center or maybe it's a park because the weather's nice in April and you're just gonna see hundreds of cars and a bunch of people and it's like, what's going on? It's the aid prayer that all the, you know, mosques will get together and they'll put it on, like the convention center or Central park or whatever, whatever city you're in.
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And.
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And then you do this for, like, three days. You're supposed to go visit family and everyone rejoices and all that. For me, I. I probably get through, like, day one, and then I'm like, all right, we're back to normal.
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Yeah, you're basically just masturbating continuously while eating a pizza. It sounds impossible to me. I've been, like, sipping pathetically now just like little.
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Two different beverages.
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You are brunching.
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At the same time. I'm watching someone like Kyrie Irving do this. Looking in for Irving Irving for the wine. A South Paw finish from Kyrie Irving.
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Just on the served.
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Just like one of the greatest game winners of all time, Lefty. If you haven't seen it, you're missing out on just a remarkable thing to do while not having eaten or drank anything.
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So it bears noting that game was a matinee game. So he played the entirety of that game without drinking or Power Bar or anything like that. He was just going off of whatever he had the night before.
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This all helps inform in a real way what I Had been imagining it was like to be you while Kyrie Irving was doing that. Katie, are you familiar. You're familiar with what happened?
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Yeah. Yeah. It came across my. I didn't dig because I figured I'd be getting the firsthand account.
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But for people who maybe missed it, this happened. And the thing about this jump shot is it's confusing because the setup and the beginning of it looks like the.
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Jump shot gonna be normal.
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Okay. Frame by frame, the dribble looks normal. The knee bend look normal.
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The form right through here is normal.
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The elbow's out a little wide, but that's fine. And then the follow through, it all goes to hell. Everything goes to hell. Amin is my guy. Adapt him up in Vegas.
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Cool guy. I don't care.
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Not today.
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He missed this shot so badly. I don't want you to miss your shot.
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To see me live. Kevin stage and friends. It's a live stream comedy show.
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Really good.
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Really good.
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Damn it, Kev.
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I mean, was such a meme that people were advertising their comedy shows on the back of videos of Amin doing. I don't even know where that was. What should we know about the context of what visually is hard to describe? Any better than Kev on stage, that comedian?
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Apparently just so shout out to Kev. That's my guy. But I told him, I've always wanted to collaborate with you. It was an honor to do so. It was. This was in Dallas on Saturday. That's. That's the irony. It's not just that, oh, it's like me and Kyrie the same weekend. Same, like, back to back days. I was on Saturday, he was on Sunday.
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He was like, I gotta. I gotta improve the perception of Islam in America right now.
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I like to think of it as like, huh. I like that. I think I could take something from that and do something with it. No. So Saturday I was in Dallas for Athletes Unlimited. That's the women's professional league. They actually do it in multiple sports, but obviously this was a basketball one. It's a really cool concept, to be honest with you, because they've kind of NASCARized basketball. In other words, you're in teams, but the teams don't really matter. It's all about the individuals. And you get points for your team wins, but you get points for winning quarters. But you also get points for your individual stats. And at the end, you have a leaderboard. And that's how you figure out who won the league.
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And you can only make left turns. Thanks.
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All right.
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So don't miss your chance to See me live.
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So I was invited to do the. Participate in the celebrity game, which was cool because it was a very cool event. The game went off without a hit. That's from before the game while I'm warming up. And I was shooting from that spot, and I had made a couple in a row. And sitting behind me, Miles Elric, who I had met, but like, I kind of friend of a friend. He was with a couple friends of mine, Christine Williams and Tarika Foster Brasby, who used to work with us at Yesterday.
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Yeah, shout out. Both of them.
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Shout out to both of them. They do a great job covering women's hoops. So they're all sitting together courtside, and they're behind me, and I'm making these. I don't know of anything. I'm just doing my thing. And so Tyler tells me, or excuse me, Miles tells me you had made a couple. I said, oh, this is cool. Let me get my phone out and start recording. And so the first one he records is that shot. And he's like, oh, this is even better. And he posts it right then and there. But I don't know this. So I go, I play in this game, and it's fun.
A
You played an entire game without knowing?
C
No clue. I didn't look at my phone the whole time. So after the game, you know, we take pictures and everything. And so I go up to Christine and Tarika. I'm like, hey, what are you guys doing after this? I think we're get something to eat, whatever. And Miles looks at me, he's like, you haven't looked at your phone, have you? I'm like, no, what's up? And he says, oh, man, I posted something. I'm like, oh, so watch this. During the game, like in the fourth quarter, there's a moment where we're making this comeback. We're like a couple buckets down. We get a stop. My man Mareks passes me the ball up court, and I know I have one person to beat. So I'm like, let me just check where they are. I don't catch the ball. It goes out of bounds. Turnover. I was crushed. I was like. I felt like I left, let the team down or whatever. I thought that was what they posted. Like, oh, look at me not even be able to catch a ball. And he was like, nah, it wasn't that. I'm like, what was it? So I pull up the video. Well, first of all, I opened my phone. My buddy Wells. Wells P. Shout out. Wells P. Says my brother in Christ, what is going on here, and I'm like, oh, okay, what's happening? Hold on. So then I look at my Twitter mentions, and I see the video, and the first thing I actually pay attention to is the back of my head and how the hair is filled in pretty nicely. And like, oh, man, the medication's working. And I was like, oh, this is. This is awesome. This is.
A
This is going well so far. Let's see what people are saying.
B
Yeah.
C
Then, you know, the video repeats, and then I see, like, oh, my God, it. It's the worst one ever. Right?
A
And it is, for the record, bad to the point where. And I. I.
C
We're comedians. Or, you know, it's not.
A
I just have to quote our friend Sue Bird.
B
Oh, no. Sue Bird saw it, dude.
A
Everybody saw it. It went to the point where sue texted me. I have to know, included the video of a mean shot, and her question was this real question mark.
B
Like, it's AI. She thought it was AI because the.
C
Hands of AI or that's not so.
A
Or so deliberately terrible that this was a bit.
B
Which, to be fair, I thought when I saw American Ninja Warrior, I was like, it's a bit, right?
C
Check this out.
B
All right?
A
You got to be an athlete. You know what I mean?
C
And the Wasn't that he tried to.
A
Get the rope and went down.
C
I got to say, that looked like a Shaquille o' Neal free throw. That was just ugly.
A
This is the thing with Amin. You never know, is that Amin has a skill, and I'm going to say skill, actually skill. He's a skill at being somehow wildly, globally viral for doing something that seems so athletically inept that it feels like it was on purpose.
B
Yeah.
C
You know, it's. It's funny because I think my skill is letting the joke be the joke. And if I'm the joke, then that's. Then I'm going to laugh. And so I think a lot of people.
B
I haven't seen you laugh yet. I don't think.
C
Oh, no. I mean, like, my Twitter timeline is me retweeting all the funniest things that people have said because it's legitimately funny.
A
But to that point. Right, right. Like, part of me was like, when I saw this, Katie, I was like, amine gave in too, too soon. Like, there. If. If you. If you were. If. If Amin was not somebody who already had the previous experience of, like, I know how to deal with this. I'm going to race car metaphor. I'm going to turn into the skid. Yeah, right. I'm going to, instead of that, form a war room of advisors. Okay. Like, this thing has just happened. I'm seeing for the first time. Pablo. Katie, what should I do here? What would you have advised the mean retire?
C
I am.
A
That's.
C
That's. Katie.
B
I haven't played since, like, go into hiding.
C
I did retire. Oh, what are you doing?
B
What?
C
Oh, I thought you were taking off a ring again.
B
Oh, no, God, no, I didn't. I don't have a ring. I'm very single. No, I. I think you did the right thing. I would have done that. I think I would have been upset for. I know you would have done differently. What would you have done, Pablo?
A
I think I would have concocted some story. I would have said, amin, you are now going to lean in. What you're gonna do, you're gonna tape another video, and it's gonna be you with a newspaper from the day before. Just gotta find a newspaper. You're gonna say, I'm going to troll America into thinking this is what my jump shot looks like.
C
Oh, that's actually a pretty good idea.
B
So are you. Are you saying you do have a good jump shot? That just was one bad shot, and it was the only shot they got on camera. Is that the story?
C
That's not the story. That's what happened. This is not a story.
B
And do you have video of you doing any of the good ones from that game?
C
No.
B
No.
C
Yeah. I mean, look, here's the. This is the other thing I did not realize about these celebrity games.
B
Why don't you have a seat?
C
Everyone's showing up with a team of, like, dedicated shooters who are documenting their every move. And I was just like, I just showed up to play basketball. So now I'm seeing everyone post stuff, and they've got all these highlights and stuff like that. And I'm like, yeah, I don't have any of that because I didn't have anyone who was following me. There was just one video that one person took at that moment.
B
And what are the odds that the one video that one person took at that one moment is the one that you look like you don't know how to play basketball?
A
No. As Kev on stage said, it looks like he does until the end.
B
He's not wrong. Looks exactly correct.
A
This is going to be normal.
C
But, like, this is why I didn't feel like I had to defend myself.
A
So I think what we want, though, what Katie is trying to cross Nixon you into telling us, is we understand the context now of your fasting and your psychology and your physiology. What is responsible for the way that your hand looked?
C
The. The, the simple answer is the ball slipped. It's very light because it's a women's ball. I'm not used to you playing with a woman's ball.
B
Oh, it's our fault.
C
Oh, it's the ball's fault. No, but, no, but the reality is, man, like, it's. It slipped, man. It slipp. I tried to get it back and it didn't work. And that was it. The reality is, and this is when Katie says, oh, like, oh, what are the odds? Like, this is why I don't feel the need to really defend my shooting form. Because, yes, I haven't played in like six or seven years, but prior to that, I used to play pickleball all the time.
A
And media games.
C
Media games. And prior to that, when I worked for the Suns, I played pickup games with staff, with coaches, with players sometimes. So I have no shortage of people, including, by the way, we saw him earlier on this thing. Andrew Schultz, one of the biggest roast comedians there is. You think I hoop with Andrew Schultz and he knew that about my jump shot and has kept it a secret all these years because he wouldn't go that far. Right? This, I mean, like, it just.
A
I can vouch for the fact that no one. It's not a running joke that Amin shoots a basketball. Like what you saw in the video. That is not a thing. I've been around many people who played in these games with the mean. What I'm here to say, though, is that the way that you must have processed that having now learned about how Ramadan is a season in which you are trying to be open minded and, and kind, full of goodwill and cheer, it feels like truly a test that I would have made up in a screenplay about how Amin's Ramadan might be going right now.
C
No, you know what? It is. It is definitely like the come up and of the bad guy, right? For sure. Because the funniest thing to me, Katie, isn't the jokes. The jokes are hilarious, but the funniest thing are, like, the people who are legitimately angry. Like, you got me to tell me this guy. And there's this one guy, and bless his heart, I don't think he meant poorly, but I think he's connected in some way to Zion Williamson because he has New Orleans in his thing and his whatever. And like, his first thing is, like, this guy made fun of Zion Williams's weight for how long? And da, da, da. And I'll Say, hey, buddy, first of all. Yeah. My first response is like, yeah, you're right. Let's go get that right. Like, because what am I supposed to say? Yeah, I did something that's ridiculous. Ridicule me for sure. Just like Zion being out of shape was ridiculous. So I ridiculed him.
A
We're going to cook up at the end of this segment now a whole Amin highlight reel with like dramatic soaring music all about what we found. Footage wise, that makes the case.
B
Oh, still weird finger stuff.
C
It's a lab. It's a lab. I had to put English on it. I have mangled hands because my left.
A
Hand, let's be real about it, beads hands for those not watching on YouTube.
C
My left hand. I've been told I could be a hand model and a football.
B
Excuse me. You could book hand jobs. Not this month, thank you.
A
So Congress is debating whether tick tock, you know, platform should be allowed in America or not. Chinese government, they're deposing people. And passed in the House bill passed 352 to 65. It's headed to the Senate now. That was in the House.
C
Gotta go through the Senate. And if it does, then President Biden has said, if Congress passes it, I'm passing it.
B
And then what it is, is they have six months, I believe, to sell the company or it will no longer be allowed.
A
Right. For the Chinese firm ByteDance to divest from it so that it can exist in America free from the alleged interference by the Chinese government.
B
The movement on this has been very quick in a way that's like, is this top?
A
Yeah. And so what I wanted to have Katie Nolan provide us was just truly like the apocalypse bunker, the time capsule of how should we remember this platform before it goes away forever? And Katie is the only person in my life who I trust with this very important task.
B
So when. So, Dan, my fiance, I know that the current evidence seems like I don't have one, and I am, I'm very sorry. But my. He doesn't have TikTok. He doesn't understand it. So what I do is I have it and then I save them. And then when he comes home from the road, I'm like, here are the seven that I think you would think are funny. And we go through them together.
C
I got Katie as like a 1950s housewife with, like, the dress and the apron. And Dan comes in with a hat on and a suit. And he sits down. Yeah. And she gives him a kiss on the cheek, hands him like, scotch on the rocks. And the tiktoks Here you go. These are tiktoks of the day, honey.
B
I don't cook. I don't clean. Let me show you how I got this ring. I show him tiktoks.
A
There you go.
B
So I. When I heard that Tick Tock might be going away, my first thought was like, oh, there's so much on here that, like, we reference the way people would quote movies. We quote these tiktoks. They've become, like, a real part of our relationship. So I downloaded all the ones that would make up what I have named here the Dan and Katie soundboard. So I don't know that these are, like, necessarily, like, top tiktoks of life ever, but these are the ones that have stayed with us and are, like, formative to our relationship.
A
How many of these would you say you have saved if you were just, like, guesstimate how many it says at the top?
B
Well, for the soundboard. This is on the soundboard. We have 66. Jesus got other tick tocks that aren't like quotes, but they're just funny things that we say to each other or that are like, just funny videos that I like.
A
I feel like the government should call you as a witness.
B
Okay, so this is a little boy. He's. I'll give you the context. A little boy. He's fishing with his family, and they. He's got, like, a snotty nose. Here's. Here's the Tick Tock. Do you don't have any fish food? Hilarious. Fish foods. Do you? Don't. Do you don't have any fish foods? Perfect. Great.
A
What I'm realizing is that you guys.
C
Say that to each other.
B
Fish foods all the time.
A
Mostly. Your baby voice, as it were.
B
Yeah.
A
Is actually this child's voice.
B
Is this baby. Yep. Then we got this one. This one's my favorite.
C
My dad just came back from Starbucks.
A
And he brought me a cold brew.
C
And I was like, oh, thank you.
A
And I went to grab it, and.
C
My mom looks up from her work.
A
And she goes, you and your iced coffee.
C
Do you want to call me a slur, Laurie?
B
That's so funny.
A
I. I feel like a scientist who is finally, like, getting a real insight into the interior lives of his, like, experiment subjects, like, oh, I guess.
B
How about this one?
A
Okay. This is day 37.
B
Okay. How about this one?
C
Breakthrough.
B
How about this one? She's thick and juicy. She's so sexy and gorgeous. Look how snatched. Look how snitched. Look how small. Ooh, the waist. I mean, the ass. Is that the ass? Is on Planet 10. Say that all the time. The ass is fat. The ass is on planet. For the record, the woman that's. That's saying this, her ass is not fat and is not on Planet 10. That's why it's funny.
A
I can vouch for that.
B
She's being funny. Okay, Wait, there's more. I can't believe you guys aren't absolutely loving these. These are the funniest thing I've ever seen.
C
I'm beginning to realize my algorithm is very different.
A
Okay, I might have remarkably different algorithms.
B
Hey, guys. Just threw up like a mother. Apparently, you can't gulp, gulp, gulp line.
A
Cucumber Gatorade, but who knew?
B
Geez Louise. Perfect.
C
So do you.
B
Perfect.
C
You follow the. There's a. On TikTok. I think it's trash. Gas station lady. No, it's a woman who actually works at a gas station, and she imitates what the customers say to her. And the customer voice she uses sounds like that woman.
B
Yeah, that woman might be her customer. How about this guy? He's on a fishing boat having the time of his life. He's like your best friend's dad.
C
You call me anything you want, but don't call me that.
B
You can call me anything you want, but don't call me that.
C
That's amazing. You said that with no consonants.
B
You can call me.
A
I gotta say, so far, I would absolutely vote to ban TikTok in.
B
What's wrong with you? Okay, how about this one? I mean, I. I do think you're gonna like this one.
C
Okay.
B
And if I'm wrong, it's gonna hurt my feelings.
C
Okay.
B
Tall men like short women.
A
So where does that leave tall women? I don't know, Shaq.
C
You told me.
A
When's the next game? Can I get some uppies? Uppies.
C
Okay, that one's funny.
B
It's a guy looking up at the camera going, I don't know, Shaq. You tell me. When's the next game? Can I get some uppies?
C
But he's doing also, like, the kicking game thing with swaying side to side and rubbing his chin.
B
It's funny. Here's a stitch. It's of a guy clearly trying to do that thing where he's like, I'm an ally for women. And then somebody stitches it with a video of a dog. So here we go.
A
Why do guys think it's okay to lay their hands on a woman? Like, bro.
B
The funniest thing you've ever seen.
C
That is funny.
B
That is incredibly funny.
A
Have you guys. You guys have Seen Neve from Catfish?
B
Oh, yeah. Elevator. This elevator respects women.
A
Yeah.
C
Why? What does that. How could that.
B
Ray. It was back when. Ray. Ray. It was that long.
C
Hold on.
B
In this elevator, we respect women.
C
Is he doing.
A
That's a sports thing?
B
No, no, no, no, no. Fairly certain you're right. Yeah. In this elevator, we respect women.
A
Oh, my Ridiculous.
C
Wait, like, was he trying to be funny?
B
No, he was trying to be.
A
He has his hand like this. Does he not have his hand like this?
B
I'm fairly certain he has his hand on his chest.
A
My God.
B
Like, oh, my God.
C
Because, like, if. If it were a joke, I'd be.
B
Like, no, it's not a joke. It's not a joke. Yeah. Hand on his chest.
C
I was like, yo, man, that would.
A
Seem like me sick. Real men show strength through patience and honor. This elevator is abuse free. Hashtag all caps. Respect.
B
Oh, man. I thought it was. In this elevator, we respect women. That's much funnier.
A
You got the gist.
B
Also, you can't. Do you own that elevator? How do you know it's abuse free? Somebody might have gotten into something.
C
He squats in there.
B
Sure is. Sure is.
C
That's it.
A
Yeah.
B
No, it's. I mean, she'd had a lot longer of a video, but I only just clipped off that little part. All right, I got more. Hold on.
A
This is really a soundboard of, like, Dan and Katie's favorite weird children they've seen.
B
These are very funny. You're gonna all like them. This one is a stitch. This one's a side by side stitch. So I feel like when you have.
C
Kids, it's not as cute and endearing.
B
We don't. And these are our only children. We won't be having any more. So the. The. This one, the original video is somebody playing the piano with the letters of the. Of the notes. So it'll be like C, A, B, G. And then it's stitched with side by side, a woman who's singing. Pronouncing those as if they're words.
C
Cabbage.
B
Yes. So it's very funny. And if you don't like this, you are not friends. Face fat. Egg butter. Egg egg.
A
Oh.
B
Sexy. Perfect. That's perfect content. You can't get rid of that. How about this? There was a trend. This isn't on our soundboard, but we'll go outside of it. Now. All of this in there was a trend. Yeah. Why would you take any of this out? There was a trend.
A
The least edited segment we've ever aired.
B
There was a trend where tick Tock came out with these voice filters. So, you know, they have video filters where you can, you know, make yourself look like whatever. These were voice filters so it could make you. You would just talk regular and it would sound like spongebob or you would talk regular and it would sound like some other voice. People were trying to break the voice filter by using it on things that wasn't like, their voice. So it was like a car starting or playing guitar. There's no other way you would run into this hilarious sound if it weren't for TikTok. We have to save TikTok so that you can know that when somebody plays or somebody starts their car with a voice filter, it sounds like this. Seeing if the new voice filters work on my exhaust.
C
I like the beginning.
B
It's hilarious. This is when you play. I'm sure someone has already done this, but I wanted to try the voice.
C
Effect filter on this. Action.
B
Let's try it. That's good.
C
Okay, I think we found something. So I've been seeing a lot of people, like, take this voice filter thing and try and break, like, break it or something and like, crying or laughing or just something crazy funny or something like that. And I wanted to try it on.
A
Guitar or try playing guitar and just.
C
See what it would sound like. So, yeah, let's try it out. Here's me playing guitar.
B
Amazing. Incredible.
A
Vaguely racist, but I'll allow.
C
Yo.
B
Oh, I didn't even think about that.
C
I did.
B
I. Oh, you cut that one.
A
Katie and Dan have a love. Dude, that is truly incomprehensibly profound. And I say incomprehensibly because this is what you're putting into your time capsule. That's not entertaining to you, all of this?
C
Let me ask you a question, minds. Are you or are you not going to incorporate some of these sayings into your vows?
B
Jason, if you would have told me three years ago that we would be standing here together in front of our friends, family, and guys, I would have never believed you.
C
Wow. The timing was impeccable.
A
Here is what I found out today. On today's show, A Pablo Torre find out.
B
What did a Pablo Torre find out?
A
I found out that Katie Nolan's taste in TikToks is the Amines follow through of Internet curation. Holy Katie. That's what's been going on in that brain this entire time. Stop playing weird children on your cell phone.
B
A knuckle sandwich. Do you want a knuckle sandwich? Do you want a knuckle sandwich?
C
Oh, my God.
A
Ameem. What did you find out on today's show?
C
Yeah, I found out that Dan and Katie have a love that could never be matched by anybody on this earth. I'm truly excited to see you guys joining holy matrimony and terrified by what comes next if TikTok gets banned.
A
Why are you playing another video?
C
Whoa, Jason, nice.
A
That one is great. Jason, take it easy. Take it easy.
B
Whoa, Jason, nice.
A
I guess I should point out that in the course of making this episode with you guys today, I did also text Ed Hockey again, and he has once again left me on red.
C
What'd you text him?
B
He has read receipts. Hi, Ed.
A
Would love to talk to you again for an episode. Just let me know. Thanks. Exclamation point.
C
Oh, no, it's.
B
It's a lot. Is it a lot?
C
The read receipts are on.
B
Why would he leave.
A
Oh, no. When I say he left me on read, I mean literally. I'm getting a read receipt. Turn them on, because at some point.
C
You have to send the message. Ed, I can see that you've read these.
B
Oh, wait, this is my favorite one.
A
This has been Pablo Torre Finds Out a Meadowlark Media Production. And I'll talk to you next time.
C
Sam.
Host: Pablo Torre
Guests: Katie Nolan, Amin Elhassan
This episode is a spirited blend of nostalgia, candid storytelling, and playful commentary as Pablo hosts Katie Nolan and Amin Elhassan in-person for a classic "Share & Tell" session. The trio reminisces about their infamous celebrity Zoom party from early pandemic days, explores Amin’s viral basketball fail and fasting for Ramadan, and gets an irreverently heartfelt download on the best (and weirdest) of TikTok as Congress weighs its possible ban. The group’s trademark banter is woven with sincere cultural discussions, sports insights, and, above all, laughter.
The episode exemplifies the show’s irreverent, quick-witted style. Pablo’s hosting is playful but probing, letting Katie’s whimsical spirit and Amin’s deadpan humor shine. The conversation flows with genuine affection, sharp self-awareness, and a willingness to poke fun at themselves and each other. It’s both a love letter to their inside jokes and a cultural snapshot of Internet life and sports camaraderie.
This episode captures the freewheeling, emotionally honest energy of Pablo Torre’s “Finds Out” project, mixing sports, culture, and digital life. You’ll come away with a deeper appreciation for both ritual and ridiculousness, and a trove of stories that will make you smile—whether or not TikTok gets banned.