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00:00all right uh rundown today is what june 22nd 3rd 23rd yeah yeah it's close to yesterday
00:13kevin looked like he just got out of bed with that hair i just got out of the shower yeah uh
00:19no ads no ad rundown i guess we don't do it all the time so it's hard to sell ads when you don't
00:25know if we're gonna do it uh the big story the nba finals game seven very anticlimactic because
00:32halliburton who came out with his head on fire uh hit three or four threes looks like he's gonna
00:39have maybe a career to find a game and then the achilles blows after he was already hurt a little
00:43bit kind of like a la kevin durant when durant was like hurt played through it and then blew out his
00:49achilles i don't know brutal brutal way kind of anticlimactic for everybody involved right
00:55because it's like yeah okc won people say in the start of a dynasty i don't see that with them at
01:01all uh i i think they the two best teams in the league both had achilles injuries so
01:07it like yes they won but they won due to injuries and it's sad i mean that's that's a that's discounting
01:17them a lot they're the youngest team ever they're the cheapest team ever they're keeping that core
01:25together for as long as they want whether they want to move somebody for pieces whatever uh they're
01:31pretty fucked i mean they're good and one of the most dot they won they crushed the regular season
01:36they won the i mean that's they're good no no i i just think there's a giant asterisk like what
01:42whatever like but once again like jason tatum's injury has nothing to do with them the knicks beat
01:47the celtics basically i disagree with that but this isn't this isn't about this probably would
01:53have beat the celtics anyway this isn't about the celtics i'll grant you that i will say when you
01:59think of this title maybe not down the road i will the first thing i will think about is halliburton
02:05nothing else that i agree with i mean it was the halliburton show for sure but when that's almost
02:11kind of the point too is like he was he was the star and they just handled handled that as well i mean
02:16yeah and then yes the game what do you mean they handled that they didn't handle anything
02:20i mean yeah the game seven obviously not but if halliburton was the star and the guy and you know
02:27for six games they hung with them and well i mean they were mine the the thunder of minus 500 i mean
02:34they were like a gigantic favorite and the pacers were underdogs against everybody and traditionally
02:42not traditionally that's the wrong word but throughout the course of the playoffs these were
02:47the games that the pacers won largely because of halliburton like theatrics and he comes out red hot
02:55and you're like oh my god they're gonna at the very least be in the game till the end and then
03:01it's halliburton i don't know you we just didn't get to see it there's no team in the nba who wins that
03:05game with their like a plus star going down there agreed i'm just saying that to to just discount
03:13everything that the thunder did because of that and be like they're you know nothing they're a very
03:16good team but i i it changes how that title will be remembered for me right right and obviously the
03:25defending champs and were were decimated no the defending champs lost so yeah to the next so
03:31they lost so yeah and so did the pacers correct both giant asterisks in my mind well one happened
03:43you know both lost their best into the series one when the series was tied right and i don't want to
03:50talk about the celtics if that's what you guys i wouldn't either if i was horrendously wrong in my
03:54argument but there was a there was a brief moment in the game where it looked like maybe tj mcconnell was
03:58going to take over he did take over he's um yeah he could have been a fucking mvp but i thought it
04:04was going to be like this guy's going to like i actually had i had them plus 500 i was like let's
04:08go mcconnell i had what i thought was a spectacular tweet uh during the third quarter at the end of
04:15third quarter i i said the math is not adding up because tj mcconnell has scored every single time
04:21but they're down they were up going into the third quarter now they're down 13 how's that it was
04:26like two for the threes i don't know mcconnell scored every time and they were getting their
04:30doors blown off but doesn't that isn't that credit to the thunder like well without their best player
04:37i don't know halliburton you know shoots threes now truth be told they turn the ball over a thousand
04:42times so like if you get if it may seem like every shot the pacers are shooting is going in because
04:50mcconnell is hitting everything but if you're getting half the shots yeah that that's hard to
04:56do that's caitlin clark uh fever this weekend they're just she's turned the ball over having a
05:00really bad weekend um all right and uh you see uh they were so young they couldn't open up the
05:06champagne bottles i because i didn't see that which at first i thought was like lame they said it was
05:13like the most tempered celebration they've ever seen they literally kind of was yeah i mean it was
05:18like they were just glam yeah but now i'm almost well around on it it's almost like what i'm going
05:24to remember about them was that they they're so young and inexperienced they don't know how to
05:28open bottles they don't know how to party like it almost fits their whole persona in a way that
05:33open a bottle is a little weird though i i get you're young but like you can open a fucking champagne
05:37bottle they see meek phil meek phil didn't know how to do it yeah well meek phil's a freak though
05:42wait i didn't see this because i went to bed once they were down because my dogs are up at six so i
05:47can't do it once the game got out of hand i went to bed when you say they couldn't open the bottles
05:55because they're 21 they didn't want to do it on a camera they didn't know how to no they didn't
05:59know how to they asked russo like how do you like take the foil off so they were drinking they were
06:04underage drinking but no they're 21 i think right uh some of them are probably maybe under all right
06:10so they didn't know they just didn't know how to do it but i will say also the game's a blowout
06:14so yeah it's like like but it's like you're it's like the first okc championship ever and they acted
06:20like like i saw malisek posted the take it was an interesting take i've never seen this before but i
06:26liked it act like you haven't been there before because you have yeah i i just think sometimes i
06:33mean the celtics won in they celebrate after when you win and remember people criticize and i know it's
06:39not the team like the boston people in the office because they're like no one would it wasn't like
06:45there's ruckus celebration you guys have a thousand yeah but there hadn't been a long time i i actually
06:53think the bigger is the fashion sometimes in which you win so if it's not a close game like when it's
06:59a close game you have all the emotions you explode this thing was was over for a long time yeah like
07:05once the injury basically yeah yeah well i mean i mean third quarter for sure but yeah but i mean
07:10like once you know the injury just i thought they saw a chance at half the way they were playing they
07:14hung with them but it was just i would have went crazy i would have been like ringing halliburton's
07:19dad's neck like going that crazy about it yeah like that that that's your that that's more like
07:24remember when max was like was max right fuck sorry doing good work max was like so subdued in
07:30his in celebration and we were like what the fuck yeah yeah like you gotta live it up that's yeah
07:35yeah uh moving on caruso alex caruso confirmed just something that i like to hear he he basically
07:43said this is first real title he was a part of the lakers bubble how much better does this one feel
07:49yeah now i got a real one now nobody can say anything um
07:52again a shot at lebron's legacy at his throne which i like to see i have been a firm firm firm
08:01firm believer that the bubble doesn't count like it's the hardest one it's the it's the most unique
08:09fake like play-in tournament one but if you don't play road game it's not a real title if you don't
08:16have to travel it's not a real title so that was good to see confirming a long-held bias of mine
08:21um you don't think that maybe he was saying that tongue-in-cheek no no i don't um kevin durant
08:31trade traded at fanatics fest live that fanatics fest everybody was there dude that ain't buddy
08:39they just pay i don't understand all i don't i don't understand their names well yeah mike rubin's
08:45one of the great you know kiss asses the celebs of all time it helps his business but he knows
08:52everybody like everybody it was basically like hey you want to come to my white party you have to
08:58come to fanatics fest that's what i was thinking it's almost like if you want to be in my club you
09:02got to do this yeah yeah and they have everyone doing everything like they had john cena do the
09:08three-point contest and the punching bag and then they brought in the next like every athlete has to
09:13go through the game did you see joe burrow throwing the the pitches like was that fake
09:16dude that's insane that was i don't know i was like why are these people even doing this not that
09:32had to be fake either yeah i don't know that looks why that looked fake i mean quarterbacks all
09:39there's no way joe burrow didn't throw like 94 in high school i agree i saw that i was like is
09:46something wrong with joe burrow i i don't know joe burrow like if you're a quarterback or a pitcher
09:54those are like in fact i think some pitchers warm up with the football like it's interchangeable
10:01basically you would think no i know robbie fox i know you think so he was just like let me i don't
10:08know what he was doing balls all over the fucking but he wasn't even throwing he throw that i know
10:13he can throw low 90s i know he can i just know he can they were so off to like and they got closer
10:21every time but it was just like he was doing something like i i don't know that was something
10:27he threw i know brady and eli thing was weird that was like wwe back oh my god there's a lot of weird
10:34cringy moments but ruben's a weird cringy guy so that like they love this it kind of and then i
10:41thought about it it's like i don't think fanatics fest is like for older well maybe bob fox he loves
10:49wwe and like the theatrics of that but it's not like it's not geared towards me like i don't need
10:54to see brady throw gronk a fake trophy and have it like break him like oh my god you broke the trophy
11:00and everyone's laughing and it's like super lame to me but here i am watching every caitlin clark
11:07if caitlin clark's there i'd probably i'd do it caitlin so it's comic-con it's comic-con for
11:12yeah that's exactly what they're trying to act like it's not as nerdy as comic-con but it is it
11:16and just as cringy and just as nerd but hey it's actually a really good idea yeah like but the only
11:23thing i don't get about comic-con like and again i don't know if it's ruben be like hey you want to
11:29come to the white party like you got to come to this to pay all these people seems like it i guess
11:35the tickets get it out but listen i he may be cringy but he knows business so it must be working
11:41for him there's also weren't there a couple kids who sold like cards like 500 grand people agree
11:46buying a rod had an all-time cringe like he's like i'll buy this card for a thousand dollars and i'm
11:56gonna give you two tickets to the next t-wolves game when you come to new york deal it was like
12:02it was like he was on uh fucking shark tank stars yeah it was just there's a lot of like
12:09outwardly cringy moments but then again if i'm like a kid or a teenager i think this is probably
12:14cool as fuck absolutely yeah so you're here now that to go back to the durant thing did michael
12:21ruben make sure that he was traded while he was on stage i probably ruben controls everything i feel
12:27like he literally has all these athletes like just sucking his dick yeah do they have like a deal with
12:35the league or anything are they just like an fanatics yeah yeah of course they're like the uniforms right
12:40right yeah i wonder if it's almost like and and i think they bought they bought tops he buys
12:45mitchell he buys everything and then they do all wwe merch it's just one big fucking orgy with
12:51these guys together it's wild that that feels like they either got to be getting paid or contractually
12:56obligated it's like make an appearance or something right that's got to be does he pay him to go to
12:59the white party well that at least you're fun you're drinking you're probably fucking you're partying
13:05to like sit on stage and be like let me sign your autographs and like they had glenny balls there
13:09glenny balls is that fanatics yeah because they're like a brady company those yeah
13:14the whole thing i mean they had every you name it if it's a name it's there i would have loved to
13:20be invited so i could just be like fuck you but i think he didn't happen uh durant
13:29durant spicy obviously on x responds to everybody i think his career is one of the great misses at this
13:41point of like all time like this guy legitimately i was one of them because i hated lebron i was like
13:49he's he's the best player in the league he's the best player of all time he's but you know you think
13:55he goes to golden state they win did not win in oklahoma city who just won oklahoma city just won
14:01and people say golden state like he put him over the edge but not really because they won without
14:07him and they won after without him right they won before him and they won after i believe right
14:12yep yep that's a huge knock against that yeah and then he goes brooklyn horrible destroys that team
14:19goes with talent by the way yes he has i know yeah we're like supposed to be a super team correct and
14:25there he goes there after they're in finals and look like they could be a champion destroys that
14:30team this guy and it's not even like it reminds me a little bit of carmelo like what they're not
14:36even close yeah losing in the conference finals or in the finals no it's what i say about kairi like
14:42the team blows up like they're they're they're dead like he goes to a team with talent that everybody's
14:47like nba potential champion and i think brooklyn and phoenix at one time were probably top two to
14:55three like odds to win the title and these teams don't even make the playoffs right not even fucking
15:00close when you this will be his fifth team and the only one you win at even come close to winning at
15:04well not close because the thunder was close but the only one you really win at is not your team
15:08like decided not yours no one will ever be like the kevin durant warriors yeah i actually think he's
15:14the opposite if if you're like oh this guy is kind of like a team killer for whatever reason right
15:19the slim reaper is he yeah we prefer his own team he goes door by door just really yeah there's a
15:26decent chance we catch like uh uh joe yank stray or something from a durant burner about this being
15:33like well you fucking guys are just bloggers you don't know fucking shit uh ump show and college
15:40world series there's i love a good ump like to me an ump fight that's one of the lost arts
15:49in baseball like it used to happen a lot more i'll go back probably once a year and just watch
15:54like earl weaver or like what was your your asses in the jackpot the meds guy like those are the best
16:01and this one's it obviously don't have the the the uh audio but the ump you know how umps do this
16:09thing which i find hilarious like if you're trying to argue with the home plate ump like the field
16:14ump will come flying in and like try to get the way i don't know why they do that it's one of
16:19like it's an unwritten ump rule like if you're the guy who's getting argued with someone else
16:24takes over the argument so when you really think about why like you try to argue with that guy
16:30and they get him out of the arena basically and put it so put in a different guy who has nothing to do
16:36with the argument it's like you talk to me that's what happened the meds guy you talk to me you talk
16:40to me and the guy who tries to run interference fell over and it's just gold you know what it feels
16:46like robbie it feels like wwf refs when they're like sort of is you know calm down calm down
16:51or even like team portno i feel like when friggin an avocado ross comes in the office it's like someone
16:58should be getting tim before he gets to dave you know like don't let him get to the head up the way
17:03the guy falls over himself and like does the reverse somersault is so funny he's like he feels like
17:09a charlie chaplin like silent phil unbelievable unbelievable ump clip um i look for more stuff
17:16i mean i didn't think you guys wanted to get into miga so i don't don't have that on on the list
17:21miga's miga's tough man dude i'm still getting tagged in the pictures of you and me where you were
17:27waving the flag and stuff i don't want to get into miga oh welcome to my my world my world
17:33it's it's all it's that's all my world is you made that world for yourself i made it i'll stand
17:40by my world well no i didn't kirk manahan kirk manahan did because there's a two second clip
17:46that's taken so far out of context it's insane but yeah it's it's crazy i said if if i just could
17:53real quick i would love to slander john jones he oh yeah yeah you want to talk john jones cowardly
17:59running from tom aspinall the finally there's a heavyweight that is exciting people in the ufc
18:05his name's tom aspinall he's british he's awesome and everyone thinks this guy could be the best test
18:10john jones has ever had he's the interim champ john jones is the real champ everyone wanted them to
18:15fight last november the ufc booked john jones versus stipe which was weird because stipe was older one foot
18:21out the door already he was coming off a brutal knockout very strange jones beats stipe says all right
18:28maybe i will fight tom aspinall next strings tom aspinall along since november and then out of
18:33the blue decides you know what i'm not fighting tom aspinall allegedly he gave the ufc this 30 million
18:39dollar demand and they called this bluff they said here's 30 million dollars let's let's do it and he
18:43went back on his word and said never mind he is a duck he is running from tom aspinall the fact that he
18:49retired is shameful he is the goat i'm not taking that away from he's the mma goat but it's fucking shameful
18:55that he's the best we got that our goat isn't the kind of guy to take that fight and then two hours
19:00after he retires of course it comes out that maybe he was involved in another hit and run in albuquerque
19:05they're investigating it right now there's a woman that was founded at a scene she was like half naked
19:11claiming that she was on shrooms and john jones was driving john jones is denying all involvement
19:16good riddance john jones we don't want you in mma anymore but we wanted the one fight
19:21two two part question one is it better in your mind for the legacy if he was involved in a hit and
19:27run because then maybe he's not ducking no he's a duck already i mean the the the 30 million dollar
19:35demand if that's true and i think it is true that the ufc met this outlandish demand and then he said
19:41sure and then went back on his word that's so crazy at that point you get in the ring and take a beating
19:47who fucking and last november he said tom aspinall doesn't excite me it doesn't it doesn't add
19:52anything to my legacy i'll fight anyone else wait how what do you mean you'll fight anyone but the
19:56one guy everyone wants you to fight how old is aspinall though aspinall is younger than jones in
20:02in his early 30s jones is 37 but it's not like jones is like old ancient it's like yeah he's never
20:08lost a fight so right right i was just thinking on our goat to be the kind of guy who's like all right
20:13i'll beat the guy from the next generation and then walk off to show you or or i'll knock the
20:18guy out in the club in abiza who's a couple below me and then knock him out cold have we had an
20:27update on on that incident that you informed me of the other day when conor mcgregor uh knocked a
20:34knocked a guy out in a club i haven't heard much of that no update there's no update on that but like
20:39i said to you it's always the ones you least expect i'll say connor does things and then
20:44they're just gone like yeah when you're in the fight i think when you're in the fight game you
20:50get away with stuff in other walks of society like that too they're like you're shitting on
20:55john jones but you're connor got like i know but like listen i haven't i think that's a fair
20:59i would say i'm pretty fucking fair bob i know they come after me listen i have not i'm off the
21:07connor train and i have been since the the rape trial in october like you can't continue at some
21:13point you know but like it's like people are acting like i'm still like no connor's the best
21:17it's like no that listen that that was that was the shtick for a long time and it worked for a long
21:22time you were you were for a long time like connor when he he just his leg broke in half and he was
21:27like sitting in the corner just like i dm'd your wife like like you were still talking shit when
21:34he's just a cripple i know i and like nobody was more like ride or die and and i feel like
21:40that's why i still you know when the bad trials happen people will post me with the free connor
21:45sign and i'm like oh no that one was for nothing right that was like that was for the dolly that
21:50slipped out of his hand that's a whole yeah yeah but john jones is a duck and he will forever
21:55uh have his legacy stained by this there will never ever be a conversation where john jones name
22:01comes up where people don't say but what if he fought tom aspin and dane is promoting a boxing
22:06match now right yes canelo crawford which is that is that worrisome for the ufc uh i don't think
22:14so it's because it's all like under the tko umbrella now turkey the the guy from saudi arabia
22:19that's like financing all this boxing yeah yeah he that's interesting though that's like a partnership
22:24to watch because it doesn't quite seem like they're always on the same page turkey likes dana to like
22:30hold his hand and walk out at events them holding hands and stuff and uh turkey likes announcing things
22:35way before dana's ready to announce them so like interesting relationship to keep your eye on there
22:40all right anything else that we miss here
22:43i don't think so no all right there it is rundown