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Should have come in here with a hazmat suit. My goodness. I mean, you guys all right? You holding up okay? Are you feeling the effects yet? Are you sick yet, Greg?

You okay?

I'm getting there, man. Between my age and sitting next to Levitan hacking. By the way, how much money does Levitan owe the, uh, you know, the fine bucket for all that hacking.

That's a very fair question.

I think it's, what, $560 based off the amount of coughs he had?

That's about what I was thinking. Yeah, let's round it up to— let's just make it $500.

Okay, rounding down.

Yeah, we don't want to penalize a sick man too much, but he does owe the money.

I'm just worried he's going to kill you.

Like, that sounded bad.

We've sent the sick man home. All right. And, uh, hopefully he'll be back tomorrow and He sounded rough. So, still got a lot to get to, and we keep getting news coming out. If you're watching, if you're following the wire— everybody knows the wire's Twitter. Twitter's the wire, alright? If you're following the wire or you're checking out on television, uh, the hot story right now, of course, that it seems like the Giannis Antetokounmpo trade sweepstakes is, is coming to a head. So let's bring aboard our pal Amin Elhassan. Amin, uh, it feels like, uh, things have gotten serious now because Shams Charania, he has now showed up. He hasn't been anywhere over the last few days. You got all the other reporters who are doing their thing, showing their reports, and Shams, who was all over Giannis stuff throughout the season— Doc Rivers, uh, got very mad at him. So Shams certainly seems plugged in in Milwaukee. Now he finally showed up on Get Up just moments ago, or First Take, and he straight up said like, like, this thing, this thing's about to go down. So, Amin, uh, what do we believe here? And if the Celtics are in fact offering Jaylen Brown, which it appears that they are, it's out there, do the Miami Heat still have any kind of a chance?

Yeah, so I talked to Jim Ozarski, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, yesterday. Uh, the, the thing, the prevailing belief is the Bucks don't want Jaylen Brown. They're enamored by what Jaylen Brown could bring, but they're like, that's not my job, that's your job, Brad Stevens. Your job is to find the taker for Jaylen Brown and to bring me this massive haul, and then I will accept. But it's not my job to take the thing that you're sending me and then turn it into the things that I actually want. And in that regard, that's kind of where Milwaukee is. This deadline, this whole thing, it's all self-imposed. There is no actual deadline. They cannot trade him tomorrow or Wednesday or Thursday or Friday or next week or next month or even all the way up to February. Uh, they, they don't have to do anything. And so they've been pretty adamant that they're going to hold out for what they want in the form that they want it.

Why would they not want to keep Jaylen Brown?

I mean, the team's not going anywhere. Again, you guys talked about all morning long, but I think we can all accept that Giannis is a superior player. And when with Giannis in the lineup, they were barely .500. This team is not equipped to be competitive. Not now, not for a while. They need a reset. They need a lot of options, a lot of assets coming back so they can restart this thing and build it right. And when you talk about Jaylen Brown, he's only like 2 years younger than Giannis. So you really just put yourself in the same situation with a lesser player in terms of, oh, we still have to build, we still have to figure something out, and we still have to figure out if we need to pay him a lot of money moving forward. And unlike Giannis, he does not have the goodwill of, you won a championship in this city, you've created roots in this city. So Jalen Brown just in essence represents a risk. It's not that he's not a great player, it's just, hey, we're not in a place to be in a relationship right now.

Okay, so this is exactly what I've been saying for the last few weeks as far as why Milwaukee would not want Jalen Brown. It's for a couple reasons. Number one, like you said, You know, they were not a good team with Giannis, who is better than Jaylen Brown. So why would they then want to replace Giannis with Jaylen Brown? Because we also have to assume if Boston's going to trade Jaylen Brown to Milwaukee, Boston's not also giving first-round picks. I mean, maybe they give this year's first-round pick, but it's not gonna be multiple first-round picks that you're gonna attach to Jaylen Brown. And then on top of that, if Milwaukee's gonna rebuild, which is what you trade Giannis for— like, you, you trade away all your picks for Drew Holiday and for Damian Lillard, who you're still paying. If you're gonna trade Giannis, you need to rebuild the team. You don't rebuild with a guy who's making $60 million a season on a team that wasn't any good. So with, with that aside, I'm still gonna make the case Miami's offer is better. Miami's gonna offer multiple first-round picks, and they're also offering a couple of young players potentially who are cost control Keller Ware, maybe it's Jaime Jaquez Jr.

So like, I mean, am I crazy for saying that even if Boston is offering Jaylen Brown, the Heat's offer is still better?

Again, I think you have to consider what Jaylen Brown would fetch on the market, and, and I think you could argue that in theory at least, I could probably get a lot more, a lot better for Jaylen Brown.

You have more than 3 first-round picks for Jaylen Brown?

Yeah, maybe. I mean, that's not, that's not out of the question. Well, again, Desmond Bane went for whatever, right? And again, I don't want to fall into the Dan Levitan trap of thinking that this is somehow like the exchange system at the airport where it's like, I have $1, how many, you know, yen or how many? It doesn't work that way. Just because someone did a transaction over here and gave up a bunch of picks does not mean it's universal. But it's not out of the question to believe that I can get 3 first-round picks for a dude in his prime who's a Finals MVP, an Eastern Conference Finals MVP, uh, a finalist for MVP in the regular season, a guy who's shown that, hey, he can carry a team to 50-plus wins, right? So like, it's not crazy, but it's just Milwaukee saying, that's not my job, that's your job, Brad Stevens and Boston, to go out and find out what he's worth and then come back with that.

But it seems as though, at least according to Shams here, that that's not what's going to happen. That like if this trade is made, Jalen Brown will be a Milwaukee Buck. So if that's the case, like this just seems to be Milwaukee having to decide between are we willing to accept this trade and then move on and do something like that later under our control, either at this deadline or the following offseason and just tread water, or do we want to make this move with the Heat? And like you said, several moves can be made. Like if you believe all the other reporting that's been out there, Detroit's interested in Tyler Herro. LA's interested in Khalil Ware. Those guys can be moved later in the offseason and turn this into a bigger trade potentially, no?

Yeah, and I think the interesting thing to remember is that the Bucks don't have any picks coming in for the foreseeable future, right? They owe a pick in 2027. They owe a swap in 2028. They owe a pick in 2029. So like, they've got picks going out and they don't have picks going in. So even if we can agree that, hey, I think I'd rather have Jaylen Brown than Tyler Herro and Killua Ware and, and the band of merry men that, that come along with that. That exists in a vacuum, meaning, wait a second, I still don't have an avenue to improve my team on the cheap, which is what picks are all about. It's not just like, oh, this guy could become the next Wemby. It's, hey, this is how you fill out a roster with people who are good but aren't getting paid market value.

I mean, it feels like Milwaukee getting Jaylen Brown would be like getting a house to flip it, but then you realize you're at the top the market and you can't really sell it for what you thought you could sell it for, and then you're like, uh, what do we do with this? You want somebody else to sell it for a distressed price and not for you to do it. And it feels like if they get— if the deal is just Jaylen Brown to Milwaukee, they're going to be a 43-win team in the East, and it's going to be the same thing that they were last year with just a different, um, leading man. It's like, what— what— why is that deal making sense for them?

There's—

because they're still— you're right, Tony, they're still in the same spot. I don't have picks, I owe picks, um, and I still have Damian Lillard's dead money on the cap. So I don't really have a lot of, you know, their money isn't awful, but it's also— it's not like, oh, we have a ton of cap space. So you're telling me, hold on, I can't— I don't have the flexibility to sign people. I don't have picks to add good people for cheap. And if we're talking about trades, who am I trading? Kyle Kuzma or Bobby Portis? Which one of those guys is going to bring me back the type of talent I need to be successful with Jaylen Brown? Again, this is not a knock on Jaylen Brown. I think he's a great player. I think he can be the centerpiece of a team that wins 55, 60 games, goes deep in the playoffs depending on what its supporting cast is. We just saw with the Knicks, good supporting cast, maybe you can win with Jaylen Brown as your number one guy the whole time and not like what it was a couple of years ago.

But that involves being able to build something around him. And the reality is Milwaukee does not have the tools to build around someone. If they did, they'd just keep Giannis and build around him.

Right.

I mean, we've been assuming based on what the Bucks themselves said, we've all been assuming, I think, that a deal is going to happen on draft night or later today or what have you. I'm very much getting the impression from you that you think it's a likelihood that it's not going to be done tomorrow.

Yeah, Greg, I mean, they— the only reason why we've had this date, this, these, you know, Tuesday or Wednesday in mind is because that's what they said. They said we're gonna, we're gonna get it done before the draft. So what changed? I mean, what changed, uh, in what regard? Because that's— well, I'm not saying anything has changed.

Yeah, but being able to use these picks this year, you know, putting something in front of your fans immediately after trading away your star player is pretty important.

Sure, sure. Unless there's another deal that's even better that involves picks that are not this year, which is totally believable. Could happen. My point is this. This isn't like a real deadline where, hey, after this date you can't make transactions. This is them just saying, I'm going to get this done by Tuesday and we're taking their word for it. But they, they can change their mind. They might have not even been telling the truth the whole time. Maybe they, they had them like they were trying to do that to kind of coax people to get better offers in, in the short term. Maybe that conversation has started. Maybe they'll extend the talks. All I'm saying is you can't take their word for it as if it's by law it has to happen by tomorrow. They, they have the ability at any point to change their mind if they don't think like they're getting the deal that they want.

I mean, if the Bucks called you today and asked you to advise them, you're the consultant, what's the decision you would tell them to make?

I would probably say, hey, let's work with Boston to find a third team. Because I think a Jaylen Brown package could be enormous, right, for— in the right situation. The only way I say we do the Miami deal is if they tell me— if Boston's like, nah, take it or leave it, right? He's your— he's your problem, basically. You figure it out. If that's the attitude, then all right.

As we— as we— as I listen to you, I keep hearing this, like, I obviously— we all see Jaylen Brown as a great player who can be high in the, um, MVP numbers and be on a great team, all that stuff. Like, he's a talented player that is worth considering building around, but it doesn't feel like he's being treated in that way. Like, is it possible that he find— that he falls in this, like, this mid-range place where it's like he's a superstar player but doesn't feel like teams are clamoring to give up the amount of picks that you would want to make him the centerpiece?

So there are I think there's levels, right? There are players where you say, I don't care. I don't care what my home life is like. I'm bringing them over, right?

Yeah.

You're coming over to my house, right? And then there are others where it's like, wait a second. Okay, right now I'm kind of sleeping on the couch. I'm not quite ready to be in a relationship with you. Like, you would— it just wouldn't work out. And so I think that Jaylen Brown is of the latter. It's— he's not, you know, if it was Victor Wembanyama, we'd be like, I don't give a damn. I'm homeless. You're going to—

you want to go out with me?

Let's go out.

Right.

Versus Jaylen Brown, I'm like, well, let me make sure like the house is clean and all that. So, you know, I can at least kind of guarantee we've got some sort of runway here. And so that's from the perspective of like the league, right? Who would be a taker? Milwaukee can't be a taker because they're just not in that situation. But there might— Portland is an example. Portland could be a taker. Maybe Portland gets in and say, yeah, no, we're ready, we're ready. We have a supporting cast. We have the ability to surround him with the talent that he needs to be competitive right away. And as a result, we'll be willing to pay an extension that is very lucrative starting, uh, you know, in a year or so. So that's the problem. If you're not ready, then it just— he's not good enough to justify paying him all the money, going all in, and then not having any avenue to kind of give him the pieces that he needs in order to be successful.

At this point though, I mean, Jaylen— like, Jaylen Brown's not going to be on the Celtics at the start of the next season. Jaylen Brown strikes me as a guy who is, is not going to take kindly to this deal falling apart and, hey, we'll see you at training camp.

In theory, yes, but I remember when Kobe Bryant told a 16-year-old with a cell phone cam that he wanted to get traded because, uh, the Lakers wouldn't trade Andrew Bynum for Jason Kidd or something.

But in that case, Kobe was the guy calling the shots. Like, Kobe was the one saying, I want out. Jaylen Brown doesn't necessarily want out.

Well, I mean, I'm just saying that guys can be in their feelings and then be out of their feelings. Like, it's— that's just normal. It is. As, as much as I hate to agree with Dan, it's a business. And at some point, I can be— I could feel disrespected in that way, and then I come back. And by the way, Jason Tatum still isn't 100%. I can still prove I'm a better player, which I truly believe he thinks that, that he's a better player than Jason Tatum. He has an opportunity to go out there and prove it immediately. And, you know, you guys don't respect me, I will make you respect me. He has that opportunity in front of him. And again, also the other part of this is the Celtics can offer him this massive extension. And in the history of our game, I don't— money is pretty— if it's not undefeated, it's damn close.

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Amin, it is your time to shine. Let's get to your World Cup observations.

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You catch what Dan had?

I know. It's contagious. Guys, because Dan's not here, The World Cup is usually a time for peace. World Cup is a time to bring people together. Fortunately, the World Cup sometimes brings a divide. Right now, the world is divided on whether Alexi Lalas is terrible and needs to be off the broadcast with Zlatan and Titi, or is Alexi Lalas terrible and needs to be on the broadcast with Zlatan and Titi. So they can keep making fun of him. I don't know, all these people like, get him off! I'm like, no, leave him there, let them roast him every opportunity. You guys see this when they're messing around, they're, they're juggling the ball and passing back and forth, and Thierry acts like he's gonna pass it to— yeah, and the Lalas are so ready to receive, and he goes, oh, there's a smile on PP's face, man. I love it. I'm like, don't stop. Keep it going. Let's keep having Zlatan do lie detector tests and then have to defend the results in front of Alexi. Let's have him call Alexi, uh, an ignorant person because he doesn't know the difference between arrogance and confidence. I want all this, all the time, nonstop.

Turkey. Excuse me, Turkey. Oh, if you're going to insist I call you by a certain name, you got to score. Can we agree to that? Like, you can't, you can't go 0 for the World Cup and then— my name is 58. Speaking of names, shout out to Akbar Bajemila for pointing out that US forward Folarin Balogun's name is not pronounced Balogun. How about that? We're going to name We're going to pronounce the ethnic names the way they were meant to be pronounced and not, oh, I don't know, Americanize them with a little hard K sound at the end of their name. I'm just using an example, random hypothetical. You guys know about Balogun's story, by the way? This proud American, y'all know about this?

I don't think so.

You don't? I don't know.

I'm not sure. What?

I'm— tell Greg. So his, his name is— the reason why Akbar is correcting is Akbar's of Nigerian descent, and so is Folarin. Folarin is a Nigerian, uh, son of two Nigerian, um, parents who conceived him, and he was born in New York City when they were on vacation. They were on vacation, and his mom— the airline wouldn't let his mom get on the plane of fly home to England where they live because they felt like it was a health risk. So they had to stay. She ends up having the baby here. They end up going back to England. He lives in England. He grows up in England. He's an English kid.

Eh, he's American.

Of Nigerian descent. And then it's like, wait a second though, but you were born in Brooklyn.

I like it.

Let me see that passport, buddy. And that's how he's only American.

I like it. I always wonder about that. Like if you're on vacation and you probably shouldn't be traveling if you're that pregnant. But if you're on vacation and you have the baby in a different country, like the baby's of that, you know, nationality, different rules for different places.

Not everywhere.

All right.

That way we do, though.

I saw White Rodney again. Oh, Dominique, you missed the story. This is an update to a story I told probably about a year or so ago. I was at the airport and an American Airlines employee named Rodney helped me out. And I was, I was confused. I was like, but he's white. And so I came on the show and I said I met a white Rodney, and I did a whole bit on it. And apparently one of his co-workers listens to the show, and so he showed it to him. Like, oh my God.

Is—

so the other day I'm flying, and who should I encounter but white Rodney? And he says, I heard what you what you said about me. So he pulls out his driver's license and he shows me his name is in fact Rodney. That's not why I'm giving you the update. The update is his middle name, Terrell.

Oh, no way!

White Rodney Terrell.

Wow.

If I hadn't seen the actual physical ID in front of me, I wouldn't believe it. Sorry, Mrs. Zaslow. You have been usurped. There is a new blackest name for a white person ever, and it's Rodney Terrell.

I mean, how many times has someone said to you when they ran into you like that, I heard what you said about me?

Not that often.

No.

Yeah.

And he didn't say it antagonistically. He was having the time of his life.

White Rodney. It was Austin Rivers, right?

Oh yeah.

Well, Austin Rivers didn't run into me and say, I heard 'What you said about me.' Oh, Black Austin Rivers, a long time ago, like, said, 'Oh, what have I done to you?' And then years later wants to talk shit in the, in the Instagram comments. Didn't have that same energy in person. That's all I'm saying. But yeah, uh, 'I heard what you said about me.' No, not too often. I'm there, I'm available. I've made myself available to people that I've said things about. They didn't feel the need to react or react as loudly as they wanted to. So whatever. Speaking of whatever, Messi, dirty player, got a red card. Maybe he'll earn it today. No, I think I've been ostracized from Mike Ryan's soccer chat.

What happened?

After educating them about the history of the beautiful game, including how the Portuguese have propped up Cristiano Ronaldo in order to facilitate the erasure of Eusébio, the true greatest player in Portuguese history, who was Black. I was so passionate in my conversation, I caused someone to leave the chat. Oh, I later learned it was a guy who's doing play-by-play for this World Cup. I don't care. The truth is on my side. And Chris Whittingham and Mike Ryan and all these guys who started watching soccer in like 2007 can kiss my ass.

Are they mad at you now? Like, you, you, you— they lost a friend because of you.

So it all started— actually, it started not with that conversation. It started with a conversation about Brazil being awesome because they were like, oh, this is incredible. I'm watching the Brazil game. I'm like, yeah, I'm in the chat. This is amazing. And everyone's like, oh, now you're so— what's so proud to be about? I'm like, I had to listen to you guys talk about the USA gonna win the World Cup. I can't even support my team. And so then it turned into like, there you go, there you go, Eusébio, the greatest Portuguese player ever. I wonder why they want Cristiano Ronaldo to be the greatest one ever, huh? Maybe it's because it fits their preconceived notions about what it means to be Portuguese. Well, guess what? When you colonize a bunch of places and enslave people and then make them speak your language and all that, you might have some trickleback. Just going to throw that out there. But yeah, they're all upset. And so I'm like, you know what? The gloves are off. And I told Mike Ryan, I didn't ask to be in this chat, by the way. Did not ask to be in that chat.

Wow.

He added me to the chat.

Wow.

And I said, this is your fault. I texted him privately. This is your fault. Wow. You don't know how crazy I am because I can be jokey and laugh. On the show, the world that you got, anyone's like, oh, me lost his shit on Le Batard Show. I promise you guys have never seen me lose my shit. The group chat, they saw me lose my shit.

Wow.

Because I care about this shit in a way that none of them do. Pelé was 17 years old, dicking down the world in the 1958 World Cup.

That is how they describe it.

Yeah. Oh, Messi, Messi. Messi, Messi, shut up! Go get another needle in you.

Sheesh.

I'm not growing well enough.

Yeah, okay, that's your Messi.

That's my Messi. I'm not growing well enough, Mama, give me needle. That's what that guy's legacy is. My guy, 17 years old against grown men, making them look stupid. Your guy was a loser on the World Cup stage until 4 years ago. Wow. Said he didn't want to play anymore for the national team. That's your guy. Unbelievable. And Cristiano Ronaldo, just in case you think I'm a Ronaldo's better— no, Eusébio is the best. Just like Maradona is the best Argentine player ever, Eusébio is the best Portuguese player ever.

You lose it again.

I might be— and I might be compelled to say Luís Figo's number 2 if you want me to go crazy here, but I know A lot of people like, who's Luis Figo? Because y'all started watching when they started putting games on Paramount Plus. Know your history. Speaking of what else is on my side, God. Oh, because how can you watch Brazil play and not feel chosen? The chat had the gall to pray and pray on our downfall. Oh, maybe they're not going to make it out of the group. Shut up, chat. Garbage.

You know about those Brazilian fans? Good fans.

I know a lot about the Brazilian.

Good.

You know about those Cabo Verde fans?

I do.

Good fans.

How about that? Yep.

That's the feel-good story now.

Okay.

Was Algeria until they lost. Now the feel-good story, Cabo Verde.

All right.

Yes, man. Speaking of Gaul, because they had the Gaul pray for my downfall. Mbappé is going to shatter any World Cup record. I know Messi's like a goal away. He just tied, you know, for the most goals scored in World Cup. Don't worry, buddy. Don't get too comfortable. Rent, don't buy. Mbappé is coming. He might get it this tournament. He might get that shit today, by the way.

Ridiculous.

What else is happening today?

This is amazing.

Oh, Oh, by the end of it, we'll all have witnessed the lady and not believed it. Or as they say in Australia, Senegal Norway. Senegal Norway.

Norway.

Norway. I can't do it. I can't do it. You know what, guys, hold on, it's a hydration break. Hold on, hold on, hydration break. This hydration break is brought to you by Circuit City. For all your home electronic needs, go to Circuit City.

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Okay.

Yeah.

Time for another edition of the show within the show within the show. That's right. It's Back in My Day, World Cup Observations Edition on the Dan Le Batard Show. Back in my day, we called offsides in real time. Pass the ball, the guy's behind the last defender. Guy on the side, which we call the lineman, not a referee or assistant referee, it's called a lineman because he's on the line. He had a flag, he raised the flag, you're offside. We stopped, we go the other way. Now we're letting the guy play it out and he's scoring and he's celebrating and we're getting crowd shots and we're getting the whole team dogpiling and the score ticker updates 1-0, and then someone's like, um, actually, he was offside. No, if you didn't catch it in real time, tough luck, it's a goal. We gotta stop with this whole give me 10 minutes, I'll figure out whether it was an offside or not. Can you imagine that in the NBA? Oh, he stepped out of bounds, but he makes a shot, and we're like, did he step out of bounds? So hold on, you guys keep playing, I'll figure out.

He might I mean, it literally happened to Max Struess.

Yep, yep.

We'll never forget.

Cost the Heat an Eastern Conference championship.

That's right. Probably a title.

All right, well, that's stupid too. Thinking of stupid, Turkey and Ecuador should have to play a game against one another, and if they can't score, then they, they can't go home. Both these teams, like, I don't think they understand the aim of the game is to get it in the goal, not at the goal, not over the goal, not the side of the goal. Definitely not pass that shit 700 times and then not shoot. Score. Call it the Stormtrooper Bowl because they keep missing shots. There's another bowl game going down today, Austria versus Argentina. I wonder what they have in in common.

Uh-oh.

What?

Uh-oh.

Uh-oh.

Argentina could go to hell. Those are the World Cup observations.

Very good.

You guys didn't get it. Someone's gonna get it.

Thank you, Amin.

I got him.

Thank you, Amin.

Down, Levitar!

Is there Back in My Day?

There is, actually.

Are you not gonna tell anyone?

Wait a minute, you guys, guys, it's a Tuesday.

Greg Cody, here's your guy, Greg Cody, with back in my day.

Okay, here it is. Sorry. Adultery.

Yeah, we're waiting for this one.

This is the Dan Levatar Show.

Before we let you go, I mean, we do want to get your thoughts though. Big news of the day so far in the NBA is actually not Giannis Antetokounmpo. That trade has not happened yet, although Aaron Wiggins— there was— that's right, there was breaking news earlier that the trade is going to happen before the draft tomorrow. Okay, fine. But Dusty May leaving Michigan to be the new head coach with the Dallas Mavericks. Uh, should we be surprised with this? I mean, uh, it feels pretty shocking.

It's shocking because he came on our show and told us about how Michigan was the last job he's ever gonna have. Like, he spoke so— you would have thought this man was Mr. Michigan himself, Dame Michigan Frog, right? The way he was talking about being a Michigan man. And months later Months later, he's gone. Now I get why. That's a good opportunity, man. That's the Dallas Mavericks. They've got a young superstar in the making in Cooper Flagg. They've got one of the best architects of teams out there in Masai Ujiri. And it's an NBA job. And the reality is an NBA job is always going to be better than college job because you don't have to worry about did they go to class and what's the GPA and stuff like that. You can just coach basketball. So I understand, but I thought— I don't— you guys should dig up his interview. I can't remember whether it was one after the title or before the title, but in one of them he was swearing up and down like, this is the last job I'm ever going to take. So I hope he continues to be our friend so we can ask him and give him a hard time about that.

It's Michigan J Frog.

Oh, it's not J Michigan Frog? No, that's his brother.

There you go. I mean, excellent job. Appreciate you, man. We'll talk again soon.

Where's that woke scumbag?

Do you guys know Amin is a film director according to Google? What?

Really? What does it say he's done?

I can think of only one type of film that Amin would direct.

I mean, I just typed in Amin El Hassan before I got to anywhere else. It tried to autocomplete and said film director. I was like, oh, okay, cool.

What if you do that for your name? You put in Dominique Foxworth. What is the auto fill in the blank there? What's the most interesting one?

Dominique Foxworth, good player, bad player.

It says sexy mother.

Oh.

Wow, okay, I don't think I can say— I don't think I read this.

You ever click on that Dominik Foxworth net worth? That comes up, right?

What?

No.

Oh, really?

I don't know. I mean, I never Google my own name. I'm me. I know all I need to know about me.

I mean, I know that's come up when, when my name has been put in there. Jonathan Zaslav. It'll say net worth and you click on net worth.

I'm gonna Google it.

Yeah, yeah, do it.

I got money now.

Yeah, I mean, tell me what it says right now. I know what it said the last time I was told what it says, but what'd it say? Uh, it said between $1 and $5 million.

Oh, that's got money, Ray!

That's got money!

Yeah.

Is that— now is that counting the stocks and bonds that you never cashed in to go get the John Cena t-shirt?

It's funny that you bring that up, Amin. I haven't even cashed them yet, okay? Because here's the thing. You gotta go into the bank. When's the last time you went into the bank? Like, when I get checks, I do it on the app on my phone. When's the last time you stepped into an actual bank?

Bank.

So I was going to go on Friday because company holiday, Juneteenth, the bank, it's also a holiday at the bank. So I, I have not even cashed those bonds yet, but it's, it's, it's some money. I'm, I'm trying to get out there. I'm trying to catch—

Google says some are saying between $1 and $5 million.

What does Google say?

$1 to $5 million.

You got money.

That's big money.

This says, uh, this says $823,000.

Really? Yeah, that's not great.

It also says your nickname is, um, What does it say here? This is interesting. The Cooper City Rattlesnake.

That's right.

The hell does that mean?

What do you mean, what does it mean?

I'm asking you, what does the Cooper City Rattlesnake mean?

Rattlesnake? So this might throw you guys off, but I just came from a flag football tournament with my son, and you see the teams that you're going to play, and I was guessing the racial composition of the team based on the mascot. I heard rattlesnake. I see snakes always. I'm like, yeah, it's a white team.

You afraid of snakes?

No, I'm not afraid of snakes. I had a pet snake when I was a kid.

I really— Yeah.

One of my roommates—

Snake kid.

One of my roommates when I was in college had a snake. He went home to see the birth of his daughter. The snake got out. We didn't know where the snake was. Snake was laying next to my bed for like a month and I just didn't know it because—

Alive.

Yeah, it's a college kid. I don't change my sheets. That's crazy talk.

That happened once when I was on my way home from school. Where, you know, I didn't have a car. And so a girl that me and my buddy knew, she agreed to drive us home. Okay, so she's driving, we're in the car, but my friend, he's got a pet snake and he's bringing the snake home. He can't just leave it, he's been gone for a couple weeks, you know. And at one point during the car rides, we're in the back seat, me and him, I see he's kind of nudging me, he's like, yo, I don't know where the snake went. And you know, like, it's, it's some— it's somewhere in the car. And I go, you better not tell her, all right? Because we're on the highway. Like, we're on the highway driving home from Orlando, and she's gonna learn that somewhere in the car— the only thing worse than being afraid of a snake is being afraid of a snake and you don't know where the snake is. And I had to tell him, I'm like, you will not say anything, all right? But that snake was slithering around somewhere. We would have gotten into an accident.

Did you find it? Yeah, yeah.

When we—

right, like somewhere where it was warm, I would guess.

I don't know, but when we got like home Then he found the snake. She was not pleased. Not pleased.

I wasn't a pet snake guy, so my mom worked at the science center and she would bring the snake home sometimes for safekeeping, and I would end up taking care of it. So I didn't have a pet.

Did you ever feed it the rat?

Yeah, yeah, of course. I mean, like, that's part of having a snake.

That means you were a snake kid growing up.

Oh, I guess I'm a snake kid now.

I, I lived across the street from a snake kid. Didn't like him.

Like, does everyone know, you know, they say, oh, we got a snake kid over there.

It's weird. They're not super friendly sometimes.

Oh, really? You lob the rat up? You lob it up and then it catches it?

Yeah, it's like a dog. It's on a treat.

Alley-oop to the snake?

That's right.

It was a constrictor, so it like would—

You have a big-ass snake?

Rule.

That's ridiculous. What do you get out of a snake? People who own snakes, what do you get out of it? You can't pet it. It doesn't curl up next to you in your lap. What do you get out of a snake? What is the advantage of having a snake?

Not all love is physical, Greg. Relax.

So the snake looks at you with those loving eyes? Is that what you mean?

I mean, it's an emotional connection. It's not a physical connection the same way that you have with your dog.

Oh, really? Just the same? Okay.

You have a physical connection with your dog.

It just seems like the snake is perpetually trying to kill you.

Yes.

As a pet, where the dog is not trying to kill you. The dog likes you. The snake is like, how can I kill this person?

Very good distinction by Tony.

The snakes are trying to eat you. They're trying to figure it out.

How?

Like, he saw you and was like, how can I eat this guy, bro?

Yeah, well, they're— I think when they're like lying down next to you, trying to size you up, they're sizing you up if they could like fit you in, in their, in their mouth, you know, if they could eat all your body.

I mean, yeah, one finger at a time.

I'm not trying to get eaten by a snake. I don't know what y'all laughing about, like you've never thought about, hey, I hope that snake doesn't eat me. Snake in my house, you crazy.

Sizing you up to see if they can eat all your body.

Not gonna size me up. Nobody's eating my body. Whoa, whoa, this is my body.

Can't eat me.

You, you're gonna watch someone else have their body eaten?

Not eat my body. What are you talking about?

He's a woke scumbag.

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