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You're listening to DraftKings

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Network.

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Yeah, model quality feet. I've been told that

0:13

multiple times from... Do you have a wiki

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feet? I do not. Not

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for free. Sorry,

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think about it. What

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is happening? Oh,

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we're on. Hey,

0:38

welcome to Oddball. I'm Amin Al-Hassan.

0:41

That's Charlotte Wilder. We have quite

0:43

the show for you today. A little bit later,

0:46

we'll play Bold or Spicy. But first,

0:48

the headlines.

0:56

Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups was spotted

0:58

talking to Kyle Lowry in a suite at a Colorado

1:01

football game. It's always nice to get a head start

1:03

on the season outlook with your vets.

1:05

Oh, I wasn't supposed to say that. That one's

1:07

from the future. It hasn't

1:09

it hasn't happened yet. It's OK.

1:11

It hasn't happened yet. Go ahead, guys. Luka

1:14

Doncic created a three on three tournament,

1:16

which will be played on a court

1:19

floating on a lake in Slovenia

1:21

for the launch of his Jordan brand

1:23

shoe called

1:24

Lake Bled, which is also the name of

1:26

the lake. And also this tournament might have already

1:28

happened. But we're in the multiverse.

1:32

Going to have to change his name to Laker. Don't

1:35

it? Am I right? Tournament

1:38

sure to make a real splash. Ha

1:40

ha. The Washington

1:43

Wizards signed Todd Gibson to a one

1:45

year deal. That's awesome, man.

1:48

I really love seeing like second

1:50

generation NBA players make it to the big

1:52

show, especially when they get to play for a team

1:54

like their father played for. It's truly

1:56

a special thing. I'll be honest, I didn't even know Taj

1:58

had a son that was playing basketball.

1:59

So, you know, this is this comes with some of the

2:04

It's not a son Or

2:07

is it some sort of coincidence Like

2:11

No, like it's someone else named Taj. It's

2:14

V Taj Gibson Taj Gibson

2:16

some NBA Living

2:18

you learn about that You

2:21

live a long time and you learn you play

2:23

a lot of basketball and you learn a lot

2:25

of basketball a lot of basketball MLB

2:28

legend and Timberwolves co-owner Alex

2:30

Rodriguez was reportedly asked by Timberwolves

2:33

star Anthony Edwards Who

2:35

admitted publicly he didn't know who Rodriguez

2:37

was when they first met? Then

2:39

upon learning who he was Edwards asked

2:42

Rodriguez. How did you screw it up with Jela?

2:45

My answer to Anthony is when

2:47

this guy comes along. How can you

2:49

resist? Oh

2:50

man

2:53

He really has life. Please don't but please

2:55

don't family from Madison Square Garden or Duncan

2:57

Donut

2:58

Garden even come in. This isn't

3:00

even a New York story. I know but I'm just covering

3:02

my bases former

3:04

Sacramento King and Dallas Maverick Willie

3:07

Cauley Stein told the outlet

3:09

sports handle an interview that he left

3:11

the NBA for Europe due to his dislike for

3:14

the NBA's one-on-one basketball style

3:16

saying quote I chose to come to Europe

3:19

because of the more tactical way of playing Basketball

3:22

compared to the one-on-one Basketball

3:24

that is played today in the NBA which is

3:26

conditioned by the players desire to

3:28

produce personal statistics

3:31

here in Europe Every game and every

3:33

ball is important not like the NBA where

3:35

all 82 games are equal

3:50

USA basketball is back at top

3:53

the fever men's world rankings even

3:55

after failing to medal

3:56

in the World Cup

3:58

Which makes me question fevers?

3:59

Where do you see this rankings rank among

4:02

all the worst rankings of all time like somewhere

4:04

between anything from BuzzFeed and people's

4:06

sexiest man alive No offense

4:07

to Paul Rudd my close personal friend. No

4:10

Paul Rudd well Sort

4:13

of

4:14

a time NBA all-star Dwight Howard will

4:16

meet with the Golden State Warriors this week sources

4:18

told Sean Sharani of the athletic The

4:20

team has been exploring signing reserve veteran Big

4:23

Bang to show up a front line that at

4:25

times was over match last season Do

4:27

I try not with the Warriors is like running

4:29

into the it girl from high school. You never

4:31

got to ask out now. She's imminently

4:34

more available and for good reason

4:37

Yeah

4:38

Speaking of peeking in high school the

4:40

Orlando Magic unveiled their throwback jerseys

4:42

for the 23 24 season Charlotte How

4:45

many things can you recognize from this picture?

4:47

Oh a lot of things. I mean, there's

4:49

a Boombox,

4:52

okay, some CD-ROMs

4:55

No CD ROMs.

4:57

Okay. I don't think they're called CD ROMs.

5:00

They're just regular CDs. What CD is

5:02

that at the top?

5:03

This feels like a trap

5:05

it is. No, I'm just I'm curious Yes,

5:08

it is the blueprint. What is that right to the top

5:10

left of the of the CD?

5:12

film camera

5:14

Yeah, it's a it's a camcorder. It's

5:17

not a film camera. Okay, the controller

5:19

down there What kind of controller is that

5:22

on the second? That is

5:24

not a thing There's

5:26

a hit on the screen by the way, what kind of control

5:28

on Try again

5:31

What are other controllers? Not

5:35

a Nintendo on the screen

5:37

there's a hint

5:38

on the screen. Yes in

5:40

the picture

5:42

This is funny to make this picture bigger. Yeah,

5:45

open it up. What are you doing?

5:46

I don't know PlayStation

5:49

which one? One

5:54

How about this the sneakers Charlotte what sneakers

5:56

are those? Oh, yeah the black sneaker in the white

5:59

sneaker, can

5:59

you

5:59

you name either of those sneakers?

6:03

No. Or

6:04

how about this? The bottom left corner

6:07

under the white sneaker there is what

6:09

appears to be some sort of bobblehead.

6:11

Can you name

6:13

who that is in the bobblehead? That

6:17

is little Penny. Those white sneakers

6:20

are the pennies. Those black sneakers

6:22

are the foam posits which are the Penny twos I believe.

6:24

Foam posits? Yeah, the black one

6:27

called the foam posits.

6:28

Awesome. Wait, there is some baseball cards.

6:30

Yeah, I don't care about that.

6:33

I am looking for other stuff that I can get right.

6:35

Do you read highlights

6:38

in a magazine for nerds? Yeah.

6:40

It

6:41

is like find all the stuff you can't anyway.

6:43

Is that how they market themselves, the magazine for

6:45

nerds? Pretty much. I mean, you and

6:47

I read it. Speak for yourself. I

6:50

skimmed it. Okay.

6:52

But Charlotte, that opens

6:54

the door for me to drop my top five teams

6:57

that need to go back to their throwbacks permanently.

6:59

Hell yeah, I was waiting for this. I

7:01

came to it and I was like, oh, I

7:03

can't wait for me to tell me what throwbacks

7:05

they need to bring back permanently.

7:07

Permanently. Number five, bring

7:09

back the Clippers cursive. Right

7:11

there, that red jersey says Clippers was nice

7:14

and clean. That black jersey

7:16

where it says LAC and it's kind of concentric.

7:19

It's ugly and it doesn't really make

7:21

a whole lot of sense. Yeah, Clippers, nice

7:23

and clean. I get it. It reminds us of a worst

7:25

time, but the jersey shouldn't take

7:28

the brunt of that. It's not their fault.

7:30

No, cleanse it.

7:31

Number four, the Hawks Pac-Man

7:34

logo era jersey. There's

7:38

a sound effect. Dominic Wilkins used to

7:40

wear this, Spudweb, Doc Rivers.

7:43

This is when the Hawks were good and they captured the

7:45

hearts and minds of the city of Atlanta in a way that

7:48

they really haven't since. So these

7:50

are nice. They're clean. They're different. I like

7:52

how

7:53

the name is kind of at a slant.

7:55

It's a lot cleaner than the god

7:58

awful disgusting things they put on now.

8:00

Number three, the aforementioned Orlando

8:03

Magic Team at G Hill jerseys. I

8:05

don't

8:07

even know what that's called. I just like

8:10

the way that the stars are kind of in

8:12

the fabric. The champion ones were

8:14

almost silky. You couldn't really see the

8:16

stars unless you were really up close. So those

8:19

are always great. Number

8:21

two, the sun's sunburst

8:24

jersey. The

8:28

tall's Barkley one. You know, it's had suns

8:30

on the slant. You have the sun coming up. You could

8:32

get the black ones like we have on the screen right

8:34

here. You get the purple ones. You can get the white ones.

8:37

They're all clean. That's the best jersey.

8:39

Maybe the best jersey of all time of

8:41

any design of any city of any team.

8:44

And number one, the

8:46

Sonics jerseys. And

8:51

while we're at it, they need to go back to Seattle as well.

8:53

Get them out. Get those pencil,

8:56

pen and pixel

8:58

freaking

8:59

clip art. Soda can looking. Yeah,

9:01

get your ass on. Give me

9:03

an old Sonic's jerseys. The Sean Kemp,

9:05

Nate McMillan, Gary Patons. That's

9:08

the cleanest look right there.

9:10

The Clippers would like us to believe that

9:13

they shut down talks with the Sixers

9:15

about James Harden per Brian Windhorst.

9:18

Quote, the Clippers tried to trade

9:20

for James Harden and that didn't happen, Windhorst

9:23

said. And from what I understand, it was the Clippers

9:25

who said, okay, there's no deal here. We're

9:27

going to move on. And while I assume that

9:29

they could certainly make a deal mid season,

9:32

I assume that this is

9:33

what they're going to go with.

9:34

This is big. You can't fire

9:36

me. I quit energy. The Clippers

9:39

are like, they didn't

9:41

and we ended it. Or like when someone breaks

9:44

up with you, but you're like, I actually

9:46

was going to anyway. So you tell your friends you didn't even

9:48

though you didn't.

9:49

Jeremy Lynn and Tony Mitchell announced

9:51

they're signing with the Kings. All

9:54

right. Back to the big show. I love

9:56

to see it, man. You know what? If you keep

9:58

working, the NBA dream. stays

10:00

alive, wait a second, it's

10:02

the Taipei Kings. Not

10:05

the type, the type, it's a Taipei, Taipei.

10:08

Not type B, Taipei. Uh, you beat

10:10

me to it. After two

10:13

seasons, HBO has canceled the show

10:15

Winning Time, The Rise of the Lakers' Dynasty.

10:18

According to HBO, the series

10:20

had too much magic, but not

10:22

enough dragons.

10:25

You're way too proud to read that one. It's

10:29

funny. Summer Nick and Cavalier Damien Daughton

10:31

agree to terms with the Rockets. That's

10:34

nice. I always thought he deserved another chance.

10:36

A little bit. It's a streaky shooter, but I thought

10:38

he'd get another opportunity. He could really prove

10:40

that he was like, the,

10:44

the Ningbo

10:46

Rockets. Not

10:49

the Houston, the Ningbo Rockets.

10:52

Sounds like a racial slur.

10:53

Damien Lillard revealed the latest colorway

10:56

for his signature shoe, the Dame 8. Ex-ex-play?

11:01

What is this? Capital E-X-T-P-O-Y?

11:05

Exit, exit play? That would be fitting.

11:08

Uh, called, quote, most criticized.

11:11

Steph Curry heard that and said, hold

11:13

my beer.

11:16

Sir Jabaka signed with Baron Munich.

11:18

Okay. What's the catch? No,

11:21

let me guess. It's

11:23

a, oh, it's not actually Sir Jabaka. It's some other soccer

11:25

player whose name's Sir Jabaka. It's not

11:27

Bayern Munich. It's like Bayern Munich's

11:30

like, uh, traveling

11:32

team or something like that. What is it? It's the

11:35

real Sir Jabaka. Yeah. All

11:40

right. There it is. That'll

11:43

do it for headlines. Up next,

11:45

bolder spicy. You laughing

11:47

doesn't help at all. Sorry.

11:55

Who it is. Muy caliente in here, as you

11:56

say, dad. in

12:01

L305 because they're about to like

12:03

bold or spicy!

12:06

Ah, it's a spicy mid-bold. Hey,

12:08

this is the game where we read

12:11

statements that are either bold or spicy and

12:13

then we rank it on a rating

12:15

from one to ten. Ten

12:18

being huh. That's a

12:21

ghost pepper, my friend. And then

12:23

one is salt, I guess.

12:25

So, Charlotte, are you ready to play?

12:28

I've never been more ready in my entire life.

12:30

That's a lie. This first statement,

12:33

Deon Waders

12:34

will make his NBA comeback. Deon

12:37

Waders came out of Syracuse, was

12:39

a top-five pick with the Cleveland and bounced

12:41

around, kind of salvaged his career

12:43

in Miami, got his big new deal and

12:45

then promptly got fat and played his

12:48

way out of the league. Now he's been

12:50

engaging in a bunch of

12:51

offseason workouts with different teams. He's

12:53

trying to mount an NBA comeback. Charlotte,

12:57

the statement says he will make his NBA comeback.

12:59

He will be back in the league this year.

13:01

Scale of one to ten.

13:03

Feels pretty spicy to me. I mean, I'm gonna

13:05

give this an eight.

13:08

I'm gonna give it an eight. I think it's one of those things that

13:10

you'd like to thank for a player, it's likely,

13:12

but I don't think it is.

13:14

Alright,

13:15

moving on. Okay, are you ready? Yep.

13:18

The Brooklyn

13:18

Nets black, white, and gray court

13:21

is great.

13:22

Yeah, it's

13:24

great. I could add a two. It's

13:27

alright. Like, to me,

13:30

there's only two types of courts. There's

13:32

like, it's an okay court and like, that is

13:34

hideous. I don't know if you ever seen Oregon.

13:36

It was Oregon's court where

13:38

it looks like you're in the middle of a forest looking

13:41

up into the one space

13:43

to the sky. Like, that's an ugly court. That's

13:45

terrible. I don't know. But

14:00

it's a gradient blue. It's too much. Those

14:02

are all ugly courts. Just give me simplicity

14:04

and then I'll be fine I won't I won't lose my mind

14:07

over it, but I also Won't

14:09

like you know

14:10

Hate it. I Don't

14:12

know I think that the warmth of

14:14

a normal court is very

14:16

nice and this one looks like me when

14:19

my lighting is off and I Look

14:20

like I'm the girl from the ring. That's what this reminds

14:22

me of so like every time we do this show

14:25

Well, I'm a little bit

14:27

You're tough me you're not and also you never

14:30

seem to have these problems on gojo, so

14:32

I don't know what it is I think it's something you're doing

14:34

that you're not revealing the eyeball

14:36

is absolutely rigged for money.

14:38

Okay moving on Charlotte

14:41

your statement is the Clippers

14:43

will be sellers by the deadline

14:46

and I don't mean a basement

14:48

I don't think that's spicy. I

14:50

think that's a I think

14:52

that's a

14:53

three Wow

14:56

Charlotte while they're predicting imminent

14:58

doom for the Los Angeles. Yeah, I

15:01

Don't think it's gonna go well And that's just

15:03

because I had to pick if it's gonna go well or

15:05

not and I'm saying no Does that make

15:07

it a bold take them bold

15:09

tape or a spicy table?

15:14

Yogic is already the greatest nuggets

15:16

player in franchise history the one

15:20

What I've been doesn't even require any

15:22

thought

15:23

Let's start with How

15:26

many MVPs have the Nuggets had?

15:29

To know they've had to Nikoliokic

15:33

two times how many championships are

15:35

they one? One

15:38

Nikoliokic, right? How

15:41

many Nuggets have averaged a triple-double? Damn

15:44

near it one Nikoliokic. It's

15:46

there's no like with

15:48

other names those names are Carmelo

15:51

Anthony Dan isle Alex

15:54

English like they're all great players

15:56

are all you know extremely

15:59

elite players but Jokic has surpassed

16:02

them by a lot for a while now. The

16:04

championship will just cheer on the top to

16:06

be honest with you even before the championship. He's

16:09

been the best player Nuggets have ever had and it's

16:11

kind of wild. He was a second round pick and

16:13

I don't think even he thought that he

16:15

was going to be this. I mean the story is when

16:17

they decided to bench Yusuf

16:20

Nurkic and start Jokic instead, Jokic

16:22

actually cried because he felt guilty,

16:24

he felt wrong. Really?

16:26

Yep. I didn't know that. Yeah.

16:29

Last statement. Eric

16:31

Spulstra is overrated.

16:36

Like what are we doing? That's a zero.

16:39

That's not even salt. That's water. What?

16:43

I don't think he's overrated at all. You think he's overrated?

16:45

That's what makes it a spicy comment.

16:48

You called it water?

16:50

You think this guy-

16:52

Oh I meant, I meant that he, sorry I got confused.

16:54

That's a 15. Play the game Charlotte.

16:56

Play the goddamn game.

16:59

I got the scale wrong. I got the scale wrong. I

17:01

meant- The same minute is crazy. The

17:04

same minute is crazy. I get it. I get it.

17:07

I get it. I get it. I

17:09

get it. I get it. I get

17:12

it. I get it. I get it. I

17:14

get it. I get it. I get

17:16

it. Spulstra is not overrated. This is a

17:18

very spicy one

17:18

because it is wrong. I'm moving on. Walker

17:21

Kessler is a great kid man. I think

17:23

he's going to have a great career. He's

17:27

in his second year and he plays for Utah

17:29

Jazz Team that while he's decent overall

17:31

is horrendous defensively. They were in the bottom

17:33

third of the league. Historically

17:37

the defensive player of the year awards go

17:39

to players that play on teams that are excellent

17:41

defenses. You almost never see,

17:44

even if the player is a great defensive player, you almost never

17:46

see them get that award if

17:49

their team isn't in the top 10 defensively.

17:51

Utah made a bunch of moves this offseason

17:53

but none of them lead me to believe that their defense

17:55

is going to be elite. Walker Kessler at

17:58

that is like I said a second year player. So it's

18:00

harder for guys like that to get the

18:02

benefit of the doubt over vets who've been

18:04

doing it for a while Like Draymond Green

18:07

like Jaron Jackson jr. Last year's winner like

18:09

BAM out of bio. So I'm

18:12

gonna say That

18:14

is a 10 out of 10. That's the Sound

18:17

and the play call for 10 out of 10. There you

18:20

go. Bring it all back from the beginning of the show It

18:22

would be funny though if they just started giving it to

18:24

guys whose teams Like really

18:26

sucked and they just tried

18:27

really hard. Maybe maybe that's

18:30

what I want to see that defensive

18:32

player

18:32

of the year I want to see teams that

18:34

really

18:35

needed this guy and even though they were

18:37

still terrible. This guy was great

18:40

That's what Charlotte wants to see everybody. I

18:44

Want to see you learn how to play this game about that.

18:46

I

18:46

just it's all very difficult Hey

18:52

You doing over there

18:54

Yeah, you know just doing my daily

18:56

routine

18:58

Yeah, it looks like spa day chill over there

19:01

No, you know, I mean like

19:03

I just like to take care of myself. That's all you know,

19:05

did you see that? Um Joaquin

19:08

Noah

19:09

Officiated Derek Rose's vows

19:12

or vow renewal or I don't know what it

19:14

was because I think he was already married No

19:16

way. Yeah

19:18

School,

19:19

would you ever have a co-worker officiate

19:22

your wedding though? Dan

19:24

Levitt art had Pablo Torre do She

19:27

is wedding also my friend

19:30

Prim Seripa Pat when she got married. She

19:32

had Matthew Barry officiate her wedding The

19:36

roto. Yeah, very fun. Two very

19:38

fun weddings.

19:39

Who do you think would be the best? Officiant

19:42

like the best person to marry you

19:45

of current NBA players. That's a good question

19:48

I know I think the first one that pops into my

19:50

head is Boban

19:52

Everyone

19:55

loves Boban Boban's delightful, but

19:59

a big part of inefficient is like they

20:02

gotta understand what you're saying right like the

20:04

not just the bride and groom but also like

20:06

the lovely audience so Bobana

20:08

could see the accent coming in being

20:11

a little bit detrimental there

20:12

maybe he's more of like an adorable

20:14

flower man

20:19

like he's a flower girl but he's a

20:22

flower man you

20:24

know very bad

20:26

though

20:27

who's that LeBron is he'd make it about

20:29

himself

20:31

I was literally just about to

20:33

say that

20:34

yeah I was just yeah I was literally just

20:36

a little Ron because he would make it about

20:38

himself that's

20:40

amazing and I think

20:43

an MJ would be good because he'd

20:45

make it all about himself no you know exactly

20:48

I just

20:54

love that idea of someone arguing no no but the

20:57

door would be so much better cuz he'd make it all by himself

21:00

while LeBron he just make it about himself that's

21:02

why clearly

21:04

well no okay let me think about this for

21:07

real now like cool baby I

21:09

think well

21:12

it depends on what kind of ceremony you're having

21:15

a religious ceremony

21:16

oh if it's a really well you could have a Marist you tomorrow

21:19

do a Jewish wedding

21:20

well start a Marist start a Marist I always

21:22

say it wrong Stu tomorrow you

21:24

do it like like he's Jewish yeah

21:28

welcome to the tribe yeah

21:30

there you go for a

21:33

Christian wedding I would go Monty

21:36

Williams oh yeah

21:39

very really just do so I would

21:41

go with him for that soulful too though

21:44

if I wanted a funny wedding

21:46

mm-hmm

21:49

I think I would go okay here's a little

21:51

off the board I don't know people Dennis Smith Jr.

21:55

hilarious the dude is hilarious right

21:58

him yeah he'd be funny

22:00

If I think if you

22:02

like a spiritual one like

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a like a non-denominational but spiritual and

22:07

clay Thompson

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I'd be worried he wouldn't show up

22:13

on time. Oh, yeah

22:15

Have hire the back how hire

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the

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fake clay Thompson as a backup

22:19

if I wanted to do

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a traditional Sudanese

22:25

wedding I get John Moran

22:28

I Some shots up in there.

22:30

How they doing today, man. I'm just trying

22:32

to tell you guys

22:34

What do you think about Robin Lopez?

22:36

It was a Star Wars theme

22:39

wedding a Disney theme wedding for

22:41

sure Robin would be my officiant

22:44

Any also this feels

22:45

too obvious, but like any of the TNT

22:47

crew except maybe not Shaq I don't know Shaq

22:49

I feel like Shaq might not get that into it

22:53

Shaq might end up marrying himself by

22:55

the end of the ceremony Yeah,

22:58

so Shaq could be the DJ there you go Shaq could be the wedding

23:00

DJ. Yeah, there you go Oh, you know who

23:02

I'd want to do it.

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Oh Kevin Garnett

23:06

No, that would be too intense

23:08

Way too. I think it well, I

23:10

could see that I think he could bring just like

23:13

a oh

23:13

I got an idea hop and

23:18

Oh, I know what you're gonna say

23:20

and Paul Pierce Handling

23:23

the catering Bahamobar

23:25

great wine great booze, right?

23:28

I would go Zion for

23:30

the food part of the catering

23:34

Always got it always got a squeeze one in

23:38

Okay Wedding

23:40

planner I got the wedding planner for you. Oh

23:43

Chris Paul What

23:45

a planner someone anal about getting

23:47

everything done at the right time and stuff like that.

23:49

So Chris I think would be the best

23:51

person.

23:52

Oh, he would be such a pain in the ass He'd

23:55

be like photos were supposed to start seven

23:57

minutes ago with the clipboard on the clipboard

23:59

Yeah,

24:02

what else what what other ring bearer?

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Oh

24:06

Ring bearer that's easy. Oh

24:09

god rest his soul Bill Russell. Yep

24:13

No Well, you know three

24:15

mind actually might be a very interesting choice

24:18

for for us efficient. No

24:21

no efficient. Oh, yeah Who would

24:23

be good at that? Um

24:25

Chris in the NBA

24:27

Because keep cloning I

24:33

know an interesting choice for efficient if you don't

24:35

want the wedding the last Gilbert

24:38

arenas Just

24:41

telling all the wrong stories he's

24:44

been with a lot of women Some

24:47

of them I was like, oh Exactly

24:51

how we go we're just spilling the beans like

24:54

I can't go it's like we didn't Stop

24:57

seeing her to marry this one. Yeah For

25:05

watching another round of bold and

25:07

spicy so we get a medic. Yeah, we

25:09

need one badly