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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Cold opening, rare cold opening of the im Rappaport Stereo podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I promise you the entire episode won't be oh like this.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
But the Boston Celtics have won the NBA Championship. The
Boston Celtics have won the NBA Championship.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Am I mad? Yes? Don't be mad? Why not you mad? Bro?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I'm mad, Bro, I'm all those things, all those things
and more. Although I will say it didn't hit me
the way previous Boston Celtic championships.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Hit me. Obviously, this is not the eighties.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
And you don't have that built in year after year,
Weirdo after Weirdo after Carr, after Cornbread, Maxwell, after Larry
Joe Byrd, after Kevin McHale, Robert Parrish, kind of feeling.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
You don't, you just don't.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I'll even say these Boston Celtics are a little bit.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Likable.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I mean, it's hard to hate Jason Tatum, Jalen Brown,
Drew Holliday, Al Horford and of course Tingus, fucking Pingus.
I'm actually happy that Pingus won the championship. He said,
such a crazy career, but it is official. The Boston Celtics,
(01:50):
who bopped their way through the regular season with sixty
four wins, won the NBA Championship and they beat the
shit out of the Dallas Mavericks, and Dallas Mavericks are
(02:10):
really lucky they didn't get swept. The last eight minutes
of Game five of this championship will go down in
history as it was almost like an All Star game.
It was Luca and Kyrie just throwing up. It was
like they were playing two on five. I don't know
if they were trying to get their stats or they
were just exhausted.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
And Jalen and.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Jason Tatum, they were like, one of us is winning MVP,
so let's just take turn shooting. I'm not taking anything
away from the championship. What am I gonna sit here
and celebrate the championship. It's not gonna happen. It's not
gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I do have Celtic derangement syndrome. I do have Boston
Bruin derangement syndrome. I do have red sockugh, the fucking
Boston Red Sox, Boston Red Sox derangement syndrome, and of
course New England Patriot.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I don't even know what that is.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
And the crazy thing is in all honesty, I like
the people of Boston. Whenever I go to Boston, I
like Boston. I like the people of Boston. I'm performing
in Boston. I'm excited about performing in Boston because the
people they got great sense of humor in Boston. I
got friends from Boston.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I just.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I don't fuck with the sports teams in any way,
shape or form. So I'm not happy. But it didn't
hit the way the old championships hit when they would
beat the seventy six ers, when they would beat the Knicks,
and then of course when they would beat the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Those were brutal. Those were brutal.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
But the two thousand, twenty three slash twenty four NBA
season has come to an end.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
My wife is ecstatic.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
She's so fucking happy it's over. She's like, do we
have to watch another game? I say, yes, we have
to watch another game. I said, you know, throw some
juju on the Boston Celtics. That'll all be over. And
I'd be remiss if I didn't. You know, just imagine
what it would have been like if the Denver Nuggets
had beaten the Minnesota Timberwolves instead of folding at the
(04:41):
end of that series and if this would have been
better basketball, I think it would have been I think
it would have been better basketball, but they didn't. They didn't,
and the Celtics did. This is their eighteenth championship.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Listen, this whole.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Idea of the Lakers having seventeen championships. Some of those
championship we're not in California. They were with the Minnesota
or the Minneapolis Lakers, so some of those don't even count.
And you know some of the Boston Celtics championships in
the sixties when they were winning a seven in a row,
(05:16):
Come on, who are you playing against? No disrespect, no disrespect,
but who are you playing against? That being said, they're champions,
they did it. This is a rare cold opening. I
will stretch, I will pivot, I will drink some coffee,
and I will I won't discuss. I will not discuss basketball.
(05:43):
I'll discussed some WNBA. I will not discuss.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
They won.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Tingus fucking pingus won. This is the im Rappaport Stereo podcast.
Let's go Boom, Have No Fear The Iron Rapperports Stereo podcast.
This here Boom Have No Fear. D I am Rapaport
(06:11):
Stereo Podcast. Is here on today's banging museum quality I
Am rapp Reports Stereo podcasts. What is wrong with the NBA?
Are we not having fun? Are we not having fun?
Nobody seems like they're having fun In the coming out
season for the w NBA plus Jerry Seinfeld, this heckled again,
(06:31):
this time in Australia. Leave Jerry alone and the trials
and tribulations of moving every single object in my apartment
all that more on a hard hitting, high flying, fully
disruptive Iron Rapperport Stereo Podcasts coming up right now. Miles,
Joan Niki, the Beach Brothers aka the Dust brother starts
this popped up some real nice started the puppy up
(06:52):
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with something real fun. It's I Am Rappaports Stereo pockets.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Let us fucking go.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Yes, Boom, have no fear of the Iron rapp Aport
Stereo podcast.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
This here, Higgyy, have no fear.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
The I Am Rapaport Stiggety stereo podcast is here. In
the Place to be one two three, in the Place
to be. Hope, everybody's feeling real safe hope, every real
saying hope everything, real, real, really disruptive.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I know, I.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Am, I know, I am. I Am rap Port Stereo
podcast Coming live and direct. The I Am Rapaport Stereo
Podcast Coming live and direct. My name is Michael Rappaport
aka the Solton Sniff aka the Gringo Man Dingle, aka
(08:05):
the Inflamed Ashkenazi aka the Raging Bullshitter. This is the
Iron Rap Reports Stereo podcast, coming live and direct from
New York City. Hope everybody had a great Father's Day weekend.
Hope everybody had a great.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Shit.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
It's almost here. Summer is almost officially here. It's warming up.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
In New York.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
The heat waves are they're coming in the summer breeze
is heading out, and the hot, humid air of New
York City is coming in. It's never easy the summer
in New York. Summer in the city, hot fun in
the summertime. Anyway, Iron Rapports Stereo Podcast. I'm feeling really good,
(08:54):
feeling really safe, feeling really sane, moving and grooving. Can't
wait to have a full on summer break, no traveling,
no working. I don't know how long that will last,
but listen, I'm happy to be able to work anyway.
But I'm gonna have a little chill time, definitely in July,
(09:18):
and then I'm I'm back. I'm going out doing a
lot of a lot of shows, a lot of touring,
a lot of speaking, Gonna be doing a bunch of theaters,
Gonna be performing in San Francisco. Just added the show
to San Francisco in September September twentieth Cops Comedy September twentieth,
(09:40):
September twenty first, September twentieth, September twenty first. I am
going to San Francisco. Love that city, good food, good people,
although they need to fix that place up. Last time
I was out there was like fucking Dawn of the
Dead out there. But I am performing in San Francis
(10:00):
the twentieth and the twenty first at Cobbs Comedy. Then
I'm gonna be doing some theaters in Pittsburgh October nineteenth,
Indianapolis November seventh, Chicago November eighth, Saint Louis November ninth,
Boston at the Wilbur Theater November twenty first, Connecticut, Richfield, Connecticut,
(10:27):
November twenty second, Toronto November twenty third, and then Los Angeles,
Beverly Hills to be exact December sixth. There's going to
be more dates. That's what I got for you now.
All tickets, all information is available at Michael Roppaportcomedy dot com.
San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, Chicago, Saint Louis, Boston, Connecticut, Toronto,
(10:52):
Los Angeles, Beverly Hills to be exact. All tickets, all
informations available at Michael Rappaport Comedy. So on the I
Believe On the Last podcast or the definitely the Last
Rapaport's Reality podcast, which is up and at them. Hope
(11:12):
you guys are listening to Rapaport's Reality Subscribe rate, review,
subscribe rate and review rapaports Reality where we break things
down all popular culture, all reality TV, and me and
my wife Kibi Rapport talk all sorts of shit. So
(11:33):
our apartment in New York City got painted, and I
know people are like, oh yeah, okay, listen. It was
a fucking task. I threw my fucking back out, so
we had to move everything, every single thing from this apartment.
And you know, it's a New York City apartment. It's
not like a ginormous apartment. There's things stuck in corners
(11:56):
stuck in drawers, stuck in boxes that they're stuck in closets.
You gotta get your bang for your buck, no diddy,
you gotta get your bang for your bunk, no ditty.
And the last time they came in here and painted,
I had the painters. They moved everything, and then they
(12:17):
moved everything back.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
I came back.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
You motherfuckers didn't finish painting. There was like cracks and
holes and spots. So this time I said, I'm gonna
put well, we're gonna put everything in the middle of
the room, every single thing, into the middle of the
living room, into the middle of the dining room, into
the middle of the kitchen, into the middle of the
(12:39):
take everything out of the bathroom, in the middle of
the bedroom. So you have to paint this fucking place
once and for all. Take the blinds down. And we
did all of it. I'm standing on things, I'm pulling things,
I'm i got the wrench out, the pliers, the jack
saw the scissors, I'm cutting shit.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
And they came in and they painted.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
It, and it's beautiful, all right. They did a beautiful job.
They actually really did a beautiful job. But then you
gotta put everything back, the closet, the sneakers, the hats,
the couches, the pillows, the microphones, this golden mic socks,
(13:25):
t shirts, I mean every You gotta put it all back.
You gotta lay carpets back down. And I'm telling you,
I have so much respect for people that have hard working,
manual labor jobs because I'm telling you, we did it.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
We did it in about two three hours. You know.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Of course I took some breaks, had to take a break.
I said, we're gonna do the bedroom first. We're gonna
put the shades up so it's not hot, and then
we're gonna put the bed in place and make the
fucking bed because I know I'm gonna need a break.
I don't know if I'm gonna need a break to
take a nap. I don't know if I'm gonna need
a break, you know, like as a nursing station. But
I know I'm gonna need a break. But somehow, someway,
(14:10):
we got it done.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
With no incidents. It was without incident.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
But I'm telling you, I don't know what I did
to my back if I lifted something or something fell
on me, and I'm not aware it took a fucking
toll on me. You know, my wife, she's tough. Okay,
I talk tough. You know, I'm not good at moving shit. Printers,
they got printers. I got a lot of you know,
iPhone plugs, iPhone cases, all sorts of shit, all sorts
(14:40):
of things, you know, remote controls.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
There's bottles of water, there's all sorts of shit. Anything.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
It's all listen, you're underestimated. You underestimated. And then next
thing you know, you're putting you know, pictures back on
the wall. You're hammering mirrors, every fucking thing.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
You know.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
You got waits. I got the waits in here. It
got all kind of shit in here. But it got done,
thank goodness. And because we were doing that over the weekend,
well we did that on Saturday. But it took the
fucking life out of me. I mean, it sucked the
fucking life right out of me. So I couldn't make
it to De Nirocon. They had the first ever Denirocon
(15:22):
at the Tribeca Film Festivals.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Three days, three days.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Of all everything Robert de Niro, and you would think,
wait a minute, you, Mike Rapp, you the raging bullshitter,
didn't make it to de Niro kan to see the
actual Raging Bull himself. No, I couldn't make it. I
couldn't make it. I was planning on going Sunday. There
was one thing. On Friday. They screened Jackie Brown, which
(15:47):
is one of my favorite movies of all time, Jackie Brown,
which is still probably my favorite Quittin Tarantino film, and
such an underrated because it's such an understated.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Robert De Niro performance in Jackie Brown.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
But I wanted to see Quentin Tarantino, because Quentin Tarantino
after the film had a conversation with Robert DeNiro, which
I would have loved to.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Have seen that.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
And then you know, there was one conversation I think
they screwed. Yes, they screened Mean Streets and nas already
a conversation between Robert de Niro and Martin Scorsese, which
I didn't need to see that, no disrespect to Nastynas.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
And there was all.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Sorts of you know, posters and clips and you know
lookalike contests and all sorts of shit. But I just
I couldn't make it there. I was so banged up
after Sunday. I couldn't make it there. But apparently the
first ever, Robert de Niro De Niro Con Festival went
off without a hitch and people loved it, and there
(16:47):
was all sorts of experiences and you could, you know,
be in the room. They recreated the set where they
shot Taxi Driver. They you know, recreated Travis Pickle's room
and they not all kinds of fun stuff like that.
And I saw clips and that, posters and you know,
memorabilia and this that and the third and uh, you know,
I'll definitely make it to next year's Deniroconn. I do
(17:09):
want to see the conversation with De Niro and Quentin
Tarantino talking about Jackie Brown, because I really do love
that movie. I know they had Christopher walk in there
talking about The Deer Hunter.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
I mean it was Deniroconn.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
So it was for the the regular DeNiro fan and
for the deep diving psychopaths like myself. Although I didn't
get to make it, but I heard it was a
lot of fun. And like I said, I'll definitely make
it to the Denirocon twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Hopefully there'll be another Denirocon. There should be.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
There should be a Paccinocon. Holy shit, that's what there
should be next Paccinocon all things al Pacino fucked.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
That would be fun.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I wonder how much paraphernalia and you know, actual stuff
they have from like all his movies, because that would
be sick too.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
I mean, you're talking to me, you're talking to me,
but who the hell so you're talking talking to me? Well,
I'm the only one here. They're right, never went.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Down, never gotten me down? Yeah, but I never gotten down.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
I grew up in a tough neighborhood, and we used
to say, you can get further with a kind word
and a gun than you can't with just a kind word.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
And in that.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Neighborhood it might have been true.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
And sometimes a reputation follows you.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
There is violence in Chicago, of course, but.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Not by me and not by anybody I employ.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
And I tell you why, because it's not good business.
People forgotten what life is all about. They've forgotten what
it is to be alive. They need to be reminded.
They need to be reminded about what they have and
what they can lose. You know, what I feel is
the joy of life, the.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Gift of life, the freedom of life, the wonderment of life.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not
willing to walk out on in thirty seconds flat, if
you feel the heat around a corner.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Before the podcast, what else happened? There was a whole
incident Jerry Seinfeld. I don't understand these dummies, the great
(19:38):
Jerry Seinfeld, the great Jerry Seinfeld. Nobody could say anything
but the great Jerry Seinfeld. Whether you're a Seinfeld fan
or not. No one's gonna say Seinfeld sucks. No one's
gonna say the show Seinfeld sucks. No one's gonna say
that Seinfeldt's comedy sucks. You just can't say that. You
might go, well, you know, I prefer you know, this warner.
(19:58):
I prefer that warner. You know, obviously, you know I
respect Jerry Seinfeld, but you know he's not my favorite.
All that's fine, But no one's gonna say that Jerry
Seinfeld sucks. That that's just not gonna happen. But Jerry
Seinfeld got protested again. This time. He's performing in Australia.
And I know these tickets ain't cheap. I know these
(20:18):
fucking tickets ain't cheap. But based on the videotape, Jerry
Seinfeld was about you know, not even halfway through a show,
and these kooks, lunatics, unhinged freaks, they started heckling the
Great Jerry Seinfeld, and the Great Jerry Seinfeld handled it
with all class, and it was all caught on videotape
with bad audio. But let's play some miles Jordana a k.
(20:41):
The Bleach Brothers aka the Dust Brothers, play the clip
of Jerry Seinfeld in Australia tearing up these hecklers, real
nice and real proper like.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Ladies.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Johnavan, He's it's the Jewish. They're gonna start punching you
in about three seconds, so I will try and get
(21:19):
all of your genius out.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
And they evolved the learners from you.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
You dummy, you dumb dumbs. You spent your money to
go heckle Jerry Seinfeld. Did you pay yourself to go
heckle Jerry Seinfeld? And do you think that you? First
of all, he's a comedian. He's one of the greatest
comedians of all time. He's got the microphone. You've got
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nothing but dumb ideas in your head. You don't have
a megaphone. Okay, you don't even have one of those.
You know, karaoke mics. You got nothing, so you're gonna
lose whether you say the most brilliant things or not. Second,
all saying nonsense. Third of it's Jerry Seinfold. You literally
(22:05):
might as well go heckle the Easter Bunny or Santa
Claus or mister Rogers. You fool, you dumb dumb And
I'm glad Jerry tore him up, real nice and real proper.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
But this is the time that we're in.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
You harassed the great Jerry Simony's seven years old. It's
Jerry Seinfeld. Kramer. He brought you, Kramer, he brought you.
Curb your enthusiasm. Okay, without the success of Seinfeld, there
is no curb your enthusiasm, You fucking dumb dumbs. You
leave Jerry alone, Leave Jerry alone, Leave Jerry alone.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
That's my chant, fool you. Anyway, what else is going
on the WNBA, man, This supposed to be.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
The WNBA's coming out party. This is supposed to be
the big year where everybody watches and learns and sees
how great the WNBA is and how great the WNBA
has been in women's sports and women's basketball, and YadA, YadA, YadA.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
What a shit show?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
I mean, it's not just a shit show if you
watch the games, but who is actually watching the games,
And if you're actually not watching the games, the conversation
around the WNBA is really bad. Okay, the NBA is it's,
(23:42):
you know, the party's parties coming to an end. You
know we're gonna have free agency, and there's always NBA
free agency, but really, you know, the party is coming
to an end. But the WNBA, it's trying its best
to ramp up and it just can't do it. The
covering of the league by the media, in my opinion,
(24:03):
is the real problem. But it's not just the coverage
by ESPN and w ESPN, which is you know, women's ESPN.
There's so many voices now, there's so many podcasts, there's
so many Instagram channels, there's so many opinions all over
the place. And you know, shit sells, whether you're throwing shit,
(24:28):
where you're taking shits, shit sells.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
And there has been so much shit.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
To discuss with the w nb A and to just say,
it's the opinions, and it's the Stephen A.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Smiths, and it's.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
The you know, the Charles Barkley's and it's the Draymond
Greens and the podcast Peas and Myself and the BADA.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
It's also the players.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
The WNBA players, they act like they've never spoken to
the media before, like the conversation some of the way
the media clips are put out, like I don't know
if these people don't have iPhones, but the shit just
looks janky. The sound isn't good. You know, they're not
at the podium answering questions. This whole Caitlyn Clark, just
(25:18):
the insanity of Caitlyn Clark, her not making Team USA.
You know, so many's so and he's so many top
talking heads who were mentioned. Pat McAfee called her a
white bitch. Still has his job. Pat McAfee called her
a white bitch, and still has his job. I don't
(25:39):
care what the context was. There's just veteran players in
the league that seem like they're mad. It's just the
whole thing. Like I said, it seems like some nineteen
eighty four shit. There's veterans that are mad at rookies
because the rookies are getting more shine. But high tide
lifts all the shit. Trust me, you've heard me talk
(26:01):
about my low tide experience. High tide lifts all the ships.
And I don't care if you've been in the league
sixteen years. You know these WNBA chicks, some of them
are like thirty eight. You know, they've been pounding away
for fifteen, sixteen years playing for you know, the Missouri
Monarchs and whatever the fucking team is out in you know, wherever.
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You know, the Indiana Fever. It's good now because Caitlin
Clark is there, but you imagine playing fourteen years for
the Indiana Fever. But obviously, the more people that know
about the games, the more people that know about the players,
will obviously help the league.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
But this weekend again it's Angel Reese.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
In Caitlin Clark, the Indiana Fever versus the Chicago Sky.
Did I mention that I'm performing in Chicago all tickets,
all information for all my shows, and I'm performing in Indiana.
I should invite Kitlin Clark and Angel Reese to to
my shows to be cause they're with Michael rapport coomedy
dot com. It drew a lot of attention again and
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Kaitlyn Clark her squad beat Angel Reese and her team.
Never thought I would be having these discussions on the
Iron rapport. I actually actually said to somebody today to Bearis,
I was like, Yo, you fuck with the WNBA, and
I'm having a conversation with the motherfucker making me coffee
about the WNBA, which I guess is good. I guess
(27:25):
that's you know, I guess that's good. But you know,
there was controversy. Kitlin Clark had twenty three points, nine rebounds,
eight assists. She became the first rookie since Aja Wilson
and Kandae Parker to put up those numbers. But no
matter what she does, all the other girls want to
talk about her negatively, and there's just a tone, and
(27:47):
there's just you know, it just seems like the real
Housewives of the Hardwood. It just doesn't seem classy. It
doesn't seem like they like playing in the WNBA. They
just seem like they're angry about playing in the wa
They don't seem like they're having fun playing in the WNB.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
And Caitlyn Clark, this is a twenty two year old girl.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
This is a twenty two year old kid who's played
in fifteen games in her entire NBA excuse me, WNBA career,
and she's already the fastest player to hit two hundred points,
seventy five sists and seventy five rebounds. I think they
thought she was gonna go out there and be Michael
Jordan or some shit. But she's the fastest player to
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hit two hundred points, seventy five assists, seventy five rebounds.
She had forty three pointers, which only three other players
have done as a rookie. Again, she's twenty two years old.
She's only one of two rookies to ever have five
games where she goes twenty five and five. She's the
real fucking deal. If you don't like her, you at
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least got to respect her. You at least got to
appreciate her. I don't know why they don't like her
unless she's like a fucking raging bitch. She seems nice.
Nobody has said she's a raging bitch. If she's a
raging bitch, please stand up, Please stand up. And although
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Angel Reese is just totally unlikable and you know, lost
that game the other day with some Bill Lane beer.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Shit, she's a good player. Also.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
She's had seven consecutive games with double digit rebounds and
already has seven double doubles. Both these girls are pushing
this game forward. I don't know why they're not happy.
I don't know. Everybody's not happy. And unless you've been
living under a rock, there was a flagrant fowl, flagrant foul,
Like I said, Angel Reese went full Dennis Rodman, full,
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Bill Lane Beer full Xavier McDaniel. She says she went
for the block. I think it was a dirty play.
Angel Rees knows she can't score like Caitlin Clark. She
needs some media training, okay or something. I mean, I
know she likes playing the villain, but just I don't know,
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like smile, like, are you not having fun? I know
she's making money. Also, Katelin Clark isn't the only one
who's making money. They're all making money. These big name chicks,
they're making money. They just don't seem like they're having
a good time. And there's other fun players. That Camilla
Cardosa who plays with Angel Rey, she's good. The other
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chick for the the mystics, the Washington Mystics I watched
her are Leah Edwards, Cameron Brink who's cool and her stepfather.
Her godfather is Stephen Curry, and that Rakia Jackson who
both both of them play for the Sparks. These are
good players. But let's not get it twisted. There's twelve
teams in the WNBA. You know how many teams that
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are in the Big Three. There's twelve teams in the
Big Three. There's twelve teams in the WNBA, and there's
the same amount of teams in the w NBA. So
these women, these ladies, these girls, these players, they're all
very familiar with one another. It's a small league with
a small schedule, and right now, the top of the
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league or the New York Liberty.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
I gotta go to a game.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
The New York Liberty and the Connecticut Sun in the
east and the Minnesota Lynx in the west. The Las
Vegas Aces have been the dynasty of the league, but
they've been struggling. They seem like they're just fucking mean
fuckers down there. They live in Vegas. I can't imagine
living in Vegas twenty four to seven, even if you're
off the strip, seems like hell. It's like one hundred
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and twenty four degrees all year long. But listen, they say,
all press is good press, But we got a fit
ground away and the players and the coaches need to
figure out a way to seem seem like this is
a positive experience, because just the majority of what's coming
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out of the WNBA it doesn't seem positive.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
And this is not a money making machine.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
You know that the WNBA loses about ten million dollars
a year. It loses ten million dollars a year. Now,
they're lucky they have this fucking league. But this year,
the projections is the WNBA is to lose fifty million
dollars a year. Fifty million dollars this year. I ain't
no expert on how to turn that negative into a positive,
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but I can say, lighten up, ladies, and enjoy the
fact that you're professional basketball players. And it's just going
to be more and more women's basketball this summer with
the WNBA Olympics five on five. They got the Olympics
three on three, which is going to be dope and interesting.
You know, there's also a break dancing, which I don't know,
how do you. I guess they'll treat it like gymnastics.
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But there's a ton of opportunity for the league to
grow and to set this league up for success, and
I want to see it happen. I want to see
it happen. And like I said, I am open girls,
I am open the Washington mystics. Okay, the Indiana fever.
You need a goon, I'll put Angel Reese in check.
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You don't even have to let me off the bench.
I have me on the bench. I'll get me some.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Nice titties, a fat ass.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
I have some fake eyelashes on, and I'll be fucking
ice grilling.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Angel Rees. None of that shit's gonna happen when I'm
on the bench. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
The NBA is fantastic, and hopefully the WNBA will get fantastic.
It is fantastic now, but it's it could be a
little bit better. It could be a little bit better
and a little bit lighter. Competitive is great. Competitive is great,
but it could be a little bit better and a
little bit lighter.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Anyway, I'm done.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
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The Dust Brothers, Take me out.
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It with something real nice, Take me out of it,
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You see. I am Rap Report Stereo Podcast.
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I'm out to keep pain kept pa
Cold opening, rare cold opening of the im Rappaport Stereo podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I promise you the entire episode won't be oh like this.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
But the Boston Celtics have won the NBA Championship. The
Boston Celtics have won the NBA Championship.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Am I mad? Yes? Don't be mad? Why not you mad? Bro?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I'm mad, Bro, I'm all those things, all those things
and more. Although I will say it didn't hit me
the way previous Boston Celtic championships.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Hit me. Obviously, this is not the eighties.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
And you don't have that built in year after year,
Weirdo after Weirdo after Carr, after Cornbread, Maxwell, after Larry
Joe Byrd, after Kevin McHale, Robert Parrish, kind of feeling.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
You don't, you just don't.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I'll even say these Boston Celtics are a little bit.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Likable.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I mean, it's hard to hate Jason Tatum, Jalen Brown,
Drew Holliday, Al Horford and of course Tingus, fucking Pingus.
I'm actually happy that Pingus won the championship. He said,
such a crazy career, but it is official. The Boston Celtics,
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who bopped their way through the regular season with sixty
four wins, won the NBA Championship and they beat the
shit out of the Dallas Mavericks, and Dallas Mavericks are
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really lucky they didn't get swept. The last eight minutes
of Game five of this championship will go down in
history as it was almost like an All Star game.
It was Luca and Kyrie just throwing up. It was
like they were playing two on five. I don't know
if they were trying to get their stats or they
were just exhausted.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
And Jalen and.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Jason Tatum, they were like, one of us is winning MVP,
so let's just take turn shooting. I'm not taking anything
away from the championship. What am I gonna sit here
and celebrate the championship. It's not gonna happen. It's not
gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I do have Celtic derangement syndrome. I do have Boston
Bruin derangement syndrome. I do have red sockugh, the fucking
Boston Red Sox, Boston Red Sox derangement syndrome, and of
course New England Patriot.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I don't even know what that is.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
And the crazy thing is in all honesty, I like
the people of Boston. Whenever I go to Boston, I
like Boston. I like the people of Boston. I'm performing
in Boston. I'm excited about performing in Boston because the
people they got great sense of humor in Boston. I
got friends from Boston.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I just.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I don't fuck with the sports teams in any way,
shape or form. So I'm not happy. But it didn't
hit the way the old championships hit when they would
beat the seventy six ers, when they would beat the Knicks,
and then of course when they would beat the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Those were brutal. Those were brutal.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
But the two thousand, twenty three slash twenty four NBA
season has come to an end.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
My wife is ecstatic.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
She's so fucking happy it's over. She's like, do we
have to watch another game? I say, yes, we have
to watch another game. I said, you know, throw some
juju on the Boston Celtics. That'll all be over. And
I'd be remiss if I didn't. You know, just imagine
what it would have been like if the Denver Nuggets
had beaten the Minnesota Timberwolves instead of folding at the
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end of that series and if this would have been
better basketball, I think it would have been I think
it would have been better basketball, but they didn't. They didn't,
and the Celtics did. This is their eighteenth championship.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Listen, this whole.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Idea of the Lakers having seventeen championships. Some of those
championship we're not in California. They were with the Minnesota
or the Minneapolis Lakers, so some of those don't even count.
And you know some of the Boston Celtics championships in
the sixties when they were winning a seven in a row,
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Come on, who are you playing against? No disrespect, no disrespect,
but who are you playing against? That being said, they're champions,
they did it. This is a rare cold opening. I
will stretch, I will pivot, I will drink some coffee,
and I will I won't discuss. I will not discuss basketball.
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I'll discussed some WNBA. I will not discuss.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
They won.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Tingus fucking pingus won. This is the im Rappaport Stereo podcast.
Let's go Boom, Have No Fear The Iron Rapperports Stereo podcast.
This here Boom Have No Fear. D I am Rapaport
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Am rapp Reports Stereo podcasts. What is wrong with the NBA?
Are we not having fun? Are we not having fun?
Nobody seems like they're having fun In the coming out
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this time in Australia. Leave Jerry alone and the trials
and tribulations of moving every single object in my apartment
all that more on a hard hitting, high flying, fully
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Let us fucking go.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
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Speaker 2 (07:15):
This here, Higgyy, have no fear.
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The I Am Rapaport Stiggety stereo podcast is here. In
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Speaker 2 (07:39):
I know, I.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Am, I know, I am. I Am rap Port Stereo
podcast Coming live and direct. The I Am Rapaport Stereo
Podcast Coming live and direct. My name is Michael Rappaport
aka the Solton Sniff aka the Gringo Man Dingle, aka
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the Inflamed Ashkenazi aka the Raging Bullshitter. This is the
Iron Rap Reports Stereo podcast, coming live and direct from
New York City. Hope everybody had a great Father's Day weekend.
Hope everybody had a great.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Shit.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
It's almost here. Summer is almost officially here. It's warming up.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
In New York.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
The heat waves are they're coming in the summer breeze
is heading out, and the hot, humid air of New
York City is coming in. It's never easy the summer
in New York. Summer in the city, hot fun in
the summertime. Anyway, Iron Rapports Stereo Podcast. I'm feeling really good,
(08:54):
feeling really safe, feeling really sane, moving and grooving. Can't
wait to have a full on summer break, no traveling,
no working. I don't know how long that will last,
but listen, I'm happy to be able to work anyway.
But I'm gonna have a little chill time, definitely in July,
(09:18):
and then I'm I'm back. I'm going out doing a
lot of a lot of shows, a lot of touring,
a lot of speaking, Gonna be doing a bunch of theaters,
Gonna be performing in San Francisco. Just added the show
to San Francisco in September September twentieth Cops Comedy September twentieth,
(09:40):
September twenty first, September twentieth, September twenty first. I am
going to San Francisco. Love that city, good food, good people,
although they need to fix that place up. Last time
I was out there was like fucking Dawn of the
Dead out there. But I am performing in San Francis
(10:00):
the twentieth and the twenty first at Cobbs Comedy. Then
I'm gonna be doing some theaters in Pittsburgh October nineteenth,
Indianapolis November seventh, Chicago November eighth, Saint Louis November ninth,
Boston at the Wilbur Theater November twenty first, Connecticut, Richfield, Connecticut,
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November twenty second, Toronto November twenty third, and then Los Angeles,
Beverly Hills to be exact December sixth. There's going to
be more dates. That's what I got for you now.
All tickets, all information is available at Michael Roppaportcomedy dot com.
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Los Angeles, Beverly Hills to be exact. All tickets, all
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Believe On the Last podcast or the definitely the Last
Rapaport's Reality podcast, which is up and at them. Hope
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you guys are listening to Rapaport's Reality Subscribe rate, review,
subscribe rate and review rapaports Reality where we break things
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my wife Kibi Rapport talk all sorts of shit. So
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our apartment in New York City got painted, and I
know people are like, oh yeah, okay, listen. It was
a fucking task. I threw my fucking back out, so
we had to move everything, every single thing from this apartment.
And you know, it's a New York City apartment. It's
not like a ginormous apartment. There's things stuck in corners
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stuck in drawers, stuck in boxes that they're stuck in closets.
You gotta get your bang for your buck, no diddy,
you gotta get your bang for your bunk, no ditty.
And the last time they came in here and painted,
I had the painters. They moved everything, and then they
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moved everything back.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
I came back.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
You motherfuckers didn't finish painting. There was like cracks and
holes and spots. So this time I said, I'm gonna
put well, we're gonna put everything in the middle of
the room, every single thing, into the middle of the
living room, into the middle of the dining room, into
the middle of the kitchen, into the middle of the
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take everything out of the bathroom, in the middle of
the bedroom. So you have to paint this fucking place
once and for all. Take the blinds down. And we
did all of it. I'm standing on things, I'm pulling things,
I'm i got the wrench out, the pliers, the jack
saw the scissors, I'm cutting shit.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
And they came in and they painted.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
It, and it's beautiful, all right. They did a beautiful job.
They actually really did a beautiful job. But then you
gotta put everything back, the closet, the sneakers, the hats,
the couches, the pillows, the microphones, this golden mic socks,
(13:25):
t shirts, I mean every You gotta put it all back.
You gotta lay carpets back down. And I'm telling you,
I have so much respect for people that have hard working,
manual labor jobs because I'm telling you, we did it.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
We did it in about two three hours. You know.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Of course I took some breaks, had to take a break.
I said, we're gonna do the bedroom first. We're gonna
put the shades up so it's not hot, and then
we're gonna put the bed in place and make the
fucking bed because I know I'm gonna need a break.
I don't know if I'm gonna need a break to
take a nap. I don't know if I'm gonna need
a break, you know, like as a nursing station. But
I know I'm gonna need a break. But somehow, someway,
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we got it done.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
With no incidents. It was without incident.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
But I'm telling you, I don't know what I did
to my back if I lifted something or something fell
on me, and I'm not aware it took a fucking
toll on me. You know, my wife, she's tough. Okay,
I talk tough. You know, I'm not good at moving shit. Printers,
they got printers. I got a lot of you know,
iPhone plugs, iPhone cases, all sorts of shit, all sorts
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of things, you know, remote controls.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
There's bottles of water, there's all sorts of shit. Anything.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
It's all listen, you're underestimated. You underestimated. And then next
thing you know, you're putting you know, pictures back on
the wall. You're hammering mirrors, every fucking thing.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
You know.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
You got waits. I got the waits in here. It
got all kind of shit in here. But it got done,
thank goodness. And because we were doing that over the weekend,
well we did that on Saturday. But it took the
fucking life out of me. I mean, it sucked the
fucking life right out of me. So I couldn't make
it to De Nirocon. They had the first ever Denirocon
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at the Tribeca Film Festivals.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Three days, three days.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Of all everything Robert de Niro, and you would think,
wait a minute, you, Mike Rapp, you the raging bullshitter,
didn't make it to de Niro kan to see the
actual Raging Bull himself. No, I couldn't make it. I
couldn't make it. I was planning on going Sunday. There
was one thing. On Friday. They screened Jackie Brown, which
(15:47):
is one of my favorite movies of all time, Jackie Brown,
which is still probably my favorite Quittin Tarantino film, and
such an underrated because it's such an understated.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Robert De Niro performance in Jackie Brown.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
But I wanted to see Quentin Tarantino, because Quentin Tarantino
after the film had a conversation with Robert DeNiro, which
I would have loved to.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Have seen that.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
And then you know, there was one conversation I think
they screwed. Yes, they screened Mean Streets and nas already
a conversation between Robert de Niro and Martin Scorsese, which
I didn't need to see that, no disrespect to Nastynas.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
And there was all.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Sorts of you know, posters and clips and you know
lookalike contests and all sorts of shit. But I just
I couldn't make it there. I was so banged up
after Sunday. I couldn't make it there. But apparently the
first ever, Robert de Niro De Niro Con Festival went
off without a hitch and people loved it, and there
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was all sorts of experiences and you could, you know,
be in the room. They recreated the set where they
shot Taxi Driver. They you know, recreated Travis Pickle's room
and they not all kinds of fun stuff like that.
And I saw clips and that, posters and you know,
memorabilia and this that and the third and uh, you know,
I'll definitely make it to next year's Deniroconn. I do
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want to see the conversation with De Niro and Quentin
Tarantino talking about Jackie Brown, because I really do love
that movie. I know they had Christopher walk in there
talking about The Deer Hunter.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
I mean it was Deniroconn.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
So it was for the the regular DeNiro fan and
for the deep diving psychopaths like myself. Although I didn't
get to make it, but I heard it was a
lot of fun. And like I said, I'll definitely make
it to the Denirocon twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Hopefully there'll be another Denirocon. There should be.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
There should be a Paccinocon. Holy shit, that's what there
should be next Paccinocon all things al Pacino fucked.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
That would be fun.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I wonder how much paraphernalia and you know, actual stuff
they have from like all his movies, because that would
be sick too.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
I mean, you're talking to me, you're talking to me,
but who the hell so you're talking talking to me? Well,
I'm the only one here. They're right, never went.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Down, never gotten me down? Yeah, but I never gotten down.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
I grew up in a tough neighborhood, and we used
to say, you can get further with a kind word
and a gun than you can't with just a kind word.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
And in that.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Neighborhood it might have been true.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
And sometimes a reputation follows you.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
There is violence in Chicago, of course, but.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Not by me and not by anybody I employ.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
And I tell you why, because it's not good business.
People forgotten what life is all about. They've forgotten what
it is to be alive. They need to be reminded.
They need to be reminded about what they have and
what they can lose. You know, what I feel is
the joy of life, the.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Gift of life, the freedom of life, the wonderment of life.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not
willing to walk out on in thirty seconds flat, if
you feel the heat around a corner.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Before the podcast, what else happened? There was a whole
incident Jerry Seinfeld. I don't understand these dummies, the great
(19:38):
Jerry Seinfeld, the great Jerry Seinfeld. Nobody could say anything
but the great Jerry Seinfeld. Whether you're a Seinfeld fan
or not. No one's gonna say Seinfeld sucks. No one's
gonna say the show Seinfeld sucks. No one's gonna say
that Seinfeldt's comedy sucks. You just can't say that. You
might go, well, you know, I prefer you know, this warner.
(19:58):
I prefer that warner. You know, obviously, you know I
respect Jerry Seinfeld, but you know he's not my favorite.
All that's fine, But no one's gonna say that Jerry
Seinfeld sucks. That that's just not gonna happen. But Jerry
Seinfeld got protested again. This time. He's performing in Australia.
And I know these tickets ain't cheap. I know these
(20:18):
fucking tickets ain't cheap. But based on the videotape, Jerry
Seinfeld was about you know, not even halfway through a show,
and these kooks, lunatics, unhinged freaks, they started heckling the
Great Jerry Seinfeld, and the Great Jerry Seinfeld handled it
with all class, and it was all caught on videotape
with bad audio. But let's play some miles Jordana a k.
(20:41):
The Bleach Brothers aka the Dust Brothers, play the clip
of Jerry Seinfeld in Australia tearing up these hecklers, real
nice and real proper like.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Ladies.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Johnavan, He's it's the Jewish. They're gonna start punching you
in about three seconds, so I will try and get
(21:19):
all of your genius out.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
And they evolved the learners from you.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
You dummy, you dumb dumbs. You spent your money to
go heckle Jerry Seinfeld. Did you pay yourself to go
heckle Jerry Seinfeld? And do you think that you? First
of all, he's a comedian. He's one of the greatest
comedians of all time. He's got the microphone. You've got
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nothing but dumb ideas in your head. You don't have
a megaphone. Okay, you don't even have one of those.
You know, karaoke mics. You got nothing, so you're gonna
lose whether you say the most brilliant things or not. Second,
all saying nonsense. Third of it's Jerry Seinfold. You literally
(22:05):
might as well go heckle the Easter Bunny or Santa
Claus or mister Rogers. You fool, you dumb dumb And
I'm glad Jerry tore him up, real nice and real proper.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
But this is the time that we're in.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
You harassed the great Jerry Simony's seven years old. It's
Jerry Seinfeld. Kramer. He brought you, Kramer, he brought you.
Curb your enthusiasm. Okay, without the success of Seinfeld, there
is no curb your enthusiasm, You fucking dumb dumbs. You
leave Jerry alone, Leave Jerry alone, Leave Jerry alone.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
That's my chant, fool you. Anyway, what else is going
on the WNBA, man, This supposed to be.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
The WNBA's coming out party. This is supposed to be
the big year where everybody watches and learns and sees
how great the WNBA is and how great the WNBA
has been in women's sports and women's basketball, and YadA, YadA, YadA.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
What a shit show?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
I mean, it's not just a shit show if you
watch the games, but who is actually watching the games,
And if you're actually not watching the games, the conversation
around the WNBA is really bad. Okay, the NBA is it's,
(23:42):
you know, the party's parties coming to an end. You
know we're gonna have free agency, and there's always NBA
free agency, but really, you know, the party is coming
to an end. But the WNBA, it's trying its best
to ramp up and it just can't do it. The
covering of the league by the media, in my opinion,
(24:03):
is the real problem. But it's not just the coverage
by ESPN and w ESPN, which is you know, women's ESPN.
There's so many voices now, there's so many podcasts, there's
so many Instagram channels, there's so many opinions all over
the place. And you know, shit sells, whether you're throwing shit,
(24:28):
where you're taking shits, shit sells.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
And there has been so much shit.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
To discuss with the w nb A and to just say,
it's the opinions, and it's the Stephen A.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Smiths, and it's.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
The you know, the Charles Barkley's and it's the Draymond
Greens and the podcast Peas and Myself and the BADA.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
It's also the players.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
The WNBA players, they act like they've never spoken to
the media before, like the conversation some of the way
the media clips are put out, like I don't know
if these people don't have iPhones, but the shit just
looks janky. The sound isn't good. You know, they're not
at the podium answering questions. This whole Caitlyn Clark, just
(25:18):
the insanity of Caitlyn Clark, her not making Team USA.
You know, so many's so and he's so many top
talking heads who were mentioned. Pat McAfee called her a
white bitch. Still has his job. Pat McAfee called her
a white bitch, and still has his job. I don't
(25:39):
care what the context was. There's just veteran players in
the league that seem like they're mad. It's just the
whole thing. Like I said, it seems like some nineteen
eighty four shit. There's veterans that are mad at rookies
because the rookies are getting more shine. But high tide
lifts all the shit. Trust me, you've heard me talk
(26:01):
about my low tide experience. High tide lifts all the ships.
And I don't care if you've been in the league
sixteen years. You know these WNBA chicks, some of them
are like thirty eight. You know, they've been pounding away
for fifteen, sixteen years playing for you know, the Missouri
Monarchs and whatever the fucking team is out in you know, wherever.
(26:25):
You know, the Indiana Fever. It's good now because Caitlin
Clark is there, but you imagine playing fourteen years for
the Indiana Fever. But obviously, the more people that know
about the games, the more people that know about the players,
will obviously help the league.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
But this weekend again it's Angel Reese.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
In Caitlin Clark, the Indiana Fever versus the Chicago Sky.
Did I mention that I'm performing in Chicago all tickets,
all information for all my shows, and I'm performing in Indiana.
I should invite Kitlin Clark and Angel Reese to to
my shows to be cause they're with Michael rapport coomedy
dot com. It drew a lot of attention again and
(27:04):
Kaitlyn Clark her squad beat Angel Reese and her team.
Never thought I would be having these discussions on the
Iron rapport. I actually actually said to somebody today to Bearis,
I was like, Yo, you fuck with the WNBA, and
I'm having a conversation with the motherfucker making me coffee
about the WNBA, which I guess is good. I guess
(27:25):
that's you know, I guess that's good. But you know,
there was controversy. Kitlin Clark had twenty three points, nine rebounds,
eight assists. She became the first rookie since Aja Wilson
and Kandae Parker to put up those numbers. But no
matter what she does, all the other girls want to
talk about her negatively, and there's just a tone, and
(27:47):
there's just you know, it just seems like the real
Housewives of the Hardwood. It just doesn't seem classy. It
doesn't seem like they like playing in the WNBA. They
just seem like they're angry about playing in the wa
They don't seem like they're having fun playing in the WNB.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
And Caitlyn Clark, this is a twenty two year old girl.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
This is a twenty two year old kid who's played
in fifteen games in her entire NBA excuse me, WNBA career,
and she's already the fastest player to hit two hundred points,
seventy five sists and seventy five rebounds. I think they
thought she was gonna go out there and be Michael
Jordan or some shit. But she's the fastest player to
(28:29):
hit two hundred points, seventy five assists, seventy five rebounds.
She had forty three pointers, which only three other players
have done as a rookie. Again, she's twenty two years old.
She's only one of two rookies to ever have five
games where she goes twenty five and five. She's the
real fucking deal. If you don't like her, you at
(28:52):
least got to respect her. You at least got to
appreciate her. I don't know why they don't like her
unless she's like a fucking raging bitch. She seems nice.
Nobody has said she's a raging bitch. If she's a
raging bitch, please stand up, Please stand up. And although
(29:23):
Angel Reese is just totally unlikable and you know, lost
that game the other day with some Bill Lane beer.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Shit, she's a good player. Also.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
She's had seven consecutive games with double digit rebounds and
already has seven double doubles. Both these girls are pushing
this game forward. I don't know why they're not happy.
I don't know. Everybody's not happy. And unless you've been
living under a rock, there was a flagrant fowl, flagrant foul,
Like I said, Angel Reese went full Dennis Rodman, full,
(29:55):
Bill Lane Beer full Xavier McDaniel. She says she went
for the block. I think it was a dirty play.
Angel Rees knows she can't score like Caitlin Clark. She
needs some media training, okay or something. I mean, I
know she likes playing the villain, but just I don't know,
(30:18):
like smile, like, are you not having fun? I know
she's making money. Also, Katelin Clark isn't the only one
who's making money. They're all making money. These big name chicks,
they're making money. They just don't seem like they're having
a good time. And there's other fun players. That Camilla
Cardosa who plays with Angel Rey, she's good. The other
(30:40):
chick for the the mystics, the Washington Mystics I watched
her are Leah Edwards, Cameron Brink who's cool and her stepfather.
Her godfather is Stephen Curry, and that Rakia Jackson who
both both of them play for the Sparks. These are
good players. But let's not get it twisted. There's twelve
teams in the WNBA. You know how many teams that
(31:01):
are in the Big Three. There's twelve teams in the
Big Three. There's twelve teams in the WNBA, and there's
the same amount of teams in the w NBA. So
these women, these ladies, these girls, these players, they're all
very familiar with one another. It's a small league with
a small schedule, and right now, the top of the
(31:25):
league or the New York Liberty.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
I gotta go to a game.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
The New York Liberty and the Connecticut Sun in the
east and the Minnesota Lynx in the west. The Las
Vegas Aces have been the dynasty of the league, but
they've been struggling. They seem like they're just fucking mean
fuckers down there. They live in Vegas. I can't imagine
living in Vegas twenty four to seven, even if you're
off the strip, seems like hell. It's like one hundred
(31:51):
and twenty four degrees all year long. But listen, they say,
all press is good press, But we got a fit
ground away and the players and the coaches need to
figure out a way to seem seem like this is
a positive experience, because just the majority of what's coming
(32:13):
out of the WNBA it doesn't seem positive.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
And this is not a money making machine.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
You know that the WNBA loses about ten million dollars
a year. It loses ten million dollars a year. Now,
they're lucky they have this fucking league. But this year,
the projections is the WNBA is to lose fifty million
dollars a year. Fifty million dollars this year. I ain't
no expert on how to turn that negative into a positive,
(32:42):
but I can say, lighten up, ladies, and enjoy the
fact that you're professional basketball players. And it's just going
to be more and more women's basketball this summer with
the WNBA Olympics five on five. They got the Olympics
three on three, which is going to be dope and interesting.
You know, there's also a break dancing, which I don't know,
how do you. I guess they'll treat it like gymnastics.
(33:06):
But there's a ton of opportunity for the league to
grow and to set this league up for success, and
I want to see it happen. I want to see
it happen. And like I said, I am open girls,
I am open the Washington mystics. Okay, the Indiana fever.
You need a goon, I'll put Angel Reese in check.
(33:29):
You don't even have to let me off the bench.
I have me on the bench. I'll get me some.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Nice titties, a fat ass.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
I have some fake eyelashes on, and I'll be fucking
ice grilling.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Angel Rees. None of that shit's gonna happen when I'm
on the bench. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
The NBA is fantastic, and hopefully the WNBA will get fantastic.
It is fantastic now, but it's it could be a
little bit better. It could be a little bit better
and a little bit lighter. Competitive is great. Competitive is great,
but it could be a little bit better and a
little bit lighter.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Anyway, I'm done.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Tell a friend to tikety, tell a friend about the
I Am Rapaport Stereo podcast, the world's most disruptive podcast,
and I gave you all the dates as of now.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Come see me live.
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Tickets available at Michael Rappaport Kickity Comedy dot com. Miles
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The Dust Brothers, Take me out.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
It with something real nice, Take me out of it,
whats something real loud, but most importantly, end this puppy
with something real funk.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
You see. I am Rap Report Stereo Podcast.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
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