September 29, 2020 • 57 mins
As summer winds down, The Greatest heats up as Megan and C.J. discuss the greatest hotties in sports with Rae Sanni (A Black Lady Sketch Show, The Good Place, and The President's Show).
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Greatest, a production of I Heart Radio. Hello,
and welcome to another episode of the Greatest. I'm Megan Gaily,
joined by my husband and co host c J. Toladano.
That's really I really like when you say husband first,
so I don't want to be your I think it
(00:22):
sounds embarrassing to say a husband and co host. I
feel like we're in an SNL sketch about people that
are annoying. Um, we are so excited for our guest today. Gosh,
I mean, there's almost too much to say. An Emmy
nominated writer has written on a Black Lady sketch show,
The Good Place, The President Show. She's also the owner
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of probably the most important Twitter in my life. UM,
please welcome Ray Sanni. Hi. I mean it's because the
thing is, it's true. I'm I'm not Emmy nominated a
Black Lady. Okay, that show doesn't exist without you. I
truly hate when that ship happened. Like everyone who works
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on a show that gets nominated, I'm like, do you
get an emy? Do you get an Emy? And they're like, no,
we don't get one. Yeah, just the producers and stuff
get Emmy. But I'm happy that it happened they got nominated.
I'm very proud of that, but I'm more excited to
be here with you guys or whatever. I was in
here being like, when are these motherfuckers? Don't ask me.
(01:29):
Everybody else you were at the top of our wishless
but there's just been so much going on, and I
didn't want to burden you. Um, but no, I'm serious,
Like we would throw your name around and I was like,
I don't risk busy. You know she's she's emy nominated.
I just couldn't. I couldn't ignore all of your basketball
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tweets in the last few months. I'm like liking all
them because yeah, I mean because Megan and I will
say something and then you'll end up tweeting it and
it's like, oh, all in the same level of sports
opinions right here. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. You can
make me laugh all the time too, especially with your Lakers. UM.
I was also going to say this could unofficially be
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the first meeting of the j R. Smith Fan Club.
I was thinking about. I was thinking about the executive
branch of it. I think Ray as president, I think
CJ is vice president, and I'm treasurer. UM like if
we ever need to collect money to go visit j R.
I'm happy to be doing that. And as c J
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and I've recently found out I have very good credit,
so I'm happy to be the treasurer. But I knew
that from looking at you when I first met you
that you had good Do you act like that's a surprise.
I think I'm the one that's a toss up. Um. Yeah,
we've learned, not the credit, um. But really, I I
don't know. If I know three people, I think Aaron Lennox.
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She could potentially be the secretary of the fan club.
But like the three of us, we really ride hard.
How much fun has it been for you to see
j R back with Lebron but not really in a
playing capacity. So he's the best cheerleader that was Ron
has ever had. Okay, Leron is playing with his best
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teammate in a D and I love it. I don't
need JR to do anything bestball, I related, that's not
why we love him exactly, So I'm good with that.
I'm very happy to see him. To be honest, I
think he's beautiful. I love forever him is like funny
to people. But I also do think he's very, very fine,
and if he wanted to cause trouble in my life,
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I would accept the trouble. They were showing the Lakers
after the Thursday night victory. Walking back to the tunnel,
j R. Already had his shirt off and have not
had not played one second, sure off, everyone else still
fully closed in their vote shirts. And I'm like God,
But the thing is, that's what I did. Want to
see him shirtless celebrating a game he didn't play it.
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That's peak beautiful Jr. Yes, he's amazing, like truly the
reason I fell in love with him. This sounds insane,
but this season, like where the NBA had the lockout
for like the first half of the season or whatever.
He was playing in China and I just saw some
news report. I saw some news report that said JR.
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Smith's girlfriend and sister beat up Chinese fans. I need
to know. I need to know his family, and it's true.
Like him, his girlfriend, he's not with that woman anymore
because as you guys know, he's a little sloppy in
that department. But he um his like his girlfriend was
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just like tattooed up, like sub doubt girl, and her
and his sister were like beating up Chinese fans who
such a j R. That's the presence you're getting with
j R. I mean, like I was gonna bring up
to during during the protest, like I don't even know
if he was out here because he was trying out
for the for the Lakers or what, but like during
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the protest, he he beat up this little white kid
who was just out and and and and he he
straight up went he went right to his like I
g stories, which is like, you know, Jr's preferred choice
of platform, I think, but he was like, Hey, I
just want to let you guys know I beat up
this kid because he messed with my car and had
nothing to do with what's going on. And then I
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was like, this is perfect. And then the video came out,
and the video that is I don't know if you've
seen it right, but like the video is so great
because it's him beating up the kid and everyone in
the crowd is like hey to everyone feel me, like hey,
can you just respect his privacy and just letting it happen,
which is perfect. Yes, I saw that video because whatever
anything j R. Smith related happens, A bunch of people
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text me um, and so they were like they were like, uh,
did you see the man beating up this little white
boy like he's doing too much? And I was like, no,
that boy deserved to My thing is my thing is
I understand, you know, eat the rich, all of that,
all of that, but you can't. You can't come for
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first generation rich people. Ship go with everybody else who
has generational wealth. G dude who untied shoelaces and like
bought his way into the NBA. Like, let him have
his car go funk up like Mark Cuban's car. Yes, exactly.
There is a like Matt purple g wagon I see
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all over l A and it's like, I don't know
who that belongs to, but it's clearly a Laker's player.
Don't funk with that car like it may be like
a green Camaro. Leave it alone. If you see thirty
inch like diamond studded rims, don't go after that car.
If you see a fall break the windshield. Yeah, if
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you see him back with a red interior alone, you know, Wow,
you know what this is? This is knowledgeable. Um. Okay,
So Ray, you are from New York, you are a
self proclaimed Knicks fan. Yeah, I think you're You're one
of few Knicks fans I get to interact with. I
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know one other one I talked to. They're embarrassed, they're
embarress to come up. So, like, what do you hope happens? Well,
I hope James Dolan died, right, I hope happen. Um.
So I just read a headline. I didn't go deeply
into it, but I just saw a headline that was like, oh, um,
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in response to like all the like social justice stuff
that the players are doing. The uh, the owners have
contributed like more to the Republican Party than they ever have,
and like the top five were like Orlando's owner and
I can't remember the other four, but absolutely one thousand
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percent it was James ban I'm not surprised by that
at all. Like, and for some reason, rich New Yorkers
who aren't like old money in high society are super
into Trump and I don't get it. But James Owan
has loved a sexual assaulter and he tried to make
Isaiah Thomas the coach of the Liberty and I are
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you doing? It's almost like, yeah, he's one of those
people out there who thinks of the worst thing you
can do and totally does it. You know, like every time,
it's like it's cartoonish the decisions that he made. Yeah,
the parallels to Trump too, it's just like very similar.
You're very similar, like a dude and a white dude
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in power who again, things will come out that it's
like you gotta be done, like anyone else in society
who has this track record's got to be like dethroned
but just gets to retain all of it's insane based
on money. I mean it's like a, yeah, he is
a cartoon villain, that is correct, sea. I mean with
the Oakley stuff, it's like wow, just to to also
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be so out of touch and yeah, and like the
thing is we know him. It's kind of this Jerry
Jones as thing of like when you were an owner
doing front face saying videos like We're gonna come for
you if you if you funk up, and the Nicks
have fucked up. I mean it's like at least now
the Browns are trying to be good and like try
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and make good choices, and the Knicks almost seemed like
they make bad decisions on purpose, and I know that
that's not what they're doing, but that's how it feels. Well.
The problem is that one so on my like limited
sample size because I can only think of like two examples.
But I think second generation owners of a team are
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always bad if you didn't have to buy the team
with your own money, and you weren't like part of
you know, acquiring the team and seeing vacula goes into
such trade actions and whatever whatever. I don't think that
you can really do a good job. It's like Al
Davison kids and James Dolan sucks, and I just feel
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like there's the problem with Dolan is that the Knicks
are always profitable no matter how poorly they performed, And
I don't think he seems like a basketball lover. He
doesn't seem like a guy who's like into the game.
So it's like, as long as he keeps the Knicks
decent enough to like sell tickets to Medicine Square Garden,
which is the truth, like you'll always find people courtside
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of the next game no matter how bad the season
is going. I don't think he's like at risk of
losing money enough to want to make the team better. However,
like with the Browns, it's like who the funk wants
to be in Cleveland. You gotta make this work, dude. Yeah,
I mean yeah, I mean he really is like the
woman in Major League, but he has New York, Like, yeah,
New York is so fucking cool and there are people
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that want to go there. I mean k D and
Kyrie going to New York, but going to Brooklyn is
like a great fuck you to him. I think, do
you know how angry I was? I was. I totally
get it, but I'm so mad at y'all. I'm so mad.
I was sitting there. I was like, yeah, k D
comes to the Knicks like whatever, you know. I was
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ready to like find new jerseys all that, and uh, yeah,
you know, I don't. I don't know. I like, I
get it, I get it. I get it, you know.
And I would root for Brooklyn if they had been
there for longer. But I was like born into a
Nick fandom, and it just feels weird to like shift
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to the neck for even though I'm from Brooklyn. It's
just like I can't do that. I have too many
memories attached to the Knicks, you know, Like my mother
and fathers are making fun of me when the Rockets
came back and beat them because my parents are Nigerian
and my parents are Nigerian Muslim, so I came alagical
like everything to them. And like so my brother and
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I like I think I might have been like six
and my brother would have been like eight, and we
were like super hardcore rooting for them, and we were
singing that song go You'll go, New who you All Go.
And then like in in the final game, my dad
was all in my face and I'm like this has
to be child abuse and that, and then like I remember,
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like when I was like ten or eleven, why didn't
the Knicks only duel in lockout seasons anyway? Um, when
I was like ten or eleven, like the Knicks went
to the finals and I would just like right, Marcus
camping all over my arm. I thought he was so
cute because I caught like an n C double a
game of his, like at amherst One, like when he
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was you mask was it AMers it was? And then
he and then he like uh he, I just saw him.
I thought he was so long and handsome, and so
when he was on the Knicks, I was like so happy.
It was like three wells he said or whatever, and
It's like the Nets never gave me any memories while
they were New Jersey, and I don't know, I look
at them as like gentrifiers. Yeah, I mean like the
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next situation too, it's like, yeah, you guys are always
later you weren't. It's like a Clippers Lakers situation over here,
like if you were. It's it's the team that you
sort of connected with when you were born and has
a little bit more history. Like yeah, exactly, But c J,
you are loyal, right in the same way that I
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am loyal, and c J is not loyal. I'm loyal
to Lebron CJS loyal to the best player, and so
he always gets to root for whatever team the best
players on And you're like, okay, well that's not really fair.
But yeah, I like individual very much. My brothers, that's
very much my brother Yes, And the NBA and the
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NBA sort of encourages that. Like what I do like
about the NBA and why I can't really get into
the NFL aside from all the other largest society of
stuff is that like the NFL wants these particularly black
players to diminish themselves. And there's nothing that I like
more than an arrogant black man. That is why I've
never been in a happy relationship. But um, like I
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really really really really really love that. Like the NBA
is just like five different businesses on the floor like
for every team each time, and it's like, Okay, I
know this person's face. They make this many dollars, they
can do this much stuff with their sponsorship, and they
aren't like I mean, obviously, if you're on a team
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with Lebron, you're gonna get eclipsed by him. But it's
not like with Aaron Rodgers getting all the attention and
all these anonymous packers on the field. And I like
that fan engagement. It's like really really great and I
like seeing when players are funny. Yeah, I mean, if anything,
I was gonna say, like Kauai feels more like an
NFL player because he just loves the game and doesn't
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want to be in you know, doesn't really want to
be like a spokesperson. I love his is it a
New Balance commercial? He does not speak in it. He's
holding a microphone and but he doesn't speak. Perfect. This
is if people went to them and we're like, he'll
do the commercial. He will not speak and he will
not smile and they were like, we'll figure it out,
We'll figure it out. But I'm like, he has to
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have fun, right, because there was footage of him in
a strip club and even shy people like pussy, you know,
I wouldn't seem yeah. I think yeah, yeah, and he's
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hot and he be asked to like shoulder at that point. Yes, yes, Um,
this is a perfect segue into our topic. So we
we were originally going to do Greatest Choke Jobs, which
was recommended to us by a fan, Hi Kelly, in
a listener, and then when I said Ray was in,
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CJ was like, no one talks about hot people or
crushes better than Ray. We have to have her do that.
And so today's topic is greatest Hotties is what I'm
calling it. And on my part, it took zero research.
C J. Did you have to do? I just didn't
want to miss anyone, because this is genuinely when I
first moved to l A and I would go to
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these parties with you know, awful people that I don't know,
but like, for some reason, this was like my party
trigger party conversation where I'd be like, who's like the
hottest NBA player? Straight guys and no. I mean it
was like if I could talk to a bunch of
straight lame comedy writers and have them admit, who are
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hot NBA players and weren't afraid of like have that
conversations like all right, you're not that much of a loser,
Like you know, you're not afraid to not your masculine,
so you want to rust that. I guess you're cool.
This is like I've had players in the back of
my head, so I'm gonna I mean, it's gonna be
a mix of guys and girls. Did you have to
do any research? Of course not. No, I've been like
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floating around the house all morning just thinking about it.
I already told the c J I have lots of
honorable mentions. Yes, yes, and also also guys are hot
for different reasons. Yes, I have to take into account
as well. Okay, so let's take a quick break and
then we'll be back with our perspects. We are back, Ray,
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as our guest. You lead us off with your number
three picks, so we go in. Is that descending? Descending? Yeah,
so you're oh wait, I didn't ask for clarification, don't sorry.
They have to be current. They absolutely not no, okay,
so um, my number three is the only current world.
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Actually there's he's one of two, but there's Jerk or whatever.
My number three is Russell. Yeah, I mean yes, give
us your give us your reasoning. First of all, I
just really like Russell Westbrook bones. He looks after him
to me, my parents are Nigerian, he looks like he's
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one of ours. Um and um. I love a surly movasaka,
I really do. And he just he doesn't have time
for ship. He's really funny, but doesn't have time for ship.
He's so strong, and he's like he looks like such
a man. You know, he's like moving back, pushing the
ball hard, and I'm like he would handle me. So
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he when mean and funny, and then when he smiles.
I mean, it's like when when Russ is having fun,
you cannot Like. There was a clip of him dancing
the other day and I was then I started dancing
like subconsciously, just like was vibing with him. He won
some award when one of the sps I was at,
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and so then he comes backstage and we the writers,
we stand backstage and I made eye contact with him
and I said congratulations and he smiled at me, put
his hand on his chest and said thank you so much.
And I was like in a puddle, like I was
like I've died. I've died. And his shirt was unbuttoned
to his belly button. He had like layered chains on.
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He just looked so cool, so hot, and is even
though he is kind of like ah, like a fun psycho,
he's like a good person and he seems like a
great dad. I love his kids. I just I love
how he dresses. Yes, and this is important to me,
Like there's a whole thing about how or whatever. But
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in the Kardashian era, it has gotten to be that
a lot of black celebrities, blackmail celebrities pursue women who
looks like them or don't talk to or engaged with
black women. The NBA is better at it than a
lot of other leagues. You know, the black men in
the NBA usually date black women, but in an arrow
where it's become more cool to data Kardashian or a
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quote unquote exotic woman. The fact that Russell Westbrook is
with a dark skinned black woman and has been with
her has not less they they have beautiful kids, like
it needs a lot to me, and he's funny when
he seems to be funny. That smile is incredible. I
love that he's obsessed with Taylor Swift. That is funny.
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Like now he Yeah, he is probably the most influential
like fashion too, like he he he gave reason for
like the tunnel walk, like TNT starts coverage at players
walking into the arena because of Russell Westbrook. I know,
like some other players have dabbled, you know, in other
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leagues too, but like, yeah exactly, but like Russ was
making statements with his fashion and yeah, exactly the doors. Yeah,
that's a great first pickre wonderful. C do you want
me to go next? Okay, so my number three. I'm
disappointed in myself. I thought I was going to have
no white men on my list, but I just cannot
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deny how strikingly handsome Jimmy Garoppolo is he. And like it.
I almost think I like him as like a fuck
you to Tom Brady, because I do think Tom Brady
is like classically hot, looks like he could be a model,
but he's a nemesis of mine. And so Jimmy, Jimmy
g was like his understudy, you know, and then and
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then got to like shine. I was doing a podcast recently.
Dian Ortiz is very funny comedian out of Chicago, and
hers is all about crushes, and she was like, I
don't really like Tom Brady. And I was like, do
you know who Jimmy Garoppolo is? And she said no,
And I showed her a picture and she was like,
that is the hottest man I've ever seen in my life.
Like he he looks like an Abercrombie model, smile, like
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he could be a movie star, he could be an
action hero. The fact that he is also a quarterback
that took a team to a super Bowl makes him hot.
But when he said babe to Aaron Andrews, I was like,
I know that we should not be encouraging this behavior.
Men should not be talking to sideline reporters like this.
But if he called me babe, I don't I don't know,
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c J, I may throw it all away. He definitely,
because the white quarterback is like so corny to me.
But he yeah, he is somewhat of an exception for me.
He does look but he's a little bit too like
he looks manufactured to me. Well, and he's from the
Chicago suburbs. So he also has that like vibe of
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like a drunk bro that could be in Wrigley Bill,
Like he could have heckled me out a show. And
I think me imagining him bullying me and not being
into me makes me more into him. Oh, I know,
I know, we're absolutely sick. I hope, I hope our
fans are still listening at this point, Like, oh, no,
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I think this is gonna be our highest reviewed episode.
I'll try to tie in some performance. So that's my no.
I said, he let a teacher. He got injured last week.
I'm hoping he's better. I like he's someone I hate
seeing injured because he's had bad ones. But yeah, how
does he dress? I have no idea. I'm sure in
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Patagonia is like I'm sure it's not good, but I
really only ever want to see him in pads. Like
if he were to like walk into a dinner, I'm
sure he would. Yeah, he's from the western suburbs of Chicago,
but he wears like black button downs with like Paisley
collars and ships. Um I would, I would. I would
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resent him if I saw him in real life. There
are people that are like objectively handsome and like have
a good life. You're sure just by looking and I
would be resentful acknowledge that he's beautiful and then the
the out of him A good choice. He's very, very
very beautiful man. And he liked porn stars, which I'm
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glad for. I love that he was just like, I'm
not going to give a ship what anybody says. I'm
gonna take this, this beautiful porn star on a day.
Y'all have a problem with it here. I love that
you have to imagine playing in San Francisco. Really just
let you be like, who gives a fuck? Like you
can do whatever you want. Um, okay, your number three
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al right, So my number three is the pick that
I was talking like this. I found this. I thought
of this when I used to have those conversations back
in the day, and it stayed in my head. Um
because it's between like I feel like when people talk
about handsome or hot NBA players, Rick Fox always comes
up like and I was like, I was like, okay, whatever, um,
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But for me it was Jim Jackson. Do you guys
know Jim Jackson. That's the one that is that the
one who sold Tony Braxton from Maybe I I need
to look that up. But yeah, that's so funny because
I would have been so mad at myself if I
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didn't mention that Layry so he stole Tony Braxon. Yes,
so so first of all, I don't even know what
Tony Brack was doing. The team hotel to pick up
Jason Kidd for a date, if the story, but she
ends up leaving with Jim Jackson. I mean side by side.
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He's hotter. Jason Kidd is not to me, um and
he he was for like five minutes on the net.
It's really hot for like his first two seasons on nets.
But he's got a weird look to him. Jim Jackson,
c J. You're so right. He's so handsome. He's six
sex from Toledo, Ohio. Just like a rock yeah, like
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back then, like just like solid NBA players because it
was like the age of you know, like obviously like
and it was like all finesse lean but like a big,
solid NBA players, Like man, I want to look like that.
And I love that you said. I love what you
said that he got traded after the Jason Kidd thing,
because he was traded. He played for twelve NBA teams.
I remember him being like a journeyman, and I'm wondering
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it's like, was he just a threat to every every
teammate's wife or girlfriend. Yes, he was, like he's killing
everybody's girl. Yeah, he's too hot, you can't. I mean
that's yeah, that's like such a funny phenomenon to be like,
you gotta trade to me, too hot. My wife loves him.
Jim Jackson hard to to get off my list. He's
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running strongly eight years. I saw Rick Fox in person,
probably like three years ago, and he still looked really
like he actually looked hotter than I remember him being.
And maybe that's the in person he's better with the
salt and pepper hair. Yes, who I love like a
distinguished gentleman, and he looks like one. But Chris Rick
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stresses me out because he's like too pretty. I would
never be confident that my man wasn't cheating on me
if he looks like Rick back, because when you saw
Vanessa Williams like back in the day, and you're like,
that is the prettiest woman alive, and then you see
him and you're like, oh, yeah, that's who deserves her. Yeah,
But didn't give her. I think I think he cheated
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on her, like pretty badly. Yeah, Rick, I mean now
Rick is boys with Kanye like really doubling down on
it right. Well, when I saw him, he was in
a casino and he had two very ugly short white
men with him, and I was like, what a good
move just surround yourself control. Isn't he dating like one
of the spy women from TV? Like maybe a lie
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should or something? Oh wow, Oh, I think I've seen
the lies of douche, like the what is it Perez
Hilton pictures of them to hanging out. Well, I always
told I always told c J. If him and I
hadn't started dating, I feel like I would have wound
up with or sell Us Wiley. No, no, thank god
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you didn't. He's like a weirdo, self paid and black dude. Yeah,
he's like. Uh. There was like a tweet the other day.
I was like, look at this guy dancing for white dollars. No,
he's something he said, Oh, I don't believe in white
privilege because white privilege means that my black skin is
a standard. I was like, that's not with that, you're
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playing that he's taking over the Jason Whitlock. Yeah, he's
gone to the Terry Cruise. Kom oh my gosh. Okay, well,
I'm glad that I wound up with c J. Then
all right, let's take a book break, should we do?
We let's just go into our number two. We're gonna
go to our number two. Okay, Ray, you ready with
your number two? Yeah? I had to reshuffle because I
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didn't realize that we were doing different sports. But now
that you've introduced the NFL, I would like to go
with Travis Kells. Wow. Wow that I mean he is hot.
He is hot. Megan and I have talked to him
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on FaceTime. We face timed with him this summer. We
have met him in person. Um, we have a close policy.
Tall he is, he's six four probably he's also he's
a Cleveland guy, really good. I mean he is. I
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think like old white dudes would describe him as like
salt of the earth, Like he's like a good guy.
I was obsessed with Catching Kelsey. Did you watch that show? No?
But I heard good things about it, and he picked
a black girl, so I was like, Okay, then his
most recent fiance was a black girl. Okay, yes, but
also I have and it's shameful. But I went to
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private school with white people in Brooklyn, so the white
guys had like wig good tendency. My high school, one
of the beastie boys went to you know, so um
so I have like a really soft place for wiggas,
like and it's a bad thing to me, but I like,
really really do. And I think wiggas from Ohio are
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always the best ones. It's a wigas and Ohio wigas
and Travis Kelsey is a wiga that I I. He's
so deeply attractive, handsome. I thought that's why I wouldn't
like him, and then we got to know him and
I started watching the play and he's just yeah, he's
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a really good dude. And I like his fashion too.
I like the way he dresses and yeah, he just
like he's really cool. He's really cool. Yeah he seems
like it. He seems like a good time. He's not
super self serious. He seems nice. And I like that
he's good at this job because it's like, especially in
the NFL, like a lot of the attention speakers aren't
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as good as the attention they seek. And so I'm
glad that he you know, I was and he just
want a Super Bowl. He forget it and like for me,
but I've always been I love defensive lineman. That's like,
that's what I'm into. Bodies wild and so like wide
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receivers and yeah, he was wide receivers are always like
a little too like flashy and skinny for me, just
actually more skinny. I like the flash, but a tight end.
I'm like, oh, yeah, then we've got some like bulk
con on the Bot and he really yeah, he's a
He's a hunk. I could see him in his old
days in Ohio rock and double cubic circonium earrings with
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like a sheep eyebrow, yeah, with with gray sweatpists and whatever.
Fresh Jordan's just came out and then like and like
a tahoe with like super dark um windows windows. Yes, yes, um,
I love there. There were c JS told me, I
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can't say the W word anymore, but you've said I
there were a lot of um men like that that
went to my high school. But then we also had
a lot of black men that went to my high school.
And I was like, it's wild that they don't ever
beat up these kids. But everybody got along. It was
just there was it was. It was beautiful. My high
school was a microcosm for what I wish the country
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could be. Um, okay, my number two is it's an
entire team and if you guys tell me I can't,
I do have one person on it. It's the US
women's soccer team, Megan Megan Rappano. Um specifically them. Okay,
so like them winning I was like her talking ship
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to Trump and then winning and being like, no, I'm
still not going to the White House. I loved that.
And then watching them celebrate at their parade, fly on
a private jet and then be at the SPS. It
all happened in like twenty four hours. I was like,
just are partying. They're like cool, They're all in, like
they all have eight packs, but they're like chugging champagne.
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I find Megan Rappanos like and that's like the energy
that I'm really like attracted to from women. And she
is just they're good at their jobs. They Megan dresses
so cool, Sue Bird is so cool. Like them as
a couple. I'm like very into. I would watch whatever
they put out. You know it's an interview show, if
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it's a massage show, whatever, I'm into it. I just
the yeah, and I couldn't name one man on the
US soccer teach, but I'm like the U S women's
soccer team. Whatever they will, I will do for them. Yes,
I totally agree. Sue Bird also is like a big
thing about that for me, like she's one of my Like,
oh w n B A like for sure, So Megan
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getting this smasher every night is a beautiful thing. Yeah,
one time, just that one for sure. CJ. You got
your number two. I got my number two. So originally
was Russ but we said him. So I'm gonna go
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Skylar Diggins if we're talking w NBA. Skylar Diggins. She's stunning. Yeah,
she is beautiful. Um yeah, like I mean I and
she Yeah, she's she's really good. She played She's actually
from Indiana, South Bend, went to Notre Dame and then
uh yeah four times w NBA all start and she's awesome.
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She's with like rock Nation, but she is. Yeah, she's beautiful.
She has a TV show called Little Ballers Indiana that
sounds like something Fallers Indiana. It's like that's this should
be my number one favorite show. Who is she married?
I just remember that Drake had a crush on her
a couple of years back, but she was like she
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was in like a serious relationship with some like college players. Yes,
so they are now married. He was a college football
player in His name is Daniel Smith, and he's very hot.
They look I mean yeah, their wedding photos. Actually know
she's prettier than him. Um, their wedding photos. But their
wedding photos there like a beautiful couple together. Yeah. Yeah,
(35:19):
she What did you do for money now? I mean
I hope not work at enterprise like the rest of them.
I mean I don't know, maybe sell insurance like or
maybe maybe he um uh yeah, because I was gonna
be like live off her money. But then I always
forget how little they pay, how little they get paid. Yeah,
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that's why I asked. You know she was an m
for sure, she justare of her husband. But someone like
like her, she probably has like really amazing endorsements because
she looks like a fitness model. Um, so I'm hoping
she's getting some Nike money on the side, because, like
Sue Bird is rich. But she went to Butch too. Um, well, Super,
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I think it's maybe it wasn't Super, but there's this
if I'm thinking of another woman who coached assistant coach
for Becky Hammon. Yeah, she's amazing. She was even being
talked about as an NBA head coach. I think it
will happen. That ain't gonna I hope that they were
saying the Pacers and I was like, oh God, these
(36:29):
Hillbillies are gonna lose their fucking minds if they I know.
I feel like I feel like men think they want
to listen to a woman, but I don't know. I
feel like the first woman NBA coach, like the head coach,
is gonna meet a load of resistance. She has to
be like the best coach in the world. That happens.
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That's why I honestly think Becky Hammond is incredibly talented
and good at her job. I also think that her
being with Pop like like because people are like, oh,
he's a genius, he's the best, he's the most like outspoken,
willing to like do whatever for his players. That if
she was an assistant under a different head coach, I
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don't think she would have the same sway to be
able to go other places. And also she's gonna have
to work her way up you know how like Steve
Nash is going to get to come in and not
have been the whole time. There's no way that a
woman can do it because all these men are going
to be expecting her to prove herself in one capacity
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or another. And like, I'm not saying I like this,
but it's just I think the only way it'll happen.
And like even how to solve vouching for her didn't
mean right, yeah, she almost has to do it within
the Spurs organization. Well yeah, hear me. People are talking
about pop going somewhere else or just well no, no,
(37:54):
well Steve Nash right, like I could see like in
a move popping like I'm retiring but only because I
want Becky to be a head coach something like that.
But yeah, it's gonna be under like extreme circumstances. Like
you said, Ray, we root for you, Becky. I mean
a beauty, a blonde Becky. It has all of our support. Okay, yes,
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and we're rooting for her. What an anomaly. Okay, let's
say a quick break and then we'll be back with
our number one picks. Okay, we are back. Ray, since
you are our guest, you are going to be our
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final cherry on top. So you're gonna pick last. So
I'm going to go through my honorable mention, which there
are many. Okay, so my first honorable mention is Jeter
in his baseball pride. Just I know, I'm sorry you guys.
As a child, I just was like, what's what's going
on with him? Like I couldn't help but feel Yeah, Jeter.
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I thought j just had this like swag and this
booty in those pants. I was into. I'm sorry, Yes,
I really was. That's so interesting to me because even
as far back in fourth grade, I remember being like,
I don't get whatever the sea. I'm with you, he's
lame to me, he's been lame like that. Wow, he's
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only He's only my first of eighteen honorable mentions. Okay,
so then my next honorable mention is um Jason Taylor
or Dolphins player. Oh oh my god. I remember we
had like our seats were right next to the opposing
team's tunnel, and so a lot of times you would
get to see the NFL players like with their helmets off.
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And when he walked by my best friend and I
we stood up. We were like, who is that? Like
he is just so oh beautiful. Um Okay, Jalen Rose, uh,
probably my number one. Yeah, I love him when he
was on the Pacers personality when well, so I became
in love with him when he was on the Pacer
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So that was like playing and I just loved him.
So I know right now, I don't think I was
watching that game. I think he's had a little bit
of a glow up. But yeah, I know some people
really don't like him. Yeah, he's got up the ESPN
job I usually past. Yeah, I liked even like him
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at Michigan. I think that's like, okay, not Chriber. Well,
I and this is something I have where I'm like,
I will sometimes choose the person less hot because I'm like,
maybe they'd like me, you know, maybe Well this next,
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I mean, p J. Tucker is kind of like people
are like, that's your number one. I'm like, I just
he's like so intense. He loves sneakers, and I think
he has like such a cute face and I love him.
Um sonorable Dwight Freey is obviously my number one crush
of all time. And then tennis um tennis player James Blake.
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I was so into if he's the US player that
got beat up by top or whatever. Yes, he's also
the Yes, he's also the US player that Lateon Hewitt
a tennis player. Once there was a line judge who
was black. I think it was the US Open, and
the line judge called something out and Layton Hewit goes, okay,
(41:45):
well look at him and then look at him like
that the judge was throwing. Yeah, he got big trouble. Um.
I have not liked him ever since. And then oh okay,
so then my number one in Oh boy, this may
be controversial. He had a he got indefinitely banned from
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the NFL. But it's Miles Garrett. Yeahs he is huge.
He is just so big and poetry has such a
soft side. And listen, I know a lot of he's
got a soft side. Why is he did well? Because
this is this is gonna be a drawback for some people,
(42:29):
but not for me. He whipped his helmet at Mason Rudolph,
who was the backup. Yeah, so he basically, you know,
I don't know if it was manslaughter, but it was.
He did try to kill him with his helmet, which
is a weapon. He contends that is his name. Miles
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Rudolph Mason Rudolf. Mason Rudolph spoke a slur to him, yes, um,
and so everyone else is like, that didn't happen, And
then Mike Tomlin was like that didn't happen. It's like, Mike,
we don't just stay on the sideline. But I think
Miles is a kind, sweet soul, and I do think
something happened for him to react to that crazy. I
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don't that's like not who he is. Having never met him,
I can tell you that's not who he is. But yeah,
him on hard knocks with a shirt OFFI investment. I
think he's back. He was. Honestly, I think he would
have been banned for life, but he's like so good
(43:34):
and he's on the Browns that the NFL was like whatever.
Like I truly if he had been if he was
so anyone else, I think he would have gotten in
a lot more trouble. But he is truly bluffed, and
so I guess. I did see him in person at
the Pro Bowl and I had to like move away,
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like it was just like, oh my god, she's just
so huge and cool. Okay, that's my number one, Okay,
so quickly my honorable mentions. Anna Cornicova. Um, some hack shit.
I know. It was like again just me as a child,
Reggie Bush, I think, is like what a running back
should look like. Is so cool. And again like now
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he's like even hotter, I think because he was pre
the Kardashian's curse. Like he's like I got in there
and I got out. Yeah, but then he legitimized her.
Yeah yeah, and so we aren't mad at him for that? Yes, yeah.
Um so my number one, this is really strange. It's
gonna be really strange. Summer Sanders, No, I think that's
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really funny. But do you know who Summer Sanders is?
So she is the she is Olympic swimmer who hosted
Figure it Out on Nickelodeon as a kid, and I
think that was like this, and she hosted Inside NBA
Inside stuff for a minute, and so just again just
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that's the then diagram of my hobbies back then. Of like,
so she would just a major crush and I yeah,
I just I thought she She's very she's very attractive.
I mean, talk about a gettable crush. We could make
one call. In summer Sanders would be at our house
even during COVID. I had more friends, had a Summer
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Sanders fan club growing up. But yeah, so she that's
not bad, that's not bad. But I will, I will
need you to admit that that also encompasses personality because
she's not right. That's true, that's true. She was like
fun and like I mean, she was a game show
host who liked sports. Yeah, it's basically if Vanna White talked,
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that's what you're talking about. Yeah. No, I mean it's
when when people describe that the like Liz Lemon theory,
where it's like, yeah, you're attracted to someone who's like
gettable and like you know, I don't want to say
like low self esteem, but like, yeah, that's I think
what I feel for that. And Summer. You seem like
you would be as a boy like her name Summer
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and I love summer. There's no school, have a peanut brain.
It's so I'm not I can admit that for sure.
Swimming is cool. I mean, Ryan Lockty, I was gonna
put him on my list, be he's just so fucking
stupid that I couldn't. Swimmers. Swimmers are like toned in
a way that's that's really cool, um J. But the
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swimmer's body is like logs in the torso and I
prefer the legs to be in the leg me too,
And I am a long torso bitch, and I'm sad
every day. Um just it's just like a very long torso,
very stubby legs. Okay, right, do you have any honorable mentions? Yes, okay,
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honorable mentions are if we're talking baseball, Ken Griffy Jr.
Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah. Like I remember being a kid
and even though I was like a super big Yankee fan,
I made my dad buy me all of these like
Ken Griffy shirts and posters and things like that. He's gonna,
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um the best ask in athletic period. I don't care
what anyone says. People like to talk about other people's
but Ken Griffin is the best. But I don't seen
in my entire life. I think baseball pants is something
like kind of magical to But yes, because I was
watching Sports Center last night and some guy I think
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his name was like Brian Clarity and he like is
a picture for like uh, Milwaukee or whatever, and he's
just this lanky, fucking doofy, honestly handsome guy and I
was like, I don't like this whatever, and then he
turns around it right before he enters himself, because that
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was the quick life. I was like, oh, that's a
nice pass. Baseball. Baseball does great things. But but Jared
Smith is not an honorable mention. He's just the love
of my life. But I had to mention him because
he wasn't on this foot. But my number one ever
ever ever in my entire life is Kevin Garnett. Tell
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us why? Yeah? So? Um. I think I think I
might have been like eleven or twelve, and I saw
Kevin Garnet on an episode of Jay Leno and he
was incredibly charming and he just looked like a tall
Central African statue to me, and I just suddenly was like, Oh,
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that's my man and so and like you, Megan, I
like the guy who not everyone's eating for or not
everybody thinks it's hot. And I love an underdog and so,
like when the Lakers were just dominating dominated it dominated,
I'm like, when's kag gonna get to his conference final?
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Like when's kg gonna get you know? And I remember,
like it was like one day in school. I think
I was in like eleventh grade or twelfth grade or something,
and it was the conference finals versus the Lakers, and
I remember, like I loved KG so much, I really
filed out and it was an elimination game and he
filed out and I had to turn the TV off
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because my heart couldn't take it because it went into
overtime and KG KG was filed out, and so like,
I waited till the next morning and I got to
school and I logged into the computer there and I
saw they want and I was like, fucking I lost
my mind. Obviously they lost the next game, but like,
I don't know something about him, and while he SERBIAC
(49:40):
were like just followed. And then when Kevin Garnett joined Boston,
everybody hated that scene and everyone hated everyone hated like
Paul most of all. But I really really really really
loved Free Alan Yeah, and Kevin and KG. I don't
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know just everything about the way he talked and like
his I don't give a funk. I love a man
who's arrogant and talk shit. I love him on his
show right now, the one he has a Chandie Parker.
I just think he's so charming and funny and handsome
and long. And I feel like if I worked hard enough,
I could get him. Yeah, I think so. He has
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a new commercial now too that's like not basketball related.
I think it's some sort of like cocktail. And it
like stuck out to me because I was like, oh, yeah,
he has like model like dimension. You know, he's like tall, lean,
he has like a beautiful bald head, has like a
really nice, like handsome, great face that he could be
(50:45):
like a Calvin Kleine runway model and fully blend him
at New York Fashion Week and you would have no idea.
Who's a basketball player? Yeah? Yes, the cheek like he
has a great like bone structure and he's an asshole.
And I'm talking why that? Yeah, so long too, I
mean yeah he played for a long time. I mean yeah,
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he was in an Adam Sandley movie directed by the
Safty brothers. Like he's done it all. Yeah yeah, And
and you know, like obviously this is not about history,
like I'm not attractive because they changed the game or whatever,
but like he did change the game, you know, like
for high school players to come in and make that
much money. He changed the position of forwards. And so
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I don't know, I just fucking love the dude. I
just love the dude. And who gives the funk about Minnesota. Yeah,
and I heard he was trying to buy the teams
hopefully gets that. Gosh, I can't wait for that. I
know it's like so so so expensive, but I can't
wait for former athletes to be owners and like in
way more way more than Jordan's Like I I can't
(51:52):
wait for Lebron being a team out like it's just
gonna I I hope it changes the country, like I
really genuine it will. I mean, you know, like black
people don't have access to generational wealth in the same way,
and so there's not a lot of like billionaires who
can afford a team. But it would be incredible to
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see like the sport that made these people then be
like owned by these people. You know, it is weird
when you have like a guy like James Dolan giving
to Trump when you know, the whole like the bubble.
It's both people except for Gordon Hayward, who care about
black lives matters, and so like I want to see
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like the ownership reflects the labor and so that's gonna
be really really cool. And I think like Lebron would
be like a hard owner to work for. I imagine
because he seems to be pretty strict that even his
teammates weird, but like, I think he would be an
amazing one for a good team. And like even Lebron
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has been a bad gs even with this, like they've
been able to accomplish as players. This um all the
stadiums being voting like places. It's like, think if they
were owners, how much like they would be able to
Like that's a feat in and of itself, Like people
(53:15):
keep tweeting at the NFL, like why do you guys
open your stadiums? It's like that would never happen. The
NBA got it to happen, and then they're gonna be
owners and they're gonna be able to make so much more.
Like they're just gonna, you know, open it up to
like hey, if you live in the neighborhood, come to
the gate, Like they're just gonna be kinder better, Um
Zion paying the entire stadiums. You don't have a child,
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And I was like, I was like, how are you
not embarrassed as Zion showed you up this way? But
they weren't, And because they're like, oh, I would never
give my money yes, And then so like I'm I'm
very glad for their being, like you know, guys like
le Bron who obviously have their minds set on that
kind of accomplishment later on. And I'm really really excited
(54:05):
to see it. And I hope KG owns Minnesota. That
would be awesome too. Yeah, that'd be great. I feel
like that would sell tickets like they they would benefit
from it too. Right, this has been so much fun.
I love talking hotties with you. Where can our listeners
find you? Okay? Um, I'm on Twitter at Rayni. Just
(54:27):
so you guys know, I don't only talk about players.
So if you're not obsessed with reality TV like Real
House Lives and stuff, you maybe don't join up. And
I have a podcast called The Deliberation. It's a podcast
where we recap the challenge on the Real World It
used to be Real World road Rules Challenge Challenge now
(54:50):
and they have like actual athletes on these things, like
Lolo Jones is gonna be and I'm not happy about it. Well,
she was on the list like they had they had
a I don't think she ever won a gold medal.
She didn't. I thought she did give it back. Maybe
she was a world champion. She's been a world champion
of Bunch but like that's why she even switched to
(55:12):
Bob's Lettings, trying to get a gold medal and she's
to get us there. But but she was on there
like Champ versus Stars version, and she sucked a lot there,
and then they brought her on for the regular challenge
and I'm confidence she's going to be insufferable and stuck
there too. Um and yeah, I'm just around or whatever. Friends,
(55:36):
if you're hot and you're tall and your black fude
and you're smart, dm Ray has an incredible opinions. She
has been against or you have you've seen Monique Samuel's
for what she was since then, Yes, yes, yes, I
(55:57):
can admit when I'm wrong, and I've been wrong about
other housewives before. Like I was totally wrong about fighting
on Beverly Hills this year. I can admit it. But
I was right about Monique Famiels, I was right about
Liam Blacking. There are a lot more I'm right about.
I just can't remember any. So this podcast will come
out Tuesday, but I can't wait for Potomac tomorrow night.
(56:18):
I'm yes a fist fight on TV. It's the only
kind of prize fighting that I do like. I hate
boxing and m m A because I think it is
really barbaric to pulverize people for money. But if a
fight is deserved, I'm gonna watch c J um His
favorite city is Potomac for the Real Housewives and that's
(56:39):
because of Ore are actually our three mutual beloved Wan
Dixon also hot. I feel like honorable mention. He could
just fine so hot U Ray, thank you so much
for doing this. This now concludes the first meeting of
the j R. Smith Fan Club. We'll have to do
it again. Thank you so much. Make to you guys,
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rate reviews, CJ. Where can they find you at c
J Toll Loddonna on Everything and I'm at Megan Gailey
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will be doing Greatest Choke Jobs next week, so look
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Welcome to the Greatest, a production of I Heart Radio. Hello,
and welcome to another episode of the Greatest. I'm Megan Gaily,
joined by my husband and co host c J. Toladano.
That's really I really like when you say husband first,
so I don't want to be your I think it
(00:22):
sounds embarrassing to say a husband and co host. I
feel like we're in an SNL sketch about people that
are annoying. Um, we are so excited for our guest today. Gosh,
I mean, there's almost too much to say. An Emmy
nominated writer has written on a Black Lady sketch show,
The Good Place, The President Show. She's also the owner
(00:44):
of probably the most important Twitter in my life. UM,
please welcome Ray Sanni. Hi. I mean it's because the
thing is, it's true. I'm I'm not Emmy nominated a
Black Lady. Okay, that show doesn't exist without you. I
truly hate when that ship happened. Like everyone who works
(01:07):
on a show that gets nominated, I'm like, do you
get an emy? Do you get an Emy? And they're like, no,
we don't get one. Yeah, just the producers and stuff
get Emmy. But I'm happy that it happened they got nominated.
I'm very proud of that, but I'm more excited to
be here with you guys or whatever. I was in
here being like, when are these motherfuckers? Don't ask me.
(01:29):
Everybody else you were at the top of our wishless
but there's just been so much going on, and I
didn't want to burden you. Um, but no, I'm serious,
Like we would throw your name around and I was like,
I don't risk busy. You know she's she's emy nominated.
I just couldn't. I couldn't ignore all of your basketball
(01:51):
tweets in the last few months. I'm like liking all
them because yeah, I mean because Megan and I will
say something and then you'll end up tweeting it and
it's like, oh, all in the same level of sports
opinions right here. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. You can
make me laugh all the time too, especially with your Lakers. UM.
I was also going to say this could unofficially be
(02:12):
the first meeting of the j R. Smith Fan Club.
I was thinking about. I was thinking about the executive
branch of it. I think Ray as president, I think
CJ is vice president, and I'm treasurer. UM like if
we ever need to collect money to go visit j R.
I'm happy to be doing that. And as c J
(02:33):
and I've recently found out I have very good credit,
so I'm happy to be the treasurer. But I knew
that from looking at you when I first met you
that you had good Do you act like that's a surprise.
I think I'm the one that's a toss up. Um. Yeah,
we've learned, not the credit, um. But really, I I
don't know. If I know three people, I think Aaron Lennox.
(02:56):
She could potentially be the secretary of the fan club.
But like the three of us, we really ride hard.
How much fun has it been for you to see
j R back with Lebron but not really in a
playing capacity. So he's the best cheerleader that was Ron
has ever had. Okay, Leron is playing with his best
(03:20):
teammate in a D and I love it. I don't
need JR to do anything bestball, I related, that's not
why we love him exactly, So I'm good with that.
I'm very happy to see him. To be honest, I
think he's beautiful. I love forever him is like funny
to people. But I also do think he's very, very fine,
and if he wanted to cause trouble in my life,
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I would accept the trouble. They were showing the Lakers
after the Thursday night victory. Walking back to the tunnel,
j R. Already had his shirt off and have not
had not played one second, sure off, everyone else still
fully closed in their vote shirts. And I'm like God,
But the thing is, that's what I did. Want to
see him shirtless celebrating a game he didn't play it.
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That's peak beautiful Jr. Yes, he's amazing, like truly the
reason I fell in love with him. This sounds insane,
but this season, like where the NBA had the lockout
for like the first half of the season or whatever.
He was playing in China and I just saw some
news report. I saw some news report that said JR.
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Smith's girlfriend and sister beat up Chinese fans. I need
to know. I need to know his family, and it's true.
Like him, his girlfriend, he's not with that woman anymore
because as you guys know, he's a little sloppy in
that department. But he um his like his girlfriend was
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just like tattooed up, like sub doubt girl, and her
and his sister were like beating up Chinese fans who
such a j R. That's the presence you're getting with
j R. I mean, like I was gonna bring up
to during during the protest, like I don't even know
if he was out here because he was trying out
for the for the Lakers or what, but like during
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the protest, he he beat up this little white kid
who was just out and and and and he he
straight up went he went right to his like I
g stories, which is like, you know, Jr's preferred choice
of platform, I think, but he was like, Hey, I
just want to let you guys know I beat up
this kid because he messed with my car and had
nothing to do with what's going on. And then I
(05:32):
was like, this is perfect. And then the video came out,
and the video that is I don't know if you've
seen it right, but like the video is so great
because it's him beating up the kid and everyone in
the crowd is like hey to everyone feel me, like hey,
can you just respect his privacy and just letting it happen,
which is perfect. Yes, I saw that video because whatever
anything j R. Smith related happens, A bunch of people
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text me um, and so they were like they were like, uh,
did you see the man beating up this little white
boy like he's doing too much? And I was like, no,
that boy deserved to My thing is my thing is
I understand, you know, eat the rich, all of that,
all of that, but you can't. You can't come for
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first generation rich people. Ship go with everybody else who
has generational wealth. G dude who untied shoelaces and like
bought his way into the NBA. Like, let him have
his car go funk up like Mark Cuban's car. Yes, exactly.
There is a like Matt purple g wagon I see
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all over l A and it's like, I don't know
who that belongs to, but it's clearly a Laker's player.
Don't funk with that car like it may be like
a green Camaro. Leave it alone. If you see thirty
inch like diamond studded rims, don't go after that car.
If you see a fall break the windshield. Yeah, if
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you see him back with a red interior alone, you know, Wow,
you know what this is? This is knowledgeable. Um. Okay,
So Ray, you are from New York, you are a
self proclaimed Knicks fan. Yeah, I think you're You're one
of few Knicks fans I get to interact with. I
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know one other one I talked to. They're embarrassed, they're
embarress to come up. So, like, what do you hope happens? Well,
I hope James Dolan died, right, I hope happen. Um.
So I just read a headline. I didn't go deeply
into it, but I just saw a headline that was like, oh, um,
(07:43):
in response to like all the like social justice stuff
that the players are doing. The uh, the owners have
contributed like more to the Republican Party than they ever have,
and like the top five were like Orlando's owner and
I can't remember the other four, but absolutely one thousand
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percent it was James ban I'm not surprised by that
at all. Like, and for some reason, rich New Yorkers
who aren't like old money in high society are super
into Trump and I don't get it. But James Owan
has loved a sexual assaulter and he tried to make
Isaiah Thomas the coach of the Liberty and I are
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you doing? It's almost like, yeah, he's one of those
people out there who thinks of the worst thing you
can do and totally does it. You know, like every time,
it's like it's cartoonish the decisions that he made. Yeah,
the parallels to Trump too, it's just like very similar.
You're very similar, like a dude and a white dude
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in power who again, things will come out that it's
like you gotta be done, like anyone else in society
who has this track record's got to be like dethroned
but just gets to retain all of it's insane based
on money. I mean it's like a, yeah, he is
a cartoon villain, that is correct, sea. I mean with
the Oakley stuff, it's like wow, just to to also
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be so out of touch and yeah, and like the
thing is we know him. It's kind of this Jerry
Jones as thing of like when you were an owner
doing front face saying videos like We're gonna come for
you if you if you funk up, and the Nicks
have fucked up. I mean it's like at least now
the Browns are trying to be good and like try
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and make good choices, and the Knicks almost seemed like
they make bad decisions on purpose, and I know that
that's not what they're doing, but that's how it feels. Well.
The problem is that one so on my like limited
sample size because I can only think of like two examples.
But I think second generation owners of a team are
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always bad if you didn't have to buy the team
with your own money, and you weren't like part of
you know, acquiring the team and seeing vacula goes into
such trade actions and whatever whatever. I don't think that
you can really do a good job. It's like Al
Davison kids and James Dolan sucks, and I just feel
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like there's the problem with Dolan is that the Knicks
are always profitable no matter how poorly they performed, And
I don't think he seems like a basketball lover. He
doesn't seem like a guy who's like into the game.
So it's like, as long as he keeps the Knicks
decent enough to like sell tickets to Medicine Square Garden,
which is the truth, like you'll always find people courtside
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of the next game no matter how bad the season
is going. I don't think he's like at risk of
losing money enough to want to make the team better. However,
like with the Browns, it's like who the funk wants
to be in Cleveland. You gotta make this work, dude. Yeah,
I mean yeah, I mean he really is like the
woman in Major League, but he has New York, Like, yeah,
New York is so fucking cool and there are people
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that want to go there. I mean k D and
Kyrie going to New York, but going to Brooklyn is
like a great fuck you to him. I think, do
you know how angry I was? I was. I totally
get it, but I'm so mad at y'all. I'm so mad.
I was sitting there. I was like, yeah, k D
comes to the Knicks like whatever, you know. I was
(11:17):
ready to like find new jerseys all that, and uh, yeah,
you know, I don't. I don't know. I like, I
get it, I get it. I get it, you know.
And I would root for Brooklyn if they had been
there for longer. But I was like born into a
Nick fandom, and it just feels weird to like shift
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to the neck for even though I'm from Brooklyn. It's
just like I can't do that. I have too many
memories attached to the Knicks, you know, Like my mother
and fathers are making fun of me when the Rockets
came back and beat them because my parents are Nigerian
and my parents are Nigerian Muslim, so I came alagical
like everything to them. And like so my brother and
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I like I think I might have been like six
and my brother would have been like eight, and we
were like super hardcore rooting for them, and we were
singing that song go You'll go, New who you All Go.
And then like in in the final game, my dad
was all in my face and I'm like this has
to be child abuse and that, and then like I remember,
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like when I was like ten or eleven, why didn't
the Knicks only duel in lockout seasons anyway? Um, when
I was like ten or eleven, like the Knicks went
to the finals and I would just like right, Marcus
camping all over my arm. I thought he was so
cute because I caught like an n C double a
game of his, like at amherst One, like when he
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was you mask was it AMers it was? And then
he and then he like uh he, I just saw him.
I thought he was so long and handsome, and so
when he was on the Knicks, I was like so happy.
It was like three wells he said or whatever, and
It's like the Nets never gave me any memories while
they were New Jersey, and I don't know, I look
at them as like gentrifiers. Yeah, I mean like the
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next situation too, it's like, yeah, you guys are always
later you weren't. It's like a Clippers Lakers situation over here,
like if you were. It's it's the team that you
sort of connected with when you were born and has
a little bit more history. Like yeah, exactly, But c J,
you are loyal, right in the same way that I
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am loyal, and c J is not loyal. I'm loyal
to Lebron CJS loyal to the best player, and so
he always gets to root for whatever team the best
players on And you're like, okay, well that's not really fair.
But yeah, I like individual very much. My brothers, that's
very much my brother Yes, And the NBA and the
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NBA sort of encourages that. Like what I do like
about the NBA and why I can't really get into
the NFL aside from all the other largest society of
stuff is that like the NFL wants these particularly black
players to diminish themselves. And there's nothing that I like
more than an arrogant black man. That is why I've
never been in a happy relationship. But um, like I
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really really really really really love that. Like the NBA
is just like five different businesses on the floor like
for every team each time, and it's like, Okay, I
know this person's face. They make this many dollars, they
can do this much stuff with their sponsorship, and they
aren't like I mean, obviously, if you're on a team
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with Lebron, you're gonna get eclipsed by him. But it's
not like with Aaron Rodgers getting all the attention and
all these anonymous packers on the field. And I like
that fan engagement. It's like really really great and I
like seeing when players are funny. Yeah, I mean, if anything,
I was gonna say, like Kauai feels more like an
NFL player because he just loves the game and doesn't
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want to be in you know, doesn't really want to
be like a spokesperson. I love his is it a
New Balance commercial? He does not speak in it. He's
holding a microphone and but he doesn't speak. Perfect. This
is if people went to them and we're like, he'll
do the commercial. He will not speak and he will
not smile and they were like, we'll figure it out,
We'll figure it out. But I'm like, he has to
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have fun, right, because there was footage of him in
a strip club and even shy people like pussy, you know,
I wouldn't seem yeah. I think yeah, yeah, and he's
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hot and he be asked to like shoulder at that point. Yes, yes, Um,
this is a perfect segue into our topic. So we
we were originally going to do Greatest Choke Jobs, which
was recommended to us by a fan, Hi Kelly, in
a listener, and then when I said Ray was in,
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CJ was like, no one talks about hot people or
crushes better than Ray. We have to have her do that.
And so today's topic is greatest Hotties is what I'm
calling it. And on my part, it took zero research.
C J. Did you have to do? I just didn't
want to miss anyone, because this is genuinely when I
first moved to l A and I would go to
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these parties with you know, awful people that I don't know,
but like, for some reason, this was like my party
trigger party conversation where I'd be like, who's like the
hottest NBA player? Straight guys and no. I mean it
was like if I could talk to a bunch of
straight lame comedy writers and have them admit, who are
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hot NBA players and weren't afraid of like have that
conversations like all right, you're not that much of a loser,
Like you know, you're not afraid to not your masculine,
so you want to rust that. I guess you're cool.
This is like I've had players in the back of
my head, so I'm gonna I mean, it's gonna be
a mix of guys and girls. Did you have to
do any research? Of course not. No, I've been like
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floating around the house all morning just thinking about it.
I already told the c J I have lots of
honorable mentions. Yes, yes, and also also guys are hot
for different reasons. Yes, I have to take into account
as well. Okay, so let's take a quick break and
then we'll be back with our perspects. We are back, Ray,
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as our guest. You lead us off with your number
three picks, so we go in. Is that descending? Descending? Yeah,
so you're oh wait, I didn't ask for clarification, don't sorry.
They have to be current. They absolutely not no, okay,
so um, my number three is the only current world.
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Actually there's he's one of two, but there's Jerk or whatever.
My number three is Russell. Yeah, I mean yes, give
us your give us your reasoning. First of all, I
just really like Russell Westbrook bones. He looks after him
to me, my parents are Nigerian, he looks like he's
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one of ours. Um and um. I love a surly movasaka,
I really do. And he just he doesn't have time
for ship. He's really funny, but doesn't have time for ship.
He's so strong, and he's like he looks like such
a man. You know, he's like moving back, pushing the
ball hard, and I'm like he would handle me. So
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he when mean and funny, and then when he smiles.
I mean, it's like when when Russ is having fun,
you cannot Like. There was a clip of him dancing
the other day and I was then I started dancing
like subconsciously, just like was vibing with him. He won
some award when one of the sps I was at,
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and so then he comes backstage and we the writers,
we stand backstage and I made eye contact with him
and I said congratulations and he smiled at me, put
his hand on his chest and said thank you so much.
And I was like in a puddle, like I was
like I've died. I've died. And his shirt was unbuttoned
to his belly button. He had like layered chains on.
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He just looked so cool, so hot, and is even
though he is kind of like ah, like a fun psycho,
he's like a good person and he seems like a
great dad. I love his kids. I just I love
how he dresses. Yes, and this is important to me,
Like there's a whole thing about how or whatever. But
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in the Kardashian era, it has gotten to be that
a lot of black celebrities, blackmail celebrities pursue women who
looks like them or don't talk to or engaged with
black women. The NBA is better at it than a
lot of other leagues. You know, the black men in
the NBA usually date black women, but in an arrow
where it's become more cool to data Kardashian or a
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quote unquote exotic woman. The fact that Russell Westbrook is
with a dark skinned black woman and has been with
her has not less they they have beautiful kids, like
it needs a lot to me, and he's funny when
he seems to be funny. That smile is incredible. I
love that he's obsessed with Taylor Swift. That is funny.
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Like now he Yeah, he is probably the most influential
like fashion too, like he he he gave reason for
like the tunnel walk, like TNT starts coverage at players
walking into the arena because of Russell Westbrook. I know,
like some other players have dabbled, you know, in other
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leagues too, but like, yeah exactly, but like Russ was
making statements with his fashion and yeah, exactly the doors. Yeah,
that's a great first pickre wonderful. C do you want
me to go next? Okay, so my number three. I'm
disappointed in myself. I thought I was going to have
no white men on my list, but I just cannot
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deny how strikingly handsome Jimmy Garoppolo is he. And like it.
I almost think I like him as like a fuck
you to Tom Brady, because I do think Tom Brady
is like classically hot, looks like he could be a model,
but he's a nemesis of mine. And so Jimmy, Jimmy
g was like his understudy, you know, and then and
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then got to like shine. I was doing a podcast recently.
Dian Ortiz is very funny comedian out of Chicago, and
hers is all about crushes, and she was like, I
don't really like Tom Brady. And I was like, do
you know who Jimmy Garoppolo is? And she said no,
And I showed her a picture and she was like,
that is the hottest man I've ever seen in my life.
Like he he looks like an Abercrombie model, smile, like
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he could be a movie star, he could be an
action hero. The fact that he is also a quarterback
that took a team to a super Bowl makes him hot.
But when he said babe to Aaron Andrews, I was like,
I know that we should not be encouraging this behavior.
Men should not be talking to sideline reporters like this.
But if he called me babe, I don't I don't know,
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c J, I may throw it all away. He definitely,
because the white quarterback is like so corny to me.
But he yeah, he is somewhat of an exception for me.
He does look but he's a little bit too like
he looks manufactured to me. Well, and he's from the
Chicago suburbs. So he also has that like vibe of
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like a drunk bro that could be in Wrigley Bill,
Like he could have heckled me out a show. And
I think me imagining him bullying me and not being
into me makes me more into him. Oh, I know,
I know, we're absolutely sick. I hope, I hope our
fans are still listening at this point, Like, oh, no,
(23:03):
I think this is gonna be our highest reviewed episode.
I'll try to tie in some performance. So that's my no.
I said, he let a teacher. He got injured last week.
I'm hoping he's better. I like he's someone I hate
seeing injured because he's had bad ones. But yeah, how
does he dress? I have no idea. I'm sure in
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Patagonia is like I'm sure it's not good, but I
really only ever want to see him in pads. Like
if he were to like walk into a dinner, I'm
sure he would. Yeah, he's from the western suburbs of Chicago,
but he wears like black button downs with like Paisley
collars and ships. Um I would, I would. I would
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resent him if I saw him in real life. There
are people that are like objectively handsome and like have
a good life. You're sure just by looking and I
would be resentful acknowledge that he's beautiful and then the
the out of him A good choice. He's very, very
very beautiful man. And he liked porn stars, which I'm
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glad for. I love that he was just like, I'm
not going to give a ship what anybody says. I'm
gonna take this, this beautiful porn star on a day.
Y'all have a problem with it here. I love that
you have to imagine playing in San Francisco. Really just
let you be like, who gives a fuck? Like you
can do whatever you want. Um, okay, your number three
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al right, So my number three is the pick that
I was talking like this. I found this. I thought
of this when I used to have those conversations back
in the day, and it stayed in my head. Um
because it's between like I feel like when people talk
about handsome or hot NBA players, Rick Fox always comes
up like and I was like, I was like, okay, whatever, um,
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But for me it was Jim Jackson. Do you guys
know Jim Jackson. That's the one that is that the
one who sold Tony Braxton from Maybe I I need
to look that up. But yeah, that's so funny because
I would have been so mad at myself if I
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didn't mention that Layry so he stole Tony Braxon. Yes,
so so first of all, I don't even know what
Tony Brack was doing. The team hotel to pick up
Jason Kidd for a date, if the story, but she
ends up leaving with Jim Jackson. I mean side by side.
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He's hotter. Jason Kidd is not to me, um and
he he was for like five minutes on the net.
It's really hot for like his first two seasons on nets.
But he's got a weird look to him. Jim Jackson,
c J. You're so right. He's so handsome. He's six
sex from Toledo, Ohio. Just like a rock yeah, like
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back then, like just like solid NBA players because it
was like the age of you know, like obviously like
and it was like all finesse lean but like a big,
solid NBA players, Like man, I want to look like that.
And I love that you said. I love what you
said that he got traded after the Jason Kidd thing,
because he was traded. He played for twelve NBA teams.
I remember him being like a journeyman, and I'm wondering
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it's like, was he just a threat to every every
teammate's wife or girlfriend. Yes, he was, like he's killing
everybody's girl. Yeah, he's too hot, you can't. I mean
that's yeah, that's like such a funny phenomenon to be like,
you gotta trade to me, too hot. My wife loves him.
Jim Jackson hard to to get off my list. He's
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running strongly eight years. I saw Rick Fox in person,
probably like three years ago, and he still looked really
like he actually looked hotter than I remember him being.
And maybe that's the in person he's better with the
salt and pepper hair. Yes, who I love like a
distinguished gentleman, and he looks like one. But Chris Rick
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stresses me out because he's like too pretty. I would
never be confident that my man wasn't cheating on me
if he looks like Rick back, because when you saw
Vanessa Williams like back in the day, and you're like,
that is the prettiest woman alive, and then you see
him and you're like, oh, yeah, that's who deserves her. Yeah,
But didn't give her. I think I think he cheated
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on her, like pretty badly. Yeah, Rick, I mean now
Rick is boys with Kanye like really doubling down on
it right. Well, when I saw him, he was in
a casino and he had two very ugly short white
men with him, and I was like, what a good
move just surround yourself control. Isn't he dating like one
of the spy women from TV? Like maybe a lie
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should or something? Oh wow, Oh, I think I've seen
the lies of douche, like the what is it Perez
Hilton pictures of them to hanging out. Well, I always
told I always told c J. If him and I
hadn't started dating, I feel like I would have wound
up with or sell Us Wiley. No, no, thank god
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you didn't. He's like a weirdo, self paid and black dude. Yeah,
he's like. Uh. There was like a tweet the other day.
I was like, look at this guy dancing for white dollars. No,
he's something he said, Oh, I don't believe in white
privilege because white privilege means that my black skin is
a standard. I was like, that's not with that, you're
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playing that he's taking over the Jason Whitlock. Yeah, he's
gone to the Terry Cruise. Kom oh my gosh. Okay, well,
I'm glad that I wound up with c J. Then
all right, let's take a book break, should we do?
We let's just go into our number two. We're gonna
go to our number two. Okay, Ray, you ready with
your number two? Yeah? I had to reshuffle because I
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didn't realize that we were doing different sports. But now
that you've introduced the NFL, I would like to go
with Travis Kells. Wow. Wow that I mean he is hot.
He is hot. Megan and I have talked to him
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on FaceTime. We face timed with him this summer. We
have met him in person. Um, we have a close policy.
Tall he is, he's six four probably he's also he's
a Cleveland guy, really good. I mean he is. I
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think like old white dudes would describe him as like
salt of the earth, Like he's like a good guy.
I was obsessed with Catching Kelsey. Did you watch that show? No?
But I heard good things about it, and he picked
a black girl, so I was like, Okay, then his
most recent fiance was a black girl. Okay, yes, but
also I have and it's shameful. But I went to
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private school with white people in Brooklyn, so the white
guys had like wig good tendency. My high school, one
of the beastie boys went to you know, so um
so I have like a really soft place for wiggas,
like and it's a bad thing to me, but I like,
really really do. And I think wiggas from Ohio are
(30:14):
always the best ones. It's a wigas and Ohio wigas
and Travis Kelsey is a wiga that I I. He's
so deeply attractive, handsome. I thought that's why I wouldn't
like him, and then we got to know him and
I started watching the play and he's just yeah, he's
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a really good dude. And I like his fashion too.
I like the way he dresses and yeah, he just
like he's really cool. He's really cool. Yeah he seems
like it. He seems like a good time. He's not
super self serious. He seems nice. And I like that
he's good at this job because it's like, especially in
the NFL, like a lot of the attention speakers aren't
(30:57):
as good as the attention they seek. And so I'm
glad that he you know, I was and he just
want a Super Bowl. He forget it and like for me,
but I've always been I love defensive lineman. That's like,
that's what I'm into. Bodies wild and so like wide
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receivers and yeah, he was wide receivers are always like
a little too like flashy and skinny for me, just
actually more skinny. I like the flash, but a tight end.
I'm like, oh, yeah, then we've got some like bulk
con on the Bot and he really yeah, he's a
He's a hunk. I could see him in his old
days in Ohio rock and double cubic circonium earrings with
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like a sheep eyebrow, yeah, with with gray sweatpists and whatever.
Fresh Jordan's just came out and then like and like
a tahoe with like super dark um windows windows. Yes, yes, um,
I love there. There were c JS told me, I
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can't say the W word anymore, but you've said I
there were a lot of um men like that that
went to my high school. But then we also had
a lot of black men that went to my high school.
And I was like, it's wild that they don't ever
beat up these kids. But everybody got along. It was
just there was it was. It was beautiful. My high
school was a microcosm for what I wish the country
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could be. Um, okay, my number two is it's an
entire team and if you guys tell me I can't,
I do have one person on it. It's the US
women's soccer team, Megan Megan Rappano. Um specifically them. Okay,
so like them winning I was like her talking ship
(32:42):
to Trump and then winning and being like, no, I'm
still not going to the White House. I loved that.
And then watching them celebrate at their parade, fly on
a private jet and then be at the SPS. It
all happened in like twenty four hours. I was like,
just are partying. They're like cool, They're all in, like
they all have eight packs, but they're like chugging champagne.
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I find Megan Rappanos like and that's like the energy
that I'm really like attracted to from women. And she
is just they're good at their jobs. They Megan dresses
so cool, Sue Bird is so cool. Like them as
a couple. I'm like very into. I would watch whatever
they put out. You know it's an interview show, if
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it's a massage show, whatever, I'm into it. I just
the yeah, and I couldn't name one man on the
US soccer teach, but I'm like the U S women's
soccer team. Whatever they will, I will do for them. Yes,
I totally agree. Sue Bird also is like a big
thing about that for me, like she's one of my Like,
oh w n B A like for sure, So Megan
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getting this smasher every night is a beautiful thing. Yeah,
one time, just that one for sure. CJ. You got
your number two. I got my number two. So originally
was Russ but we said him. So I'm gonna go
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Skylar Diggins if we're talking w NBA. Skylar Diggins. She's stunning. Yeah,
she is beautiful. Um yeah, like I mean I and
she Yeah, she's she's really good. She played She's actually
from Indiana, South Bend, went to Notre Dame and then
uh yeah four times w NBA all start and she's awesome.
(34:33):
She's with like rock Nation, but she is. Yeah, she's beautiful.
She has a TV show called Little Ballers Indiana that
sounds like something Fallers Indiana. It's like that's this should
be my number one favorite show. Who is she married?
I just remember that Drake had a crush on her
a couple of years back, but she was like she
(34:55):
was in like a serious relationship with some like college players. Yes,
so they are now married. He was a college football
player in His name is Daniel Smith, and he's very hot.
They look I mean yeah, their wedding photos. Actually know
she's prettier than him. Um, their wedding photos. But their
wedding photos there like a beautiful couple together. Yeah. Yeah,
(35:19):
she What did you do for money now? I mean
I hope not work at enterprise like the rest of them.
I mean I don't know, maybe sell insurance like or
maybe maybe he um uh yeah, because I was gonna
be like live off her money. But then I always
forget how little they pay, how little they get paid. Yeah,
(35:40):
that's why I asked. You know she was an m
for sure, she justare of her husband. But someone like
like her, she probably has like really amazing endorsements because
she looks like a fitness model. Um, so I'm hoping
she's getting some Nike money on the side, because, like
Sue Bird is rich. But she went to Butch too. Um, well, Super,
(36:06):
I think it's maybe it wasn't Super, but there's this
if I'm thinking of another woman who coached assistant coach
for Becky Hammon. Yeah, she's amazing. She was even being
talked about as an NBA head coach. I think it
will happen. That ain't gonna I hope that they were
saying the Pacers and I was like, oh God, these
(36:29):
Hillbillies are gonna lose their fucking minds if they I know.
I feel like I feel like men think they want
to listen to a woman, but I don't know. I
feel like the first woman NBA coach, like the head coach,
is gonna meet a load of resistance. She has to
be like the best coach in the world. That happens.
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That's why I honestly think Becky Hammond is incredibly talented
and good at her job. I also think that her
being with Pop like like because people are like, oh,
he's a genius, he's the best, he's the most like outspoken,
willing to like do whatever for his players. That if
she was an assistant under a different head coach, I
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don't think she would have the same sway to be
able to go other places. And also she's gonna have
to work her way up you know how like Steve
Nash is going to get to come in and not
have been the whole time. There's no way that a
woman can do it because all these men are going
to be expecting her to prove herself in one capacity
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or another. And like, I'm not saying I like this,
but it's just I think the only way it'll happen.
And like even how to solve vouching for her didn't
mean right, yeah, she almost has to do it within
the Spurs organization. Well yeah, hear me. People are talking
about pop going somewhere else or just well no, no,
(37:54):
well Steve Nash right, like I could see like in
a move popping like I'm retiring but only because I
want Becky to be a head coach something like that.
But yeah, it's gonna be under like extreme circumstances. Like
you said, Ray, we root for you, Becky. I mean
a beauty, a blonde Becky. It has all of our support. Okay, yes,
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and we're rooting for her. What an anomaly. Okay, let's
say a quick break and then we'll be back with
our number one picks. Okay, we are back. Ray, since
you are our guest, you are going to be our
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final cherry on top. So you're gonna pick last. So
I'm going to go through my honorable mention, which there
are many. Okay, so my first honorable mention is Jeter
in his baseball pride. Just I know, I'm sorry you guys.
As a child, I just was like, what's what's going
on with him? Like I couldn't help but feel Yeah, Jeter.
(39:06):
I thought j just had this like swag and this
booty in those pants. I was into. I'm sorry, Yes,
I really was. That's so interesting to me because even
as far back in fourth grade, I remember being like,
I don't get whatever the sea. I'm with you, he's
lame to me, he's been lame like that. Wow, he's
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only He's only my first of eighteen honorable mentions. Okay,
so then my next honorable mention is um Jason Taylor
or Dolphins player. Oh oh my god. I remember we
had like our seats were right next to the opposing
team's tunnel, and so a lot of times you would
get to see the NFL players like with their helmets off.
(39:54):
And when he walked by my best friend and I
we stood up. We were like, who is that? Like
he is just so oh beautiful. Um Okay, Jalen Rose, uh,
probably my number one. Yeah, I love him when he
was on the Pacers personality when well, so I became
in love with him when he was on the Pacer
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So that was like playing and I just loved him.
So I know right now, I don't think I was
watching that game. I think he's had a little bit
of a glow up. But yeah, I know some people
really don't like him. Yeah, he's got up the ESPN
job I usually past. Yeah, I liked even like him
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at Michigan. I think that's like, okay, not Chriber. Well,
I and this is something I have where I'm like,
I will sometimes choose the person less hot because I'm like,
maybe they'd like me, you know, maybe Well this next,
(41:02):
I mean, p J. Tucker is kind of like people
are like, that's your number one. I'm like, I just
he's like so intense. He loves sneakers, and I think
he has like such a cute face and I love him.
Um sonorable Dwight Freey is obviously my number one crush
of all time. And then tennis um tennis player James Blake.
(41:23):
I was so into if he's the US player that
got beat up by top or whatever. Yes, he's also
the Yes, he's also the US player that Lateon Hewitt
a tennis player. Once there was a line judge who
was black. I think it was the US Open, and
the line judge called something out and Layton Hewit goes, okay,
(41:45):
well look at him and then look at him like
that the judge was throwing. Yeah, he got big trouble. Um.
I have not liked him ever since. And then oh okay,
so then my number one in Oh boy, this may
be controversial. He had a he got indefinitely banned from
(42:06):
the NFL. But it's Miles Garrett. Yeahs he is huge.
He is just so big and poetry has such a
soft side. And listen, I know a lot of he's
got a soft side. Why is he did well? Because
this is this is gonna be a drawback for some people,
(42:29):
but not for me. He whipped his helmet at Mason Rudolph,
who was the backup. Yeah, so he basically, you know,
I don't know if it was manslaughter, but it was.
He did try to kill him with his helmet, which
is a weapon. He contends that is his name. Miles
(42:51):
Rudolph Mason Rudolf. Mason Rudolph spoke a slur to him, yes, um,
and so everyone else is like, that didn't happen, And
then Mike Tomlin was like that didn't happen. It's like, Mike,
we don't just stay on the sideline. But I think
Miles is a kind, sweet soul, and I do think
something happened for him to react to that crazy. I
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don't that's like not who he is. Having never met him,
I can tell you that's not who he is. But yeah,
him on hard knocks with a shirt OFFI investment. I
think he's back. He was. Honestly, I think he would
have been banned for life, but he's like so good
(43:34):
and he's on the Browns that the NFL was like whatever.
Like I truly if he had been if he was
so anyone else, I think he would have gotten in
a lot more trouble. But he is truly bluffed, and
so I guess. I did see him in person at
the Pro Bowl and I had to like move away,
(43:54):
like it was just like, oh my god, she's just
so huge and cool. Okay, that's my number one, Okay,
so quickly my honorable mentions. Anna Cornicova. Um, some hack shit.
I know. It was like again just me as a child,
Reggie Bush, I think, is like what a running back
should look like. Is so cool. And again like now
(44:16):
he's like even hotter, I think because he was pre
the Kardashian's curse. Like he's like I got in there
and I got out. Yeah, but then he legitimized her.
Yeah yeah, and so we aren't mad at him for that? Yes, yeah.
Um so my number one, this is really strange. It's
gonna be really strange. Summer Sanders, No, I think that's
(44:37):
really funny. But do you know who Summer Sanders is?
So she is the she is Olympic swimmer who hosted
Figure it Out on Nickelodeon as a kid, and I
think that was like this, and she hosted Inside NBA
Inside stuff for a minute, and so just again just
(44:58):
that's the then diagram of my hobbies back then. Of like,
so she would just a major crush and I yeah,
I just I thought she She's very she's very attractive.
I mean, talk about a gettable crush. We could make
one call. In summer Sanders would be at our house
even during COVID. I had more friends, had a Summer
(45:19):
Sanders fan club growing up. But yeah, so she that's
not bad, that's not bad. But I will, I will
need you to admit that that also encompasses personality because
she's not right. That's true, that's true. She was like
fun and like I mean, she was a game show
host who liked sports. Yeah, it's basically if Vanna White talked,
(45:40):
that's what you're talking about. Yeah. No, I mean it's
when when people describe that the like Liz Lemon theory,
where it's like, yeah, you're attracted to someone who's like
gettable and like you know, I don't want to say
like low self esteem, but like, yeah, that's I think
what I feel for that. And Summer. You seem like
you would be as a boy like her name Summer
(46:01):
and I love summer. There's no school, have a peanut brain.
It's so I'm not I can admit that for sure.
Swimming is cool. I mean, Ryan Lockty, I was gonna
put him on my list, be he's just so fucking
stupid that I couldn't. Swimmers. Swimmers are like toned in
a way that's that's really cool, um J. But the
(46:23):
swimmer's body is like logs in the torso and I
prefer the legs to be in the leg me too,
And I am a long torso bitch, and I'm sad
every day. Um just it's just like a very long torso,
very stubby legs. Okay, right, do you have any honorable mentions? Yes, okay,
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honorable mentions are if we're talking baseball, Ken Griffy Jr.
Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah. Like I remember being a kid
and even though I was like a super big Yankee fan,
I made my dad buy me all of these like
Ken Griffy shirts and posters and things like that. He's gonna,
(47:04):
um the best ask in athletic period. I don't care
what anyone says. People like to talk about other people's
but Ken Griffin is the best. But I don't seen
in my entire life. I think baseball pants is something
like kind of magical to But yes, because I was
watching Sports Center last night and some guy I think
(47:25):
his name was like Brian Clarity and he like is
a picture for like uh, Milwaukee or whatever, and he's
just this lanky, fucking doofy, honestly handsome guy and I
was like, I don't like this whatever, and then he
turns around it right before he enters himself, because that
(47:45):
was the quick life. I was like, oh, that's a
nice pass. Baseball. Baseball does great things. But but Jared
Smith is not an honorable mention. He's just the love
of my life. But I had to mention him because
he wasn't on this foot. But my number one ever
ever ever in my entire life is Kevin Garnett. Tell
(48:13):
us why? Yeah? So? Um. I think I think I
might have been like eleven or twelve, and I saw
Kevin Garnet on an episode of Jay Leno and he
was incredibly charming and he just looked like a tall
Central African statue to me, and I just suddenly was like, Oh,
(48:37):
that's my man and so and like you, Megan, I
like the guy who not everyone's eating for or not
everybody thinks it's hot. And I love an underdog and so,
like when the Lakers were just dominating dominated it dominated,
I'm like, when's kag gonna get to his conference final?
(48:58):
Like when's kg gonna get you know? And I remember,
like it was like one day in school. I think
I was in like eleventh grade or twelfth grade or something,
and it was the conference finals versus the Lakers, and
I remember, like I loved KG so much, I really
filed out and it was an elimination game and he
filed out and I had to turn the TV off
(49:19):
because my heart couldn't take it because it went into
overtime and KG KG was filed out, and so like,
I waited till the next morning and I got to
school and I logged into the computer there and I
saw they want and I was like, fucking I lost
my mind. Obviously they lost the next game, but like,
I don't know something about him, and while he SERBIAC
(49:40):
were like just followed. And then when Kevin Garnett joined Boston,
everybody hated that scene and everyone hated everyone hated like
Paul most of all. But I really really really really
loved Free Alan Yeah, and Kevin and KG. I don't
(50:03):
know just everything about the way he talked and like
his I don't give a funk. I love a man
who's arrogant and talk shit. I love him on his
show right now, the one he has a Chandie Parker.
I just think he's so charming and funny and handsome
and long. And I feel like if I worked hard enough,
I could get him. Yeah, I think so. He has
(50:24):
a new commercial now too that's like not basketball related.
I think it's some sort of like cocktail. And it
like stuck out to me because I was like, oh, yeah,
he has like model like dimension. You know, he's like tall, lean,
he has like a beautiful bald head, has like a
really nice, like handsome, great face that he could be
(50:45):
like a Calvin Kleine runway model and fully blend him
at New York Fashion Week and you would have no idea.
Who's a basketball player? Yeah? Yes, the cheek like he
has a great like bone structure and he's an asshole.
And I'm talking why that? Yeah, so long too, I
mean yeah he played for a long time. I mean yeah,
(51:06):
he was in an Adam Sandley movie directed by the
Safty brothers. Like he's done it all. Yeah yeah, And
and you know, like obviously this is not about history,
like I'm not attractive because they changed the game or whatever,
but like he did change the game, you know, like
for high school players to come in and make that
much money. He changed the position of forwards. And so
(51:30):
I don't know, I just fucking love the dude. I
just love the dude. And who gives the funk about Minnesota. Yeah,
and I heard he was trying to buy the teams
hopefully gets that. Gosh, I can't wait for that. I
know it's like so so so expensive, but I can't
wait for former athletes to be owners and like in
way more way more than Jordan's Like I I can't
(51:52):
wait for Lebron being a team out like it's just
gonna I I hope it changes the country, like I
really genuine it will. I mean, you know, like black
people don't have access to generational wealth in the same way,
and so there's not a lot of like billionaires who
can afford a team. But it would be incredible to
(52:12):
see like the sport that made these people then be
like owned by these people. You know, it is weird
when you have like a guy like James Dolan giving
to Trump when you know, the whole like the bubble.
It's both people except for Gordon Hayward, who care about
black lives matters, and so like I want to see
(52:34):
like the ownership reflects the labor and so that's gonna
be really really cool. And I think like Lebron would
be like a hard owner to work for. I imagine
because he seems to be pretty strict that even his
teammates weird, but like, I think he would be an
amazing one for a good team. And like even Lebron
(52:54):
has been a bad gs even with this, like they've
been able to accomplish as players. This um all the
stadiums being voting like places. It's like, think if they
were owners, how much like they would be able to
Like that's a feat in and of itself, Like people
(53:15):
keep tweeting at the NFL, like why do you guys
open your stadiums? It's like that would never happen. The
NBA got it to happen, and then they're gonna be
owners and they're gonna be able to make so much more.
Like they're just gonna, you know, open it up to
like hey, if you live in the neighborhood, come to
the gate, Like they're just gonna be kinder better, Um
Zion paying the entire stadiums. You don't have a child,
(53:41):
And I was like, I was like, how are you
not embarrassed as Zion showed you up this way? But
they weren't, And because they're like, oh, I would never
give my money yes, And then so like I'm I'm
very glad for their being, like you know, guys like
le Bron who obviously have their minds set on that
kind of accomplishment later on. And I'm really really excited
(54:05):
to see it. And I hope KG owns Minnesota. That
would be awesome too. Yeah, that'd be great. I feel
like that would sell tickets like they they would benefit
from it too. Right, this has been so much fun.
I love talking hotties with you. Where can our listeners
find you? Okay? Um, I'm on Twitter at Rayni. Just
(54:27):
so you guys know, I don't only talk about players.
So if you're not obsessed with reality TV like Real
House Lives and stuff, you maybe don't join up. And
I have a podcast called The Deliberation. It's a podcast
where we recap the challenge on the Real World It
used to be Real World road Rules Challenge Challenge now
(54:50):
and they have like actual athletes on these things, like
Lolo Jones is gonna be and I'm not happy about it. Well,
she was on the list like they had they had
a I don't think she ever won a gold medal.
She didn't. I thought she did give it back. Maybe
she was a world champion. She's been a world champion
of Bunch but like that's why she even switched to
(55:12):
Bob's Lettings, trying to get a gold medal and she's
to get us there. But but she was on there
like Champ versus Stars version, and she sucked a lot there,
and then they brought her on for the regular challenge
and I'm confidence she's going to be insufferable and stuck
there too. Um and yeah, I'm just around or whatever. Friends,
(55:36):
if you're hot and you're tall and your black fude
and you're smart, dm Ray has an incredible opinions. She
has been against or you have you've seen Monique Samuel's
for what she was since then, Yes, yes, yes, I
(55:57):
can admit when I'm wrong, and I've been wrong about
other housewives before. Like I was totally wrong about fighting
on Beverly Hills this year. I can admit it. But
I was right about Monique Famiels, I was right about
Liam Blacking. There are a lot more I'm right about.
I just can't remember any. So this podcast will come
out Tuesday, but I can't wait for Potomac tomorrow night.
(56:18):
I'm yes a fist fight on TV. It's the only
kind of prize fighting that I do like. I hate
boxing and m m A because I think it is
really barbaric to pulverize people for money. But if a
fight is deserved, I'm gonna watch c J um His
favorite city is Potomac for the Real Housewives and that's
(56:39):
because of Ore are actually our three mutual beloved Wan
Dixon also hot. I feel like honorable mention. He could
just fine so hot U Ray, thank you so much
for doing this. This now concludes the first meeting of
the j R. Smith Fan Club. We'll have to do
it again. Thank you so much. Make to you guys,
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rate reviews, CJ. Where can they find you at c
J Toll Loddonna on Everything and I'm at Megan Gailey
on Twitter at better Megan Gailey on Instagram. Kelen. We
will be doing Greatest Choke Jobs next week, so look
forward to that and guys, be safe. Make sure you're
registered to vote. Oh boy, wear a mask. Thanks for listening.
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