Episode 175 with Mike Tuck

This week's guest is a retired professional basketball play, currently a university head coach, marketing genius and actor - but over the last few weeks has become an absolutely reality tv superstar in the UK!

His name is Mike Tuck, and he's one of the stars of this insanely twisted tv show - Love Triangle.  If you haven't seen this show, or even heard about it - you NEED to hear this!  It's legitimately evil! Mike is a long time friend of the show, knowing Donnie since he was in high school, and having appeared on this program about 4 years ago.  We're thrilled to welcome him back, talk to him about his wild reality tv experience, as well as some wild stories from his younger days.

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Episode Transcript

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Welcome to the Godfathers and Podcasting now, Inky Sheldon. Now they've been podcasting
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guys have been broadcasting online since nineteenninety six. The Godfathers are podcasting themselves.
Donnie de Silva and Kristin Well,Yes, yes, yes, ladies
and gentlemen, we are here itNews Thursday, May ninth, twenty twenty
four. And just like the ladysaid, I am Donnie, and that

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man next to me, Ladies andgentlemen, he is the Jordan to my
pipp and the Yolkic to my Murray. He's the step to my Draymon.
That's notorious. T I d Christid Well, what up? Tid I
don't even think you were saying wordsthere, buddy. Those are all you
just don't like basketball. Those areall words. It's not a true statement
at all. I absolutely watch basketball. I used to kitchen Yo Kitchen Murray,

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that Yo kitchen Murray. What aretheir first names? I rest my
case. Listen, I'll have youknow that I watched every episode of Hardcastle
and McCormick and they used to playbasketball in the in the driveway and throw
elbows at one another. So I'mall familiar and I know that ron Our

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test is a gem. My myson was watching this video on uh on
YouTube and it was like a takeoffon that new X Men ninety seven animated
show, and it was like theX Men playing basketball against each other,
but they're all using their powers.Wolverine kills the ball. So my son's

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watching this, He's like, ifthis was the NBA, I would watch,
Bro. But but but, like, you'd have to make a rule.
Well, you're not allowed to useyour powers, because otherwise it just
turns into a free No. No, no, no, I disagree.
If you're gonna have a mutant NBA, then use all the powers. Bro.
Have you seen the NBA now someof those dudes are mutants. Yeah,

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look at Lebron, he's using allthe powers Castanos. That's not Bear,
although he did go out in thefirst round, so bye Bron.
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them and they'll support us. Andit's a beautiful little circle of love.
Speaking of circle of love, TID, that's been sort of our world for
the last twenty four hours, becauseI want to mention this quickly, not
to bring everything to a total downer, but a good brother of ours pasted

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yesterday and lost his really shitty battlewith cancer. Jesse Scott, known to
professional wrestling fans as JT. Pleaor Tiberius King, depending how old you
are, And obviously like Jesse,I can't say he was a close friend

(04:42):
of mine. I'd say he wasa close acquaintance. You know, every
time I see him, it's brohugs and how you doing, brother,
and that kind of thing. Youwere obviously much much closer to Jesse than
I was. You wanted to sharea quick Jesse's story before we get to
our guest. It's funny because Jessewas going to be missed. There's i
mean stories bound all over the internetfrom people. The love has been spilling

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in for you know, for hisfamily. We'll have up the links.
There is a go fundme for stuffto go to his family and we'll have
all of that stuff up. Jessewas the kind of guy who no matter
who or you were or when youwere around him, you could always get
motivated by him. This guy wasa guy who, like he started neo

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wrestling, you know, he's oneof the founders of it. And but
he was always the guy that wouldgive the speech, you know what I
mean, beforehand, like warm thepeople up in the back in the locker
room, get everybody fired up togo out there and put on the performance
of their life. So he wasVince Lombardi was fantastic at that job,
absolutely fantastic. Two things where Ialways thought it was one of the funniest

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things ever. One time I literallywatched Jesse give the speech all ready to
go. He was like second matchout there, and he's like, all
right, we're gonna go out there. But he's woo he boom, throws
his arm up in the air likea big ol' high five, throws out
his shoulder off the show, offthe show. He was also off the

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show, off the show, offthe show, could like literally couldn't move
his arm completely dislocated his own shoulderhigh five on a cloud like an old
guy. Right the only other thingthat Jesse was always famous for as well
he was. He always told you, you know, there's kids out there
in the crowd, There's there's familiesout there. You know, keep it

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PG, don't do anything. Andas soon as Jesse would walk through that
curtain, first words out of hismouth, where come on you? Mother?
Motherfucker is the best. But thatdude could get you fired up.
Man, And you know he's gonnabe he's gonna be impossible to replace.

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And they say that you're always aliveas long as people talk about you,
and people are gonna talk about himfor decades upon decades upon decades. So
so many times, so many timeswhen he got in the ring, you
would he would grab that microphone andhe'd say, look you here, look
you here, looky here. SoJesse, look you here. This one's

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for you, my brother. Cheers, love you and all of your all
of our best goes out to youryour lovely wife and your children. And
like Tid said, we'll put uplinks up on Godfather's of Podcasting so you
can show some support. We willtransition from that. Here's what I'm saying.
It's a different process. Now you'renot gonna forget about them. And

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it's just it's completely different. Thestory is different now because now it's everybody
gets to tell stories and have memorialsand and and we have to all like
he's damn near the son of abitch. He's forced us all now to
get together at least once a yearfor some kind of memorial show that's gonna
happen in wrestling, and it's gonnabe the Jesse Scott memorial. It's gonna

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happen, mark my words, andand and this has forced us all to
remain friends for lifetimes. So screwhim, you know. So, I
don't want to be your friend,It's what I'm saying. But hey,
I was on my way out.I was on my way out, Donnie,
and then this guy. I wasalready planning the Chris Tidwell memorial.
But so instead, ladies and gentlemen, it's time right now for the big

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Hello. And this week's guest.He is making his second appearance on the
show, but it's been about fouryears since the last time he was here.
Who has he been the last timehe was on? I told you
all how I met this guy whenhe was just a teenager and one of
the absolute top basketball players in allof Canada. I was coaching, working
at the same school that he wasa student at, and we were both

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part of the same basketball program,and I realized what everyone realizes as soon
as I met him. Man,his eyes are dreaming. No, no,
no. What I was going tosay is he's got this quiet charm.
He's totally respectful. You could tellthis dude was the center of every
single party. He had an outstandingcareer at Markham District High School before receiving
a full ride to Loyola of Marylandin the NCAA. He teamed up with

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one of his top high school rivalsand had a great four year run.
After graduating, he made the transitionto the pros, moving across the ocean
to England and playing in the BritishBasketball League. And how did he do
over there? Well? He hadan incredible thirteen year run with the Sheffield
Sharks, highlighted by the fact thathe was not only team captain and won

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a couple championships and was a championshipMVP. But if you look at the
Sharks record book, it's like hisname is all over it. First in
career points, first in field goalsmade, first in total rebounds, third
in total assists and fifth in steels. Dear Lord. Towards the end of
his playing days, he started doingsome work as a broadcaster, working with

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his team in the front office,and he has now become the head coach
at the University of Sheffield. Nowlet me tell you how I was shocked
beyond words when up in my socialmedia feed comes news about this guy that
has nothing to do with basketball.Last month, I found out he had
been cast in literally the most satanicand diabolical reality show I have ever watched.

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It's called Love Triangle, a showthat basically allows him to choose between
two different women, one that heneeds in his life and one that represents
what he's usually drawn to. Hehad to make a choice based on nothing
but a couple of text messages,and he made that choice, and he
got along great with that woman.But then the show decides to fuck with

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their heads and they bring back thefirst woman that he initially rejected, and
he liked her too, And nowthe show slaps them with another twist,
and all three of them got tolive together in the same house. This
came from the mind of a very, very sick human being. We're going
to talk to him all about that, Ladies and gentlemen. He's living in

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England, but he's still a Canuck. He's in a love triangle, but
he kept a buck though. Igot to admit that situation does suck.
My boy was looking lost and fullydumb struck. That show is purely evil,
making him look the schmuck. Buthe's a true boss. Never got
by on just luck, don't y'all. No, he dunks hard like a

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truck, and he never been theplayer that makes you go yuck. Now
give it up to Marco Montaro's favoriteson. This is Mike Tuck. What
an entrance there, boy, youdidn't even know it. That is wild.
Thank you for that entrance. Iappreciate that. How you doing,
brother, I'm doing well, man. How are you? We're doing okay?

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We're doing okay. And I gottatell you what I just said is
one like you remember this. Itwasn't that long ago. I messaged you
and I said, what the hell'sgoing on? You're on a dating show
like that was not on my Bengocard for twenty twenty four. And you're
like, yeah, me neither,And yeah, I was like, Okay,

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how do I watch this thing?And Tuck the first two episodes,
this is what I did. Igot the show on and I just fast
forwarded. I just fast forwarded,like where's Tuck. I just want to
see Tuck, all right? SoI see Tuck, and now I fast
forward again to the next time Isee Tuck. Okay, and now there's
a group party and everyone's together,and I'm like, Okay, now I'm
gonna have to watch these other people. And it's like, oh shit,

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now I'm getting invested in their stupidlives. And now I'm watching this whole
damn show. And it is likeI have watched reality TV tit always makes
fun of me for it, butthis is this is the most fucked up
dating show I've ever seen in mylife. Well, I mean, yeah,

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so I don't watch reality TV shows. I'm maybe you should have definitely
not Yeah, I should have gotsome some some pointers. But yeah,
I mean I got asked. Isaid yes, next thing, you know,
I'm in the whirlwind and and herewe are. Yeah. It just
kind of started off as I justgot a DM on Instagram one day from

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a casting agent saying we're shooting fora new show. It was at the
time they were billing it as LoveMatch, and the whole concept of the
show was that you were going it. They were going to match you.
You filled out a bunch of personalitytests, you met with a psych you
met with a matchmaker. They weregoing to match you with, you know,
the girl of your dreams, andyou're going to move into a house.

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And this was the experiment living ina house with one girl for a
month. Now, little do weknow that Love Match was a working title
and the whole concept of the showwas Love Triangle. So, like you
explained, they showed up in Sheffieldfilm my backstory and then they gave me
a phone and like, oh,you're gonna start texting your match today.
But here's the twist. You're notjust texting one girl, You're texting two

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girls. And at the end ofthe second day you have to pick one
of these girls to move into thehouse with. So from the jump I
was like, oh, there's somethingfishy going on here, like this is
you know, I don't know whatwhat have I gotten myself into. But
they literally they literally did not giveyou the lowdown because like there was I
can't remember who it was someone onthe show. It might have been one

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of the two ladies you were matchedwith. I can't remember, but someone
on the show said on episode sevenor episode eight said, you know,
this situation sucks, but this iswhat we signed up for. But this
is not what you signed up for. No. I mean they obviously they
said there was gonna be twists andturns and all that kind of jazz,
but but this was like next levellike and honestly, at every like it

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was pretty much at all the dinnerparties where they would reveal like something like
you'd get a text on the phoneand it'd be like, Oh, you're
going on a date with girl numbertwo, and then everyone's like, oh
my god. And then you know, off camera, everyone's just freaking out,
yelling at producers at the directors likewhat the hell is going on?
This is what we signed up for, blah blah. And then the next

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dinner we show up the first wefind out that we have to move in
with the second match. The firstmatch is moving out. That's a whole
deal. Then we live with thesecond match for a week, We go
to for a week, We goto another dinner. The first match is
there when we walk in, it'sjust all this like drama. They just
so there was so much turmoil onthe show obviously, but then behind the

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scenes and everything, it was justlike chaos as well. And at the
beginning of the show, when wefirst started filming it the cast members that
they had, I was like,this isn't going to be like very juicy,
Like everyone was kind of just chilland it wasn't much going on.
And now watching it back, it'sjust unreal like the amount of characters and

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drama that this show like has withinit. I mean it's insane. You
got the girl that has one hand, you got the girl with her only
fans, You got the girl thatwears a different wig every single day.
You got the girl who never stopscrying. You got the professional basketball player,
you got the guy who did There'sone guy on there who left the

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show because he's making a career ofjust appearing on other dating shows, like
he left them to uh Love Island, Malta. It's the most fucked up
casting. It's yes, same,absolutely crazy. It wasn't what I thought

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I was signing up for. Buthe we had some we had some tough
times, but we had we hada few laughs. We had a few
laughs in the mix and met someamazing, amazing people. Okay, here's
here's the first question though, becauseyou talked about all of the like the
people bitching at the producers and stufflike that off camera, did it ever
get physical? Oh? No,never, never physical. I don't think

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there was one kind of physical thing. But there was a lot of tears,
there was a lot of rants,people threatening to leave the show.
There's a lot of things that happenedoff camera, probably stuff I can't really
talk about. But it was justlike there was just as much, if
not more drama off camera and behindthe scenes than as there was on on

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camera and within the show. Andand also we filmed this for a month.
Obviously this comes out. It's onlyit's nine episodes with the reunion episode,
so ten episodes long. There's entiredays. There's probably about a week
worth of days of filming that theydidn't even use in our in my triangle,

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so like everybody, so there's somuch more to the stories that they
didn't even they didn't even put andthe way they've they've clipped it together and
stuff. They chase certain storylines thatweren't really that big, but they made
them big because that's what what fedfed the story. But yeah, can
I can I just say, Hey, you look so frickin uncomfortable in this

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picture, like this is the mostunnatural pose I've ever seen in my entire
existence since the Sears catalog, Tuck, this is great. Hey, I'm
in a lawyer firm that is waytoo tight. That's why, Tid,
if you can blow up that picturefor a second, I just want to.

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I want to give you out forTid's sake and for anyone who hasn't
watched the show. So the guyon the left, correct me if I'm
wrong, Tuck, he's the onethat said he thinks he's asexual. Uh
he did. There was a referenceto that in one episode. Yes,
okay, And then you see Tuckthere, and then you see that's the
woman who she wears a different hairpiece every single day. The next woman

(18:41):
there, you know, she suffersfrom alopecia, so she she wears wigs.
So she showed up to the firstparty. I think I think she
was blonde at the first party,and then the second showed up and she
was a redhead, and I wasthe hell she has hair. Oh yeah,
yeah, yeah, I didn't notice. Oh yeah, your eyes didn't

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go to her head? Is thatwhat I'm saying, be a gentleman?
Did uh that? That next womanthere, uh, Danica. Yeah,
she started a thing with the guyon the right, who wasn't even part
of her triangle. They just startedmaking out one day at one of the
group get togethers. The next girlthere, Jazz, she's the one that

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had like literally I think she saidshe was born without her right hand,
and she had a surgery to havea bunch of toes put on her hand.
So she's got like this little clawhand shut. And then Jazz,
yeah, she calls her little chicken. Yeah yeah, yeah. Her umbilical
cord was wrapped around her hand whileshe was forming, while she was in

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the womb. So she that's bornwithout a hand. That's wild. I've
never heard of that before. Butand then the other guy there, Tid,
that's the dude who's like the profetdating show guy, and I like,
he's in the running for doucheiest TVcharacter I've ever seen. Like holy,
Like, I'm sure for you,Tuck, you have a different experience.
You got to know these guys differently, and you're one of these dudes.

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You're a man's man. You're thekind of guy that just you're bros
with every dude. Were you ableto get along with that guy? I
mean yeah, off camera, likeit was fine. We didn't really have
much like back and forth, tobe honest, even like what the show
did do a really good job ofwas just trying to keep us all separate
and like not letting us communicate witheach other, so that we were all

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kind of stuck in our own world's, our own bubbles. I mean,
they took away our phones, theytook away our computers. We weren't allowed
to like have any contact with theoutside world. And then within this little
world that we were living in,they were trying to keep us apart.
At the parties, like right away, they would be like separating us and
making us leave in different cars andall that kind of things. But obviously,
you know, you talk to afew people in that but that guy

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he ended up leaving halfway through theshow, so no one really had much
contact with him. So crazy,so bizarre to me. He went to
that guy knows how to do itreality TV, that's for sure, just
cashing checks and breaking hearts when Isaw the caption for that episode and it
said a shocking departure from the show, you know whatever, and I'm like,

(21:23):
please let it be Tuck, Pleaseget off this ride. I'll tell
you what. I was ready toleave a couple of times. I'm pretty
sure I threatened production. I waslike, I'm I'm out, Like you
guys, stop throwing current balls atme. Please tell me. What was
the moment where, like, atleast the first time where you went to
them and said I can't do this. I got to get out of here.

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Well, I think like after theysaid they're bringing another girl into the
situation, that was like and thenthey made I had to go back to
the house and tell Kelly that thatshe was moving out and Danielle was moving
in, and they sent the crewback before I arrived at the house to
like film this as well, andI was like this is getting nuts,
Like this is just crazy. ButI think the biggest moment was when all

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three of us had to move intothe house together like that, and we
got the text about that, andthat was just like, oh my god,
get me out of here. LikeI was just like I might leave
right now. I'm done. WhenI was telling Kid about this concept of
the show, and I told himhow you had to move in with Kelly
after whatever it was a day likeof knowing her, you get to be

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one blind date and then we movedin the next day. Right. So
I was telling him and I toldHi about the concept of the third person,
and he goes, why don't theyall live together? And I'm like,
just wait, just wait until weekthree. I mean, it just
sounds like polygamy. I mean oneof the Thropple TV show on a bunch

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of websites and articles and now lookingback, like to the whole makeup of
the show, like makes complete sense, you know, and introduce the other
girl, introduced all three and likehell hell starts and that's exactly what they
got out of the situation. Sowatching the show, I'll be honest with

(23:15):
you, dude, Like I didnot expect you, Mike Tuck, the
guy who I've always known to becooler than the other side of the pillow,
I did not expect you to goon this show and be like,
I'm falling for this girl. Oh, I'm falling for her too, Like
I thought you'd just play this likechill and be like, nah, this

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isn't working for me, Like wereyou shocked? Were you shocked that you
were actually developing feelings for these peoplein such a fight, like such a
short amount of time. I mean, yeah, I think you're obviously you
have this whole stigma like are youactually going to find love on like a
reality TV show? But they diddo a lot of like work for this.

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I mean we I had to fillout I think it was like three
different personality tests that took like quitea while, and then meet with a
psychiatrist and then meet with a matchmaker. So like there was like a lot
of time and effort and money involvedinto like actually like you know, finding
compatibility between the people. And Ithink that was like my curse on the
show is that they just they matchedme really well with two different people and

(24:22):
I got you know, I gotalong really well with both of them,
and yeah, it was a surprise. I think you also have to realize,
like you're in this situation where youknow, you got you got multiple
cameras in your face, you're notyou don't have your phone, you don't
have anything else. There's no contactwith the outside world, so you're just
kind of in your head, inyour own feelings, in this own little
like you know, contained environment,and then you're living with this person.

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So like a day in a houselike that feels like much longer, doesn't
it. So yeah, I thinkthings developed quickly. And also, you
know, I kind of threw myselfinto this experiment, like you know,
trying to approach with more of anopen heart than rather than be closed off.
Did you lie on your test?Yeah? Yeah, I'm I should

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have said I was six' nine. I only put six. They would
have had me take multiples. Iwould have changed it every single time the
test just to make better TV.Yeah, exactly. I feel like some
people did on the test. Itseem like that because I don't know how
the hell they matched some of theother couples, because like exactly exactly what
I was just saying, it wasjust like what the hell is going on

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over there? But hey, itmade for some good TV, that's for
sure. Yeah, there were somematches where it's like, did anyone even
think about these There's nothing compatible aboutthese people, definitely, but yeah,
some of them work. Some ofthem didn't get spicy at the end,

(25:55):
Uh, very juicy show. I'vehad so many people reach out, especially
you know, from the basketball communityin England and all over the place,
being like, same as you,I never watched this kind of show or
whatever, and they're like I amhooked, Like stop watching this, like
everybody's been tuning in and the numbersover here like are doing really really well.

(26:17):
They say, the show is doingreally really well from the production side.
So let's look at the positive.Let's look at the positive for a
second, because you know, obviouslyyou're a guy who your entire online persona,
your entire brand has always been aboutMike Tuck the basketball player, Mike

(26:41):
Tuck the coach. Right, youare Mike Tuck Basketball. Like if I
search Mike Tuck online, I'm gonnafind other guys that played like rugby or
some shit. But if I typein Mike Tuck basketball, it's all you,
and it's everything since you were achild. And potentially this opens you

(27:02):
up to a whole new audience.This opens you up to new opportunities on
a business front. Is that somethingthat you're excited about? Is that something
that was part of the strategy here, because it sounds like a lot of
these people that sign up, it'slike look, I'm just like, I'm
pretty sure Brody was just like,I'm gonna make some money on my only
fans. I think she has forsure. Yeah, I mean it's something

(27:29):
different, right, and like singleat the time I got asked to do
it. You know, I alreadywork in broadcasting a little bit with Live
TV Live Basketball, so like,you know, I'm used to being in
front of a camera. It wassomething to raise the profile. But also
you know, I was single.You know, it was potentially I could
meet somebody there, so and likeyou said, like it's completely like opened

(27:51):
me up to a completely different audience. You know, there's like a lot
of new followers and different people.And I've always been a guy who's kind
of shouted about the British Basketball Leagueand British basketball in general, so it's
kind of cool to kind of getsome new audience eyes on that as well.
I'm also you know, I'm headof marketing for the Sheffield Sharks,

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so you know, getting some morepeople around the games, and I've had
a few of the cast members downsitting courtside at our games and stuff like
that. So that's that's been reallycool and really fun and just you know,
like trying to, yeah, bringsome more eyes and new eyes on
the sport and raise the profile ofmy not only myself but also basketball and
the Sharks. More or less thantwenty five d ms from very thirsty women

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that said, Mike, forget Kelly, forget Dan Yell, I'm your girl
more way more like, I'm notin the right ballpark, but you got
to talk about quality here like this, I'm just talking pure ball. You
just follow you. There's been there'sbeen a bunch the the attention online has

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been has been pretty wild, right, and even like just just searching Twitter,
like searching the hashtags and seeing whatpeople are commenting and what they're talking
about. I mean, obviously there'smy story, but then there's also like
six other triangles, so like,yeah, everybody's got a comment to make
about everything on the show. SoI think it's it's pretty funny like going
in and reading some of that stuff. Yeah, Jazz with her little chicken

(29:30):
hand went from in my mind beingthe sweet innocent girl to being like,
Yo, what the fuck are youdoing? Girl? Like I was getting
hot. I'm like, Yo,that dude over there, he's a sweetheart,
and this guy's a fucking douche andwhat are you doing now You're and
now she's talking about like, hey, maybe we could try out a threesome

(29:51):
tonight, And I'm like, who'sthis girl? Like, I think everybody's
got an opinion though, right,because some people, you know, some
people love Jack the New Guys,some people love jazz still. So like
it's it's funny because you have thisyour own perception in your head of of
how it's going to go or howpeople are, uh you know, soaking
it all in. But like there'sa different opinion on everybody everybody I talk

(30:15):
to you. Some people love certainpeople, some people hate certain people.
It's it's it's it's interesting to seeand and how invested people are in this
this whole thing. Like, yes, it was you know, reality TV,
but it's also like it's TV andit's like very highly edited, but
like people are so invested in thesestorylines, like it's like life or death

(30:36):
kind of situation. Right, It'sit's pretty much pro wrestling, dude.
Yeah, I mean it's the samething. It's a bunch of a bunch
of fucking nerds sitting in front ofthe TALKI box watching other people's lives Okay,
you're pantomime villains walking out. Yougot your people are cheering for one

(31:00):
guy, cheered for the other guy. It's just like it's us. Okay,
so let's use that analogy for asecond. Mike started on the show
as the ultimate good guy. Okay, did the comments on Twitter change at
any point? Did you start gettinghate? I mean, yeah, I've
got I've got I've gotten both.I've gotten love and I've gotten hate.
I mean I I fell for bothgirls I created. You know, I've

(31:26):
opened myself up and you know,let let things progress with both both sides.
So obviously there's some people who weren'ta fan of that, and then
I obviously split kind of people aswell in terms of like team Danny team
Kelly. So it was it's beenfunny to watch that as well, and

(31:47):
people having like such big opinions onthings, and like some people are like,
well, like to some of thegirls, like well it was called
love Triangle, you knew what youwere signing up for, and it was
like nah, I was like wedidn't know, we didn't know shit.
It like we didn't know. Wegot thrown like force fed bullshit every day
just to keep us going like,literally, this show, this show has

(32:07):
already come out in Australia. There'stwo seasons of this in Australia already.
It's from the same people that madeMarried It first site Australia. So the
whole thing with them not telling usthat the name of the show is so
that we didn't go and Google findout that there was all like go and
watch all that version in Australia.So that's how they kind of kept it

(32:28):
from us. But you know,the show's done well now and now they're
already they've already been putting out messagesfor casting for season two. I Love
Triangle UK season two, So whichTuck will not be a part of?
Fuck no, Now will you doany other reality TV at this point?

(32:49):
Oh? More dating shows, that'sfor sure. So just straight the playgirl
magazine. Ok, yeah, getme in. They're wrestling next time about
that out. That's what it'll getyou started. I gotta tell you,
dude, I just the whole thingwas so bizarre to watch. And you

(33:10):
know, it was not a questionto me that you're meeting up with these
women, you're getting to know them, you're spending time with them. I'm
like they're all gonna fall for Tuck. I'm convinced that there's women in the
other couples that fell for you too, because you're just this charming son of
a bitch, six foot seven,fucking silver fox. They're all checking you

(33:32):
out. They're like they got theirlittle nerd next to I'm like, you
know, I could go for someTuck, And I know that that's what
was fucking going on. But Iwasn't surprised that both girls were bonding with
you. I was a little surprisedthat you clicked so well with both.
But I will say this now,Like while I'm watching and I'm getting invested,
I'm like, don't choose Kelly.Don't choose Kelly. Like I'm screaming

(33:55):
at the fucking TV. I'm like, she cries non stop. Bro,
you're gonna have a migraine every day. You're gonna be like, all right,
Kelly, I gotta go and Igotta go cover a game. And
she but you're gonna leave me,Like that's the shit that's gonna go on.
And I'm like, nah, dude, this is not your match.

(34:15):
And Danielle seems so fucking cool,and I'm screaming at you that episode,
whatever the fuck it was when allthree of you are having dinner together and
Kelly leaves the table every two secondsto have a cry fest, and you're
following her to the bathroom and you'refollowing her everywhere, and I'm like,
Tuck, go talk to the otherone for fox sakes, forget the crying

(34:36):
one. Yeah, man, Imean, listen, I'm not here to
bash anybody. I think you know, both both great people, and like
since the show, we've all beencool and I know, but yeah,
it was just there was a lotof emotions and a lot going on.
And I'm sure, I'm sure Kelly'slovely. I'm sure she's lovely, great

(34:59):
girl, great girl. And Danielleas well, both both both great people.
It was just I think I thinkthe moment for me is when like
they both moved into the house.I was just like the producers were like
looking at me, like I waslike shell shocked because I was just like
walking around like a zombie for aweek because I just like it was just
too much for me to like takein, you know what I mean,

(35:21):
Like I'm like having to live with, like with this shit storm that I've
created here. How many days.How many days do you have to live
with them? It was like aweek with with Kelly, a week with
Danielle, and then a week prettymuch a week together. Maybe given take
a day or two to here,it might have been like it's seven or
eight days, nine days, somethinglike that. So it was the first
one who was the first one tonapalm in the bathroom? Well, that

(35:45):
was the best thing about the showis that we moved into like this mansion
in Manchester. It was awesome.We lived in like it was had like
five bedrooms, had a theater room, big backyard, like it was like
beautiful. How so like you know, you had your own little private bathroom.
You know, you had your ownlittle space to go. Everything was

(36:07):
great. Bride when I was brodcustingthat entire place, it's like, yeah,
yeah, y'all think you signed upfor something. Ah, Okay,
let's go. It's making his ownshow. It's turning it into fear factor.
You know when when I was watching, one of the first things I
thought to myself on the very firstepisode we y'all moved in, I was

(36:30):
like, oh, is this Becausethey didn't explain it on the air,
I was like, is this aproduction house or is this tux house because
they didn't really. And then andthen I saw this scene the show Tux
House. They moved they moved twoof us into like big mansions, so

(36:52):
like we were I think we hadthe best house for sure. Yeah,
you know, I lived there right, so was like of course. And
then two of them were in likekind of more like they call him cottages,
not like the Canadian sense of acottage, but more like a country
kind of farmhouse out in like outin the countryside, like Cheshire, which

(37:14):
is just outside Manchester. And thentwo of the couples were in like penhouse
suite apartments like right downtown Manchester,like sick like way up in there.
But we had like the biggest house. I looked at the house and I
said, the house is gorgeous.But the moment I realized this is not
your house was the whatever episode numberit was, I don't remember, but

(37:37):
Kelly was there, I think inthe bedroom or something, and you did
the the Cramer slide into the room. He slides into the room like the
slickest motherfucker. And I'm looking atthe headroom that he has on the dorm,
like that's not his house. There'snot a chance in every fucking doorway,

(37:57):
man. Yeah, no, lowerin my head. Yeah, but
you're like me, dude, You'renot gonna live in a house that doesn't
fit you. Like. You wantdoorways that are tall enough for you.
You want a shower head that tieenough for you. Yeah, exactly.
I don't know. I think thestandard doorway in England is like six'

(38:17):
five, So I'm all that.I'm just used to ducking on every door
as it is. Oh that sucks, man six. So the show,
the finale for the show, thereunion has not yet aired. The finale

(38:37):
for the show aired tonight and allthe reunion aired right after it. Oh
it did. I didn't realize that. Okay, So I got I got
TV to catch up on when thisis done, go go, gonna go
watch on Channel four. But whenthe finale aired, like I was hung
on episode eight, I'm like,who the fuck is this guy get to

(39:00):
choose? So it's aired? Canwe can? We can? We can
we divulge who you ended up?It's out in the world now. So
yeah, yeah, I ended upchoosing Danielle had a boy. I had
a boy, And what do youget the losers in this everybody lost,

(39:22):
all right, I'm not listen.Kelly is a lovely girl. I just
thought for you, Danielle seemed likea better fit, that's all. Yeah.
I think with Danielle was just verynatural and and I was, you
know, just more excited to kindof explore what what was what was there?

(39:45):
So with Kelly, obviously, youknow, great girl, but you
know, very emotional and very fiery. So I just went with Kelly just
a little bit more easy going.So when was the reunion filmed? It
was probably like a month or twoafter the show. Oh yeah, because

(40:07):
a lot of times with these kindof shows, they'll film the reunion because
like the whole show was filmed likea year ago, right, Yeah,
So a lot of times with thesereunions, if the show's not going to
air for a year, they'll dothe reunion like a month before airing,
so we can get a true updateon what everyone's up to. So what
what is the update for Tuck rightnow with his love triangle status. I'm

(40:30):
not with either Danny or o'belly.We're just we're just friends now. And
here's here's the crazy part. I'mdead. Nobody from the show stayed together.
Of course that's not one of thepeople. I still talk to all
the people, none of them aretogether. So it was we did this

(40:51):
whole fucked up experiment for nothing.I mean, this is what happens on
these fucking shows, man, thisis what always like, Yeah, this
is the way it goes. Butnow that being said, now that you've
told me this, that nobody hashas ended up together. What was her

(41:14):
name again, the girl with thewigs, Zarlena? Yeah, you were.
I fucking her pretty hard on episode. See that's another thing where that
was production pushing it because at thedinner party, right, there's that dinner
party scene where it's me and hertalking and it's like, oh, Kelly's
looking over, and they're trying tocreate this whole thing. Right. I

(41:35):
went over to everybody at that atthat party and had a conversation with every
single person. I said what Ibelieve, I'm saying, what's up,
I'm making friends, I'm working theroom, networking. But of course when
they come to the editing room,they're like, let's clip this little bit
up. Yeah, Mike and Zarlin, you know, let's make it a
thing. The next episode. Thenext dinner we went to they both they

(41:57):
sat us both at the top ofthe table together. They tried to like
and that's that's how that's how theproducers in the show kind of manipulate situations
and try to make it look likeone thing is bigger than it was.
But and in reality, like meand like Zarlene, obviously she's she's gorgeous
girl and she's cool as fuck,Like yeah, you know, we we
went and shot one of the promoslots for it, and you know,

(42:17):
talking to her, great girl,but like, there was never anything there.
You know why they edited it thatway though? Right? You fucked
yourself? Do you realize this?On episode on episode one, when y'all
were having that group dinner, Ican't remember who it was. I can't
remember who it was that asked thequestion. One of the other ladies said,

(42:37):
if there was someone else here thatyou could choose, who would it
be? And Kelly looked at youwith daggers and the correct answer from you
would be nobody. But you fuckingsaid Zara Lena. Yeah, but okay,
so here's the other thing with that, right, I was the last
person to go in that. Butwhen they clip it up, they I

(43:00):
was like, I was only therewas only like two people that said it,
and I was like the first oneto say it, so it makes
it like right away, I'm justlike on Zara, you're jumping in.
Everybody had gone around the room andmultiple guys had said you know already,
and a couple of guys that saidKelly. So I'm just like all right,
like yeah, like naturally, yeah, I'm gonna say, you're playing

(43:20):
the game. You're just playing along. But watching it back retrospectively and like
how they clipped it together, Iwas like, oh, man, no,
that was bad. I should havepicked somebody else. Should have picked
pie Fingers, yeah, Jazz,Hell yeah, you should You should have
well, you should have picked oneof the guys. Tid was mad that
there was no gay connections on theshow. So what I'm saying, that'd

(43:43):
be next if you gotta pick,if you got to pick either a girl
or a guy, or don't discriminate, right, put your hands either.
What if you have to pick agirl guy? Yeah, you never know,
Right, that's a whole that's seasontwo. That's a whole nother thing.
I wouldn't maybe maybe what was yourname? What was your name?
Is Zarlena? Yeah, Zarlena,maybe she was a Tucker. No,

(44:09):
she's she's a fabulous woman, Tuck. It's it's crazy to me that this
has even happened, Like it's insane. I honestly thought that the next time
I had you on the show,all we would do is talk for forty
five minutes or an hour about howyou're doing at the University of Sheffield coaching

(44:34):
your guys. I was thinking,you know, we haven't even touched on
the fact that since the last timeyou were on this show you retired,
you were you were a player thelast time you were on this show.
Yeah, it's been too long.No invite though, right, so oh,
come on now, you're a busycat. Come on now, I'm
only messing with you. I'm onlyit's it's been a minute, man,

(44:55):
A lot's happened, definitely. Thisis my second year being retired, so
it's it's just crazy. But stillstaying still, staying busy as hell.
Obviously a marketing for the Sharks coachinguniversity chef and basketball team, and then
doing some sky Sports appearances for forthe British Basketball League here and there when
I can. So yeah, itwas good. It was a big transition

(45:19):
obviously from from not playing. ButI think, you know, a lot
has happened. I was in amovie. Since I retired, I've been
on this TV show, I've donelots more sky Sports stuff, So it's
it's opened up a lot more doorshaving that for freedom and inflexibility. When
BBL, sorry, when BBL trainingcamp starts the last two summer the last

(45:42):
two seasons, are you itching?Are you pissed itching for preseason? Fuck?
No? You kidding? Well,just itching to get back on the
floor. No, Yeah, Imean I think this season it's much more
normal, But last season it wasdefinitely like showing up to games, walking
in and then seeing the guys walkin and knowing that like the process they're

(46:04):
going through in their head, theroutines that they're about to get into,
and then me like just walking inand like just feeling like a fucking civilian,
just like, oh god, youknow that was like that was like
a really tough thing to wrap myhead around, especially like that first the
first like five home games, Ithink I was like, I was like,
whoa, this is like this isvery weird for me. But obviously,

(46:27):
you know, time goes by,you get used to it like you
know, one one, Uh,things just normalized over time, right,
Like it's just it's just normal tome now. Obviously, you know,
there's still that passion and that love. Like I you know, there's times
where I want to still get outthere, and I do miss the game.
I miss being competitive, I missI miss all those things, but

(46:47):
I don't when the one thing Idon't miss is like the pressure of it,
because I think for me being onthis team for so long thirteen years,
it was eleven years, I wascaptain, and like you know,
when you lose a game as captainand stuff like that, it's like you
take it on your you know,you take it on your chest a little
a little bit more than just theregular players. So I think I had
that on my shoulders for for quitesome time. So that was a bit

(47:12):
of like a relief. But yeah, man, like there is times,
you know, We've moved into anew arena this season, so I can
watch the guys practice from from myoffice, and you know, you hear
the bouncing the balls and you seethe guys like getting into drills and you're
like, ah, man. Andthen especially and then the games, the
roar of the crowd. You seethe guys running out on the floor.
It's like, you do you do. I don't think that's ever gonna leave,

(47:35):
right, like, no matter what, you know, even in any
sport, right like wrestling as well, Like you know, you'd never lose
that passion and that love for it. Oh no, Tid does not care.
He never wants to get in thering again. That's not true.
I'm singing comeback. It's comeback season, baby, let's go dust off the
boots. You got one more amia, Tid. You're gonna work at the
Jesse Scott Memorial. Well, we'llsee what happens. We'll see what the

(47:59):
paycheck's like. You got one morein you come on, big boy.
I got to ask you this becauseI don't remember how long ago it was,
now, Tid, maybe you canremind me. I think it was
two months ago. We were joinedon this show by your former high school
teammate, Chris Krause. Oh mabe. Chris was on the show for the

(48:22):
first time ever, and he wastalking. We were talking to him about,
you know, of course, obviouslybeing the first Canadian head coach in
NCAA basketball, the transition from Divisiontwo to Division one, everything that he's
doing, obviously winning coach of theyear down there, and now you're in
a similar situation where you've hung upthe high tops and you put on the

(48:46):
track suit and you're standing on thesidelines and holding the clipboard. Is the
fact that the both of you evolvedinto such great leaders on the floor and
such great coaches. Is that directlyconnected to those early days where you were
playing together and the head coach thatyou were playing for, one without a

(49:09):
doubt, Yes, And and youknow it's a testament to you know,
Chris's dad, George Krause, youknow, my my, my high school
basketball coach who you know, II have to, you know, give
him so much thanks and praise becauselike without him, I wouldn't have got
to where I was at. Heyou know, instilled such confidence in us

(49:30):
and and developed us as basketball playerson the court, but then also as
just like good people off the court, and and just giving us so much
direction in those those early days.You can see it. And all those
guys that played on that high schoolteam, you know, they've all gone
on to to do great things.And uh, but definitely you know myself

(49:51):
coaching university team now, obviously noton the same level what Chris is doing,
but still you know, at aat a standard. And then you
know Chris, I mean in tosee you know, him kind of following
in his dad's footsteps, but liketaking into the next level. And then
you know, going back being youknow, a high level, top top
name guy at Stonehill, to goingto the assistant coach to make it to

(50:13):
the head coach, to taking theteam from D one to D two or
D two to D one. Unrealstory. It's just like fairy tale kind
of stuff. And for George andhis wife Mary, they you know,
they couldn't be proud of him,and probably of all of us. Yeah,
no, for sure, I knowfor a fact George and Mary Krous
they look at you like another oneof their sons and always have. You

(50:36):
may not remember this, but I'mgoing to throw it at you because it's
relevant to what we were just talkingabout. The very first conversation that you
and I ever had, the veryfirst I remember it so clearly, Tuck.
I was still teaching at your rivalhigh school, which was my alma
mater, right before I made thejump over to Markham District. I was

(50:57):
at your rival school and you weresuited up to play for Markham High and
I'm coaching the other team, andwe had a chat and you were telling
me, yeah, I was supposedto go to this school because you were
you were going to go to theCatholic school and that was the school in
your district that you were supposed togo to. But the reason you didn't
is because, well, for onething, they didn't have George Krous,

(51:21):
but also in grade nine, theydidn't even have a team, like their
team had actually stopped playing and theyhad suspended their basketball team for a couple
of years. I've thought about thisso many times, Tuck, how different
your life would be had you notgone to Markham District. It's insane,
like to think to think that,because yeah, he, like George,

(51:43):
literally changed like the whole path ofmy life. I still remember him,
you know, calling me. Iwas like grade eight, thirteen thirteen,
fourteen years old and he's calling merecruiting me to go to Markham District.
And it was just like, youknow, thank god I was born in
years as Chris Kross because he wasin the background trying to recruit this team,

(52:04):
like he was almost like he waslike a college or a pro coaching
players around his son. You know, he's getting getting all these pieces.
But yeah, he literally like changedthe course course of my life. And
I still remember getting off that phonecall. Uh and you know, my
I remember my dad handing me thephone. He's like, there's a very
imp important phone call for you,like here, take this, and then

(52:25):
you know, getting off, andthen my dad just looking at me like
what are you gonna do? You'regoing And I was just like, all
right, I'm going to Markham Districtto play basketball now. But hands,
how is your dad? How isyour dad? He's doing great, man,
I love your dad. Yeah,he's doing great. He had a
bit of a car accident last year. I think did we talk about that.

(52:49):
I don't remember. I don't thinklike it was actually was right after
the show. It was. Itwas pretty intense. So yeah, but
he's all out the other end.Now he's doing great. It's his god,
his birthday in two weeks. He'sgoing to be eighty. He's getting
up there. But he's you know, he's great. He's sharp as a
whistle too, and he's sharp ashell. It's still still got it,
still charming anybody that's talking to him, Yeah, well you know where you

(53:13):
got it from. Yeah, exactly. He's He's the original silver Fox,
that guy. That's right, Ted. I just want to give you this
for context too. Right when Ihad the opportunity to leave my alma mater
where I was teaching and coaching,and I went to Markham District and I
got a chance to learn from GeorgeKrause. When I was a young coach,

(53:35):
I was only in my early twenties. Man, I was like twenty
two, twenty three years old,and I got a chance to work with
another legendary coach there, Ron Burrows. And I remember when I got to
Markham District. My exposure to highschool boys' basketball practice at the time was
just at my old school. Andso now I walk into practice, like

(53:58):
the first day of school September,and I walk in and I see Tuck,
who I've already met, but Isee him on the floor along with
Chris Krous, along with the restof that team. And the way like
this is five minutes after like notno, okay, that's exactly fifteen minutes
after the bell rang, right,And they're in the gym and they're warming
up and they're moving that fucking ball, like it's a missile and they are

(54:22):
sprinting up and down the floor andI'm looking and I turned to Ron Burrows
and I say, this is agame I'm not familiar with, Like what
are they doing? Like I feltlike I was watching the college team.
These kids were moving at a pacethat was insane to me, and they
were all huge. You had Tuckand you had another guy on the team,

(54:45):
Eugene that was a fucking tree,and like the team was so skilled.
You got three kids on that squadthat were top in the country.
And I'm like, what the fuck? You know? That was Georgie,
right, Like George found all LikeGeorge found me at a camp when I

(55:06):
think I was like eleven years oldor something like that. So like he
just like developed all of us fromsuch a young age. He was he
was running our youth practices like theywere like college practices. He was always
bringing in kids that were older thanus to have games against. He was
always trying to get us like toplay up and play level up, play
play against you know, bigger talent. So you know, by the time

(55:28):
we did get to high school,you know, our grade nine team was
better than the senior team at Markhamlike that first year, like we hit
the ground run and we were playingscrimmages against them and just blowing them out.
So he Yeah, you know,like we said earlier, you got
to take your hats off to GeorgeCross for sure. It's what I'm hearing.
Hold on, what I'm hearing here. What I'm hearing here is that

(55:50):
this is a guy who's like afather figure so to speak, right,
my grandfather, like coaches, mentors, stuff like that, like responsible for
the man that you've come today andthe career that you've had. Basically,
what you're telling me is that it'shis fault you had to do that fucking
reality shit. Yeah, George,I got a bone to pick with this

(56:10):
guy. What the Yeah? True, you never would have ended up on
Yeah, you would never get likesomebody somebody like like creeping your your Instagram
to look at you before sending youa d M because they're like, oh,
yeah, here's a here's a cupof tea that deserves to be on
his fucking show. The the lastthing I want to ask you about maybe

(56:35):
drink it up. The last thingI want to ask you about Tuck only
because I've never asked you about thisbefore. And for anyone that doesn't realize
this, and that includes you,Tid, because you may not be aware.
When Tuck was was uh. Idon't want to say a young man.
He's still a young man. Butwhen he was a player, one
thing that Tuck was definitely known for, by the way underrated passer and underrated

(56:59):
shooter, let me just say that, but Tuck was known for the fact
that he could throw down like amotherfucker like that guy attacked the rim and
dunk so goddamn hard. I thoughthe was going to tear the rim down
every single time. And I wonderif that December day, about twenty four

(57:22):
years ago, if my memory iscorrect, if that day plays in your
head when you see kids in thegym, whether it's the university kids that
you're working with or young kids andthey're fucking around and they're trying to throw
down dunks that they've never done,is that day playing your head, Because
for anyone that isn't aware, yourwhole career almost came to an end that

(57:45):
day when you were seventeen years old, right, yeah, I mean yeah,
to the audience, to the listeners, I was we were trying to
dunk so you could jump for thefarthest out and dunk. After practice,
a bunch of us on the team, and obviously I I go up.
I took off probably from like thethree point line, you know, because
I was so bouncy back, thengrabbed the rim and then my feet went

(58:09):
out under me and I slipped offthe rim and I literally just like went
went missiled down, went headfirst intothe ground, completely knocked out. Don't
remember a thing. I woke upin the brain trauma unit of Saint Mike's
downtown Toronto about twelve hours later,not don't remember a thing from it.

(58:30):
I still remember waking up and itwas like middle of the night and I'm
like shaking my head and I lookover my mom's asleep on the chair there,
and then just there's this blood tricklingout of my ear and I was
just like what that? Where thehell? Am I? Like? What
happened? Yeah? But I thinkthe best thing about that whole thing was
like, obviously it showed me thatI wasn't invincible, but I had such

(58:52):
like a good group of people aroundme and George and like instead of just
like babying me and like coddling meor whatever. Like we just kind of
tried to like get get into thesteps, into the motions of getting me
back into it. And as soonas the doctor was giving me the O
case for everything, like I thinkit was a month later, we played
in a tournament in Florida and Igot MVP of the tournament. Was crazy.

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Yeah, So I think like thatthat again, like George and the
coaching staff and all those people likejust kind of forced me back into it.
But obviously there is Yeah, there'sthere's times where I do think about
that, and that was another momentin my life, like I could have
completely like changed everything, you know, it could have been very lucky.
Dude. Yeah you are dude.You have been kissed by the gods.

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Tid. I'll tell you one lastthing before we go, and this will
give you a picture of what kindof man. Uh Tuck's father, Wilf
Tuck was. I remember popa tyWilf. I remember this like it was
because of Tuck that I learned whatthe scaphoid bone was, right, because

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you broke that fucker right, andand that's when I learned. And again
that was that was dunking right.Uh Yeah, yeah, at a tournament.
So he broke this bone and Idon't know if you know it did,
but it's like, I think it'sthe only bone in the body that
doesn't get blood. Is that correct? Yeah, in your risky. So

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because of that, it takes Yeah, so it takes forever to heal because
it doesn't get blood supply. SoTuck breaks this fucking bone in his hand
and he's got a cast on,and they're coming up to playoffs and I
remember talking to George Krous and saying, so, what's what's the deal,
Like, is Tuck going to beable to play? And his dad,

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Tuck's dad, wilf overhears me,goes, oh, he'll play. I'll
cut the goddamn thing off. Andwe did. The night before the semifinal.
We go to play Milliken Mills andmy dad's like, Mike, come
out to the shed real quick.And then my dad literally hack sawed my

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cast off, like about three weeksbefore I should have taken it off.
He hack saws this thing off andhe's like, you're playing tomorrow. Yeah,
Hey, you know what that was? You know what that was?
That was those waking up early totake you to practice when he didn't want
to wake up, right, buthe had to because he was taking care
of his boy. Yeah, that'scalled that's that's the get back right there.

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He wasn't letting me miss that game. And you played well the story
as we lost the game, butI was high score sixteen points. Yeah,
yeah, you played it right.Yeah, you played great in that
game where you were just dying inpain because you played great. I remember
my dad we put this risk thingon, right, and my dad put

(01:01:49):
like this metal like bar in therejust to keep it secure or whatever.
And the refs before the game likecome over and they check it and they
take the bar out right away.Yeah, you're not playing with this thing.
So I've just had this like flimsyass wristband on. But I think
it was just the adrenaline and justgetting back out there, you know.
I just I was just like,screw this. And then it was playoffs

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too, right, you got toturn off. I've coached in my coaching
career, as you know, I'vecoached hundreds of kids. I've coached some
really special players, some special athletesthat have had the opportunity to go play
college ball, and a couple thathave had the opportunity to go play pro,
and I swear to God, Tuck, I've never seen anyone that played

(01:02:31):
the game the way you did,and that is the honest to God truth,
with a level of joy and anintensity, but also a smile and
a skill level that sometimes, likeI said, was shocking, right because
everyone saw you and like, ohhe's a dunker, and it's like,
oh shit, no, he doesa lot more, as evidenced when I

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mentioned earlier, you're You're all overthe the Sheffield history books with all the
different stats in different categories. Dude, I hope that you take the time
to look back fondly on your career. You have been kissed by angels.
You also were kissed by Kelly andDanielle and chose neither one of them because
you're a fucking g and this ishow you roll. And you know what,

(01:03:15):
dude, I'm so happy for youcontinued success with whatever the hell you
do. Obviously, we'll stay intouch and keep up to date with what
you're up to. But the lastthing I want to say as we say
good night is on episode one ofLove Triangle, you fucking asshole made me
cry because you paid such beautiful tributeto your mom. And I loved your

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mom. You know, I wasthere with you at her service, and
I loved your mom, and Ithought she was one of the sweetest people
I ever met. And you paidsuch a beautiful tribute to her on the
very first episode, and I waslike, God, damn it, this
asshole's got me crying in a fuckingdating show. Yeah. Man, uh,

(01:04:00):
they you know, you do theselittle these little interviews, and obviously
my mom, you know, passedaway very suddenly a few years back.
And you know, we talked somuch about my dad and his character,
but my mom was just as bigof a character and a very loving person.
So it was I broke down infront of the cameras a little bit,

(01:04:23):
let my guard down there. Butshe she deserves it, uh,
And definitely think about her and missher every day. So I really appreciate
the kind words Donnie, and andand all the kind words you've said tonight.
Man. It's it's been a pleasurebeing on and catching up and You're
bringing back all these memories and theseuh stories that I'd forgotten about. So
I appreciate you guys having me on. Great to see you as well.

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Tid and I know we mentioned thebeginning, but my condolence is to uh
to your buddy for yesterday. Reallysorry to hear about that. You know,
when you lose someone who's important,so a big shout out to him.
Yeah, much respect and Tuck.Listen, dude, uh, I
know it's you're you're you're over therein England and Sheffield. So it's probably

(01:05:09):
like, I don't know, fivein the morning. I'm not good with
math, but it's late and youknow, you've got a lot of d
ms of very thirsty women to sortthrough. So if you're at a stage
some of those pictures, send ussomebody. You're at a stage where you're
overwhelmed and you need someone to siftthrough the volume. Let me know,
okay, okay, yea the secretarythere you go. No, not a

(01:05:33):
secretary. More like, I'll vetthem for you. I'll make sure that
their quality for Tuck. Okay,appreciate. I'll do a better job than
the fucking show. I'll tell youthat. There he is, ladies,
gentleman, he is Mike Tuck,Head coach at the University of Sheffield,
Sheffield Shark's legend and apparently, likeI thought this motherfucker was going to move

(01:05:55):
back to Toronto when he retired.No, he's just never leaving. He's
just there for ever. So I'mglad that you're happy, have a good
time, and you know what,we'll see you whenever you come home and
visit. Okay, brother, allright, man, thanks for having me.
Guys, great to see you.Cheers. All right, Mike Tuck.
Everybody, that's a man's man rightthere, tid dude, he's doing

(01:06:16):
great things. He's living his life, so good for him. Right,
you got to be on a realityshow, have to choose between two girls
told him both to eat it.That would have been you on episode one.
I would have been figuring out away to start my own sex cult,
like legit, like the problem.The problem is. The problem is

(01:06:38):
is Mike Tuck has like a reallife with real responsibilities outside of this show.
So you know, he's got alevel of decorum that he's got to
stick to throughout that. Right.No, it would have been like Caligula
up in this motherfucker in that house. Yeah. When when when they were
all sitting around the dinner table andone of the girls revealed that she had
an only fans, you would haveyou would have signed up like at the

(01:07:00):
yeah, yeah, no, Iwould have tried to figure out a way
to get residuals from that. Onlyfans like that's the play that's the play
Listen. I've moved in with chicksthat fast too, but it's usually because
I needed a place to live andpay rent. Like I've done all of
that stuff when I was younger too, Bro, I don't think I paid

(01:07:20):
I don't think I paid rent anywherebetween the ages of eighteen and thirty.
That's legit because I remember you gettingevicted by one of those chicks that was
upset and I had to pick yourass up at four am whatever. Just
kid calls me on the phone atfour am, Hey come get me.
I'm like, it's four am,doesn't matter, gotta go. You gotta

(01:07:44):
go, gotta go. When Imake the phone call and he's like,
bro, I gotta go. SoI would drived down to get him.
He's stuff in my car full ofall of his worldly possession. I'm like,
where are we going? He's like, don't know yet, don't know
yet. I just know what.I gotta go figure that out. That's
tomorrow's problem. Just like that dayin nineteen ninety seven. We gotta go,
ladies and gentlemen. That is NotoriousTid. I am Donny de Silva.

(01:08:08):
We'll see you next time. Fuckthis shit. I'm mount. Fuck
this shit. I'm mount. Nothanks, don't mummy. I'm gonna just
grab myself and please excuse me,please fuck this shit. I'm mount.
Help fuck this shit. I'm mout. All right then, I don't know
what the buger's happened, but Idon't really care. I'm gonna get the

(01:08:29):
fucker Patty here share. I'm out.