A Funeral for a Knee

On this episode of This League, we talk about how Victor Oladipo held a funeral for his knee, why the Spider might become Utah State arachnid, why the Wizards need to set Bradley Beal free, and we answer a bunch more listener dms without further ado, I'm gonna tell you a story that you are just simply.

Not going to believe.

You're gonna say to yourself, this is an onion article, this is fake news, no shot. I had to actually look in multiple different news sources, multiple different times just to make sure that this I wasn't getting pumped.

It's so absurd, Even knowing that I've done my due.

Diligence, You're still going to call bullshit. But there are photos, Yes, there are, there are videos, and it was covered on live TV.

It was it was this was a story about the NBA that was actually covered on Utah's version of c Space.

Yeah. I mean, we've got this is what it is.

We've got a female legislator dressed up as a referee.

Let that sink in.

We've got the house speaker with a Donovan Mitchell jersey on over his button up shirt. We've got a legitimate governmental resolution, all happening in the halls of government, and do you know what it's about Shack's comments about Donovan Mitchell. Wait wait, wait, wait, we talked I for a second. Just let's back that up. We have a government resolution about two NBA players, one former NBA player and a current NBA player that are beefing and they've decided, Yeah,

He confronted him on live TV and then he doubled.

Down on it on Instagram, saying, Yo, this is what greatness looks like at the guard position.

And he showed star after star after star. It was like Kobe d Wade.

I forget who else, but it was a ton and Utah's government took that extremely personal. So let me try and make sense of this. Enter Kira Brookland. She is the star in this story. She's a Mormon candidate for Missus Utah back in the day in twenty thirteen, and she's a state representative that moonlights as a women's high school basketball coach and referee.

She decides that I.

She decides that I have heard enough Donovan Mitchell's slander, and they take up a resolution in the government. So on Tuesday, January twenty sixth, House Resolution three was passed by the Utah State Legislature to honor and recognize Donovan Mitchell not just just not just like plainly recognizing Donovan Mitchell, but recognize Donovan Mitchell over Shaquille O'Neill.

There is so much to unpack here. It's kind of ridiculous.

I think I told you this story yesterday, Marty to a degree, and you were like, wait, what, Why.

Had heard about it? I just hadn't heard the exact lengths that they had gone to.

Yeah, the resolution itself was pretty stunning. Some of the highlights include recommending Spider as the state arachnid, explaining why Donovan Mitchell doesn't get rebounds.

Would they say, yeah, The quote was it is hard to pull down rebounds when All Star Rudy Gobert is on your team, grabbing more rebounds than anyone else in the league as a two time Defensive Player of the Year in parentheses more than shacks zero, one time league leader in blocks in parentheses more than Shack.

I think they said that Shaq had zero there too.

Also, they claimed that his that his points were less accurate than his playoff free throw shooting percentage. What a what an analogy there. They also talked shit in this resolution about the movie Kazam, which Shack starred in. They even cited the rotten tomato score.

Oh my god.

People get paid a government salary.

This is this is tax payer dollars hard at work.

I think we have an.

Ambitious politician on our hands. She is someone with a pizzas for showmanship. Shameless, just shameless in her desire for attention. She wore a referee costume to give Shaquille O'Neil a technical foul for his slander on Donovan Mitchell. She got the house speaker to put on a Donovan Mitchell jersey over his playing clothes.

So I got a chance to talk to this legislator earlier today, I think we should play the clips. There was some good nuggets in there.

All right, perfect, how are you?

I'm good?

Are you?

I'm good?

I wanted to talk to you about this resolution because it was just it made me laugh, But it also was just like a cool thing. How did this kerfuffle between Shack and Donovan sort of come into your view.

Well, I coach high school basketball and when it's a couple of our players were talking about it.

And then we used it on Saturday at.

A game prior to the game because it was gonna be a tough game, tough game for our girls to win, and I just played the clip for everybody to make sure they saw it. And I was like, look, they're going to be out there thinking they can beat you. They're going to marginalize you. Donovan Mitchell doesn't care. He's in the NBA and he still is getting marginalized. Like, just go out there and get to work. And they came out so ready and we won, and it was a great victory.

It was a feisty game, and I was like, we gotta highlight this.

And and and the Speaker, Wilson and his team they were all about like they reached out and said we want to do this.

Did you write the resolution or how did it come to be? So I didn't do a lot of and I gave input on it.

The Speaker and his team worked on parts of it, but then it has to go to let's research and they work on parts of it, making sure it's accurate, making sure it's.

You know, mostly correct information. There was a lot of facts in there.

You had the playoff free throw percentage, you had the Rotten Tomatoes score, you had.

Rudy Gober's stats.

As to why Donovan Mitchell isn't like a huge rebounding threat, I.

Mean it was kind of like the ultimate clapback. Yeah.

Well, well our goal was just to stand behind our players, right, it doesn't it doesn't matter people are kind.

Of pushing back. Oh, he's a grown man who can take care of himself. Why should he have to? Why should any of us have to?

I know, if you don't like sports, why would you care? Right, But if you like sports and you recognize like these guys put up with a lot, and if we can just take five minutes and recognize them and appreciate them, why not do it?

What made you decide?

I know that you also have done some referee too, So what made you and the speaker put on a referee.

Outfit and he put on the Utah Jazz jersey.

Well, they just said, if you're going to do it, you have to give him a technical and you're going to give him a technical. You better be official, because I was just supposed to say go jazz at the end, and I was like, that's kind of weak. You know, I think the whole thing says go jazz. We got to summarize it real well, and they said give him a technical and so I just said, sure, all, we're all we're the jersey. I like it.

I'm comfortable in a reugh.

Sure.

So it was It was fun.

Were you were you a hooper to begin with? Throughout your life too, just in high school, just high school basketball. Same same for me. Yeah, that's cool. Did you ever end up speaking to Dov and Mitrol.

Like when this whole thing came No, no, no, no, I don't anticipate that, but I honest and truly, I really hope that our youth see this and go number one.

Yeah, he got marginalized, and I feel marginalized.

Whether they're athletes or you know, in drama, whatever, they pursue like they're gonna have critics. And the way Mitchell responded was just classic, and it was the way that so many of us have to learn how to respond. Just take it and just move with it all right, like we're moving on now. So I wanted them to know that and see that that if don't have the Mitchell's getting shade, don't feel so bad when you're getting it.

And that's all I really hope to accomplish from it.

Thanks for fixed with the time, Representative.

Take care.

The best thing about hearing that interview is how many times the word marginalized was used.

It's a good buzz word for them.

You know, that's just not quite how I think of the word or t definition of marginalized is being criticized about your play on the court. I would say marginalization has to do with a lot bigger issues. But if that's the standard we're gonna use for marginalization, great, I mean, that's that's encouraging. This is the most politically driven interview I've ever heard, so many political talking points. She was dead ass serious that this was for the youth.

This is for the youth. Yo.

She needs to take up a resolution for us. Here at barstool, we are criticized and marginalized online all the time. This folks is our next senator from the state of Utah. I guarantee she is the next Mitt Romney. Beautiful and Mormon and from Utah. They say that politics is boring, but shit was that boring? A referee suit and a

They are in their fields, something that they.

Probably wouldn't have said a word about unless they sort of kind of maybe thought in their heart of hearts that it was true. To me, Shack was spitting facts, and as Donovan Mitchell would like to say, I that's it.

Let me tell you little story.

When I was trying to break into media, I had a bunch of random jobs. I worked at a coffee shops, sold juice, caddied, and lastly I was.

I was in a pyramid scheme.

Oh, I sold Herbalife protein powder. I have no idea how it happened, but it just like one day I woke up and I was.

Like in it.

Yeah to all your Facebook friends.

All my Facebook friends doing push up challenges and random places encouraging people to lose weight get healthy using the protein powder that I recommend.

And when I was trying.

To build up my business for this passive mailbox money income that they tell you you can do if you just put in the hard work, we would go to these meetings every quarter to get into the raw raw vibe, and every one of these meetings had an inspirational speaker.

There was like a Tony Robbins, There's like a less Brown Brendan Burchard.

And they tell you these They get you hyped up, like you can do anything if you just put your mind to it.

Everything's mental.

If you're just in the positive mind frame, you can accomplish all of your goals very simply, very easily.

You would never know if you walked.

Into this conference that it was about selling protein powder.

You would have zero idea.

You would think we were selling We were like real deal entrepreneurs.

Twenty twelve to twenty fourteen, I was deep in the movement, deep in it.

I was listening to Napoleon Hill and how to Win friends and influence people. Power of positive thinking. You should just you literally can just power. Positive thinking just changes everything. The universe will come to you. Safe to say, all of that showed that I was brainwashed. Now that I've come to from the fog, I mean, all my friends knew, my mom knew.

Everyone was kind of looking at me like you are crazy right now?

Oh yeah.

And that was the first multi level marketing scheme to really hit popularity in the Internet. So I was ahead of my time, I would say. So all of that to say that I know how to spot someone that's being brainwashed. And I am here to tell you that Houston Rockets wing Victor Oladipo.

Might be getting brainwashed.

He's there, He's there.

He is fully in the spin cycle of the wash right now, bully in it.

And how do you know? How do I know?

You may ask?

Well. On the eve of.

His twenty twenty to twenty twenty one NBA preseason finale in December, Victor Oladipo participated.

In a funeral for his injured knee.

Still as a member of the Indiana Pacers.

Correct Still as a member of the Indiana Pacers, the service was held to say goodbye to an injury mindset. This feels similar, which was weighing on the two time All Stars guard pursuit of fully recovering from a ruptured quad tending in his right knee that required surgery in twenty nineteen.

What a story.

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, they couldn't do the funeral in person. They had to do this ceremony via zoom with motivational speaker, educator and pastor Eric Thomas, as well as Eric Thomas's business development and bit managing partner.

It gets better.

Oladipo read a letter at the wake of his departed knee and burned it after probably with Oregon music in the background. This is how I envision it going today. I'm bearing everything related to my torn.

Yes, sir, I am bearing and letting go of everything.

I am letting go of tearing my quad and the injury that happened. I am letting go to being one of the three people to ever get the injury. I'm letting go of the negativity, yes, Lord, surrounding the fact that I am one of the three people and youngest to get this injury. I'm letting go of my knee. Might not be strong enough to do everything I want on the basketball court. Yes, I am letting go of hoping that my knee is strong enough so I can be an All Star.

Amen. Can we just take a step back.

And dig into this just a little more? He had a funeral for his knee. I thought that the first story was absurd that we just talked about.

This is insane. Now there is a reddit subreddit called a.

Brand new sentence, and a funeral for a knee is a brand new sentence never uttered before until it happened to Victor Oladipo. Victor Oladipo hired Eric Thomas, a motivational speaker, to be the pastor of a fake funeral held on Zoom for a body part he still has.

That really is the most absurd thing. It's still very much there.

It wasn't amputated. It's just it's really a funeral.

For the pain and trauma of the injury. Eric Thomas charges thirty thousand dollars for a virtual speaking fee. He also brought his business manager, Eric Thomas did as a witness for this funeral. He'm both known for being business savvy and financially responsible. And then we find this shit out.

I am concerned.

This is like the beginning of a thirty for thirty. What if I told you an injured quad led to the bankruptcy of an all star wing who got involved in a complex pyramid scheme selling protein powder and energy tea to John Wallenbegee cousins out of his Marriott Hotel room, paying everything to Eric Thomas, the hip hop preacher.

I mean, this is crazy.

Yeah, I know Charlottan's when I see him. I have been duped a million times, so from the outside it is very obvious to me. Someone lurking behind the scenes, waiting for you to be vulnerable so that they can pounce.

They are everywhere, they are everywhere.

They convince you you need to pay a one hundred thousand for some managerial course. I think it's called the Pilot, the elite Pilot program that Eric Thomas runs that Victor to Olidipo is currently involved in. And this funeral was a part of that little package.

Insane.

It was a real funeral, a ceremony that ended with him burning the letter. I Marty have questions, what did Eric Thomas do if he was if a Victor Olidipo was reading the letter?

Is he just there for emotional support.

Ah.

What about the business manager.

Was he like, Hey, Victor, we have a twelve thirty heart out, just keeping time, adding extra charges in case it goes over. Hey Victor, yeah yeah, he's so eric, so happy to be doing this. But if et ends up crying on Zoom, that's ten thousand dollars extra. Someone there to be like mmmmm ah, I.

Get an amen, Marty, Amen, baby amen.

It is not shocking to me that after this happened on the eve of the NBA season starting, that the Pacers were like, ahh no, mm mmm, we need to get this boy out of here before this news breaks. Uh. First up, this makes the injury look really fucking bad. If you need spiritual guidance to fix with modern medicine, can't. We're never gonna be able to trade him. He's gonna walk for nothing. Surprisingly, this news stayed on the hush until they traded him, till they could find their mark.

Who was this idiot that would take Victor Oladipo.

On an expiring someone so mentally scarred that he had to hold a fake funeral on Zoom just to get past the trauma. Oh yes, Houston Pockets owner Tillman Ftata, the guy who picked up Kevin Porter Junior, the food.

Assaulter, and he was like, yep, yes, sir.

That'll do.

Something's been missing.

Oh boy, Bradley Beal, Poor Bradley Beal. He does need something different, he does.

God damn. The Washington Wizards are three and eleven.

Just gross. They're gross to watch.

And it's sad because he's playing so well and no.

One will watch them.

Beal has put up forty ten times this year, and in all ten occasions, the Washington Wizards have lost that game. That is a record statistically never happened before. Ye. They are the second worst defensive team in the league. They just flat out don't even try. Bradley Beal's like, we can't guard anyone. We can't guard a park car.

You know who?

They need Marty in the locker room for just a small thirty thousand dollars virtual zoom fee.

Uh maybe Deepot's hip hip hop preacher.

That's right, play the clip again. How come Scott Brooks can't do that? The NBA community is fed the fuck up for Bradley Beal. Twitter pundits, fans, We've all had enough. I think the community as a whole is now requesting a trade on Bradley Beal's behalf. This is what Stephen A recently had to say about Bradley Beil.

Bradley Beal is a star. He deserves better than what he's getting in the nation's capital. The Washington Wizards at this particular moment in time are atrocious. They are horrible, and it's primarily because of their defense.

Last year they gave.

One hundred and nineteen points per game if I remember correctly, and I think they were ranked like second to last. This year is second to last, but they're giving up one hundred and twenty points. Bradley Beal was quoted a week over a week ago Max saying, we can't stop a parked car. We can't guard a parked car. That's how bad he described their defense. Okay, and if you saw him and Molly, it's one.

Of those things creative. Wow. Bradley Beal did say. I went back and checked. We can't guard a park car.

That means a vehicle that's literally stopped on the road, you can't stop it from moving past you.

And then the craziest thing is he followed it up with.

Saying, but I'm optimistic about how the season is gonna go. Really, the Wizards do not deserve a man who's optimistic for no reason like this, a man who's put the entire team on his back. This team's been trash mostly for his entire NBA career. And instead of being like James Harden, who's like this is on file, Bradley Beal's like, all sign an extension. I want to be in DC. I want to win in DC. And then what do they do.

Man Tommy Shepherd.

Tommy Shepherd then trades Bradley Beal's buddy who's finally healthy, for a guy who can't get a bucket in Russell Westbrook. And you know what Bradley Beal said. He didn't say no Moss. He said, I'll just do more. He's averaging more than he ever has in his entire career, and

I have ten bucks on that do you.

And if you can believe it, things are actually worse now than they were preseason. They're now the worst team in the NBA. Marty, I think it's time. Beal's now growing frustrated. An optimist, an eternal optimist who's like someone asked him, Hey, Beal, are you frustrated? And his response was is the sky blue? Beal's wife tweeted just all by herself and all by itself, sick of this shit. Yeah, we are too, We all are sick of this. Please trade him. The Wizards are young, with up and coming pieces,

What's the issue. What's the issue.

I think it's time to start anew because being a Wizard's fan with Bradley Beal is just pain you expect at least mediocrity because he's doing all kinds of amazing things on a night to night basis, and what you're getting in return are mediocre hopes squashed by dog shit play three and eleven. So now, yeah, yeah, Rumors flying around Bradley Beal most likely heading out, and I think I know the exact perfect place for him to go, not far from DC, which he is feeling in, trenched

Based on these clues, I think there's a former LSU Tiger playing in Philadelphia.

That's right, that's right. Let's get rid of Ben Simmons. Get them the fuck out of Philly.

Fans want it, Ownership wants it, basketball fans need it.

Sixers are deep.

They already play decent defense even without Ben Simmons on the floor. If you replace Simmons with Beal, now you've got a half court offense that's built for the playoffs.

I mean, Ben.

Simmons isn't even that good of a transition offense runner They're like, I think they're twelveth in points per one hundred possessions. Simmons cannot shoot, everyone knows that, but he can defend, and that is the one thing that we know that the Wizard's need, gigantic need. I think with that trade, the Sixers immediately become.

The favorite to come out of the East.

And we know that Beal loves DC and that DC loves him.

But there's an.

Old adage, if you love someone, set them free. We had a ton of dms last week, so I want to clear the decks.

Let's finish them, all right. I like this one. Uh, can you roast my Pelicans? There's a lot of roasting to do there.

Oh my god, how do you go from being one of the most exciting young teams into.

One of the worst to watch in the West? You hire a Van Gundy? That's how?

Can we just talk about Stanley and Gunny for a minute? Because what was GM David Griffin thinking? He is considered one of the smart guys and then he goes and does this.

It's actually the one part of Griffin's tenure that he doesn't really nail. He doesn't nail coaches that well, yeah.

Because what he got h tylu but he got what's his name not Blackman, David David Blatta.

He also had Mike Brown.

I don't know if he made that higher, but he had.

Some bad coaches actually that he hires yea facts, that's facts. Why would he hire one of the most old school coaches this side of Bobby Knight to coach one of the youngest teams in the league. They are the most get off my lawn coaches of all. The Van Gundys are and and Kendrick Perkins bless his heart, bless his heart. I'm not a huge Kendrick Perkins take fan, but he said something the other night and I one hundred percent agree.

He said, how come.

No one's talking about how a Stan Van Gundy has this offense looking super?

Sus they do.

You can't lose to the Timberwolves without Karl Anthony Towns by ten.

In those green jerseys.

Gross. Gross.

They haven't beaten a good team all year. The only team that they've beaten, of note, is the Raptors, and the Raptors are like eleventh in the East. That's just like beating them on name alone. And now they're trying to get rid of guys who are the only ones that are really even productive. You've got them trying to get rid of JJ Reddick, They're trying to get rid.

Of Lonzo Ball, which gives me zero faith that they're making good decisions.

I don't understand why they didn't hire Sam Cassel or someone like him, someone to bring these young guys up, that players, young players can respect, and he can, you know, I don't know, teach him the way to play the game. Give him some kind of like a Mark Jackson how he did with the early Warriors.

I know he did some.

Wild shit, but like Mark Jackson, without all the voodoo, without all the.

Like Christian no cursing in the word.

Dogma, Yeah, without all the curs you know, with all the Christian dogma in the forest church sessions. I used to only play two K with the Pelicans last year, and now you couldn't pay me to do that.

Yikes. So I have a lot to say, yes about the Pelicans. I go on and on and on.

Oh, so I want to mention Eric Bloodstone was garbage. Uh, we can take that out if we want to.

No, he is garbage.

Yeah, I can't stand that guy, what's the best NBA game you've seen in person?

You know, I've been to a bunch of finals. I used to I cover the Finals three years in a row, and when I saw this question, I was trying to find the best Finals game. And it was weird, like in my subconscious, this one game that was in like a cold night of November kept popping into my head. Like I said, I used to live in DC. Lebron and the Calves came into town and my friend got tickets and he was like, Hey, I've got courtside tickets Calves Wizards.

Are you trying to go? And I was like, yeah, sure.

Lebron James was a human. This was twenty seventeen. He was a human highlight reel. This is last year on the Calves. Fifty seven points he put up on the Wizards.

He did everything.

I saw him, going back to the basket, turn around, fadeaways, all night, bullying, Beal.

Wall Oubra over and auto Porter.

Too many Porter juniors sefox him.

That was right before they maxed y. It was absurd.

He had like seven seven assists and five rebounds and three steal He was.

Like going insane.

And then I looked later about this game, and it's the second highest scoring game Lebron James has ever had in his entire career, and the most he's ever had in the Cavs uniform.

No wonder of that game stuck out.

He was bullying everyone, and the game came down to the wire, which is always fun. Yeah, and actually Capitol One Arena wasn't empty, so that was huge. Uh yeah, I mean I've seen a ton of finals with Lebron in them, but this was like something that Lebron James never really does, was to play bully ball.

What was the best game you've ever seen live?

Uh? The one that's coming to my brain And this may be wrong. I went to the Western Conference finals one year, but the funnest game I've been to was like two thousand and five or something like. That was Lebron's like second year and JR. Smith's rookie year. Oh nice. The Caves were down like twenty at some point and they came back in one. But Jr had like forty as a rookie head. So this was against the Suns, No, against the Hornets. It was in New Orleans.

Yeah, Oh that's dope.

Yeah, Okay, a new one is what's your Chinese zodiacs?

What a question.

I don't know who asked that, but I'm going to answer it for whoever, the four people that care about this. I don't think that many people want to know, but I will answer. I am a nineteen eighty six baby, which is a fire tiger.

Okay, fire tigers are this is the description of them. Since we did this last episode, we'll do it again.

These tigers are composed and enjoy gaining knowledge.

They will meet many.

Supportive and helpful figures in life. Maybe that's you, Marty. They are lively and friendly, like a little cat. However, they keep their claws sharp just in case.

That part is facts.

I see it. I see it completely.

Do you know what you are?

What year are you born?

Ninety one?

All right, let's look nineteen ninety one Chinese zodiac.

You're a goat. Let's look you're a goat. Let's go. Oh yeah, let's go nineteen ninety one.

Let's see what kind of goat you are. You're a You're a gold goat, of course, a metal golt.

Here we go. The goat's personality, calm and gentle. I like that. The gold goat Oh wait, I don't know if this is gold Goat. See hold on, here we go, here we go.

Ambitious and kind hearted, with a strong sense of responsibility and work. I agree, sometimes a little too stubborn.

Sure is that right?

Sure? Yeah, all right?

Nineteen ninety one the gold Goat. That's what I'm gonna start calling you, playboy, Marty, the gold Goat.

Love it, love it so much. Okay, the next one's going a little way from backstall too. It's uh, should the Cowboys pursue Matthew Stafford or stick with an injured Dak Prescott.

The fact that anyone would do this to me, knowing that I'm a Cowboys fan is fucked up. If anyone seriously, But I don't think this is a serious question, because it's a troll. It's gotta be a troll. Matthew Stafford is basically Andy Dalton with a little bit more efficiency. He uh is not elite. We'll say He's had some really good weapons and the Lions have never been quite there.

Dak Prescott is elite.

Dak Prescott is like probably now that we know that Drew Brees has fallen all the way off and Tom Brady's almost there.

Dak Prescott's top five quarterback in the league.

He's either there, like right or sits.

It's like Patrick Mahomes, Aaron Rodgers, Russell Wilson, Deshaun Watson.

Yeah, Dak Prescott. Can you think of anyone else?

Ooh uh not off the top of my head. I'm bad at ranking.

I think that's it. Yeah, I think that's it. Yeah, he's five or six.

Yeah, Dak's from my neck of the woods. Yeah, La Houghton, Yeah yeah, Northwest Louisiana.

Lahunt and Louisiana. He's been oh hot, yeah hot.

Yeah.

So he uh he wanted to be a cowboy his entire life. Uh huh, and people.

Are really trying to push him all the way out when he just wants what he has deserved, which is his money.

Yeah.

So no, Matthew Stafford should not be any consideration for Jerry Jones. They need to just pay Dak, pay him the franchise tag now and move down their merry way make things work. Trade Michael Gallup, this is not this is an NBA podcast, but I will I will go into detail. Trade offensive weapons to get some offensive line help.

You have plenty to work with.

Get a safety or get a corner in this draft and like let that cook.

That's it.

Yeah, okay, and now we have what is the favorite part of your podcast?

So when I was deciding to create this, I wanted it to be like me talking about basketball with my friends.

So I grew up at my mom's house. When I grew up, had.

A basement and on the wall there were speakers okay that played music, and we would like talk shit about basketball. We'd play video games and music would be blaring in the background with our little hot takes that we would

And then for me, not many.

People know this, but from the time I was like seven or eight, I started writing hip hop songs. No shit, Yeah, I actually got an offer from Sony to be like a solo artist.

They were gonna like it. Was gonna be bad.

It was gonna be like they were gonna force me to drop out of high school and live in like some bullshit apartment here in New York City and like be at a small label and they probably take all my money.

So my mom said no. But hip hop is in my soul.

So when I was thinking about creating this podcast, I wanted it to feel like that. And I've always been someone who cares about the connection between relevant music and the things that I'm talking about. So being able to like select music that I think is funny for the upcoming segment just gives me so much joy. And I think anyone who sees me coming out of that music can tell the same. Like that Puff Daddy song going into Funeral for a knee, that's just like.

Not to pat myself on the back, but that's just very funny.

I always very much look forward to what songs you give me to play for the episodes. That is something I look forward to.

Do you think about like, oh, how is that going to connect to the segment?

Sometimes yeah, so it always does.

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