Greatest Fashion Statement Moments with Nitz Bluvstein

it's not good. We are currently in our laundry nook, and I think you know this has been so far the winner of locations of where we record the podcast, right next to the washer and dryer. Things are good. It's a sunny what it was today. Gosh, I'm really quiet. I gotta ramp it up. Well, I just drink a lot of coffee, okay, Yeah, and I've had I've had nothing. I read Twitter. I asked you right before this if

we had any granola bars, and you snapped at me. Yeah, I'm I'm very on edge right now and on the phone. Our guest host of a very very popular NBA podcast, Count the Dings. I think it's it's called the Daily Ding on the Athletic Ladies and Gentlemen nits blow Stein. What's up? Well, you know, as much as I love that, not the host unfortunately, because I'm not good enough yet. But other than that, um, nothing, just chilling. I have a question about this laundry nook though. Yeah, are you

guys just in the corner next to your washer dryer? Um? Yes, so the washer and dryer. I actually am seated at like a very peculiar angle so I can even fit in it. Um, So I'm smashed between the door, the dryer, and then the table that all of the equipment is set up on. Now, can I ask how this decision came to be? Yes, So we used to have it in this front room of our how that is kind of a no man's land that has a liquor car

and our peloton um and that's it. So we were like yeah, so we were like, let's we'll put it in there. Unfortunately, that's right by our front door. C J buy seventy five things a day, and so our front door is the most popping place in Northeast Los Angeles. And then, to add insult to injury, are across the street neighbor who boy, he owns four motorcycles, all of them have never been driven, but he revs them seventeen times a day. And he said hello to us as

we went on our walk this morning. I don't even know if that was him. Like I came into this street, like you know, I'm like, hi, I want to talk to everybody. I'm friends with the um old lady neighbor next door, checking on her arm how it's doing. So I'm here to make I'm here to make friends. I'm trying to, like, you know, be a part of the street, and no one wants to be my friend. Unfortunately him included. So that's why I think that was like a worker

or that didn't. His energy is like get the funk away from me. I own so many bad automobiles and cars. He owns multiple cars that he's moving around. Well, yeah, he has like teal, I don't want to vintage because that's just cold old old Mercedes that we don't know feel old Mercedes. And he just doesn't drive them anywhere. He chills, makes them noisy, Yeah, he makes sure they're

super noisy. And then also when our neighbor's house was for sale, they were just like or he was just like, you know what, that's my parking spot, their driveway as much I forgot he parked someone else's driveway, and it was like, he's doing all these things, and you know, this is what we're confronted with. Unfortunately, he's doing all these things that like there is no one to report him too. There is a motorcycle just parked on the sidewalk, and it's like, I know that that's not allowed, but

there is no one to be in charge. Did you hit record? I got so scared for a second. Yeah, we would have missed all the motorcycle laundry context. You're just like isolated that well screwed up man? Am I allowed to say that? Yeah? Also on the podcast or on a zoom comedy show, and he started revving and I wished his motorcycle to give him corona so to say screw him. And I've since taken it back. I don't want him to have corona because he seems not

in great health. But you can say whatever you want, But how how are you doing? How is your set your quarantine set up? How are you dealing with the lack of sports? What's going on over there? Um, well, I'm doing great in general. You know, everything happened and I'm still so privileged to have food and shelter, etcetera, etcetera.

So I've been keeping everything in perspective and trying to put my energy into helping people who are less fortunate during the time, which, if you guys, let me plug that. At one point I was gonna say, you're doing such an amazing thing to help. Oh, thank you so much. I'm gonna I'm so like you know, I started it

and I can explain it in a second. I had no idea if people if it would resonate with anybody, because I know that sometimes I have a great idea in my head it's like a tweet or something, and then nobody else will get it. So I didn't know if that was gonna be another one of those things. But um, you know, the premise is simple. We have a lot of things we want, we don't need them right now. Other communities have actual needs like food, medicine, shelter, etcetera.

That so if we all gather up all these little wants, you know, anywhere from like five dollars for coffee that you don't get or Clark thank God didn't buy a second air fryer, which is like, it makes no sense to me because we already don't have place for the second one. We already don't have space for the first one. So you know, it adds up. And then we're supporting these five organizations doing amazing on the ground in their communities so that our wants can go to their actual needs. Yeah,

thank you, So that's that. That's really what I've been putting my energy into. And we rewatched two thousand one finals the other day, but you know, not a lot of sports going on, so not much I could do there. Now, what would you do with a second air fryer? I knew we were going to roast Clark, by the way, so we're former former guest dear friends UM and partner lover of current. I heard that pause to be like,

how do you define him to Clarks my boyfriend? But UM like buys way too much ship but he I don't know what you would do with a second air fire My only guess is that he would do one flavor of wing than one and a different flavor of other. Maybe she thinks for sure we we got an air frier. Someone mom TJ. Mom gave it to us as a wedding present, and it was one of those things where like people would get drunk and come up to me

and be like, you gotta get a air friar. Got like it became like they just once people knew I was getting married, there like gott to get someone to get you an air friar, Like I if there was a SA relationship, just like people are really they're really into their air flyers. Like if I talked about an air fire negatively online or in a group, the vitriol I get for it and it's really just it's really just an oven? Do people know that? Well? Is it so?

And I never really got final confirmation on this, But isn't an oven that won't like you can like walk away from it and it won't set your house on fire? Or is it? Like I think it does everything faster faster, but it does. There is part of me that's like did we all just really buy into an infomercial like it is it is sham wowesque level of course, like forming Gril where it is like we're like it's still but are the advertising something? But it's like legit works?

And is I have offered to bring our air fryer on like vacation, Like we we got like a house with other couples and I was like, do you want me to bring the air fryer because I was like, you know, we'll be at the pool and this can make pool snacks. And it's like when no, you can't bring an air fryer with you. That's so funny. But people get really into it like that. And you know what, like if people are cooking healthier because you have this air fire, then well CJ is putting pizza rolls in it.

So it's like, yeah, I get like, you're not frying it, but we don't have a fryer. Like you either baked the pizza rolls or you air fry them. They're still Honestly, the other night, I was like I miss baking them, so I baked them or I microwaved them. You know I didn't know that. Wow, c J. That's so back to that's like camping for you. That's cute. Anyways, uh So today's topic. First of all, we we know you.

I think our first sort of introduction was that you're you're like big on NBA Twitter, You're one of the you know, biggest voices on there. Um. And then you're also like comedy adjacent now like we we saw it before Quarantine, like you were you would hang out and you now do like Faded and some of these other shows. Yeah,

I'm obsessed with stand up comedy. So when I moved, you know what I love about l A, especially because maybe you see it in New York, but not as much as the basketball media community and the comedy community feel like one thing. Yeah right, it's not so like New York. I don't think. Yeah, because when I was going to stand up clubs in New York just to chill and look at people being way funnier than me,

I didn't get that sense. But then as soon as I moved to l A, I think, like first week, um, I think it might have been Zach Harper who was like, well, did you know about on Deck? So I went to on Deck. I met all the people there, you know, Malloy and all those guys are just the friendliest, friendly, like deep down friendliest people on the planet. And then Fade it happened, and then everyone's just one big community.

So I'm not a stand up comedian, but anyway, I'm not as funny as you guys, But I love it. If that makes sense. We need more news. So never like like I love going to comedy shows. I'm like, that's you have the most perfect mental illness for illness we are. When I first started going to stand up clubs in New York and meeting comedians, the first thing they all told me was like, don't you they're trying to become a comic well on the road, I'm not. I'm just trying to laugh and like get really fucked

up while you tell a joke, like relax. It is like, if anything, it is just a central location for people to drink and maybe say some stuff. And I think that's what the NBA media community and the comedy community have in common, is that we will say something, we'll we'll fire off some takes um or debate and discuss, and then you know, we'll drink and maybe smoke some

weeds somewhere. Yeah, I would have to say the l a basketball if Like, my theory is the comedians play basketball a lot more out here than they do in New York. They do play in New York, but I do think there's a lot more I think attempt to play there's a lot more comedians playing out here. I also think the fact that the biggest superstars are all in Los Angeles right now. Lebron, Kyrie, I mean not Kyrie, Wow, sorry, looked at me, was like, c J, this is how

I tell you. Kyrie is at our house, you know, Lebron, Kai, Paul George. Like the Lakers and the Clippers are too many people, the two biggest teams in the n b A and the Knicks are a full blown disaster, and the and the Nets are maybe gonna be okay. Like it's just l A is just a much more basketball town right now because it's positive and happy and there's sunshine so you can be outside and and be into it.

But yeah, I guess I never even because in Chicago we would be it was basketball, but it was all bull centric. Like out here, you can have front I have a you know Tom ta Car he's out here. He loves the Pacers, like you can find a lot of the l A I mean, and also New York I guess, but a lot of transplants here. A lot of people from East coast to mid West who wanted to just simply get away from that weather and kind of you know, this is a city where you can

kind of do it all. I feel like, uh, not to shoot on New York in anyway, but you hate New York. New York. I like living there, but it was just a weird time in my life. I think CJ just needs a lot of comfort. Um, And that's just not that's not what. That's not what New York kixcels at. It's who's you? Who are your teams? Mine? Yeah, I'm a Warriors fan, but it's legal now because so I'm from the Bay Area, so I'm like allowed, allowed, right. My dad's a fan, so I grew up with them.

But um, now nobody like questions me on it anymore. I used to go on podcasts be like I'm a Warriors fan, Like oh no, nor yeah, like what did they do in like nineteen seventy I'm like, shut up. But now it's cool because I suck. So no, he gives a ship. But you guys are what pacers and bulls. CJ is a lebron fan, Okay, you travel. Yeah, that's a very nice way to put it. He has no loyalty and it's um as his lifelong partner in life. It's definitely something that flashes in my brain a lot.

That's hilarious. You know, Okay, wait, who is because you mentioned this, who's the best basketball player in the comedy scene? You know, I mean Griffin? Oh he is doing stand up and mean, yeah, Blake, I don't know you mean you mean people not in the NBA, got it? So people who make their money through comedy. Yet he I wouldn't consider him a part of like like the stand up scene out here in l A. But do you know John Reynolds. He's like on Search Party and Four

Weddings in the Funeral. If you saw him, you would be like, yes, I know who that is. Like that sounds so familiar about a true rising star star. Yeah, he he has like these bit parts and shows. He lives in New York, but he is like Dirk Nowitzki and I can't and like I don't know if it was I knew me just like a goofy kid. He's like a few years longer than us. And I started playing basketball with him when I was in New York

and he is so good. And I don't know Whenny practices or or if you even practice, but he's so good at basketball. Damn are you guys good? I am terrible, very very very bad, and c J is good. I'm like okay, or like it depends on the game and you can get all you know, confirmation from Clark. But like I would say, like me and Kenny DeForest are as good as each other. Okay, Yeah, I think, and you know what, I can hang with with Kenny and Weaver. Weavers like better better than me. But I've had games

where I've Aaron Weaver. I've had games where I've like we've gone one on one head to head. Now when people because it comes up a lot of times in professional meetings U and then that I'm meeting with her like oh yeah, I play basketball with c J. And they're like yeah. A lot of they don't say contact. They say it like a little kinder, but they're like pretty pretty physical. So it seems like you're like Bill

Lamb running into people. I think, yeah, if anything that they mean clumsy, No, I don't think I'm clumsy, but I love to like put a little uh fancy touch on my shots. Yeah. So are you more Za Petulia contact or Russell Westbrook? Yeah, I would say I would say Westbrook, but maybe because I dress more like Westbrook. Then I also just I'm not going to shoot on myself right now, so I'm gonna say more Westbrook. Yeah, you're a total guy, You're a total Thank you for

giving those choices. Please please aggregate it that CJ thinks he plays exactly like, Yeah, I can't wait for Kenny and Aaron to here. This would be like thought, fuck, you're as been as um. But that's kind of Westbrook is kind of a nice transition into our topic that we have yet to announce what we're doing here. But the greatest topic that we're going to talk about today with units is greatest fashion, uh statements and yeah, greatest statements,

greatest fashion moments in sports. We've done greatest dresser, Yeah yeah, and we've done greatest uniform. And this kind of feels like a step child of both of them because we're taking just a snapshot of what an athlete or a team or anybody was wearing on any given day that is just iconic in our minds UK that obviously c J was like, yes, immediately, I just called himself Russell Westbrooks. So a lot of you know what, there's so many

Westbrook iconic moments, but he's actually a good dresser. I picked I picked ones that you could like make fun of, but they're still iconic. Okay, do you want to lead us off with your number three? Hell? Yeah, Okay, wait, let me open my notes. I know one though I have so many Google docs have just very strange things. Now, um, impertaining to this podcast. No, you're I Um, I have one tab open, which Clark told me to make sure that I looked up the Pacers. Um, I'm not gonna say.

I'm not gonna say because he said you're for sure gonna pick it, I'm not right, I'm not No, I was actually gonna say, I think this is a topic. And I love when there's topics like this where the three of us will have zero overlap. Oh okay, let's see. Let's see. So first one tell me through overlap with it is the Calves matching suits in the series against the Pacers when they all showed up til Tom Brown. No, No,

I think it's Tom Brown. Tom Brown. Ye. Tom Brown is like a man who sells insurance in my parents and he also made these famous suits for the Calves. Okay, I just when I hear Tom and suits I'm going Tom four. I love that will give us some context to that moment. So the context I thought it was gonna be was that the Calves all showed up in matching suits, which Lebron obviously made them all where this

was they were going up against the Warriors. This team sucked all year, Like this was the year where we really thought like their defense was so bad, their office wasn't really that good, like the Raptors or the Celtics were going to take it. But no, obviously the you know, they ended up going to the finals, as they do with Lebron. But I remembered this being like, this is such a dramatic move. I thought they all strowed up in matching suits to like the semifinals or the Eastern

Conference finals or something dramatic like that. This was round one against the Pacers that they did it in, which fucking yeah, I mean, you're heals me, You're you're in INDI two. It's like you could have all gotten men's warehouse suits and then the hottest crew of men to walk through the three one seven, that's our that's our area. Else I was trying to I was trying to like go into the brain Bank and like three one seven.

Hell yet know I try and make so many different Indianapolis. Um. A friend of the pod calls it three one Heaven, Naptown, Knaptown Riders. None of them catch on because no one cares. Yeah, I mean, I'm just trying to figure out, so that series. Is this a series where you got mad at me, Megan when I was at the combine and I was watching and they hit the they hit the Lebron at the game winner? No, No, that was this is the year after. I feel like I know that must have been.

That had to be that year because he didn't even make the playoffs, and you're recalling that I got mad at you. This was the year before or something like that. Yeah, because we were on the phone, I was like, they had they hit or Lebron hit the game winner. I do get I mean, I do take those things out on you. So maybe it does sound um because you're like a hardcore Pacers ran right when they were going out them. Yeah, and that one seven games that you

know you guys could have taken him down. Yeah, Okay, I'm reading now to they got um fitted by a tailor in Cleveland ahead of time. I would love to see a tailor in Cleveland, Like, who what's that guy up to? Like, all these dudes walk in your set for like a year. These are tall men. That's a lot too. It is. The man's name is Tom Brown, but it's spelled it has an E T H O M b R O w n E. He has two extra letters. Yeah, okay, so he's he's allowed to be

a suit Taylor. That's a great pick. I mean I have a lot of Lebron moments, but that, yeah, he was getting a little extra with these suits, and then it then morphed into the shorts. I think, and I feel like yet, like some of these players don't dress the same way that Lebron does, Like was Dellavedova into that? Like Larry Nance looks so he looks like a boy leaving prep school, angry, Like it's so funny to see

them care. It's like, yeah, they It's kind of Lebron being like, hey, you guys look like trash to Georgia looks good. You know what do you think Lebrons forced them? Do you think or Lebron was like, nah, we're going to wear these suits. Fam. I bet they were just I bet Lebron was like, listen, I'm gonna buy you guys suits and they were probably like sick. Hell yeah. And then they got them and we're like, oh, there's

like a sweater sweater. Not only that, he was like, we're all going to show up matching for the first round, which ultimately went seven games. Yeah, I recommend looking into pictures because like, and this is like something that people tell me a lot, is that everything looks good on Lebron because he's Lebron, He's in shape, he's and then like, because I don't know if the suit is like fitting for Jr. It looks a little like too much, and

like the short, I mean the pants are a little short. Yeah, it is totally like I feel like some of the guys are like, hey, I don't really dig this suit. Maybe that's why I went seven. So it was also terrible. That's why I went seven. Wasn't it like a terrible color. It's just you know, it's just kind of like a it's they look like groomsmanten to be honest, fortunately, and it's like yeallow Brown, you're hot. You've got this cool weekender bag, You've got like these fun pseudo like Doc

Martins on and you just look cooler than them. Larry Nance looks looks upset. He looks so upset, and he's got AirPods in, and Lebron's got like cool ass platinum like every Larry Nance. It's just like if it was a who were Better in US Weekly, it would be like one percent Larry Nance Lebron. Yeah, and maybe that was part of Lebron's thing. He's like, oh yeah, oh yeah, everybody's hot, everybody's got fashioned. Let's all wear the same thing, and you can see what a badass stud I am.

Uh you know. You know what, though, that reminds me of your guys wedding that was just written about. You didn't even make your bridesmaid to do this. No, no, right, Like the bride wants to look the best, so she makes all the bridesmaids wear some I'm like, shitty ess one uniform thing. You don't even make them do that? No, I just said pink anything pain because it's like dresses sit different. Yeah, of course, And I just want you want everyone to be in what they're gonna feel good in.

And yeah, I just we're grown. For me to tell other grown women is crazy to me my maid of honor were jumps suit, you know, like there were people in short, there were people in long. It was I'm a genius. You know what, now that you bring it up, I'm a fucking genius. Thank you. Oh wow. Okay, So my first one is, you know, this week has been heavy, and I know this will come out on Tuesday. We're recording this on Thursday four and so I hope next

week is less heavy. But as I was preparing for this, I this was rattling around in my brain and then s was like, I'm not picking and I was like, Okay, I'm gonna pick it because I do think it's really really important. And that's December eight, two fourteen, when Lebron and other Calves players and some Nets players wore shirts during warm up that said I can't breathe. This was in Brooklyn where Eric Gardner was murdered by while in police custody. And now this has become sadly more relevant

again with George Floyd's death. Lebron tweeted an instagrammed a picture of the shirt again because it's the same thing that he was saying. And then I have a quote from Obama about them wearing the shirt that I just want to read because I think it sums up kind of how we feel when we see athletes doing something with such like activism and and just such grace and power and trying to speak to terrible atrocities that are happening. And Obama said, I think Lebron did the right thing.

We forget the role that Muhammad Ali Arthur Ashe and Bill Russell played in raising consciousness. We went through a long stretch there with well paid athletes. The notion was just be quiet and get your endorsements and don't make waves. Lebron is an example of a young man who has, in his own way and in a respectful way, tried to say I'm part of this society too, and focus attention. So yeah, I mean, I think they picked that game in particular because they were in New York. It was

also this really really star studded event. Jay Z and Beyonce were sitting courtside. Kate Middleton and her balding husband were sitting courtside. I really genuinely forget his. Is he Harry Um, the older one, Prince, Harry Prince, He used to be so one of them. He's totally gone from me, their dad, so Kate and him, Um, we're sitting courtside. It was like this huge everybody was going to be watching it, and then for the biggest star in the game, and then stars on both teams to come out. It

was just it was really powerful. The NBA did not um find them or punish them in any way, which is extremely smart of them to do. That would have been really bad for them. This is also maybe the only league where this could happen. I know, the w n b A has has done things similar, but men's and very like international famous athletes. This he is maybe the only person that can get away with this, and that's why I think it's so much more important that

he does it for sure. And you know, we also we can't expect athletes to be advocates, right, but you have someone like you know, the Michael Jordan's quote whatever whether it was a miss quote or not, where he said Republicans buy shoes too. But Lebron. Lebron, who was so obsessed with his image, has also always made sure that advocacy and social justice are at the forefront of that image and that he's doing the absolute most that he can regardless of what kind of consequences he faces

to his personal brand, life, etcetera. Yeah, so I'm sorry that I started out on like a bummer, but it's a it's an important one and it sadly feels so relevant again. Yeah, and I you know, and when this is happening and we're seeing you know, all the protests and whatnot, and and and guys speaking up and people speaking up on social media, and I'm wondering, you know, this is why sports is so important in our lives.

We do it more than politicians. You like, you look at the GOP, it's working crickets, and then it's like, oh my god, we have like seventh men on bad NBA t is doing more than governors are. And it's become sort of just like the because they're you know, NBA warmups. We're thinking like, you know, just like their classics sort of nylon jackets. But and I'm trying to think of there are other moments where it's just simply

a T shirt that they wore during warmups. And you know, because like since then, I think you know, players in all leagues, at all levels, they players will wear a T shirt kind of just to send a message like even and and then this wasn't in protest, but like when Kobe passed, every player was trying to show their respect by wearing a Kobe T shirt or some sort of message on there. And I also just love like

the simplicity of those I can't breathe. There's no you know, frills to It's just like in black T shirt without simple text or font, I can't breathe. And it just spoke. So it was just so impactful. Um, you know, and I wonder what NBA players are sports, how they would show that protest or that message if sports were going on right now. I think when it comes back, we

will see, you know, I think there will be. There's just been so much bad that's happened since the NBA has halted that I hope they're in order and wreaking hathock. That's what I would like for them to be doing. Okay, c J, you you get us. Just I'm being like the newscaster when it's like, okay, well Family City Day kicks off down town, Okay, that's what I had to do. I don't So this isn't a moment. I guess it's a moment in the hole. But Cam Newton, black quarterback,

just silly outfits. Yeah. I can't say there's a specific moment. I guess maybe during that time I could be like, man, he wore a funny hat, but like just him using his platform to where wild and wacky, had scarves over his head like a grandma, crazy crazy outfits, and then he would get roasted, but then he would just lean so hard into it um on the next press conference. And I guess I just you know, his fashion as a whole, as a statement in not having, you know,

trying to conformed to the normal. Just yeah, Cam Newton in his fashion is one of my picks. As soon as you said Cam Newton, I was like, yeah, like he has a definition of just like where what you think is dope, fuck everybody else, and I just people with Cam Newton outfits and like the first three rows are all different and they're all wild. He's had like a real evolution too, because when you see when he got drafted, it was like, you know, he was wearing

like a standard suit. I also went through. I was I was like, there's got to be a Cam when I can pick. And then when I was looking at the gallery, I was like these were all so insane that there's nothing that like stick stuck out to me. I think he is very much in the same way that like we spoke about Lebron. It's like Cam Newton is hot, and I think maybe sometimes we forget he's

like so handsome. He's obviously incredible shape, has like a perfect body that it's like, yeah, where a fucking babushka scarf? Like that's amazing. Yeah. I mean, I can't say I agree with some of these outfits, but I agree with what he's trying to do. If he feels cool in them, yeah, I agree with it. NFL players are forcibly so boring too. They're not allowed the liberties that other athletes are that

it's like, yeah, we need somebody having fun. I mean it's really just kind of like him Odell what sucks. It's like I love the crop top, but like that was brought back because of Ezekiel Elliott, so it's like, well, you, I hate you as a human being, so I can't be into this crop top, even though if I just saw the crop top, I'd be like Okay, I mean you know what then, um Jimmy Butler tried to bring the crop top back a little bit ago. I love

the crop top at the draft. But again, yeah, I mean I think Jimmy just gotta do it when we come back. Jimmy's got to do it at a significant sporting event or you know, an award show or something. But yeah, I just uh, Cam, he he like wore monocle ones. I think, yes, yes, And when people that weatherman that Perry did need him. I used to hate him, but then he was funny to me. Like everything about Cam, it's I'm always excited to see what's sort of like

Shakespeare and love Top. He's gonna be in. Okay, let's take a let's take a quick break and then we'll be back, and we are back with Knitts Love What Who Who? What do you got for your second pick? Here? Okay, it's close, do you guys okay? Do you guys want classic or not talked about enough? Not talked about enough? Okay? Yeah, I think for your classic you can give it to us as an honorable mention. Su effect Um j R. Smith not wearing a shirt for like, yes, after the

you know it didn't actually happen. The calves did not actually come back from a three one. But if it did. J R. Smith didn't wear a shirt for a week during the championship parade and uh he was seen shirtless golfing coming off the plane among the fans. You know, he came down from the floats and just walked about the fans like this guy had the time of his life. I love it his fashion steam and his lack of

fashion or lack of article of clothing. Like. Also, that was such an iconic look that they made a shirt that is Jr's tattoos that you can wear like, so it was a fashion moment and then it was redone, so then other people can wear that fashion moment Like that's to recreate someone's skin. That is wild. But that's what iconic it was. And I'm staring at a picture right now and standing up on top of the float.

He's told me a sign that says seen election Hillary Trump and then a checkbox next to j R. Smith, Like, if we could, if we could be so lucky to go back in time and have that be what happens. Man, nobody partied harder than him. Good for him. Oh that I'm happy. I mean I'm sad that he had that.

Um I don't know what the score is. I don't know how much time has left after it game one that they were they were tied, and he thought that they were up one and they were fact that like Quicken Loans Arena has this thing that actually says like the differential, but it's like, come on, dude, you know how to read numbers literally the same number. It's not that hard. But that was such a I mean, that was mass favorite moment. Yeah, because the Warrior. The Warriors

won that game one. Um, yeah, I guess I feel bad for him because he definitely, you know, Jerry Smith is like such a good player and he got a lot of what an idiot for that? But let's just at one little, one little messo, right, let's just choose to remember j R. Smith Jr. You know that's a that's yes, I don't have knowledge, right, but I don't know what I'm talking about. But there is a man named j R. Smith, and I think you would like him.

I'll google him later. Okay, are you ready for mine? Okay? Um? Mine is classic, as Nicks would say, and it's Dennis Rodman wearing a wedding dress like okay, right, Okay, great, I see we'll get to it's everybody when you're like should I do this, or that someone else will do it, which is wonderful. Um, he he wore the wedding dress. He was promoting his book bad As I Want to Be Okay, and he wore the wedding dress and claimed

to have married himself. I what I did not realize about this story is that he wore this wedding dress at a Barnes and Noble. Like I thought it was. I don't know he was making. I guess that is a public appearance. But like I think of Barnes and Noble. I go in there to like go poop and then like and like get air conditioning, and so for that to be where he does this public statement is so funny to me. M His agent says that, like they sort of came up with it as a publicity stunt,

which did work. The book was a top the bestseller's list for twenty weeks. But that is I don't I honestly don't remember him having a book. But I'm happy for him that it worked out. But when you see that, it's like, oh, everybody saw that photo. It was everywhere so iconic. He actually the Bride's Magazine had him redo and wear a wedding dress for a spread in their magazine in two thousand and three, and he also looked really good, gorgeous, Like his makeup was flawless, the hair

was great, the dress was custom made in France. It was a beautiful dress. Like there's a lot of women that would be like, yeah, I'd love to community talk about that moment a lot. I don't know. I don't know, but in the book he talks about as a child like cross dressing and being into wearing women's fashion, and and the marrying himself was a nod to him coming out as being bisexual. So I mean, I have to imagine. I'm sure that I haven't seen all of drag Race.

I've only seen like half of it, but I bet it's been brought up. I mean, he shut down New York City when he was traveling to that Barns Noble. If you watch the thirty, it's just like the shame that this guy had and then just going down whatever avenue it was in New York and just you can't even move. I hope it's the Barns and Noble that's in Union Square that is the most popping off, crazy ass store in you go with, you go into that bathroom, someone is giving, someone is closing a I don't because

the strand it was there. It was there when I left, but that was four years ago. Because it was to me that was like a beacon of hope, the Union Square Barns and Noble. If anything went wrong, you go to the Union Square Barns and Noble and you will be. Okay, you know what it is now, it's the Union Square Whole Foods. Oh. I had that like everybody like if you need a pee, if you need to eat, if you need to its resumed the responsibilities of that Barnes

and Norman. I saw Kelsey Grammar at that Union Square Whole Foods and he was dressed so bad, and and I just kept like following him. I was like, I was in my mind, were following Kelsey Grammar mind I was like, Oh, that's weird Kelsey Grammar, and I want all the same stuff at Whole Foods. But I clearly was just walking behind him and his weird dad new balances. Not a great fashion moment for Helse. Okay, c do

you want to give us your number two? Yeah? My Number two is Randy Moss wearing the Jordan elevens in the NFL game. That then sparked and I gotta figure out the timeline of this. But back then, and this might just be like a sneaker head thing, but wearing Jordan's, wearing basketball shoes and any other sport was like insane. And so Randy Moss back then, like I was part of these sneaker message boards and people were just going nuts.

One because they were special edition like peas made forms, so they're white and purple Jordan Levins, which is maybe one of the most iconic sneakers of all time. And then the fact that he was wearing them on turf, and then that led to then Dion Sanders having his own special edition shoes, and then Michael Vick wore the seventeens on the Falcons, and now like a majority of the league wears Jordan's cleats like Jordan cleats and turf shoes are the norm. And I remember as a kid

just playing football, kids used to roast me. They would be like, oh, yeah, there's that Asian kid who wore basketball shoes and football, and it's like, yeah, I want to talk to them. Now because now all these players are wearing these kids, you know, just my white redneck teammates. Well, let's find them roster. They're all like doctors or people who Yeah, I don't want to talk to them about that.

In a way, they are doing better than me. But yeah, so you latched onto it as a young boy, that was a trend, and you love you really have a You love Randy Moss. I love Randy Moss for some reason as a child, and this goes back to growing up in Indiana and it being clouded with racism. Randy Moss was like bad. He was portrayed as bad, but I remember I think it was like he's he is disrespectful, yes, yes, yes, yes, absolutely um And then when he did the fake moon

and everybody freaked out. I was like, but he didn't actually moon anybody. And it's really so weird. I remember when I started at the NFL that was like, hey, we know you're gonna like bring back all like the fun moments in sports, but you definitely cannot do that. And it's just like he faked moon people, and that's what you're mad about. Still he fake moon. He scored a touchdown and then and then pretended to pull down

but like, but he didn't. Actually no, he did improv object work of pulling down his pants, and people lost their fucking mind. I mean, I think he ended up getting fined. Like it was Oh yeah, people were the NFL was mad. It was hilarious too. So it's just like an NFL slash NFL fan thing. Yeah, but so like this moment, I just think it it almost started

NFL players caring about what was on their feet. And now like O'Dell has, you know, like NFL cleats and sneakers is like a thing on the cleats are the only way that they can show any person pretty much. And I still think it's like illegal, Like O'Dell has separate warmup cleats, like cleat said he's allowed to wear

in warmups but not allowed to wear during games. You know, to that, I would say Odell last year didn't go as planned, Maybe just wear the same shoes, like to know c J. He had a bad year, he got hurt. Let these guys express themselves, Okay, but I think maybe Browns fans would like for them to express themselves. Score the express themselves appropriately. So if you're taking a bunch of els maybe maybe switch your shoe well to warm up in one shoe and then switch into another shoe.

It's like, yeah, but that's shoe. I've done that in like rec league games. I'm called out for doing that. So like you work at social media, you work at social media. That's how Yeah maybe, and it's sometimes it's a soul sucking job. And I want to express myself by wearing two pairs of shoes to a Y M C A Jim. Unfortunately, c J, I have news to break to you. The Steaks writing on your performance and the Steaks writing on O'Dell's performances are very very difficult.

Um net's get Clark in here, he'll back me up. Oh yeah, Clark would love to come in and talk about what a great dresser Lebron is. Oh wait, okay, you cut out for all of that. All I heard was Clark would love to come and talk and talk about how great of addresser Lebron is. But so Clark's the Lebron hater and your Lebron lover and what I'm getting? Yes, yes, but I was trying to I wanted to call him in here to help back up how stupid I am. Maybe he wouldn't do that either. No, I think now

he would love it. He would love are you kidding? Like this motherfucker amount of shoes that show up to this house. He would love the idea of like and find one of them was a birthday gift to me, so thanks. I guess that it was very nice and I was such a bit about it. But the like the he would love the idea of just expressing yourself through one shoe putting on a different one for his two k players. Are you doing it in your life? It's probably fine, c J. Shoes have gotten so bad,

Like I've I've stopped complaining about them. It's just this is I love who I love, and unfortunately, this is who he is when it comes to shoes. But it's gotten so bad. My family, like my mom and dad are like, hey, CJ, what if you sold something? Like? They've started pitching him ideas to get rid of shoes, and I think he thinks I'm behind it. I'm not behind it. These are just my loved ones genuinely concerned

about our financial future. Yeah, we agree with you. Guys have a do you have a sneaker closet or do you have a sneaker like set up, and it's yeah, it's fixing. It's submerged into parts of my territory, the garage territories, our houses square feet, shoes are in seven square female I'm looking at That sounds about right. Yes, that is correct. That may be embarrassing, but that is the reality. Let's take a break before this turns messy. We'll be right back, all right, and we are back

with our fine, no old picks. It's if you haven't heard before, we usually save our guest pick for the final climax of this whole thing. So, uh, Megan, do you want climax? I don't know, That's just how I talk about finales. It's okay, cool, all right, look on your face is wild to make? Yeah? Yeah, just for the sun to be out and hear you say climax into a microphone. Megan freaked me out first. So you want me to just give my pick and stop analyzing the words you use? Okay? So my pick is Serena

Williams two thousand eighteen French Open cat suit. So yeah, okay, great, that's the reaction I was hoping for. What is so special about tennis and golf? And maybe some others. I'll think on it is that they also get to pick the uniform that they compete in, so they are able to express themselves where whatever they want. It's not like, oh, hey, these are our team colors, you gotta wear it. It's like, no, this is your brand, You meet with a designer, you

do whatever you want. So Serena makes this black jumpsuit cat suit, skin tight all the way down to her you know, covers her whole body, and and it was so striking because the Roland Garros courts are that really chucky beautiful red, and she just popped against it and everyone loved it, and it created so much fanfare, and of course some piece of ship old frenchman who runs the French Tennis Federation hates it and then came out and banned it. And it wasn't even just a fashion statement.

It was also something that she was wearing that had been specially designed to help help her fight blood clots that she was suffering from since giving birth to a baby. But that man did not like his name is like and he is against the cats. They've since made a truce and they're okay. But I just remember her coming out in it, and it was so amazing. There was a woman. Tennis has like a lot of rules about uniforms to like Wimbledon, you have to be and I

think it's seventy white. It's like a they want it all white and a woman in name and white. I think that's her name. Um wore a white jumpsuit that Wimbledon also got mad out and banned in the middle of her match, like they had to suspend the match for darkness, and then the next day they were like, you can't wear that out on the court again, and she had to switch you and you bring like ten twenty of whatever the outfit is, and then you wear that the whole time. So she had to scrap that

and find something else. But yeah, Serena is just I mean, I was thinking about even doing Serena in that Beyonce video. Like Serena's fashion moments are amazing, but I love this

one because it's on the court. People loved it. Of course, losers got mad at it, and it was also something that was protecting her life as a mother and an athlete, right, and losers get mad at Serena Williams with all the time expert speed, just you know, and even people within the like you said that French guy whatever you said his name, I don't know if that was a troll or his real name, but whatever it was, he sucks.

But uh, you know, people within the tennis world to just don't give her any of the justice that she deserves. So I know, it's so, I mean, she her looks are crazy. She once for like a Dennam miniskirt at a US Open kid's day, like she she wore that too too. She really has fun with you know, those losers are racist and sexist. You know, it's like crazy. It's like some of these shouldn't be fashion statements, but because there's so much like racism and sexism in you know,

these sports, they're like, whoa, that's nuts. It's like no, it's like if people got to wear what they want to wear, this is what it would look like. And Serena knows that she's so good tennis that she should be allowed to do this, of course, and it's not harming anybody, right like you said, it was to support of genuine like health issue that she had or like up in arms like bro, that's too too. Isn't hurting anybody that cats through isn't right if anything is helping us.

I mean, when you saw Serena that cat suit, it was like, oh, and that's part of what they're afraid of, Like they're uncomfortable with the shape of women's bodies being displayed. But it's like she's displaying her body. Like you don't get to tell anyone how to display their body. If I were playing at the US Open, full bush and bush and a sports brawl and that's it. Nothing on the well, I guess I gotta have something to hold you. No, there's ball kids, they can feed me all the balls.

I almost brought up what you did earlier. Tell tell the people mean about to get in the shower. This is graphic. It's not that graphic. But Megan was getting about to get in the shower and she did the ESPN body issue. I tried to make my own boys from my office and not not like kinky toys and covered herself and said ESPM body issue, and I was like, your bush is showing. But then he said yeah. I was like, go off, I'd watch I'd get that magazine

that's sucking iconic alright, my number one. Well, so I'm just gonna rattle off some honorable mentions real quick. I'm gonna say, Anthony Davis is that's all folks shirt last last game in New Orleans. He says that his stylists picked that. But it's like, no, dude, you put that shirt on. You walked to the arena like you knew

what you were doing there. Again, I feel like some of these basketball players won't admit but le Bronze Ultimate Warrior shirt that again, you don't have to acknowledge that that actually happened. You're an Ultimate Warrior T shirt in blue and yellow to the parade the day after they won. And so this one, I love the intention and I think social media kind of like roasted this a lot.

But Deonte Wilder's Bejeweled Night costume before the rematch against Tyson Fury, it was like forty pounds it was it looked cool, um and it was intended to he said, to show black excellence, which is great, but then he ended up losing, and then a lot of the stories and you know, in from himself said he felt like it costed him the match, but you know it was like, wasn't like forty pounds plus pounds walked out in so heavy that he got himself tired out, which it is

funny and I see why people made fun of it. But on the flip side, it's like it's confidence. If he would have won that, that is pretty badass, and like I would have leaned into how crazy it was to wear that. Um So I liked the intention. It would have been my number one if he had won that match. Uh, my number one, but he didn't. Uh

oh yeah. One more honorable mention Kobe in two dozen two finals, they swept the nets in every game he wore like an iconic jersey he wore on the game four of the sweep, he wore a Jordan jersey and a Jordan warm up sunglasses And I thought that was pretty bad ass looking at pictures. But my number one is hoodie Mellow, which I think was unintentional at first, and I feel like I'm picking it too, just because, like House the Highlights, my employer had a little bit

of playing this is that. You know, we were posting videos of Mellow working out with Chris Brickley and he was wearing this hoodie and we just I think Omar and I don't know if Omar knew it would take off like this. But Hoodie Mellow became such a thing. And then when Mellow went to the Thunder, he like leaned into it. And during the introductory like meeting, he wore the hoodie and was like leaning into it. And

I thought that was such like a badass thing. Um. You know what Hoodie Mellow was too, though, is it became a symbol of guys working out really hard and then not being so good in the think that's true. That is true. Well, I think it was a bad situation for him to be there. It was a bad situation in Houston. But yeah, I still like Mellow and

and Hoodie Mellow. It's like it was like the beginning of memes of like then we got like Beanie Mellow, we got Shirtless Jr. Like that just like the formula of nicknames that kind of set us up for that's so true. We got untucked Kyrie, we got now you're right, and you know, Mellow is a great, great player, great sport for like leaning into all that ship. But that became like a whole that was a movement in I

G Trainer videos. Well, yeah, and like the Nike and the NBA their hood there's like hoods built into the warm ups. Now, wow, he changed what he changed the outfit? I think a little bit. Did you get one? Do have? Oh? Yeah you do? And do you put your little hood up? I don't like that very good. And if I'm posting videos of me working out for for what to be a social media guy, then that's it. Wow. Who There's gonna be some people that listen to that and are

going to have to look deep in their souls. Well, I advise you guys not to do that. Well, but sometimes you Today I did like a lunch and I saw my booty pop out, and I was like, I do kind of wish I could post this. This is really the body episode for Megan. This is you're the one that said it. However, in front of the funny part is that I'm the worst. I have the worst service and it keeps cutting in and out. But I've heard like my booty popping out, I heard body issue,

So like whatever you guys just said. Yeah, But the thing is, you only need you really only need like THT of C J and me. You know, like you're going to walk away with this happier than most guests because you're like, I didn't get at all, but it was the right amount. Oh yeah, my service is just protecting me and my vanity. It's filtering if anything. All right, it's what's your number one pick? Okay, well on your lebron Ultimate Warrior. I have honorable mentions the Draymond Quickie shirt.

But he also wore in the parade after the you know, the Warriors swept. None of you guys are Cobs fans, so this isn't fun after they swept him. But I have Westbrook wearing this is another one on top of the like players always say, like, no, that had nothing to do with it. Yeah, sure, Westbrook war photographer outfit. Yeah to the first Warriors thunder game, Kadi. You know one of his biggest hobbies. He's been vocal about his photography.

He was actually a photographer at Super Bowl fifty and Westbrook war this like neon Orange, I am a photographer thing. He said it was just a fashion moment. He thought it looked really cool. I guess you never know with Westbrook because he does kind of just like to show his cleavage or like have these crazy fashion moments in the tunnel. But I I don't buy. I think he was trying to troll Katie. Yeah, that in and Katie

kind of trolled back right with the cupcake hats. Yeah, he had a which I own one because it's so great he has after they won the ring. You know, thunder fans and In don't know, they just called him cupcake all year for being soft, for going to the Warriors. He made this hot with a cupcake and the cherry on top was a championship ring. So I mean that's that's as good of a clap back as you could get, Like what the photographer out for all you want, but I want to ring and I love it and you

mentioned it too, and I mentioned it before. It's just like I love when these players play. They're like all KOI They're like what, no, what do you mean? I wasn't thinking about this at all, And it's like, yes, you were, Like I remember Lebron did the three one Graveyard cookies and still they tried to deny it after like,

oh you're talking about specifically about that. It was literally about that, Like Lebron could, like Draymond could have worn a shirt that says like, ha, how we swept you guys? I don't. I cleaned up my apartment today. I don't know what you're talking about. Just admit it, but you know, it doesn't matter. It gives us the fans all the fun ting to speculate about whether or not they're being petty, which they probably are. God, yeah, all those I just

missed the NBA so much. It's okay, honey, it's coming back. It's coming back. It's okay. They're gonna they're gonna do tunnel walks in Orlando. What if they what if they get to like they're like the parks clothes, and then what if they get them to dress up in the as the characters? Cool? You know, like someone's gonna be Lebron, is gonna be Aladdin. We don't mean Lebron dressing up, like why not? That'd be cute. If there's anybody that Corona is growing right now, girl, it's in those like

Disneyland's costumes. Yeah. If they would have said, like that's how it started, was like someone left like that just takes off a Mickey head and it's like, I don't know what happened. Zero is actually Elmo in Times Square? That would make total sense. All right, Well, thank you so much for she hasn't given us their number one yet Oh I thought that was h oh yeah, no, Draymond was an honorable mention with book photographer. Okay, gotcha, I'm wow, sorry it was it was It wasn't No,

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