Greatest March Madness Moments with Josiah Johnson

is a former college basketball star. That's like the one thing that's like one of one billion things about I know. But but that gives him. We could have had any old Joe Schmo come in here and say, oh yeah, I'm true TV. I watched this now. This man's been on Trip TV. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome Josiah Johnson. Thank you guys so much for the glowing introduction. I wouldn't really say star I was. I was there a star of NBA Twitter. You are the top, you are at

the Apex. I feel like, yeah, I'm just trying to obviously just get my name out there, stay stay relevant, talk about things. I like, you're getting your name out there, man, I know You're like, I'm just trying to just like everyone, every name, everything, and I kind of cracked the algorithm of Twitter. I'm sure I'm trying to figure out Instagram. Now. That's the one thing that really is like it's tormenting me. I have because is there a way to monetize Twitter anymore?

I mean, you know they're they're definitely direct and indirect way as I kind of operate them both. You know, It's one way that I feel like someone's got to do is you could just I mean you do the work of like nineteen little kids who run these social media departments on Twitter, and I often let them know that they're not doing Ship like that. I'm just saying, I pick up the pace, Guys, how am I getting

this off? You literally got a family, two kids, Like if they can see where I'm tweeting from, where they're tweeting from, Like they go into these nice offices like nice free just feel with Ship. I'm at the crib going barbecueing one handed, like just you know, staying on top of stuff. I've seen people ask you recently how you pick like the gifts me and you're respond you

were just like, my brain is just good. I look, I watched a lot of television growing up, so a lot of my references are kind of from that like early nineties two thousand's range, so which, you know, it's tough because a lot of kids nowadays, like SpongeBob and all that type of really just over my head. But I just kind of missed that boat, like that was my little Brothers kind of generation. So I'm becoming obsolete, but I'm trying to get in with the young kids.

I was just trying to stay stay on top of what's going on. You stay obsolete, but like, and maybe that's because I pay attention to so much, but now I think you were the first person started bringing back like come to America scenes as as memes, and then I'm now seeing other people pulling from that movie. Janice

obviously Nike. He has a whole campaign for sure based off that movie, like he needs to break some bread because yeah, I mean, look, I think at the end of the day, like we grew up with all those movies, Like I literally went to the elementary school with John Land. It's a daughter who directed the movie. So I just had always had an affinity for Eddie Murphy movie stuff. Like that. I was in the John Singleton phase when he passed away, was going ahead with the John Singleton names.

It's just kind of whatever I think, like when people looking at it's always kind of a deeper meaning to the stuff I'm doing. Sometimes it's just like this is topical, let me get it out. Other times it's like, Okay, there's there's actually a method to this madness. One out of five you do, I go, oh, he's wrong for that, But I want to do like you really you've got

the pulse. You gave the one of one of my favorites recently was you gave a warning like I'm about to drop the most out of pocket one tomorrow and it was the Crusoe. Yeah. If people who know, no, it's just a it's it's been able. You've been able to use it like four times in the last few months,

and it's hilarious. I think. The thing I always tell people and this is this is a trick of the trailer I'll give you guys on Twitter, especially if people like relate and resonate with a good video, then find other ways to repurpose when we use it, because you already know that it's a hitter, so just whatever topical trending, Like I had that Chris Browne in my mind and think about you. Obviously, you know you work in House of Highlights Bleach Report. I know there's a level that

you guys can't cross. There's a threshold that that's somewhere up somewhere like now you can't post that ship Like yeah, so that's the level I try to go to because I know I can operate alone here. But that's why I was like when I went over there, They're like, yeah, we're gonna do stuff like this, like you know, post memes with captions, and I was like, literally, teenagers can do this, so I don't want to be responsible for that, thus creating like new me or like you know, uh,

shooting my own stuff and stuff like that. But the fact that, you know, I get embarrassed sometimes when like companies i've worked with can't beat one guy who I know, well, I operate under a different system, then I do it. I obviously I to love and just for fun and I love the community, but also I know, like I don't have to get my stuff approved by anybody, So there'll be times I'll come in Lebron or whoever, maybe he's my favorite player. Obviously haven't, but it's like, Damn,

I got this funny joke in my head. I can't really let it die. I got a tested let me see. Sometimes I've been over the line. I've had to delete those tweets. Definitely had people hit me up like, yeah, God, like this is this is too much. It's like there's like five to eight people that I listened to who are like too much. Like generally I'll go to my boot first. She's like, you know, she's like, roll with it. I'll put it up. But sometimes be like, yeah, you can't.

You can't get that. Megan does the same thing for me. I showed her a stand up clip last night. She was just not that funny. No, that's not what I said. I did not say not that funny. I was like, I don't like the beginning, you know, like unfortunately a stand up clip you have, it has to come out of the gate funny immediately. If there's any riff raff any, just sort of like people are not so I was just trying to give you the God's honest truth. We

do it with my outfits. I'll be like, I like I'm gonna wear this on television and he's like, I don't like that, and it's like, okay, well it works. God, that's why you guys were together. I'll hear getting it. This is where marriage is. But you gotta be honest with each other because if you go out and the dress is a hitting and you get roasted for it, who's the first person you're pointing the finger out? And

that's why I say. I was like, the comments, they can't you give them targets, Like it's just we we know now what the we can almost predict with all the comments are going to help each other in the game. So like you literally know, like with people like if I do this, I'm gonna get at least eight of

these comments. Like I know, like if I posted video shooting on the Warriors, I'm gonna get at least like eight fat shaming because I don't really care because I'm sexy and I don't really you know, I love my body. But it's definitely like you know it's coming when a comment, I'm not prepared for it. That's what I'm like, who

you got me? Sometimes it'll I mean, a man made fun of my knees, Like I was like, I'm prepared to be like fat ugly dumb bitch, but he just wrote dem knees though, And I was like, tanna hurt me so bad? I do have fucked up knock me. That was a compliment, It wasn't. I mean the thing

his years at least are vague. Like I was doing that Twitter show with Omar and all my comments were like I'm gonna murder the dude in the blue hat and it's like that who has nothing to say about my takes the type of I mean, when someone can respond to like a live show like that. At the NFL, they were just sending me eagles. You know these are crazy people. Yeah, it's I mean, the thing is like when you really break them down there like little kids

sometimes and that's a whole ship. And then when you really call him out and check them. Because I've had to happen a few times where I've had to dig deep and be like all, I know this person lived, just in case they really want to give Then it kind of quickly changed like I was just kidding whatever. It's like nowadays, like this cloud thing that they're on, right, they want these cloud coins, so they got to go

out there and really try and insult you. Like I remember seeing it on YouTube back in the day, and I thought that was bad. Like nowadays, it's like ship that wish cancer in your whole family. It's like, you're like, but the video of guy's fans of a podcast that I'm a host of will come after. I had to like delete a comment last week because I started fighting with somebody who is a fan. But they just didn't

like something, not even the I said. But I didn't like how they were coming after this girl until and then I went after It's like, what am I doing? I make money? This is crazy. This is the job guys for some of us. So that's why we can't really funk what y'all like we want to. Well that's

the thing. It's like these kids were like that sucks is unfunny, but it's like, oh, it's unfunny, or like you can think that, but I have you know, you have had a short comedy Central and the head writer for all most of y'all who sports like original series in the past couple of years. Like, great, you can say that, but my checks are coming in every two weeks. I mean, look, I know sometimes I put up ship

that's whacked. That's a part of being funny. Like you were saying, you show Megan the video may not be you know, she's gonna be honest with you. Sometimes it doesn't hit, but I learned from all that's a part of the process. Like look at lebron he makes one out every two shots gets you literally the Hall of Fame. You go fifty for fifty or fifty's you know, comedy

is kind of in that level. You got to maybe be a little bit better, but you're gonna have some ship that you may think it's funny that nobody else did. I don't really give a funk. I just do it kind of for me. I mean honestly, like there's a lot of these players people like them because the highlight mixes. You know, we can't like chop up our stand up sets or our scripts to take off the parts that we don't know hit every time, you know what I mean.

But yeah, you and also to I wanted to mention that to get this podcast, we actually recorded the first pilot with you. Thanks. Someday we'll just will release it to the highest bidder. Yeah, I feel like like the first Dad in Full House, Like yeah, the black vin but it's got to come back. I don't know, and she's honestly, I kind of saw it with her now because there's been some bitter turmoil for years and surrounding that. I've heard about that for sure. Um what was it?

What was the topic? Greatest comeback? Greatest comeback? And we haven't been like we guys, do another one. And it's like that one was so good. You had really really funny picks. Yeah, yeah, you're probably the coolest person I know. Oh, thank you very much. So I something about a rap influencer, but do you know, I do know one rap influencer who's have you ever heard of Fake Shore Drive. It's

like a Chicago rap blog. His name is Andy Barber's very He's like he's like the Chances guys, Kanye guy, and he's just a white boy from Anderson, Indiana that is a family friend. He's kind of like a You and Wob but for hip hop okay legend. So he'll like bring back like videos and drop like the craziest fact or like yeah, he'll pull up some performances that

you just forgot about. That that's the thing as we get older, that's think I really love in life because we've seen so many beautiful moments in our life, but you don'thinitely forget that ship and yeah wait that was legendary. Oh, especially I feel like in sports. Yeah, I mean that's kind of what the topic. I mean, that's kind of like the point of this whole show. But then especially the topic that we chose today, we wanted to have you on. You played for U C l A two thousand,

two thousand five, so played in the tournament Sweet sixteen twice. Yeah, we were there getting it. Yeah, do you guys get goodie back liked? Because for bowl games? You know, I did lots of football players in college and they would come back with out back bowl slippers exactly. And like I remember there were PlayStations with like the guy code sticker on them. Do you do they do that for

March Madness? We get broken off like that? Like, So the thing about March Madness is, so you have your conference tournament, which when I was there, I want to say, I don't know if we when the tournament come back, but it was right around the point when I was there. So you get a tournament to get for that. And I was like, DVD player or something like that, something that you could generally either use it for nest a couple of hundred bucks just to be transparent, and then

uh and then for the tournament. So you get one for the opening round and if you go to like the sweet sixteen in the final four. Obviously we were todd to school at that point. So Adidas like, you know, you're the hot commodity. You're the one that's getting them, get them all the airtime and promo, so they would give you as much as they could. You get like duffle bags full of stuff. Damn well, you flipping your

sneakers at all. Sometimes there's actually a funny story. So I was my freshman year two thousand and oh one, we had the Adidas. Then we were like one of Kobe's main theater school, so we got probably like twenty pair of Kobe So I sat on these things literally individually. Yeah, twenty pair of each. Don't you remember which ones? It was a Kobe one. So before the Mottle boots, like the year before that, we got moon boots too, but nobody's really working with them. Ones are kind of moon

boots too, a little bit. They were they were heavy. Yeah, but like Audie Design or whatever whatever, like sleek, but we got like twenty pair of that years. I just literally had them in a garbage back chilling in my house and I started to bring him out again. Obviously the legend, but like they're all falling apart, like the

glues all pulling off. They've literally been chilling in garages and ship But yeah, so the answer your question, and we got lace all the time with like stuff just depending obviously, when you do good, you get all that stuff, and when when not, you know you don't. But yeah, tournament time, you're getting laced. Okay, well, so take us a little bit more background. You when did you start playing your your dad was he played for the Bucks? He played, he's a professional NBA player. Yeah, he played

for a number of years, the five time All Star. Yeah, I got if Jersey retired last year. It was so cool when I told my dad that I knew his son, my dad was like, wow, like it was so cool to him. He's got major love in the Midwest from like the seventies and eighties, like they weren't getting like nationally televised game, so like a lot of people is funny cause he's from l A too, But a lot of people kind of and other other spots don't don't

really remember him as much as they should. But you go back to the Milwaukee Midwest anywhere out there and you say his name is like Woralthy. I mean, if you're getting your jersey retired anywhere that Yeah, he was a legendary player. And he also played. He played my older brother played. You said that they actually both won

national championships there. God damn, I didn't like you know, you go to u c l A events, it's literally like, you know, dude, that one like championships all four years of college or they're standing on you and like what are you supposed to say to them? And then I'm just like, you know how many TV shows that you created? And then exactly becomes a lot smaller. So that's not it's a nice But that's why I like about you is that you know you're sort of you're beginning to

a career in show business. Was you were playing a lot on Jersey Chasers, you know, kind of you and your buddies roles as the bench warmers on a on

a national college basketball team. So basically, when we got the whole legend of Chamban high shows a result of of our experience of U c l A. And when I was you know, we would sit on the end of bench have these crazy funny as conversation to ship during games you're dealing with like you know, sometimes nashally televised games of time outs for like three hours long, so games are like three hours, just like boring a ship,

so you're trying to occupy your time. But from that, we started the Jersey Chaser blog because we were just like, look, we want to be the voice of athletes, like a lot of people were getting athletes were getting shiped on back in those times. So we did a bunch of content, funny videos Kobe the Brown Puppet, Parrty and stuff like that. Ended up getting a TV show in Comedy Central as the result of it. So I sa it worked out, Everything worked out how it was, and that was pre

NBA Twitter. Yeah. I really feel like the Jersey Chase, especially a lot of the ship that's that's flying now, we were doing like ten twelve years ago, like I was making me it's not even realizing. I was like, it would be funny if I just slaped Mr Miyagi on this video and had him saying something crazy but not realizing like how the game would shift and change. But I think all of that prepared me for now and just really how to go out there and get it.

Because we were doing it. It was like we were just like three dudes chilling at the crib, like trying to entertain each other, like all right, let's voice this ship over and drop a video and see how it performed. But stuff started hitting, and then you know, it's been, you know, great ever since. Did you, like, I mean, did you do theater acting or anything like that when you were growing out? Yeah. So I'm from l A. Like my dad played for the Clippers. He had a

lot of money. I got to live in Bettle Air. So when you watch like Fresh Prince of Battle Air, that was more or less my life. Our career wasn't that that dynamic is there's But I went to school that school called US which is right on U. C. L As campus for elementary school. So I was in school with like Jason schwar Its men just like you know so, but like we would take like film classes together in the summertime, and I gotta find this movie we have it on VHS, but he actually wrote this script.

It is probably like a fourth grader that met him. It was like it's like a lethal weapon like Buddy Cop movie that me and him starting. So yeah, I was like, I've been taking like film classes all that type of stuff. Obviously my dad has been acting as a kid. I also went to school with the Debbie Allen's kids, so we would go from school to the set of Different World, Like that was just like every Friday.

I thinking Thursday's they taped or whatever it was. But as like so just being around it and not really know what's going on, but these sets are cool. Was there a hierarchy of like whose parents were cooler? Like

athletes were cooler than the actors? I think because when my dad would show up this stuff and literally I was at us and this is like Jeffrey Kassenberg's kids, like you can just really rattle off names, but they would show up at events and they would be like my pops because you know, like they anybody could be a good business executive than anybody, but you know, it's a lot harder to have a forty in vertical and yeah, just like physically cooler, you know, taller, jacked, so he

would show up kind of looking sweet, like you know, in his old league look, and there's like tons of respect that they definitely bowed out. Verton Fleming's daughter was my friend and yeah when and he had a twin brother, and so they were the Fleming twins would just like be around Indianapolis. But like when Verne would come to watch his play basketball. Oh A thrill, A thrill you guys.

I had a different childhood. I think my one friend who said his dad was Turbo from American Gladiators is true. I don't know if it's true. He got expelled like four weeks later, and so I mean, why would somebody Turbo feels like, you know, like I don't. Yeah, I guess it's like who would brag about that? But I was the one kid who was impressed by it. It was a pre internet. There's like no way to prove. Yeah, do those guys have that listed on their IMDb? Like

I was Turbo on American Gladiators. Absolutely, American Gladiers was killer. Yeah. Yeah. I used to watch the reruns on US. Mike Adam Lee was the host, one of the two hosts, and I've worked with him at w m a Q in Chicago and people would come up like this was two thousand and seven, like still coming up to him to ask him to sign their Mike Adam Lee trading card from Gladiators and he was on the Bear like he played football too, but they knew him from the Gladiators,

from the Bears, but as the host Gator. But I think the thing about Gladiers with everybody rocked with its

pre internet time. But it's one of those shows I ended up working with a bunch of like when I started working in NFL network way back in the day in production, like a people that I worked on Gladiators like they were like forties and fifties, but they would talk about the Gladia your time so glowingly they maybe we were working on Gladiators like they were just you know, I feel like there was a lot of a lot of turning up and well that's what I'm going to get.

It was like a lot of party and like just a better time less on the seventies, like going to Gladiator. I'm reading this ESPN book right now and it's a lot of partying. I mean they just been like two pages on sexual harassment and it's like, I think this whole book could have been about that. Yeah. And also in the book credit tied to this episode, they sort of credit themselves with creating March Madness as we know it now because pre them getting the contract, the whole

pool was never on TV before that. They were the ones that were like, let's put all sixty four teams on ye for sure? All right, well maybe we should just get right into it then, because we're gonna we can spend hours listing your credits. Hopefully everybody listening to this, we want to listen to hours of just chatting and we're gonna have you back anyways after this. Um. But so today's episode greatest March Madness moments. Um again, like

when this air is gonna be March. So uh, we felt like this is a great topic because these are just like March. I feel like n say, basketball dominates March. No one else ever has any crazier events because it's like, you're not gonna beat yea yeah. Um, so I don't want to step on any of years because sometimes I feel like I'm gonna overlap with your picks, just especially being a huge lebron guy. Why don't you go ahead and go first. So this is my favorite March Madness moment, Yeah,

greatest or favorite? Yeah, most meaningful. I have three, though, so you can pick multiple. Yeah, well, I think the main one. To me, I have a few, but I'm a fans. My brother was actually a freshman on that national championship team. They beat Missouri in the sweet six team, but it was kind of a highly contested game. Missouri was leading with four point eight seconds ago. Ty sad and he was actually my cousin. You know, I mean,

I got so many cousins. It's like I'm sir, like if I really broke down, like cousins I have doing stuff and we really don't talk to each other like that, but we know what up because like that's literally like we're not Chris. We're just staying what's up, cousin. But uh so Tides gets the ball, goes the length of

court four point eight seconds, HiT's his great shot. My dad actually doing radio for u c l A at that point, so he did this whole yeah baby call that that literally became legendary and they played with it every time they show the clip. But that moment, it was kind of like that moment. I was a ball boy for that team that year, and just being around those dudes, you kind of just knew like ed o'band was like one of the greatest leaders, just like the

dudes are really gonna do something. And then to see that moment they kind of knew from there like yeah, and and came nobody fun with us and they went on to go beat Arkansas, which at that point it was like this juggernaut that it's like forty minute press that nobody could break or beat for that moment, just as U c l A fans being able to win the step for an entire season like that, That to me is probably my favorite greatest comeback. What are the

responsibilities of a child ball boy? So back when I was there, we would help like we would any sweater perspiration and thing. I think it's on the court we go that the circular like baller style pregame. We're rebounding for dudes. So I would shag balls for ed o'band whatever if he wanted, like somebody to garden whatever, just like passing ball, go garden and grab everybody's rebound, make sure everybody got adequately. Did you feel like the coolest kid on us. It was because we were we better.

We basically had like the best seats in the house. We would still run underneath the hoop so we'd see everything here. Everything off. Players were talking ship to each other, and I'm probably like twelve at this point, like players are talking to each other whatever it is, it's just like we hear all this of going on, we get like the inside look at it, and just to be

that close. We were right near the U. C. L A bench too, so you might be scrubbing the floor down to coach it would be like cheering you on and ship and be like okay, like this is the legendary I was. When I was growing up, I always yet watched him be like did that kid get that Joe. So basically it was a lot of nepotism. Yeah, yeah, which we don't deny. We'd we take full of. I mean, it wasn't just your day. You said, your cousins everyone, you were just related everyone. I wanted to be a

ball girl. Um in tennis at the there used to be a tournament in Indianapolis called the r C Championship, and a lot of kids that I played junior tennis with, did it that like, if you were good at tennis, you would go try out, but you had to like sprint under a certain amount of time, and I couldn't do it. I was too slow to be a ball girl in Indianapolis. But the outfits were so cute. Did that hurt? How long did that score you for? In left?

Just to this moment being a flower girl, I like still carry with me on a daily basis, But to be like I was cute, nobody wanted me on their wedding the thing. But now you're writing for SPS. You that's not the same camera for the US Open. It's yeah, I guess I did give it back to the US. Wow, that's that's that's a legendary one. I forgot. Yeah, I forgot too slow and then I got to drink alcohol on U S T A t V or whatever. Yeah. As I was like prepared, I'm going next, I decided okay.

As I was like preparing for this, there are moments that are obviously huge from the entire span of the tournament. I really think of March Madness, I guess selfishly from like our childhood on for some reason, just because of the TV of it, Like I know I'm going to have one on here that is before I was born, just because it was so important, but I didn't see it like I needed these ones to be things that I had witnessed for them to be impactful in my life.

Um My, number three, this is maybe like the first time I remember seeing my mom really excited about a sporting event. She went to Valparaiso and so this is from the thirteen seed Valparaiso player Bryce Drew, who was

the coach's son. Homer Drew hit a three point buzzer beater to defeat the fourth seed Old Miss. It was in the first round, so I know that's not important, but I just like my mom like a new Homer Drew somehow, and like she was just so excited, and it fell like I lived in Indiana and so I you and Purdue always had these major things, but nobody in my family went there until I eventually went to produce, so I didn't feel connected to college sports in any way.

And so this was like a huge moment for me to be like, oh my god, I guess my mom likes basketball, and it just felt really cool. Like the Drews are so famous still to this day in Indiana because of it. I didn't even realize until I was researching this that Bryce Drew was a sixteenth pick in the draft. Like he was like a real a real player and a coach coached Vanderbilt until last year when he was fired and now Jerry Stackhouse is there. Um, so yeah, it was. I just remember him like jumping up.

It's called the shot obviously, but I think like seventeen of them are called the shot. But a thirteenth seed that's like a tiny school Indiana is so March Madnessee to meet like Butler is always kind of like in the conversation and had a famous missed buzzer beater. Yeah, I just I needed it to be connection to my life to make this list kind of. Yeah, definitely. I

mean I think you say that. I just feel like we there were so many like white dude stars in the n c A and then you never hear from them again because it's like a coaching It's like coaches are the stars in these leagues, and it's insane. Yeah, I just it's a it's crazy. And there's a lot of fathers and sons too. Like there was a moment on one of the lists with the guy he tore his achilles celebrating and then he had to be on a scooter and then he fell off the scooter and

his son was on the day. It's a really I guess it's nepotism, but you also have to be talented and it it actually like raises the Steaks. One of the saddest things in sports always for me is watching the guy's cry because I still think of them as children like they are and it's the end of most of their careers. And I think that's like why March Madness feels special to a lot of time. You're like watching their childhood ends for sure, because they're going to

go and work at Enterprise. But that's also why I always Enterprise loves former athletes. They definitely have a program

where they get former athletes, they love them. But I always took some of that, like these kids crying and stuff like not like college sports obviously, and like seeing or hearing, uh the stories about the Fab five back in the day, and it's like the guys, you know, they start wearing the black Sox more in those like air Force max is, and then they would walk by a sports store and literally the display is their jerseys without their names on them, like Jalen Rose, you know,

Juwan Howard and these guys and being like we we didn't have been have money for pizza. Like that is still and so insane to me that that is an issue today, Like you don't have enough money to actually physically buy the jersey of yours that there and then and then people think it's like a joke or whatever. And look, there's means of getting bred, Like if you're a big name player, like you'll figure it out where

whether it's you know, over under the table. But there's a lot of people that can't sustain, that don't have that luxury and they have to kind of do this. And it's like the schools treat you while they fly you out, you know, when you're in season of course, like they want you to be at your best, but long term afterward, after that dream end, you know, you don't know, a lot of guys have to kind of go to the overseas, right or whatever. They're just not

prepared to get into regular life. Like they don't teach you all the other ship that you need to become a human being. It's all just like basketball, basketball or football, whatever it is, and then you get out there in the real world. You gotta figure it out. You gotta pay taxes and rinting all the Yeah, because like I didn't play a sport in college, and I still left with like, I'm like, what did I learn? Um? I did memorize one of my friends parents credit card numbers? Um,

I did you know? Like I learned, I guess some skills, but like, luckily I graduated at the height of the recession, so there were no jobs to be found anyways. But then it's just like the most viewed thing on TV. It's just so crazy. Yeah, because I remember my heis. I went to an all boys high school and we would turn on the tournament and just be on in the background. Yeah, you could have it on at school. It's the only sporting event that you got to because

it's important. I mean in Indiana, I think they were looking for a reason to not teach us. And then it's like, oh, basketball ours we would watch Hoosiers in class. Sometimes it's like a great movie, But is there anything to learn from it at a high school age? I think it could teaches kids, like play a sport. In Chicago would always felt like it was the beginning of spring.

Like I remember multiple years in Chicago, the first day of March Madness when there's I guess they're sixteen games on that first day getting fucked up because it starts at eleven am and go. It's like a real drinking and then a lot of my friend I was like a bartender, so I didn't have anything to do, but a lot of my friends who worked a nine to five jobs, they would get out early or like they

didn't have to go. They could work from home that day because their bosses are degenerates that are gambling and want to watch the games. The brackets. Yeah, I never really got into bracket any of that stuff, but I'd love a bracket. I mean, I love Sister Jean, I love all that stuff. It's so sweet. So that kind of goes into what my first one was. It can be a coming out party for some like legendary people.

And the one I remember this is the first time I heard about Steph Curry was at two thousand eight Davidson run. It's like one I didn't even know Davidson as a school I didn't know Steph Curry who he was, and just seeing his game that he's still shooting crazy threes now and then knowing just like I rewatched some of the games last night and I couldn't believe one he was. He was like averaging thirty two points a game. He was down like seventeen in the second round and

came back and ended with forty. And then in the third round he ended with thirty three points in front of Lebron two thousand and eight, but they lost in the in the sweet sixteen to Kansas who ended up winning. But then just thinking, man, he dropped thirty three in front of Lebron and then less than ten years later was just you know, stopping Lebron in the phone already.

So I just think, you know, March madness can create legends. Yeah, I mean you bring up an interesting point about like Davidson, it's like Gonzaga. That's it's that's in Gonzaga, but it's an entire school. Shawn us snowing it because of March madness. Like I had, I did shows in Spokane. I guess this is where it is. I'm like, oh, I thought it was in North Carolina, Like I had no concept of where it was, but I know that it's a place Villanova is kind of that way too, like, yeah, Illanova,

what the fun? Where is it in Philadelphia? But it's like on some random side of it was just like come on as a school. And I remember they were giving every new freshman a laptop. But I only went to tour Villanova because I had heard of it because of basketball. Yes, some of these schools I just thought were names of starter jackets until like I started looking into it. All right, well let's take a break and we'll be back with that on more picks and we're back, Okay.

Josiah was another one here, So another one. I'm gonna keep it U c l A themed again for this one, and then for my last one, I'll switch it up. But so two thousand six U c l A. Gonzaga. Gonzaga had Adam Morrison at that point, obviously back back to Zack talk, but uh but I love Morrison. He was like ship talking again, like Larry kind of Larry birdish with this ship talking level. So they end up meeting U c l A. I want to say it was at the sweet six team, I'm not I think

Sweet sixteen. I remember because we were all That was the year after I graduated, So who were all at Cabo Cantina on worlshop. Both of our remember, honestly I remember this like yesteryet getting two for one, just getting literally blitz. I'm there with a couple of my former teammates and we're not salty, but we're just like the year before we lost in the first round and that they're literally playing for the national championship like that. You know they would end up going on to do that.

So it's like they gotta squad should difference. I wish I would have stayed back a year in high school than I could have been a senior for that squad. But so we're at Cabo Cantina just getting blitz. Watching the game is the heavy U c l A crowd much of our classmates do some other teams like you know whoever, it may be just like heavy U c l A contingent watching there. I want to say, Gonzago is up like eighteen points and everybody's like the other

ships over me and my like inebriated state. I'm like, nah, I know the dudes on the squad like they're not just gonna throw the town this ship, like, but I'm the only one that kind of keeps watching. Everybody goes about their business. They start chipping away, chipping away soly but surely. Then literally final final moments they get the

steel and get the go ahead bucket. And then one of my former teammates, said Bozeman, who's a close friend of mine, who had actually tours a c L the year before, supposed to be a senior and graduated with us towards a cl like you know two days for the season started, came back turned I think Robbio had got the inbound pass, ended up like turning Robby. And then I want to say, uh, it was like a flower lucambo mute jumped and got the steel to kind

of preserve the game. And just like knowing how turn those dudes were, I was kind of like depressing square mugs. I had started my regular life at that point. It just kind of gave me a moment to like, really, I remember me and my buddies were at Cobo Canteen and literally hug fell on the ground, dumping drinks on each other. You know, thought we won the Super Bowl, just how lit we were for the squad winning. But then we got a little sold because like damny mother

Fuer's about the Winter National. Your buddy was a former player too. Yeah, okay, specialize in watered down too for one alcohol, so they'll give you that. So literally like Margharita's whatever it is, but they're like, let's say two for like eight bucks. But literally they're like two water down ask Margharita's. But in your mind you're thinking, like, oh, I'm gaming the system of sticky floors, like literally reasonable they were reasonably tough to mess up nachos for me.

But that was your go to spot. That was our go that was literally like a mile away from the house. Like like I said, heavy, you say, like contention, we go there watch games. There's in buzz Bees, which is right next door. So if Buzzy was too lit in the line was too long, you know, vice versa, you hit the other spot. You bring up a great point

because I love this culture. And there's one of my favorite clips that came out a few years ago when this guy, I can't remember what team it was, but they lost and he was doing a press conference and they're like, what are you gonna miss most about your playing career? And he pauses from like thirty seconds and he goes going out to eat and it's but the thing is like at any level, it was just because it's the it's maybe my favorite thing that builds suspense

in the payoff is just like incredible. But it's also just because I could relate to it, just like being on road trips or just like going out to meals with your teammates is one of the greatest joys in sports when the ship is free. Like yeah, oh my god, I remember we played it per Due one year when gene Katie was there and we went to the spot called c Ray. This is my freshman year literally probably ordered like three or four thousand dollars everybody, but freshman

year gaming the funk out of this system. Like everybody got like two or three main courses literally just roads and desserts on the table just like one taste like I'm good. But because for some reason these schools like that was the loophole. Was that a food budget. No, it's never gonna be questioned, and we got shipped for it after the fact. But I remember, like gene Katie rolled through too because he was friends with Steve Lavin, who was my coach at the time, and then he's

getting lit too. I'm sure he got a bunch of food on the have Like. It was literally just like wow, we were really like but those moments, as Hooper's like, when you're eating these good meals at these luxury restaurants in places you would never be able to afford to, you know, Monday through Wednesday, but come conference time for game time, you get these nice meals and ships like, yeah, you really appreciate those moments. Just a concept of West

Lafayette having a nice restaurant is making me laugh. I would I know, I would go. I would go. That's how I knew people's parents credit card time. I wouldn't put but they would be like, no, I know my parents credit card number, and they would just like read it off in their head to the waitress and then waitress be like, oh, like writing it down and then would put it into the system. Yeah. I mean we were having free meals, but someone's parents were paying for it.

A good time. We would go heavy on the gas card. Do you sell that? Definitely new zips? We knew the zip coach. Fill it up. That's so funny. All right, Megan, what's your what's your sec? Okay, this is a very very recent National Championship game U n C versus Villanova came down to the wire, which I feel like sometimes they don't. It's fun when they're when they do targles. Marcus Page hit a game tying three pointer and then you're like, oh, okay, we're done. It's less than five seconds.

And then Chris Jenkins sinks a three pointer as time expired, and they end up winning the National championship, which kind of is like, how I mean, if that had been first round, probably not gonna make my list, but to do that. And then what I loved about this as I because I was like, I don't know who Chris Jenkins is. I can't believe that this man has fallen off.

He's playing in Germany. Um. But then as I did more digging on him, sadly he was given up for adoption when he was in middle school by his family, and he was adopted by a basketball family, Like I think it was someone he played with. Um. Their name is the Britt family, and his adopted brother, Nate Britt, actually played against him in the tooth was sixteen national champion. Yeah, so Chris was playing for Villanova and Nate his brother by adoption, which is like, so blind Side was playing

at u NC. That's a real familial episode. Now, I think that's like really well, but I think that's kind of what college basketball and I think there are a lot of families right right. Well, this the first game played on True TV. I think that was the first year they ran the National Man somewhere around that time, but I remember it wasn't on CBS, and I'm just thinking, like, damn, they really they loved this though for for for advertising dollars.

I just remember I started like tuning in like midway through that tournament and then learning about that coach who looked like George Cliney that everyone says, right, yeah, that's why I was like, that's what you want to talk about. Yeah, That's what's so nice is there is like a rise of Sister Jean's kind of like a perfect example of like people becoming famous just for that tournament. And like I think there's been like dogs that were famous and

kids and like all this. Yeah, it's almost like a fifteen minutes of fame, but just for March madness and coaches that are hot get that too. But the thing is like, yeah, I feel like that was like used to be the prerequisite was like salt and pepper ass dudes, But now it's like a lot of former NBA players, thank god, but it's just like what what You just have slicked that gray hair and you can coach a basketball team. I kept trying to like find a perdue

moment that made me happy. To me, I mean, it's awesome to make it to the Sweet sixteen, it really is, but we're losing the Sweet sixteen every single year unless it's the first or second round. So I the one kid they had, that one kid who win off end up getting uh like Carson Wizard kid's name. He was getting buckets recently on Villanova. Oh yeah yeah, Carson net words that he has such a quarterback name that I

don't want to mix. Like we could we could have that team with hummele like we had teams and I feel like you always have these like big Bruiser like Big ten Midwest teams and that stuff good like Wisconsin for me to like, Okay, like, hey, watching a brand of basketball, but good performed well. I think Tom Izzo is the greatest March Madness coach of all time. He could take me a team of five means and he's like final four like that he's so he just like can coach in the tournament in a way that I

think is really really impressive. Michigan State is always so dangerous even if it's no one. Well, let me ask you just side because bring it's like per do some of these teams have to lose out on some prospects because they're in West Lafayette, Indiana or like what makes it is it's the one thing in sports where you can kind of go where you want to go, where you want to live. What makes players not choosing a

California school every time? Honestly, it's really weird for me, special for us in USC Like you said, he's literally like prime really stay right across the street from bell Air and like we've gotten some solid recruits him. But to me, it's like if you take a visit, like how do you not I want to go to Duke. I want to go wherever? Like like these spots are just not like it's literally like eighty some degrees today,

Like what is that? Just like the organization being like we're gonna take care of you, Like you don't need that distraction of l a exactly. Sometimes that helps because literally out of college, I was looking at at Xavier in Ohio, like and it was just like it would have been great to get away, Like I'm sure my basketball career would have been a lot better. No, I don't think so. I've been the Xavier's campus. You don't want to go there and snow like all you have

to do is go to the gym. Xavier's like kind of a notoriously fucked up program too. They've had some issues. I think they're no Cincinnati, But well, I think what I love I can bring up like a school. Now I can't graduate. Listen, I don't care. Nobody needs to graduate college. Our kid, I'll be like, I don't. You

don't need to look at a college. But since Addie did not graduate a player for like seven years, you know, and if the whole thing is like we're student athletes and I'm doing air quotes, then you have to have someone graduate as a student one person. Um, I feel like Lance went there. Now Lance went there, I don't know. Then he went to St. John's. I do think California is going to have a big edge now that they're like the only state that is saying they're going to

play or pay college athletes. I mean, look, we have so many good schools out here for U C, l a USC, Sant Diego State, Stanford, cal like you know UOP, Like there's there's there's squads out here. Bakersfield even has

a squad, like you'd think that. You know, I would never want to live in Bakersfield, don't get me wrong, But if I could be on Cali, like it's close enough to ship, like I can get to l A in like an hour and a half, I'd rather have that than playing somewhere where it's too cold to humor whatever it may be, Like, how do you not want to live in How do you not want to live in California? That's why I love when people are like why did Lebron come the Lakers? Like maybe because a

fucking gland he grew up in Acre. They have no loyalty to Cleveland whatsoever. This is not a thing. Could you imagine if like it's again, people are mad at that, people who never left their hometown. You know, it's like he's he didn't move here, he's had a house here, like this is where he comes. This is the thing that cracks me up. This is where the guys all come in the summertime. They don't go to all these other spots, Like they literally have houses in l A.

So why not why not play here? Yeah, all right, I'll do my pick. My pick is eighty two U

n C. Michael Jordan's game winner. I just you know, And it's funny because I've been watching a lot of early Jordan's stuff and like people didn't know who he was yet, and it's like, oh, he's been doing that like Jordan's I love watching the first few games of Jordan's Bulls playing career because it's like people are like, I've never seen this before, and it's like he got picked, drafted three and it's like he hit the game winner. He had something in him that was gonna make him legendary,

and it was all right there. His coach was Dean It they found him. And again, I guess you know, guys picking what college he went to? North Carolina. He grew up in Wilmington's like he was a hometown guy. And to hit that game where it's a famous basketball school, well it's not like, well, yeah, but he could have went to Duke. He could have went to other places, But you know, I just think it was the start of a amazing career. In Megan's mad, I'm talking about

Michael Jordan's I'm not mad. I'm glad that you were. I'm glad that you were alive and two to see it. I didn't. I wasn't, you know, you know, but I definitely I remember then Jordan Brandon Nike going, oh, why aren't we milking North Carolina colors that much? And I fell into that too. I was like, said, like when he got drafted by the Bulls, he was like, no, I want my shoe to be tar Hill blue and white. No, no,

I don't know what that story is. I swear I saw something, and you must have forced me to watch it. I'm not seeking out Jordan's material content on my own. I know he was like he was wanted to be Adidas or Converse before Nike picked him up. But that's crazy. It's just craz like the Flex and Nike, He's being

able to pull based off one dude. And the thing is, it's funny because you ever see like the videos of Jordan's hanging out around like the North Carolina facility and be like all right, I'll give you guys new shoes if you guys like win these next few games, call players out like you can't wear And I think Kobe had the same thing. I was like, you can't play like you're playing and wear my shoes and don't like take my ship off, like you can wear my lester,

you can wear my like team stuff. Yeah, get out of here, Bro, because if you're Jordan or Kobe and you're wearing my ship and you suck and you're at my alma mater, what are you doing? Some things are bigger than money, Like how do you disrespect me by wearing my nice as ship? Playing like trash? Like did you guys? Did you guys were you in a te mac era when you're at So we went from the Kobe era to the t mac era, So we definitely

had a bunch of team mats. The thing about Adidas and no knock to the coming, I'm sure there's great people there, but the shoes were always heavy as fucking It was like wearing literally like Semen boots and like they would have cool designs or whatever, but like those Kobe's. When the Moon boots that came out the next year was like what the like, who do you fun expect to want to play basketball? Yeah, like I know, like you guys are going for stylistic or whatever, like did

you not give these to hoopers and let them wear them? Right? Like? Literally we had remember Matt Barnes literally like fucking he cut the center part off of it just to get to where the laces were, like zipped up and did all this elaborate and I was like, bro, I just want to put these shoes on him. I remember seeing that picture and I didn't remember it was Matt Barnes, but I remember that. I was following Sneakers big time

back then. But people were modifying those codes because there was so you couldn't even get your foot in them. It was literally like you were like stomp and it's like what the like, come on, man, like make these just light and sleek wherever guys are Like, I just needed like a regular Adidas shoot that like the big guys. I mean, I hear rumors I want the name names in particularly some people would basically wear Jordan's and then put like three stripes on them. Yeah, because we would

have Adida's reps there. They're literally just be looking at your feet to make sure. Like, so, even if I didn't play and I was wearing some other shoes, who's doing I think Clay actually did that a couple years ago when he went to ant and the anti shoes weren't ready, so he would just tape over the swoosh. You met your friend, Clay, Yeah, my friend my skateboard. But I don't know why that's that's That's just always so interesting to me, especially at a college level when

you kind of just had your team. You're sponsored by Adidas, you gotta wear Adidas. Well, you usually hear of people putting logos on something like we were joking last night to put We're going to put a Jaguar logo on CJ's niece on Cube. It's usually someone being like, yeah, this is Gucci. It's not like someone lying to get away with it. It's lying to have a little come up? Is how you're doing it? All right? Um, Josiah, what other nuggets share with us? We would would never come

and visit. He came all the time. He was literally he was a legend. He is the I mean he did but he was so cute to me. John, I haven't stopped thinking about it, so I don't think any of it would He would like come and just watch practice, talk, come hang out. Like we were playing the John Wind Classic or the Wooden Tradition every year, so generally the one we were playing uh Anaheim, he would come to that one because it was close enough for him. But

he come my practice every once in a while. He had seats right behind the bench, so you'd always just look. He was very kind of hands off with this approach, but he was still talk a little shit to you every once in a while. I remember one time I was dribbling two basketballs and he's like, what are you doing? Like you only play with one who was your coach while you were there. I was there with Steve Lavin

and Ben Holland. All right, well, actually let's take a break and we'll come back with our final picks for greatest March Madness Moment. And we're back and we have our final selections for the greatest March Madness Moments, which I mean, I feel like we've been leaning on it. We've just been getting some good stories about college athletics in general from our guest here, Josiah. So Josiah share with us one one more story here one more so favorite.

It's kind of it's more elaborate than a comeback moment, but loyal Merrymount Squad, Hank Gathers and and Bo Kimball We're beasts. Obviously, Hay gradually passed away on the court kind of with the cardiac arrest. I was damn hold. I was seven going on eight years old. I was living actually in Italy. My dad was playing professionally overseas out there, and we only got like a few channels and it was super jankie like we literally got like I think it was like basically the Hallmark channel and

like the other ship we gets bored. It was. It was like but like all Hallmark movies, like like literally a year of my life just like watching those ships and like they were they were god awful. But that's what's all we had. But we would get l m U games occasionally. I don't know. For some reason, I really gravitated towards Hank Gathers, like watching play like like the style. Loved his highlights. So when you passed away, I remember, even as like a seven year old kid

for eight year old, you know, going on eight. My birthdays in April so it would have been before that, going on eight, like just how sad I was, and I was just starting to play basketball at that point. We're playing on the team out there, so definitely like put a band on him for it, like like an RMP band during the game out of respecting ship. But I remember that run they made with Bo Kimball and Kimball shooting shooting the free throws with his all hand,

and just how they were running. Numbers of the were putting like a hundred hundred, fifty hundred, twenty on dudes just getting buckets. Ended up losing the Elite eight, obviously,

but just from that moment lost it. I think you and l V that year God like smoked in the Elite eight, but you really thought, like Dan, the dudes might be able to do it, just kind of all the motions around and and I grew up probably like five minutes aware from l m U. So that moment to me was just like, Yo, one of one of the things you love to see in the tournament, kind of like the Sister Jean level, just like things that you'll remember forever, like you know, seeing both shoot with

his off hand and make a free throw. I think it was left hand out out of respecting for his teammate and literally just knocking that ship down. And I got to meet both both a few times when you play with the Clippers. Just a cool last dude. I don't think he ever really emotionally recovered from that moment, you know, if you really because his career should have

been a lot better than it was. But I mean, I I lost a friend the same way playing basketball in high school and I didn't play for three years after that. My friend called a time out and then he fell over and then he fell in to Tacoma. It was crazy and they died a day later. And so I mean, I I mean, I knew the hand gather story, but I didn't know that Bo Kimball like sort of his career is kind of a little different

after that. Yeah, I think they were boys like growing up once they grew up in the same area, end up going to SC together. Didn't you really get burned at SC? So transferred to l m U. They ended up like you know what, I think Paul westfall like introduced his ridiculous offense, like you know, but they were putting game. It's just you know, stuff like that, and it happened just recently with Kobe. Obviously, it's like it's such an not to get like bring this down a bit.

But you know, basketball is such a silly game. You know, we're watching on so many different levels, and then something like this happened to like, wow, the game. You think about the game differently, you think about you know a lot of this stuff differently, and for you know, I was even talking about just trying to put this Kobe stuff in any sort of perspective, you know, hand gathers or like who it wasn't Lamby, Like it's like a Zion die. There's a kid that went shoot. I was

thirteen at the time. He went to my rival high schools and was Jon Stewart and my rival high schools where Greg Odin went, Mike Conley went. It's a pot Lawrence North, it's a powerhouse. They played on national television all the time, and he um, he died on the court.

I mean he died right. He went into cardiac arrest and it like shook the community to I mean I remember my dad, my mom, my brothers, and it was just so horrible and he was the star, to which like doesn't make it worse, but it kind of does because he was this like lovable face of this iconic program and for his classmates who are also children to watch him die is and it's it's just so sad that,

like basketball has so many of those stories. I have a friend who is a nurse who actually does heart screenings now to specialize in catching like what John has like this very and her she was a basketball player, her son is like a young phenomen basketball player, like it's and that has she's like changed the course of her career to specialize in that cardiac issue so she

can screen athletes around the country. And but like she's only doing that because it has become such a such an issue mandatory, and I think they're pushing to have um, you know that there's murmurs and there's regular harpie. Yeah yeah, who there was an NBA player recently not channing from Bosch. Bosch has something to deliver deliver thing. Jeff Green too, I think Jeff Green, that's who was He got surgery

mid mid career for that. I mean that's the thing about especially like high school and kids like that, they don't have the resources available, Like a high school don't even have trainers to like tape ankles and do ship

like that because they can't afford it. So you'd really just like to see, like, you know, because because it's sad that it takes one of those types of things happening to get people to weariness, Like nobody before the fact would be like, yeah, we need to do heard screen AND's like why nobody, nobody nothing, you know, nothing's bad ever happened from it, like why why should we

give a funk? On a lighter note, but still on the same topic as that, so my friend who passed away, we got there, like we need to get a defibrillator in the gym, and then at one point they were like, should we name the defibrillator off of him? And tribute? And I was like that is not I was like in high schools, like do not name the thing he needed to live off of him? You know? But yeah, just I remember his name hanging over It's like, oh, yeah,

that's that would have been great if we had that before. Um, all right, I'm just trying to find our company. It's called play Heart Smart and so they go around the country and do e KG tests, which are not required as part of a general physical for sports because you have to get a physical um and so they are doing like just one more advanced screening to make sure that again, what's the name of it, play heart smart

that's it. I mean, that is like a legitimate awareness that I mean the thing I want to put awareness mind. I think about high school physicals. All they do, especially for boys, like literalis like check your heart like a second. My grandfather was a pediatrician, and I get he used to do mine. He was like eighty years old and he would do my tennis physical. I remember when I after he passed away, I was like, I don't even

I didn't even like know. I mean obviously I wasn't as a child, but I had never been to a doctor other than my grandpa to do it. Yeah, I mean for me, for me, they would have been like you just eat funnians and have asthmy be fine, Like, but a legitimate you're gonna say something racist. Yeah that's when I was. You know how it's always I don't trust erie to have been kind to you as a young Asian, you know what. All they were like, hey that's a little Asian kid, and I'd be like, yeah,

check me out. So I liked the attention, But there was my brother and sister didn't have a great time. So but I was already handling it. I mean, you're broken in the perfect way, I guess. Yeah, yeah, I've made I've made money off of my brokenness. Yeah, I mean I think though I have one more. I roasted you for not being alive in the Jordan one, and I'm not alive for this one. But it is still the most watched basketball game in the history of America,

professional or college. Forty million people tuned in to watch Magic versus Birds in the seventy nine championship game Michigan State Indiana State. The hick from French Lick Indiana State came in undefeated. And I think people really point to this game as like changing how people viewed college basketball just as a whole. Like it just wasn't like, oh, these are young kids and the good ones will play.

I was like, oh, this is actually a very marketable, interesting, dynamic players happening, and it launched one of the greatest rivalries that basketball has ever known. Yeah, I always forgot that was like when I was watching those old NBA hs is, Like I watched that Magic one and then when they would always cut to like that game and what these dudes played each other already and we're already famous.

Imagine those dudes playing each other in college and then going to the Lakers in the Celtics was like that, Sure, that was just a coincidence, right, you know what I mean? Like Calves got number one pick in two thousands three already million is so crazy. Yeah, but really when you think about that moment, because I'm sure from a business standpoint, like, yeah, we gotta get these dudes, like we can have Magic and Larry being like two ship holes, but we need

them our biggest markets. We need these dudes battling each other for the next ten years. But and we got it, and they literally and they made it happen. There is a Broadway play. Did you guys know that there's a Broadway play Magic Versus Bird. It was about their their careers playing against each other. See, I mean we could. The fact is we could. There should be shows about basketball.

People like it's it's a weird thing. People like people necessarily like watching games, but things about basketball they really like enjoy watching. Yeah, I mean, even just like the thirty for thirties that are about basketball. Everyone I know that watches them that doesn't like sports are like, oh, these are very compelling. Yeah, happy and sad ones That Benji one that's like one of the saddest movies I've ever seen. Sorry, I didn't mean to bring it down,

but then Winning Time. Winning Time is one of the funniest movies I've ever Winning Time I think is a big reason why we got married. I think we've that's sad. Yeah, what can you get left from Reggie on the engagement still from race today? I love Reggie. My mom used to be you see, my mom used to be his real estate agent for his summer like summer living. So I literally got to hang out with Reggie at like the Sentry City mall and ship dropping around the city.

I want to do. I don't know how we're going to talk about. I want to just ask you all these stories about it's funny like until you bring them up, like I gotta think about ship, Like we've had all this, Like my mom was like the real estate agents for the Clippers back in the day, so just randomly like any dupe from like the Terry to hair air like like she was. I can get in the rich. It was like the most have seen them out like that death row snoop and all those through the sugar like

literally real estate agent fucking for death brows. It's like random mass story. And I was just living as a kid. Were you like, can I get all eyes on me autographed or anyways? Like we would go to events of like dad's house, like barbecues and was going on. I was young at that point, but like but definitely like some fucking like turn up ship cracking um. Reggie's boat growing up was named the Bruin and he had a tap on it, which is not allowed, I don't think,

because yeah, you all those we are. We grew up on the lake and our house looked out on the lake almost like around the corner directly at his house. Okay legends and then Vic vic Odipo lives across the street from your parents, and it was the one, the latest thing. It was his first game back the other day. Yeah, and he hit the with the game winner. He hit

a game tying three to send it to overtime. And then her dad send a textas next morning, Hey, Victor had a Rosal Royce and brand new Rose Royce vintage. Oh dropped off in the driveway. It's like, that's how it is day, what a feeling, Rose Royce. How inspirational was it last night seeing Matthew Cherry when an oscar? Yeah, I mean literally, I think you know a lot of people, especially on the Twitter space. You know Cherry and is how how amazing of a duty is He's always positive.

I've actually never got to meet him, Like Faith and Fish, we've communicated a bunch through email, DMS whatever. He showed love to your account quite a bit, and literally, like I remember the moment we both knew we were legends. We were watching Game of Thrones and we both used this uh meme from set it off, like I forgot who died, Lady Morimond died. He put a better caption to me. I'll remember doing stuff I'm watching because we

literally dropped in the same exact moment. Because like what we're gonna say, like you're one second, you put the same ship up as me, but his capin was better than my. Remember being me so soft, like yo, do the genius. But now it's like, yeah, you're like, oh, I'm in the same class as a DUDEY just wanted Oscar and you guys you set it off. That's like

such an obscure. That's why I knew that like work, and he was a former athlete, but just seeing like I remember when you put up hair Love when it first came out, and one of my biggest regrets was not contributing to it. But I also saw that it

was going to hit its target. So I was like, alright, like my money is not really gonna make a difference on this when it's gonna hit it, let me let me put it for somebody else's ship, but to see where it's come from and winning an Oscar and like this dude on stage bawling out giving contributes to Kobe's like, damn, bro, this is like this is why we all hustle. I feel like for those moments, but you know it just yeah,

it was great. I knew it was gonna win any other ones about It's like I feel like this has a good campaign going, yeah, and had tons of love on the street, and it was because you know, like sometimes those things happened, like I was a big fan of when they see this and then then up winning the Emmy and my buddy Michael Starbury wrote on that and that you know it was like, you know, there ain't no way the ship can't win to Emmy. But you know Turn Up Boys he will point out to

you like turn Boy was a good, good show. So I'm not worried about Starbury. He's he's collecting a war. He's got his oscar coming up soon at some point. All right, well, Josiah, where can we find you? Um? What are you working on right now? What do you want people to check you out? So? I'm doing a show with y'all who Sports called dunk Bait, So you can watch that on y'all who Sports social platforms NBA, Twitter, related me legettro Jen because in Zack Swartz also known

as Zack's exactly on that one. Then, Uh, doing some other stuff behind the scenes that I can't announce you, but it's definitely bather and it definitely keep my kids very well filled. Uh, And working on some other stuff too with a couple of former teammates working on a little animated project that I'm super excited about that that I'll be dropping in the near future. That will be super runchy sounch is gonna be I could agree to do.

It was like, yo, like he came with me with the idea and I'm like, this isn't inherently a new idea, but I know you, and I know the way that you're gonna tell stories and you're gonna make a fucking completely different thing that nobody else will be able to run. So I love those type of moments and we can get it on the air, like yeah, get it. We gotta go back us to be Megan. You should come along too. We gotta go back to that cheesecake factory

that we first hung out for. Honestly, it's a funny thing that I meet so many people like like yourself, like we'll have lunch or or whatever. It's like, damn, so many legends I hear that that are doing such great ship and you kind of form these bonds just off of funny tweets, and I feel like, now, you know, because everyone just just thinking are just guys, you know, messing around on Twitter, but now everyone has like, oh wait, they did this, they won that Oscar or they have

this show. It's like, yeah, these are real people on Twitter is just like shoot around for us. The thing about the Twitter that people don't understand like a lot of people come hating and talking. It's like, dude, I'm getting paid to do this, Like this is a job for me, Like this is you know, this is fun for you, like you wish me cancer or whatever, like that's cool, but I'm getting a check. So whether you love or hate this content, my employees are very very

pleased with what I'm giving them. And I'm using Twitter as literally a platform to test my material, test defense, like they say in Jurassic Park, just to rap there, testing the fence, trying to find the weeks, but help the ships off. Let me go ahead and get it. But so yeah, so it's just a good time, man. I hope to see you in your fur coat next time. Yeah. I might bring it up to Chicago. Yeah you should. You have to. It's too bothered though. People start staring,

start assuming I'm doing good. I don't have that much money. So your handle at King Jos fifty four right on Twitter, so you can that's like your main your main handle, Megan, Where can people follow you? Megan Gaily and then better Megan Gaily and then depending on when this comes out, I will be in d C at the DC Draft House on March and that should be out by that.

I hope you guys uh come to a show. I've got lots of sports material and my brother lives there, so whenever I'm in d C, I always go out after the shows and get lit. Alright, alright, maybe I'll be there. You can check out me at c J

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Like later, I've become a show to just see comedy anyone if I'm trying to get in that space. But saw that the tacos set up they had there the most elaborate, like baller like delicious, like they make their their tortillas right outside of a tiny target exactly. But so yeah. I mean, if you come to that show, come hungry because the Filipino food and the tacos ye both support support the support the restaurant support. June is a legend to June the owner because the Filipino basketball

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