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Jay King, Jam Packard, and Brian Robb break down the latest drama surrounding Jaylen Brown being passed over for Team USA before diving into all your questions about the Celtics in a jam-packed mailbag episode.  The hosts get into the latest Celtics offseason buzz, focusing on Jaylen Brown's intriguing absence from Team USA and his Nike troubles. Delving into the Celtics' championship potential, the hosts debate the team's future success with contrasting viewpoints.  In a whimsical twist, they playfully ponder the choice between a fruit tree and a trained dinosaur, sparking a hilarious debate on practicality versus excitement. Beyond the Celtics, the podcast explores other NBA contenders like the Thunder, Nuggets, Knicks, and Sixers, all while humorously dissecting the idea of owning a dinosaur. Tune in for a blend of basketball analysis, imaginative scenarios, and lively banter that promises an entertaining and informative episode for all listeners.  0:00 - Intro 1:06 - Jaylen Brown Situation 7:10 - Impact on the Celtics 9:14 - Betting odds analysis 13:06 - Celtics as championship favorites 18:01 - Celtics as favorites 20:49 - Viral tweet success 26:33 - Thief based society 32:27 - Luke Kornet's shooting potential 35:40 - Luke's shooting struggles 39:39 - Math problem solution 44:27 - Summer league timing 46:20 - Team off-season involvement 49:27 - Player development plans 52:43 - Second apron impact 54:32 - Honest conversation choice 57:29 - Time machine existence    CLNS Media is Powered by:   Prize Picks - PrizePicks.com/CLNS  Download the app today and use code CLNS for a first deposit match up to $100!   Gametime - https://gametime.co  Take the guesswork out of buying NBA tickets with Gametime. Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code CLNS for $20 off your first purchase. Download Gametime today. Last minute tickets. Lowest Price. Guaranteed. Terms apply.  Elevate your style game on and off the course with the PXG Spring Summer 2024 collection. Head over to https://PXG.com/GARDENREPORT and save 10% on all apparel.  Nutrafol Men! Take the first step to visibly thicker, healthier hair. For a limited time, Nutrafol is offering our listeners ten dollars off your first month’s subscription and free shipping when you go to https://Nutrafol.com/MEN and enter the promo code GARDEN!   #celtics #NBA #BostonCeltics The CLNS Media Network is the leading provider for video/audio content. CLNS is a fully credentialed member of the media with access to all NFL/NBA/NHL/MLB teams & venues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------  CLNS' rebuilt their YouTube community in less than 12 months, during a pandemic that attacked sports. Wondering how? Find out here (and support our channel) - https://www.tubebuddy.com/clnsmedia  Visit the Official Home of CLNS Sports Coverage -  https://clnsmedia.com

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00:00:30Welcome to Still Potable! The best podcast covering your world championship Boston Celtics.

00:00:56I am Sam J.M. Packard, joined by Brian B. Rob Robb of MassLive.com and J. King of The

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00:01:41slash Still Potable today and subscribe. Today, we've got a classic summertime mailbag. We

00:01:48sent out the call for questions to our great patrons, the kids, the gods, and the legends.

00:01:54They delivered, and we're going to try to jump into as many of them as possible, because

00:01:59it's a lot of stuff, a lot of basketball stuff, a lot of kind of, I would say, tomfoolery

00:02:04and shenanigans. So you boys ready? I'm ready. Do we want to talk about Jalen Brown's Aspie

00:02:11first? Do we want to talk about Jalen Brown and whatever the thing around his neck is

00:02:16making him so he can travel from seemingly Saudi Arabia to Los Angeles and just all over

00:02:22the world and just continue just to show up places? Sure. Let's talk about what was

00:02:27your thoughts on the SBJ?

00:02:28I just want to know why his mom's mad at him. In his acceptance speech for his best championship

00:02:39performance award, he said that his mom is mad at him. So I don't know why. I want to

00:02:46know why.

00:02:47Derek White. Yeah. Could it be, could it be like trying to rain on Derek White's parade?

00:02:52Is that, is that possible?

00:02:53That'd be funny if his mom was just mad at him. Like Jalen, come on, son.

00:03:00You seem pretty disappointed. You disapproved of his tweeting decisions two pods ago. So

00:03:05I think it could be the same thing.

00:03:07So we didn't discuss the next layer of it, which is that he thinks Nike intentionally

00:03:12kept him off because presumably because he spoke out about the company's lack of ethics

00:03:20in 2022. He had a tweet about it, but I think he's done more than that before. Like he he's

00:03:25worn, I believe shoes that like cross the swoosh out on Nike's he's done like more than

00:03:34more than one thing to kind of poopoo on, on Nike. And, uh, do I think Nike decided

00:03:44that Jalen Brown's just should not be on team USA? Yes. You think so? No, but it's fun to

00:03:51say no, I don't think so either. Um, but it's, it is interesting that both he and Kyrie Irving

00:04:00were left off.

00:04:01Is it interesting that Kyrie Irving was left off the team? Kyrie Irving stinks. He doesn't

00:04:08stink, but like, he's not, he shouldn't be on team USA. There's not a, he was not a snub

00:04:13whatsoever. Jalen Brown is like arguably a snub. He was a snub. I think he deserves,

00:04:19has the talent to be there, but I don't think it at all is about his, uh, shoe proclivities.

00:04:27I think, I mean, looking at, and I know you guys hit on this a lot. I agree with what

00:04:32you came out with in terms of how it just was not, I could look for Jalen to, to kind

00:04:36of rain on Derek's parade. But with that said, looking at the roster and I know this roster

00:04:41was set a month ago. I know the rumors were out a month ago that Derek white would be

00:04:45the fill-in for quiet, quiet, couldn't go. But I look at it and be like, why is Jalen

00:04:49Brown not in this team over like Halliburton or even like Devin, dare I say Devin Booker

00:04:56at this point? And I can get him being pissed when it's like Kawhi Leonard is like a two-way

00:05:02wing and you're replacing a two-way wing of size with a guard. And Derek white is a great

00:05:09fit. This team needs defensive guards because I think it's poor roster construction to have

00:05:14Curry Booker and Halliburton, like three guys who can't defend as your guards.

00:05:19And so maybe white solves that problem for them. But in my mind, I can see Jalen be like,

00:05:23what, like, am I never going to be on the Olympic team after this? Like what's, what's

00:05:26the deal here? Do we think that Jalen was dead serious with this stuff or was he on

00:05:33a cross world flight and was just like, I might as well stir some shit up online. He

00:05:39doubled down today though. But also he's like doing it again. I don't know. He no comment

00:05:45in it tonight. So maybe he was asked by Cam Newton of all people about the team USA situation

00:05:53and no comments that he was with his usual. Yeah. Was his beautiful date, his actual beautiful

00:05:59date or the Larry O'Brien trophy. Who do you think he was referencing? I think he was referencing

00:06:04his beautiful date. Well, he's standing there like kind of gestured towards the Larry O'Brien

00:06:09trophy. I think he was probably gesturing toward wherever his new girlfriend was. I

00:06:15think Jason Tatum has been hogging the Larry O'Brien trophy that he's just trying to, you

00:06:19know, he had two beautiful dates. I think he just puts Jason Tatum also in a weird spot

00:06:24to come. Also, if it is all about Nike, cause Jason Tatum's like coming out with a new JT

00:06:29threes, like kind of the poster face of Nike right now. And now Jason Tatum has to answer

00:06:34all these questions about, uh, yeah, I guess Jalen's kind of pissed off. It was sort of

00:06:40an awkward interview when somebody asked him about whether he'd spoken to Jalen. Wasn't

00:06:45it Forsberg? I think I just watched that clip and I thought it was a question and he was like,

00:06:50uh, no. And then was asked, I think about whether it's tough to be without Jalen. And he was like,

00:06:58uh, yeah, last spot could have gone to like a number of people or whatever. And, uh, yeah,

00:07:04we missed it. It was just going to ruin the Celtics guys. I think that's like,

00:07:09is this the big question for a team that had no drama last year? We now have had more drama

00:07:14in the first week of July with this team than we had pretty much the entire season last year.

00:07:20It is, it is. I mean, I don't think it's going to rip apart the Celtics. I don't think Derek

00:07:24white will care at all. I don't think in the end this will make much of a difference,

00:07:30but it is very interesting that Jalen decided not to congratulate Derek white

00:07:36and instead to attack Nike and the team USA selection process.

00:07:42It just, uh, just an interesting move. Well, that's, it's an interesting,

00:07:47maybe, maybe an interesting enough move to piss off his mother. Maybe, perhaps,

00:07:52maybe it ruins the whole like things that happened with the Jays. And that brings us

00:07:55to our first question from Ian Gansler. If you had to handicap, how many titles the Celtics

00:08:01will win with the Jays and the Jays tenure, where would you set the over under good one?

00:08:09It's a good one. So remaining championships over under one and a half, I'm going two and a half,

00:08:15one and a half remaining or one and a half over remaining. Yeah, that's true. Like total or

00:08:18remaining one and a half new championships. Yeah. I think that's the right number.

00:08:26You think one and a half is the over under for new championships? Yeah.

00:08:30It's just hard. I think there is. Yeah. I would probably take the under there. If it was the,

00:08:40if it was just at a half, I would take the, I think they're going to win. Like realistically,

00:08:44if I had to take off my world championship, Boston Celtics shirt right now, I think they'd

00:08:51probably like likely win one more, but it's just, we haven't had a repeat championship at all.

00:08:56While the whole league CBA is like right now, not, you're not supposed to have like

00:09:04that much luxury tax or, uh, and it's designed to not have to have more parody.

00:09:09And so it'd be very impressive. I think they're plenty capable of getting to two, but if I was

00:09:14a betting man, I would bet on one. Um, so that's why I think the one and a half is the good over

00:09:19under line. Yeah, I'd go. I think half a championship is, is over under, and I would

00:09:28probably go, I would go over on that. Um, but I just think it's so hard now to, to build

00:09:37sustainability and like you, you look ahead at the obstacles that they're going to have.

00:09:45Uh, number one, Al Horford is 38 years old already. His, he will diminish at some point

00:09:52through holiday 33. I don't believe that. Presumably, presumably. Um, and then, but then,

00:10:01then there's a $200 million tax bill that's, that's coming. So you got to deal with that.

00:10:07If you stay over a second apron, you're going to start losing future draft picks.

00:10:11Like, like there, there are going to be huge, huge, huge, um, costs to keeping this team together,

00:10:20both monetarily and in the form of lost assets. So I just think it's going to be too hard to,

00:10:27to keep things running. I don't think it's set up anymore to have dynasties.

00:10:34I think the Celtics are fortunate that they do have a window to maybe rattle off

00:10:39another one or another two or whatever before everything really, really, really catches up to

00:10:45them. But, but there's just so much that can tackle you. Um, and a lot depends on how long

00:10:52Tatum and Brown stay together too. Right now, obviously they're, they're set up to stay together

00:10:58for a long, long time. Um, but after this supporting cast is diminished, which it will be

00:11:04because of all the, because of age of guys and because of, um, just the, the monetary

00:11:12commitment that it will take to keep even some of these guys together, then I think they're

00:11:17going to have to emerge and be even better than they were this past season. Like they're going

00:11:22to have to carry even more of a burden and they're not going to be able to have the bad shooting

00:11:26nights that they had. Sometimes they're not going to be able to rely on, you know, their fifth and

00:11:31sixth options being just infinitely better than the fifth and sixth best players on the other

00:11:35team. So that's, that's a long way of saying it's going to be going to be really tough to rattle

00:11:41off a bunch of them. I don't know, as, as a guy who is usually the resident pessimist on this

00:11:47podcast, I'm going over here, I'm going over one and a half. Like, I'm sorry, outside of them being

00:11:55split up in a couple of years for the salary stuff, like, because the team just wants to

00:12:01build, you know, keep the full supporting cast in place around Jason. And, and it's just too

00:12:06costly to keep them together. Like you have two guys in their prime right now that are fully

00:12:12bonded to the team concept and yeah, they're going to lose some pieces, but they also just won the

00:12:15title of pretty much without forcing us. And so with the more age, no, he had a pretty good game

00:12:21one. And then we had a pretty good game one, but like a game and a half out of like, they win that

00:12:27series about forcing us regardless. Is that safe to say in the finals? Yeah, they were much better

00:12:33than they're much better. Yeah. And the, the competition will get better, but it's going to

00:12:38be just as hard for these teams around the league to build, like put the pieces in place. And we

00:12:44know the Knicks are trying to do it. The Sixers are trying to do it, but all those teams have

00:12:46questions. Teams are weakening in the West as we, as we go here, whether it's the nuggets,

00:12:52guys getting old the thunder on or up and coming, but they still are unproven. So give me one in

00:13:00the next two years and then give me one down the road with this group. I like those odds at this

00:13:05point just based on the ages and what they've shown to be able to done to do. And I think

00:13:11one thing that, that makes it difficult to keep winning championships in the NBA is that it's a

00:13:17league that's sort of a copycat league and whatever team wins a championship, the other

00:13:24teams start to look at that and be like, how can we counteract that? And I think you've seen it

00:13:29already. I think the Knicks, like they, they decided, you know, Hartenstein's not our priority.

00:13:34We need to get more wings. Oklahoma city went out and got Caruso. They got Hartenstein, like

00:13:41two, two way guys who can play deep in the playoffs and, and give themselves different

00:13:48options. I just think like it, it becomes harder. Like when the Warriors won the rockets,

00:13:54put together a team that could combat them and they didn't win, but they got really close to

00:14:01knocking off one of the best teams ever by basically deciding we're going to switch everything.

00:14:06We're going to have a lot of big, tough guys and we're going to be the, their kryptonite. And I

00:14:10think that teams, teams do that in the NBA and teams will be more ready. I think for the Celtics,

00:14:19their style, all the threes they take and, and it'll just be a little tougher going forward.

00:14:28This, this was a charm season. It really was.

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00:16:04a make or miss league. People forget that. Um, I'm going to combine a couple of questions into

00:16:09this next one. Given what we're all talking about, about future championships. Do you guys right now

00:16:15see the Celtics as the favorites to win the championship next year? I know in Vegas they

00:16:20are, but I feel like every returning champion kind of gets that from Vegas. But do you guys

00:16:25see the Celtics as the absolute favorites to win the championship? And then just question of like,

00:16:31how many games do you think they're going to win in the regular season? Considering all the guys

00:16:36that have played in the Olympics, considering Chris Stapps Porzingis injury, uh, are you going

00:16:40to say people's names here? I'm combining multiple questions. So let's, let's say some names, baby.

00:16:47We got to give the people the credit, uh, scrolling Mike asked about 55 games.

00:16:56Uh, a bunch of people are kind of asked about the dynasties. Grant asked about that.

00:17:01Um, Ben F asked about kind of like Celtics chances of repeating. And I am searching for

00:17:09favorites for next season, but I cannot find it. But once I do, I'll give them credit,

00:17:14but you guys can start by answering the questions. They should absolutely be the favorites. They were

00:17:19far and away the best team all season. Like B-Rob said, they did not need Porzingis for most of the

00:17:24playoffs and just blitzed everybody. The Mavericks emerged from what everybody thought was a tougher

00:17:30Western conference and had no chance against the Celtics. So yes, they should be the favorites.

00:17:35They bring back everybody. Um, they're still young, although Drew and Al are getting older.

00:17:41They're, I don't want to call them bit pieces because that's probably a little demeaning to

00:17:48them, but, but they're not the, the premier players on the team. And I think a lot of the guys might

00:17:57have their best basketball in front of them still. So yes, they should be absolute favorite. 55 is

00:18:06they're going over 55. Like they, they pace themselves this regular season. They sat Porzingis

00:18:15whenever he was mildly injured, they sat Al on back to backs. They like, they did not go all

00:18:23out to win as many games as they could. And they still won 64 games. I think 55 is on a low end.

00:18:29They won 57, um, in Joe Missoula's first season when he was still learning stuff, when they were

00:18:34still learning stuff, when their roster wasn't as good. So I'd go over 55 for sure. Although,

00:18:41um, you know, any injury to Tatum injury to Brown, like sustained absences for those guys

00:18:50could make things more difficult, would make things more difficult. Yeah.

00:18:58So easy favorites for me at this point. And yeah, for that reason I am taking, I do think

00:19:04they, I will take a slight under on the 55 because of the injury. Like you have Porzingis out

00:19:12for, you know, like the baseline for him is probably gonna be 40 games. One more injury

00:19:18there puts you in a little bit of a pickle. Um, and you throw that in with fighting just the East.

00:19:23I think the East is a lot better. I think it's going to be tough to win these games, especially

00:19:27earlier when you don't have Porzingis for the first few months, like you're not going to be

00:19:30able to run away in the standing. So I, I think they could, you could potentially win the Eastern

00:19:37conference when the, with wins in the mid fifties Packer, because it's just like, there's just gonna

00:19:42be a lot of good teams in the top seven, top eight, I feel like. And so that might just might

00:19:46be really competitive at the top. Yeah. And I can see a world where the Celtics are not the best

00:19:53record in the Eastern conference. I don't even the second best. Like I, the Sixers are going to win

00:19:5760 games next year and it's not going to matter. Why are the Sixers going to win 60? Because they're

00:20:01a regular season merchants. That's all. Why are they regular season merchants? I don't believe

00:20:06in this one at all. Yeah, I agree. I'm with Jay in this. They're going to get those guys, George

00:20:10or George has, has missed a ton of games lately. Joel and B cannot be counted on to play 65 games

00:20:17or more. And Tyrese Maxey, when he was the lone guy last year, and I think they had a better

00:20:23supporting cast last year, they were no good. They were terrible. And so I think they're,

00:20:31they're a better team this year. They'll be better in the post season. Will they be a legitimate,

00:20:38will they win a lot of games in a regular season? I'm, I would go way under 60 probably just because

00:20:44of the, the injuries that I'm sure are coming. Well, I'm going to be moving to the city. So they

00:20:49might feed off that kind of weaning vibe. But we got our first Joshua beat. You are a viral,

00:20:54viral tweet guy these days. Yeah. 40,000 likes is not a, it's just a casual Thursday for me,

00:21:00you know? But I knew it was about the tweet. I didn't see any questions about the, about my

00:21:07tweet, but it was a tweet that I sent it. I was like, Oh, did you know it was a banger when you

00:21:12sent it? Yeah. And tell the people what it is. Let's let's let's. Okay. Well, it kind of talks

00:21:17about Jalen Brown tweeting about Nike. He tweeted, I'm not afraid of you and your resources.

00:21:23And I quote tweeted saying me going on a date with a woman who has a job, you know, classic,

00:21:29classic joke there, reading your own tweet out loud. It's hard to get the same delivery there.

00:21:34You have to have the kind of the visual of it, but we're at 41,000 likes now. Shout out to

00:21:40dragonfly Jones. He was an early adopter. I think he really allowed it to spread.

00:21:44Um, but just the notifications, like we're rolling in after five minutes and I knew I

00:21:49knew I had something there. Are you going to promote, attach something to it?

00:21:55Oh, I should probably put still potable underneath that. Uh, I'll do that right now.

00:21:59Um, don't do that. That's no, don't do that today. You don't want that ruins. Like,

00:22:03I hate when people do that. Act like you've been here before. I'm just trying to promote the show

00:22:07guys. You should, you should pull up a fake sound cloud. If you're going to do that,

00:22:11that's the only way to do that. A fake sound cloud. But can it sound cloud just be a link

00:22:16to the show? Can we just be promoting the show on the sound cloud? The still potable intro.

00:22:20Ooh, T-money. Send me a link. Dropbox it. Um, this relates, this is our first Josh B question

00:22:30of the evening. Who do you think we're talking about this, but who do you think the top five

00:22:34contenders are? We all firmly, I think, think the Celtics are number one, but who are your next four

00:22:40in terms of, uh, likely to win the NBA championship? Thunder, um, nuggets,

00:22:52Knicks, and I guess Sixers. I don't know. I feel like even that's a, I'm like,

00:23:02hasn't that you put them in that mix, but, um, yeah, I don't really trust anyone enough

00:23:08in the West to, to throw another team in the West out there yet.

00:23:12I'm still putting the nuggets first. I think there's a lot of room for growth for them from

00:23:18last season, even though they lost KCP. Like when you have Yokage, he's pretty good. Cause

00:23:24it was pretty, pretty big advantage in a lot of, a lot of series, uh, Denver one.

00:23:32I think I'll go Philly after them. And then I I'm still not really buying. Okay. See,

00:23:42as a title contender, I won't do it. You can't make wolves, wolves. No,

00:23:49they were really ready to anoint the wolves, uh, about two months ago. Yeah. That, that faded fast.

00:23:55That faded fast. I can't, I can't put the Knicks up there either.

00:24:04Can I sell you on some Giannis? Giannis is pretty good. Giannis is pretty good. Yeah. Yeah.

00:24:12I think people are under like, I'll throw Dallas. I'll throw Dallas in there again.

00:24:18Why not? I think the, the reason to believe in Dallas,

00:24:23one of the reasons to believe in Dallas is that the final should transform Luka.

00:24:30He should come out of that series knowing I need to be in better shape. I need to be more durable.

00:24:36I need to be better defensively. And if he comes away from that and just transforms himself,

00:24:45evolves, I think there's a chance that, that they'll, they'll end up back in the finals again.

00:24:52But who else did I, did I pick four teams? I can't, I can't find a four.

00:25:01It sounds like I'll put OKC in there. I'll put OKC in there. All the basketball teams

00:25:05are bad. And then there's the Boston Southeast is what I'm, what I'm hearing right now.

00:25:09I feel the thing of OKC is like, they have another trade in them. Like they,

00:25:12they have so much stuff that they can add another guy in the middle of the season to really be like,

00:25:18I think that the luxury tax is going to be a hindrance to them.

00:25:22That's true. That's true. They got oil money. They're sitting on tax money. They can pay.

00:25:28Yeah. That really hasn't been the way they've operated in the past.

00:25:34Do you guys know how the name Sooner became the associated with Oklahoma?

00:25:40Do not know, but I don't care either.

00:25:43Well, I'm going to tell you anyways. So the start of Oklahoma was just existing.

00:25:50They had to, they just did a big old land grab. Like it was basically just like,

00:25:53this is probably the worst podcasting I've ever heard.

00:25:56It's a fascinating story, Jay. If you just fucking listen, you goddamn idiot.

00:26:01So they're just like, at one day, Oklahoma is going to be a state. Everyone just got to run

00:26:06and get some land and then declare that their land is there. And then that that's how we'll

00:26:10determine who gets landed in Oklahoma. And so they like did it. They were like,

00:26:15Oh, they fired the gun. And there's a whole bunch of people who are just already on the

00:26:19land because people had snuck in and they went too soon. So that's why they're Oklahoma Sooners

00:26:24are people who is skirted the rules and got all this land in Oklahoma city.

00:26:30Yeah. Named after cheaters, essentially.

00:26:32Yeah. It's a whole, it's a, it's a basically a thief based society over there in Oklahoma.

00:26:37Is it every, is it every land in this country is thief based society in one way or another?

00:26:42Ooh, Jay King going woke for us. Yeah, you're right.

00:26:46Should this podcast do a land acknowledgement? Um, wow. I wasn't prepared for Jada to come out

00:26:52there with a Howard Zins history of the United States, but here we go. Um, speaking of nonsense

00:26:59questions, this one's from Eli. Would you rather have a tree in your back garden that constantly

00:27:04produces every fruit in the world, the best quality, the best condition, or a trained dinosaur

00:27:12of your choice to ride to work or defend you in battle or whatever? And he said, really,

00:27:19and then puts this in all caps, really think about the implications of each.

00:27:23What kind of dinosaur dinosaur of your choice?

00:27:29I'm going dinosaur. I have to, I don't, I'm not a fruit guy at all.

00:27:32The, the one downside to having your own personal dinosaur would be that, that no dinosaurs would

00:27:39be back and the entire human race could be in trouble, but my train dinosaur would be very

00:27:45helpful. How is the dinosaur going to reproduce? If you only have one who said it's the only one.

00:27:52I just did. I'm making a question that it's the only dinosaur on earth. I would imagine

00:27:57if there's one dinosaur, there's other dinosaurs. He didn't say that there weren't other dinosaurs.

00:28:01You're just making a stipulation that doesn't necessarily try logic here.

00:28:05Yeah. Logic with the dinosaur question, Jay, let's go with that.

00:28:09Yeah. I mean, you still got to follow logic here. He asked us to consider the implications,

00:28:15seriously consider the implications. And one of the implications is that there would likely be

00:28:20dinosaurs. It's a magical world where you can have a dinosaur. I don't think I've ever seen

00:28:25Jurassic park. I have, that's why it's a far fetched magic wizard giving you a dinosaur.

00:28:29I don't think he would create two of them because he knows of the danger.

00:28:33This magic wizard. Well, how do you know that he cares about the danger? How do you know he's not

00:28:39putting this dinosaur on earth specifically to ruin the human race? I'm just saying,

00:28:46I'm going with the fruit tree. The dinosaur is nothing but a world of trouble and potential

00:28:50negative consequences. The fruit tree, you just get some fruit. It's just a low risk bonus. Yeah,

00:28:56but you can make money. It is the best quality fruit in the world. It's a cash cow in your

00:29:01backyard. Every fruit in the world, the best, you don't think a trained dinosaur would be a cash cow.

00:29:08It's dangerous though. It's a far more of a cash cow than fucking fruit.

00:29:17I don't know. It just seems dangerous. I pronounced Ellie, not Eli. That's on me. Hand up

00:29:24B. Rob, you've been eerily silent here on the dinosaur tree question.

00:29:29The easiest question. Fruit, fruit all day. Huge fruit. What fruit though? What would you be your

00:29:35go to friends have no sense of enter? Do you know? I mean, hello. It's a dinosaur event,

00:29:40but I want it would be to just roll up to TD Garden on a fucking T-Rex.

00:29:46And then what do you do with the T-Rex? Yeah, what do you do?

00:29:49You leave it outside. You're going to be liable for damages. That's

00:29:54dinosaur. There will be no damages. It doesn't matter. You're strictly liable for anything he

00:29:58does. That's an inherently dangerous animal. He's trained. So he's just chilling there.

00:30:02People are trying to steal him. It creates so much more headaches than it's worth.

00:30:06I trust my dinosaur. Just enjoy it. I can't believe you guys had a choice of a dinosaur

00:30:14about your family here to Jay. It's like to have fruit. You know how much fruit

00:30:19Grady's going to be eaten in the next two years? It'll be ready. Also, you got a dinosaur that

00:30:24puts a target on your back. You're the dinosaur person. People are trying to steal that dinosaur.

00:30:29It just becomes a whole headache. It's like winning the lottery. He was a dinosaur.

00:30:32Nobody's stealing a T-Rex. My T-Rex will stop you out. That's just how it is.

00:30:38And T-Rex is not the choice. You got to get a dinosaur that can fly.

00:30:42I don't want to fly. I just want to ride my T-Rex.

00:30:46Now we're just talking stupid here. Now we're just being irrational. Don't want to fly like an idiot.

00:30:52This one's from...

00:30:54I'm afraid of heights.

00:30:56I did not know that about you. Makes you less than, but okay.

00:31:01Wait, you're afraid of heights and you want to take a T-Rex around?

00:31:04Yeah.

00:31:05How's that going to work?

00:31:08I'd feel safe on my T-Rex.

00:31:12I thought we were using logic, Jay.

00:31:14This is logic.

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00:32:37He asked about Luke Cornette's shooting potential. He said,

00:32:41if Joe just let it fly, do you think he'd become a legit stretch five in the NBA?

00:32:48And here's my one contention with the question. I don't think Joe is stopping Luke Cornette from

00:32:53taking threes. I feel like Luke Cornette's stopping Luke Cornette from taking threes.

00:32:57Am I wrong here? Am I crazy?

00:33:00I would guess there's been some coaching nudging there.

00:33:05To say don't shoot?

00:33:07Yeah. Yeah. Luke Cornette, the best basketball of his career has very much been since he got

00:33:15rid of the three-pointers, trimmed them dramatically, and started focusing on offensive

00:33:21rebounds, focusing on being just a physical presence, and leaving the shooting to all

00:33:31the much better shooters around him. In a different ecosystem, would Luke Cornette be

00:33:38a guy who gets up five three-pointers a game? Yeah, probably. But in an offense that has

00:33:46seven, like 40%, or highly accurate, highly dangerous three-point shooters everywhere else,

00:33:55I don't want, I would not want Luke Cornette shooting three-pointers.

00:34:00He's right to taper it down. Every once in a while, cool, let it fly. But there's no way he

00:34:06should be going back to what he was earlier in his career. He's been much better, much more

00:34:12impactful since getting rid of that. It's funny you get, like, Sean asked this question because,

00:34:19and actually, I asked Luke about this during this past season. I'm probably at some point going to

00:34:24never got around to writing the article on it, but he was very introspective talking about, like,

00:34:28the transition here. And Jay's right, like, but certainly in Boston, the direction has been like,

00:34:35we need you more in the paint, and that's clearly where he's more impactful with the offensive

00:34:41rebounding. But in Cornette's career, he just wasn't a good enough three-point shooter to,

00:34:46like, live and die with that. So he said he just, like, I want to be better in other parts of my

00:34:52game. Like, I can't be relying on that. Like, I need to do other stuff better. I need to be,

00:34:57use my size for offensive rebounding, et cetera. And so, yeah, it was like once he was pretty much

00:35:03on the fringes of the league, it seems like he just decided for himself, like, I need to,

00:35:09I'm better around the hoop rather than hooking them up from three all game.

00:35:14And this is not a guy who's shot a good percentage in his career. 32.3%

00:35:19for his career. He was 35% as a rookie, 36% in his second year, and has not been 30% in any year

00:35:28since, unless you want to include his one-for-one this past season. I'm including it. Which I

00:35:32believe was in the final game of the regular season, or one of the last games of the regular

00:35:37season. So he's not a very good shooter. He's better at everything else. And he wasn't rebounding.

00:35:44Luke is very in tune with the numbers, like insanely in tune with the numbers. He is driven,

00:35:50his game is driven by the analytics. And I think in this case, he's much better at focusing on

00:35:57shooting like 70% on twos or whatever. Yeah. 70%. What about the analytics that threes are worth

00:36:04more than twos and he can just pop out and shoot one occasionally? I'm not saying change your whole

00:36:09percent on them and you shoot 70% on twos. What math are you using where that works?

00:36:17Fight about math again? Yeah. That was one of the questions. One of the questions was,

00:36:23how much nerd shit have you done today? Let's fight about math again.

00:36:27So what nerdy stuff did you do today, Jay? I don't do nerd shit.

00:36:32I knew that was going to be the answer. So it was fun to ask that.

00:36:39Who asked that question?

00:36:42A good question. Drew. Drew asked that one. Drew asked that question.

00:36:48This next question is from Sarah. I think it's a interesting one. Do we know how much owners

00:36:56have to pay for the luxury tax versus how much is covered for the profits from owning the team?

00:37:03How much transparency do reporters get in terms of those team finances?

00:37:10I saw that question and I realized I have no idea.

00:37:15Well, at the end of every year, they give us their books for an audit.

00:37:23It would be awesome. Salary cap, contracts, it is. It's like so much of the NBA for reporters

00:37:30and now fans, it's out there. You can get into the minutiae, which is great.

00:37:34But going behind the books, I know some things about how the Southwicks operate. I'm sure Jay

00:37:40does too. You probably have heard stuff too, Packer. For instance, the Southwicks don't get

00:37:45money for the concessions at TD Garden because the Bruins own the building.

00:37:49And they probably are earning, when they have home playoff games, that's probably

00:37:55close to tens of millions of dollars in extra revenue there for a finals run easily for the

00:38:01gate and stuff like that. But as far as the behind the scenes stuff, we do not know that. And I think

00:38:07it's safe to say the Southwicks are profitable, but how profitable probably just depends on the

00:38:11year. And I know from the CBA that the majority of the money that they get either from anything

00:38:22they get into what's called basketball-related income, they have to split with the players

00:38:2750-50. And that's how the salary cap works. And then that's negotiated from the CBA.

00:38:33And so I don't know what other income that qualifies as non-basketball related that they

00:38:39don't necessarily have to split. But a lot of the stuff, like all the rights they get from TV deals

00:38:45or revenue sharing they get from luxury tax payments or things like that, it goes back into

00:38:53the players at least somehow. And it's interesting when anytime there's a labor

00:39:01short negotiation, they claim five of the 10 teams are just not profitable.

00:39:08And so you hear about these smaller market teams not being profitable. I would imagine the

00:39:11Southwicks, especially in a championship year, are extremely profitable. But I think they have to

00:39:16pay. I think just with the evaluation and stuff like that, I don't know. I'm trying to sound

00:39:22smart about this, but I don't know. I don't know how the finances work. Jay, I'm sure you got a

00:39:28lock on this stuff. As smart as I am with numbers, I don't know every detail of this stuff either.

00:39:37All right. We got a question from Kurt, Jay, since you're so smart with numbers.

00:39:42Solution X is 10% alcohol by volume and Solution Y is 30% alcohol by volume.

00:39:50How many milliliters of Solution Y must be added to 200 milliliters of Solution X

00:39:58to create a solution that is 25% alcohol by volume?

00:40:06It's a multiple choice.

00:40:08Okay, good.

00:40:09A, 250 thirds over three. B, 500 thirds. C, 480. D, 600.

00:40:20600 D.

00:40:24Give me B.

00:40:25No, it's D.

00:40:26You want to explain your math?

00:40:29I saw this earlier. I did the math. It's D, 600.

00:40:32Can you talk us through, show your work? You got to get full credit on the test. You got

00:40:36to show your work. Cross multiply. You do some cross multiplication here.

00:40:40Did you see this earlier and do it out and write it out with a pencil?

00:40:43I did it in my head, but yeah, I did it earlier.

00:40:46Can you just explain how you did it fucking Goodwill hunting over here? Like, yo, I just did it.

00:40:51So it's 200 milliliters at 10%, right?

00:40:55Correct.

00:40:56So that's 20 milliliters of alcohol.

00:41:01So then 600 at 30% is 180 of alcohol, right?

00:41:11Yep.

00:41:11And then so you add 20 plus 180 is 200, 800, which is 200 plus 600 and that's 25%.

00:41:20Therefore, it's D, 600.

00:41:27I think he's right. I can't say anything.

00:41:30Makes sense to me.

00:41:31I was, I hope he's wrong. I hope Kurt's over there just laughing at us, but

00:41:36the math was mapping in my brain. That's a cross multiplication right there. Well done, sir.

00:41:42I got called out and I was ready.

00:41:46That's good stuff.

00:41:49I try to tell you I'm a prodigy.

00:41:53And then just does that in his head right there.

00:41:54Geez.

00:41:55No, no, no. That's what he did in his head.

00:41:58I did it in my head. It was in my head.

00:42:00All right.

00:42:02Got some Anton Watson talk from Paul.

00:42:06Is his two-way contract in doubt? Why is he not signed yet?

00:42:09Is there anyone on the summer league roster that gives you question that

00:42:12Watson will be offered a contract?

00:42:14And will Brad steal another team summer league roster for the,

00:42:17I guess, the last two-way player?

00:42:19What's the deal with him not being signed, guys?

00:42:21Yeah, it's, I imagine they, there's no harm in keeping their options open.

00:42:27I, like, I would think that something would have to be, go very, very wrong for him,

00:42:32for him not to be that guy, given how high the team has been on him.

00:42:38But perhaps there is, you know, you want to keep the door open somewhat.

00:42:43So other guys have a reason to play for your team.

00:42:47Other guys have a reason to play for your team.

00:42:50So you have a roster spot available.

00:42:51He's a training camp slot available.

00:42:52I'm not sure. I mean, that's, who knows?

00:42:55Like maybe they'll just come out and sign him before summer league begins the next day or two.

00:43:00But they also might want to see how he looks.

00:43:03I don't know.

00:43:05I would guess he'll be on a two-way contract.

00:43:08And most of the time, like a lot of this is procedural.

00:43:12You sign your guy later on.

00:43:14But from what's been said, I would guess that Watson will end up being on a two-way contract.

00:43:21And even if he's not, like in the past, you can remember when, was it Max Struess?

00:43:29Max Struess got signed and was in a battle for a roster spot.

00:43:37They actually gave him the full two-way contract before waiving him.

00:43:41Right.

00:43:42That was the old Taco Fog in the league.

00:43:43Or create him an enemy.

00:43:44Yeah.

00:43:45Which is like just, I think, just as solid to him and his agent.

00:43:48Yeah.

00:43:50And I don't think this is going to be like that.

00:43:53I think Watson, usually when you draft a guy, it's either with the idea that

00:44:00he'll be a drafting stash or you know, like he'll probably be on a two-way contract

00:44:06or he'll be on an NBA deal.

00:44:07Like a lot of the time, it's either that or he'll be on a two-way contract.

00:44:12So a lot of those things are known before you draft a guy.

00:44:16Right.

00:44:16And I think it's pretty, to Jay's point, like it's pretty normal.

00:44:18Like in past years, like they'll sign these guys like JD Davison, I think,

00:44:23signed to a two-way deal a couple years ago, like as a rookie, like during

00:44:28summer league or right after summer league.

00:44:29So that's pretty normal timing that he wouldn't necessarily be signed yet,

00:44:33even though, you know, they've already filled their other two-way slots.

00:44:37Fiondu Cabangeli just rocking out with Team Canada against USA.

00:44:44I enjoyed that appearance late in that game.

00:44:48Where was he this past year?

00:44:49I wasn't ready for that.

00:44:50I didn't know he was on the roster.

00:44:52Yeah.

00:44:53And all of a sudden, Canada just, with like a 10-point game, decided to play

00:44:58its end of bench guys.

00:44:59I was like, that looks like, that sure looks like Fiondu Cabangeli.

00:45:03He was in Athens.

00:45:05It was.

00:45:06He's in AEK Athens.

00:45:07So shout out to Cabangeli.

00:45:11Jason Tatum looked good in that, that game, by the way.

00:45:14Not, not that it really matters because everyone knows Jason Tatum is great.

00:45:18Um, I thought he was talking about his haircut.

00:45:20He was one of the, he was one of the best Team USA players easily in that game.

00:45:27Just adamant about getting to the rim, finishing there or making good passes.

00:45:33Looked fantastic.

00:45:33Drew looked great too.

00:45:35And it'll be Derek White.

00:45:36Not chillin' Brown.

00:45:38Join them shortly.

00:45:41Pressure before selects there.

00:45:45Perhaps, uh, Josh B pointed out a good point.

00:45:47How do they have three Olympians, but not three all-stars?

00:45:50But the retort to that, everyone in the world is including the all-star game.

00:45:55This is just America.

00:45:56So it's a, it's a different pool, but it's a nice snarky question.

00:46:00I appreciated it from Josh B.

00:46:02Also two non-all-stars on the, the Team USA.

00:46:09Drew and Derek White.

00:46:11The only two?

00:46:14Yeah.

00:46:14Are they?

00:46:15Yeah.

00:46:17Yeah.

00:46:18There's questions from Matt Byrne.

00:46:21How much involvement does the team have with players during the off season?

00:46:26Like how detailed is the plan for like stuff they need to work on

00:46:30when a player comes back for the summer?

00:46:31How much credit is that going to like the team?

00:46:34Or is that the player doing individual stuff?

00:46:36What's the relationship between the team and the players, uh, during the summer months?

00:46:42There's usually a lot of, of back and forth.

00:46:46And I mean, it begins when they sit down shortly after the season

00:46:50and go over what they think a player should do.

00:46:54Um, you know, what, uh, basically a plan for the player over the summer.

00:46:59Then if, if you're a young guy, you're probably going to spend most of your summer in Boston,

00:47:03where you're around the facility, where you're around the coaches.

00:47:06If you're an older, more established guy,

00:47:08one of your coaches will probably fly out to you and spend a lot of time wherever you are.

00:47:13Um, so there's, there's a lot of work to be done.

00:47:18And they are very much in harmony with the players,

00:47:22most players, at least throughout, throughout the summers.

00:47:25Yeah.

00:47:25I feel like that part of it's grown a lot in the last like five, 10 years.

00:47:28Like the assistant coach, everyone has a guy that you go visit,

00:47:31like even, and even Missoula will go out visit with most guys

00:47:35at some point over the course of the summer, um, in the last year or two.

00:47:38So that's that type of outreach.

00:47:40The involvement of teams is just growing more and more.

00:47:43And now you look even this year, like Jayden Springer,

00:47:45a fourth year guy is playing summer league.

00:47:49Probably because the team asked him to,

00:47:50and he knows that's probably his only chance of getting minutes.

00:47:53So like there, the story stuff is just growing and growing as,

00:47:58um, the years goes on, it seems like.

00:48:01Yeah.

00:48:01And it's interesting.

00:48:02It's like, you gotta be like, have some tenure in the league to earn your ability

00:48:07to work out, not in Boston.

00:48:09Like all the younger guys or all the guys are in the summer league

00:48:11or will probably be in Boston, like working out at the RBAC center all summer.

00:48:15But then the coaching staffs are pretty big.

00:48:18They also have like player development staffs.

00:48:20And I just know this from like talking to Nick, Nick Friedman,

00:48:25him and Terry Rozier, like we're very close.

00:48:27And he would just like, he would go to once Terry got to a level

00:48:30where he could like be wherever he wanted to,

00:48:33Nick would fly out and just like work them out for like multiple times in the summer.

00:48:37And so, and Nick would be in contact with the Hornets

00:48:40because he was working for the Hornets.

00:48:41And so they have all these like development plans that get put into place

00:48:44and they have coaches who come out and work with them.

00:48:46So I do think there's like a lot of thought and work that goes into.

00:48:50Like, this is what we want you to work on.

00:48:52It's this type of action.

00:48:53It's learning how to do this or read this certain play

00:48:56or just different fitness levels and things like that.

00:49:00So I think you gotta give a lot of credits to the players

00:49:03for putting like working in the off season.

00:49:05But there's a lot of thought and planning that goes on

00:49:08and involved into that kind of that process.

00:49:10And they'll, they'll collaborate with the trainers too.

00:49:12Like the players, trainers, the personal trainers, like Drew Hanlon.

00:49:16I'm sure they're talking to him about the workouts

00:49:19that he's putting together for Jason Tatum.

00:49:21How, how can they get on the same page?

00:49:23So there's, there's really a lot that goes into it.

00:49:26And I think honestly, like that's probably one of the ways

00:49:30organizations set themselves apart is just with their daily plans,

00:49:34how they work, the type of work that they put guys through.

00:49:39Because that's how you develop guys.

00:49:41That's how guys improve.

00:49:43And I think like Joe, Joe, he overhauled a lot of that stuff

00:49:49prior to last season.

00:49:51Um, kind of, kind of changed the way the Celtics operated.

00:49:54And I think it probably, probably worked out pretty well.

00:49:57Um, and we'll see if, if it continues to, to do so in the future.

00:50:04Uh, Jay, I know you gotta go, but real quick, another question from Ellie.

00:50:07If me and you fought medieval style melee, what weapons would you choose?

00:50:13And who's winning?

00:50:14You're going to say you medieval style.

00:50:16Melee.

00:50:17Yeah.

00:50:19I wouldn't need weapons.

00:50:21And I have weapons and you don't have weapons.

00:50:23I would, I would destroy you with my bare hands.

00:50:26Get out of here.

00:50:27Leave.

00:50:27Go feed your child.

00:50:28It's nonsense.

00:50:29I don't want to hear from you anymore.

00:50:30Mute his mic.

00:50:31These are the only two weapons I would need right here.

00:50:33Jack Johnson.

00:50:36I can have a ball with a bunch of spikes on it.

00:50:38Just hit you in the head.

00:50:40I have a long sore.

00:50:41What are you talking about?

00:50:41You don't need a weapon.

00:50:42You're a fucking idiot.

00:50:44I wouldn't need a weapon.

00:50:45Medieval weapons.

00:50:46You think, you think you're those big old balls.

00:50:50You could barely with the spikes on those big old spike.

00:50:54You rock your dome with profane language.

00:50:56That'd be you down.

00:50:58I'd be like the dude in game of Thrones.

00:50:59Like just popping your eyeballs out with my two thumbs.

00:51:03Didn't that guy lose?

00:51:06Yeah, but I'd want his head.

00:51:07He got his head split open.

00:51:08That's not a great example of breakup.

00:51:10The mountain completely split open that guy's head.

00:51:13Yeah, but you don't, you're not the mountain.

00:51:15Yeah, but give me, give me the whole off season.

00:51:17I'll add 12 pounds of muscle and you'd be done for.

00:51:21Didn't you say it was only eight?

00:51:23You can do a lot more than 12 pounds.

00:51:24You got to count the water weight.

00:51:26The mess of me.

00:51:27I got to run and feed my baby boy, but I love you guys.

00:51:31Love you.

00:51:31The kids, the guys and legends.

00:51:33And I would definitely whip backers ass with, with no weapons.

00:51:37Thanks, Jay.

00:51:38What a sign off.

00:51:39Jay King, everyone.

00:51:45Oh, I'm just looking through it like more, more questions here.

00:51:51Josh, I feel like he, of course, Josh B did his thing and answered a lot,

00:51:54but I think we covered a lot of it.

00:51:58Do we need a new podcast intro for banner 19?

00:52:01Does the original podcast intro mentioned banner 18 in the lyrics?

00:52:04I got to go back and listen to it.

00:52:06To be honest, like it mentions K to labs.

00:52:08I was so happy when Kate every sign.

00:52:09So he didn't have to change.

00:52:10Yeah.

00:52:10Like you don't have to add any new names.

00:52:12That's pretty team.

00:52:13And I mean, I bet he'll come up with something regardless if we want to,

00:52:16but then the original is just so good.

00:52:18You might just have to read if it.

00:52:21Yeah.

00:52:21I'm just scrolling for some, some additional questions here, but.

00:52:28We can't, I think we can.

00:52:30We can't.

00:52:31If they did get an unprotected first round pick for Sam Houser,

00:52:34would that pick be frozen in the back half of the draft from Josh B?

00:52:39Yeah.

00:52:39So the no, that's just because of the second apron.

00:52:43Yeah.

00:52:43So if you get, if they get a draft pick from someone else, like that is not.

00:52:49The second apron does not impact that at all.

00:52:51It only is your own draft picks.

00:52:53And.

00:52:54It's, it sounds scary, all this stuff with the second apron with the draft picks,

00:52:59but ultimately if you're winning, if you're regularly contending,

00:53:03it's not a big deal in my mind.

00:53:04Cause all, all it does for like, whatever, I think it's like seven years out.

00:53:08You can't trade your own draft picks.

00:53:11So obviously that limits how many, you know, you can't trade two, three

00:53:15unprotected draft picks.

00:53:16You can't trade two, three unprotected draft picks.

00:53:19You can't trade two, three unprotected draft picks.

00:53:21You know, you can't trade two, three unprotected draft picks in the future.

00:53:25If you like those picks are frozen.

00:53:26And then ultimately if you're over the second apron, I think it's like two years in a row

00:53:31or like two out of three or something like that, then that pick automatically

00:53:35goes to the end of the first round.

00:53:36So it's not like you ever lose the pick itself.

00:53:40You just have that pick and you know, it's going to be like 30 for maybe a year or two,

00:53:45which guess what?

00:53:46That's your own pick, right?

00:53:47That's your own pick.

00:53:48So if you acquire some other pick, it's going to go wherever that team.

00:53:52So that's exactly if you acquire a pick from another team, that's never going to be affected

00:53:54by the second apron.

00:53:55That's always going to stand out.

00:53:56And so it's only going to be dependent on the other team.

00:53:58It's only your picks that can be impacted by being in the second apron for a while.

00:54:03And so even if that happens, it's like, okay, I'm contending.

00:54:08Do I care if my picks 26 or 30th?

00:54:10Like, no, like if that, that, that probably isn't going to be a main deterrent for any

00:54:15team to get out of there.

00:54:16It's all, I think it's all going to come down to the money part of it, as opposed to the

00:54:20the team building part of it.

00:54:22Yeah.

00:54:23So, and I don't think they're going to trade Sam Hauser for a first round pick, but it's

00:54:29good to know what would happen if they did.

00:54:31Let's go out of here on this one.

00:54:32Another one from Ellie who really brought the heat today.

00:54:36A lot of good questions.

00:54:38Some we don't even have time to get to, but if you could have one hour of honest conversation

00:54:43with anyone living or dead, who would you choose to talk to?

00:54:47And what would you ask them?

00:54:48This is putting on the spot because I don't think this was on our, our list beforehand.

00:54:52And so while I'll give you time to think about it, because Josh would be answered.

00:54:56And so I want to give Joshua B response.

00:54:58He said he would talk to Alexander Hamilton and ask why the founders wouldn't put term

00:55:04limits on Supreme Court justices and Congress if we're putting them on the president.

00:55:10And he would ask, do time machines exist in the afterlife?

00:55:13And if so, can he fix that?

00:55:16And then what does he think of Hamilton, the musical?

00:55:18And I just wanted to give Joshua B's answer there.

00:55:20The founders did not put term limits on the president.

00:55:23That was an amendment added later post FDR because FDR was like four or five different

00:55:31presidents.

00:55:32And so, and I think Alexander Hamilton would say we designed the document so it could be

00:55:37amended and he would be really pissed off that we don't do a lot of amending of the

00:55:42constitution.

00:55:42But B Rob, who would you talk to for an hour?

00:55:46Anyone?

00:55:46An hour.

00:55:47Yeah, you've only an hour of conversation.

00:55:49Anyone living or dead.

00:55:52And I hope you got an answer because I got nothing.

00:55:54Right?

00:55:54Yeah.

00:55:54Like I'm like, I'm just like thinking in my head of like what type of, I guess, like

00:56:00I'd want to talk to someone that I haven't had a chance to hear from that has done something

00:56:06amazing.

00:56:06Like in my head, things pop up like an Einstein or like an Edison or something like that.

00:56:10Someone like some super genius that like, like take me through what you're thinking

00:56:16here.

00:56:16And like what, like that's the sort of stuff that would like.

00:56:19But you also risk talking to Einstein and I were, none of us are mathematicians like

00:56:23Jay King, but what if he's just says something that's true that way over your head?

00:56:27And it's like, I got no, I don't know how we're doing this.

00:56:30You know, those might not be personally, like you might be done with that conversation in

00:56:33five minutes.

00:56:33So that is a risk.

00:56:35Yeah.

00:56:35I have to like, that's, that's a tough one because that's, I feel like any other answer

00:56:41I'm going to put in there, I'm going to second guess immediately.

00:56:44Talk myself out of like, what do you, are you, do you want to listen?

00:56:48Do you want to talk to someone who's done something cool in general or just someone

00:56:53from just a time, like a part of the world that you just want to know more about back

00:56:58in time?

00:56:59Cause you want to know a little bit about like what was going on and stuff, but like,

00:57:03do you want to do something with something that's like, who's done something that's

00:57:06pretty well documented that you already know a lot about.

00:57:09So then you can have kind of like a frame of reference or do you want to have someone

00:57:12you don't know anything about and like learn something new, but then only it is an hour,

00:57:16just not enough time.

00:57:18Like, what if you just want to go back and talk to like your great, great grandfather

00:57:22and see like, yeah, that's a good family.

00:57:26Your family from like a hundred, 150 years ago.

00:57:28Yeah.

00:57:30So I don't know.

00:57:32It's a good question.

00:57:33I'll, I'll, I'll think on that one.

00:57:35Cause I don't know.

00:57:37Yeah.

00:57:39All right.

00:57:39Well, here's the prediction.

00:57:40What would Jay's answer be?

00:57:45Um, he'll go back and talk to which basketball player, right?

00:57:52Jay would probably surprise us with something like nice and very, very sentimental answer.

00:57:57Like Bill Russell and his prime or something like that.

00:57:59Yeah.

00:58:00I don't know.

00:58:03It's a good question.

00:58:05A lot of good questions here today.

00:58:06A lot of good content we produced in this last hour.

00:58:09Uh, if you guys enjoyed the mailbag, please.

00:58:13And if you want more, uh, content from the Olympics, from summer league, uh, from everything

00:58:18going on in the world of the Celtics, please go to patreon.com slash still potable.

00:58:23We appreciate all the questions we got today.

00:58:27Josh B, I'm sorry.

00:58:28We didn't get to all of your questions.

00:58:30I'm just going to answer some of them quick.

00:58:31Can Jordan Walsh take over O'Shea Bursette's role in minutes?

00:58:34I don't think Jordan Walsh is there yet.

00:58:36Should we take anything that happens on Fox sports?

00:58:38One seriously because they employ Nick, right?

00:58:41Sure.

00:58:42It's Fox sports one.

00:58:43And I happen to enjoy Nick, right?

00:58:44I think he's, uh, I think he's amusing.

00:58:47Um,

00:58:50we've answered a lot of other questions from Josh, but we appreciate the questions from

00:58:54everyone from the kids, the gods and legends appreciate Jay King, even though he said he

00:58:58would beat me in a fight when I had weapons and he didn't completely irrational.

00:59:02His answers about the dinosaur made no sense.

00:59:04Uh, appreciate you being.

00:59:06Would you use your weapons, by the way?

00:59:08I'm telling you, that spike on a that's it seems awesome.

00:59:13Um, it's num chucks seem cool.

00:59:16Uh, I don't know.

00:59:18I'm not I'm not like an expert in medieval weaponry, but I think I could beat the guy

00:59:23with no weapons.

00:59:24Uh, I think I'll be able to take him down.

00:59:28Uh, we did get a question trying to compare the Celtics to the members of the Avengers.

00:59:34And I just am out of my league there.

00:59:35Are you?

00:59:36Are you a Marvel?

00:59:36Like, I don't go deep on the Avengers, so I can I can make good comparisons there, even

00:59:41though I feel like there were some, I feel like that was done at some point on Celtics

00:59:46Twitter where everyone had their.

00:59:50Yeah, that might be the way to go.

00:59:54I think it I just don't know.

00:59:56I'm just don't I've never I've seen one Marvel movie to Marvel movies.

01:00:00I saw Black Panther, and then I saw like Endgame, where it was just like the mashing

01:00:06of 17 different movies together, and it was confusing.

01:00:10And so I don't think I, uh, I liked it as much as maybe I should.

01:00:15Um, that's gonna do it for us, folks.

01:00:18I keep going back because I feel like we're missing out on questions, but we've done a

01:00:21fair amount and we'll have plenty of mailbags for the rest of summer.

01:00:24So if we, I, if we didn't get to your question now, uh, apologize, we'll try to do our best

01:00:29to get to it next time.

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