I've been back to back MVP. You know who I am. And I played my game a certain way. And he gave respect to Patrick Bevely. Boston will go out in the second round, five or six games. You guys been walking and taking them out? Yes. Wow, we're talking about a guy who came off the bench in college, a three-star recruit, who became the NBA MVP. Chris Broussard here and welcome to the brand new Hoops on Fox podcast. This podcast will give you your daily dose of all things NBA from Fox Sports, including the best content from Skip and Shannon, Nick Wright, plus special guests, fresh NBA content from myself, post-game interviews from NBA stars around the league, and much, much more. Up first, Chris Broussard joined Skip and Shannon to dissect Kyrie's clutch performance in game two. Chris, how far can Kyrie carry these Celtics? Boston will go out in the second round, five or six games. You guys been walking and taking them out? Yes. Wow. Now, that said, the question is how far can he take them? He could take them to the NBA finals. I've said all season long. You have. Milwaukee, Toronto and Boston are all very close. I would not be shocked if he got them to the NBA finals. I would be shocked if Philadelphia and anybody below them, Indiana, any of those teams got to the finals. I would not be shocked if Boston did because they are that good. And when they get beat in the second round, people may say, oh, they went further without Kyrie. Last year, they were better without Kyrie. I don't want to hear that. That's nonsense. They are not better without Kyrie. If they lose in the second round, as I'm predicting, it won't be because he's the problem. Right. Okay. Last year, they could have lost. People forget. Milwaukee took them seven games. And that was a Milwaukee team that's not even close to what they are now because Brad Stevens had a huge coaching advantage last year over Milwaukee. Because Mike Budenhozer wasn't there. Budenhozer is there now. I think the talent of the two teams is very similar. But Yanis is better than Kyrie, even though Kyrie is better in the clutch. But Yanis is a better player overall. And Budenhozer and Stevens is probably a wash. So they won't have any coaching advantage. And then against Philadelphia last year, they had a huge coaching advantage. So they've either had a talent advantage or a coaching advantage like now. They're going to beat Indiana because they have a talent advantage. When they get to Milwaukee, it's going to be even. And so Kyrie is playing great. I think the bright spot of last night, if you're a Celtics fan, is that perhaps, and I do believe this may have happened, the pecking order was finally set. The Celtics, other players finally realize, okay, he's the man. He is the man. Right? He's the guy. They didn't know that. They didn't know that. I don't think they knew. I don't think they knew. They felt, hey, we got the game seven with LeBron last year without Kyrie. They fought against it all year. But last night, and he got guys involved. He wasn't just ball hogging. He got guys involved. Tatum was able to get his 26. But when push came to shove, Kyrie showed them why he's Kyrie Irving. And now I think they get it. And also Marcus Smart's injury while he's a very good player for them. It does allow Terry Rozier to play more minutes with Kyrie. And that was effective last night. Look, I like Boston, I like what they have going. I just think Milwaukee will beat them next week. Well, you can take him all the way. You can take him. I agree with you because he and Kyrie, Kyrie, he and Kawhi are the only two guys that's been on the biggest of Biggest Stage. That's the NBA final skill. And we know what this guy's done. He's a big shot taker. He's a big shot maker. Game seven, it doesn't get any bigger than that. And he was willing to pull up with 15, 20 seconds on the clock and drain a three. A lot of guys like, well, let me try to get to the basket. Like, nah, I'm going to take that. I'm going to end this right here right now because I know I got Bron to back me up. If I miss, he's going to grab the rebound. But that's not the here look there. Skip that was a big time man. A little different. Last night, he put everybody in the blender. He was shaking them up and they got no answer. Like you said, Indiana is just talent deficient. If you got Bogdanovic, if you're going to put the ball in his hand, that's going to be the guy down the stretch that's going to win you the ball game. You'll lose to Boston every time because Boston is supremely talented. I'm surprised that it even got to this point. They were trailing by seven in game one, trailing by 11. So that tells you, okay. Very, very fortunate. But Skip, he's, I mean, Kyrie is special. There are not, there are not five guys in the clutch. You'd rather have the ball in the NBA right now, 400 players. They're not five guys in the clutch. You'd rather have the ball in their hands other than Kyrie. Which is why your man misses Kyrie Irving. He misses us too. You'd rather have Jason Tatum or you'd rather have LeBron. You'd rather have Al Horford or you'd rather have LeBron. You'd rather have Roger or Jay LeBron or you'd rather have LeBron. So don't pretend like it's a one-way street. You're missing us too. The Lakers don't have a closer. He closed again last night. He is special and that was a special night. So was James Harden, by the way. We're not talking about him, but that was special. But this young man, the show he put on, it was just a dazzling. The ball handling, the handle, the lift, the fallaways. Just unstoppable. And he's not the biggest man. What would he give him? 6'1", 6'2". 6'2", 6'2". But he's not a big man. He's slightly built. He's one of the best finishers. As a guard, he might be the best finisher. With either hand at the rim. Right. So I sat back last night watching this. And I haven't been able to figure out Kyrie Irving all year long. Because he has alienated all those kids in that locker room at different points. And they fired back at him. And you're right. He just said, OK, watch this. But I don't know exactly from night to night or interview to interview what I'm going to get from him. Because listen, this is my conclusion about him and KD, his new bestie. You know, they're the dynamic duo that could just change the whole landscape of this league on July 1st. But these two together, in all my time watching the NBA, they're the most thin-skinned, unpredictable, mood-swinging, over-emotional, dynamic duo superstars that I've ever seen. And they're the same. Because they're so volatile from interview to interview what you're going to get from them. Yep. And then, again, another reference, Brian Wintource. But he reported that after game 7, 2016, Kyrie had hit the shot of shots. And he goes, according to Brian, went in the locker room. And he's angry about something that nobody could ever figure out. But he was just angry. And he wouldn't celebrate with his teammates. And he ends up facetiming Kobe Bryant, LeBron's arch rival. Yeah, that's why I did it. OK. Well, maybe that moment wasn't what he thought it would be.  This is it. And maybe Kyrie says, man, I thought it was like, the heavens was going to open up and everything. But you wanted that. That's unfortunate if that's the case. Yeah. And they both, well, KD's alluded to that. Yes. And maybe it was Kyrie. That's unfortunate. And Brian Wintource also said after game 1 against Indiana, Kyrie had just an OK by his standards game. And the final buzzer goes off. And he runs over and hugs his father and sister. And Brian compared it to Tiger Woods winning this Masters on Sunday. Like it looked like Kyrie had just won the ultimate championship. And it's, what are you doing? You know what? I don't know what he's doing. I can't explain any of it. But I just know that between him and Kevin Durant, the talent is off the charts in both cases, where they are as special as it gets. Those are two of the most unstoppable scores this league has ever seen. Yeah. No question. And they're just so moody, unpredictable, no idea what they're going to do on July 1st, because they probably don't. Can I ask you a question? If winning a title, the first in the Cavalier history, hitting the shot of shots, playing as well as he played throughout the entirety of those game semis. He did. If you're not happy then, what's going to ever make you happy? Because even if he goes to Kevin Durant, Kevin Durant's 1-8. Kevin Durant is 1. He might be 1-8. But Kevin Durant's 1. Yeah. So what's going to ultimately make Kyrie happy? Chris, do you know? It wouldn't be something... It's something you have to deal with inside yourself, outside of basketball. So that's what it would be. Like I said, I hope that's not the case. That they aren't... And I'm not saying... I get it. It's good that everything doesn't revolve around basketball for them. They have a balanced life. But your basketball, if you... I mean, Kyrie, that shot, off the top of my head, I would say that's the second biggest shot in NBA history. The first being Ray Allen's shot. Wow.  All that Jordan shot at Utah was pretty big. It was game six, though. Yeah. I give you that. Ray Allen missed that shot. It might be more iconic, but Kyrie, first championship for Cleveland in 52 years, which might not mean anything to people outside of Ohio. No, it was huge. But in the 3-1 comeback, I'll give you that.  But whatever the case, to your point about KD and Kyrie, about their sensitivity, and I do agree with you, however, I will say this in kind of their defense. This is an era that we have... No previous eras of athletes never had to deal with. That's one thing that makes LeBron for all the passive-aggressive tweets. It's impressive that he's been able to handle it for the most part. I'll give you that. The way he does, right? I'll give you that. They are under scrutiny. These types of shows. Jordan never had this. No. Yeah. So we scrutinized Kyrie Irving on a Tuesday night in Utah. Game 57, it doesn't even matter. Right. Jordan, we only remember the makes. Magic. We only remember the great moments. But if they had been scrutinized like this, some of those guys... If we get to us... May have... May have had... Because you have these other social media platforms, everybody gets to criticize you. They get to add such and such.  Right. So not... The other thing about Kyrie and KD, they're both deep thinkers to me. They go way deep. Second, third level thinkers. Michael Jordan was not a deep thinker. I was around him a lot. He thought he wanted to play basketball and golf. Yes. In that order, and he wanted to gamble on both. Yes. That's how he was. Like he wanted to bet his life on basketball and any amount of money on golf that you wanted to bet. That's what he was. And cards too. Yeah. He loves to gamble. Okay. Anything to compete. Yes. Well, that's it. But he didn't think twice. No. His kids are always thinking like, what does it all mean? What does it all mean? Right. They came to basketball. He was thinking, I know I'm better than you. I know my team is going to be yours. And if you bet me, I know I'm going to take your money. That's it. That's it. I agree. The overthinking things, it just makes you look at all the angles and can make you upset. What is my life? Yeah. How would I be remembered? What is my purpose? Like KD's explanation yesterday. I was a deep expert about Patrick Beverly. Oh, I could play. But I just want to see you just take him to the hole. Remember, I... But it was a great explanation. Oh, yeah. He did throw it out. Yeah, he did. Put on BBA later. Next, Steven Jackson joins Nick and Cece to break down the Warriors vs. Clippers game-free match-up. What do you make of what KD has to say? I know exactly what he's saying. And I also know what Steve Kerr is saying. Steve Kerr is not saying go out there and jack 30 shots up. Right. He's saying be more aggressive. KD understands that. But KD has to break it down to people that don't understand the game. And what he's saying is I've been playing a certain way my whole career. And I've been good at it. All y'all standing up and asking me questions because I'm Kevin Durant. You know who I am. I've been back-to-back MVP. You know who I am. And I played my game a certain way. And he gave respect to Patrick Beverly because guys like Patrick Beverly, we love, we want them type of guys on our team. And that's the way he plays. And the way he plays is effective. But at the same time, KD understands the game. He's a student of the game. He said it. I can go out there and dominate and score on them every time. That's not winning basketball. That's not how we won two championships. I'm going to continue to play. I understand what Coach is saying.  Yeah, I took the Steve Kerr comment like you. A coach is just trying to speak because 20 shots is one thing. In Kevin Durant's career, 435 games, he's taken 20 shots in his career. Only one guy took more than 20. That's in LeBron in the same amount of time. But as far as 30 shots, KD has 20 games where he took 30 shots in his career. Regular season and the playoffs. 30 shots, a lot of shots. Now, there's six more players that have more 30-shot games than him compared to just one with the 20-shot game. So what Steve Kerr is saying, Kevin Durant is not going to do. So Kevin Durant, when he has the press conference afterwards, he's not disobeying the coach. He's just breaking it down to this is the way I'm going to play. Steve Kerr is telling you as I want Kevin to be more aggressive, but they both can be right. Steve Kerr is right and Kevin Durant is right because he has made his reputation by being one of the most efficient players, scores that we've ever seen in this game. And that's one of the reasons why I fell in love with his game. Then once he went to the Warriors, now we just start picking them apart because we didn't like the move. We didn't like that the league wasn't balanced anymore. But Kevin Durant's ability to be efficient is one of the special qualities about it. He broke down the defense, what they're trying to do to me. They're playing up under me. And he's right. He's got six offensive fouls. Patrick Beverly is all into his space. As a player, your space is your own space. A defensive player is not supposed to be able to come into your space. So they're not refereeing the games the right way. So Kevin should be able to push back to build a game, the cylinder of his space back. He hadn't been able to do that, but he taught me an awful lot. I wish there was other NBA players. I know it's difficult because they're doing this four or five times a week. But he taught me something about basketball. And I like that when they give me, because most of these guys that play at this level, they're basketball geniuses. And every once in a while, if they can just let me in to give me a little more insight, I appreciate. And that's what Kevin Durant did for me yesterday. And that's why he got kicked out in a lot of ways. Because once you go to the referee, and they call and call for Beverly, and once you go to the referee and say, Rev, call it both ways. And you don't, we talked about it. Now I got to take it into my own hands. And that's why he's getting kicked out of the game. That's why all this other stuff has happened because the referees are not calling it both ways. Except for the fact that in game one, Kevin Durant isn't the only one who got kicked out. No question. They both did. And in game two, Kevin Durant's not the only one. And that was premature. That was premature. For both of them. They only got kicked out because it was a second technical. No, I didn't. But they got the two technicals within 20 seconds of each other. Yeah. And I didn't think they had to, they wouldn't have thrown them out if it was a close game. No question. It was, there's few minutes left, let's just, things got out of hand. But in game two, Kevin Durant's not the only one who fouled out. Beverly fouled out as well, about four minutes early. Here's my issue. I understand what Kevin Durant's saying. However, you don't become a four-time scoring champion if you only take the most efficient shots. If you only do it when it is in the most advantageous positions. Maybe the scoring champs that we have now. But when Kevin Durant was the scoring champion and his field goal percentage will indicate that. He was saying, listen, he's an incredibly efficient score. But in order to score 30 plus points a game, sometimes you have to take tough shots in tough circumstances. And he is a great tough shot maker. And the point that I am making is this. When you're, when you have the 30 point lead, then of course don't change anything. But when it's dwindling and steps on the bench because he's in foul trouble, and then it's dwindling more and steps on the court, but he is having an awful fourth quarter. Then all of a sudden, you have to be able to tap into OKC Kevin Durant. Because warrior Kevin Durant, not to make an excuse, but when you're in a big comeback, no one knows they're getting ready to break history. We have 31, bro. So you don't want to change. And you never want to look like you're forcing it either.  He's jibbling into double teams. You don't want to force it. I mean, we're talking about the biggest, I mean, comeback in NBA history. Yes. When you're involved in that, you're in the moment. You don't know. Damn. What little wins getting ready to do? Ten. Five. Two. Sure. There is a hindsight to it. Now, I do agree with you that Kevin Durant, there should be more times that he should be aggressive. Now, he hadn't had to do that because he's in Golden State. So I do understand your argument, but when you are in that moment, you're in one of the biggest comebacks on the other side. You don't know. You don't know that. You're going to wake up the next morning and it's getting ready to be history. But the other aspect of it is, is that we are, when we talk about how we're going to evaluate these guys, some of them, we're going to hold them to the standard that they want to be held to. Kevin Durant believes he deserves to be considered and earn the right to be considered the best player in the world. I know a lot of people think he is the best player in the world. Yes. And in that spot, when you got a guy a foot shorter than you guarding you, when you have more turnovers than field goal attempts, when your team blows the biggest lead in playoff history and you, in back-to-back games now, have not been able to finish the games because of this back and forth with a guy who will never make an all-star team, his basketball legacy might be this series, then you're going to be held to some real scrutiny. And when your coach says, I'm giving you the green light to be more aggressive, that's what I want to see tonight. I want to see Durant. Does he say, you know what, I am going to pull up and shoot over Patrick Beverly? I am going to be a little more OKC, Kevin Durant, because that might be what the series calls for. I don't think it's needed. I think it happens in basketball. Now it might be the biggest comeback ever, but I've been in games where we're blowing guys out. What tends to happen is we get the clock watching. We're not even playing no more. We're just watching the clock, hurry up, clock, run out, run out, run out. And that's what happened. And the Clippers kept playing. It happens to teams and it just so happened that them and the playoffs. But I'm not worried.  They're going to win by third and we won't even be talking about this. Now Chris Haynes and Jim Jackson joins Whitlock and Wiley to talk about Russell Westbrook's playoff struggles. You think Russell Westbrook will ever mature as a player? You stop believing in them, huh? You done? Nah, nah, just don't believe he's going to mature. Are you finished or are you done? That's what I want to know about a guy who came off the bench in college, a three-star recruit, who became the NBA MVP and that's what we want to really put our focus and criticism on a top 10 player, a guy whose average is a triple double the last three years. This is not a maturity issue. This is a guy who went out there and put a franchise on his back after the departure of another great player in Kevin Durant. This is a guy who is now looking around and it's time to start calling our role players, but that's not who he is. This is a guy who has Paul George and himself and even this year, if you say he's immature, why would you defer to Paul George when he was healthy and playing at an MVP level if you're immature, if you're selfish, if you're not ready to win? He's trying to win at all costs, but in today's NBA, as we're sitting next to a guy who covers a team with four, five all-stars, sometimes he just ain't got enough. I love Russell Westbrook in terms of his moxie, his tenacity, the way he approaches the game. Could it be a better player? I'm sure he could get higher in the top 10 rankings, but there are 450 dudes in the NBA, man. And there's 440 dudes out there who need to do a lot more to even catch up to one Westbrook to now try to get in that rarefied air and saying he needs to be a perfect player. I like him the way he is, address the situations around him, coaching included, and maybe you'll get more results. Got him a tour. Yeah, he's got a tour. I don't know what my son is for. He started rambling about just where he ranks as far as the grand scheme of the players. We're talking about how can we get him to a level to where he's the leader of a championship ten team. Because look, right now, we can talk about the triple number, we can talk about all the stats piling up, but I need to see composure from him. I need to see him making winning plays down the stretch. I need to see him not losing it when he gets fouled and going bumping with somebody getting a technical and crucial parts of the game. I need him to allow for if the three ball is not working, which it has been working all year. No, no. Get to that hole. We have to understand that everybody's not going to be able to shoot the three. Just because the league is ventured off into everybody shooting 30 footers, that's not Westbrook. He needs to shoot five footers. That wasn't Kobe either. I get it.  So, until he gets to where he's mature and I think really in order for OKC to reach there to say, look, I'm not putting it all on OKC. On Russ, I mean. But in order for them to reach their full potential. What are we talking about? What are we talking about? We're talking about it right there. I'm not putting it all on. I bet not. In order for them to reach their full potential, I think West has a let go of a lot of the responsibilities that he wants like trying to get the assist. He did that this year. Not this year. Oh, y'all, stop. Y'all don't like the evidence. No, no. But I think it's two fold because I go back to when Kevin Durant was there. They're up 3-1. But it's game seven. They're killing Golden State with the side pick and roll. Killing them with Canada. Killing them with Adams. You know what? They go away from it and go one-on-one. At that time, Scotty Brooks was a coach. They allowed that to happen. So, guess what? You end up losing the game. If you don't correct the mistakes early in the season and have more discipline as a team, it comes back to bite you in the playoffs, okay? It comes back because it now is magnified with the teams that you play because they're going to take stuff away. My thing is two-fold. One, Westbrook is who he is. He's not going to change. So, what you have to do is bring in a dynamic that's going to surround him with the right kind of people, which he has now. But you have to have more discipline on the offensive end to understand what kind of team you have. Not a three-point shooting team. So, why go out there and try to be a three-point shooting team? You can pound the ball and still get things done, be a better defensive team. So, I'm spreading the blame on everybody. I'm spreading the blame on everybody across the board in regards to that. But listen, when you lose, of course there's blame. No, no, but it's not the losing. Jason, to me, it's the lack of discipline and understanding who they are as a team from the beginning. I would agree, but everything starts with your highest-paid, most important, franchise player. You got to get him on board first. But that got to come from upstairs. That's where it starts. But, Jim, the thing that's different in this league because, Jim, I'm old enough to remember and everybody here is old enough to remember, these same conversations went on about Michael Jordan in Chicago in terms of him having to change his style of play and being just a volume score. That wasn't good enough for them. And what did they do? They also changed the coaching and all of a sudden led the championship instantly. All the other stuff is talked about. That's my point. When they got Bill Jackson in, that helped Michael mature into a different player. Until you solved that problem with that man, Russell Westbrook, respects the man on the bench, he's not going to change. Let me ask you this though. Let me, honest to goodness, we give Phil a lot of credit and he obviously deserves it. But Michael Jordan wasn't making $30 million a year like players are today. They're much harder to rate. Yes, he was in the last years. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. I was talking about when he made change some how early in his career. It's all relative, but Michael still, Michael from a persona perspective was still Michael Jordan. I don't care how much money it was. You couldn't... Before championships and everybody in the league, when the Detroit... But he was still the face of the league. I get it. So it was still... No, no, no, no. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Michael Jordan at that time, even when Detroit was winning, it was still about Mike. Yeah. In the league. The league was about magic and Larry. No, no. But they were in the back end when the Pistons won it in 1991. This magic and Larry weren't doing that like that. Right. And they even passed the torch in conversation. They were like, this dude, we can't do anything about it. This is my point about Russell. And let me say this. Yeah. Let me say this. Russell needs someone he respects. Kobe respected Phil, okay? Even LeBron respected Pat Riley to change some things. Michael respected Phil. So this is a coaching issue. Yes. Hold on. Hold on. In regards to his maturity. As far as maturity. Okay. Let's talk about this maturity, too. This is a second coach. But both coaches allow them to get away with everything, bro. I understand. I understand. Any stats over here, I'm just going to say out on the top of my head. The coach ain't causing him to shoot five for 20. No. Shoot like that. Shoot and shoot. Oh, no. He doesn't take your own. Do you think if he was playing for Pat Riley, he'd be doing that? Not at all. Not at all. That's why I don't understand. That's why I don't understand. Hold on. Russell Westbrook. Russell Westbrook. Yes. If he was playing for Pop, that wouldn't happen. If he was playing for Jeff Van Gunden, it wouldn't happen. Hold on. But he's not. He's not. But who's in the role? But that's my point. That's what you're missing. If he don't have somebody he can respect on the bench, he's going to do what he wants to do. Jimmy, let me say this. We're talking about a subjective conversation right now and we're going to have our opinions. Let me give you all some facts, first of all. Because this ain't the Oprah Winfrey Show. That's fact. Because y'all acting like they just hand out championships to great players. That's not how the game goes. Since the modern NBA started. Let's go 1980, last 40 years. You know what I mean? Franchages won a championship. Eight. Eleven. You know since Russell been in the league, how many have won in his 11 years? Six. How many stars starred next level Russell? I get it. So stop acting like this. He has to lead a championship team or he's not great or he's not mature. No, I think, honest to goodness, today where we're starting at is just him getting out of the first round. Because this will be the third straight year. That's all we're talking about. Get out of the first round. That's not my dance. And so I don't care if he was winning championships or not winning championships. His game needs to mature. He's not a three-point shooter. He continues to take three-point shots. I get you that. He's not a point guard. And again, I agree with that. I agree with that. Yeah, I give you that. I love this thing of like, let's blame it if the coach, coach, coach, coach. It's a player driven league. That's the point. Have you, have you? Listen, I've been in those rooms when I seen people change. I've been in those rooms. You think Kobe was like that under Dale Harris? I'm not saying that. But what you're saying, but what's your both? I'm saying, I'm saying, I'm saying it's a combination. I'm not excusing Russ. To me, Russ, his emotions, he allows his emotions to make irrational decisions that hurt the team. Okay. But that goes back to not being corrected early on. That's my point. I agree with that. But both of, what you both were saying as well is that in order for Russ to mature and make the right plays, he has to have a coachy respect. How do you want to win and do the right thing? But it's not that simple. If it was that simple, he would do it. And don't do that. That's why you got mentors and guys. Y'all didn't win at all. Y'all didn't win at all. Look, I love this. I ain't got no ring. I ain't got no ring. You won't? Golden State was there climbing, getting there, but they even lost in the first round to the Clippers. That Golden State team and you know what happened? You been in the game or lost a series? Series? 2014. Do you want it back there? Come on, man. I thought you were still relevant. They won three of the last four. We're going to go back four or five years. Yes, we are. And you know what happened? Coaching changed. Whatever you want to say, the guys matured. But guess what happened? They blossomed and you can say, oh, it's in coincidence of the coaching change. We're trying to say it's in correlation. Is it correlation? Ain't Russ around 30? You're talking about stuff when they were 25 and 20. And don't act like he hasn't been in the finals before. Let's not do that to him.  Oh, but I've been to the finals. Oh, well, that ain't enough. We keep moving the goal post. Should they be B Portland? Should they be Portland? They're not a higher C. So technically, no. They don't. Portland doesn't have lurkers. Portland is that. It doesn't matter. Should they be B Portland? In Vegas, they're favored. They're favored to get past Portland. If they do not, then what? It's all a post issue. No, I'm just saying, I'm not. Do they have A plus coaching? You know that's not true. So therefore, most of the league doesn't have A plus coaching. That's why most of the league ain't competing for a championship. I'm just saying. Does Portland have A plus coaching? Terry Satch is good. No, no, no. Good. Is that A plus though? Because now everybody's A plus. Come on. I can say A plus. I said A plus. I said A plus. I said A plus. I said, hold on. I said a coach he respects. Okay. That's a big difference, Portland. That's a big difference. Let's be clear. Okay. Let's be clear. Because again, I get that Russ and all of us, unless there's someone to control us, we're incapable of doing that. That's what it sounds like. That's what it sounds like. No, no, no. That's what it is. Everybody can't do it the same way you do it. Let me finish my point. Or I do it. Let me finish my point. Okay. Because I know that's the argument. Right. They're all incapable. All that purple beef over there. Yeah. And unless we find the unicorn coach, they're incapable. They can't self-correct. I said Thomas didn't grow on his own. Nobody can do it without the perfect coach. That's BS for one. Oh, thank you. Point two. Point two. Point two. If Kevin Durant, the second best player in the league, leaves my franchise. And factually, I don't know what percentage of the reason why, but it's some sort of percentage because, man, that dude's out of control. And I can't do what I'm supposed to do. Because that dude's out of control. If that doesn't cause you some self-reflection on your own, I was playing with Kevin Durant. This dude bounced on me. Russell Westbrook is not incapable of self-reflection and correcting. Now, will he do it? I think not. Because one, anything he does will be excused by some because, oh, my God. By some? By two on this panel right here? And y'all both wrong because, you know what? It's impossible to blame Westbrook for Durant want to leave when it was a great decision, but in possible circumstances. Which franchise is better? Well, which one is... It's a percentage of Kevin Durant. Which franchise ran better? Golden State or O'Casey? Is there a percentage of the reason that Durant left? Which team had success in front of them or behind them? You've got to understand what he was making the decision. Which market is better? So his decision had nothing to do with it? I'm not saying it had nothing to do with it, but to put the blame on him instead of saying, KD, you made a great decision for this one. I laid it out. I thought very clearly. There's a certain percentage. I don't know what. We can say it's 20%. We can say it's 5%. We might be... It might be 70%. But there's a percent. There was on Russ. That's clear as day. To do what? They went to a finals and then he made a projection and said, you know what? I understand that. You know what Kevin Durant said? I want to win championships. I don't want to... I go so better. Following Stephen Jackson is back with Nick and Cece to explain why Ben Simmons isn't going to win championships. Ben Simmons isn't just an average player in the half court. Stephen, is Dudley right about Ben Simmons? Truth sound like hate to people who hate the truth. Oh, truth. Man, say that again. Say that again. Truth sound like hate to people who hate the truth. I mean, it's just the truth. He's not a good half court player. As you see last game, he has success by getting the ball off the hoop, pushing it and getting quick baskets. Half court game is not his game. He can't shoot. He won't even shoot it. Jared Dudley, he's dead on it. I think that's the way they're going to approach guarding him. The same way we know he's not going to shoot. He's going to slow him down when he get the rebound and make him play him half court because that's the reason they won last game. Every player has weaknesses in his game and it's been just talked about, talked about, talked about as far as Ben Simmons and his inability to shoot. My biggest problem with Ben Simmons is not his inability to shoot because even if you can't shoot, you shouldn't put yourself in a position where they can exploit your weaknesses. So if you're going to be one-dimensional, be the best one-dimensional player. So every time the ball went off the bucket, I would be trying to get in transition. Every time I tried to set up the offense the way they did, I would try to get a running start compared to a conventional guard setting up, calling the play, allowing everyone, I would move back a little bit so I can use my size and speed and try to get in the air over people.  People force him to play their way. They force him. Jared Dudley is right. They force him to play in a half-court game. Now, in and up and down, if he was on the Showtime Lakers, he would be sensational because they were up and down the court, pace, pace, pace, pace. That's what Magic Johnson was best until he developed that shot. Now Magic Johnson was a better player at a younger age, but that pace helped him out. My biggest problem with Ben Simmons is not that he can't shoot. Master what you can do. Yes, Dudley is right. He needs to get up and down more because he's almost unstoppable in the break, just like Giannis. You see the way Giannis is doing? Ben Simmons needs to be able to match a lot of what Giannis is doing until he develops that 15-foot jump shot. And I would argue that is when he's on the court. That's the way they play. They are overall this year, eighth in the league in pace. They're even faster when he's on the court as opposed to on the bench. And Jared Dudley's half right here because we're only talking about the offensive end now because nobody says Ben Simmons in half court defense is not an elite player. Like we know he is an elite defensive player for his position. We know he's an A-plus player in transition. And this actually to me is the perfect microcosm for why I get so frustrated with the Ben Simmons hyper critiques. So he's a very good defensive player. He's an A-plus player in transition. Let's call him a C-minus player in half court offense, right? Dudley called him average. So that would be a C. You want to call him a D player. Whatever you want to call him, fine. That averages out to a B-plus basketball player. That averages out to an all-star. Average is out to a guy that gave you 18, 9, and 8 for the season. You can still be an all-star and people be disappointed. When you are the first pick in the draft, life is about expectations. But so this is... Is that right or not? Of course. But do we expect guys to be their fully developed player in their second year in the league or second year in the playing third year in the league? But do we expect to see an arc? We expect to see someone go up. Exactly, Jim. We talked about how all-off season, at least he'd get better. There's shooting didn't get any better. I even know that. Okay, let's be honest. Were you happy with Ben Simmons, what he did in the shooting department last year? No. Oh, okay. No. That's all we're talking about now. But you're in the NBA. You should be able to even have a confidence to take a shot. Take a shot. Like your man is sitting way in the paint. You're making the... Jack, how many years have you been retired? Five. Okay. All season. Jack, you work out hard. How many shots are you getting up a day? Right now? Well, a day? Probably close to 100. Right. Agreed. But when you say... Close to 100. At 41. Understood. And this is why you're the big three leading scored two years. But the point is though, you're in the NBA. You're an all-star. How can you not shoot a jump shot? That's my thing. So here's the thing. Because, see, you just said it. But that's what we're talking about. We're only talking about it because we're talking about it. We don't... This is the one player in the league, he and Russ in my mind, that we spend such a disproportionate amount of time talking about what they can't do. Nobody denies what he's great at. So we just say, okay, he's great at it. Forget it. It's not interesting. Let's talk about it. Yes, should he have gotten better at shooting? We're talking about getting ready for game number three. What do you want to talk about with him? We could phrase the exact same conversation of, can the Nets prevent Ben Simmons from dominating the game the way it is? They did a game one. But it would still be based off Jared's comments, Dudley's comments. He'd be like, hey, we got to slow him down. We got to put him in a half court. Then our comments would be, can they do that? And if teams can... And it would go back to exactly what we're talking about. Is he going to ever be able to shoot? If he's never able to shoot, then he will never reach his full potential. I don't know. I know him on TV now. And I know he can't shoot now. Right. Because he might be able to shoot one time, but I might not be on TV. That's fine. But being on TV now, the last game he played in was maybe... Sensational. Absolutely. Go ahead. Was it because of him or was it because the other guys around him finally started to shoot? No, it was because of him. He was the best player on the court. He was the guy that initiated everything. He was the difference maker. He was the one who adjusted his awful approaching game one to a great approaching game two. Nick, it's... I think there's a tremendous irony to the two people that you mentioned. Both of them, you like. Russ.  Russ. He ain't had no playoff success after averaging a triple-double, triple-double. Because in professional sports, you know what they pick out? He's not in college no more. They pick out the things that you can't do. If you're a good player, they pick out the things that you can't do. If you're a great player, they pick out the things that you haven't done or you can't do. That's what professional sports is about. It's not always about potential. It's about what do you do on a daily basis. I know a lot of great regular-season players. What separates them is when they do it in the playoffs. At the same time, I got to reiterate this. How can you be in the NBA? How can you be an all-star and cannot shoot? Because you must be amazing at everything else. No, no, it's not about being amazing. It's about having enough confidence to attempt a shot. You're not even trying. At least try. That's my whole problem. You're not even trying. At least give yourself a chance. Finally, Chris Haynes and Jim Jackson are back with Whitlock and Wiley to look at the future of the Lakers organization. The question here is, do you think this perception will have any effect on their off-season strategy? And I think it will. I think this is probably why Monty Williams, not Ty Lourge or Juan Howard, will get the job. Monty Williams less connected to LeBron. This is a tough one. This story, it got some legs. A lot of people wasted ink on this story because LeBron's always been the puppeteer, always been calling shots. Even when he was against situations that were more adversarial, whether it's a Pat Riley or even a shrew businessman in Dan Gilbert, LeBron still found his ways. So what's going to be our measuring stick of, oh, these free agents are scared to go to a Lakers team that's ran by LeBron? Because here's the news flash. It is going to be ran by LeBron. You think it's going to be ran by Rob Linke? Y'all really going to go that far. So LeBron's going to have his fingerprints on a lot of the moves going forward. But look at the Lakers in the off season for the last 10, 20 years. Name the big free agent that they got outside of that guy, LeBron James. Oh, wait, no, nobody. So let's not act like the Lakers are attractive destination for big-time free agents because they haven't been. Two, LeBron has even said, I'm not the greatest recruiter. Like LeBron joined forces and everybody joined forces in Miami, but in championship, mine set this off. Don't you do that activation. All I'm saying is, a lot of times people could put out stuff and then when you really distill it, they ain't saying nothing because the Lakers are not used to getting free agents. LeBron's not used to guys just coming and joining him. So par for the course is for them to be unsuccessful, the team and the individual. But LeBron's running the ship. And I think their strategy is we're going to hope and we'll see if they get somebody. Yeah, Bron's going to have some say. So I think one of the bigger challenges also too is just to Rob Linke. As a former agent, he dealt with a lot of organizations before, a lot of agents. A lot of them don't trust some of the things he's done in the past. A lot of them may have some past history with him. That affects how free agents and people look at the Lakers as well. So I think you're dealing with two sides of it, not just the LeBron effect, but you're dealing with the Rob Linke effect coming from I think the agency side. Well, I'm going to take it to a different angle. Like, look, there's always been truth to that. Even when LeBron was in Cleveland, Miami, like management is going to talk to LeBron and see how he feels about certain moves. Whether that's a coach or players. But I wrote last week when Magic Johnson relieved himself of his obligations that the Lakers organization... He quit. He quit. Well, quit. He wouldn't believe himself. We use a sin in him. He wanted to keep his relationship with Gallo. I love Magic. Right. But look, I was told that, you know, when they were compiling the list, this was Magic Johnson and Polinka before he left, they were compiling a list of candidates. Mark Jackson, Tyron Loo, Monty Williams. And I was told, I wrote this for Yahoo! That Jeannie felt like she didn't want the perception out there that LeBron is running the coaching search and said that this is a bus ran organization. So my problem with that is, is that look, if Tyron Loo is the best candidate for the job, bring him on. If you're thinking about perception or optics, you're headed for destruction, point and blade. You shouldn't be worried about those type of things. This is the most pivotal, one of the most pivotal junctures in Lakers' franchise history. It's not about what it looks like. It's about getting the right guy in. Period. And I'm fearful that that might go against what you said. Well, I think that I'm not a thousand percent sure that Jeannie Buss and the people whispering in her ear, Rob Polinka and Kobe Bryant, I'm not sure if those people are 1000% committed to LeBron. And so if they go with a coach, if the strategy is to go with someone not LeBron approved, maybe that's calling LeBron's bluff. And again, I'm not a thousand percent sure LeBron is going to be in a Lakers uniform next season. Oh, definitely I am. He checks the box that's necessary. You got to remember that Lakers, since Dr. Buss has always wanted to win twofold. They wanted to win on the court and they wanted to win off the court in terms of showtime and pizzazz. They never wanted to win the Spurs way. Like they're not even built for that. In part, why you would go and give Kobe that contract at the end of his career. You need meeting the seats. Why do you also get LeBron, even though you know that the end of this contract, he's probably going to be going downhill because he's still box office. Like LeBron is still going to make sure that the Lakers are the Lakers. They're the premier franchise in basketball clearly. And this is a six year drought. We just destroyed OKC and Westbrook for three first round exits. This is the best franchise in basketball and they haven't sniffed the playoffs in now six years and they're still the premier brand. They keep LeBron because they need to stay that premier brand. And I think the relevancy part of it too, we talked about this before. Young guys don't look at the Lakers as that franchise anymore. I mean, because they just haven't been relevant. So when you're talking about trying to attract a free agent, who is that free agent that right now is like, OK, the Lakers are the best thing for me, OK? Because keep in mind, we're certainly not talking about Kawhi. We know he's not coming. Jimmy Butler, we know that's not going to happen. KD is not going to happen. Maybe Kyrie, maybe Kimba, OK? For AD, you still got to trade in order to get that. So when you start to shrink the pool of free agents that make sense, that really can make an impact. The pool shrinks, OK? Unless you make that blockbuster deal with Anthony Davis, which a lot of league officials didn't want to happen during the course of the season, you're still going to be stuck in that situation where you got young guys with LeBron James and you got to figure out who that coach is going to be, who that president is going to be. My contention is, though, I'm not sure if they feel like LeBron is Kareem or Shaq or they may think he's more like Dwight Howard when they acquired him. Is he a guy that can deliver? Don't forget when Dwight was leaving, stay D12, hashtag D12, billboards all around LA. This franchise actually went in and wanted Dwight Howard because they were like, oh, he was injured. So I don't want this to land on LeBron. Covering the Lakers for so many years, this has happened time and time again. That's why we can't name the free agents that come here. Everyone's going to say, well, we're a little apprehensive to play with LeBron. What's the last 20 years been about for the Lakers? Even though I don't agree with Whitlock, but for him to have that thought process just shows you the treasure trove of players that the Lakers have had over the history where they can look at somebody like LeBron James like that and say, hey, you know what? They have more equity in those players, too. They were there for more years, they have more championships. Still Los Angeles is still the Lakers. They're too valuable to the NBA. The NBA will make a way for the Lakers because they need them with or without LeBron James.


Hi, my name is Sarah Hull and I want to wish the Human Genome Project a very happy anniversary. I first heard about the Human Genome Project in high school in AP Bio. I graduated in 1989, so somewhere in that year between 1988 and 89 it was the cover story of Newsweek Magazine and we talked about it. We were studying genetics in class and we had some pretty heated debates. Was this the science of the future or was it all moving a little bit too fast and did we have to pause and pay close attention to the moral implications. And I guess that was a really formative thing for me. That really stuck with me because for over 20 years I've had the privilege of working at the National Human Genome Research Institute in the Intramural Program as a bioethicist. And I think that is one of the great innovations of the project. Of course the science and the technology and its relationship to human health have been very important scientific developments. But I think that from the get go the project's willingness to pay close attention and to actually fund and provide resources to support the study of the ethical, legal and social implications in parallel has been such an important act of courage on the part of the project that I think has been a model for other areas of science. And I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that I owe my very career path to the project's willingness to create a culture of ethics in scientific spaces and to encourage bioethicists like myself to work side by side with scientists who very sincerely want to ensure that their science and their data are benefiting human populations to the greatest extent possible and fairly and without repeating some of the historical wrongs that we still need to pay very close attention to.


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Hey, hey, whoa Hang on I forgot a very important detail Welcome everybody to my third live chat Decided we would get it going because I have a lot to talk about this time and After coming back from Shacho and everything that I saw there and what I learned about CZUSA I Wanted a chance to talk about it above and beyond the video And it's one of those things where a live chat and being able to get feedback from people right there and then live is really cool and I Avoided it for years and years and years and then decided that hey It's time to get to know the people on the TFG channel a little bit better, and that's why I Began doing this and also you may notice no more blur. I had it blurred from this point forward and People said it was distracting. So I Got rid of the blur. Anyhow Shacho was let's just say shacho. It was the same type of event people running around people trying to to see certain things and A lot of people going to the same booths like I mentioned in the video I put up yesterday. I said that everybody was running to see the Daniel H9 and the staccatos CZ not so much. I'm gonna take a minute and talk about that very shortly, but I Enjoyed it, but I also haven't been to several shachos now decided I was only going to go to the show for one day because of The Beretta event I went in early went to a Beretta event and had a great time there And let's see. Thanks Kurt. I appreciate it man. Wow right away. I I appreciate it I use these readers all the time these read me and I have contacts in but the readers Certainly help that will definitely go toward ammo The Shacho or the Beretta event was great I had a chance to shoot all these guns that I probably would not have the opportunity to shoot and it was awesome I was shooting rifles at a thousand yards Which is not a long way It's the first time I also ever shot 338 Lapua and that round is massive And it's really good to see everybody in here. Perhaps we'll get more at half time with there's a certain football game going on right now I'm told so That's what happened. I went to the bread event boy that the one video that I made that did very poorly is the Squallow it's called the squallow 99 XI squallow and that one did poorly And I don't know why that that one turned out to be my my favorite one But I want to take a minute and talk about CZ because when when I made that video and and that was all An idea I'm flying home And I could not believe what I saw and what I felt and what I heard With CZ and what's going on with them and how Colt has taken over The finances at least in the US and it's bad and the morale Amongst the employees with CZ is really bad. They saw a lot of their buddies get laid off They saw a lot of the US side of things Slashed by Colt. Now it is my belief that Colt is running the US operations for Colt slash CZ group Notice it's not CZ slash Colt group. It's Colt CZ and The morale is really down and people are leaving on their own accord and people are getting let go Against their will and and so what is happening at CZ is you're seeing very little new stuff coming out Not just this year, but last year as well and then you're seeing Colt having a bigger booth a Not bigger than CZ, but a larger presence and more things going on over there but They're really not doing too much when this biggest move from a Colt side of things is when they came out with the snake guns the Cobra the The Python you know all their snake guns was something that was highly requested what wasn't requested was the high price tags and some of the Experiences that so many people had with the Colt revolvers has not been that good a lot of people said You know I did nothing but have problems and Colt was not there to take care of me and at that time You could say well, they probably cut their manpower because they Were going through a bankruptcy. Well when CZ acquired Colt they tripled their debt to acquire Colt and then Colt ended up laying off the CZ people and all of a sudden they get better financials in 2023 and so One of the ways you get better financials. I'm not saying a better-run company I'm saying better financials is to cut your labor force because you get rid of That expenditure and now your numbers look better and it gives somebody the impression that oh wow the company must be doing well Because now they're making money. They're not necessarily making money They're not losing as much money on the labor side of things because they cut off people and the morale at CZ is horrible Now after I made that video people told me that they are coming out with a upgraded P10c and I've noticed that a lot of their In stock guns that have been around for a while have dropped in price pretty drastically If you look at the site 399 for a gun that used to be 499 and even higher there was a time there They were raising the prices then they pretty much slashed them and so The morale at Colt is poor. It is I mean that CZ is poor and Colt is the reason for that They the people at CZ They dreaded that acquisition of Colt They didn't want it and many of them lost their jobs because of it And I believe everything I said that we're not going to see as many New releases they'll release to P10c the upgraded one but keep in mind that was on the works and probably already beginning the testing phases prior to the acquisition of Colt and I think CZ is running the European side I think Colt is running the US side and It's it's not good for CZ such a loved company such a loved manufacturer and yet I'm getting a ton of feedback from people saying yeah, I love them and everything but When I had a problem they were not there for me So I don't know if that's the way thing if that's gonna be the new reality We're gonna see CZ go the same route as Colt Some people said I was looking at it from a wrong direction, but I don't think so. I think it was the right direction I Another thing Bursa I'm telling you Bursa if you recall two years ago they started making ARs and then they made the The nine millimeter pistol caliber carbines and they also made them in pistols and they did a great job They called the the bar series Bursa AR and and they did a great job and You know it came out of nowhere. Nobody saw that coming but when they came out with 1911's and the double stack nine and the full-size BP nine people were So excited about that a lot of Bursa fans out there a lot of Bursa fans. So here we see an established Company, I don't want to say an American company with CZ, but an established manufacturer that has Has done so well in the US for so many years Going downhill and you see an Argentine company Argentinean if that's a word company Bursa moved to the US and Begin to kill it in the US market and they've always killed it in the US market, but they're making a presence and Very well-known presence as well Let me get out to the chat here and see who's here. I can see ET sniping Chuck R B watt Res Barrett Dino big hero Dime story Harry Johnny Appalachia trigger figure studios Good to see everybody Danny LeVette Good to see GB 58 Kurt 24 Scott C. Well J mark Jim 88 TAB videos writers range fluffies in the house Wow, great to see you guys. Thanks for coming aboard Figured I do it on a Sunday night football game or no football game Hey, we have things to talk about The car X9 first of all, I want to tell you a little something about the car X9 Super excited about it that a car fan for a long time The model that I received was a pre-production model That is not the same one that I saw at an array last year in Indianapolis It's totally different. Well, it's not totally different. But what's different is the barrel length They had a three inch barrel. It was the size of a PM9 very small double stack With the very nice disassemble I'm not sure why they went with the longer barrel 3.54 inch barrel, but they did But the the little story I want to tell you is I decided I'm gonna do a little YouTube search to see Who else reviewed the gun? It's shot. We just had shot who reviewed it. Well TFB reviewed it, but then Upon my search, I see that there's my video that got stolen and This guy's back in views on on my work and it's really interesting because These people after they download the video and then I have it removed, which is what I did. They say hey Why did you remove my video? That's I think they think because they downloaded it and put it up on the channel That it's their video and they own it and they worked for it and I put a comment down there I said remove the video or I will copyright you and they said hey, you know a I can use it and Basically, there's not much you can do about it. So I copyrighted them and today it's gone But that's what these video thieves do they take your work and then they think it's their work And they said hey, that's my video. It's not your video. You didn't do anything for that It's so Anyways, I'm expecting an email now because they say hey, man. That wasn't cool You you reported me and now I lost my video. It was never was your video Anybody could download it anybody could do a a screen copy with a with a video editor And we have smash time in the house with 556. Thanks, buddy 556 Mesh time has a video right now that is flourishing it is on the palmetto state armor. He does a whole booth Review of all the new they call them concept guns at palmetto state army They call them concept guns and they want everybody to go and vote and see which ones They want done in specific order and I'm voting for the shotguns. I want I want shotguns I haven't done much of shotguns lately. We have cam outdoors in the house We have romans smash time in the year 25 25 roger ray tab videos. Hey, thanks guys. Good to see everybody Here so the car x9 is different than the one I saw up. I saw it privately at the nra It was much smaller. This one would be like a midsize but but you had a subcompact in the same Category so that's that's what's happening With the car x9. I don't know if you guys are excited about it I I certainly am excited about you can change the trigger They're gonna make it so that they you'll have a lighter trigger with a shorter reset or go with the original car trigger They what they really want to give people what they want And have you ever seen a handgun that could take a sig mag and a hellcat mag and the car mag all at one One Type of handgun. I've never seen that happen before Does uh cams does the new car have a mag Mag conversion or can it just it could just take both mags along with the car mags now I never got the car mags, but they had them in shot already And they're they're perfect like they they fit in there nice and tight. They're great And you know, you can take all three mags. It's it's it's incredible engineering is what it is To be able to do that that that's crazy And i'll do a better job this time of trying to get over here and get into the Into the chat and see what's going on over there. By the way, if you're here hit that like button for me Hit that like button help with the algorithm. Maybe get some views of people that would normally Not make it here But I believe it's half time with the lions game. They were up when I left I'm in michigan Probably not for long probably not for long the politics here horrible horrible The best thing I saw in any of those I thought was neat was the five five eleven sport coat Yeah, that would be that would be pretty cool That would be pretty cool five eleven make some good stuff. I had quite a few of their Hactical pans Uh the px4 sub compact. Yeah, that's cool. I I never I have a px4 It's a type d double action only shoots great 17 round mags rotating barrel But the sub compacts I never really got into them I never thought that the sub compacts were awesome Now I know they shoot well and there's not a problem with them, but I never really got into them to Go out and make a purchase where I wanted to have one I really want that 92 xi squallow. That's really what I want May I say it this way? Eventually I will get that. I don't care how much it costs What else do we have over here? All right, so everybody the chats moving pretty quick greetings from Puerto Rico Hey, louis louis mull denado. I forgot some friends named mull denado Good friends by the way I have the spanish channel going it it's rocking and rolling. I actually put some of my burst of videos while I was there I had them do some The 1911 the sub compact nine millimeter and the bp9 full size. I had them do that in spanish It's called the firearm guy and a spaniel. So if you speak spanish go over there and check it out and see what you think I I enjoy having two channels and Perhaps in a month or two. I might be able to show you two silver play buttons So we'll see what happens there So hit that like button for me One of the things I have been pondering and I'm not I've been on the fence about this for a long time and I thought if I have channel members Where channel members? You know, they they they make a monthly donation if you will The reason that I would want that is the very reason I want to do this and that is to get to know people better to to show them a different side to let them know What's going on in advance? But also I was thinking if I have if I start channel memberships not to enrich myself But to have a group of people who are are dedicated to this channel What could I do for them and I I came up with something I did not start it yet I just want to get some feedback in the chat of who would consider being a channel member If we did member chats only If we did monthly giveaways And let me tell you why I came up with that I have a ton of stuff that has never been taken out of The package let me give you an example Let's see. How about this? here is a next bolt supreme gun belt This thing goes for 70 bucks I would give this away on the Membership I would do it monthly give away this belt. That's one item when I was at the bread event I got these muffs bread of muffs I keep extra muffs In my range bag and some extra plugs in my range bag for when that time comes when You have a new shooter and they just show up and you want to be able to hand hand them something These are pretty good. These this is not garbage And so I would give this away I've got a ton of knives both fixed blade and flippers That I could give away. I've got a ton of hats that have never been used before I've got a lot of Shall we say swag that would be beneficial to somebody? I have I have bags of tannerite like substance that I would give to channel members So give me a quick shout in the chat if you will If You would be interested in a channel membership. Don't be don't don't worry about saying no Uh Tim said if cz closes down that would suck Yeah, it would but what sucks even more for the company is that they acquired coal and now coal to run in the show Knives and hats Douglas says I keep watching. Okay. I'm in appreciate it Appreciate it Douglas six foot eight guy six foot eight guy. I'm not sure you understand. I've known big Doug for a long time Years ago. We were always in touch. He actually made videos This guy he goes like six six. He's just this massive human being But he's so cheap when he walks he squeaks. He wouldn't even pay for the oil to to Lube himself up if you have to and he says he's going to be a channel member. I'll believe it when I see it Doug Um, I understand that Dale and I'm not trying to uh I'm not trying to To get rich off it. I completely understand Um What do we have here? We have we have some people that say they would do it. Okay, so I'm going to set that up I'm going to set it up. My wife is laughing too Here's big Doug. You can see this monster of a guy this guy Good grief I would be like a little uh little midget next to him On another handgun that really impressed me at shot show was the the sdr revolver made by diamond back And I it was really weird because I said I have to go see That revolver because that thing looks awesome And so I I went and found the diamond back booth And I went there and it was just a piece of paper hanging sideways on the wall and there was no booth So i'm like, oh well. Okay. They're not here I walked out of caesars forum And I hear hey dan And there they are two guys from diamond back. I said that's crazy out of this huge massive place You two I just ran into and I went to go find you guys They said you have to see a revolver. I said that's what i'm trying to do They said go over right over here to davidson's And see that revolver. It's called the fdr nine. I go you don't need to tell me a thing. I know all about it And they invited me to the industry range day And I declined because I didn't I don't like the The range I love range days. I don't like that range day. And so I decided to not go and uh So what happened was I went and looked at this revolver and would you believe that that revolver That is I don't know if it's a true stainless, but it feels that way But it's extremely shiny. So that makes me think that it's coated with something But that revolver has an msrp of 540 and it's a six shot 357 magnum with a two inch barrel Show me a smithson wesson in 357 not 38 for an msrp of 540 now Is it everything that smithson wesson is? I don't know. I haven't shot it. I have to shoot it But it has pretty decent sights Nice trigger it has it just checks all the mandatory's with a quality Revolver and and they actually hinted to me a while back that said you're not going to believe what we're going to come up with next I said a revolver aren't you and they without saying anything the guy just gave me a look I go Yep, you're coming out with a revolver I know you are because you already have the sidekick in 22 magnum and 22 long rifle a lot of people love that A lot of people love that with an msrp of three Uh, 325 I believe if I remember correctly For a cz pattern handgun or tan folio tan folio I love I love tan folio and it's so funny because for years people would say you have to try Tan folio.  And you must be rich and I'm not rich. Okay, let's just get that out there right now, but people think I'm rich I'm smart. I'm smart with my money. I think you guys should be too if you're not, you know, I'm smart I don't I don't blow my money. I don't I don't do all these things that cost money that are senseless so I like guns and that's what I do so always have way before way before videos anyhow People said you have to check out tan folio. Then I got the tan folio defined stock master That thing I'm not even kidding that thing literally shoots itself the first time I took that out of the case Took it to the range and I was just ringing steel one after another and I'm like good grief You just put this fiber optic front sight over that target and you're golden and It was so I'm a huge fan of tan folio It's some of their higher-end models of four or five thousand dollars, but they they sure are nice I'm interested in the sour revolvers. Yep, they're cool too And and the sour revolvers now have they have Special sericotes. I saw one in od green with g10 grips. They look super cool soggy The sour revolvers look super cool um Yes, et monthly giveaways with channel memberships. I'm thinking about doing that And I'm not going to be pressuring anybody or asking people uh to To you know join join and and give money to me That's but in order to create channel memberships You have to ask for some money because that's how youtube sets us up They set it up primarily for youtube But i'm thinking I could benefit the people who do that and so That is That is what i'm thinking about doing here Uh cam that says he's interested in henry supreme that takes ar mags. Yeah, that would be cool. Um, Henry Henry's are great. I've got the homesteader and the lever action acts And I love both of those one thing with henry and I don't unless you actually held in shot of henry They are so well put together and you you you ever you ever Grab a gun and you could just tell the craftsmanship as first class You could just tell you you you feel it you work the action. You're like somebody It put a lot of time effort and energy into this and henry Is that company too and I still want to get a henry 357 I really do. How do you feel about stoker releasing the str45? I'm starting to like the stoker str line. Yes Uh, I I like that Hang on where'd that go? Here it is. Yes, uh, I was believe it or not. I was I was on the cutting edge I wasn't I didn't get preferential treatment, but I was on the cutting edge review reviewing the original stoker str9 and um it was It was great and I was like this this thing is really cool deep cut slide serrations nice trigger decent magazine capacity a lot of people say well I don't know where to get mags for The stoker str models will they sell them right on stoker site? That's that's where you have to go to the stoker site They have them in stock. Yes, they're a little bit more money You know you you're going to pay for it somewhere and they offer their guns and packages So you can get additional back straps night sights extra mags as the most expensive package Or you can get the basic package, which is what I got and I Had got the Just the the gun with no other back straps and no other magazines and just regular iron sights and It was totally fine Completely fine and then I got the str9c and I have the full size right now Oh rider says I have to shoot his henry x in 357 sir. You are correct if you ever see my videos where I have a plate rack over here that a 25 yard over there and That's it riders range. He makes videos. He put a great review up today on the vanish holster You know the thing that you wrap around and bell crow and everything and I watched that I learned a lot about the vanish holster It's one of the things you you get bombarded with internet ads But you say I don't know how interested I I am in these things and then I was able to learn about them with riders range videos So check that out for sure that is a good video and he breaks it down and gives all these examples Of different sizes of firearms and and they say well, it'll fit 99. Well Yeah, from a compact size down below, but anything full size forget about it. That trigger is exposed What else do we have here? This is pretty cool one of the guys. Oh, thanks, man We'll put that up there That's going live on sunday. I'm usually working when everyone else goes live. Yeah, I appreciate you being here blizzy and It was just weird. I said, you know what I got back from shot and I figure I'm going to go ahead and do this so anyhow I'm getting back to shot show And one of the things that I enjoy are just is just meeting the people that I know and hanging out with people You cannot go to shot show without Feeling like you missed something and I did even in the comments here people are saying what about this or what about that? Well, I didn't see it, you know, it you just can't see it all I am curious to know if anybody has experience with cv life With their optics And their slings and their mounts and their bipods cv life budget stuff They have been hounding me cv life has excuse me for one minute here My dollar store readers broke which is which is interesting because if if you get dollar store Readers, which is what I do They break so get at least three pair and you'll be good Scott hill billy morgan says he was Interested in the bursa stuff Thoughts on the new stikato see yeah, I mean I like it. There's nothing to not like about it de green, but I don't think I'm going to buy it What do you think About bursa straight pull rifles. They are great. That was the first time I did a I shot a straight pull rifle and the first but my muscle memory told me pull up on The handle and pull back and it's just a straight pull, but it locks in nice and tight. So yeah, I thought it was great But you have to teach yourself because having shot Years and years of bolt rifles that that muscle memory Sort of goes away with the straight pullback, but you tend to think this is kind of weird I don't know how much I trust this just pull back and then charge And I was like dang that is really in there because you have to give a little bit of a little bit more attention to pull it back And you're asked what I thought about it. I loved it I really did and and man, I was shooting five six thousand dollar rifles with Three thousand dollar optics at least All right, what do we have here is swamp fox crack in joshua says he's he seems like he's a fan of Swamp fox cracking gideon optics mediator and the omega. Yeah, I got the omega from gideon. Yeah, that's a good That's a good one swamp fox. I also have the crack in I just got I just got a rifle optic from swamp fox called the It starts with an R. I just I'm looking at the box right now um, so Yeah, I love swamp fox. I never even thought about swamp fox until writers range said you ought to check out swamp fox and I did and I bought a couple and They've been great radar radar's what I'm thinking I double z ranch from Oregon. Good to see you Where are you? There you go, or Oregon. Well, perhaps in some areas the government sure isn't Oregon Floodgate said I have degrees springfield license tan fully hang on. Let me get this up here Thanks, Dan. I agree. I have a springfield license tan fully old race gun from the 80s It was literally a half pound trigger so light it shouldn't be legal. Wow. Be careful with that thing I would love to shoot something that light Man, you talk about trigger control. You would have to be on top of your game Smashtime says what do you think about the? the caltech syb 2k he I tell you what I hung out with smash time at shot show and he was Pumping up that new caltech. He said he wants it and he wants it bad So we'll see uh, if he can get his hands on that Radom guy, I want to show this because I asked about cv life. I bought a bunch of Uh, almost all have been good many of the products they sell Seem to be exactly the same as the other brands both cv life. That is what is happening That is what is happening. Chuck says siley firs pistol optics. Yep. That's another good one um, the only Pistol optic that I've owned so far Oh, I'm not crazy about the hex. I mean they they were well the The hex dragonfly. I had one putter out and then the The other hex wasp It's a springfield product that they discontinued because they had a ton of problems But the cv life I I may I may do some stuff with them I may because it seems to me that A lot of these companies utilize and the gun manufacturers do the same thing by the way I want to talk about that. Hang on a lot of these companies They use the exact same model and branded with their logo And it's happening in china every day And you look at some of these things they may ask for a little larger window. They may ask for A different area with the on-off button or the intensity setting They may ask for something a little different that makes it different than the the competition. Who's another chinese company? But what I wanted to talk about is are you aware that there's a factory in turkey? that makes a semi-auto shotgun for rock island armory They make another one for tri star. They make another one for this company and that company that we never heard of Okay, a lot of those never heard of this company. They just appear they just appear And externally It's different Internally, it's the exact same shotgun The exact same internal Parts externally. Oh, they put a little different rail over here. They put a different handguard They may put a different stock but people say You have to try this one Because this one is different. Well, perhaps Where they put the sling mount might be different Or perhaps the rail may go a little longer on top compared to the other one that's shorter But it's not different. It's the exact Same shotgun produced from the same shop in turkey And so we we have to be aware these manufacturers work with each other More than we know for example How many rifles have A remington 700 Bolt action or trigger action or lower receiver How many rifles use a ruger 1022 receiver? And they put their own barrel on there their own stock and everything else But they use the ruger 1022 How many rifle companies? Have barrels made from this company over here than other made from this company over here It happens all the time. There are only a handful of companies that make rifle barrels in the us And I was very interested to find out that cmmg is one of them. I was at their factory and All the we did a factory tour and I'm looking and I'm seeing they're pumping out these barrels and I said hang on here How long have you had that machine? They said we bought it last year. I said you are making barrels. I just want to be clear about that They said yeah, we're making barrels. I said how many companies are you sending these barrels to?  You will have more customers than you know I know that's just a fallacy A little bit of a trick question, but I truly believe that that's that's what would That's what would happen. You you would get rich. What do you think of 22 TCM is? Dad, um, yes, I do I do I think five seven is becoming more popular even though it could be expensive to shoot well same with the 22 TCM the 22 TCM ballistically is stronger than the 5.7 and I did a little Concrete test on it and it was pretty convincing that the 22 TCM is stronger I think it wasn't marketed well as where FN had the five seven, you know with the With the rifle and the handgun and and I looked up the Rifle somebody tell me the name of that rifle. I always ps 90 this FN ps 90 the rifle I'm going to do a video on this I'm thinking about it It's not even relevant anymore That used to be a rifle that people said I want to get my hands on that I want to Check that out. It's a rifle in five seven But since then and in the same curse happened to fn when ruger announced their five seven and then diamond back came out with the their five seven and now Paul metal arms came out with their five seven and so Who would buy the fn five seven for 1200 dollars when you can get a ruger for 700 or you can get a rock Five seven from Paul metal state armory for 400 Who would pay 1200 dollars? I wouldn't I know I wouldn't But yes, I do think the five seven is destroying the 22 tcm and even the the Glock barrels that made they made Glock barrels Because of 22 tcm you can use a nine round magazine.


You checked Instagram, didn't you? Yes, I checked Instagram. So what's winning so far? I didn't vote on one yet. I'm thinking of my attack back. Your attack back? No, you're doing that. Oh. Let's see. Brett, how do you do this? Brendan will be doing something. Against his will? Yeah. Against his will. You know you have to do it now, right? Now, if we get the stick, where's the sticker? How about if I don't know to use Instagram? Oh. Get out of here. Where's the sticker? Your life is about to be ruined and I'm thoroughly looking forward to it. My life's supposed to be ruined on what? Slingshot's not winning. No. You'd rather extreme skyfire? Yes. Oh, surprise, surprise. Oh, we can't even do skyhawk. Sure. Brendan. What? I'd like you to take a look at your Instagram. Sorry, I got to scroll through all the hate messages about you one sec. Oh. Knowing your phone, it didn't post it. Actually, that's a good point. It did post it. Oh, no, it did post it. Oh, wow. That fail caught on a lot. Refresh it. It's still not there. What? Oh, it's there now. That's not fair. Yes, it is fair. No, it's not. That's not fair. You can't do that. That's literally signing me up for art to get soaked right off the bat. Exactly. No, he's thinking of something today. To come back with. I'm literally going to throw punch you and throw you into the timber wolf ravine as the boat's coming. So this is a thing now, right? So I could just like when we come to Wonderland, I could just post something that says, Craig is going to do this or that. Yeah. So I could literally post Craig is going to ride or ride with cute girls and be forced to scream like a lunatic in front of them. No. This is not already happening on Soaring Tippers. He failed to do it. This is war, Craig. War has started, Brenda. You just started the first coaster prank wars, apparently. And I will win. I've won in the past.   All good enough. I know you do.  Are you ready? Nope. Why, why no?  You chickened out of extreme skyfire the other day. You don't even have that video anymore. I do have that video. I might actually play it before this. No. So why you don't help me? No. Why? Look, it's 150 feet tall. Are you going to chicken out a slingshot? No. You can't. Because now everyone said that you have to do it. Well, we're doing it against my will anyway. Oh. It says right on the end. Let me pull out the Instagram story. How do you say this video? Craig will be doing something against his will today at Canada's Wonderland. Join us to watch live today as it happens. Slingshot. Oh. Are you live streaming it too? No. There's friends and fans inside waiting for you to ride this. I'm back to my car because we got soaked during our ride challenge and I wanted dry clothes for the rest of the day. Oh. That's your own doing. That is not. You partnered with me. You know my luck on these ride challenges. I'm going to insert clip here. We're going to go back inside. We're going to ride Slingshot. I'm scared too. Okay. We heard what happened at Carolin's. I thought you were kidding. I wasn't kidding. I actually promised you. The thing snapped. And I'm not okay with that. And you're not helping. Oh, why'd you moan that? That's a moan. Hey, I'm not helping. And I'm not helping. It's not a moan. Yeah, that's not. It's probably like a valley girl. That's a fail of a valley girl. What is a valley girl? I don't know.  I forgot. Literally subbed up my old sweater for another sweater that looks the same. Oh, you didn't change your pants. No. Where was I going to change my pants in the parking lot? That's a good one. You're so small. You'll dry really quick now. It's even stretched, like my sweater did. My sweater went from like an XL. Oh my God. The sweater is thicker than the shirt is. Yeah. My sweater went from like an XL to a triple XL. I just revealed my size. It's triggered. So if anybody wants to send something to Brendan. Yeah, Craig is an extra small kid section. Okay. Let's go ride slingshot. Okay. So it's perfect. The ride broke down and they had to call maintenance and fix it. And now we're about to go ride it as soon as it's up and running again. So we're going to be the first people to get on this thing after it broke. I can see you smiling over there. It's not funny. Oh, did it open? I think it's open. It's open for the rest of the day, right? Oh, okay. Here we go. Get out of it. Can you? Brendan, my right arm feels numb. Oh. Oh, this feels before us. Aren't you lucky? So now you got to watch people? Yeah. You call me. Brendan. Oh. I actually feel bad. Just a few more steps forward, Craig. You're riding it by yourself after this. Oh. There it is. You're riding it by yourself. No. Yeah. This isn't your contract. I haven't signed the contract. There is no contract. The contract still applies. There's no contract sign. You received a paycheck from me, meaning you accepted the contract. I'd give you the money back, but I can't. Oh. I think you already bought your computer parts with it. Yeah. So, on that note. That's the sound. Yeah, that sounds weird. Hope it breaks on your side. Okay, why do the wires look frayed right there? See them? We could die on this thing. Yes. Yes. I'm fully aware of that.  Watch everyone gets a show. Ready? No. Oh. Clear. Especially brother didn't want to stay and watch. I'm actually kind of scared. Good. After what happened to Carol. The cable snips. I'm watching the cables like a hawk right now. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. All clear. You'll be watching in 3, 2, 1. Why can't you guys have picked extreme sky for that? That's scarier. I'd prefer it. Well, this is taller, so. I'm not scared of heights. Am I? Are you afraid of heights on a thin rope that could snap at any moment?  Oh, you're not going to get a line. I don't want to ride this. Aw. I mean, I don't want to ride this. No, I don't. I put these off for so long. You're supposed to ride these forever ago. You said end of June. Oh. By end of June. Well, I mean these people survived. Oh. There's only two more groups ahead of us. I wasn't young. I am concerned by the fray in the wire. Let me see if I can get that on camera. I think you guys can. One more. One more. One more. I'm safe. Tell that to Carol Wins. Yeah, well, this is in Carol Wins. We're better than them. Brendan, we're almost naps. We're getting closer. Bring the camera on the ride. Oh. Oh, is your stomach hurting? Yeah. I was wondering if you were going to come today. How'd you get the thumbs down? I just see your messages are like, oh, oh. I got to catch them before they go back. I'm freaking out. This is scary. Okay. Now you can laugh at him. Yep. Yeah, yeah. Laugh at him for his bonus film. Oh, oh. Dude, the wires don't look like they're fraying a little bit. You know what? What gets me is how it looks like it's held in tape. It looks like black electrical tape or a slide. Yeah. But yesterday, I was like, whoa. Did you hear that? Black electrical tape is holding this together. You're not helping either. Wait, man. I'm sure it's safe. They could have run it without it being safe. Tell that to Carol Wins. I know. Is that just happened like two weeks ago, too? Oh, yeah. It's true, but it's candidate. They won't let it happen. It's an explosion. Fireworks.  Yeah, Grega.  They're actually flying off. Oops, I did that. Remember. Man, I'm not even looking forward to this thing. Good. Is the camera still recording? Yep. Oh, good. Great. Excellent. I'm looking this way. No. We'll go to the front floor. We'll wash their faces. A live reaction. Yeah, I should go live. I've only used the paint. What is it? Are they even going to live on the music bench? I think so. They're flying. It's something they're ripping. Oh, god. That's a sign of your life. Actually, it's super quiet today. We signed it from a lot of people. Oh, are you asking? We're praying for you. We just don't let them return without help. I just got stopped. Oh, boy. Come on. Craig, I just got... Okay, let's get out of here because we're not going anywhere near this. You're quite on the run there, Craig. Film over here. Oh, people are trying to eat there. Oh, yeah. He's afraid of geese. Yeah. So how was that? Never, I guess. I don't want to do that ever again either. Again. Not only did we get launched up and down, we got to sway left and right too. It was so much not fun. Dangling face first. I don't know what... I felt like we flipped way more than we supposed to. I feel like we should never go near that again. No, I didn't like that at all. We're not even taking this path to UConn anymore. We're going the other way. We're not walking past here. Oh. All right, have fun on Windseeker. Oh, I'm not going on Windseeker. I'll go.  I actually love it. No. That thing one day is going to come crashing down. It's a relaxing ride. Did I scream? Yeah, you did. Yes. I don't even remember. You did a lot more than scream. I swore. Did I swear? I didn't hear it. Okay, good. I'm like, there's young people here. You just screamed like you did on Flight Dive. One of the YouTube would have said that. Yeah. Oh, man. Well, extreme sky flyers next. Not today, no. Oh, my God. You're telling me. I can't either. All right, who's next? See, I thought I was going to be okay. I did the one in Florida, but after Carowinds, no. Oh, you just fell. I guess I'm sitting now. All right, that's it for Slingshot. Any last words?