JB opens on the 2nd Round of the NBA Draft where the Grizzlies selected two 3pt shooters in Jaylen Wells and (reportedly) Cam Spencer.
(24:00) IMG Academy AD Brian Nash on his time with Zach Edey
(40:00) Lang Whitaker in studio to continue the draft discussion + we draft our favorite giants
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e [Music] happy Friday benett do what’s up what’s up what a day yesterday and I’m of course only talking about the NBA draft second round obviously obviously it was an eventful second round it was the Lakers the Lakers told everyone not to take bronnie J he will go to Australia where you will take him I’ve had a change of heart oh yeah I never I never really cared oh I didn’t either like you know yeah don’t get twisted I actually like it yeah yeah nipple babies’s all over the place yeah dude have nepo Ballers we’ve had nepo presidents in the past we’ve all leaned on our parents for things yeah that’s just that’s just life that’s just life um we’re drafting Giants today aren’t we we sure are who’s your favorite giant don’t tell tell can’t give away a pick okay I can’t wait to see how we all took this assignment Lang is going to do it it’s going to be all over the place yeah it’s going to be all over the place what was your favorite part of the second round um when I woke up with 2 minutes on the clock and Memphis was picking 37th and I was like oh my God my body clock is literally attuned to this team so that I do not miss news at this point that wasn’t always the case I used to sleep through news all the time cuz I take an afternoon nap you know that’s how I survived you get it now no I’m I did yesterday because it’s been a long week but I typically I’m not an afternoon Napper so yeah I didn’t know where I was when I woke up and saw the Grizzlies we on the clock I’m genuinely excited about both second round picks which I don’t think you can always say sometimes second round picks come and you’re just like ah all right we’ll figure it out when we get to it but I have reasons to care about both of them reasons that we will talk about on today’s show what’s up everybody it is Friday June 28th going to be a good day the sun came up Jessica Benson with you from the grind City media studios in Memphis Tennessee Bennett Doyle behind the glass filling in for CJ hurt all week long today we will wrap up the NBA draft round two was yesterday the Grizzlies got two picks in the second round bronny James officially a Los Angeles Laker lots to get into there we will also talk some more about the Grizzlies first round pick Zack Edy as Brian Nash is going to join us in our second segment he is the athletic director at IMG Academy and oversaw the basketball program while Zack Edy was there at IMG Academy look forward to talking with Brian about the evolution of Ed so far how he sees the fit here in Memphis then 40 minutes in Lang Wier will join us we’ll talk to him about all things NBA draft from this week plus we are drafting Giants in honor of the Grizzlies drafting a giant and Zach EDI we’ll be drafting our favorite Giants how we take that you’ll find out in that third segment we’ll end with a little music Friday some new music today Meg the stallion drop Meg the album we have a new Camila Cabo album as well all kinds of music to sift through and a new 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one I really like Houston I’d have them winning it all but you can’t be giving Drake jerseys what is wrong with you maybe the Drake curse is stronger in college college basketball how long has he been with riding with K Alabama Jersey and sa retired the odds couple with Rob Fischer Lang Whitaker John Roser and CJ hurt live Thursdays at 2 pm on YouTube at grind City media and the official grind City media app if you look at it as far as the uh the number nine pick over the years there’s been some pretty good players that have surfaced at number nine of course Dirk nitzky who won a championship there’s been a lot of great guys but who knows if there is a great guy in this draft hey Grizzlies fans be sure to tune in to gribe where the panel and I break down all things Grizzlies and take a look at the rest of the NBA as well the show is live every Wednesday 2 p.m. on YouTube at grind City media and the official grind City media [Music] app feels great to feel the Sunshine got on a day like it’s all mine just got paid in it’s all time hard I’ve been on the ground I deser feeling having my way i’ been on this healing this is my day’s out let’s have a little fun now I want to let it all out that’s what’s it all about cuz I deserve this feeling I have it my way I deserve this healing this is my day grind City media presents the Jessica Benson show with CJ hurt live from the grind City media Studios on YouTube at grind City media and the official grind City media app what’s up everybody TGIF happy Friday we made it to the end of a long week NBA draft week yesterday was a long Friday some real stuff happened yesterday benett Doyle oh yeah USA lost to Panama you didn’t think that’s where I was going but that was humiliating performance by Team USA in Copa America USA did lose big yesterday my God many ways many ways blue a little uh a little dim this morning but the sun did rise and of course here in Memphis we could talk about everything that happened yesterday and most sport shows will spend their entirety talking about the Los Angeles Lakers taking bronny James with the 55th pick because according to reports as uh they were doing the live broadcast yesterday and it basically got forced out that there were threats to send Ronnie James to Australia if any team other than the Los Angeles Lakers got him at 55 so of course the Lakers get him at 55 but we’re not going to talk about bronnie James first okay no no no no no we have two new Memphis Grizzlies to discuss two and Bennett genuine excitement from me about both of these new Memphis Grizzlies well I figured you’d be excited about getting a Pack 12 Legacy player yeah I mean that’s very fitting that at the end of the pack 12’s great run that the the Memphis Grizzlies get get a player from that great once great conference for you I think they did it I think that wasn’t just one last one last throw and I used to live close to Pullman and big fan of cougar gold cheese and all that and big fan of uh good shooters that come out of Washington State University I don’t know if you’ve heard of one his name was Klay Thompson he ended up being pretty good but Jaylen Wells is who the Grizzlies take with that 37th pick uh the NBA draft second round yesterday was was a bizarre experience for those of us so used to watching the draft in its entirety in one night and they switched it into an ESPN Studio show and it was in the middle of the afternoon because it couldn’t conflict with the debate but my God it would have been nice if we had the second round of the NBA draft to go up against the debate last night although there were some great WNBA games on yesterday evening as well that you could do a new episode of the the boys is what we chose to turn on the bear came out on Wednesday it just felt more appropriate to watch the boys last night like a little on the nose right now I I actually I need to get back on that show I watched the first season and then just didn’t didn’t yeah I didn’t keep going well now you have to watch gen V too like the episode we watched last night now crosses over with Gen V which was their extra show but anyway I’m a big fan of the boys it’s wild it’s a lot of violence so if you are not into Gore maybe don’t watch the boys but what I am into as you said Bennett are players from the Pack 12 and I love Jaylen Wells so we’ll start with Jaylen ws and then we’ll get into Cam Spencer but when you look at both of them obviously fitting a need they’re dudes who can shoot so that is what the Grizzlies identified as a need and when it came to cam Spencer that’s someone that they ended up trading up a couple of picks switching with Minnesota who ends up with their 57th pick and then Minnesota traded that pick to Toronto so it was all over the place but cam Spencer was clearly someone that they wanted and then Jaylen Wells was who they wanted there at 37 and we love shooters we love big wings you can’t get enough of them Jaylen Wells though I’m a sucker for two things players from the Pack 12 rip I won’t be able to say that anymore after this year and I’m a sucker for a good story and I would argue that Jaylen Wells is one of the best stories from this year’s NBA draft because this is a kid who did not make his varsity team in high school until he was a junior he spent two years at a division 2 school and then played so well there he goes to Washington State where sometimes productivity at the D2 level doesn’t immediately translate to D1 but he had a hell of a season at Washington State got them into the NCAA tournament in a cram packed talented pack 12 Conference basketball conference particularly this year in the final year of the Pack 12 um but when you look at what Jaylen Wells did and going to WSU and shooting 42% from three like that’s going to be the notable thing that you look at when you’re identifying why the Memphis Grizzlies would be interested in him but seeing how he navigated that when he was a freshman in high school he was 5’8 he goes into high school he’s 5’8 as a freshman he doesn’t make Varsity he loves basketball he wants to play works his butt off does a ton of work in the gym out of the gym he credits his parents with helping to push him into you know really not taking no for an answer by the time he’s a senior he grows to be 66 he is on the varsity team as a senior he averaged 27 points but one his development is a little too late we see this happening in recruiting all the time he even created a like social media account with some friends called Sleep Nation while they were in high school because they wanted to put Spotlight on players that were being slept on which is how he felt but he ultimately gets an opportunity to go play D2 and he spends 2 years at Sonoma State he’s from Sacramento stays in the California area Sonoma State second year at Sonoma State he shoots 44% from three and 52% from the field and that’s what gets him noticed at Washington State goes to WSU spends last season in Pullman his numbers stay high the consistency is there and then he enters the NBA draft and gets taken 37th by the Memphis Grizzlies like this is someone who bet on himself could he have returned for another year at WSU sure but he bet himself and it paid out and I love those stories in the NBA draft like that’s what I’m always willing to get behind yeah that is really cool um you know the thing about yesterday the thing that I just love about this draft for the Grizzlies is coming into it what did we say the biggest needs were rebounding and shooting and they addressed both of those in the draft and so I feel really good about this draft um and I feel really good about what they did yesterday um especially with Jaylen like I I I’m not going to sit here and pretend like I knew a lot I didn’t watch a lot of Washington State basketball but he’s one I mean 42% from three I believe at Washington State like that’s the numbers don’t lie he is right now a great spot up shooter now he’s got to work on his game a little bit it appears as far as other things but the shooting is there right away so we’ll see like if he’s a if he’s a roster if he’s a two-way guy or if he’s a or not a two-way guy but if he’s a guy that plays more in South Haven early on or if he’s the roster a guy that could be a part of this because this team needs three-point shooting really bad right now and still figuring out what happens with Luke canard’s player option and we’ll see how that plays out here it is June 28th so we’ll know sooner than later what the future of Luke Canard is with this team but when it comes to both Jaylen Wells and cam Spencer they’re also they’re not just Shooters which feels an obvious need they feel like personality fits like we always joke about personality hires but in reality the Grizzlies team has such an identity behind it and both of these guys fit within that profile and I think that’s really important anytime you’re adding especially with a team that is ready to go into the win now mode and if you’re just trying to find somebody who could give you something that aids in winning now the fact that they also feel as if they’re going to get along fine here is huge now with Cam Spencer it’s wild because he was talking hella trash to Zach Ed in the national championship games so cam Spencer in the starting five for talking trash to everybody he talking trash that whole game I will never forget the very beginning of that national championship game I was like I love this dude because he hit the very first three for Yukon in the Yukon Purdue game and he turns around and he just goes all night and they have the slow like zoom in on him and he just has that that Pizzazz that he plays with and Pizzaz is nice he’s a maniac he’s a psycho he’s a lunatic and I say that all so affectionately it’s my favorite kind of basketball player he’s crazy you know how the trend right now on social media is like is somebody going to match my freak have you seen those yes Dan Hurley and cam Spencer match each other’s freak and I mean that in a way that they are both basketball crazy people look at this respon right there it’s all in the handshake and the hug that’s Cam Spencer like drilling over Dan Hurley there’s another video from the night of the National Championship where he’s in the locker room after check this out his teammate posted this and cam enser is just dribbling throughout the locker room after they win a National Title yo you husky F you want to know how crazy he is he’s still tripping around like he’s working out yo Kim Kim yo Kim yo it’s okay it’s okay to put the ball down now we won we won we won we have practice tomorrow we have practice tomorrow I got to keep dribbling this guy is nutso and I love that about him because it’s just a good energy guy and he is someone who you would anticipate could be a potential two-way player for the Grizzlies might spend some more time in South Haven but he’s not a stash kind of player he’s 24 years old he’s one of those players who shows up for his final year which was played at Yukon he spent three years at lyola he actually played with s Al dama so you have a reunion there which is very cool um he played one year at Ruckers and then he finishes out at Yukon and as we had that extra covid year and all those players who you think to yourself how are they still playing college basketball he is one of those guys but he didn’t have as much notoriety and yet in one year in Yukon if you ask anybody I have a friend who’s a massive Yukon Huskies fan he’s one of the most beloved players to come through there with this these last two teams that have won national titles there like he was just an instant lovable guy because of that kind of behavior and it doesn’t hurt that he also is a great shooter and he also shot 44% from three this season and 48% from the field and he is 63 with a 65 wingspan 200 lb and it just feels as if the Le’s got two guys who legitimately could this is what we do after the draft I know this is what we do after like trying to convince yourself that these could be guys who help a team ultimately try to win a championship someday or at least compete in their conference and I think you can talk yourself into both of them for sure they’re cool dudes um so when they made the uh Jaylen Wells pick yesterday um chip Williams who you had on the show earlier this week uh he put this out um and I they clearly they clearly had something in mind mind with especially the first round of the draft obviously but um he said the Grizzlies haven’t had the best positional size especially after Steven Adams departure their last three picks this is before the cam pick um their last three picks were 69 Gigi Jackson 75 Zack Edy and 68 jayen Wells so clearly they addressed the size issue um with the draft over obviously starting with Gigi and then these last two um and if you throw Gigi I saw somebody I wish I could give them credit because I forget who put it out there but we you’ve always talked about how GG Jackson should have been in this draft and if he was in this draft he could have been top five could have been a number one pick so if you throw in last year because last year felt like such an a horrible year for the Grizzlies with injuries and everything but the Silver Linings you get are Vince and Gigi and would you have been able to understand what they really were for you if not for the chance for them to have such high usage last year if you think of GG Jackson included like tacked on to this year’s draft that’s a hell of a draft for the Memphis Grizzlies going into next year no question no question so obviously one of those before we get to uh Zach Ed and talking to the athletic director from IMG Academy who worked with Zak when he was there before he went to Purdue before he becomes the number nine pick for the Memphis Grizzlies were you surprised that David Jones didn’t get picked University of Memphis ends up signing or reportedly signed a two-way with the Sixers no I wasn’t surprised just because um there’s a lot of guys that can put the ball in the basket right that available to be drafted I mean that’s what he’s good at right like he is a scorer but that’s that’s his game like I mean we saw at Memphis like he’s not getting assist um it’s he’s just a scorer um and I think that it probably didn’t help that the team was bad um it probably didn’t help that that again that he didn’t have good assist numbers like for a guy that’s probably G to play shooting guard in he’s a tweener too like I don’t know is he a shoot he’s to he’s too small to be a small forward but that’s probably like what he should be yeah so I’m not that surprised by it but he lands in a great spot in Philly like that’s that’s really good for him U I’m happy for David Jones I’m happy he gets an opportunity somewhere even if it didn’t come via the NBA draft all right we got to take a quick break Brian Nash from IMG Academy is going to join us on the other side he was the head of basketball at IMG Academy when Zach Ed was there he’s now the athletic director VP of Athletics at IMG we’ll catch up with him about what he has seen in the growth of zachie someone who saw him from the very beginning who saw potential there and now has seen him drafted in uh the top 10 Number Nine by the Memphis Grizzlies Brian Nash on the other [Music] side shall we talk about our favorite NBA Finals MVPs number three is a little bit of Canadian history CU it’s the first and only NBA championship that the country as a whole has I’m going to go with kawh Leonard’s second Finals MVP I still get my little heartwarming about it and I was there watching it watching every game I IM ho with Lang Whitaker and me Kelsey R Johnson on YouTube at grind City media and the official grind City media [Music] app let’s face it there’s a lot of trash talk in basketball but the great teams let their performance do the talking like Ford F-150 with Pro Power on board a 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and culture news by tuning in to HBCU huddle with CJ hurt and Mike Wallace new episodes drop every Thursday on Grand City media.com YouTube and [Music] Spotify welcome back welcome back back later tonight this Friday the Memphis Grizzlies will officially introduce Zach Edy and Jaylen Wells to the media that’s going to be a press conference at 5:00 tonight it will be live streamed on grizzlies.com the Grizzlies YouTube channel the official Grizzlies mobile app and bport Southeast digital platform so all kinds of places to watch tonight’s press conference where you will get to hear from Zach Ed for the first time since being taken number nine by the Memphis Grizzlies in this year’s draft before Zack eedy was a two-time national player of the year before he was member of the Memphis Grizzlies he was at IMG Academy and I’m really excited for this next guest we welcome in Brian Nash athletic director at IMG Academy and VP of Athletics someone who has known Zach Ed a long time Brian thank you so much for joining us how are you this morning no I’m doing great Jessica thanks for uh thanks for having me on absolutely before we get into zakie of the past I’ll just ask you off the bat what was your initial reaction seeing Zach go number nine to the Memphis Grizzlies and watching him celebrate there with friends family and teammates yeah it was amazing uh but it’s something we’ve come to to see from Zach where he keeps uh you know he keeps exceeding expectations and he keeps surprising us in everything that he does so I’m just super proud and uh just really happy for him and his family all right so take me back when is the first time that you remember seeing Zach and how did that relationship begin for you guys yeah so uh before I got to IMG I was a college coach for 25 years and uh one of our former players up in in Toronto had sent me a video just shot it to me on my phone and said hey you got to take a look at this kid that’s playing on our AA team he’s you know he’s just starting out to play basketball he was playing baseball and you know I I’ll never forget the clip I mean it was just a clip in a gym of him doing some of the most basic drills and uh you know you fast forward a couple of months he he actually came down to campus for an under armoured Grassroots event and we were going to have a chance to valuate him look at him a little bit and he actually rolled his ankle so we really didn’t get a chance to see him play but we got to spend time with him and his mom and um you know over time we just said all right hey this is something that we want to you know invest in his future and we thought he could be a really good fit for us at the Academy was it entirely the size at that point or what else did you see from Zach Ed someone who hadn’t played basketball all that long he played hockey and baseball I’m just curious what what those like intangibles were for you you where you said this is someone that I think is worth taking taking a flyer on yeah it was I mean whenever I mean the more basketball people you talk to about size I mean size is always yeah you know we you talk about it being a piece of clay that you’re able to mold because you know they’re never finished products so but he had great hands and he had great feet and honestly he was a great kid like just what we the way we met him on that trip and how he looked you in the eye and he was respectful you know I mean he’s humble he’s a very humble and I think the you know the entitlement part of where youth basketball is now it’s something that he didn’t have so and and honestly I think it’s one of the reasons why he continues to be successful and keep getting better is because he is humble yeah and and I love what you said he’s still a moldable product going forward someone who has always shown you don’t often see a player who wins National Player of the Year come back better right like that’s such a testament to who Zach is as a player and a person yeah I mean the question you know if you go after you know last two years ago when he was the national player of the year the first time and you start talking about the draft and all those things and people start saying oh well how’s he going to be in ball screen coverage and like what position is he going to play people are just going to expose him and then you look at what he did in one year’s time to kind of dispel a lot of those things from what you know the the NBA people and and the front office people were looking at you know for some of the shortcomings in his game and and and he obviously improved on it and you know the the the ultimate thing with Zach is he’s only been playing for five or six years so some of these guys that have been drafted or are in the league have been playing for a lot longer so I mean knowing him and his work ethic and and and how he’s just going to you know he he’s had a chip on his shoulder because he wasn’t a five star he was an unknown I mean he came out of basically nowhere and uh and was able to get him to this level so I uh you know I’ve learned not to bet against them after this time I was gonna ask because as a guy with a chip on his shoulder he fits in rather well in Memphis this is a team that operates from a place of chips on shoulders whether it be John Moran or or Desmond Bane who we will often find ourselves reminding that 29 teams passed on Desmond Bane and now you have Zack Edy who was one of the more polarizing picks from the first round of the draft and there is some questions about what he will be in the NBA there are some people who thought that it was an absolutely great home run pick for the Memphis Grizzlies and others who are a little more skeptical and by operating with that chip on the shoulder I’m curious how you think Zach Ed is approaching that some of the negativity that might be out there at this point as he gears up to start this journey in Memphis yeah I’m sure he’s using it again as motivation I mean it’s uh you know the the good thing about situation he’s going into like he’s going into a really good team um he’s going to a team that’s got a lot of pieces in place and he’s not going to have the weight of the world on his shoulders and you know they’ve obviously put a lot of time into evaluating him and seeing how he fits and how he can play Within the system that they’re going to have so again I think it’s perfect fit for him and and and the pressure is not going to be there and I think he’s going to be able to you know evolve at his pace and and learn the league so um again but the the chip on the shoulder thing is there and I’m sure all the naysayers that are you know questioning why he’s there you know he’s just going to use it as continued motivation like he’s done everything else in terms of the fit and from your perspective someone who has seen his Game grow from IMG to Purdue when it comes to exactly how he fits with this Memphis group be it jaw and the pick and roll or jiren as a spacer where do you think Zach can really flourish and what he brings to the game and can make an immediate impact here with the Grizzlies yeah I think uh I mean the one thing that the Grizzlies do well too I mean they they shoot the ball well I mean they’ve got perimeter shooting so the thing that we’ve always talked about you know the the game has gotten so spread out but yet when you look at his one-on-one ability in the post and it’s something that you don’t see as much in the game anymore and you know if you have really good shooting and you can space the floor and he can get one-on ones in the post he’s proven that he can score on people and he’s just developed a nastiness and a physicality in the post so I I think that’s something that he’s I mean you saw what he did game after game I mean all the way up till a national championship game scoring a lot of points and being able to take advantage of one-on ones in the post post you know will he have to still evolve in ball screens and you know playing with somebody that’s so dynamic as as J you know there’s going to be some learning curves there a little bit but I I know that he’ll put the time in and he’ll get the Reps I know you mentioned um that he actually had some pretty good speed for his size and one of the critiques is foot speed and athleticism Matt Painter the coach at Purdue was on my colleague Gary parish’s show yesterday and said he’s more athletic than people think do do you agree with that and where do you see some of the the knocks on Zack Maybe actually being uh better than expected in terms of his game yeah I mean like I I said it earlier just look at the improvements that I think he made in in his foot quickness because he went through know he was educated on the draft process last year and and you know I’m sure that Matt did a great job with them talking to teams and and where his shortcomings were and I mean if you look at his ball screen coverage from year to year um you know I mean yeah look at his athleticism and how he goes out of his space to get rebounds how he can dunk over people I mean he’s he’s yeah he’s a lot more athletic than people I think are giving him credit for is there anything that you think people would be surprised about Zach Ed either with his game or as a person you’ve known him for a long time what’s something people in Memphis would be surprised to learn about him no I just uh I mean he’s a great young man I mean I think he came from a great family I think you know the the job that he’s done at Purdue the time that he spent here he’s learned a lot of things and he’s been through a lot of you know he’s been through a lot of situations that are going to set him up for Success here and I mean he’s going to be great in the community he’s going to be a great teammate he’s going to be a you know I mean again if you’re looking at it from you know the front office side and having somebody in your organization that you know is you know he’s reliable and you know what you’re going to get from him um you know I think he’s just going to continue to get better when he first showed up is it true that you were worried that you wouldn’t have a bed big enough for him at IMG Academy and did you actually have a bed that was big enough so it is something that we have to deal with from time to time here when we have our you know we just had another Canadian in our program this year who was 7 foot s so you know we kind of we kind of gave him the single room and the king bed so that he could kind of sleep sideways a little bit but uh no I was uh you know I I I did tell story a little bit yesterday about his first year on campus where he was this you know this 16 17y old living on his own and you walk into his room and you see the video games and the candy on the desk and he’s like all right this is this is vacation I’m living on my own so to see him evolve with you know the nutrition and living in and and you know the holistic side of him understanding you know how important it is to be you know a highlevel athlete was was was was fun to see Matt painer also said yesterday he’s never seen anybody eat like Zach Edie like he just just consumes I mean he’s a big man so he has to consume a large amount of food so he will he will be a benefit to the Memphis economy as well I think he will he will all right thank you so much Brian we really appreciate you giving some extra perspective and love everything that you guys are doing down there at IMG Academy and wish you nothing but the best no thanks Jessica great to be here thank you that was Brian Nash athletic director at IMG Academy IMG Academy with two players selected in this year’s draft also saw Terrence Shannon out of Illinois uh get taken yesterday last year they had three players taken in the first round so they continue to get more and more guys from IMG Academy Oh weird they happen to uh end up being pretty good basketball players it’s one of those things is we’ve seen more and more international players and I know we joked about via lefrance but there’s reality to it with four Frenchman being taken in the first round yesterday and or two days ago now at this point but IMG Academy replicates a little bit more of that like trade school approach which international players are getting from the jump right like once someone is tall and going to be a basketball player overseas that is their life path moving forward whereas here it’s always been the college athlete or the college basketball approach and we’ve seen you know things evolve with College athletics surely but places like IMG Academy that just pop out really really solid not just basketball basketball football all the sports they do it all down there sports yeah I could have never I would have never been recruited to go to acad to I wouldn’t have either I was not not a high profile High School athlete or anything in between but big appreciation for Brian Nash I thought Gary’s conversation with Matt payner 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has I’m going to go with kawh Leonard’s second finals MVP I still get my little heartwarming about it and I was there watching it watching every game IM ho with Lang Whitaker and me Kelsey R Johnson on YouTube at grind City media and the official grind City media [Music] [Music] app welcome back it is Friday yes that means it’s time to catch up with langur in studio how are you Lang I got uh I’m here been a long week happy draft week we made it we did it did you tune in to the second round of the NBA draft yesterday afternoon did yeah I was at home doing stuff and so I put it on in the background and I took the sweetest nap I saw you at the beginning I I will say I know not everybody has the luxury of taking a midweek afternoon nap but my schedule yeah that like exactly but that’s how I survived life and especially coming off the draft I was ready to zon yesterday afternoon and my body clock timed up where I woke up at the exact time that the Grizzlies were making the 37th pick which was just beautiful accidental timing um but I will say I think NBA draft afternoon naps rival golf naps the best is soccer nap though oh soccer nap is great because you don’t get commercials for 45 minutes straight yeah baseball naps are pretty good too I have a million-dollar idea and I should probably not say it out loud on television but I’ll say it now thank you uh for you know how some people use like I believe you might be one of these people use Like A White Noise app to sleep I don’t I use a machine all right right but a sleep machine the noise apps I want to do a sports sleep machine app noise so like you could have golf sound effects I actually love that in the background you could have tennis you could have soccer you know maybe if you’re a heavier sleeper you could have basketball just you know sneakers the ball bouncing I like that and you could even like you could even add like cuz my wife listens to the like the stories the calm Stories the people with withr thing yeah dude what if you did cuz I like to listen to pod if I if I’m having trouble falling asleep I like to listen to a podcast or like a show just that I like the office where I don’t have to look at it I’m used to it so I can just hear it like if you had like a sport center type show but it’s a great voice just being like Jim N yeah like oh yes G the Griz last night drafted Jaylen Wells good night friends yeah like that’s well have you seen like for the olymp they’re going to have this Al Michaels AI thing this year yes they have like an AI generated Al Michaels voice that’s going to like narrate things like what if we had that let’s sign up Al Michaels 3000 for this also but it has to be like a a different tone of their voice it can be their voice but it can’t be Al Michaels yelling do you believe in do you believe that was 50 years ago he hasn’t yelled in he’s been doing Amazon for two years and nobody’s heard from him like we got with absolutely doing playoff games with absolutely zero the complaint for Micha he has no let’s get the Al Michaels 3000 and Jim N 3000 Bo in here we can do this right now by the way I mean we have microphones we have copyrighted because I said it out loud on this program all right so like we we own this copyright no one steal this idea ASMR is big on Tik Tok and the thought of doing like a weekly this is what you missed in sports ASMR might just be it might be the big break that I’ve been waiting for on The tickity Talky app I don’t know I’m you have to do you have to do the little like that’s what they always do they go hello everybody uh I hope you’re having a good night I’m here to tell you that yesterday the Grizzlies with the 37th pick why do they do the nails I don’t know people love the sound of nails yeah it’s like that lady that that like eats stuff in the microphone and people love that for some reason or like even just like like taking a lip gloss and it’s like uhhuh no I didn’t do it the second time all right I think we’re on to something my son and I made Sushi the other night and I had the sheet of like the you know or whatever it is the and I cut it with the knife and when it made it made like this click sound as I cut it my son goes That’s So satisfying your son is chronically online he might be yeah he’s part all the children like all the kids are I’ve had a horrible week cuz like I had dental problems all week and I I spent so much time with the dentist this week try the worst ASMR the worst pain in the world but the night after the draft you know we were there till whatever late at the South L Casino doing the live draft show I had a 7:30 am. appointment at the dentist the next morning and my teeth are were just killing me and I go in there and I sit down and immediately the the woman walks in and says all right tell me about Zach and I’m like I don’t know I went to drop off a package at FedEx yesterday and the person goes so what do you think about Zach and I had like my airpods in they gave me all the shots in my mouth and then you know you have to wait like 10 minutes biggest pet peeve and I’m sitting there waiting and they and they all come in like five people people come in and start asking me about Zack Ed and The Grizzlies draft and I’m like I love I love when it and I love them I love my dentist I love my dental technicians but I cannot answer your questions when my mouth is either completely numb or half open or I have like five Dental implements stuff into half of my mouth pulling in different directions at the same time that’s so funny so what did you tell her what did you think about Zach the morning after and where beautiful when the happened and I thought it was kind of funny cuz on the live show uh fish I was on with Bennett and fish and they were both like gung-ho about Zach and I was like I don’t know like I’m I’m not sold quite yet and then Grand City media put out the clip and they were like here look at fish and Bennett reactions to the draft oh put mine you didn’t like mine that’s weird but the more videos I watched of it and The more I’ve heard like smart people talk about this the more sense it makes to me and the more enthusiastic I am about it um but in the moment I was kind of like okay like huh you know he seems slow against Yukon when I watch that game but then the more I think about it like like how often like the problem with College of basketball is it’s so chaotic the NBA is more structured and there’s a lot more uh you know even when you’re playing fast there’s a lot more sets of half court things and things like that I think he’s going to fit in fine I do too and I I got to the point yesterday where I realized it’s it’s a bit of a personality test and I’m not saying it’s a positive or A negative either way it’s just how certain people react differently to think and we’ll put it in the universe of sports and drafts and if you get to the point on the day after the draft and there is enough tangible Reason to Believe In The Vision that a front office has yeah there are positive people who will latch on to it and say all right I can I can flirt with this vision and sure we’re not going to know what it turns into until we actually see it with our own eyes but I can think to myself that Zach Ed can fit into this Center role that makes the lives of teammates easier Allah a stepen Adams and he’s not going to be Steven Adams from day one obviously but someone who can rebound set screens finish lobs finish in the paint does have a DEC I know we don’t do post-ups in the NBA anymore but has a decent post up and maybe you bring it back with Zach Edy and then there are other people who will say I never wanted this to happen I cannot Envision this happening and I refuse to buy into it and that’s their prerogative too but I’m an excitable person I would say this is not the shocking draft pick I’ve ever seen I would I don’t think so well that’s what Yahoo said and they they said worst pick ever let’s give it a c I would Chang to a Dever I would also just say like let’s let’s see this let’s see it happen let’s see you know like Stephen Adams fit in here pretty well he’s not like a track star like you know maybe Zach is slower than the other guys on the court but I think it’ll be okay let’s let’s see what happens and I’m excited to see just like the physical look of Zach Ed standing next to J Mor I want to see him stand next to jiren and be like six inch as taller than jiren and we’re so used to see Jaren dwarf everybody I mean I I brought up with Kelsey yesterday it does remind me of when Victor web Andy rolled through here the first time last season and know different body type but still it’s just these freakishly tall human beings who when you are down on court level with them or anywhere near them it’s it’s absurd like you’re like how is somebody this tall would you say he’s a giant I would say he’s a giant which is why we’re going to draft Giants which we’re going to take in so many different directions I have a feeling I do want to ask about the Grizzlies two second round picks from yesterday the second round is always such a hodg podge of like there’s the real like truthers of the NBA draft who know a little bit about everybody and everybody else gets on board with the second round pick I will say when it comes to jayen Wells as a Pack 12 truther myself I do like Jaylen Wells and I did watch Jaylen Wells play basketball and even into the NCA tournament this year um he’s a great shooter I don’t know anything about him I just glad we got a guy named Jaylen seems like everyone else in the NBA has a Jaylen you know what we needed a jayen I think you’re on to something jayen with a Y we have a lot of different spellings of Jaylen at this point j a y l n um when it comes to him Shan Coleman put this out and we love Shan Coleman always with the stats he said jayen Wells is one of the most prolific single seon three-point Shooters Memphis has ever drafted only Desmond B has a more productive NCA single season shooting from three Wells creating nearly 80% of his two-point shots suggest self-creation and three level scoring upside and I was reading about him this morning he was actually a point guard in high school he was a 66 point guard senior year yeah I also read that one of the like the negatives on his draft thing was that he was a reluctant shooter in the paint I was like we’re great we don’t need shooting in the paint I know Taylor Jenkins always talks about points in the paint but like got that somebody else let Zack e do that you just stand outside and shoot threes we’ll be do that yeah and that’s where with zachi you don’t want zachi to clog the paint but you know we saw it with Steven at get rebounds yeah we need desperately please to the rebounding Gods as it comes to uh cam from Yukon do you remember watching him in the national champ I just remember I was watching it actually cuz I I watched some Zack this season and I was excited to see them in the championship game I was actually in Augusta going to the Masters next day uh during the national championship game and I like drove in and got there like during the game so I didn’t really watch it that closely I just remember turning on at Yukon was like just beating Purdue like a drum the whole game yeah they fed Ed over and over and Ed was awesome wins by it was just like nobody else on Purdue was any good that was their whole game plan like okay cool Zack is going to go off for 37 but no one else is going to do anything and you’re going to make one single three in this game it is interesting from a like the Yukon starting five Donovan kingan and it’s like the he who should not be named at this point in Memphis but goes to the Trailblazers at 7even you add TR Newton to the Spurs at 4 um and then who else did you have uh cam Spencer obviously at 53 Tristan Newton that’s I me I meant castle at four and Tristan Newton at 49 to the Pacers and then even their fifth starter he returns to Yukon this year is expected to be a first rounder next year which is a hell of a starting five and that’s why Dan Hurley goes back and it’s like let’s see if we can do this with another crop of a lot of players coming he wasn’t close enough to LeBron to get a gig with the Lakers all right let’s talk about the Lakers Lang because they took Brian your 12 Tru yeah I watched LeBron James did I was happy to see Isaiah Coler get drafted where he did um I don’t have any issue with this I really don’t from a standpoint of like oh how dare the Lakers yeah capitulate to LeBron and first he gets his podcasting friend JJ reck hired as coach and then he gets his son on the how the world works like I understand people want to complain about it but that’s how the world works at every single stage and I know W talked about it on the broadcast yesterday like the NBA is littered with nepotism from front offices to coaching trees to agents it makes perfect sense even for the world is littered with nepotism exctly every single industry that’s why like nepo babies became a thing in the last couple of years because suddenly there was a spotlight on celebrities kids yeah or celebrities are often the children of other celebrities in music in movies in TV entertainment and then in the business world and then in the like what about the family business even you go back take strip away the like Glitz and Glam of high paying rich people like the good old family business of the dad who owns the the hardware store the paint shop and passes it down to his son in most cases but like maybe we could be Progressive and pass it down to the daughters as well but it’s just one of those things where like we see this I believe it’s just because it’s LeBron James and he’s he’s in the single name the other thing is is that it’s because it’s because they used a draft pick like they could have not drafted Bonnie James and signed him like I I don’t think anyone was you know what was the 55th overall like there was three more picks after that you know like you could have waited but I the going through the whole thing of of of going to the combine and going through the interviews and you know they spent hours on that draft yesterday talking about this pick and this like I think that’s the part that bothers most people was that like the Lakers used a draft pick when they could have just signed him and and you know drafted somebody else although at that point in the draft like like honestly like if you look at the guys who got drafted in the last 10 picks and compare them to bronny like there’s not that much difference it’s all upside right why are we having these kind of conversations around a 55th draft pick it’s because of the Pick Part it’s the pick and it’s because everyone talked about it at nauseum too like I think sometimes the obsessive media coverage backfires we’ve seen it even in the WNBA space and like please like knock on W fingers crossed it slowed down a little bit and like I know the fever got to be introduced to the Seattle Storm last night and that was in experienc and meet juel Lloyd who was phenomenal but like when the conversation is so much and so aggressive and so like polarizing it has the reverse effect where nobody wants it to happen you just get sick of it and that’s not his fault that’s not bronnie or Lebron and I think if you gave them the choice like they would be fine with none of this being talked about ever just like I I believeit would be fine with none of the extra stuff being talked about or anyone who becomes kind of the the Center focus on any conversation my thing with it is if I’m bronny James I don’t want to play with my dad necessarily and that’s no disrespect to like family Dynamics like I would have wanted to carve my own path and I think it’s a really difficult situation we’ll never know I’m not going to pretend to know bronny James is mind and heart and maybe his lifelong dream is to play with his dad although there’s interviews where he talks about he wants to carve his own path yes and it’s just like I let him be let him live you’re a young adult that’s when you find yourself and I cannot imagine going on my first day of the job especially in a job as like team oriented and relationship oriented as a basketball team and being that closely working with a family just a family member counter point if you want to carve your own path you’re bronnie James like what better place to do it than a place where for the first year or two at least you’ve got the backing of the most important employee of the franchise you’ve got the backing of oh you have your boss is the guy that that your dad hired you know like like for for bronnie for the next year or two he’ll have a little leeway like and also like when you started a new company like you don’t know where do I go get you know notebooks for my desk whatever like there’s all these questions who do I call when I need this done right call your dad like he knows everything at this point you got a couple years to like you know Le Bron’s what 19 like you got a couple years to kind of get your feet under you and figure this out and and get some momentum going forward maybe he doesn’t play for the Lakers his whole life maybe I do like the running bit of LeBron James is sleeping with his new teammates that was a pretty funny little bit and I guess even thinking about you know when my first job out of college my husband worked there like he was there first and look when I when my son I enjoyed getting to know the company through him and having help when my son’s old enough to go look for a job if he calls me and like hey I want to do something in sports okay great let me help you know yeah oh and like listen I grew up in the college sport space and so I recognized that I was very privileged to be a part of a lot of conversations and like have you’re a nepo baby I am technically I sure am and figuring out how to but for me like I was so before nepo babies were a thing I was so self-conscious of ever having anybody feel as if I got something because of somebody else and not on my own Merit that I almost worked in like reverse like I probably did not take advantage of connections that should have and could have because I was so fearful of being la which is so stupid looking back on it I’m like what was I thinking like why was I so but I don’t I don’t know if that’s a gender thing as as a girl as a young woman in sports especially there’s already enough conversation of like oh she only got this because of X Y and Z I I I did not have any connections when I got into sports and you know I just like just stuck my foot in the door and plowed my way in and then work my butt off for like you know to to prove yourself and like I would hope that like okay maybe if I can crack the door for someone to help them get in great but then at some point like you got to do the work take it over on your yeah at some point it’s going to be on your name not your dad’s name alth there are some people who manage to just stumble through on the on the waves of nepotism born on third base and think they hit a triple exactly all right let’s uh let’s draft about theate oh oh yes the B did you watch yes the whole thing no I went out and played fortnite halfway through turn on the boys can’t do which also wasn’t exactly the best um Det boys is so politically I saw someone say I’m going to go calm down and watch uncut gems like that’s what it felt like I watched a man like throw his arm into a body and rip the heart right out and all of the gut spill onto the floor and I’m like well this is at least a little bit more enjoyable than the alternative at this moment which is really saying something I will be curious what the ratings were I was talking to Bennett before because we are all chronically online media people and so we see so much attention put on the debate and response to the debate but how many normal average Americans turned on the debate last night or do they just take the responses to the debate my dad said he wasn’t going to watch it he was like I don’t care I I’m fine he couldn’t do it I bet there’s a lot of people who didn’t watch you know we started it and then I had to turn it off and then we turned it back on and then we lasted another 15 minutes what was on against it was there anything there WNBA games yeah but there weren’t like baseball there weren’t Thursday night I mean it was on all the big networks right it was everywhere they put it on every single Network um yeah I don’t know it’s interesting they should have really like thrown out like hey Caitlyn Clark’s playing basketball tonight would you like to do anything else Caitlyn Clark is on the court they’re going to lose to the storm but like somebody said they should have asked them about Caitlyn Clark it was funny my my dad I know what is your take on Caitlyn Clark that’s how we should pick presidents on takes on Caitlyn Clark on if they can that was to me the big that was the most relatable part of the whole thing was the golf these days oh it’s a six of course mine might be an eight six come on it reminded me when I used to tell you those guys has a single-digit handicap no there ain’t no way no way in hell maybe never in their life have they either of them had a single-digit handicap I’ve seen both their swings yeah but the funniest part is when Biden says his handicap got down to a six while he was looks to the side goes like the facial expressions the two box doesn’t help anything I think ultimately it was just a reminder and even the discussions on the debate coming out of it like this has turned into a reality television show the substance doesn’t it’s how one presents himself and unfortunately for Joe Biden he looked weak and that’s why the conversation’s coming out of it or and he couldn’t keep all trains of thoughts and even though he he actually gained momentum at the end and if you watch his post post game I hate that we talk about it in sporting terms to it drives me bonkers his rally after his rally after he was a million times better than he was in the debate and unfort like and then Trump on the other hand is still strong but he’s spewing nonsense like every single thing they have presentation matters I think that’s your take the one of my my golf buddies I play with we were texting when the Golf Exchange happened and one of them was like you know what let’s just November 1st the match let’s have these two guys go play golf whoever wins gets to be the president it’s horrible I’ve seen people be like whoever can turn a PDF into someone said give give give them both a Roku remote control and whoever starts a movie gets that dud whoever can fix a smart TV that gets off the wrong input first wins without calling their son and saying how do I do this yeah that’s why you have kids so that they can help at this point um yeah it was something lot neppo babies that’s how we are at not neppo babies Giants although a giant nepo baby would be something to behold we decided to draft Giants it is a Draft Day by the way my wife just texted me and and said happy anniversary oh that’s so sweet you had no idea that’s horrible I’m responding I was waiting until tonight is that a good is that a good way that’s a good one that’s a good one I think you’re on it I think I think you’re fine you think so yeah what year is this I don’t know oh come on on feels like 20 Benn how many years have you been married 10 we celebrated 10 last year yeah congratulations went did Big California trip yeah we’ll celebrate two this this summer we’re just babies in the marriage game but we’ve been together for 12 I always feel like I have to you say oh I’m celebrating my second wedding anniversary oh that’s so cute you guys are so new to the game I’m like no we were together for like five years before we got married too so like yeah it’s a long it’s a long haul okay anyway happy anniversary happy anniversary three happy Giant draft do we have a way Kyra to determine the ordering of this draft oh sometimes we have a duck race but it’s usually just for two people and we have three people today so I don’t want to put her off what’s the I’ll let you guys go first if you want whatever okay fine Lang can go last Bennett you can go first because you have been in here pulling double duty all week so you get first I’ll take second L takes third and we are drafting Giants and iake is it snake draft or no is it 1 2 3 2 so Bennett with the first pick giant dra and and why are we drafting Giants we’re drafting Giants in honor of the Grizzlies drafting a giant in Zach Ed okay okay um this one the first pick is easy for me it’s my favorite giant um one of my favorite movies of all time actually there’s different versions of this movie and I like all of them um I’m going to go with King Kong wow I’m GNA go with King Kong not even on my list a surpr mine neither I love King okay so uh hot take this is such a cinema Bennett answer my favorite King Kong is the Peter Jackson King Kong the one with Adrian the not the Jeff Bridges King Kong I love that one too from the 70s I love all of them about King Kong I thought you’d like the King Kong versus Godzilla King Kong I like that too you’re Godzilla I’m a big I’m into the monster verse as well uh so yeah I’m gonna go King Kong with my first overall pick all right I don’t know where Lang’s going to go with this and Lang can get creative so I’m not risking it with my number one pick I’m going to take greatest giant of all time Willie Mays H Willie Mays just passed four home run titles four stolen bases Title One batting title led the national league five times a piece in Ops and slugging percentage three times in triples twice each in runs extra base hits and on base percentage and one a piece in hits and walks give me greatest giant Willie May in the giant second best center fielder of all time okay that’s nice P Andrew Jones uh I’m gonna go and like how do you not the greatest Giant Andre Andre the Giant is number one like how is that not everyone’s number one Pi so I’m going Andre the Giant number one okay I don’t know what to do now cuz that’s I I should have done I should have gone Andre the Giant first cuz I think I would have gotten King Kong if I would have waited for it to come back to me but that’s okay um I’m going to go with oh man there’s so many good Giants out there let me go with the let me go with see these are all going to be freaking weirdo pics too that’s the problem like I dude man be weird wish I would have done Andre the Giant first want you to be weird uh let’s go with the baby from Honey I Blew Up the Kid okay yes that’s a great pick let’s go with a baby from Honey I Blew Up the Kid I don’t know I I haven’t seen that movie since I was a kid but I remember loving it more at the time than the original Honey I Shrunk the Kids and so I don’t know why it was something about like the baby had like giant snacks in his pocket when he picked up Rick Moranis and put him in his pocket in like a big toy boy car that had become like a life-size car cuz he got blown up and it doesn’t he gets blown have yall seen honey I BL up yes it’s on my this is on my list he gets the baby gets blown up and like terrorizes the Las Vegas Strip is that right stomping around yeah stumbling around that’s a great one like a baby okay yep that’s one number I’m very happy that you left me I don’t know I don’t even know his name by the way I he’s the baby giant baby yeah um I’m going to take the BFG The Big Friendly Giant excuse me I’m taking the character he exists in both worlds he is The BFG he is The Big Friendly Giant and he is a nice giant yeah he’s just kind of dumb though he’s sweet dumb does not have toet doesn’t to the table what is he what’s The Big Friendly friendliness Giants are scary they’re big they can Crush all of us and The BFG is a sweetheart I love a nice giant give me The BFG Big Friendly Giant R doll created a classic thank you I like R do I don’t like Mark Ryland who played him in the movie I don’t like the I prefer the book to the movie but I didn’t want Bennett to make fun of me for saying well actually the book is better than the movie um all right well I’m gonna go uh since since I already picked I I’m gonna crush this draft I’m going to take for my second pick the greatest historical giant of all time Kath okay slayed by David but giant Philistine got hit with a rock right space but I mean who’s more famous than Goliath as a giant great question how many times do we use the cliche David versus Goliath that’s right I’m going go impact on History yeah all right Bennett Goliath got his ass kicked it was a lucky shot it was a lucky shot you picked a loser you get on me for picking a dumb giant you picked a loser giant all right uh give me he picked King Kong ended up oh never mind that’s true yeah he lost as well and he picked a baby he gained love along the way though um give that it’s be never mind give me the Queen alien from Aliens whoa the sequel get away from her you wow no y don’t like that one no I do okay all right all right the Queen alien from aliens uh directed by James Cameron um the greatest alien movie of all time I you know starring nepo baby Sigourney Weaver she’s a great Neo baby she is a great Neo by the way speaking of James Cameron right now Kate Winslet did a sit down I think it was with the other Vanity Fair variety and she goes through all of her great movies and her conversations about Titanic are worth a watch if you are a big Titanic person so she calls James Cameron JC which I’m like oh that’s so cute all right with my next pick give me Hagrid the giant you’re a wizard Harry I love Hagrid he rides in on his motorcycle he’s Harry’s Magical Friend from the beginning he’s a solid one and I think he’s he’s a sweet giant who cares for all of the beasts and the plants and everything in between also kind of dumb he’s not dumb he is why do you call all the Giants he’s the grounds keeper they just make him live out in the back like they have to like tell him what to do he’s a giant like he can’t just like IMG Academy barely had a bed that fit Zach Ed you think Hogwarts had a bed for Hagrid they gave him his own Hut yeah his own place I think that’s pretty nice we’re doing a uh Harry Potter rewatch right now when Noah’s watching it for the first time and I he he’s five he’s five it gets a little once you get once you get past number three it starts getting a little what we did was uh I read the books out loud to my son like when he was going to bed yeah and we’d finished the book and then watch the movie yeah how hell was he when this happened about that about five or six we started like but I think if you read the books first you kind of like they know what’s coming you know like it’s not as scary kind of in the movie well and Noah likes my kid’s weird he likes being scared for some reason like he’s into Goosebumps and yeah he like he likes getting scared show Silence of the Lambs like he well he that’s the thing is I have a bunch of horror movies and he likes to look at he don’t want to watch them he just wants to look at the the DVD or the Blu-ray and me to explain what it’s about so yeah all right all right well since we’re talking about horror movies and and being scared and all that and I’ve already got two of the greatest Giants of all time on my team okay um I’m going to take another dumb giant but one who um is scared and maybe just misunderstood Frankenstein that’s a good one Frankenstein yeah why are so many Giants dumb I mean frankstein is barely a a person it’s not really a person I guess he is I don’t know yeah uh I mean he’s a Monster yeah he’s just misunderstood anyway I’m going Frankenstein Frankenstein’s a good pick Bennett what weirdo pick mine are all going to be what movies left I know mine are all GNA be movies uh I mean you got to give me Godzilla You Gotta Give me Godzilla godilla a giant yeah he’s on my list I don’t that’s just a big lizard it’s not a giant a giant like some sort of humanity to me or some sort of mean isn’t technically a giant giant he does have legs and arms okay this is an interesting question mean I guess Godzilla has legs and arms too Godzilla just has small arms the radiation turned him into a giant like yeah I think he’s a giant yeah he’s defitely a giant repar yeah I love Godzilla by the way Godzilla minus one on Netflix that’s totally I recommend everybody watch it it’s you’re going to have to do subtitles it’s a Japanese film but it is maybe the best Godzilla movie okay okay um I can’t believe this is still available for me to take but I will take the Iron Giant one of the sweetest best movies of all time I’m messing up cuz I could have had the Iron Giant and Andre the Giant if I would have just done that first the great Vin Diesel the voice of The Iron Giant and if you want is that way just grunts the whole movie yes I love The Iron Giant though all right Iron Giant number four um I’m going to go as uh dip into the pop culture well and as someone who hosts cooking with L we’re going to go with the Jolly Green Giant okay ho ho ho like what’s more famous than Staple in every house yeah it’s like nobody no Giant’s more famous than the Jolly Green Giant yeah if you don’t have a can of Jolly Green Giant green beans in your house like who are you are you prepared for the apocalypse no exactly exactly atast five cans of Jolly Green Giant your that expired two years ago yeah but he’s prot Don Green Giant protects all things from expiring I think so Bennett this is your last pck oh this is my last pck okay uh I got a couple options here uh I thought about going with the stay puffed Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters from a big Ghostbusters guy but I think I’m going to go with just cuz this is a sports show I’m going to go with that dude from Happy Gilmore that beats the crap out of uh that’s a good one yeah that beats the crap out of um what’s my guy he was also in the James Bond movies the guy he he was uh Jaws James Bond yeah yes Richard Keels is his name give me him he’s a great giant good good giant okay I’m very glad but I cannot believe somebody in the chat guessed my final pick I think that we need more women Giants in the world as you will notice on our list all of these Giants are male we don’t have Godzilla is a female Godzilla is a female I know I just made that up okay I love this nobody knows like it could be she’s entering her fomon um we don’t know that I am going to take Allison Hay’s Attack of the 50 Foot Woman one of the first like old movies I saw that genre and all women who are trying to get revenge on their cheating Scoundrels of husbands should have the ability to grow into a 50 Foot Woman and ruin their lives that feels like a Mystery Science Theater 3000 movie they used to show it at um MGM Studios in Florida the I forget what they it’s called now Hollywood Studios but when it was MGM Studios and was like very movie themed they would show it in the they had the Backlot tour and they had this restaurant I think they still have it the drive-in cars restaurant still see that very aming they would show you the clip from Attack of thei drive-in theater I love that place you could put they had uh light up ice cubes that were so cool yeah it’s still there still rolling y all right you’re final final pick here’s some of the ones I didn’t get to you did Willie Ma I was gonna do Eli Manning as one of mine on him just felt wrong um the greatest Manning I was gonna do um uh Giant Steps the album by John coltran one of the great great American jazz albums of all times uh Paul bunan was on my list Paul bun Robert wadow the tallest human who ever lived who was 8′ 11 um big Ripley Believe It or Not guy but I’m going to go in the interest of diversity also and um gender University with Jang Zu what a pick Lang wins the draft z h& g zyu she’s incredible for K in the booth and and she’s the the woman who I think she’s like 16 17 yes um she’s she’s from China and she plays on the Chinese under 18 team and she’s like a two feet taller than everyone else and she uh has been just dominant and FEA put out clips of her just like catching in the post she’s like a she’s like bigger than Zack EDI compared to the people she plays against she’s 73 73 she’s like 16 or 17 17 years old she’s 73 if you have not watched her she is the tallest woman in the world and she crushes everybody on a basketball court it is one of the most fun things to watch I haven’t seen if she’s able to play for the Chinese women’s team at the Olympics I don’t I don’t know but if she is I will sign up to watch those games immediately because it is a fascinating thing to watch that’s the only basketball player who gets taken on our list I feel like we’re around Giants so much I thought about boan I thought about ban and ya they feel like two like special ones I thought about ya also yeah I mean Shaq is probably the closest to like a real giant that I’ve ever been around and I spent a lot of time with him 73 300 lb I think and he’s maybe 71 but yeah he’s just like just big like I remember the first time I shook Shaq’s hand and his hand was like it was like a you know like a eight times the size of M and you’re like what is going on um but yeah I I feel like we’re around these tall guys all the time and it sort of loses its novelty I I agree so it takes someone really tall which is why we did this whole thing to begin with because Zach Ed is someone who is really tall who still has the novelty of being so tall that he can touch the rim cut down the Nets do whatever uh I did have the Empire State Building on my list but the second you challenged Godzilla I decided not to take a building so I was going to put an album out there but I it could have gotten deep anyway thanks Lang for joining us on this Friday we won’t see you next week cuz we’re off next week Fourth of July so shout out Fourth of July shout out shout out America we got a shout out America on this well Team USA the USA men’s team lost in Copa America yesterday and then that being the Preamble for the debate their coach is the biggest winner of the debate last night because it immediately turned altered biggest winners from the debate last night is him and then Kyle filipowski yeah nobody was talking about that nobody started talking about that Hey listen cuz I didn’t know if we were going to talk about this I’m not going to I’m just throwing out we’re not going to talk about all of the rumors just he fell a lot okay but if you if you get into the weeds and look at some of the rumors what a weird story what a wild story I think the I will fall on the reporting of whoever it was at ESP and I cannot remember which draft analyst said it might have been TR think gavon was said okay gavone brought up that as he was doing his draft interviews there was some um concern learn from teams about his older girlfriend and that’s how it was brought up and then the internet did the rest and his mom is on Twitter his brother’s on Twitter saying things and he ends up being drafted by the Utah Jazz and if you know the story it’s just a little too on the nose it’s a little too perfect for how it all works out for him but one of the biggest Falls of the NBA draft one of the biggest surprises of the NBA draft and how everything turned out so thanks debate for distracting everybody in a different way I’m not going to thank the debate there was nothing thankful about the debate all right we’ll take a quick break we’ll come back we’ll wrap up on this Friday with some new music Friday we’ll go through uh the newest things to listen to going into this weekend and uh we’ll get to the weekend we’ll be right [Music] back if you look at it as far as the uh the number nine pick over the years there’s been some pretty good players that have surfaced at number nine of course Dirk nitzky who won a championship there’s been a lot of great guys but who knows if there is a great guy in this draft hey Grizzlies fans be sure to tune in to gribe where the panel and I break down all things Grizzlies and take a look at the rest of the NBA as well the show is live every Wednesday 2 p.m. on YouTube at grind City media and the official grind City media app I think we have the college basketball title Futures yukon’s number one I really like Houston I’d have them winning it all but you can’t be giving Drake jerseys what is wrong with you maybe the Drake curse is stronger in college basketball how long has he been with riding with K Alabama Jersey and sa retired the odds couple with Rob fer Lang Whitaker John Roser and CJ hurt live Thursdays at 2 pm on YouTube at grind City media and the official grind City media app look at the score look at the score he hey look at the B number three right before I walked in the locker room Danny a p me to the ass said hey Tony Allen come here 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new album It’s called C XOXO I mean had a song that the first single that came off of it a couple months ago was a song called I love it which I hated I love it I love it I love it I love it I love it I talked about it on the show I thought it was terrible however there actually are some good songs as I was going through this album but the thing that stood out to me is that Drake is on two songs on this album so one could say that this is Drake’s first response to Kendrick Lamar it is nothing to be in a response to Kendrick Lamar and as Kendrick has continued to eviscerate Drake on all sides of everything um but Drake is on two of these songs on Camila Capo’s new album and she said that she is frustrated or that the wave of slander towards Drake is frustrating and I would think that that makes a lot of sense because if you’re dropping a new album and you went to Turks andos to uh make some songs with Drake and everybody hates Drake right now it automatically puts your album in a tough spot don’t you think yeah I think so I like the album cover I like the album cover too that’s pretty cool what I don’t understand the title cxo XO what does that mean call it a Vibe I can tell you exactly what it means Bennett call it a Vibe shift or a reintroduction or as Cabo cheekily called cxo XO her hyper fem villain Arc with dreamy production there are ODS to her tropical Hometown as she recruits city girls to twerk out the sunroof on Collins Avenue for Dade County dreaming she’s covered in glitter and dressed for revenge on pretty when I cry and tempting an x on the scorching hot Uptown which features Drake in Peak honestly never mind form that’s a little too try hard for me I mean Megan the stallion’s new album is just called Megan like like right to the point what happened to the good old days where we just use names yeah Megan and it is Megan yeah I really like a couple of the songs on the Meg the stallion album it’s definitely a shift and this is uh Meg the stallion’s first album released under her own label hot girl Productions and I think that was some hope that it would be like full hot girl summer all hot girl summer with a lot of Bops for the summer season I think there’s a lot of depth in it where you know she comes to terms with Fakes and there’s some potential Digs at Nicki Minaj along the way but the song that I absolutely loved upon first listen is where them girls at it’s a hot girl summer Anthem like you I know you’re not going to get into the hot girl summer but you can be adjacent to the hot girl summer I really like that song and I really like the song that she does with Victoria called spin and there’s another one called worthy that I really like those were the three that I pointed out from Megan but I like your your take that camil Cabo could have just you know kept it a little simpler cxo XO I mean her name is starts with a C last name starts with a C XOXO is just hug and kisses yeah XOXO Gossip Girl whatever I sign things EXO sometimes not in a professional sense but in a personal yeah I’ll be like XO night night to my friends I think girls use it more than boys obviously uh shout out Randall in the chat who always sends me new music on a Friday which I appreciate uh he said you should check out the new Aaron Fraser single um and it is called easy to love and then there is also a new Anderson pack song called Dance with the Devil which he recommended I have been tracking the Twisters soundtrack all summer long we get a song every now and then and we got our newest release on the Twisters album This one is called song while you’re away are you familiar with the Twisters album at this point Ben no I’m not so tldr because we went through this I think last week a lot of like really twister themed songs like Ain’t No Love in Oklahoma ain’t in Kansas anymore the cards I’ve been dealt out of Oklahoma hell or high water Dead End Road tear us apart stronger than a storm chasing the wind I would I would bet my my house that to a twister I would bet my house to a twister that there is a either a Luke comes or a Morgan Wallin song on this soundtrack I think there’s a Luke Colmes hold on keep going keep going oh no you know what there’s not there’s not neither those guys are on this soundtrack no there’s jelly roll well then I just lost my home there’s B and I’m so sorry you just moved this is so tough what are you going to tell your wife that you bet the house on of country being on the Twister sound wouldn’t be the worst bet I ever made old friend of the show Kane Brown oh is he a friend of the show no we just had his ad for his meteoric rise to for so long have you met yeah you know I used to dabble in the country music business Once Upon a Time cool yeah um now I met him when he was an upand Comer well last week I sang the not sang but I spoke the lyrics I had spoken word poetry for the song that dropped last week um Ain’t No Love in Oklahoma this week it’s Tyler Childers on song while you’re away and I’ll just give you a little Tyler Childers Childers I believe it’s Childers I don’t thinkers yeah I don’t think it’s Childers I don’t know who the hell’s name is Childers it’s spelled like Childers Bennett it’s probably Childers I think it’s I think it’s Childers and I’m really embarrassed that I didn’t know that all right Tyler Childers song while you’re away up in your nephew’s room playing on his cousin’s guitar I wrote a song for you you have done drove off with everything I need my box and my tumble weed Lord have mercy wait Lee says that Luke Holmes is on the Twister soundtrack I think you need to double check he’s the first song on The Twister soundtrack you have your house you have your house saved that was on me I scared you for nothing literally the lead single on the album is Luke Holmes I knew it sometimes reading comprehension is hard you know sometimes I feel for the guys on the I don’t feel for anyone on the debate they put themselves in those positions but sometimes it’s hard man just talking figuring things out on the fly your house is safe Luke Colmes is the one who’s sang 8 And1 Oklahoma let’s go back to Tyler chers slch Childers I picked it up on my way to Flagstaff years ago I was hanging on to everything you had the grace to show you were young and you were hungry Lord knows I was hungry too we were both flat out starving for something worthwhile to lose I got a job as a cup man at a house just down the road I had never been to town before I didn’t know a soul I was young I was hungry Lord knows you were hungry too we were both flat out starving for something worthwhile to lose are you interested will you go check out Tyler chers song probably not but I will check out Twisters I know I’m excited about Twisters I’m very excited about T I told you my mom’s favorite movie is twister the original I mean I love the original twister we had it on VHS I’ve been terrified of Twisters because of the original twister it’s one of those things where I I’ve never lived in Tornado Alley but I specifically avoided taking jobs within Tornado Alley because I was so afraid from Twister as a kid things like that scar you my grandma’s house was destroyed in a tornado yeah in Arkansas yeah years ago yep is she okay yeah yeah she’s passed years later but okay I’m sorry for your loss but I’m glad that it didn’t happen via twister yeah that would be tough yeah all right Bennett thanks for being here always hey thanks for having me this was a lot of fun I’ll see you in like 40 minutes on the Gary Paris show that’s right we might have a big guest on the Gary Paris show today TBD TBD for a big guest it’s not me I’ll no we have two big we might we have we’ll have at least one big guest we might have two big put me as like a schmedium guest but you have a chance at a really big guest on today’s show everybody have a wonderful weekend we’ll be back on Monday CJ will return from his BBL you’ll get to see it in its most beautiful glory and uh we’ll see what else happens NBA news starts drilling we got free agency coming up on and then summer league will be here before we know it so lots to talk about we’ll be back for a three-day week next week we will see you then have a great weekend bye [Music]
