Guys, I'm actually serious. Should we disband?
Hey everybody, welcome back to the Shenanigan Shuffle, the podcast where chaos meets comedy and everything in between.
My name's AJ and Jackson Josiah Dennis are at the table with me like always.
Oh yeah.
Where am I?
Dennis, you can tell us what we're doing today for this episode.
Thanks for having me, AJ.
You're welcome.
Yeah, I'll tell you what we're doing.
Um, today?
Today.
We're gonna be breaking the ice with AJ.
Breaking the ice.
Then we're gonna talk about some movies, specifically Disney and Pixar.
DreamWorks and Pixar.
Oh, DreamWorks and Pixar, my bad. I thought I was...
Pixar is Disney.
It's a... buddy, I got it.
Go to your guy.
And then we are going to the ad libs, Joe.
And then we are gonna be talking about the NBA, specifically the All-Star Weekend.
All-Star Weekend.
How to fix it.
Fix it.
And what's wrong with it.
I like that whisper.
Thank you.
And yeah, and then we're gonna wrap it up at the end at approximately the 25 to 30 minute mark.
So just grab some popcorn, grab your best friend and...
Best friend.
Have a good time.
AJ, break the ice for us.
Alright, break, ice, break.
Alright, if you had to be stranded on a desert island with no one...
I could take no one.
Or your worst enemy, is that what you're gonna say?
Oh, how'd you know?
Yeah, you just asked the icebreaker question.
Okay.
Okay, so rephrase so you know, the icebreaker is would you ever be standing on a desert island
with nobody by yourself or with somebody but that somebody is the person you dislike the most?
I'm gonna answer this right away.
I'm just gonna say I would definitely do the person I dislike the most.
I'm going no one.
I'm gonna answer...
I'm gonna match with Josiah and say the person I dislike the most because I could not stand, you know,
not having someone to talk to and stuff forever.
Did you mean Jackson?
What did I say?
You said Josiah.
Yeah, you said Josiah and I did not say anything like that.
But thanks.
I know.
I can be by myself.
I'm fine.
I would probably have to have someone just because I'd get bored.
Even if they are my worst enemy, I plan to be able to talk things out.
Same.
You can actually find some things that you really like about people that you dislike.
You get to know them more.
So it's very nice.
Are we...
You got to answer the question.
I did.
I said no.
Okay.
So what's your reason?
What's your...
What's...
Everyone else said they want to be with them.
I feel like people are talking about...
Like how would you like tell us?
Like everyone else...
You're the unpopular opinion here.
So everyone's talking about like how, oh, like I don't want to be bored and I don't want to be lonely,
but you're going to be too busy trying to like survive.
Matt, like that's just another mouth to feed when you're stranded on a...
A what?
Or it could be...
I'm thinking survival here.
Twice the production.
Back to the slavery idea.
I mean, I get it.
No, I'm not talking about those kind of war workers.
So anyways, moving on from the ice that is now broken,
we are going to move to the mini segment, which might be more of a medium sized to large,
Teen, tween, tween section, which is similar movie reviews from the Pixar and the DreamWork movies.
Now, I would say starting off here...
Wait, so are we ranking them or just like rating them?
I think both, but mostly ranking.
So let's just mostly rank.
So let's just mostly rank, but okay, DreamWorks has a lot of movies.
They've got like 40, over 40 movies.
A lot of these are definitely just very popular, like Trek.
That's never seen really popular, but not my favorite at all.
Okay, I'm going to go ahead and give us the number one for DreamWorks.
It's Madagascar.
No, it isn't.
No, I was going to say, I didn't know.
It's Kung Fu Panda.
Yeah, I didn't say Kung Fu Panda on that one.
What?
So it's not from Kung Fu Panda.
I just like Madagascar.
I mean, Kung Fu Panda is good, but I don't know Madagascar.
And How to Train Your Dragons probably I get close.
Yeah, I was about to say, How to Train Your Dragons is also classic.
So are we all in unison that Kung Fu Panda is the top number one?
Yeah, that wasn't even that hard.
Yeah.
And then...
Wait, for which one?
The Groods is pretty good.
For DreamWorks?
I do like DreamWorks.
Yeah.
You're telling me Kung Fu Panda is number one?
Yes.
How to Train Your Dragons probably second.
No, Madagascar.
I'd say Madagascar is first or Shrek.
What? No, Shrek is not first.
Shrek is not first.
It's like the movie that's the old people talk about in their retirement homes.
You guys don't like Shrek?
I like Shrek.
Never seen Shrek.
I don't think it's a top, but...
Choles was good.
Choles?
Have you seen that?
The Cruise was good.
I did like The Cruise.
That's what I said.
New is best.
Oh, Megamind.
Never mind.
That's number one.
Megamind is number one.
Megamind is not in the middle.
Megamind is not in the top 10.
I put Kung Fu Panda 2, 3, 4, Madagascar 2, Penguins of Madagascar,
How to Train Your Dragon 2, and the whole TV show in front of Megamind.
No.
Megamind is not that good.
No, Megamind is number one.
Oh, wait.
Actually, though, Penguins of Madagascar?
No, I like that.
That was weird.
You're weird.
No, but...
Once you've kept it underpants, the first epic movie's similar, huh?
No.
We're just speaking with Megamind.
So Megamind is number one.
Any movie that has the word underpants in its title is not a top 10 movie.
I would have to agree with them.
But Megamind is.
Megamind is not.
I'm fighting with this.
Megamind is not good.
Okay, you can put it in your own top 10.
But I am...
Top one, without a doubt.
Top one.
That is just so wild.
It's just right up there.
Boom.
I'm gonna have to say, so definitely...
The B-movie!
Hey.
Oh, no.
The B-movie is absolute garbage.
No, the B-movie is good.
The B-movie is garbage.
AJ, what is your movie takes?
I think...
My movie takes are correct.
I think...
So...
Stand the B-movie.
Shenanigan Chuckle might get signed by DreamWorks pretty soon, so...
We'd probably be, like, top one.
We actually have a documentary coming out on DreamWorks about us, so...
Yeah, about the Shenanigan Chuckle.
That'll get four viewers.
Stay tuned for that.
We'll sell four tickets.
Anyways...
Do a giveaway.
To our listeners, please keep listening.
We need it.
That's how I'm desperate.
We're failing.
Okay.
I hate to announce this on the shuffle, but...
We are screwed.
It's over.
Office quote coming in here.
It's over.
That's not a DreamWorks movie.
Okay.
It's kind of a break-break.
You all still owe me $4.99 each month, by the way.
So, number one, we've got Kung Fu Panda.
No.
Not Megamind.
Megasquirt number three.
Number four, Prince of Egypt.
No.
Number one is Megamind.
No, it's not.
Megamind.
Give me a case as why Megamind is the first.
More like Mega...
It's trash.
...Homeless.
It's just not that funny.
You have no humor.
No, you might just thought you have...
No.
Top 10.
That's good.
No, I do.
And then, Madagascar.
It's gotta be Madagascar.
I'd say Madagascar is number two.
Penguins of Madagascar is number four.
And then Shrek.
Nope.
Over the Hedge number five.
Guys, my whole list is gone.
I forgot about...
Oh, gosh.
Okay.
Megamind number one.
Over the Hedge number two.
Oh, man.
Just as the list just keeps changing.
Madagascar number three.
Where is Kung Fu Panda?
I'm getting there.
Kung Fu Panda is a top one.
And then Shrek.
Shrek is number four.
Number five is Kung Fu Panda.
Kung Fu Panda is alright.
I don't mind it.
Okay, that new bad guys movie though
that was on Netflix.
That's definitely gonna reach my top ten.
Maybe nine or ten.
I've never seen that.
I thought it was...
I thought it was actually...
Oh, is that the one with...
It's like this movie about these...
Oh, yeah, the animals are like thugs or whatever.
Yeah.
Thug walk.
It was pretty good.
Um, how...
No.
Actually, I would even say
How to Train Your Dragon is above Kung Fu Panda.
I feel like Jack Black movies just have their way.
This is Jack Black.
Okay.
Nacho Libre.
Oh, you know what's really funny?
The Minions movie where it's the nacho guy
and he's like has to do the chorus
and he eats the nacho chip hat
and then there's the little...
Oh, El...
Number two.
The little monkey that follows him around or whatever.
Yeah.
Or a rat or something.
It's Despicable Me 2.
Oh, I got you wrong.
With the purple minion dude.
Is that Dreamworks?
Is this...
No, that's Illumination.
Um...
Okay.
Wait, what?
Okay, I need your guys take on this.
What did you think of Monsters vs. Aliens?
Monsters vs. Aliens?
It's not that good.
That was not that good.
No.
I've never seen it.
It's like a Megamind.
It's just not that good.
It's just...
Dude.
You have no movie takes.
I have plenty of movie takes.
No, you don't.
And they're bad.
Alright, everyone.
They're all movies nobody's ever heard of.
Myself.
Let's all write down our top 10 from this list
and we've been consulting...
Let's do top 5 probably.
Top 5.
Okay.
Because, yeah, I haven't seen probably.
And we are just gonna talk over writing this down
so you guys are ready to go.
I already have mine ready.
I already have mine too.
Okay, you wanna go ahead and share?
I do.
There's a lot of good...
Oh, I forgot that was a movie.
Oh, I like that movie.
I'm gonna be honest, I haven't seen half of these
so it's really not that...
It's really not that...
Oh, this is difficult.
Difficult for me.
Difficult indeed.
Alright.
With...
Just so you know...
Oh!
Mr. Peabody and Sherman!
Is that a...
That is such a good movie!
It's with a dog.
It is a really good movie.
Okay, Mr. Connoisseur.
The Boss Baby!
You guys might not have heard the movies I like
but that's because you guys don't like movies.
Alright, we just watch movies that actually bring an income.
It's not about the box office for AJ, guys.
It's about the personality within the film.
Actually, that's very true.
That was deep, AJ.
Oh, I said it.
He said that's very true.
Alright.
I think...
Oh!
Guardians of the Galaxy!
That's not...
That's not different than Rise of the Guardians.
Yeah, maybe a little bit.
Alright, this is very difficult and that is...
Alright, is this enough of the all rights and...
I'm gonna share my top five.
...Share his list.
So, number one, obviously, Kung Fu Panda.
Classic.
Uh, number two is gonna be How to Train Your Dragon.
Number three for me is gonna be Madagascar.
It's Madagascar, not Madagascar.
That's what I said.
I said Madagascar, like gas-car.
Well, okay, well, this is a...
Happy Gascar, Sadagascar, and this one's a Madagascar.
Okay, number four, we've got Prince of Egypt.
Never seen it.
You've never seen that?
It's the...
It's not like the Arabian Nights.
No, that would be Aladdin.
But this is a movie about Moses.
I actually just think it's a very good movie.
The music's great.
And then number five, I'm gonna put that Bad Guys movie.
I was blown away.
Bad Guys was really good.
I only watched part of it and it bored me to death.
It was on the plane until the Africa.
I'm like, I cannot do this.
We're going to the Silesian gentleman and his amazing list right here.
Number one, without a doubt, undisputed heavyweight champion, Mega Mind.
Rocky Balboa.
Number two.
This is gonna Mega Mind number one.
Number two, Over the Hedge.
Never heard of that.
A little bit high, but...
Number three, Home.
Have you seen that movie?
Is that like Home Alone?
No, Home is the one where the alien comes and then like the...
No, the big brain boob.
Have you seen it, the boob?
I'm just gonna let you continue.
Have you guys never seen Home?
I've seen Home.
I know it's with the purple alien.
I remember the McDonald's story is coming out.
When he eats the like...
With the flying car.
When he eats the urinal thing, he's like,
don't eat the mint in the bathroom.
Yeah, that was a good one.
Classic, classic.
My fourth one is Madagascar.
I do like that series.
It's just a movie.
Oh, just a movie?
The first one is the greatest one.
Actually, I have to say the second one.
I'm changing the second one because that's when the grandma comes in.
Oh, I do remember.
Madagascar is the best part of Madagascar.
Madagascar 2 is actually...
I just think Penguins and Madagascar.
No, the second one is probably the best because that's when they go to Africa.
How about Happy Foot?
No.
Anyway, that's the movie.
Is that a Dreamers movie?
No, I just like it.
Oh, that's weird.
And then...
It's really...
Isn't it Happy Feet?
Guys, stop.
It's Happy Feet, right?
Number five is B-movie.
Oh, yeah.
Oh.
So there's a good...
We've got a lot of honorable mentions from your list.
That would be honorable.
That's on my list.
Yeah.
The B-movie is funny, but it's just not good.
It's iconic.
Yeah.
AJ, we're not worried about...
It's animation.
You like jazz?
Wait, this is all animation.
You like jazz?
Yeah, this is all animation.
You did know that.
Otherwise, honorable mention.
You like jazz?
I gotta go with the Croods.
Oh, we're doing honorable.
No, this is not an honorable mention list.
Yeah, the Croods.
AJ, start your list.
Okay.
Number one, Kung Fu Panda.
Yep.
Number two, Mr. Peabody and Sherman.
Yep.
Number three, The Bad Guys.
Yep.
Number four, Madagascar.
Yep.
Number five, Over the Hedge.
No.
Solid list, but...
Solid list.
I liked your list, AJ.
I've never seen Mr. Peabody and Sherman.
It's a good movie.
Okay.
So, number one, the undisputed heavyweight, lightweight, middleweight, featherweight,
everyweight, women's division two champion.
Don't say it.
Kung Fu Panda.
It's too late.
I already didn't make a mind ball list.
Number two.
He gave him more championships.
Number two, the undisputed heavyweight, second place, women's weight, featherweight,
everything champion, the B movie.
You put that in the movie.
Yeah.
Thank you, Joe.
Good movie.
That was good.
Number three, How to Train Your Dragon.
And number three.
Dragon?
Number four, Mr. Peabody and Sherman.
It's just like so cool.
The house he lives in.
His dad's a dog.
Like, you don't see that every day, do you?
That's definitely challenging the societal norms.
Why?
Yeah.
Very deep.
That's actually good discussion, Jax.
I'm putting you down for a point for that.
Thank you.
And number four, number five, actually, I don't, I mean, it's a good movie.
I can watch, I could watch it again today and I'd be like entertained the whole time.
The Croods.
I just like the grammar around the dog.
No, that's the kid.
That's the little...
The Croods is, I like the Croods, yeah.
It's like so, and then like, the whole new world.
That's The Croods.
That's a different movie.
That's more, wait, no, that's not.
That's a Disney princess, isn't it?
Um, I'm not sure.
But so those are all the lists for DreamWorks.
I'd say those are pretty good.
Yeah.
Pretty good.
You're going to Pixar?
Pixar, yeah.
Let's go.
Yeah, Pixar.
So no discussion.
Ready?
No discussion.
Make your top five.
Okay.
Yeah, that's a good idea.
I was starting to make it, but...
Well, why?
Oh, you cannot do a top five.
Pixar's too many good movies.
Yeah, Pixar, they're all good.
Dude, but I need...
Most of them are good.
I need your guys' opinion on it.
Most of them are good.
What?
While we're making our list, what do you think about Wall-E?
Turning red.
It's like, okay, it's a very like, actually like, moving story.
It's a sentimental movie, but it's just boring.
It's like, I don't think it's as good as the other Pixar's movies.
Because there's not many words in it for like the first like, whatever.
It gets kind of boring.
No, all he says is Wall-E.
Yeah, but then like the people talk, and that's like, but like it's like people moving away,
destroying the earth, right?
And then like, they come back, plant a seed and let it grow.
That's the Lorax.
Even though you know you're a word.
That's definitely the Lorax.
Let it grow.
Okay.
The name's O'Hare.
I have my top five.
We've had enough of that.
I have my top five list.
We're copyrighted twice already.
YouTube is not even able to understand my singing as the song.
I have my top five.
While some guys dying in the background of their five jazz.
They have a lot of good movies.
This is difficult.
I have my top five.
Real quick, guys, a quick fact while we're at this.
I'm not sure if many of you know this.
Planes, the movie Planes, like, addition to Cars.
Not as good.
Was originally going to be Trains.
Is originally going to be Trains.
A piece of information that I woke up not knowing.
And so in Planes, when he goes to the tunnel,
they actually incorporate the train that was going to be in Trains.
Did they ever have a Planes 2?
Thank you for describing a scene in the movie.
Crop Fester.
It was Planes Fire and Rescue when he learned to be a fireman.
Yeah, that was a good one.
Man, this is hard.
Okay, I'm ready.
I got my top five.
No, we're doing top six.
This is impossible to do top five.
Top six?
Um.
I could easily nail down five.
No, this is difficult.
All right, can I, I'm gonna go ahead and share my top five.
Um, wait, AJ, you should go first.
Yeah, the movie kind of sears.
Are we doing top six or top five?
We're doing five.
We're just doing five.
Okay.
Dennis had me tripping.
Number one, Soul.
Soul is a good movie.
Did not ever make me the top five.
Never.
Soul was really good.
That one, I thought it was a little weird.
I only liked that John Batiste did the...
I was not seeing that.
I love Soul.
Soul was fantastic.
Number two, Monsters Inc.
Need Monsters Inc fans in the house.
I actually thought it was number one.
Monsters Inc.
You have...
Number three.
That is not my top.
That's not even like, it's a great movie, but the Pixar,
you have so many choose from Monsters Inc.
Number three, Cars.
Cars was one of my favorite movies as a kid.
Very good.
I love Cars.
Number four, Monsters University.
The prequel to Monsters Inc.
That was a good one.
They did just as well with that as they did with Monsters Inc.
Wait, Monsters, what is it?
University.
You ever seen that?
Which one?
It remind me real quick.
That's when they're at college.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, and that's when like Monsters and people are in the same world.
No.
Well, no, yeah, because you remember that there's more scenes with Through the Door.
Yeah, they do more scenes through the door, but they're not in the same world.
Yeah.
Anyways, what's your fifth?
Number five, Ratatouille.
Okay, I like Ratatouille.
For my number one, I've got Cars.
Cars just feels like a very typical icon.
I just, I really like Cars.
Number two is going to be Ratatouille for me.
Okay.
I really like Ratatouille.
Number three, Toy Story.
Very classic.
Number four, this is going to be pretty controversial.
I'm probably a lot of you guys haven't seen this, but the movie Coco.
This is a movie about the Mexican day of the dead.
I love this movie.
Coco's good.
Never seen it.
Very good movie.
Oh yeah, we watched it in Spanish class.
Yeah.
We watched it in Spanish.
Thank you, Miss Jonas.
Yeah, thanks, Miss Jonas.
And then number five, Up.
I really like the movie Up.
Up is good.
Honorable Mentioned, Incredibles, because I was really debating between Incredibles and Up.
But okay, my list.
Number one, Turning Red.
Number two, Inside Out.
I'm sorry.
But no.
Number three, Luca.
And number four, Buzz Light.
You just put like the most-
Okay guys, it's a joke.
My top five, In No Particular Order.
Actually from one to five.
But Luca's a good boy.
Never seen it actually.
My number one movie of all time, from Pixar.
Toy Story 2, the best Toy Story.
Agreed.
Yeah.
I have nothing wrong with that, agreed.
That's the best Pixar movie.
Number two-
Really?
Number two best movie from Pixar is Cars.
Number three best movie from Pixar is Finding Nemo.
Number four is Up.
And number five is The Incredibles.
In my opinion, Toy Story 3's opening scene beats all of Toy Story 2.
But it's just one scene.
It's a movie as a whole.
We're not taking the best movie.
Okay, no.
We're movie connoisseurs, hear me in Dennis.
We enjoy the whole movie.
AJ, you see my movie rack over there?
Every single Veggie Tales and Bible Man ever.
I know what I'm talking about.
He does.
Bible Man.
And The Ponies.
And The Pond.
You guys probably don't know about The Pond, but Methuselah, he's the alligator there,
and he has some very good wisdom.
I highly suggest The Pond and Bible Man to all of our listeners out there.
Are we moving on to mine now?
And Courageous and Fireproof.
Oh yeah, okay.
And every single-
Give us your top-
We didn't show any Give Us Your Top Five?
And Facing the Giants.
Pixar.
Oh, give us your top Pixar top five.
So my first is Monsters, Inc.
I like Monsters, Inc. a lot.
That was a good one.
And then number two is Incredibles.
Yeah, good pick.
Good pick.
Yes, thank you Dennis.
Monsters, Inc. wasn't even on here.
Yes it was, it was number five.
Monsters, Inc. would have been on my list, I had it right here,
and then I realized Up was on the list.
Now like, Up, you can't say no to Up.
Up is just, like, I like it, it's just sad to me.
Oh, it's a sad movie.
But it's a good one.
I just don't like very sad movies.
I'm Doug.
Number three is Toy Story 2.
Yeah, good, great.
Toy Story 2 is a good movie.
Best Toy Story out there.
Three is bad.
No, two is good.
Three was Moving, two was Action Packs, and one was Classic.
Five, terrible.
Four, four, four.
Which ones, when they're like in carnival?
I didn't love four.
Four I did not love.
I didn't like four.
No, uh-uh.
I like Forky, but that was bad.
Number four is Bug's Life.
Bug's Life?
Have you guys seen that?
Yeah, but I like it so good.
Is that the one with the jello?
No, I don't think so.
It's been a while.
Is that fruitcake?
Wait, did Dreamworks make Hotel Transylvania?
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Oh.
I don't know, I really like Bug's Life for some reason.
So that was mine.
And then number five, the question is will cars make the list?
Will cars make decided lists?
For top five?
Yes.
Oh, it will not.
Ratatouille.
Oh.
No, no, no.
The Ratatouille's.
Ratatouille's good.
Ratatouille's number three for me.
Ratatouille's five for me.
It's not a top five.
When you have, no one else had Finding Nemo in their top five.
It's a good movie, just not in a top five.
It's one of the most iconic.
You go to someone from Northeast, Western, Southern China, and you say
Finding, they're going to say Fresh Air or Nemo.
But did you have, oh you did have Finding Nemo three.
Wow, that was really funny, Dennis.
I was thinking it'd be, I think that icon kind of movie you're talking about,
like cultural icon one.
Finding Nemo.
Cars, I feel like cars need to be.
But Finding Nemo is like everyone knows Finding Nemo.
Like you, okay, you see a striped.
Everyone knows cars?
No, hold on.
Cars is okay.
You see a striped clownfish.
What does every kid who gets a striped clownfish kind of call that fish?
Nemo.
Yeah.
I mean if they've seen the movie, but they might just call it orangey or stripy.
Where's my dad?
I just don't like cars that much.
Really?
That's because they gave a name to like a species.
Okay, I know and everyone follows it.
You see other movies, they probably name a dog like.
You don't see Michael without even in the world.
You don't see everyone naming their dog Fredrix.
Who's Fredrix?
Oh, who made Bolt?
Have you guys seen Bolt?
Bolt is a great movie.
I don't know who makes that, but that's not Pixar.
I don't think that's.
No, it's none of these.
That's like a top three movie all the time.
I really like Bolt.
Bolt's Disney.
It is.
Yeah.
Great movie.
Not Pixar though.
Not Pixar.
Great pick.
It is a good movie.
Okay, we are actually going to move on here because we are cutting it close on time.
Even though I don't know how much time we have left here.
I kind of like this.
It's been free flowing.
We're going to talk about the NBA All-Star Weekend.
Okay, so let me preface this.
A lot of people have been complaining recently.
Last Sunday, it's actually going to be like two weeks ago.
So that's where was that person complaining?
No.
No, I actually liked it because the Easter Conference won and Damien Leroy got MVP as a Bucks fan.
And three point content.
But 211 points are scored.
Over 380 some points are scored like that total.
It's just like people are saying that there's no point in the game.
They've lost all.
Like there's no point.
People don't even try.
It's just a shoot around practice.
So people have suggested some different things to fix.
So we're going to read those.
First, I'm going to go through.
Does it even need to be fixed?
Because here's Anthony Edwards, one of AJ's great friends.
He's also a guard for the Timberwolves.
Just like my favorite player, not really a great friend.
Oh.
He said, for me, it's an All-Star game.
So I'll never look at it as being super competitive.
It's always fun.
I don't know what they can do to make it more competitive.
I think everyone looks at it as a break, which it is.
It's called the All-Star break.
People get a break.
They come back.
It's like the second quarter, second half of the season.
Second, third of the season is where they really finish the season.
So for everyone, it's a break.
So a lot of people take it as a break.
They don't want to be working so hard on a break.
You go on vacation, you don't want to bring your work computer
and spend all of that time doing that, you know?
But they basically are vacationing as their job.
Their job is to play a game.
Well, but it's also their job.
So there's that.
But then here's the other thing, right?
That is what he said.
The NBA.
Oh, what?
So the thing is, another perspective to this is that it's more meant for going to the All-Star weekend.
Because you can ask anyone who probably went to the All-Star weekend festivities.
No one's going to tell you they had a bad time because there's so much to do there.
It's like people bring their families.
They have like a draft stage where you can go on, put on a jersey, pretend to get drafted.
They have different activities.
That's probably for the rich kids.
I would never have gotten to do that if I was a kid.
Can I just say that right now?
They have artist booth.
They have like panel conversations with players.
They have live podcasts going on.
That seems a little risky.
Hey, okay, I like that.
Shitting a shuffle.
That could be our big break.
Yeah.
Hey, comments on the Instagram if you would like.
To see us at the All-Star game next year.
Pause guys.
Adam Silver, if you are listening, we would much appreciate a spot.
Maybe you want to have us for the finals, the NBA finals.
We do that too.
Announcing.
We are.
We're not very like, we're not very expensive.
It'll cost you a little bit to have us on there, but.
We don't need a lot.
No, but we just need, you know, a couple hundred bucks maybe for each of us.
Something would be good.
Oh, grand.
So anyways, back to our conversation.
I'm going to start us off with one of those suggestions to changing the All-Star game.
A lot of the people have been hearing is changing it into like a king of the court,
king of the court style type tournament.
So there'd be teams of like two on two or three on three.
And they just play.
They eliminate each other, do this, do that until there's one team left.
The thing is, so the NBA altogether puts together about 10, 11 million dollars
that each player from the winning team gets a portion of that and ends up being like 250,000 or
something like that, which is a whole lot of money.
But for people making 40 million, they're not going to break a leg over 250,000 draft
attacks.
Well, I'll tell you what a guy on the street here would.
Guy on the street would break his arm in.
So they proposing that if it's a three on three, they keep the 10 million.
So each person's getting three million dollars.
People are going to want to try it for three million dollars.
Also, like people get it like if they get to pick their teams or if they like some type of
that thing, like imagine like imagine seeing like LeBron and Kevin Durant against Steph and
Curry and Victor Wemben or something like that.
You know, you get some like crazy matchups and it's just like it's less likely to get
injured because you're two on two.
It's more spaced out.
There's not a bunch of people you're, you know.
Yeah, I know.
That's just that's an option.
I think that'd be kind of cool.
Even if it wasn't the main All-Star game, like they should have like a little three on
three tournament or something.
Yeah.
Here's my opinion.
I think that the All-Star game, like what they do is like fun and stuff and whatever.
But not going to lie when they first started like changing things from just like a just
a game, you know, between the Eastern and Western whatever.
I was a little surprised and I was like I just it's still been hard for me to imagine
like an All-Star game that's just full of like random, you know, like mini games.
It's just kind of, you know what I mean?
And like with like three point contest and but I also kind of like that.
I like the three point and the dunk contest.
I think it gives people like opportunity, people like Malik Beasley for the books.
He's never going to be an All-Star in this career, but he was able to go to the three
point contest.
So it's like it gives people like that gives a bunch of G-leaguers in the dunk contest.
That's another problem.
I feel like there's like dunkers that are way better.
Like you see him on social media.
They're way better.
Like the best dunkers probably are not in the NBA.
So if like they brought in people like because they have dunk contest.
This is one guy Jordan killed getting in or something like that.
He's a really good dunker.
I think if they brought an outside talent for like the dunk contest, it would be crazy.
It would be cool.
But I think there's also something cool about having it just be the NBA, you know,
because then it's like these players, you know, and like, okay, it's like, um, who did
they have?
Uh, Max McClung or whatever.
Yeah, no one really heard of him before.
I mean, I knew him from his high school days.
Okay.
Yeah.
But like, you know, he was a dunk.
I well, because you watch YouTube video, best high school dunks.
He's in like, you thought you knew the day of Mac McClung?
No, I knew like, I remember his picture because he's a short white guy who could dunk really
good.
Um, but anyways, all I'm saying is like, it's like, I feel like it used to be a lot different,
like, like, like the NFL, they used to tackle and right.
And like, so who was like, all I can think like my favorite dunk contest watch.
Well, Zach Levine and Aaron Gordon, Zach Levine and Aaron Gordon, but also Michael Jordan
and Keem Olaj.
Like that.
I'll be honest with you.
I've never seen that, but I've seen the Zach Levine and Aaron Gordon.
You know what I found out?
Found that out the other day too.
He was in like 2000, like one of his first three years in the NBA.
And like, but see a lot of the good people, like all like real NBA all stars, they don't
want to do anymore.
Cause there's, they say there's like no point.
I don't know.
It's cool to see which NBA player, maybe it was Lebron or something said he'd need
like $5 million or something to join the dunk contest.
But I thought otherwise it just risks him like there's chance of getting injured, but
it's just like pointless for him to like, I thought it was cool to see Jalen Brown do
it even though you didn't really do that much jump, like jump over a five, 10.
Well, they jumped over Shaq.
I don't know.
I just think it's cool when it's like players, you know, that are going in and doing the
dunk contest and it would be really cool to do that.
Maybe they could have two different dunk contests, like the NBA dunk contests and the.
Yeah.
It was also really last year or two years ago where the judging was real weird.
It's like people up in like some place, there's like eight judges and they all like,
instead of like needing seeing each other's scores and like, cause before it'd be like
they saw this, oh, he has this, everyone else gave him a 10, I'm gonna give him a nine.
They all like voted independently.
It's just weird.
They've changed a whole lot.
But okay, back to the actual game.
Okay.
So I think what needs to happen is I think it needs to stick to a charity game because
if you're not going to, okay, listen to me.
If you're not going to, if you're going to have all these all stars compete for something,
but they're not going full hardcore or something, I feel like we could do this for a charitable
cause.
And I think they did that.
Well, they did that.
And it was like team Yoss, whatever got his charity or was it LeBron and Curry?
No, like 500,000.
Yeah.
It was, it was like they played each quarter for a certain store.
That's when they also did the target score, which I think actually, I like 2020 because
it like, instead of like just play till the things out, put as many shots as you can.
It was like both teams, like whoever gets here first wins.
There's like no,
Yeah.
That's a good, they actually start like competing then towards the end.
Yeah.
But then it's a thing they only compete in the last four minutes.
Right.
And I don't know.
I just think it's like, it doesn't seem like people are putting an effort, which like they
aren't and it's just like random, but I just think that it should become more of a thing
again.
You know, how about like where it's like a legit, that's the thing.
I feel like with all all star games, they're starting to lose competitivity.
And they're just are born to watch.
I'm not going to lie.
I don't watch.
What about, I had a good time enjoying watching the NBA All-Star game.
I enjoy watching.
It's fun when like someone's from like as a Bulls fan with no one in the All-Star game.
It can be hard to watch.
But DeMar DeRozan was an All-Star like last year.
Yeah.
I'm saying this year though, like as a Bucks fan.
No, he wasn't.
I wasn't.
As a Bucks fan with like Giannis and Dane and seeing Giannis score or Dane score 39 points,
make two half court shots.
Like that's something he's shooting a half court shot.
Yeah.
Cause it's an All-Star game.
Like this is not a thing for them to do stuff that they're not going to do.
That's why, that's why it's fun.
That's why I actually enjoyed it because they do stuff that they regularly don't
and they are like showing off their skills that like none of us really have.
That's true.
I know why they're in the NBA.
That does, that does make it.
How about, do you think it's feasible to move the All-Star game to the end of the year?
Like the NFL does with the, cause like the thing is that NBA is also way longer than it's like,
I'm not sure how many people would compete.
Maybe you just have like the NFL where everyone's like,
oh, I don't want to join anymore.
Like where everyone drops out.
So that's probably not an option.
What do you think having AJ, you've been very quiet over here.
I think that adding points for defensive stats, like steals and blocks could be a solution to
make it more competitive.
Cause then you're trying to get more points.
Like having that and then also having like a target score.
Cause I thought you're just adding points to nothing.
I do really like the target score.
I've been having like a bless you.
That was my dog.
I mean the targets score and then defensive stats score.
And then defensive stats, like if they know that they can get like
make a possession worth like five points.
Cause if they get a block worth a point and a three pointer from half court worth three
or four points or whatever.
Anyways, so there's that.
There's also a thought of what if they did a USA versus world format?
I'm not sure that would change much cause it's just like, it's just like drafting teams.
It's just a different team.
Like I get like people want to win for like the USA or whatever,
but then it's just like a bunch of people from other countries.
To get in there on a team.
I'm not sure it really like unites them or anything.
They're just, it's just like another all star team.
It's just like random people.
Yeah. I mean the U S the U S doesn't even play that United in the Olympics, which is.
Yeah.
Another, so we got about two ideas left.
These were one of them was kind of silly.
It suggests that the losers of the all star game have to fly commercially back home.
Oh, I could incentivize a little Ron James, maybe who doesn't want to fly non business,
first class premium.
Yeah.
And then also this one was kind of silly, but it's kind of interesting having all stars pay
have to pay for their spot on the roster, which like you're like force them to pay,
but then maybe if they like knew, but like, so say they have to pay a million dollars.
A million dollars to get their spot on the roster.
It wouldn't be a million, a hundred thousand, 500,000.
Like when they're winning someone else's money, like, oh, I didn't win.
It wasn't my money.
But even if it's a hundred thousand dollars, there's a whole lot of money, but for them,
it's not much.
If they like, it's my money, I'm not going to lose this.
They might play harder and like the losing team pays the winning team.
Yeah. But then you won't get a bunch of guys buying in.
Well, it's a hundred thousand dollars.
I feel like most NBA players would do that.
No.
Yeah, maybe.
But okay, final one is the MLB did this for a while.
The winning conference.
So we're in the East versus West format.
Winning conference hosts it.
Host the NBA finals.
Not the whole thing, but they just get home court advantage.
You get the first two games.
So then that would be really interesting.
But then I feel like it kind of takes away because then if you've got like,
there's a random, there's one, like say there's a team with no all-stars on it,
like the Bulls, the Bulls somehow make a push at the end of the year.
And they make it to the playoffs.
They make it all the way to the finals.
But say the East lost the all-star game.
They have no one who could affect that.
Now they don't have home court advantage and they could have a better record than the other team.
So I feel like that doesn't work.
Yeah. Well, I thought, I thought it was just, it's,
it doesn't matter if someone's on the team.
If the, if the East wins it.
No, that's what it was.
If the East wins it, the Eastern team gets the home court advantage for the all-star game.
Yeah.
But I feel like that's just like, it's not in the NBA.
I feel like home court advantage is like much greater than like maybe MLB.
Yeah.
I don't know a lot about them would be like NBA.
You got like the first two games like that will like set the time.
Like teams don't normally come back.
If you win the first two teams normally don't come back unless you're the Milwaukee Bucks.
Yeah.
And like, if you win the first three, no team has ever, it may have happened in the last year.
As of like two years ago, no team has ever come back from three L in a series, oh three.
But yeah, so that's the all-star thing.
We don't really know if it can be fixed.
We don't know if it needs to be fixed.
We don't know if it needs to be a thing, but there's people got ideas and some people are
kind of really upset for some reason.
They really invested in the all-star game.
Yeah.
But that's the NBA, I guess.
Find something to complain about and then whatever.
But like we said, Adam Silver is going to reach out to us and have us there at the.
Yeah, we expect that within the next week.
Yeah.
Two to three business days preferably.
Um, AJ, Jackson, Joe, no Jackson.
AJ, you want to close up the segment for us today?
Sure.
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