Hello, welcome to the collective podcast. We talk about the NBA, which we're doing on Sunday evening, or I think it's almost Monday morning for you, Mr. Buntemps.

Apologies in advance. I'm a little under the weather. You probably can hear, but you know, listen, you got to play hurt. You got to play hurt in September. You got to play hurt in January. You got to play hurt in June. And that's what we do on this podcast joining us. He's still in Italy.

I think he's in Milan, but I'm not exactly sure. Tim Buntemps. I am. I am in Milan. It's 1238. I'll get a little bit of sleep tonight to pull a Brian win or so. By the way, Tom Blut, Bill Asheski, friend of the pod. Saw him today, coach of Arise, right outside of Milan, Syria team from Western New York, like me, gave me some gear. So I'm wearing it for the pod.

Royal pod listener wanted to shot him out. Very good guy. No Brian. A long time. Yeah, I've known him since he was basically an intern with the Cleveland Cows in the 2000s. I'll

smoke the Lakers, the Kings. I think with the jazz coach in Australia, he's coached in Italy. Now they're hitting out the head coach in

Arise or Louis Schola wants a team long time NBA player. Just saw Louis Schola last week in Manila. And if it's possible, Louis Schola looks

better now than he did 12, 15 years ago. What I will tell you, Tom, Tom was telling me that this week they were playing three on three after

practice. And Louise jumped in after coming back from the Philippines and was school of people in practice. And he was just like, I can't

believe this guy's doing this at 45. It was pretty amazing. Yeah, he looks like he's chiseled. He's a rock. He, he looks spectacular. Anyway, joining us from Dallas, Texas, doing this pod during the Cowboys game is

Bann McMan. Howdy, partners. Happy to report that my fantasy football interests are doing much better this week than a week before

also just want to get out there. Anybody who wants to send me free gear. My DMs on the platform, formerly known as Twitter are open. I'll be happy to

provide my address. If there's some free stuff coming my way.

You're saying this space here is available for not even for sale for free this space here.

Yeah, free gear. 100%.

Yeah.

Bontems, you, we talked about the NBA, but you, I believe on Saturday, went to the Milano Derby or the Milano Derby, I should say, Inter Milan versus AC Milan. How was that experience?

Unbelievable. It was the coolest sporting event I've ever been to. I've been fortunate to be to a lot be at a lot of cool events. I mean, the, the atmosphere at a game like this is truly

second and none. And I was there with my wife, Kelly, who was very impressed by the Ultras for both, both, both teams for fans that don't know are people that don't know. There's these absolutely insane fans behind both goals for each team at every game.

And the AC Milan fans are at one end and the Inter Milan fans are at the other end and they have these banners. They unveil during the game and they're chanting the whole game and banging drums and

lighten off flares and didn't matter that AC was down five to one that the end of the game. They were still just as loud at the worth of beginning and it was, it was a very cool thing to see all the way around.

So it's not really anything like it in American sports. So it was very cool.

Yeah, I saw my first Premier League game about six years ago and was a two to two tie and a basically, you know, I don't want to say something that gets me offends people from London.

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