And this is my buddy, Paul Verz, one of the best touring comics out there.

He's got a great podcast, and he's touring the country at comedy clubs, and he's going to have a big movie coming out later this year. Paul, how you been, buddy? Dude, thank you for having me. You're the best. I'm going to tell you something right now, and I'm not just saying this because I'm on your show. Yes. Because I wouldn't say it. No.

That's right.

You're a savage, and I think you are the voice of sports. I'm not just saying it's because I'm on your show. Yes. Because I wouldn't say it. No.

That's right.

You're a savage and I think you are the voice of sports in New York. And you were the only person that was the voice of reason to me during this Nix. Because you know what this Nix thing meant to me. Yes, I do. It meant everything to me. Yeah. I've been waiting. Not like these, not like these 26-year-olds crying on the hood of cars.

Right.

And doing that.

I remember Herb Williams as a coach. You know, the days we had to get excited about who? Shandon Anderson. Yeah, there's a lot of guys. Yeah, a lot of guys. I go back to James Truck Robinson, Rory Sparrow, and Trent Tucker. I remember. I's Spoon. Yeah, you do. I remember that.

And I lied to myself going,

oh, this is going to be the squad.

Right.

So for us, I think the people,

late 30s, 40s, 50s, but it really meant something. And you were the person that, you know, because you go through an emotional run. Yeah. But what people don't understand is when you care, when it's in your soul, I was dreaming, dude.

I was dreaming about the spurs.

I was dreaming about stopping Wembe.

I had dreams.

I was waking up my way.

So what are you doing?

Well, go a bit of sweat.

What are you nuts like what do you have children and you're talking about the spurs you know what it was nuts and honey you just don't understand you don't understand what i'm going through this wendy guy's got to be stopped and i think i figured it out so everybody's's going, Spurs in five, Spurs and seven, and I'm listening to you, and I'm going, what are they seeing that I'm not seeing? I'm seeing a team that beat them two at a three times in the regular season. I'm seeing a team that kind of matches up really good against them. I'm seeing a team that's having an epic run, and you were saying it. And you were going, they're going to, but when I really go, when I go, Craig's my guy is, it was we're going into the series against Cleveland. You go, we are winning that series four in a row. Book it now. And I'm like, and you were giving me something I needed. But you were right. I got lucky in that way. I pretty much got lucky the entire postseason. Like and the rules I had were, because if you got to make a prediction, you got to own it, right? You got to, if good or bad, you got to own your predictions. We all make predictions. We all get them wrong at times. It's all good. But there's a cop-out predictions. Like if you came on like my partner did, you're like, all spurs and seven. That's a cop at. That's like chalk. Or Knicks are win at six at home. Now, you have some balls and say what you meant.

Say it.

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