The Wembenyama Dimension

Basketball Illuminati

Count The Dings

Basketball, Sports, Comedy

5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Basketball Illuminati will return with a full length episode next week, but in the meantime Tom Haberstroh, Amin Elhassan and producer Anthony Mayes turn over the reigns of the podcast to their intern, Chad, for an investigation into Wemby's extraterrestrial height fraud. Basketball Illuminati is now part of the Count The Dings Network. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join the Count The Dings Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to support the show, get ad free episodes and exclusive content at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/countthedings⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ILLUMINATI MERCH HAS RETURNED⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - Check it out here:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/CTDMERCH⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to Basketball Illuminati! On⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Watch Truth Teller Interviews on YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Email us: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@bballilluminati⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@basketballilluminati⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, I mean, I was thinking we should call each other and just and talk about Barresco.
0:03.6	I've been watching some episodes lately.
0:05.1	I don't have time to sit around and talk to you on the phone. You can talk to me on a microphone, just fine? Yeah, it's different. I mean, that's different. The meter's running when we do that. Oh, that's true. Yeah. Okay. Well, let's get Chelsea Reynolds. Okay. Let's get Colin Cassard.
0:18.5	Uh-huh.
0:18.9	And let's get a bar rescue podcast, but I don't know what to call it.
0:22.0	Here's the science.
0:23.6	A bar rescue podcast,
0:23.0	but I don't know what to call it. Here's the science.
0:25.8	A bar rescue podcast. That's management material.
0:27.1	Oh, ha, ha, ho!
0:29.2	Basketball Luminati episode,
0:33.3	The Wembanyama Dimension, produced by Chad GPD.
0:34.6	Open your third eye.
0:39.5	They don't want you to know how tall he really is.
0:53.6	Welcome to basketball Illuminati, where the truth isn't measured in inches,
0:55.6	because sometimes the inches are from another dimension. And sometimes, Tom, the metric system doesn't translate
1:00.8	when you're from another planet. Today we ask the question, why does Victor Wembeñama
1:08.0	keep lying about his height? Segment one, the hype heist.
1:13.9	Okay, so officially, Wembe is listed at 7'44, but photographic evidence shows him towering over
1:21.1	players who are 7-5, 7-6, even 7-7.
1:26.2	Look, man, either everyone else shrunk or this dude's vertebrate are regenerating mid-season.
1:31.1	And that's not even a joke.
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