I fear that the next pod is going to include 30-45 minutes of Ceruti being the Magic fan representative, which is almost always very boring.
These are my favorite Bill/Ryen pods where Bill spends 2 hours trying to position his opinions to be the same as Ryen's even when they clearly don't agree. Bill was all over the place for that entire trade portion of the pod on JJJ, Durant, etc. I'm also really disappointed that Ryen didn't remind Bill that Brown has $240M left on his deal and just got his meniscus shaved when that convo started.
Sean and CR just logged die hard with a vengeance on Letterboxd. Hopefully will be on rewatchables for “nyc month”
My least favorite thing he does when he’s on with Russillo is the exchange that happens every other pod Bill: “Do you think this team would do (improbable trade scenario he cooked up and thinks is good)” Ryen: “No way. I mean…why would they? No chance, they’d say no” Bill: “…oh yeah I agree with you, no chance. Just wanted to talk it out”
Bill proclaiming that EVERYONE agrees that Bane is a “top 35-43 player in the league” would be so much funnier if he didn’t earnestly believe that. Maybe it’s funnier because he is so serious. His rankings are right up there with his percentage based evaluations on how healthy a player is.
Lol Maybe he actually thinks every NBA fan keeps their own personal top 100 with them throughout the year.
My most favorite part was bill declaring Indy the perfect city for Ryen and rslo clearly being pissed about it.
Last week was Working Girl and I checked and it was based in NY, so here we are. CR loves Marathon Man.
I’m not a spice baby like SVP seemingly is but landlocked cocktail sauce and shrimp is such an embarrassing famous food.
What's worse in your opinion, having a relatively bland famous food or having no famous food at all? Asking for a friend in Denver
I am generally of the mind that almost all landlock cities can get high quality seafood flown in fresh. I eat plenty of it in Denver. But then you can’t really claim that your city has some unreal seafood dish if it is getting flown in from the coast. also, being on the coast doesn’t mean your seafood is fresher or better, depending on what you are eating. Fresh lobster rolls during peak season is different than eating sushi in NYC that is obviously getting flown in from who knows where.
Serving it with spicy ketchup garbage sauce doesn’t make it a worthy speciality dish for your city tho
Some midwestern cities have amazing food culture, and some are like disgusting as fuck Iowa. Indiana is likely lower tier
ive listened to bill discuss who currently has “the belt” in the nba more than a dozen times in my life.
st Elmo’s is general is grossly overrated how it go the rep it did is crazy to me is it the restaurant more associated with a city in the US? Like is there another Super Bowl hosting sized city where like 100% of people would tell you to eat at a restaurant in that city or that has that link like Elmo’s does? Struggling to think of one
Memphis probably should blow it up, but Bill’s reasoning - that OKC is about to dominate the decade and they can’t compete, is dumb. I mean 2 years ago, he said Denver was in year 1 of a dynasty.
he’s always way too reactionary to the Finals, every team should blow up their roster or tailor it specifically to beat whoever the champion is. There are teams who could probably use a rebuild, but that has nothing to do with OKC
Memphis should definitely blow it up in the hopes that within the next 3-5 years they can find a couple players like Morant and Jackson to build around.
I think I saw a stat that Morant hasn’t played 75% of a season since 2021. Dude can’t stay healthy (or smart). Though I think we can all agree, that he’s still probably a top 76-89 player in the league.