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I'm good. How are you? I'm so good. What's up? No, it's okay. We're doing it. We're doing it. Small talk in it. That's us. How's the weather? Shitty, actually. Oh, it's nice here. It's like 80 today. It's rainy season. Billy's been complaining about rainy season over here. Loud lightning. Unusually loud lightning is hitting everywhere here. Scary. My dog would be freaking out.

What's with dog? Like, you gotta get, at some point, you gotta learn. Get over it. I know, I know. Every 4th of July, I'm like, Myrtle, get over it. And they learn some things. Like, there are a lot of things dogs pick up on, but there's something with this lightning and fireworks they just can't pick up on. It's not gonna hurt ya.

You're fine. I know, but she gets so shaky. Like her whole body shakes. I get it. I just feel like a monster. I get it year one and two, but that third year, you're like, last year I was fine. The year before I was fine. No, I had to get some heavy sweater thing. Yeah, the Thunder Buddy. Oh, I love a Thunder Buddy. Do you? Do you get the spray for it, Katie?

No, what spray? There's like a spray that they put on a little patch on the Thunder Buddy. We didn't splurge for that. We just got the vest. I wish there were human Thunder Buddies, but then I realized, oh, this is just a sweater. It's a hug, I think. I think a human Thunder Buddy is just a hug. I could be your Thunder Buddy. Yeah.

Yeah. I don't think that's appropriate. Please don't do that. That felt, that felt awkward. Don't do that. Casuals with Katie Nolan, Tuesdays and Thursdays. You can listen on the Sirius XM app or wherever you get your podcasts. You could watch, subscribe on YouTube at Katie Nolan. Katie, I don't want to speak for you, but it seems like you're having a great deal of fun. And so I don't know. I don't know what this experience has been like. I,

in this space again, but Casuals with Katie Nolan seems to be a personal project that has your voice firmly imprinted on it in a way that seems satisfying. So, fulfilling? Yes or no? Yes. And that's it, right? I just say yes and then I go? Yeah.

Yes, as I speak for you on how fulfilling a project it is. No, it's good. Dan, you're right. It is fun. It feels a little removed from what I was doing before in a way that I like and I welcome. I feel like I'm back on the fan side of things, and that's okay. Whereas before, it kind of felt like, I don't know, maybe by...

nature of me being a woman. I had to be an expert who was perfect at knowing and analyzing everything. And that's never really how I got into things in the first place. So I've reconnected. I'm realizing how crooked my dad's pictures are now that we're on camera. Well, let's do this. You are literally in your dad's basement. You are literally right now broadcasting from your father's Boston. My mom and dad, they're still married. Shout out.

Yeah, I'm in their basement. I am channeling all the people who... Can I say S words on this part? Yes, please do. I'm channeling all the people who talk shit to me online, and I'm in my parents' basement. Can we go through that basement and take guesses at what might be there if your father is a cliched Boston fan? A hundred percent. We are in a... I believe he calls it man town. I know others would call it a man cave.

I know a commercial that used to repeat on your show would always call it a she shed.

And so this is, we've got plenty of Boston memorabilia around me. You got a Marshawn jersey? Any Marshawn jerseys up there? What do you think? No jerseys. I know that's an immediate strikeout. But we've got Bobby Orr diving on the wall over here. Okay, no, but don't give too much away. I want to be able to take guesses because look at what, you heard what she said, right? This is the highest of royalty. Her father is such an ego monster that he doesn't,

have a mere man cave. He calls it a man town because that's extra Boston to have it be a town. It's a town of caves. It's not a singular man cave. He's probably proud of this. Would he show this off to his friends, this room?

Yes, he would. So what would be the prized possession in that room, guys? I see signed baseballs back there. Like, what would be the prized possession in that room? These are golf balls. Are we guessing? Golf balls. Okay, my size is distorted here. Yes. Well, pick something. Boston cliched sports fan. I bet you have a picture of Bobby Orr diving in there somewhere. You got it. Good guess. Wow. Really good guess.

Really good stuff. Is there a picture of the Larry Bird towel swinging? No, we don't. It's embarrassing how little of a basketball family we are. I was growing up. No basketball anywhere in here. Carlton Fisk. Carlton Fisk home run waving at fair. No picture somewhere. No, we have. We've got like Yankee socks fighting photos.

Don Zimmer? Is it Don Zimmer and Pedro Martinez? Yes. An 80-year-old... Your father's funny. An 80-year-old Don Zimmer attacking Pedro Martinez? Yes.

We have the glove in the face, that fight. A-Rod and Veritech? Yep, yep. We've got Tom Brady, the Dynasty cover, where he's got his hands up. Oh, Tom Brady, of course. How did we not get Tom Brady? Tuck rule, him on the floor. Well, Katie, I have seen you in the middle of Pablo Torre finds out you guys are...

doing sort of journalism and fascinating gossip and also super weird for you. Sort of journalism. That's what got Bill Simmons in trouble, Dan. Weird pitch. Did you guys see? Did you guys watch Simmons v. Torres? Of course. Even though we found out Simmons didn't watch anything that he was talking about? That's how we won that one easily. I saw clips. Crazy. What was that? Chris has a Bill Simmons in his locker. Who was that?

was that? That was Bill Simmons. I'm not doing more. I do what I do and I get out. I know, but that was a very limited fake Bill Simmons. I don't think Katie even heard it. Can you do it again? Can you say stamps.com? Say the exact same thing again, but Dan, you have to promise and not try to pry more. I've seen clips. See, it's way worse. That's Dan's fault. You choked! Let it happen. You choked him. You did choke. Now do the Katie impression you do when she's not around.

Where is your stance on Simmons and Torre? Pick a side. I mean, Torre. I'm Torre till I die. I've sort of hitched myself to that wagon. I just, you know, I think Bill is being sensitive because he loves Belichick. And I get it. As someone who's had to sit there while Pablo reveals to me what he has, in fact, found out, a very stressful situation for a public...

Patriots fan. I've sucked it up and handled it, so I need Simmons to do the same. It's weird. Pablo's investigating it. He's doing a fantastic job.

So I'm team Pablo. And I assume you are as well. But what do you make of it, though, just as a phenomenon? Of course, I'm team Pablo. But I like making fun of the fact that he's got to go to the sewer here to grab the story that's going to get the clicks. And it has gotten the clicks because everyone's fascinated by it. And no one's actually covering it either well, respectfully or factually. So people are actually grateful that they're getting details from him on a mystery that feels kind of creepy.

But people want to snoop around it. So it really is one of the weirder stories of our lifetime to see Belichick. Like, I don't know how your feelings about Belichick change in any way. Do you separate art from artists here?

I don't know. I think it's certainly, you know, when the run that they were on ended and there was the conversations about was it all Tom or was it all Belichick? I remember having to go through that on your show, you guys making fun of me and asking me if I thought that it was all Tom or if it was all Belichick. And I liked to think that it was like 50-50. Someone's calling our house phone. How embarrassing. Landline in the basement?

Can we go pick it up? Can we see who that is? I'm sure my mom is freaking out upstairs being like, the fudgerig, she's on camera. Scam likely. Yeah, that's definitely what it is. I feel like I used to think it was more, I wanted to think it was 50-50. And at this point, I'm starting to feel like it was...

Maybe 75, 25. I don't know. Oh, so you've lost respect for him like that? Well, look, I'm a woman. And so, I don't know. I look at it differently when a man that old reaches down to date a woman that young. I don't find that, unless I see that they're perfectly in love, which I haven't. Any interactions with them I've seen. Yoga pictures. Yeah, but I'm not going like, wow.

Cut the mermaid. Yeah, she got him to do that. I still kind of think, just based on my own opinion, that he didn't know that was going out onto social media. I don't know if he was quite aware that we were all seeing that. Kind of felt like something he thought was going to be internal. It seems like she's brainwashed him. Is that right? I don't know. I just think she's... Look, I think...

hold this against her. More power to her. If you can do that, then why wouldn't you? I don't know what's happening here. What is brainwashed? What is that? She's hypnotized him? I'm just throwing it out there. I had that take like a month ago. She's hypnotized him. He said it seems like also not she has. A lot of ownership on the woman. This takes two to tango. But also, sex is awesome. Brainwashed? Brainwashed?

Some sex. Some sex is awesome. You're discounting how awesome sex is. Sometimes. Yeah, but wait. Has Pablo found out how amazing their sex is? Because I...

Bet dollars and donuts it's pretty awesome for him. He went to the Airbnb where allegedly it may have, you know, the relationship was. And the bed didn't look big enough for it to be all that awesome. It looks squeaky. Okay, this is what you guys. It was very small. All right, this is what we're doing now. What? This is one of the great legends in sports of all time. I don't think it's irresponsible to assume Bill Belichick likes having sex with her very much. He's got thick wrists. Oh, my God. Oh, God. Really? Oh, God. He's got.

I don't want to do this. Look at the tone on the legs, though. It's cheer legs. She is. Look at his. Okay, the thing that I don't think, Katie, anyone in the audience is going to have is us being able to decide for others what perfectly in love looks like. Like us getting to be the standard bearers on that from afar when we don't know what their life is. I'm just saying, show me that.

side of you then? Show me the two of you together in an interview sitting next to each other having a conversation with each other and then maybe I'll go like, wow, they're really in love. He's head over heels and he believes that she is a brilliant businesswoman and should be in charge of his business because right now what it looks like is just that like

When a hot person talks, Bill goes, whatever you say. And then that's how he's found himself. But doesn't that lose its luster after a couple of years? They've been together through the episode that I saw that you featured on. You guys deduced that she was 19 years old when she first popped up into his world. Doesn't the novelty of, wow, this hot girl is talking to me wear off after a couple of years? You've got to have something there. Why is it so outrageous to venture the take that maybe, perhaps...

They are in love and they love having sex with one another. Also hair. Why do you keep going back to them loving sex with one another? Well, because that's a huge part of it. Well, and there's Chris Cody for you when you need him. Thick wrists. Okay, you mentioned that. All right. I don't want to do this again. It's a barrel chest. All right, listen. Some people would find that comforting. Okay, enough. You'd be shocked if it was that. All right, enough. This is all gone way over the line and I'm now deep. No, it's not. No, no. I'm not...

telling you what to think. I'm asking you if you'd like to. You're asking me to think too much about thick wrists and we're going to back off from the microphones right now. All right. That's what we're going to do. Katie is upset for a couple of different reasons. Okay. And I don't blame her. One, she still rabidly hates the Panthers. We have not had a voice. We have not had a voice this

rabidly anti-Panther around here. So, Katie, look at Roy's laughter. Hi, Roy. Roy's laughing with the Marchand behind him. Ha! Yes, this is disgusting what's happening down here in Florida for you as they broke Boston's heart, soul, roster, everything else. So you must hate them more than you used to. Yeah.

Yeah. And I here's the thing. Watching this and I've tried to watch as few Panthers games as possible in this postseason because truly, Roy, look at me. I hate them. I hate the way they play. I hate the way they look. I hate the friggin mouth guard hanging out of Chuck's mouth. I want to get that.

out of his face. I hate them. And so I've watched as little as possible, but what I have watched was a game when you guys were down in the third period. A game I believe you ended up losing. Your fans did the wave. Relax. I've been in that barn every playoff the last three. We don't do the wave. I've never seen the wave. We don't do the wave. We saw the wrong game. No wave. You did the wave. You don't put that on us. We're so bored with making Stanley Cup finals and we're doing the wave. She takes that back.

I've not seen the wave on that barn. I've never seen the wave there. Also, you guys claim to hate Brad Marchand, and yet you get him, and now you're like, oh, he's actually really good at hockey. No shit. What a locker room guy. No, not all of us. Some of us have not forgotten loyalty. I said he was a 15th-place player. Neither here nor there.

Chris, one of the more... Good question, Greg. I'll tell you where. It is a good question. It is a good question. Thank you. And where, the where I'm going to, is Chris Cody saying, as if it's some sort of taunt, relax, I've been in that barn. Every playoff game. Season ticket holder. He'd know if they did the wave. And it seems as though we had a rebuttal to Katie and her take that we've all just accepted Brad Marchand. No, no, not all of us have.

Some of us can acknowledge that he's played well for this team, but also hate his stupid face. Regardless, how high does your hate climb? Do you want to say anything else? Because I'd like to feed a little more on the Boston heartbreak because one of the impressive things about the Panthers is that they've broken Toronto, Boston, and New York. And Tampa. And Tampa. What?

Just maybe temporarily. Maybe temporarily. Oh, you guys are rebuilding. You're rebuilding. We're not broken. We're fine. Brad's coming back. Brad's just there. He's doing deep dive. He's spying. And he's bringing back intel. This is so sad. Go ahead and embrace him. He's coming right back. He said he'd be right back. One day contract to retire. Collecting intel. It just is crazy to me. And if you guys...

If Kachuk ever came to my team, no chance I'm rooting for him. No chance. Wow. So if Kachuk was traded to the Bruins, you would leave behind... Oh, wow. A patooey. Ladies and gentlemen, the highest of the indignants there can be, a public and spit patooey. I'm down with that. That's real fandom right there. She loves her bees.

So you're alleging that if the Bruins were to trade for Matthew. Stop saying it. Stop speaking it into existence. They're not going to do this. You would tear the mouthpiece, half the mouthpiece out of his mouth. And then you would spit in a nearby spittoon. And it would ding with a sound that made that sounded like patooey. Exactly right. That's exactly right.

You are also pissed off, I understand. Two-fold pissed off Katie Nolan today. Because she does not like, I don't know if it's because of the lack of stimulant or what, this week in sports. That we have too many days off and then they're not giving us games until later in the week. Is it because you've got attention deficit disorder? Do you need to mainline? Well, first of all, rude. Second of all, yes. Third of all, it just feels like this...

time of year for sports is like bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. It's like NBA playoffs, hockey playoffs, NBA players, hockey players. And then all of a sudden there's just this like week where we're waiting for the end of it all. And I feel like it's this big hype. And that's what gives us, you know, Torre V Simmons is like, we're all looking for something to do. It's too much time leading up to it. I disagree with it. I think we should dive right in. I know it's tonight, right? So it's like the complaining is over, but this last week has been like,

I've been watching the Red Sox lose by a run in a new way every single night. It's not good for me. I shouldn't be paying attention to baseball like this right now. I need my playoff hockey and I need my playoff basketball. This week gave us Greg Cody versus White Hat. Well, I've got to hear more about Torrey Simmons because I didn't realize this was something that had captured the American public. It wasn't really a V, right? It was like Pablo explaining to Bill Simmons what he does and Bill's like, oh, I didn't know. I know, but isn't...

Isn't that wild? Isn't that wild? Bill took such a swing to be like, I take issue with what Pablo's doing. And then we find out that he never even watched what Pablo's doing. It's kind of like me. The watch. Oh, okay. And is that a good or a bad thing? Katie, I have to play for you. Greg Cody is indignant right now because you've been on this podcast, right? The podcast is called What Chaos? And you've been on it. You tell me these people are talking this way about Greg Cody. Greg Cody has called them cowards and says they're disrespectful.

What happened? It's the laziest, stupidest...

- That mailed in column that this guy probably hasn't watched a second of the Oilers this post season. - That's columnist behavior though. - I hate it. - I love that people like this exist though. - This is way lazier. He's not making any sort of like coherent or strong point that you can agree with. He's just like the Stanley Cup thing is fine. You can have that argument that like, you can't truly be considered one of the great until you win a Stanley Cup.

But saying that's part of a reason why he's overrated right now in the middle of his career is so stupid, so lazy, so dumb. It's been trotted out there 900 million times for 900 million athletes. He's not doing anything new. He's just f***ed.

replaying and moving the pieces back into place so that it fits the narrative against the team that the Panthers are going against. White hat, nerd, fake tattoos. That's Pete Blackburn. You put respect on his name. He didn't respect me. He called me a senile old man. I heard he's short too. I didn't hear that clip. He said that? Yes, he did. He's never even met me. It's a different clip. It's a different clip. For the love of God, have a little respect.

Play the whole clip. Let me apologize on his behalf. Let me apologize on behalf of Pete. I don't think he meant that. I think he knows you're a sweet guy. What was it? You were talking about the Oilers. You were saying that they're... No, McDavid's overrated. McOverrated thing. Katie, you can be honest here. I'm in a group chat with Pete, and I agreed with him. Yeah, and he's not walking it back. Traitor.

A traitor, coward. It's a Napoleonic complex. Let's play the whole sound so people can hear. Okay, he's short. We get it. All right, well, the fake tattoo sleeve, like, I don't know why you'd make that accusation. It's not decal. I saw one of them peeling off his arm. They're not decals. He wears fake tattoos like somebody at Disney World. Greg Cody finds out. Somebody at Disney World?

This is a fake tattoo. I have a fake tattoo on my hand right now. All right, I like it. What is it? That's fake. Charcoal stain? What is that? It's an eyebrow. A charcoal stain. Why do you have an eyebrow on your hand? It's a tattooed eyebrow. Because I want to test how long it stays on. So I've had it on for a couple days. You know, if somebody were to lose an eyebrow, good to know, you can just tattoo it on now. I don't want to play the whole sound. How do you feel about this beef between Greg Cody, who's calling, he's calling it cowardice. He called them cowards. Pick a side. Pick a side.

Well, it's not cowardice to call you out. No, but they could have had me on their show to represent myself, and they chose not to because they were afraid. I don't think they were afraid. I think they probably just didn't know how to get your landline. No, they reached out, got his number, and then Pete was like, I don't want to bring this guy on. Okay, but here's the most incendiary commentary. Especially from an American perspective, people don't get to get called the GOAT without winning anything. That's just true.

But like, but he's a senile old man talking about how all of that means that he's overrated. That's my problem, I guess, with it ultimately is that like the energy of this is that you're trying to invalidate who Connor McDavid is as a hockey player, which is not fair. No, I'm not. That's very fair. No, he's not. Fair criticism. He's never done that. I mean, you are doing it. You're doing that, right? I'm pointing out the crater size hole in his legacy and resume. That was a good line in your column. Maybe I'm wrong. I feel like

this is what columns are supposed to do. This means your column did well. That people are reading it, they're annoyed by it, and they don't like it. You did it. Your opinion on re-releasing last year's column. He's playing the hints. It was the same column. He did this last year. He updated it with all the trophies. Rick Riley, this is like you're just plagiarizing. He rewrote the column and he's like, it's still the case.

That is a great reference by Katie. Casuals with Katie Nolan, Tuesdays and Thursdays. It's lovely to hear her so happy. Listen on the Sirius XM app or wherever you get your podcasts. Katie, nice seeing you. Good to see you. Thank you. Bye, guys. Roy, you're the only Panthers fan I like. Tony, tonight, next!

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Don Levitard. You have some hot takes today. Joe Chestnut's a fraud. Oh, he's on fire. He called Connor McDavid overrated before the show. What the hell was that, Greg? Yeah, no. I love it. Stugatz. Roy, let me explain it to you. You know more about hockey than I do. And this is coming from a guy that's watched Connor play six times. Right. If that.

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Mike Carballo. Julen Goitiandia. Scott Savin.

Scott, can you tell us a little bit about the history of high leg? I know back in the 70s and 80s, massive sport in South Florida. Kind of died off a little bit, but you guys are bringing it back. Can you tell me a little bit of the history of the game? Sure. 400-year-old sport that started in Spain. Oh, pretty young. Yeah, young. Almost as old as Greg Cody. I like that. Crazy. Yeah.

100th year anniversary of Hi-Li in the U.S. So this is 100 years. People would come out. 10,000 people in the 60s, 70s, 80s. Then Hi-Li had the longest strike in the history of professional sports. Wow. Not a very bright thing for the players to do. They came back. Nobody cared about Hi-Li anymore. More sports teams had come to South Florida. The lottery cruises to nowhere. A lot of stuff. So then it barely hung on by a thread.

And then we started about seven years ago and we're like, wait, this sport is pretty amazing. It's been around at that point, 93 years, long time in the US. And there's something great about it if we can just figure out how to repackage it, which we did. We made it a team sport. You can bet on it for sports wagering. We made it like tennis. Fast forward six years later and these guys are amongst the top 50 players in the world. And we've been able to add Spanish players,

Mexican players, French players, Filipino players. So the locker room is the best highlight players in the world and these guys have integrated in and now they're amongst the best. They worked really hard. Even our player manager, which is sort of like a GM a little bit in other sports,

He was a highlight player. He was an eight-time world champion, and he was in the Miami Vice episode about highlight. And now he's in his 60s. I kid with him. You know, he had dark hair and was really good looking. Now he has gray hair. He's still good looking. And he had to teach these guys how to play who never played before. And he was like...

But now he's very proud of the accomplishment. We're here with Julen Goytandia. That wasn't right. Yeah, it was right. 100% right. 100% right. You didn't say that right. So you say it. Goytandia. Goytandia. Goytandia. Yeah, you got it better. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's it. That's it. That's it. Front quarter for the Warriors. Do you guys call yourselves back quarter? Oh, I see you as a front quarter though. No, no, no. So you have a lot of power.

That's what they say, but yeah. So you come from the Basque Country in Spain. How's that coming to America, doing all this stuff here? That's why they make highlight players. Yeah, that's it. For us, it's a tradition. My grandfather, my uncle, my brothers, me, myself. - All of them? - All of them. - Yeah. - I don't remember the first time I tried the cesta. - Yeah, I was there. - Yeah, I was there. - -

The most crying. The most crying.

In your country, when you see someone like that, what does it give you? Everyone recognizes him. If you go to my town, to Lau in the Quechua, to Arrasate or Guernica, if you've been a figure, a person who has been good in high life, everyone recognizes you. If you go down the street and say, "Wow, look, that's mine, that's mine." Everyone knows who you are. It's like Seth Bad Bunny in Chihuahua. That's it, yeah. And even here in the 80s, when my grandfather used to play here, people were waiting outside in the parking lot

for them, like they used to get out of the front door and everybody was waiting with them. - So we're here with Mike Carballo, member of the Cyclones. You guys dropped Sesta, but you brought your Sesta with you. So we have a lot of questions for you. Number one, an official Sesta.

You have somebody that makes these in-house? Handmade. Handmade. They take more or less around 24 hours to make. Like, all this is hand-stitched and, like, woven together? Like, what do you mean handmade? Yeah, so it's kind of interwoven. There's actually only, like, about five or six test-to-makers in the world, so imagine. How'd you get into Hi-Lite? Because it's not something you grew up with, right? As far as how I got involved in the sport, I literally read a paper in the Miami Herald and called in. Like an ad? There was an article in the Herald, right, in the sports section. Imagine, right, thousands of hundreds of thousands of people probably read that article, but only one guy actually...

you know read it and go all right man these guys can't be more athletic than me and just called in and and they're like yeah please yes well i'm sure that's a trial you showed up to a trial sure but if you look at like is that let a guy play minor league baseball you're like you already have like four they're like good looking face of highlight uh the boss behind this all scott scott savin yeah when i read that article i called them and they go listen who who are you and why are you calling us

That's crazy. Just like that man. - And you know what? A super Miami story dude. Just someone just trying to grind. - Just trying to make it happen. So you get here, they pull you out to the front on. You had never seen this before, touched this before. - Nothing right? - Never man, never. And actually when I saw Huang, I just sat there, our player manager, he just, he handed me that. Kind of like you, right? - What are you just doing? - He goes, "All right, here, show us what you got." He tied it on my arm. He goes, "All right, man, let's see what you got." Start throwing and catching.

Long story short, I kind of picked up the sport kind of naturally from baseball, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're in the box. There's a big white ball coming at you. Catch it and hit it. Same thing.

When you look at Hi-Lite, were you always a fan? Did you become a fan at that time? So I grew up in Connecticut and you had to be 18 to get in. But if you had a fake ID at 16, you could go in. So everybody had their first beer and their first bet at Hi-Lite. So that's my Hi-Lite. Then I had nothing to do with Hi-Lite for about 30 years. But then I'm like, oh, I had my first bet and my first beer. This is a pretty cool sport.

And you know, the sport itself is really amazing. Fastest ball sport in the world. The guys wear no padding. They wear a helmet. It's just a little dangerous. Very dangerous. Yeah. So 150 mile an hour, great athletes. And it's sort of like a gladiator sport.

What do you like about playing Highlight? I like the adrenaline. The ball is always on the ball, you're always on top of it. The communication between us, you, me, you, you. You're always in action. How do you feel about the USA and Spain?

I think here it's louder. People scream more, more enthusiastic. In Spain, it's more respectful when someone fails, when they score a goal. It's like golf. Really? Yes, it's more respectful, the goal and the goal. On the other hand, if you've scored a goal, there's one who's lost. So it's more respectful. Here, you scream when you fail. You scream, you fail, you get it right, you do badly. It doesn't matter, everyone screams.

What are some things that you shout out when you're playing, I imagine in Spain, in Basque? Common phrases. "Aupa", "ori", "mucho". "Mucho" is in Spanish. "Mucho" is like "mucho"? Yes, "mucho". Imagine you catch a difficult ball and you say "wow, mucho". Or "aupa", or "ori ori". "Ori ori", what is that? "Ori ori" is hard to... The literal translation is "that, that".

- Okay. - Yeah, that's it. - They told me only righties can play highlight. Is that true? - Yes, that's the walls on the left side. This basket right here has to be fastened on your right arm. Doesn't matter if you're a lefty or a righty. - Wow. - So if you're lefty, you teach yourself how to catch and throw righty because you have to.

It's like playing lefty being second baseman. Like, it just doesn't work that way, right? Exactly. Like a lefty catcher, I know it doesn't... But there are some upsides to being a lefty, because when you're a lefty, like in tennis, right? You have a forehand, right? Same thing here. All you're utilizing there is your right arm. There's two other shots in highlight. You have the reverse, and you have the costado. Oh, what's it again? Costado. So, like, you're going to cost the muscles. We call it the costi. Okay. You literally just throw it over your right shoulder.

And that's, those are the- Is that catching it like on a backhand? Yeah. And then you like throw it over like that? Exactly. You push with your left hand there. So if you're a lefty, that's where you get into that power. Exactly. Is there a moment that you said, I can do that? Play it? Yeah.

Oh, yeah, because he has moments where he thinks he can do it. No, no, it's fine. I can go all the time. I can do anything. He can do all the things. Yeah. So I was at Dania, which is another front time that we ran for a couple of years. And I thought nobody was around. And I went out there with the Sesta and the Pelota. And I'm throwing it against the wall, throwing it against the wall, and kind of catching it underhand. And about the fourth throw, it bounced and hit me right in the face. I'm like, and it hurt.

When the ball falls over there and hits you

in your body, which is more painful. The most painful? I would say the balls. But I think the bone hurts more than the muscle. Okay. Yes. It hurts in the elbow, in the knee, in the hip, in the hip, in the hip. It hurts more than if it was in a muscle, for example, in the buttocks or here. Yes, yes, yes.

What's your favorite thing of the sport? Coastie. Speed. Yeah? Yeah, man. Just right out, like, I whip it, man. One speed, full speed. Drops it back inside. Carbio gets it. Slides. Picks it up. So talk to us, man. How's your hand feeling there? My hand feels good, dude. Feels really like a natural extension of my body. You told me before, it's like, your fingertips don't exist. Yeah, well, he just said that. Your fingertips don't exist. That's my fingertips. Yeah, so you're...

for the fans back at home. So his hand right now is in there flush, all right? It's like this right now. My hand's like this. Hand is flush and fixed. So essentially, his new fingertip is the tip of the basket here. Wow. And the only thing that-- Watch out, man. And the only thing-- I'm sick of you, dude. And the only thing you're going to do right now, man, is just break.

break that wrist. But with all that wrist action, I got nasty dumb shots, so I'm pretty gangster. I'm good with the wrist, dude. Is this being used correctly? Am I pulling this correctly? You got it, man. You're ready to go. Dude, you just got to go there. You should figure it out. Oh! Bro, it's a cue ball. Easy. Well, actually, this right here, that's the core of the ball. That's the core. It's wrapped. It gets wrapped in a couple layers of electrical tape. So it's pretty gangster. Damn. Let's get you out there, dude. Let's go, dude.

So it's not like baseball where you pronate. Right, right. This has to stay. Think of this as like a spigot. Open and close. Gotcha. Oh. All right, it feels really weird because I'm used to throwing it at a certain level. Less is more here. Arc it to the front wall. Gotcha, okay. What am I doing wrong? You got to open it. Right. Okay. Let's go, baby. Let's go.

Thank you so much for letting us hang out. Appreciate it. Mike, thanks for joining us, dude. Appreciate it, bro. Can you shake my hand? Thanks, bro. Thank you for watching Tony tonight.

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