Big Shot Bob Pod with Robert Horry

Episode 280, and B-Dawg is somewhere out on the ocean on a Carnival cruise, so it's Robert Horry and Rob Jenners holding it down. Bob's calling in from Vegas, where he's working the Lakers preseason game for season ticket holders. That gets the guys talking about the new ownership, what it means to be a Lakers legend, and why Bob respects teams like the Rockets that keep bringing back the older guys who never saw the big money. (Also: Bob is never getting on a cruise ship. Jaws, the Titanic, the Poop Cruise and a 6'2" shower for a 6'9" man. Case closed.)

Walker Kessler says he's been asked to be the Lakers' defensive anchor, and Bob is not a fan of coaches handing out roles. "Your role is to win games." That turns into Luka's defense, Devin Booker shutting people up at the Olympics, and whether anybody ever had to tell Hakeem or Tim Duncan to anchor a defense. Also on the table: LeBron calling Mike Breen a liar over the Embiid practice story, Paul George's rough Celtics debut, John Collins grabbing Dillon Brooks by the throat five minutes into a preseason game, and the Knicks shutting down extension talks with KAT, Josh Hart and the rest.

The WNBA Finals are set with the Golden State Valkyries and the Atlanta Dream, and the Dream are stuck playing for a title in a 3,500-seat arena. The guys go back and forth on where it should have moved (McCamish seats 8,600, for the record), whether the Angel Reese haters owe her an apology, and who wins it.

Then football. Nick Sirianni kicks it short with eight seconds left and loses in London, and the Commanders sit in field goal range and let the clock run out for a tie. Bob tells the story of an inbound play at South Alabama from his freshman year that still haunts him. He was at Georgia-Alabama with his son Nick and has thoughts on the missed PI, the targeting no-call and Kalen DeBoer's sideline moment. Kentucky walks off another one, LSU turns out to be fool's gold, and Arch Manning takes some heat.

College football picks for Ohio State-Indiana, Florida-Texas, Auburn-Georgia, Alabama-Tennessee, Mizzou-Ole Miss and Notre Dame-BYU. The Big Shot of the Week goes to Ben Miller and the neighbors who pulled a 90-year-old woman out of a pond in Champaign, Illinois. And in How About Them Underdogs, Bob goes 4 for 5. The one he misses? His own '95 Rockets.

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00:00 Episode 280 and Harp's on a cruise

01:35 Why Bob will never go on a cruise

03:38 Bob in Vegas and life as a Lakers legend

07:35 Teams that take care of the old-school guys

11:58 Walker Kessler, defensive anchor? Bob on roles

15:55 Luka's defense and Devin Booker's Olympic turn

18:01 LeBron vs. Mike Breen over the Embiid story

20:27 Paul George's rough Celtics debut

21:26 John Collins grabs Dillon Brooks

23:29 Knicks shut down extension talks

26:58 WNBA Finals: Valkyries vs. Dream and the arena drama

31:15 Angel Reese and the WNBA Finals picks

33:07 Eagles lose on a short kickoff in London

35:39 Commanders run out the clock into a tie

39:08 Bob's inbound play disaster at South Alabama

40:57 Bob at Georgia-Alabama: the PI, targeting and DeBoer

46:22 Kentucky, LSU and Arch Manning

50:20 College football picks

56:43 Big Shot of the Week: the Champaign pond rescue

58:22 Game: How About Them Underdogs

Friday Shoot Around. Harp is somewhere recovering from a week of NLDS parties, so it's Big Shot Bob and Rob. Rob opens by telling Bob he never has to apologize for springing Allie Clifton on him Tuesday, and then it's straight into the story everybody kept asking about: Gregg Popovich marrying Mary Beth Budenholzer. Bob knows her personally, and his take is simple. Love is love, Pop needs somebody right now, and if anyone deserves a roast it's Bud.

Listener questions carry the rest. Casey asks about the viral Giants game video, the mom carrying a baby and an armful of nachos and the husband asking where the ketchup is, and whether the couple deserves the beating they're taking online. Steven wants to know why nobody believes in Buddy Hield after four teams in one year, which gets Bob talking about what it's like to be a specialist, plus Dennis Schroder and Rudy Gay. Then: which teams can't outspend their own legacy? The Mets, the Browns, the Cowboys and the Jets all get named, and Bob and Rob try to find the NBA version.

The back half goes off the rails in the best way. Rob just finished the Lanterns finale, which turns into the best and worst TV finales ever (Sopranos, Seinfeld, Fresh Prince, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, 24), Rob catching grief for watching Elsbeth, and Bob's movie pet peeve: the guy who runs right past the gun. Plus Reacher's bulletproof walk, John Wick's suit jacket and the monologuing villain.

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00:00 Friday Shoot Around: Harp's NLDS hangover

01:22 Pop marries Mary Beth Budenholzer

04:20 Falling for someone at work

06:10 Casey: the Giants game mom and the ketchup

10:03 Steven: does anyone believe in Buddy Hield?

12:15 Specialists who keep moving: Schroder and Rudy Gay

13:18 Teams that can't outspend their own legacy

15:29 The NBA version: Wizards, Jazz, Blazers

17:42 Lanterns and the best TV finales

20:27 Why 24 got ridiculous

21:56 Elsbeth, The Good Wife and Denny Crane

23:46 Movie pet peeves: pick up the gun

26:28 The monologuing villain

Harp is across the street working the Braves-Dodgers NLDS game, so it's Big Shot Bob and Rob this week. Rob had a surprise sitting in the waiting room, though. Allie Clifton jumps on in the middle of her walk to talk WNBA playoffs: the Dream and Angel Reese, Becky Hammon's "play like ass and only lose by 10" speech, and who actually got her MVP vote. Then she reminds Bob he never won Defensive Player of the Year, and the Ohio State vs. Alabama trash talk starts.

Bob breaks down what he liked from the Lakers' first preseason game. The ball moved, and the full-court pickup took him back to the old "wolf" trap call from his Lakers days, because basketball is like dancing and you have to mess up the other team's rhythm. Is Dalton Knecht the odd man out with all the wings L.A. brought in? Jalen Duren finally signs his five-year, $200 million deal, and Karl-Anthony Towns goes public about his extension. Bob took less money to stay with a winner three times in his career, including turning down Shaq's call to come to Miami, and he explains why his peace of mind was worth $5 million.

Also this week: LeBron's helicopter commute, Hakeem Olajuwon's son committing to SMU and what any young guard should take from the Dream's footwork, Bob still salty about getting bumped from the Macau trip, Mike McCarthy's hot mic, an NFL ref telling Trey McBride exactly how he felt, and a Gainesville call-in that got referred to university police.

College football picks: Texas A&M at Mizzou, Texas vs. Oklahoma, UCLA at Oregon, LSU at Kentucky, and Georgia at Alabama, with Bob in the building in Tuscaloosa. Big Shot of the Week goes to the plumber who helped pull a flydubai jet out of a nosedive. We close with a high-low game on what owners really paid for the Falcons, Rockets, Seahawks, Bucks, Washington and the Blazers, plus the $67 million Rockets story Bob still isn't over.

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00:00 Harp's at the NLDS, Bob's headed to Georgia-Bama

02:27 Allie Clifton crashes the show: WNBA playoffs

04:41 WNBA MVP vote: A'ja Wilson or Kelsey Mitchell?

06:16 Lakers preseason and the old "wolf" trap

08:45 Bob's Defensive Player of the Year snub

09:27 Allie's college football trash talk

11:30 Left on Unread: Allie's rise

12:50 Dalton Knecht, Lakers trades and Jalen Duren's deal

15:36 KAT's extension standoff with the Knicks

21:09 Take less to win? Bob's Spurs decisions

22:47 LeBron's helicopter commute

24:38 Hakeem's son commits to SMU + the Dream's footwork

27:36 Upcoming NBA dates and Bob's Macau snub

29:10 NFL hot mics: McCarthy, Rodgers and a ref

31:05 The Gainesville call-in

33:00 College football picks

37:51 Georgia at Alabama: the Babadook pick

40:18 Big Shot of the Week: the plumber who saved a flight

42:10 High-low: what owners paid for NBA and NFL teams

Episode 278 gets recorded with a playoff game going on about 500 feet away. The Braves and Phillies are playing the NL Wild Card at Truist Park, so B-Dawg spends the first part of the show downstairs dealing with the chaos before he finally makes it in. It's been a day, and you can see it on his face.

NBA media days gave us plenty to work with. JJ Redick had the line of the week about the Lakers' starting five, something very strange is happening behind Austin Reaves during his scrum, and Big Shot Bob explains why he never once did a radio station drop. Walker Kessler reportedly pushed his way out of Utah, Kawhi shut down questions before anybody could ask them, and Tyrese Haliburton and Kyrie Irving both say they're fully cleared. Kyrie is coming up on 600 days since his last game, and Robert wants to see him move before he makes any promises.

LeBron says the Sixers have to get comfortable being uncomfortable, which gets us to the real question: who takes a back seat in Philly? Jenners is worried about VJ Edgecombe. Robert says it's Tyrese Maxey and compares it to what happened to Darius Garland in Cleveland. Then he explains why "who's the alpha" doesn't mean much on a team that wins, using the Shaq and Kobe Lakers as proof. (He did not say he was better than Kobe. Jenners tried.)

Also this week, Jalen Duren's contract standoff and the weight clauses in Detroit's offer, which sends Robert into a story about Pat Riley's body fat tests in Miami and why he was happy to be in San Antonio. Giannis meets his first Florida iguanas. And Steph Curry says he played through blurry vision during the Warriors run. Robert isn't buying it, because teams check everything "from the rooter to the tooter." That's your episode title.

On the football side, Michael Penix drops a live "pause" in his postgame, and Iowa's student radio crew barely survives their call of the win over Michigan in the Big House. Then it's college football picks. Jenners is 3-12 on the season, so he's going full George Costanza and picking the opposite of every instinct he has, including against his own Hurricanes at Clemson. Dan Lanning, Lincoln Riley and the big buyout club all come up along the way.

Big Shot of the Week goes to Erin Howell. An 81-year-old man delivering lost airline luggage in Dallas-Fort Worth brought bags to her house, she helped him carry them in, and then she started a GoFundMe that raised $700,000 so he could stop working and pay for his wife's cancer treatment. That turns into a conversation about the healthcare system, and Robert breaks into an ad read for SureCo out of nowhere. Five and a half years into this show, that's how we found out he's the company's chief impact officer.

We wrap with Preseason Prediction Fails, looking back at how far off Vegas and the NBA GMs were last year on the Spurs, Pistons, Pacers, Knicks, Mavs, Lakers and Thunder, along with this season's numbers.

00:00 Intro: Recording During a Braves Playoff Game

01:05 Anniversaries, Gifts & Grandkids

05:04 JJ Redick's Starting Lineup Comment

07:08 Media Day Photo Shoots & Radio Drops

11:20 Walker Kessler's Exit From Utah

13:45 B-Dawg Arrives & Braves vs. Phillies

16:35 LeBron's Sixers: Who Takes a Back Seat?

24:07 Who's the Alpha? Horry on Shaq & Kobe

25:45 Jalen Duren's Contract & Weight Clauses

28:29 Giannis Meets the Miami Iguanas

30:19 Kawhi Shuts Down Questions at Media Day

33:03 Haliburton & Kyrie Are Back

36:06 Steph's Blurry Vision: The Rooter to the Tooter

39:25 Football Audio: Penix's "Pause" & Iowa's Call

41:43 College Football Picks: The Costanza Method

45:25 USC, Oregon & the Big Buyout Club

51:28 Miami at Clemson Pick

54:37 Big Shot of the Week

56:16 Healthcare & Robert's Surprise SureCo Plug

59:27 Game: Preseason Prediction Fails

Syracuse coach Fran Brown got in a ref's face and gave him the flinch, like he was about to swing. The ref didn't move. He just threw the flag. So on this week's Shoot Around, Robert Horry, Rob Jenners and Brandon "Harp" Harper go through the biggest loser moves they've seen from a coach, and Robert tells two stories we'd never heard: why he told his high school coach there was no way he was visiting Bobby Knight at Indiana, and the time Gene Keady cut him and Grant Hill from a team so he could keep a roster full of Big Ten players.

Shaq is officially an honorary FBI agent now (his advice to the graduating class was to arrest Charles Barkley), so a listener wanted to know what we'd chase if we weren't doing this. Chef, lawyer and, from Harp, marine biologist, right up until a big enough roach walks by. That leads to safaris, deep sea fishing and why at least one of us will never be that far from land again.

Then a listener sends in the Robins: Kyrie, Wade, Klay, Pippen and AD. Robert makes the case that Kobe was a Robin on the Shaq teams and Rob isn't having it. We also watch an influencer box a remote-controlled Terminator and lose badly, and go through Bleacher Report's all-overpaid team. Robert explains why Christian Braun was better off the bench, and the Embiid contract gets scarier the further out you look.

Shoot Around drops every Friday. Catch the full Tuesday episode of the Big Shot Bob Podcast, with Jalen Duren's $200 million decision, East vs. West, our college football picks and Walmart or Waffle House, on the main channel. Got a question or a story for us? Send it our way and we'll get to it.

00:00 Intro

00:50 Fran Brown pump-fakes a ref

01:52 Biggest loser moves by a coach

03:08 Why Robert said no to Indiana & getting cut by Gene Keady

04:44 Shaq the FBI agent & the jobs we'd chase instead

08:16 Safaris, deep sea fishing & cruises

09:24 The greatest Robin lineup ever? Plus: was Kobe a Robin?

11:58 Influencer vs. Terminator robot

13:50 Bleacher Report's all-overpaid team

15:18 Robert's case against Christian Braun's deal

17:06 Wrap-up: Robert's New York trip & Logitech

Detroit put five years and $200 million in front of Jalen Duren. He said no. With camps opening next week and his qualifying offer deadline sitting on October 1st, Robert Horry, Rob Jenners and Brandon "Harp" Harper try to figure out what he's waiting for. He isn't 23 yet. Both Thompson twins just signed. And if he plays out the qualifying offer and hits free agency, the math says he could end up with less. Robert explains how he'd handle it: take the money, then load the deal with playoff incentives.

Before we get there, Robert talks about how he used to get ready for training camp (ramp down the weights, ramp up the conditioning), what happens when your son turns 21 and suddenly wants to go to Vegas, and why tequila in a plastic bottle is really just rubbing alcohol. Harp had exactly one tequila Jell-O shot at The Battery this weekend, and he wants everyone to know he said no to the second one. We also get into the Braves heading to the wild card and who we like in the MLB playoffs.

Then it's the East vs. West argument. Is the gap still real? The guys go through the Pistons, Knicks, Sixers, Hawks, Wizards and a Lakers team nobody can quite read yet, which is where this week's title came from. Lisa Leslie gets her statue outside Crypto, Robert says the one that's missing is Dr. Buss, and a conversation about who Atlanta would honor next goes sideways the second Michael Vick comes up. Nicolas Batum retires, and we run a quick predictions round: Kawhi's games played in Toronto, Duren's decision, Ja Morant in Portland, the Lakers ownership mess and the East's top seed.

College football: Rob and Robert are both 2-8 on the season, and Harp is sitting at 5-5 and letting everyone hear about it. This week's games are Texas at Tennessee, Oklahoma at Georgia, Ole Miss at Florida, Texas A&M at LSU and Oregon at USC, which is going to be a split household at Robert's place. Plus NC State's end-of-game disaster against Vanderbilt, a Big Shout of the Week for a Missouri teacher who ran barefoot over broken glass to pull his neighbor out of a house fire, and a full round of Walmart or Waffle House.

00:00 Intro

01:38 NBA camps are almost here + Robert's preseason routine

04:23 Kids growing up, Vegas at 21 & grown-up drinks

08:35 One tequila Jell-O shot at The Battery

10:45 Braves in the wild card & MLB playoff picks

14:36 Jalen Duren turns down $200 million

23:48 The Thompson twins both cash in

24:57 East vs. West: is the gap still real?

28:12 Wizards, Lakers & the highest credit score in the league

30:54 Lisa Leslie's statue & who's missing outside Crypto

35:12 Who gets an Atlanta statue? Matt Ryan, Vick & the Falcons

37:48 Nicolas Batum retires

38:25 NBA predictions: Kawhi, Duren, Ja & the East

46:46 NC State's end-of-game disaster + picks recap

49:49 College Football Picks: Week 3

1:01:51 Big Shot of the Week

1:02:52 The Waffle House kid & a baptized alligator

1:05:28 Walmart or Waffle House

It's Friday, so Big Shot Bob and Rob Jenners are back with episode 147 of Shoot Around, the weekly grab bag show that catches everything the Tuesday show didn't get to. This week they start with the Barstool superfan who turned his Ohio State loss into a 14-hour McDonald's fundraiser for ALS, which turns into a conversation about the worst bets either of them has ever had to pay off — including the one wager that may have saved Rob and Candice's relationship.

From there it's straight into fan questions: why Derek Fisher wore his headband over his ears, what Robert Horry was actually thinking on that infamous 0.4-second shot over Tim Duncan, and the single worst relationship red flag either of them has ever heard (it involves Aaron Rodgers). Rob and B-Dawg also get honest about their own red flags, and things go sideways fast once hangover stories enter the chat.

The back half covers what team either guy would want to coach for a day after Akron let a fan call plays during a game, why managing a baseball team sounds like the most boring job in sports, and a genuinely bizarre painting from Robert Horry's playing days that's been hanging around ever since.

Catch the full Big Shot Bob Podcast every Tuesday for the real basketball talk, and come back every Friday for more of this.

00:00  Cold Open & Friday Intro

00:43  Barstool's Ohio State Guy Pays Off His McDonald's Bet

02:10  Worst Bets Ever: Rob's Texas-USC Wager for Candice

03:47  Radio Bowling Bet Goes Horribly Wrong

06:22  Fan Q&A: D-Fish's Headband and the Shot Over Duncan

08:13  Fan Q&A: Aaron Rodgers' Red Flag Story

10:27  Rob's Own Red Flags & Needing Alone Time

11:44  Drunk Flirting: The Ultimate Red Flag

13:04  Worst Hangover Stories

16:54  Fan Q&A: Akron's Fan Coach and Who They'd Want to Coach

19:39  Why Managing Baseball Is Boring

21:22  The Alabama Locker Room Painting

Robert Horry and Rob Jenners are back in the man cave for episode 276, and Big Shot Bob kicks things off recapping his surprising showing at two celebrity golf tournaments before getting into the news of the week. The Kawhi Leonard trade to the Raptors is officially done, and somehow the Clippers ended up under federal investigation on top of it — Bob and Rob break down Steve Ballmer's carefully worded statement and why Danilo Galinari isn't letting Kawhi off the hook for how his career got rerouted.

From there it's a full NBA news rundown: a big free agent's “winning culture” comments about signing with Minnesota get roasted, Jalen Duren is still holding out on a new deal in Detroit, and the guys break down what the Pistons actually have at center behind him. The NBA's Board of Governors met this week too, and expansion to Vegas and Seattle is officially on the table — Bob and B-Dawg go back and forth on whether the league needs two more teams or should just relocate one instead.

There's also a Team USA women's basketball update after their FIBA World Cup gold, a Caitlin Clark clip that has Bob fired up, a Nikola Jokic rant about being tired of his own fame, and the crew's usual struggle trying to remember old CBA rules off the top of their heads.

On the football side, the guys get into Myles Garrett's early-season injury and what it means for a Rams team that came one game short of the Super Bowl last year, plus a full slate of Week 3 college football picks headlined by LSU-Ole Miss. Then it's Big Shot of the Week, honoring the man who ran up a mountain to save a stranger's life, and a stacked round of Black Crime or White Crime to close out the show.

00:00  Cold Open & Episode Intro

00:49  Storage Room Purge & Rob's Golf Debut

04:46  Kawhi Leonard Trade to Raptors Finalized

05:29  Clippers Under Federal Investigation

06:27  Ballmer's Statement & the Fallout

09:49  Danilo Galinari Blasts Kawhi Leonard

13:23  Free Agent's “Winning Culture” Comments Spark Debate

17:45  Jalen Duren's Contract Standoff With the Pistons

22:35  Pistons Roster Breakdown at Center

24:09  NBA Board of Governors: Expansion Talk (Vegas & Seattle)

30:40  Old-School NBA Trivia: Michael Finley's Double Paycheck

32:07  Women's Hoops Roundup: FIBA Gold, Caitlin Clark, WNBA Playoffs

34:27  Kobe's “Amnesty Clause” Rabbit Hole

37:41  Nikola Jokic Says He's Done With Fans

42:17  NFL Monday: Myles Garrett's Injury and the Rams

45:01  49ers Roll the Rams: Shanahan vs. McVay

46:25  College Football Picks: Week 3 Slate

58:18  Big Shot of the Week: The Mountain Rescue Hero

59:26  Black Crime or White Crime Returns

It's Friday, which means it's time for Shoot Around. Before getting into the usual nonsense, Robert Horry, Rob, and Harp pause to mark the 25th anniversary of 9/11, sharing where they were that morning and how it shaped their generation the way JFK's assassination shaped their parents'.

Then it's back to business as usual: the power outage that hit the SMU-FSU game right before kickoff leads to a rundown of the worst stadiums the guys have ever played in or visited, from a swaying old Orange Bowl to a Georgia Tech campus with no Wi-Fi.

Plus, the guys react to the wild story of a man who used a fake NFL persona to scam 26 women out of over a million dollars, Robert tells a story about a former teammate who ran the same play at the club for years, and the crew debates whether ESPN putting a random fan on camera at a college football game is doing more harm than good.

It's the usual mix of laughs, hot takes, and Robert almost getting caught by his wife — Friday wouldn't be Friday without it.

00:00  Intro: It's Friday, It's Shoot Around

00:47  Remembering 9/11, 25 Years Later

06:57  FSU's Power Outage & the Worst Stadiums They've Played

13:45  The Fake NFL Player Catfishing Scandal

15:38  The Teammate Who Faked Being an NBA Player

18:09  The Viral “Hot Girl” Camera Moment Debate

21:40  DMs, Marriage, and Getting Caught in the Bit

Robert Horry, Rob, and Harp are back after a Labor Day break that somehow lined up with the biggest week in the NBA all year. The NBA came down on the Clippers hard for the Kawhi Leonard cap circumvention mess — five first-round picks, a $30 million fine for Steve Ballmer, suspensions across the front office, and a slap on the wrist for Kawhi himself. The guys break down whether this is the worst free agent signing in league history, rip apart Kawhi's tone-deaf statement from his camp, and debate what real punishment should have looked like.

From there, Charles Barkley may have let a huge secret slip on Bill Simmons' show: if Ernie Johnson steps away from Inside the NBA, so does Chuck. The crew talks about why nobody in the business could ever replace Ernie, and shares a story about the kind of man he is off camera.

Plus: Jonathan Kuminga finally lands with the Timberwolves, Amen Thompson gets paid by the Rockets, Ben Simmons signs with the Kings, and the guys get into college football's chaotic Week 1 — the LSU vs. SEC drama, Michigan's controversial finish, and Dabo Swinney's rough night in Death Valley — before locking in their Week 2 picks.

Big Shot of the Week goes to a race car driver who stopped mid-race to pull a rival from a burning car. Then the guys close it out with Busted, a game built around the ugliest penalties and scandals in sports history.

00:00  Back from the Labor Day Break

02:55  NBA Hammers the Clippers Over Kawhi

09:08  Worst Free Agent Signing in NBA History?

12:59  Breaking Down Kawhi's Statement

21:01  Charles Barkley's Ernie Johnson Bombshell

25:09  Remembering Ernie Johnson's Legacy

28:52  Kuminga Signs with the Timberwolves

32:03  Amen Thompson's Extension & Ben Simmons to the Kings

34:12  College Football Week 1 Rundown

34:35  Michigan's Controversial Finish

35:32  LSU and the SEC Expulsion Talk

38:47  Dabo Swinney and Clemson's Rough Night

43:47  Week 2 Picks: Oklahoma-Michigan & Alabama-Kentucky

46:17  Week 2 Picks: Tennessee-Georgia Tech & Ohio State-Texas

51:43  Big Shot of the Week

54:06  Busted: NBA and NFL Scandals