Show Notes
It's a lighter Friday edition of Shoot Around, just Horry and Rob Jenners running through the week's fan questions and whatever's been living in their group chat.
They start with Austin Reaves catching heat for putting himself in his own all-time starting five (next to Steph, Kobe, LeBron, and Shaq, for the record), then get into Arizona State's new bachelor's degree in "influencing" and whether that's actually a legitimate skill set or just a punchline. That turns into a fun tangent about what they'd each go back to school for if money and logic weren't an issue.
From there it's an equitable-grading-scale story that has both of them fired up, a debate about participation trophies, and a trip down memory lane on old-school discipline. Then the mood shifts: Rick Moranis got a five-minute standing ovation at Comic-Con after coming out of retirement for Spaceballs 2, and the guys get into why that moment hit different, along with the actual Spaceballs 2 synopsis and whether it can live up to the original.
They close it out plotting their own eventual Comic-Con trip, including costume ideas for a seven-foot-tall Robert Horry.
00:00 Cold Open & Friday Check-In
01:36 Austin Reaves' All-Time Starting Five
03:57 Arizona State's Degree in Influencing
07:09 What They'd Go Back to School For
10:02 The Equitable Grading Scale Debate
12:34 Participation Trophies & Old-School Discipline
13:57 Rick Moranis' Comic-Con Standing Ovation
15:43 Spaceballs 2 Is Actually Happening
17:54 Comic-Con Costume Ideas & Bucket List
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