The High & Dry Draft Podcast

EPISODE TWELVE: "The Comedian Scouting Report Episode" with C.J. Toledano

Long time no pod! Kind of been on a hiatus this season as I've been focusing on some other projects but randomly threw out a "C.J. come on the pod" after he tweeted about John Reynolds having "that wet wet" (paraphrasing). And, like the nice guy he is, he accepted! C.J. has basically lived a dream career of mine from writing for Fallon, making Funny or Die videos for the Detroit Pistons, content for every big sports digital company, and now has his own creative studio, Follow Through, that makes all the cool, funny sports content I wish I had the skill and/or connections to make, lol. They're developing a thing with Anthony Edwards!!! Anyways beyond that C.J. also has started some long running comedian pickup games and he gives us the down low on everyone's game from Brooklyn alt comedians to Nick Kroll, Sarah Silverman, and Adam McKay. Also he played catholic league basketball growing up! Wild. Gonna try to maybe get a 4/20 episode out where me and some pals just shit out our thoughts from this season real high and then probably do another pre-draft episode. Hopefully next season I get to go more in on this and get cool guests like C.J. while also getting back to some hardcore draft/2k nerd shit. And also maybe getting high and watching weird basketball movies. Wanna do a film mini series at some point. Pod will be around for the future, just intermittently for now :-) Timestamps: Catholic School / Church League Basketball: 2:07 Kobe in the HS State Championship: 10:15 Anthony Edwards: 14:40 Comedian Pickup Game Scouting Report: 16:55 2K Crystal Ball: 37:08

EPISODE ELEVEN: "Pre-Draft Rambling" The Pre-Draft Rambling Episode With Peter and Joe

This one is pretty self explanatory. No 2K, no nostalgia, almost no Wolves talk, just Peter Joe and I rambling about playoffs and the draft for a little over an hour and a half. I edited this at 3 am after work aka hardly edited this so it is for sure rambly. Happy draft day!

EPISODE TEN: "Alaskan Thunder" the JT Thor Episode with CozyLito

This podcast has... listeners? Lito (@CozyLito on twitter) was very cool and reached out over DM about liking the show. We smoked together and talked draft, the power of 2k11, being a Seattle basketball fan, and JT Thor. And of course, we look into the 2k crystal ball. Super fun time. Got this and one other episode I'll try to get out before the draft tomorrow, these both are more rambly and conversational and fairly draft heavy. Will continue to slowly (lol first episode in over 3 months) crank out these draft twitter origin stories, hopefully accompanied by random episodes/tall tales from my personal basketball history, and also maybe step into talking basketball movies and other media probably starting with Space Jam 2.

EPISODE NINE: "The Jaden Springer Fan Club" The Jaden Springer Episode with Ben Pfeifer

Staying true to my brand and finally posting an episode I recorded back in February lol  Had one of the inspirations for the pod on! Ben Pfeifer was one of the co hosts of Prep2Pro which is one of the best draft podcasts available anywhere and spawned a whole community of young draft nerds that are slowly but surely taking over basketball Twitter.   We get into his history growing up with basketball, getting into the draft, and starting the pod (17:00). Then we continue our run on point guards in this upcoming draft as Ben happens to be the leader of the Jaden Springer Fan Club (21:08). We also hit on some sports video game talk from NBA Live 2008 to 2K’s MyTeam and various Ultimate Teams (31:04). We wrap up with 2k Lineups ft Springer (43:17) and of course, look into the 2K Crystal Ball. (also I left a dumb lil 420 ramble at the end)

EPISODE EIGHT: “And Also I’m Standing Here With These Towels” The Sharife Cooper Episode with Henry Ward

Had an awesome time talking with Henry Ward, rising draft twitter star, through how he grew up playing basketball in LA, in Rec Leagues, and even at Grinnell and their insane system for a year.  Henry does a lot of very cool work with NBA trainers, just got a professional scouting job, and on his blog he writes insanely nuanced posts on draft guys, skill development, team building philosophy. He even got to help out at the NBA bubble this past summer.   In addition to all that we talk through the insanely fun Sharife Cooper’s game (18:14) and his outlook as a prospect, and as always touch on 2K (32:20) and as always, peer into the 2K Crystal Ball.  Check him out at @Henrywward @thekickahead!