Pablo Torre

I should note, though, that I come to praise the ball because the ball, not totally unlike this podcast, also fancies itself a watchdog of integrity and also a big fan of good segues.

What?

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Now the ball has a crown, a different pair of sunglasses, some white frame sunglasses, a cape.

You said you wanted everyone to be a Batman character.

The cape is flowing in a bat-like fashion.

I mean, now that you say it, it does feel like that.

Because also, even the way that the conversation started, that does feel a little bit like barbershop conspiratorial.

Like the guy who shows up into a barbershop with a full wave cap, but never actually gets his hair cut.

And then transitions, true to, I think, the platonic barbershop, to basically wanting to do first take.

Here's my conspiracy theory.

Anyway, let's talk about, is it Jordan or LeBron?

Who you got?

Respectfully.

But also, the weird part of it, knowing that Scottie Pippen is involved in this, and knowing his dynamic with Uncle Mike,

there is a part of me where that isn't just Michael Jordan's 91 bulls.

I also think that all of this points to maybe an Occam's razor explanation, which is where I started, which is maybe Scottie Pippen's not running this account.

But in fairness, as we continue to assemble evidence here, I should point out that the anti-corruption perspective expressed in the first third of that video by the talking ball was additionally interesting to me because when the dollar sign ball meme coin was launched on the Ethereum platform, basically as a stock that people could buy into, this was August of 2024, there was certain backlash.

As the outlet Bitcoinist observed, a Twitter user and blockchain sleuth named atzackxbt noticed the developer wallet that created the token contract dumped about $330,000 of the supply almost immediately after launch.

This is otherwise known in the world of crypto as allegedly a rug pull.