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Hey everybody, Jon again. This is the stupidest video I've ever made.

Hey everybody, Jon again. This is the stupidest video I've ever made. There have been times when a project of mine ended up kind of stupid organically, but this was the first time in many years I sat down at the very start and said to myself, "I am going to make something stupid." I think you'll have fun watching it, but if anyone learns anything at all from it I will be deeply ashamed of myself.

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Alex Hollis

does the audio not work or is it me

Evan B.

Just what I needed today. Thanks Jon 😎

Nick Harhai

Every new pretty good is a national holiday

Jake R

The reveal at 0:50 made me lose it. I can already tell this is going to be one of the greatest works you’ve ever made Jon

Matt Stott

My lunch break just got so much better. Thank you Jon

BLEAKSIGILKEEP

Jon please don't do it if its with hurricanes

buoy

huh, a guy named james dolan associated with the knicks, weird

Benfrosh

Jon was right, this is stupid. I love it.

Taylor B 503

I promise I'll learn nothing today Jon. Not just from this video, but at all. I have your back like that.

Ali_

Jon this was so f stupid. I loved it as a life long Knicks fan.

Trey Just

This has some of the most tortured statistical manipulation I've seen. It's great.

Nick Wright

SVI MYKHAILIUK, NBA CHAMPION, CELTICS LEGEND

Jake Baffa

Easily the dumbest thing I’ve ever watched. Will never get that 53 minutes back. 10/10. No notes.

Alchemist Jijo

probably your dumbest video yet. watched the whole thing enthralled. thanks jon

Pizzapants

Wow this coincidentally happened to drop right as I was visiting the Cathedral of Basketball (a Chipotle near my work).

M. C. T.

As it turns out, no more bricks = no more Knicks

Erik Helmle

What in the name of all things holy is this

Frink Zippi

wow, this might already be my new favorite Pretty Good episode. choked up with laughter from start to glorious finish

Carl Lombardi

This is both the dumbest and best thing I’ve ever seen

Rafał Brzeziński

"You miss 0% of the shots you don't take. - Jon Bois" - me

Nick A

Really too bad we didn't get to continue visiting the various cathedrals of basketball once we got into full sim mode

Fox Doucette

I was not looking forward to going back to work after a vacation last week. This video reminds me why I work so hard to earn the money I do from nine to five: So I can contribute a few bucks of it to the creation of something utterly absurd. I can think of no higher purpose.

Frink Zippi

koo dae-sung is definitely up there (glad he's gotten better audio equipment since then). i sadly missed the stanislav petrov episode entirely! looking forward to that resurfacing one day

Marshall

Why didn't the Knicks do this?

Eric

I too am at the Cathedral of Basketball (I work from home)

Ryan Petriello

"Never try anything that is difficult"

mapleboy

three minutes in, this is the greatest thing i have ever seen

Rafał Brzeziński

I don't know if I should blame Jon for making my sense of humor regress to where it was at the age of 2, or if he simply made me realize it never seriously developed since, because a guy making a silly face was more than enough for me to have a giggle fit

Colorado people’s press

Didnt even read the name of the episode and thought I was about to watch a video about the specialty of lost blues songs. Best 30 minute lunch+ 2 15 minute breaks I’ve ever had.

Assigned Conor At Birth

thank you for fixing the knicks, jon. i'm sure legendary bluesman james dolan is smiling up in heaven

Eman7blue

Jon I hope you appreciate the fact I learned nothing and still don't know what basketball is

James baird

I wish we could know the career totals of our beloved cornerstone team members

Sby

this is so freakin unhinged and I love it so much. Thanks Jon and everybody that helped make this.

Assigned Conor At Birth

It's not too late; every one of the Foundational Cornerstones is still around. If the Knicks sign all five of them right now they can become one of the greatest dynasties in the history of sports. Sure, Bohannon is 51 but I bet an all-time great like him still has plenty of juice.

Julia Augusta

Oh Jon, it's like I died and went to the fumble dimension

caylen

i genuinely adore when you get high on your own supply. thank you, and congrats on the kid dude

mapleboy

update: this stayed true to the end

Henry Wood

I can only imagine how fun this would be to watch not knowing who James Dolan is

Martin C

I forget what video Jon said this, but it was "What did we learn? Nothing. Less than nothing!" and this is precisely what I took away from this. Outstanding work!

Braulio

Pour one out for all those 0-fers that came before Diakite

Connor

What a punchline in the final minute. Masterful work.

Joseph Hudson

congrats on the sequel to yourself btw Jon

Adam

That ending has to be one of my favorites in any YouTube video ever. Just spectacular

Chloe Lahre

Jon has completely lost his mind. This is not a complaint.

Thomas Loy

Some say blues legend Jimmy Dolan's last words were, "Give me one second, I have to finish editing this Wikipedia page," What that means is sadly lost to time.

Patrick

Jon, was this recorded before all the recent interest in the Melendez brothers?

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.

as someone who had no clue who james dolan was, i lost my shit at the end, was not expecting that

Wolfgang

This is a spiritual sequel to Barry Bonds without a bat. 10/10

Stefan Preiml

Congrats Jon, this is your funniest video so far.

Hello Whirled

this is the most Jon video that Jon has ever made. can't wait for this to hit youtube so i can send this to every single person i know

dreadULTRA

john. jon. this cant work. you cant fix the knicks like this. please.

Ty Hawke

jon's knowledge of the delta blues has me wondering if he's a based american primitive listener. whatchu know bout fahey jon

John Hilborn

I’m excited to hear what Seth makes of this madness

apollodos

I see that paying my Jon Bois bill paid off!

Fo

I have no idea how i didn’t see the plot twist at the end coming

John Smith

I was dreading the moment all the players were gone. Surely, he must be introducing a reset mechanism. Reality is stranger than any fiction.

Seastruck

i thought you were joking but this may actually be the most gloriously stupid thing i have ever seen. laughed my ass off the whole episode, absolutely incredible :)

liam says sorry about the long name

I can't wait to call every venue I enter the cathedral of basketball this was absolutely fantastic, 10/10, no more notes

AK Lingus

Genuinely magnificent work, got a real guffaw at the workaround in the home stretch. I should note the Bobcats of The People You’re Paying To Be In Shorts were from 2011-12, not 2010-11.

Skivvs

I can't believe it worked. Jon, you've done it again.

Alexander Kopp

The music during the Jackie Butler section gave me flashbacks to “the very special airplane man” moment of the Falcons series

theenglishman

Jon this might be the dumbest thing you’ve ever made. I love it!

Ethan

this is a work of art.

Kurious

The final punchline is as magnificent as any I can remember

Boreal Tempest

As soon as Derrick Brown showed up I sat up straight. You always remember your heroes and what could be more heroic than being the best of the worst?

TuchusMcGuchus

I would have loved to seen how the players association pushed for all players to be paid by the minute in the next CBA after the Knickerbocker Culling of 1996 This video is like a rounding error of creativity, beyond mortal understanding but beautiful in its chaos.

Matthew James

Jon, just wanna say that I love this stupid video and am excited for more stupid videos

Sera

brain at 43 minutes: OH NO brain at 47 minutes: what the FUCK THIS ISN'T SCIENTIFIC me at 50 minutes: "that's the point"

Kiaayo

Jon, like 4 members of the greatest New York Knicks team in history, cannot miss.

Caerwyn

"the cathedral of basketball"

skrrt vonnegut

hey, yeah, sorry, you work here right? uh, can you direct me to your uh, 'cathedral of basketball'?

GayGay Bleday

Love the Menedez Brothers cameos.

Phegan

You say that this is the stupidest video you've made, but you made a video about an argument on a weight lifting forum.

Daniel Brandes

The way i pointed at my TV and shouted out loud to nobody “MENENDEZ BROTHERS! THE MENENDEZ BROTHERS!!”

James mazer

this is the meanest video jon has ever made

Stush Cinta

You make 100% of the shots you don't attempt - Jon Bois

SCJ

seeing the Menendez Bros pop up in the ending montage nearly floored me, and then seeing the big twist at the end brought me horizontal in disbelief.

Nathan Lalande

Holy shit! That ending was beautiful

巨栗子

Blessed Saint Jimmer Fredette, he brought the MVP to the Shanghai Sharks and clearly was the MVP of the legendary Knicks dynasty

Daniel Brandes

I was waiting and waiting for the JD and the Straight Shot punchline. I almost choked to death on my coffee when James Dolan was first mentioned in opening minutes. My brother and i had a JD and the Straight Shot riff going for like a solid year a while back. They are so terrible. Exactly the sort of blues you’d expect the son a billionaire arena owner to make.

Efren Echavarria

I almost lost it when he quickly transitioned from the menendez brothers reveal lol

Lucian Patterson

I learned something profound from this actually

Jay

can't believe I just watched a 50-minute Fumble Dimension Jon Bois performance just to see him drive home the most cruel point ever considered LMAO

prototype27

The premise for this video is amazing.

Jonathan Nathan

I'm 24 minutes in and I still don't really understand the methodology.

amdsports

When Dossier hits at 47:14… chef’s kiss. Keep it up, Jon

Hello Whirled

James Dolan / Jim Irsay split 7"

Greg Stoll

This was incredibly dumb (complementary). Thanks Jon!

theenglishman

minor ending spoilers below . . . . . . . . As ridiculous as it sounds, the Knicks dynasty Jon created isn’t too far fetched. In the Scottish Premiership for football/soccer, a team has won nine championships in a row on three separate occasions (Rangers from 1965-66 to 73-74, Celtic from 1988-89 to 96-97 and Celtic again from 2011-12 to 19-20). That’s 27 out of 54 seasons where one of two teams was absolutely crushing the competition.

Carter Jameson

I am so honored to have my name permanently encoded in the bits of this video file. Yet, at the same time, I can't shake the feeling that association will have consequences with my employer, or my family, or God

ranavain

wow that was pretty dumb

1 Baseball Elephant

am I the only one who would love to see the Foundational Cornerstones playing out the remaining games in an NBA 2K simulation instead? Perhaps redundant with the other Fumble Dimension that already covers the NBA, but I think it could be very interesting

Scott Clam

J.R. Smith has created more happiness and laughter in the world than 99.6% of all humans that have ever existed, it's just a fact.

HourlyB

41:06 Awwwwww beans. 44:13 OMG WE'RE SO BACK 51:37 AWWWW BEANS

WorkShoot Photo

It is shocking how consistently funny that line was.

WorkShoot Photo

I remember the Behind the Bastards episode on Dolan and I was SO confused when he started talking about JD and the Straight Shot.

Scarlet Android

This has gotta be my favorite Jon Bois video ever. Wonderful twist and turns with a straightforward yet outlandish goal with the most perfect ending imaginable

Danni Silversmith

I paid money for this and I am blessed to have done so

DeadThrone

This was dumb and I am dumber for having watched it. Spectacular work

Alex Artom-Ginzburg

This alone is worth the monthly subscription. Congrats on the baby Jon.

The Real Ben Shapiro

This is one of the most gloriously stupid things I have ever watched. I loved it. Thank you Jon.

Stilyan_Uzunov

Thank you Jon, worth every penny! ❤️

slade.

currently making a song about myself called "fix my mental health"

Noel Reid

I can't believe James Dolan never figured this out

DoubleTDoubleCT

Thank you for telling me this would be dumb in the description as i felt myself truly existing in moments that would have otherwise triggered me during this video

GordyHowitzer

Everybody loves a randbetween but wouldn't it have been much easier/faster to just value each FGA as 1pt and each 3p as 1.5 points? On second thought, no, you're right 8D

Nathan Landel

I think this is definitely one for the Dorktown-Chart Party enthusiasts, but as an enthusiast this is an all-timer.

fawtyballjamal

reading the first two sentences of the description was like drinking the chaser before the shot

Anthony

idk if the tags work or if patreon is stupid but the link to "the rest of the Pretty Good episode archive" takes me to a bunch of not-Pretty Good posts. those posts are just regular good.

Banana

I like how, after all this ridiculousness, we unexpectedly learn something: a team that hits half its shots is practically unbeatable.

MattyBeez

When the offer of being a Patreon member was presented with the hook of more Pretty Good - I completed the transaction within a minute. This is why. I would never have asked for this; I would never have searched for this, but my god, I just finished and was beaming with a smile every second. Jon Bois is the greatest storyteller I've ever known.

smoov22

America’s game of the week

Robbie B

Are you winning, Jon? (Jon here being pronounced to rhyme with “son”)

Ross

You might have peaked with the simulation montages. I was howling when the photos of Dolan and the Menendez Brothers appeared during the playoff sim

Isam Sayeed

The full Derrick brown photo is actually pretty good. It’s like the basketball version of when two characters in an anime punch each other in the face

Heiko

Excellent content

Casey K

I put off watching this because I don’t care about basketball… what a fool I was 🙈

Paul Blart Flesh Kart

me: there's no way jon's right - there's no way this is sillier than the banana peels me 53 minutes later: he was so right

Cal Ricehall

Jon, What the fuck? Sincerely, Cal

Merkwerdichliebe

Is this the most convoluted documentary topic ever conceived by man?

Missy Fox

I want more of these "Barry Bonds without a bat" hypothetical spreadsheet videos so badly

HOOVEDOMEN

by god you wrent wrong that was stupid. keep it up jon

cybergrimace

as a kings fan, there is an ever constant, subconscious anxiety that one day i’ll wake up to a feature length monument to our pain written and directed by jon bois

John Harms

I feel like this needs to get to Rich Eisen to see what his Knicks could have been.

Albert Chen

I am definitely watching this on the cathedral of basketball

F

I do as well #kangzbaby

Seth Keller

I did in fact learn several things from watching this, Jon. Chief among them, the identity of who owns the New York Knickerbockers.

Miles W

I can’t imagine what this is like if you watch it not knowing who owns the Knicks. I spent the whole time, wondering whether it was just coincidence

Nyx Solomon

the whole time i watched this i have had that one clip of a marvel vs capcom 2 tournament where some guy shouts "FUCK THE KNICKS!" stuck in my head. i appreciate your deep commitment to something so ridiculous, it's something i aspire to.

Jamie B.S.

i watched it without knowing and the reveal was the best part of the video. mindblow moment.

Daniel Dischino

This is almost certainly the dumbest video I've seen, but it is absolutely the dumbest video I've seen twice.

Sbzzz

why doesnt the nba remove buckets and just have a coin at each end of the court? seems like it would solve a lot of problems

LightInTheAttic

The whole time I was like ... But ... He's white. I thought Jon had terrible taste in blues musicians. Then came the reveal and I was just soo happy to have thought something was up the whole time.

Dee

A ‘shaggy dog’ story masquerading as a ‘Pretty Good’… 52 minutes of setup for a punchline that absolutely murdered me stone cold dead 💀

Clayton Hurdle

When you know exactly who JD is from the start it’s even stupider…and funnier.

Terakahn

Only Secret Base can start a video series about a Basketball team, by talking about Blues music. And it's not out of place at all. Halfway through. Not sure we're making it to the end of the season. Didn't walk into this expecting a comedy. Well done. I'm kind of stunned at how much of a difference 6%~ makes.

Isaiah Crable

You might've done it, Jon. You might've fixed em. A few weeks will tell.

Damen Ellingson

dude same i was like isn't that him or is it just another person with the same name.

An Graves

Interesting update to a small part of this video: while the Menendez broteres WERE convicted and sentenced on the assumption they had murdered their parents for money, Erik claimed at the time he had been abused and threatened by his father, though he could not provide evidence. In 2018 a 1998 letter to his cousin was found in which he had described the abuse, and after another of his father's victims came forward in 2023 they requested a resentencing hearing. Earlier this year, months after this video, they got their hearing and the court agreed that there was evidence of abuse but the murder was still pre-meditated, and slightly reduced their sentence such that they are still lifers BUT eligible for parole now. This is something I take an interest in as my grandpa was a pastor to Erik after his conviction and wrote about it briefly in one of his books :u

Blue Weber

Anyone else rewatching this because it feels like Jon finally fixed the Knicks….?

Dylan Lane

I can’t believe they just fixed the knicks

Lord Elohim

🌜✨️🕌🐦‍🔥🛡💎💍

Alan

You did it, you fucking did it 🧢📴

Evan

Jon, have you received your championship ring yet?