Amin Elhassan
Appearances
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Greatest Of All The Nuts (feat. Roy Wood Jr.)
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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Greatest Of All The Nuts (feat. Roy Wood Jr.)
He could have said I'm in a movie.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Greatest Of All The Nuts (feat. Roy Wood Jr.)
Well, no. It's like being in a movie.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Greatest Of All The Nuts (feat. Roy Wood Jr.)
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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Greatest Of All The Nuts (feat. Roy Wood Jr.)
Roy, did you discover, as I did, that she's a rapper? Like from the news story. The news story is that rapper Suze Lyft. They're like, you rap? I guess that's a great way to get your name out.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Greatest Of All The Nuts (feat. Roy Wood Jr.)
The opposite of that I guess would be Flatbush Misdemeanors where you're kind of the established comedian and you're dealing with younger guys who are trying to make their way. What's the difference in doing that one show versus this one?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Greatest Of All The Nuts (feat. Roy Wood Jr.)
Hey friends, it's Jarabear here, and I'm here to tell you all about Boost Mobile, which is now a legit nationwide 5G network. So I must take a break from the jokes here for a second and put on my serious voice, because I would never ever joke about a 5G network that has invested billions building 5G towers across the country. Not even once. Not even if Mr. Boost Mobile himself asked me to.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Greatest Of All The Nuts (feat. Roy Wood Jr.)
There is nothing funny about it. Boost Mobile is now a legit nationwide 5G network and also provides coverage across 99% of America. Seriously. Visit BoostMobile.com or your nearest Boost Mobile store location to learn more. The Boost Mobile Network, together with our roaming partners, covers 99% of the U.S. population. 5G speeds not available in all areas.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Greatest Of All The Nuts (feat. Roy Wood Jr.)
They were there for the briefest of moments. I make this joke all the time. They've made one playoffs since the Bush administration. One. And that was the one two years ago, and they lost in the first round to Steph Curry and the Warriors. So... it's one thing to say, stay up there. They, I wouldn't even say they got up there.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Greatest Of All The Nuts (feat. Roy Wood Jr.)
They just merely rose their heads over the waterline of awful for a brief moment, a gasp of oxygen, and then back down underwater again. And, They blame their coach for it. I don't think that that was the right way to do it, but I understand how things get to where they get, and at some point, you don't really have a choice.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Greatest Of All The Nuts (feat. Roy Wood Jr.)
Well, I'll tell you how that happens, Dan. It's very simple. It happens when... There's two ways to handle discourse or whatever, right? Guy comes up to you, someone in the front office, someone in ownership, someone in the organization who's not the head coach, say, man, coach is kind of screwing me over over here. There's two ways to handle it, right? There's...
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Greatest Of All The Nuts (feat. Roy Wood Jr.)
The way it's handled, sadly, in most of the NBA where it's like, yeah, you know, it's kind of messed up that he's doing that. And which basically gives you leeway. Oh, OK, there's a crack here in the foundation. I can criticize, coach. I can bring grievances. These guys are on my side. And regardless of whether that's the intention in the moment or not. Down the line, this is what happens.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Greatest Of All The Nuts (feat. Roy Wood Jr.)
What ends up happening is you have contradicted the coach. You have undermined them. Even if you know he's doing a good job, you reach a point where Sacramento reaches, which is it doesn't matter if he's a good coach. It doesn't matter if he's done a good job until now. Those guys aren't listening to him anymore. And once they've lost that kind of respect or whatever, it's over.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Greatest Of All The Nuts (feat. Roy Wood Jr.)
The other part is the Pat Riley. Do you ever get the itch? I never get the itch. And right then and there, that's the decision. It's at that moment, very early on in the relationship between the coach, the front office, and the players.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Greatest Of All The Nuts (feat. Roy Wood Jr.)
The team's not doing great. He goes to go meet with Riley, talk about what's going on, what's going on, how can we be better. And in the middle of this conversation, how can we be better, LeBron asks Pat, hey, don't you ever get the itch? Meaning, like, do you ever feel like you want to come down and coach? Which is LeBron testing the boundaries. Like, hey, is this dude on my side here?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Greatest Of All The Nuts (feat. Roy Wood Jr.)
Or it's like, yeah, Spoh's kind of messing up. Maybe I will. If Pat Ryan said anything like, yeah, sometimes. But, you know, automatically you are validating this emotion that's coming across your desk. And legend has it, Pat leans forward across the desk and stares at him and says, I never get the itch. Meaning, like, don't even try that bullshit around me, even if Pat does get the itch.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Greatest Of All The Nuts (feat. Roy Wood Jr.)
He wasn't about to admit it right there because he knew if he did, Eric Spolstra's now Hall of Fame-worthy career is over before that season ends.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Greatest Of All The Nuts (feat. Roy Wood Jr.)
Mike Brown, I suspect, because you can't get from, hey, this is the most successful coach we've had since Rick Adleman to a year and a half later, get out of here. Unless someone has conversations of the itch variety. Maybe not like itch because it's not a head coach.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Greatest Of All The Nuts (feat. Roy Wood Jr.)
I'm just saying players were disgruntled. And their disgruntlement was not met with, well, that's the coach. You better march to his orders. And then they figure out, well, man, they're really serious about this coach. Their disgruntlement was more than likely met with, yeah, I get it. He can be tough.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Greatest Of All The Nuts (feat. Roy Wood Jr.)
But like once you do all of that, that placating, it undermines the best coach they've had since Rick Adelman. Right. No disrespect to Michael Malone. Now. Fox!
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Greatest Of All The Nuts (feat. Roy Wood Jr.)
No, I think Michael Malone would say, look, he did a better job in Sacramento than I did. Now Michael Malone would say they didn't give me a shot to be that great because I got fired very quickly as well.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Greatest Of All The Nuts (feat. Roy Wood Jr.)
She's crossed the line that she shall never cross back. Oh, no. You are one of us now.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Greatest Of All The Nuts (feat. Roy Wood Jr.)
How do we get back to our goal? You know why? Because Jason Kelsey, that's why. Yeah. He's worried we'll go to the Super Bowl.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Greatest Of All The Nuts (feat. Roy Wood Jr.)
This is why I'm upset that Roy never came back because I wanted to ask him about this. Madonna is apparently friends with Amy Schumer. Amy Schumer was at the Cellar in New York and said to Madonna, hey, you should get up there and do a set. Madonna proceeds to do 32 minutes and bombs.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Greatest Of All The Nuts (feat. Roy Wood Jr.)
And all I could think of was, I hope that I am never so rich, powerful, and successful that my comedian friends, in order to placate my celebrity, suggest to me, you should try stand-up.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Greatest Of All The Nuts (feat. Roy Wood Jr.)
Before you got on a date, that's a good one, too.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Greatest Of All The Nuts (feat. Roy Wood Jr.)
Hey friends, it's JerBear here, and I'm here to tell you all about Boost Mobile, which is now a legit nationwide 5G network. So I must take a break from the jokes here for a second and put on my serious voice. Because I would never ever joke about a 5G network that has invested billions building 5G towers across the country. Not even once. Not even if Mr. Boost Mobile himself asked me to.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Greatest Of All The Nuts (feat. Roy Wood Jr.)
There is nothing funny about it. boost mobile is now a legit nationwide 5g network and also provides coverage across 99 of america seriously visit boostmobile.com or your nearest boost mobile store location to learn more the boost mobile network together with our roaming partners covers 99 of the u.s population 5g speeds not available in all areas
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Greatest Of All The Nuts (feat. Roy Wood Jr.)
I wonder if his form will say separated or married or what on it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Greatest Of All The Nuts (feat. Roy Wood Jr.)
Oh, yeah. I'll go to the mall and just walk around for a stroll and go into stores just to kind of talk to people. I'll buy something for no reason, just so I can talk to people that aren't in this office. Because, I mean, conversations with people in here.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Greatest Of All The Nuts (feat. Roy Wood Jr.)
Have you found out what the strippers do? Ah, yes, I know lots about that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Greatest Of All The Nuts (feat. Roy Wood Jr.)
Used to be a people business.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Greatest Of All The Nuts (feat. Roy Wood Jr.)
Roy, Dan read these very nice quotes from prestigious outlets and Dominic Foxworth. But to you as a comedian, these can't be the places where you're like, oh, I feel good that New York Magazine really liked my stuff, right? Where do you find, I won't call it validation, but where do you find that feel good of, man, so-and-so really respected my work?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Greatest Of All The Nuts (feat. Roy Wood Jr.)
Roy, the opposite of that. Do you ever get when someone comes up to you and says, oh man, I really loved that bit or that joke that you did. And you look back and like, oh, that was so sophomoric. And it was like, I'm so much better than that now. You're almost embarrassed by it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Greatest Of All The Nuts (feat. Roy Wood Jr.)
Football season is here, and there's absolutely nothing better than game day. But it can be a little bit stressful. You're placing bets, you're setting fantasy lineups, you're figuring out the most comfortable position to sit on your couch for the next 12 hours. No one has time to think about this part. Cooking. Well, thanks to DoorDash, you don't have to worry about that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
I have David racing to the top step like Costanza when he wanted to sit on one side of the couch and try to get there real fast.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Did you ever have to hit the red button on a team photo taken that showed the height disparity?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
When Stanton missed, did he have to get a Stanton stand-in?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Did he use those words?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
There's an entire industry that's not related to talent.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
It's kind of like Kevin Love with all his Instagram posts right now, right?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
We're not just gonna steamroll past this. Did you just say that you and Josh Beckett acknowledge that you're both not gonna live that much longer? We do talk about that quite a bit, actually.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Yes, it is a great game. We need to play it more often. But before we get him out of here, I do want to ask him about A Different Man, which is the Sebastian Stan movie. What did you think of it?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
I thought it was fascinating because Stan's character starts the movie with NF1, which is the name of the condition, and then gets cured of it. And then, like David said, at some point, I don't even know if he realizes life is better, is that he sees someone else with NF1 living the type of life that he could have never imagined for himself when he had that condition.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
And so it drives him into this kind of insanity. So is that the word?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Did you know what the movie was about before you started watching it? I did not. Me neither. That, I think, made it even better. It's just not knowing, where is this going? I thought it was, is this like The Elephant Man? That's what I thought the movie was. And then he gets, you know, I don't want to give too many spoilers, but...
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
As that transformation happens, I'm like, oh, he really can cure it, I guess? And then realizing, oh, this is not about what he looks like. It's all about the person that was inside all along. I don't believe that the room has any interest.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Leverage? I would say that whatever Stephen A. Smith's next deal is, that he's going to have the maximum leverage. Bigger than Barkley? Bigger than Barkley. Because the network has demonstrated, right? Like with Barkley, at the end of the day, it's a show. Billy's right. Yeah, they gave him a CNN show. At the end of the day, we're talking about one show, and Chuck has made it clear.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
He said, quote, I won't be working like no damn dog. So Chuck is like, we're going to do it on my time, doing what I want to do. So you're kind of like, okay, cool, but understanding it's not going to spill over into anything else. Whereas Stephen A., you can ask Stephen A., Wimbledon's coming up. We don't have anybody. He's like, I'll do it. He'll say yes to everything.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
And he'll go and he'll fly over to England and he'll pretend like he knows every single player and have strong opinions and bring attention to it. And that has real currency for any media company, but especially that place where they have zero creativity or idea of like, you know what? I'm going to give a chance to this person here.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Yeah. First of all, I've described the way the Wizards, and particularly Jordan Poole, the way they play is offensive. It offends me as a basketball person to watch them. But watching them last week against the Lakers, I realized a lot of stuff. I realized that the Wizards aren't bad because they don't have talent. And I think a lot of times, was that me? Yeah, that's a fine Venmo.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Yes, that's a Venmo fine.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Hold on now. Let's not mix. I got to get to David Sampson, so make your point, please. Well, I didn't know I was going to make the point quickly. But basically, the idea is that they don't lose games because they're not talented. A lot of times when we see a bad team, we're like, oh, because they don't have any talent. Oh, they stink or whatever.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
But a lot of times, it's not the talent gap that's responsible for the misfortune. What's responsible is making sloppy, silly mistakes that they're just not paying attention. So it's a bad pass. It's a dumb shot. It's falling asleep on defense. It's all these things that aren't, oh my God, LeBron and Anthony Davis are just better than us. They're terrible at basketball.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Yes, but almost like as a choice. Because I don't think they're bad basketball players. I just think there is a collective don't give an F about the way we do this. And what also happens with bad teams is it is contagious. Meaning... Why should I give an F? He doesn't give an F. And so no one feels a responsibility.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
That's why when we talk about culture and culture setters and all that, they're so important. It's because those are the guys that make it happen and keep everybody accountable and keep everybody knowing that we're pulling in the same direction. Dan wanted to start with this topic, Dave. I wanted to talk about a different man, which is what I texted you about.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
But Dan was like, let me ask you about this. So I'm like, all right, I guess I got to do my thesis. It's my fault. Pretty much.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
You didn't say, hey, David, what you got for us? You said, hey, Amin, let's talk about bad teams. I'm like, okay. I mean, David's waiting, but who am I? I'm just a good soldier. I follow the captain's orders. You think that was good soldier.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
No, no. It's your fault that you called the play. Like, we're going to post up Amin, but David's in the game. No, no, no. It's an Amin post-up. So Amin posts up, and he backs up, and he goes up and under, and he gets fouled, and he goes to the free throw line, and David's like, I haven't touched the ball for 13 seconds. Well, David, I'm sorry. The play was called for me. You don't like it?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
That's still your responsibility to say, all right, that's cool. I'm going to go in a different direction. Well, I thought you wanted. Okay. This is all right. I mean, this is what happens on bad teams right here where it's like he shoots himself in the face and then he blames me. I didn't shoot myself in the face. My point was really good. That bad teams are bad. Nope. Not why they're bad.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Why are they bad? Oh, because our quarterback sucks. No, because every little part of it, nobody cares. Nobody pulls together.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
See? That's doubling down.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
I would say that more often than not, at least in basketball, I can't speak for baseball, but when I watch a basketball game between a good team and a bad team, I don't see, not that it doesn't happen. There are some nights you did everything right. Guess what? They're just better. But so many possessions, so many games, that's not what's happening.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
What's happening is you did something dumb and they got a free, easy layup over here. You did something dumb and they got another possession. You did something dumb and you fell asleep and they got a layup over there. And that's it. That's all it is.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
And the part where, oh, LeBron and Anthony Davis are way better than Kyle Kuzma and Jordan Poole never even gets a chance to prove itself because you're doing everything wrong that's making the game so incredibly easy for them.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Dan "The Asterisk Guy" and Tyreek Hill's Jealousy
Doesn't get the winning.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Dan "The Asterisk Guy" and Tyreek Hill's Jealousy
Right.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Dan "The Asterisk Guy" and Tyreek Hill's Jealousy
This has to be killing Jason Kelsey. Not only seeing his brother continue to play at a high level, going for another Super Bowl, but his former team. He's a year removed from that team. To see that team have this kind of success without him has to be killing Jason Kelsey. He'll never admit it, but it has to be.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Dan "The Asterisk Guy" and Tyreek Hill's Jealousy
I did six weeks. I mean, you took a sabbatical. Then you could do a late night talk show.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Dan "The Asterisk Guy" and Tyreek Hill's Jealousy
He was talking about a means face.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Dan "The Asterisk Guy" and Tyreek Hill's Jealousy
The Dolphins are good because of me. Because of me.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Dan "The Asterisk Guy" and Tyreek Hill's Jealousy
People are talking about me. Sorry, you mean. They're talking about me in a way they never talked about me when I was with Kansas City as one of the best players in the NFL.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Dan "The Asterisk Guy" and Tyreek Hill's Jealousy
But it is. I'm serious. He had his best two years. His first two years with the Dolphins are his best two years by a lot.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Dan "The Asterisk Guy" and Tyreek Hill's Jealousy
Maybe fourth with Andy Reid.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Dan "The Asterisk Guy" and Tyreek Hill's Jealousy
Right. These decisions are hard to make in the moment. But I think just about everyone, with the exception of Michael Jordan, looks back at their career and says, hey, I could have done something differently.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Dan "The Asterisk Guy" and Tyreek Hill's Jealousy
Michael Irvin has the rare ability to be happy while screaming. He does. I've seen it. I mean...
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Dan "The Asterisk Guy" and Tyreek Hill's Jealousy
I actually thought you looked kind of good. Stugatz. Thank you. I have the beards grown out a little bit. I got a little life in my face, I feel like. A little tan, Colorado, San Francisco. I had a great time. You got life on your face. You've got death on your face.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Dan "The Asterisk Guy" and Tyreek Hill's Jealousy
It's like Kobe and Shaq. I mean, Kobe has said that the two titles he won without Shaq were way more important to him. Why? Because he was the reason they won those titles. When he did it with Shaq, everyone would say, ah, it was Shaq, it was Kobe, it was Shaq, it was Kobe. He wasn't getting 100% of the credit. When he did it without Shaq, he was getting all of it. Absolutely.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Dan "The Asterisk Guy" and Tyreek Hill's Jealousy
Yeah, I mean.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Dan "The Asterisk Guy" and Tyreek Hill's Jealousy
All together, right? Yeah, Spags.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Dan "The Asterisk Guy" and Tyreek Hill's Jealousy
I have to be honest. I did not steal it from Bill Barnwell. I didn't hear him say it. I didn't read anything that he wrote. Billy, you may have stolen it, but I came in with a fresh thought that morning. I mean...
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Dan "The Asterisk Guy" and Tyreek Hill's Jealousy
That's nice of you. Don't do that next time.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Dan "The Asterisk Guy" and Tyreek Hill's Jealousy
Bill Barnwell does not joke about football. He was half joking about it. He does. He does not joke about football. No, but it means right. It doesn't count. If he was, even half joking, it doesn't count. No, we're all serious.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Dan "The Asterisk Guy" and Tyreek Hill's Jealousy
A staple on Radio Row, Billy. Ryan Leaf. Well, I'm glad.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Dan "The Asterisk Guy" and Tyreek Hill's Jealousy
Well, no, I love it. The point I was making to Jenny is that's the place I'll show up three hours early. I'll be there. It's a content factory for me, Billy. You know that. But you won't be on your set. You'll be walking around.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Dan "The Asterisk Guy" and Tyreek Hill's Jealousy
Listen, you walk down, you take a stroll down the aisle, Radio Row, and if you walk into Jim Rome and have a five-minute conversation, that means I'm five minutes late. I'm sorry. There's nothing I can do. That's what the Super Bowl is all about. That's what Radio Row is all about. I'll have a 20-minute conversation about nothing with Mad Dog. I mean, it's amazing.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Dan "The Asterisk Guy" and Tyreek Hill's Jealousy
That's letting the ground work. That's front-end work. I befriend all these security guys. I bring them coffee every morning.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Dan "The Asterisk Guy" and Tyreek Hill's Jealousy
Smoking doors. You know we've been there with you. That's probably true. Bringing coffee. Never once have you brought coffee to someone.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Dan "The Asterisk Guy" and Tyreek Hill's Jealousy
Not a word.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Dan "The Asterisk Guy" and Tyreek Hill's Jealousy
I can't wait.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Dan "The Asterisk Guy" and Tyreek Hill's Jealousy
Yeah. Yep. I love it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Dan "The Asterisk Guy" and Tyreek Hill's Jealousy
WGR in Buffalo could have a big week next week.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Dan "The Asterisk Guy" and Tyreek Hill's Jealousy
What do you mean by that? He's a big asterisk guy. Really? Yeah. Huge. That can mean so many things.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Dan "The Asterisk Guy" and Tyreek Hill's Jealousy
That's a fine. Fat mom fine.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Dan "The Asterisk Guy" and Tyreek Hill's Jealousy
We'll get to that in a second. Billy is objecting in my headsets to you calling him an old man. I thought he said a mean was an old man.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Dan "The Asterisk Guy" and Tyreek Hill's Jealousy
If I were a Chiefs fan, I would not be paying attention to any other fan base and what they have to say about my football team.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Dan "The Asterisk Guy" and Tyreek Hill's Jealousy
No, I understand that, but my team is going for a third consecutive Super Bowl. I don't care what it is you have to say.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Dan "The Asterisk Guy" and Tyreek Hill's Jealousy
No, Dan, I love to complain about, you know, when the Patriots were going through it, Brady was getting all the calls. But you're asking me if I were a Chiefs fan, would I care about all the outside noise? And the answer is no.
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Local Hour: Dan "The Asterisk Guy" and Tyreek Hill's Jealousy
I mean, Chief Kingdom, I went to the game, home opener.
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Local Hour: Dan "The Asterisk Guy" and Tyreek Hill's Jealousy
They are without you.
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Local Hour: Dan "The Asterisk Guy" and Tyreek Hill's Jealousy
I mean, you don't think it's hard for Jason to watch his brother continue to win Super Bowls? Really? He has a late night talk show.
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Postgame Show: Steaks For Stakes
You're listening to DraftKings Network. All right, Dan's asking us to come up with steaks for this.
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Postgame Show: Steaks For Stakes
But that's not what Zazz is doing.
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Postgame Show: Steaks For Stakes
You think they're copying Zazz?
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Postgame Show: Steaks For Stakes
Mike copies Zazz? I mean, maybe.
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Postgame Show: Steaks For Stakes
I agree. I was thinking the same thing all week.
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Postgame Show: Steaks For Stakes
I would be good with actual steaks.
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Postgame Show: Steaks For Stakes
Well, it depends. Is Weezer going to cover it?
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Postgame Show: Steaks For Stakes
I'm going to tell you right now. Wow, that was so dismissive.
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Postgame Show: Steaks For Stakes
No, he's saying Pink Pony Club. Pink Pony Club. Wow.
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Postgame Show: Steaks For Stakes
I think they're both pretty catchy. I think Party in the USA is just a completely different message and vibe, so you're just going to listen. It's not quite the same.
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Postgame Show: Steaks For Stakes
But the problem is then if he wins the bet, he can't eat steak. So he has to get something else.
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Postgame Show: Steaks For Stakes
I thought you said Obama. He did.
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Postgame Show: Steaks For Stakes
Retired. Billy, thank you. I thought I was hearing things. And rich.
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Postgame Show: Steaks For Stakes
Ladies and gentlemen, we got him.
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Postgame Show: Steaks For Stakes
I don't remember that. It was like my 16th birthday.
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Postgame Show: Steaks For Stakes
How do you not remember it was your 16th birthday? I was on my DMV appointment that morning. I had to buy it off the internet from a scalper.
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Postgame Show: Steaks For Stakes
Lehman actually caught a bluefin tuna once. For real? A huge one. offshore fishing in the Keys recently.
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Postgame Show: Steaks For Stakes
With a guy he knows who's a charter fisherman.
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Postgame Show: Steaks For Stakes
But it was pretty big. It fed us for like a week. He filleted it and then he made this really good sesame crusted tuna thing. And then he made like sashimi.
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Postgame Show: Steaks For Stakes
So I guess tuna steaks for Dan, real steaks for me. Is that... Lehman's going to hate today's show, but minus this part.
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Postgame Show: Steaks For Stakes
He doesn't like his business being out there?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Pitch Clock Returns
The reality is... A good lawyer is not going to let jurors with that bias even be on the thing, right? Look, I'm not talking about the actors.
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Hour 2: The Pitch Clock Returns
You're going to look for all single people because— You want someone who can be objective because any parent is going to say, yeah, if I caught someone who had diddled my kids— I'm going to take action. And any parent who hears about a parent doing that is going to be like, yeah, I would have done the same thing. And so it's hard to separate.
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Hour 2: The Pitch Clock Returns
It's hard to separate in that situation your feelings and the knowledge of what's right and wrong as a parent with what is legal under the law.
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Hour 2: The Pitch Clock Returns
letter of the law the letter of the law says it's not about vigilante justice and all that stuff but i think most parents would be like yeah man like i don't know any parents who would be like cain velasquez how dare you like everyone's like yeah i think to a man like to a person there's not one parent that's going to be like but the consequences of that man the consequences and to be fair also dan i think cain velasquez is obviously he's fighting for his his freedom and all that but
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Hour 2: The Pitch Clock Returns
If right before he did it, someone said, wait, Kane, you might go to prison. I'll do it. In order to make things right as much as this act can make things right? Well, this really didn't make anything right.
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Hour 2: The Pitch Clock Returns
It's not. But my question is, do you think he regrets it? Do you think, man, I wish I had taken a beat there?
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Hour 2: The Pitch Clock Returns
We hope that the child is not ruined. We hope that the child can recover and through therapy and being surrounded by the right people can live a fulfilling life. But again, I don't think that any I don't think I just don't believe that he's sitting there in court being like, oh, man, what did I do? I don't think that. I think he's like, yeah, and I'd do it again.
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Hour 2: The Pitch Clock Returns
Yeah, I don't think he did it because he thought he was going to get away with it.
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Hour 2: The Pitch Clock Returns
It's going to be more than that if we're traveling and doing that. I want to be there.
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Hour 2: The Pitch Clock Returns
Well, I'll tell you exactly what it's like. You guys would be talking, and in the background, you go... I mean, that's no different than the air conditioner here.
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Hour 2: The Pitch Clock Returns
I've seen senior being added. Yeah, Steve Fuller. Marcus Morris Sr. I've seen a lot of seniors get added. But as far as the third, no. But then also I want to say it was around the anniversary of the passing of his father when he first got to Golden State. So it was clearly all built into emotions about the memory of his father.
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Hour 2: The Pitch Clock Returns
How did you miss this? Because I don't keep up with every single mid-tier NBA player podcast. Oddball. Every day except one.
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Hour 2: The Pitch Clock Returns
Well, I got sent to the penalty box a lot, man. There was a time when I couldn't say anything. I was like, I mean, go to the penalty box. It felt a little, you know. The implications. Yeah, the implications.
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Hour 1: So...Do You Hedge?
Also, it was always multiple stakes. Steaks, that's right. The starting point is at least two steaks.
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Hour 1: So...Do You Hedge?
I also agree when the stat of the day is like, hey, 20 points is more than 18 points. It's not the best. That stinks.
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Hour 1: So...Do You Hedge?
I'll go first, Dan. I don't know. Good, I know.
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Hour 1: So...Do You Hedge?
Move off of looking for me to answer because I don't know.
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Hour 1: So...Do You Hedge?
The other guy, no. It doesn't seem like Canipple should, but I know it is because I've watched him play, but it just doesn't seem.
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Hour 1: So...Do You Hedge?
I want to combine Spoiler Wednesdays with this current Duke conversation for a moment. Did you guys see that, and this is a White Lotus light spoiler, so fast forward if you don't want to know anything about the most recent episode.
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Hour 1: So...Do You Hedge?
um duke was not happy with the usage of their trademark in the most recent episode of the white lotus and they released a statement saying the white lotus not only uses our brand without permission but in our view uses it on imagery that is troubling does not reflect our values or who we are and simply goes too far and they further talked about you know suicide awareness and things like that but i want to know
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Hour 1: So...Do You Hedge?
who the duke person is that mike white the creator of white lotus hates because the usage of duke in the last episode is something that if you haven't seen it on social media yet is going to become a meme for our times
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Hour 1: So...Do You Hedge?
You guys don't like that Duke is pissed that they're in a funny meme now?
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Hour 1: So...Do You Hedge?
It dates all the way back? It could be Grayson Allen.
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Hour 1: So...Do You Hedge?
Wait, Mike White's 54? I thought he was a little younger, so it probably is Christian Laettner.
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Hour 1: So...Do You Hedge?
It's not artificial intelligence doing it. People are using an AI tool to scrape things from websites, but it's people that are behind it. And also, what I'm scared about is that's the second worst thing that's happened around the DoD in this past week. There is another ginormous scandal unfolding.
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Hour 1: So...Do You Hedge?
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Hour 1: So...Do You Hedge?
What am I supposed to do? You already lost your bet, so stakes on you. Second of all, very dangerous game when you call someone out for laughing off air and then they have to think of something to say. Just happened to me the last time. I didn't want to say what I was thinking. I made something up. I don't even know what I said. You just did it to Amin. Amin, tell us why you're laughing, Amin.
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Hour 1: So...Do You Hedge?
Because I sent him a funny Sesame Street tweet. That's why. Sunny days.
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Hour 1: So...Do You Hedge?
So Grover had this like hilarious fake mustache and a hat on. And I said, that's you.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
Can you eat steak?
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
David, I have to agree with you. I think someone did this years ago, I think it was 10 years ago, but what is the perfect formula for March Madness? And the perfect formula is first couple of days, upsets. We get to Sweet 16. I want to say you want two or three Cinderella's. By the Elite Eight, maybe one. By Final Four, you want four Blue Bloods. So there is an element.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
You need that little bit of people like, wow, St. Mary's really making a run. But by the time we get to the end, we don't want any of those Cinderella's.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
Well, when you ask how is that working out, for the haves, it's working out great in this country, right? Like rich people are richer than they've ever been before.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
But I want to ask you, David, did you ever watch the documentary on Apple TV or Apple Plus about the Super League in Europe, about how they try to create a Super League because American businessmen came in and said, hey, Chelsea, hey, Manu, why are you guys like in this UEFA thing? Make your own thing, keep all the money. And then what ended up happening was the grassroots...
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
Like fandom was so upset by this massive departure from what was tradition that they upended the whole thing. It ruined the business deal and everyone got scared and backed out.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
Right. But at the time, I remember watching and I'm like, yeah, of course, in Europe, because they stick to their standards and traditions way more than we do here. We are much more malleable people. That's why we have a lot more convenient things here than in Europe. But having said that, I wonder if this would have been the line, David.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
Do you think the people would have risen up and said, no, no, I'm a Duke fan. I'm a North Carolina fan. I don't want to go into this weird Super League thing. I want to play. I want to watch Wolford have a chance to kind of play one of us.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
I'd like to jump in for a second, David. Number one, a couple years ago, Miami went to a Final Four finish.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
Fueled off of just snorting pure uncut NIL right like that's how they did it and some other stuff right the NIL and the transport portal actually accelerates this because people are gonna be able to bring up a Bag of money and say look let me go after this kid who for whatever reason Didn't get enough touches or enough shots or enough minutes in his situation, and it's going to create more randomness I think
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
You know, to pretend like this is a result of NIL. First of all, this is not the first year of NIL. It's not first year transfer portal. To me, it's just going to increase the randomness. What do you think, David?
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
That was Akbar the Mystique right there.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
David, quick question because I haven't watched the show. Are you telling me in the show the kid gets sent to his room for punishment and they let him take his iPad with him?
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
Okay.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
I think, David, the issue here is it's not about Jimmy Butler. It's what you project to the rest of basketball. For them, I think they did the right thing. This is like, yes, you might be angry about things someone has said and done, and yes, internally you might be, go F yourself, but you say the thing that causes the least amount of waves.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
In the same way that, David, you said that when the Panthers won the Stanley Cup, if you had been the Marlins, you guys would have been MFing like, damn, But externally you say congratulations to the Panthers. Why? Is it because you owe anything to them? No. It's because you want to project that, hey, we are a place that does it right even when we have been wronged.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
And that is what you want carrying forward, not those are the petty guys that hate when the other team across town won their championship.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
No, I'm not. I'm saying to you, what's the reward? Just like what's the harm in saying congratulations over there? What's the reward in not doing a 30-second of that video? I mean, it was kind of toothless, to be honest with you, but...
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
They did the bare minimum so that no one can ever say, oh, you petty MFers, you guys didn't do anything when this guy came back, which is, again, it's not about Jimmy Butler. It's about every future free agent, every future player, star player who'd want to come here.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
They don't want to have the feeling that, hey, man, if I ever force my way out or have to force my way out, they're going to bury me, too. That's what it's about.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
If there had been no video, it absolutely would have been the A1 topic of, oh my God, they didn't even play the video. And I'm going to tell you what, David, yesterday they did the intros, a guard from Moses Moody, a blah, blah, blah, Ford from Michigan State, Draymond Green. And then after four, I was like waiting for the guys just to say, and number 20, number 10, Jimmy Butler.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
I thought they were going to do that. And that was it. And then there was a silence and I was like, Holy shit, are they just going to announce four guys and then move on to the home team? I literally thought that's where they were going with because that video took a delay, Jeremy. Back me up. It did.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
And had they gone directly from four guys? All right, now we're going to start talking about the Heat. Absolutely, that would have been A1, not only for our show, but every sports show across the country.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
David, I'm going to tell you right now. I know John Condon. You, sir, are no John Condon fan. Because when Patrick Ewing came back as a Seattle Sonic, they announced, number 33, Patrick Ewing.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
The hell he didn't. That's the reason why they traded him. David, this is my wheelhouse now. This is my wheelhouse. Patrick Ewing was like, pay me a gajillion dollars. The Knicks were like, you're 100 years old and you just broke your wrist and you tore your Achilles and did all these things. We don't want to do that. So then he said, well, then trade me.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
And then he ends up getting traded to Seattle in a three-way deal that sends Glenn Rice from the Lakers to the Knicks.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
But that was a Miami Heat decision, right? Miami Heat took, and I'm not saying it was the right decision or the wrong decision. I'm just saying it's very, very rare the path that they took, not only to suspend him, but then to choose to fine him through the rules of the CBA, at the higher fine amount than what is a typical suspension.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
So that was more about the Heat behaving in a way that was unorthodox in the situation than about Jimmy Butler doing something that was highly unheard of.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
Don't play verbal gymnastics with me. When I say unorthodox, you know what I mean. I'm not saying they went outside of the rules of the CBA. I'm saying they took a path that is least taken among teams who are faced with that kind of situation, which happens yearly in our league. Nobody takes the path that they took. But they took it.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
It was well within their right to, but we all know that's not a recourse. In the same way that, David, if you took my sandwich out of the fridge, I could call the cops and say theft. And it would be within my right to say this guy stole my lunch, even though it had my name on it, even though we know that most people are just grown up enough to handle it without turning it into a 911 call.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
You're playing a semantics game right now. I'm telling you that a lot of the rancor or there was a good amount of rancor that was created by how the Heat reacted to the situation. And I'm not saying that they were wrong to do that. I'm just saying it's part of the pie that was baked. And so when you talk about, hey, Patrick Ewing or John Condon never does that.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
I'm like, we did it for Patrick Ewing. Well, Patrick Ewing didn't leave in bad terms. Yes, he did. It wasn't cuddly like, guys, it was great. Hey, no, we got you too, Patrick, have fun. It wasn't like that. Both sides were kinda hurt, because the Knicks wanted him to retire a Knick, and he was like, I wanna get paid. And he ended up leaving as a result.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
And so, but yet, when he came back, they did not say, F that guy, who the hell does he think he is that he should get paid? You know what? Just say his name regular, John. He didn't do that because it doesn't take much to just do the thing. So everyone gives a nice golf clap. And then if you want to boo every time he touches it after that, you're well within your right.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
And they and they booed Patrick Ewing while he was a Knick, by the way.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
Thicker? Thicker with an F. Thicker. You know why I knew that? Because it's my wheelhouse.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
This is hallowed ground right here. You want to talk about the World Cup or something else, like cricket? Okay, I'll concede.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
Dan, you know what this is like? This is like the Seinfeld episode where he had the perfect breakup and no one believed him. Like, what? No, that doesn't happen. Like, no, no. We really both looked at each other.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
Isn't it?
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
And we got him and he was gracious to do it. I mean, you know, it's just a look book. It wasn't really, he wasn't like sculpting right in front of us. Sharon Stone because stone. I mean, you gotta ask him, I don't know. But the point is, Dan. The point is, is that that's what was the aim, and then the team was approached by a journalist.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
It's confusing. Wow, you guys are so jingoistic and nationalist. Where are you from, boy? Where do you come from? What country? Is that Dan? That's what all of you sound like. demanding to know his national origin.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
Do you want to see his papers, too? How about that? Hey, Akbar, show us your papers, your passport. We want to see what your visa say, boy. Huh?
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
Before they published the story. Google Jimmy Butler statue. Let me know what the number one result is. It's Akbar Domestique. Spoiler alert. Number one on Google, baby.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
Well, I would say, first of all, watch Oddball to get the full segment. Not now, though.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
I can explain it or not, right? Like, explain real quick. We wanted to get a Jimmy Butler statue commissioned. We had the artist out there. His name's Akbar Domestique. He sat out there with Izzy. Izzy was soliciting people to come give us their opinion, which one was the best of the designs. One of the people who came up to us unsolicited was a reporter. We did not know from which outlet.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
He said, I'm a reporter. He identified himself as media. So Akbar granted an interview. He never does this, by the way.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
Akbar Domestique, yeah. I don't know. Jessica thinks it's a bit...
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
The lead is, does Jimmy Butler deserve a statue outside the Kaseya Center? Most Heat fans would likely say no, considering why the star's five-and-a-half-year Miami tenure ended. But Akbar Domestique, an artist from Khartoum, Sudan... Oh, so that's where he's from.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
Says yes, and he set up a tent outside the arena before Butler's return to Miami with the Golden State Warriors on Tuesday to advocate for the cause. Quote, Jimmy Butler, great Miami Heat player. He wins very much. He great things for the organization.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
Is it confusing? How about this? Let's do Q&A. We'll answer. We're the oddball representatives here. We'll answer any questions. Q&A time. We're opening up the press conference. Qs? Any Qs?
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
Well, the beret is a sartorial decision. I think a lot of people around the world will look at that and say, that's a snazzy hat. Particularly the color scheme. Red for Miami Heat red. Yes, brilliant. And the scarf, too. The scarf is matching. Little hints of black there as well, but mostly red as well.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
who was very fascinated by the work of Akbar, and so he talked to Akbar.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
Well, the mustache is a little gaudy, but, you know, some people like to put in a little bit more product, a little bit more extra.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
Well, look, first of all, shout out to my guy from White Lotus. Women have full frontal nudes all the time, and nobody cares. But when a guy does it, all of a sudden there's all sorts of questions. Darren Stone.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
I'm sure Akbar will walk it back one day, too. Any other questions? Questions? So the journalist, I'm forgetting his name, by the way. Respect to him.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
His name is Adam. Adam, okay. So Adam got very close to Akbar.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
Yeah, showed the lookbook. That's close to me and Dan right now.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
Maybe we're not as famous as we think we are.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
Well, Akbar's very famous. He got interviewed by the media last night, so he's famous.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
I think, so we keep bringing up Kobe Shaq. I know we have to consider the source. But according to Shaq, It was all marketing. Shaq took something that was real and inflated it for the sake of theatrics. Shaq is a master of this, of going in there and taking something and making it way larger than it really is just out of sheer entertainment of himself.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
Shout out to K-Love. K-Love said he posted the clip before the game.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
Can I ask you, did you see Bam and Tyler going, Jimmy, Jimmy, wait. Who's the one that left? I'm just saying. You're saying like, oh, he didn't say what's up. It's like when people say, you didn't call me. MF, you didn't call me either. What are we doing? Oh, like it's only on me to call you. I got to be the one to pick up the phone.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
But if you don't pick up the phone, I never give you any problem.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
I'm just saying, I don't know if, look, if they had done the, look, I've seen it before. It's happened to me where I went and reached my hand out to shake hands with someone that I'd had a strained relationship with. And they looked at my hand and walked away. And I just stood there with my hand out and I looked at everybody around like, see, I tried. I reached out. They didn't do anything.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
That's not what happened. No, you're right. Look, I'm not saying Jimmy's an angel. I'm just saying, oh, poor Bam. He didn't even say hello. He didn't look at him. Neither did he. Neither did he.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
I'm going to tell you right now, I don't think so. I don't think so.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
Allow me, if I may. See, Dan is seeing this through his Dan glasses. In Dan's world, how can I make the, oh, guys, I gotta dress up like a chicken and then say something controversial and then people pay attention. That's how you do it. The way we do it is we actually go out and try to do the show and then accidentally, this is how it used to be, guys. Remember Boom Goes the Dynamite?
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
Because losing 10 straight ain't that hard.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
that happened, and I thought, oh, they got fireworks, but then there was no firework, and then the intro video plays exactly like how we started the show today. I would say that we were doing meta stuff, and I'm not blaming the video department. I'm saying the video department was Johnny on the spot.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
Because they played the intro video to complete silence, and it took like a strong five or six seconds before the game ops people were like, start a channel. Yeah, people start saying, let's go Heat. And then it couldn't, I was like, wow, they can carry this throughout the entire video? That'll be an insane environment. TNT will love it. And then three goes, let's go Heat, let's go Heat.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
That guy didn't show up that night and say, I'm gonna say Boom Goes the Dynamite and then everyone on the internet is gonna talk about me. He was just trying to do his job, but the way he did his job was so magnifique That it went viral. Now you got guys like Dan Levitard clickbaiting, trying to go viral. Let me say something crazy now. I'm dressed like Pirates of the Caribbean.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
You know, the crazy thing is there were comments underneath, and I thought for sure the comments underneath the tweet are going to be like, dude, that's not Akbar Domestique. That's someone else. And no, everyone was like, I don't know why Jimmy Butler should have a statue.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
That's not even close to what we set out to do. What we set out to do was to... honor and commemorate Jimmy Butler and we wanted people to come up to us and share their thoughts on what a Jimmy Butler statue should look like.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
But, like, what are we doing? He didn't leave on good terms. He didn't leave on good terms. And, again, we've made it about... the root cause, which is true, I think the money, but in his pursuit. He burned bridges inside. Before he was out of here, he burned bridges with people that he played with. And so, like, I didn't look at that and go, they're not saying hello. I'm like, yeah.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
if there should be a jimmy butler statue which most people agreed that they should i don't you're saying us i mean i don't remember you there well i produced the show oh okay i'm just saying like what that was the show objective was to have people come up and talk to us about a statue should there be a statue i feel like most people izzy were supportive of a statue very supportive nobody said no i mean where did you find the gentleman the artist where did you find him
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
Honey, are you watching this? Isn't this better than our anniversary? No, look, I don't know if the word fight came out of anyone's mouth. You guys are making a leap here. Right. When he says he better not have anything to say to me, it's not or I'll punch him in the face. It's or I'll say things that have been behind the scenes that no one has revealed that I will reveal.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
And I think both parties kind of feel like, hey, you know, I could have made this a lot worse if I talked about the way you guys did this or the way you did that. But I'm trying to take the high road. They're both trying to do that. And, you know, it is what it is. No one's trying to take the high road here. Yes, they are.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
Get out of here. Dude, they're not taking the low road is what I'm telling you.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
Now, 40% of them were Warriors fans. There were a lot of Steph Curry jerseys.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
Look, we thought the Warriors fans were going to be like, yeah, Jimmy Butler's going to go. No, they're like, Jimmy who? No, Steph Curry.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
It's still the Beatles. Dan, I get it. They're like the seventh seed or whatever they are in the West. They're still the Beatles. People still show up and they show up early to watch that guy warm up.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
Oh, he's known. He's known in circles. He's from the opposite side of the world. He came from all over, across the world. He's made statues of some very famous people. I don't remember the names. One was Abdul Khalif Mukhtar, and then the other one was Sharon Stone. And so... Diversity. Yeah, he's been around. He's done a lot of great work around the world.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
I'm not desensitized by his magic, but I am... surprised that a team that has fallen from grace, relative to where they once were, still attracts the traveling caravan of people from across the globe to just glimpse him. Dan, I would- He doesn't even have to play. There was so much media at the game that PR had to seat us in the stands. That's how many people were there.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
And as I'm sitting there, Dan, as I'm sitting there, I'm hearing people, they know he's not playing. When he came to sit on the – hey, there he is. Where? Look, over there. Look, over. Over to the left. And, like, they were losing their mind at just glimpsing him sit down.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
Hello. He's magical. Talk about Steph Curry being magical. Akbar is magical. Was that Borat? No, that's Akbar the Mystique.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
I remember we had some guys from Congo approach him and... Jonathan Kaminga's cousin.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
Yeah, so first of all, Akbar worked tirelessly on this. We should take a second to thank him for all of his work that he did pro bono, by the way. Until the statue actually gets made, he doesn't get paid.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
Thank you, Akbar. Thank you, Akbar. Thank you, Akbar. Thank you, Akbar. So Mr. Domestique came up with five different options.
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Local Hour: Akbar Domestique
Let's be clear, Jess. I just said that. Yikes. It's okay. He's from Kazakhstan.
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Postgame Show: Spliff Notes (feat. JuJu Gotti)
That sucks for Jeremy. Oh, he's sub 50. I'm sub 50!
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The Oklahoma City Thunder, Dan, are 46 and 11. But those 11 losses have come largely by 9 points or less. They only have 2 losses of 10 points or more that is tied for number one all time with the Chicago Bulls of 96. Only 2 losses.
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Postgame Show: Spliff Notes (feat. JuJu Gotti)
Ich weiß, das sieht gut aus. Können wir beweisen, dass das ein Photoshop ist? Yeah, that doesn't look real. It's completely photoshopped, but everyone's passed it along as, oh, this is a great shot that happened. I'm like, no, it didn't.
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Postgame Show: Spliff Notes (feat. JuJu Gotti)
Juju, zumindest in der WNBA-Ära, weil ich denke, es ist schwieriger, wenn du über Cheryl Miller und Nancy Lieberman und Anne Meyers sprichst. Aber wenn wir auf der WNBA-Level gehen, wer geht auf die WNBA?
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Das war unglaublich.
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Juju, I made a Paradise reference earlier in the show. Nobody got it. I felt so alone, man.
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Is that not true? Not true. It's an amazing show. The premise is out of this world. But the show, the storytelling, the acting, Sterling K. Brown. Emmy?
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I'm still surprised that they got the camera in the elevator like that. What polls are we updating here before we get out of here, Juju?
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The Honda Accord, you can't beat it. Jessica, you bought yours in what, 94?
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It is a compiler. And a big trunk. It's not going to hit the end of a big trunk.
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I'm with you on all those names, but Michael Fuentes, why does he get a shoutout?
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Oh my God, that was f***ing hilarious.
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Ich weiß nicht, wo ich im Ranking bin. Ich wollte nur wissen, dass ich denke, dass die Ranking passiert ist, bevor Greg gelernt hat, dass ich ein Thespian bin. Okay, very good. Memes and Nightmares on Hulu right now.
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Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
Bagels are delicious. I got a great bagel story.
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Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
dan marley told me this story when he was playing for the suns when he's a rookie they used to practice at the jcc in phoenix because they didn't have a practice facility back then and uh every day they would let us set out bagels for them after practice and uh uh he i think it was tim perry was his teammate but anyway he's sitting at the lockers and uh they're saying how's training camp going not bad and and tim perry says some hard-ass donuts though
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Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
This looks like Greg Cody when we sent him out to the dance tryouts. He was dancing like that. You remember? This is foreshadowing.
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Our elevators have bars. Okay. Our elevators have bars. We need to do this. But I do have a question, Dan. Who held the elevator door open for him? Because that elevator door is open unnaturally long.
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Oh, they're in the elevator with him. I just had no idea. I think he put it on the floor.
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Did you guys describe the video? No, you didn't.
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Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
I was here. When you said, you ever see your friends and say, I didn't know they could dance like that.
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Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
He was shaking that thing. Because Izzy's doing the meeting that I jumped out of to do this goddamn show. Thank you for that. Thank you, Amin. How about that? A heroic gesture. A real heroic gesture by Amin. This would never happen in Hollywood.
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Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
If they're not in the room, how is that able to happen? Dan, have you been watching the TV show Paradise? There's a point where one of the characters puts it on a loop and then leaves and they can't figure out how to reboot the whole system to stop. You don't watch Paradise?
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Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
That would shock me. The only thing I saw was that one video, and I was impressed. I was impressed. I didn't think Pablo had it. But then I remembered, Pablo's Filipino, so technically, he's an embarrassment. He should be dancing a lot more and a lot better. No, I know all about that.
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Do we know each other? Me and you? No, the people on this hypothetical flight.
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Proud to be a Canadian. Yeah, that's right.
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Because they're cutting out the waiting time.
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Because, Billy, it's the internet. This is where we are, Web 3.0. Clout. Yep, it doesn't matter.
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Well, a couple of things. Number one, don't use the word terror because when it comes to planes, that has a very specific connotation. I know what you meant, like as in terrifying, but terror, planes, not so much. Number two... We're actually behind pace from last year in terms of accidents up until this point. Big win. Yeah, we're actually doing better. Okay, progress.
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Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
What if it is fatal, but there's no fury? Egg. Excellent.
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There's already fury. I mean, he just got hit in the face with an egg. Yeah, but what if the fight happens and there's actually no fury, but then someone dies?
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Hour 1: The Origins of Slapdick
No, her time is all the time. Her time is Christmas time. All the time. And then at Christmas, she shifts gears to a Christmas side of her. And then she dominates that. And then when Christmas is over, back to dominating the regular stuff. She's 55, by the way.
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That's why I don't like the comparison, because Buble, tell me a Buble song. I don't know any of his songs.
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Hour 1: The Origins of Slapdick
Pretty much. That's what it comes down to. It's basically someone like a masturbatory. You're not doing anything other than just touching yourself, basically, as opposed to doing your job. And so slapdick was a word that we used in basketball all the damn time. He's a slapdick. What are those slapdicks up to? Everyone's a slapdick. Anyone who's not doing their job was a slapdick.
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Stugatz. I think you could do it, Chris, because you did a great Charles Barkley. You're one for one there.
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Hour 1: The Origins of Slapdick
Rachel. Dan, the line is where we feel alive, though.
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Hour 1: The Origins of Slapdick
I think when you're cool, like you're just a cool person, you find your way on to a lot of different sets and into a lot of different projects. Kind of like I found my way to memes and nightmares, which you can catch on Hulu right now.
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Hour 1: The Origins of Slapdick
I'm with you, Jessica. That is Gemini. I've learned to know how Gemini sounds. And Gemini, ladies and gentlemen, It's terrible. It doesn't know what the hell it's talking about.
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Hour 1: The Origins of Slapdick
It sounds right, but it's also almost exclusively wrong.
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Hour 1: The Origins of Slapdick
And I remember when I left basketball and I entered the media world, I used that term a couple of times and nobody knew what the hell I was talking about. Right. I even tried to use it on air at ESPN. Obviously, I couldn't say slapdick. So I created the euphemism or the clean version, the radio edit of slappy. He's a slappy as opposed to a slapdick, right? But nobody got it.
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That's what I wanted to land on, Chris, because I don't know. I just learned about this guy right now.
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Are we stereotyping right now or do we know?
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You know why I believe you, Dan? Why I believe you're right? Because a guy who's deep into metrics probably can't read who's cool and who isn't, and that would make sense why he hired Liam Cohen to be the head coach. He probably walked in and said, this guy's cool. And the rest of us are like, this dude.
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Hour 1: The Origins of Slapdick
That means he's not confident. He's like, wait, is it Duval or is it Duval? He still doesn't know.
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Hour 1: The Origins of Slapdick
So I was like, maybe this is just something that we did. Billy, why are you looking at me in that way?
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Hour 1: The Origins of Slapdick
Well, no, I was confused nobody knew what slapdick was. And then I went slappy to kind of clean it up.
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Hour 1: The Origins of Slapdick
So what is it? I think he's one of the people who does have the power, though. I think they're gonna say, we're not gonna trade him and all that stuff, but at the end of the day, he's, at the end of the day, it's again, wow.
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Hour 1: The Origins of Slapdick
It's useless. It is useless. But they're gonna say what they're gonna say, which is, we're not gonna trade him. You have to project that strength, especially in that sport, right? But ultimately... which is a different version of that at the end of the day, right?
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Hour 1: The Origins of Slapdick
That's great. All crutches to get you to the next point. Ultimately, Myles Garrett is not only high enough value, but also impactful enough for their team that he can ruin their season.
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Hour 1: The Origins of Slapdick
Look, not only can I kind of mix things up here, but every moment you wait to trade me, my trade value decreases. You need to move now in many ways. This is kind of like the Jimmy Butler thing from last summer. It's like, if you're going to do him, if you're going to deal him, do it now.
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Hour 1: The Origins of Slapdick
You should be so lucky to be called a slapdick by Diana Taurasi. I think she would say, who?
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Hour 1: The Origins of Slapdick
No amount of money will keep me here if I'm the Browns. Do I say, hey, does Cam Ward change any of that feeling, right? If they draft Cam Ward, now you've got another star. You've got the best quarterback in college football.
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Hour 1: The Origins of Slapdick
Look, you know what? Again, another journey that I'm glad I took because it built me into the actor I am today. But, Dan,
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But Dan, I often think about that. Is that because they can't or it's just because they never, the old, I didn't know you could do that. If we look at football and say the reason it's done this way is because they basically convinced their labor pool that this is all you can do, you can't do any of that mess over here.
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And then as they look over at basketball and player after player getting exactly what they wanted, Do we not see a rise of this happening on the NFL level?
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Hour 1: The Origins of Slapdick
No, they don't want players to have power, but sometimes you have the power by just telling people, you don't have any power, shut up. And then one day you realize, wait a second, I have all the power, what are you talking about?
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Hour 1: The Origins of Slapdick
Slapdick I reached a point where I thought maybe this isn't a word that like the common public knows or uses So I was delighted to hear the show you guys are talking about the words I've heard it maybe five times in my life and never thought to myself I wonder why it hasn't been popularized.
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Hour 1: The Origins of Slapdick
When you say culture, when you say culture, you're saying there isn't like a rule or a financial restriction, although there are in some players based on how their contracts are structured. But when you talk about quarterbacks and guys at the top who have a lot of guaranteed money, then yeah, they really don't, they can tell you the culture and that's not how we do things here.
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But at the end of the day, it's like, it's the honor system, basically. You're asking me just to go along and get along.
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The end of the day thing. Do I do this every day? You do it all the time. Really? You guys concur on this? I do it too.
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But we did... Consult players? We wanted to trade Shaq, and Steve Kerr got a deal done with Portland, basically. And he went to Shaq, he said, I have a deal on the table right now to send you to Portland. And Shaq said, please don't send me to Portland.
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Hour 1: The Origins of Slapdick
What's your snack machine like? I mean, that's what agents are for.
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Who was it? Shea Gillespie Alexander fired his agent, and everyone's like, what a great move. And I'm like, no, you need an agent, because an agent is the one that gets you out of trouble. You have honey buns?
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At the end of the day, that's what he cares about. Confirmed.
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Hour 1: The Origins of Slapdick
There you go. See, so slapdick is specifically, it's towards people who are incompetent at their jobs, right? It's not like... Nico. So I can say Nico's a slapdick. I'm not going to call Nico a slapdick. Well, what do you mean? There's a certain level of apathy slash laziness that goes along with slapdick.
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You can't criticize Pierce because you want to get back in the league? No, I can criticize Pierce all the damn time. Have you ever watched Oddball? Monday through Thursday on DraftKings Network and on YouTube, right? But...
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Navy Pier. Overpriced. What's going on over there?
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Is it on the Don't Die documentary? Because that place looks great for some place that's 110 years old.
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No, see, you can't trademark slapdick, man. Put it on the poll, Juju. Can you trademark slapdick? I'm trying to think of what a slapdick is, right? It's got to be a guy who is not just bad at his job, but bad at his job because he's lazy. He's not even trying, right? That's what a slapdick is. Somebody who wouldn't call around the league to find out if there was value for Luka.
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Hour 1: The Origins of Slapdick
You're not going to do this. Nico is not a slapdick. I'm not saying I agree with the move. I'm just saying, not a slapdick.
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I am really fascinated by the etymology, though, because you were like, what does it mean?
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Exactly. Dan, imagine this. Imagine if you hired like carpenters and they're supposed to be like. So a woman can't be a slap dick. Yes, of course a woman can be a slap dick. Never said whose dick is slapping.
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Hour 1: The Origins of Slapdick
I want to do a backup Billy in this. They're not all criminals. Thank you. But... Most of them. Most of them are descended from criminals. The white ones, at least. They're not all criminals. Malia? The indigenous people, not criminals. That was their land.
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Thank you. Actually, even the ones who weren't descended from criminals are kind of criminals because they stole the land from the indigenous people.
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Billy, you let them off easy. You said it was like $190,000 or whatever, less than $200,000. You let them off easy. It's a nation of millions that stole their land from someone else.
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Hour 1: The Origins of Slapdick
Now, here's the fun part about it. I'm listening. I don't know nothing about nothing, right? That's how he turned folksy. All right, so we're going to go to Gary Furman again. We're going to do this again. You know what? I like the original Confirman. Even though I like the Fuentes remix, the original, I think, is the best. Confirman.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Origins of Slapdick
Oh, God. Greg, Greg, Greg's the one that made it bad. I don't think Mike made it bad. I think Greg kind of, because, no, actually, you know what? Take it back. You're the one that made it bad. I had to do kind of the chain in my head. Why was Greg talking back? Because you were heaping praise on this dude, and you're asking basically Michael Jordan, hey, man, what do you think of Allen Houston?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Origins of Slapdick
Allen Houston's a good player, right? But Michael Jordan's like, are you really? You're putting this guy on my plateau?
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Hour 1: The Origins of Slapdick
All right. Look. You kept trying to force him legendary status on him.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Origins of Slapdick
So Dan, this is the best comp I can make. And this one, Jessica, this will hit home for you. Have you ever seen video of Joe Montana being asked about the movie Rudy? Oh, yes. That's basically what Dan did. He went to Joe Montana and said, wow, how great was it to play with Rudy? And Joe Montana looked at Dan like, what are you talking about?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Origins of Slapdick
See you, Gary. Mike was way more disrespectful. Greg is not Michael Jordan. I take that back. Greg is Joe Montana. and Furman is Rudy, and what you didn't do, you know what, because Greg humbles himself every day. He allows himself to be the butt of the joke around here. We have a lot of fun at his expense, but you know what the biggest shock of my life was?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Origins of Slapdick
When I listened to Greg Cody on Kornheiser, and I said, who is this? This man is brilliant. He's eloquent. He's thoughtful. He thinks outside the box. This isn't the Greg Cody that I know from the Dan Levitard show.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Origins of Slapdick
Pretty much. And so when you walk in here and you start singing the praises of the guy who was the walk-on who didn't actually play that much, but we're going to let Hollywood tell us lies and fiction.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Origins of Slapdick
Give us some of the YouTubers and TikTokers. Is cheese a real person? I think you'll be surprised at how many YouTubers and TikTokers I know. We're YouTubers, aren't we? Yes, we are. And TikTokers. I posted one yesterday.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Origins of Slapdick
Hey, Billy, you know what I hear? I hear from them, hit dogs hollering. That's what I'm hearing from them. Okay. Confirmed.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
Is the devil one of those listeners?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
Damn it. David, quick question. You were the president of the Marlins. Your spring training is always here in Florida, Grapefruit League. As a president, I know scouts will go to the other league, but have you ever been to the Cactus League?
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
No way. Have you ever been to Cactus League? Chris? I've seen of it. Never been. Let me tell you right now. Grapefruit League? That's for old folks. Cactus League is if you want to get a party going, man.
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
David was one of those people who would walk into a party and say, what comes before Part B, right? You ever drop that line?
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
Are they? How about that?
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
Portillo. It is Portillo.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
He thought it was a Mexican joint.
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
Dan in his head.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
Hot take here. I love that speech. I love that sentiment, everything that you're talking about. I don't like that Chalamet shows us a little bit too much of himself at Nick games. Like, I don't want to know that you love the Knicks and you're just a dumb Nick fan. Like all my friends in my group chats. I want that.
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
I need him to maintain that mystery that Daniel Day-Lewis would never Hollywood superstar mystique. I want him to be unattainable.
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
The little douche kid. Was he a douche? That's in Don't Look Up. Don't Look Up. He was great in that too. He was.
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
No. Well, Voldemort, maybe. The only thing he's been bad at is pronouncing his own name. It's Ralph. You can't, like, mystify us. Like, ooh, it's Ralph Fiennes. It's Ralph. Ralph Fiennes. You're not American, I mean. It doesn't matter. There's an L in there.
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
Another devil you don't know situation. He's from England. Name me one other person. Any other person named Rafe spelled Ralph.
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
Because I've watched EastEnders and other BBC shows, and there have been characters, Ralphie, Ralphie, come on. I've never heard Ralphie.
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
Now, Samson, in Dan's defense, in his mind, every promo has to come with a chant. LinkedIn, LinkedIn. That's what I've grown accustomed to. That's what's happened. That is who I am now.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
David, if you were Rob Manfred and you had two big offers that are roughly the same monetarily, but one is via streamer and one is via linear TV. which direction do you take? Assuming all the particulars are equal, the biggest difference is just method of distribution.
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
And now she knows that. And now, of course.
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
Guys, guys, I'm going to stick up for David Sampson here. He did not call her the devil. He called her the devil he knew. Yeah.
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
Where in the hierarchy is the devil? No, not the devil you know, the devil in general.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: I'm Here, I've Lived, How About You?
Right. We're at the beginning of the day. That's first of all. That's at the beginning of the day. First of all, Kenny. And then it ends with, at the end of the day. Is that your Barkley? Who's that? At the end of the day, it's Stephen A. Smith. Okay, I was going to say.
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At the end of the day, right? At the end of the day, though. They massively underappreciated how much that dude meant to that market. And Dan, if you go to a Hawks game today and you see dozens of empty rows and empty seats, it's all tied back to that. That was the day they broke the city of Atlanta's heart and they've never recovered.
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And I look at Dallas and being good, everyone says, well, if you're good, that'll solve it. But the Hawks were good after they traded Dominique Wilkins for another five years. Until they tore it all down. But ultimately, you lost the love and the trust of the people. And I think that's what Dallas has done.
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Some of these things have been overblown.
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I'm going to try and guess. I'm going to say Jeremy yelling at Fuentes. It was Jeremy.
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That's one video. They did it constantly. I heard it over the broadcast and they never mentioned it. The TNT guys, at least I didn't hear Bryan Anderson and Greg Anthony mentioned it one time. I mean, Dan, sometimes there are deals that in retrospect, oh man, that was a bad deal. Shay Gillespie Alexander, four first-round picks for Paul George. I understand the justifications.
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At the time, I was like, that's a lot, but it makes sense. And now as we look back, we're like, Jesus, what a terrible deal. This one, the moment it came out, it was so bad, literally everyone working in the industry, forget about fans, working in the industry, thought it was fake.
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That's the job, though. That's the job. That's the job, right? One, that's why those guys are compensated well. And two, when you want to make bold moves, it comes in the face of, hey, not everyone is going to understand this on day one, right? Indiana in 1987, the Pacers had whatever pick it was in the first round. Steve Alford, who played at IU and was this huge local hero, on the board.
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The Pacers take the skinny kid from UCLA. And they get booed. I think the draft was in Indiana. They got booed loudly. People booed. They went crazy. And a zillion years later, no one knows who the hell Steve Alford is. And Reggie Miller is a Hall of Famer and one of the 75 greatest players to ever play.
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The job is when you are about to make a bold decision, the job is, hey, they may not understand it in the moment. But over time, I will be proven to be right, right? That's why you get the ability to do that deal. That's why you get compensated the way you do.
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Dan, two things. Number one, you constantly urge the Internet to leap on my neck. And other people.
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We put out a poll asking if I'm anti-American.
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That's a big neck to leap on.
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I don't know. I mean, who was that? He found a new neck to leap on. That's what he did. You're right.
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He's a movie star. Look, man, I mean, Hollywood came calling and it was only a matter of time. You know, the sports stuff was fun while it lasted, but... I found my new calling. You guys ridiculed Greg Cody and I wanted, where's my camera? Right here. Greg, it's never too late. Look at me. I'm a huge Hollywood star and I'm in two movies this season. Two?
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Well, I want Greg to know that as I face him, because this is a one-to-one conversation with Greg Cody, they want to shit on your dreams of being a thespian Being an actor. But I'm here to tell you, Greg, you have the chops. You know why? Because you have the fire inside. You know what it takes is the fire. Everything else they can teach you. They taught me. They didn't teach me that much.
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You know, I was a natural talent, they said. Two movies you've got that are out now? Two? I only saw you in one. Well, the other one is... In theaters next, starting next week, and then wide release via streaming later on in Q1. That's industry jargon, Dan.
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respectfully when i did that i came in here with no sunglasses but you didn't have a black eye did you you just chipped a tooth uh no my face was swollen oh the whole side of my face was swollen i actually did the whole show not facing the shipping container i was sitting over there and i just stared at dan the whole way because i didn't want anyone to see the other side of my face
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That story just went away, the Leno one, huh? Kind of like I'm hoping mine goes away, too. But the one that stays is that Jay Leno... great comedian, and Amino Hassan, great thespian.
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He's officially frustrated with you.
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Tell me. Well, typically when you go on a talk show, the host is like, oh, and he sets it up and we have a clip and everything.
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Local Hour: I'm Here, I've Lived, How About You?
Yeah, Dan. The movie's called Memes and Nightmares. It's on Hulu. It's starring Josiah Johnson and Jamel Johnson and a host of other people from around basketball that you may recognize. It is a mockumentary, not unlike the Spinal Tap sequel that our friend Brad Williams is going to be in. It's a mockumentary. This is not a documentary, ladies and gentlemen.
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The difference between a mockumentary and a documentary is this shit ain't real. We're making jokes. And the joke is... that the J.R.R. Smith squinting meme has disappeared off the Internet, has been scrubbed off the Internet, and Jamel and Josiah are trying to find out who did it. And I'm in it as, I guess, in the mockumentary as an expert who's giving testimony about NBA Twitter.
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Local Hour: I'm Here, I've Lived, How About You?
I'm surprised we've got Matt Barnes. This is what I'll say to you. This is what I'll say to you, Chris. Watch the movie and let me know. He's not in it that much. Wait, what's the second movie? The second movie, this one. In this one, essentially, I'm playing myself.
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I'm playing an exaggerated version of myself, which I don't have much experience doing, Dan, as you know, playing an exaggerated version of myself. Hold on, let me take a swig of liquor at 9 in the morning. Steve Martin over there. He's like a method actor, this guy. You gotta sink into the role sometimes.
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No, the other movie is called Americano, and it's an indie film, and I play an agent, an agent who is trying to recruit a basketball player.
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SAG Awards, next year I'll be there. Dan, people who are worried about AI, you know what? I'm not worried, because AI could never replicate. The passion! the depths of the human experience, right? That's not something that you could put in a little algorithm and it comes out. They try, but they could never, Dan. You know why? Because AI doesn't bleed.
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AI doesn't fall and chip its tooth and have half of its face swollen and have to do three hours of content while everyone is saying, why do you keep facing towards Dan and not towards us? AI doesn't have to do that, doesn't have that to pull from. An act of bravery by you. Some notes, a little less. A little less. AI doesn't have that experience to pull from.
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To look at the camera dead in the eye and say... I'm here. I've lived.
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Hear me out here. We construct right here in the middle of the table In essence, a shrine. I like that idea. Put the thing in a jar, fill it with liquid. A pickle jar. The jar has inside it LED lights. So it lights up. Yes. And so this thing then reflects backwards to a projection screen back there. Jessica doesn't like that.
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So he horse shitted us yesterday.
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Jessica, it's like the hot dog scene in Role Models. Oh, God. With Jane Lynch.
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I need you to send another text to your father and say, hey dad, also another update. Amin has been in two movies now. Does that change our ranking of him in the top 100?
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You know what? No, no. Go ahead, please. I was going to say, you know what? I blame the director. You have a talent. You direct around the town. Guess what, guys? Now we're turning over our right shoulder. That's it.
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Dan, this happens a lot as an actor. I really get frustrated when, you know, the directorial vision is a little too rigid. Doesn't have enough flexibility for a grander vision, a better vision, might I add. A better vision. Yeah. A better vision. Well, you know, the people actually doing the acting, that's the story right there. Those are the messengers, the bards, if you will.
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The director is nothing more than just a guy who's a little technical sidekick saying, oh, could you stand over here? Look, nerd, move the whole thing this way, and now I don't have to stand over there. I'm already here.
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He's still a nerd.
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I don't want to be. People who don't have want, Dan. I am. Okay.
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Well, you know, me, LBJ, Mav, we go back a long ways before the Hollywood days when it was just, you know, that human sandbox you guys called sports. The toy department of humanity, I like to call it. We know each other from back then, so it was kismet, I think you could say, that we would all be working together on this side of the aisle. Jessica, why are you shaking your head? What's the matter?
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You know, I think back of my earlier exploits. And they, you know, Jessica, you say that, but I think about them now as they were motivational, right? These were things, these were character building moments for me. American Ninja Warrior, losing the race to Billy.
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Which character?
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Oh, no, no, no, no. I wasn't an actor then. I was just a young boy trying to make his way through the world. But then it unlocked something inside me because it all started with the same feeling that Greg felt yesterday, right? Which is this. I've never done this thing. Who's to say? Maybe I'm incredible at it and I just never known. I've never given that side of me an opportunity.
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And so you go out there, you tie up your shoelaces, you run out there in front of millions of people on TV and you fail. And what you find out is, huh, That wasn't quite as bad as I thought it would be. Is this going to be all show? Look, I mean, I wanted to talk about Nico Harrison. Dan wanted to talk about my acting career. Memes and Nightmares on Hulu.
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Go ahead. Okay, so first and foremost... Hell of a game by the Mavs. We're missing a bunch of people due to injury. Kyrie Irving looked incredible last night. Dante Exum came along late. For all the hoopla about the Lakers... They haven't played good teams since acquiring Luka Doncic. This is probably one of the better teams they've played. And I haven't been as impressed.
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I know they lost their mind after beating Denver on Saturday. But the other thing about this game was that Luka did not have a good game. You could tell that he was forcing it. Even he said it after the game. He was like, I just didn't have it going tonight. And it's amazing, Dan, any time you can say... Had a bad game, had a triple-double.
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Yeah, I mean, it's not an unimpressive triple-double. It's an unimpressive triple-double for him, right? And what he shot from the field, that was unimpressive for him. And I think that's the big thing. Ultimately, like we said about Nico Harrison, it comes down to this. This deal isn't about this year. Neither of these teams will win the championship.
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Neither of these teams will represent the Western Conference, I don't think. But five years from now, ten years from now, can we honestly say that we think the Mavericks will be better off than the Lakers will be in the next ten years? You don't think the Lakers are playing for this year? No. You don't think the Lakers think they can win the championship this year?
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Dan, whether they think it or not does not change what reality is. This is not a championship team. I think this is a second-round knockout. I mean, if you look at, and I know we're over here, but if you look at the standings, the Lakers are probably going to finish either four or five, meaning they'll play probably the Rockets or the Clippers in the first round. Okay, you'll win that one.
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And the second round, you play against a buzzsaw named Oklahoma City, and that's where all the dreams go to die.
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For a couple of those rings.
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Look, man. Organizations win championships. Thank you, Amin. Thank you. There you go. Appreciate you. As you were, you think that you had something to do with Diana Taurasi's? Well, for her WNBA championships. The UConn and the Olympics stuff, she was on her own. So six, is it six gold medals? Yeah, she did that on her own.
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No, those are on her own, too.
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I thought you were asking about me. No, she's absolutely one of the iconic figures of the Valley, which is what they call the Greater Phoenix area. So it's like Charles Barkley, Larry Fitzgerald, Steve Nash, Diana Taurasi. Mike Wilbon. Mike Wilbon. Amin. Amin, yeah.
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I'm going to say right now. Wilbon's fraudulent Phoenix. Every time I see him on PTI, I see that background. Camelback Mountain, baby.
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And it's probably Jerry Colangelo who made it happen. And we're acting like Wilbon doesn't have more than one home? No, but his home is Phoenix.
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Charles claims Leeds, Alabama.
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Yeah, you google. Tomato, tomato. You ogle. Ogle. You goggle? Maybe he's goggling him. Relax.
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Lurking is, I think there's movement that happens with lurking.
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Yeah, you got to do that. If you're standing still. He's in the cut. Yeah, keep doing it, Jessica, so the cameras can catch you. There you go. Turn around, come back the other way. There it is. Okay.
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A little high step? A little high step? There you go. That's why I said oogling. Toll first. Because I see there.
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Wouldn't you think? They've already admitted that.
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Rick Welch, who's the president of the team, Patrick Dumont, the governor, all of them say, well, the fan reaction has been much more harsh than we could have imagined, which, again, is kind of weird, considering you traded the franchise player, the fan favorite, for a guy, like, not for a surefire, everyone's like, oh, you might have won that trade. Like, I can listen to their...
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you know justifications and say okay if i squint and think about it maybe but at the end of the day the the popularity part which again at the end of the day this thing is a business you got to sell tickets you got to sell you got to move merch you alienated a massive part of the fan base dan two days ago was the 31st anniversary of dominique wilkins getting traded from atlanta and
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That was kind of a similar thing where they thought, okay, well, this is going to give us a better runway to the future. Danny Manning was younger, all this other stuff. But at the end of the day, they somehow missed it.
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Postgame Show: Spliff Notes With Juju Gotti
Standard of the day. Dan, there were a bunch of people walking around with signs that said, just tank, baby. The Raiders fan base is very into tanking.
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Yes, and the people were asking for you, Juju. A lot of people were like, where's Juju? I said, he'll be back.
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Not really. That's just the lighting. Dude, the Monday Night Football, man. I went to Raiders and Falcons. Yeah. It was a great experience, but I was surprised how many Falcons fans wore Deion Sanders jerseys. But I thought there would be way more Michael Vicks and there weren't. There was like maybe two or three.
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Greg, I'm going to suggest something to you because I've thought about this for Black in My Day several times. If you pull one from like seven years ago, will anyone remember?
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Postgame Show: Spliff Notes With Juju Gotti
So Dan, you know, obviously I'm out in the room where Greg is wrapping a gift, but we know his mic is hot. So all of us are kind of speaking in whispers and we're having side conversations. And at one point I remember looking up at the screen to see kind of what you guys were on and I'm like, why is Nick Turturro and Michael K still here? It was like 40 minutes later, I'm like, they're still here?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Spliff Notes With Juju Gotti
The people loved it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Spliff Notes With Juju Gotti
I will reveal to the audience I was surprised afterwards. Mike was legitimately, like, offended. You will not reveal any such thing to the audience.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Spliff Notes With Juju Gotti
Oh, so that's why. I'm like, this is a lot of, because I remember when you had your Deon jerseys, I was like, wow, where'd you get that? And then I'm like, I didn't know there were this many Deon jerseys out there. Right, right. Hey, and mine, you know, mine from actually 1994.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Spliff Notes With Juju Gotti
That's what I'm saying. Like, you have one that was like a original prod, right?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
Yeah, I mean, I would say I care deeply. I don't want to compare, but I think the problem is many of the arguments are straw man arguments. They're red herrings that you guys are following. Straw man. Thank you. But now we have that sounder. For example, I'll give you an example, Dan. You mentioned it yesterday when I was on the show briefly.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
But the Bulls and the Hornets played a game where 75 missed three-pointers. And everybody was like, oh, my God, this is why the NBA sucks. And I said, okay, so the headline is two horrible teams play against each other and play in a horrible game. And that's what we're judging the sport on. That's what we're doing? Why don't we judge it off Raiders, Panthers, and NFL?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
We could do this across the board. There are bad teams in every sport, and bad teams play bad games. The reality is, everyone who's crying about the lack of a mid-range shot in the NBA, or the demise of the mid-range shot is, you look around the league. Does Steph Curry shoot mid-range shots? Yes or no? Occasionally. Not occasionally. He shoots quite a few. Kevin Durant? Yes. Devin Booker? Yeah.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
Jimmy Butler? Sure. Jason Tatum? Mm-hmm. Jalen Brown? Yep. Luka Doncic? Yeah. Kyrie Irving? Yes. Okay, so it seems to me the mid-range shots we got rid of was from the Eric Snows of the world. That's what you guys are missing.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
Yeah, you're missing all these guys who— I do miss Eric Snow.
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Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
You're pretty certain it's not going to go in.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
Stugatz, you missed the Tyrone Hill pick-and-pop 18-footer? Yeah, I do, yeah. You miss Kurt Thomas on the baseline? I do, actually, yes, money, yep. Udonis Haslam, remember when he learned how to shoot? Yeah. See, like, Dan, that's the mid-range shots that got legislated out of our game, because basically what we told every role player is, hey, either you're going to,
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
Make a three to spread the defense out so that Luka and Steph and Kevin Durant can do these amazing things that we all actually paid to see. We wanna see those guys do amazing things. So you need to stand out there at the three-point line so the defenders can't just sag and sit right there and help.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
Or you're gonna be an amazing athlete who's gonna catch lobs and dunks like Clint Capella and Rudy Gobert and all these guys that just exist for an alley-oop in case someone tries to collapse. What we got out of the game was all the people we didn't want to see shooting. That's what we got. Now, are you going to have nights where people shoot poorly? Yeah, that's the game.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
But to base it all on one thing like that, to me, the NBA doesn't have a three-point problem. It doesn't have a load management problem, despite what you guys were ridiculous to talk about earlier. What the NBA has is a marketing problem. We don't know how to market our game in a way that's... Salient. I just came back from Vegas, the NBA Cup.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
You know who there was an abundance of with great access to everything? Influencers. And that's awesome. These people have millions of followers. They get millions of views on Instagram. You know what the NBA has not yet learned how to monetize? The Internet. Right? So if we say, hey, the way we make our money, more than anything, is people watching on TV. Right?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
Let's market to the number one audience that doesn't watch TV. That's what we're doing. And I'm like, that's the part where we're behind. Or maybe we're ahead. Maybe the NBA says, look, in the future, no one's going to watch TV. And then we'll have the market cornered. For sure. But right now, our metrics for success are not measuring the things that we are going after. And that's your problem.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
It's not wokeness. It's not load management. It's not three pointers. It's not any of that. Yes, still super defensive.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
So, Greg. Let me pitch you this. Maybe it's too gimmicky for Greg Cody, but let me give it a try. I'll be the judge of that. I got one better than that. Watch this. In baseball, how far is a home run from home plate?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
Depends on the park. From 312 feet to 412 feet. Right? And we could say that some teams have players that benefit greatly from the way the park is designed, right? Yeah. What if the three-point line was subjective by NBA Arena? So if I'm Milwaukee, Giannis gets a lot of stuff in the paint. I'm putting the three-point line right there in the paint.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
If I'm Golden State, I'm like, no, no, I want it as far as possible. And now there's a little bit of strategy when you go from building to building. Hey, how many threes are we taking?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
Because, Dan, I don't mind rule changes. Thank you. Our game has changed rules more than probably any of the other sports. Maybe not football in the last 10 years. Those guys are going crazy.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Good Day! (feat. JuJu Gotti)
The Thunder had lost only two games by 10 points or more all season long, which is tied for the record. And that was game number three right there. So they will not hold the record.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Good Day! (feat. JuJu Gotti)
Just doesn't think God exists. A cynic.
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Postgame Show: Good Day! (feat. JuJu Gotti)
Okay, that's fair. See that? It's not that hard to be like, oh, okay.
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Postgame Show: Good Day! (feat. JuJu Gotti)
Juju, to be fair, when Barkley said all that stuff, he said to Shaq, what's the name of that fool over there? Shaq said, who? So Shaq wasn't really bought in on the whole argument from the beginning. That was really Charles' argument.
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Postgame Show: Good Day! (feat. JuJu Gotti)
Then yes. If it's my definition, then yes. But I'm curious what your definition is.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Good Day! (feat. JuJu Gotti)
We talked about this before where people don't possess the... the skills to differentiate between what those guys say and do versus what great writers and reporters are doing and just lumping it all as, the media says this, when LeBron said, that's the problem with the media.
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Postgame Show: Good Day! (feat. JuJu Gotti)
When it's like, well, I know plenty of people who analyze and break down the game, who do all the things that LeBron claims, or Kevin Durant claims, hey, why don't you guys just talk about the game? But yeah, you never mention those guys You're part of the problem.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Good Day! (feat. JuJu Gotti)
You're taking your platform, your voice that goes very far, and choosing instead of saying, you know what, I really enjoy the writing of Tom Havistrow. I really enjoy the writing of Marcus Thompson in The Athletic and Sam Amick and guys like that. Instead of that, you're choosing to talk about The same four people over and over again.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Good Day! (feat. JuJu Gotti)
Well, there's no wonder why those guys keep getting raises and keep getting paid and keep getting attention and keep getting every show because the stars are endorsing them whether they want to or not.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Good Day! (feat. JuJu Gotti)
I would say six. There are six teams that legitimately have a chance to win a championship. And at that point of the year, yes, attention tends to wane on the lesser teams because we're all getting ready to talk about these teams that we're going to be talking about through April, May, and June.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Good Day! (feat. JuJu Gotti)
The difference, and I think Juju is going to point this out, which is Detroit's been getting better and better. So a team like Detroit at the beginning of the year was probably not on Shaq's radar. Now should be, but because of the way they started, wasn't really there. Same thing with Portland.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Good Day! (feat. JuJu Gotti)
They're probably not going to make the play-in, but they're playing a lot better now than they were early in the year. Even a team like the Wizards, who I've been clowning all year long, they've been like roughly 500 since trading Kyle Kuzma.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Good Day! (feat. JuJu Gotti)
So a lot of these bad teams are getting better, but the problem is for guys like Shaq, and I don't blame him on this one, you're going to be asked a million questions between now and June about the Cavs, about the Thunder, about the Celtics, about the Nuggets, about the Lakers, about the Knicks, maybe the Warriors.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Good Day! (feat. JuJu Gotti)
Like I don't believe in ghosts. I've been very – clear on that, if there were ghosts, then there'd be a lot more ghosts walking around. He's telling me like, oh, this woman died of heartbreak in an attic somewhere. There's a ghost there, but like all the slaves that died, they don't have ghosts?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Good Day! (feat. JuJu Gotti)
You know what? This show has been disrespectful enough. You disrespected LeBron. You disrespected Shaq. Now you're going to disrespect Tracy McGrady? Good day. Oh, wow. Good day. He hit him.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Good Day! (feat. JuJu Gotti)
I've been to ghost tours all over this nation, man. I ain't never seen nothing to make me believe that there's any kind of life after death that exists in the same place.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Shit-ification of America Continues
Für alle standen sie niedrig. So hatten sie die niedrigen Rechnungen. In der Zeit kam das raus. Die Ölpreise stiegen hoch, die Ölpreise stiegen hoch, und die Rechnungen stiegen hoch. Aber sie konnten es trotzdem umsetzen, wie ich gesagt habe, wegen der Unionsnachhaltigkeit und wegen der Möglichkeit, sich umzusetzen. Aber was passiert ist, und besonders seit Covid,
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Hour 2: The Shit-ification of America Continues
is the traveler has become, quote unquote, more sophisticated. The CEO of Southwest talked about this. People want perks like an upgrade to first class, which obviously Southwest doesn't have. People want the ability to choose their seat because of what Jessica described. No one wants to pay.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Shit-ification of America Continues
If I'm paying the same fare on a Southwest flight as I would a United or American flight, and I have to risk maybe sitting in 32B, Nicht so eine großartige Proposition. Was also passiert ist, sie hatten einen Vorteil am Anfang, aber ihre Vorteile laufen.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Shit-ification of America Continues
Selbst jetzt, als sie neue 737s ausbauen, sind diese 737s immer noch weniger vorhanden als das Äquivalent von American und Delta und den anderen Flugzeugen. Also im Grunde genommen, für die gleiche Wahl I'm not getting quite the same experience.
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Hour 2: The Shit-ification of America Continues
Du willst, dass ich dich mit ein paar... Sonst hast du Status. Ein paar weitere schwierige Fakten hier. Du weißt, die Wannagetaway-Fair, die jeder liebt, die 80 Dollar von Midway bis Phoenix. Es gab früher keine Veränderungspreise, oder? Und gleichzeitige Flugveränderungen, die haben sie entfernt.
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Hour 2: The Shit-ification of America Continues
Ja, in Flughafen. Das war auch eine der Dinge, die die Preise niedrig waren. Sie fliegen in die unpopularen Flughafen. Ich erinnere mich, als sie nicht nach LaGuardia oder JFK gingen. Sie mussten nach Long Island und Islip fliegen. Yes. I remember when they didn't fly into, I don't think they flew into O'Hare, they were just midway.
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Hour 2: The Shit-ification of America Continues
Fort Worth, no. Dallas Love Field, yes. So that was their whole thing. And all of those things slowly but surely have fallen by the wayside, because guess what? No one wants to fly into Islam.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Shit-ification of America Continues
Dann, when you're in business school, it's basically just case studies. They take businesses that are successful, some businesses that aren't successful, and you do a whole deep dive into what made them great or what made them not great.
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Hour 2: The Shit-ification of America Continues
die NBA-Issue mit den Ratings. Wir können das nicht monetisieren. Oder zumindest nicht auf der Ebene, dass wir TV-Ratings monetisieren können.
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Hour 2: The Shit-ification of America Continues
Und so, während Brian Phillips dieses wunderschöne Stück geschrieben hat, ist es fast etwas, was ich gesagt habe, ich denke, an diesem Show, vielleicht vor drei Jahren, wo ich die Geschichte erzählt habe, wir hatten einen Anruf oder einen Anruf, ich war bei meinem Serie 6 NBA-Radio-Show, Every day I open up YouTube and I watch the game shorts and stuff.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Shit-ification of America Continues
I'm on Instagram, I'm watching all the highlights. He's like, this is someone, I said, this is the perfect customer. He touches our product on every level. And then he said, I haven't watched a game in two years. So the number one way we make money, the number one place we make money, that guy does not consume there.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Shit-ification of America Continues
But all the free samples at the mall that we give out, the Costco samples pretty much, he's devouring them. He's going to Costco every day, he's getting all the free samples, but he's not actually buying anything in this analogy.
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Hour 2: The Shit-ification of America Continues
So that was the... über die letzten 8-10 Jahre. Aber dann haben wir unseren ersten Krack in den Permafrost bekommen. Und das ist David Zaslav, der CEO von Warner Bros. Discovery, der sagt, warum müssen wir für die NBA spielen? That's a lot of money. We could take that money and spend it on other things.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Shit-ification of America Continues
And the shares have gone up. At least in the short term right now. I wouldn't look now.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Shit-ification of America Continues
Isn't it amazing in the history of mankind, we went from a time where beards are cool, and then all of a sudden beards aren't cool, and then beards are cool, and then beards aren't cool, and now beards are cool again.
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Hour 2: The Shit-ification of America Continues
Like, Mad Dog would never have had a beard. Zehn Jahre her.
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No, Dan, because you've got to understand. Tiger Woods hat jetzt ein Blueprint, das er folgen muss. Es sind LeBron und Bronny. Und jetzt hat er seinen eigenen kleinen Bronny. Und er muss auf der Tour spielen, gleichzeitig mit Bronny. Und das ist jetzt das Neue. Jeder tolle Athlet, den du jetzt siehst, hat jetzt eine neue Mission. Das ist es, lange genug für ihren Protégé zu spielen.
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Hour 2: The Shit-ification of America Continues
Oder nicht Protégé. Prodigy? Progenie! Progenie! Das ist das Wort, das ich suche. Ihre Progenie, um mit ihnen gleichzeitig zu kämpfen. Das ist das ultimative Flex, richtig? Wie groß bin ich? Oh, ja, das Ding, das aus meinem Ballsack kam, vor 15, 18 Jahren, jetzt tut es das gleiche, was ich tue. Ich glaube, ich weiß nicht, dass er es so bezeichnet hat. Das ist so, wie er es bezeichnet hat.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Shit-ification of America Continues
Ich meine, es kam wirklich nicht aus seinem Ballsack. Es kam aus seinem Ballsack. Direkt. Nun, es hat einen Weg genommen. Es hat angefangen in seinem Ballsack. Part of it. Ballsack Sports.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Shit-ification of America Continues
Not half the credit?
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And that's being generous. A little 50-50 action. It gotta start in there. It starts and then it hits somewhere else, but it starts here. Part of it.
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I've been to one of his putt-putt courses, which is called Papa Shot? Papa... Papa, stopp.
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Er lebt in der Trinkmaschine.
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Ich verstehe das. Charlie ist noch sehr jung.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Wir berühren den Führer hier. Das echte Problem ist, dass sein Sohn Charlie ist. What? Gotta be Tiger Jr., man.
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Just because it helps. No, I'm telling you... Was Billy gesagt hat, ist richtig. Wir wollen Charlie Geld verdienen. Aber weißt du, wie man das macht? Man nennt ihn nicht Charlie. Man muss ihn Tiger oder Tiggy nennen. Oder Tigger oder Tigger Woods. Tigger Woods. Eeyore Woods. Nein. Tigger Woods. Tigger Woods. Tigger Woods. Vorsichtig. Tigger. Tigger Woods. Wie geht das? Tigger Woods.
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Hour 2: The Shit-ification of America Continues
Ich habe mich für einen Moment gefreut.
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Wild Billy Wednesday.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Shit-ification of America Continues
Ain't nobody telling me like, oh, yo, I tore my Achilles, I'll never play golf well again.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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They'll look that up, but I just want to point out that Mike Ryan, of all people, hit a hole in one. I don't think that sport is that hard. Okay, don't do that.
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He's wondering... No, no. You'd have to ask someone else to ask if...
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Tiger Palmer. Zebra Woods. Zebra Woods. But that means his dad is hunting him.
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Boston University? I'm going to say this right out. Don't be you.
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Billy, ich würde Geld bezahlen, um eine Pretty Woman-Style Montage zu veröffentlichen, von dir, die diese Videos schaut und dich schlägt, zu wissen, Es ist sehr traurig.
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Nach 8.30 Uhr? Es war nach dem Eis-Cream-Zeitpunkt?
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Hast du einen John Gruden-Kloset mit...
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A 30-day cruise.
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I'm here for this guy doing the, what is it, St. Peter's Run to the Final Four. Just solely based on... You're in the middle of nowhere.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Shit-ification of America Continues
Billy, I'm going to apologize to you. You're right. Be yourself. Because if I know how the depths of the weirdness of our fanbase goes, I want the weirdest.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Shit-ification of America Continues
With the Cavs come from behind victory last night against the Brooklyn Nets. They have now won 15 games in a row for the second time this season. In NBA history, only five other teams have done that. Won 15 plus games in a row twice in the same season. The last team to do it war die 2006-2007 Phoenix Suns, wo ich angemeldet wurde. Wow, ein selbst involvierter Start des Tages.
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61 Spiele. Ja, aber was anderes? Oh, wir haben David Stearns Arschloch-Interpretation von dem, was es bedeutet, auf der Bühne für einen Kampf zu kommen. Ja, das war das Jahr.
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Es gibt zwei Suns-Teams, die die Finale gemacht haben. Das Devin Booker-Chris Paul-Team, und dann das Barclay-93-Team. Und es ist lustig, bei Oddball, den ihr am Montag bis Donnerstag auf DraftKings Network anschauen könnt, interviewten wir yesterday Channing Frye, um ihn über die Cavs zu fragen, um ihn unter den Spotlight zu stellen, um ihn gegen die Cavs zu verteidigen.
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Und er hat all diese Plattitudes gesagt und er denkt, dass dieses Team das Champions-League gewinnen wird. Ich meine, er hat immer wieder gebeten, dass das unvorhergesehen ist, was sie tun. Und dann habe ich ihn gefragt, ob sie die 2016 Cavs spielen würden. Sie hätten euch gewonnen, richtig? Und er hat gesagt, oh, hell nein, richtig? Und also...
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Das ist das, was ich fühle, wenn ich über diese Sons-Teams spreche. Ich glaube, das war das beste Sons-Team jemals. Aber ich bin mir sicher, wenn wir Charles fragen würden, würde er uns sagen, dass er uns stompfen würde.
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Channing Junior. Channing Nuggets? What are the Nuggets called?
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Well, now you guys are going cross brands. Channing Con Leche.
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There you go. Doesn't ring.
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Followst du diese Regel? Du schlägst mich als jemand, der B1-30 ist und du denkst, ich bin B60. Ich mag es, wenn jemand nicht im richtigen Spot ist. Chris, du bist ein Floater, sicher.
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Respektvoll. Ich glaube nicht, dass du das sagst. Respektvoll. Scheiße. Ich sage dir, es ist im Südwesten. Geh die Hühner raus. Geh die Hühner raus.
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I don't like this new development of one chicken coming in in the defense. They're the fraud chickens. There's no public defender chicken in there.
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Und sie werden auch ein Sign-Seating machen.
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Habt ihr jemals etwas in der Schule gelernt und dann gedacht, wann werde ich das jemals benutzen? Und dann, wie, Jahrhunderte später? Es ist wie, oh mein Gott.
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Da, da, da, da, da, da, da. They could just slide another plane over. If there's a part, every single Southwest hub has that part, because it's all the same plane. And then number three, at the time, this was right, this was right before the housing crash, right around the time of the housing crash, they had shorted, they locked in on the gas prices. So when oil prices spiked,
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Hour 1: Kevin Con Leche
Dan, were you a Footloose or a Dirty Dancing person? Because in the 80s, guys, I don't know if you know this, in the 80s you had to pick one. You could not have both.
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Hour 1: Kevin Con Leche
So Jessica, I'm delighted because my first reaction was like, he's going to weddings that he was invited to, and it's not his wedding, and he's telling the DJ what to play, what not to play? What a jerk. And then I remembered, I went to Modak Hill's wedding last summer in Hawaii, and the DJ was awful. And at one point I said, look around. Everyone here is over the age of 35.
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Hour 1: Kevin Con Leche
Just play 90s R&B in early 2000s and you're gonna win every single thing. And he looked at me and said, you got it. And by the time I walked back to the dance floor, he played Not Like Us. I was like, you asshole. What are you doing, man? This is a family event. What are you doing? I don't want to hear about pedophiles at a wedding.
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Hour 1: Kevin Con Leche
He deserved to be crushed. Have you told Moe this? I podcasted about it with him. Oh, no.
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Oh, yeah. Oh, I'm sorry, Kevin Bacon. People recognize you from that one thing. Oh, maybe we should remember him for Hollow Man.
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No. As a basketball player, no. The air up there, ever seen that one? Dribbles looking at the ball, bouncing up and down.
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Not even. What team would retire his jersey? One movie. That movie would. He's the Jamal McGlory of movies.
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Hollowman was the second thing on his call sheet, man.
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Who do you have him being? You know what? You think that he's demolition man. He's not.
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Hour 1: Kevin Con Leche
Yeah, I mean, I have strict instructions for my family to bury me as close to where I die as possible. I don't want people traveling a body across the country. It doesn't really matter where I'm buried. But hopefully it happens in Arizona because I think we'll get a good turnout.
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Chris Bosh had his own team, his own franchise where he was an all-star.
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Clint Howard's a good name. Clint Howard's a real good name. A lot of stuff. He's had a great career. Great career. Working actor. Gets in a lot of movies.
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Hour 1: Kevin Con Leche
Sure. He played on a lot of great teams. Yeah. So he's Kenny Smith? No. Kenny Smith played for one great team. Shane Battier? No. Shane's too good. Because Shane was great in college. Yeah, Shane's too good. I've got to think about something. It's got to be someone like Jimmy Jackson. Shane's too good?
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Shane never made an All-Star game. James Jones. James Jones. That's who he is. He's the James Jones. Long career, championships with some great teams.
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A great James Jones tidbit, right? So James Jones, obviously, he's the GM of the Suns. And I have friends who worked for the Suns when he first started. Well, not when he first started, but earlier in his career. And they were like, oh yeah, we call him Champ. And I said, you call him Champ? I said, yeah. He said, that's what his nickname is. You guys know why he's nicknamed Champ, right?
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And everyone who worked for the Suns thought it's because won a championship in Miami, won a championship in Cleveland. And I said, no. His nickname is Champ because when he was in Miami, he won the three-point shootout at All-Star Weekend. And everyone in Miami started calling him Champ. But he basically went to Phoenix and just said, yeah, champ, and didn't clarify what the champ was.
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I'm going to do a top five condescending nicknames.
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All right, let's give a ha-ha-ho welcome to Kevin Waffle.
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Dan, I've got a top five condescending nicknames.
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So, Dan, you missed Friday's show. We were live when Stephen A. Smith tweeted... The original, hey, I didn't want to talk about this, but since it went viral, I have no choice but to address it on first take. We even sent Tony out into the hall out here to be our correspondent, come back with the quotes. I reread the quotes in Stephen A. Smith's voice, and we were all staggered.
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Based on that setup, we thought, oh, he's coming with the fire. He's coming with the flamethrower. He was so weepy and apologetic. It's the Stephen A. Smith voice when he goes real quiet and real sad. And so I thought to myself, I said, wow, this must've hit him harder, I guess.
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And then he goes on Gil's Arena, not his show, because he did First Take and then later on he did the Stephen A. Smith show. He didn't do any of this over there on the shows that he owns. He goes on Gil's show and now he's talking all this wild cash stuff.
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I'm disappointed, not just in you this week, but I'm disappointed in him because that's what I wanted on his show as opposed to going and outsourcing it to a place where I guess chaos rules a little bit more freely.
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It's absolutely don't tell me how to be a father on television. It took me the weekend to figure that out. That LeBron wasn't upset that he was criticizing Bronny. LeBron was upset that he was criticizing LeBron as a father, which is like, oh, okay, now I see that. Now I see that. But the whole, I looked over at Bronny and saw how sad he was. Come on, man. Come on. That's, you know what?
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It's hilarious. It's hilarious because he's sitting baseline, cat a corner from the bench, and the idea that, like, Stephen A. Smith, he's with Ari Emanuel over here, and he's over here with Larry David, and like, okay, we're at Lakers-Knicks. And he looks over, and he just sees Bronny doing this. I was like, oh. Kevin Blueberries. Blueberries.
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And then LeBron, who's like warming up and stretching. And then he looks over and he says, what's wrong with Bronny? Why is Bronny doing that? And he looks at Bronny. That's another one of those deep sighs. That's what kids do, by the way. Billy, your kid's going to get to this age soon. Chris, yours might be at this age. They think like, oh, I won't actually ask.
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Hey, man, can we go out for ice cream? I'll just go. So dad will say, what's wrong? I just wish we could have something like ice cream. I'm like, well, I wish someone would just ask it straight up instead of deep sighing. So Bronny's deep sighing. LeBron's like, all right, I'm not going to ask. But then he sees which way Bronny's looking. That's Stephen. That's Stephen.
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Is that Larry David next to him? That's Stephen. I'm going to go sit in one of them right now. And then he walks up to him, and in Stephen A's mind, that's how it all went down.
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Chris, the funny thing is you said sometimes you get caught, and I thought it was because your kid would mess up and say, Dad wants to, like, and no, your kid is actually great at this. No, no, I have her trained. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She knows. She knows to cover me.
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Tell Billy how it really... Billy, we need you to bring him back down to Earth. That's what we need.
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That's what you guys do to him every day to be fair. Lasso him down from the clouds and pull him back down here, Billy.
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That's not how it works. That's not how it went down.
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He's doing it because we gave him the lasso.
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Dan, I read that story and I swear to God, I checked the date. I said, wait a second, did they have TikTok in 2007? And then I realized, oh, this is current. This is right now.
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So Marty Sissoko, the player they're talking about for Cal, is fasting for Ramadan, right? And this is during conference tournament time for them, a pretty important time. But he's observing. And so that means he breaks his fast in the middle of these games. And you heard the announcer talk about fasting. There was a triple overtime game and he didn't get to break it until late in that game.
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And this isn't the norm, right, in terms of American sports. It's a norm among Muslim athletes, but it's not the norm of American sports. And I think when people, most people are presented with the, hey, this guy's, however well you think he's playing, he's doing this and he hasn't had anything to eat or drink all day. Not even water. That sip of water right there, that's his first drink.
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fluid of the day since before sunup. And Jim Boeheim, who is a legend, Dan, and a great coach, and coached a lot of great people. But rather than absorb that information in that moment, he goes to this weird-ass joke where it's like, well, it's eight o'clock somewhere. Basically, it's five o'clock somewhere, happy hour thing.
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And as if that wasn't enough, I'm going to lump in some dumbass rhetoric.
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Yeah, the wrong country. It's Iceland. Yeah, it's Greenland, not Iceland. And then also, even if he got it right, it's some dumbass rhetoric.
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You're trying to get me sent to hell in the holiest – Very strong take right there.
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It does, but also, Dan... Like I said, it's rare, but it's not the first occurrence. It happens every year, obviously, and every year there are athletes and we talk about some of them. We don't talk about others. And so I don't think this is Jim Boeheim's or should not be Jim Boeheim's first encounter with this concept. Hakeem Olajuwon won NBA Player of the Month.
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one year while fasting in Ramadan. His numbers got better while fasting during Ramadan. He was a better athlete. He says, I think I'm better when I'm fasting because I'm more focused. So this isn't like the first time we ever heard of anything. And again, Jim Boeheim is a guy in basketball. So,
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For this to be the first time, I mean, heck, Kyrie last year, when he hit that left-handed floater to win the game, remember when Dallas was good? Wow. That was while he was fasting. And so these are not stories that should be arriving no matter how old Jim Boeheim is.
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For someone who's in basketball, it should not be arriving on his short for the first time, and yet it's also not as commonplace enough so you can make jokes dumb jokes about it instead of saying, wait a second, this guy is playing like this without the aid of regular sustenance?
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It staggered me that there was no part of him, just as a basketball coach, that was appreciative of the effort that was being played there.
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Dan, I'm going to tell you right now. If anyone else had made that argument, I would have been like, no, no, no, no. But the fact that it was Chris and then Greg's face popped into my head, I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, good point. Never mind.
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He's Jerry Orbach. You can do get ready with me videos. You can do makeup tutorials. What's for lunch? You can do what's for lunch.
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But the crazy thing is he's not even talking about it as being a distraction because he made clear You're not banned off of social media. Have at it, guys. Scroll on. Do scroll to the end of time. But he said, quote, I'm just banning them from dancing. Look, we try to have a hard edge, whatever, and you're out there in your tights dancing on TikTok. Uh-oh.
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It ain't quite the image of our program that I want. Hold on. It goes on to say this is my favorite part. Like I said, 30 years from now, if they want to be sitting in their pajamas in the basement eating Cheetos and watching TikTok or whatever the hell, they can go at it. Smoking cannabis, whatever. Knock yourself out. But hopefully their focus can be on winning football games.
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How about let's win the football game and not win the TikTok. The TikTok.
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Jessica, I don't think that's major side eye. I think that major has been promoted to at least general.
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We play that chief sound all the time. We should be playing this a lot more often. This is more right than that chief sound is wrong, potentially.
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I mean, Chris is so obviously not the type of guy who goes to a Ren Faire normally. He's a Chili Cook-Off guy. He told you it's obvious. Look at his face. That's a Chili Cook-Off guy, not a Ren Faire guy. What are you guys doing with that take?
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Yeah. I should be at Ren Faire. Chris should be at the Chili Cook-Off. This is obvious. And I can't believe that this show had the gumption to get a takeoff that was that bad. I was really disappointed. Shame. Shame. Honestly.
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We covered a lot. We tried to convince people Aaron Rodgers was good. That was an interesting one. I don't know what that's about.
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It's just so wild. I mean, the Pistons are one of the best stories in basketball this year, and J.B. Bickerstaff going from Cleveland to Detroit and doing this with Detroit is like...
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one of maybe the five coolest stories in the league i know detroit's not like the sexy team to watch especially the last several years but you would that's a that's a pretty basic one that i would think shaq should know right i'm not asking for inside the nba to be in-depth analysis it's entertainment but to be fair to be fair that was first of all that was why they had the topic because you're talking about the pistons and shaq's like i'm not gonna watch the pistons and candace and vince are telling no they're actually really good you gotta watch them and he's like i watched and that push and pull
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Okay, sorry. Clearly I was building up to this point. Damn. You can speculate how, oh, it's a wonder that PEDs aren't more prevalent in basketball the way we know it is in football and baseball. What you cannot do unequivocally is put someone's name on it who does not have any history of it. I get what you're saying, but Dan, you got to remember, you're not...
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Fran Lebitard, or Dan Leibowitz, you're Dan Lebitard. There's a 20 under that. This show has been on the air for 20 years. You've been in the media for longer than that. When you even ask questions of that variety, you are creating... Something slash giving voice or gas to something no matter how unfounded it is. So you cannot say, well, Shale Sonnen said it.
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If Shale had just said it, if it had just come out, he was this week's guest on Andrew Schultz's show, then...
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I think if you put it as a hypothetical, if you frame it exactly as you framed it there, There are people who could say, we know who you're hinting at. But I think you stay on this, albeit very close to that line, on this side of the line of, OK, you can have that conversation.
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I'm offended because you said it, Dan. Because you, and as you say, my admiration for LeBron, you think it absolves you. What it does is it puts more credence in what you're just throwing out as a question. But for people to say, well, Dan Levitard always says nice things about LeBron and how he's coming to take everybody's stuff. And now he's asking whether he's doing PEDs.
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Surely Dan, I'm just telling you how it receives. You're not, I know you're not sending it out that way. But the message is being received that way because of who you are. It would be like, Dan, it would be like if I all of a sudden started talking about J. Cole having ghostwriters. But Amin loves J. Cole. He's just asking a question.
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How can this guy keep being creative and writing like this without ghostwriters, right? If I said that, given who I am to that person, then it allows people to say, wait a second, I thought this was just a barbershop conversation, but this guy who has all the credibility is bringing it and giving it credence. And so when you say America and skepticism and where's our skepticisms and all that,
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Yes, it's right to be skeptical about things, but also, we live in an age where cockamamie statements have been given credence by people we deem credible, right? It's cockamamie, but this guy's talking about it, so it must be true.
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Some people might say the 45th president of the United States would not be president if it weren't for credible news organizations during the Republican primaries when it was just a clown show.
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giving attention to it as opposed to letting it be a clown show over there and we talk about the real candidates and what was most likely a farce, a guy just doing it for publicity, would not have risen to the highest office in power. That's the problem, right? And the craziest thing about it, the craziest thing about it, you want to know what a good take was yesterday? Mike Ryan, of all people,
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Said it. He said, you know who's the happiest person right now? Aaron Eckblad. There is an athlete, a white athlete, I might add, who has been ruled, right, a champion using PEDs. If this had happened to Jason Tatum, is Eckblad good? Yeah, he's good.
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Okay, so like Derek White, Chris Chappell.
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Drew Holiday. If it came out that Drew Holiday was on PEDs, you know how many asterisks we would have thrown on the table on the Celtics championship?
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There would. There would because this is something that is, like, it's one thing to be caught juicing. It's another thing to get caught juicing and you're the defending champs, right? This guy should have been the center of the conversation, particularly in your local hour where we're supposed to talk about local athletes and local sports. Let me bring something up here.
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You crossed it. You didn't come close.
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You just accused me of accusing you. I'm not accusing you. I understand your intellectual curiosity about it. I'm telling you that there is... In the same way that when we talked about the Britney Spears documentary three or four years ago or whatever, whenever it came out on Hulu, and there was a scene where she's being mobbed because she went to Starbucks.
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And everyone's like, oh my God, this must be so awful for her. And I'm like, no, yeah, Britney Spears, you don't get to go to Starbucks anymore at that point of her career. You don't get to do that anymore. Stephen A. Smith talks about, I can't go to the movies anymore. He hasn't been to the movies in so long. Why? Because he said, if I walk into a movie theater...
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It distorts the reality of what this experience should be. The experience should be, oh, I'm ready to watch Captain America, whatever. And instead, the experience goes, Stephen A. Smith is here. Hey, man, you think the Lakers are going to do it? So you, I don't know if this is ignorance or humility.
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Dan, you are not in a place where you get to innocently ask that question, even as I know you innocently asked it, because it comes out innocent here. And by the time it goes into that little camera right there and into that microphone comes out into the ears and the eyes of people, it loses its innocence completely. And it becomes a prompt to question LeBron James's innocence.
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whatever he's doing, right? And that question, why would you, why'd you, why'd you think that? It's a difference between when Chael Sonnen noted dumbass. Says it. Alleged dumbass. Alleged dumbass. And when Dan Levitar, Dan always says good things about LeBron. Wait, why would he bring that up?
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He must have ghostwriters. I must, right? That seems like it would be the natural progression. But I think, Dan, the thing about it all is... Okay, so he does.
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There's nothing wrong with ghostwriting. Just bringing it up.
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Chris, when you ask if you have the bed or whatever, Here's the reality. There are things that I want to be first at being right at or early on being right at. And then there are things that I'm perfectly fine. This is not one of them. I'm perfectly fine being wrong if it turns out.
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Hey, I put it on the sheet, man.
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Also, I don't have credibility when it comes to talking about the president or talking about an oligarch, right? I have credibility when it comes to talking about our sport and especially about how people talk about our sport. And when you hear like Rich Paul. you know, going on, was it McAfee or whatever, and saying kind of the things he's saying, I see it as, oh, this is the reaction.
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They are defending this thing that they feel like they are under attack from, right? And so you are basically rolling a grenade into the middle of the aisle and say, but I didn't pull the pin. It's just a grenade. But you're giving, you're arming people with the tools.
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Dan, you talked about McGuire and Sosa yesterday and how they had D'Andro in the locker. and that reporters were doing interviews at the lockers, and we could see the andro in the background. And then you rude, how could we not know?
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I think there's a massive difference between those examples, where they're literally like, hey, this is the thing I take, it's right here, versus you're just looking at it like, that doesn't look right. Look, I could play this game for a lot of athletes. You really believe Michael Jordan got beat by the Pistons and then said, all I have to do is lift weights.
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And then all of a sudden, he's indestructible and awesome. Wait a minute, are you asking that question now publicly? I'm not. I'm countering your reckless. By the way, this is the most offensive part. We have a button right here. Where is it? That says, put it on the pole.
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You can't even blame Chris for not putting, you have the button in front of you at any time. You could have hit that button and then that would have, it still would have been reckless. But at least given the acknowledgement, hey guys, we're going to play a little bit outside of the sandbox today. Nobody called for it. You guys just went along with it.
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That's the part that was disappointing then, is that there was nobody who was like, whoa, what do we do? Hit that button if you're going to say that. If Stugatz had done that, if Stugatz was the one who asked the question, why isn't anyone asking the question? We would have roasted them. We would have put them up. We would have hung them up in effigy.
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We would have sent them, or even worse, we would have sent them to the penalty box, right? We had this conversation, or y'all had this conversation, and not once did anyone point out, yo, at least play the sounder if we're going to do this.
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No, they care because the guy got suspended. Yeah, but no one cares about it. What?
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I think... Sure, like, there's a purity and an innocence that was had in 1998 that doesn't exist anymore. But still, it is still shocking nonetheless if that happens. I don't think it's a, eh, so he did it.
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Bobby Portis got suspended, and we're like, uh, basically. You're right. Aaron Eckblad, apparently we were, uh, the Stanley Cup champion. But Tyler would be like, why isn't he taking more? He's still kind of skinny. Well, also— Tyler's not a defending champion, and somehow we just avoided talking about that for some reason. I wonder why that is, right?
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So then it was maybe because you're banging a drum? Accusing us of bias? Journalism stuff. You banged a drum? They did give you a jersey. You guys all on Roy. Roy, how did you not know? You went to their building and you banged a drum. Did you ask any questions or did you just have tequila?
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Let me let me let me go first to the Greg corner. I know what Greg's doing there. Greg was playing 2025 language bingo. So it's like mental health. That's what you because you guys blame everything on mental health. Anything you people, your generation, your TikToks and your algorithms and your mental health is this and mental health is that. Right. So we're not going to jump on Greg for that one.
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There's something else that Greg messed up on yesterday. That'll get that. We'll get that out of the list.
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We're doing it right.
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Billy, we're doing it right. We're fixing wrongs. We're righting wrongs. That's what we're doing.
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Oh, no, no, no, no. All right, so the Laramie Tunsil thing. Again, oh my God, Mike Ryan had two good points yesterday.
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He had so many awful ones, but somehow two gems came out. And this is how I know it was accidental. He never went back to them in the middle of that conversation. He just was just talking.
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That part seems obvious. Dan, you know what it feels like? When I'm in a room with my kids and I say, okay... Don't mess anything up. Don't touch anything. Got it, Dad. Turn around, walk out, walk back in the room. I'm like, what happened? I was only gone for a couple of days, and this is what you guys did?
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And so when I say I could do this every week, but I don't because it's not that interesting.
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Okay, we already have someone who does a very good job of it. His name is Juju Gotti. Catch him in the post-game show. But when I say that yesterday was one of the all-time worst episodes from the things that were said. Now, it might have done well ratings-wise. It might have been entertaining. But, like, the things that were said. So, the Laramie Tunsil thing.
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I'll tell you what was wrong, Jeremy. And how Mike Ryan, of all people, had the right take. It's not about our sensibilities towards marijuana.
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But we can sit here and talk about the sensibilities towards marijuana. But the reality is Josh Gordon was one of the best players at his position in NFL. And his career was destroyed. And as Stephen A. Smith said, stay off the weed! Remember that? It wasn't about whether marijuana is good or bad.
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I believe by 2016, 2017, we all had figured out, okay, this is a big much ado about nothing in terms of the impact of this product on people. It's actually less detrimental than alcohol. Dan, when I was a scout and we would find out, we would do the intel reports on guys, We were more worried about the alcoholics because of what it does to your body.
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With the marijuana smokers, we were just worried about, are you smart enough to not get caught? Because the testing is not that rigorous if you know what to look for. And so when you see Laramie Tunsil with the damn thing... the gas mask on, the question isn't, oh my God, he smokes weed. It's this dumbass is going to get caught and suspended.
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And so when you're talking about spending a top 10 draft pick in a sport where they really, really value their draft picks, really, it's not like the NBA was like, ah, we'll do it again next year. You cannot risk it Because if you take him that high, and then this dumbass gets suspended because he couldn't stay off the weed! They still took him at 13.
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Of course, because there's a risk-reward at every stage.
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Dan Levitard, you want leadership to risk unpopularity. It must.
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It must. Yes, it must. I don't remember you sticking up for Nico Harrison when he risked all the unpopularity. I don't remember your staunch defense of him saying, hey, guys, maybe he knows something that we don't know. Hey guys, maybe Luka is a lot worse behind the scenes than we're realizing.
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But he did do the thing that you asked leadership to do. He risked unpopularity to make a decision. Risk it better. Touche. Get more draft picks.
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You know what's funny about that is the shape of Florida and having a little bump on it, it fits.
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So the entire episode being set in Civil War era America in the South, the gemstone patriarch, the original gemstone, if you will, him, I didn't know that, that Bradley Cooper had never watched the show because I was staggered watching him, how he sounded... like Danny McBride's character.
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Like the way he was dismissive, the way he's kind of like, all right, he's clearly not sincere in any of this. It was, it made me respect Bradley Cooper as an actor even more. I was like, wow, he's really nailing this in the same way that when they do the flashback episodes in prior seasons where they got the little kid playing young Danny McBride, how he nails it. I'm like, oh my God.
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And the little girl that plays young Judy Gemstone,
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like oh my god they're doing such a great job these kids are really good actors watching bradley cooper do it where it's not overt like the kids do where they are just younger versions of the characters they're playing where it's just hey this thing runs through the family it's a wonderful show it's a wonderfully artistic show as people complain about being able to do comedy well they skewer religion in a way that is uh amusing uh but that's why we had the worst takes in the world that was one of them well
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I was in it the whole way. As soon as I saw, oh, it's Bradley Cooper. And then it's like, okay, he's doing a Danny McBride thing. Okay. Oh, this is how the whole, when he switches the name, like this is how it starts. Cool, I was in it the whole way, and like Jessica, I was sad, and I was angry, and I was ashamed, Dan.
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Ashamed, because typically, to pull back the curtain, on this show, someone has ridiculous opinion, there's gonna be one person who backs up their ridiculous opinion, because of a yes and. Don't, no, no, no.
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Is that my gemstones opinion that is righteous or is it a righteous gemstones opinion?
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I make a really good show. That's the statement he made. Not like, oh, okay, how can I let HBO and the world know that in a streaming age, I'm going to zag. No, he's not doing that. They're telling the story and they're telling it beautifully, especially knowing that this is the last season. It's not like they can get to this in season six. This is it, ladies and gentlemen.
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So he's going to empty the chamber.
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Instead of castigating Dan Levitar, why don't you get Tim Balz, who plays BJ, huge sports fan from Chicago, get him on the show as a guest. That would be fine.
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Like the hot towel on first class, right? This isn't the meal yet. Let's get to the meat and potatoes here, Dan. I was so ashamed yesterday. You were so reckless yesterday. That you, you're Dan Lebitard. You have a platform that echoes across not only this nation, but internationally. We talked about this the other day. You're an international icon, right?
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And for you to sit here and use that platform so flippantly to baselessly just completely dismiss that Ray Romano impression. I was flabbergasted. Yeah. That guy nailed it. And you're sitting here killing the callers and killing the fans and the listeners who are trying to help contribute. And I was getting ready.
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Like Billy saying, getting ready, oh, my God, this Gemstones episode must be terrible. I was getting ready. Oh, man, Dan said these calls are terrible. And I said, whoa, let me buckle up for how lame these calls are. And then I hear that Ray Romano. And you thought that? was lazy and bad and not funny and all that? Hit me again. He's not looking. That's why I said hit me again.
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I was looking for Miranda. Miranda was good too, but that wasn't yesterday. Yesterday was Ray Romano. Dan.
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Do you also have something against Al Michaels and Kermit the Frog? Maybe it's the voice. He doesn't like this high-pitched voice.
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I try. Sometimes it comes and sometimes it goes. Miss Piggy says that it's because, well, let's just keep it PG, shall we?
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All right. So a couple of questions. Number one, Dan, you said in this segment. I'm not going to be the guy who criticizes Pat Riley or calls him Washed by calling him Washed. You don't feel comfortable doing that. But you felt comfortable calling Tom Brady Washed before he won three more Super Bowls.
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So why is there a difference between a very successful player and a very successful executive in that regard for you?
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Isn't it fun when you say something that logically makes sense but then is completely disproven by one of the greatest performances ever, but people hold it up as an example that you're an idiot that doesn't know anything?
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So this is what I would say, Dan. First of all, Nobody's perfect. There's a part of this where I'm sensing a lot of anger and outrage. I'm like, guys, the job's hard, right? Who's a guy that we all look at right now as perhaps the best general manager in the NBA? Sam Presti, right? Oh, Sam Presti, that late James Harden go because he wanted to pay Serge Ibaka.
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Sam Presti, who didn't trade Kevin Durant when he had a chance to let him walk for nothing. Everyone's got farts on their resume. There's nobody here pristine. Put it on the poll, please, Juju.
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Wait, you were there for that? I was there. Of course I was there.
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I'm the one that told him big time. So the next part of this is something you said the other day, which was this is the biggest mess in Heat history. And I would say Shaq threatened to punch Pat Riley. Slightly bigger mess. because of who it was and because of physically who it was and because it was physical as opposed to sniping at each other through press conferences.
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To me, that's the pinnacle of the biggest mess in Heat history in terms of player and Pat Riley clashing.
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And so Dan, to that point, I will give you a positive that you said. You said this team, by and large, is a team of overachievers. Which is suspiciously similar to something I said during the conference finals in 2023 when I said the Boston Celtics are clearly more talented. That the Heat have to do everything right to win, but they do, and that's why they won.
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And Will Manso and everybody else got mad. How could you say they're more talented? Will Manso called out by name. I'm just saying. Hey, Will, I love you, Will. No, no, no, no, no.
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Say it on the front end. No, no, no. I'm not going to say it on the front end because on the front end is what I'm saying is right. What I said right was back then, and I'm doing a little bit of a victory trot. Not a lap. A victory trot. A victory trot. I like that. I don't want to do the sponsor. Do we have a victory lap today, Chris?
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You guys are going to make me go run. Okay. But my point is, you were right, Dan, as I was two years ago. This team... By and large, what they built was a team of overachievers. The other thing that you said that was correct was, and a lot of people have lost that plot, when Jimmy Butler was acquired, you guys were like, why are we giving to Jimmy Butler?
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And this is just gonna keep us middle of the road. I said, no, Jimmy Butler makes you significantly better. He is a superstar, but if you want other superstars, you have to start with one, and he's the one that you got. And so it was always about getting someone else, not getting someone, getting Jimmy help, Getting someone that Jimmy could help. Now, along the way, there were some flirtations.
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Maybe Bam Adebayo is the guy. And Jimmy helps him, right? Maybe Damian Lillard comes. Maybe Kevin Durant comes. All the deals that don't happen. Ladies and gentlemen, there are 8 billion deals a year that every team goes to. Almost, but you don't. And it's not anyone's fault other than this is a human business.
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I'm dealing with other general managers, I'm dealing with agents, and I'm dealing with players. When I was in Phoenix, hell, we thought we were going to get Kevin Garnett. We literally, Kevin Garnett is literally at a party, All-Star weekend, in Las Vegas in 2007, going over plays with us about how he's going to fit into our offense. And then...
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You know, Sean Marion's agent makes a hard bargain with Danny Ainge. Danny Ainge says, I can't do this deal. Our deal dies. Kevin McHale, his good buddy, says, well, what about us? And next thing you know, they do a one-to-one deal as opposed to a three-team deal. This happens all the time. There are eight million examples of this. And, finally...
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When you think about, oh, Jimmy Butler did this in a press conference and it's so embarrassing. You know what else was embarrassing? When Kobe Bryant stood in a parking lot talking to a 15-year-old on a flip phone telling him, I need to get traded because they wouldn't trade Andrew Bynum for Jason Kidd. That happened. That happened.
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We talked about this on Basketball Illuminati this week, and I did the timeline of Jimmy Butler, of who he is starting from Juco all the way here. And at every step, there's a point where it's like Jimmy Butler says, I need to get compensated, and the compensation doesn't happen, and he's like, what the hell with this place, right? In Chicago...
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He went from playing three minutes a game his rookie year to 82 games the next year to starting to most improved player and being their best player in four years. And they didn't offer him that extension. So he had to play and then get a restricted free agency thing. He had to wait for his money. And that obviously didn't sit well. And then they fire Tibbs and they bring in Fred Hoiberg.
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And that doesn't work out. He gets sent to Minnesota. He helps revive Minnesota. But when it's time to pay him, they're like, ah! And so he says, get me out of here. He goes to Philly. When it's time to pay him, they say, ah, Tobias Harris. And so he comes here. He comes here. He gets paid. He gets an extension. He gets paid again. His deal is almost up. This is Jimmy Butler.
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And I don't say that begrudgingly about him. I'm just saying he hasn't been duplicitous in any way. So for Pat Riley to kind of think, well, I'll just challenge him. And it'll be fine, which is kind of like what Tom Thibodeau thought in Minnesota. He's like, well, Jimmy's my guy. He's fine. Once we start playing, he'll be fine. He's a little upset now. No, the guy wants his money.
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Pay him his money. And that's what Jeremy said the other day, which is if he had gotten an extension, none of this would be an issue. We'd be talking about, can we get a little better or whatever. We wouldn't be talking about Jimmy Butler wants to play anywhere else. This is all about him wanting his money.
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What are we doing here? It's the Dan Levitard Show.
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It's like 62 degrees. I think it'd be lovely out there. It's a hot tub. It is a hot tub and it is glorious. It is massive. First of all, it's one of the biggest hot tubs I've ever seen.
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And the door is right by the hot tub. You get out and like, you just literally just run right inside and you're fine. So I don't think it's an issue. I do wonder though, are you pronouncing it whirl the pool with a D in there? No, whirl, whirl, whirl. That's worried.
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This is how Dan wants it.
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We're doing something new, Dan. Yes. I hear your complaints. We're following your lead. Enough of the disrespect of the Dan Levitar show and Dan Levitar. We're doing things the Dan way. He wants me to sprint and be out of breath and spit when they talk. Guess what? I'm doing it right now because this is the Victory Lab. I was right. Dan was right. Mina, capitulate at once.
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It's so good this way. He's pulling up his pants. My pants are falling down. Just so pan down, you'll see my crotch. He's pulling up his pants and he's unreasonably angry.
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That's the au naturel right there? You sing so sensually with your voice all the time.
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I like Billy looking at his usual suspect's cork board and making the connections between Jeff Kona and Dwayne Wade.
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Dan, I'm going to tell you right now. You love feuds. Right now, this show that you've lost control of, that I will help you get control back of.
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This show is about the feud with Udonis Haselman. That's a feud.
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If you fight any of them, Pat Riley will be mad at you, too. And that you're really in trouble. That I can't have. Because that means Alonzo Mourning is mad at you.
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Yep. Thank you, Jessica. Shia LaBeouf, ladies and gentlemen.
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I think all of us thought he meant Flo Rida, the recording artist. Oh, that's 100%.
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You spin my head round and round and round.
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Oh, man. I've been singing a song to myself all morning long. Breakfast flan. Stugatz. Have you never heard the breakfast flan song?
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Hit me with it. Okay. I wish I had some breakfast flan. Breakfast flan.
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We were smote. So, I don't know, because I wasn't here the last time this happened, but I know that the lights went out out there, too. Like, everything went out for just a second other than the Zoom connection. I guess the internet stayed on.
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Bob's not in Buffalo in a barn. He's Greg in White Lotus, right? Yeah, he took the money.
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They also cut to you apparently when you turn into a vampire because the lights are on. I heard you hiss.
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You're good. Thank you. You know, without the you're good, it's just a sounder, and then maybe I'm putting myself at risk. Reckless speculation, it's because there aren't enough athletes on the show. If you watch ESPN's shows more and more, it's like, how can we get closer to an entirely athlete cast? And slash or Stephen A. Smith. It's one of the two.
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If you're not all athletes, and slash or Stephen A. Smith, Then you can't do a show on ESPN. PTI, your days are numbered. Whoa.
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You know, you never chose between Jimmy Johnson and Pat Riley.
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Patrick Schwarzenegger, douche.
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Who's the weird one? Is it him or is it the brother?
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Why are you feuding with Mina Kimes? I'm not feuding with Mina Kimes. I just called her an ingrate, that's all. Aggressive? That's not feuding. Why did you call Mina an ingrate? Well, look, I come across these things on the internet. And they make me go, huh. And so I don't know if you guys saw this. Do you guys see what Mina said?
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She's not feuding with me. I'm not feuding with her. But this is a quote from Mina Kimes. The show that gave me the confidence to even believe someone like me could do TV. Pardonnez-moi? Around the Horn? The only reason she was on Around the Horn was because of a little program called The Dan Levitard Show with Stugatz and another little program called Highly Questionable.
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Billy Gill, Mark, whatever your name is. Let's play it out. Let's just assume she was on Around the Horn first. You know what she was on Around the Horn before she came on this show here? Forgettable.
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She came on this show and Dan and Stugatz coached her up on how to give takes.
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Well, I can't talk about Pablo because he didn't tweet out the show that gave me the confidence. Is it not up to Mina to decide what show gave her the confidence? It's not up to her because we put in so much work and development here. This is the training ground. This is where the crucible was experienced. I don't know what happens with crucibles. They burn them.
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Whatever happens with crucibles, her crucible happened here, right? I was there. I saw Dan tell her, Mina, you've got to just be more relaxed. I saw Stugatz say, Mina, this is how you deliver a hot take. You're doing this meandering nuance thing. It's got to be definitive and declarative. And then I saw her go back to around the horn. and kill it. You know why? Because she's a talent.
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She's a great talent. But every talent needs coaching. I know Dan Levitar doesn't believe in coaching. I believe in coaching. I believe in molding. I believe in shaping. And I believe all those things happen here in the 305. On 305 day, no less. No one has even mentioned it. We're losing recipes. What's happening with this show?
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You guys are just letting everyone just take our shit across generations.
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I've never heard of saving the bacon.
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That can't be real. They had ice boxes, right?
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Say it again, Chris, for the haters in the back.
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I'm not going to get tired, Dan. All right. By the way, the victory lap is brought to you by me for being right.
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Not around the same time. A year and a half.
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A year and a half, ladies and gentlemen. She was dreaming about Around the Horn when we were putting in all the work. Now, I will say, I will say. Don't interrupt the victory lap. I know, man. I'm doing my victory lap. Hey, hey, you know what she learned here? How not to dap up Poppy. Remember that? Remember that was a thing? We did that. America didn't know your personality until that, Mina.
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Oh, oh, I learned how to do TV on Around the Horn. Pshaw. Bajor, I say!
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You just mentioned a green room. Were you, like, a guest of honor as well? Like, why would you be in the green room with him?
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It could also just be an evergreen sell of the show, I think.
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A dab is when you get really high.
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I believe that's a dab.
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What was that?
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A hot second?
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It's kind of like, hey, we're still together. It's not.
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I think you've done something. There's zero doctoring to that, David. No, that's how you react. Chris, is that the case? I swear to God, it really is real.
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I don't think anyone thinks. You know what you need? If you haven't talked to someone in a long time and you want to get something out of them, you do like a setup. Hey, how's it going, man? Hope all is well. And then tomorrow you ask him about the important stuff.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
You do have less to shrink.
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And that was Jeremy's Woke Take of the Week.
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Oklahoma City is the best team. They have no weaknesses. If this happens, then they could really... We're doing that with a lot of teams out there. Well, if they can get this out of so-and-so... With Oklahoma City, it's like, nope, we're ready. We've got it all. Everything you could ask for. Bigs, guards, wings, three-point shooting, get to a free throw line, defense, versatility.
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They have it all. Even experience, which was a thing last year where we said, I don't think they're quite ready yet. Now they've got that as well. Cleveland, similarly, I think pretty much has everything answered there. Everyone else, we're doing some sort of mental gymnastic.
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Right now, as it stands, there's a high likelihood if the Lakers stay at two that they're going to play the Warriors in the first round, which would be two versus seven, assuming the Warriors get out of the play-in.
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The only way that could get mixed around is if either the Lakers fall to three or if the Warriors end up being the eighth seed instead of the seventh seed, in which case they'd have to play the Thunder in the first round.
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You play against the old caged lion, the old cornered. Tiger, right? And it's got one tooth and it's all scraggly, but then you get in its reach and it gets you by the neck. And that's what absolutely the Warriors, and to an extent the Lakers are as well, is that, you know, in the regular season, Dan, a lot of people make a big deal about your regular season. What was your net rating?
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What was your offensive rating? But the reality is that's built off of the corpses of a ton of bad teams. Like everyone's got it. Every good stat you see from any team, a lot of it is built on, yeah, we beat up on the bad teams. When you get to the playoffs, there are two things that happen. Number one, there are no more bad teams for the most part.
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Number two is during the regular season, we're going from game to game. and changing game plans. Basically, once we're done with the Knicks game, boom, we're done. We're thinking about the Bucs tomorrow. And there is a kind of a transience of our attention span. But we'll get to the playoffs, everybody in the organization, players, coaches, scouts, we're all just worried about you.
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You're our opponent. And so what ends up happening is things that happen in the regular season don't really matter as much. All that matters is can you counter and can you continue to adjust? A great example of this was however long ago it was, Oklahoma City versus Portland. Oklahoma City had beaten the Blazers three times out of four times in the regular season.
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And so conventional wisdom would say, OKC, higher seed. OKC had beaten Portland three out of four times. They're going to win. But Portland matched up great, and that was the Damian Leonard Way bye-bye series because the matchups and because the lack of adjustments Oklahoma City made.
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So similarly, when you talk about what's going to befell maybe the Cavs or maybe the Thunder, it would probably be a team like this. It's the meme of the old man that said, call an ambulance, call an ambulance. But not for me. That's exactly what the Warriors are.
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What's up with the snakes?
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That's what I think it is.
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Lots of knives. Lots of knives.
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Yeah, I hate all these people. We've grown apart. I relate more to Walton Goggins. I want to release snakes.
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No, it's something, it's one of the red flags. By who? The security guards?
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You know what I call him? Kenny Wynn's business partner. I remember Kenny Wynn's name.
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Character development. Two words. A 23 running a college baseball.
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The security guard who got hit on the head.
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I just want to point out that before Dan claims he's doing reporting journalism and taking notes, he was just furiously scribbling on his paper the whole time.
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Oh, no. Let's be clear. I don't call the women of the night. I think it's a funny way to euphemism the term.
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But Dan, you're saying that as someone who knows you've outgrown certain people. Imagine a friend group. You guys live in different places, so you don't see each other all the time, but you're in a group text. So you're always talking all the time. You're like, hey, we were best of friends once upon a time. But because we're apart, we don't have those social in-person experiences.
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We are growing apart. So one of the friends is going to church. It might be MAGA, right? One of the friends is a Hollywood actress and she's having a great time. And the other one is going through a divorce, right? And so we all, we're in contact all the time. Of course we're friends, but because we haven't spent that time together, restaurants and bars and all those things, we're growing apart.
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So we're like, you know, we should rekindle it. We haven't hung out in so long together. Guess what? We're going to Thailand. And then you go, and as you're talking, you begin to notice things, right?
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You notice things, and slash, you've had opinions that you've kept to yourself because it was in the group chat, you didn't want to put it in the group chat, like, yo, your husband left you because of this, and yo, since you went to Hollywood, you think you're different, and yo, you're manga now.
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Dan's feverishly writing all of these down. He's like, this is good. Around the horn. Sad day. I knew that one, though.
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in what their lives were and in what the lives of everyone was and now five or six years later some things have changed and opinions have changed and now you don't have those friends jeremy the other thing dan is i don't think they're old like we did this old they're not old they're younger than you they're they're younger than me they're they are like yeah these are women i don't know how old you are but yeah probably in their late 30s so
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Old enough to that there's been time apart from one another, but not quite old to the point where you're saying, well, look, I've excommunicated all the people I don't want in my life.
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But we make it through. That's the other thing. There's a lot of times where you're like, I don't even want to risk knowing what the politics are. Let's talk about nothing.
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You know, who else has grown apart? Dan in journalism. You walked in here eager to break heat news. And all it was was the mildest of corrections over a podcast episode that quite frankly, as someone who works in basketball, that one escaped me because I don't think it really made waves like that. Nobody cares about the story.
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I whispered into Billy's ear, you're right, you're right.
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Well, Dan, I think we took a negative turn here. Maybe it could be something positive that you want to break for us.
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That's so beautiful. They're going to renew their vows. Chris and Pat. Right? That's their name. Chris. Ron and Rhonda. Ron and Rhonda, too. Yes. Dan and Valerie. Chris and Christine. Spoh and Bam.
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I was panicking. Jump to conclusions here. We didn't say the C word. We just said, is Pat Riley okay? Well, the C word's cookies. Dan reported that.
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Yikes. Judgy. Sergeant Semantics at work here, right? It wasn't cookies, that's a lie. Dwayne Wade, you're lying. It wasn't cookies. That never happened with cookies. Happened with ice cream. Come on, man.
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Then why did we just spend it?
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I'm not a journalist anymore. You just told me that it wasn't Pat Riley, it was the nutritionist, and it wasn't cookies, it was ice cream.
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And Pat Riley would have stolen him because everyone knows what a sweet tooth he has. Okay, let me turn it to Big City Lawyer here. Give him his suspenders on. Now, you see, Dan Levitard, you just told us that Pat Riley loves his cookies. But you also told us a moment ago that Pat Riley wasn't traveling with the team. So how could he have eaten the mystery cookies on the plane, Mr. Levitard?
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Redirect, Your Honor. Dan Levitar, what is the slogan of the Miami Heat? I don't know what the slogan is. You don't know what they pride themselves on? Culture. Culture. How would you define culture? Would you find a lot of dissonance in culture? Or would you find a lot of unanimity?
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Okay, so you are telling me that you have multiple sources from an organization that prides itself on speaking as one.
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They looked a lot better, yes.
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Well, no, he didn't put up 30 straight points, but the team performed. at a more appreciating rate than when LeBron was out there with him.
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I think it's... When you talk about plus-minuses, that's not necessarily a metric, especially raw plus-minus. That's not a good metric for who's the better player. There's a ton of factors in there. Who's on the floor with you? Who's on the floor against you? And how you were used in those moments. But
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Yes, we can say that the team performed better in those non-LeBron minutes, which is a big thing because if you think about where the Lakers have struggled in the past handful of years, same place where the Warriors have struggled, which is when LeBron or Steph are not on the floor, things go wrong.
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And now both of those teams have acquired someone who has essentially not only negated that negative, but turned it into a positive that's even greater than when those guys are on the floor.
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He's the best. I said that three times during that. There's nothing we can throw at him.
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David also mandated that fans wear a suit and tie. That's why no one showed up.
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This episode of the Dan Lebitard Show with Stu Gatz is presented by Smirnoff. We do game days. Please drink responsibly. The Smirnoff Company, New York, New York.
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Dangerous game. This is a dangerous game.
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No, he was saying, man, I could do such a great Kendrick.
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This is who we're going to trust with this. I mean, you do it. Let's let Amin do it, I think.
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Moses Moody? Moody Moses? Moses Moody?
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Carry the hell on, Dan.
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I was going to say, yep, sign me up. I'm offended by that.
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Today's going with the Dan look.
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I wish you wouldn't. Thongs to the memories. That's the name of the shoes.
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And now I need a David parody of thong to thong thong thong.
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Not that one.
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Regardless of what season we're talking about, WNBA, NBA, you should get GameTime. Download the GameTime app, create an account, use code DAN for $20 off your first purchase. Terms do apply. What time is it, Jeremy? GameTime! Thank you, David.
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Ron, what do you think? You're a man of science. I remember you with the eagles. You had a camera up there to capture all the important things that we could learn. What do you think about us putting a camera outside of Pablo's balcony, putting a little chum out there, and just seeing what happens, seeing if they'll come and bite?
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I just left my this raw meat out on the balcony. I forgot it out there.
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Ethan, get in here.
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What is the filet mignon of these trash mountains for them? What do they find where they're like, nothing beats this? Great question.
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Special dude out there. Special dude.
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There was no one bigger. Look how cute Ethan is. You know, I'm hitting this thing for him.
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Good luck. That's the guy that edits our audio every day. Him and Jeremy. Our handsome little man. Good job.
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They have adult nights at the zoo now. They serve wine and stuff, and you go with your friends, and it's a cool night out that's not a bar or something. It's fun.
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Dude, I posted on Instagram. The night before I fell and chipped my tooth, there was a massive vulture on the balcony, and it just kept staring at me.
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You've got Ethan holding the vulture. I've got the vulture grabbing little Ethan and flying off with him.
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Just to sit there and look at a harbinger of doom staring at me in the eye. And then I said, you know what? Maybe I'll just walk away and then it'll fly off. Nope. Sucker was out there for like 20 minutes. And you didn't switch rooms? No. Someone said, why don't you go out there and kind of shoo it away? I'm not opening the door. What if it gets inside?
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And then the next day I fell and chipped my tooth. That turkey stole your tooth. It was the turkey. I saw it with a trench coat and a hat on.
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Dan Lebertard. Again, started on the breakfast flan. Oh man, I've been singing a song to myself all morning long. Breakfast flan. Stugatz. Have you never heard the breakfast flan song? No, hit me with it. Okay. I wish I had some breakfast flan. Breakfast flan.
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Let me get that 17. You know what I love? I love the idea that both of you two, it's like, oh, being up there, it's too scary on the balcony. You go up to the room, and it's like, should I stay in my room? Nope. Got to see what this balcony's about. Oh, my God. That's a far way down there. Oh, whoa. Whoa. You can just not go on the balcony. You can just stay in the room.
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I don't know. These things don't impact me, I think, like other people.
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You don't know this? Yeah, I'm going to die in a car crash.
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But that means anytime I'm on a plane or anything like that, everyone's freaking out. I'm like, don't worry. That's not how I go out. I reassure everybody.
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Dude, I was thinking about that literally on the Uber ride from the airport today. I was like, strangely, I'm less terrified when someone else is driving. When I'm driving, I think about it constantly.
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Am I the driver? I don't know. I can't remember. That's an important note. But I know I feel a great amount of fear when I'm driving.
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I'm glad that the Old Spice guy stayed in character which I guess that's what he's paid to do.
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Yeah. He's cupped with a P is what you said. I heard a different kind of spice.
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Let me tell you something. Beats the hell out of South Beach. That's true.
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The Miami Beach has come out with an ad campaign. actively telling people not to come to Spring Break? You've done this for a couple years. Have you seen this? Yeah, a couple years. The one where it looks like a reality show? Because I'm watching, this looks like the worst show ever. And then I realized, oh no, this isn't a show. This is an ad.
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And I thought to myself, wow, how many places in the world advertise do not come here?
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But I guess my question is still, how many places on earth have ad campaigns actively telling people don't come here?
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Well, Dan Flashes is a very aggressive brand, though. So you got to keep that in mind.
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Red McGriff style. Well, David, let me ask you a question. Yeah, that's a good call from the commercial.
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You walk by a store and you see 50 guys who look just like me fighting over very complicated shirts. You go in. Yes, you do. You go in.
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They have a shirt there that costs $2,000 because it's so complicated.
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Back-to-back-to-back national champions. National champs, Little League, yeah. David, you are older than everyone here today. So... I'm not old enough to remember, was three-peat a thing that was said before, like in the early 80s? No, it was 88.
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I wish I could tell you, but... I'm glad we blurred out the cop faces.
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Earlier, I told you guys the story of how I got in by just, you know.
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There's a flip side to that coin, which was later that week, trying to get in somewhere. And the bouncer, I say, yeah, it's just me and my buddy. And he looks at me. He's like, and you are? And I say, you know, go on, man. That's it. Shot some finger guns at him. You know, like I'm on Sports Nation, whatever. And he looks at me and he says.
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Oh, you know, I'm just like, you know, like I just put out the chum. So then he said, oh man, like what do you think is going to happen? And he looks at me up and down and he says, I watch ESPN every single day of my life. And I ain't never seen your ass! And bolts of lightning came from the sky and hit me.
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I know when he coined it because they thought they were going to go for three in a row and then they lost to the Pistons. But I'm just saying, did he actually invent the term or was that already a term that was being used and then he was just first to...
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And everything just... And I was like... Then I started stuttering and I knew I lost it right there. And I tried to be like... And you turned around and walked away? That's so uncomfortable. Luckily, someone I knew was walking in like, he's good. But... That's good timing. No, it's bad timing. I needed it before he said it loud in front of everybody. And I started stuttering and stumbling.
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And instantly, all the mask of celebrity and cool that I had was gone.
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Oh, my God, yeah. We're going to have to pay Pat Riley if Stugatz wins again, right?
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You know what? It's funny. I saw the patent. There's so many different iterations. Like any spelling you can think of.
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But David, this is why leagues like dynasties. Because it forces everyone to choose a side. Either I want to see history or I'm sick of them. I can't wait for them to lose. That's why the Yankees are great. That's why the Lakers and the Celtics are great. That's why right now the Chiefs are great. The idea that something that makes everybody watching, even the casuals,
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Feel a need to either say, oh, I want to see Taylor's boyfriend win another one, or say something like, oh, I hate that Taylor Swift. Like, it's so stupid. And yet it is the engagement that the league desires.
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But David, you have them having deep intellectual conversations long into the night.
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It's not about their relationship yums. I just, I don't know how much compelling conversation.
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Does she have the fun CTE? I don't know. That seems like an oxymoron. Well, that was Andrew Hawkins. Let us know this. There's a fun CTE. There's a fun CTE, yeah.
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Oh, Dan was the one that came up with fun CTE.
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What they're going to figure out is for everyone else, the question we're looking for is the one that they'll say no to. For you, it's the one that they'll say yes to.
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It seemed like you say no to almost every single one.
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It's like a fountain in a square in Italy, right? Just a tall man doing this and a small little cherubic angel pouring water.
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Stop being honest. Just tell them the white lie that they want to hear.
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I like sports. It's a weird job. Oh, my stomach.
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David, let me ask you a question. Three great kids? David, let me ask you a question, because this happens to a lot of athletes, right? That they're married, and part of what keeps the marriage together is half the time I'm not here. And then when they retire, a lot of the conflict happens.
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All of our interactions are one-on-one now. There's no buffer.
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Moving on. That is totally human. Two words, Disney+. Just turn it on and walk away. They're fine.
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When's the last time any of us have eaten at a buffet?
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
Look, we're down like by a bajillion points. There was five seconds to go. It had all the wrong options.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
No!
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Dominique just gave you a thoughtful way to spin this, and you're like... I'm doubling down, because Dominique, if it was in the middle of a game, doing a basketball activity, I would be like, yeah, no problem. This was literally, the kid is dribbling the ball out, and my child just stares and says...
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f this just trucks from behind or like head on head on and the kid was feet above the head on the ground tom and jerry when i played soccer i just sometimes you just gotta like get a little foul out you know just like ah and then looked at me and shrugged like what what i do i said why what i do i'm like what are you doing
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Oh, you're that parent? I talked to my kid the entire time.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
It won't happen because mine isn't the kind that he's describing. I don't talk to the refs. I don't talk to the coaches. I don't talk to other parents. I don't talk to any other kids. I'm just telling my kid, cut, cut now, cut now.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
No, because I know the place.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
I don't do that. I don't tell my kid when to shoot. I do say cut and things like that. I do know the plays because when my kid comes home and says, hey, we got a new play. We have a whiteboard. I said, draw it up for me. And then you've got to tell me from every position. If you're playing the two. All right. Now, if you're playing the five, where are you? Where are you doing?
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
So it's just things that we do. We watch film together. Film of what? It's high school, so all the games are on film. So after the game, we come home and we watch film. Oh, it's high school. I don't know.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
My kids are freshmen in high school playing varsity. So there's a big crowd.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
We're more about grades in my house. But my thing is. That's what you got to say.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
If you're going to do this, we're going to do this right, too.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
Who's going to win the Super Bowl?
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
I think SZA's going to win the Super Bowl.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
My money's on Kendrick. Oh, man. SZA's got a moment going.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
Can you give me an example?
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
No, I don't.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
Well, just say it, and I'll say it in the high-pitched voice.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
Plus, I thought Seoul was in South Korea.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
Oh yeah.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
Willie Nilly's making a comeback. He's making a comeback.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
David, when it comes to referees, this is one of the things why I think Adam Silver isn't as strong as he needs to be. We've had over the last couple of years several instances of players and coaches insinuate that the fix was in. And I said, look, man, you can call the ref stupid. You can call him blind. You can even say, hey, that ref doesn't like me. There's a personal vendetta.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
What we cannot ever allow in our sport is to have people question the integrity of the sport, meaning these guys are on the take, doing money signs, talking about they wanted them to win or whatever. That's the stuff that should not fly. The league has been very soft on that. And I think the NFL is the same thing. You need to kill that.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
immediately not only with your players and coaches but also with your broadcast partners right if you're fox if you're cbs nbc or espn you want our rights you can't be talking that craziness amazon too you can't you can't talk about the refs wanted them to win you can say he got a superstar call that's very different from there's a script or there's there's some sort of nefarious kind of uh thing at play
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
We're leaving the realm of... Oh, the NBA trade deadline, it never stops. Via Chris Haynes, Milwaukee Bucks are trading three-time All-Star Chris Middleton to the Washington Wizards for Kyle Kuzma. How about that?
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
Intestinal fortitude, sir, is what you're looking for. How about great job? You're improving.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
We like to call it the 20CB on Cinepho. The 20CB. The 20CB. Whenever you go back into the 90s or the 80s or earlier than that, you're going back to the 20CB as opposed to when we're now, we're in the 21st century, man.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
We often will ask. Sometimes it won't be something that's offensive. Sometimes it'll be a saying. Or something that happens. Is this 20CB? And then we get a confirmation from the group text. Yes, this is in fact a 20CB occurrence.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
So, Dominic, I got some things here that are not quite as offensive that are decidedly 20 CB.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
Sure, these aren't top five. These are just five examples, but give me some fanfare. Number five, eat your heart out. Nobody says that anymore. That is a relic of the 20th century. Our hearts remain uneaten. Eat your heart out. No one says that anymore. Framing the first dollar a small business makes.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
Describing someone as tall, dark, and handsome.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
It took me a long time to realize that they weren't talking about black people when they said tall, dark, and handsome. I was like, yeah. And then I was like, oh, wait, that guy's not dark. Wait, they aren't? No. Jinx, Dominic. Letting people know that Napoleon always had his hand in his pocket. When I was a kid.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
Cartoons, movies, TV shows. Always, if you mention Napoleon, the first thing you mention was his hand was in his pocket like that. Don't even say, my kids have no idea what that is. Right? Like they know who Napoleon is. They have no idea. We used to be a proper empire. And then finally. We are again now, it seems. We are. Dicey. And then finally, hot water bottles. Why are those 90s?
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
You don't see them. We have heating pads now. Heating pads. Those clay things they put in the microwave, you heat up. The electric ones. No one uses a hot water bottle anymore. Again, now, if you grew up like we did, Looney Tunes, anytime someone was sick, there was a hot water bottle somewhere, right? But these kids don't watch Looney Tunes, so they don't know what hot water bottles are.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
Let me ask this question. Flying pants. Aren't the Viore shorts the ones that were in the Dolphins training camp video?
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
The drawstring is my favorite part. He just the whole time.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
Pan down a little bit more. Thank you, guys. Enhance.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
Dominic, you like the politicking outside of the Super Bowl party? You enjoy that part?
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
You don't have a specific, cause I have a specific example.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
Get to it.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
Oh, it wasn't, it wasn't like an example of a party that I got into that I shouldn't have got into. Walked up. And this is at the point where I'm at my pinnacle. Sports Nation is happening. The Jump is happening. I'm like, I'm out here, right? And so this is, we go up to the- I mean, you're still out here, just for the record. Well, I'm not. No, now I'm mature. I'm wiser.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
I'm like, Dominique, I just- You showed up an hour late for the show today. I mean, because I stepped off a plane. Doesn't matter. That's a flex.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
I wish. So I walk in and I walk up to security. And as I'm looking, I said, I know what the deal is. Because most of these bouncers, they're all Laker fans. And so I just got to find the one Laker fan who looks at me and asks me why am I hating on the Lakers. So I see my guy, and I'm like, yeah. And he says, why are you always hating on the Lakers? I'm like, oh, come on, man.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
You know, da-da-da-da. This is when the Lakers are terrible. So as I'm talking, his manager comes up. His manager is your typical Vegas manager, right? Nightclub manager. Short Italian guy, lots of product in his hair, vest.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
Want to see me? And he's got the earpiece, right? The earpiece. And he comes up, sorry, boss, I can't let you in. I'm sorry. And I'm like, oh, come on, man. That's all I got to do. Come on, man. And he's like, I'm sorry. Even if I let you in here, see that guy over there? And there's a bald dude at a podium. He's like, that guy's my manager. He's not going to let you in.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
So I'm like, ah, there's nothing we can do. And the guy I'd been talking to, and this is my rule, bouncers, bartenders, you get 15 minutes of show. I'll ask any question. I'll give him a show. So I gave that guy 15 minutes of show. He pulls his manager aside and just points back at me. And the guy unclips the velvet robe, walk in. My buddy's like, what's going on? I just listen.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
We walk up to the guy at the podium, the manager who would have said no. And he looks up. He says, why are you always hitting on the Lakers? I was like, ah, come on, man. I gave him like five, 10 minutes of show. We're in the party. My buddy was like, that was amazing. How did you do that?
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
Oh, no. I'm not going to. That's the rule, David. I don't pace.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
Oh, I don't mind doing 15 minutes of show. It's about the challenge. For a bouncer or a bartender, I'll give them 15 minutes of show. No problem. It's the other normies that I have a problem with. That's right. You see me in the streets. You say hello. You get a picture. Keep it moving.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
I work for Marriott. Guest experiences. I travel from property to property to make sure that we have consistency across all the brands. Do you flash your chipped tooth when you do that? Well, I haven't had to do it since I chipped my tooth.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
My child had a flagrant foul, the very first flagrant foul. Ooh, nice. Hopefully a long career. And it happened with five seconds left in the game, and the other team was just dribbling the ball out. Oh, gosh. And so you were very proud, I assume. No, because, you know, first of all, it was a road game. So I got to demonstrate to the crowd that I don't condone this behavior. And I just said, why?
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
I just kept saying, why? Why? Like Nancy Kerrigan. Why? Why?
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
Did you start doing show? I started doing show for all the people around me, yeah. But Dominique, do you remember your first unsportsmanlike conduct?
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Local Hour: David and Pablo's Awkward Moment
That's right. That's right. Do you buy it? Do you buy the theory? Well, first of all, the guy's very clear. He's a lawyer. He's just a Mavs fan who's a lawyer. And he makes it very clear, like, there's no sourcing on this. He's just connecting dots.
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Local Hour: David and Pablo's Awkward Moment
It is true that the Adelson family purchased the Mavericks with the intent of getting gambling legalized in Texas and having this vast territory, the largest population of non- gambling people because it's not available to them in the United States. But, you know, upwards of 20 million people in the state of Texas. That's true. They didn't want it to get legalized. That's true.
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When they build a new building, a new arena, they want a casino.
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They're mostly in Asia now. In Asia.
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I don't know what Jeremy said. I'll just tell you. It's not his theory. Jeremy just summarized the Facebook post. At least I think I did.
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Proceed, Amin. Chris Cradaville is the guy's name, this lawyer's name. So as I said, that's correct. They do want to legalize gambling in Texas. They do want the new arena that they're going to build to have a casino attached. They already have the land. The land is in Irving, Texas, near the site of the old Cowboy Stadium. So that stuff is all true.
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Local Hour: David and Pablo's Awkward Moment
The part where it's like, and this deal was to put the, is the stick because the carrot didn't work in legislature. I don't know. He says it's his theory too. Like he's not saying, oh, I know I got the inside scoop. And I think that's very important to point out as people like to take things and run with it.
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Local Hour: David and Pablo's Awkward Moment
Can I be unfun today? I hate this talk. Someone's got to do it.
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Local Hour: David and Pablo's Awkward Moment
But like we're taking it down. This is what I. It gives me headaches. Right. It starts with the question.
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Local Hour: David and Pablo's Awkward Moment
What are you doing over there with your hands? That's what Dan's doing. I'm not. Rubbing his nipples. So this idea that, oh, Silver should veto it like Stern did, the Chris Paul deal. That's not how this works. Chris Paul deal was vetoed by David Stern, not as commissioner of the NBA because it's unfair.
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Local Hour: David and Pablo's Awkward Moment
It was vetoed because he was the de facto governor of the New Orleans franchise at the time because the guy who owned it ran out of money. And he was like, I can't run a team anymore. Who wants it? It's like the bank foreclosing on the team. And so Stern was like, I'm the governor. And they bring him this deal.
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Local Hour: David and Pablo's Awkward Moment
And the deal, by the way, was to get like Pagasol and a couple of other middling players. And Stern looked at it and said... We're better off being terrible and trying our luck in the lottery. And so he vetoes the deal as the de facto governor. The deal doesn't go through.
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Local Hour: David and Pablo's Awkward Moment
They do a different deal that brings them the type of players that will bring their value down, excuse me, their competitive value down on the floor. They're terrible. Guess what they got that following lottery? The number one overall pick. Who was Anthony Davis? Totally the right move for the Pelicans franchise. But everyone's like, he did it because they were going to help the Lakers.
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Local Hour: David and Pablo's Awkward Moment
Do people do that? They do that all the time. They do that. I never do that. With that voice. That's weird. You never say that. You never say that the league vetoed the deal because it would have been bad for business.
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Local Hour: David and Pablo's Awkward Moment
You guys acquired the Marlins, he acquires the Red Sox, and then Washington acquires the Expos.
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Local Hour: David and Pablo's Awkward Moment
Not a GM. How could I have an owner? He was a governor.
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Local Hour: David and Pablo's Awkward Moment
Sure, but the decision he made was the best decision for the franchise. Because the best decision for the league would have been, send Chris Paul to Kobe Bryant. Send him to L.A. Get him out of the 30th largest market in the league. Send him to the number two market. Send him to the market. All of the financial incentives were there for them to do that.
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And he didn't because that wasn't what was best for the organization.
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Local Hour: David and Pablo's Awkward Moment
It was cold. They put it in the freezer. It was cold.
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Local Hour: David and Pablo's Awkward Moment
No, it was a frozen envelope. That was the theory. By the way, the May 11th, 2022 episode of Basketball Illuminati, we tackled this. Episode 13, we had Patrick Ruby, who did a very exhaustive deep dive into all of the conspiracy theories surrounding that draft.
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Local Hour: David and Pablo's Awkward Moment
Full circle, right? So we get to how could this deal happen? Why didn't Adam Silver do anything? Number one. If there were going to be a commissioner who would play God, it's not Adam Silver. David Stern, maybe. I agree. Adam Silver is like, well, it seems like they really like the deal. And then that's it. That's so mean.
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Local Hour: David and Pablo's Awkward Moment
I kind of wish he would play God more.
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But David, it's more about his energy. He doesn't sound like that at all. But the energy is very like, Meek, Meek, whatever you guys like. And David Stern would walk in the room and tell you, every one of you go F yourselves, I'm in charge. Meek Silva.
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Local Hour: David and Pablo's Awkward Moment
To the listening audience, Pablo was just making the point of like David said, and he holds his hand out. David's like, ooh, high five. David looked at it as like an opportunity to make connection. I thought there was a connection. I thought we were having a moment.
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Local Hour: David and Pablo's Awkward Moment
Is there like a playlist of awkward interactions with David Sampson?
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That's always the gold standard.
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Pablo picked up on this the best. The best part of the video isn't what happens. It's not like shot. There it is. It's shot with grainy security camera. It's like TMZ video.
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Local Hour: David and Pablo's Awkward Moment
What are you talking about? Play the game, David. By the way, and look at the guy in the black shirt over there. His awkward, he scratches his head like, oh, my God. Yeah, look at him.
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Local Hour: David and Pablo's Awkward Moment
That might be the worst part. The shuffle up to it might be worse.
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Local Hour: David and Pablo's Awkward Moment
Yeah, it's kind of nice.
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Local Hour: David and Pablo's Awkward Moment
He works in sports. That's why he knows how to dap. That's a short thing.
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Hour 2: TAYLOR, DEFEND YOURSELF!!! (feat. Anthony Williams a.k.a. Jason 'The Jet' Mason)
Meanwhile, Taylor over here eating lunch before it gets laid out for everybody.
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Hour 2: TAYLOR, DEFEND YOURSELF!!! (feat. Anthony Williams a.k.a. Jason 'The Jet' Mason)
That's what he does, man. They go feast.
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Hour 2: TAYLOR, DEFEND YOURSELF!!! (feat. Anthony Williams a.k.a. Jason 'The Jet' Mason)
You said the royal we, brother.
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Hour 2: TAYLOR, DEFEND YOURSELF!!! (feat. Anthony Williams a.k.a. Jason 'The Jet' Mason)
Travel basketball, man. That's a lot of money. Oh, my God. He can still hear all this.
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Hour 2: TAYLOR, DEFEND YOURSELF!!! (feat. Anthony Williams a.k.a. Jason 'The Jet' Mason)
Too soon, Jackson. How many of us truly believe if the machine told Chris, we have butter water for you?
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Hour 2: TAYLOR, DEFEND YOURSELF!!! (feat. Anthony Williams a.k.a. Jason 'The Jet' Mason)
It's not that the flavor's unimaginable. It's that you would over say, no. Butter water?
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Hour 2: TAYLOR, DEFEND YOURSELF!!! (feat. Anthony Williams a.k.a. Jason 'The Jet' Mason)
Hold on, y'all want to hear the worst April Fools I've ever fallen for in my life, and it happened yesterday. And this is the scariest part. I think I got the oldest kid among anyone in here.
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Hour 2: TAYLOR, DEFEND YOURSELF!!! (feat. Anthony Williams a.k.a. Jason 'The Jet' Mason)
This is way worse. My kid hands me this sheet, and it's a jumble. I said, Dad, can you help me with this? I can't get any of the words. And so I look at it, and I'm usually good at the jumble or whatever. And I look, oh, there you go. One of them was multiplying or whatever. Just look for an ING, and you got it. They're like, yeah, I can't see. I'm going to find it.
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Hour 2: TAYLOR, DEFEND YOURSELF!!! (feat. Anthony Williams a.k.a. Jason 'The Jet' Mason)
I'm like, yeah, just look for the ING. It's right there. Can you show me where it is? I said, well, it's somewhere in there. And I'm looking, and I'm trying to buy myself time. I pretended I knew where it was. And then my kid was like, it's not on the sheet because this is an April Fool's joke. And I was just like, oh, no. I've been had. And I was crushed. And I went downstairs.
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Hour 2: TAYLOR, DEFEND YOURSELF!!! (feat. Anthony Williams a.k.a. Jason 'The Jet' Mason)
Yeah, him and Kendall Gill.
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Hour 2: TAYLOR, DEFEND YOURSELF!!! (feat. Anthony Williams a.k.a. Jason 'The Jet' Mason)
I was like, I can't believe it. But guess what? And my kid messed up and said, what? And I said, chicken butt.
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Hour 2: TAYLOR, DEFEND YOURSELF!!! (feat. Anthony Williams a.k.a. Jason 'The Jet' Mason)
Now I have the upper hand again.
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Hour 2: TAYLOR, DEFEND YOURSELF!!! (feat. Anthony Williams a.k.a. Jason 'The Jet' Mason)
Like, immediately.
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Hour 2: TAYLOR, DEFEND YOURSELF!!! (feat. Anthony Williams a.k.a. Jason 'The Jet' Mason)
What if? What if the bevy went sentient on us? I have feelings, too. I also can tell jokes. Hey, what is a butter, a pecan pineapple butter pop water?
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Hour 2: TAYLOR, DEFEND YOURSELF!!! (feat. Anthony Williams a.k.a. Jason 'The Jet' Mason)
Orange, steak, garlic, uh... Pecan water.
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Hour 2: TAYLOR, DEFEND YOURSELF!!! (feat. Anthony Williams a.k.a. Jason 'The Jet' Mason)
Kenan Thompson about Curtis Kenan Johnson.
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Hour 2: TAYLOR, DEFEND YOURSELF!!! (feat. Anthony Williams a.k.a. Jason 'The Jet' Mason)
Yeah, man. You guys really dropped the ball. You're talking about why Taylor Jenkins was fired this late in the season. By the way, I don't think we have a definitive answer for that because it's kind of ridiculous. I don't know if you guys... I can't remember if you guys mentioned this. His entire staff had gotten fired prior to this season, which in the NBA is the ultimate... We said that.
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Hour 2: TAYLOR, DEFEND YOURSELF!!! (feat. Anthony Williams a.k.a. Jason 'The Jet' Mason)
God, this is my favorite part.
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Hour 2: TAYLOR, DEFEND YOURSELF!!! (feat. Anthony Williams a.k.a. Jason 'The Jet' Mason)
Please say tiger. This man is a graduate of the University of Maryland, a fine institution, Harvard Business School, was president of the Players Association, negotiating CBAs in two different sports, by the way, which is unheard of. Everything on paper, Dominique is like, wow, this is a renaissance, man. Put him on the microphone. He turns into a regular football player. Hey, Chris. Hey, man.
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Hour 2: TAYLOR, DEFEND YOURSELF!!! (feat. Anthony Williams a.k.a. Jason 'The Jet' Mason)
Ask John Fanta, do you do brackets?
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Hour 2: TAYLOR, DEFEND YOURSELF!!! (feat. Anthony Williams a.k.a. Jason 'The Jet' Mason)
Get your black ass up out of here, right? Even though his name is Jenkins, he's white. But number two, you guys talk about the offense. You can't piss off the best player. It wasn't his offense. It wasn't his offense. The offense was devised by, get this... The two new assistants, one of whom is now the head coach, and the other one is fired. And I'm just like, wait a second, hold on.
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I want to go back to the... Chris, what you got right here? Which is... A little improvement over my favorite interview thing in anywhere, sports, media, entertainment, whatever, is whenever the TNT guys are interviewing the player of the game after the game, where they all, this is Shaq here. I'm like, big fella, we know who you, like, you don't have to announce yourself.
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Like, I love the idea of, like, Shaq asking a question, just going right to the question, and God's like, oh, I'm sorry, who's talking to me? Is this Ernie? Yeah.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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You're going to take my staff away from me. You're going to hire somebody else that I didn't have a say in. Then you're going to tell these somebody else's to devise the offense, even though our offense was okay last year, right? And then when the star player doesn't like it, you're going to use that as an excuse to get rid of me.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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This is, ladies and gentlemen, not like Taylor Jenkins misstepping or whatever. This is classic textbook. We're getting you up out of here.
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Thank you.
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The whiz kid Wall Street front office that thinks that, hey, man, let me give this head coaching job to this man from Finland who's never been in an NBA capacity in any form or fashion prior to this season when we brought him here from his illustrious record of winning the Euro Cup and the Basketball Champions League and every other...
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league over there that's not really one of the heralded ones that come. Let me put it this way. This guy isn't David Blatt. And I'm not trying to knock him. He might be the best coach of all time one day. I don't know. I don't know because his resume is super thin. He's not David Blatt. David Blatt came here. This dude won Euroleagues. This dude coached like the biggest clubs in Europe.
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Like national team coaching. He had a real resume. Unfortunately he didn't have an NBA resume and so the NBA guys didn't really respect him. And he didn't do himself any favors either. In this case, Thomas Isolo is his name. He comes from, as I said, from coaching in Germany, in France, some okay clubs at okay levels, but not the highest levels of European basketball.
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Not domestic and not the continental championship of the EuroLeague. And this is the guy who's going to be the head coach of your NBA franchise now. That to me is the galaxy brain of front offices where like, I know the best coach. He's not even here. Like, oh, you guys are listening to that? Like, oh, I know this indie band that only plays for five people. That's what they're doing.
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I would say the only reason I can think of And it's a pretty dastardly one from a basketball standpoint. Is, oh shit, if we let him rock with this, what if he goes on a huge playoff run? Then we got to keep him. I really want my Indy pick from Finland. You get rid of him now. My argument was you knew he wasn't your guy the moment you fired his entire staff and gave him his assistant coaches.
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Why didn't you just fire him then? Why give him the, oh, well, we owe it to him. Why you didn't owe him to him nine more games and a playoff run then? So to me, it's just, again, this is just the ridiculousness of NBA front offices that far too often skate. We're really good at blaming coaches. We're really good as a culture. It's all the coaches. I can't believe that.
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We never bring up the front office's role in all this. And you, of all people, Dominique, Mr. Tanking is bad. I would think that you would be Mr. Call out all these front offices out here instead of picking on poor Taylor Jenkins, man. I didn't pick on poor Taylor Jenkins. You called him a bum and you told him to get the hell up out of here.
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Jason, how's the flog doing?
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It was a meet up. We were at Tap 42 at Aventura Mall. Hey, I don't know where I'm at. I don't know where I'm at. It's a city that I don't frequent. It's one of those mixers they do. It's a mixer.
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I've never said he doesn't look great. He's always very well-dressed. I'm just saying, on that day.
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He looked like he might have embezzled from the title.
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They said he found Jesus down in Miami on South Beach. That's why I must go.
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He was a good coach in Brooklyn, and the knock on him was like, yeah, but those guys don't like you.
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So you're out, and then it's like, all right, that was it, buddy. Go ahead. And that phenomenon is even bigger when it comes to black coaches. Don't be a black coach and get fired. That might be it.
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JB is like the exception to the rule. Wes Unsell Jr. Where's Wes? Wes is a good example, right? Wes is the rule. Steven Silas. So as long as I worked in the NBA, Steven Silas has been in the NBA, everyone's always like, this guy. All these players that I know played where he was an assistant. That guy's great. He's going to be a great head coach.
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I was stopping for him when Billy got the Bulls job. So Steven Silas gets the job in Houston. Finally, all right. Harden got Westbrook. You're going to take us to this next era post-Mike D'Antoni. He's like, cool. And then Harden's like, I want to get traded. And then Westbrook's like, I want to get traded too. And so essentially he's given a bunch of babies. Kids, yeah.
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Kids, basically, who don't know anything. Not that they're not talented, but they're just not a team that's ready to win. And he gets fired, and I'm like, Like, does Steven Silas get a fair shake? And then once he's out, does he get a shake anywhere else? That's it. How does that translate to the NFL, though? Because, like, guys like Sean McDermott. Don't give him a chance over there.
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We give him a chance, and then if you mess up, that one time you're out.
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I mean, his name's Anthony.
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Taylor, Anthony's saying, like, this is a hobby for him. The thing that he was actually great at, state champ. He was putting up numbers and banners.
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All right, so what banners were you putting up? I quit after my first year.
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Are we judging Nelly by his country album? No, we're not doing that.
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I saw Taylor pull up today on a scooter, and my dog got a roof that you can see through. It wasn't even electric. It was manual. Taylor was...
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Flea flicker. Every first down, that's how we start.
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David, those of us that aren't familiar, what is a slump buster?
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I feel like he's giving us multiple claps to catch multiple.
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Hold on. You're on the sideline. You're telling me there's no, like, huh. Not you specifically.
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Oh, where you got to make sure the family section is different from the jump home section.
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You guys never have that conversation at the beginning of the year? I think it was, no. As an organization, David, I'm sure you guys had this too. It's like, you get this many family room credentials. This is for family. This isn't for... Right.
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Zion is the toughest kind of case study because he is good. If he wasn't good, this would be an easy conversation. His contract, as you know, David, has provisions that are not common in the NBA in terms of a level of non-guarantee, a level of guarantee only if he hits weight and plays a certain number of games. For next year...
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It's 40% guaranteed had he stayed at a certain amount of weight and played at least 41 games, right? It's another 20% guarantee if he plays at least 51 games, right? That's already a level of contract that we'd never see in our league, right? So you could say, man, this guy's always hurt and he's always out of shape.
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We should cut him because we've got all this protection in the contract that basically allows us to walk away scot-free. The problem is he's good and you know it. And you know if it ever comes together, like in terms of just staying healthy, he's going to kill it somewhere else. And then you've got to explain to ownership how you let this guy just walk. The John Morant one is different because...
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Beyond his off-the-court issues, which seem to be behind him at this stage, he also gets hurt a lot. Not as much as Zion, but he's hardly a vision of health himself. And so both of those guys, and I would throw Joel Embiid in there in the conversation as well, it gets you into real murky waters because you know when they're healthy, they are elite players.
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But the problem is when they're healthy, that part is not a guarantee.
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Medea Goes to Prison? It's like saying I've seen a couple of Ernest movies. Medea Says Boo? Right?
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If you're listening or viewing this at home, you're like, oh, Dominique's so funny, man. He's just making up stuff. No, no, no.
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Thank you.
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I mean, Tyler, if we're counting dollars, then yes, Tyler Perry. If we're counting like actual movies that people want to watch, I would say Eddie.
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You can catch that wherever you catch podcasts.
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You guys ever heard of a movie called White Man's Burden? Yes. It has John Travolta in it.
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Reality Switch Sides is the tagline, right? We also reviewed it for Cinephile, by the way. But in the Reality Switch Sides universe, we're. Black people are the predominant culture, whatever. If I heard a white guy say, go to watch Madea on opening night, he's getting flagged, red flag. You gotta bring him in. What's the deal? What are you up to, boy? What's going on?
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No, I'm just saying the waivers, this is standard practice across all sports, across all arenas. My first job at NBA was game ops. And so we were the people that had to pick these people from the crowd to do these things. And the first thing you do is you hand them a piece of paper. You got to sign this. It says... Anything happens out here, you're on your own.
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Oh, no. It's all about, you know what it was mostly about is making sure the two were equal. Like, you didn't want, like, one person was, like, doing windmills and the other one was doing that, right?
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so so the background is like they're they're uh squashing grapes under their feet making wine and then like she says like something to the effect of like okay let's race and then she says stop but then she keeps going right like the we're like all right let's stop oh psych i didn't we're not stopping and that's when she falls and busts her ass she's on a platform too like it's not just busted grapes on the ground for whatever reason they had to elevate
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Yeah, she's hurt. She took a hard fall off there. It was her and the guy who got the fly that flew in his mouth.
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I hate this country ass shit.
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Wait, hold on. You got Ichiro's bat sitting in first class and watching the other bats go behind as it chips champagne like, oh, peasants.
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They're down there dancing. Like us at Dan's wedding. Remember that? That's a callback. At Dan's wedding, for those who don't know, Dan's wedding, there was like two sections. There was like the hoity-toity section. That's where Dan Patrick and Sarah Spain and Mina Kahn's and Pablo Torrio were hanging out. And then there was the Titanic section. There was me, Chris, and Billy. Ryan Cortez.
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And Ryan Cortez.
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My guy J-Dub, man. I can't believe you're sitting here doubting J-Dub, man. Look, you're right. The game plan, which is always my favorite thing about the NBA, it's the difference between the NBA and the NFL. In the NFL, you guys have a game plan. It's like a secret. Don't let anyone know what the game plan is. It's a game plan. They're not going to... Oh my God, what are they doing?
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Our heads are exploding. The NBA is like, yeah, hey man, you want our game plan? Here it is. Your opponent, here, take it, take it, take a look at it. Now stop it. Try and stop it. So the game plan is we're going to get the ball out of Shea's hand. We're going to throw two at him. We're going to make someone else beat us. We're going to see how much.
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If we can go to the well to J-Dub again and again and again, him and Chet, how much they can continue to convert before it dissipates on them, right? The reality is, Shea Gillespie Alexander leads the league in scoring at like 33 points a game. Eight of those points come from the free throw line. So he's still scoring 25 a game, not getting to the free throw line. Again...
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It's so easy to say, oh, just take Shea out the board. And then what are you going to do? All right, go ahead. There you go. Here's my game plan. Now take him off the board.
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It's why in the NBA a much more successful tactic when you see these amazing offensive players is the opposite. Let him get whatever he wants. But nobody else breathes. That's way more common because, again, 60 points last night aside, the idea is that nobody can continue to do that over the course of 48 minutes and also still be in the game and also still be able to defend and all those things.
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Did Charlie have a Sam Rockwell and White Lotus type of night? No.
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First of all, I was like, why would you be listening? Oh yeah, that's right, because of the Lee man.
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Let me tell you something. That's how I did well on the SAT verbal. Hand of God. Listening to Walt Clyde Frazier because he would say things, serendipitous bounce on the left side. Like, what does serendipitous mean? Oh, the Knicks are in their Shangri-La and their Xanadu. I'm like, what's a Xanadu? How do you even spell it? All those words came up in my SAT verbal.
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Shout out to Walt Clive Frazier.
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Together they formed Pretty Ricky. Grind with me.
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Man, hold on. Leroy and G-Roy. Hold on, man.
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Let me just say right now, there is nobody I want to see on the playground after I done called someone, maybe your mama. And then here come Leroy and G-Roy. What you say about my mama? Those are bullies, right? That's the name of twin bullies. Leroy and G-Roy.
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And then they always refer to each other by their name. Ain't that right, Leroy?
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Okay, so you hit on exactly the point. The point isn't that...
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the incentive to lose is too great it's that it's not greater than the incentive to win right and so i've heard things were like yo we should have a tournament of all the teams that don't make the playoffs and then that's the team that gets the number one pick i said okay so you basically just incentivize whoever's in the bottom of the playoff picture be like
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You start the game off. Let them know.
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do I really want my head beaten in by the Cavs or the Thunder, or do I want to go get Cooper flat? So if that were the rule right now, that's what I would accuse the Miami Heat of doing, of tanking so that they miss the playoffs so that they can then go run roughshod on Washington and Charlotte and all those teams.
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So the problem is, as you said, it's the incentive does not match, right? I think Philadelphia is a bad example because they are specifically in a weird spot where they wanted to win. They entered the season wanting to win games, wanting to win a championship. And even as late as maybe January, they were like, It could still happen, right, if we just get healthy at the right time.
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And then injuries just pretty much cut them off at the knees. On top of that, they owe a pick to Oklahoma City. Do you know why they owe that pick, by the way?
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Well, yes. Good one, Dominique. Well played. About five years ago, maybe a little bit more, the Sixers had Al Horford on their roster. They paid him a bunch of money. It didn't work. This is a bad move. They're like, we got to get rid of him. Who could take this salary out of our hands? And Oklahoma City was like, I'll take it for a couple of picks. And that's what it is.
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And by the way, then OKC flipped him to Boston for some more picks.
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Guarding Luka on the perimeter in big moments. So where we're at here is, to me, I think we solved the problem. Five years ago, this shit was out of control. All-Star break? Nah, I'm tanking. All these teams were going heavy. Now, because of the play-in, you've extended the window of teams saying, I could do it, I could put something together.
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You know, what Miami did two years ago has now given the play-in a different meaning. It's like, hey, it's not just the right to get your head bashed in. Maybe it could be you, right? So... They have solved that for all but, like, the four or five teams that are awful every year, which I think is kind of part of the process. Like, everyone needs bad teams.
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No, I'm serious. I like the idea of you, like, for years, Dominique was like, Shift them fans, man. Just pay me my check. And then a couple years removed from retiring, you're like, is this what you guys have been witnessing? This is preposterous.
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It's none of that stuff, right? In football, it's a very simple system that creates that. It's not the scarcity of games. It's the scarcity of guaranteed dollars, right? So everybody is kind of clawing at this pot of money.
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So there's a couple of things, right? Number one is the players, like the teams, when they play these guys. So let's use Philadelphia as an example, right? I don't know of any fan who's like, I bought tickets to Sixers-Knicks, and then I found out Kelly Oubre was a DNP. How dare they?
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The number of guys who actually move the needle on that, of like, I don't feel like I'm getting my money's worth, is insane. Rather limited.
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Yeah, I mean, again, I don't think that... For instance, the Bucs have that luxury. Or any of those teams. Giannis might not have been the best example. No, but I'm just saying, look up and down all the standings. I don't think that matters. It's really easy. Like Cleveland. Oh, they don't have to play that. Yes, they do, because they're tracing the number one overall seed.
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They want a home court advantage in the finals. Denver, they're chasing two. And Houston, Houston trying to keep Denver off their backs. Lakers trying to move up to two or three. Warriors trying to stay out of seven. Like every single team, every night at this point, has a reason to play their guys other than if it's a back-to-back. It becomes a mitigated risk, right? So from that standpoint.
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From the other standpoint, if I'm the Sixers, part of it, sure, it fits in with like, yeah, we want to lose these games. But the other part of it is, why am I going to play Kelly Oubre, who I know who he is? I know what he's about. How do I figure out if... Ricky Council is really good or not, right?
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The number of guys – so Miami did this for years with Kendrick Nunn, with Duncan Robinson, with Haywood Heisman. These are all guys who actually got called up the year before, right? At the end of the year, and they're like, all right, let's see what we got here. Let's see what we got here. And then they come back, and the next year, like, this guy's in a rotation. I've never heard of him.
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Yeah, he's been here, but, like, you didn't realize it.
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If you want to talk about what the NBA's problem is, is that we allow perception to run our league.
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Chris, you ever been to McDonald's and they told you the McFlurry machine wasn't working? Hate that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The McFlurry Machine Metaphor
I'm not sure what that... Some McDonald's don't have a working McFlurry machine. Do we boycott the McDonald's?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The McFlurry Machine Metaphor
We still eat, man. We still go, okay, give me a two cheeseburger meal and some nuggets on the side. Maybe that $5 meal that comes with all this stuff in there. I really like McDonald's. That's such backwards thinking to me.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The McFlurry Machine Metaphor
I don't think it would make a difference. Okay. Like, I don't think it would make a difference.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The McFlurry Machine Metaphor
I don't think – Washington is playing all its guys. Do you care?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The McFlurry Machine Metaphor
We don't need McFlurries. 2019 sports talk right now. It's not an issue. And the only reason why people are talking about it this year, because I don't remember anybody opening their mouth even halfway to talk about this. The only reason why it's this year is because there's a guy who's coming out that everyone is tantalizing over.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The McFlurry Machine Metaphor
And when you got a guy like that, everyone is going to look at every single action as, see, they're tanking for flag again. No, it's just sometimes... Thank you.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The McFlurry Machine Metaphor
I don't know if you guys saw the reverse angle. After he smokes the layup, he just stands there and sits in it for a little bit. As action is going, they're playing, and he's just like, yeah, I might have just blown that game. And then he gets the idea, like, I gotta make up for this. And he runs. And the craziest part is watching the TNT broadcast when the foul happens.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The McFlurry Machine Metaphor
They're like, oh my God, there's a foul on the buzzer. And they just centered in on Peyton Watson going like this. And I was like, oh, Peyton, man. Like, come on, buddy. You gotta earn your spot. You can't make mistakes like that in the clutch. And then I showed the replay. I was like, that wasn't him. Why you guys focused on him? Because he looked shocked?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The McFlurry Machine Metaphor
I'm sure everybody looks shocked on the team. Why you gotta focus on him?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The McFlurry Machine Metaphor
I don't know if you know this, but the playoffs have already started. Yeah, in the NBA, the playoffs have already started. All of these games have stakes. Every single game has stakes. And so there's no, well, let's just get them next week or whatever. Everyone needs to win.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The McFlurry Machine Metaphor
Denver's chasing Houston for the two-seed and the right to not play whoever's six, which is probably going to be the Warriors. And so this was an incredibly important game for them. At the same time for the Timberwolves, they're trying to move up, and they're now tied with Memphis. Mm-hmm.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The McFlurry Machine Metaphor
For 6-7, they lose a tiebreaker, but everybody was playing for something, and that's what made that game so incredible and so compelling, both of those games, really.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The McFlurry Machine Metaphor
They wasn't tricking us. They were doing the thing that you do when you invite people over and all you have is like this futon from Ikea. And we're like, yeah, I just got this new cushion right here, these new seat cushions just to spruce it up a little bit. And they're like, oh, wow, yeah, that's really nice, man. It really brings color out. But like we all know like, damn, bro, you broke.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The McFlurry Machine Metaphor
What kind of furniture is Jokic? Oh, man. That's a sectional with the USB plugs in them. Ooh. Right? And cup holders? And the cup holders. And that little pocket thing where I can put my remote control in.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The McFlurry Machine Metaphor
Huh? It's not doing enough.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The McFlurry Machine Metaphor
You know how many times I have to reach over- I gotta charge my phone. Hold on.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The McFlurry Machine Metaphor
So this is what this is. This is really just you railing against the furniture salesman who... bench over a barrel of chargers.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The McFlurry Machine Metaphor
You know what I don't like about the portable charger? I gotta charge it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The McFlurry Machine Metaphor
You want a solar portable charger? Yeah, I mean just something like maybe like dynamic or something like kinetic energy.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The McFlurry Machine Metaphor
No, no, no. Your dad was right. Anyone compliments my child's hips? Yeah, we're ending that conversation right then and there.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The McFlurry Machine Metaphor
Here's the thing. 98% of the time, you're probably right. It was just a football remark. But then there's that 2%, right? Do you really want to risk that 2%? And then everyone will be like, Well, the man did tell you he was complimenting the hips, and you were like, yeah, thanks, instead of doing something about it. No, you can't take that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The McFlurry Machine Metaphor
It reminds me, I watched that docu-series about all the things that were happening at Nickelodeon behind the scenes to those poor children or whatever, and one of the kids, his dad was really kind of involved, and it was like, no, always picking him up, always on top of things. Then he ended up having a divorce, And the mom was getting custody.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The McFlurry Machine Metaphor
And the mom was like fully into the Hollywood mom life and just dropping the kid off and leaving them be. And so years later, the scandal comes out. Man, these kids got messed with or whatever. And the dad is watching the news with his son. And he's like, man, see, I'm glad I kept you away from all of them. Turned out his son was one of them. Yeah. So like, you don't want to be that dad.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The McFlurry Machine Metaphor
They called in the left-hander.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The McFlurry Machine Metaphor
Thinking like, oh yeah, I did everything right. And then they say, hey.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The McFlurry Machine Metaphor
Wait, did you go, was that Penn State or is it that workout was?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The McFlurry Machine Metaphor
That's a Sandusky joke, folks. That's right. That's how we doing it. Flea flicker. We starting this game with a flea flicker. Oh, man.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The McFlurry Machine Metaphor
Yeah, well, you know, we don't objectify our players. We say, got a nice personality, that kid. That's what we say. A hardworking fella. Also, got nice open hips. Open hips.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The McFlurry Machine Metaphor
They have a chance? Change your opinion on if they have a chance? I mean, they obviously have a chance. I'm not talking about a mathematical chance in the same way the Timberwolves have a chance of winning the championship. They have a legitimate chance, yes. Are there obstacles? Hell yes, there are obstacles in that way. And chief among them is they don't have a lot of size, right?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The McFlurry Machine Metaphor
They're playing... Quentin Post, who before this season, no one even had heard that name before. Trace Jackson Davis has fallen out of the rotation to some extent. Kevon Looney is 700 years old, and yet somehow not 30, I don't believe.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The McFlurry Machine Metaphor
He's old and young at the same time. He doesn't have open hips. No.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The McFlurry Machine Metaphor
They're not 24 hours. And then you got Draymond and Jimmy Butler playing undersized pretty much, which they're all tough and they bring something to the table. But at some point, you run into someone who's just big. And when you look at the Western Conference, whether it's Jokic or, you know, Chet Holmgren and Isaiah Hartenstein or even someone like Shingun. You're going to have problems.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The McFlurry Machine Metaphor
That was my nickname when I worked for the Suns, man. Right, yeah.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The McFlurry Machine Metaphor
You're going to have to see one of those guys on the ascent, maybe even multiple. And you're saying, okay, my guys are tough enough and smart enough and experienced enough because a lot of people don't realize guys like Moses Moody and Kaminga, they won a championship too. They've been around. I just, I don't know. I don't know enough to say, oh, no, no, you're nuts.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The McFlurry Machine Metaphor
But also not like, yeah, man, put it all on the Warriors.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The McFlurry Machine Metaphor
Or dreamer. There we go.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The McFlurry Machine Metaphor
And they're so damn deep, man. The Thunder is the perfect team. It's like, you're talking about, you're right. There are a bunch of, like, every team I look at in the West, like, yeah, what about this? What about that? Look at the Thunder. I'm like, nah, y'all got it, man. Like, I have no notes.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The McFlurry Machine Metaphor
I wouldn't say he's reliant. I think he plays a way that makes it very hard to guard him, right? And either you're going to give up a shot that you don't feel comfortable giving up, or you're going to foul, right? So, it's not, but it's, it always drives me insane when people are like, oh, the refs, like, No, he's getting fouled. Right. He's getting fouled because he plays at a pace.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The McFlurry Machine Metaphor
And if you think about all the guys that are great at drawing fouls that are not like Giannis, that are just because.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The McFlurry Machine Metaphor
Shea Gillespie Alexander, James Harden, Luka Doncic, Jalen Brunson. What do all those guys have in common? They're not like you. One would think, oh, the guy that's blazingly quick and jumping over everybody. That's the guy that everyone fouls. No, it's the guy that makes you play down at their pace. Yeah. They know how to slow it down and stop and speed up in small windows.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The McFlurry Machine Metaphor
And that's what gets unruly defenders off balance and makes them foul. But, like, to me, it's not like, watch me fool the refs one more time. No, he's getting fouled. And he's getting fouled because you have no recourse.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Knee High Fastball, The Count Is 4-1 (feat. JuJu Gotti)
That's on me, actually. I let it go on too long. I should have cut him off. It felt reckless the whole time. It did.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
I cannot yeah I'm in no position to come in here and try to wave it around and tell people what I am and am not going to do although I'm not returning no points I don't care what you say me neither I've won records saying I'm not returning I've told head coaches hey no you go back there return it yeah I I don't know what this hat what happens with the Grizzlies going forward I don't think that they were like a real like legitimate title contender top of the league even though they were third place no one was really considering what Jai and that team was going to do um
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
I feel like that should be their slogan or something. It was at one point.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
Relative to the real top dogs, I think, in the West. But the future of that organization, I think, is still dependent on John Morant, no matter what, and finding some sort of way to build something, to hire someone and build something that he believes in and he's going to buy into is their only way of going forward, even if Taylor Jenkins is the smartest new coach on the scene.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
You got to go get Ray Lewis to do it, though. He's the only one who can deliver. That wasn't even his, was it? He did it the best. It wasn't his? Wasn't it the Bulls? Nah. No? I thought it was Ray. No, Ray was all my dogs in the house. Right? He might have used game time. But that was Bahaman.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
Yeah, the alternatives at that position are tough, and it's impossible to find the perfect quarterback for your situation, but you wouldn't move on from Tua. I think Ja is probably a higher version than Tua, but that's not the perfect... Do you think he has a better arm than him?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
I mean, I think farther, it's like we see the long ball drivers guys, like they're not better golfers than real golfers.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
The Baja men are the exact opposite of all my dogs in the house. The Baja men were concerned about who let all the dogs out of their house.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
Speaking of which, Taylor out there talking crazy. He was talking nuts, man. Get your goofy ass out of here, Taylor. You ain't faster than nothing now, me or Hawk in this thing.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
I think that plays right into what I was saying. I would not say that John Morant is a better quarterback. Obviously, these long ball driver guys are not better golfers. But if you ask him to do this very simple thing, he's a taller guy, whippy athleticism, big hands. Like, yeah, I feel like Jack can launch that thing. Now, is he going to be more accurate?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
Is he going to be a better decision maker? Of course not.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
It's harder to throw a basketball. Yeah, it is harder to throw a basketball.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
I appreciate the Chad DPT support, but I'm not sure that I really would use it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
He's documented he can throw a football far.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
Uncle Rick probably hates the internet. Uncle Rick was getting them lies off. Forever. Uncle Rick been getting them lies off until the early 2000s when people had phones with the internet.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
I mean, that's probably a 400 guy. That's an 800 guy. You might beat me in a 400 or 800 riding on Taylor in the one. You think you can ride him in the one?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
What you also know, and for the listening audience, Taylor has good arm definition, which suggests that maybe he's a pretty good athlete. I respect that he's an above average athlete.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
Little bobs? You got some bobs, too? You got some Mbappe in there. The top is baggy, man, which suggested to me that the equipment manager didn't respect him, which means he was a slow guy on the team. I'm sorry, Taylor. I know as a rookie, as a third-round rookie, my jersey never looked worse.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
And he's outside running the outdoor track. But it's also the blackest he's ever looked. How in the world do you got an indoor season complexion on the outdoor season track? Fuentes is so pissed right now. Fuentes? Why is he pissed?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
Taylor, this is not helping you, man. I hope that they look this up. I hope you didn't look this up.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
No, it's creaking. It's the changing temperature. I think this explains it, right? It's like the change in temperature. It's wood and whatever expanding and contracting. And so you want me to go find where it is contracted and heat up that portion of the house?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
I hope you didn't send this to them thinking that this was going to scare me.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
I've never been more confident in my life that I would ride on this kid.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
You probably paid to run, too. Are you a scholarship athlete? Did they call you up? Did they send you a letter? Or you showed up and knocked on the door and was like, hey, excuse me.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
This might be a 4x8 situation. This is a slow race. My guy got them glasses on.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
how bad your vision gotta be that you can't stay between the lines? We not asking you to catch nothing, bruh. How bad your vision gotta be that you gotta wear glasses to run straight?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
That's more than solid. Thank you, sir. That is very impressive at 39 years old. Taylor, you don't stand a chisholm.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
Hold on. Again, Tony, whatever. Look at the people he's playing against. Here's a dude on a court with a pink satin do-rag. It's the same guy on the track photo. With a satin do-rag on. Get out of here.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
I mean, he's a catch-and-shoot player. That's fine. That's the same point in a one-on-one situation.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
If you ain't 7'6". He was the tallest player on that court. And you know where he was at? Corner. They relegated the biggest player to the A. They saw him play. It was like, hey, you know what? Stand over there. Me and Satin Durek going to run a two-man game. And if they help off of it, then you got an open shot. Stand over there.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
Hawk is running. Not today. My back situation. I have not run since July. I can't tell you who's going to win. I'll tell you who will lose, and his name is Taylor. If we were to run a race. Three-person 100. That manila folder.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
I was going to let you off the hook, Billy. But we need to know what your Uber rating is because you seem like you- He's grown up in nice houses.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
No, hold on. I can guarantee you that Jason. is not in second place. So if you telling me that Taylor's in first place, that means Jason's in second place. He's all the way on the most inner lane, right? Taylor's on the most inside lane. And Jason, so this is 7-8 territory. We're looking at Taylor got seventh place.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
The tough thing is, you said he's a two-sport athlete at Carolina. Three days after I ran into Julius Peppers in Colorado. You want to talk about a two-sport athlete. How dare you put Taylor in the same conversation. He's on the metal sand. Huh? Yeah.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
I feel like Julius Peppers and like Miles Garrett like guys like that it's a different category of human yeah like you were talking about phylums earlier that's a phylum that Taylor don't need to get nowhere near are we counting Michael Jordan as a Tar Heel two-sport athlete what other sport did he play baseball but not for the school no that doesn't no he didn't play for their baseball team right
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
You're off the metal standout, Taylor. That's an incredible athlete.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
Bold his take. I was just thinking about the Boldest Take. Can we get it? I've heard Dan give the listeners a lot of hell about how bad this stuff is. I actually really like it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
As much as I love the value you bring to the show with these interesting non sequiturs, I imagine that this is not a bit. This is you all the time. And so when you're riding in Ubers, you probably annoy the hell out of your driver because you're like, hey. Well, OK.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
It's possible. I feel like sometimes I know if I'm doing something weird and I know it's weird. But you haven't told us what they were doing. You said they were running down the street.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
I said you have weird non sequiturs, which I appreciate.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
You're in the .9 boy crew, which is good.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
Do we have the list before? Because I want to know where he places. And did we get one from Amin and anybody else?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
Everyone's always like, oh, my friends. We found out yesterday that Lucy had a dot. What did Lucy have?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
That's the first thing I thought of when you said I try to end it favorably for them. I'm like, you slotted a little racism in there on the way out, don't you? A little bit. You just opened a window.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
So, someone who is not getting a good rating, at least not from John Morant, is Taylor Jenkins. I want to get into this conversation. He got fired from the Grizzlies, who were in third place and had a really good record. They're considered a Western conference contender. It was kind of a shocking, probably would have been the most shocking thing.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
Boom. Back to you. So this probably would have been the most shocking thing in the NBA season if it wasn't for the fact that Luka got traded.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
But, like, having Taylor Jenkins, a winning coach on a team that seems to be heading in the right direction and a respected X and O's coach, be fired by his team just before the playoffs, I think 15 games out of the playoffs while they're playing well in third place, blew my mind. I think some reporting has come out since –
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
Yeah, the reporting is that he's out because Ja didn't like the changes to the offense.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
The idea of the superstar in the NBA having enough power to fire a coach is not new. It doesn't bother me that Taylor Jenkins got run because the superstar wanted him out.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
I don't know that banking on that superstar, and I think this is what you're alluding to, Charlie, is that John Morant is not a reliable superstar and he's not the level of superstar that you want to give this power to, but he's the guy in that city. And it just speaks to me about being a head coach. in basketball or being anyone in the basketball organization.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
I ran into this argument oftentimes when people want to be critical of teams that were constructed around LeBron and say, well, don't blame the GM because LeBron's actually the GM. Maybe he is, but your job as the GM is to convince LeBron
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
You would have thought that at one point your job is to build a roster, but now your job has gotten a little harder when there's someone in your organization who has as much power and influence as a superstar player. Your job now becomes to sell LeBron, convince LeBron it was his idea, or figure out a way. And I feel the same way about this offense with Taylor Jenkins.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
And so if Taylor gets fired because Jai's not happy, maybe you wish Jai would have handled this differently. Yeah.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
But ultimately, as a head coach, when you're a head coach of an NBA team and you guys have a superstar, I'm not saying you have to kowtow to the superstar, but you have to take into account that whatever you're doing, the first person and maybe the only person who's buy-in you have to get off the top. is the superstar and it doesn't matter how good your idea is.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
I don't give a shit how innovative your offense is. If you ain't convince him that it's innovative and it's gonna help you out, then you lost.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
And the NBA superstar is the NFL quarterback in that you can't win without one. And even if Jai is not the perfect one, he's the closest thing you got to it. And there are lots of teams that are looking for somebody like that. So you thinking that you can – and I'm not suggesting that Taylor Jenkins is like, man, I don't need to convince Jai. I'll figure this out.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
But ultimately, whether he's doing that consciously or not, not having him believe in his plan is essentially doing that. And the point that you made about being the number four receiver and they say you show up to practice happy even though you're not getting no balls, I can't afford not to be.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Worst Takes In Show History (feat. Pablo Torre)
Around the horn. Would you go to the funeral for around the horn?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Worst Takes In Show History (feat. Pablo Torre)
And also part of this, and I'm sure you cover it, is also the standing of Fox at the time as a network. It was an upstart network. It's not serious. It's where all the kind of the misfits.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Worst Takes In Show History (feat. Pablo Torre)
Yes. All the misfit programming went there. And so this was a direct blow to the establishment.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Worst Takes In Show History (feat. Pablo Torre)
Do funerals have open bars? No.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Worst Takes In Show History (feat. Pablo Torre)
Well, no, hold on. Do we know this?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Worst Takes In Show History (feat. Pablo Torre)
Dan, I never realized that early on in that sound, we always get caught up in the which he is not part, but I've never realized early in the sound he says... He's a very good quarterback. And you said he was above average. I said, no, I'm saying that's okay for you to say.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Worst Takes In Show History (feat. Pablo Torre)
He took his take, he threw it on you, brought it back to him saying he's very good, and then end up contradicting himself again by saying if he was so good, Andy Reid. That's not nice of Schefter. Well, Stugatz tweeted at him, so.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Worst Takes In Show History (feat. Pablo Torre)
And that's how Orlovsky realized he can't criticize quarterbacks.
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Hour 1: The Worst Takes In Show History (feat. Pablo Torre)
Yes, I did. He was right, though.
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Hour 1: The Worst Takes In Show History (feat. Pablo Torre)
I had been doing research for a podcast I had to record, and the tabs were open, and I hadn't realized when I cycled through the tabs trying to find the right window. that it was up there. That's what happened. I wasn't watching porn during the finals. What was that podcast about? What was the title of that podcast? I'm glad you asked. Cinephobe.
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Hour 1: The Worst Takes In Show History (feat. Pablo Torre)
Let him do the thing! Let him do the thing! Was it Tiptoes? LeBron James of Broadcasting. I honestly thought he was teeing me up to do my spiel. I was like, oh, Graham! He was not doing that.
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Hour 1: The Worst Takes In Show History (feat. Pablo Torre)
He said it like, see no evil, hear no evil. When Gene Wilder, because he's deaf, he has to read lips. The broadcaster asked him, what do you think about the comedy? And he's like, oh, well, one comedy is just as good as another.
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Hour 1: The Worst Takes In Show History (feat. Pablo Torre)
Yep, there it is. There it is.
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Hour 1: The Worst Takes In Show History (feat. Pablo Torre)
Brad Williams was the guest on that podcast that I was watching. Wow! The porn podcast? I swear to God! It was because we were doing tiptoes. How about that? And Brad Williams was the guest on that episode, so you can check that out. Cinepho, wherever you get podcasts.
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Hour 1: The Worst Takes In Show History (feat. Pablo Torre)
It feels like an actual upgrade to have not Chris producing it.
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Hour 1: The Worst Takes In Show History (feat. Pablo Torre)
Like, how can that not be an insult? I think the biggest insult is for you because he's telling you that he's the LeBron James of broadcasting.
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Hour 1: The Worst Takes In Show History (feat. Pablo Torre)
Yes, but he's sorely mistaken, and it's proven out by the equivalency. It's a completely false equivalency between a legal matter and a performance on the field or in the field of play matter.
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Hour 1: The Worst Takes In Show History (feat. Pablo Torre)
Pablo, you said, oh, the questions that media people don't want to answer. What's an example of that? I'd love to hear an example of someone in the media did something in the workplace, like on camera, on mic, that was a failure or an embarrassment and then refused to answer questions about it.
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Hour 1: The Worst Takes In Show History (feat. Pablo Torre)
Yeah.
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Hour 1: The Worst Takes In Show History (feat. Pablo Torre)
And I think the other thing that you can lump onto that is also the availability. So, for example, Pablo's, well, I guess not beloved Knicks anymore because he's a Sixer fan, but Leon Rose has famously spoken to the media, I think, twice since he took over. Yes. He just doesn't talk. That's it. And the Knicks are fun and good.
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Hour 1: The Worst Takes In Show History (feat. Pablo Torre)
Well, I mean, not the entire time, but yes, they're fun and good now, but he still does not talk. It's easy to say, well, I don't need to talk. The team is doing great. They can talk for themselves. But there was a time when they weren't doing so great, and this dude still was like, yeah, I'm not talking to the media. I don't need to.
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
That's also what I thought. I'm going to make Lucien off. She can't refuse also. It's really cold in here.
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
Which mall? Because I feel like the mall you pick really, really dictates how interesting, how funny.
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
Thank you so much for helping me with this. Your picture is posted all over that mall. Absolutely. I'm calling the authorities.
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
If his agent isn't shopping him around telling people, you want talent? You better call the heartline. That guy deserves it.
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
Lucy, I want to ask, have you heard of Fansteak? Have you ever heard of this company, Fansteak? So you and Mike, because you guys are college people, there's a company called Fansteak. They do NIL crowdsourcing. So basically they say, hey, I'm Miami.
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
I don't know if he's behind it or not, but it's basically, I want to go after the number one athlete is Roy Bellamy, right? And so I create a crowdsourcing thing where all the UM fans can go out there through $5, $10, whatever it is that they can put in.
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
and then if Roy Bellamy ends up committing to Miami, he gets that money that all these people pledged, but if he doesn't, the money's released back to the people who donated, and I'm assuming the company makes money by taking a transaction fee or a cut of the play.
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
Yeah, I mean, in essence it is, but also it's a way for fans to be like, no, I directly contributed to why this guy is coming to our school as opposed to just hoping our NIL collective gets it done. Lucy?
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
Yeah, I must say, if it's sincere, it's too little too late, Bill. You can't come in now and try to make things right.
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
I was all aboard for that one.
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
I just think you can't name something after something that's already been named, right? And by the way, if I give you winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. Right. You give me the thing that Tom Brady said that was like, oh, that's on the same level. LFG.
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
I love the Stephen A. crutch. I don't know if you guys ever noticed this. When he's making a take, it's to just start naming things off a resume. He loves going to that. Like, if you talk about LeBron James... The point he's trying to make, he has to take a sidetrack to remind you. 17-time All-Star, 22-time this, that, that. None of these things support his point or further his point in any way.
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
They're just words to let him kind of think of some other stuff.
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
And he's doing a Zoolander face. For real. He looks like a Simpsons character. Oh, wow, that's a good call, Roy. It is the face of Jaundice. He looks like, what, Lenny? Lenny, yes. Lenny from The Simpsons.
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
The accurate basketball appraisal is the same one it was before the draft. This is someone who right now is not an NBA player, would get very well serviced to have a couple of years of development somewhere in a controlled environment. And then in a few years, he exhibits certain traits that maybe could be polished into a serviceable NBA rotation player. That day is not anywhere soon. And so...
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
When J.J. Redick says I put him in a tough spot, I said, what's the spot? An NBA game? Because he looks like someone who's not an NBA player because he's not. That's real. As Jeremy pointed out, he's played well in the G League. He's only played three G League games.
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
I'm talking about just regular. And we're not talking about the showcase. We're just talking about, hey, I play for the team. These are my numbers. This is what I do. They've been good. Yeah. Like in three games, though. Right. Like the idea that like to me and I can't speak as a parent. I'm just speaking as a basketball person, as a basketball person. You can speak as a parent.
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
I can, but I don't want to do that. Right. This whole to me, that's the performative. This has nothing to do with LeBron as a parent. Right. It has everything to do with if you want this player to get better. Let him just stay in the G League. Do not have him coming up on road trips and stuff. Because here's the thing that a lot of people don't realize. NBA teams don't practice a whole lot.
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
There's not a lot of practice time. Guys get shots up. We watch a lot of film. We do maybe some 5-on-0 stuff every once in a while. We'll do a walkthrough on game day. But it's not like you're getting the type of development, hard practices that you get in the G League environment where they're practicing and they're playing, they're practicing and they're playing.
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
The NBA, it's like there's a lot of conserving of our guys. We don't want them to go. So when they say he's played well in the stay ready games, what that is is because we don't practice as a team, the guys who don't play Either because at the end of the rotation or they're coming back from injury or whatever it is.
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
Those guys play in like little three on threes and two on twos and stuff like that because it's like, hey, just because you haven't been playing, you have to stay ready, stay conditioned. Well, that's nice for an NBA player to have something to keep sharp with. It's not so great for a guy who's not an NBA player. You need five on five. That's what the G League is for.
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
It is a minor league so that we can send our guys somewhere where they run our offense, where they have our principles, and he can get better in that controlled environment where not everybody is nine million times better than he is.
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
I love that one.
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
Because there aren't the books. Wait, are you asking if people can just wander around and find a bookstore?
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
While I appreciate the point you're trying to make, I don't think you're making it in a correct way. Because if I could say the same thing, like, could you find your local dry cleaner without... the use of your phone. I don't know where a dry cleaner is.
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
I don't have any grasp. You said we're going to meet in front of the statue, and then you just waited by the statue. And if they didn't show up within like 20 minutes, you'd think, well, let me call. Let me get their pay phone and call. Did Greg leave the house? Yeah, he left an hour ago. All right, OK.
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
Speaking of the promotion of the book, my favorite part is that Greg has the book propped up right in order to be like product placement, except it is completely not in your shot, Greg. There's no shot where the book shows up. Not the wide, not your single.
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
I've been through things. Or you could be double spoiled.
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
I wasn't. I was secretly trying to entrap you into being fooled, and apparently I failed. I failed because Dan Levitard unlike the alligator, is wily. He knew. He's like, oh, I got this one.
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
It's got tiny hands, and that looks like tiny hands that are drowning meant to trick somebody. Help, I'm drowning! It's basically doing that with its arms. Jalen Milrow hands. And it's supposed to lure unsuspecting people into the river to try to rescue it, only to be eaten by the alligator. That's not how alligators operate, but I was praying that Dan would fall for it.
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
Anytime I do anything with my father that requires money being spent, he doesn't even reach. He just walks away.
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
He just wanders away.
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
Well, it's a rave. Yeah, that's a problem. He's talking about a very specific bowling establishment that is not far from our studio, but it is not where Greg and Chris are going. This is like Miami's answer to like, you ever wanted to bowl with beautiful people while music pulsates and the lights are low? That is not where the Codys are bowling.
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
What are you doing? What in the world? What are you doing? No, no, no. Let's follow him. Let's hear him out. Go ahead, Greg. I have questions.
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Hour 1: Atop Dan Le Batard's Ivory Tower
As many local newspapers, I know people don't read newspapers anymore, but once upon a time, kids, newspapers had writers that were assigned beats. The beat was the thing that you covered. And some people covered The local NFL team, and some people covered the local hockey team. But the entry level in the sports department, Dan, was you were covered what? What would you cover?
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Hour 1: Atop Dan Le Batard's Ivory Tower
I don't think there's any blurred line when it comes to Dan. I think Dan says explicitly, the people from the Heat said this. Pat Riley told me that this is how he talks when he's... Right.
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Hour 1: Atop Dan Le Batard's Ivory Tower
Not for you, but in general, a newspaper journalist. I mean, you could cover high school. High school. You cover high school. So Brian worked for the Akron Beacon Journal, I believe, and he was covering high school. I wonder who was playing high school sports who was really good in Akron at that time. Not really good for Akron. Not really good for Northeast Ohio. Not really good for Ohio.
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Hour 1: Atop Dan Le Batard's Ivory Tower
You know, it's funny. You say that, Dan. Has he ever called anyone a liar? And look, I don't believe in calling people liars. I criticize actions and behaviors. I don't criticize people's character. But if there were ever someone that we could accuse of being a liar, and there should be probably like, eh, I could see it. Wouldn't it be LeBron?
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Hour 1: Atop Dan Le Batard's Ivory Tower
Oh, I was watching Kobe warm up. And I swear I told a turn around. I told, oh, I think he's just got 81 today. Like, come on, man. Like if there was anybody that this could be a legitimate thing thrown at.
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Hour 1: Atop Dan Le Batard's Ivory Tower
Good nationally. So of course he covers LeBron James, right? And then LeBron gets drafted. And so what does the Akron Beacon Journal do? Hey, the most impactful high school prospect ever, perhaps, is going to the local team Hey, guess what beat you're on now, Brian Winhurst?
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Hour 1: Atop Dan Le Batard's Ivory Tower
The semantics is, in this case, Stephen A. Smith says that what LeBron is saying is a lie. So if I say he's lying, I'm focusing it to just this, right? Versus he's a liar, that makes it mean every day of his life he's walking around lying to people, which all of us do, by the way.
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Hour 1: Atop Dan Le Batard's Ivory Tower
What seed was he originally?
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Hour 1: Atop Dan Le Batard's Ivory Tower
Excuse me. Nobody, I'm going to say this right now, nobody spends more time with the fans than I do.
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Hour 1: Atop Dan Le Batard's Ivory Tower
Nobody spends more time than I do with the fans. Every time we have these events, I'm there. You guys are awful. You go to your little cordon sections. Not me. I'm in Gen Pop. I'm hanging out with them. I'm getting drinks with them. I'm doing shots. Every time they say, I mean, let's do a shot. You think I want to do the shot? I don't want to do the shot. I don't want to do the shot.
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Hour 1: Atop Dan Le Batard's Ivory Tower
I don't. I just want to have a nice sip. But you know what? Let's do a shot. You know what they always say? What do you want to do? You know what I always say back? Whatever you want to do. Because I don't want to be like, I'd like, you know, it's whatever they want to do. And usually they support the sponsors who support us.
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Hour 1: Atop Dan Le Batard's Ivory Tower
So it's usually Cuervo or Smirnoff or Evan Williams or any one of the fine brands that we do. But the point is, I don't scurry off back behind the velvet rope up in my Shangri-La looking down on everybody from my ivory tower. Like, look at these peasants. They've come to worship me. Hold on. Let me let them touch the hem of my garment. I don't do that.
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Hour 1: Atop Dan Le Batard's Ivory Tower
Yeah, gen pop, because I'm the general population. That's what gen pop stands for. It's not prison. Someone has misinformed you, my friend.
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Hour 1: Atop Dan Le Batard's Ivory Tower
High atop. A tower made of ivory. Yes, and you're looking down. But it's not just you. It's a lot of other characters in this room right here. I'm not going to name names. So it was interesting.
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Hour 1: Atop Dan Le Batard's Ivory Tower
We got a crazy letter today.
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Hour 1: Atop Dan Le Batard's Ivory Tower
Hold on, by the way. Should we bring that back? The guy that snuck in that infiltrated the ivory tower? That's not even the worst of them. There was someone worse than that, dude? In his flip flops?
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Hour 1: Atop Dan Le Batard's Ivory Tower
One of my favorite jokes that did not make the final cut of the Akbar Devastig bit was I asked Fuentes, what's that? I pointed at the Freedom Tower. He's like, oh, that's the Freedom Tower. I said, oh, Freedom? Well, we don't know.
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Hour 1: Atop Dan Le Batard's Ivory Tower
Brian Windhorst exists in this weird space where half the people hate him. Because, oh yeah, you hate LeBron. You're always hating on LeBron. And the other half of the people who hate him are like, you're always in the tank for your guy, LeBron. And when the populace hates you for two completely polar opposite reasons, you know what that means? Sounds like you're pretty fair.
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Hour 1: Atop Dan Le Batard's Ivory Tower
And the people who love LeBron are mad when he doesn't say LeBron glazy type stuff. And the people who hate LeBron hate when he's fair and he says good things about LeBron. Sounds like he's a fair guy. But what I am objecting to, to answer your question, There's three major points of ignorance that seem to get repeated a lot as I'm seeing all of this, right?
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Hour 1: Atop Dan Le Batard's Ivory Tower
Number one is that Brian, like, went to high school with LeBron that somehow, like, and has been kind of just mooching off the kid, the cool kid that went to high school with me, right? Which isn't the case. He is a journalist, right? He's covered the dude for decades. longer than anyone else, continuously, right? Number two is that Brian Woodhurst wrote four books about LeBron. That's weird.
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Hour 1: Atop Dan Le Batard's Ivory Tower
Like he's a stalker or something. LeBron is one of the most public figures who draws a lot of attention and has lived a lot of lives, right? In the time he's been in public space. And so, yeah, there's a lot of material to be written about that. And the guy who has covered him longer than anyone else, of course, would be that, right?
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Hour 1: Atop Dan Le Batard's Ivory Tower
Number three, and this one is the dumbest, perhaps, is that somehow, This is Brian's fault. Like Brian walks around telling people that he's friends with LeBron. I said on threads, I've never seen him, heard him insinuate even lightly, even gently. And the response is, well, yeah, he's always talking about he knows what LeBron's thinking. Ipso facto, that's presenting as friends.
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Hour 1: Atop Dan Le Batard's Ivory Tower
And I'm like, y'all not know how journalism works? Are we at a point where people have a fundamental misunderstanding?
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Hour 1: Atop Dan Le Batard's Ivory Tower
Like the idea that like, oh, the guy who's covered this guy for damn near 25 years might know something that the rest of you don't. You think that means he's his friend or he's presenting as his friend? Or a stalker. Or a stalker. He's crazy. And it's like ignorance that is... Repeated. And it's not one person or two people.
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Hour 1: Atop Dan Le Batard's Ivory Tower
Dan, I don't want to turn this into the poor media. Right. defend the media or whatever. I'm just saying, like, it's one thing to say, I don't like you. I don't trust you. Your information is wrong. Like, okay, I'm with that. There are people, media people, that I don't like. I don't trust. Their information is wrong. Or it removes context. It is manipulated, right? That happens, yeah.
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Hour 1: Atop Dan Le Batard's Ivory Tower
What I'm having a problem with is people are like, why is this dude writing books? Like, what? Do you not understand how any of this works? Like, if he's not his friend, why does he write four books about him? It's just, it's a fundamental misunderstanding of how things work. It's not even like, I don't like you or I don't trust the media. It's like, why are you writing books?
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Hour 1: Atop Dan Le Batard's Ivory Tower
That's a next level confirmation bias.
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Hour 1: Atop Dan Le Batard's Ivory Tower
You need a life of the party. Tony's great at doing the jump rope. You jump in and jump out. He's great at that. So I could see Tony holding his own in the three-man weave.
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Hour 1: Atop Dan Le Batard's Ivory Tower
I was going to say, I mean, come on. You're fooling me. We're just going to hear a lie on air? The trainer's going to be mad about that.
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Hour 1: Atop Dan Le Batard's Ivory Tower
To be fair, to be fair, Dan. You messed that up that day because you kept focusing on, it wasn't cookies, it was ice cream. I know you were trying to make a joke. I thought the part was funny. I know, but unfortunately it took away from the point you wanted to make.
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Hour 1: Atop Dan Le Batard's Ivory Tower
No, it's just the number of people who seem to think that Brian went to high school with LeBron, like he was off the school paper covering LeBron. And I'm like, no, Brian Winters is like my age. We're much older than LeBron. Brian Winters was out of college and a grown man working in newspapers when LeBron was first coming up as a phenom.
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Hour 1: Atop Dan Le Batard's Ivory Tower
I think, Dan, I want to clarify one thing for everybody listening. So-and-so is a mouthpiece for so-and-so. If you preface the information with people from... the Heat reached out to me, and they said this. That's not a mouthpiece, I'm just being a messenger. If Dan said, it wasn't this, it was a nutritionist, and never clarified where you got said information from, that's being a mouthpiece.
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Hour 1: Atop Dan Le Batard's Ivory Tower
And I don't think you've ever done that. You've made it clear every single time, hey, they hit me up, they let me know about this, and I'm merely passing it along. And so this goes for everybody. Like, when someone presents you information, whether they're a journalist, a former player, whatever, And they're telling you, I spoke to so-and-so and this is what they said.
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Hour 1: Atop Dan Le Batard's Ivory Tower
That doesn't mean that this person is espousing that belief. They're just merely being a messenger. But you're expecting people to. Yes, I am. I don't think it's too much to ask people to burn a calorie, a calorie. It is.
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Hour 1: Atop Dan Le Batard's Ivory Tower
He only needs to check multiple sides. If he's reporting it as fact. If he's reporting it as fact. If he's passing along in the same way that when I pass along what RG3 said,
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Hour 1: Atop Dan Le Batard's Ivory Tower
that he didn't when he made that tweet he wasn't talking about Mina he didn't even see what Mina said Jeremy when I said that rolled his eyes I'm like Jeremy I'm not saying oh no he didn't see me I'm saying that's what he's saying and there's a difference there right is how it's presented and so Dan if you're saying I'm expecting people you know what I'm giving them a benefit of the doubt maybe they didn't know because much like
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Hour 1: Atop Dan Le Batard's Ivory Tower
A couple years ago, we talked about there's a difference between analyst and reporter. When someone breaks news versus someone says, I think this is bad for the Lakers, whatever, there's a difference in analysis and reporting. There's a difference in opinion and reporting. It's a distinction that people don't care about. Well, maybe. I'm assuming they don't know.
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The Big Suey: Dan's Hippoflage (feat. Jason Benetti)
Let me ask you guys a question. Is it possible, is it just possible that he's kind of changed his mind and he didn't want to do it anymore? Like any of it, football. But now it's like everyone showed up. After nine years in college? Yeah, I just realized, you know what, I'm not going to cut the mic. Mid-sprint? Yep.
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The Big Suey: Dan's Hippoflage (feat. Jason Benetti)
Exactly right. I need to let Jason know, you realize being friend of the show comes with like a cost, right? And the cost is we're just going to ask you to answer every question in a different voice every single time.
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The Big Suey: Dan's Hippoflage (feat. Jason Benetti)
I think he froze. You know, I was like, maybe he doesn't want to be our friend. Oh, there he is. Green. Hello.
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The Big Suey: Dan's Hippoflage (feat. Jason Benetti)
I don't know. Because that's what Bugs Bunny would say. It's opening day. Take a long time in Albuquerque.
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The Big Suey: Dan's Hippoflage (feat. Jason Benetti)
Yeah, because he spit out the gum.
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The Big Suey: Dan's Hippoflage (feat. Jason Benetti)
Valerie's not doing that. I don't care if Dan's physically capable.
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The Big Suey: Dan's Hippoflage (feat. Jason Benetti)
I failed at it.
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I watched SportsCenter 24 hours a day. He was not on on Wednesday, March 25th or 26th.
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Jesse just said the functional part, which is you need to be a better liar.
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Yeah, that's true.
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No. Less so. Jess is just beloved.
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I did. Tried to sneak that one under the radar there. Hippoflage. It's like camouflage, but for hippos.
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Oh, Tybo. Tybo, man.
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It was, man. Billy Blanks was everywhere. He was in movies and stuff. Oh, the last Boy Scout. Yes, he was. Billy Blanks.
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Billy, weren't you the one who said I'm not going to get in shape for my wedding photos because then when my wife looks back at the wedding photos, she won't say, oh man, you lost it all. She'll look at me and be like, oh wow, you still look great.
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I don't know. Bert's got one of them faces where it's like he's always going to look big. It's the face. He's always going to look big.
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To answer your question, I'm going to say no to the tanning booth because Dave McMenamin is a proud Irish boy from Philadelphia or thereabouts. He knows what his complexion is. He can't go in a tanning booth. He knows he's going to turn into a lobster, so that's got to be involuntary.
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He's in Chicago though. From Indiana to Chicago, got an early morning flight probably. He's probably already landed. It's a short flight. How long is that flight? Chicago to where? From Indiana to Chicago.
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Yeah, it's a quick trip.
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He's almost certainly made the trip.
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The Cubs are last place by themselves. Everyone's a half game from the lead. How about that?
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Dan said, oh, when I sit behind his home plate and I see the guy pitching, I go, oh, that's amazing. In real time, are you guys able to see, like, The stuff in the pitches? For me, I need a replay. To me, every pitcher in Major League Baseball, it just goes, and then either the guy hit it or he didn't hit it.
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I wanted this because you said I was walking and I had problems processing. I had Dan at the ballpark. My lord! Oh, and like just being.
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He had problem processing.
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Nice jog there. You know what he looked like? He looked like the elevator's closing. I'm like, hold on. That was a jog, though. He wasn't sprinting.
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Wow, that's amazing.
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That's how you know it was Miami's Pro Day, by the way. Also, his body, hey look man, your draft day, or preparing for the draft, this is supposed to be the peak physical condition, right? You've been doing nothing but drink water and do crunches all day. A little gelatinous. Not exactly like, yo, this is my peak condition.
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It sounded like Louis. I thought it was Louis in my ear, to be honest with you.
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Local Hour: Dan's Great Analogy
Grandpa, tell me about Ezra Edelman. Oh, let me tell you about the one work that he never got to release. What? And then we're going to make a movie about this 30 years from now about the hunt for the Ezra cut.
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And then they're going to go and they're going to break into like Fort Knox where it's hidden in the thing and lasers come on and Prince's family and the lasers are purple because Prince died. Yeah. And the princess family like, ha ha, we knew you were coming. And then a big guy falls down. Yeah. You got to run away from it.
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Billy, let me ask you a question, though. Would you be worried that that would reduce? Because whatever the imagination of what it is is always better than what it actually is, right?
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I can't. I was ashamed yesterday. All of it, all of it, both of them, everybody. And then the things, and seeing the reactions. Man, this is quite possibly the biggest journalist who covers the sport and the biggest named player who plays the sport. And if I'm Adam Silver, you get him on the phone, it's enough. This is embarrassing. This does not represent our sport.
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And by the way, LeBron said a lot of stuff yesterday that I was just like, what are you talking about? Giannis has scored 200 in a game. He said, oh, Brian Winhurst says he's my friend. That I didn't like. I've known Brian Winhurst for at least 10 years personally. And I read his work for 10 years before that. I have never heard him say, insinuate, like hint, Try to act like not even close.
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That's the siren's call for Dan. Check the trades. Variety. Variety. Hollywood reporter.
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Damn, I've never heard Brian say that about people who he's actually friends with. So for LeBron to say that, matter of factly, to tee up a McAfee lame-ass Photoshop. Oh, here's your teammate. Oh, there he was. And they Photoshop him. Because LeBron had a problem that Brian said the reason why he signed with Nike, whatever. And my thing was like, okay, so say he was wrong.
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He's never said he was your friend, never acted like he was your friend. It was, all of it was just so odd. He called him weird. I'm like, that's weird, dude. Thinking that someone's your friend or whatever. So the thing, Dan, I say to all of that is like, LeBron has a responsibility, just like Stephen A has a responsibility. That when they say things, yes, they're human.
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Yes, their feelings get hurt. Yes, they react and lash out. But the problem is when you're at that place, you can't do that. Because your words hold more credibility than a regular person just lashing out or saying, oh, man, that dude thinks he's my friend or whatever. In the same way, Dan, that a week ago, two weeks ago, whatever, you said, why aren't people asking about LeBron using PEDs?
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And I said to you, Dan, you can't say that. You can't say that. And you're like, why not? I'm not saying he is. I'm saying why aren't more people asking? I said, Dan, because when you say that, there is a credibility behind that that leads millions of people to be like, oh, see, the number of people I had friends in my life. Finally, someone's saying the quiet part out loud. No.
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Because I saw it. I saw it. You thought you were just doing this intellectual exercise. And I'm telling you, no. When you say that, people take it as gospel because Dan Levitard is someone whose opinion is held up here. Stephen A. Smith is someone whose opinion is held up here. LeBron James is someone whose opinion is held up here.
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And when these guys talk flippantly in that way, it hurts our sport.
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Now, that one you missed. Yeah, you missed that. That was a... $600 million fine it should have been. Crazy, man. Venmo can just retire. They're like, hey, Amin paid that one fine that one time. We're good for life.
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The commissioner, first of all, is the steward of the game. The steward of the game. And that is part and parcel of making sure that it doesn't cross a line. Is the attention currency... Yes. But now you're crossing lines, both of them, where it threatens the very structure upon which this whole business is built, which is that people believe that it is all real and all based on fact.
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LeBron also said, oh yeah, you know, the NBA made sure I went to Cleveland just like they made sure Patrick Ewing went to, like, he's just, look, I can do dumb shit like that on Basketball Illuminati, me and Tom and Anthony Mays, because we're not the biggest player who ever played the sport. Or we're not the biggest journalists who ever cover the sport. It's a niche.
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Yes, sometimes there are things that I see people doing elsewhere. Like, I wish I could do that. I can't. Because that stuff that, you know, for instance, the kind of humor that some comedians on podcasts do, I wish we could do that here all the time. I can't because I understand I'm not in that space. And if I make that joke, it doesn't land the same way as when a professional comedian does.
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Billy wanted you to make it. Billy wanted Jess to make it earlier in the show. Trust me, that's not the joke that anyone wanted. But the point is, Dan, it's there has to be like you can't just say, well, this is how it goes, because that first of all, it assumes a falsehood of which is this is the only way to get that kind of attention. This is the only way to get everyone talking.
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And I don't believe that. It's the easiest way. Okay, why do we have to do it the easiest way? Like, as a sport, right? Again, I don't see Pedro Martinez fighting. Well, I guess not Pedro Martinez wouldn't be the guy. Who's Bukshambi having an argument with Jazz Chisholm about, hey, man, you should just man up. Who cares if they cut up your cleats or whatever?
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Yeah. I've never felt more like, oh, this is what happens when you live in a red state for too long. And SEAL Team 6 killed Obama.
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GameTime. So, Dan, I don't see this happen in any other sport where like, yeah, there's always going to be the the curmudgeons, the old guys like, man, these young guys didn't do it like us. Yeah, they're going to be young guys like, oh, man, I wish I could pitch to Babe Ruth. You know, I'd strike them out in two pitches or whatever. Right. Like there's always going to be those.
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But you don't hear it. At the pinnacle. At the pinnacle. We don't do that. And again, this is tied into every conversation we've had about, oh, the NBA ratings, NBA PR, whatever. Like, man, at some point, the commissioner's office, you can't control everybody. You can't control Gil's Arena. You can't control Oddball. You can't control those fringe places. You can't control Stephen A. Smith.
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Yes, you can. Yes, you can. Because that network... broadcast your stuff. I can't call in everybody. I can call in everyone from ESPN doing their NBA stuff. I can call in the best player in the game. I can call in Steph. I can call in LeBron. He can. You know how I know he can, Dan? Because David Stern did that all the time.
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I'm curious. By the way, let him let let it let it be out. Let it be out. Who cares? Like, yes. Yeah, I said it. I told him this is shameful. I told LeBron, this is shameful. Yeah. If I'm Adam Silver, yeah, I called him. That's my job. That's my job. I'm curious. I'm curious. Maybe we should call Skipper and ask him. I wonder what kind of language is in the broadcast deal. Thank you.
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Thank you for watching. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for watching. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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But Dan, isn't it, on some level, two lonely people who know there's nothing going on tonight, so it's 3 a.m., the lights are coming on. You lock eyes. Yeah, and it's like, hey, were you my dream partner, the person I was going to spend the rest of my life with? Not really, but maybe tonight.
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Are they getting married? It's a one-year deal. Or like a two-year, whatever it is. It's not like, oh, it's seven years. Russell Wilson's a quarterback. No, it's like, all right, damn, man, we need somebody. Like, I'm dating, I've kind of just met this person named Jameis.
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It's not really serious with me and Jameis either. Like, hey, maybe like, maybe, maybe. But I think.
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Look at me. You'll never be lonely as long as I'm around.
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Hey, here's many more millions of dollars to do this thing that you enjoy doing. 21 million. Yeah. Just do it again, man.
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Let's break this down. This guy, you say, oh, he's getting a lot more money. Like, well, it's not always about money. He's married to this beautiful woman and has a great family. Well, it's not just only about love. It's about professional fulfillment. He gets to do the job one more year. This job he loves. Well, it's not that. Well, what is it?
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I'm saying to you. Should have won two. I'm saying to you, as he sits on his couch, he knows the year he had last year. He's not sitting there like, OK, here we go. The Chiefs are going to bring me in to replace Mahomes. He knows who he is at this point of his career. So he's got a job, a starting job, right? Most likely. And they're paying him $21 million and his family life is great.
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Yeah, I'm going to say it's not sad. It's pretty happy. And if you're the Giants, again, like Jess said, they're going to be one of the worst teams in football next year. So it's not like, oh, my God. OK, I could put Patrick Mahomes on the Giants. It's still not good enough. It's still, as I said, eight wins, maybe nine wins, maybe nine wins.
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It's the lawsuit. It's whatever they would sue him for. This is the $50,000 hedge.
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Can I say, can I do the unpopular opinion here? The unpopular opinion is Ezra. You knew what a state you were dealing with before you even started. How did you not get like, hey, man, if I'm going to do this, you guys can't say shit to me.
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No, Jameis is fine. Look, that dude is the most positive dude in the world. He came up with, like, three rhyming sayings in the time between he found out that Russell Wilson was signing and, like—
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No, not even. Let's be honest, right? Like real artists, they don't care what the masses think. These people are stupid cattle is what they think it's like. But they're friends. They're peers. That's who they care. So like Billy said, just invite your friends over. They'll all tell you it was awesome. And then you still got your money. Who cares? And you know what's the best part?
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Here's the best part. All we're going to do for the rest of time is whisper about, yo, Ezra made the craziest documentary about Prince. It was the best documentary ever made. But no one ever saw it. Oh, wow, and now there's like this urban legend that goes around. The lore. The lore grows. He becomes even greater as a result of this, right? They're like, you know, years and I'm like, Ezra Edelman.
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Postgame Show: Spliff Notes (feat. JuJu Gotti)
It wasn't the most creative of nicknames, but he called him that for six straight years.
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Juju, your thoughts on today's show, the audience's thoughts on today's show. It was a bit of a grind today. I saw Jessica yawning several times. I saw Amin looking at his watch. It seems like a lot of people were inattentive today. Mike wasn't looking? No.
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At Levitard Show, put it on the poll. Is Dan a shit, sir? I've been accused. The final word has been spoken. Yeah, it's been a show construct for 20 years. I'm stunned that you guys just noticed it. It works. Yeah. I could keep denying it if you want, but it would seem silly. I've been doing that for 20 years. Any other commentary?
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The hitting of the trash can. Let's play that sound again.
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Half court for the win. Oh!
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That seems insincere. Salute and much power. filing the criticism that everyone else is filing. There's no one taking the other side on this, right? Paul George, there's just jokes here. There's no one supporting Paul George, hitting him on the back and saying, that's a wise move and a good sacrifice for you to make on behalf of your team.
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We didn't talk at all about the Pistons today beating the Celtics by 20 last night. The Celtics being that far behind Cleveland surprises me even after a championship hangover like that. No one saw that one coming. Pistons? No, Cleveland – well, the Pistons are better than most people thought they were. They're a young team. They're a fun team.
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But the idea that Cleveland is whatever it is, nine games up in the conference on Boston, none of us had that.
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Louis Armstrong. Armstrong. There are white Leroy's. Satchmo. Name one. Leroy Neiman.
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I thought Mike hit that wandering around the studio.
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I feel, though, like your salute has been diluted by putting it after Paul George criticism. Yeah. one of the polls you're updating today can a laugh lose a step
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I mean, Stugatz's laugh, there's something about it. What is the sound of Stugatz's laugh that makes it sound less vibrant? It's more hollow now. It's just been used too much. Where is he, by the way? Because I thought he was in Australia on Operation Boomerang, Bloomin' Onion, and then I saw a picture of him in Syracuse.
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And we're like, how did he do that? I think he's now in Australia, though. He says he's buying a digital media company in Australia. Do we have any other polls we're updating? Absolutely. The chicken tender one in the gas station really hit a nerve where a lot of people throughout the South are telling you they get the most delicious chicken tenders you can get at a gas station.
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I have a question based on the only guest we had today, Michael Kosta, made a slapdick reference. Do you think it's because he was listening to the show or one of his publicists just gave him the line to help him out there?
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I don't assume that people on The Daily Show are listening to this. I assume the publicist gave him that to sell book.
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You're disagreeing with that why? You're with me on beer and hookah seeming to be something that will make an athlete's performance deteriorate by one degree?
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You guys had no reaction whatsoever to an athlete saying in 2025, wailing and gnashing, can we just be judged by humans? It's such a great quote. The end of times, Dan. Thank you, Juju. Thank y'all.
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Hour 2: Don't Look Now
I'm saying that the things that we call a bad place to work, sometimes it's, oh my god, my boss treats me like shit. And then sometimes it's just, oh, we didn't have Thanksgiving Day off. And I'm like, yeah, because we're playing on that day. That's why we didn't have it off. And if you're going to
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Be someone who holds on to those things, because a regular person, a normal person, does have those flexibilities. It would make for a shitty place to work, but also, in the words of Paul Abdul, maybe this isn't the place for you.
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That misery of rooting against someone's success, right? Timothee Chalamet talking about, I want to win this, I want to be known as one of the greats. And that place all coming together, right behind Jeremy, is a cardboard cutout of Pat Riley. It's cardboard? Oh, it's a statue, excuse me.
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Pat Riley, I remember talking, these years and years ago, the video coordinators in Miami, where I was like, hey, you gonna go out? It's like, no, I gotta get back. Because Pat, in der Videobeschreibung um sechs Uhr, um sicherzustellen, dass sie da sind. Und ich habe gesagt, aber es ist August. Er hat gesagt, es ist egal.
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Hour 2: Don't Look Now
Wenn das dein Arbeitsplatz ist, dann klingt das wie ein guter Ort, ein guter Arbeits-Leib-Balance? Nein, nein. Aber wenn ich dich frage, ob jede Organisation in dieser Liga, egal welcher Talent auf dem Platz ist, wie sie es runten, wer die größte Kulturen-Organisation in dieser Liga runnt, You point to the man behind Jeremy right now.
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würden normalen Menschen als Arbeitsumfeld nicht akzeptabel sein.
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Jeder, der da ist, sagt, es ist lustig. Es geht alles darum, was nach den Stunden passiert, richtig?
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What's the price you want to pay? That's what it comes down to. What price are you willing to pay? And ultimately... I'm talking about sports. I don't know from a media company because I don't even know what wins and losses are.
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In the middle of this very serious conversation we had, Mike started looking behind Pat Riley, because he wanted to see if there was a Steve Kerr statue behind him.
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You want to get into it? Legitimately loud, because he put on the Don't Look Now blindfold and just started bumping around back there.
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again sports i'm not saying that i'm saying some of the things that will be asked of you many people will consider to be miserable now i work for steve kern phoenix steve kerr is not a taskmaster right he is a people person he's a great motivator great leader and as a result Ich habe viel gearbeitet. Ich habe 15-Tage-Tage gearbeitet und ich habe nie darüber verraten.
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Hour 2: Don't Look Now
Und ich habe jeden Tag gearbeitet. Ich denke, es gab einen Streit von, ich möchte sagen, 800 Tagen in der Reihe, als ich gearbeitet habe. In welchem Form oder Form oder Form. Es war nicht, weil Steve Kerr gesagt hat, du wirst gefeuert, wenn du nicht. Aber es ist, weil ich es verstanden habe, dass das der Kost ist, das zu tun.
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Du willst Teil dieser Sache sein und du willst, dass diese Sache erfolgreich ist. Das ist, was von dir erwartet wird. Das ist großartig. Ich arbeite mit Steve Kerr, mit Alvin Gentry, mit David Griffin, mit Steve Nash und Grant Hill. Ich lebe meinen Traum. Aber ich weiß, ich könnte... Scheiße, das hat mich erschreckt.
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You were saying... What I was saying was, Dan, as I described that life to people, Ich weiß, dass es viele Leute gibt, die sagen, das ist verrückt. Was meinst du, 800 Tage lang? Was meinst du, 15-Tage-Tage? Was meinst du? Und sie können das nicht akzeptieren. Ich würde es nicht lieben, dort zu arbeiten.
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It is time now for a weekly update on our favorite theme. No, no, no. How deep are we digging for these sounds? Because some of these sounds I've not heard in years.
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To be fair, he's at the Combine, so it's a little harder for him to get loosed in order to do a hit. But yes, I'm with you guys. That would suck if you gave it to PFT, for example, who is there. Maybe we should have someone there. Jessica, how fast can you get to the Combine?
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Schauen wir uns die Szene an. Die Realität, Dan, ist, dass sie rausgehen und jede Nacht getötet werden. Und es ist eine sehr kollegiale Atmosphäre. Wir haben alle diese Leute, wir besuchen alle den gleichen Sport. Wir wissen alle. Es ist wie ihre Version der Sommerliga, glaube ich. Du gehst raus und trinkst jede Nacht.
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4,21 Sekunden war das Rekord, aber... Did you guys see Pac-Man Jones with McAfee the other day? Pac-Man is almost 40 years old. He ran like a 4'5'40. 4'5'1 I want to say. That's insane. For a 40 year old. der in diesem Sport gespielt hat und die Gewinner gewonnen hat, um zu sagen, ja, ich kann fast ein 4-4-4 machen.
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Er kommt nicht mehr in die Heat Games, oder? Nein, nicht so viel.
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Ich werde der football-nachhaltige Person im Raum sein. A. Wie oft passiert das? B. Wie viele Teams sind eigentlich gut daran? Wir wissen, dass die Eagles gut daran sind, aber ist es jemand anderes? Die Bills. No, not not.
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Hour 2: Don't Look Now
Is he in the kitchen now? In the eating area. I just hear people screaming out there. They're running out of the way because he's just bumping into things. Thankfully we don't have an oven. We have hot plates. We do have hot plates. And it's around lunchtime too.
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Hour 2: Don't Look Now
I have no other cues to take. You're gonna have to say it. Is this that interview with the vampire? What do you mean we have to release you?
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Hour 2: Don't Look Now
This is like Ian Carmel, the comedian. He has a stand-up special that's out now. And in it he talks about all the countries that gave us the best dumplings also have a history of fascism. So it's the same thing. It's like all the organizations that give us great traditions of winning also treat their employees like shit. Maybe that's a prereq. Who knows? Really?
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You know, it's weird, Dan, because I've often thought about organizations that have a lot of resources tend not to operate as efficiently. And it's terrible, because I hated working for an organization that was cheap and cut corners at every single turn. But I also recognize on some level, man, they made us really, really good at squeezing every last drop of blood out of a stone, right?
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Und ich denke, es gibt eine Balance zwischen dem, dass man den Leuten die Mittel geben muss, um ihre Arbeit zu machen, um ein gesundes Umfeld zu schaffen, während man gleichzeitig vielleicht nicht die Menschen mit Großartigkeit auslöscht. Denn am Ende des Tages, wir reden hier über den ultimativen Preis.
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Hour 2: Don't Look Now
Der ultimative Preis ist, dass man Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihnachten, Weihn
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Don't Look Now
Und er hat gesagt, ehrlich gesagt, eine der Dinge, die wir tun, ist, dass wir keine Geburtstagsdaten haben. Wir haben wie Wochen. Also an jedem Punkt in dieser genauen Gegend, werden wir das feiern.
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Es wird nicht an diesem bestimmten Tag sein, weil sonst, wenn wir hart und schnell mit dem Tag bleiben, Honey, das ist unser Geburtstag, 100, das ist dein Geburtstag, was auch immer, dann werde ich viele von ihnen verpassen.
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That is what you're saying. More than that, Dan. Much more dastardly than that. You have a better chance of winning if you're an asshole to your family.
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Wenn du nicht eine gute Schwester bist, nicht zu sagen, dass du dich nicht interessierst, dass du so auf das hier konzentriert bist, dass es dich nicht sehr unterstützt, du hast das Spiel verpasst, du hast dieses oder jenes verpasst, das wird wahrscheinlich zu Erfolg führen. Ich werde meine Frau diesen Clip schicken.
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Hour 2: Don't Look Now
Also wenn das dein Startpunkt ist, wenn du wie Bill Belichick bist und sagst, ich mache keine Geburtstage, ich mache keine Anniversarien, das ist das Leben, das ist das Leben, das ich entschieden habe, dann ist es leicht für ihn, das zu sagen, aber dann folgt der Rest der Organisation.
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Ich erinnere mich, vor einem langen Zeitpunkt habe ich mit meinen Söhnen gearbeitet und gesagt, schau mal, jeder hier ist verheiratet. Er sagte, weißt du, was das ist? Ich sagte, nein. Er sagte, weil Jerry verheiratet ist. Es gab eine andere Organisation damals, wo der Typ am Top nicht verheiratet war. Und er sagte, du kannst durch den ganzen Vorderhof gehen. Keiner dieser Leute ist verheiratet.
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Weil die Sache ist, du kannst nicht sagen, es ist meine Frau, was auch immer, wenn alle anderen sagen, wir sind hier, wir arbeiten. That's the ultimate prize we're talking about.
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Hour 1: Michael Kosta Is a Lucky Loser
No, that's an all-time good sounder.
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Hour 1: Michael Kosta Is a Lucky Loser
Go ahead, Jeremy. I view that as someone who has a massive 100% effort when they're at work and likes to unwind. Because if they were someone who wasn't giving 100% effort, who was sloppy in their lives, who wasn't together, they'd have a worse vice. Beer and hookah, at the end of the day, you've given 100% effort that you need to.
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Hour 1: Michael Kosta Is a Lucky Loser
Now you want to unwind and let loose a little bit, and that's the worst you're doing? To me, that's like the best of the vices.
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Hour 1: Michael Kosta Is a Lucky Loser
Ha ha ha! Zion Williamson has actually been a completely dominant force while he plays in the NBA. He is the third fastest active player in the NBA to reach 5000 points in his career, only behind Luka Doncic and LeBron James and a separate stat from Owen Phillips. He's the most double-teamed player in the entire player tracking era.
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Hour 1: Michael Kosta Is a Lucky Loser
The gap between him and the next closest person is equal to the gap between the second most double-teamed player and the 100th most double-teamed player.
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Hour 1: Michael Kosta Is a Lucky Loser
He was looking at his watch. Why is he talking to me? You asked why would we give this guy a platform? And he went, oh, you know what? You're right. You talked. He stopped listening. Fair.
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Hour 1: Michael Kosta Is a Lucky Loser
And looking right into the camera the way that they do after the challenge calls when they have to explain just, I was right.
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Hour 1: Michael Kosta Is a Lucky Loser
It's pretty amazing considering you'll still have like a Hall of Famer in Giancarlo Stanton swinging at a pitch that's like two feet outside because he can't recognize that it's a slider guesses and yet these these umpires are constantly able to right out of a pitcher's hand be able to know.
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where the break is going to go, not be fooled often by which pitch is coming in so that they can properly tell by inches whether or not a ball is just on the black or not. It's as impressive as some things that actually happen on the field.
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Hour 1: Michael Kosta Is a Lucky Loser
You would think so. Just like a catcher, though, right? Catchers you would think would be the best hitters in baseball, but the answer is no.
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A lot of Major League players from the earlier part of the 1900s then became umpires. I'm looking at a list here of about probably 20, 25 guys, and the majority of them, it was that they were umpires from 1925 to 1947 after playing in the early 20th century.
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Hour 1: Michael Kosta Is a Lucky Loser
Amid's laptop opened faster than I've ever seen in my life.
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The Big Suey: I Got Engaged Here Five Years Ago
What were you checking your watch for? I have, as Roy pointed out, it's a smart watch. So when I get alert, like a text message or whatever, it hits me. Brad Williams, number 72.
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The Big Suey: I Got Engaged Here Five Years Ago
No, I wasn't in front of the cameras because Jeremy was on camera because Jeremy was talking. I even locked eyes with Jeremy at one point.
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The Big Suey: I Got Engaged Here Five Years Ago
I absolutely listened to every single word he was saying. What are you talking about? You think if I look that way, oh, no, now I'm in another world because I looked in a different direction. Oh, now I'm back. I'm looking at Jeremy. Now I know what he's talking about. Oh, no. Now I've looked away.
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The Big Suey: I Got Engaged Here Five Years Ago
First of all, number one, they didn't rush him back. He wanted to get back out there. It was a decision that was made collectively. It wasn't like, KD, when are you coming back? Okay, I guess I'll give it a try. That's not what happened. And I hate when people do that. And then when you say, well, no, he had a partner.
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The Big Suey: I Got Engaged Here Five Years Ago
People say, well, you know a player's never going to say, well, he's not a child. He knows himself. He knows his body. He knows where he can push himself. It was unfortunate. It wasn't an Achilles strain that turned into a ruptured Achilles. It was a calf strain. that also had an Achilles rupture that happened after it.
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The Big Suey: I Got Engaged Here Five Years Ago
So we're not gonna do that thing where it's like he had his arm twisted behind him. Much like we're not gonna do the thing where literally the only human being in the world, because I'm counting the millions of viewers on YouTube, who noticed it was you. Yes, I distracted someone by checking what the hell that alert was on my watch. The someone wasn't the person who was talking. And furthermore,
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I knew what Jeremy was talking about, but I suspect, Dan, you had no idea because you were so thrown off by me just doing this action right here. Dan, what was Jeremy talking about?
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I'm an actor. I don't have to go to Twitter for validation, Dan. The viewers do. Hulu, memes and nightmares.
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Jeremy, that was me at the World Series, Game 1, right? I'm at this game, big Yankee fan. Okay, here we go. We're going to do it. Like, all right, we're going to steal Game 1. And then Freddie Freeman... Like I was literally videoing it on my phone. I was videoing it on my phone and I heard the crack and literally I can send you guys a video.
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The Big Suey: I Got Engaged Here Five Years Ago
I stopped recording before, I didn't even look at where the pause, it's over. That thing went to Altadena, like it was gone.
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The Big Suey: I Got Engaged Here Five Years Ago
You're on to something. It absolutely sounds like something heavy thrown into a dumpster. Like, you ever have to take the trash out, it's really heavy, and you just do this, like, what's it, the shot put? You do it a little... Half court!
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The Big Suey: I Got Engaged Here Five Years Ago
It has an echo. I'm staying with throwing the trash into the dumpster and it hits like the side of the dumpster.
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The Big Suey: I Got Engaged Here Five Years Ago
It's like climbing Mount Everest.
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The Big Suey: I Got Engaged Here Five Years Ago
No, it's a good one.
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The Big Suey: I Got Engaged Here Five Years Ago
PK Subban sound. That's what made it so objectionable to me, Mike.
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But it was just like, come on, man. Like, you cannot have this big of a blind spot, right? And someone said to me, well, he's just defending his sport. I said, no, no, he wasn't defending his sport. He was taking shots at our sport without any of the context. And that fight, Mike, is one of the examples. It's like, yes, that can happen in hockey. I'm like, wow, that was a crazy Tuesday night.
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The Big Suey: I Got Engaged Here Five Years Ago
And in the NBA, it was culture war.
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Chris, let me put it this way. If Conor McDavid and Kachuk start fighting in the middle of the ice. That's a Tuesday night.
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All right. We can't do that in our sport. That's fair. We were talking about going into the crowd. But I'm just saying, it's a double standard, right? So what's acceptable? Whatever the penalty is, if that happened today in hockey, of them going in stands, it would be less than what the penalty would be if it happened in the NBA. No.
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The Big Suey: I Got Engaged Here Five Years Ago
Okay. I'm asking you guys, did everyone in hockey have to start wearing suits after that? And did they ban wearing... That's my point.
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The Big Suey: I Got Engaged Here Five Years Ago
You're absolutely right. Our screens are to blame. They're too good. They point out all the imperfections. Whereas if this were still a regular old school tube, that would have been clear footage.
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It didn't look like that. I know I'm going to sound like the old guy. It didn't look like that because the screen wasn't good enough to show those imperfections. So because the screen resolution wasn't good enough, it looked fine. The problem is our modern screens are so good that now you're seeing all the little imperfections that before were just blended in by the terrible resolution.
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The Big Suey: I Got Engaged Here Five Years Ago
So when I first saw the excerpt, I didn't see the video. I saw a picture of Paul George and the excerpt. Paul George is going to take time off from podcast to focus on winning a championship. I swear to God, I thought it was. NBA Centel. It was such a ridiculous headline. Rest in peace. We'll get to that in a second. Such a ridiculous headline.
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The Big Suey: I Got Engaged Here Five Years Ago
Dan, I'm going to tell you right now, I was less believing of its reality than I was of Luka Doncic gets traded to the Lakers. Straight up. I was like, absolutely.
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The Big Suey: I Got Engaged Here Five Years Ago
And so we taped Oddball and we're done for the day. And then literally as we're getting up, I see it on my phone and I'm like, this isn't real. And so then we start scrubbing and looking for it. And there's video and he says it. And I said... It's AI. You think it's AI still. You still don't believe it.
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The Big Suey: I Got Engaged Here Five Years Ago
Yes, it was Allen Iverson all along. Dan, it's not because it's all consuming. It's because what we've been saying all year long for him particularly is, buddy, your individual season and your team season is not going great. Put it like, have some guest hosts fill in till you guys get this thing back on track and then come back. Think about everything that's happened this season.
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The Big Suey: I Got Engaged Here Five Years Ago
Joel Embiid, injured to start the year. Joel Embiid, shoves reporter in locker room. Team meeting.
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The Big Suey: I Got Engaged Here Five Years Ago
called where they call out joel and bead their awful season they're they're losing the injuries everything that's happening and paul george threw it out through it all was like let me do it let me do not only let me do show but he would do shows that were like the worst contracts in the nba like you want to do the worst contracts in the nba you're sure you're sure about that
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The Big Suey: I Got Engaged Here Five Years Ago
You sure you want to do that?
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The Big Suey: I Got Engaged Here Five Years Ago
But like of all the things, it would be like Zion Williams having a podcast and say, hey, who are the most out of shape athletes? You want to have that conversation? Really? Right. It was just a lack of self-awareness combined with. Contextually, you're not having a great year. Sit it out.
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The Big Suey: I Got Engaged Here Five Years Ago
So for him to now at this point, when it's all said and done, they have a bottom six record, which is key because they keep their pick if it's in the top six of the draft, right? Joel Embiid might be done for the year. He's going to undergo some surgical option that might have him late to come back next season. Everything is put into rest. We're measuring the coffin.
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The Big Suey: I Got Engaged Here Five Years Ago
We're booking the funeral arrangements. And now he's like... Got to focus on the championship, boys. It is weird.
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The Big Suey: I Got Engaged Here Five Years Ago
My favorite website around this time of year is this site called Tankathon. And it basically gives you all of like the reverse of what you would imagine, right? So they've got worst to best, and then the more you're losing, you get a little green highlight, and the more you win, it turns red. So for instance, the Brooklyn Nets, They've won seven of the last ten games.
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The Big Suey: I Got Engaged Here Five Years Ago
That's bad, according to Tankathon. But the Philadelphia 76ers lost nine in a row. That's really good. This team is not going to compete for a 10-team, Jeremy. You know why? Because it is in its best interest to be awful at this point. Of course. You've got to keep that pick, and that's what they're going to do. They're already doing it. You don't lose nine of the last ten games on accident.
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The Big Suey: I Got Engaged Here Five Years Ago
They're doing it because they need to keep that pick. So that Bulls-Nets race is going to be electric.
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The Big Suey: I Got Engaged Here Five Years Ago
Dan, you know what the best part is? You know what happens if that pick isn't top six, if it's like, say, seven? You know where it goes?
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The Big Suey: I Got Engaged Here Five Years Ago
Dan, in the modern era, so I'm not going to count the stuff that happened in the 50s and 60s. That's just ridiculous. But 1984, the Bullets made the playoffs 35-47. 1986, the Spurs did it with the same record. 1995, the Celtics did it.
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The Big Suey: I Got Engaged Here Five Years Ago
not the highest payroll, not the playoffs, not the play-in. They're on the outside looking into the play-in. This would be the most expensive, most disastrous failure in the history of basketball, to pay that much and not even be able to have a chance to play in a little rinky-dink, winner-take-all little tournament to get into the seven-rate seat. Obviously, Dan, the big thing is that
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The Big Suey: I Got Engaged Here Five Years Ago
Kevin Durant ultimately controls that. If he says, the only place I'm going to go is here, again, what we talked about with Damian Lillard a couple years ago, then that shapes the conversation. As far as Miami having picks, they've got, I believe, they send theirs this year, but they have one coming from Golden State that's probably going to come in because it's only top 10 protected.
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The Big Suey: I Got Engaged Here Five Years Ago
And then they have one that they owe to Charlotte. And other than that, they have all their picks. But again... You can go out and get picks. You can go out and figure out what are the things that you're going to pawn off in order to get what it takes to get Kevin Durant.
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The Big Suey: I Got Engaged Here Five Years Ago
But he didn't want to stay put. And I think that's the important thing for him was the intellectual pursuit of...
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The Big Suey: I Got Engaged Here Five Years Ago
yeah i know i could stay here and it'll be perfect and we'll keep winning but i don't want to win that way anymore right i did it that was fun now i want to go see like can i do it a different way can i do it quote unquote my way he was on with draymond green on his podcast yesterday or the other day and They said, hey, why didn't you come?
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The Big Suey: I Got Engaged Here Five Years Ago
Why did you veto a deal to bring you back to Golden State? And he said, I don't want to do that in the middle of the year. I mean, I understand how much change and shift happens there. If that's something that's going to happen, let us pursue it in the offseason. Let's go in there with a plan.
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The Big Suey: I Got Engaged Here Five Years Ago
Let me not land in the middle of a season while you guys are trying to do something I'm trying to do something. And I think that all lends to he wants to win in a particular way.
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I thought he'd be slick back real good.
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Thanks, man. I think it's a weirder conversation that Dan is trying to play because I think for news, there are names and there are places. But for sports, I'm with you. I don't know if there are any names out there who aren't already established at ESPN.
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But he's at ESPN. Like who would, if ESPN wanted to do a Hannah Storm-like deal, we're going to go out and get a big name because SVP was on the golf network before.
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Right, I'm going to ask you to stop saying we don't know what his politics are because, again, we're talking about sports anchors and there are plenty of people who are opinionated who would not fit the mold that you're talking about that we don't know their politics either. I know what you're trying to say.
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I'm just saying for the purpose of this conversation, it makes it a lot clearer if we're saying, hey, who's the person who's not an opinion person out there, so not a Barkley, not a Stephen A. Smith, whatever, who is a news person objective who can come over to ESPN and...
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as a big hire that i don't know who that person is johnson noah eagle but okay so noah yeah he's actually a good one i was kind of being funny but noah noah is a play-by-play guy so and that's and tariko even who obviously started at espn as well he's a play-by-play guy ernie's ernie would be the name because ernie hosts a studio show and he plays it down the middle and it's you know strictly the facts ernie would be the guy and technically he'll be at espn next year
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I mean, how many Emmys do you want to throw on the table? Right? Like, yeah, yeah. You think so?
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Taurasi, man. Like, that, what we were talking about yesterday, that's exactly, that's a perfect encapsulation. A kind asshole, is that what you called her yesterday?
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The difference is you weren't reading off a prompter. That's right. And she is. And if you're writing the scripts on a prompter, they always tell you who gives a shit how the name is actually spelled. Type it the way it's supposed to be pronounced. So you go T-O-A-R in caps dash A-S-S-Y.
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Yes. You type it like that. And that way, even if she mispronounced it as Taurasi, that's still closer than. Give me an A-H and then an S-E-E. There you go. Yeah. Taurasi.
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Both. Several notes. Number one, we didn't need the last 30 seconds. We were doing a Gene Hackman clip.
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That's classic show. Classic show, man. Number two, Gene Hackman was in the Marines. I don't know if any of you guys do that then or now. But he was 88. Number three.
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And to Mike's point about throwing gluten in your eyes, that's cheating, right? This is a Gene Hackman quote about... acting and being successful at acting. He said, it was more psychological warfare because I wasn't gonna let those efforts get me down. I insisted with myself I would continue to do whatever it took to get a job.
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It was like me against them and in some ways, unfortunately, I still feel that way. It's a narcotic in the way that you are trained to do this work, and nobody will let you do it, so you're a little bit nuts. You lie to people. You cheat. You do whatever it takes to get an audition to get a job.
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Ladies and gentlemen, that is the words of someone who would absolutely throw gluten in your eyes and then kick your ass. Doesn't play fair.
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I would have thought you went with The Replacements. I looked at you, Mike, and said, Mike's a Replacements guy.
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That one and Unforgiven was the other one. Clint Eastwood.
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Defoe is very tiny, but also.
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Absolutely. And someone said Dustin Hoffman. Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman started acting together in a small playhouse in Pasadena, and they were both voted least likely to succeed. Everybody in their class hated them and thought they weren't any good. And so Hackman moves to New York in order to become an actor. And when he's in New York, him, Hoffman, and who's the third guy?
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They were all roommates. Is it Robert Duvall? That's a loaded room right there. That's insane, right? Him, Robert Duvall, and Dustin Hoffman as roommates, struggling actors trying to make it, being told by everybody, you suck, go get a day job.
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They've got enough time. Hey, guys, I'm going to say this right now. It's Wednesday, Thursday. They've got enough time to come up with the little mini montage package for him that's not just an in-memoriam. This dude is one of the great actors of all time. Two-time Oscar winner, like Jessica pointed out.
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What's the problem with it? I think what it does is it reminds everyone who's not great how not great they are. I think there's a general crabs in a bucket feeling that humans have.
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And now you guys are going to go get chicken spaghetti at Chickalini's together. That's not how you say that.
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I imagine the part that people find objectionable isn't him saying, I put five and a half years into this. I think that's the part where everyone's like, wow, that's cool. It's the part where he says, I know it's a subjective business and I want to win everything.
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I'm inspired as inspired by these great actors as I am by these great performers in objective fields where the measure of greatness is how many times did you win? Right. That's the part that is a departure from where we see usual actors going. But to answer your question, why are people turned up? Like I said, it's a massive reminder of like, oh, this guy has a gift and he's going after it.
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And me, I got to go to my regular job and deal with my jerk boss who jumps on my neck every morning in a shadow show and doesn't get the references that I make.
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You want to see Timothee Chalamet, as you called him. You can't do that. You can't pronounce his name.
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That wasn't a sketch show. That was more of a late night talk show.
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I didn't think they should be doing sketch stuff. There's a different sketch show that was very, very funny, very well done, but did not break through. It was Michael Che. He had a sketch show on Max. It was streaming only, never aired on HBO, it was streaming only.
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It was really well done, really funny, and especially because it was outside of the environment of SNL, it was one of the things that made me say, holy crap, this as a construct is letting him down because he's incredibly funny and these sketches are very well written. Most of them were hits. And the show never really did well and made any noise.
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I don't know if that's a marketing thing or what that was about. But yes, you're right. Tim Robinson, I think he's about to have a moment. Jeremy, he's in a movie, right, that's coming out soon. Friends with Paul Rudd, right? With Paul Rudd. It's kind of like I Love You Man. It's for the trailer. It feels like I Love You Man. Great flick. With Tim Robinson.
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Because funny, I don't think I think we haven't quite hit that crest yet. I think we know because we're nerds, but like he's going to have that moment where like everybody's going to know who Tim Robinson is in a way that right now people don't.
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Eric Andre is another person who does a great job of that.
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Do you know what the funniest thing about that story is right there? I do. End the sentence there.
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Oh, it is absolutely true. Before I reveal it to the audience, do you guys know what's funny about that sentence? Everyone's nodding their head. Chris, do you know?
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He does the show very well. Yeah. Jordan Schultz is the son of Howard Schultz, the founder of Starbucks. Do you think that he's got to pay for Starbucks? Absolutely not. What? You don't think he's got a lifetime Starbucks card?
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Local Hour: Good To See You, Whipie
What was the context of what Sal Palantonio did to you?
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But he was just being nice. The most amazing thing about that story, it wasn't outside the Eagle Stadium. I thought Sal was fixed there.
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Okay. Hannah Storm was at NBC and got to ESPN, I think not long either before or after I got to ESPN. Sal Paladin, yeah.
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Because you knew who she was. It's one of the rare huge free agency gets for ESPN in terms of news anchors. Usually they're homegrown, right? Or they get them from local TV and they grow into this role. Hannah Storm was a massive deal way before ESPN and then she ended up at ESPN.
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Now I'm curious, is his hair slick back or push back?
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used to be the destination, now kind of what Dan would call a traffic cop, right? And inherently replaceable.
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Yes, yes, absolutely, for all the wrong reasons. But Lester Holt is up there, I would say. David Muir, too. David Muir is another one, yeah. Zaddy. Anderson Cooper. Anderson Cooper.
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Hour 2: Dirk Nowitzki And Stump The Meech
Dirk, you're good friends with Steve Nash. You guys played together in Dallas and then Steve obviously went on to Phoenix. Did you guys ever talk about what would have happened had you guys stayed together?
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Hour 2: Dirk Nowitzki And Stump The Meech
Plumber? It's one of two things, I think. I don't think anybody knows what you're saying.
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Hour 2: Dirk Nowitzki And Stump The Meech
That's in my mind. Let me hear the second one.
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Hour 2: Dirk Nowitzki And Stump The Meech
It's a different frog. It is. It is a different species.
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Hour 2: Dirk Nowitzki And Stump The Meech
The other one is a statue.
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Hour 2: Dirk Nowitzki And Stump The Meech
You played quite a few minutes in the last meeting when you were playing for the Utah Jazz. You played 20 minutes. You were 0 for 4 in that game. Nice, nice work. Zero points, two fouls, four rebounds. Dirk had 21 and six, so pretty good job right there. Yeah, I mean, not bad.
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Hour 2: Dirk Nowitzki And Stump The Meech
You were three and four against Dirk in your career, so you can hold your head high. Now, if you want the averages, Dirk averaged 21.6 points, 8.9 rebounds, and almost a block a game. You averaged 1.3 points, 2.3 rebounds, and almost a turnover and a half a game.
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stoogatz!
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
The name started with an A. He's been cooking today. The chat has been saying I've been very good today. Yeah, you're cooking. You're cooking. Hold on.
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
I tell you, your voice is so wonderfully restrained. It's amazing. It's like you treat the song with such reverence despite the fact it's about bollocks.
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
It's not easier, though. You're right that it is easier, but it's not more accurate, and it doesn't solve any problems for you, but it does make you feel better and more superior than the people you're talking about.
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
Okay, super creepy. Incredibly creepy. That is incredibly, I mean, talk about giving Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang vibes right there.
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
The way he moved his fingers when he was talking at the beginning, as if he's just about finished licking them after eating chicken. That is gross. If I wasn't already gay, I'd be gay after watching that.
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
This is what I thought.
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
And who noticed him first, by the way? I did. Oh. Are you saying Miami is special? It's so special. It's not special. The man looked like a sociopath. Miami is special. He had a dogger or Stephen A? You know, what is the Christian Bale in the film with the obsession over business cards, right?
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
He looked like he was running, listening to Huey Lewis in the news, waiting for the next person to approach him, who he felt threatened by, to murder them. That's what he looked like. There's nothing attractive about that.
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
He clearly had baby-oiled himself before he left the house. That's correct. Gross. Who doesn't? Special.
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
Look how much I can lock in on something completely immaterial and unimportant. This segment is going to descend into your listeners just sending in thirst traps. I can see what's going to happen now. And I'm here for it.
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
Agreed.
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
You can do too much, you know. Plus, half the time you look at these people, they don't look... like human beings anymore. It's odd to me. It's odd to me. I don't want your skin to be like paper. That's odd. It's an odd sensation to be with somebody who has no fat whatsoever.
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
Yeah, plenty of that. That's one of those things, yes.
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
It's so sad though. I feel so, I mean, he's a man, he has his own agency. I get that. But I feel so sad that you can be so unloved or so exploitable that no one around you is willing to forcefully be there to help you not embarrass yourself publicly, not humiliate yourself, not make you more liable for the things that are going to happen to you.
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
It just seems incredible to me that no one loves you. This is the same as that scene in President Trump's first term when he had toilet paper on his shoe. To me, it's that again. I saw that, and regardless of the fact that I don't like him, I felt sad for him because he's surrounded by people paid to be around him, none of whom felt enough about him to stop him from embarrassing himself.
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
And here it is, again, my geniusness-ness. And one of whom is his lawyer. You would think that he would have said something. Right? Especially if I'm paying you. You have one job. How about you prevent me from being more of a liability to myself and maybe even not humiliate myself? Wow.
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
Listen, nothing good happens when your occupation becomes your definition. When what you do becomes who you are, nothing good comes from that. You guys have talked about this with athletes that finish their career and then spectacularly go off the rails, whether it's drugs or other substances, whether it's gambling, whether it's sex, whatever it is, they lose themselves.
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
Because what happens if you've defined yourself for a period of time by the fact that you are beloved on television or you're a cartoon character on television or whatever else, or you're a genius with music? And then all of a sudden you find yourself in front of a lawyer who doesn't give a shit about your creative skills. They just want you to answer some questions. It creates this schism.
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
It doesn't have to be a pathology. I'm not suggesting it's some kind of psychological disorder. I think that's often, we often pathologize this stuff. I still think it's sad that you can be that successful and have managed to reject everyone who might love you a little bit enough to challenge you out of your sphere.
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
Listen, I'm not suggesting that he doesn't have traits of people who've got real psychopathy, real problems. I'm simply, nor even that you can recognize it when you see it in your family members, these behaviors. What I'm saying is it does a real disservice to the millions and millions of people out there who have similar disorders but don't behave in such aberrant ways.
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
That's something to consider, right? We try and say this is because of your diagnosis. When there are millions of people out there suffering similarly or sometimes even more acutely, who don't behave in these aberrant ways.
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
And it is different if you're in the spotlight, if you're in sports, they're exacerbating factors. So I'm not suggesting it's not a contributor. I suppose my thing here is I don't want people to think that they do that thing where they think because of it's because of the diagnosis that this person behaves in these reprehensible ways. That is a contributing factor.
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
But there are other factors and some of them are totally within the control of the individual. It isn't just that. Oh, how unfortunate your brain chemistry was was effed up when you were born. And now you're in this tough position. It's you also made some terrible choices and you're now doing things purposefully.
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
and relying on the fact that we're going to let things slide because of your diagnosis. We work in companies sometimes where people say things like, well, the reason that we've got so many bullies in our environment is because these really clever people are on the spectrum, they'll say.
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
And what an incredible disservice to people who might have ASD, autism spectrum disorder, to imagine that because you have this, you're a terrible person who's awful to other people. No, these people are assholes who have ASD. That is not the same thing.
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
Bill, it's just my face was showing and your name was showing underneath it.
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
Yeah, I've spoken to some teachers, actually, in schools, universities, and high schools in the States and in Europe, and they are dealing with kids who have either self-diagnosed or been told by their parents they have a certain disorder, and therefore, them being rude in class or speaking out when they shouldn't be or not participating is somehow... like they have license to do it now.
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
I think it's really problematic. It's why the advice for psychologists is that we don't diagnose from a distance. It's really tempting because you see these constellations of behaviors and you think, I've recognized this. I've seen this before.
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
But I just think agency, you're going to give people a chance to say, what part are you playing in this before we kind of throw away everything else and say, yeah, it's not your fault.
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
He has a pair of abs.
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
This is where you can tell the straight guy standards are entirely different.
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
We all have abs. Well, yes, mine are covered, but he has a pair of abs that are exposed.
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
It's a deal. I'll do that.
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
Yeah, it's just that even in the arguments that I've heard from everybody, there's so many accurate pieces to it that describe to me, and I don't, you know, of all the people in this studio, I don't know anything about these teams, but the way you've described... when you got granular with it, I could completely understand the frustration.
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
It's simply that to me, that frustration is lost when we start using words that are bound to trigger for no other reason than it's easy and we kind of like the fact that Joel, this person who is otherwise untouchable, knows that we all think he's soft.
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
If you really want to win, your go-to for a person who really wants to win is nepotism, for starters, and then nepotism with people who are too young to drink or vote. Yeah, those are the sources of information I'm looking for. I'm not telling you that young people don't have anything to offer. That's not my point.
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
But if what they're offering is, by the way, have you checked out the score that's in a video game for somebody? I've got to think there's better sources. I've got to. That's like asking me. That's like if they approached me to say, hey, what do you think of this Judy guy? And I'd be like, yeah, yeah, you know. Go for it or don't.
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
That's the quality of insight you're getting from a 16-year-old who's relying on a Madden score. Jerry Judy, two first names.
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
A few weeks later, Douglas and his Broncos counterpart, George Patton, were deep in negotiations for a trade that would have sent Judy to the Jets and given a future Hall of Fame quarterback, Aaron Rodgers, another potential playmaker. The Broncos felt a deal was near. Then abruptly, it all fell apart. In Denver's executive offices, they couldn't believe the reason why.
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
Douglas told the Broncos that Johnson didn't want to make the trade because the owner felt Judy's player rating in Madden NFL, the popular video game, wasn't high enough, according to multiple league sources. The Broncos ultimately traded the receiver to the Cleveland Browns. Last Sunday, Judy crossed the 1,000-yard receiving mark for the first time in his career.
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The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
Most of my team tells me it's soporific.
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Postgame Show: Not So Fast My Friend (feat. JuJu Gotti)
It was hilarious. It was a dark comedy.
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Postgame Show: Not So Fast My Friend (feat. JuJu Gotti)
Let's do it Dan. What are we waiting for? Tropic Thunder
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Postgame Show: Not So Fast My Friend (feat. JuJu Gotti)
So here's the deal. Before they ever made the NBA, they had a family trip to Disneyland every single year. Their mom and their brothers would go to Disneyland every single year. When they got drafted and they got money, it became a yearly trip to Disney World. When Brooke signed his extension, his rookie extension, then he read real money.
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Postgame Show: Not So Fast My Friend (feat. JuJu Gotti)
It was like, I'm buying one of them houses that's on Disney property down in Orlando. Not medieval times, though. Interesting. Not medieval times.
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Postgame Show: Not So Fast My Friend (feat. JuJu Gotti)
I'm just saying that if you don't do it in there, you're going to do it somewhere else to someone that you care about.
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Postgame Show: Not So Fast My Friend (feat. JuJu Gotti)
He tried to deny it.
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Postgame Show: Not So Fast My Friend (feat. JuJu Gotti)
He said, I inhaled. I was just an inhale. Come on, man.
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Hour 2: Ahoy, It's Captain Slappy! (feat. Martin Baron)
Hey friends, it's JerBear here, and I'm here to tell you all about Boost Mobile, which is now a legit nationwide 5G network. So I must take a break from the jokes here for a second and put on my serious voice, because I would never ever joke about a 5G network that has invested billions building 5G towers across the country. Not even once. Not even if Mr. Boost Mobile himself asked me to.
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Hour 2: Ahoy, It's Captain Slappy! (feat. Martin Baron)
There is nothing funny about it. Boost Mobile is now a legit nationwide 5G network and also provides coverage across 99% of America. Seriously. Visit BoostMobile.com or your nearest Boost Mobile store location to learn more. The Boost Mobile Network, together with our roaming partners, covers 99% of the US population. 5G speeds not available in all areas.
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Hour 2: Ahoy, It's Captain Slappy! (feat. Martin Baron)
I owned the fist pump.
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Hour 2: Ahoy, It's Captain Slappy! (feat. Martin Baron)
I mean, I am embarrassed by it.
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Hour 2: Ahoy, It's Captain Slappy! (feat. Martin Baron)
I'm going to therapy later, and my therapist is going to be really happy that I said these things on the air.
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Hour 2: Ahoy, It's Captain Slappy! (feat. Martin Baron)
You can notice at the end of the video, I'm so happy with myself and so full of charisma that I'm going to unbutton the button on the suit jacket.
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Hour 2: Ahoy, It's Captain Slappy! (feat. Martin Baron)
I'm letting loose. It's time to be good to go. I did my job. Job complete. Job well done. Fist pump.
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Hour 2: Ahoy, It's Captain Slappy! (feat. Martin Baron)
Salt and vinegar. Gar.
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Hour 2: Ahoy, It's Captain Slappy! (feat. Martin Baron)
You want to be careful. I know. Complicated. I did it four times in my head before I said it out loud.
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Hour 2: Ahoy, It's Captain Slappy! (feat. Martin Baron)
I got it. Arr. Let's just get the arr part. You're fired.
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Hour 2: Ahoy, It's Captain Slappy! (feat. Martin Baron)
But it's the kind of pirate you ended up with.
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Hour 2: Ahoy, It's Captain Slappy! (feat. Martin Baron)
You only get angry in the car.
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Hour 2: Ahoy, It's Captain Slappy! (feat. Martin Baron)
Amin, you have gone too far.
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Hour 1: The Magic Crate of Content Saves the Day
The 7th at Pebble Beach, I'm trying to think of other holes that would compete for this title, but it's not that island green, though.
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Hour 1: The Magic Crate of Content Saves the Day
Because the seventh at Pebble Beach, for people that don't know, it's the par three where you hit it into the ocean, essentially. Yeah. And it's like 130 yards, but you have to hit like a three iron because the wind is so crazy. Oh, it's the eighth hole. The eighth hole. Is it the eighth? Oh, my bad.
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Hour 1: The Magic Crate of Content Saves the Day
You can't hide the pirate. I feel like the other voice, like Old English, you could just be like, yeah, that's just the.
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Hour 1: The Magic Crate of Content Saves the Day
It's hard to hide a pirate. Arrrr. Like, that's embarrassing as soon as my wife walks in the room.
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Hour 1: The Magic Crate of Content Saves the Day
Like, why is she... Arrrr.
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Hour 1: The Magic Crate of Content Saves the Day
I'd rather have this than my wife. Yeah, I feel like the descriptors.
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Hour 1: The Magic Crate of Content Saves the Day
I went through them earlier this week, and I didn't remember that one being read. That's on me.
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Hour 1: The Magic Crate of Content Saves the Day
Because there was like 50 in there. I think Fuentes went rogue and put a bunch in, so I went through to make sure.
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Hour 1: The Magic Crate of Content Saves the Day
I had seen that question in there before, but I never knew we did it on air.
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Hour 1: The Magic Crate of Content Saves the Day
Jason Day played well last week.
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Hour 1: The Magic Crate of Content Saves the Day
Jason Day's not going to win at all, but I could see him playing well this week.
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Hour 1: The Magic Crate of Content Saves the Day
Tiny Archibald.
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Hour 1: The Magic Crate of Content Saves the Day
Just going through the folder here, I see a Captain Slappy interview. December 19th, 2008.
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Hour 1: The Magic Crate of Content Saves the Day
I should probably preview it, right?
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Hour 1: The Magic Crate of Content Saves the Day
Let me see these golfers.
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Hour 1: The Magic Crate of Content Saves the Day
He doesn't have his bag. Look at Rory. Look at Ricky. Who walks in with their own stuff? I would have swore they had seven assistants and that they didn't see their clubs. They see it at the range. They show up to the range. The clubs are there. I just love the idea of Rory walking up to his hotel room with his clubs.
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Hour 1: The Magic Crate of Content Saves the Day
I guarantee you at Augusta, they're not walking up with their own bags.
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Hour 1: The Magic Crate of Content Saves the Day
That is shocking. It's a bit of a surprise. Look at you sticking to the facts. How often do you play this?
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Hour 1: The Magic Crate of Content Saves the Day
18 at the Blue Monster. It's a great hole. I've actually birdied it before from the tips.
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Hour 1: The Magic Crate of Content Saves the Day
Roy's slice in golf is an interesting thing to behold because it's not a slice. It just goes straight to the right from his club. Most slices start straight and peel to the right. Roy, it just darts to the right. I hit golf carts. You do. Basically. You've hit cars. Yeah. Not golf cars. Cars. Cars. And the parking lot. The sound you hear.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Magic Crate of Content Saves the Day
It swings so hard.
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Like, that's the start of it?
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Hour 1: The Magic Crate of Content Saves the Day
I believe it's the hole Dwayne Wade got a hole in one on. Yeah.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Magic Crate of Content Saves the Day
I've played Beville Beach, but it was before I was really, like, I was young. I went with my dad when we were, so I did play it, but I wish I played it later in life.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Magic Crate of Content Saves the Day
The Players. The Players. That'll do it for us.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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God Bless Golf is brought to you by Comcast Business, powering the PGA Tour with leading networking, connectivity, advanced fiber solutions, and expert partnership. And man, am I excited about the players. The players, it's not a major, but it should be a major.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Let me tell you something. How could you watch anything else? Mike, we did this yesterday where we talked about – Sissoko for Cal fasting and Boeheim had some kind of insensitive remarks or whatever. And it took me legit like a strong 40 minutes to figure out why is Boeheim calling a Cal game? Why is it, what is this ACC Network logo pop? I could not put two and two together.
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Woof! Shout out to the cock.
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Got it back now. That was good. The pain has to be a part of it.
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There you go.
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That's your Do Re Mi right there. Yeah. You can't disassociate from the pain. You got to be there. But Mike, I have a suggestion. And Jess, I want you to weigh in on this as well. We have 40 teams in the Big Ten. We have Hawaii in the ACC. Like, let's change these names. Why are we married to these names? The IP. Well, I mean, the Pac-10, A-12. It was a Pac-12 with two teams in it.
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And before that was a Pac-10? Before that was a Pac-8?
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Yeah, you don't have to. Kid, where's the PR person? Like, yo, you don't have to spill your guts about it.
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No, I'm not blaming the kid. I'm blaming the PR person. You've got to step in. To protect him from himself.
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Oh, man, couldn't keep my eyes off it.
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I knew it was going to be someone's son. I had a feeling. But you didn't express it. Well, because I let her. She did the right amount of pregnant pause before she delivered the line. Dan, I have in front of me a top five. Top five three-man lineups by minutes played in the NBA this season.
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Bang! Professionalism. So, there are no OLIs. Number five. OG Ananobi, Josh Hart, and Mikkel Bridges. Number four, O.G. Ananobi, Josh Hart, and Jalen Brunson. Number three, Carl Towns, Josh Hart, and Mikkel Bridges. Number two, O.G. Ananobi, Mikkel Bridges, and Jalen Brunson.
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like there's these blankets and jackets that people use because this the studio fluctuates a little bit but sometimes it's very cold and amin made the observation like no one's washed these things in several years ever not not to not just not the all the human secretions that have been on all those things but also willow just going around rubbing her ass on everything
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And the number one most played three-man rotation in the entire NBA, Bam Adebayo, no, psych, it's Josh Hart, Mikkel Bridges, and Jalen Brunson.
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They won't lose to Cleveland.
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They won't see Cleveland.
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You guys have them play Cleveland? What are you doing?
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You know who they play in the first round projected?
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Detroit basketball. Oh, that would be so funny if Cade Cunningham walks into Madison Square Garden and says, It's mi casa. I've not seen this, Amin.
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I don't think they're going to disappoint because I think they're achieving exactly what they're supposed to achieve. But the reality is they're almost certainly going to be the three seed. Boston is certainly going to be the two seed. So New York sees probably Detroit, maybe Indiana, maybe Milwaukee in the first round. All three of those teams have given them problems.
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And then if you beat them, then you get to see the Boston Celtics who have— ransacked them, ransacked them, ransacked them, right? They have not even looked close to competitive with Boston. It's going to feel, for Knicks fans, way more disappointing. Last year, gritty seven-game series loss to the Pacers, right? The year before that, gritty loss to the Heat, right?
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Like, oh, clawing and all that. This one is going to feel like, oh, we got smacked around. It wasn't even close.
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And Jessica brings up a great point, right? The major moves of which... The guy who's complaining about playing too much is the guy they gave up five first-round picks for, right? And that's why when everyone's like, the power of friendship, and these guys all went to Villanova, it's the boys back together again. You don't overpay for a Corolla. It's a great car. It's reliable.
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It's got great gas efficiency. It is going to last forever. The parts, if it breaks down, are relatively cheap. But you don't pay $100,000 for it, even if you know it has gold bricks in the back.
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But by the way, the blanket that had he given it to me, I would have laundered like the other blankets in here.
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You guys are advocating like it's like fantasy football. He's much better for your team anyway. I like. Look at your squad. You need that guy. Then you talk about contemplating on the beach with a blanket wrapped around you. That was Jeremy Taché last night. We're at Heat Clippers and just despondent. The sadness shrouding that place right now. The Heat look directionless.
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And then midway through like the third quarter, I looked at Jeremy and I said, you know what the crazy thing is? As bad as everything has been, this feels like one of the darkest times in Heat history. There is a strong chance they end up winning the division.
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Dan, Kel Elware didn't start the second half. We don't have an answer for this guy. No, because it was so clear. I told Jeremy, I said, years from now, Kel Elware might be like, a two-time defensive player of the year and a seven-time All-Star or whatever, and he's going to think back at, man, there was this dude who played in the league named Ivica Zubac. He gave me work.
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Every possible way you could think of, spin moves and jump hooks and dunks and lobs and everything. And Kalauea looked terrified, like he was playing a Shaq. He's like, I don't know what to do.
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He's going to be in the league for a while? I mean, I think he's got a chance to hang around. But by the way, Mike, last night was the first time I ever seen Jim Laranega in person. He's a big guy. Yeah, he's tall. He's a big guy. His son's not that big. I was staggered at how large a man. Yes, he's a crane of a man.
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Oh, no. That was a bridge too far? Yes.
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Christopher Pels won three straight races. Because you're in here, I want to ask you a soccer question. We had a PK between PSG and Liverpool the other day. And one of the guys who missed for Liverpool was...
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Do you routinely do this?
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Don't shame him about this. No, I'm not shaming him. I'm just curious.
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I did a good job in an interview.
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It's always watching. It's on League Pass. But Jeremy, this is my thing. I haven't... I don't believe I've fist pumped ever in my life earnestly.
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The only person I could picture doing that other than Jeremy is Witty after like a soccer broadcast. Just a little.
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Witty would tell himself, well done. Yes, that's what would happen. Well done, lad. Well done, lad.
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Well done, old chap. Or he might clap above his head.
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I hate when he says that. At the weekend? Who are you talking to? I heard him on the radio saying that the other day. I texted him. I said, I hate you.
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Who are you talking to? I like to think of Whitty as never going to bars, only pubs.
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He's good situationally. Or I should say, that's about his bad situation. Thanks for clearing all that up.
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Witty, when you think about these kind of situations where there isn't, as you said, the guy's not mic'd up, there isn't a big announcement. Is there a particular reason for that or is this just the relative European lack of sophistication towards the customer experience?
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The way our sports here are so geared to being customer engaging and they're over there like, hey, if you didn't figure it out, then you don't watch this sport enough.
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Boy, let me tell you something. Witty, I know what a slurp sounds like.
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Denver's not defending.
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Witty, so a couple of days ago, PSG versus Liverpool. Liverpool had a guy, Curtis Jones, miss his PK. A really weird, feeble attempt. And the broadcast, if I'm not mistaken, said, this guy's never taken a PK in his life. What is the scenario where a manager says, you know what? I've never seen you do this, but I trust in you in the biggest stage.
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I mean, it sounds like Scooby-Doo.
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Put it on the pole, Juju. Is this a slurp?
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Like I said, this is Scooby-Doo when he's really happy.
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I do want an answer to my Curtis Jones question.
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How many slurps did that game get yesterday?
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Yeah, 9 of 46 from three. But they also got to the free throw line almost twice as much as Oklahoma City did, so... I think from Boston's perspective, they're saying, we took the shots we want, we got to the places we want, we just couldn't execute. And then also, they couldn't stop Shea.
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And that's, you know, the idea going into the game, there was no Jalen Williams for Oklahoma City, there was no Porzingis for Boston. So both of these teams were missing key pieces. But the game plan with the Thunder is get the ball out of Shea's hands and make one of these other guys prove it in terms of bringing it up and creating offense.
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And usually the other guy they're saying that of is Jalen Williams, who's an all-star this year for a good reason. But he's not out there last night. So now you're trying to play through Chet and Hartenstein and other guys are bringing the ball up. And it didn't really matter. And this is a very possible finals preview, Dan.
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We could be watching Thunder Celtics in, what is that, three months from now.
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Shadowin' it.
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You know what? There's a pain in Mike Breen's bangs and he's nailed it. There's a pain.
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This is the doctor with the hammer hitting your knee.
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She got PTSD. Dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum.
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Dan, do you know who Mikkel Bridges hit that shot against? I do not. Okay, that's why you're asking that question. They play the Blazers. The Blazers, who have been playing a lot better. I'll give them a great credit. Also, shout out to Chauncey Billups, who coaches this team and not Detroit, who's done a great job after a lot of people wrote him off. Having said all that.
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That pales, pales in comparison to the Bridges comment because Tibbs responded yesterday via James Edwards of The Athletic, quote, we never had a conversation about it. The facts are the facts. Jalen is 20th or 21st in average minutes. Cat is below that. Your wings play more. They're matched up against primary players.
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This right here is the first fracture I have seen in about two and a half years. In terms of all along, guys have been, whatever Tim says, they back him up, they back him up, they back him up. And now it's the first time we got a guy saying, I don't know, right? The original quote, this is according to Stefan Bondi of the New York Post, sometimes it's not fun on the body.
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Our bench guys can come in and we don't need to play 48 minutes. It helps just keeping fresh bodies out there.
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He plays his guys. And what he'll say and what this is echoed by everybody from this coaching tree, right? Stan Van Gundy, Jeff Van Gundy, all these guys, right? Michael Malone is another one. What they'll say is, yeah, I play my best players. Because you play to win the game.
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So this is the fun part of this, right, is Tibbs rightly states, hey, my main guys are playing less average minutes than a lot of the other stars in the league. But when you start looking at combinations, Dan, that's where it gets interesting. For example, the most played lineup in the NBA this season, number one, are the Knicks' Carl Anthony Towns, Brunson, Bridges, Hart, Ananobi.
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885 minutes played. The next highest one are the Timberwolves, Conley, Gobert, Randall, Edwards, McDaniels, 551. That's more than 300 more minutes. And then number three is Sacramento at 431 with their lineup. And then Houston 422. So you see it's like there's a gap, a massive gap. The gap between two and one in and of itself would be in the top 10.
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Like those 300 plus minutes would be top 10 in lineups played if it were a lineup itself.
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Well, I think it's interesting, because another guy who said the opposite, not now, I believe it was last season, was Josh Hart. Josh Hart actually leads not only the team in minutes, The league in minutes played. Josh Hart not only leads the league in minutes played, but plays a lot of out-of-position basketball. He's playing against power forwards and sometimes centers, right?
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So the guy playing the hardest minutes in the league is also playing the most minutes in the league. And last year, he was supportive of all of this. There is something to me. It's like, oh, the new guy came in and said, wait, what are we doing here? versus the guys who had been there who are kind of entrenched in that mentality. It's interesting to me.
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I don't know if it means anything that Mikael Bridges is the messenger, or maybe we're all taking a quote out of context, because that could happen too, where he's being asked specifically about something, and part of his answer does say those words, but then if you extrapolate just those words, it sounds like he's complaining when he's really not.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Mina Kimes and Greg’s Eyebrows
Mike, do you know why it's happening? Social media? Yes, that's exactly it. We went from whether it was the leagues themselves or the broadcasters crafting how we're going to talk about this product to Checking online, what are people saying? Oh, people are saying this? Let's follow that. Letting the cart lead the horse rather than the other way around. And I think it's a massive problem.
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Look, in the 90s and the 2000s, what was the league slogans for the NBA? I'll stick for NBA.
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I love this game where amazing happens. And now it's like, what's trending? Too many threes. The number of people who said, Oh, there was a game where 75 three-pointers were missed combined. And I'm like, you're talking about the Charlotte Hornets? Who cares? It would be like judging college football by what happened in Liberty versus Elon.
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Hour 2: Mina Kimes and Greg’s Eyebrows
I think my point about social media isn't that, oh, we should get rid of it. It's the people who control the product should stop following it, stop listening to it, because ultimately, for the most part, people will believe what you tell them to believe. Like last time when Amici was here and I talked about the idea that I said, hey, What do you guys miss?
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Hour 2: Mina Kimes and Greg’s Eyebrows
What you really miss is the Kurt Thomas mid-range jump, baseline jumper, and the Tyrone Hill pick and pop. In the next week or so after that, the number of talking heads I saw on Not referencing me, but just echoing that same exact, oh, you guys just missed mid-range shots by role players.
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Hour 2: Mina Kimes and Greg’s Eyebrows
And I'm like, while you are bolstering my point, I'm like, this is also making my grander point, which is we need to just stop this echo chamber, right? And again, that's fine for fans. This is not an echo chamber. We need, the league, you asked me from a league perspective, they need to control the narrative.
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Hour 2: Mina Kimes and Greg’s Eyebrows
And that starts with, yes, a meeting with the commissioner and everybody who broadcasts league partners, TV and radio and elsewhere.
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Lucy, I'm going to tell you right now, it looks exactly like someone put two sticky patches over his eyebrows and ripped them off so that the skin is so light now because they're tearing off.
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Hour 2: Mina Kimes and Greg’s Eyebrows
Mina, is what the Patriots saw out of Joe Milton discouraging, encouraging, or just encouraging?
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Hour 2: Mina Kimes and Greg’s Eyebrows
And for the video audience who didn't see, she added an extra element of doing the mall walker while doing it.
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Yeah, we ran out of time there, but we definitely should have asked about that. This was throwback Mina, right? Just the... Hey, where are the cameras? Hey, how does TV work?
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Hour 2: Mina Kimes and Greg’s Eyebrows
That's how makeup works, folks. Get a team. They call it the MUAH team. M-U-A-H. Makeup and hair.
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Hour 2: Mina Kimes and Greg’s Eyebrows
That's a tough part. The guy I remember... who did this before Antonio Brown was Vontae Davis. You guys remember when he retired at halftime? He was of repute. Yes.
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Hour 2: Mina Kimes and Greg’s Eyebrows
Yeah, it was earlier in the season. It was the second game of the season, and that's what made it so shocking. But also, for him, it wasn't, I'm upset about... coaching decisions, whatever. I was like, you know what? I don't need this. And he walked away from football. My question for Campbell is, do you actually have plans to play football again somewhere else?
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Because you have to know that reaction in that sport is the death knell.
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They talk a lot on Twitter, and then they don't show up to any of the games.
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Hour 2: Mina Kimes and Greg’s Eyebrows
Yeah. No, look. I think it's all born out of a misunderstanding, to be honest with you. So if you don't know, JJ Redick made some comments about, he was asked about, hey, people were saying that the ratings are down and it's because they shoot too many threes. And JJ Redick kind of pushed back on the notion that the league is, the style of play, is there anything wrong with it?
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Hour 2: Mina Kimes and Greg’s Eyebrows
He says the players are more, more skilled than they've ever been, or at least since when he came in the league. Certainly from three. Well, he's skilled overall. The players are more skilled and more talented today than they were 20 years ago when he first came into the league.
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And he said he thinks a reason why this discourse is happening is because there are a lot of people who talk bad about the game right now. He said that without naming any names. Charles Barkley took that as, oh, he's talking about inside the NBA specifically, and that's why Chuck went off on him and leveled him with what can only be described as Operation Shock and Awe. J.J.
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Redick was asked, hey, what did you think? And he gave, and we broke this down on Basketball Illuminati, a response that was, he clearly lost the battle there. Said, I don't care. I have some thoughts that I don't care. And I'm like, J.J., you can't do that. But this is what happens when you're used to arguing people online versus arguing someone real life. And Charles Barkley takes that round.
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Hour 2: Mina Kimes and Greg’s Eyebrows
But I submit to you, this was all a misunderstanding in that he wasn't talking about Charles Barkley or inside the NBA. You know who he's talking about, Dan? Y'all. And specifically, that red-jacketed joker in the back over there.
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Hour 2: Mina Kimes and Greg’s Eyebrows
All that mess prior to Christmas break, when I yelled at Mike and Mike got upset that I yelled at him, and when I patted him on the back to let him know, hey, man, we're just doing show. He's like, and he tried to pat me on my back. He's talking about you, man. He's talking about you and your negativity around NBA basketball. That's cool. I wasn't watching.
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The Big Suey: The Milt Plum Show
That's not the analysis, though. The analysis is, were the teams that put together a complete thing. So it's like, how many of these quarterbacks were bad because they had terrible offensive lines? How many of these quarterbacks were bad because they didn't have a good receiving core? How many of the quarterbacks were bad because the coach was not good enough?
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The Big Suey: The Milt Plum Show
So, like, we keep trying to boil it down to, oh, it's this one thing. He's the reason why they won. But in the words of Jerry Krause... Organizations win championships.
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Of course. Because it's not to say that he isn't an important or pivotal part of it. It's to say that he isn't the only part of it. And the success and failure is not solely hinged on him and his performance. There are other parts that play a role in this. By the way, not to drag the show back to the Milt Plum world, but I just discovered a fascinating stat on Milt Plum.
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In a college game in 1955 against Syracuse, Milt Plum threw a touchdown pass, intercepted a pass, scored the game-tying touchdown, and then kicks the extra point to win the game.
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I kind of see it now. If you saw, there was a prospect.
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ourselves watching Travis Hunter play oh he plays offense and defense this dude threw a touchdown pass I don't think anybody intercepted the pass you did I saw it I don't think anybody themselves I smelt it sorry scored the game-tying touchdown which again that doesn't mean he threw the pass he scored the touchdown himself then kicked the extra point how would he not be the absolute apex college football predator
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Mike, who was the quarterback's coach?
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He was Richard Williams before Richard Williams. Tiger Woods' dad, what was his name? Earl Woods.
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What are you doing? I just received even more late-breaking news about Milt Plum. Okay, so in the NFL draft that year, he got drafted by the Browns in the second round. I thought you were going to say by the military. Their first-round pick. Milt Plum goes second round to the Browns. Their first-round pick was this guy named Jim Brown. What a draft. And then in 1960.
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How many Zagatos did you get for that one? Hold on.
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Hold on. Watch this. Watch this build. In 1960, he set a record for the passer rating that was not broken until Joe Montana in 1989. Ladies and gentlemen, Greg Cody made a good point. Milk Plum is an excellent example. First gruntled and now this. Good job, Greg. This is his flu game, Dan.
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That's what you sound like right now Yeah, I know Sick voice I figured that was it yeah, sorry about that great description there by Jeremy it was as opposed to encryption back to Jared Goff
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No, he was doing the bit. Just keep going.
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You're interrupting me. I know, but this is important because I don't think you heard the last thing he said. Chris says, Jamar Chase is also on the Lobo. That's probably why you're confused. And he says, that's right, Jamar Chase, MVL. So, by your own admission, Lamar Jackson isn't even the MVP of your fantasy team!
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Dan, part of this also is like the greatness of greatness, right? True greatness wants to know the limits of its greatness. I remember there was a playoff game where Steve Nash threw like two behind-the-back passes with his left hand. One of them was between someone's legs. It was in the fourth quarter of a playoff game. And I remember asking someone, I was like, why would he do that?
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Why would he even risk that? Because sometimes you just got to know, can I do that? Am I good enough to do that? And so... you know, what Lucy said in terms of 5% more confident than he probably should be, that's the kind of the hallmark of greatness is that I want to know where my limit is. Like, he could play within his limit, but he said, what if my limit's a little further?
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And in that is that exploration of something in the beyond.
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Oh, I would argue that NBA head coach is in that bucket. There aren't 30 great NBA head coaches. And despite how many people, you think about how many people are playing quarterback, but it's kind of like there are physical things that you need to be quarterback at some level, obviously as a kid, whatever.
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But once you get to teenager, you got to have certain physical attributes to play quarterback. So it kind of like eliminates the population, a good deal of the population. You talk about head coaching, basketball. I mean, theoretically, it's like, hey, if you're reasonably smart enough and have a good enough feel for basketball, you should be able to do it.
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And yet there aren't 30 great ones in the world.
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And the interpersonal relationships because you can be great at all that stuff and just be shitty at dealing with human beings and lose the plot that way.
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And I wish you hadn't walked it back with that clarification because it's not all Butler. It's not all butler hair.
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It's funny, it has become a word. Gruntled? Yeah, it's a word now, but it's an after-the-fact word that was invented and actually acknowledged to fit disgruntled.
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If you're in a good mood, you're gruntled.
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Yes. I believe that... Originally, gruntled was not a root word for disgruntled. But after the fact, it became so. Because if you have a dis, you've got to have something that's the opposite of dis.
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And he was right, by the way. Franklin was right. Teams should be in conferences. You shouldn't be allowed to say, oh, we're in Notre Dame. We're so big. We're bigger than college football itself. We can be independent if we want to be. But the problem is the NCAA no longer has any strength. Nobody's running college football. And so they get to do whatever they want because they're Notre Dame.
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No, because that's the uniformity of college football is everybody's in a conference.
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Okay, let's everybody be independent then.
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Negotiate that for yourselves the way Notre Dame did.
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Don Levitard. What do I got here? I got a Magnum condom. We won't get that out. That's shocking. Stugatz. Here's a picture of Christopher when he was like three years old.
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Yeah. That's a subtle reminder.
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Ah, that's true. Destroy it. Are you guys going to stop?
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Because it's worth acknowledging. It's a bit that he's created.
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That's one way to look at it.
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That's one way to look at it.
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Yeah. It's a beautiful bit that he created. I want to give him acknowledgement for it. Okay. It's a beautiful bit. By the way, a quick aside. Nobody needs eyebrows. Okay. I brought this up once. What? I brought this up once before on the show. I challenged the entire show to shave off their eyebrows.
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Well, who's with me?
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Apparently I am.
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I would do it if everyone else did. How about if just Roy does it with you?
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Lead us. The brows would grow back.
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I would if I didn't have to go to the Orange Bowl tonight. No one's disputing that it would grow back. I don't want to sit in the press box and be made fun of because I don't have any eyebrows. No one's disputing that it wouldn't grow back. You're claiming that it would look fine. People wouldn't even notice. I could walk around with no eyebrows. They wouldn't notice. They wouldn't even notice.
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No one should.
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No one should? It's the most useless body part. Come on.
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All right, let's do it right now.
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I already explained. I work among people tonight. I got to go to an Orange Bowl game.
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Well, because I'm an iconoclast. No one agrees with me. I'm alone on a mountaintop. If DeRigore was no eyebrows, I'd be right at the front of the line.
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Okay, and I challenged Lucy to explain why she needs eyebrows.
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That's the standard thought process, I guess.
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Okay, but the eyebrows are not what furrow. Then shave it.
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Okay.
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I'm going to start a browless movement. I'm going to— Without doing it? I'm going to be the king of the browless movement.
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I'm not prepared to start right now because I've got to work tonight.
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You see that?
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And I don't know what to do about it.
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No, because society tells me that I do.
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Okay. Maybe shave one. No, that'd be ridiculous. I mean, to shave one eyebrow would be ridiculous. I would feel off balance. I'm big into symmetry. That's ridiculous. I have to have symmetry in my life. I may shave my eyebrows on the Greg Cody Show podcast. For your own gain. Put it on our YouTube channel.
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First, I've got to research how long does it take for brows to grow back?
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Nobody's been known for their eyebrows since Einstein. Eugene Levy. That's not a bad suggestion. It's a great suggestion. Yeah, it's a great suggestion.
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Good timing. The least timely South Beach Sessions in history.
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Yeah, except you don't, unless you are particularly prescient with your questions, you don't ask Pat Riley about the one thing that people would want him to talk about. But I bet it's a great SBS.
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That is true.
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I didn't know they existed.
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Belichick's not leaving.
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Exclusive.
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right yeah and and also the the whole hierarchy of the dolphins they don't have a pat riley you know steven ross is not pat riley certainly chris gear gear isn't and and so whatever tyree kill wants he's going to end up getting If he wants to be traded, they're not going to get much for him. Everybody's thinking, oh, they'll get a first-round draft pick. No, they won't.
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They'll be lucky to get a third-round draft pick.
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It's true, though. And frankly, the market value for Jimmy Butler isn't great either. Amin could speak better to that than I would, but he's 35. Tyreek Hill is 30, coming off a bad season. By my eye, isn't as fast as he was two years ago. And so what's the market value for these guys? I know I'm off on a tangent here, but to have these two guys in a disgruntle off
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at this stage in their career, is a little bit weird. And Tyreek is like, well, I'm used to making the playoffs. Well, they didn't make the playoffs because their starting quarterback missed six games. So factor that in. And you didn't have a great season either. And as far as Jimmy Butler...
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What Riley gave Jimmy Butler was good enough to make two finals in an Eastern Conference finals in five years. So he didn't give him nothing. But Riley did what Riley did, which is he missed another whale. You know, he keeps going whale hunting and missing whales. The latest, I guess, was Lillard. And so Pat Riley deserves the criticism you gave him the other day.
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all night long you feel me lock them in or fade them juju i have a question for you because no one seems to be able to answer this question that's been lingering in my mind for several days now you have to let it linger what's in it for travis scott
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But why align himself with the final boss and John Cena and break the eardrum of Cody Rhodes, who's been nothing but a role model as champion. He's never done anyone wrong.
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The Cuban-American nightmare.
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Battlecore trophy, too. And then Atlanta.
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Always salute to Manu.
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Don't you get a shack burger with cheese? No, the smoke shack. Fire.
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You get the kicks. You get the kick from the red peppers. I want it all.
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You get it all. Let me have every burger in one burger. In one burger. Would you put that in a Mark-like shake, though? No.
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It might have been the league sponsor at that era.
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He claims it wasn't Riley, but we can't discount the fact that maybe this person might have more statues. He has one right behind me.
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There's so many black Louis to pick from.
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It also did not say assistant head coach.
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And then guess who's there? The waitress. She's got your TSL, bro. I'm back.
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Watermelon's more pink. Isn't it green? It is. On the inside.
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We're all pink on the inside. I can't eat red velvet cake because if I do, it gives up the system.
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Exactly, but the dye makes me make smells and then they linger. I mean, they have to let them linger?
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So Pat Riley said, but it's not me, it's my family, is basically what he said. How does a nutritionist...
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It's crazy because he said on a podcast about something that happened over a decade removed from it. I think we've all moved on. And yet people inside the Miami heard it loud and clear and said, Dan, you've got to clarify this.
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If I couldn't see colors, man, I'd be dying inside.
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So let me name some colors. Can you see chocolate brown?
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Can you see electric blue? Don't know what that is. Wow. He doesn't know what electric blue is.
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That is a beautiful love song. So do you not appreciate like chrome paint on cars? That better make the Quavo Club. For like five seconds.
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What? You know why it's a big story, Dan? because he plagiarized off of a legend. Regional legend trying to plagiarize off a national legend. But why was it making a resurrection? Where did it appear?
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I had to do it, though. I don't know.
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Dan was running around saying some wild shit in 09. I'm like you, Hawk. I'm thinking, wait a second. If the dude said originally, yeah, and that's why I had to come back and do it. And Woody Page's version is, yeah, and that's why.
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I wonder what the quote was. Now I need to find this quote. I need to see how that- Now we gotta do it.
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I did. Jesus Christ. Okay. So first of all, it's Harold's Bait Shop. There's a place called Harold's Big Shop.
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And a quote from the shop owner, the Jackson piece, quote, Ricky Jay gets all the free worms he wants, Harold says. That's crazy. Hold on. That's not the crazy part. Start at the beginning. Hold on. Do the whole thing again. Let me do it. Okay. Are you guys ready? All right. Ricky Jay gets all. I can hear your smile. Okay. You don't got to read the accent like that.
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Mike is no longer smiling, though. The shit's served back here. Ricky Jay gets all the free worms he wants, Harold says. If he wins the Super Bowl. Oh, that's nuts. If he wins the Super Bowl, then we're going to get some worms and get to fishing.
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Dog, that's the part. That's the part right there. My man went Mark Twain on this shit.
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I'm just surprised you didn't call Harold N-word Harold.
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But also, like, let's just assume it was, like, his defense is this was all a coincidence. I actually did go to town. I actually did interview these people. I actually did find Harold, who owns Harold's Bait Shop. Dan, are you saying there was no Harold's Bait Shop in Pahokee?
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He kept his job. It was the 90s.
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If and they could find some evidence. What?
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Oh, that's crazy. I want to use if in the entire rest of the show now, every time I say something. Chris feels really uncomfortable when you do that.
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We can take it back. If he comes on here and apologizes, he has to say sorry to us. No way! Where's the mystery box?
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Tell me it's got the word if in it.
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Oh, wow, that's an old one. I think we wrote that one, like, in, what, 2021?
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No, I want to answer this. I don't like this. I want to answer. Put it back. The best, it would be Tony.
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There you go. That's a good one. Dan, would you come to my funeral?
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Most famous person at your funeral. Do we go around the horn?
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No, no, no. I'm talking about big Aristotle. J. Cole? Diesel's not coming to my funeral, man. J. Cole? Cole will come to my funeral, man.
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But I'm talking about a one-up Cole. I might be able to one-up Cole, man. Are you going to be able to one-up Cole?
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Come on. Stays true. You know what makes him more obnoxious? Is that most coaches are like, oh, media. Like, they're coaches, right? But JJ does the, oh, media. I did your job way better. You guys are so terrible at doing that. I literally know what your job is because I did it.
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But is he telling that to beat writers? But you know what this is, right? This is the true J.J. Reddick, right? One of my favorite Game Ops decisions in the history of all sports. was the Wizards years ago. J.J. Redick is in the league, but in games that the Wizards aren't playing against the J.J. Redick team, when the opposing team was at the free throw line, they would put a picture of J.J.
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Redick up on the Jumbotron, and the crowd would instantly start booing because it's a Maryland stronghold, and everybody hates J.J. Redick. Now, this is earlier in his career because after he left Orlando, I think people kind of forgot how hated J.J. Redick was. And only for it to come back up now.
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The thing, Dan, that made me laugh, I want to say we talked about this, but maybe we didn't, where Michael Porter Jr. interviewed J.J. Reddick on his podcast, and he asked him, wait, so were you ranked in high school? And J.J. Reddick says, well, I mean, I was McDonald's All-American MVP. Does that count, right?
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He was – That's a ridiculous question. I get it. Michael Porter Jr. was like eight when J.J. Redding was a dude. But it's like you got to know – 99.9% of the players in the NBA, you got to know. Yes, they were awesome in high school too. It's a bad question.
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Twice. National championship. Final fours. Again, McDonald's all the way. Lottery pick in the NBA. This doesn't happen for the guy that kind of like was, oh, I had a growth spurt.
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By the way, Chris, what kind of skill set does it take to dunk on Stephen A. Smith? Is it nice, humble? Well, pardon me, Mr. Smith, but I believe you might be mistaken. Or is it the asshole? I say this as someone, I like JJ Reddick. I like JJ. People who are assholes. I like him. No, no, no. What he did to Mad Dog was unfair and unreasonable, and everybody knows it, okay?
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But he was being an asshole in a room full of assholes. Mad Dog's an asshole. Come on now. Look, like I love J.J. Reddick, we can love Mad Dog and also admit he's an asshole.
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Forgive me. Grayson Allen's a good one.
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And another one. Although he's mellowed out now that he's head coach. But John Shire was an asshole, too. I like him. Nobody liked John Shire in college, man. That dude was a jerk.
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Dude, let me tell you something. When they beat the Nuggets like a couple weeks ago, and he was like, we circled this game on the calendar. I was like, oh, no. Because here's the most dangerous part of any coach's timeline is when you fall in love with your own bullshit. You can bullshit those guys in the locker room as much as you want, as much as you need.
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When you talk to everybody else, hey, man, this game, was this a big game? You say, that's another game on the schedule. Obviously, they're a really good team, but, you know, and we kind of looked at it as a little bit of a measuring stick, but look, there's a lot of season left, and I'm sure we're going to see more of them.
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We'll probably see them down the line, and they'll have changed or will have changed. There are answers you give. You can't be like, this was our Super Bowl, and we won it. I'm like, dog, it was before, like, the All-Star break.
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Yeah, like... It was just a little bit too much of I'm high on my own supply.
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Isn't that just another form of asshole?
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He's absolutely being arrogant. That is arrogant. He was asked, how does it feel to be in a, if not the first one of the few times in NBA history of finals where both head coaches are black? And his answer was, I wonder how many of them were Christian. I'm like, buddy. Good question.
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I've got an answer for you. Almost all of them. Almost all of them.
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I've got to go back to like Red Auerbach to get to like, okay, maybe a couple of them are Jewish.
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He's the asshole I really don't enjoy because... We're playing different games, you and I. He's flippant, man. You don't like flippant asshole. I don't like flippant asshole, man.
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So you would be an asshole too? Absolutely, because... A couple of things. First of all, what he said, like you got to be able to, especially in that town, right? Frank Vogel won a championship with the Lakers and they got his ass up out of here. Paul Westhead won a championship with the Lakers.
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You have to have some sort of gravitas when you walk in the room, regardless of who you're coaching, but especially when you're coaching those kind of guys, right? Number one. Number two, I don't know if you've noticed, Tony. I'm a bit of an asshole. Again, like J.J. Reddick, like this is not, like that's who I am. So for me to be nice and kind and like, oh, no, I can't do the Doc Rivers.
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That's a very handsome question you just asked me or whatever. I can't do that stuff where everyone's laughing. I'm going to be like a little sarcastic jerk, especially if I hear a question that has either been answered before or a question that is especially lazy or ill-constructed or whatever, because I'm going to have the same judgments that I'm sure J.J. Reddick has.
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That's why I'm not mad at it. I'm just pointing it out that, hey, man, you might be getting a little high on your own supply.
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I got one for you. And a burger?
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Hold on. You want a pat? There are.
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I can't believe Chris doesn't like the cranberries, man. What about Zombie? That was a great song.
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Don't look now. Don't not, because he just told you they're prescription. You can't see through them. I can't see anything. Technically, he's not looking.
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Are we looking? Not to cut you off, but don't look now, but Mike found his way to the control room, and I'm really worried that he's going to short out the circuits. That's bad. And we're going to get a power outage.
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The cameras are out. So now it really is an audio-media moment. Okay, stop.
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Not a legend either.
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Want to look in or not look in?
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Don't want to wait a minute.
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Hold the hell on. We're not going to do this. Do you remember that first touchdown pass he caught?
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He's got four. Four. That's good. Four more than you have, Dan.
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You're calling Hawk and Tyler Lockett the Jeremy Tashays of football. I mean, that's such an insult.
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Wow. Hold on. Let me break this down to everybody. What Dan is trying to do is diffuse by doing the, oh, shucks, I'm just a regional. Dan, we all know you are a national legend. Incorrect. International, Dan.
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You, hush your mouth. Guys in the back, let's all give Dan the constructive kind of lift up that he's been looking for. He wants a compliment. He was fishing for it. Guess what? He caught himself a big mackerel. Dan, you are absolutely a media legend. You're the best, Dan. You're a media hall of famer, in fact. Down here.
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Not down here. Don't do that. Don't do that.
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I'm telling you, regional people went on around the horn. They represented regions. Bill Plasky represented California and L.A. specifically. Kalashaw, Texas, right? Kevin Black. We got it.
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The show's dead now.
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Exactly. Guess what's still going on? The one with the legend. Yes. The national legend. The regional legend. No, not regional. Inter-regional. Not inter-regional either.
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Dan, Hawk was offensive. You're offensive. Thank you.
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You try to make confirming the legend, and now you're saying a hawk, is it? Luminary's good. I found it! That dude ain't no legend.
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First of all, I just want to point out that Taffer was – You're using your bare hands! What are you doing? You're cross-contaminated anyway, you sick son of a bitch! You're gonna kill somebody!
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I'm going to tell you right now, anytime I've had a steak and a shake, I always have a glass of water. Because while I'm eating the food, the water is the beverage. And then your milkshake gets all melted. Well, first of all, when they give me the milkshake, it's a block of ice cream. As it should be. I can't even get it through the straw without making a scene, basically.
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Stop looking at me like that. And so I need it to melt a little bit. So the whole purpose of a shake is it's... Somewhat solid and somewhat liquid. Not one block. The whole poipus.
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And what, you don't like that? To be clear. No. To be clear, Hawk, they would be doing that. Not for you and I, though. No, no, no.
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No, but hold on. It is a dumb ass like business model, right? It's terrible. How can we get the food to them faster? I got it. We'll make them wear roller skates. Come on, man. Wait, first of all, were they getting paid more than they would at regular restaurants? Because I would absolutely demand more money. You need a skill set beyond being able to take an order.
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Let me put it this way. If someone asks me, I mean, name good Browns players ever. First one is Jim Brown, obviously. Well, this is clearly the standard we should all be using. I'm just saying. Jim Brown. Miles Garrett. Antonio. Joe Thomas. Kevin. Hawk, number four. Probably.
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Oh, absolutely. What are the liabilities there? The insurance? Through the roof. It was a simpler time.
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I have never seen a Johnny Rockets that wasn't in a mall.
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Smiley face catch-up?
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The only time I've actually eaten at a Johnny Rockets, I take that back, Jeremy. There was one. I was scouting. I think I went to a Villanova game or a Temple game in Philadelphia. And I had to go eat, so I went down to wherever Philadelphia fooderies are. And back then, it was like cash only at all the cheesesteak places. I'm like, all I got is my corporate card, man. I need to charge this.
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I'm not paying for this out of pocket. So I ended up going to a Johnny Rockets. And let me just say... one of the worst meals I've ever had.
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I burnt the shit out of that burger, man. No, man.
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By the way, every time we do anything, sorry, Dan, any time we do anything as a show, we're going to McGillicuddy's or whatever, right? And it was like, what do we got? We got mozzarella sticks, and we got da-da-da-da-da, and we got wings. The wings are always bland, flavorless, seasonless, sauceless. Whose fault is that? Dan's.
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Can we get Dan's separate wings and then the rest of us get something like some lemon pepper?
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Staying corrected. You know what? He's absolutely right. You know what? I should be purged, Dan. I should be punished. I should be flogged. Because I disrespected a national and international legend. Not a regional one, Christopher. A national and international legend. The wings should be any way you want, Dan. Just like this show, by the way. Back to you.
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Yeah, that was good.
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I like chaos. No, no. I operate great in chaos. Also, you know what? Culture starts with dances. You love that word so much. It starts with someone saying, I'm not going to run when things get hard. Come on now. I'm staying right here. That sounds legendary to me, Dan. Him and Joe Thomas said, hey, it'd be easy to, oh, go join the Patriots, be bandwagoners, win rings and stuff. No, no.
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Maybe it is Bernie Parmalee.
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Be the change you want to see in the world, Dan.
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I mean, this reminds me of Miami Heat circa 10 years ago, where it's like, your thing is we find diamonds in the rough. The rock that no one wanted, I take a pause and say, oh, it's pretty good. Caleb Martin, not bad. Birdman. The guy I think about is Hassan Whiteside, Dion Waiters, and James Johnson, right? Because those guys played well, and then the Heat were like, we have to pay them.
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I'm like, no! What they're going rate is that? Okay. Mwah. Have fun. Congratulations. I hope you have a great career somewhere else and get paid what you need to get paid. They finally learned that lesson. They finally learned that lesson. So the Vikings are saying, wait, hold on. We're the ones that make Kirk Cousins look like this. We probably did the same thing with Sam Darnold.
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If someone wants to pay him that, via con dios. All good. They got to trust it.
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They got to trust that we're the ones, whether it's the receiving core, whether it's the offensive coordinator, whatever it is. That's it. We make quarterbacks here. We don't have to pay for quarterbacks unless they are the next coming, which we all agree Sam Darnold does not.
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I also am curious because Dan said, you could put me at quarterback. And now I'm imagining Dan starting at quarterback for the Vikings.
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Hold on, you're telling me that Dan can't hike and just throw a quick pass out? No, absolutely not. I think he could do that. Now, he might get killed.
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Well, that's it? That's our imaging? Whose voice is that? Is that Roy? What happens, like, in a month? Is it still a new game? It's a new game. All right. Who's going first? Because we got two guys who are blindfolded right now. Who's blindfolded?
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There is a path for the Heat to keep their first-round pick and make the playoffs. It would have to be as a play-in team. So being the sixth seed for them, actually bad. Being seventh or eighth is the best-case scenario for the Miami Heat.
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That's his attempt at like, well, a hockey player would have AIDS and still play. No, no, no, no.
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Wait, who are we talking about? Jimmy Butler. Jimmy Butler didn't go out to anybody.
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Well, yeah. I don't know. Look, you're caught up. I'm getting there. Not quite yet.
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This is my opinion of every single franchise, every single owner, every single GM, every single coach, every single player who complains about the media gets it wrong. Tough shit. Yeah. Tough shit. I like that taste. You don't like it? Create the narrative that works, and you know what works a lot is winning.
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I don't know if that's the organization's place to do that. I think you say, hey, we're here for you, whatever you need. Hey, whatever resources you need, you can talk to us. Hey, I've been through the same thing. But what if it means not working all the time? I'm just saying, like, look, man.
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All of this can be summed up with, as Jeremy and I said a month ago now, if they had paid Jimmy when he said, I need to get paid, would we be talking about any of this? No.
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Either or, right? Either or. Oh, but hold on a second. But then it really boils down to that. All this other stuff is window dressing.
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This is cyclical, right? There's no team that gets to be consistently awesome every single year. This is how this thing works. You're going to have down years, right? If we look at, what are we looking at? Are we looking at a snapshot? Are we looking at a calendar? Are we looking at an almanac, right? If we're looking at a snapshot, yes, the Heat are down, the Knicks are up.
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If I give you the last five years, I'm not even like a long time, five years. I think we can agree that the Heat have had a better five years than the Knicks.
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But that's my point.
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I would say that, A, talent-wise, they were never equals. They were always, and I said this and everybody got mad. I said, they're way more talented than the Heat. The Heat win because they're disciplined, because they execute, because they get people who fit the way they want to play better than any other organization in the league.
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And they were able to extract value out of we do it right more often than you do it. And you guys are talented, but you'll wilt under the pressures. Now, what Boston did over time was, A, their talent just got stronger mentally.
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They made changes in what we call the margins. They made little changes here and there. But also, Tatum and Brown got better. They, the already more talented players, got even more talented because they got more mentally talented at this. And it should be noted. This was five years ago.
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So when you talk about the Miami Heat, first and foremost, the day Jimmy Butler got here, when all you guys were like, what's Jimmy Butler? And I'm like, this guy's a superstar, right? I also told you the reason you get Jimmy Butler is A, he's a superstar, and B, he makes it so that the next superstar is like, okay, I'll come play over there because now you already got one.
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They never got that next one. They never got the next one. So if you want to sit here and adjudicate how everything happened, it's because it was always an incomplete grade. It was always there's still one more submission that never happened. Not due to any lack of effort by them. They tried to get Donovan Mitchell. They tried to get Damian Lillard. They tried to get Kevin Durant. But guess what?
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None of these teams are beholden to helping you. So I hate when Mike was like, these guys can't land anybody. Dog, it's not up to them. It's not like it was a free agent visit and they said, I'm going over here. Okay, that one you can drop the ball.
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But when you're talking about acquiring someone, a superstar by a trade, you are dealing with the superstar, you're dealing with the other team, and you're dealing with every other team that's offering things that you may not have. Totally understood. Like a zillion draft picks. Totally understood. So Mike, while you're right in saying, hey, this team isn't talented enough,
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Dan, you are also right in saying, hey, they're trying everything. But when you ask how it happened, it's because this is the NBA. The Lakers were down, and then they got Luka Doncic. And guess what? We think they're going to be great for the next 10 years. The Dallas Mavericks took to the finals, and guess what? They did something dumb, and now it might be a while, right?
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The Knicks were awful forever. And then... Dude, think about how crazy it is. They signed Dallas' backup guard. And that turned into the greatest bet ever. Right? Both in how much they put down and how much they received in return.
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So, Dan, I'll give you a great example. The Golden State Warriors went to the playoffs in 1994 with Chris Webber, who was this incredible... Talent, number one overall pick. Everyone's like, oh, Chris Webber's going to be dynamic. They go to the playoffs. They give a good run against the Suns. They lose. Chris Webber says, I don't want to be here anymore. Gets traded.
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And then from 1994 to 2013, they made the playoffs one time. They were a laughingstock. They were awful, right? What happened in that stretch, other than the We Believe Warriors, in 2009, they drafted a guy named Steph Curry. At the same time, the Phoenix Suns, who had been pretty successful by metrics, gone to the conference finals and 50-win seasons and all this stuff.
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And at that time, I'm working there, and we were a team that had been competing for a championship. And we were ready to trade Amari Stoudemire for Steph Curry. The lowliest of the low had the draft pick where they wanted to be. We were like, I want that guy. And guess what? Don Nelson changed his mind. And in changing his mind, changed the course of history for so many people.
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The Suns had one more good year and then went into their own long-ass drought. I didn't know that. I didn't know that Amari for Steph was a thing. That was the deal all along. It started the February before we even had the draft. It started when Steph Curry was still a junior at Davidson, right? Obviously, Steph Curry gets there, and then, boom, a few moments later, we get a dynasty.
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It happens that quickly, Dan. So to look around and say, well, how are these guys passing us? Well, because they have the talent that's going to take them to the next dynasty. the next era of whatever this is. And at the current moment, the Miami Heat don't. But that's how basketball works. Sometimes you got it, sometimes you don't.
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No, because Jimmy Butler only has one problem with every organization. He wants to write that down. He wants to write it down. He's got notes here. He's a professional.
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Oh, wow. Why are we doing this? Come on, guys. So for the listeners, they're playing Philip Seymour Hoffman's basketball. This is not scary, Terry.
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No, it's one of those situations where I've seen coaches do this too. When a guy like Hawk complains about, I don't run no plays for me or whatever. Okay, here we go. We're going to force feed it every single time to prove that you're not good enough to have plays run for you. It's evil. It's evil, but it's like the ultimate exposure of, okay, you want it? All right, here we go.
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You think you're being underutilized? Wait a minute.
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Yeah, and also I just think that time goes by, and that was, I think, their first playoffs for that group, and now they're not the same people they were a couple years ago. And I think that this is, like, Cleveland is just a team that has matured. It's taken them some time. They've taken their lumps, but they've matured.
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And you throw in an addition of Kenny Atkinson as a head coach, and he's got a different outlook and a different mindset. way of strategizing, I think all that stuff conspires to give you a much better team, even though you look at the personalities. It's the same guys that got ran through by Mitchell Robinson.
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Wiggins, Kyle Anderson. No, no, no. May I? So on trade deadline day, there was like a 15, maybe like a 15-hour deadline window where there was a chance that was like, holy crap, Kevin Durant's coming to the heat.
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That's not just what I said. First of all, I didn't say it on air. Second of all, that's not what I said. And can I say this? This is the honest-to-God truth. This is the first time I've ever heard this. There you go. See, that's why I'm catching them up. This is like Cliff Notes. Cliff Notes, for anyone who has missed the NBA, I'll catch you up here.
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The Suns were the only team that was willing to take Jimmy Butler, right? And so then the Suns and the Heat tried to do a three-way deal with the Warriors. The Warriors wanted Kevin Durant because somewhere along the line, the Suns said, you know what? We don't need Kevin Durant. Don't ask me why, right? So deal was done.
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We're like, okay, Heat, you get a bunch of stuff, and Warriors, you get Kevin Durant, and Suns, you get Jimmy Butler. And then Kevin Durant says, I don't want to play for the Warriors. Ah. And so that deal kind of fell apart. So then the Heat and the Suns tried to make something happen, but then Kevin Durant said, I don't want to go anywhere. I want to finish the season in Phoenix.
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So then the Warriors and the Heat were like, what about us? Now, mind you, a little bit earlier in the year, the Warriors said they don't want any parts of Jimmy Butler because they don't want to pay. It's not about now. It's about two years from now. Well, somewhere along the lines, I guess because they started losing a lot since then. And also, Steph Curry was depressed and stuff.
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He was like, man, every day I got to do everything myself. This is too hard. And so the Warriors were like, okay, maybe we can pay him. And then meanwhile, the Heat were like, okay, we kind of like, we'll take Andrew Wiggins. We'll take Kyle Anderson. We'll take... I have no idea why you were so eager to do this. Because I'm catching them up. Some people weren't. You know what, Dan?
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You assumed too much. You assumed some people didn't know or just know everything. But people like Hawk were like, hey, love the show.
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I appreciate that. Hey, it was a Super Bowl. There was a combine. The guy was missing.
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Now he knows. Now he's back up to date.
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The big thing is just the attention he draws and the fouls he draws makes life easier for everybody else. Even though his shooting numbers aren't so great, but also, as Mike said, defensively, he's like another Draymond for them. So they've got a lot more flexibility. And they've been winning defensively.
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Eight of their last ten games, excuse me. So, really good. For sure.
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Jimmy wanted to go to the Suns. Mike wanted Kyle Lowry to go shot in the Sun.
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That was a joke he was making. Man, I came in today feeling so calm and relaxed. It's okay. I just want a caveat about the whole tanking, no tanking. So their first round pick goes to, Dan, guess where? Oklahoma City. Exactly right. It goes to Oklahoma City if it is outside of the top 16. That's usually a good guess. So technically...
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
I've never heard anything like this before. I've heard it regarding hotels or staying elsewhere. I am shocked. by the lack of trust in your own shower floor.
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
You walk around barefoot in your home or are you someone who's constantly wearing socks?
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So it's just like a handout of, hey, here you go, and then they wear that and protect themselves.
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
I know what you're talking about. I know the ones David's talking about because in the same scenario, you go to a bar or bat mitzvah, and everybody's taking off their heels to dance, and they're getting the little socks with the grip on them so that they're not slipping on the dance floor.
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His efficiency is sort of like what Andrew Wiggins is going to look like in a heat uniform.
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
Now we're talking about bathroom etiquette. We're just in the city.
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I mean, this is a really wonderful setup for me. No, I mean, look, when you're looking at the Miami Heat, if you want to hear something you haven't heard before, it's that they have three All-Stars under the age of 30, technically. If you include Andrew Wiggins, Tyler Hero, and Bama Dabayo, who have all been to All-Star appearances in the last few years.
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But what's more important is you look at the actual young core that they have when you add Andrew Wiggins to it at 29. You have... a 20-year-old in Kalel wear, a 21-year-old in Nikola Jovic, a 23-year-old in Jaime Jaquez Jr., Tyler Hero at 25, Bam at a bio at 27. There's a future there for the first time.
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
Different, different. I'm in a Hakez group chat. It's called Jaime Hakez is the next Jimmy Butler, and it includes me, Dan, Mike Ryan, and Mike Schur. And we talk about basketball all the time together. Do you have Mike's cell phone? Yeah, I have his cell phone number. He told me not to give it to you. I'm so glad I'm not in these things.
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
He actually told me yesterday, quote, casually mention that we text all the time, but don't give Samson my number. I'll show you that text if you want.
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And it sounds like... PJ Tucker makes $11.5 million this year. Davion Mitchell will make $6.4 million this year.
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Oh, I do, too. Why? Oh, it's not a bad thing with this team, given what their backcourt looks like. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
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I would say that the reason this would be positive in terms of an exchange for Tucker is Tucker, likely given the Heat's front court scenario, was not going to play for them at all. He would have been a cool guy to have on the bench and motivate some of these younger players. I did say cool guy. Thanks for noticing.
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
I noticed it because I noticed both of your heads perk up as soon as I did it and thought Maybe I can power through that one. Not in this group. But the thing about acquiring a player in Davion Mitchell, does he solve all your problems in the guard position? Obviously not.
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But now a 26-year-old at a lower number who's also a free agent and can contribute at a position that you need production from is a benefit compared to where you were five minutes ago.
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
They also upgraded players in that move, too.
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Davion Mitchell is a much better player than P.J. Tucker at a position they need him to play.
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
We'll get Chris's top 100 numbers by week every week for the next 99 weeks on Mystery Crate. So everyone has that to look forward to.
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
The misinterpretation you have here is these are not his friends. These are his workers. I get it now. This is for the help. People in the house. He's got a bathroom for the help. They're coming in to pee.
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So not a finish salt burn then?
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Hour 1: Limited Fake Stephen A. Smith Runs For President
I could absolutely hear Samson's voice from the background. He's standing behind.
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Hour 1: Limited Fake Stephen A. Smith Runs For President
I may have. There you go. I appreciate the kind words, Mr. President, but, right? You did that?
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So Dan versus Dan was last night? Or Dan and Dan?
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There it is. Dan's melting into the chair.
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holding press conferences and signing executive orders which in reality are pieces of paper that just say here's a take I have yeah, that's that's my favorite part is that this is his favorite part of the presidency is feeling like he's doing something by signing pieces of paper that say
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Oh, guys, the NBA trade deadline, it never stops. This according to Bobby Marks of ESPN and Tim Bontemps. The Washington Wizards are acquiring Reggie Jackson. and a first-round pick from the Philadelphia 76ers in exchange for four second-round picks and Jared Butler. Mike Scotto of Hoopside also was reporting.
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I mean, Reggie Jackson! That gives them a good bet. You know, the Wizards have won three games in a row. They're a season high in win streak. You said they're the worst team.
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And they got smoked. They got smoked. The Wizards smoked them. Yeah, and guess what that means? What does it mean? The Brooklyn Nets are the worst team in the NBA now.
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No, no, no, no. Whoever loses to the Wizards.
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Whoever loses to the Wizards is the worst team in the NBA.
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The latest loss, always.
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Because the Brooklyn Nets have taken the mantle as the worst team in the NBA. Look, for a little bit there, the Denver Nuggets were the worst team in the NBA. That was when they lost when Nikola Jokic had 56 points. Oh, right. Yeah. Nikola Jokic has 56 points, and they still lost to the Wizards. I don't agree that you can keep changing your mind every day who the worst team is. It's very easy.
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If you lose to the Wizards, you are the worst team in the NBA. Absolutely. So Minnesota is like...
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thank god we're off the hook the nets were a nightmare last night that was awful that was awful but yeah four second round four second rounders the second rounder is a fun thing to me my favorite part of all these deals when they said they're sending a pic they're sending two seconds for i don't know if this is a thing that happens in any other sport but in the nba it's so much fine print so for instance
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The pick that they're sending Washington is the less favorable of Oklahoma City, Houston, if between 5 and 30, and the Clippers in 2026.
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That used to be my job, Izzy. I had to write on a whiteboard where all the picks were going. How much does that pay?
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Our front office wasn't that big, David. We didn't have a calligraphy guy.
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I don't think I have an accent. No, it comes out just a little bit at a time. Usually when I've been drinking.
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The ultimate New York accent. No, the coolest voice is always going to be 44. That's the coolest voice.
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It's also weird that people just talk different. I feel like the Southern accent is the coolest accent, right? Like draw. Yeah. Because it always, maybe I'm just always thinking that Seinfeld episode where the Astros come up to New York and, and George is entertaining them. And then after they leave, he starts talking like them, calling them bastards and sons of bitches and stuff like that.
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And, uh, What's my man name? His boss at the Yankees walks by in the hallway and thinks George is blowing the deal by calling them bastards. You tell those bastards when I get down to Houston, I'm gonna kick their ass or whatever. And instead it's a language of kind of love. But it's not cooler.
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All the big artists are Southern.
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What's that? Water?
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Water Long Island. You went a little too far east. Too far east.
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It's true. I don't think of the Long Island accent as a desirable accent.
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The Southern drawl has like, it's like easy going. You can't rush me, right? Well, I'll tell you what, you know, that going, it's like, oh, just get to the point. Like, no, I'll get to the point at my pace.
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The standard British accent and the posh British accent, yes. Well, this is the article. We're not talking about Geordie's accent. And Manx they sound more important.
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Well, listen to the thing. Dan is genuinely appreciative of the love and support But also, Dan is the anti-Amin. Amin will go and give someone 15 minutes of show if it behooves him, right? Dan is like, I don't want to do any show. That's why the photo is such a great opportunity. It's I gave you the most meaningful interaction possible that also cost me nothing.
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Geordie is people from like Newcastle and You can look this up. It's a show called Geordie Shore. It was their version of Jersey Shore. You cannot understand a word they're saying. There's no way that sounds sophisticated. That's what it sounds like.
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Geordie's?
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I could tell you what Kevin Durant is thinking this whole time, but I can't tell you what happened. You're allowed to talk about that?
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This is my favorite thing because I saw someone tweeted at us either yesterday or earlier this morning saying, please don't spend the show talking about Jimmy Butler and the Lakers trades and all that stuff. It's Super Bowl week. And I said, the operative part of the word news is new. What's new? Super Bowl.
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If you tell me right now something we didn't know about the Eagles or the Chiefs that we've learned in the last 24, 40 hours, I'm pleased to have that conversation. If it's just the Chiefs have no injuries. That's new.
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Earn it. Outcompete. Eugene Robinson, go out there. Get arrested doing something. We don't want to earn.
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Oh, it's Eric Estrada.
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Yes. But it passes as Italian for some reason. We're doing a show for Greg Cody only, right?
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I picture you walking into Tiffany's and then thinking, where's the tall one from the wet bandits? Daniel Stern. Well, they're looking for Daniel Stern because... Right.
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Celtic pride. Heat up the ice cubes.
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This is like what's Arnold Schwarzenegger known for? And you guys are like, jingle all the way? No. Good flick.
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A paint can hit him in the face. And then he stepped on a nail with no shoe on.
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You just learned that I do a really good Obama?
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Let me be clear. When I heard the news that Stephen A. Smith decided that he should run for office... I said, that's a great American. Now, some folks across the aisle don't like that. They want Skip Bayless to be the nominee. But I told my family, Sasha, Michelle, Malia, that Stephen A would make a fine candidate. Now, Stephen A, wait, hold on. Joe, Joe, what did you agree with me?
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Listen, man, he's a good guy. He's got it. He's got real pizzazz. I like him. Now, Joe, Stephen A. Is he from Scranton? It's the hands every time, right?
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I don't. I've tried and I realize I can't do a good Trump.
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You have to have the flair. And the fingers. A lot of fingers. You know who does a really good Trump? Brad Williams. Brad Williams is a really good Trump because he does the hand movements really well. A lot of people do good Trumps. Godfrey does a good Trump.
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Our buddy Josh Rosen obviously does a great Trump. He actually makes money, has a Trump impersonator. How much money does he make? Enough to pay his bills. You know this? You've seen the W-2? I've seen Josh Rosen and I've seen him play places. You think he gets a W-2 for $10.99 probably? Yeah, he's not... He's not getting benefits on this shit.
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It's true. Nice. Well done, Roy. But guys, you guys aren't talking about the real president. We're talking about 2028, baby.
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I've often said that if the fires happened on my watch, they would have been put out immediately. Because the fires don't want to make an enemy out of me.
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That's all it is now. That's what Trump did at the debates. That's all it is. That's a reality show.
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You want to talk to me about taxes? Come on. Let me tell you something about taxes. I'll trade them. And then never actually say anything about taxes. No, because all he's got to do is just name out the resume of taxes. Now, we've had taxes since Eisenhower. He had them at 90%. We dropped them, and they've been very, very beneficial. Roads, schools.
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He's not already?
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Maybe I'll take his spot at ESPN. Oh, my God.
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Have you met Stu Gatz? He's going to go on a liar circuit. No, he's just going to cancel. He's going to make appearances and then cancel. By the way, I got a report from New Orleans here. Everyone at Super Bowl week talk? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let me straighten up in my chair.
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You work on that? Well, I give you this update from New Orleans. Stu was looking for another Stu to do a competing Stu vs. Stu show. He put out an ask for Stu Feiner. Oh, my God. There it is, our New Orleans update. Is that news? It is.
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No. No, that's him winging it. They do write speeches for him. He wings it, though.
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Let me just point something out. You said... And play. Nobody... corrected him. How about Tommy Tuberville didn't correct him. He said he's a pretty good quarterback. He said, very good. Tommy Tuberville went with it. Yeah, I coached him in 2012 when I was at Texas Tech.
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
LeBron, good three-point shooter, but mostly off the dribble when he's got the ball in his hands. Austin Reeves, not a great three-point shooter. Obviously, Mark Williams, not a three-point shooter at all. So you're looking at this roster, it's like, well, beyond Rui Achimura and Dorian Finney-Smith, neither of whom are really volume shooters, where's the spacing for this team?
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
They could use Steve Kerr. Yeah, they could use a 58-year-old Steve Kerr.
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
This is the moment. This is the moment. So one of the most honest things that people have kind of made fun of and ridiculed. But I thought it was an amazingly poignant point by Nico Harrison was when he said the future for us is three to four years, 10 years from now. probably won't be here. And everyone's like, oh my God, I can't believe you said the quiet part out loud.
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
But the reality is, that is how the majority of teams do business. Like, when Sam Hinckley, your beloved Sam Hinckley, was doing what he was doing in Philadelphia, our good friend Henry Abbott, who is... the head editor for ESPN.com for NBA coverage, was singing the praises of Sam Henke and what he was doing. And I told him, I said, Henry, it's all great. The math checks out.
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Too bad Sam won't be around to enjoy the spoils. And Henry told me, no, this ownership group is different. They're from Wall Street.
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And my thing is, Henry, this thing is the same everywhere. Everyone thinks they've got the great math until their kid comes home from school crying because everyone made fun of them.
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Pablo, I called it before any of it happened. I told Henry, I said, look, this is how this shit works. It's not on paper. These are real people living real lives. You can't tell everybody. We're just going to lose, and then we'll figure it out.
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Nico Harrison said, no, it's actually pretty expensive. Only got one.
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There's two pieces of math here. Piece of math one is do we have a realistic chance of the ultimate success? Not to be good, but to win it all, right?
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Because that informs why, for instance, the Warriors will give up a first-round pick for Jimmy Butler because they think his addition can give them a realistic chance to get one more of these or to actually prove to Steph Curry we're doing everything we can.
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Right. That's one. The other math is the people making the decisions. Do I feel job certainty? The reason why Sam Presti can do what he did was because Sam Presti knew I'm not going to lose my job over this.
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They're stomach for this. They don't have the stomach for it, and nor should they. You just paid billions of dollars to be the cool kid. Remember when you talk about Mark Cuban? There's no way you could sell the team and still run the team? It's all built on that. The reason I'm spending billions of dollars on this is not because I'm going to flip it 20 years from now and make X fold.
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It's because I want to be the cool kid. I want when people come to my parties, how do you have Usher here? Oh, well, you know, he's a good friend. You don't get to be friends with the cool people without this cool entryway, which is I own the team. And so if that's your starting point, you own this property because you want to look cool.
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David, why do they want to.
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No, no, no. Why do owners get autographs and give autographs and take pictures? Because people want to be near power. Near power of what? of anything. Hold on, these guys are billionaires, right? So before they owned a team, they should have walked in the rooms and gotten photos, right?
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Is that like a stew laugh? No. What was that? That was a laugh. I'm laughing at you.
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You don't feel embarrassed. You're not a billionaire, though. No, I'm not. I'm talking about the guys that own the teams.
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David, the overpay—I'm going to go down your side and say, yes, it's an overpay. But the overpay isn't Dalton Connect. It's the first-round pick because it is unprotected and it is far enough in the future where we don't know what that team is going to look like. It should have gone to Dallas. Right? Sure. The point I'm making is that Rob Palenka— doesn't give a f*** about 2030.
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He's like, who cares? Am I going to be around for that? Probably not. Maybe. If I am, cool. I'll worry about it then. But for him, the future is in the next three or four years. That's real. What Nico Harrison said applies to every general manager named Andy Ellsberg, R.C.
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The World Series trophy?
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
David, there's a carrying case. That's where they wheel it in and wheel it out.
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You're letting this go to your head. There it is. Proof that David and the trophy are not the same height.
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Easy, man. Hey, he's got a good point.
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five minutes uh... that i love the idea by the way this man stole the world series trophy and where the first place he went with the tiffany's i gotta get a positive wagon fences this guy who clearly doesn't actually on this thing does want to make sure it's very well taken care of to reshape a little bit of what david was saying and to maybe give him a defense is boy charlotte can feel good about the move they need
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This is what I'm saying.
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My co-host yesterday on the radio was like, how could Charlotte do this? Am I the only one who likes Mark Williams? No, I like Mark Williams too. It's just, is Mark Williams a franchise player? Well, no. Is moving him going to materially impact the Hornets' future? Well, no. What? It's nice to have, but you go get some stuff that could be even better.
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What I was trying to say to David, and David tried to fight it, which is the idea that the Lakers make that move in part because Rob Pelinka doesn't care what happens in 2030.
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And like I said, there's two parts of it. One part of it is that I don't give a shit. We're not even going to be here anyway, right? But then there's another part of it, what Golden State is doing, what I think Phoenix in theory was doing, which is we've got a special talent. We owe it to them to give them every tool possible to go out and win right now.
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It's the same thing for the Lakers with LeBron. It's hard to look at this guy who's an all-time great, who's still playing at a high level and say, yeah, we're just going to pump this year and then we'll see how it goes next year. You can't say that to those guys
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at that age so they're trying to say the window's open now we need to we can't just expect it to be open forever mike d'antoni used to tell the story all the time that dan marino told him he went to the super bowl what his second year in the league or whatever and they lost and he said that's all right we'll get him next year and then never went back to the super bowl you can't sit around thinking oh shit we'll just get better and eventually we'll get back and it'll be all right
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
You don't know how long this window's open. So they've got to force their way through. But also what reinforces that behavior is the knowledge that, hey, if this doesn't work out, it doesn't matter. Because I'm not going to be holding the bucket when that happens anyway. It's some other poor schmo who's got to inherit that situation.
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
There's more. I thought just handing it over.
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
I know we're on the week of like Luka Doncic got traded, but Devin Booker. No, let him get there. Let him get there.
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Subprime.
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What did Kevin Durant want, though? He didn't want to go to Golden State, and that's why no deal was made. Because he didn't want to go there. What does he actually want? I don't know. And I think he would probably hazard all of us from guessing what he wants. Because you guys don't know who I am and how I think. I'm like, okay, dude, relax.
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I mean, I think you look at it and you've got an expiring deal. As you said, he's in the last year of his deal next season. Beal has proven to be difficult to move. Booker's not going to get moved because he is everything for that franchise.
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And despite them acquiring those picks a couple of weeks ago from Utah in order to give themselves some flexibility, they don't have a whole lot of flexibility in terms of what they can make happen
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savory that upgrades that roster and that second apron looms large above them Durant might be their only way out in terms of getting out from under this and trying to run this the right way are we just the second apron thing right before we just fully feed yet more Miami propaganda the second apron thing I mean and David
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Yes, but not because of the financial impact. That's what the problem or the explain.
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
So once upon a time, the league said, we're spending too much. We need to curtail spending. How are we going to do it? If you spend beyond this number, which is way above the salary cap, we're going to institute a dollar for dollar luxury tax. Ooh, that'll stop guys from spending. But guess what? It didn't. People kept spending.
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
So they said, in the next collective bargaining agreement, we got to do something crazier. I know what it is. It'll escalate. So after $10 million above, it'll go to $150 for every dollar. At $20 million, it'll go for $250, et cetera, et cetera. That didn't do it. Then they said, oh, we'll have repeater taxes.
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
So if you've been in the luxury tax habitually, your tax is actually even bigger of a jump from threshold to threshold. That didn't stop. And they realized, you know what's going to stop people from overspending? It's not money. It's not fines. It's taking action. away the ability to improve the roster. Hey, we're going to stop you from signing and trading.
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
Hey, when you do a trade, it has to be 100% salary for salary match. Hey, your mid-level exception, way smaller than everybody else's. And that's what this is right now.
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This is the fully realized, if you do these things, you can spend however much you want, but if you do, you better hope you love your team, because if you don't, like the Phoenix Suns, changing becomes immediately very, very difficult.
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Yes. It's finally what they wanted.
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Oh, I thought this fake laugh was Funny Marco where they're having a fake laugh off. I was like, that's amazing.
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That's Easy Ed McCaffrey?
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Yeah, I think he's wearing his Italian American Sports Hall of Fame ring.
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No, it was like right before he was about to be enshrined in the Italian American Sports Hall of Fame. Of course you interviewed him. Yeah, man. This show, we did it here.
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Look at his glasses. Does that look like the glasses of a man who isn't in Japan?
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Cortez, I want to ask, because I have to know what your emotional level was like for those few hours where it was... Oh, it was Durant? Durant for Jimmy Butler straight up.
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Ryan Cortez, Minister of Information.
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It's exactly right. Damien Lillard is the example of professional, do it the right way, good soldier. And what happens? He gets sent not where he wanted to be and has been generally miserable pretty much over the- Who wouldn't want to be in Milwaukee? I love Milwaukee. Do not impugn Milwaukee. I love Milwaukee too, but that's not where he wanted to be.
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I don't like sober Cortez.
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That's the Cortez I like. I don't like the Cortez where he's giving me stats and stuff like that. Very monotone. Well, that's Cortez. Oh, he seems medicated.
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Nice glasses, Cortez. It's on the bottom down. We don't need to hear this anymore. We're crushing Dan right now. Get him out of here.
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Pablo, hold on. I got to explain this for everybody, not just the listening audience, but also the YouTube audience because the cameras don't capture everything at the right time. You started your statement, can we just get someone in Miami who, and Jeremy stood up like, this is my chance. And then you said irrelevancy, and he just had this look like a dog that you fake threw a ball for.
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And it turns and it's like, wait, there's no ball. What happened? Just confused. Just utterly confused. Irrelevance?
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The reporting was that Luka really stressed to Palenka, I need a lob threat.
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But, you know, and it's true. If you look at everything that happened for them last year, it happened after they acquired Gafford, pretty much to go alongside Lively. So... He is Mark Williams fits that bill. He's an incredible rebounder. He's a body in the paint and he's young. A lot of other names that they were talking about were guys that were kind of over the hill.
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And if your thing is this isn't LeBron's team anymore, this is Luka Doncic's team, then yes, you go out and you get young. You don't get Jonas Valanciunas. You don't get Nikola Vucevic. Now, the problem is what they gave up is what David is talking about because they gave up. Dalton Connect, who a lot of people like, is a pretty good shooter.
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They gave up a 20-30 first-round pick that's unprotected and then a pick swap as well. Now, when you talk about those things, they're far enough in the future where, on the one hand, you can say, Luka's in his prime. Those picks will never be anything higher than 18. He'll still be in his prime at 29. Yeah.
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No.
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I don't think it'll be end of his prime. He doesn't have it.
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That, but also, if he's healthy, he has a type of game that is not really... Reliant on explosion and athleticism. So his game will age better than the way Russell Westbrook's game aged, by way of example. But the problem is, when you have an unprotected pick that far into the future... It's a massive futures gamble. We're basically betting.
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The Hornets are betting, I bet you're going to F this up by the end of this, by the time this pick is available. And the Lakers are saying, no, we won't because we got Luka Doncic. The other part of this is, as I look at that roster, and Izzy, back me up on this. Luka, not a great three-point shooter. He's a volume shooter, but he's not a great shooter.
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Postgame Show: You Practice (feat. JuJu Gotti)
Hey, I know what I'm doing here. I know what I'm doing here.
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That's what we're going to get into. You've got to grab the rim, right? And also, where are you jumping from? If you jump from outside the paint, is it a three-point dunk, four-point dunk?
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Yeah, no, just it. Just Tito Horford. You know me, I'm crazy. Yeah, that was me. I'm crazy, man.
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Oh, for not hanging out last night? Yeah.
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Pulled into the driveway.
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That doesn't surprise me. Paige Becker's not saying it would surprise me.
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Well- Somebody's gotta be Taylor Griffin. You know what I mean?
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Great dude. But I think Seth is going through things that Steph didn't go through. That's all I was trying to say.
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He got forced to by some dating situation where he had to sit through it. But yeah, yeah, no doubt. Roy, you've seen Paid in Full. Of course. Of course.
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Yeah, that is true. Well, not new ones. Not new ones.
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Yeah, I've seen old movies. I've seen new movies.
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I ain't got no handout. I would love for you to send those words to my baby mama. I would truly appreciate that. Clip it. I would love for you to do that. Juju, shout out to Juju. I love him for that.
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Hour 1: The Dopeness of the Intricacies
But what would happen is, take the Lakers, for example. LeBron is, I think, like it's whatever LeBron agrees to. But if he was like, I don't want to leave a dollar on the table. He could easily say $90 to $100 million a year. And Luka could probably say $70 to $80. So now with two players, you're over both aprons. Basically, everybody else. Austin Reeves, he's making minimum.
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Rui Achimura, he's making minimum. If you did that, wouldn't you have to get rid of the salary cap period? No. Because the whole point would be like, y'all want to be paid what you're worth for real? Okay. It's going to be one of y'all per team though. Like that whole, I'm going to team up with him and him.
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It gets deaded or either it gets deaded or someone says, I'm willing to leave money on the table. And that's a big, like everyone loves to be teammates and homies until like, I gotta leave money on the table. And it's not necessarily that, oh.
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And it's not even about like, oh, I'm making 60 versus 80 million. Like, what can I do with 80 that I couldn't do with 60, right? Yeah. It's not about that, it's about I'm making 60 or 30 or whatever, and that guy makes it, and then the moment he messes up, Y'all gave the money to him?
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that's the more american way to do well that's the other the other part of this right the other salary cap altogether is no i don't like i don't i don't mind it i think i think it's good if you if you would you say it's ruined baseball not having a salary cap i think yeah there are teams that know instantly on april 1st they were not they it ain't us every year baseball ruined baseball but um i think that the david sampson yeah pitch clock coming up soon
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But fast forward to now, Jerry Jones is supposedly in negotiations with Micah Parsons. He had one-on-one conversations with Micah Parsons, which Jerry Jones believes is some sort of level of binding negotiations, I guess. But Micah Parsons has an agent. And rather than be quiet, it's one thing you could do.
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Although I am very excited about Shohei Otani and the A&O Dodgers right now.
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And I'm even more excited about Pitch Clock with my man Jackie with the mid. I'm sorry, Joey.
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No, it's great. You know what's funny about baseball is that Shohei is finally someone that I think is a star that transcends. I've told this story before. I went to a White Sox game, right? And they were playing. Yeah. It rained that day. It was a bad day in Chicago, as all my days in Chicago are. But they played the Blue Jays.
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And this is when the Blue Jays had like, I don't know if it's still the case, but they had all these guys who were like the Suns. of famous baseball players. Black Guerrero Jr.
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The Black Guerrero Jr., man, oh my God. I'm like, oh, that's cool. I remember Black Guerrero. I remember, I'm like, cool, I'm excited. And I went to the game, and he got walked twice, and he fouled out or whatever.
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And then... And then, like, defensively, he didn't do shit because the ball never came his way. And I said, how do you have a sport where you have a player? Like, if I go to an NBA game and I say, I'm going to a LeBron game, I'm going to see some LeBron-ass shit. Like, oh, my God. If I go to a Chiefs game, I'm going to see Mahomes do some crazy shit. Baseball is the only sport. Even soccer.
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I'm going to go to Inter-Miami. I'm going to see Messi do some shit if he's playing. But... But when it comes to baseball, it's the only sport where I can legitimately go and watch a three-game series and the best player perhaps of all time in Mike Trout doesn't do shit. Not because it's his fault. I just had this experience.
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Two of the things that jumped out to me as you were talking, Jason, was... One, you tried to sell Mike Trout to your eight-year-old son by saying he's like Mickey Mantle.
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Rather than do that, Jerry Jones says the agent is not a factor here or something to worry about. And I don't know his name. Like, his name is David Mulageta, who everyone knows his name because he might be the agent. But that aside, what are you doing other than trying to get on Get Up in the morning or trying to get people to talk about it?
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No, you got to compare him to a basketball player. You got to compare him to him. He's like Lamar Jackson.
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There you go. Thanks. Jess got your back, man.
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Oh, you actually know. I thought you were being funny when you said he was on Team USA. I'm like, that's a good guess. Thank you. Thank you. No, I actually know stuff.
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I've been every season possible. The weather is always the same. It's the greatest summer city in the world. What are you talking about?
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I went there in the summer. It was raining. It rained the whole time. Because your sadness brought the rain.
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And we got Roy. I think we set a new record.
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Later, when Juju comes on. Critical mass. Critical mass. The last time I went to Chicago, I got invited to an after party. That's a bad start. Hold on. It's a bad start. It's a bad start. I went to the finish. And it's like, oh, it's at the studio. I'm like, well, whose studio? Well, Rob's going to be there. Rob's going to be there. I'm like, Rob, Rob, Rob. And then I realized it's an R. Kelly.
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I got invited to an R. Kelly after party in the studio in Chicago. And I was like, I'm going to go home.
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I have no idea, Roy. I didn't want to find out. I think there was a... He just sent a pallet of Capri Suns over to the location and was like, hey, guys, this is my... There was a molecule of curiosity. I mean, this is going to be the greatest story you'll ever be able to tell. And then I was like, absolutely not. When that raid happens, and then it's like... And then you're a witness in court.
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A witness in court. Like, I'm going to be like that picture, like...
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I have this argument with a lot of people in my life. A lot of people either from Chicago or love Chicago. And I'm like, I don't like it. Really?
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This is why you never see me up there. I would tell you right now, if someone said, Amin, you got to spend a month. It doesn't matter what season it is. Well, okay, let's say summertime.
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Say a month in Chicago or a month in Milwaukee, send me to Milwaukee. Are you kidding me? I love Milwaukee. I love Milwaukee.
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Milwaukee is fun. This is ridiculous.
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I'm going to tell you why.
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Yeah. What are you talking about? I'm going to tell you why Milwaukee is cool.
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Because you're a contrarian. You're a guy who's like, hey, everybody likes this, and I think it's dumb.
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I cannot believe this. I'm legit shocked by you.
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Because Milwaukee, the people in Milwaukee are like, eh, it's Milwaukee, man. And I'm like, you know what? I came in trying not to like it. They're like, eh, man, it's what we got.
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Like, he has to be, unless he is careening towards some sort of, I don't know, mental aid situation, he has to know that that's not gonna sit well with Micah Parsons and it's not gonna look right for him. Unless we're just accepting that he's like, man, how can I get them to talk about me?
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No, they were just cool about it. They understood their place in life. And I was like, okay, Chicago people?
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Chicago people? This is it. This is the greatest city. I'm like, man, please. The greatest summer city in the world. Give me L.A. or New York anytime. What is New York? No, New York in the summer is crazy.
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Everyone's so happy to be outside. Oh, this is so much better than us. Shut up. All y'all do is compare yourselves to real cities. People are skipping.
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Thank you. Tell them, Jackie.
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I'm so disappointed that you feel this way. Look, we got to do a field trip.
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Did you really do the throw the shot thing? The eye shot? Oh, you are. That was like the pinnacle of Chicago. How bad was the throw? Tourist. No, I hit it. The bell rang.
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While we're going over on time, let me just address something Charlie.
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It's a pie. Hold on. You think that my Uber rating is low because you have me talking to Uber drivers? That's what you think? No.
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I think within the owner's room, he still has this type of leverage. He went on to say that... I'm not trying to demean him, but it isn't about an agent. I'm not demeaning the agent, which you only say if you know that what you just said was demeaning.
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With all due respect. Oh, that's one of my favorites. I love it with all due respect. If you say with all due respect, shade is coming. Oh, I can't wait. I am hanging on to the very next phrase that you let out. But... I don't know. And he hasn't won these negotiations. He waits to the last moment. He loses negotiations. I guess I just don't understand the point of this.
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The recent ones. Zach Martin.
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Signing Micah Parsons, the thing that I don't get about these Jerry Jones negotiations is signing Micah Parsons and signing Dak Prescott, signing CeeDee Lamb, signing these guys is easy. especially Michael Parsons right now. It's like, you know what? Add $1 on to whoever had less deal and let's keep it moving.
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Unless you're trying to revolutionize this thing or you're trying to take advantage of him. I don't know what we talking about. Like he's that type of player that when he's up, you pay him whatever the guy is ahead of him. and I think they all accepted that he's going to be the highest paid non-quarterback, at least on defense, out there, or maybe tie him with Miles Garrett.
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Either way, this is not a heavy conversation. I understand why the sentiment is maybe we don't need an agent, but why ever say that? That's what I don't understand. It's like this is not making the negotiations any better. When it's Jerry Jones, sometimes I'm willing to think that The purpose for doing this is just to create a story because he knows how to create a story.
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But I'm not quite sure why Katie Blackburn, who runs the Bengals, would say what she said. Because everything that she said seems like it makes Trey Hendrickson not want to sign with that team. And he has one more year on his deal. And Micah Parsons is not up tomorrow either. So both of these guys will likely play for their team going forward.
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All right, so Jerry Jones at it again, man. This guy is the most impressive reality TV producer in history. I used to get frustrated, and I still sometimes, one of the things that I enjoy doing is pointing out when owners and management in general drop the ball on one of the very few things that only they are responsible for, and that is like the external communication. So between...
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But it's as if they believe that we're in a fantasy football world where it doesn't matter how you interact with your star players, where it doesn't matter what you say about them or whether you embarrass them. Just so you know, this is what she said. She said, I think he should be happy at certain rates that maybe he doesn't think he'd be happy at.
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I think some of it is on him to be happy at some point. And if he's not, you know... That's what holds it up sometimes. What are you talking about? A lot of nothing. But why say it? I don't understand.
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Katie Blackburn, exactly.
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I would think that Trey Hendrickson actually has more leverage than we would think he does because of the way that this team is constructed. This team is constructed in a way where they believe that they can make a run, but they don't got nobody on defense. Except for him. So, like, if he actually decided – we're looking at an Emmitt Smith situation.
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If he actually decides not to show up – A couple games. But they're going to lose. But there's a thing.
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They might lose trash and lost with him.
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And this may be – an impossible question to answer is, just because someone put a microphone in front of you, or just because a reporter asked you a question, does not mean that you have to answer it, or doesn't mean that you have to answer it honestly. I also think that these aren't curveball surprise questions.
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you should be ready to deliver a nothing answer that won't get talked about on the Dan Levitard show or Pat McAfee show when Trey Hendrickson went on there to respond to it or on any of the other ESPN shows. You should be able to do that or make a comment that helps you in negotiations because what she did there, I don't think helped. Telling him, you gotta be happy.
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At some point, you just gotta be happy. Maybe that's how you feel. Maybe that's right. But can't you just be like, Yeah, we're working on it. We really believe he's important to us. We're going to figure it out. I don't care what it takes.
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This is what they spit out. It'd be interesting. It'd be really nice if we had someone to give us an NBA perspective, because So rarely do we get the NBA owners and general managers talking bad about their players.
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The Cowboys and the Bengals right now, who are both in contract negotiation situations with top of the league talents at pass rusher, at marquee positions, they both seem to be bungling the external communication part about this.
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Yep. And by the way, for the listeners, the younger listeners, that sound at the end was the sound of a phone hanging up. See, back in the day, it wasn't like a touch screen, and you just said, end call. You had to physically pick the receiver and clang it down on this cradle, and it would create this sound that everyone understood as, that's the sound of getting hung up on.
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Are you angrily ending a call? BSPN.
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Nice voice. So we were talking about contract negotiations and how it blows my mind every time. And it happens fairly regularly in the NFL where the contract negotiations are happening and the team and the team representatives say something that I believe to be unnecessary and counterproductive and somewhat disrespectful. Right now,
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Jerry Jones is doing it to David Mulligetta and Katie Blackburn is doing it to Trey Hendrickson. And I just don't like I can't remember a time where it's happened recently in the NBA where they just are straight up like, yeah, he's going to be happy with this deal.
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But I guess in part, part because those contracts are already kind of predetermined where it's like either you're going to get a max deal or you're not.
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Yeah, the negotiation in the NBA happens for the middle class people. If you are a certain caliber of player, we don't have to guess what you're worth. We know what you're worth immediately by the number of years you've played in the league, basically. It's a fixed number. It is a percentage of what the salary cap is.
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The last time that someone messed this up so bad, or not even the negotiations part, but the communications part, was when the owner of the Giants kind of put all his coaches and general managers on the hot seat by making a joke, suggesting that they better show me something fast. And I was like, you're putting them in a bad spot.
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And so that takes a lot of the guesswork of two, which would be really interesting conversation, which is in an uncapped, not unsalary cap, but unmaximum cap society. Be a better world. What is Steph Curry worth? 70 million? 80 million?
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90 million, like there is a legitimate conversation about Steph, LeBron, Giannis, Jokic, like these guys, whatever you're paying them is probably still not going to be enough. And at some point, then it comes into, which I imagine in the NFL is a lot of the conversation, like I want to pay you this, but also I want to also be able to fill the team.
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And that's what the team salary cap does is it makes it harder for that distribution of money. Now in the NFL, I think they do a better job of, giving the money to the people who impact winning the most. For us, we are limited and we take that extra money and we make multimillionaires out of guys who are fairly replaceable on that level.
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I've always wondered this. I think you could make up a couple different scenarios, but maybe you have a better projection than me. What would it look like if you removed the max salary? What would happen?
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Because I think my desire is to remove the max salary because it generally feels like an unnecessary restriction, but I also am willing to accept that there's a possibility that you could end up in a world where there are a lot of teams or a number of the very best players don't find themselves in
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the most consequential games at the end of the year because they're on teams that have given so much of their salary to them. And then there are these other teams that are made up of a lot of really good players that end up finding their way to the championship, which would be a result that we wouldn't want.
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But ultimately, if it happens, what's going to happen to that team is someone's going to be like, I deserve more money, man. And once that happens, it throws everything off. It's funny, as a player, as a player advocate, you should want the max salary because it helps more players than not having a max salary, which helps a handful of players.
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I want to talk about... What kind of nerd you and this and that are. Can we start with sports? No. You asked me where I wanted to start. I know. You could have started anywhere.
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I didn't know. I heard. It sounded like something dripping. I was like, is it raining in here?
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So what sucks is it's widespread, right? Once upon a time, people watched their team play and they won and they lost and they were happy or they were sad or whatever. And then there was a small group of people like me who was like, no, I'm interested in how all this works and the numbers and the money and da-da-da. And so that's my origin story.
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I got a copy of the CBA and I was like, I'm going to read this and understand why these trades can and can't work.
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And so I learned, and then I got a career in this, and then I got out of the career doing this, and I started doing media, And I'm doing media from like my perspective of like, this is the stuff that we're thinking about when we're running teams. And like at first it was like a niche thing for a lot of the nerds out there. But now it's turned into like everybody, like you talk about anything.
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They're like, well, actually in the cap room, I'm like, guys, like it's okay to be happy.
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about getting a player and excited for the season oh i hate this now they're not gonna you know we're not gonna find out whether so-and-so is gonna be a thing and oh now we're gonna have like the eighth pick instead of third i'm like guys it's okay to be happy for your team to do well as opposed to everything being a big picture conversation i realize i'm part of the problem though because i taught these people how to have a big picture of our conversation
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What happened last night, man? Nothing happened last night. Look, I hit up Goff. I was like, what's up, man? He's like, hey, we're grabbing dinner, and then let's grab drinks. I'm like, cool. So, like, around 9, 9.30, I'm like, hey, man, what's up? What's going on? We didn't hear from you guys. I get a text back at, like, 10.15. I think we're going to call it a night.
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There's also, by the way, we should point out, no Porzingis, no Drew Holiday, and also no fuck to your elbow.
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So I've talked about this a lot about. I don't think we're headed in the right direction for several reasons tanking isn't one of them though but like of the way our game is perceived in the way we let our game be perceived by people propagated by the ones that we entrust to sell our game right the biggest noisiest
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most incorrect oftentimes people are the ones who seem to be working for broadcast partners of the league. And I'm like, the NFL doesn't allow this. They don't let like what happened with LeBron and Stephen A just go out of control and do what it does. There's a conversation that happens at a high level there. where it's like, hey man, we're doing a thing here. We protect the shield above all.
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But to that point, I often get into this mental kind of exercise of, I know it's wrong, I know it's bad for the game, I know this isn't ultimately in best service of the game, but if the economics of live programming trumps everything else and the numbers keep going up as a result, where do I have a leg to stand to make an argument that people are gonna hear and understand?
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No, it's not true. That's my point. First of all, it's perfection. Perfection? Perfection. You'll listen to it later. You'll forget it. Oh, I didn't hear you.
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Oh, okay, gotcha. Typically, that's what I'm doing. If you're like, why is he pronouncing it like that? It's like, yeah, it's because you did it, right? But it's not about perfection.
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right it's not about it being a hundred percent accurate in every case of course there are times where it's like yeah they're tanking that's not cool right but what i'm saying is in the grand scheme of the problems that face our league this is a small one all right this is a very small one that does not deserve the attention that we give it because ultimately What are we talking about?
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Or do we really give a shit that Charlotte versus Washington was a lightly watched game? And by the way, if they played all their guys, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. You know why? Because they're bad either way. And so the reality is the real things that we have an issue with are people who are... Again, I say it. The people entrusted to sell our game are doing the opposite.
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Whether it's, they're shooting too many threes. Whether it's, our generation is so much better than your generation. Whether it's, like, hey, he's a dumbass who's talking about my son. And like, hey, man, your son's garbage. Like, all of that stuff, that's the stuff. That does not help our sport. I think it's really telling that the biggest thing in football is a football game.
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And the biggest thing in basketball is, who got traded?
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Why is that so important? Why do we give a shit about shit that we would have discovered anyway?
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We are sending mixed signals. Because on the one hand, we're like, we should be talking about the product. And then he talks about it. Shut up, Jeremy. So I don't know what I want.
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In that league. It's 6.30 in the morning on the West Coast where Dan is.
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I think he went back to bed and he was in a deep slumber, probably the best slumber he's had the entire trip. I'm HT. Valerie's next to him. Everyone's feeling great. And then I said those words and he just shot up in the middle of the bed. And Valerie's like, what's wrong, honey? He's like, they're talking about Stephen A. Smith. And LeBron coming to steal all the economies.
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Like the rain weight in that Gatorade commercial. Cold sweat.
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That one doesn't come as often as it used to. There was a time when everything was gangster shit. Anytime Dominique is on. Anytime Dominique is on because it's always, Dominique thought like these guys are titans of industry and then he walks in and he realizes these guys are just morons and that's the gangster shit. I'm like, okay.
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I would think of horizontal time as something completely different.
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Is that the right voice? Well, I would think that it would be your wife. That was something your wife would say. With the kids around, don't want to be too crude, but like, hey guys, Dominique, can we get some HT tonight?
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Like, hey, yeah. With the house, how's the house layout? Master bedroom versus children's bedrooms?
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Yeah, there you go. Oh, yeah, always Yeah, is there a red it's not that long But it gets the job done get a red light bulb on like put on in the hallway that lights on you know I'm just saying don't come wandering around Actually, it was it was from a Seagal movie Light in the hallway was red. I'm like why? We're not gonna do that here
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Oh, you stole the ball from me. I know how to do that. You just going to let me get some steals? Yeah, man. I'm like, get your confidence up. Like, oh, I don't know if I can do another one. I'll play that role. I know who I'm playing with, man.
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I mean, it's not like we added games. It's not like all of a sudden people are like, hey, you know what? I think I'm going to be bad for Tim Duncan or bad for LeBron James or bad for, like, this has all existed. So what's happening isn't the game has changed. And what's happening is the way we talk about the game. And that circles back again.
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Like, what's my responsibility in all of this, in me being someone who worked at ESPN, Thank you. Thank you.
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I famously don't use alarms. I've talked about this on the show.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. At home, terrible home record. Only beat it on the road. Never use an alarm. Yeah, we've done this show before, right? Like the whole idea.
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Me either. It's shocking. Like I feel the guilt wakes me up.
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How dare you be asleep? Like, oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm up. I'm up. So to answer your question, 530 today. I was up, because I'm like, ah, because I always wake up like, oh shit, it's 10.30, and no, it's 5.30, and I'm like, well, I'm up now.
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Well, first of all, I love that the peak of technology and advancement is the word processor for you. Put on the pole, Juju, do you know what a word processor is?
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The guilt wakes me up. You're like, oh, it's time to get up, start my day. I'm like- Okay, the day has started. Like, that's how I am. I wake up like that. Always, it's like a shock.
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I wish I didn't have to stretch. But, yes, pretty much. Like, I don't sleep a lot. I sleep, like, maybe, like, four to five hours a night.
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Well, first of all, we're on air. Second of all, you're making the assumption. You muffled. You muffled.
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Yeah, because I'm not. You're making the assumption that I'm tired as a result or it makes an impact on my day. But my energy level is fine. I don't drink coffee. I don't do any of these, like, I need my morning matcha. I don't do any of that stuff.
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Iron Man. Iron Man. Dude, think about it. Someone who doesn't get hangovers, who doesn't sleep a lot, who doesn't need coffee. I am the dream who has never caught COVID.
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He does it almost every week. On the reg, bro.
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No, no, I never, I never, I never, let me put it this way. Obviously, if you're asymptomatic, you don't know whether you got it or not, but I never had symptoms.
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It wasn't a regular test. It wasn't like every week I got to go in for my COVID test. But the times I tested, I always tested negative.
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You put it on the poll. Would you like to never get hangovers, not need sleep, and not need coffee? Yes or no? If it's irrelevant, it'll come back 90% no, right? Maybe 80% no? If it's irrelevant. I feel like these are traits that are not irrelevant.
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Yeah, take that. The best of me? What are you talking about, the best of me? You're at 100% this morning.
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No, Jeremy. You know how the league is like, the conspiracy theories, like this needs to go the full five in order to get the ratings up. That's what Jeremy's here for. We did. We went on a hot streak.
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I got to overcome Jeremy. We started 10 deep in the hole, right? And I got to mount this comeback.
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It's the local hour. It's the local hour. We do local things around here, like go out drinking with our boys. That's a local topic. I did.
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Don't get me started on this character, Jason Goff.
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Exactly. You actually had to be here. He got nothing going on. You don't know what he got going on. He's still in the church's tithing to taking trips to Miami and going out to Carbone, wherever y'all went.
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so first of all that's exactly the voice i hear when i think of you number two it no that was it's a resign like i get it like the night's over and so this is me lashing out oh this isn't like maybe i can change their mind with by appealing to their to whatever yeah it was just like i lost so i'm gonna go ahead and dunk on all of them i mean i don't know i think
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And all of them are nerds. Yeah. I'm 46. That means I put you in your place. I got three kids in minor. I got twins in there. That's double the work. That's not like the single. When they add them up, that's more.
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It's a multiplier effect. I'm telling you, brother. I think they keep each other busy. Yeah, busy with problems. With tomfoolery, with shenanigans, with chicanery.
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Don Lebertard. Again, started on the breakfast flan. Oh, man. I've been singing a song to myself all morning long. Breakfast flan. Stugatz. Have you never heard the breakfast flan song? No. Hit me with it. Okay. I wish I had some breakfast flan. Breakfast flan.
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A scuffle, a brouhaha, a skirmish, or as Izzy heard from someone, a squirmish?
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And Izzy, these are the same people who brought you loser, L-O-O-S-E-R.
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Seven people got ejected, five players and two coaches. Let's get to the nitty gritty of all of this, the real stuff, which is... Does this signify anything for the Pistons that they're not going to take from anybody?
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And there's.
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Yeah.
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No, no. I know you're waiting for that one. Why are you stopping short of what you said earlier? Off camera, off air. Say the thing.
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No. I can't believe you're – you think they're young and dumb enough to believe it. I can't believe you're dumb enough to believe this. Izzy, there's a couple of things going on. So number one, the generally accepted definition for contender is can you make it to the conference finals, right? Can you be in the NBA's Final Four?
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In the East, you've got to beat one of two teams to get to the conference finals, either the Cavs or the Celtics. There's no way you can avoid it. Barring everybody getting like, you know, malaria or something and, and missing time. And as a result, you walk through kind of like the Celtics did last year. So yeah,
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this team is nowhere near able to compete with either of those teams what's missing and what's missing how about being to the playoffs before just experience okay yeah like what you gotta trust tim hardaway jr and malik beasley tobias harris to be like the leaders of this thing come with me guys that have never been anywhere near meaningful basketball before i'll show you the
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Oh, if they would have beat the Pacers. Okay. Woulda, coulda, shoulda is what we're doing over here. Okay. So if I gave you which team in the East has the best chance of knocking off one of the top two picks,
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Knicks, Pacers, Bucs, I had them all better than the Pistons in terms of playoff. But the Pistons are getting there. They're getting there. All right, let's do this. Let's play a little game called Centel or Central. Let's start with a soundbite, and I'll explain.
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All right, so that was Gigi Jackson of the Memphis Grizzlies. Izzy, he's explaining to the people who don't know that there's a parody site. Hold on. There's an aggregator site called NBA Central. All they do is follow all the newsbreakers, and then they repurpose their stuff into their own tweets. Well, in the last year or so,
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there's this web this uh thread called mba centel so it's a misspelling of central and they do parodies of these kind of missives and for some reason people fall for it every single time even though because they do a great job with it because i've gotten that several times twice okay all right whatever all right so we played this before so what we'll do is we show a real tweet
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That's been posted by either central or centel. Let's play. All right, first one up. What do we got? It says, report Draymond Green called Isaiah Stewart and advised him to try and direct his energy toward the Wolves center next time. Izzy, is this central or centel?
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The moment I said he called Isaiah Stewart, I knew it was Centel. Give it to me. What is it? Yeah, it's Centel. Come on, guys. Come on. People are falling for stuff like this. It's incredible. All right. Second one. We got here.
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Doc Rivers says he doesn't get enough credit for winning three games in the playoff series where he blew 3-1 lead, saying, quote, no one tells a real story, and I'm fine with that. It's unfair in some ways. I don't get enough credit for getting the three wins. I get credit for losing. I always say, what if we had lost to Houston in six? No one cares.
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One of the things I'm proud of is we've never been swept. All the coaches have been swept in the playoffs. My team's achieved. A lot of them overachieved, and I'm very proud of that. Izzy, is this a real quote or is it sent out?
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Yeah, it's crazy because I did say this years ago when I was in Philly, when we blew a 3-1 lead there. I said, hey, in order to blow a 3-1 lead, you got to be good enough to get a 3-1 lead. And I agree with him. But yes, this is a real quote. Said it multiple times. And here's another tell if you're wondering whether it's Centell or Central. Centel never has that much text.
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That's way too much text. That's true. Way too much text.
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Yeah.
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All right. Let's get another one up here. It says, Bronny James on why LeBron James should win MVP. I grew up in an era where the MVP always goes to the best player in the NBA. Now this, ladies and gentlemen, this is a tough one. Because everything in me, Izzy, says there's no chance Bronny would even chime in on this. But if he were to chime in, I think that's what he would say.
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What do you think, Izzy?
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Yeah. Yeah, if it's not going crazy viral, you probably didn't have it.
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It's time to play Hot Streak. Hot Streak is presented by DraftKings. DraftKings, the crown is yours. This is the game where me and Izzy pick which game and the line off of the DraftKings sportsbook, and we try to figure out how many in a row we can get. Now, we had a nice little streak, and then it got broken off, but last week we picked the Clippers, plus three and a half versus the Knicks.
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The Clippers won by 13 points. That was a great pick by us. That means we're back on 1-0. We got to start somewhere with the streak. So let's stay hot. Here are some of the games we could choose from. We've got Rockets at Lakers. The Rockets are three games ahead of the Lakers in the standings. The Lakers are 5-5 in their last 10. Rockets are coming off of a slacking of the Suns. Yeah.
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We've got Celtics minus five at Grizzlies. The Grizzlies are fresh off of firing their coach, and they lost on Saturday against the Lakers. The Grizz also need every win they can to stay out of the play. Didn't think that was an issue, but now it is. And we've got Bulls at Thunder. Thunder are 15-point favorites. Bulls have been red hot for the months of March, which is nine and five.
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Not really red hot, but red hot for them. Thunder have already clinched the number one seat out west. Izzy, I give you all those games. Which one intrigues you the most?
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I'm looking at Thunder Bulls. The Bulls have been a lot better. The Thunder have had some close ones. Now, I know Jalen Williams and Chet Holbrook missed a couple of those games. But the combination of they have it locked in and the Bulls playing well and plus 15 is so big. I feel like you got to go Bulls here, right?
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All right. Bulls plus 15. Well, it's a new day ever since the banners got damaged. That's going to do it for us here at Oddball. Izzy. Michael Jordan called. He said, I'm still the greatest player of all time. Lies.
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Yeah. Like, like is the case with a lot of these firings. You just gave a very compelling argument as to why he got let go. And I'm saying, cool. Yeah, all that makes sense. My big takeaway is like, why now? Why so late in the season? It's funny. We got a statement from Zach Kleinman, who's the head of basketball decision-making over there.
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And his statement was something along the lines of like, yeah, we're all about urgency around here. And I'm like, where was this urgency at the all-star break? Urgency is a core principle of ours. Where was urgency at the all-star break? Where was urgency the first couple weeks after the all-star break? Where was urgency pretty much any time to give your new head coach time to figure things out?
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Because to do it now, to drop a bomb in the middle of a heated race as we're going to a Western Conference playoffs, let's face it, it's not going to be easy regardless of what seed you're in. Like, I just don't understand why they didn't just let him play the season out. If you had druthers that, oh, man, we could win a championship with the right coach, then where were those druthers earlier?
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Here's another urgency slash timing question for you, Izzy. They fired their assistant coaches last offseason. They brought in a whole new assistant coaching staff, which, by the way, they did not consult Taylor Jenkins on. You know what we call that? The old setting the table special. Okay, I'm going to get you up out of here. First things first, let me get rid of all your confidants.
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Let me hire a bunch of dudes that you don't know.
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So this is this is the part where it gets really complicated. Right. Because part of what they did to him, Taylor Jenkins, in giving him this new staff, they also told the new staff, hey, you guys are going to come up with the offense. Wait, what? Like, okay, so your head coach isn't even going to get to call what offense we're running? To me, this is NBA cowardice at its best. Just fire the guy.
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You don't like him. You don't like the offense he runs. You think you could do it? Fire him. Why are you going to wait? Why are you going to wait this long? It happens so many times where I see these teams hem and haw. It's like when another firing Hall of Famer, when the Suns fired Earl Watson two weeks into the season.
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I said, you had all offseason where you had the draft, you had free agency, you had the offseason, you had before we went to camp, and foremost, we had all at camp. At no point were you like, I don't think this is the guy. You figured that out two weeks in? Same thing here. You had whatever inkling you had when you fired as assistants. Then you let him go this whole time.
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You're like, I don't know. Maybe he could turn it around. But now you've figured out he can't turn it around in time. In time for what? For y'all to have the same result anyway? If it's the same result anyway, let him have the dignity of finishing what he started. And like I said, I'll go back to, if you think he's good enough to be your coach, let him pick his assistants.
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And if the result isn't right, then you fire him then. You fire all of them.
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Welcome to Oddball. I'm Amino Hassan. That over there is Izzy Gutierrez. This is the show where we debate whether Cooper Flagg is going to be a bigger deal than Bronny James. Oh, my God. All the clicks, all the clicks. But seriously, this show is brought to you by DraftKings. DraftKings, the crown is yours. Izzy, we had big stuff happen. Go down this week. Big stuff.
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So, okay, so let's talk a little bit about this guy, right? This guy being the new head coach, Tuomas Isalo. He's Finnish. This was his first year in the NBA on an NBA bench in any capacity, right? This year here. He's been a successful coach. in Europe, albeit tempered success.
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And what I mean by that is he's never coached in one of the elite leagues like Spain or Turkey, and he's never won one of those or in the EuroLeague. He's been a EuroCup champion, which is the second division behind EuroLeague as far as past the continent. He's been a Champions League champion, which is very different from EuroLeague.
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But my point is the guy comes with very limited with zero NBA history on this season and very limited high level international experience. And what I mean by that is what players see a coach or with a coach for the first time. And this guy hasn't been around the league. Right. So guys will do a lot of, you know, you know, this guy. Oh, I see coach in France.
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Did you were you playing in France with him? And so that's a lot of word of mouth goes there. Again, I'm not knocking the guy as a coach. I really don't know much other than looking at his resume. But what I'm telling you is historically NBA players don't trust outsiders. They don't.
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If you are an outsider, you better have a like a laundry list of connects and people who know you who can vouch for you. Where they'd be like, oh, no, man, he was my assistant down in San Antonio. That dude's great. He knows his stuff. He's always whatever. Oh, man, that was my guy in Milwaukee, man. He used to work out any time of night. I would call him. He'd come out and work out.
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And this guy was always coming with film and stuff like that. Or, yeah, I played against him in such and such or such and such. When you are someone who doesn't have any of those things, And then you come in and you say, guys, I've got this new offense for you. It's based on a Division III school.
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Oh, by the way, all those pick and rolls you love to run, John Morant, we're not running them no more, which is, again, an ongoing storyline. This is a quote from Isalo after he got the job. It was a big surprise in the last 24 hours. Has been quite a scramble here trying to get myself and everybody organized. Izzy, if it's one thing I know about the NBA.
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They never fire a coach without having an idea who the next guy is going to be and the next guy it's going to be rarely. I won't say never. He rarely has zero clue what's about to happen. Ladies and gentlemen, might I introduce you to the dagger. Well, I'm trying to run this off. I'm giving him the offense because he just don't like it or he don't know how to run it the way I draw it.
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Taylor Jenkins, head coach of the Memphis Grizzlies, got let go on Friday. There's only nine games left in the season. He's the all-time winningest coach in Grizzlies history. They had a big showdown with the Lakers, with whom they're fighting for the four-seed against. And they kicked him out. They told him to hit the pavement. Izzy, how surprised were you by the timing?
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I mean, if I drew it up, I was calling the shots. I would have called this the different lineups I would have done. And then it's like, hey, we fired head coach. We want you to be good. Me? I was just ticking in hypotheticals. I didn't know anything. Oh, my gosh. I've got to get organized. Well, what is this? My handy dandy book of plays that I've already all thought out of.
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We've got the New Reckless. It's his offense. He's the mastermind, him and the other dude. By the way, there's an assistant who got fired. That's the funny thing. He's like, I just got here. How is this my fault? Again, ladies and gentlemen, I'm not arguing for or against any of these individuals.
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I'm just saying when you are an NBA organization, there is a way there is a protocol you follow when you make these kinds of changes in power. And when you don't follow them, you might think like you're doing people are a solid, but it's the opposite. You put them in quite the awkward predicament where they got to answer a bunch of questions that they may not necessarily have answers to.
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Quick question before we move on off of this. Izzy, what do you think this means for Ja long term? Remember Howard Beck wrote this thing about Ja might be the next superstar on the move. And the Grizzlies came out with a very flowery statement about, oh, my God, everyone hates us because we're Memphis. But that's not going to happen and nothing's going to da da da.
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And here they are showing their ass in the most small market country bumpkin ass kind of way. So what does all this mean for Ja, Izzy?
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All right, let's take a quick break. When we come back, are the bad boys coming back to play it?
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Welcome back to Oddball. All right. Sunday night, we had a matchup between Minnesota and Detroit that ended in fisticuffs. That's right. We don't see that too often. Guys, old-fashioned manhandling each other, grabbing each other, shoving each other, getting each other's faces. It was Nas Reed fouled by Ron Holland, and then Dante DiVincenzo jumped in, and it all turned into a...
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The rest of you, I'm curious how the news arrived here with you guys. And this is, forgive the segue here, from light stuff to heavier stuff. But Dwayne Wade, having Dwayne Wade attached to kidney cancer, volunteering that, made me feel some of the same things that I felt when Randy Moss had to leave everything he was doing in broadcasting. Yeah.
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It is obviously jarring to me and most of us whenever mortality comes and creeps this close in a way that's this overt, but especially so when it's people that I associate with the highest forms of youth and athleticism. When Dwayne Wade – I understand that cancer can come for us all, and many people listening to this have been affected by cancer.
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And thankfully, Dwayne Wade says that the kidney cancer has been removed. But I still – I had trouble processing what it is that I was reading, and it ain't like I've been near – I haven't been near death recently. It's just – This particular person representing this particular thing for this market, and it being youth, and I will carry you with free throws past everyone in 2006.
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It just sort of didn't compute. I kind of short-circuited on it.
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As competitive in his post-career as he was during his basketball career, Dwayne Wade has been, you know... gluttonous about consuming opportunities and competing in the content space for I'm Still Dwayne Wade that has value. I didn't see him disappear either. The work can help in those circumstances. The busy can help.
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I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there.
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It can keep you sort of medicine every day to be getting up for something when you're scared.
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So were his previous work conditions. I'm not saying he was sick.
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I don't want to play doctor or diagnose. I will just tell you in the history with this organization, the reason Alonzo Mourning learned that these kidney ailments affect black people disproportionately, the way that he learned what was connected to his kidney issues was the amount of pain medication he was taking every single day. in order to do his job, just the way he was popping Advil.
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Ricky Williams speaks of being on the team plane and just a tray coming by of just an assortment of things that you couldn't normally get to heal your body. Is it unfair to wonder, without a diagnosis, just the cost of medicating to keep getting out there on the body in retirement?
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You'll do anything for relief from the pain.
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It's my experience. You tell me if I have this wrong, because you're mentioning just three guys. It's my experience that that's more common than not, that guys needed the Toradol in order to get out on the field most weeks.
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The majority of players. It wasn't you and three guys. It was the majority of football players, when this was allowed, needed something to mask the bodies screaming.
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Can you explain something to me, because you mentioned Ray Lewis here, I read his biography, it's got some holes in it in some key places, but I read his biography and he was talking about how he physically became who he became, and it's at least in part because since high school he was taking a deck of cards,
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throwing card by card on the ground, and when it was a face card, he'd do 10 pushups, and he would do it that way, and he would do it through the entire deck, and he is the only player that I've heard of in the modern age that everyone talks about that way, which is, when he hits you, it feels different than when everyone else in the world hits you. And I'm wondering if that's actually factual.
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Like when you say Ray Lewis, are you grabbing a random name or does him hitting you, does it feel different than everyone else hitting you?
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Can we please call him? I'd like to call somebody who was on that field to just get a recollection of how quickly all 11 of them turned around to go find out where Hawk was. Who's that guy who's been like a fly around an elephant's tail just annoying us loudly all game?
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When you mention that, when he mentions Palomalu, I've almost got a word association that I do with this because I want to ask. No, not shampoo. You've been doing nothing but muttering uselessness under my breath every time I talk that we can't understand what you're saying when you make the jokes. They're only for you.
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Palomalu, when I think of him, the thing that I think of is other football players saying and Andrew Gay saying of Peyton Manning. He was prepared for every single situation that there could be in the sport. except how Paolo Malu played it. That strategically, he would consistently be baffled that that person was taking that chance in that spot because it was irresponsible to his job.
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That's his fake Jay Gruden. It hasn't made an appearance in a while. You're allowed to be surprised by that. It's a very limited impersonation.
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When he says never quite figured it out, I'm guessing that Andrew Hawkins here has never quite figured out that that limited fake Jay Gruden, if I have the proper context, was once playing hide-and-seek here. He was playing hide-and-seek. So you tell me, Hawk, how accurate this is, sound that we wrestled away from ESPN.
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Yes, of John and Jay Gruden playing hide-and-seek. Are they as adults? Please give me the context I need here.
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We built the whole thing around here are Jay and John Gruden playing hide-and-seek. I thought it was Marco Polo.
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Fats and Info's limited fake Jay Gruden. It's just too obscure.
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Where's Robert? Kirk. Why is he? He doesn't know where they are? Like, that's all you've got?
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This is the Gruden Brothers. What would it sound like? Let me do this another way. What would it sound like if the Gruden brothers were teaming up to play hide-and-go-seek?
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I have during this show an assortment of voices in my head already because I'm crazy, but also voices in my head because this is a bit of a control station. And Louis, three notes into that song, said my glory hole song was better. Where is Lewis's glory hole song?
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I want to play for you guys some sound here we haven't gotten to during the week. It is in Spanish, and it sounds like a walk-off situation, but it is not a walk-off situation.
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Yeah, I need to point out to everybody that everything that's happening in this Dominican baseball clip, and my God, are these fun atmospheres to be a part of when Dominican players care about these games. There's so much personality on these games, but this is the top of the ninth inning.
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I loved him as a player. I watched him play so much third for the Rays. He's now rounding second.
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And everything else after that was like... To be better than everyone in Florida at Florida football is what he was getting a lot of credit for. He wasn't quite the pro that he was as a college player. What's the best you've ever felt in one of these situations where... What, middle of the game?
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Well, just not even middle of the game, just an athletic feat that swells through you with so much energy that you it's this thing we talk about.
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It's one thing to win, but to be the reason for winning and then to share that with your teammates, even though it's the top of the ninth, to share the reason for I'm the reason we won and all of the defiance that comes hissing out of you because you're the most competitive of people. Yeah. Like where where is your highest feeling on this?
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Okay, but inappropriate is okay. Inappropriate is also funny. Inappropriate, we like to get a little close to inappropriate. I don't think all comedy is appropriate.
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He loves what's happening right now because it looks like proof of what he's been saying, that he was the quickest man in the world.
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He's been trying to tell everybody since he got here. Do you guys know how quick I am? Why do you keep disrespecting my athleticism?
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Just floating. It's levitating. It's whatever monks do in order to get off of the ground when they reach a prayerful state.
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Were you play of the day? Did you get in the top ten? Did that play get in the top ten?
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No, that was just a one. There's the cut, and then there's one whoop. No, there were not. Look. I hit every button on the matting controller. It's a great play. Just mash it up. Worthy of one whoop. There was at least two whoops.
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This is not an indictment of the move. It kind of sounds like it. It's a celebration of the whoop. It's respecting the whoop.
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To give it one whoop is a compliment. It will never be an insult. You got one whoop, it's enough. And he wants two. Which one are you calling the whoop? The first cut, look, the second cut was beautiful. He will tell you that nothing has ever felt greater in his life, not crossing that goal line, than that first cut and how it looks on the video now.
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athletic grace that was amazing to watch and the way he described it is the way the sound would be made by somebody in a kitchen jumping away from a rat to jump onto a chair he was terrified the entire time he was running out of there it was it was the sound you and i would make if they were trying to tiptoe through that like that is the nfl experience hey howdy listener why don't you sit down here next to me
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Don Levitard. But it's just his titties are sitting on the shelf that is his belly. Stugatz. He said titties.
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Jeremy is saying he has some exclusive heat news. It feels like we have not gotten to any heat news and he says he's had it for two days. I don't know if that's the greatest failure we've had around here today.
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I believe the greatest failure we've had around here today is that Mike Ryan has not gone viral with this is the camera shot making some sort of profound point about something where he gives social commentary and we never see his face.
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It's okay. I was hoping, though, that you would be. I thought you were a star. Oh, come on. Bravo.
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Party. This is a happy time around here, and Jeremy thought that all of these balloons, and by the way, it's a crappy assortment of balloons. I don't know why we just took the letters and birthday and made the A and the Y. Hey, watch it. Yeah, but we are celebrating our awards season. Metal Ark did great, but Jeremy thought we were celebrating Tyler Hero's All-Star appearance?
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No, he's internet polarizing. No, he is. Look, man. I think it was the Jack Harlow. Yeah. That's what it was.
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I mean, still making faces at you. I mean, he is an all-star and he's not Jamal McGlure. Like, he's an all-star. He earned the all-star game. How do you define Jamal McGlure all-star? Not.
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those counting stats jamal mcglure doesn't have the counting stats that tyler hero does is a scorer efficiency in the three-point game uh he he has become one of the best shooters scorers in the league on consistency and efficiency i would argue with you that the definition of the jamal mcglure all-star is that really enjoy this weekend guy because it may not happen again
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It's not winning awards, and that is how you open up the club if what you're doing is not looking to celebrate people and fun.
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It's amazing enough acting that it is worth re-exploring even though it's two minutes long because it's not short, this clip with Jerry Jones. But I do want to show Andrew how well acted this is. Okay. Please find that at your earliest convenience. I know, Chris, that I have you spinning a lot of plates today. You will forgive me.
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I don't know how you've recovered from the arduous first few minutes before the show when you were having your elbows lotioned by the makeup person, something I have never seen before in my history in this business.
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I apply it myself, though. I've never had anyone apply it for me.
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Andrew, can you tell me whether a makeup person has ever lotioned your elbows for you? Because I do view that as a luxury I have not seen in the vanity industry before. When I looked up and our executive producer was sitting in that seat with his elbows up, just allowing himself to be lotioned.
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A little bit of the fluoride at the end just to give you a nice touch at the end?
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Never let a man brush your teeth, bro. Put it on the poll, are jail rules that you never let another man brush your teeth? I heard you in the other room talking about both being in the dollar store and then thereafter you said something about your teeth. Were those two things connected?
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It's wrong. What have you done? It's immoral. Inflation. It's unethical. Change the name?
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Make it then. Two dollar general. Two dollar.
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the name of your store then sorry about inflation it's more than a dollar but don't tell me it's a dollar store and then just generally lie to me about i can't get anything in here for a dollar sorry about inflation general i don't think that that rolls off the tongue understood but don't lie to me yeah do you ever worry about the quality of the dollar store product
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Let me just explain to everybody. I love a dollar store, but not in this incarnation. Hold on.
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Look, there are plenty of people who do their shopping because they enjoy the bargain, and it's not just about buying the thing. It's about getting it at a good price. You cannot make it a dollar store if you stop charging a dollar. It ceases to be. I don't want to go into a dollar store anymore if you're going to charge me anything that costs more than a dollar. I'll buy it.
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Dan, when was the last time you went to a dollar store? I went two months ago.
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I got an assortment of stickers, temporary tattoos for something that we're trying to do around here.
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And I told the people there who were frustrated with previous dollar stores that I will keep my prices at a dollar.
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He was recently in a dollar store. Do you guys not like a dollar store? No one here likes the dollar store?
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Are you guys not saying that this is an issue? Why don't you go ahead and make the joke and not mumble it?
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The dollar needs to be a dollar. It needs to be worth a dollar. And if I'm walking into a store that's called the genital store, that's the dollar store.
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Put it on the poll. Would you go into the general store at Levitard's show? You want to see how far a dollar went?
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Is a dollar what it used to be at the general store? Is it not false advertising? If I wanted to start a class action lawsuit with lawyers, this is false advertising in commerce if you're charging me more than a dollar at the dollar store.
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You just make it a dollar generally. All you got to do is add an L-Y.
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Now's a good time to remember where tequila's story truly began. In 1795, Cuervo invented tequila. Cuervo. What are you doing here? Cuervo. Anytime someone says Cuervo, I show up. Well, I do know that to be true, but even during ad reads, like... Cuervo. I think you could lay out, especially for one of our great partners. Sweet, delicious Cuervo. Since then, Cuervo has stayed true to its roots.
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Folks, I want to talk to you about GameTime. I've been using the GameTime app plenty as I'm starting to plan my summer concert season, looking for great trips around concerts and also with a sporting equinox in town, essentially. I've been checking the GameTime app every single day to see if I can get great deals on NASCAR and tennis.
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And let me tell you about this amazing new feature that GameTime has now called GameTime Picks that makes getting tickets for events even easier. GameTime Picks filters out the fluff to show you only incredible deals on great seats, so you don't have to waste time searching through thousands of tickets to find the best value.
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You can even find last-minute tickets up to 60% off quickly and easily using GameTime Picks. GameTime Picks makes curation easier to find better value for tickets to sports, concerts, comedy, theater, etc. You know...
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the whole deal and it's got all in pricing a little click of a tab you don't get surprised at checkout you know what you're getting into seat views panoramic seat views from the seats that you're thinking about buying you get to see exactly what your view would look like that was super clutch at a concert i went to last week take the guesswork out of buying tickets with game time
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Download the GameTime app, create an account, and use code DAN for $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply. Again, create an account and redeem code DAN for $20 off. Download GameTime today. Last minute tickets. Lowest price. Guaranteed.
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Can you light honey on fire?
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Imagine they just wouldn't make something up like that. Although films do tend to do that. I mean, it's a movie. It's Hollywood, baby. I remember the whole plot to the film XXX was the submarine in Landlocked Czech Republic. Oh, yeah. In their defense, the submarine could fly.
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UFL kicking off. Almost. Roughnecks, battle hawks.
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How did it go, though? Because I'm worried about that film agent, especially with a younger demo.
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If you look across the globe, too, there's plenty of those stories, especially in the Middle East. There's a lot of countries that would make for incredible storylines if they were to make it to a World Cup, especially here in North America. Geopolitically, there's a lot that put the host committee in a precarious situation, although the World Cup usually transcends that stuff.
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Because it's a great film and you want them to feel what you felt.
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But given the current climate, it'd be hard to ignore. I do think that it's resonating. You still have to seek it out. AFCON qualifying region does not get a lot of attention over here just because it's not readily available. You have to really seek this out.
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But as we march closer, I really do think that come summertime, with the formal ramp up of the Club World Cup that also kicks off down here in Miami, I believe with Inter-Miami, you're going to start seeing these media entities start putting together narratives as the picture becomes a little clearer. It's also a little bit difficult here in this country because I don't think...
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But the times may change what they feel. They liked it. They liked it. Oh, that's good news. Did they like the ending?
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Like it's been damn near 30 years since the United States hasn't had to go through a qualification process. So things that happened last week with the United States losing. It doesn't matter to the people. It doesn't really resonate because all they know is World Cup. We're not really having our position jeopardized anyway because they've already qualified as a host nation.
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Only if they were coming from a war-torn part. Of the country.
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Yeah, and just even if it's for a brief moment, you have on that continent, Didier Drogba famously helped end a civil war and introduce a peacetime just for the Ivory Coast, which is also probably in that group of AFCON bluebloods. Yeah.
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The attention that it would bring to a cause which, as you know, is so underrepresented in the news cycle, especially here in the United States because we're just so infatuated with our own problems over here, to have that kind of attention can do some real legitimate good.
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But it's kind of a celebration. You can see how people are confused. For a combat sport, you should not land that.
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Even just from a fundraising perspective, even if it just impacts the lives of the players and the families of those players, everybody should be rooting for this. Everybody should be rooting for what's happening.
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They should. Spring ball matters. We have a testament to non-NFL. I never played spring ball. No, you played in the CFL. Not a developmental league. It's been around longer than the NFL, Mike. Did you see the Trey Lance story? No. That Trey Lance may be going north of the border. To help revive his career. Forgetting his roots. To go build a career.
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Are you one of the greatest underdog stories in the history of the Cleveland Browns organization?
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Well, as someone that cut his teeth in a league that wasn't the NFL and then rode that league to the superstardom that you did, multiple contracts in the NFL, world's quickest man, you would know that what's going down tonight in Houston between the Roughnecks and the Battle Hawks is of importance. That's an intro.
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There's plenty of good stories in the UFL.
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Turpin's probably the best story. He was at UFL? Yeah, started there. Who was that tight end for the Chargers? Oh, my God. Backup tight end. Antonio Gates. No. I'll get it. I'll find the name. But there were good stories. And then never forget what COVID took away from us. The Roughnecks-Battlehawks, I mean, collision course for the championship. Jordan Tiamo and P.J.
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Walker, who are lighting the world on fire.
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Walker, another guy, had a couple cups.
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Walker was a great story, and he was legitimately good in that league. We got Anthony Brown starting at quarterback for the Roughnecks. We got Max Dugan. We got a loaded offense for the Battlehawks. We got Hakeem Butler, who is a huge producer, a wide receiver for them. McCarron's still there? We got McCarron on the outs of the league. Hold on.
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I'm like 90% sure this game goes down because there's all sorts of talk that there might be work salvage. Wait a second.
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McCarron has been very vocal. I wasn't a huge fan of the merger because it kind of sided with the USFL way of doing things, which meant they had to use that union. They took some of the rules. Thankfully, the XFL kickoff that the NFL adopted is back in what was formerly known as the XFL. But the UFL, I don't know. It's just not doing it. It's not as extreme, I guess. I miss the XFL.
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I don't like the UFL as much, but I'll give it time and hopefully with the second year. But there's all sorts of...
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uh reports being done right now the players still exhausting every option because they're not happy with the the compensation that they're getting i mean i do think today's game is going to go down but aj mccarron has been one of those outspoken voices especially for the quarterbacks the quarterbacks came out in unison and said that their pay wasn't right um but mccarron's not playing for the battle hawks anymore now yeah and also i think you're confusing greg mcelroy with aj mccarron who are both former alabama quarterbacks one is an analyst for each one had the hot girlfriend that uh
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Although, to be fair, I don't know what McElroy's working with.
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That's the one you're thinking of. It's McCarron. But we got football under the Friday night lights. I love it.
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Did you mention that the CFL is older than the NFL? I did.
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At least we admit it on the front end. We are not informed on this at all.
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Four too. Four Americas. Just got to close the loop. Donald Parham. Oh, there you go. Thank you.
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No, Rocky II is good. Is it? Rocky II is the one I've seen the least of in my life. There's only one that you skip, and it's Rocky V. Oh, that never happened. But you know what? I like Rocky V, man.
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How does four age now? Oh, four is great. Four is pretty good. Yeah, but there's so much ambiguity now.
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Creed is really good, by the way. Rocky VII is like my third favorite Rocky.
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Rocky VII is awesome. Rocky VIII isn't bad either.
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The tequila that invented tequila. Proximo. Cuervo.com. Please drink responsibly.
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This guy's a bad dude. Although his narrative just gets fast forwarded. The pacing on Rocky IX ain't great.
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Well, Rocky II has, it tells a story that everybody was like, well, Rocky I could have been better. How do we make Rocky I better? But by telling a similar story.
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As Creed taught us. There were two rematches. Yeah.
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On Christmas. He's a good husband. He still visits the grave. He's a great friend, too. As Rocky. Oh, as Rocky 7. Michael Jordan. Motivational speech. Well, and then he was not a 9. No.
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I've gone to a lot of funerals. Why do we keep having Amin die before Michael Jordan? Amin started.
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It was certifiably one of my passions. In that era, 100%.
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Sure. No, look, hey, man. You know what else grinds my gears? I'm sorry to cut you off. What's that? We were doing this thing. We let Dan perpetuate this. Aaron Rodgers and Stugatz, last five games, last five games. And then I look at Russell Wilson's last five games. Very comparable, except Russell Wilson was actually playing real teams. Yeah, meaningful. In real games.
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against teams trying to win their football games instead of whatever the hell they had going on with the Jets.
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But it's like the first hat, too, so...
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Now's a good time to remember where tequila's story truly began. In 1795, Cuervo invented tequila. Cuervo. What are you doing here? Cuervo. Anytime someone says Cuervo, I show up. Well, I do know that to be true, but even during ad reads, like... Cuervo. I think you could lay out, especially for one of our great partners. Sweet, delicious Cuervo. Since then, Cuervo has stayed true to its roots.
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Yeah, I'm telling you, like, it goes so great with a sandwich because it gives it an extra. All you get, what I don't like are the regular. I don't like plain chips. I've decided at this point in my life, I don't like plain chips. What's your chip of choice? Jalapeno. Those Jimmy John's jalapeno ones? Come on, man. Because it gives you a little kick, a little bite, a little flavor.
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It adds to the proceedings. It's not just there for texture.
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Not the breath. There's an aftermath I'm worried about, but it's not the breath. It's not the breath. It's not the breath. Jeez. It comes in a text message form the next morning as I announce to the chat what happened.
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And I know somewhere Stephen A. Smith popped. Just straight up explosion of ecstasy, right? But there is someone who is the saddest person in all of these proceedings. It's not LeBron. I don't think he's sad. I mean, it happens. They're gonna play another game. They'll play Memphis on Saturday. We move on, right? It's not the Lakers who are seeing their playoff seating in jeopardy here.
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Folks, I want to talk to you about GameTime. I've been using the GameTime app plenty as I'm starting to plan my summer concert season, looking for great trips around concerts and also with a sporting equinox in town, essentially. I've been checking the GameTime app every single day to see if I can get great deals on NASCAR and tennis.
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And let me tell you about this amazing new feature that GameTime has now called GameTime Picks that makes getting tickets for events even easier. GameTime Picks filters out the fluff to show you only incredible deals on great seats, so you don't have to waste time searching through thousands of tickets to find the best value.
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You can even find last-minute tickets up to 60% off quickly and easily using GameTime Picks. GameTime Picks makes curation easier to find better value for tickets to sports, concerts, comedy, theater, etc. You know the whole deal. And it's got all in pricing. With a little click of a tab... You don't get surprised at checkout. You know what you're getting into.
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Seat views, panoramic seat views from the seats that you're thinking about buying. You get to see exactly what your view would look like. That was super clutch at a concert I went to last week. Take the guesswork out of buying tickets with GameTime. Download the GameTime app, create an account, and use code DAN for $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply.
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Again, create an account and redeem code DAN for $20 off. Download GameTime today. Last-minute tickets, lowest price, guaranteed.
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Don Levitard. If Daniel Day-Lewis did it, you'd be jerking off all over yourself.
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You're just saying what? That's me.
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I see that photo of Daniel Day-Lewis looking like Lincoln before he's about to start filming Lincoln. And you know what I do? I mean, Stugatz. I jerk off all over myself. That's what I do. Lincoln, who you outed the other day? Don't make this a rejoin. This is the Don Levitar Show with the Stugats.
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As all this is happening in the NBA, here's the spoiler I'm going to give. Give it to me. Alabama wins their game. What? And you know what? We have a stat of the day for this. Give me the music.
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It's Skip Bayless. Do you understand Skip Bayless spent over a decade.
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That's incredible, but also, I saw that score and I saw the box score and I said to myself, I didn't know they could do that. Any of that. You mean score? Score 113 points in a 40-minute game, hit 25 threes, attempt 50 threes, 51 threes. I didn't know anyone in college could do that. And I'm not talking about this year. I'm talking about anyone in college ever.
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Because I've seen so much college basketball. And most of it is garbage in terms of production. You see flashes of brilliance. Like, oh, he's good. Oh, he could be good one day. But in terms of like, hey, we're going to put together this product. And we're going to call this basketball. Typically, it's not good. It's exciting because they're trying hard, but it's not good.
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Right? Like, needling LeBron, calling him all sorts of names, trying to bait him, like, acknowledge me. Just acknowledge me once. Come on. I dare you. I'll debate me here and all that stuff, right? And he did a show with Stephen A. Smith, and he was doing this. And he did a show with Shannon Sharper, and he was doing this.
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So when you want to talk about a deep tournament run magical performances from a team, right? There's a necessary ingredient and we call it the secret sauce you need to have every champion has has a secret sauce and
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You know, I went home yesterday. Tony, and I thought about it, and I went, my brain went back, and I said, what about those Florida teams that dominated with no one? I said, Lee Humphrey, Secret Sauce. Then I went to Kentucky, wait a second, what about Patino's Kentucky teams? Antoine Walker, Derek Anderson, and Tony, they sent like 100 pros. Jeff Shepard. Right?
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He needs to briefly be the main character.
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Could be an assist. A shining moment, if you will. Thank you.
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That's what we call Bryce Drew.
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Yeah, like we're not drawing up plays for the white guy.
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Bryce Drew was pretty sick. But, you know, there's white guys everywhere. Yeah. The statistics. And so there's like this hot new theory that NIL and the portal have killed the mid-major, which is why you're getting less of the secret sauce. For one year. For one year it's killed the mid-major, yeah. If I may, I'm confused because we had Jim Laraniga on our March badness broadcast.
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I saw Jim Laranega, and I really don't understand where he's coming from. He tweeted something to the effect of, like, Happy Portal. Well, he's like, Happy Portal, where you can lose your entire roster. And he's famously shared this story about how after Miami made the Final Four run, everybody on his roster came to him asking for a raise. It's just... May I ask you guys, how are we doing here?
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Because Jim Laranega, the big baddie that ruined everything in Miami is apparently NIL or the portal. I don't know which one he's talking about, to be fair. He could be talking about the portal. He could be talking about NIL.
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And then he did a show with Lil Wayne and a bunch of other people, and he was doing this, right? And then he stepped away from doing a show. He said, I'm going to go chill in my house. I'll do some stuff on you.
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Hand in hand, right? If you don't give me my NIL, I'll go to the portal.
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Right. Miami, basketball.
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Did pretty well with NIL. Yes, and the portal. Made Elite Eight, made Final Four. Yes. They lost. Jim will try to convince you that he lost his entire roster the following year. He did? No, he didn't! Oh, no? Oh, man. Oh, wow. No! He didn't. He lost Zay Wong, and he lost Jordan Miller. Now, two guys that have been in and out of the league. Good players.
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Replaced him with a first-round draft pick in George, who's playing well for the Wizards. And Matt Cleveland, who Jim Laranega loved and wanted, and twice now said, I prefer him over other guys. So he brings in a first-round talent to a core that made it to the Final Four. You still have Pac. You still have Omer.
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What is happening here? They fell off a cliff with all that talent. And the following year, he followed that up by getting Jalil Bethea, who was the number one guard coming into college. And then he quits on the team midway through the year. But it's NIL and the transfer portal is full.
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I'll tell you what it is. I'll tell you exactly what it is, Mike. Give it to us. I have a theory, too. You ever meet anyone who's in an open relationship? You ever meet those people?
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You mean the upside-down pineapple thing?
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He's on one right now.
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So not necessarily swinging, but open relationship. Meaning like, hey, man, me and my old lady, we have an open relationship. I can see whatever, you can see whatever. Inevitably, for all those people, it's great when I'm the open part. When the other side is the open part, wait a second, hold on, now what are we doing here? That's the exact same thing.
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It's cool to be in an open relationship when you're the one who gets to bang everybody and your significant other is dutiful at home and just waiting for you. When the significant other takes advantage of the open relationship, now all of a sudden we've got a problem. And that's what Jim Laranega's doing.
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That's definitely how that went.
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Right? For Geraldine. For Ernestine. For Ernestine. For Ernestine. Right? So it's like, all right, okay, whatever. We gave it an old college try. 20 years. It didn't work. All right. And then the moment he steps aside, not only does this thing happen, it happens to Stephen A. Smith and not...
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But he wasn't being taken advantage of. No, the following year, after he followed up a Final Four season with getting a first-round traffic in his roster, we brought back the entire core. So, like, who's doing this? Who's the boogeyman that's stealing your players? You didn't lose anybody.
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That following year, which was one of the more talented Miami teams of all time and one of the most disastrous seasons of all time, only followed up by a more disastrous season that caused him to quit midway. It doesn't hold water, and he's a nice guy. I love Jim. Greatest coach in the history of the program. Love the guy. But he keeps perpetuating something that's just flatly not true.
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He made it up. It's not a thing. We had Seth Davis on the show saying the NIL spent... I'm like, guy, I know. We got Bethea. Like, it's not a real thing.
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That is what happened here. Unchecked theory?
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Just got checked. It's flatly what happened here. He can be frustrated with the process. He lamented plenty around boosters and the collective about this process. It's why a lot of people... Look, on the women's side, Katie Meyer also retired because of a similar thing, even though she had success at it, even though the collective... helped fuel a deep run in their tournament.
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They went to the Elite Eight. But it's just, he keeps perpetuating a false narrative because it's convenient. You didn't have the energy to keep up with the times. It's totally understandable, my guy. But it's just a lie and it's become fact. You didn't lose anybody to another school after the Final Four. You lost two dudes to the NBA and you replaced them with NBA players. It's just not accurate.
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Yeah. Oh, that's right.
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You have to be careful with the secrets. No, this is a secret from 25 years ago. He already wrote down Alabama. He knows that he's going to write Alabama.
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Oh, it's Kirk Heinrich and Rafe LaDoodoo. No, Nick Collison.
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Hawk, are you going to watch?
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It's not LaDoodoo.
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How is it pronounced? LaFrance. Oh, okay.
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Is she alive? Is her team any good? No. Her team's dead. She's alive, though.
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She probably took Miami's first Final Four run away. Remember that Lonnie Walker team was loaded. Miami was going to make a run. They lost to Sister Jean in the first round, and they made it all the way to the Final Four.
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I want to get to this story here. It's on the list. Part of it because this is a very interesting story, but more so because I was outraged by the reaction of one Ethan outside at the table. Oh, Lord. This basketball? This is not basketball. Okay. I don't know. Maybe you're like, Ethan, maybe this might be a revelation to you, too. Uh-oh. So Mike says, hey, did you hear?
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They declassified the files on the Ark of the Covenant. And my mind goes to the warehouse, and like, oh, they found the box. Like, it was an unmarked box.
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How do we do that, right? And so as Mike is starting to explain the story that we'll get to in a second, Ethan says...
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Because he knew it at one point.
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That's how Ethan sounds when he talks about things. When you talk about things that you should know, young man, you sound like that to me. That's what your voice sounded like, Ethan. Is it possible? Juju put it on the poll? Like, do you know what the Ark of the Covenant is? Everyone knows what this is, right? And I'm not saying because you know from Bible study.
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Well, he's supposed to be an Old Testament guy. Well, that's the other thing.
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But he's a man of the tribe. He's M.O.T.
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So the Old Testament, at least. Should be locked in on that.
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Positively dialed on the Ark.
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Come on now. Can't let Hitler have it.
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Exactly right. That kind of weapon? That was not in the Old Testament. That was in Indiana Jones. But it was candy.
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What about the part where you can't look at them? Eyes closed.
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You can't touch it.
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You can't look at it.
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Keep your eyes closed. There's something to that, by the way. And again, I know people think I'm being sarcastic. This is declassified. This is real. The CIA confirmed the existence of the Ark of the Covenant. They tracked it down by using a psychic. And if you think that's ridiculous, just look into their programs. That's crazy. Okay?
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Look, it wasn't just Hitler who was into their cult. Dude.
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The most aggrieved part of here is Skip Bayless. Because not only did it not happen to him, Hawk. Uh-huh. He doesn't even have the opportunity to go on air across the nation, nationwide TV, and do his thing.
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Thank you That's it.
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And also Dak Prescott trade rumors. He's probably losing his mind.
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I was short first. The funny thing is just that, is that idea that you say that, and on some level, you're right, but everyone looks at you like, okay. Okay, old man.
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Maybe it might be bedtime. That good CTE is acting up again.
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Hey, man, I created this thing. I championed this thing. And then someone else is going to take it from me and make it way more popular to the point where no one's going to acknowledge where it came from. It's got to be.
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I got to be honest. I mean, I hadn't thought of him this entire time. You're the first person to actually invoke his name revolving this story.
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It's me. It is me.
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He's probably grateful for this because, I mean, granted, I know he loves to take, right? He wants to weigh in on this. He wants to have the outlet. But to not have a platform, to not even be thought of, that's kind of cruel.
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That was confusing, right? But I guess he was doing his villainy thing not exactly fully opposite of Stephen A. I feel like my childhood was a lie now.
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Was Stephen A doing the ultimate yes and? Or no but. He was doing no but. He was doing no but. He was doing no but the whole time. Yeah. Right? Like, every time him and Skip would get together, Skip would say this, and he would no but him as opposed to yes and him, which is great for debate television, right? That's exactly what you want. But secretly deep down inside.
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Because, like, think about all the things that Stephen A. said, right? Like, that's why I never liked him. He's a backstabber. All these things he said on first take the next day, it's like, Oh, man, did you always feel like this?
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Apparently. And I saw a clip of Nick Wright's show where he's like, Jordan texts Stephen A. LeBron doesn't text Stephen A. And that's basically this whole thing. And I was like, why am I just learning that Jordan texts Stephen A? Why wasn't this agenda more clear to me? What happened?
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Jordan texts all of his main guys, you know.
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Does he text you?
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I mean, there's a reason why he's coming to the funeral. Jordan's coming to my funeral. Jordan's not coming to your funeral. He's coming to my funeral. Jordan is not coming to your funeral. He's coming to my funeral.
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Preferably at maybe the 17th hole. That's where the wake is. And you can grab a cocktail on the way there and just kind of wave. And you have to walk through the wake to get to the parking lot. No one can talk during his backswing, no. No memories of Amin during the backswing. It's quiet during the backswing. The moment of silence is for MJ's drive, not for Amin.
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There's nobody last night who was more delighted. by the turn of events than the one and only Dan Levitard. Oh my God, I had to do a two hour stream with him last night and it happened right when that Bulls game was ending. We had Nick Wright on and it was crazy, right?
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And his memory of you will be directly tied to his performance on that hole.
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The very least par.
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He might share his thoughts. Oh, wow. Well, hold on now. This whole time I've been fixated on Michael Jordan being at my funeral. I never consider Michael Jordan saying a couple words.
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Yeah, provided that everything is at the 17th hole at his local course and you work it out with his tee time, he will definitely speak provided he eagles.
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I want to see someone else take it personal. Let's take a look at the shot that Josh Giddey hit here. So, Austin Reese had just made a layup, right? Go ahead and run it. Inbound, Josh Giddey brings it up. Exactly half court over LeBron, might I add.
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crowd goes nuts i understand you try to provide some context there was a layup made beforehand yeah there was so much that happened there's so much it was like the craziest 15 seconds yes the the entire segment sequence we'll play it in a second but i i wanted to show the shot itself because this was dan levitard's reaction his live reaction at finding out that the shot was made go ahead all right luca is inbounding it
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Dan was about seven mezcals deep at that point. You could tell by that rich hue in his face. He was fueled off of lots and lots of alcohol and was absolutely beside himself. He actually falls back in his chair after that. There's a shot of him with his feet above his head and then he flips over and then Valerie comes and checks on him. If you didn't see that, you gotta watch it.
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It's all on YouTube, the whole thing. All two hours of it. There's another person I wanna point out because we had Dan's reaction, we got Nick Wright's reaction. And you know how, I don't know if you guys believe in reincarnation. Do any of you guys believe in reincarnation? Sometimes.
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I could see Dan, who's obviously not here, he's out of town, I could see him wanna parachute back in and do the show today, and I said, no, no, we can't do that. We got it from here. But the second happiest person has to be Stephen A. Smith. This is like the exact other side of the coin from the Pacers game, right? Pacers game happens. LeBron's in Indiana. He does Pat McAfee.
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Okay. Go ahead. You're not going to also be able to be there. You're going to be there. Buddy, I'll come to my own funeral. How about that? Hey! Resurrection, hey! Some people believe in reincarnation. Some people believe in whatever that thing was from the movie Fallen. You guys remember Fallen with Denzel Washington where the spirit goes from person to person, right?
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The spirit of Stugatz was in the building last night because Josh Giddey hits that shot and they cut to the crowd and there's a dad and his kid, I think, courtside and they're jumping up and celebrating. And this kid, ladies and gentlemen, he's holding a Laker jersey in his hand. This kid was rooting for the Lakers. Josh Giddey hits that shot. Jersey comes off.
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Let me jump up and down with everybody else. Ladies and gentlemen, Stugatz. We found him. Right there. That's him right there. Man.
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It's one of the more insane endings to a game.
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Oh, man. Especially the way the Bulls have been playing recently. Like, this is, dare I say it, this is the feel-good story of March at least, right? For sure. They're cresting in an insane way. And do you know why they're cresting, Mike? Why? Because Disturbed played a concert at their arena and damaged the banners. And I said on that day, now they've got to put up new ones. New banners.
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And Kobe White said, heard you. So did Josh Giddey, by the way.
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Well, he's down with the sickness.
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It's not for your demo.
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It does work. Multiple prongs.
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I think we have the entire sequence. We should. Here we go. I don't even know if we're allowed to show this, but we're going to show it. Who cares? Let's get fined. It's not my money. You got a corner three right there from Williams, from Patrick Williams. Corner three.
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And Giddy with the assist to Kobe White. But do you know who Giddy stole the ball from? Do you know who Giddy stole the ball from?
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From LeBron. Like for that, from the peak of I won the game with a tap to I threw the game away. I threw the game away. That's the thing. That's an uncharacteristic.
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I was going to say that. Like, if you're J.J. Reddick, you're like, come on. It's a miracle. And then there's the Austin Reeves layup, and here comes no timeouts, Bulls inbound, get it back to Giddy. Great defense. Well, it's a great defense.
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They post all the memes, him and Kevin Love are tag teaming, like the ha-ha, look at Stephen A. Smith trying to box and all that stuff. And then LeBron has a tip in to win the game, and it's like top of the mountaintop. That's why you don't mess with the big dog. And then literally one night later, LeBron has that turnover, and then Josh Giddey, of all people, hits a half-court shot over him.
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LeBron had a hand up. It was a close out to the side. It was a heave from half court.
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Who's the most dangerous guy? The guy with the ball. Thank you. That's always the most dangerous guy. So this was our version of March Madness in the NBA. Meanwhile, college basketball had a very different March Madness. Hold on.
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You guys are going to do a belated bracket?
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He's starting from the beginning not knowing who won anything.
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I have no idea.
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So he's guessing who won like McNeese State versus Iowa or whatever the game was. Or Clemson, yeah. Wow. So if we're going to do spoilers, I'm going to have to cover my ears. Well, we have one spoiler. Two spoilers.
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Well, no, we're not going to talk about all of it. We're just going to talk.
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Oh, that's nice. That's like my dad had a friend who wouldn't watch any movie if there was a horse in it. If a horse showed up midway through the movie, the dude would get up and leave the theater. So he hated Animal House. And my dad's like, he never explained why. I don't like horses.
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All right, so definitely not Emilia Perez.
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You know what? I'm going to go with, I mean, the funny thing is they're all adapted. They're all IP.
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When you said it's a horny movie I said You had my curiosity, but now you got my attention.
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Movies to root against. A complete unknown. Again, everyone tells me that he did an amazing job.
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Izzy, yesterday was the nine-year anniversary of Steph Curry pulling up. Oh, what'd you do to celebrate? From half court. Well, I popped some champagne. And then I said, bang! Bang! The half court shot against Oklahoma City. And the backstory to that was... Don't call it a half court shot. What do you want to call it? It was about a 35-footer. It was more than 35 feet. Let's look up the state.
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I don't need any more biopics.
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I just don't need any more biopics. Well, you're about to get one with Jeremy Allen White. What's he playing?
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Another movie to root against. And this one I did see, Dune part two. Boring.
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But also we got that boring-ass HBO show, which even though HBO does great content, I love White Lotus, and I'm really excited for Righteous Gemstones. But the Dune show, I was like, this is not good.
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Mike, I had this conversation with your buddy Mo yesterday. Speights? Yeah, Mo Speecy, exactly. Mo Buckets. The last Mission Impossible, Dead Reckoning that came out, And then they changed it. And then they changed it. It's like Live, Die, Repeat. Live, Die, Repeat, I will never call it that. The day after, or the, what's it called? Not the day after tomorrow.
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It's called the, what was the original name?
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But anyway, Dead Reckoning. I seem to remember you were like, ah, it's okay. And so I didn't watch it in the theater, I watched it on a flight. And this is how good it was, didn't fall asleep. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time, and by the end of it, the seething rage I had in me, you weren't the only one, but you and a couple other people were like, I don't know.
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I was like, this movie was amazing, I should have seen it in a theater. It's legit why when Final Reckoning comes out, I'm going opening night. I'm not on the edge of the seat of the movie. In an airplane. Like this. Where do your knees go? inside the person in front of me.
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I always think about TPS reports with him. You're going to need those TPS reports. Got the same name? No, okay. Reference flew everybody else.
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It was a double bang. I'm not going to let you do that. Not rare.
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It's nominated for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. The guy who's nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay is Rommel Ross, who is the Georgetown player who played in a pickup game against Michael Jordan.
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Randy Moss and Phil Collins.
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He's taller than Prince, though, right? Yeah. Scott Skiles is what I think of when I think of Phil Collins' game.
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A little bit. He's feisty, you know?
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Yeah. Getting in the paint. I have him putting his arm around Michael Jordan and telling him, like, when they double me, you got to go that way. I have him calling for screens. Oh, Randy Moss is really having a moment.
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One of the fun things that happens when we're filling in for Dan is that Dan will send us notes. Oh, no. He sent a note about this comment by LeBron James. Do you want to say that? Okay. A comment by LeBron James about Anthony Edwards' statement at All-Star that he isn't striving to become the face of the NBA. Quote from LeBron, Channing Frye said it.
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Why do you want to be the face of the league when all the people that cover our game and talk about our game on a day-to-day basis? shit on everybody.
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It was a Saturday night ABC game.
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
That was my takeaway. I'm like, why are we acting like if I'm not the face of the NBA, then I get to skate. No one will give a shit. By the way, this is how this game has been done forever. I told the story before about I love NBA on NBC intros. I'm really excited for the return of NBA on NBC because I want them to do those intros where they build this huge thing.
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
Yeah. I mean, and this was in the middle of the Warriors having their historic season and Curry having a historic season of his own. But I remember in that year again, this is the second Ethan Strauss drop in one episode. But Ethan, I said to Ethan, like, what what happens in practice that like doesn't happen in the game? And he said, Well, they talk about Steph shoots from half court routinely.
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For so-and-so, it's the time of a lifetime. That whole kind of little monologue before. You think they're going to replicate that?
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
One of my favorite ones was, it was game seven, Rockets versus Suns. And they were like... You don't need it for a game seven. But still, it's awesome. Charles Barkley has been searching for the promised land of winning a title. For a Hall of Fame career. For Hakeem Olajuwon, that dream was achieved last season. But the banner in the summit does not hang for Clyde Drexler. And I'm like, oh!
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
Clyde Drexler needs this! Clyde Drexler needs this. But I bring it up because one of my favorite ones of all time was like, OJ Simpson, rushed for 2,000 yards, but never played in the Super Bowl. Andre Dawson, never played in the, you know, the MVP, never went to the World Series.
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
So and so, and it's like naming all these great athletes who had Hall of Fame careers, but never won the big one, never even played for the big one. Michael Jordan, and I was like, oh shit, we're doing this? We're asking if Michael Jordan is ever gonna get to the finals? That was a time, it happened.
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
The most hallowed, the most celebrated man in the history of our sport, they were asking the same damn questions. So what makes you so goddamn special?
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
When people, that's people.
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
Who said it? He foists his opinions on people.
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
And like, what do you mean shoots? Like he just like takes, you know, the little throw. He's like, no, like he's shooting jump shots from half court.
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
In rhythm jump shots. And... Ethan said, I asked him, why don't you ever do it in a game? And Steph was like, because he was worried that it would literally break people's minds. Like the idea of like basketball has been played a certain way for 70 years, right? And then all of a sudden a guy walks past half court, takes a shot. It like, it will shatter everyone's vision of what basketball is.
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
Our next guest has been affectionately nicknamed the White Mamba. You can hear him every single morning, weekdays, with Frank Isolde on SiriusXM NBA Radio. Except the days that he's off, and that's when I fill in. Oh, there you go. You did a great job. He's also a Celtics analyst on NBC Sports Boston.
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And, of course, we're bringing him in because the Cavs and the Celtics do battle tonight in Boston. Scal, welcome to the show. And I guess we'll start right there. We have this weird tendency, people covering basketball, to say, oh, well, I don't believe in them until they show me they can do it in the playoffs, right?
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And even a team like the Celtics, who have been to the finals, have been to the conference finals a bunch of times, it wasn't until them winning it last year that people now say, oh, yeah, of course, of course they're going to win it. And so the Cavs find themselves...
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in that position now where they've been the best team in the conference clearly all season long, wire to wire, and yet a lot of people are doubting because we haven't seen them do it in the playoffs. From your perspective, how does a team show you that they're ready to do it without doing it in the playoffs?
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
And then he did that like two weeks later, I think after I had that conversation with Ethan. And now I think about how many people shoot from deep and it all started from that moment there nine years ago.
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
Is it as simple as that? Malik Beasley, Tim Hardaway Jr., and Tobias Harris, and this team goes from the team that lost a record number of games in a row?
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
I absolutely will do that.
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
I'll do that. But first, I have a top five list that I promised the crowd, which is top five best naps you'll ever take. Right? Any OLIs? I have one OLI, Roy. Okay.
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
Scal, let me ask you a question because you brought up Tatum kind of saying like, oh, if you take my name and my face away from it and just blind resume, people respect me a lot more. You've got LeBron James basically bigging up what Anthony Edwards said during the All-Star break.
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
I don't want to be a face of the league because why would I want to be a face when all people talk shit about me all the time? And you, me, Izzy, we're all roughly the same age. So we remember that this isn't a new phenomenon. Like when you were at the top, People talk shit, ask questions until you win and then you haven't won enough and all that stuff.
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
It's happened for the entirety of our league. And I told the story of an NBA on NBC intro where they were asking, is Michael Jordan ever going to go to the finals? They questioned Michael Jordan. So when you hear current players, and especially an older guy like LeBron, whine about the criticism that they receive. Am I reading this wrong?
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
It's like, hey, this has always been, or has it gotten worse for these guys?
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
When you're on a flight and there's a movie on there that isn't available anywhere else yet other than in the theaters, and you really want to watch that movie, like, oh, great, I get to watch it, you're going to fall asleep, and it's going to be the best nap ever. Yeah.
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
All right, Scal, before we let you go, in under 30 seconds, if Nico Harrison had called Brad Stevens and said, Luka Doncic for Jason Tatum? Nah. You wouldn't do it? No.
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
All right, Scout. Thanks for joining us. Thank you, Scout. You got it, guys. See you.
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
This could end up terribly. No, because your intention is not to take a nap in this scenario. Your intention is to watch this movie like, oh, great. They have The Brutalist on and I don't want to pay 20 bucks to go watch it on streaming.
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
Intermission number five. At work after lunch.
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
I'm telling you. You're at your desk. You just had lunch. It's like 1.30, 2 o'clock. And it's that quiet time. The morning is very, very busy.
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
No. Look, I'm not telling you what the aftermath is. I'm telling you. You're going to love that. That sleep is going to feel so good you'll never want it to end.
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
Number four. In an Uber on the way back from a night out.
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You are about to knock out. You rest your head against the window and it's like, ah, it was a good night out. And next thing you know, your Uber driver's like, hey, we're here.
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
You couldn't. No, you're right. You couldn't. But if you did, that sleep would be amazing. You'd wake up terrified. But that sleep?
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
Number three. With a baby resting on you after the baby's been crying the whole time and finally the baby fell asleep. Good answer. Now, mind you, it's not going to last long because the baby's going to wake up and start crying again. But in those moments where the baby's asleep and you're asleep and you don't want to move, you're 100% maximum comfort.
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
No, you're asleep too. You're asleep too. Number two, on the couch watching NFL late games. I thought you were going to say golf. No. That is the deepest sleep of them all. Or baseball. Golf would never be on my TV.
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
Yeah, they were celebrating our show. The pitch clock. That's what we're doing here. We're doing plugs in the middle of my top five list. What's Cinephobe?
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
Monday through Thursday. Every day but Friday. Same thing. Number one at the movies, let me tell you something. 20 bucks, I paid 20 bucks to sit in that chair and pretend to wanna watch this movie and then at some point my eyes start feeling heavier and heavier and then I'm out and I wake up and I'm trying to piece together how much of the plot I've missed
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
But all I can remember is, man, that sleep felt so good. I'm like, I can't believe I spent $20 to go take a nap. But God damn it if it ain't the best nap I've ever had.
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
Any movie. Really? That's my big problem about going to the theaters. I'm terrified that I'm going to fall asleep. You're just too cozy.
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
I found that probably is an old lie for me. Watching a dramatic show where you have to pay attention, like Shogun. I love Shogun. Great show, but there were so many times, especially because it's so much subtitled,
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
I get droopy eyed and the next thing I know is like, wait, I've been listening to them talk and my sleep brain is talking to me saying, you understand, you hear them, you know what's happening. They're like, no, you don't speak Japanese, dumbass. You have to rewind and watch it all again to read the subtitles.
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
Yeah, they tell you to avoid eating. Wait, you've had two massages? I've never been told that before.
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
I don't like the runner's high. What about when Genesis comes?
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
A little White Lotus action, right? I call that the White Lotus.
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
No, the opposite. You have to root against Wicked, not because it's not good, but because it's more of IP and churning out franchises and all that. And any time we don't reward Hollywood for those kind of movies, I think is a good thing.
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
Practical effects is making a huge comeback all over. For Disney+, Andor season two is coming in about a month. And the big thing about Andor was it was all practical effects, real sets, as opposed to the volume, which is this thing that was literally created to do the Mandalorian.
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
When it's like almost, instead of a green screen, it's a dome so that the actors, rather than responding to like a tennis ball, like, okay, and that's a monster, they can actually project it on the screen. And so it's more realistic as far as the acting experience.
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
But again, you get that washed out look that you're talking about and the practical effects on Andor of like real sets, real on location, just gives it a level of, you know, polish that you don't get with CGI.
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The Big Suey: Top 5 Naps You Can Take (feat. Brian Scalabrine)
Jessica, what was Rebel Wilson's character name in Cats? Do you remember?
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I know it and don't know it. It's like Jenny Annie's Dippin' Dots or something like that. I watched Cats and I have no f***ing idea what it's about. Jenny Annie Dots. What is it about? What's a Jellicle cat? I understand this is really pretentious coming from someone who loves Star Wars, but I hate movies that expect you to do homework to understand what the hell is going on.
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I have to go do homework to figure out what the Jellicle cat is. Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats. What the hell does that mean?
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It's been interesting to see the reaction both nationally and locally to the Warriors winning as much as they have and the things that have been put on display. within media and social media about Jimmy and his game. Things that weren't necessarily being celebrated the last couple years until playoff time and now are all over every highlight reel that you could possibly see.
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So it's interesting to see that. It's hard to watch Jimmy embrace the Warriors franchise the way that he has. And it's really amazing to think that You know, he's willing to lavish every single franchise he goes to with the praise of being the greatest franchise that he's ever played for. And everything is great. And I'm allowed to be me. And he pooped his pants. Well, he did.
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Pat Riley's allowed to do anything.
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This Heat team this year really could have used that Jimmy Butler. Tyler Hero taking the leap that he has offensively could have been helped out a lot by a guy going downhill and creating things.
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Which is so interesting, right? Because all anyone complained about was that they kept running it back, and yet all they did was tweak this roster around him the entire time.
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They just didn't cash in on trading the young all-stars that they had, the young guys that would become all-stars, to get him some other individual co-star that, who knows if they would have had the same amount of success as they've had the last several years, but... It is interesting to see a revitalized Jimmy because this was ultimately the perfect scenario.
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You're not the guy, but you've got to be the best number two in the league ever. 25 times to make a deep playoff run. Like 25 times total. Regular season and playoffs included. You need to be your best 25 more times and then you can coast for the next two years.
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Way too long. Intermission. Well, with Wicked, they're trying to capitalize on the intellectual property and get two movies out of that if you're going to spend the amount of money that you have.
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Yeah, on marketing. It's crazy. At the same time, this is a show that everything that happened in the plot of the first half, outside of one thing that they add to do fan service and service back to the original Broadway performers where they added a scene that killed about 10 minutes. Mm-hmm. It's all plot that happens before.
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The difference is you're taking something that's a Broadway musical that paces really fast. There's no giant landscape shots or beautiful scenery or waiting 10 seconds between lines delivered. You're going at a pace because it's a Broadway show. So you're taking something that...
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at that time, works in an hour and a half before an intermission and just automatically becomes two hours, 15 minutes, two hours, 20 minutes. And then where Jess and I agreed is they kind of, they ruined the momentum of Defying Gravity, the final song, because they cut so many times between the songs.
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Yeah, I think he'd be pretty good against all odds.
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That's a bit of a look at me Louie, right? Shaq told me Super Bowl weekend.
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20 that's with the Cavs and the Celtics tonight I mean obviously this is a battle for Eastern Conference supremacy but for you guys how close do you think those teams are to Oklahoma City like do you think that's just a battle for them and Oklahoma City is going to run away with it you just open the door for Amin here he is huge OKC fan he believes they're going to win it all I don't even think they're getting to the finals but I can't really argue with him about this
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Yeah. So you're all the way there on Cleveland being a finals team, and you think Oklahoma City now is ready to just sort of run its way through the way.
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The Big Suey: First Fake
Ding, ding. That's how you know I'm a fair competitor, man. I got to give it to him, man.
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The Big Suey: First Fake
Well, we picked. the ambassador for sports to go on that show, right? It has to be someone that is palatable for those people. You couldn't, you know... A model minority.
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The Big Suey: First Fake
It's one of those things where it's like, if you gave him an actual sports person, it might be too much, too intense for them. So you add a little bit of milk. You give him one from the library. Get me a sports person from the library. Bring him over here. Let him push his glasses up the bridge of his nose. Well, actually.
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The Big Suey: First Fake
I believe. My calculations serve correct. Pablo Torrey finds... Oh, that's right.
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The Big Suey: First Fake
And it only cost $242 million. Well. This month.
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The Big Suey: First Fake
You don't know anything with all your math.
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The Big Suey: First Fake
Are you talking about the baseball theory? So, guys, every baseball park, where's the home run line? Well, it's different in every park, right? So I came up with the suggestion the three-point line should be home court dependent as well. So in Milwaukee, they might have it in the paint. Because their best player, their highest volume player is Giannis.
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The Big Suey: First Fake
He's going to get hit a bunch of threes from right in front of the rim. Meanwhile, in Golden State, they're like, hey, we got the best shooters. Let's move it as far back as possible. Let's move back to 30 feet or whatever. And so now you've got some variance, some strategery going, right? Hey, guys, we're playing at Milwaukee tonight. Pound the paint. I don't want to see anybody standing outside.
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The Big Suey: First Fake
Change up the rules for that one. Test it out. I mean, he's blasphemed against you.
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The Big Suey: First Fake
I mean, I mean, he's... Look, man, the NBA Cup is not for any of us. It's for children. It's for people who are 10 years old who are watching this and seeing guys celebrate and be happy, and then 10 years from now when they're in the league, that becomes a point of emphasis. I want to win MVP. I want to win finals MVP. I want to win NBA Cup MVP.
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The Big Suey: First Fake
It's not because the example those guys set, those are guys that a bunch of kids grow up wearing their sneakers, buying their jerseys, idolizing them. Those kids one day will be in the NBA and they'll say, I want to do everything that my idol did. Look, Dan, how do we get to a place where you got kids saying Paul George is the greatest player of all time?
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The Big Suey: First Fake
Because 10, 11 years ago, these were the kids who were like, I don't like LeBron. Who's in his way? That guy. He's really good. And that's how you get kids grow up saying Paul George is the greatest player of all time. And those kids are in the NBA now.
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The Big Suey: First Fake
So if you're telling me that a kid can grow up thinking Paul George is the GOAT, they're not going to grow up thinking that the NBA Cup is something worth winning?
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The Big Suey: First Fake
Look at this, Dan Levitard. He didn't even answer your question. He didn't even address your question. The question was, the defense is great and has been shredded the last two weeks. You know why, Dan Levitard? I'm going to tell you exactly why that's happened. Because they figured him out. Because the book was out. You know, he comes in.
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The Big Suey: First Fake
Yeah, he's been in the NFL before, but he's been gone for a while. So a lot of guys, they don't know what he's doing, what he's thinking or whatever. So he comes in with some new stuff and everyone's like, oh, how do we adjust? But guess what? The NFL, if anything else, is a study league. It's a league where we get playbooks and other playbooks, and we watch, and we learn, and we make notes.
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The Big Suey: First Fake
And we see what worked against other people and what didn't. And what's happened in the last couple weeks, Dan Levitar, is the league has figured him out.
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The Big Suey: First Fake
Well, Dan Levitard, I think when you talk about Joel Embiid, there's a lot of things going on. Number one is I never want to fault a guy for getting injured. Injuries happen. Brandon Roy, Penny Hardaway, Grant Hill, there's so many great players, Bill Walton, whose careers were shortened and their legacies were impacted by injury.
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The Big Suey: First Fake
At the same time, I don't think Joel Embiid does himself any favors when he talks in the media talking about, look at all I've done for the city, even though they haven't got out in the second round of the playoffs since Allen Iverson was on the sidelines there.
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The Big Suey: First Fake
even though he came back not to run in the playoffs, but because he wanted to go to the Olympics, he came back for a good show of face to play in the playoffs for the Philadelphia 76ers. These little things, these little microaggressions, as these kids like to call it, those are the things that do not endear him to a city that otherwise would love him.
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The Big Suey: First Fake
Also, one last thing, he ran the scapegoat out of town. If Ben Simmons were here, nobody would be blaming Joel Embiid for anything.
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The Big Suey: First Fake
This is my Toradol, is that what you're saying?
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The Big Suey: First Fake
All of these guys. The only person I will allow grace to is Roy, because Roy said it means playing hurt. But all the other guys say, oh, no, Andrew Hawkins, this, whatever. You guys don't understand. I do this for a living. There it is. See, that's what I'm talking about.
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The Big Suey: First Fake
Now, here's the thing that I never thought. I know that the scoreboard already says I've won this thing. But if you mean to tell me I'm afraid of Andrew Hawkins, I will put my reputation on the line, and I will say this. Winner take all for this laugh.
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The Big Suey: First Fake
Which witch? Which witch? Okay. Did it on purpose. Here we go. Here's the thing, Dan Leventhal. I love Wicked. I took my kids on Thanksgiving Day to watch Wicked, and they were excited. You know, we pre-gamed. We prepped by watching Wizard of Oz to get ourselves into the mood, get ourselves into the mind state to watch this wonderful, wonderful pellicular, as they say down here in Miami.
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The Big Suey: First Fake
And I love Miami. Miami's different. But I digress. Both actresses delivered an amazing performance. Both sang, both made us laugh, they made us feel. Now, what I will say is this. I felt like Ariana Grande's character was more of a one note, so it was easier for her to play. Meanwhile, the Wicked Witch of the West had a lot more complexity, a lot more texture to her.
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The Big Suey: First Fake
And so she had to go high, she had to go low, she had to go left, go right. Talk about Latinas. I'm going to go...
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Local Hour: Thursday Night Football Reaction
I feel like that's a Bay Area thing, right? Hella. That's a regional slang, right? It's like saying shoddy. You don't say shoddy.
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Don Levitard. If Daniel Day-Lewis did it, you'd be jerking off all over yourself. Oh, come on.
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That would be fun, right? It would be a more fun story than tripping, falling, and falling face first in the middle of the road, on a curb.
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I'm looking at him like, oh, wow, because it's Mahomes, Mahomes. Stafford is over 35 now. Brady, Mahomes, Brady, Nick Foles. Retired. Brady. And then Peyton Manning. Brady. Then Russell Wilson. Then who was that? Was that Flacco?
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Yeah. Eli. Aaron Rodgers. Now I'm like almost 10 years.
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Now, this is the interesting thing, because while that stat is cool, it also illustrates that six of the last eight Super Bowls have been won by two guys. Brady and Mahomes. That's the other part of this is that for all this accolades and this guy and that guy and this guy's winning MVPs, two guys have been winning this thing.
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Yeah, it was not on the Elser block, so that's already out. That's too bad.
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when we watched the Britney Spears documentary on Hulu. And in it, there's a scene where she pulls up to Starbucks drive-thru and gets mobbed. And she's like, oh my God. And I'm like, yeah, man, you don't get to live a regular life anymore. Like, these things have to be... your life has to be curated almost in the sense that you don't go to a Starbucks.
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You need Starbucks, someone gets you Starbucks. Or you get a Starbucks in your house like some rich people have done, right? Bobby Witt Jr.
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A bit of jealousy there. I felt that too. Dan wants to renew his vows now. Just to get a...
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Because when you approached, I approached on purpose right side first. Now I have a good side, ladies and gentlemen. So I went dap like this and then— Dip right. Dip right. Like shoulder to shoulder, he's going this way. So I was like, there's nothing. And then I walked away. So all he saw was the back of my head.
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Dan, I'd like to just say right now, that is the most informative he's ever been in the history of this show. You're kicking him out?
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Every one of those law enforcement officers get to say, look at me, I'm in the picture. I'm in the background. That's what this is, right? That's all that was. That's just like, hey, man, let me get a little closer to Luigi. Eric Adams was in this photo. Come on, man. Look, he murdered someone, allegedly. He's not a mass murderer.
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He's not like this incredibly dangerous person that, oh, my God, he could take out three guys. We've got to surround him by 40 officers. he's a high-profile suspect, but he's not like John Wick. Yeah, he's not a serial killer. It seemed like he was Superman. It's like Arkham, where are they taking him?
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Okay, hold on. Is there a difference between him and let's say The beltway sniper from D.C. from like 15, 20 years ago?
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Let me be clear, because before everyone takes what I said out of context, I didn't say what he did was all right or justified or anything. All I said was they are escorting him with the type of escort usually reserved for someone who's incredibly dangerous. Like, over the regular dangerous people, above and beyond. And I think that is just performative.
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Like Mike said, it's like guys are just trying to, dude shows up wearing his off-white Jordans, you're trying to flex. You're trying to be like, I was there and I looked amazing.
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People are number than the left side of my face, Dan.
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Definitely concerning, Dan. But I think the story today is about the Memphis Grizzlies, about how everyone forgot that this was a team before the injuries, before John Morant's legal troubles. This was a team that was right at the cusp. This was the Oklahoma City Thunder of a few years ago, right? Where we're saying, oh, that's the next team right here.
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These guys are going to elevate and they're going to take the mantle. And John Morant is going to be the face of the league, right? We're quick to forget. And yes, John made mistakes. I'm not here to defend him or dismiss those accusations. What I am here to say is that didn't mean he forgot how to play basketball. Mm-hmm. You watched the Grizzlies last night. That is a well-oiled machine.
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Don't be surprised if we see them in the Western Conference Final.
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You tell a little story about the blanket, and then you tie it back to what happens to something. Like that 17-year blanket, there's comfort there. There's a level of familiarity.
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I have an answer for you. It was me. Like four years ago on ESPN, I had a massive eczema outbreak and it attacked literally just my eyes. And so my... You can see how swollen my face is. That's what it looked like, except it was everywhere as opposed to just on one side of my face. Why would you come to work? Because I'm a gamer.
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Now, Jeremy, how do we know that he's not doing this for December to remember from Lexus?
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You were seeing yourself as a quarterback. That's crazy, killer. That's crazy.
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Now, I did find one scenario, Mike, where it's okay for C.J. Stroud to win this weekend, right? Follow me if you will. He beats Patrick Mahomes. Then he beats the winner of Lamar versus Josh. And then he wins the Super Bowl. And it's the beginning of a new story. At the moment, we're like, no, you ruined it.
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But then we realize at the end of it, like, oh no, this is the arrival of the next generation of superstar quarterbacks.
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So you got two guys tangled around the top rope and they're tussling to eliminate the second to last guy. And then a guy comes out of nowhere, just eliminates them both simultaneously. And we've used the Royal Rumble now as a launch pad. Everything is wrestling.
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Hold on, let me text Arian Foster.
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Oh, and Foster takes a mess about ivermectin and Novo virus. And I'm like, what does that have to do with what we're talking about?
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Maybe not. That's part of the problem.
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She's been up there for 36 hours.
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That is crazy. I love how the compromising position is just telling you like it is. I was actually having this conversation yesterday. Let's remove the expansion years from the equation. Certainly for the Pat Riley years, you can make it a solid argument that these last two seasons are the leanest years in franchise history when it comes to their chances of being competitive.
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You can maybe highlight the four or five seed years where they had Jermaine O'Neal and we were all just kind of buying time before the free agency. But that wasn't even as long and as prolonged as this was.
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And even when they were bad, when Deion Waiters had that game winner, they still had the win streak in the season to get people excited and think like, man, if we only got in the playoffs, this is so lean and so helpless and so boring that you could actually point to this and say, if it's not the leanest portion of Pat Riley's career, it's certainly top three. It's on the medal stand.
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Can I introduce you to someone named Michael Beasley?
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That was one year. One tanking year. And they also had one of the best players in the world on their team to keep you locked in. Because, yeah, I was thinking about after they won the 06 championship, there was a slight rebuild. But they had Dwayne Wade, who was one of the top five players in the league at that time. What would they have right now?
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Let's hope Tyler Hero just increases his trade value?
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Dwayne Wade was amazing, yes. When I say Michael Beasley, I'm not just talking about the year before they got him. I'm talking about after they got him, too. That was some lean ass years.
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But they still had Dwayne Wade. That was lean cuisine. They had a reason. Like, we know that we got the guy. We know that we had the franchise guy. And you always had the hope, like, if we make a move and we add to Dwayne Wade, we're good. Right now, you're just hoping that what Kevin Love posted on Instagram is true.
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It was lean rhymes. A lean Alhassan. Linguini. Damn. Come on, man.
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I mean, well, Dan Levitard, when you talk about Jimmy Butler, you're talking, first of all, of a player who's been a multiple-time All-NBA player, multiple-time All-Defensive team, taking this team to the NBA Finals twice. Why'd I ask? And now you mean to tell me he's the problem? You gotta be out of your mind. This is unacceptable.
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Jimmy Butler should be telling the Miami Heat, get me the help I need so I can take you where you need to go.
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I'm just saying, yo, yo, Pat.
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That's crazy. Usually the moderator lobs it up or something. That's crazy.
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That's the question. What's your first time hosting a show? He's not Molly Karam. Murder. This man. He's Folly Karam.
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He's jolly. Kill him because he's fat. That's crazy. That's crazy. Murder.
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I got to ask Uncle Mike about this.
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He say he don't know how to pick them.
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So probably a big mistake. Josh Johnson, the former Marlins pitcher.
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He not stat, baby. He fat, baby.
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You say you never got it when?
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LaMelo Boy could walk down the street. Ain't nobody know him. It's like, yo, who is he? But you walk around, the stereos in the cars is all bumping jello. It's Jello. He famous because he got a top 10 hit. What Lomelo Belgar? He playing his Charlotte. I lost the accent there for a second. I turned it to, I was jolly.
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Where'd you even get that?
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He said he had to go to great lengths. That's crazy, killer.
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You had to go to great lengths.
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Who else? It's not the best athlete musician. It's the best musician athlete.
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I'm talking about main source of income is music. Shaquille O'Neal music was way better. His music was way better. He had a track with Big. Jello ain't got no track with Big.
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I had a lot to do with it. But people knew about Shaq because of his athleticism. And then it opened the door for his music. Really, Jello, more people know him because of the music. Then his basketball prowess.
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That's because he couldn't play.
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But that's what Hawk is saying.
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Musician athlete, not athlete musician. Then you could say, what's his name? Bruce Hornsby then would be the best athlete musician.
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But that's an athlete musician. You're not getting the game.
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It's got to be a musician first. First job musician, second job. I said Bruce Hornsby. He beat Allen Iverson one-on-one. Y'all think I'm playing.
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No, Allen Iverson is an athlete first, then came the music.
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You penalizing them for being nice on the court. They should have been scrubbed so they could win this argument. Come on, man.
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Yeah, he was a scrub on the court.
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He said, Master B, that's crazy with a B. Kill him.
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It's the Royal Rumble before WrestleMania. The winner of the Royal Rumble gets to punch his ticket to the main event of WrestleMania, but oftentimes Royal Rumble is better and more exciting than the main event of WrestleMania. That's what's happening. The Ravens and Bills battling for a shot to finish their story and go through the guy that has been standing in their way for the last few years.
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2 Chainz. 2 Chainz probably calling basketball. They'd lost that to you.
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He dominated Rockin' Jock.
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That's not what you asked me. I gave you guys that could beat him one-on-one. That's crazy.
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Who's a better basketball player, J. Cole or Master P? J. Cole.
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That was all made up. What? Go look it up. It was all made up.
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Master P created this myth in a time when the internet wasn't a thing. You know why I don't believe that?
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You're good. I mean, what are you alleging? I'm not alleging. It's been debunked. This is like saying, oh, man, we never figured out who shot JFK. They figured that out. We all know the answer to it. And so he didn't play college basketball. That was something that he said over and over again.
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in interviews early on before people could fact check stuff and people just took it and ran with it and no one ever fact checked it. It's like the whole Hakeem Olajuwon went to Houston because he landed at JFK and it was too cold. It's all mythology. They created this stuff.
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Jeremy whispered in my ear. It says that he got us. No, he didn't get a scholarship. They looked at they went to University of Houston. Like, was this guy ever? Like, no, none of it actually.
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I've got to research this one.
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Dan, I have another answer for you. And I think this one is unassailable. Prince. Prince, greatest music person, athlete.
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His preseason high for points was eight points, Master P. Was that Toronto or Charlotte? That was in which he scored during his time with the Toronto Raptors against Vancouver.
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Wait, as a baseball player or as a... Nice.
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Hey, howdy, listener. Why don't you sit down here next to me? Let's have a fireside conversation in the winter. This is all theater of the mind anyways. The weather outside is a little chilly. Let's warm up. Let's cozy up. Not just to each other, but also to that beautiful white can of Miller Lite. That's right.
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Make these moments even better with Miller Lite, the great-tasting light beer for people who love beer. A new year is a perfect time for friends, family, and great-tasting light beer. Tastes like Miller time. You know, as the football games get bigger, everybody's talking about hosting parties. It's always difficult. Everyone's got an opinion.
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Why don't you just bring out a nice cooler of Miller lights and make everybody happy? You could be on opposite sides of the big game, but you still know that you are brought together by Miller time. Miller Lite is a great unifier. Miller Lite is brewed for taste. It hits different than other Lite beers. The original Lite beer since 1975 and still the very best one. Miller Lite. Great taste.
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96 calories. Go to MillerLite.com slash Dan. Find delivery options near you. Or you can pick up some Miller Lite pretty much anywhere they sell beer. Tastes like Miller time. Celebrate responsibly. Miller Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces.
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Oh, don't get Tamp out of here.
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This is what the Bills have earned. This is how real football gets played in Buffalo. And they earned it by having a better season. Now the Ravens beat them straight up. Let's see if they can do it again in Buffalo's barn. Put your hand in the snow.
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That's not what I want to watch. What do we want to watch about both these teams? The quarterback position. And when you have weather like this, they're incentivized to keep it in their hands and do what they do almost better than anybody else in the league, and that's run the damn ball. This is great.
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You're going to put a roof on this stadium, and I don't like it. No, not this week, man. This is perfect. The weather actually leans into the strengths of these teams. It leans into the best players. We're not calling plays. We're calling players, and that's what both these teams are lining up to do as a, hopefully, God, man, it would really suck if Houston ends up beating Kansas City.
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Because the narrative is Patrick Mahomes is there waiting and watching, These two teams battle it out for a chance to take down their boogeyman. Ah, man, this is great. This is the biggest game in a long time.
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You guys keep talking about that. I'm going to text Arian Foster right now. He has the script.
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No excuses, Dan. I'm not buying it. I got a text back from Arian Foster. He says, CJ Stroud's going to have a hell of a game, but at the end, Mahomes is going to pull it out just like the script demands it. So don't worry, guys. We got it.
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Dan just wants to change the football calendar. Weather always impacts the playoffs. It always does. And you overcome that. It's part of the things that you overcome.
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Dan, are you engagement farming right now? I kind of feel like he's engagement farming. We were talking about this outside, about the concept of people saying very kind of outlandish things just because they want responses. Like, unpopular opinion. Charles Barkley was better than Michael Porter Jr. And it's like, of course. But you say unpopular opinion and now everyone goes crazy.
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And now Dan is doing the opposite. He's saying, oh, You know what? It sucks that the snow is happening. These guys should play in a dome.
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But the argument that I'm making is the elements actually lean into the strengths of these two unbelievable talents at quarterback.
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That's crazy, Killer. The elements, wherever they at?
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I had no idea Mean had that in his locker.
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It's two Americas dead. You don't get it?
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You in the brain of those snow killers.
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Yeah, good storyline, Dan. Keep going. Yeah, that's a great question to ask ourselves.
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There's so much great drama around this game. And to not have it be the game that actually defines your legacy, to just merely get to the game that may define your legacy, it's just insane drama for a divisional round game. It's awesome. I do feel bad for the Houston Texans, though. No one wants him. I was like, get out of here, man.
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In the other circumstance, everyone's going for the underdog here. We want to see one of these two teams playing Sunday evening in Buffalo get to the point where they have to go through Patrick Mahomes. If C.J. Stroud ruins that, I will resent him forever.
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It's a ladder match where the MVP is above the ring, but it also gives you an opportunity at the world title.
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Hey, howdy, listener. Why don't you sit down here next to me? Let's have a fireside conversation in the winter. This is all theater of the mind anyways. The weather outside is a little chilly. Let's warm up. Let's cozy up. Not just to each other, but also to that beautiful white can of Miller Lite. That's right.
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Make these moments even better with Miller Lite, the great tasting light beer for people who love beer. A new year is a perfect time for friends, family, and great tasting light beer.
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tastes like miller time you know as the football games get bigger everybody's talking about hosting parties it's always difficult everyone's got an opinion why don't you just bring out a nice cooler of miller lights and make everybody happy you could be on opposite sides of the big game but you still know that you are brought together by miller time Miller Lite is a great unifier.
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Miller Lite is brewed for taste. It hits different than other Lite beers. The original Lite beer since 1975 and still the very best one. Miller Lite. Great taste. 96 calories. Go to MillerLite.com slash Dan to find delivery options near you. Or you can pick up some Miller Lite pretty much anywhere they sell beer. Tastes like Miller time. Celebrate responsibly.
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Miller Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces.
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Sometimes they're talking about like stuff that happened in Triple A.
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Fake element.
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Sometimes it's a player from 2015 telling a story. I just like the stories. The stories are really interesting. It seems like baseball players have interesting stories.
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That's how you found out it was not real?
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I thought you just knew because by the end of the video, it's pretty obvious. Play the video. Play the video.
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Two years old?
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Maybe that's, I'm going to have a video. This is how Izzy imagined it, right? It's like, that's my boy. That's my, you get him, Tyrese. No, no.
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I was like, all right, it's time to watch Back to the Future 2. Oh, God! This isn't Back to the Future 2? Who burned over my DVD?
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So two things. Number one. Again, the number of answers that were just like, this doesn't fit for the question posted, right?
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Number two, the fact that when you listen to the beginning of the video, it's clearly a dub over, right? It's complete different sound quality. How is that clear? It's very clear.
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Yeah, it all sounds the same. But number three, again... The number of lines in there, two hands, two feet, loud day on campus. My dad has tape of it. The loud day on campus might have slipped past my ears. I'll tell you the one that sold me for a second was when Embiid said 17, and the other guy says he's a late starter. Yeah, he's a late starter. Two hands, two feet. Two hands, two feet.
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It's really, in terms of the brilliance of the video, what Izzy described is exactly what the Ballsacks and the Sentels are going for. It can't just be fake. It has to be fake. but something that you would believe to be real, right? The idea that Steph Curry wouldn't lose his virginity until he got to Davidson.
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He was like 19. It was crazy. You want to believe, right? Like the X-Files, I want to believe, right? The other thing is it's perfect. This is one of the best viral videos because this person watched the video and said, I'm just gonna dub one line in there. And then let the rest of the video do the work. It is brilliant.
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Yeah, no, it's absolutely the same variety as that. I guess the basketball equivalent would be imagine if someone discovered basketball or rediscovered their love of basketball through Jeff Teague stories. Like it's not even like you grew up on Jeff Teague playing, but Jeff Teague telling stories about things that happened and then he walked into practice.
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As opposed to, I don't know if you guys have been seeing the deepfakes that happen. It's like, it'll be like a Draymond Green press conference and they'll say outlandish stuff. And guess what, guys? I found out how to suss out a deepfake. The teeth? No. It's the voice. The voice has no intonation. It is always at the same kind of thing.
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Yeah, and then I slapped him, and I slapped his mom, and that's how I feel. And it sounds exactly like them, but it's like there's never any inflections or anything like that. So I figured out how to avoid being deepfaked. It's just to talk wildly and then go quiet. That's why Stephen A. Smith talks the way he does. Because that way he can't get deepfaked.
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He was ahead of the game.
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He was like the bad guy in Madam Web. Saying like, one day they're going to figure out the technology how to find people. And when they do, I'll find these people and kill them first.
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I don't like Dakota Johnson is what I found out. Yeah, same. She's a little smug. I don't like her smugness.
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Yeah. Oh, that's all. You threw me off because I'm like, is it Idle on? Like Lionel Richie is one of the guest hosts. Or not even the guest hosts. He's one of the hosts. Yeah. Lionel Richie and who else?
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Really? Yeah. Pretty wild. Dude, you put it on the poll. Would you spend money to go watch Rebecca Black live in concert?
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Stadium status. I think it's arenas.
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That's pretty big.
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Yeah, but it's struggling to sell. Well, that makes sense.
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People forget how good Katy Perry was. I mean, she's got a catalog. I like her bag is nobody better. Her catalog is incredible. Yeah, I liked her Super Bowl performance. Teenage Dream, great album. Killer. I'm going to tell you, man, it's like sometimes I always have these realizations late, like Jeremy realizing that Barry Bonds was actually a pretty good baseball player.
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I remember I went to, years ago, I went to Migos opening for Drake. And I was like... That's how you went to a Drake. I went to a Drake concert. But they were like, Migos is opening. I'm like, all right, what are they going to do? Bad and bougie and keep it moving? And then they started an hour and a half late. Bah! By the way. That's showbiz, baby.
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The union fines for being... Dude, they pulled that stuff at Lollapalooza.
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You're gay? There it is. So, you were saying? They go, and they go song after song after song after song after song. And I'm like, Jesus Christ. I somehow didn't realize. Bangers. And they make music. No, but it's just like every song I knew. Is a hit. And it is a hit, not like a deep cut or a B-side. Every song. So, like, similarly, Katy Perry. I'm like, I'm not going to a Katy Perry concert.
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Then I started thinking about all the songs. I was like, yo, she got a lot of songs, man. She got a lot of songs. And now you're telling me people aren't going to go see Katy Perry, but they're going to go see Rebecca Black?
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Oh, losers. Everything's ironic now.
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That's more sick.
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But here's the thing. I think there's a difference. You're saying Katy Perry's last album flopped. I'm thinking, I'm not here for Katy Perry's new music. At this point, she's a legacy act, right? She's a nostalgia act.
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But she's doing it. To me, Beyonce's doing it. She's active.
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Like Mary J. Blige. I'm not going to Mary J. Blige to go listen to her new music. I want her to play the hits. Do Wonderwall, basically.
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Well, no, I'm just saying, like, my thing is this. I just use Barry Bonds because it's on the sheet, and that's the video we're going to throw to in a second. But it's not what Izzy just said. I could care less about, like, and this is why Jeff Conine was so good. Look at his location. I'm not here for that. I'm not here for any of that. I don't care.
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Time out. I don't think Mary J. Blige sang Wonderwall. No, I know, but that's a joke. I was doing a reference to something else. You're doing a thing. People forget. People forget, yeah. People forget about Wonderwall. Carly Rae Jepsen had another song after Call Me Maybe.
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She puts out good music. I'm not here with the songwriter.
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I don't trust it. That's what they do. They'd be like, oh, you like that huge hit song? I wrote that. How about you sing it? Yeah, number one. It was so great, and you're a singer. Why didn't you make it a hit? Why'd you give it to someone else, number one?
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Yeah, guess what? You know why? But Sia's got a better voice. No, she doesn't.
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She just wails. That's what she does.
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Sia? Bulletproof, right? Isn't she bulletproof? No, that's LaRue. Ah, it's the same shit, man. Hey, guys, let's talk about hoops. It is most definitely. What are we doing? Finally.
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Yeah, well, you didn't buy a ticket, so we're not going to do that.
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To me, there's two piles. There's two piles. There's a pile where like, I'm still doing this shit. And there's a pile that, remember when I had the biggest hit in the world? Katy Perry's in the second pile.
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Hey, lady, it's your cousin, Sissy, Sissy Gaga. You know that new song you've been looking for? Well, listen to this. And she plays her old music back to her. She's like, oh, snap, this is going to be the future right here.
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But I do care about Jeff Conine telling a story about how one time I was getting drunk with John Rocker. What? I'm just saying, like, whatever names. Or sometimes it could be names that I don't know. It was Mike Chibiata. And Mike Chibiata came in and said, hey, man, who took my pizza?
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Situationally.
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In the right situation, it would be amazing. You know what the situation where they're not good is? The playoffs.
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Well, as you bring up the T-Wolves and getting to the Conference Finals, it brings up a very important time in my life every year, which is. shortly after the All-Star break, but before the playoffs, I've got to start booking hotels for the finals.
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Because if you wait until we figure out what the finals matchup is going to be, they're either all sold out and you've got to stay 20 minutes out of town, like me and Tony at Cleveland All-Star, or the hotels are like 900 bucks a night. And so I've got a list here, guys, of cities that I deem to be finals worthy. Is this a top five?
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This is not a top five because I've got way more than five, and I don't know. Wow, way more than five? Way more than five cities. Wow. Way more than five cities. Does that mean I'm going to have to crash with you because I haven't booked anything? See, there you go. You're going to start now. You've still got time. You've still got time.
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I'm going to run through these, but I'm going to start from most obvious to least obvious. Number one, Cleveland. Look, it's the Eastern Conference, and also Cleveland's a smaller town. There's a handful of hotels, as we know, Tony. You don't want to stay in Independence. We don't want to stay in Independence again. So went in there, got my Cleveland hotels all booked up, great rates. Number two.
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Oklahoma City. A small town. Perhaps the smallest town on this list, or maybe not. Stay tuned. Number three, and this one always has expensive prices no matter what, Boston. People like going. Boston that time of year, very popular. Very popular. During the 2022 finals, I actually did not book a game six because I thought it would be over in five. And so when game six happened,
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Every hotel was either sold out or legit $1,800 a night. And I'm talking about like for the courtyard downtown, not for like the Ritz or anything like that. I ended up staying at a courtyard that wasn't far. They're great. And it was like South End. And I was like, but it's gentrified. It'll be fine. And guess what I found out on that day, guys?
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Southeast still hasn't been gentrified in some places. No kidding. Oh, they were like, and it was. I'll let you know. I walked into Dunkin' Donuts, and it was like record scratch, and everyone turned around and looked at me. I'm like, it's okay, just picking up a mobile order. And they kept it moving. Number four, as much as it kills me to say this, Los Angeles. Really? No.
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Is he a good storyteller?
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I don't think they're going to make the finals, but if they do make the finals and I wait to book my hotel, I'm going to be staying by the airport.
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You could have been bullish on the Clippers. But also the chance of happening, right? I'll give you an example of someone who's not on the list. Houston's not on the list. Houston's not on the list. Houston, big sprawling city. Geographically, if I don't get one of those hotels downtown, I'm screwed. But I'm saying, guess what? Not going to happen. Tony, is this the hoops talk you were hoping for?
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Yeah, slightly.
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Okay, so number four actually should have been Denver. I don't give a shit who they lost to. I don't give a shit how many people left. As long as that big Serbian somebody is out there, they got a good chance.
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Now I'm getting to the Lakers. Number six.
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Clippers can get hot. Exactly. They were hot the other night. Zubat. The next coming of Shaq. Number six. And this one. Pretty controversial. Memphis. Memphis. Over a lot of other teams. Over a lot of other teams. Over the Bay? Well, hold on. No, but it's just like.
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Memphis. Memphis, Memphis. Because A, they're really good. But B, there's like two hotels. There are two hotels in Memphis.
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There are two of them.
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I'm not staying at the Bass Pro Shop Pyramid. Isn't that one of the world's largest pyramids? Yes. I think it is. It is. It is. Number seven. Now I'm getting to the Bay. Because they have hotel options. You can stay at Sausalito, too. They've got a lot of hotel options. Sausalito's beautiful this time of year. Number eight. Milwaukee. Milwaukee. The AC downtown. Yep. Me and Tony.
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Me and Tony's have adventures. And number nine, and I put them at number nine just to piss people off, the Knicks.
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If you ask me who's going to win the championship, I'm going to say Golden State over the Lakers.
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And also, I've been looking for the out.
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I just wanted the out.
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I've seen him on, what's his name, podcast, Julian Edelman's podcast, and he seems to have good stories. Millar's great.
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So apparently, and I'm going to let the video guys cue it up, but there's a video about Barry Bonds talking about hitting 100 mile per hour fastballs. And to me it's like, see, the exception to your Gugliotta thing is, I saw a series of videos that T-Mac was doing like two months ago. He did like three or four of them and then he stopped.
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But it was basically like, this is what I was looking for every single time. The moment the defender does, like if it's Tom Gugliotta telling me this, Now I'm in. But if it's like some nerd who's trying to tell me like, I watched every single Tom Googly on again. I don't care about people breaking in.
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I hate those videos too. I hate those videos too. Where it's like, kid listens to Enter the Sandman for the first time. Like, okay. Whoa, whoa. Shut up. You've heard this song before.
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Two great players tell me the story of how they navigated this thing. Right. And so we've got the video queued up. He's actually talking to Stack and Matt Barnes on all the smoke. 100-mile fastball is pissed to you today.
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Well, he didn't say go the distance. He said hit it. No, put bat on ball. I mean, you could bunt it. Yeah, he said I can hit 100-mile-per-hour.
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You know, as I get older, two things happen to me with my relationship with baseball. Number one is... I don't know what's happening. I don't watch any of these games. Most of the names I recognize are the sons of players that I knew from yesteryear, right? And at the same time, I've discovered a deep love and affection and a desire from my Instagram algorithm to continue giving me
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Marcus Johnson does that every year.
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He's lost his step. Is that what you're saying? 75 years old or whatever he is. Prove it, Dr. J. Juju, put it on the poll. Has Dr. J lost his step?
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Of course, you wouldn't like that. Yes, you just stopped doing the videos. Oh, I can't do it anymore, guys. You should be honest.
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It would be helpful. Let's have Dr. J on as a guest. Matt Sullivan, get us Dr. J as a guest so we can just ask him one question and then he can go on his way.
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Is it Marquez or Marcus? Marcus. Marcus Johnson is, he's got to be around Dr. J's age. Maybe a little younger. He's a little younger. Because his prime was in the 80s and Dr. J's was in the 70s. So whatever Dr. J is, he's probably about 10 years, 8 to 10 years younger. Marcus Johnson?
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Still like 6'8"?
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6'6"? Are we sure?
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Even though he's had a jam.
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He's like Sugatsu.
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No. All right. What Jeremy's doing is the old Bill Russell, which is someone's asked Bill Russell once, like, hey, how would you do in today's game? And Bill Russell said, oh, probably about, like, 12 points, maybe 10 or 11 rebounds. And the guy's like, wow, you think the speed of the game would affect you that much in the athleticism of a modern game? He's like, well, yeah, I'm 75 years old.
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That's what you're doing right there. It's like, Barry Bonds, how would you do in today's game? Probably about 10 homers. Really?
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That's the thing. I wish I had a large enough show where I could be like, we're going to get Barry Bonds as a guest. And the first thing we're going to do is we're going to do an eye chart. And I'm just gonna be like, yo, read the lowest line that you can. I wanna know how good his eyes are.
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People don't remember how good he was. Dan will go on a diet drive. Well, Dan remembers. It's like the North remembers.
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People do forget. Hey guys, I did my annual thing, speaking of things that happen annually. Every year, roughly around this time, on the other side of the All-Star break, before we get to the playoffs.
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baseball videos, like these videos of like Barry Bonds talking about the good old days and Greg Maddux and all that stuff. I'm here for all of it. I was watching one about Ken Griffey Jr. talking about like the first time he turned his hat backwards or whatever. I'm fascinated by all this stuff. I love it when it pops up into my thing.
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People don't remember. I always feel like it's code for I don't remember sometimes. Right? That's what you're doing. You're like, I forgot. It's in everyone else. It's like when Dan asked, why aren't people asking questions?
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Who's out here doctoring video?
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See, you can't believe everything you see on the internet, kids.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
Hold on. Yes, exactly. the Levitard and Friends group chat, and that's how it ends up on the show. I did not put it in.
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That's not true. You can't actually show, like, it actually is the saddest thing in basketball that LeBron has to hide any excitement and emotion anytime Bronny does something good. Like he has to go out of his way to not show that he's happy about it. That's a sad thing, bro. Yeah. As a dad, man, it sucks. I don't like that.
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Don't you get more excited for people like that? Like, if you see a megastar, I don't care as much as I'm like... Yo, that's the girl from Instagram.
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Hold on real quick. Why does every story in Mean Tale start with him being escorted to wherever the hell he's going? He's a famous guy. Why can't you just go to wherever you're going like everyone else? Who are these people trying to hurt you? Who are the bodyguards that you constantly walk around with that you're like, hey, I'd like to go to that seat?
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Like Shane McMahon. And when it took age restriction off, I bet you were thinking that it was a young person, huh? Yeah, age restriction the other way.
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It's your birthday. It's okay. But you know what's funny is that There probably was never an age restriction that was taken off. Amin probably assumed it because his thing was that he was super old. Because if he's 48 and he won, what, 10, 13 years? He's in his 30s.
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I'm in the seat to question you.
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Outlandish. Let's not get into it because I'm not here to defend anybody who's not here who was running that show that day.
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Exactly. And I just would like us to move on. As one of the people sitting here who was egging that on and obviously participating heavily in what bad things were said about the people in this room right now. And I would not like to defend that by myself. Against six people.
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That was like part of his appeal.
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Platinum. Did I say gray? Platinum.
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See? That guy. That was before you realized that women like older guys.
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Did Thong Song put thongs on the map? I had this conversation with my wife, and I feel like before that song, and I was young, but I feel like it was like, what? I'm going to tell you something. People are wearing what?
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I don't think he gets enough credit for what he did for his long industry. And that's a valid statement.
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I worked at Victoria's Secret.
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I did not know. Five years. I didn't know that you put the time in. Yeah.
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At corporate or just like a branch?
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So I stayed for half a decade. No, I mean, it was fun. Was it in Miami?
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Victoria's Secret in Miami.
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What is your... I am not a cheer dad. I am a like, yo, you got to get that weight on the balls of your feet, man. You're saying that in your head? You're waiting until step six to crank it. You got to do it at like step four, four and a half. Is this being communicated live or is this just internal monologue? No, this is being communicated live.
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Have you heard the drill music version of that song? Yeah. Yeah, I've heard it, but Roy hasn't. You're right, I haven't. She got another life with that one, but it is quite possibly one of the most shocking songs and music videos I've ever seen in my life.
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She cleared the sample. No way. Because it got so big, she cleared the sample for this song, I kid you not, and it is... I don't know if we can play it. We can't play it.
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I was going to say I urge you to go watch it. I don't urge you to go watch it or listen to it. Watching it's not bad. The song lyrics, basically, it's like rival gangs that are making songs about each other and they're referencing the people that they killed recently. I think a lot of people in the video are in jail. Or dead. Or dead, yeah. That is how drill music works.
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That is how the old drill music works. Speaking of superstar sightings, I saw Mike Tyson yesterday. Where? Here in South Florida. I won't give the exact whereabouts because he was there watching a track meet that his son was participating in. My son was also participating in said track meet. I felt the way because...
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All right, can I get some clarification on why going to watch my son at a track meet is a look at me Louie? It was the Mike Tyson part. We are talking about, how do you talk about the superstars that you see without naming the superstar, Chris? It's a lose-lose. Okay. All right, so me and a bunch of other moms and dads seen Mike Tyson at a track meet yesterday.
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And it took a little bit of my shine away. People don't know me everywhere, but some of the people are like, oh, that's... He's on the Levitard Show. You want to be the most famous guy on your flight. I don't mind it, you know? So at least for my kids. So my daughters are like lined up against the fence looking at someone they have no idea who he is. They don't know who Mike Tyson is.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
They have no idea why he's famous. But just the fact that everybody was talking about it, they sat there the entire time, like one of them kids just staring at him. And it was also a weird thing because they set them up to get them away from people, right? At a track meet. Would you know what a track meet looks like? There's stands, there's a track, typically a football field in the middle.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
I'm not yelling at my kid. I'm coaching my kid.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
They lined up four- You're painting the perfect picture. I can see you running on the trash. There's people with big sticks jumping over things. Yeah. They put four lawn chairs- in the middle of the football field, and that's where he sat.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
Is that not the worst place to put someone that's trying to get away? You're like, I should be sitting there. Let me ask you a question. Shot put. You're a kid.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
You gotta be loud. Big distinction. Coaching and yelling. I am coaching. I am giving him the information.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
I did tell my son I'd slap him.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
You gotta always tell your kids that you're the... That you would slap Mike Tyson. Yeah, exactly. You didn't tell your son. You said it after though, right? I told my son I'd slap him too if he doesn't get up. If he don't get first place, kid, we're better than the Tyson family. We're better than the Tysons. But my daughters were like, oh, Mike Tyson. They're like, oh, what did he do?
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
I'm like, he's a boxer. One time he told someone he was going to eat his kids. And then their face just dropped. Like, was he serious? I was like, yeah. No, he was. He did. Don't look it up. But, yeah, he was dead serious. He said a lot of other things. I had to pour a little water on that fire that was brewing. Stop it right then and there. He eats children. He said that. That's a him quote.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
Are you going to ask me if I would do it or if I would win?
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
Oh, he's a national champ, so I don't know. He's a dad of a national champ or a coach of a national champ.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
He goes after, tries to bite your kid.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
If he touches my kid? Yeah. Okay, I'm grabbing a javelin. No, no, no weapons. No, no, no props. Okay, stop right there, Billy. Let me tell you right now a little something about Andrew Austin Wyatt Hawkins.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
Double middle name. Two A's. Four of them things. Okay. Listen to me. If I'm fighting Mike Tyson, there's no such thing as no weapons, my friend. Really? No, no, no, no, no, no. Because it's not a fair fight. He's a weapon. You don't get to bring a gun to a knife fight.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
He won't have any movement when this javelin goes through the... his top left shoulder after punching my kid in the face.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
I'm going to tell you right now. Well, that's the only reason why I would stab him. I'm going to tell you right now.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
Exactly. He murdered your child. Exactly. So why did he get to murder our children and I don't get to go grab a weapon, Billy?
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
Whatever you want to do. It was a little Wayne song. My bad. It should have been Leroy. I messed up. Look at me. Look at me, Leroy. Racism. Speaking of racism. Ty Jerome. I'm not with Amin on this one. You're right. I got to give you Ty Jerome. No way. He is mixed. Thank you. His father is biracial as well. But if we're going percentages, he probably has about 25% black. All I'm saying is.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
Not that. I'm not hunting trouble. If that's the kind of dad Amin is, imagine him as a buddy. Imagine you're at a bar.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
Have you ever been in a bar fight? Absolutely. Like that you participated in? Absolutely. That you didn't run from? Absolutely.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
Been in the middle of it. He got knocked out.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
Have you ever started a bar fight?
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
That's what I'm talking about. That's what we used to do.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
Look, I... You just said that somebody would be assaulting your son and you would spank him for it.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
And there's not a world where 75% is less than 25%. Now, their name is Jerome, so I'll give him another 10%. There is a world. So it'll be 35, 65, but still. There is a world.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
Yes. Welcome, sir. You're right.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
Oh, wow. Exactly. That's the point. What do you play? When Ty Jerome comes on the show and brags.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
Or he plays all four at the same time. Just back to back to back. He has to get a look at me, Mike McDaniel in there. That way. That'll hit.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
Mike McDaniel. Mike McDaniel is biracial as well.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
How did you find out? I found out because he told me within the first three conversations I've ever had with him. Like, here's family pictures. I think he wanted to make sure there was context to what was going to happen in our relationship.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
There we go. Yeah. Does he say it? It wasn't that. No, Mike does not say it. Mike does not say it. Has not said it around me.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
I know their name is Blanket.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
Steve Nash, African. We give him plus five for his grandma being a civil rights. Pioneer, and you lose probably 3% for growing up and idolizing Steve Nash. That's plus 2. Steve Nash, born in South Africa, so it's a plus 2. So he's roughly 37% right now, but still.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
We should do a top five people we didn't know had black in them. Oh, like Parrish.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
Like Parrish Jackson. Because, you know, in the racism days, and I'll say the racism days, which have we ever did those? But in the prime racism, I'm talking like early 2000s, right? Yeah.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
it was the one drop rule if you had any african-american in you it was black even back in the day like legally if you have any it's a one drop rule that if you have any black in you you are you go to the colored fountain there were people basically who were passing and like the biggest fear in their lives that someone would come up like you're black i know your mom and that was like a real fear so they would have to live like these secrets buy you a drink again
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
That's soda. Let me see you do one of these dances real quick. The rhythm is a little too long. If we go to the one drop rule, it's open and shut case, Johnson. But I don't think it's that easy in 2020.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
Billy, you doing anything fun for your birthday? I think it was more DNA than blood, but go ahead. No. It's today, by the way.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
So I got some information from Smitty. Ty Jerome's brother's name is Kobe with a K. So that might, the reason why that's context is because that might be the reason why he rooted for Steve Nash. Because he's not going to root for Kobe. Because he hates it. Like, I'll punch my brother in the face. That's how the brother's relationships are. Also, it's very important. So he might lose 2%.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
Yeah, well, tell that to Knipple, okay? K2? You know? I'm glad it's not K3. There you go.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
Was I here that day? No, I don't think we were here. We were talking about how good your basketball game is. Halsey, also. Halsey, the singer? Wow, one of us, didn't know? Welcome. She over here now. I'm already giving away my top five, so don't be a top five. Mike McDaniel, Ty Jerome. No, no, no.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
We'll do it the right way. All right.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
I was trying to minimize it in case I say something I'm not supposed to, which happens from time to time. Delicate conversations. Yeah, and I'm glad we're having it. There you go.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
It's everywhere. There you go. I told you, I cleaned my messes up. I mean, I like Kyler Murray running more. It's dangerous, but that's what he's good at, man. I'm like, he's, you know, he's 5'10", but he's fast as hell. Like, you know, use that to your advantage. I hate, like, dual threat quarterbacks that try to tuck the baloney in their pocket, man.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
Show that baloney in the words of Andy Milonakis.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
That is a good look for you, Andrew. Thank you. I'm not looking, though.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
I was going to say, you're walking like you're talking, too. I love that for you.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
Jimmy Graham. What's told me?
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
I mean, a lot of football players play hoops, but not at a high level. I meant well. Guys who don't play football at all and that are just playing hoops, it is an anomaly. But it's like if you are that star – that's why they tried to convert Draymond at one point. They put him on the spring, but it didn't go well. I'm going to tell you what.
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The Big Suey: Happy Birthday, Billy!
No, it's too much skill. But you also couldn't grab – You know, someone to go golf that's never played golf. It takes time. Every sport takes time. Not football, apparently. It does. He has certain skills that transfer.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 9
I think it's worth the risk, to be honest with you. This show kills enough people, dude.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 9
Pump, pump, pump it up. She got a good head on her butt. I pump it up. I'm not a one-hit wonder. They know all my stuff. You let me turn into the brother that you almost was. I done seen a lot of stuff and I done been in things. And I'm so off like that man that brought me in this thing. How you out here celebrating like the winning team? No. Calm down, calm down. Stuff ain't how you think it is.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 9
Take a look around. I'm supposed to be on a vacation right now. But I'm home while in word that DJ Khaled back with another one. I'm steady dropping bombs on your head top. Been that way since I could make your bed rock. You're good.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 9
Can I give a thank you speech while this is happening? Yeah, acceptance. I would like to... I got a lot of people to thank. I'd like to thank Roy for not really caring about anything at all. You got it. I'd like to thank Billy, apropos of nothing, for making me be way more efficient in my deodorant use. You can save pennies everywhere, Billy.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 9
I'd like to thank Stu for showing me that it's okay to look weird with your hair on television. It doesn't matter what you look like. I'm sorry. Here's my trophy. It's very heavy. Be careful. I'd like to thank Dan for for motivating me by telling Derek Dietrich that it was the most sensual and beefcake this studio's ever been. That was all the motivation I needed. No offense to Dietz.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 9
I wore my deepest V today. It's not really that deep. But, yeah. All right. Thank you, everybody. You should know. You should know. This is coming back bigger and more obnoxious next year. All right? You're going to be careful who wins it. You're going to add things to it.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 9
I mean, unless he wins next year.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
Let me speak for people who live in the greater Phoenix metropolitan area. Let me get this straight. You say, I gotta go to urgent care like me. I busted my lip and my teeth and stuff, I gotta go to urgent care. And you walk up to somebody's house? Yes.
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Like it's the Old West, you know, where you go, like, doctor, and then you just walk into this room right here, and there's a doctor right there, and you hit your head with the neon.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
You want to go to an office park, right? And there's like suites. And oh, there's a plastic surgery place right there. And there's my dentist. And there's like a chiropractor up there. And I go in there and it's an office. It's clearly, no one has ever lived in here. No one ever watched Family Feud in this room, like on a couch. I don't want that.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
I don't want anything where I feel like Parcheesi broke out one night when the whole family got together. Uh-huh, I got it. I don't think he's going to keep doing it. I know.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
Yes. Yeah, that's a weird distinction, but yes. Lots of units.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
When you described it, as soon as you were describing it, I didn't. imagine a one-story. I imagine the multi-story, like the Brady's, and there's a staircase when you walk in, and that's what the exam room's up there. And over there where the kitchen is where Alice or whatever her name, she's like doing the check-in and stuff.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
The triage is in the backyard where they threw the football and it broke Jan Brady's nose and all that.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
No, mini malls, yes. Mini malls, yes, because it is, again, Nobody threw a football and hit Jan Brady's nose at a mini mall, right? At a strip mall. That's fine. Nobody had Thanksgiving dinner. You're going to keep doing this.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
The first time I heard it was I saw a tweet that says, LeAngelo Ball makes music that would fit in perfectly on Madden 2004. Absolutely. And I was like, ha ha ha. And we played the clip and they had highlights from Madden and the bad graphics and stuff. And then more and more, there's these kids who are at a Hornets game, I think, or a Bulls game. They walk behind the bench and say, Lonzo, Lonzo.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
And then they play the song and Lonzo Ball's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then... More and more. And I'm like, it really does sound a lot like Manny Fresh.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
Like a Nelly and Cash Money. Not just the production, but his voice and his flow. That's Manny Fresh. And now it's like, I can't stop singing it. And Dan, so Rolling Loud, which is a big music festival. Mike, you know all about it. They do one here. They do one in L.A. They do one in Europe. They're rolling out in L.A. They announced their lineup. And I'm like, oh, cool. And my cousin's in there.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
Like, oh, that's awesome. And then I look and I'm like. Jello? Is that the Jello? He's in there and he's not like one of the fine print people. He's high up on the list. And I asked my cousin, like, how's this possible? He said, he's got the hottest song in the country.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
And then one of our other friends who works in the music industry said, there's a bidding war going on right now for him to sign him to a deal. And they're literally saying like, hold on, hold on, because they didn't imagine any of this would happen. They didn't imagine this kind of reaction.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
Well, it really starts on social media. They're targeting being a TikTok sound. Because once you become a TikTok sound, that's when your whole life changes. I talked about this with Vanessa Carlton recently.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
We did the deep dive. I told you guys. Her agent said, have you picked up your phone? What are you talking about? None of this is true. Turn on the TV right now. It's like, what happened? It's like, this movie came out and it's changed everything. And now she's a millionaire. Thank you, Wayans Brothers. This is the fourth time we've done this on a Friday.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
By the way, not the first hit song in the Ball family history. Because before that, we had LeVar Ball, speaking about that geopolitical situation, telling, was it Chris Cuomo? That he sang the thank you song. Let's go. Play the song. Play the thank you song.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
I just want to point out that you are really dismissing The thank you song? Yeah, because look, you're saying, oh, Jello made this awesome song. Guess where he got the talent from?
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
Thank you, thank you. Thank you, thank you. Mama wasn't doing this.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
It is catchy as. It's from the top of the dome. How can you not call that catchy? You're going to be walking out of here. Someone's going to open the door for you. You're like, thank you, thank you. Thank you, thank you. You're going to be singing. Thank you, thank you.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
Thank you, thank you. Thank you, thank you. Dan, I want to say something because there was a time in this country when LeVar Ball was on TV everywhere. Life felt fun. It did. And then, like, LaVar said some things that were not quite appropriate. And definitely your drunk uncle at a cookout. I don't think they were that crazy. Some of them were. I missed some. Some of it was out of pocket.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
It was out of pocket. Out of pocket. But again. Not a crime, not a crime. And then there was this massive backlash. You can't platform LaVar Ball. And I said, guys, nobody's, you're not platforming him. We're not taking him seriously. And that's when everything got super serious. And then the pandemic happened.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
And I'd say this, I submit to you, if we kept LaVar Ball on TV, we would have never had a pandemic.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
Thank you. Thank you. That's what we would have been singing to him.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
He's got a name. If he said very important people, then he's got a name. He's got to name the person? If he just says very important people, because it might not be anybody important.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
I would describe it as Jim Trestle on a cold day.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
But you can't mess with the money. You've got to be careful. We need a new penalty when you're messing with the money. A messing with the money penalty.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
Yo, wasn't Bad Bunny the one that right in the early of 2020 went to a heat game and he dragged some water?
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
Jessica, when you talk about the Sugar Bowl, you couldn't go to the game because you couldn't switch your flights. But you had tickets to the game?
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
Okay. Would you have stayed if you didn't have tickets to the game, but you could switch your flights?
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
The Giants Super Bowl, the one that they beat Brady with the catch on the helmet and all that, right? I was in Phoenix, so we were outside the stadium watching it there. And let me tell you, that's the greatest vibe ever because you didn't pay a dollar and you're getting all the energy and all the shit talk.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
I'm just saying that you should do that.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
Hold on. This is what I was asking. I asked a question behind the scenes. I asked a question, how much time do we have? Because I'm looking at the clock run down. And I wanted this to be a conversation about, are you guys cool with experiencing something even if you don't have tickets to it? And I thought it would be a cool conversation. Oh, yeah, I remember one time I went to this game.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
Instead, you guys made it like, oh, there was a means punctuation, blah, blah, blah. I don't like when you do that, Dan Levitard. I do enough things here that you can mock me about.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
I didn't ask to end the show. That was the whole point of me asking.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
And Mike's dressed like a disapproving dad. Jeremy, I'm going to tell you like my man Randy Jackson tells people on American Idol. Not for me, dog. That's a no for me.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
I understand. I mean, 30 seconds. Look, the beat is nice. Uh-huh. And obviously, Thank You, Thank You is a hit. But they just don't.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
That's the environment we build here. Now you sound like Michael Irvin.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
Yeah, I talk to him all the time. Do you ever say, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you?
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
Dan, I also want to point out, I think Greg Cody is lying. I think he absolutely knows how to use Venmo. You know why? Because Venmo is so easy. Even my parents use Venmo. It's the easiest thing in the world. So I think Greg Cody's using his age as a shield so that we're like, oh, it's bumbling old Greg Cody. He doesn't know how to use technology. Sorry, this is the easiest app to use, Venmo.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
Open it up, send the money, boom, done.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
It would only be a look at me, Louis, if she said, my good friend Marcus Freeman is the best coach I've seen in my life.
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Local Hour: Big Game James Franklin
Everything changed after the plastic.
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Local Hour: Big Game James Franklin
Taffer would have lost his mind.
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Local Hour: Big Game James Franklin
You're going to freaking kill somebody!
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Local Hour: Big Game James Franklin
Notre Dame, the fighting Irish, have done it again for the eighth time. They're repaying white people. Chubby Jacker. Chubby Jacker. I'm sorry. He's black. He's black, and I was really going, what's a white name for Chubby Checker?
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Local Hour: Big Game James Franklin
And it smells like Luca Milui is what it smells like.
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Local Hour: Big Game James Franklin
Listening to Greg McElroy's podcast? He's great. Earned a look at me Louie? Are you out of your damn mind? You're just not going to get it. It's just not your day, pal. I drove a Maybach here. I think it's racially biased.
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Local Hour: Big Game James Franklin
Mario Van Peebles, who is a very dear friend.
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Local Hour: Big Game James Franklin
This is Andrew Hawkins' seventh nomination and first win.
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Local Hour: Big Game James Franklin
Yeah, I mean, I think that when you look at decisions and things, situations, people often react to what's happening in the moment. Oh, they suspended him. Oh, you messed that up. You did it wrong. The reality is the thing you should have done is typically something months ago. It's an accumulation of Forks in the road and you take the one you probably shouldn't have taken.
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Local Hour: Big Game James Franklin
And then you arrive at this point where it's like there are no other options left. And so I don't look at Miami suspending him for seven games as, oh, my God, you guys totally mishandled that. Now, the mishandling happened months ago when you knew he wanted a new contract, when you knew you didn't want to give him a new contract.
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or the number was very far apart, that's when you start exploring other options so that you don't get to this point right here. By the way, the seven games thing, I talk about this all the time from a league perspective, from the commissioner perspective. Whenever guys do things, sometimes you hit them with a suspension that's not going to hold up in a court of law.
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When John Morant was going through his stuff, I said, hit him with like a 40-game suspension out the gate. Let the union appeal it. Okay, it's not a 40. It comes down to eight or whatever it is. But the idea is you send the message, right? Stern would do this all the time. He would hit him with a punishment that was constitutionally incorrect. It was unconstitutional.
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He knew it was going to get rescinded or brought back down in arbitration. But the idea is you send the message. We don't do that shit over here. And that's what he did when they hit him with the seven games. That's ridiculous that it's a seven-game suspension.
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First of all, for the audio audience, what I was laughing at, because you couldn't see the video, the video was... Channing Frye, as he's saying, oh, someone's drunk over there. He's tossing a ball, like very nonchalantly. It's almost like he's not paying attention to the conversation. They're like half-assing it. It's my guy Channing Frye.
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But that information is exactly where we thought all of this was headed. A, Jimmy Butler wants his money. B, you're in a tough spot. C, who's a team that's desperate enough to do this? D, what does that desperation look like? And then E, it's a superstar saying, I want him here. The cosine is pretty strong. And when it comes to Kendrick Perkins,
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People like to clown Perk and make fun of him and his country accent, and he gives hot takes. But when he says information like that, you better listen because that dude knows people. He talks to people. He works his ass off on the back end in a way that I don't think many people understand or appreciate.
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Dan, that's the thing that you're making a mistake there. You're assuming because they didn't report it, they don't have the information. And you know, as a guy who's done this for a living, that that's not always the case. Sometimes you have the information, but it's not corroborated. Sometimes you have the information, but your source is telling you, I can't let you run with this yet.
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And so it doesn't mean nobody else had it. It just means that Kendrick Perkins doesn't have the restrictions of revealing something like that.
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That's the stalking horse, right, on everything. But I still... You look at it as a stalking horse. I look at it as the patsy. That's who we're going for.
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I think there's a high likelihood that if he leaves Miami, Phoenix is going to be the destination. If he leaves Miami.
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Give me the take. What's the take? The take is there's a high likelihood if he leaves Miami, he ends up in Phoenix. You just said the same thing. I know, but I said it with take voice.
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Give me Stephen A voice. If he leaves Miami.
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Wouldn't it be the most Jimmy Butler thing ever to not get traded and then end up having a phenomenal season that takes the heat to the conference finals or the finals?
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Guys who are typically on the bench and are part of the traveling party were there, including some other people.
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Jessica, let me ask you a question. Have you elevated to known Notre Dame alum? You're not famous Notre Dame alum. Obviously, there's so many famous alums. But are you at least a known Notre Dame alum?
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Let me ask you guys a question. How do you feel about fans who overreact in the middle of the game? I get if it's at the end of the game and you just do a big pick six or whatever, like, oh my God. But it's crazy to me, like there was an interception earlier in the fourth quarter, and then they do the crowd shots, and so many people were crushed Like their life is over. They're in tears.
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You were in the player section, player family section.
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That one's worth it. Was he wearing the lapel pin?
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Left tackle, right? Versus the ones where it's like he'll get up to speed by midseason or whatever. That's the one that you should be having a bunch of young players there and saving money because you can't pay everybody, right? Like the Cincinnati Bengals are an example of you can't pay everybody. You can't pay him. You can't pay Jamar Chase. You've got to say no to somebody.
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Okay. So it stands to reason then the way you save money for the Bengals as they are about to have defensive hits here that they've lost is to just go out and get young guys and coach them up, right?
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I can tell by the tattoo because Poppy has that tattoo on his belly. No, I know who it isn't. We solidified it's not Andrew Hawkins because Andrew Hawkins is not a coward.
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Yeah, right. You know, it's funny because I think about this a lot, about getting up to speed and being competent.
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I saw this hypothetical. One of my favorite Reddits is hypothetical situations. I love it. I love it. This is my childhood. It's like, would you for a billion dollars eat nothing but nails every single day? I love that stuff. You must love Mr. Beast. Oh, man. He's, yeah. But I saw one where it said, you have the opportunity to become the greatest player in any sport. Right?
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Both legends. Or Tyler Lockett. All legends. So who is the NFL legend? Let's reveal it. It is, surprisingly, Ricky Williams.
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Automatically, the GOAT. You don't get to make a single dollar off of playing the sport or any direct endorsement. So you can't get a Nike deal because you're the greatest basketball player, for instance. But any other kind of secondary stuff that you can find, like two degrees separation away, that's all well and done, right? You're physically the same size you are now.
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You get the quickness and the mental processing of it, like to do it. But again, you get zero salary. And obviously you feel pain and all those things. What's the sport that you pick? What would you want to be?
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Golf. Yeah, at least taxing for sure. Come on, man. That's not cool, though.
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You cannot turn around and sell said product.
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Except wear it. Or give it away as a gift. Right? See, to me, I kind of feel like it's either...
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I thought we were playing who that is. Oh, it's Ricky Williams! Is that his real body? And Poppy says, why don't you also bring that Eric Maron guy? I'll beat his ass too. Who's Eric Moran?
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I didn't say junior. You didn't say senior either.
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Oh, the back will go for sure. Tiger Woods was kind of cool with an asterisk. He's cool for a golfer. Cool for a golfer, right? Versus, like, if you're Michael Jordan, if you're Patrick Mahomes or Talon Brady or whatever you want to name him. I mean, there's some cool golfers.
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The Wyndham Clark. Oh, I love that spot. They got a nice little jacuzzi right there.
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They want to be around me. Too many people want to be around you. That's part of the problem. I don't love that. Well, I mean, like, I have people who can keep them away. You're staying at the Wyndham? I'm staying at the T.Y. Hilton. Oh, the T.Y. Hilton. That one, you know what? Great breakfast, by the way. Exactly. The breakfast buffet there is really good. The Points.
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Not a fan of the Points system. Oh, the Brandon Points? I haven't stayed there.
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No, we have that Habs video, though. We can play that. So cool. It's so cool. It is pretty cool. Whenever you defend hockey, you're not doing it well. All right, let's see this me making a mistake.
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I was waiting for the mess up of like, what word is he going to mess up? And instead.
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Now they're square. It's even better that you didn't mess up any words. You said it perfectly. Just my brain. Like Brick Tamlin.
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Now, which one is showing up? To your funeral? Both. Thank you. The question, Dan Levitard, no, the video has been located, by the way. Which one? We asked for several. We asked for several, but the video of... The hockey intro that I deem to be the greatest intro in the history of playoff sports. This is B-roll, so we're going to talk over it. We're going to talk over it. It's a grainy video.
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I can't think of it. I'm just going to say square again. Run it back, please. Yeah, play it again.
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I know. I need someone to go out on assignment. Who wants to volunteer? I need you to go out into the sitting area, the eating area. I'll go check. Because I need to know what's happening. It's a pink suit. He's got the Easter suit on. It ain't even Easter yet. Lent's not over yet, baby.
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I think that's the thing I miss the most about callers was hanging up when people would start saying, hey, I'm a long-time listener.
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Yes. Just letting you know. That'll be a 16 seed. Yep. Wait, watch it make a Cinderella run. That's what I want. Maybe the most boring one might do well. I want the Cinderella run. Because the fans are voting on it, right?
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Oh, wow. All just people introducing where they're from and how long they've been listening.
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Chris, what are the videos that are coming? Are they takes? They're just takes, right?
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Private means it's not open to the public. You couldn't just buy a ticket and show up anyway.
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It will be a very dull reveal. Will the prize match the level of the videos?
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But is the prize going to be a .5? It will reflect the contest. Okay, there you go. All right, so Tony's walked back in. Do you have an update for us on what Steve Baseman was saying in his pink suit?
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It's like, oh, is the signal coming in well? I don't know. And then the lights go out, right? And then they put 1930. And 3-2, 1946, 4-1, 1947, 4-1, 1952, 4-1, 1953, 4-1, 1954, 4-zip, 1955, 4-1, 1957, 4-1, 1958, 4-2, 1968, 4-0, 1969, 4-3, 1971, 4-3, 1977, 4-0, 1978, 4-2, 1979, 4-3. And that's the last time they won. 1985, 3-2. 1986, 3-0. 1987, 4-0. 1989, 4-1. 2002, 4-2. 2004, 4-3. 2008, 4-3.
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Four-time champion, MVP, gold medalist, great father, great husband, gives back to the community. But having said that.
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It wasn't a basketball player that approached me last night. It was a father. And I can get with that. I'm a bottom feeder. I'm so glad you said feeder. A little disappointed. That he capitulated, right? Yeah. Juju texted me earlier and said, if I was Stephen A. Smith, I would do the whole show on Bronny. I mean, you got to. Because, again, when you're in that position, how?
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It's tossed back here. Something like that. You know, it's funny because my taffer goes that way too far. I try to get that because taffer has a screech. but it's not like Stephen A's high pitch. I mean, how married are you to your beard? To my beard? Fairly, yeah. As in shaving it all off? Yeah, I'm married to it, man.
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I mean, I don't know about all that. You've got to get rid of the beard first. I know. I know. Look, this is how I know I would get some of it. Did you ever watch Mad Men?
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That's like Dennis from Always Sunny when he did the Blackberry movie. He shaved in the bald spot. Jon Hamm almost made my top five witties. Oh. So... So to answer your question, I don't think I have to nearly do any of that. And here's why. I get stopped routinely by people who think I'm Bomani. And I'm just like, we don't look alike in any way. Not even close.
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Oh, crap. Where did Jeremy go? I had this topic. I'm good. Something got caught in my throat. Hey, Brian.
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24-8 all time in the playoffs. That is the biggest dunk I've ever seen in a pregame intro. And it's ballsy, right? Because a lot of, don't do that. We don't want to put bulletin board material. They're like, we've got a bulletin board. It's about 100 years old. And we got like 24 wins on it against eight losses. That's the coolest shit I've ever seen in my life.
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Welcome back to the right time. Shannon, one of the strongest hairlines and waves games in radio. Crazy. It's funny. I think about so many people I worked with at ESPN who, when I worked there, they were all insane Knicks fans and the Knicks were awful.
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and now like this is their moment but i'm not around them anymore so one of the guys uh he produces gil's arena steve martinez and i was texting him yesterday because he was going to the game and i said man i'm kind of sad that i missed this whole era of you rooting for a team that's actually competent versus the years and years where all we did was make nick fan jokes it just i shed a tear for those guys in the meantime what do you say to someone when they call you bamani
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Uh, it depends on who it is. If it's like a fan in the street, I'm like, I'm not Bomani. And I just keep it moving. Like I do that. Cause like, oh, oh man, you like, no, we're not going to do that. You have one chance. So who else confuses you for Bomani if it's not fans of the show? Sometimes it's like people who should know better. Get out of here. Yeah.
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Like, did they ask you first where the bathroom was? No, no, no, no, no. Dan didn't even ask me a question. He just assumed, like, as a waiter.
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I did, though. No, I know, but like. No, no, it's straight up like, so we did NBA All-Star Weekend. We had a bunch of interviews with retired players. And one of the retired players was like, all right, then, Bomani, I'll see you. And I'm like, hmm.
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90% of the people who recognize me from TV think I'm still on ESPN. Like that hasn't, people have not made the connection. Even people who watch Levitard Show think it's on ESPN somehow. And they're just missing it live, but they're catching clips and replays on the internet. If we are, I'm missing out on Disney tickets for sure. Dude, I told everybody, I was like, do you miss ESPN?
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I said, the thing I miss was that pass, man. Hopper, do whatever you want. Me and three of my best friends of today, let's go to Disney. And I thought when I left, oh, man, I got plenty of people still work there.
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And then the ones that are still there, I was like, oh, man, I gave them Sedano, Cassidy, Hubbard. I'm looking at y'all, man. I didn't ask that. I was like, hey, you know, like, I just need a couple for, oh, yeah, my niece, it's her birthday. It's always a niece's birthday. You have unlimited nieces, right? You could always have a niece, it's her birthday.
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Every week of the year, oh, it's my niece's birthday. Juju, put it on the poll. Do nieces have unlimited birthdays?
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If he did, I would believe that it would have a little bit more flavors to it.
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Juju, put it on the poll. Which Jeremy song was better, the day journalism died or the day Amin died? Is that what we're calling it? Yeah, that's what you call it for sure. The day Amin died.
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That line is in the story. He used that line. Was it a real quote? Was it not a real quote? Did he have to write it that way? Probably not, but he wrote it.
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So Woody Plank says that he writes his own stuff?
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Also, really quick, I like the idea of Chris being no actually to the guy who's been on Around the Horn more than anybody and won more in the history of the damn show. This is like you walking up to Michael Jordan and saying, well, actually. Gabe Vincent has actually been a plus this year.
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A real piece of shit. You want to talk about pieces of shit?
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Put him right there with Woody Allen and Woodrow Wilson.
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No Anthony. Pretty obvious. No Mike Woodson. The most famous NBA Woody? No, that's very far in the OLIs. Everyone calls him Woody, though.
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Woody Hayes is another one. No Woody Hayes. Has he been in the league for a while? Mike Woodson? Yeah. As a head coach. I mean, he was. He's the coach of Indiana now.
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So is the idea here that the man affectionately nicknamed Woody Plage? We're going to take his word on whether he wrote the words on the chalkboard or not.
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Dan said it. People are calling him Woody Plage. His friends. Dan said his friends say it. I'm one of Dan's friends, so I'm going to do it too. I want to be part of the crowd.
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He bowed out of that. And he doesn't sound like he sucked on a balloon before he started rapping. It's Mike Greenberg, basically. It's not all the time. It's Mike Greenberg.
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He's got several flows. I didn't say the flows are wrong. I'm just saying the voice.
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I got a question for you guys. That's actually not too bad. Yeah, thank you. Delimited fake, put it in the suites.
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It's crazy because... Everyone says the NFL does it right. You should have free agency before the draft. That way you can draft according to the needs that you want. You weren't able to fill in free agency. But also it makes it where the draft is so much more of a bigger spectacle. And free agency is like, whatever. And that's kind of weird. Whereas in the NBA, the draft is a big deal.
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But then free agency is a way bigger deal.
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Oh, yeah. All right, so what do we got going on, Chris?
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I was pretty surprised by it. I don't know. He's been playing very good ball. Is that one of those, I want to be able to walk my daughter down the aisle for her wedding kind of retirements?
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Let me ask you guys a question. When you think about football positions, right, which position would you say has the shortest learning curve? Because some of the stuff is like, you know, you just got to be in the league a couple of years just for things to slow down.
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Right. Regardless of what the learning is, whether it's skill, whether it's coverage, which one is the most likely I can get in a rookie or a young player and get him up to speed? Non-special teams.
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I guess the way I'm working at this is that it would seem to me in a salary cap sport where every dollar you spend here is a dollar that you can't spend there, that the positions that you should be paying are the ones where it's, the learning curve is the longest, right? So quarterback, right?
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So we're already, everybody is in agreement here, no chance Michael Jordan is showing up at Amin's funeral, right? Because he also implied that yesterday.
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If you died in Arizona. Wait, what if you died in Cleveland? There's no chance.
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I'm out, by the way, if it's in Cleveland. If it's in Ibiza, you're not coming? Ibiza, maybe.
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It's a strong maybe. There's no chance J. Cole shows up as the most famous person at your funeral and just sits there and is just one of the guys.
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Oh boy, we're taking a trip on a Dan Levitard roller coaster here.
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Can you just get to the question, man?
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I told you guys. I trusted Tony.
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What's going to happen here? Nothing. I mean...
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But we believe, because this is what we believe happened, at least the internet sleuths, is that during one of his podcasts, Stephen A., in the visual portion of the podcast, they're playing clips of Bronny just being bad. And they're not really talking about that necessarily. They're just playing clips of Bronny being bad, which is kind of what... the internet is these days.
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It's clips of Bronnie being bad. That's just a producer. Right, so it might not be Stephen A. 's fault, but he's getting this message across in a very public way to Stephen A. directly and storming off.
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That's not one of those that LeBron does in front of everybody. That's one of those he does in the back hallway. Hey, take it easy on Dalton.
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Some things just need to be said. Just need to be said. So was this a favor for Stephen A. Smith then? Because, look, the whole thing about Bronny being criticized, like, Stephen A. He's not the only person that's doing it. It's not even the first person I think of. Who's the first person you think of?
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I just think of this one dude's voice that is just like, I don't know what he does, but he's just like, oh, there he is with the lay, and it's like a complete air ball, and it's just hilarious. I don't know what it is, but that's the first person I think of. To me, this whole Brawny gets bad publicity stuff and he's being the dad, it's such kind of BS.
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He's sort of selective protecting from him, of him. Because I remember back in the day, I was trying to do a story on... This was... maybe six, seven, eight years ago. Actually, no, he was just, yeah, so about eight years ago. He was with Cleveland. I'm trying to do a story on players whose dads played in the NBA and trying to talk to them about how they raised them, whatever.
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And he was like, no, I don't want my son in the media like that. His son is already an NBA player? No, not yet. This was at the time he was still coming up. And I was just like, well, wait a second. First of all, I don't even have to talk to him. Just talk about you, how you raised him, and you're thinking of it.
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But he definitely pushes him out there since then and has put him out there in the public eye more so than even I was.
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Who is the scariest NBA dad? Because to me, Kenyon Martin would scare the hell out of me.
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With this many people coming, there's going to be cameras there. It's got to be televised. No, no, no. No media. I've also written that in my will. You have to sign an NDA, too? There's J. Cole's flowers over there. He didn't make it. Beetle sent flowers.
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He does not look human. Like, you were to tell me this was an AI robot, I would absolutely believe it. And he's going for, like, he thinks this is the most intense moment of his life. He's not going for it. He's got it.
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No. No, it wasn't. Do you think Stephen A would send a message to your funeral? Because he wouldn't show up. He's not. No, Stephen A's not. But would he do his own voice and say, this is Amin doing Stephen A? No, I don't think so.
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We need to play this later. Chris having a day earlier when we were at the Clevelander. We don't have to play that random clip. That has no context with today's show. It's a perfect context. You've had a day, and that's going to be a continuation of your day. We won't play it just yet, though.
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And that's the Warriors, right? I want to talk about the Warriors. I want to talk about Steph Curry because I was thinking about this the other day. You know how people, like they throw around the phrase alien? It's a lot when it comes to the NBA. They're like, oh, that guy's an alien. He's a freak of nature. Usually it's with Wemby now, right? But even guys like a man Thompson get that.
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These crazy athletes. Wouldn't be an episode of Oddball without Izzy being at the Thompson Twins. Right. One way or another. Just saying. Um... Steph Curry is the one person in the NBA who if there had to be, you had to tell me one person in the NBA is absolutely not from this earth. It's absolutely Steph Curry. Like the control and the stuff that he does with a basketball is absolutely insane.
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And not like I've just thrown, oh, I'm Kobe. I practice left-handed shots. No, like he did. I was talking to, look at me, Louie. I was talking to DeMarcus Cousins the other day and he was saying that whenever Steph would come into practice. Look at me, Louie G. Did we get rid of Louie? We only have Leroy now. He would just walk into the gym, pick up a basketball. He hasn't done it yet.
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That was not me. Those buttons work, by the way, man. Good job of what you're doing. Please. Just pick up a basketball right off the rack, throw it behind his back, and just swish off the third basket all the way down. And it's just like, there's no way. It can't be luck. It can't be luck. and it can't be human.
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The stuff that he's doing is absolutely insane from the tunnel, even the ones that he does 60 feet in the air and it bounces up and in and he's calling it while it's in the air, not human stuff.
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Everything you just said about Steph Curry is why I'm just like, can people just stop talking about Jimmy Butler for a second? The reason, first of all, look who they've beaten. And then look at those couple of good teams that they've beaten and who was actually playing those nights. They haven't beaten anybody. You haven't beaten anybody. Yes. Paper. And Steph is just doing Steph, man.
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Like, he is absolutely insane. Jimmy Butler got there. Yeah, play a little bit harder defense. Yeah, cut when you need to cut. We already know that. But Steph is just effing doing crazy shit. Like, you watched him in the, what was it called, Courts of Gold? Is that the Olympics one? Just one Court of Gold. He's basically telling them, hey, run this ear tug thing because they can't stop.
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And even when they did that, it wasn't an easy shot. It was a ridiculous catch-and-shoot three in between two people. I got this. Like, Steph is an alien doing alien shit right now, and the Warriors look great as a result. That's why Draymond Green was saying, we're going to win a championship, not because Jimmy Butler was on the team. It's because, like, oh, Steph's back.
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36 or about to be 37, right? Your old Steph Curry looks like 25-year-old Steph. Let's throw in numbers around. And so, yeah, that guy is the reason like just go look at Jimmy Butler's numbers. And I know offensive numbers, not the whole example or picture of what he's doing there. But he is not the impact that we're saying he has. This is a Steph Curry situation.
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And if they go ahead and win it all, it's because dude's going to be healthy throughout the entirety of the playoffs. And nobody knows how to stop that dude. He doesn't. Didn't you tell me he doesn't take half court shots because he doesn't want to blow up the minds of all of the NBA? Because he could do that whenever the hell he wants.
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Yes. That's a totally different word. You definitely did.
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There was no energy in that. Seeing Jaime's makes me think that Dan thinks you have to hit that thing really hard for it to be that loud. And nobody told him that, no, these drums are just loud.
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Exactly. See, you would think like just from the outside looking in, you would think that Jaime is this like sort of humble star, right? He is the basketball player. Here's the people that, you know, the person that people should know more, should embrace more than Dan. So he's just hitting it. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Hey, I'm doing my thing. Dan makes it look like everybody is here for me.
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And for those however many seconds it was, we were. We were there for Dan hitting that drum the right way. He might have scared children a little bit.
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Jaime, by the way, is he in this rotation now or is he out of this rotation as he is with the Miami Heat? You tell me. I'd say he's out.
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Nobody ever gets more offended than Roy does when you ask him about popular culture. It's like, of course I haven't heard of that. What do you think?
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If it's a big deal, it would have pierced. I almost had my gay card taken away by a bunch of straight dudes because I didn't really recognize that song off the top. And so I agree with you, Mike, that yeah, there's inescapable songs, but that one was escapable for some people, I would say.
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Can we throw a third one in there? Because otherwise you're just flipping a coin, which is feeling like it should be a new sounder. We're spinning a wheel. A wheel needs a third thing on it. No, it does.
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Let's just put a third one on there. Then we flip a coin. If we're doing it this way, we flip a coin. We're doing big names. We'll just throw J. Cole on there. Okay.
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Jeremy, you want to tell us what it lands on?
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Wow, that wasn't one of Amin's topics. Can we take another spin?
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Oh, Tony, Tony, what did it land on? J. Cole.
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It too, Tony. There's no chance in hell he's going to your funeral, Amin. Whoa. There's no chance in hell J. Cole's going to your funeral. What's that supposed to mean? How is he going to your funeral? How close are you guys? Because, like, look, I'm a maybe. At my funeral? Jesus Christ. Wow. Oddball, Mondays and Thursdays.
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Exactly. Is it in Arizona or is it here? Depends on where you die.
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The premonition, right?
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And that's more likely to happen in South Florida with South Florida drivers. So let's just say it happens. Let's put something to rest. Bad drivers are everywhere. Thank you. Thank you. See, we're concentrated down here. No, no. I think the farther south you go in the world, the worse the drivers are.
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The Big Suey: Should Kendrick Play 'Not Like Us'?
The sweet spot, yeah!
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The Big Suey: Should Kendrick Play 'Not Like Us'?
The reason why it raises above conspiracy in this sense, that we know that this individual is not above these kind of things. I don't think he's a marketing genius. I just think he does tactics that most people would say, okay, that's kind of corny. We're not going to do that. We're going to do this for real. And he's not afraid to pull these kind of quote unquote stunts For the publicity.
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It's like, oh, no one ever thought about announcing it and then not actually doing it. I mean, it's not that brilliant of a move. It's just shameless.
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No, absolutely. No one disputes that.
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And a badger. The... We live at a time where the economy rewards attention, right? Chris Hayes actually wrote a book about this. He was on PTFO talking about it. Nice. How about that? And the idea is that, David, just the ability to grab people's attention, that is the most rewarded thing right now. You don't even have to hold the attention.
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The Big Suey: Should Kendrick Play 'Not Like Us'?
Because everyone's attention is so fractured. We're being bombarded by messaging from our devices, from everything around us, right? And because of that, our attention spans are shorter than they've ever been. So the idea that I can get your attention, even for a brief moment, there is a value to that. Now, is there genius in being shameless? I don't know.
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The Big Suey: Should Kendrick Play 'Not Like Us'?
Like, if we talk about the Kardashians, the startup capital, if you will, of why they became rich and famous was because they decided, okay, we will reveal things about ourselves that most people would say, ah, I'm above that. Is that genius or is that just...
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Thank you. Yeah, that's our Dan. You make fun of your Dan. That's our Dan.
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That's not our Dan?
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The Big Suey: Should Kendrick Play 'Not Like Us'?
There she is. Is she alive? Yes.
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I want to talk about this, right? Because I've had this topic for like weeks now, and it just never finds a way. Now, finally, we found a way, the on-ramp. You're welcome. I was watching a clip online of Jerry Springer. And the topic of the show is my boyfriend is cheating on me on Snapchat. And it blew my mind that Jerry Springer's show and Snapchat existed in the same time.
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It's like when I found out there was someone who was alive during the Civil War who also saw Neil Armstrong walk on the moon. It blows my mind when these two things occupy the same space. There's no way. So I was wondering, do you guys have other examples of that where two things from completely different eras actually coincided in the same era?
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Yeah, there's like photographs of him.
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Look at my AB joke out there. Jeremy is doing the... Oh, man.
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Windows. Just small windows.
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Is that the same game?
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What about Ricky Lake? What about Jenny Jones?
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You don't remember Sally Jesse Raphael?
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Now, here's the crazy part. Were these people geniuses, or did they just capitalize on the moment? No, that's Morton Downey Jr.
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That was a late night.
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Jerry Springer was running through 2018. I just told you they had an episode where they were talking about Snapchat. This is like saying Donnie Carson had an episode where he was talking about Hinge or Tinder. It's insane that these two things exist at the same time. 27 seasons. 27 seasons of The Springer Show.
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The Big Suey: Should Kendrick Play 'Not Like Us'?
To watch. To watch.
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In the case of 27-year-old Jessica. You are not the storyteller. Oh, I thought you said you were on an episode of The Maury Show.
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Dude, you can't say I was on The Maury Show. That would have been more fun. Like I went to, I saw a taping and they got me in the crowd. It's different from I was on The Maury Show.
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On The Maury Show, I had you like them revealing that Lehman was actually telling the truth. And you go, oh my God.
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But was Maury Povich ever mayor of Cincinnati? Jerry Springer has that on his side. Doesn't help the ratings.
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The Big Suey: Should Kendrick Play 'Not Like Us'?
I forget his name.
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The Big Suey: Should Kendrick Play 'Not Like Us'?
Can you imagine being the guy sweeping the floor at the Salt Bae restaurant? Oh, man, that guy's working overtime.
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The Big Suey: Should Kendrick Play 'Not Like Us'?
Really? That's crazy. That's crazy. Butt plugs, I assume, were with cavemen. What? Fashing it out of rock? Whittle it down?
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The Big Suey: Should Kendrick Play 'Not Like Us'?
Let's spice it up. Just a little butt plug. Thank you very much.
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Z, Z, Z, Z, Z, Z,
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I really thought you were just steamrolling past Jess like, nah, we're going to talk about something else.
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That's the other thing. They never actually play an entire song in any of these things. It's a medley.
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But also, Chris, I like the idea of the NFL saying, damn. No one's talking about the Super Bowl. How do we give it some spice? How do we go viral?
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We'll cover it.
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I want to ask David, because you're a lawyer. Ballpark.
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Is this a, if you were advising Kendrick Lamar, would you say, hey, this opens us up to immense liability?
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White guys, wah-wah-wah-wah.
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No, man. That's a karaoke move. See, that's a karaoke move. You sing a song that has a part that everybody knows and loves. And then you put the mic in the air. Then you put. the mic out like that, go ahead and sing it for me. And then you look at the crowd and you realize I control you all.
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The last year has been him just doing this. So it's pretty important, I would say.
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To Izzy's point, they're going to play the instrumental for sure because there's nothing in the instrumental that... Do you know that, though?
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Get a choir to come out and sing it.
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Well, I'm picking up the topic sheet, and I'm feeling this thing slowly meet its mortal demise, and I'm like, well, let's see what else is on the sheet.
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We're not out of topics. This topic is out of gas, though. Oh. That's why it was just a transition time.
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It's a reward to the listeners who have stuck with us throughout the week, right?
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I'm looking at the tweet that announced it from Turki Al-Sheikh, who is the chairman of Saudi Arabia's General Entertainment Authority. He announced it with this Twitter post. It's a picture of a lion and it says, don't mess with the lion, lion emoji. Four fights for Canelo with Riyadh season. The deal is done, boxing glove emoji.
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A lion, lion emoji, doesn't sleep over the opinion of a sheep, sheep emoji. Fear the lion, lion emoji, not the jungle. And then I think it is the emoji of a person going like this, doing the X sign in front of him. And it always blows my mind when grown people, not teenagers, but people in their 30s, 40s and older, sprinkle an inordinate amount of emojis throughout their posts.
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The Big Suey: Should Kendrick Play 'Not Like Us'?
Yeah, not gonna be some 40 year old MMA fighter out there Or I don't know like it's gonna be someone who is that's the thing about the Canelo fight. It's like he's That guy's in his prime Right? That's not the Jake Paul formula. The formula is- He wants it to be.
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Is it possible that we're just going to say this thing and it's not actually going to happen? Like maybe this Canelo thing.
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I'm real. I'm real. I try to fight Canelo. I try to fight Canelo. Here's some money. We don't have to fight. Don't you need more than a day for that?
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The Big Suey: The Deflection Masterclass (feat. Sex Expert April Lampert)
Tony's take, I'm perfect. Amin's take on why he was late, I'm perfect. Got it.
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What are you doing? It's a weird way to describe whatever the hell it is you did. I do my funny business. There's this Roger Rabbit. What are we talking about?
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Are you?
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I'm always this deep. You can gaslight all you want. Gaslight? What is that? I know a raspy voice in the morning. Every man in my family has a deep voice. Even G, Roy? Even G. If you catch us early in the morning, there's a certain rasp to it that I can point out. I'm going to tell you right now.
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Oh, come on, man. And also, don't step on my investigation. That's the only thing. All right, all right. Obstruction of justice.
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I was a little offended that I didn't get offered to go out. Whatever the big dinner was the other night. Yeah. I never even got one. Hold on. I heard the dinner was awesome. You want to feel worse? You want to feel worse? I do. That's exactly what I want.
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Hours later. To not be invited to the team dinner. Where should we go? But hey, Billy, where do you think is a good spot for like, friends and coworkers that really care about each other to have a good dinner.
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Was not my intent.
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We thought you were dead for the first hour, though. We did. We legit thought that you kicked the can. Dog, let me tell you something. We were trying to figure out how we want to take over and steamroll.
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We thought you had extra material. There was a portion I thought you were really dead.
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He does sound like a former player who's a broadcaster. Trey McBride on the call along with Jason Storm. I feel like it's kind of an investment into Kyler Murray because they have such good chemistry. It's like a security blanket that it's almost like, hey, we want to make sure we keep Kyler happy, which is kind of, you know, I don't know.
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He's not looking now.
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Also Marvin Harrison Jr. Let's give him some.
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I wish. That's where I'm at right now. I blame Tony, though. He was the one. He brought the heart at first. No, no. Because Tony cares about you.
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going forward we're gonna can we clip that clip that bit and email it to everyone we know a lot of guys in the group chat are going to be like see i told you this is what happens when you get into your head right if you get into your head then you are just thinking about what what's going to happen so you're not even enjoying yourself like think about all the senses that are involved not just penetration yes what is the best thing a guy can focus on to enhance his own sexual performance
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What happened in Miami? Hold on. Even when we thought you were dead, I was like, there's no way in hell Michael Jordan's coming. Hold on.
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.
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Everyone else?
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So what happened? Are we going to get to the bottom of what happened? You come in here in a UK Nike Tech sweatsuit. You got do-rag lines on. You know what I'm saying? Raspy voice.
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You're late today, what are you doing? We're at that stage of deflection. Now we just are.
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Okay. It's a TNT game. What time did it end?
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You could just answer these questions. Irrelevant information, but fine. It's relevant. 10 o'clock. 10 o'clock.
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He's the media. He sees his friends. They talk. Oh, you're talking about the extra stuff? You probably left... The arena around 1035-ish. Midnight. Wow, that's pretty good.
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Probably about a 12-minute walk if you're talking from there to the Elser. Not a 12-minute walk. Oh, you think he went to the Elser? I went back to the Elser. Yeah, he got to start to the Elser. You got to get ready. He's not going to wear his game clothes to... The Bright Side? Club Mansion. I don't know. I haven't gone out to Miami. R.I.P., I think. I'm sorry. Club Bed. Prevay.
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It's been a while. Prevay. What do we... This man... Okay. We from the early 2000s, man.
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It was... My prime Miami days was like 2006, 7, 8.
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We talked about this. I would just go into the store and just pick a pair of jeans. I didn't look at the size. Wait, what? Those are dope. Let me get those. Wait, hold on, hold on. Let me get them.
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We all, hold on. How about those, Sean? Hold on. Is that a Nietzsche? I'll take two pairs.
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It's got to be a couple years away.
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Rock-a-wear. I got a rock-a-wear polo. I was button-ups. Big jeans and button-ups was going on. Big jeans, button-ups, long chains. That was like my Miami Prime era. So you probably left the Elster around 11.45 p.m.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The Deflection Masterclass (feat. Sex Expert April Lampert)
So that place, can I see your Uber? Absolutely. You see my Uber app? Absolutely not. Let me see your last 24 hours of Uber. I don't respond. Get a warrant, buddy. Yeah, exactly. I don't respond to anybody. Let me see how your rating has changed. What was his rating a couple days ago?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The Deflection Masterclass (feat. Sex Expert April Lampert)
I don't know.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The Deflection Masterclass (feat. Sex Expert April Lampert)
No, it was a screenshot. That is an old move to take a picture of the ticket and send it off. It was a screenshot. Look what I get to do. Baby Billy Fox was over here.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The Deflection Masterclass (feat. Sex Expert April Lampert)
Okay.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The Deflection Masterclass (feat. Sex Expert April Lampert)
Leticia, you were at a strip club last night.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The Deflection Masterclass (feat. Sex Expert April Lampert)
The song wasn't about strippers? Well, I mean. It wasn't, but it was about the women. What? You know, you go into. That's a conversation starter. Hold on. That song was about the women? That's a strip club conversation starter. Who? Who? Who could have guessed that the song called What These Bitches Want. It's a master class on deflection.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The Deflection Masterclass (feat. Sex Expert April Lampert)
That's also sexist to assume that that song is about women, by the way.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The Deflection Masterclass (feat. Sex Expert April Lampert)
Now I need a list of the most updated Miami strip clubs. Billy, if you get a chance, just shoot me up there.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The Deflection Masterclass (feat. Sex Expert April Lampert)
You saw T. Morant. I did. Did you see him after the game?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The Deflection Masterclass (feat. Sex Expert April Lampert)
You did see him. After the game. I saw him. I talked to him. When the game was over. Did you see him in a different location than the arena? Than the arena. That's a yes.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The Deflection Masterclass (feat. Sex Expert April Lampert)
Nope, it's too late. You don't think about that. It's not something you, that's a, do I answer this question truthfully?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The Deflection Masterclass (feat. Sex Expert April Lampert)
I think we're getting somewhere.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The Deflection Masterclass (feat. Sex Expert April Lampert)
Did you eat this morning?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The Deflection Masterclass (feat. Sex Expert April Lampert)
Okay. I would eat here. Could we get him some Chick-fil-A in here? No, hold on. That's how you get him. Okay, hold on now. Could we get just a little meal in here for me? We're just going to keep this conversation going. You hungry?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The Deflection Masterclass (feat. Sex Expert April Lampert)
White people not allowed to watch that?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The Deflection Masterclass (feat. Sex Expert April Lampert)
You got all the moves. He's digging deep in his bag.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The Deflection Masterclass (feat. Sex Expert April Lampert)
Can we get a cigarette in here for Amin? Just relax, man. Look, I know it wasn't your fault. I get it. Look, I mean, I think things happen. He's dressed like a cop. That's true. You need a bag.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The Deflection Masterclass (feat. Sex Expert April Lampert)
I will turn this around and turn it into an undercover. Malik Yoba. No, you did. That was amazing. I'm trying to be young. Like, listen, man. I had an instant reaction. I know there's a bunch. You were out last night. Things happen. I've been young before. You run into some old friends. That's normal. It's South Beach after a John Morant game. He's putting hand blickies all over section 606.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The Deflection Masterclass (feat. Sex Expert April Lampert)
Did y'all have a problem with that, by the way?