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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Dan "The Asterisk Guy" and Tyreek Hill's Jealousy
I mean, Chief Kingdom, I went to the game, home opener.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Dan "The Asterisk Guy" and Tyreek Hill's Jealousy
They are without you.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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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Postgame Show: Spliff Notes With Juju Gotti
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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Postgame Show: Spliff Notes With Juju Gotti
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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Postgame Show: Spliff Notes With Juju Gotti
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?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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?
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Postgame Show: Spliff Notes With Juju Gotti
The people loved it.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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
Local Hour: Pat Riley Made Dan Lose Sleep
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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Local Hour: Pat Riley Made Dan Lose Sleep
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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Local Hour: Pat Riley Made Dan Lose Sleep
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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Local Hour: Pat Riley Made Dan Lose Sleep
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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Local Hour: Pat Riley Made Dan Lose Sleep
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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Local Hour: Pat Riley Made Dan Lose Sleep
Wait, you were there for that? I was there. Of course I was there.
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Local Hour: Pat Riley Made Dan Lose Sleep
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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Local Hour: Pat Riley Made Dan Lose Sleep
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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Local Hour: Pat Riley Made Dan Lose Sleep
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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Local Hour: Pat Riley Made Dan Lose Sleep
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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Local Hour: Pat Riley Made Dan Lose Sleep
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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Local Hour: Pat Riley Made Dan Lose Sleep
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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Local Hour: Pat Riley Made Dan Lose Sleep
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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Local Hour: Pat Riley Made Dan Lose Sleep
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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Local Hour: Pat Riley Made Dan Lose Sleep
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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Local Hour: Pat Riley Made Dan Lose Sleep
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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Local Hour: Pat Riley Made Dan Lose Sleep
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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Local Hour: Pat Riley Made Dan Lose Sleep
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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Local Hour: Pat Riley Made Dan Lose Sleep
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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Local Hour: Pat Riley Made Dan Lose Sleep
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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Local Hour: Pat Riley Made Dan Lose Sleep
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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Local Hour: Pat Riley Made Dan Lose Sleep
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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Local Hour: Pat Riley Made Dan Lose Sleep
What are we doing here? It's the Dan Levitard Show.
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Local Hour: Pat Riley Made Dan Lose Sleep
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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Local Hour: Pat Riley Made Dan Lose Sleep
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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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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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
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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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
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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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
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.
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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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
I just kept saying, why? Why? Like Nancy Kerrigan. Why? Why?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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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Local Hour: David and Pablo's Awkward Moment
When they build a new building, a new arena, they want a casino.
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Local Hour: David and Pablo's Awkward Moment
They're mostly in Asia now. In Asia.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: David and Pablo's Awkward Moment
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: David and Pablo's Awkward Moment
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: David and Pablo's Awkward Moment
Can I be unfun today? I hate this talk. Someone's got to do it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: David and Pablo's Awkward Moment
And he didn't because that wasn't what was best for the organization.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: David and Pablo's Awkward Moment
It was cold. They put it in the freezer. It was cold.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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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Local Hour: David and Pablo's Awkward Moment
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: David and Pablo's Awkward Moment
Is there like a playlist of awkward interactions with David Sampson?
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Local Hour: David and Pablo's Awkward Moment
That's always the gold standard.
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Local Hour: David and Pablo's Awkward Moment
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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.
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.
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Hour 1: The Worst Takes In Show History (feat. Pablo Torre)
And that's how Orlovsky realized he can't criticize quarterbacks.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Worst Takes In Show History (feat. Pablo Torre)
Yes, I did. He was right, though.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
I was all aboard for that one.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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...
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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 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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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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Hour 2: Mina Kimes and Greg’s Eyebrows
Look, in the 90s and the 2000s, what was the league slogans for the NBA? I'll stick for NBA.
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Hour 2: Mina Kimes and Greg’s Eyebrows
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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Hour 2: Mina Kimes and Greg’s Eyebrows
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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Hour 2: Mina Kimes and Greg’s Eyebrows
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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Hour 2: Mina Kimes and Greg’s Eyebrows
Because you have to know that reaction in that sport is the death knell.
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Hour 2: Mina Kimes and Greg’s Eyebrows
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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Hour 2: Mina Kimes and Greg’s Eyebrows
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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Hour 2: Mina Kimes and Greg’s Eyebrows
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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The Big Suey: The Milt Plum Show
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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The Big Suey: The Milt Plum Show
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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The Big Suey: The Milt Plum Show
I kind of see it now. If you saw, there was a prospect.
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The Big Suey: The Milt Plum Show
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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The Big Suey: The Milt Plum Show
Mike, who was the quarterback's coach?
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The Big Suey: The Milt Plum Show
He was Richard Williams before Richard Williams. Tiger Woods' dad, what was his name? Earl Woods.
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The Big Suey: The Milt Plum Show
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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The Big Suey: The Milt Plum Show
How many Zagatos did you get for that one? Hold on.
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The Big Suey: The Milt Plum Show
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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The Big Suey: The Milt Plum Show
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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The Big Suey: The Milt Plum Show
No, he was doing the bit. Just keep going.
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The Big Suey: The Milt Plum Show
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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The Big Suey: The Milt Plum Show
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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The Big Suey: The Milt Plum Show
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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The Big Suey: The Milt Plum Show
And in that is that exploration of something in the beyond.
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The Big Suey: The Milt Plum Show
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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The Big Suey: The Milt Plum Show
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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The Big Suey: The Milt Plum Show
And yet there aren't 30 great ones in the world.
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The Big Suey: The Milt Plum Show
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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Local Hour: The Disgruntled Off Between Jimmy Butler And Tyreek Hill
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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Local Hour: The Disgruntled Off Between Jimmy Butler And Tyreek Hill
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Disgruntled Off Between Jimmy Butler And Tyreek Hill
If you're in a good mood, you're gruntled.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Disgruntled Off Between Jimmy Butler And Tyreek Hill
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Disgruntled Off Between Jimmy Butler And Tyreek Hill
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Disgruntled Off Between Jimmy Butler And Tyreek Hill
No, because that's the uniformity of college football is everybody's in a conference.
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Local Hour: The Disgruntled Off Between Jimmy Butler And Tyreek Hill
Okay, let's everybody be independent then.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Disgruntled Off Between Jimmy Butler And Tyreek Hill
Negotiate that for yourselves the way Notre Dame did.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Disgruntled Off Between Jimmy Butler And Tyreek Hill
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Disgruntled Off Between Jimmy Butler And Tyreek Hill
Yeah. That's a subtle reminder.
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Local Hour: The Disgruntled Off Between Jimmy Butler And Tyreek Hill
Ah, that's true. Destroy it. Are you guys going to stop?
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Local Hour: The Disgruntled Off Between Jimmy Butler And Tyreek Hill
Because it's worth acknowledging. It's a bit that he's created.
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Local Hour: The Disgruntled Off Between Jimmy Butler And Tyreek Hill
That's one way to look at it.
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Local Hour: The Disgruntled Off Between Jimmy Butler And Tyreek Hill
That's one way to look at it.
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Local Hour: The Disgruntled Off Between Jimmy Butler And Tyreek Hill
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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Local Hour: The Disgruntled Off Between Jimmy Butler And Tyreek Hill
I would do it if everyone else did. How about if just Roy does it with you?
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Local Hour: The Disgruntled Off Between Jimmy Butler And Tyreek Hill
Lead us. The brows would grow back.
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Local Hour: The Disgruntled Off Between Jimmy Butler And Tyreek Hill
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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Local Hour: The Disgruntled Off Between Jimmy Butler And Tyreek Hill
No one should.
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Local Hour: The Disgruntled Off Between Jimmy Butler And Tyreek Hill
No one should? It's the most useless body part. Come on.
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Local Hour: The Disgruntled Off Between Jimmy Butler And Tyreek Hill
All right, let's do it right now.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Disgruntled Off Between Jimmy Butler And Tyreek Hill
I already explained. I work among people tonight. I got to go to an Orange Bowl game.
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Local Hour: The Disgruntled Off Between Jimmy Butler And Tyreek Hill
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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Local Hour: The Disgruntled Off Between Jimmy Butler And Tyreek Hill
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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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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Local Hour: The Disgruntled Off Between Jimmy Butler And Tyreek Hill
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Disgruntled Off Between Jimmy Butler And Tyreek Hill
First, I've got to research how long does it take for brows to grow back?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Disgruntled Off Between Jimmy Butler And Tyreek Hill
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Disgruntled Off Between Jimmy Butler And Tyreek Hill
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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Local Hour: The Disgruntled Off Between Jimmy Butler And Tyreek Hill
They'll be lucky to get a third-round draft pick.
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Local Hour: The Disgruntled Off Between Jimmy Butler And Tyreek Hill
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
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
So it's just like a handout of, hey, here you go, and then they wear that and protect themselves.
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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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
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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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
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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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
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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Hour 1: Limited Fake Stephen A. Smith Runs For President
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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Hour 1: Limited Fake Stephen A. Smith Runs For President
You just learned that I do a really good Obama?
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Hour 1: Limited Fake Stephen A. Smith Runs For President
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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Hour 1: Limited Fake Stephen A. Smith Runs For President
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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Hour 1: Limited Fake Stephen A. Smith Runs For President
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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Hour 1: Limited Fake Stephen A. Smith Runs For President
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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Hour 1: Limited Fake Stephen A. Smith Runs For President
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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Hour 1: Limited Fake Stephen A. Smith Runs For President
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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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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They could use Steve Kerr. Yeah, they could use a 58-year-old Steve Kerr.
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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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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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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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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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There's more. I thought just handing it over.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I believe. My calculations serve correct. Pablo Torrey finds... Oh, that's right.
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And it only cost $242 million. Well. This month.
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You don't know anything with all your math.
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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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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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Change up the rules for that one. Test it out. I mean, he's blasphemed against you.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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This is my Toradol, is that what you're saying?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I mean, unless he wins next year.
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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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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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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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Yes. Yeah, that's a weird distinction, but yes. Lots of units.
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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 triage is in the backyard where they threw the football and it broke Jan Brady's nose and all that.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Thank you, thank you. Thank you, thank you. Mama wasn't doing this.
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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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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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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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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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Thank you. Thank you. That's what we would have been singing to him.
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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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I would describe it as Jim Trestle on a cold day.
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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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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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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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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 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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I'm just saying that you should do that.
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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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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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I didn't ask to end the show. That was the whole point of me asking.
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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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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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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?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
Open it up, send the money, boom, done.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Everything changed after the plastic.
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Taffer would have lost his mind.
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You're going to freaking kill somebody!
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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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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And it smells like Luca Milui is what it smells like.
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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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Mario Van Peebles, who is a very dear friend.
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This is Andrew Hawkins' seventh nomination and first win.
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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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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?