The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: GREAT SCOTT!

Episode Date: July 1, 2024

What's the most you've ever overpaid for something? Then, Kevin Porter Jr. has been welcomed back into the NBA with a contract with the Clippers, and with both him and Miles Bridges in the league but Jontay Porter gone due to gambling, it's time to have a conversation about where the league should and shouldn't take a stand when it comes to gambling and domestic violence. Plus, the Miami Heat have yet to make a major move this offseason. Jeremy, Amin, and Mike chat about what the Heat's priorities should be, why they haven't made a major move yet, and the likelihood of landing Donovan Mitchell. Also, an incredibly touching moment with Michael J. Fox and Coldplay, Jessica's F1 minute, and the U.S. Men's National Team. Content warning: there is a discussion about Domestic Violence in the first segment of Hour 1. If you or a loved one has been a victim of Domestic Violence, you are not alone. Call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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LeBattor Show with the StuGuts Podcast. So one of the things I didn't get to ask Jake Fisher because we ran out of time with him is who overpaid more? Was it the Knicks from Mikael Bridges, five first round picks and a pick swap? Or was it the Blazers for Denny F-ing Avdia? Two firsts, two seconds, and Malcolm Brogdon, who I think is gonna have value on the trade market.

And it got me thinking, what's the most you overpaid for any item and you know you knew man like this this is too much game five of the Stanley Cup final how much but thankfully I knew that in the secondary market even though that was a pretty penny it was going to be the best deal around because of game times price match Wow T yeah the Time app, it's the best place in the secondary market. It's what I use all the time.

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they better purchase that property. There They have a licensing deal right now. They better purchase that property. There's a red hot property right there. Yeah, get some rides at the theme park too. Let's go. We need that. How about that? Game 40 NBA finals, I mean. In Dallas?

Yeah, they didn't get behind that one. That was me all the way and wow, I should have stayed my ass home for that one. Cause that was the night we thought it was gonna end. And instead it was a demolishment that you had to watch from the Comerica banks. Literally cloud nine. I should have taken a picture. I saw Juju.

Our seats were legit. It's us and then the ceiling. And Sting. You look to your right and Sting was there and his crow get up. And he asked you first time? Anyone else? Because I'll give you what mine was. The worst overpaid by percentage for sure. Can I ask you first time? Anyone else?

Because I'll give you what mine was. The worst overpaid by percentage for sure. A bottle of Coca-Cola at the top of the Empire State Building. Holy shit. You wanna talk about a captive market. They're like, yeah. Can we prices right this?

Eight dollars. 12 dollars. Six dollars. One dollar. What year was this? What year was this? $8 $12 $6 $1 what? Well here was this this was bottle or can it was a bottle all right Was it Mexican nope regular plastic 20 ounce bottle plastic bottle it was 2012 2013 I would say 550. 1325. Who had nine?

Did anyone have nine? I said eight. Jess wins. Whoa, 2012? Nine dollars. Dude, for an American Coca-Cola classic? That means it's $60 now. Here's the thing, you have to pay at the bottom

before you get to the top. That's number one. So they know, you it, you can leave and go get another one somewhere else. Number two, 99% of the people coming here are tourists, many of whom are tourists from another country, many of them are tourists from another country with a stronger currency than ours.

So it's like $9 in my, it's 1,600 portraiture, this is amazing, this is a great deal. It's a made up currency, they just had a potential. Did your gears pop? Sorry about that, sorry about that. I have a question, I have a serious change of gears question. And I don't want to put you in this position and you'll have to answer because you run in the NBA circles.

John T. Porter is suspended for his life. Miles Bridges and Kevin Porter Jr. have jobs. I take it personal, the domestic violence more than, I mean the gambling, I get it, but how are these brothers allowed to be back in the NBA and the gamblers? I will answer that question. I will answer that question. First of all, the Porter Jr. situation, after the initial reporting, like there's a lot of stuff there that is just a little unclear. It's not like Miles Bridges where it was very straightforward.

But I'm going to give a very straightforward business answer that I know a lot of people are going to, oh, you know, this does not represent my hierarchy of what's worse in life. But when you talk about sports, you can literally do anything. The one thing you cannot do is give people the impression that what we're watching is not real. Right? Like you can murder and da da da, all these things.

And we can find a way of saying, wow, what an awful person, but man, what a jump shot. What we cannot do is have, say, did he throw that one? Is he on the level or not? Of course it's an official in the 2006 NBA finals and then we just moved along. Well, I mean, like they got his ass up out of here. Yeah, but the questions still remain about all that stuff.

But I would say- It was the conference finals, it wasn't the finals, because he never did a finals game, even though the NBA said he was one of our best referees or whatever. But like, I'm gonna tell you, that's why all this season we've had guys either implicitly or explicitly declare these guys are on the take right. Jamal Murray throwing the heat

pack and then saying you know and doing the money sign. You had coach Darko of the Raptors saying if they just wanted the Lakers to win they should have just let us know we would have stayed at home. You had Rudy Gobert doing the other go yes, we know the gambling is happening. You cannot do that. I was like, that's my number one thing I said to Adam Silver and Joe Dumars. You gotta crack down on that because we cannot have people say

what we're watching on TV isn't real. That doesn't mean it's a worse thing in life to do, Juju, than putting your hands on a woman, obviously. One has criminal charges associated with it, where the other one's being policed by the league itself, but if the game itself loses its integrity, it's a big stain. That's not to say that the other things aren't a big stain,

but the other things are manageable from a game integrity standpoint. I'm more surprised that Porter Jr., his first deal, wasn't like, hey, minimum, come back in, kind of make everyone feel, hey, I'm a changed man. Like, it was just like, here's a lot of money, bro. Which to me, that's always the thing when I look at guys that mess up.

And again, I wanna acknowledge that there's some stuff in that story that is unclear, but when guys mess up, there has to be the feeling of basketball mortality, meaning, oh, this shit that I thought was gonna be here forever and I'm gonna make all this money, whatever, it can be taken away from me like that. And so when you get it back, it has to be like,

oh, thank God, I'll take this minimum, I'll do whatever it takes. When you walk back in the door and it's like, here's $20 million or whatever, it's like, all right, man, I knew they messed me up. You know how I was always good for this? There's a part of it where I don't know if there's a lesson that gets learned,

because regardless to whether he did everything that he was accused of or not, he put himself in a position. And I don't know if you learned from those experiences if at the end of it, here's a big bag of money. I also think that this stuff in this country is still relatively new in terms of it being legalized in a lot of these

states. Whereas if you try to hold up examples in tennis, although they're pretty strict over there, or in the Premier League over in England, where they've had legalized regulated sports betting for decades on end, and you have a player like Paquetá, who's a really good Brazilian piece for West Ham, he's got a gambling thing around him. It's actually a pretty funny scandal in that there's questions to whether or not he bet on himself to get a yellow card. And so you wonder how much that affects the game. That's lit, man.

Yeah, yeah. But this stuff is surrounding him and he's still playing. I do think the more this stuff is in the public space, the more it gets regulated, the more the punishments will ease up down the line. But I think as these things start in this country, you have to be very strong because you don't have the several decades leg up that the other European countries do. But I get it. Jeremy, I want to talk to you about the Miami heat right now because I'm

in a couple of group chats and there's a lot of folks sweating. I believe Young Tash had a point that he wanted to piggyback. Real quick, just on the domestic abuse side of things, like don't we think that if the league treated it stronger that players in turn and fans would react stronger to this that maybe players would avoid putting themselves quote unquote in this position

rather than because I mean you're suggesting that the league has more power than say like the actual authorities yeah I am because that's ultimately what ends up happening here the authorities have no power and don't make arrests a lot of the time or convictions when it comes to domestic abuse and these guys a guy like Kevin Porter jr getting all of that money the league has the power to make that not happen. You're saying it can help in addition to the specter of being thrown in jail. I would say two things. One is these things are collectively bargained.

You can't just say, hey man, I don't like what you were accused of doing. I'm going to take matters in my own hands. You can't do that unilaterally, number one. Number two, probably more importantly, I don't think anyone who gets in those situations ever pauses, wait a second, I could be suspended for three years if I, maybe I should just, cooler headship or not. A lot of times there's alcohol involved.

In the day to day of your life. What Jeremy is suggesting is if it can help, like why can't you try it? I think it means explaining, but it means explaining in a collectively bargained sport why they can't do it immediately, and maybe it is something that is on the horizon we do not know. Fair.

I've also seen now in both the NFL when it came to Colin Kaepernick, and the MLB when it came to Trevor Bauer, all of the owners just sort of decide, we're not gonna welcome these guys back into the league. Yeah, no, you can collude. With open arms, you're gonna collude. Every league does that all the time.

You can collude and be subject to a lawsuit. Yeah, and look, the reality is is actual legislation within the league would be better here to set an example to show, hey, you'd be suspended for X, Y, Z. But I guess the frustration for, that started with what Juju brought up that extends to a lot of people

probably listening to this conversation is, like, Miles Bridges and Kevin Porter Jr. did these heinous things that put them in a position to where they should not be just welcomed back to play in this league for millions and millions and millions of dollars. You could argue that both of them, there was a collusion of sorts.

They sat out for a year. So you could argue that that happened. For Bridges, he went back to his original team. So it's not like someone else. I think Porter Jr. It's the money on Porter that really sends it over the edge, too. Now, here's a question I ask on-

And also players that have more of a market than Porter does too. We haven't had like the superstar, we haven't had the Pete Rose moment in the NBA to really see like, hey league, are you prepared to not let a player the likes of John Morant play another game? Yeah, we've got two different Porters going in this conversation.

Yeah, yeah, I understand the confusion there, but they haven't had that moment either. So I'm gonna ask a question I asked on this very show years ago, after one of these countless incidents of domestic violence, and we've been moaned that in this country we were awful, like our laws don't do enough to protect women. And I said at the time, what country does? What's the country that has great domestic violence slash sexual assault laws on the books? Because I'm struggling, like I keep hearing,

oh man, we do a terrible job, like who does a good job of this? It's one, it feels like- But don't we want to be the best? Like I don't understand that. Yeah, but I don't necessarily think the NBA is gonna be on the forefront of making us the best. I mean, yeah, I'm asking, Jeremy, this is what I'm asking.

I'm asking, point to the country that we can at least mimic what they're doing. Oh yeah, we wanna be the best. Let's start with who's the best, let's mimic. I don't know, I thought we were the leaders. I thought that our biggest corporations and cultural leaders are the ones that are supposed to try to set the example in theory here.

I know that we don't, I know there's a level of defeatism that comes with that, but it is frustrating to see. That's all I'm trying to say is being in this position, looking at the league that you want to love and celebrate and seeing these things celebrated is frustrating. More uplifting content next. Stu Gatz here from iFriends over at Simply Safe. Imagine a burglary at your home.

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There's no safe like Simply Safe. Don LeBattard. Chris Cody does an impression, just be careful. Dangerous game. This is a dangerous game. I don't want to play this game. No, he was saying, man, I could do such a great Kendrick Burke.

Oh, I don't want to play this game. No, he was saying, man, I could do such a great Kendrick's I don't wanna play this game. He's like, man, I could talk to you. This is who we're gonna trust with this. Amin, you do it. Let's let Amin do it, I think. Stugots. I think you could do it, Chris, cause you did a great Charles Barkley.

You're one for one there. Did no one just hear the segment we just did with Amin? We cannot be taking counsel from the local drunk on whether or not you should do the impersonation of a black man stumbling over his words. Like you don't see the bad judgment in that. There it was. Moe's a moody, moody Moses, Moses, moody?

You need that, it sounds worse. Chris, be careful man. We gotta, like we cannot do this. It's too close to the line. This is where the line is. Something legitimately funny can't be funny because we're scared our ginger is gonna do something racist by accident. Carry the hell on Dan Rachel Dan the line is where we feel alive though This is the Dalibot our show with the Stu guts I promised more uplifting content after the break apparently I was incorrect because I've been told Jeremy Tashay has to talk about Miami Heat offseason so Jeremy take it away. Wow that is not a fair setup at all.

Look let me give you more bad news on the front end. Please go for it. It appears Brandon Montour is headed to Seattle Kraken. Oh. Brandon Montour, that's courtesy of Shane O'Brien from the Missing Curfew boys over there. So, tough break for a local market, but good for him to secure that bag. Miami, South Florida, and its sports scene right now. A little frustrated.

It looks like we got Kulikov back though. Yeah, four years at 1.15 per year. So he's gotta close out his career over there. By the way, absolute unit, was not familiar with his game. Oh yeah, he was big in game seven, man. Jeremy. That's pretty cool, he saved Panthers. Oh wow.

When it comes to the Miami Heat, thus far the only move that's been made is resigning Kevin Love. He declined his player option, came back on a two year deal. Nothing has really changed. Heywood Highsmith and Caleb Martin, as we've mentioned, are free agents.

There were the draft picks of Khalil Ware. No one can give you a three minute stretch quite like Kevin Love can these days. Oh yeah. There are three minute stretches that convince you if he's got the right matchup out there, this dude is the same guy he was in Cleveland. The master of the outlet pass.

My- Great passer. My great passer. My biggest disappointment on draft night is discovering that Ware's first name is not Kelle. I was like, oh wow, he's like Superman. And then I was like, no, it's Khalil. But he has Kryptonian in his Instagram and Twitter bios. OK, mixed messaging. Maybe it's pronounced Khalil.

Great franchise for him to land with. This is a guy that they question his passion for the game. See, I read the internet. Yeah, it is a good space for him. He does stuff for the Heat that they just simply have not had for the last several years, which is athleticism at the 5, because you've been playing Bam. Behind Bam.

Behind Bam. Thomas Bryant with the goal word. You've been playing either over the last few years, Omer Yurtsevin or Dwayne Dedman. Remember the Yurtsevin takes? Oh yeah, Bam was out for a few weeks. He had 10 straight double doubles and everyone wanted to build the franchise around him.

He's available, perfect five behind Bam. But- Was he on Dan's list though? Of top 12 center. Or Pat Riley? It was Dan Van Gundy's list. We all know him. Yeah, I'm getting a little restless here.

The group chats are starting to get restless, Jeremy. So today was always going to be one of the more frustrating days of the off season if you're the Miami Heat because they were never going to be in on the big free agents. Given where they are in terms of their salary, given where they are in terms of their draft capital and the ability to just shed salary, they were never going to be in on just signing guys

who are available in unrestricted free agency. salary, they were never going to be in on just signing guys who are available in unrestricted free agency. The move, if the Heat were going to make a splashy move this off season, was always going to be a trade and seems to remain that way. Now, Donovan Mitchell has been the name floated. Jake was just on the show earlier saying, it seems like a done deal back to the Cavs.

I mean, I am intrigued what you think about maybe why Donovan Mitchell hasn't signed quite yet because now a lot of the suitors that were available to try to pursue him before have made their decisions and already cashed in on their capital and the further things go along, the more a demand of a trade to Miami or even a I would only extend in Miami,

makes that possibility seem real from Cleveland to Miami. But there are other guys out there. I don't know what the deal's gonna be with, say, a Zach Levine, who they say Chicago might need to attach a pick to in order to move. So maybe you don't have to blow up your whole team to get a guy like that. Yeah, he was rumored to go to Golden State.

Yeah. And then Golden State was like, nah, we're just going to cut Chris Paul instead, actually. Pretty hilarious, actually. It's crazy. And so I don't know what Miami's ultimately going to do here. I will tell you this. You can't have Zach Levy be hot at the end of this round.

From the Heat perspective, if you listen to what Pat Riley had to say at the end of the year at his end of year press conference, his view was if Jimmy Butler had played more games and been motivated in a regular season alongside some of the other guys following suit, that they would have been four, five, six games better. And then in turn at the top of the Eastern Conference last year, when you look around at the East, the only team

that you know for sure has gotten significantly better is now Philadelphia with the addition of Paul George. Otherwise, it's a KCP to Orlando. If the Knicks changing things. These teams have gotten better. Philadelphia would have been the seventh seed that you would have been the two seed for and Philadelphia would have done what they did. Well, I mean they beat you, whatever.

That's another debate for another time. But the East has gotten better. You're giving off run it back vibes. No, I'm not trying to. I'm trying to tell you what I think is the mentality for Miami if they can't get their trading. This is why we're running it back. That's what Jeremy's telling us.

Yeah, the reason they think they can. Because we can count on Jimmy being healthier a year further in. The reports that you had come out when Jimmy said he wasn't going to sign an extension and was going to stay in Miami was quote unquote the most motivated, like he's been to have a great regular season going into a contract year.

You're struggling delivering that sentence into a microphone. I'm just talking to you about what it is. No, I appreciate it. This is what's out there. But you're already defeated because you are now the he propagandist and you are spreading he propaganda.

Hold on, I got an important Jimmy Butler question. As you know, Jeremy, I'm a huge Brazil soccer fan. Been watching all the games in the Copa, Neymar's at every game in the in the book in the box No, Jimmy Butler. Why? He's at the X Games. Why is he at the X Games? He's doing everything his buddies got some important shit going on in his life. He was playing poker with Neymar I think Neymar is his best friend. Yeah, but he's not doing anything important other than just watching Brazil that that's important Mike

But that's the more is not playing it's important to watch and't have. That's important, Mike! But Namor is not playing. It's important to watch and to support. It's important. It's important to be there when Vinnie goes like this. Into the camera. That's important. More important. More important, look at my skateboard.

Can you sign my sign? I don't even know who he was asking to sign his sign. Just some random kids. Some random kids at the park. Hey, I like your skateboard moves, you're really cool. Hey, are those air walks you're wearing? Dope, sign my, no, no! I will say as like a Heat fan,

get that guy as far away from Namor as you can, because if he approaches, Shut your mouth. If he approaches the end of his career the way that Namor is approaching it, you got bad vibes there. Shut your mouth, you don't speak bad of Namor. For the audio audience, what was that move that you just vibes there. Shut your mouth, you don't speak bad of Namor.

For the audio audience, what was that move that you just did? I don't know, I don't know, skateboarding moves. It was like that hand. No, looking into the hand to the temple. Oh, hand to the temple and sticking his tongue out. It was that nanny nanny boo boo. Yes, he did. And he did it because them dirty bastards over there

were trying to get, they got mad because he's too nice with it. He's too nice with it to try to get physical. And that happens a lot. Happens a lot when you're Brazil, when you just better everybody, everything, they get mad and like, you know what? I've gotta go to the dirty stuff.

So you're gonna be cocky Brazil guy even when they're down. Down? What are you talking about down? I mean, they're kinda down. Big game tomorrow. Big game tomorrow, Mike. Big win for the Portsons. On my flight from Phoenix to San Francisco to go see my family,

lot of Colombians on that flight because Columbia played in Phoenix the last game and they were all like, oh, Martes, Martes. I'm like, Martes, I'll be there. I won't, like in spirit I will. I really didn't want to give you guys the, like, here's the heat reasons to run it back. It needed to be said.

I do want to ask Amin what the deal is on the Donovan Mitchell side of things. I'm glad you asked that question. So for those who don't know, Donovan Mitchell has two years left on his deal. The last of that is a player option, which where the cap is, we expect him to say, to hell with that, I'm gonna tear it up

and become a free agent unless he signs an extension right now, so he's eligible to sign an extension, but he hasn't done that yet. Cleveland is in this weird place where the Garland Mitchell thing doesn't quite work. One of them's gotta go. Garland's under contract. Garland always finds himself in that situation with that franchise.

I feel bad for him. Except for the fact that he's due $37 million next year, so I don't feel that bad for him. But he's under contract for four more years. So they've got cost certainty with him. Mitchell, who many people believe to be the better player, but he's got the cost uncertainty going on. So when you say Jeremy, they haven't signed an extension

and all these other places are starting to eat up, basically make their plans for the near future. I believe one of two things. One is Cleveland is saying, look, let's give new head coach Kenny Atkinson an opportunity to play with these pieces before we commit any which way. The other is, yeah, like if you're Donovan Mitchell,

like I'll play it out, I'll see how it works. But we've just shrunk the universe of possibilities to more and more the places where I'd like to go. And one of them obviously is here. What don't we know? Because I would assume that there are some. What the aprons are, we still don't know that. We gotta find out.

I guess you're hanging your hat on, well Mitchell hasn't signed the extension yet, so maybe there's something there. And the other thing that you're hanging your hat on is will Ishbeya be rational about where his team is right now? Will he try to move Kevin Durant? He was pretty publicly strong against the notion that they were gonna be selling anybody.

I don't really think there's anything else there. And then we're all of a sudden taking the company line of having to practice patience with a situation down here where we're all out of patience. So Steve Ballmer bought the Clippers in 2014. And this year, 10 years later, they finally had the moment of, oh, I'm richer than the next 15 NBA owners combined and even I can't spend my way out of this because it's not a money thing.

It's the way the system is designed. It took them 10 years to find that sobriety. Matt Ishby is not getting that sobriety in the next couple years. They're going to go balls to the wall on everything until someone else, meaning a player, forces their hands and says, look, I don't want to be here anymore. And with a combination of the team being bad. Well, I'm guessing that that's why a player would say that. He would say that the tee was great.

I mean, it depends on what you believe, but maybe the whispers that Durant may already be there. Yeah, I mean, I don't think, I think he's fine, but also he's not like, oh, this is the best place ever. This is basketball nirvana. So is there a name that we're not considering that might be available, like outside of the Durant Mitchell thing

that maybe you can keep an eye on? Well, I mean, Jake Fisher told us Laurie Markenden is one, but I don't know if that tickles your fingers. That's like in a Trey Young class of my most desperate. Maybe my fancy gets tickled again. Going back to the overpay, Denny Abdiah, two firsts, two seconds and Malcolm Brogdon, who's an asset. Michael Bridges, five firsts and a pick swap. You're telling me Dejante Murray, Dejante effing Murray goes for Larry Nance and two firsts and that's it that's it Atlanta's like we don't want much we don't ask for much we just give me a rotation guy and a couple of picks from a hawk to a pelican

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Stugats! Women stay home, in the kitchen where they belong. Guaranteed. Don Lebatard! I don't like Smutty either! Stugats! Women stay home in the kitchen where they belong! This is the Don Lebatard Show with the Stugats! Just touched on a couple things earlier in the show. Roy, you mentioned that no teams took the opportunity to congratulate the Florida Panthers on winning the Stanley Cup. It's the first time in recent memory that we've gone an NHL draft without congratulating the Cup champion, but there are reasons for that. And yes, I am one of the sixth Florida Panther fans. I'm always looking for the disrespect out there. But this was at the sphere and there was a lot of production that went along with these picks.

And apparently there was an edict from up top that said, no personal messages delivered at the microphone, just official business here. Now, that's ridiculous. I got a quick question, Mike. So I know, but I mean, I don't think Amin knows. I don't think Juju knows. Like at the NHL draft, every team has to go up and congratulate the team that won the cup. No, it's just a classy thing that you often see. Congratulations to our cup champion that just won the cup a couple of days ago. But zero teams did it. Zero teams did it this year. It was odd, but apparently there were reasons for that. And one of the reasons. Is it like we're not supposed to dunk at the end of the game

even though you're up 20, like an underrated rule. Kind of like that. Okay, okay. Kind of like that. Now teams have, like, on their social channels congratulated the Florida Panthers. We saw Tampa Bay did that, which I don't like that. Delete that, take it back, I don't want it.

But there was a really cool moment at the draft. I saw Dana White, he was asked about the NHL draft, said, oh my gosh, that was like little kid stuff. What we got planned is gonna blow them away. No, too, if it says gonna be NHL draft, said, oh my gosh, that was like little kid stuff. What we got planned is going to blow them away. No, too. If it says it's going to be huge. Yeah, I can't wait for that. But one of the cool moments from the NHL draft that

did happen at the Sphere was they were able to keep this a secret. Celine Dion came out and announced the Montreal Canadiens first round pick, and that was an immense pop over there. Could have been done anywhere outside of the Sphere, but given her ties to Las Vegas and Montreal, it was a really cool pop, and it was a immense pop over there. Could have been done anywhere outside of the sphere, but given her ties to Las Vegas and Montreal, it was a really cool pop, and it was a really cool moment.

It was one of the best things that I've seen, considering the battles that she has right now with health. But you mentioned that. The best thing that I saw from the weekend happened at Glastonbury with Michael J. Fox. Now, Amin, I know you're a Michael J. Fox fan. Love him. You must have seen this video already on social media from Glastonbury with Michael J. Fox. Now, Amin, I know you're a Michael J. Fox fan. Love him. You must have seen this video already

on social media from Glastonbury. Coldplay playing a headlining set at Glastonbury. Coldplay, huge massive band, great seminal moment to headline Glastonbury. They did something totally unexpected and they brought out Michael J. Fox to play with them during Fix You, which is pretty iconic. I don't know if you've seen the video mashup of someone taking the college football trailer and

applying Cold Place Fix You to it. It builds through a crescendo and it does give you goosebumps. So this moment in particular with Michael J Fox kicking his leg as it as that song builds the crescendo was really just an epic moment. I want to show it to the audience real quick. I have goosebumps watching that bag. They cut the video off, but at the end of it, they have a photograph of Marty with his two siblings and they're all back together. Back to the future. It was a, the go Johnny, go, go, go wasn't enough of a callback for you.

I need the little photo in there. But the way that he times out the leg kick with the pyro and the instrumentation kicking in right then and there. And then Lorraine and George kissed. Oh, man. You didn't get goosebumps doing that? I felt like a big softie. I don't know. I was just crying. I was just almost crying watching that. Like that was amazing.

Do it one more time. I'm just like, give yourself over to this moment. Because it was such a great festival too. Yeah. This was unreal. Let's do it one more time. Maybe you'll find a place in your cold dark heart to actually feel something here.

I mean, I mean, Biff Tannen got knocked out. It was crazy. Guys, let Chris Martin handleiff Tanig got knocked out. It was crazy. Guys, let Chris Martin handle the Back to the Future Cannon. That's how you direct the festival. That's the coolest thing ever. It's a great shot. Oh, it cuts off right before he says, you guys probably aren't ready for it, but your kids are gonna love it.

You really, like I feel the goosebumps on my arm literally go down every time he starts talking. You mean to tell me. You don't feel anything there? I felt something there. You made a time machine out of a DeLorean. So look at the Coldplay, that was beautiful. That was amazing, cause they could use their platform

to do anything they want to. For them to choose to do that, bro. That show is a great example of what we need more in the world, bro. That was a great positive moment. I'm glad you highlighted that. Great example, great positive moment. I'm glad you highlighted that great example great positive moment great Scott He cracked me there

Or of attrition, but I think you got Nobody has a deeper bag. I want to make references so bad, but I don't know any Because of the youngness I've never seen it No, I need to watch I've been on the ride at Universal Back to the future is the Supreme Court just put us in back to the future to shout out to DL Hughley and Roy for Future with my sister and do a impromptu episode of cinephile

There's no way it qualifies for foe There's no way that it qualifies for Fogue. It is among the highest rated on Rotten Tomatoes movies of all time. Wow. All three of those movies. Because it's like it's the perfect story. It's the perfect story, it's funny, it's exciting, it's adventure. Perfect casting. Does it take place in the future that is now?

Back to future two. Back to future one, he goes back to 1955 accidentally, and he sees his parents. Spoiler alert. He sees his parents as high school teenagers. Kissing? Well. He almost gets it. Don't tell her.

Mom starts falling in love with the wrong guy. It's a little incestuous. And also, they film parts of the movie with Eric Stoltz instead of Michael J. Fox as Marty. And then they have to stop and recast it, because it was just like, this ain't working. This ain't it, they said. This ain't it.

Can you imagine Coldplay bringing out Eric Stoltz? I can't. Well, first of all, he'd be a jerk. He'd be like, can you turn that out? He'd be like, he'd be giving direction as opposed to just being happy for the moment. Eric Stoltz, a little bit of a jerk. I did not know this about Eric Stoltz.

He would have missed time to kick for sure. Now, there was a big motorsports weekend. NASCAR was in Nashville. Granted, I'm back in a NASCAR now. I've never seen a finish like that. There were 300 laps in this thing, but I saw 350 because they kept crashing on the overtime restarts.

It was a war of attrition. Basically, if you pitted at the beginning of overtime, you ended up being in the conversation for the end because the race kept getting pushed back. I'm going to Chicago this weekend for the NASCAR race. I'm super excited about that. But in the eyes of the world, there really truly only is one motorsport

and that is Formula One, Jess. I have a F1 minute here. I don't feel confident in it because I tried to give it a theme and then I petered out So we're gonna see if it was in Austria, right? That's not what the theme is though. What could be the theme? Well, maybe you'll find out or maybe you won't because I did a bad job From the town of Spielberg It's lights out away We go for the Austrian Grand Prix max hasn't lost a driver's championship since the stone age and it's sitting on pole with the sprint

Wind in hand on Sunday The Red Bull takes a commanding lead on lap one and avoids the pebbles Max hasn't lost a driver's championship since the Stone Age and it's sitting on pole with the sprint wind in hand on Sunday. The Red Bull takes a commanding lead on lap one and avoids the pebbles. But Charles Leclerc has damage and comes back to the pit lane with a busted wing. Russell Hamilton, Sines and Piastri are battling for the last spot on the podium. Verstappen seems to have the edge but he loses time on a pit stop

and Norris is gaining on him. Verstappen and Norris are wheel to wheel and it's bam bam into the corner. Norris and Verstappen make contact. Norris has to retire his car and Verstappen has damage. George Russell takes the lead with mere laps to go. George Russell has to drive perfectly and he does. Yabba dabba doo! In a shock to the world, George Russell wins

the Austrian Grand Prix. P. Astrid in signs are on the podium. Brex Verstappen receives a 10 second penalty but keeps fifth place. Will his friendship with Lando continue? Will F1 ever ever penalize his driving style? We'll find out next week in Silverstone. Whoa, time to spare. Jetsons. Flintstones.

Wow! You got those confused! Team Edward. Team Jacob. Twilight? But not really. I thought we were doing a thing. No I didn't get them confused. Okay don't don't. It's a joke. Either way, it's a dated reference. George Russell won and he said Yabba Dabba Doo. No one knows what. Inexplicably. Over the radio. It's the cocaine. What?

You've been a little off this segment. I can't lie. I've been on. He's been very on. One thing that hasn't been on, a lot like the Brazilian national team, has been the US men's national team. He's been very on. On. One thing that hasn't been on, a lot like the Brazilian national team, has been the US men's national team. Stop it.

Incomparable. Why, they drew, actually, two weeks ago. Based off of that alone, the right and recent form is pretty similar. Look, one team has to play one of the best teams in the world in order to keep its life alive. And the other one's Brazil. The other one's Brazil, exactly.

Pretty much. But, so the US play in Copa America today, they need a result. They need to have, more specifically, a better result than Panama has in their match. However, a couple breaks for the US men's national team, especially if you're someone like me, and it's a-case scenario is maybe we add to a resume that's not worth bringing back in Greg Burrhalter. Disastrous result for the US men's national team against Panama in their match earlier. Greg Burrhalter, you know where I stand on the guy, terrible mistake bringing him back, and we're seeing all those things play out. And I think,

if you listen to people that have been covering the US Men's National Team, they're really around this camp and they're saying, wow, vibes are so good, everyone is so loose. You don't want that, it's bad. I'll tell you who's allowed to have a loose camp. Brazil. No, stop with the Brazil stuff.

Brazil's allowed to have a loose camp, that's how we do shit. And we already know that they're not gonna have a loose camp because Paul Maurice has said so. You win a championship like the Florida Panthers, you're allowed a loose camp. That's how we do shit. And we already know that they're not gonna have a loose camp because Paul Maurice has said so. You win a championship like the Florida Panthers, you're allowed a loose camp. You're the U.S. men's national team. You're as talented as you've ever been and you just drop a result against Panama. Tim Weah punches a dude. Tim Weah gets a red card and while you don't want to blame that specifically on Greg Burhalter, do not deny me the ability to say it is a byproduct of the culture that he has created over there. They wanted him brought back. The players universally wanted Greg

Burhalter back. Why? Cause they could walk all over the guy. Let him do whatever. Cause they could have their loose camps. Cause they could take their, I'm going to make this about TikTok. They could take their TikToks and their selfie camera videos and all that stuff and they could lose the likes of Panama. U.S. men's national team is not good enough to be bossing around and getting behind a manager. In fact, you go the other way on these brats. You bring in a tough manager to hold them accountable. You want them to hate camp. You want them to hate it. But what are they going to do right now? They're going to lock into a Uduoy team that's already set in the knockout stages. Bielsa would have absolutely reveled in the ability to be the one that takes out Greg Berhalter, but he's suspended for this match.

So now you don't have that tactical matchup, and you don't have the best players for Uduoy out there against the US men's national team. And I will say, even though Winalda has already came out and said, and you always have to take him with a grain of salt, that Greg Burrhalter's job is safe no matter the result tonight, if the US fails to reach the knockout stages coming on the heels of that loss to Panama, you must sack this dude. He must not be brought back. Because this is a tournament where you realize this is a competition that we're gonna be up against

in 2026. We're out here losing to Panama? We brought Greg Berhalter in to boss the likes of Panama because of the talent. You're losing straight up. It is bad tactics. It is a bad culture. It is a bad fit. and we all could have told you

that several months ago. Is this the same Eric Wynaldo with the whole John Harkes thing? Yeah. Have you guys talked about that? No. Next. Also, Greg has some jeez. Stu Gatz here from my friends over at Simply Safe.

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