The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: Knick What You Buck

Episode Date: July 10, 2024

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Yeah. You know why that makes me happy? Everyone's life gets so much happier and easier. And you know how I know football season's almost here? Because we got quarterbacks on whiteboards and hard knocks. Listen to my man Drake man get me fired up for football season. 200s and what does float stand for? It's got the corner of the out. We call it a flag so we end up saying corner flag but it's a flag. And the angle is an angle.

You got me on that? Easy stuff. Then you use Rita to the right, Linda to the left, it was a flip formation. Good? Rita to the right, Linda to the left. 72, 5 man protection, slide to the wheel. So if the strength of the formation is right, which what formation is that again? Yeah, good enough and right?

Yeah, right. He's there, the wheel's over there, the line would slide there. We'd say 72 Rita 72 Rita gotcha Oh look at everybody's fire for play. Oh, I hate so hate this entire genre Oh video a person of cultural trend what is wrong with you? How could you not appreciate that all we just heard was a bunch of jargon that 99% of the audience has no idea what it means at all. And you don't have to understand it to enjoy, you know a gun dolphin, right?

Don't get you fired up. You are not American, my friend. This spider to why banana shit. We call that a post. Oh yeah, easy. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. No problem. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Little corner, little flag. Oh yeah, gun dolphin, right? We're just gonna say vocabulary words that no one understands. Dude, Rita, Liz, Rip, right? We're just gonna say vocabulary words that no one understands. Dude, Rita, Liz, Rip, Lindsay? We're not even at the MLB All-Star break. You gotta still be in base. You can't be in football mode yet.

Billy, I need you here so badly. David, you have to understand what's happened to American sports. Not only has football overtaken the entire calendar, but football players being nerds, what happened? Why are football players coming from my corner? That's why, you're jealous, huh? But they're not even doing anything

that anybody understands in the least. I don't even know if Drake May, if his ability to do any of that is gonna translate to actually being good at quarterback. And so here is this whole American Idol contest of can you say the same, the most amount of just bull that I presume is really something. But it's just the point, it's not bull just

because you don't understand it. But for everybody else, Dabodik. I saw a video. It's like watching someone speak a language and be like, yeah, that's very impressive. No, but for Dominic, he's excited because what that means to him is it's almost football season, which means that he's got plenty to talk about

and his life gets easier and it's the love of his life. I mean, apps and family, et cetera, but footballs love his life. For me, I look at that video and I'm despondent beyond repair. The fact that we're gonna talk about that when we could be talking so many things in baseball, we have so many other interesting things to talk about.

Having Drake May. I realize what happened is, baseball's a dumb man's game, and football's a smart man's game. I was just about to ask, I cannot believe football's getting away with this. And this makes you upset because you're like, obviously, hit ball, back, run base.

And that is all you, you don't got no gun dolphin right. You ain't got a gun dolphin right, nowhere near. It's like, you know the most intricate thing we could do? Base running. And y'all be messing that up, I saw somebody last week, a guy on second base ran past a guy on first base. Come on, dum-dums. No, you gotta practice the third base coach,

given the signs. What's this, what's this? Nothing. There's an indicator. Wait, you gotta practice the third base coach, given the signs. What's this, what's this? Nothing. There's an indicator. Wait, we don't have to do this. We don't spend our life doing this. Oh wow. I don't wanna do that.

You do do that with a glove though. No, we just do it with our glove. With a glove in their face, yeah. Can I say this has been one of the great magic tricks of football media over the last decade. Thank you. Which is saying that if you can't identify coverages or know what the play is, you don't understand ball.

You don't know ball. You don't know how good XYZ player is if you aren't looking at their area arts per attempt or their EPA per play. We know. We watch the same football on Sunday as you do, Dominique. No, see, you've made a leap. You put me in a category where I'm saying

that no one can appreciate football unless you appreciate it on the levels that someone else appreciates. Yeah, I was gaslighting you. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that that is objectively awesome. That's all, and I'm saying that if you can break, our cheating scandals involve Spygate.

That's a cheating scandal. Deflategate. Deflate. That's a cheating scandal. Deflategate. Deflategate, also a cheating scandal, but I'm saying that SpyGate required extensive video footage review. You guys bang trash cans, dummies. But even, hold on, the whole thing of every football scandal actually,

even Deflategate. Fastball. It's actually for spin. Spin. Even. Remedial ass. It's actually for spin. Spin. Even Deflategate wore the costume of science. Give me. The ideal gas law. Give me a weekend and a good book and I can manage a baseball team.

It ain't that hard and you're mad at me because your game is a dummy. I'm not a hater. You're jealous. I'm definitely not jealous of you. You're not jealous of football? Oh, I said I'm not jealous of you. I am jealous that people are interested in that drivel.

Am I? I feel like right now, speaking of gaslighting, you guys are gaslighting me into thinking that I'm the only one. This is awesome. And whether you understand it or not, I saw a guy on Instagram a couple days ago juggling three Rubik's cubes while solving them.

I don't know how he did it, but it was cool as, that's the same thing. Why can't y'all just watch it and say, this is cool as shit? Everyone can relate to juggling a Rubik's cube and solving it while juggling. Ooh, hold up, check him out. Juju is curly patting his head while rubbing his belly,

and that is hella impressive. Anybody else, can anybody else do that? Billy, God bless football. God bless football. You need football content. Do you look at that and say this is the content we love? I look at that and I say we're probably not allowed to play that, so I'm not gonna address that.

Wimby out here juggling, I do love a juggler. Wimby did have some great juggles. That was a little EP VEP situation. I'm not convinced we were allowed to play the Gundy stuff either, but we can talk about that later. You don't have to cover any of it. I just want to know. I want to get back to your hatred.

So let's figure out what your hatred or jealousy is based on. Oh, you already said it. It's because you fancy yourself. Like, your greatest asset is I'm a nerd. And you don't like that someone else is nerding in an area which you can't nerd. I think the pendulum has sung so far away. Did it swing too?

Or it only sung? It swung. And sang. And. Be a good teammate, Dominique, don't point out. And made the sound. Clip it. Clip it. God damn it.

I have coffee, I got coffee in between segments. I don't have someone on your staff to do that. How much time did Jesse spend on your under eyes? What? Jesse spends two to four minutes on mine every morning. I wake up. Jesse are a makeup person for those who aren't on the know. Right.

She's the best. She's awesome. Love her. Unbelievable. I mean, look what she does to me and to all of us, but I've got very big pieces of luggage under my eyes. You look great. You look great, Pablo.

You don't look tired at all. I feel like I want to go home right now. Can I say that I'm the backer part of the Zach Eady hive. The other day I let these folks bully me off of my Mount Mountain and I was like I love Zach Eady and it was like brother you are trippin and I was like okay guys I'm gonna be your friend. But I saw something in Zach Eady that I love. It wasn't the 15, 16 rebounds. It wasn't the points. Was he saying 90,000 basketball terms that no one could understand,

but were apparently very smart for basketball people? What was it? No. What was it? Don't do me like that. It was whenever he had the back of his teammates. His teammate JJ got fouled and got kind of tried, and Zack pulled up and, nah, nah, bro, I'm ready.

And this is the summer league. So imagine when he get next to Jowick, you feel me? Like, bro, it is gonna, bro, Zach Eady, I apologize to the Zach Eady half, I jumped off and I'm back on, I'm right back in here. I love y'all. So- He also sets a hell of a screen. He also can touch the rim and the floor at the same time.

Did anyone see that picture? That's a real basic- That was not a hatred, that was a jealousy thing. He was able, do we have that? Yeah, let's show this video of Zack coming off a screen and dunking on people. Noted giant Asian Zack Eaddy. Yum!

Yeah, I mean, big guy's dunking never fun. Like Shaq's the only big guy dunking, I guess Dwight Howard too. I found it very uncomfortable when LeBron James was guarding Jeff Van Gundy. Uncomfortable? It was awesome. I did.

That was hilarious. Team USA. Yeah, the Team USA practice. Why was I uncomfortable about it? It just, it felt wrong to me. Let's explore this. It felt like Jeff Van Gundy was trying to prove a point, but it's like LeBron James,

because of the size issue and the age issue, it just looked off. And it felt like Jeff Fangundi was doing too much coaching. You sure that was the only problem you had with it? Don't. We got it here on the screen for people who haven't seen it. It is a very funny visual. I just asked, are you sure?

So Jeff Fangundi is around 67 inches, and LeBron James is not well played so See if LeBron can stay with him Gotta switch that you gotta switch that it is great watching him run is awesome I mean the Van Gundy brothers you've seen the video Stan. Oh, yeah, you gotta go over that Yeah, Jeff obviously he's on the floor. He can shoot you got to go over that screen You can't there a man like that is not on the floor unless you have to go over his screens I do have a question about his hair. Yeah, it's um

Do you get that shaped up because that line is sharp. It's like he looks good if he just came home I don't think that he would look any different from the front at least. I find this video. I told Paul Finebomb on the college game day show, they were like, he just go to the barber and tell him to hit the sides. Hey, that's all you can hit sometimes. No, I think he gets a little, he gets it tightened up. He get a line there. Yeah, I think, right, he get a little line,

that's too clean. There's no strays or nothing. He getting the line. Get the razor blade out. Yeah, he back there like, what up? What up? What up? Jeff Angutti started getting a little lot. That's too clean. There's no strays or nothing. He getting the line the razor blade Jeff and good he started getting a little like lightning bolt on the side. I like that's a good move as long as it's not too We should have it by the way all months 12 months of it. No, that's that's that's the scam. That's how y'all trick us I think that video is way more compelling than watching some guy talk about flash right, go red.

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Because we've gotten to a point where jargon, where being confusing and extremely technical has become mainstream. I just wanna know when we decided this was a thing. You're back to your nerd. You feel like when we're too smart, that bothers you because then the difference between us and you is diminished?

I am simply fascinated that there is one form of nerdery that everybody seems to be really into and They recognize this kind of sophistication that only a real genius could know is something that plays as Both brilliant athletically and academically even though nobody who is saying look how smart this guy is knows anything about the formula that he's solving. This feels a lot like maybe Dirk Nowitzki being mad that Kevin Durant is here. It's like you're a nerd that came to sports,

and now you're like, sports are too nerdy. What are you talking about? This is all your fault, Pablo. I'm going back to being just a kid out there, guys. I'm pivoting. No, you're not. Deeply underrated. Your ego is way too gay.

Deeply, as you cape up for Daryl Moore. How dare you? How dare you call me out on a reasonable hypocrisy? The Dan Marino school of gunslinger, the Brett Favre school of gunslinger, I just feel like we've gotten to a point where, and I think Dan Orlovsky is really good at what he does. I think he's the guy who was probably the best

at the telestration and the breaking down and the dissection, but it just feels like a lot of people nodding at something that they think they should be impressed by as opposed to actually knowing what's happening and we're getting away from the actual premise of like Football players doing stuff on the field that is that is good It feels to me like you were someone in school who obviously did well in English class where you had to like Evaluate a poem or break down the analysis in the book.

Or a movie for that matter. David Sampson, you love movies. I do. So there are different levels for different people. So some people can see the allegory in a movie, in a book, and find that appealing, while other people can say, ooh, big explosion.

It's fine if you big explosion guy, don't get mad at us allegory bros. Relax man. Just go watch people hit stuff and be happy. I think it's also the thing that makes guys lovable for women. It's like get you a guy that can do both. We see this man out there slaying dragons every day

and he also has a knowledgeable IQ. It's like seeing your favorite actor cry on stage. It's like, oh dang, I'm with you bro. I think that's a reasonable parallel. I just think we fetishize jargon. I know what it is. No, it's not fetishizing jargon. It's that it's the one thing that you thought you had

that you thought we could never take from you. And we've taken that also and it makes you uncomfortable. So I think it's that, but I also would think that it's about being cool. And when there's things going on that you don't understand, you wanna pretend you understand, which is pretty much me during the show. I'm trying to understand stuff that I don't get.

I'm trying to be part of a group that I'm clearly on the outside of. And not part of. You did try to freestyle yesterday, to your credit. I tried to do that. You were awesome too. That was great. So, there are people who will pretend

they get what they're hearing when they don't and they should not be They should not be made fun of They should be understood as making an effort to be included in something My point is you can enjoy it without understanding it This video only slaps in July. So this was week three. We'd be like exactly exactly Well, we're just feening for anything football. How about this? You listen to, this happens to me.

Now at 41, I listen to hip hop music, and I'm like, that goes. You ask me what half of the slang in it means, I don't know, but that's all right. Shit sound cool. So why can't you just look at this and be like, hey, shit sound cool? Because you know't you just look at this and be like, hey, shit sound cool? Cause you know it does, you hater.

Are you comparing Drake May to someone getting my ear and giving me a young rapper that I can refer to? I knew that was happening, he needed help, he needed producing right there, he had not one name and that's why I wasn't in the copy. You were gonna say some old rappers? I mean Drake May. He was going run DMC or something.

Oh my gosh, I hope not. Drake May. NBA Youngboy. Drake May is the NBA Youngboy. Well NBA Youngboy from what I understand is like all his music is like really aggressive and like you don't wanna mess with NBA Youngboy is kinda like, or you listen to that music

it's like modern day Nuck if you buck. Like all his songs are Nuck if you buck, right? Is that? I mean we have someone here who actually, no, Nuck if you buck's a fight song. We have someone here who actually- Prime mob hoe. You don't know, we gotta teach you the lyrics

of Nuck if you buck. I've never been more proud of Billy in my entire life. Yeah. Cause Billy just knew Nuck what you buck? Is it Nuck what you buck? We could put a top five of white moments for David this week. We're gonna clip that one too. The yesterday, I don't believe I'm good at that.

Freestyle. If you're anywhere and Nuck if you buck comes on, you better tighten your shoes and put your back against the wall, because it's going down. I love when they play rap songs at Bar Mitzvahs, because it's a full group of just Jewish people jumping up and down thinking they know what Nuck, what you buck is, and none of us do.

I feel like my Drake and May metaphor is really coming to fruition. It's not a metaphor. It's real, man. More like a simile. This is why you're great in that chair. Like you are a first team all NBA side chair. Like, do your side chair bit.

You ballin' in a side chair. You said Nuck what you buck. You ballin' in a side chair, you said, Nuck what you buck. You know how many people are laughing right now every time you say, Nuck what you buck? You can't Nuck what you buck in this chair. This is not a Nuck what you buck chair. I'd like to sit in that chair.

But then you're not gonna be able to Nuck what you buck. You might have to Nuck if you buck. You can Nuck what you buck, I wanna sit in that chair. Is it the chair or the actual seat or the position? You can switch chairs. So I did bring this up in an email that the chairs don't fit me. Well, if you wanna know a secret,

Stugats has a special chair. I think you're in the Stugats special chair. I think they moved that chair over to where you're sitting. Because I'm 65? I think it's the 65 thing. So I can't get it higher. There's a, the chair I like is one that I can get higher, but the leg rest moves higher with you

because right now my feet can't touch the floor. So I'm incredibly uncomfortable. Director just said in my heat for sure, put that chair there because it's our highest chair. For you, more cushion. You wanna put a garbage can? He's trying to help you. Well, so I've been looking for some sort of stool

to rest my, you don't have any idea what I'm talking about. You don't like your feet to dangle? I do not like my feet to dangle, it's very tiring. And these are the, you know how there are certain chairs that have a ledge on them? Okay, so I just wanna clarify David Sampson and the many contradictions of him. David Sampson is tired because his legs are dangling.

David Sampson also once ran seven marathons in seven continents in seven days. Outrageous. How are you the same person? Knock a few buck. Yes! Bravo! Thank you. I'm here all week. Including Friday.

Alone. Not alone. With amazing people who are going to be here. Just because you're not here. The show will go on without you in the captain's chair. It'll be great. It's been great all week and mainly because of you. Mainly because you're in the chair? No,'s been great all week and mainly because of you.

Mainly because you're in the chair? No, no, I'm serious, mainly because of you. I would like to finally put a bow on this conversation about film breakdown. Pablo, just admit that it's awesome and you're just jealous and we can move on. Make me learn how to study for like another standardized test to follow football now.

Please, you would love if life was a standardized test. If every station in life you had to do a standardized test. He'd be so happy if he walked into a... He'd be rich. First day is like here, standardized test. Give me that. Jumps, standardized test. You would be scanning, trolling. First thing they do for Survivor Cast, you gotta take an IQ test. That's how it starts. What else did you have to do to get on Survivor? A lot of shots, a lot of meetings with Jeff,

probes to Mark Burnett, a lot of meetings with therapists. Really? Yes, yes. What were they checking for? You know, mommy issues. You know, the usual. It's true.

Can you be on an island for 39 days and not go crazy? And so how did you overcome yours to get on the show? Oh, I just lied. I pretended that I was totally normal and fine. You lasted one day. Three days. Oh. Three days.

And then I had an amazing. Look at this man. That was me on Survivor was your tank top tattered Before you got there and you wore it cuz you think you would blend in as tougher or did that happen on the island? I I was that was not on the island Little known fact there normie that is before that is before shooting starts. You call me some curds and way ass slur He's killing you today, man. He is on your ass.

I love it. That is our cast. That is why I'm on the Brain Strive. The guy behind me was also on the Brain Strive, but I'm not sure why. And by the way, that's Cliff Robinson's tummy. Damn, that dude behind has them de-angeloids. He's a professional poker player.

And he was on the Brain Strive, and there's Cliff Robinson, rest in peace, if you remember Cliff Robinson. Uncle Cliffy. Uncle Cliffy, the shrug Uncle Cliffy. One of the most amazing men, it was so great to be with him on Survivor, and to have the relationship with him after.

He was, just love him. him and unfortunately he's passed now. But it was it's it what an interesting group that is of people it just from all over but none of them would be what you could have been on Survivor any reality show because your ability to take standardized tests your ability to deal with jargon you'd be a winner you should go on a reality show. I do not wanna do that. Yeah. I think you should apply. I don't think you should apply,

but I do think you'd be good at it. It's cause you like people. I do, just not the people in this room right now. There's an unfair stigma for people that participate in reality TV. Like Mike White was on Survivor multiple times and Amazing Race and then everyone thought he was a genius when White Lotus came out. He had been doing stuff before he was on Survivor multiple times and Amazing Race and then everyone thought he was a genius when White Lotus came out

He had been doing stuff before he was on Survivor. Yeah, he's a very smart guy. School of Rock They're School of Rock one of the greatest movies of our time Jack Black speaking of school today is Camp Day in the WNBA We got games starting at 11 a.m. 12 12 p.m. Eastern Time and we got another one at one I think where all the children of all the elementary schools pack out the arenas, but it's gonna be so loud Bro, I love camp day tune in if you at home when we live I want to squeak this in so we can get this late these ladies some numbers You know who doesn't love Camp Day?

Who that the players Who that? The players. Nah, bro. They don't like coming, they don't like playing that early. Yeah, it's so early. It's an early start. The kids love it. Have you ever been to a Camp Day at Pro Player?

Or Marlowe's Park? It was fun at Pro Player. When you had that, there's a sound that Camp Day has. It's called annoying. It's not the... Exactly. It was different though when it was at, now Hard Rock Stadium, because then at least there was the open air, and so there wasn't just

the sound of screaming children just echoing back at you. My least favorite day of the year. But it was also like, for Marlins, it was like the second most attended game of the year. Right, that was it. It was huge, but it was my worst time because every foul ball petrified me. Because the kids aren't paying attention. And every fly ball, every single kid thinks is a home run.

Yes, they cheer. By the fourth inning, you're like ready to die. It's insane. They all leave early. That is pretty terrifying, the foul ball aspect, because there's no, usually in most crowds, there's like parents for every kid. And this one, it's like rows full of kids. I love where your head's at. We would ask the camps and the schools

to intersperse the adults, so there was never more than four kids in a row, and we couldn't enforce it because the crowd was way too big. There were like 5,000 kids there. And so every foul ball, you're worried that a kid's gonna get clocked. The Marlins should hire us

to snag foul balls during those games. We just stand in between sections, go out there with a glove and snag fly balls. That was the most lawyer I ever saw. You started talking about liability. He's like, hit the glove where your head's at. Knock what you buck. When you're hiring for your small business,

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Go pee-pee. This is the Don LeBret Show with the StuGards. All right, Pablo, you've had some time. Oh! Folks, we have breaking news from the world of basketball. Kawhi Leonard will not be playing for the USA Basketball Men's National Team in the Olympics. That's according to USA Basketball. Shams Charania is reporting that Derrick White

will be his replacement on Team USA. So a third Celtic, not named Jalen Brown. That's wild. Why isn't Jalen Brown playing? Yeah. It's pretty amazing. I think- They're best player.

And for the player that's leaving, Jalen Brown seems like a more appropriate replacement for Kawhi Leonard than White. He's choosing the Clippers over the flag. What is Jalen Brown saying right now? Thank God they didn't call me. Zagacki, he probably at the house like, thank you, bro, I wanna chill. I don't have to go to Paris, I wanna lay up.

The statement says from USA Basketball, Kawhi has been ramping up for the Olympics over the past several weeks and had a few strong practices in Las Vegas. He felt ready to compete. However, he respects that USA Basketball and the Clippers determined it's in his best interest to spend the remainder of the summer

preparing for the upcoming season rather than participating in the Olympic Games in pair. Do you get a medal if you showed up for a few days in practice? No. It's not like a ring that you get, World Series ring for getting a day of service time. I think you have to be on the team that goes to Paris. Okay.

Kawhi Leonard feels like one of those players that we're gonna watch a highlight reel of in like five years and be like, oh right, that guy when he was healthy was arguably as good as anybody in the entire sport. Is he any better than Don Mattingly, Josh Johnson? The guys that got hurt, that at their peak were great.

I think the difference is that Kawhi led multiple teams to championships and was the focal point of those teams in a way where he dominated on both ends that we really haven't seen in this iteration of basketball outside of what, like LeBron in terms of being a two-way player leading a team to a championship? I know the Josh Johnson that you just referenced, but I feel like a lot of people are like,

who's he talking about? The quarterback? He's talking about the Marlins pitcher, who at his peak was dominant and then he got hurt but I just don't think that's a Marlins, I don't think the nation is, I don't think they know. Yeah. He was spectacular.

I'm talking about players who do not hit their potential because they're hurt too much. Maybe Steven Strasburg would actually be a better comparison and that he actually reached those peaks and was one of the most dominant pitchers for several years, but never quite got to be the hall of fame dominant pitcher that everybody anticipated and will still be a Hall of Famer more likely than not.

Strasburg? Maybe? No way. Just because of the peak? Well, it's different in the sport. It's a different sport, whatever. He's a Hall of Famer for sure. Basket, Kauai Leonard. Basketball's different though. He's absolutely a Hall of Famer.

He's also somebody who, again, in retrospect, we're going to realize, oh, that's why he was load managing. That's why all of this happened, was because his knees were actually totally messed up, not because he was afraid or lazy or didn't want to play 82 games. The Kauai thing's fascinating. He's going to be the person who's hurt the most by basketball reference when people look back at his stats in 20 years because there is a legitimate period

where you could argue he was best player in the NBA. Yes. There's going to be people, 2019, certainly. Stop it, David. There's also going to be people who watched it, who are going to argue who is the second best forward of this generation. Was it Durant or was it Kauai Leonard?

And Durant will have every statistical accolade. And then our people, the people who complain about the back in my day will be like, you didn't see it live. Why was it just as good? But Durant is interesting to bring in this conversation because I also think like his career has been a little bit of an underachiever at this point.

Like he's just moved around. Like other than when he was inachiever at this point. He's just moved around. Other than when he was in Washington, he's never happy. He's an all-time great, but are we gonna look at his career the way we look at other careers? Golden State. What'd I say? I know the Washington you speak of. I'm at Warriors, I'm sorry.

I'm at Wizards. Grunfeldt. My bad. But other than that, his career, it just feels like, we think of him as outside of LeBron, the best of this generation, but it's just something feels off about his career. It's one of the few players that I think,

I've made this point before on my show, is that he's one of the few players that I think has had an all-time great career, but also kind of feels a little disappointing. Like for that ability and that talent level, it's like we expected more, which it sounds stupid when you look at what he's accomplished, but you look at how talented he is. It's like Brandon Roy and Derrick Rose. Derrick Rose is a great one.

And Brandon Roy was an MVP. Can I, I mean, does anyone care why exactly he's going home? Because the way that that statement was made kind of... It seemed like it was Clippers. It seemed like he got sent home and somebody made that that statement was made kind of it seemed like it was Clippers that Like he got sent home and somebody made a call like shouldn't ever have been there And that's what bothered me is that now after two practices the Clippers have prevailed The Clippers didn't want him there to start with there's no way Balmer going into a new arena Wanted Kawhi Leonard there having just lost Paul George. George. So to me, did they just convince him? I don't think it works that way.

I think that is a press release that made Kawhi Leonard look perhaps more valiant than the choice was actually in real life. Dave Sands knows a firing. He knows a firing when he sees one. Darrell Moore should take notes from the Clippers organization right now. Brother, your franchise is going to play

in the Olympics right now. We just, like I said the other day, one eye and one leg the last time we saw you, bruh. We bringing PG-13 in. It's legitimately concerning. If I'm a Sixers fan, I love that they just added Derek White. I want as many Celtics players as possible playing through the finals.

Now the Olympics, they're gonna be so exhausted by the time spring training comes. There's no way they're winning 67-70 games next year in the regular season, too tired. So it is funny how sports, like the actual employers of these athletes, see and feel about the Olympics. Like the WNBA has an entire break. WNBA, Juju, like the Olympic break,

it happens during their season. Everybody takes time off because they realize we can't possibly do this. And I feel like if you're talking to any front office member, coach, president, and they have a little bit of truth serum in them, they're saying, we don't like this in the least. Very, you don't need much truth serum to admit that.

I'd say though, my guess is, and maybe it's different now for the owners, but at a certain point, while on the coaches and general managers level, it's why are our players going over there? I would guess that, especially pre-globalization, most of the owners and commissioners were like, please get over there and sell this game,

which is why the WNBA comparison is probably an apt one. Yeah, I mean, look, obviously, like David Stern was the big brain behind like the dream team in 92. It's what changed the league. And now you gotta wonder if the leagues see the value or the upside in this in the present day. They want it for themselves,

which is why there's so much international play now. It's why you see the NFL trying to get not just London, which they feel like they own and maybe they do, but they want Germany. They want to, they're gonna keep going through Europe. Baseball wants to try to claim Asia and then South and Central America. Basketball wants to claim China.

They want to, they're all putting down their tent poles. The Olympics used to be a tent pole moment. And we talked about this a little bit where what do the Olympics mean now that the Cold War's over? There's no commissioner, no owners who need the Olympics to bolster the international status of their games. They do it themselves. How do you feel about fighting Roger Goodell

in various parts of the risk board of Planet Earth? He is extremely powerful because he's got enough owners who back every move he makes and he does certain things that go against the owners who back him and that is the sign of a powerful commissioner. I think that when baseball comes near Roger Goodell, Roger Goodell looks back at them with a... Prime mob hoe. comes near Roger Goodell. Roger Goodell looks back at them with a. Hi Mob Ho. Good one Mr. Thighs.

He is wearing a different set of open thigh shorts today. I was commenting on how great and vast his wardrobe is. So people who are not on YouTube might be confused. I don't have on assless chaps, what the hell are open thigh shorts? I mean I think you're looking for like. Assless chaps is open ass. I know but.

Open thighs is John Stockton shorts are open thigh shorts. Those are, I would call those Hootie Daddy shorts. Short shorts. Hootie Daddy's short shorts, six inch inseam, something like that. Open thighs seem like just the thighs cut out, right? That's a question for our sex therapist, I believe. Oh yeah, she's coming up soon.

Teach me how to dougie. Speaking of things that David has said and promised us throughout the week. Hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up. You sound like you're doing a transition, which means that you need to be in this chair. Let me set a screen for you. Oh, good call, good call.

Let me set a screen for you so you can get to the chair. No! Oh my goodness, David stole the chair. Musical chairs winner. David stole the chair. Oh wow. Unplug this headphone. The problem is David is more scared.

I just pulled my back. Oh damn. Got up way too quick. For those not watching, you're using for the DraftKings Network, David Sampson tried to sit in this chair of relatively normal height. I would say he got there.

He got his butt in the chair. He got there, but I think he was concerned about somebody else being close to his microphone because he's a germaphobe. No, I actually couldn't find the hole fast enough. Whoa, she's coming later. Relax, man. Sex therapist is showing up later, David.

That's later. See, that's one, Dominique, let me help out a little bit. Okay, yeah, coach me out. That's one you just could have let go. It's subtle, there have been a lot of sexual innuendo in references. Are you trying to now make it seem like you've been intending to do everything

you've been doing on purpose? A hundred, you of all people are really asking that question. Nuck what you buck. Yeah, that was definitely intentional. David promised us a top five list. A list of the top five firings. I'm gonna have to blow through this.

No, not right now. I think we have a blow through this. I really don't have. Clip it. Not right now. I think we have a couple top five lists. I don't know if we'll get to Jeremy's top five list. Maybe we have an in-room vote or something to see whose top five list we wanna do next segment more. Jeremy or David. Jeremy, do you wanna sell your top five list? Sure.

Because of the announcement of Shrek 5 coming out soon, one of my favorite songs ever is in Shrek 2. And so I came up with a top five songs written for movies that ended up being the artist's best song. Great, thank you for that. Thanks. Thanks Dominique. We're gonna do a democratic vote

and I think I know this is like when you just cheered loudly for that but wait till my top five Juju. Yes sir. I think you're gonna genuflect slightly more toward here. I'm gonna give you my top five firings and why, and why they were so awesome. I wanna hear that one too. I don't wanna hear mine.

That sounds great. Exactly. That's the better one. You set me up for failure. Wait, you're giving up already? Yeah, that's so much better. Mine's fine, we can do that anytime. I get it.

Maybe we'll get to it later in the show, but I gotta hear that next segment. That's really good. I thought you were setting up a true competition where I had a chance to win. Bro, we've been tight all bro. We've been we did win We've been tight all show. I've been looking out for you. I was setting you up for easy dub I was put matching you up against the mismatch that we had

That's why I set these screens. We created a switch got you on Jeremy if Batman forever isn't on Jeremy's list I'm gonna be pissed. That's a win for everyone for the matchup with me. You're coming out on time I got right past Jeremy there. That was amazing Yeah, I was pretty super happy about that mismatch now on iTunes. Thank you. God II 265ers check it out Stugats here for my friends over at simply safe imagine a burglary at your home If you're picturing a shady character sneaking about under the cloak of night You may be surprised to learn that according to the FBI

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