The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: The Big Letdown

Episode Date: June 6, 2024

Donnie Wahlberg sticks around to chat about the Finals, his nerves for Game 1 as compared to a New Kids on the Block performance, Kyrie Irving, and more. Then, have you seen the casting for the new Los Angeles Clippers show "Clipped?" Well, Lucy has, and it's insane. Plus, Adnan Virk and David Samson stop by to share their Top 5 Movies Scenes of All-Time with an interjection from Greg Cote who has his own list. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Not investment advice. Crypto trading involves risk of loss. See kraken.com slash legal slash ca dash pru dash disclaimer for info on Kraken's undertaking to register in Canada. This is the Don Lebatore Show with the StuGuts Podcast. This is the Don LeBattor Show with the StuGuts Podcast. Donnie, I'm a big sneaker head. Can you tell me the story of how you guys got a Jordan 4 Wahlberg edition? Great question. You know, I'm not sure how it happened. I think my brother Mark was was hanging out playing golf with Michael Jordan at the time

or something and the conversation came up. I know this when you see that shoe with like a $50,000 price tag. I don't buy it. I don't buy it. I think there were only a few pairs made. I don't think they really cost that much. Sorry, my camera. I just can't seem to get myself in the center of the shot. You're fine. You're fine. I'm done. I'm not sure how they showed up. But I'll only say a funny story. My son, Elijah, who is a diehard Celtics fan, he goes to a

lot of the games with me. He had a pair of those. He still has a pair. I don't even have my pair. My son has a pair of them. She wore them to a Celtics game when Kyrie was there. We were in Chicago sitting next to the Celtics bench and Kyrie looked over and he said, he said, those are cool. You must know someone. And my son said, yeah, my dad. So what you don't even have a pair of shoes that have your last name on them.

No, I didn't. I gave my pair to someone. My brother Mark actually gave his pair to my son for his birthday. And we have like pairs like stored away, but a lot of them we gave to certain stores, they keep them in their stores and put like funny price tags on them that no one's ever going to pay that much money for. It's fun to be, you know, to walk into a stadium goods or something like that and see the shoe there with like a absurd price tag on it next to some other shoes that cost a half a million dollars. It's pretty funny.

Donnie, there's a lot of narratives surrounding Jason Tatum and this group is they've sort of taken it step by step to get through to playing in the summer. They're hanging tough. Yeah, they are hanging and you know, they play tonight against Dallas, but you know, if they're able to take home this title, will you be able to say, you know, you got it, the right stuff or, you know, ultimately, will you just be telling Jason Tatum, I'll be loving you forever? Well, I will be loving Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown and the Celtics forever, win or lose, but I'm not into the narratives.

I don't, I don't even, I don't get where they've come from. I don't really understand like, first of all, the Jalen and Jason get along great and they're great teammates. They both sacrificed a lot to buy into the team concept and to Joe, Joe Missoula's approach. I think they could both easily average five or six more points a game on another team if they weren't together. They really have altered their games for the

better of the team. And I really think they support each other. I've been around the team a lot. They've always had a great rapport. But this narrative that Tatum doesn't come through in the clutch or these guys don't win the big games. That's the statistics that say that, no? Oh boy. Really, 50 points in a game seven against Philly,

46 in a game six on the road against Milwaukee. Tell him, Donnie. Who was he late in the fourth quarter? Tell him, Donnie. I was he late in the fourth? Tell him, Donny. Yeah. I'm not sure. You know, I'll give you last year in game seven against Miami. But, you know, I think we get caught up in this narrative of like looking at the statistics, but let's look at all the statistics. You know, Tatum's a lot of the offense runs through him. He's averaging double digits and rebounds. He's doing other things in the game.

He's defending guys that typically he wouldn't, you know, necessarily defend and using his size advantage and his defense. He's doing so many other things and this team has five guys starting on the floor who can put up 25 points. And a lot of times Jason Tatum is being doubled and looking for the open guy. He's getting the ball early in the shot clock and making a quick read and passing the ball off to other people. He's he could just throw up threes all game if he wanted to.

other people, he's, he could just throw up threes all game if he wanted to. Um, I think the, this, uh, this reputation that the Celtics have of not. I'm not finishing. I think they're ahead of schedule. Let's just put it that way. I like it. Um, most of the superstars in the league have won their first championship at the age 27, Michael Jordan, umBron, KD, you go down the list. There's, I mean, it's crazy how many players Shaq. I mean, all these guys, they all broke

through at 27. Tatum's not 27 yet. I think when, when Kyrie was with Boston and Gordon Heywood was there, we were expected to win a championship. It didn't happen. There were injuries. There were other issues happen, but nobody thought Jaylen and Jason were going to be winning championships this soon. And suddenly they went from surprising everyone and overachieving to underachieving. Honestly, I think because of game seven last year against Miami, I think Miami to this day is an underrated team. The last few years of Miami, I think they're underrated. I think BAM is an underrated player. I think Jimmy Butler is underrated.

I think styles make fights. I think Miami matches up really good with Boston and they are always gonna give us a tough time, but not this season. They didn't match up good with us. Jimmy or season. They didn't match up good with us. Jimmy or not, they didn't match up good with us. And I don't think Dallas matches up well with Boston. I think the Celtics are a tough matchup for Dallas.

I think their strength is the backcourt play of Luca and Kyrie. One of our strengths is our defensive backcourt of Giroud and D White. If Chris Stappaps is healthy and can protect the rim, it's going to be a tough series for Dallas for sure. But I think the narrative that the Celtics or specifically Tatum aren't clutch is totally wrong. It's totally out of left field. And I think any there's no division on the team, they're locked in, they're unified. And I think they're doing a great job of not buying into the hype and the media scrutiny.

I think they play team ball, they're ready, they're focused. And I really think this is gonna be their year. Donnie, we'll get you out of here in just a second. I'm wondering, did you ever have a chance to meet Bill Walton? Do you have a story about Bill Walton? How does that work? Did you meet Bill Walton? A quick story. In 1986, when the Celtics won the championship, my high school was right on the corner where the parade route started. And first of all, I love Bill Walton anyway, just as a player, as a Celtic and as a commentator

and as a human being. But my friends and I got to leave school early while we snuck out of school to go to the parade. And so I got on my friend's shoulders and I high fived Danny Hange as the truck was going around the corner. But then one of the other trucks was going by and I climbed on the back of it and one of the security guys said, get down, get down. And I said, I just want to say hi to Bill. And Bill Walton was just in front of him with his back to me.

And he turned around and he said, let the kids stay. And he reached over and shook my hand and like high five me. And like, it was one of the greatest moments of my sporting fan life. I jumped down off the truck. I jumped on the truck. and shook my hand and like high five me and like it was one of the greatest moments of my sporting fan life. I jumped down off the truck and just you know it was such a kind thing because you know a lot of people wouldn't even pay attention you know they would just let the security guy push me off and Bill like was so enthused and so excited. And the kid in me, I'm only 16 at the time, the kid in me that climbed on that truck to

see one of my heroes in that moment connected to the kid in him. You know, that kid, he would have probably done the same thing is basically what I saw in him in that moment and what I remember about that moment. He loved seeing a kid who loved basketball and his team that much that he would climb up on the back of that truck that he wanted to, you know, celebrate in that moment with some random kid. And I wasn't Donnie Wahlberg of Blue Bloods or New Kids on the Block back then.

He's a dead head anyway. He probably didn't even like the new kids. But I was just a nobody kid and he took the time to acknowledge me in one of the highest moments of his career. And that says a lot about that kid, that kid-like spirit that lived in him his entire life, all the way till the end. So much so that most of us didn't even know he had a health issue or anything because he just never lost his enthusiasm and his love of life. Check him out on Blue Bloods. It is streaming right now on Paramount Plus. New Kids on the Block is on tour. You can get your tickets at nkotb.com. Blue Gods, let's go baby. Quick game Donny before we get you out of here, it's called a

shot for your life, okay? Shot for your life. You have to choose one of these two people to take a three-pointer and if they hit it, you're living. If they miss it, you're dead. Sorry. All right. Bird or JJ Reddick? Who you going with?

Bird. Okay, good. Sorry, Bird. You're living. Bird or Caitlin Clark? Right now? Yeah. At their current age? No, no primes, primes, primes, primes. Bird, bird, bird. Okay, how about Bird or Steph? That's a tough one.

I know. But I gotta go, in a close call I'm goin' with Bird. Okay, last one, Bird or MJ? Ooh. I'm going with MJ. I like that. Michael and Magic were both acknowledged by Bird in a way that you know really elevated certainly Magic. The way Larry spoke about Magic and said Magic was the best he ever played against until Jordan came along. That made all of Boston respect Magic in a different way and be okay with giving Magic his flowers ahead of Bird in the all-time greatness.

But I think it would be hard to go against Larry in any situation. And I know people debate about the eras and the times in the Sonata. If Bird was playing now, forget about it, man. He averaged a triple double and 40 points a game the way he shot the three but you know, steps steps up there and shooting and Jordan is just you chose the right guy. You chose

the right guy. You have a show down here in West Palm Beach. Greg and I want backstage passes. Are we good? What do you think? Huh? I would love to see you guys there. Yes, absolutely. We'll make it happen. Uh pair of sneakers. Not the green

Walbert sneakers. I can give you something else. Donnie, thank you so much for the time. Good luck with everything. Have fun tonight at the game and give Kyrie some **** man. Come on. the game and give Kyrie some shit, man. Come on. You're a Celtics man.

No, man. All the rest of the fans will do enough for that for me. I'm not doing it. All right, Tony. Good luck and have fun, man. All right. We'll talk soon. Thank you so much.

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Who? Don Libertard! You're a big disappointment, Paul Pierce. My, I'm only upset right now that I don't get to do this in person Paul Pierce. Hey, how disappointed is it to be a Miami fan right now? Stugats! Brother, actually you make a really great point. This is the Don LeBathardt Show with the Stugats! So this week I started and immediately stopped watching this new docu-series on Hulu called Clipped which is like a reenactment sort of like what they did with Pam and Tommy and

the like Elizabeth, Thera, whatever girly and it's on- Whatever girly. Yeah, yeah, you know who I'm talking about. No, I don't. Elizabeth something. I always want to call her, I can't ever remember her last name. Hmm. Elizabeth.

She had the fake story, she had the fake company about the blood thing. And she had the weird voice, black turtleneck. Hmm. Steve Jobs. This is not the point. Okay. What is the point? I'm getting to it.

Okay. So it's like one of those shows. Elizabeth Holmes? No, not Elizabeth Holmes. Curly. No, Elizabeth. Shoe? McGovern. Elizabeth Holmes wears a lot of black turtlenecks.

Give me more Taylor. Is that it? Give me more keywords. Yeah, it's Elizabeth Holmes. Taylor. That is her. I thought Elizabeth Holmes was a different celebrity. I always want to call her Elizabeth Smart,

which is like a girl who was kidnapped. Montgomery. Not the same. But you know how they did the show with Amanda Seyfried playing her and they had the, yeah. So basically what I'm doing a really horrible job of explaining is that Hulu made a show like that about the Donald Sterling like voice memos.

Really? Doc Rivers. Yes. And so they put together this, they tried to put together this little like reenactment of it, whatever series, and I got through the first episode and it took all of 30 seconds for me to be like, I, what in the world is going on here?

It is some of the most insane casting I have ever seen. We're gonna pull up some pictures. This is a clipped Steph Curry. Come on. No way. That's Dak Prescott. Yeah, that's 100% Dak Prescott. For our audio audience.

Wait, is Dak playing Steph Curry? That's Tony Parker. For our audio audience, this is gonna be really tough to explain, but just whenever you think Steph Curry, who doesn't look like Steph Curry, and then that's this guy. Just picture Dak Prescott.

Yeah, picture Dak Prescott. I'd like to get the Blake Griffin guy up there next. This is Blake Griffin. Oh, no. That's not Blake Griffin. That's Adnan Burke. Literally? I don't even, he doesn't look anything like Blake Griffin.

Lucy, that can't be Blake Griffin. No, that's Blake Griffin. That's the, you called up the wrong person. No, that's, can we get another photo of Blake Griffin in this show? Because throughout the first episode, which by the way, is bad, it's not can we get another photo of Blake Griffin in this show? Because throughout the first episode, which by the way, is bad. It's not a good TV show.

I kept having to look up the cast because I said, I don't know who that is. I don't know, that's Chris Paul? That can't be Chris Paul. And Laurence Fishburne is playing Doc Rivers. And so like, you can kind of see, like they kind of look alike, but it means Doc Rivers sounds more like dock rivers

than Lawrence Fishburne. You're sitting there and it's impossible. Is he trying to get it? Is he going down into like the, No, not even a little bit. He's just using his regular voice. This is Blake Griffin. What?

No, it's not. They are trying to tell you. Well it's actually not. It's just not. They got the hair there. I'm like, it's actually not No Freckles on the cheek. No, they didn't really get many tall people to play the basketball players, too I'm like, I know he's not like that guy's 511. Okay, he's not in the NBA

You have to quit like lying right if we can get JJ Reddick up for JJ Reddick They said the casting call just let's get a white guy We'll just take whatever white guy walks to the door and we will call him JJ Reddick they said the casting call was just let's get a white guy. We'll just take whatever white guy walks to the door and we will call him JJ Reddick. And it made it impossible to watch the show because you the whole time you're like that you didn't even try you didn't even try to make these these like actors look like the players they're representing. It's crazy, and the show is just straight up bad. The guy in Modern Family who's married. At O'Neill.

Yeah, yeah, to Sofia Vergara. That's not a bad, the way they've made him up. He looks enough like him, but he's likable. And you're like, so it's weird that he's playing Donald Sterling, and then the woman who's playing Vivianian the lady Vista Viana Yeah, yeah, at least the tapes she looks like her but all I can remember from when that's JJ Reddick

That's JJ Reddick Just a white guy They just said just give us a white guy That is the actor playing JJ Reddick Yes But JJ Reddick has to be thrilled with that no? He loves it It's the opposite of Blake Griffin Blake Griffin's pissed JJ Reddick's excited I But JJ Reddick has to be thrilled with that, no? He loves it. It's the opposite of Blake Griffin.

Blake Griffin's pissed. JJ Reddick's excited. I literally was like, who is that? I had no idea. I had, the whole time I had the Clippers roster pulled up, being like, I don't know who these people are. I have no idea who they're trying to pretend to be. And so they have a woman playing Vivian who,

like, all I can remember from this, and this happened, what, like 10, 15 years ago? And like, it's pretty still like, and this happened what like 10, 15 years ago, and like it's pretty still like most people know what happened in the recent memory. All I can remember is when she gave the interview to Barbara Walters and she was like, what was your relationship with Mr. Sterling? And she was like, I was his right hand arm man.

His what? Yeah, his right hand arm man. His what? His silly rabbit. No, it's one of the greatest pieces of sound we have ever played on this show. Hold on, Lucy. I'm just going to hit pause for a second because I want to play that clip. Can you tell me what your relationship with Donald Sterling is? I'm Mr. Sterling's right hand arm man.

I'm Mr. Sterling everything. I'm his confidant. His best friend. His silly rabbit. His what? His silly rabbit. His silly rabbit? Yes.

Is that what he calls you? No. That's not myself. But in the doc- That's why Barbara's the best to ever do it, by the way. It's a series he calls- like they have him calling her his silly rabbit, like there's like a piece of dialogue. His what? The woman playing her doesn't sound anything like that.

That's Chris Paul! Oh my god! I had no idea who that was. They couldn't have gotten Cliff Paul Well, they the only reason I knew that was Chris Paul is because they made some remark or they had fake Doc Rivers be like, you know, this isn't a state farm commercial and I was like, oh my god, that's Chris Paul It is maybe the most poorly cast show I've ever seen and it's straight-up bad like it's bad TV, right Chris what happened there? I clicked the wrong clip. I have me screaming for my daughter all of a sudden Oh my God. That's not bad though.

That's not bad. Of all the castings, it's one of the better ones. But the voice, he didn't really even try to get the Doc voice. And so the whole thing is just like, who okayed this? Is what? And this happened recently enough and most of these players are still active in the league

or active in media, so you can't get away with doing a bad casting job because we all like still know what Blake Griffin looks like. I think that's the big issue, right? Winning time. People had issues with some of the casting there, but at least everybody in winning time has aged so much that you're not actively thinking about what they look like at that age all the time. Where right now, Blake Griffin still looks like Blake Griffin. Chris Paul still looks like Chris Paul.

JJ Reddick still looks like JJ Reddick. So to have these random actors playing them that don't look anything like them is so confusing. They look nothing like them. But to a point though, Jeremy, when you look at Magic, when you look at Kareem, when you look at all the guys in Winning Time, you started watching and being like, oh, wait a second, no, I can kind of see it.

There's no kind of seeing anything in Clipped. It's like, I don't know what this is. This is like a bad dream. You know when you have a dream? You're never going to see it? You can't really focus in on the guy like, I know this guy. I just don't know where I know him from. He doesn't look like himself.

That's what this is, just a bad dream of Clippers. His what? I so badly want a movie about that team, but I want it to be good. They're canceling this for sure. No, it's not. I think it's going to be like a short series. I made it through the first episode and straight up like even taking the casting aside, which is really hard to do.

It's not good. Like it's just not good. The writing's not good. Their weird transition or like Instagram scrollss, it just doesn't make sense. And then you're like, you don't even look like these people. I can't believe you're acting and I can't believe what you look like. And it's the whole, this has just happened too recently

where this is a better documentary than it is recreating it in a little biopic type of deal. It's so bad. Me and Greg are laughing at Blake Griffin. That's so bad. And Jeremy makes a great point, he's actually a good actor. Yeah, Blake Griffin's funny.

He's a good actor. He could have played Blake Griffin. He's been in all sorts of TV shows. He should have just played himself. He's not playing basketball anymore. That looks like Eric Griffin, the comedian, not Blake Griffin. I would have never guessed if you had shown me this actor's picture before like watching

Clipped and said what NBA player is this guy representing? I would have no clue. I mean eventually you would say Blake Griffin because you're at it like you're towards the end of all the NBA players who have ever played. I don't know how all of it got okayed because the casting just continued to be so just like I can't believe you're Chris Paul you can make your state farm jokes as much as you want but I know that's not Chris Paul and then like the guy who's playing like DeAndre Jordan is like probably the best cast out of him, but he's short. And you're like, I know you're not in the NBA. You're not tall.

DeAndre was seven feet tall. Yeah, they got a 5'10 guy playing him. And it was the closest casting in the sense of looking like the person they're supposed to play. I would say JJ got a major upgrade. He's a good looking guy, JJ, but he got an upgrade there. I would say Chris Paul even got an upgrade there. Just in terms of who played him,

in terms of he's a better looking version of Chris Paul. If I were Blake Griffiths. Still doesn't have a ring, but he's a better looking version of Chris Paul. Downgrade for Blake for sure though. Downgrade for Blake, yes. That's, that's not, it was, it's just so bad. And so I won't be watching the second episode.

I just couldn't do it. We got that impression. The content isn't good. You don't say, huh? Is this a case of still active agents working for Chris Paul and JJ Reddick lobbying to get them better looking actors while Blake Griffin's agent really isn't doing much

at this point because he's not playing anymore, and so in turn, the lobbying for a more handsome actor just doesn't really happen. You have all these guys having the approval, like Chris Paul has to approve over his actor. I mean, not necessarily approve, just like a wink, wink, nudge nudge, nudge, nudge, nudge, come on, help me out a little bit.

No? You think they're going to the actual guys and saying are you okay with them playing you? No, I don't think that they're going to them. Because if that was the case and they said yes to this. But I think when you find out, when you find out that there's going to be a show made about you, if you have a very good agent,

you're not gonna send that agent over to these directors and producers and just have them just kinda lay some groundwork for you, lay the table if you will, on hey, I'd like a more handsome actor to play me. Kind of get people in their memories thinking of me as a handsome guy. I would too, Greg, I'm with you, but I think that's what Chris Paul did, and JJ Reddick.

Right. The only one who didn't do it was Blake. That's my point, the Reddick one. Yes, well I get it, hey, full circle. Come back around. You feel better? Yeah, I do. Good news for them is it's so bad, no one's gonna watch.

No one's gonna make it up. Did you make it through the entire first episode? I watched the first episode and it was one of those things where I just really didn't have anything to talk about on the show so I was like, oh I really have to bring something for the next day so I prepared and I was like, this wasn't worth it. I'd rather just be bad at my job. Thank you for your sacrifice. Barbara Walter, who's better than her Greg, seriously? No, nobody.

I mean, can you give me a list of people better than Barbara Walter? Absolutely not. Top 5 barbers? Sound the trumpets, it's horse racing time. So saddle up for action with DK Horse, an official DraftKings affiliate. Right now, new customers who download the DK Horse app can get a 100% deposit bonus up to $250. Just deposit $25 or more and complete the play through requirement.

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it's a Tuesday Stu guts here's your guy great Cody with back in my day Tuesday. This is the done libertar show with this two guards No, I would just say my dad who's a notoriously Non-cinephile has his top three movie scenes after you guys. Oh my god. Okay, it's gonna be we'll get ready to diversify that Thank you It's a great topic by Samson. I threw it out. I was at MLB Network yesterday. Like, oh my God, talk about a tough topic. I'm like, no, it's great. Guaranteed there will be a Wizard of Oz scene in there somewhere.

How do you know Greg Cody's, how do you know his scenes aren't better than your scenes? How do you know that? Thank you. No, there's no way, Stu. There's no way. I'm completely confident. I can't believe we invited Greg to participate in this.

How are we ever gonna have enough minutes now? I'll try to be succinct. Stu, I can already see what's gonna happen. Rather than me versus Samson, we're gonna gang up on Cody and his shitty list coming up. We'll see. Don't be too nervous. Well, we've started already, so I have exciting news, very exciting news for this show.

No one on this show knows this, but I spent the last 10 minutes texting back and forth with Mike Johnson, Greg's nemesis, and he will join us in a half hour. A half hour from now, Greg Cody will be speaking to Mike Johnson. Chris, do we have the clip real quick? We'll get to Adnan and David Sampson, they're top five in just a second, but I do want this clip here because Mike Johnson is joining us. Are you excited, Greg? Are you nervous? Bring it on.

Bring it on. We played this Mike Johnson clip five times. We're going to play it five more times. OK? So you don't have it, is what you're saying. I have it. OK. Well, can we go to it?

All right, here's the clip. Is this the most ridiculous hot take ever? This is Mick Ridiculous. Absolutely. I said, I'm all about click bait, reader engagement, pandering to the home crowd. I get that. And maybe it's working because here we are talking about it. So it's mission accomplished.

But like if you know anything about hockey, and I'm assuming Greg might, you know that one player, no matter how great he is, cannot get it done and win a Stanley Cup on his own. Not McDavid, not anybody. But McDavid clearly is the greatest player in the game. He is generational. He's one of the best offensive players in the history of the game already.

He has proven that beyond a shadow of a doubt. So Greg, I'm sorry. This is preposterous, outrageous, ridiculous and just flat out wrong. So I know the Miami crowd might eat it up going up against McDavid but if you are a hockey writer, at some point you're gonna look back at this article, this headline and say, mmm that was not my finest journalistic moment because this is just ridiculous and wrong. Add in your thoughts.

Mike Johnson's a good friend of mine, colleague at NHL Network. I was texting with him yesterday. And listen, I love Johnny. He's as good an analyst as you have in the sport. If hockey was bigger in America, he'd be Charles Barkley. He's a brilliant guy. He's so smart. Greg, you're gonna heap of trouble.

Johnny's gonna eviscerate you, he is so smart. And he's funny, he knows he gets the show, he's gonna bury all you guys. David, it was the first condescending Greg, right? That's where you lost it. I just thought he went on too long. He lost me. It was, if you're gonna get someone,

you gotta be in, you gotta be out, you gotta be fast. and the fact that we're playing the clip like 29 times on the show I mean, that's like a whole segment if we want to be lazy the true lazy river Thank you keep playing that clip over and over we're gonna have Mike Johnson on again in about a half hour Greg Thank you Cinephile check out that podcast with that Dan nothing then nothing personal, of course, with David Sampson. It's good to see you guys together again. This is very exciting. Greg Cody has his own top three movie scenes of all time.

I'm sorry. Stu, hang on a second. Greg Cody, who wouldn't know a great movie from Connor McTaven being a great hockey player. You're telling me he has a list as well to combat me and David Sampson. Anchored Metal Arts Oscar coverage. You're telling me Greg Cody has a list. Yes. Yes.

And he feels very good about his list. He does. Back in my day. It's the best. I gotta believe that Greg did this list really haphazardly. And I spent a lot of time coming up with my top five list. I'd like to get right to it. All right. Let's get to it. Go ahead, David. Number five, Big Fish, the funeral scene. No music. Wonk, wonk. That's the reaction. If your list is good, you get a reaction. Otherwise, there's no

sound. I put the sounder. You just couldn't hear it. Well, let's just say that the funeral scene is the big reveal in Big Fish. When you see which characters have been real and which haven't, you should check it out. Number four.

Hang on. The big reveal, the big Fish is the big let down, okay? Samson, this is terrible. Number five on your list, Scott Van Pelt also loves this movie. I admit it has some moments, but number five in the greatest history of movies? You're crazy. I feel like you're overcompensating

for not having been here in a couple of weeks. I think you just gotta take it down one notch, okay? Maybe something to that, go ahead. I think it's also odd to offer support for a movie saying Scott Van Pelt enjoyed it. I'm just, it's a throwaway line, Stu. By the way, Van Pelt likes it, but your list still sticks. I'm aware of what you were doing there.

Number four, Dead Poets Society. After Robin Williams' character gets fired, it's the Oh Captain, my captain, standing on the desk scene. It is iconic. It's a great one. One of the top scenes of all time. Can't call that, good call.

Number three, the bulletin board reveal at the end of the usual suspects. Excellent. I'm talking Orca fat. I will never forget Orca. I will never forget the bottom of the teacup. That is a moment when you see it for the first time that you can't forget.

How about the barbershop quartet in Skokie, Illinois? Pretty good. So good. It's where the bulletin board was actually made in Skokie, Illinois. I think number two, the curious case of Benjamin Button. Oh, one of my favorite all time movies, top 5. There is a scene in the movie when they meet in the middle as Brad Pitts is getting younger

and as Cate Blanchett is getting older and they are the same age for a scene and they are in love and that is the number one example of a scene of love in any movie. I can tell you this, I was getting older watching that movie like Cate Blanchett. I was aging rapidly having to sit through that movie. David, that's not a great movie. It's a cute idea. It's got attractive lead characters. It's not a great film.

And it's not even that great a scene. You're telling me that's the epitome of love? That's better than Casablanca. Here's looking at you, kid. Come on. Yeah, so I do talk. We could do another top five, top five love scenes. This scene would be in it with these two characters.

Number one will be number one, Greg, for you. Number one for you, Adnan. There is no discussion of the best movie scene of all time. I like the preamble. It is the dating scene between John Travolta and Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction. What? From the milkshakes.

It's pretty good, yeah. All the way to the Eric Stoltz and Rosanna Arquette when John Travolta has to put the needle in her chest. That scene overall, number one, period. It's a good scene. It's not even the best scene in the movie. Sam Jackson, the climax, Ezekiel 25, 17, the path of the righteous man is beset in all sides

by the inequities of the selfish, the tyranny of evil men. That's a great scene. You're telling me that team's better? Please tell me you wrote that down. No, I didn't. Off the top of my head, that's how great a scene that is. That's ridiculous. You're a little reader now?

I can't believe that's your number one. Oh my God. That was good, Adnan. That was impressive. Cinephile, check him out. Anyway, your top five, go ahead. Stu, you're gonna love this list. Number five, whoa, Kelly Clarkson. Anyway, your top five. Go ahead. Stu, you're going to love this list.

Number five. Whoa, Kelly Clarkson. Steve Carell getting waxed. Oh, great. 20-year-old virgin. Yes. So good. So good.

Anybody with a hairy chest knows. Spoken as a hairy man. Anybody with a hairy chest knows. That scene will give you a horrible... Nipple f***. Number four... I've been waxed. It hurts.

Number four, I'm shocked Samson take this as one of his favorite movies. One of his favorite scenes, the first scene of Inglourious Basterds. So good. That whole scene is incredible. Speaking of reveals, of course, the reveal in the basement is brilliant. Number three, you think I'm funny?

I'm like a clown, like the way I talk. You think I'm funny? Goodfellas, you think I'm funny? He can leave for a month, but Martin never leaves. Who doesn't love that scene in Goodfellas? Number two, yes, yes, oh yes, I'll have what she's having. Meg fakes an orgasm when Harry met Sally. You just like saying orgasm on Dan's show.

Yes, yes, yes, I'll have what she's having. Number one, what's in the box? What's in the box? What's in the box? Yes, yes. Put the paltrow's heads in the box? What's in the box? What's in the box? But the Paltrow's head's in the box. Seven. Yeah. Wow.

Adnan, that was a good list, man. Like, Sampson did object to anything on your list. He agreed with all of them, I think. Right, David? I don't agree with seven at the lead. I mean, that is a good scene. There's no question. I'm not sure it's top 10.

I'm going to guess here, Adnan, that are Greg's top three that none of them were a part of our 10 because we both left out a movie that has one of the most famous scenes. And I'm curious if that's where Greg is. Dad, do you have on your screen right now top movie scenes of all time? No, no, I don't. I'm looking up one little fact about one of my movies. But that's a good fact check, Chris. Let's go ahead and get HR on this. Come on, let's investigate. I think he is absolutely cheating right now. No, I'm not cheating.

I'm just shocked that we got that in David's list out on time. We got three minutes left. The quickest we've ever done. So much time. We're just a little tall. We're ready to crush Greg's list. That's why we made sure to get it in.

Well, I have two written down here. I'm not certain if they're going to be on Greg's list. So is this a top five between the two of you? Well, no. Hey, Stu, Stu, Stu, let me give you an extra bonus one. I'm sorry to cut they're gonna be on Greg's list. So is this a top five between the two of you? Well no. Hey Stu, Stu, Stu, let me give you an extra bonus one, I'm starting to cut you off. Here's a bonus one.

Okay. The running man, the running man, when Schwartz Digger says, Kellyan, I'll be back, and Kellyan says, only in a rerun. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. That's a good line, but not a scene.

Okay fine, good line. Greg, no more delaying, let's go. Okay, I actually have a top five, but I can make it a top three with two OLIs if you prefer. No, a five's fine. Top five, go ahead. Just start. I'll be quick because I'm an amateur. Just start.

Look at Sam just tossing everyone around. Number five. Robert De Niro and Taxi Driver. Yes. You talking to me? Fantastic. This is a great list already. Just pandering to Adnan.

Just pandering to Adnan. Pandering to Adnan. Great line. Great list. Yes, and by the way, that was an Adlib line I read. Number four. You didn't read it then. In Saturday Night Fever, John Travolta's opening strut to the sound of Stayin' Alive.

Really good. Pretty good. It's an opening scene. Aconic but not a top scene. Number three. Go ahead. His list. In It's a Wonderful Life, the moment when James Stewart's George Bailey is brought to tears

when the townspeople all rally to pull him out of financial dilemma. And there goes Lucy. Clarence gets his wings. Come on. I was never there. There goes Lucy. Number two. In The Wizard of Oz.

Oh, Christ. The scene where Dorothy. Jesus. Steps from black and white into vivid color. I got your red shoes right here. We were promised to not do this segment on days that Greg was in the studio. And you get a better agent. And number one.

In 1980, Sydney Pollock's 1981 absence of malice Oh and Greg the scene where Greg Cody and extra is seen reading a newspaper on a desk Greg wins didn't you have a handlebar mustache doing that I did have a classic a creepy you still get residuals Greg I didn't even get paid. They fed us. They fed us. It was filmed at like 3 a.m. Good club sandwich.

I would say that I'm surprised folks that Saving Private Ryan, the opening scene of that movie was not in any of our lists because that to many people is the number one scene of all time. How about Good Will Hunting with Robin Williams, Matt Damon sitting by the pond and they have that conversation. That's a great scene. Plus, Rocky Damon sitting by the pond and they have that conversation. That's a great scene. Plus Rocky and Adrian on the beach, Rocky three.

I mean, come on. I was gonna say Rocky and Paul running together on the beach, that's pretty good. Yes, but it doesn't happen without the speech from Adrian though. Okay, we have money, we have cars, we have everything, go kick his ass. It doesn't happen without that.

That's my list. One thing I want you to do Good stuff guys no saving private Ryan on the 80 year anniversary of D-day, huh? Oh Just bringing the room down Thank you happy welcome back guys, I don't know. Thank you guys. Happy. Welcome back, good stuff guys. I don't think you say happy D-Day. I don't know, I mean, I don't know how it works.

It's like saying happy Memorial Day, you just say. Yeah, it's, you know, it was an important day. No one says happy D-Day. No, I mean, no, but it's an important anniversary. Congrats on D-Day. Important day. Happy D-Day. Idiots, goodbye. See you guys.

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