The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: Billy Wins The Lottery

Episode Date: July 29, 2025

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This is the Don Lebatore Show with the Stugats Podcast. I have a theory when it comes to Powerball or Mega Millions. I'm going to write this down. I don't know why, but I'm writing down your theory. We only lose when someone wins. If nobody wins, then we're not losing. We're winning. Then we all win.

We all win. I'm going to scratch this out. Because it goes up. You don't win and you don't get your money back You didn't lose cuz no one won cuz nobody won I only feel think about it you play the lotto you check the numbers. I didn't hit you're like alright I'm I was kind of expecting that but If I tell you and now the jackpot is 2 billion you're like yes if I tell you oh the jackpot

$7 million like what happened? Some guy in Alabama bought the winning ticket? Like that's when you feel crushed. So that's been going on where California's getting a lot of wins on these mega millions and these power balls. Like a lot of the billions are ending up, I don't know what's going on. A lot of smoke.

But a lot of, well. I'm gonna smoke this, oh, I'm sorry. Yeah. All right, okay, it took me a second to realize that I just. Well, the reason that you mentioned is because I said before, like I opened up a lot of, well. I'm gonna smoke this, oh, I'm sorry. Yeah. All right, okay, it took me a second to realize that I just. Well, the reason that you mentioned is because I said before, I opened up a Starburst, I got double red.

You said you won a lot of it. I felt like it, but I lost the power ball. That's like your money back, though. Like you get like five bucks back. That's karma. I gotta check actually the actual power ball, because sometimes I got a little $2 win there, and then I feel like I won,

even though I met negative eight. If you you got money back you absolutely won at that point I'm saying if nobody wins Powerball, then you didn't lose maybe you didn't win, but you didn't lose Yeah, but do I keep playing is the question? Of course. That's the point. How much do I commit to this cause until someone wins? Hmm. Did you know that Pedro Pascal has already had Five films released in theaters this year? This year, yeah, he's been busy. I mean, it's not the Jim Carrey 94. No, but it's a good year.

His last two films, I think Materialist has been a pretty solid box office hit. So really his last two months, Materialist, Eddington, and Fantastic Four. Eddington is getting a lot of great. I saw it It was wonderful. Yeah, I got a I got to watch it that I won't lie. That's a streamer movie for me I think it's gonna do huge on streaming because of the word of mouth, but you'd like it fantastic fantastic It's about COVID fantastic four is fantastic. I loved it. I gotta get around to that. I loved it, man

I'm gonna tell you why I Feel like Marvel movies lost their way over the last five years or so. Like everything basically since Endgame, with some exceptions here and there, take themselves too seriously. And like the Marvel movie, that's the thing that separates them from DC,

is like we don't take ourselves too seriously. We can have the world's gonna end and all that stuff, but we're gonna have these jokes in here. And it's gonna be lighthearted and we're never gonna take ourselves too seriously. We can have the world's gonna end and all that stuff, but we're gonna have these jokes in here. And it's gonna be lighthearted and we're never gonna take ourselves too seriously. And somewhere along that, they lost that. Ant-Man quantumania took itself too seriously. Black Widow took itself too seriously. The Eternals, holy shit, there was no fun in that. It was just serious. The Marvels, not funny enough. I have a plea to Marvel, stop making anything from Eternals canon.

Oh, they did. They stopped. They immediately. I think in Brave New World, Captain America, Brave New World, there was something from Eternals there. I don't like that one bit. Brave New World, too serious. Just real talk, never going to get around to that one.

What's that? Eternals. Eternals? No. Just not. No, and by the way, you don't have to. Cause Kevin Feige already talked about like, that branch is dead. We're not, there's little mentions here and there,

for instance, in Fantastic Four, there's mention of Celestials. Celestials are going to be a thing that refers back to Eternals, but Eternals as something that you need to watch will not exist. No one cares. That movie was horrible, horrible. And they tried to convince me that it was good.

That's what I've always heard. I'm like, part of being a Marvel fan at that time, because that was before it jumped the shark, which it did. Now, they may be able to fix it. I think Fantastic Four is reason for optimism there. But that was really the tipping point on this thing falling off. But there was kind of, as a consumer of these things,

you felt almost a responsibility to watch everything that they put out because you wanted to tap into the lore and wanted to be able to follow. And then it was, at the same time, they decided to increase their output. They did the multiverse thing, and it was just too much. And the quality was not good enough. So Kevin Feige, the head of Marvel, talked about this,

talked about also the explosion of TV shows hurt them, because now all these movies are referring to things from the shows and now the fans feel like this is homework that I have to do before I can watch this movie or appreciate it and so they're going to, in the future, limit I think the one TV show a year. Good because I didn't like the TV shows all that much. I was, I...

Some of them were good. I liked Wandavision. Wandavision was excellent. Wandavision, I bailed on Loki after a while. Loki was excellent. I liked season one of Loki. And then season two, I was like, no thank you. Loki, I'm gonna tell you, I've watched all these shows.

Loki was excellent, Wandavision was excellent. And then you get to... Captain America in one was bad. I bailed on that. Bad, that's because they had to rewrite it because originally it was about a widespread pandemic and then COVID happened and they're like, ugh, which is, in retrospect, man, you guys had it.

You guys already had it right then and there and instead they shied away from it so they changed the, we wrote the whole story and that's why it was kind of disjointed. I'm still halfway through Thunderbolts slash the New Avengers. I'm waiting for Thunderbolts to come out on Disney+. I saw a trailer and people were telling me it was good. I'm like, guess what?

You're not going to get me to a theater to watch this. Now Fantastic Four, that's a movie, man. Really? That good? It lives up to the billing? Yes. First of all, incredible acting jobs by everybody. They got The dude from the bear

They've got obviously Pedro Pascal and Jeremy Ellen White Yeah, his cousin is or his cousin or whatever. I don't know I can watch the bear that much but yeah, the bear sucks Really? I'm with the bear sucks. I one of the best takes I ever had in terms of how it aged with grace Everyone got on board with yeah, the show is redundant I how it aged with Grace, everyone got on board with, yeah, the show is redundant, too. Yes, chef. I love Sonny taking hacks at it. Oh my God. Have you guys been watching the new season of Sonny? No, I haven't. I saw the first three episodes.

No one's caught up, man. First three episodes are as strong a start to this, I mean, it's an illustrious show. It's had 17 seasons. The first three episodes are as funny as you could hope for. I'm going to give, it's not a spoiler, but just they're mocking Succession in the latest episode and they do it well. They do it really well. Imagine Succession, but instead of a TV network, it's the bar.

Episode three was brilliant and they actually made reference to it because they had three different ideas that they probably wanted to make into one show and they just made a layer cake with it instead. I just I don't know how that shows finding a way to get funnier considering all the material they've already used up. You would think and especially like you would think all of it like not only the material they've used up but like they've all used up. And especially you would think, all of it, not only the material they've used up, but they've all moved on to very successful careers outside of the show, right? Whether it's Charlie Day as a Hollywood star,

my man, Dennis. Rob as a. Yeah, Rob Mack. Rob Mack, obviously. As an owner. As an owner of a soccer team. Dee and Dennis have their own network shows and other projects that they've done.

And also Dennis is doing movies. He did the Blackberry movie. The Blackberry movie, which was a critical hit. Yeah, so the amount of time that they have, it's not like at the beginning of the show where these guys are all living in the same apartment and banging out these story ideas. They're all got busy lives,

but they're still putting out quality man But and funny funny stuff and then obviously Danny DeVito Charlie day. I mean since horrible bosses. What is I'm not I'm asking the question We're not gonna do that my man. I held on to always sunny though, right? Like Danny hasn't really done anything outside of always a producer. He's a big-time Hollywood producer Danny's but hasn't been acting on something no acting. He's been working I'm Hollywood producer. No, Danny's. But hasn't been acting on something. No, not acting, but I'm just saying.

He's been working. I'm just saying busy, something that's taking your, Charlie Day was in the Super Mario Brothers movie. Yeah, that's actually a massive box office hit. Yeah, Charlie Day. Decris. Has two films coming out this year, but they haven't been released.

Oh, one's directed by Ethan Cohen. So he'll be all right. There you go. Sonny has sold so many seasons, 17 seasons running. It's like one of the longest running TV shows in history, right? Yeah. It's close to it probably.

One of like mash or what some of these old shows, whatever, I don't know. You know what they talk, it's close. It's coming up on the record, but also when they got renewed, I think they're renewed right now through season 18. When they got renewed, Rob McElhaney said, or I should say Rob Mack, that's his name now, Rob Mack,

said we're halfway to where, when they started the show, they, 36 seasons, that was their goal. Like they have 36 seasons worth of like story arc to it So that's insane there. They're like just now creeping up on halfway there. So I was thinking with these shows that have been super Dynastic in their runs. What's the best show that has had one season only? So you only get one season doesn't matter if it was canceled doesn't matter if it was one story see I give you one season What's the best TV you got for me for one season? I think that's cheating.

OK. Because here's my thing. There's a different. There's a different. Yeah. You get a Scarlet A for this one. If you are, if you have a show that's designed to be one season, they call it a limited series

or whatever, then you're telling the entirety of your story in that season. You got it all out of you, right? Versus if I'm trying to make a show that's gonna have multiple seasons, I'm holding some stuff back, I can't give them all everything, man, I gotta have some stuff later, or else we'll run out of material.

Right, so it would be obvious that the ones that are meant to be one season would fit in this, but if you have one that was one season then canceled, that can be in the game too, that's all we're saying. I've got one of those, and it was a network show. And it was a 21st century network show. Freaks and Gigs? No, although that was very good.

But it did come back, right? So it was more than one season. Oh, there you go, I didn't know it came out. Or maybe I'm making that up, did I dream that? We'll find out. I'll clarify. There was this show on NBC that I really liked that had religious undertones to it. Kings, Sebastian Stan, that's where he got his start.

Really? Yeah. I did not know that. My dude from John Wick and Deadwood. What's his name? Ian McShane? Oh yeah, yeah. He was in that.

That show, I don't know if it's available anywhere on streaming, but that show was friggin' awesome. Went away after one season. Michael Ryan, I'm sorry to announce one season of Freaks and Geeks. Well then that might be the one. I mean, that's a good ass show, man. Yeah, hey, what a star-making vehicle.

Check out the cast of Freaks and Geeks. No, they knocked out the part. But Tony, if we keep it, that's why I feel like Freaks and Geeks, great show, one season, but I can compare it to Chernobyl. Cause Chernobyl- That could be part of your pair though. I've got a pair.

That's a mini series though. It's a mini series, but it's one season. We gotta eliminate a mini series, but the intention is one season. One season. Like, if you went into this knowing, we're gonna get one of these. Like, you're going all out, of course.

Like you said, if you're thinking I can do three, can do three four five six then you're gonna hold stuff back there's no there's no season two of the night of right like there's no sure no okay so that's what do we do all right lay the rules okay true detective season one and I've got night of I've got that is my text is multiple seasons multiple seasons but of the same character one season now you're now you're playing this is why I asked for the ground rules shows like true detective and Fargo they tell different stories yeah but they're all also connected loosely connected but connected none very they just connected the last that can't be in the game just connected well season three

was also connected to season 1 Season 2 is the only one that stand alone see vinyl That's your vinyl vinyl. I'm sorry for your uncle Ray, but that's show that show Yeah, it was HBO that show sucked a dirty was the one with the horses One with the horse I want luck. Yeah, I wanted to get it yeah, and then they canceled it. Too many horses were dying in it. If I bring you the pair of True Detective season one and Night Of, can you beat me with that? First of all, I'm going to complain about True Detective being on the thing. You can't pick an anthology, man.

Of course I can't, it's my list. We also described it as season one, where you're acknowledging that it's not your season. It was just multiple seasons, but the run of those characters was one season. Woody and Matthew McConaughey didn't go another season. So it's like, that's the season for me. It's encapsulated right there. So Chernobyl was amazing. Excellent. Right?

Watchmen, if you're a comic book person, Watchmen was incredible. That was really good. Some people do have take issue with Chernobyl, the suspension of disbelief in that. Everyone has English accents. Oh, sorry. I'm just sorry. I'm sorry, but I gotta put it out there. I'm just sorry. Yeah, like people had to... I'm just saying... I'm tired of people. And I'm also just sorry.

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Don Lebatard. No one else here is willing to do a Trump or a Biden. That's not true, Dan. Okay, Tony, you can catch up. May have a thousand impersonations. That's not bad, man. Finally. Not terrible. Pretty good.

Stugatz. Yours is terrible. You just gotta get a little redder. A little pinker. You're right there, man. Yours is not. You're biting me. What do you mean? That's actually not bad.

We gotta come together. A little southern twang there. This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats. I'm tired of people demanding that their characters sound a certain way. You know what I watched the other day with my dad? It's one of his favorite movies. I haven't seen it. Seen clips, but I've never seen the whole movie.

Amadeus. Amadeus is amazing. It's a funny ass movie. My man- A great film. It won best picture, didn't it? Won best picture. Won a bunch of Oscars.

It was amazing. Who's the dude with the bad skin? F. Murray Abraham. Yeah, he killed it. F. Murray Abraham, he won best actor for it. But the thing that I was blown away was I'm watching it and everyone in it pretty much has an American accent. Amadeus has an American accent,

Salieri has an American accent. And they're German, aren't they? They're all German and French and Italian, but we didn't do this thing where we had to pretend like, oh, my lord, no, man, let them just do their thing, let them act. And who cares what, unless it's in the native language.

I got a pet peeve about accents in movies. I just saw the trailer for The Odyssey, and they're doing the same thing. When did it become standard for any kind of mythical film that's set in either ancient Greece or whatnot, like Troy, 300, Gladiator, they all have the same accent, but it's not. Because it's more regal to speak like this.

Now you know who you're fighting. Like they all talk like that, where did that come from? This is smarter. It's not a, what accent is it? It's not an American accent, it's not an English accent, they're speaking English, but they talk like this. Brother, join me in arms. It's like a medieval accent of some sort.

It's like the guy from, from Role Models? Yes, yes. Joe LaTruio, yeah, he's like, but let us gently touch tips. Good morrow to you. Good morrow. And then he's like, and then they leave and they just walk off into the

distance did Ben her just start this thing and then no one else knew what I there I guess people watching are like that's the accent that we just go with now forever doing this like that he knows accent yeah whatever accent that is Americans are conditioned to listen to the daddy issues of America, right? And that anything with a British accent is sophisticated. That's what it is, right? The idea again, that's why I love Amadeus so much. It's like, oh no, we're going to have like everyone just talking regular.

But it's still a great movie. It's still really funny and really interesting. But like we must speak like this now to let everyone know this is regal and this is baroque period we have to speak with the role our art like come on man it's cool acting let him act. I have a nominee I have a hand Queen's Gambit Band of Brothers. Band of Brothers. Actually Band of Brothers is an all-timer you can also lump the Pacific in there. Pacific, yeah.

And I got one, like best season one of a show that actually had other seasons but totally fell off after that, Mr. Robot. Season one of Mr. Robot. I've heard that. Ray Donovan. You've never seen Mr. Robot? No, I haven't seen it.

No, I've heard that. You would love Mr. Robot. You'd love it. Shows that fell off after season one. I would go all in with Homeland No, I hope I had a couple see Season one was so good. That's season two starts with dude is in the war room And they're about to do the hit and he's like, hold on for a second. Let me just text my boy Hey, man, don't get in that car Man, they took Brody from like, it was cool,

like oh, this guy's da da da, and then all of a sudden. Brody was go to dude, that was a really good show. Shogun, I know they want to come out with a second season, hasn't come out yet. Shogun's up there. Shogun was excellent. I mean, if you're just looking at hardware counting trophies, it's up there.

But it was great, no, it was a great show. And it was authentic to their speaking Japanese, they're doing the things that we're talking about. There's a lot of subtitles, a lot of subtitles. There's another MVC show that got canceled that I liked, and it had Christian Slater, my own worst enemy. Do you remember that? Oh, I think I do, I didn't, hmm. Hmm, give me, give me.

He had different personas because he had a chip, that kind of malfunction in his head, he was like a secret agent type. Wasn't bad. And that was still at the time where it was still a novel concept to have like someone, a star of repute being on a network show. My so-called life with Claire Danes,

speaking of home. And Jared Leto. That was one season. I didn't know that. Cultural impact that was pretty big. It was huge, man. My so-called life, Claire Danes, same birthday as Amin Elhassan.

Wow. Same day, same year, everything. Me and Claire Danes. Wow. Connected, tied at the hip, going through history together. Hey, do you remember 9-11? I remember it, yeah. Of course you do.

What'd you do on your 21st birthday? That's your first connection point? Dude, that's everything. That's every, like, that's the, especially now, Mike, it used to be, you remember 9-eleven now it's I do now it's I won't never forget well now it's were you alive for 9-eleven have these jokers out here adults weren't even alive who are you talking to how young are these girls at the bar well who said anything about girls are you the same age as Claire yeah he's the same day same I didn't know. Am I bad at that?

Same day, same birthday. Wow. Wow, same exact day. Now that's cool. Ask Rock, Chris Cody, who was born on your exact birthday? Oh, I've done this before. I can't. I got to get back to you.

Is that the best hand that you got? Or is there another celebrity that or athlete? Same birthday? That has the same exact birthday? No, that's the best one. Andy Garcia is April 12th, but he's a different year, obviously. He's much older. But like in terms of the same. No, no, no. It has best one. I like, Andy Garcia is April 12th, but he's like a different year obviously, he's much older. But like, in terms of-

No, no, no, it has to be the day you were born. Yeah, it's, let me check it on. Let's all check, I wanna see who's got the best. Do you have one off RIP? I don't know, I've never checked this. If I give you Claire Danes, I'm gonna move. No, you're a gay housewife. The game that I know is, what was the number one song

in America when you were born? Mine was Dire Straits, for Nothing. Wow, that's a good song man. Forget the song, how about the video? The video was unbelievable. CGI? Transformative. I was born two days before the Joker. Ah, which one? No, the tennis one. That's so great. But that's also not your birthday. I know I don't I don't have a great celebrity on Jennifer Morrison Yeah, just born on your birthday. Who's Jennifer Morrison? She's a doctor from house Andy Murray born five days before me okay surrounded once with the tennis players. That's cool around your birthday That's not a fun nugget. Give me your actual birthday. It's dude May 20th. There's no good celebrity

I might be the second most famous person born on April 12. That's great It's awesome. How about that? Me and Claire Danes, baby. Wow. I've got one that I think is better than Claire Danes Wow and the second reference to him Jeremy Allen White really my 25th 1991 He might have the nuts my brother. He might have the nuts and Brandon Davies. That's a good name What about Billy? BYU got kicked out because he was doing his thing. Yep. Billy, who do you have on your birthday? Ed O'Neill has your birthday.

Yeah, but no, not the actual birthday. Year. Well, you said he's the second most famous on April 12th. No, 1979. Well, I mean, that's very specific. That's what, that's the game. Ooh. The number one song for me was You Too With or Without You.

Oh, that's a good song, too. Man, it's almost like the number one song for me was You Too with or without you. Oh, that's a good song too. Man, it's almost like the number one song is always gonna be a good song. David Letterman shares your birthday. He does, but not the same as the game. All right, Billy. All right, Billy. What's happening?

I'm just going through FamousBirthdays.com. I love that one. Yeah, but we need the actual birthday. What's Billy's birthday again? I can do this. April something. Yeah, can you do it for him? April something.

My number one song was What a Fool Believes the Doobie Brothers. It's a great one. Yeah, man. It's always gonna be the response. Could you imagine being born on a day where the number one song was terrible? Just a wack song. It's like the Macarena.

Oh, couldn't be better. Claire Danes has to be like annoyed, right? That you go to famousbirthdays.com and April 12th birthday is the most famous. April 12th is a YouTube star that's 12 years old. Same thing with Ed O'Neil. Like these people, Shannon Doherty, David Letterman. Wow, Shannon Doherty.

David Letterman's 19th on this list. Where am I? You're not on this list. Do we know the singer Joss Stone? Yeah, beautiful boys that is the exact day Billy was born. There you go. You and Joss Stone Billy Boog has my birthday also, but a different year. That's a shame. Yeah, who's younger? It's a good question. I'm not sure I haven't investigated that but there's always like an awkward Do I tell Boog happy birthday?

Well, he's not going to but like do I tell himog happy birthday? Or does he tell you happy birthday? Well, he's not going to, but like, do I tell him happy birthday and then he feels obligated to say it back or do I just let it be and treat it like the other 364 days a year where we don't text him? You can't wish other people happy birthday on your birthday. Yeah, yeah. Well, back in the day, like the Facebook days

where Facebook would like tell the world, hey, it's this person's birthday, wish him a happy birthday. There was like the thing where it was a buffer, it was the day before, two days before, or day after, two days after, where it's like, do I wish this person a happy birthday and then they're gonna feel obligated to wish me a happy birthday?

Or if they didn't wish me a happy birthday, do I tell them happy birthday? And they're like, oh yeah, happy birthday to you too, belated happy birthday. Because then it looks like I'm fishing for happy birthday messages. Well Billy, you could use my philosophy, my approach is you just don't, belated happy birthday, because then it looks like I'm fishing for happy birthday messages. Well, Billy, you could use my philosophy, my approach is you just don't wish people

a happy birthday and then you're good. Well, that's rude. No, it's not. You don't wish anyone happy birthday. Just my kids, just because I want. It's a thing. Yeah, I want my kids to have a well-adjusted life, that's why, but deep down inside, I don't want to.

But you think them not celebrating their birthdays is gonna make them well-adjusted? No, I do celebrate their birthdays so that they are well adjusted. Are they aware of your stance in general though on birthdays? I don't think they're not aware. I've got one, but only if we were subscribing

to the Lord's time zone. Okay. Because I was born on October 9th, but he was born on October 8th because of the time zone. But how do you know what time he was born on October 9th, but he was born on October 8th because of the time zone. The Chris Cody situation. But how do you know what time he was born? Well, because the internet's confused, because it gives me October 9th and 8th,

depending on where you search, but Bruno Mars. Oh! He could have actually been born ahead of me. October 8th, yeah, almost certainly. Yeah, but I was born first. Where was he born? He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Yeah, you definitely got him certainly. Yeah, but I was born first. Where was he born? He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Yeah, he definitely got him beat.

Yeah. Six hour difference there, yeah. He had a head start. All right, so Bruno Mars for me. Okay. Even though he's technically October 8th. Bruno Mars might take the cake. I just think Claire Danes or Jeremy Allen White.

I think Jeremy Allen White's having a moment. Claire Danes, you gotta respect the body of work, man. Yeah, it's the same date as, in terms of just general birthdays, John Lennon's birthday, but I wasn't born in 19. Well, hold on, let me look up April 11th then. Right, or I could do, you know, like some on this side and some on that side.

You have the same birthday as Brooklyn Decker, just a couple years older than her. Baron Davis, April 13th. BD, you have another connection point. And then you can ask him like, hey, have you ever visited my Twitter profile? You're pretty famous. Oh yeah, let me say it.

Don Lebertard. Oh, it's good to see everybody despite the fact that everyone appears to hate me. Stugats. Yeah. I love you, Woody. But that's on you. I'm in different. I don't on you, too. I'm indifferent.

I don't know you that well. Love you. Yeah, they said that you both suck ass and were bitten in the ass. So those are both things that you were accused of during this. You're roughly set up for my ass situation. This is the Don LeVatar Show with the Stugats. Dan was born the day before Curtis pride former Tigers outfielder didn't we talk about him today

Only deaf guy in the uh, the MLB. That's crazy Alright, you don't really need white and Curtis pride time. Well, let's remember day before yeah Also, you don't need to I want to be insensitive but like hearing is not a big part of baseball Is it oh you're the ball at the bat right? Yeah? I think it's pretty big if you're batting like why do you care like? Batting your point you can technically play, but I'm sure there are third base coach like does give you some if you're an outfielder You're calling a ball off. You don't yeah My mind mind mind mind oh can of corn Well, I mean, okay, but he's not outfielder

right no there's a pickoff move to first their first base goes like back and he's just like okay great physical comedy there from Chris Jim Carrey level great 1994 all right is that but it's not like football or basketball where they're calling plays constantly. Like they're talking constantly. Yeah, basketball would be a really difficult sport. In the replacements, the tight end was deaf. That's true, you had to sign everything.

He was just running his routes. You never had to, it's crazy. Which would be the most difficult sport? To not be able to hear? Mm-hmm. I have to assume football because you get clocked if you're not A lot of communication. Yeah, it's a lot of communication.

Yeah, check, well, but they also can do hand signals in football. Yeah. So if you have a star player that's really good, the offensive mind would adjust and you'd go when the ball is snapped. Right. If anything, you're not going to go off sides. Never, right? You'd be the best at it. I think basketball's pretty tough. Hoops is tough. How do If anything, you're not going to go off sides. Never. Yeah. You'd be the best at it.

I think basketball's pretty tough. How do you know if a pick's coming? You don't. You get blindsided by that pick. You got to keep doing this the whole time, and then guys are dribbling right past you. How do you know who's in help? Yep.

Backdoor cut, right? Soccer's also pretty tough, too. Soccer? Yeah. Man on, stuff like that. You have a sixth sense a little bit. It also feels kind of very spread out in soccer, right? In hoops, it's much more tight of a scenario. Real estate, man on stuff like that. You have a sixth sense a little it also feels kind of like very spread out in soccer Right and hoops. It's much more tight real estate man. You got it or even just sometimes

Boxing is pretty easy Yeah, oh no, they have the bell. Yeah, you guys keep hitting the guy. You can keep looking up. All right one You know what they have to do in boxing they got gotta put almost like a phone vibrator under the ring. And so you can hear, vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv NASCAR, that's probably the one. They won't shut the hell up. Just drive the car, man. It's crazy the amount of stimuli NASCAR drivers have to deal with. I can't imagine what a draining experience a race is. Like a four and a half hour race. Sitting down.

Sitting down. Peeing on yourself. A million degrees inside your car. You got so many people in your head. You have to make split decisions. I can't imagine. Is the seat comfortable? I have to assume the seat is not comfortable for weight

concerns, right? The seat has to be comfortable. I'm sure they address that. You're also wearing a neck brace. You can't turn your head at all. The Hans device. Yeah. The harness, yeah.

It's not the most comfortable. Can't feel good. Does it feel better than a F1 or an Indy car? Open wheel? F1 races aren't as long. Well I'm just saying, the physical act of sitting in the driver's seat, is it less comfortable or more comfortable than open wheel? I don't know the answer to that.

I've heard Kyle Larson, who did Indy car in NASCAR, he was worried about how uncomfortable the car would be, but he was surprised at how comfortable it ended up being. When you got the top down, it must feel nice. They also mold F1 seats to your body. Really? Yeah, I'm pretty sure. To my ass mold?

I think it's molded to you for your exact specifications, so it's perfect for you. Now, how do they do that? Do they have a tub of the mold mold and I gotta sit in it? Like goo, you sit in the goo. And then they come back out and then they gotta scrape it off my ass. Oh, we didn't get that one right,

you gotta do it again. Yeah, do it again, man. You guys ever had, I had the earpiece for IFV. For TV. Yeah, for TV. And basically it's like, it's a little packet of powder, you mix it with some water and it comes into this paste and then you put it in your ear

and you sit there for like however, like a couple minutes and then it hardens and it pops out and then you send it with some water and it becomes into this paste and then you put it in your ear and you sit there for like, however, like a couple minutes and then it hardens and it pops out and then you send it in and that's what they make the IV out of. You see the ones that like do molds in your head and they put like straws up your nose? I couldn't do that. For what? Just for like busts or whatever of like people's heads

or they wanna make like, if it's like a movie and they need to make a replica of someone where they go and they put like all of that stuff they Put like a bucket on your head or whatever they filled it up and all you have is like the little straws coming out You know, yeah, it's not for me. But then you'd have terrible special effects you want good special effects You want it to look like you write that dummy that gets blown up I guess for like a movie, but if it's like an episode of Mythbusters, we can get close enough You know, like I don't need I need to go through all that for Jamie

Yeah, we're good. I'm a cannonball. I got him You don't need my face for the stomach getting blown up also. They do it like 700 times in a row So I don't think they're making a bust every single time Right you don't have to look like you I like mythbusters. What a wild time all right you that guy, huh? Which one the mustache dude? Yeah, I think one of them died I Think you're pretty sure one of them died. Not mustache dude man that's my guy. I'm gonna look that up.

Don't know what his name is. Mustache guy's Jamie right? What's the guy, Adam is the guy with the beard. Jamie Heineman I think is his name. Grant but he's not one of the other. Yeah Grant, Grant passed away. I think he had a stroke. Was Grant one of the other ones?

I always used to think of them as a junior team, right? Like there's the JV team doing their own little experiment. They always had a B story in Mythbusters. The main story is the big one right here. Actually two Mythbuster personalities passed away. Jesse Combs. Who's Jesse Combs? Yeah.

She died in a jet car crash while attempting a land speed record. See, there you go, man. Mythbusting, it's not, man. Myth-busting. It's not for everybody. I hope AI is not fooling me here. I remember somebody passing away from the show. Well, I don't remember exactly who it was.

Google AI said Luca had a 42-inch vertical. He didn't even participate in the, uh. Said he had a 42-inch vertical at the combine. Why didn't he go number one? I know this seems super easy in retrospect, but I remember the shows that we were doing, and I had watched so much Luka in Europe, and I was like, this guy is easily the number one pick.

Didn't they, Phoenix had the Slovenian national coach. Yes, so. It made no sense. So Mike, I'm gonna tell you the whole story. So number one, I had a buddy of mine. He signed with Real Madrid, and I said, how is it, right? And story. So number one, I had a buddy of mine. He signed with Real Madrid. And I said, how is it, right? And he's like, oh, it's amazing.

They took us to a soccer game. We met Ronaldo. Everybody on the team gets an Audi. I got an R7. He's like telling me all this incredible stuff. And then the last thing he said, oh, the best player on the team isn't on the team. I said, what?

He said, the best player on the team is this young kid who plays on the junior team. And every once in a while he gets called up and plays with us as a senior team. And right now he's better than every single person on our team and everybody knows it except for you. What year was this? 2015, 2016.

So he was young. Everyone knew it except for Luca Enzo. Except for Luca. And I said, come on man, you guys have Anthony Randolph, you have Rudy Fernandez. Like you had- Rudy was boss in those games. They had NBA yeah. Like, you had NBA players. Yeah, Rudy was bossing.

Rotation NBA players on the team. He got ripped off in the slam dunk contest too one time. And he says to me, I mean, he's better than all of us. And so I start following, his name's Luke Kadasch, start following him, start following him, and then eventually he's on the senior team, full time, and then he's balling out, and then that year, he was MVP of the EuroLeague,

he was MVP of the final four EuroLeague, and they won the championship, they won the Spanish championship, they won the treble basically, right, for basketball. He was incredible. He was amazing. And he was 18, I think. He also didn't even play that much.

I don't know, the minutes didn't add up for a lot of American sports fans, they were trying to figure it out. But his numbers were excellent, right? And people would make comparisons, like, oh, you guys try to sell us on Ricky Rubio. I'm like, Ricky Rubio was like a guy on the team. This dude was MVP of the Spanish league

and the Euro league as an 18-year-old. There's never been anything like this. You could go back and watch the draft shows that we did on the jump, including the one on draft that said, I've never felt more sure about a prospect since LeBron James. So this was a Sarver agent thing? Because why bring in the Slovenian national coach

if you're not gonna draft Luka? So Igor Kokoshkov, who's a friend of mine, he was a long time assistant coach in the NBA. He was on the Piston staff when they won the championship with Larry Brown. He was an assistant with us in Phoenix. He's been assistant in Orlando, a whole bunch of places. Part of the reason why he got hired was because A, there was a relationship.

They knew Igor. It wasn't like, hey, let's just get the Slovenian guy. His experience as a Slovenian national team coach was kind of like as an aside, and he was successful at that too, by the way. They won Eurobasket with him, right? So he's in the building but Deandre Ayton was an Arizona Wildcat and Robert Sarver was convinced that this is the guy Because we need to sell tickets and no one's gonna come watch this European kid and also he looks kind of fat and kind of slow And then there are all that that dumb. So Aitin goes one. So we're like, okay, clearly he'll go two,

but two was Sacramento, I wanna say, and Sacramento, Vladi knew Luca's dad and was like, Vladi had some weird ass intel that made him think that like, oh no, it's one of those things where like, you might have known too much, like oh, the kid's not serious and da da da. And so he goes baggly.

And then three was Memphis. Memphis went with Jaren Jackson Jr. I can't remember what their thinking was. And Jaren Jackson was a good player, but not to the point where. Luca went third above Jaren Jackson. There was a trade. There you go.

Tray Young. Yeah, yeah, there you go. So Luca went third, Jaren Jackson went fourth, and then Tray Young. Yeah, yeah. There you go. So, Luca went third, Jared Jackson went fourth, and then Tray Young went fifth, and then they flip-flopped Dallas and Atlanta. And again, Atlanta's thing was, we need to sell tickets. And also, we're getting an extra first round pick, I think, out of it.

They got Tray, and then they got a future first round pick out of it. But, at the time, man, I'm telling you, I was on air, me and Fran Farsillo was the other guys, said, this is a can't miss prospect, can't miss. And man, like. It felt that way, it felt that way, as someone that had watched

about a half dozen Real Madrid games, he was very, He was amazing. And watching him on the, at that point he was also featuring on the national team some. Yeah. And like, he was a hooper. They won Eurobasket. He played really well. And then he got hurt in the semi-final. And I'll never forget this. He was crying. And I was like, oh, he's a kid.

Like he got hurt. Like it's not even like hurt like you tore your ACL. He rolled his ankle pretty bad. And like he was ruled out for the rest of the game. And he was crying on the bench. Mavs went Luka and Jalen Brunson second round. Good scouting. So if Luca truly does look as good as he appears to look in the cover of Men's Health,

it's gotta correlate with him being a better basketball player, doing some more stuff on the court, right? Yes, the thing that I wonder is once the season starts is he gonna be in that shape? Is he gonna eat the protein, the gluten-free stuff? I mean the road is an unforgiving place folks.