The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: Gino Fuentes' Unacceptable Socks

Episode Date: August 18, 2025

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Skeen's five straight home games without allowing an urban run. His 213 ERA leads, Major League Baseball. He has a 252 fielding independent pitching stat. All right. Preventing home runs, limiting walks, not hitting batters, and causing strikeouts. He's had 35 strikeouts since last five games. games and only half a home run per nine innings.

That leads the National League. So it's Pirates. They are underdogs. They are underdogs by a run and a half. Go with them today. Oh, wait. Against the spread. The spread.

Tony, what do you got? Tonight, guys, we've got a masterful QB matchup in preseason NFL. We've got potentially Josh Johnson versus Desmond Ritter. Do you guys know what teams are even playing if I mentioned listed quarterbacks? NFL. Dads, you're there, you're right there. Commanders. Okay.

And Bengals. Okay. Are you looking at my screen? No. I just remember that Josh Johnson was a commander last time. Yeah. And you knew Desmond and Ritter was a Bengals? And I saw a preview for Monday Night Football, which is Commander's Bengals.

Wow. Well, or I'm just that smart. You're just that smart. The Bengals, minus three and a half. You had tickets for that game at $11. I'm telling you. Go to game time. figure it out.

Take it the Bengals. Desmond Ritter and them boys. It's going on with Trey Hendrickson, huh? I'm trying to trade him now? I mean, it's a big deal about it. Figured to come to camp, you don't get paid. He leaves Cincinnati, goes to Jacksonville, then he comes back, doesn't participate in anything.

He's still not getting paid. Now they're going to trade them, maybe. Are you going to get in shape, too, to, like, get ready to play a game in a couple weeks? Interesting. I don't like it. But I like them. Do Haywood Highsmiths.

grow on trees. Now, we have to parse what was actually fact, what was fiction. Haywood Highsmith was a valued part that was initially reported to, no, no, no, no, we're not going to offer him for KD. That's going too far. There's no way that was true. Then it was later clarified after certain people that cover the Miami Heat heard back from the heat. And in no way is this propaganda, they cleared it up. I know it's good journalism, but the franchise maintain that that narrative that they didn't want to part with heywood high smith that's that's a load of baloney like i got a lot of that over the weekend this was the guy that the heat wouldn't have parted with for kevin durant like come on you have to understand that was

initially reported um so i understand why people are of that impression i ran with it for a while but then i saw barry's report that that wasn't the case and you know why would you run with that you guys you guys know why because the apology is never as loud as the insults because Shams, Sharania's, you know, got a good reputation. All right, but you know, he's not always 100% accurate. That's what I'd be trying to explain to people, man. None of these guys are infallible. Sometimes reports are wrong.

It's not that the guy is an idiot or he made up a story or whatever. It's sometimes his sources were wrong. Well, let's not get into that. We have the strongest indicator yet that that was a false narrative and that Haywood Highsmith was just traded for nothing. Literally nothing. He wasn't traded for nothing. A heavily protected.

second round pick. That's not what they traded them for. That's what they traded them for. That's what they traded them for. They traded for Drew Smith. Is that what you want to say? I traded them to get under the cap so they don't have to spend more money, which is not what I want to hear from my team ownership group. Spend money. I don't give a shit about your money. Go sell a couple extra cruises, Mickey.

I don't care how much it costs you. Put a winning product on this court already. It's not about the money. It's actually more about trying to put a winning product on the floor. Because the luxury tax inhibits. a team's ability to make move. To do shit, exactly. So by going under the apron, now they're able to be active between now and the trade deadline.

I'm going to get Kevin Durand when he's 55 years old. I want to give a shit about their future plans. I want to back up Billy here so much as made. Heat fans love celebrating the team getting under the apron. They love it. I'm not really sure how much it's benefited us in terms of their ability to make moves that help the team. It's just something that heat fans love to celebrate and the actual situation might just be the owner wants to save some money. So a couple more drink packages. Do you like

ice cream? Occasionally depends on how many milligrams. Let's just assume in a world where your gut cooperates. You like ice cream. Yes. Right. Is it possibly? You got that bad gut? I feel like ice cream today and you leave your house. But things happen and you never actually get any ice cream. That could happen, right? So in that case, you didn't get any ice cream. But you gave yourself a chance to get ice cream. As opposed to sit in your ass at home. There's a freedom-loving American.

I love that I can get ice cream whenever I want. Exactly. I rather buy ice cream and have it melt than the idea of I could get ice cream if I wanted to get ice cream. The equivalent here in me would be if you always, every year, have the opportunity to get ice cream, but you never actually get it. There's a long line. But you save the money in the ice cream costs, so we should feel good about that. There's a long line for the ice cream. Terrorists on ice cream.

Yeah, they're terrorists on the ice cream. The NBA tax laws have ceased to be about money. And they're all about, can I do stuff now? It's about roster building. It's about roster building. And it's like you can pay the tax, but basically the way the tax rules work, they're letting you know, you better love this team now. Because if you're not in love with this team, you're locked in.

You're locked into this and you have no hope of adjusting, or very little hope versus being a team with the flexibility. Again, yes, that doesn't guarantee that you'll get something done, but it allows you at least to be a player in that regard. But I understand the Heat fans' frustration with, again, moving on from a player a couple days ago, and Haywood Highsmith, who was a starting caliber player for you, and it's to make sure you have the flexibility,

and the counter to that from Heat fans would be, that seems to be their MO every year is we want flexibility. All right, well, when are we going to push the chips in the middle of the table with that flexibility? I'm going to give you a great example of the last time they didn't opt for the flexibility. Can I interest you in Hassan Whiteside for $90 million? Can I interest you in Deion Waiters and James Johnson? That was the last time they were like, but these guys were good for us and oh, we got to pay them. Forget about flexibility.

Forget about trying to be flexible. That's what I have. The idea is that, look, I like Hayward Highsmith. You're right. Good starting caliber player. The reality is, Mike started the segment with what question? Do Haywood Highsmiths grow on trees? For many franchises, no.

For the Miami Heat, absolutely they do. Here's where I get a little bit bothered. That's on the organization. Don't trust us with the flexibility because we're just going to do the Dion Waiters, Hassan Whiteside thing. Like, that's a cautionary tale. We can't be trusted with this flexibility. I thought about trusted with it.

The idea is that this is a good player, but eminently replaceable. So I can continue this game of go get the next Haywood Highsmith and get them cheap and keep this flexibility for the opportunity to go out and build. Again, I don't think maybe I'm not portraying my thoughts here properly. I'm not upset with them moving on from Haywood Highsmith because like you said, stop giving the multi-year deals to guys who you could find more of. I get that. The problem is it's like, okay, all I hear,

year is flexibility flexibility flexibility but when are we going to do something but that's that's my point is like you're behaving as though they are not trying oh no no i get that like but but the reality is it's not unilateral i don't just get to dictate hey man you're going to play for us now right there's there's other teams involved there are other people agents and players and you do what you can talk shit figure it out that's what they're trying no figure it out figure it oh we got here I said, look, we developed him. Great. Now he's gone. Oh, Duck and Robinson, we develop him. Now he's gone. I guess, oh, Max Schuze, we develop it. Now he's gone. The counter that would be Boston seems to make big moves every year. Milwaukee seems to make big moves every year. How is that working out for them? They went, hey, they want an IST. They're trying. And it got undone by, you know, what was going on in Damien Lillard's personal life and injury. But they were going for it, and you're sitting back and watching a team like Indiana make the finals. When they went for it with Pascal Ziacom, like, forget the whales. Let's try to one.

improve on a roster that made it to a NBA finals twice in three years. I understand that the narrative. Indiana is a better example than... Knicks, too. They made aggressive move to... Cleveland. But like some of these moves are silly aggressive. There are moves just say that we did a move.

Get Mikhail Bridges for 7 million first-round picks. That's not good. That's not good. Scare money, don't make money. Listen, I would rather the heat win a championship and the result is Mickey Erison goes bankrupt than Mickey Erison keeps money. and we keep not winning a championship. Precisely. Zagak, I understand we established that there was this false narrative around Haywood Highsmith

going too far to include into the Kevin Durant deal. But for whatever reason, and I do think that Heat fans do deserve this reputation nationally is because there's a lot of people that get excited about Haywood Highsmith, right? Even though he's the same age as bam on a bio, we kind of know what he is. But do you agree with Raymond Green when he took the threads and said, y'all? and then, parenthetically, internet experts wanted Jimmy to come off the bench behind dude

and five months later that he traded him for a bag of chips. That's wild. Shut up. I don't think we went that far. Who wanted that? I don't know. But it goes back to what we were talking about earlier

where it's like the DeRan Gabriel thing about. What are you talking about? This feels like something coming from Jimmy though, right? He was teammates with Jimmy, but I'm just like, Draymond is not following this drama this closely. It's like Draymond doesn't add the part with, Yeah, we wanted him to come off the bench because, you know, he wasn't trying anymore.

But that part, no, no, no, it's just Haywood Highsmith's better. That's why they thought Haywood Highsmith was a better player. So that's why they were starting over Jimmy. Not because Jimmy was sabotaging the team. Shut up. Shut up. What are they waiting to do? Because, like, Norman Powell was the move, which isn't a nothing move.

That's a good move. But, like, what are we loading up? What's the next move? What are they saving money for? Did you see the detail with Norman Powell? He negotiated with Haywood Highsmith for his jersey. jersey number. Yeah, that's hard times.

How much you give them? I don't know what he got him, but he gave him something. He wants to have whatever he gave him. No refunds. No refunds on that deal. Yeah, that's no refunds. Look, every football game is a grind. And if you're like Dan and the crew, you know there's no such thing as one size fits all.

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oh yeah, they're dead. They're not going to make it. You know, even if, If they win in, if they lose it in Miami, I need to calm you down. That's right. If they lose in Miami, they don't got a chance in Boston. Oh, they are going to have their ass, you know what, in Boston, you know. Stugats. They were wrong. Are they going to lose their job?

No. Are they going to get a cutting pay? No. What are they going to do? Keep predicting what is the obvious? They're going to say, oh, the Noggets are going to win. Oh, Denver, the altitude. And you know what?

The hit are going to win at all. This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugat. Speaking of narratives that were out there, there's a narrative, Mike, I'm looking at you right now, and I'm not happy with you at all. A narrative that Boardwalk Empire sucks after season two? Yeah, I'm watching it, dog. I'm into season three now, man.

It's a horrible take. I did some digging on this because there were some people that felt as strongly as you did. I tried to keep going with it. I didn't I like the character in question too much I could not go on I thought it was a mistake and then apparently the actor that I'm referring to here if you didn't watch I looked up some of the stuff with him too since you told me this last week

it seems as though the producers of Boardwalk Empire had their reasons to kill off this character so they didn't have to deal with the actor and much like Haywood Highsmith the actor's been around and available to do other stuff and it doesn't seem like other people were in on this actor yeah like you're all right not not I got to stop my life to keep you on this show. And by the way, you dipped out.

Were you around for Jip Rosetti? He wasn't, which is a great season. He got a gun. He got a gun. Everybody got a gun. Oh, man. Amazing. We goes to the stop at the diner and it says, he looks at the menu,

spaghetti with red sauce. What's that? Boardwalk, Empire, great show. I don't understand. You stopped watching during the season when seemingly every episode, Gretchen Mall is naked. Why would you stop watching that? I didn't dislike it for that.

I wasn't like this girl's too naked. Mr. Thompson. That wasn't... What a comeback, by the way, from Gretchen Mall. She goes from, she's on Rounders with the most dislikable character you've ever seen on movies. And all of a sudden

I love every episode she's in in this Boardwalk Empire. Hated her in Rounders. Horrible character. I've got some bad, take some capable of them. I don't like the Wire. What? I try to give season one of the Wire a chance. the whole thing, and everyone says, like, you know, it's a slow build. I didn't like that, that type of technology was antiquated back when it was made.

That was the point. That was how they got around, like, Wildaps. I couldn't do it. And the whole point is that they were using an outdated technology. I was so hyped. I just couldn't, at a certain point, I'm like, I'm just going to live my life understanding that I gave this a shot, and it's not for me. Not unlike Bob Dylan, not unlike Bruce Springsteen.

I tried it. It's just not for me, but I understand why people like it. Just not for me. I'm not making you feel bad if you like it. I really am not. And Boardwalk Empire is the same way. I just like this one character too much. My name was on the street.

My name's my name. On the other side of the coin, history is decided that True Detective Season 2 is bad, and I like True Detective. I like True Detective Season 2. I like Season 2. I think Season 2 struggles in the same thing Godfather 3 struggles from. I went back and after I was on a couple weeks ago,

I watched Godfather 3 again. It's a good movie. No, that movie sucks. Come on. No, no. It's a good movie. It's biggest sin is it's not the Godfather one or two. You think if you watch that as a standalone movie, like it's a good movie?

Yes, yes. I watched it as a standalone movie. I was a good movie. What's your name? Sophia Copla, terrible actress. I like her. It was bad. You know what I'm doing a rewatch of?

What's that? The director's cut of Miami Vice. With Jamie Fox? Yeah, Jamie Fox and Colin Farrell. The lure, there's that word again, behind this movie was, In the original adaptation of the, well, not the original adaptation, the Michael Mann version, Jamie Fox is not, Ricardo Tubbs is not in it as much as you would think. And it's because there was an article written on this.

Jamie Fox legit left the production for a little bit because of how crazy Michael Mann's style was. It was a very dangerous. They had a very scary situation on one of the locations because Michael Mann's very authentic once they want to get in there. Directors cut, I'm enjoying. It has one of the worst sex scenes I've ever seen, but it was, like, realistic, not Hollywood. I mean, just specialists. Do they still go to Cuba for some mojitos? Yeah, I know where we can get a good mojillo.

Yeah, dude, Colin's fighting for his life with whatever accent that is. I'm at the scene now where they're trying to prove that they're not cops to the drug dealer that's looking for a drug runner, but they're pointing the finger back. How do we know you're not a cop? Are you wearing a wire? They pull guns on him, and then Crockett just takes out a hangar. in his hands like wow what a move mutually assured destruction he just casually leaves his home with a hand grenade at all times why didn't that come up in the frisk speaking of uh of miami vice

i learned yesterday that golden girls was it was a joke about miami vice that at the like at the up fronts NBC was coming out and they had uh two comedians dressed as old ladies talking about i thought the show was called miami nice wouldn't that be nicer whatever and in the crowd was Brandon Tartakov was the head of NBC, and he was like, yo, that actually would be a really good idea. Why don't we have a Miami Night show with old ladies as opposed to, like, drug dealers and stuff? And that's how Golden Girl started. You mentioned that, and I saw that one of John Stamos's request to play Riot Fest

is to have a nude portrait of B. Arthur, which is a callback, I think, to Airheads, when they got on the way of the, yeah, one of the lists of demands. John Samos put out his full list of demands for him to play Riot Fest, and some of the requests are wild. That's just to see if they're reading it. Yeah, he's going to show up, but he's requested for a full body pillow of John Samos, which make that available for public consumption, depending on the whole tariff situation, Buku Bucks.

A body pillow? Like the pregnancy pillows? A full body pillow of John Samos. How did, is it? Also, the founder of Riot Fest has to get a John Samos tattoo. That's in the, that's one of the writers? John Samos reserves a right to call it Riot Fart whenever he wants. This isn't real.

Okay, this is... This is real. No. This is... Real or fake demands. Yeah, let's play that game. Real or fake demands. No, where is this?

Where did you see this? I think this is Riot Fest Chicago. Riot Fest themselves, I think, put this out with John Samo's on a collab. I'm gonna find it. I'm like a dog with a bone on this one. All right. We were having a big debate out... Well, not a debate, actually.

We had a witch hunt out in the common area over here. because it became apparent that Gino Fuentes has unacceptable socks. How so? Well. They need to choose a side is what they need to do. This is where socks have gotten to, Roy. You can wear like the no-show or the ankle ones that are just below the arc of your shoes. So kind of like the socks that Chris has on right now.

Which I think is what was popular when we were. Like we grew up with like the night The tight socks around the ankle where you don't really see them You can kind of see them There are no show ankle socks is what they are Right I mean there's one that's even lower than that That looks weird I hate those I hate those too

But like that was the acceptable one Like 10 years ago whatever They're acceptable now they're not the normal But they're not in trust me I know from all the Tonys the tailors in the world You're fine kids these days You're fine you're fine Okay thank you

Crew socks Fine as well Well it depends on the hands that you're wearing, right? Like, I'm wearing jeans, so my socks are longer as opposed to are there any rules when you're wearing jeans? No, no. I think you can't wear low socks when you're wearing jeans for sure. But like, you can wear the crew socks like you're wearing Roy, even with shorts on, right? What you cannot do is this halfway crook shit that Gino Fuentes. We got to see it. Let's go video. We need a shot of it. We need a shot of Gino. Well,

Jason has them on too. They're both, they're both sock violators. Look at this. Show us some socks. Let me see. You see how that is? It's not an ankle sock. It's not even a quarter. It's not a quarter. I don't know what it is. One-eighth?

It's one-eighth. What is that? I don't like it. I don't like it either. And I found out like it wasn't, it wasn't Gino. Like I said, Jason, you can switch that camera. It's a video room problem. It's a video room problem.

Probably Lewis, probably the same thing. We're wearing high tops. This wouldn't be in a situation. Jason, we don't want to see your shoe, buddy. Jason, you got it's turn. There you go. There you go. Yeah, that's, yeah, work hard.

Works more, not horrid. Both unbranded, small, not long, but not short socks. And Lewis has the same thing. We don't have to look. Yeah. But also, I'm going to put Jason double trouble here, the color also. Oh, yeah. It's like a gray.

It's like a gray, man. Or is that the color? Fated gray. Those are gene socks. Those are not socks. Doing a wash with dark pants or something. I have the full list of demands from John Samo's. I have confirmed this has been a collab from Rob.

Riot Fest and John Stamos on official media channels. Riot Mike, the founder of Riot Fest, must get a John Stamos tattoo. A John Samos lookalike contest must be hosted by Riot Fest. A local Chicago pizza restaurant must create a Greek-style pizza named and in honor of John Stamos. John Stamos's green room must be stocked with these following items. A body pillow of John Stamos. A nude painting of B. Arthur. Unlimited hummus served in a Gibson guitar case.

The Riot Fest Twitter person must give John Stamos a foot rub. A special John Stamos riot fest t-shirt must be designed and approved by John Stamos. No one is allowed to make eye contact with John Stamos's hair. Whenever John Samos says Riot Fest, he is allowed to say Riot Fart. John Samos must be printed out for the crowd to wear. Over the next few weeks and lead up to the festival, we at Riot Fest will make every effort to complete this list of demands from Mr. John Stamos so he can be in attendance. I hate what people try to be cute, man. You didn't like riot fart?

cute. He's going to be there. Just, yeah, you're going to be there. Oh, you're going to be funny guys, if we put this out. Dorks. I think this all comes, the Beach Boys are playing, and he's the occasional drum player for the boys. Really? Yeah, real life. You haven't known that about it? He'll play. Didn't they do, like, a Marlins, a Super Saturday concert where John Samo was a drummer for the Beach Boys? I think he might have just showed up, yeah, and he performed with the Beach Boy. He, like, Moonlights is a Beach Boy member. So I think the Beach Boys played a Riot Fest quite a few number of years ago, and John Seamus wasn't drumming. And since then, the people that follow

and the patronize riot fest, they've been demanding to see the Beach Boys with John Stamos. Time out. So these listed demands are for him to show up to be with the Beach Boys? That's right. I'm sorry.

You don't get to make those demands. He's making it all about himself. You're not, this is the Beach Boys, man. Oh, he's been with the beach. Are you confused? I know, I'm not confused. They're welcomed him many a time. But you don't get to, you know, this is some star behavior shit, man.

Isn't this the crowd fans that are clamoring for this? This isn't Stamos demanding I'm going to be with them. No, this is the same most making a list of demand. The list of demands. He's wanted. Wait, hold on. Is like Kevin Love's uncle? Is he making those demands?

No, he's not. Yeah. Well, other guys gone. How many beach wars are there still? Great question. I don't know Kevin Love's uncle is alive. They just lost one like a couple weeks ago. Was it Kevin Love's uncle?

They're just keeping the money going at this point. Sell some merch, have Stamos there. Now Stamos is probably like the guy. He's the attraction? No, there was that other guy. The guy that wore, you know, those Pecky Blinders hats. Pecky Blinders hats. I believe there's two left.

Yeah, right now there, Wikipedia says there's two members. Mike Love and Bruce Johnson. There you go. That's Kevin Love's uncle. Al Jardine's gone. Okay. So Brian Wilson was the latest. Brian Wilson was on that past.

It's a big deal. Now you're getting to the point where the Beach Boys kind of need John Stamos to keep this thing down. Is this turning like the temptations where it's just a bunch of dudes that just show up and none of them were actually in the temptation? Oh, the OJs? Yeah, the OJs, yeah, like you just have a bunch of people like, yeah, where the OJs is like, no, you're not, you're just some dude. Wait a second. But this partnership among the Beach Boys and Stamos is 30 years old. I get it.

Remember, they partnered up on forever. Sure. Does he get to dictate this way? Let me go in this way. Samos is making the demand. If Mike Love ain't getting that, you don't get it. How about that? If Mike Love don't get it, you don't get it.

You got to check with Mike Love. Hey, Mike, we get in the hummus? My, like, no, I'm good on hummus. Guess what? No hummus for Stamen. Stammon. Stamomis. Hummus.

Right? That's the way it should work. It's an honor for them to allow you to be part of this. You can't walk. Like, what's my name? From food fighters. Dave Grohl? Dave Grohl.

Can't just waltz in. Doesn't he play for Bruce Springsteen? I'm getting confused. That's the guy from the Sopranos. Oh, yeah, the guy from the Sopranos. You don't get to just walk in and demand? Stevie Van Zand. There you go.

That's the guy from the Sopranos. The Sid Rosenberg show. First for me. The guy from the Sid Rosenberg show. You see what I'm saying? You don't get to do that. You don't get you. This isn't your thing.

I don't care how famous you are. You are joining something that is already famous. It's already doing this famous thing. And we're happy to have. you here. It'll be cool. This is probably your life dream. Oh, who I want to think about? White guy. White guy. John Mayor. John Mayor.

That's a grateful death, bro. That ain't John Mayor. You want to do that? You do a John Mayor show. You do a John Mayor concert. And then you can ask for that stuff. You want Stamos? You want to do that? You do a John Stamon's concert. John Mayer has more. He's like lead singing for them. Right? Absolutely. That's more leverage.

More leverage. But guess what? Respects it. He respects it. He respects the playground. This isn't about me, guys. It's not about me. John Stamos, shame on you. Shame on you. And I know you're doing it just to be cute. Like, oh, look at him, a little body pillow.

It's working. Riot fart is funny. And I like Daraheads. It's a good call back. Great, great film. The Lone Rangers. How are you the Lone Rangers? There's three of you.

Don Levatard. We're going to win. Stugats. We're going to win. What an old reference. This is the Dan Levertar show. with these two gods Who's B. Arthur?

Oh, wow. Old lady from one. You know what she is. Bard. Yeah, let me look at it up. You have a computer. Yeah, but I mean. It's conversation.

It's not conversation if he doesn't. I don't want to look something up and it shouldn't be the right thing to look up on the computer. You're trying to figure out how we got here. And B Arthur. B-E-E-A is how you spell B. Beatrice. Sure for Beatrice.

You know her from Golden Girls. The main one. Dorothy from Golden Girls. The main one. Is that the tall one? The tall one. I was thinking the glasses, the little. I've never seen the show so I didn't have a reference point of who this was.

I've been rewatching Golden Girls recently. Yeah. Surprisingly holds up. Really? Yeah. That's hard to believe. Surprisingly holds up. So what's the elevator pitch here?

What like two old ladies? Four old ladies. Four old ladies. Living in a like living together in Miami. They're retired. That's it. Hygings occur? There she is, Tony.

Shenigans. Yeah, one of them dates a lot. Blanche. Well, not just dates. She's, yeah, Blanche is the, is the Kim Cottrell of, you know, what's control? Samantha. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Blanche is the, the. So it's just like old lady sex in the city? Yes. Okay. Old lady sex in the city, but the city is Miami. Maybe it would have first to do it. But it's like a swamp, really.

Like when they show their house, it's not like, wow, this is South Beach. So it's like pre, it's like Miami Springs. They're like Boca? Right. Where are they? They say Miami property. They just say Miami property. It's like Miami, Miami Shores or something.

Yeah. But yeah, you don't see no ocean. So it's before Hispanics and before everything else. Well, before Hispanics? I think Hispanics were around. Yeah, they were around. Are any of the ladies Hispanic? No.

Okay. That's my question. Two of them were Italian. Yes. So Be Arthur's Catherine Dorothy and her mom, Sophia, they're Italian. Rose, which is played by Betty White. She was from Minnesota. Blanche was from Texas or Tennessee?

Louisiana? She's from somewhere in the south. Trivia night. Somewhere from the south. Louisiana, I think you're right. Blanche Devereaux, yeah. Because her last name, Devereaux. She's Creole, yeah.

So I haven't watched the show. That's why. No Cubans. Did they have any Cubans? Maybe one of some of the men that came around. Very progressive show. Yeah, it was. It was me watching Miami Vice remake.

Still no Cubans? Wait, there are no Cubans in Miami-Viz? Not in the crew? Like Justin Thoreau. in the crew. Damn. Everyone in... See, this is systemic...

Erasure. Try to tell you, three Americas. Erasure. Erasure. They put a Chinese lady in it. The only time they... They actually go to Cuba for Mojito, but... There's no Cubans there.

It's the only time I can get to see Cubans. They go to Cuba, and there are no Cubans there? No, that's the only time you get to see Cubans. You'd think that with all the time that passed since the 80s, they'd be like, Michael, there are a lot of Cubans here. The most Cuban we get is that his name is Ricardo. Crazy. The surname doesn't match it, but his name is Ricardo.

There's a guy called El Tijuana. That guy's got to be Cuban. I think he's Colombian. Really? Worst sex scene, but very realistic. Again, it's just... The specialist, Mike. It's just Jamie Fox just digging his chin into his shoulder blade.

And the camera doesn't move. I'm like, this is the most realistic one. I saw J.V. Fox is going to be playing Tyson. I don't even know if this is real or not. They've been trying to get that thing done for... Ever. It's been 25 years. Still old to do it now. Or maybe just the right age.

I watched Spider-Man No Way Home last night. Oh, yeah. I love that Spider-Man. It's great. People popped in the movie theater when all the Spider-Men from all the universes came back. And all the villains from all the universities. And they kept making the joke that Electra was made by falling into a bat of electric heels. But do you think Jamie Fox negotiated for me to return to the... this franchise. We've got to make me handsome.

Oh, yeah. No, because he was... Everybody else looks the same as they did, but Jamie Fox is like, oh, the electricity here is stronger, so I look better. He's back to, like, painting on his hair. He doesn't have the comb over. He's not blue. No, no, yeah. They fixed him up. He didn't look like he did

in Amazing, was it Amazing Spider-Man? He was very lazy exposition. He's like, oh, I like the power here. It's a little bit better. He has a glow-up. He just didn't want to look ugly. He has a literal glow-up. Because he's glowing. See how that works? You want to talk about some, a weird sex scene. You got to see Michael Beasley and Lance Stevenson, Big Three?

I don't watch the big three. That was, that was... I just saw the clip of them celebrating, and it was intense. It was passionate. It was passionate. I think we can throw it up on the screen right here. It's just going to be B-roll, though, because there's a lot of cursed words. That's all right, but it's like...

Look at these. His face is pressed against his face. He's hyping him up. And then they get face-to-face here. He's hyping him up, and Beasley's going to be... kind of holding it in. Now it's forehead to forehead, and now he's roaring, and he's like, yeah, and they're all excited, and they're forehead to forehead again, and they're rubbing foreheads, which

is a weird feeling, and then they walk around, and... Was this after a game winner or something? I don't know. Is this to reach the championship, or is this winning the championship? I don't know. I'm going to look this up. It's important detail. It's not important detail.

The detail is at the end of the day, even if it is to reach the championship, it's the big three championship. Yeah. We like the big three. Yeah, it's too much. I'm not going to knock on it. I'm just saying, I'm just saying, like it could be.

You guys afraid of pissing off Ice Cube. Oh, no. I was an honorary. You're not going to be a war of the world, seven, whatever it's called. Have you guys seen War of the Worlds? No. I also haven't seen the big three. Billy is right about it.

Actually, Sack Quartz had a big three game one time. Yeah, it was awesome. See? And they came over, they were promoting. They're like, anyone want to go to the game? I'm like, yeah, sure, I'll go to the game. So now you trash them a couple years later? No, I'm just saying.

I mean, it was fine. We left early. We were going to be there all day. It's like eight basketball games in a row. Yeah, but they're quick. And it's half court. Honestly, I thank you for bringing us and having us out and sitting on the court and all that stuff. But, like, it was third row.

So it sucks because you can't see anything. When the third row on the floor, you can't see anything because the first two rows ahead of you. I'd rather sit like, you know, fourth row kind of in the 100 levels, you know? You said you sat court side. Yeah, court side. or on court. What do you mean? Quartzide and third row and courtside are not the same thing, my friend. What's court side?

You've got to be touching wood. I was on wood. There's three rows of wood. You got a court side means when I, I could trip a referee. Exactly. I quote Sean Carter, I'd be spiked out. I could trip a referee. That means if your legs are too far out like Larry David, you might trip one of the combatants. Their floor is weird. At least it was then. There's a lot of wood real estate. It's very red, too. It's a very red court.

This is like first or second year of Big Three. Like, it was new at the time. Pre-pandemic? Are the courts smaller in Big Three? Yeah, it's half court. Oh, so that's why there's so much wood. Yeah, yeah. That's why there's also so many rows of seats on the wood.

This was just to get to the championship game. That reaction. Was it a game winner? Yeah, that's it. I mean, that's cool. You can do that on the playground. The championship is this Sunday coming up. If you hit a game winner, you can have that kind of behavior.

It doesn't matter what the stakes are. I think that's a little much. No, L.A. Fitness Gym, you can do that. I've never been forehead to forehead with anyone like that. You've never been as close as Michael Beasley and Lance Evenson. But they were NBA players that, like, played an actual conference championship games. This is, I don't understand. The book on Michael Beasley was that he didn't care enough.

And then he displays it and we chastise him for it. You don't understand why not thinking that the big three championship game is equivalent to, like, NBA playoffs. No, I get it. I don't watch this shit. But I get why he's happy. What are we doing? Why are we being dismissed? I realize why Billy was sitting on the wood

is because on the half court he was sitting on the other half of the court. I was actually like in a corner so like it was the there's the court here no one cares about this. There's a court here and then there's the one side the other side and then the back side and then I was like in the corner on one of the sides

it was hard to see. I only got so much love for ball. I'll watch NBA playoffs and women's college basketball and occasionally men's college basketball unless my coach quits in the middle of the year and the team follow suit, then I give up. Well, they got in trouble or someone got in trouble

that worked for them because it was like their social media person that runs their Twitter account and she was tweeting about Caitlin Clark and the WMBA during the big three game and they ended up firing her. Because they're like, we view them as competition. You need to not be tweeting about our competition during our broadcast.

Rachel Demeter. It seems this was a game winner, but only because every game is up to 50. Yeah. So, like, it's not, yeah. They're all game winners. But you're with me, though, if you hit a game winner, it doesn't matter what level. It feels good.

Yeah. One by three. I think my thing is this. You can celebrate whatever level of basketball. I celebrate. Oh, yeah, da, da, that, not. Like the intimate gazing into my eyes, forehead to forehead. Not how I would get down on the basketball court, but I'm certainly celebrating a game winner.

Or I'll do that thing where I don't even celebrate because it was so sad. supposed to happen. But I'll make a big show about how I'm not celebrating. That's the Damien Lillard. Or I'll just run off the court, like, yep. That's the Damian Lillard. When he hit the shot against Old Global City. But then, but like everyone mobbed him and then he looks into the camera

and it's just... How ice cold is this guy he doesn't even care. They were up by one 48 to 47 and he hit like a little floater layup to win it 50 to 47. Usually it's like a J. Who they beat? They beat the Dallas Power. That's another thing though. Like here's the player.

The first couple, yeah, I can't see your computer. The first couple seasons you had like the three-headed monsters and the aliens and the killer threes and now it's cities, but they don't actually represent the city. It's just like a traveling show. They're a traveling road show. Yeah, so what difference is it make if you assign a city name to people that, like, Lance Stevenson has zero connection to Miami? Oh, no, he's got plenty of connection to Miami. He lives here. No one thinks of Lance Stevenson as someone from Miami.

Excuse me, baby. He's not feeling Miami. He's representing over here. He's representing Miami, and he was viewed in his NBA career as a villain to Miami. Dallas Power have Greg Monroe, Paul Millsap, Glenn Rice, Jr., and John Millsap. John Millsap? I think that... Nancy Lieberman is their coach.

Based off of that, is there an Indiana team in the Big Three? If they're... We don't know. League standings? There's the Boston Ball Hog, Chicago Triplist, Dallas Power, Detroit Amps, DMV trilogy, Houston Rig Hands, L.A. Wright and Miami 305. Well, if he's associated... I think he did play in L.A. for a little bit.

He did. Twaggy P's their coach. Out of all those cities, he's mostly associated with Miami because of his rivalry with the heat. And he lives here. And he lives here. Sorry, Billy. Everybody lives here. That's in the big three.

Billy's doing papers checks and stuff. You ain't really Miami.