The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: America Was Built On McDonald's Breakfast

Episode Date: May 2, 2025

The crew advises Chris Cote on his upcoming Best Man speech, and Billy Gil wants you to know he'll NEVER play for JJ Redick. Today's cast: Stugotz, Izzy, Chris, Billy, Jeremy, and Roy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Proximo. Cuervo.com. Please drink responsibly. Cuervo. This is the Don Leventor Show with the StuGuts Podcast. Chris, you enjoy that McDonald's breakfast this morning? Why would you go after me with that? I'm gonna go ahead and get a beer. I'm gonna go ahead and get a beer. I'm gonna go ahead and get a beer. I'm gonna go ahead and get a beer. I'm gonna go ahead and get a beer. I'm gonna go ahead and get a beer. I'm gonna go ahead and get a beer. I'm gonna go ahead and get a beer. I'm gonna go ahead and get a beer. I'm gonna go ahead and get a beer.

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the person who's associated with it. Okay, you went right after the obvious guy. You're right, you're right. Fast food probably me if we're gonna be honest. You're right, you know what, you're right. Billy, did you have some of that McDonald's at one point? I had three hash browns. Amazing.

Yeah, and I'd have another one if I didn't feel like I was being gluttonous and taking it from everyone else. Even though here we have some people that are like, oh, fast food, I could never, oh, McDonald's breakfast. I could never, let me tell you something, gang. America was built on McDonald's breakfast. Tell them. Okay?

That's so true. Take that for whatever it's worth because some people aren't happy with America right now. So you could blame McDonald's breakfast. Tell them! Okay? That's so true. Take that for whatever it's worth because some people aren't happy with American breakfast. Yeah, so you could blame McDonald's breakfast. When they started allowing breakfast past like 10.30, like the world had changed for the better. I'm gonna look up the date that that happened because I think you're right.

So Izzy, I have something, I don't know where you wanna go but because we're on the subject of McDonald's, McDonald's breakfast, I did this with Stu Gottz, whether if you're gonna get this conversation, we did this on God Bless Football. Follow us on our socials and our feeds and all that stuff. So, there's this thing that I saw

that Mr. Beast is paying a million dollars to anyone. Well, I guess you'd have to come in contact with him. It's not just a random person that does it, but he's paying to him a million dollars to someone if they can eat a thousand dollars worth of McDonald's in 36 hours. That's a lot easier now than it used to be. Do you know who Mr. Beast is?

Can I say this? I don't like Mr. Beast. Really? I like that he gives other people money. I have no idea where he gets all this money from. I don't like his sort of contrived enthusiasm. I can't believe this is happening. And it's just like, I just don't love it. I was actually a decent mr.

I love the content like the the concept. I just don't love his Performances in them like but that's new thing I only asked cuz I had no idea who Billy was talking about when he brought it up and then you know He told me to ask my kids and I asked my kids and they laughed at me for not knowing who mr. Beast is it is pretty fun Like I didn't know who he was until a few months ago when I saw his show on TV and then laughed at me for not knowing who Mr. Beast is. It is pretty funny. I didn't know who he was until a few months ago when I saw his show on TV. And then Anthony tells me, oh yeah, he's just a YouTuber.

And I was like, okay, where does he get all the money? Where does he get all the money? YouTube. Yes, it's social media. From that act, that shtick you don't like. Well, it's like sponsors too, right? So a lot of these are sponsored by people. So they're the ones fronting the bill

on these giant things that he would do. But he does crazy stuff where he's like, I'm burying myself under the ground for seven days. And it's like, why? Like you're a multimillionaire. You don't need to bury yourself under the ground anymore. I've put a circle in the middle of this room. The last person in it gets a million dollars.

He's like a very, now that we're talking about this, he's like a very PG, G we're talking about this, he's like a very PG, G rated jigsaw, right? Like he comes up with these horrific things to have people do and it's like, if you survive, you'll get $87.50 and they're like, I would love that, $87.50 and it's like, you don't think about it going into it, it's like, wow, I had to like decapitate three people to do that. Oh you had to curse out your best friend and you'll never be able to speak to them again.

So McDonald's started serving all-day breakfast in October of 2015 just two months after Donald Trump announced his candidacy for the presidency and they stopped all-day breakfast in March of 2020. Unbelievable, I did not know that I guess I hadn't been often enough. But thank you for bringing us back there because there was a little bit of a Mr. Beast type of situation to my story here. We weren't supposed to have McDonald's

for breakfast this morning. We were supposed to have another place and I thought, hey, I'm coming in, it's Friday. Oh yeah, that feels like McDonald's Friday breakfast. We weren't supposed to have that. We were supposed to have something else with some smoothies or whatever. Apparently somebody else from the hotel Friday breakfast, we weren't supposed to have that. We were supposed to have something else with some smoothies or whatever.

Apparently, somebody else from the hotel went to this breakfast place and took our order, picked it up, thought it was for him, this giant order. Seems impossible. Well, right, and then brought it to the hotel and Mr. Beast-like started handing it out to the staff, their smoothies handed it out, and then so we're going down to get breakfast,

we see the receptionist with a smoothie and like, what the hell? I actually am okay with this. They work hard at this hotel, give them the smoothies. Yeah, we love the Elsters. They can have our smoothies for a day. They can have our big mac-cats when we're good. But that guy walked in.

This wasn't the Elsters' fault, I love the Elsters. It was the guest at the Elsters who screwed this up. The guest went there picking up an order for himself and took the food for 30 people. Guys, if I ordered on Uber Eats a smoothie and I go downstairs to pick it up and there's 14 smoothies there, guess what? I'm turning into the Oprah of smoothies.

No, this dude. You get a smoothie. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, this dude owes us money. No, he sounds like Robin Hood to me. Like this is like a nice guy. He's like, oh, you know what? Like, look at this, I was blessed with some,

I must've put in 100 smoothies instead of one. Let me just hand this out to the staff. So he stole from the rich and he gave to the poor? Is that what you're saying? Yeah, we're the bougie ones. Well, he stole from us. Here's why I asked Chris. Because if Chris would have walked through the lobby

and saw a wagon full of smoothies and said, I know that's our breakfast, I don't want that. Let me give this away to the staff and then we can circle back and I know what we're gonna get in the back of, McDonald's. Wow, we're all here playing checkers. What we've learned is that Billy really would have been the one who did that.

It would have been Billy, I think that's the other question. I don't begrudge this guy at all. I got hash browns out of this. Right. Like instead, what do we've gotten? Like the same, oh, the bread with the peanut butter and like a pickle in the middle. There's way too much pork for breakfast in this place.

Wait, so Billy, what's the latest challenge here from the Beast? What is the latest challenge of McDonald's? Yeah, Mr. Beast. Beast, the Beast. Turning into my dad. Yeah, Brian London. The one that I saw people talking about was,

you have a 36-hour seat, $1,000 worth of McDonald's. $1,000 worth of McDonald's sounded like a lot of food like 10 years ago. Now what is that, like 10 Big Macs? I mean, you'd have to have like 100 Big Macs in 36 hours. How you get to it, it's crazy. Cause if you're eating for like, you know, a family of three, now at McDonald's,

it's probably close to like $30, which is insane, right? But like even that three, now at McDonald's it's probably close to like $30, which is insane, right? But like even that three, what would you have to do that times like $30, $900, you'd have to have 30 meals for a family of three to get to $1,000. In an hour and you can't like just. No 36 hours, a day and a half. In an hour? No, wait, what?

What do you keep saying in an hour, in 36 hours? 36 hours. 36 hours, yes. That's a weird amount of time. In an hour? In 36 hours? 36 hours. 36 hours, yes. That's a weird amount of time. In an hour, I thought it was a day. It's a day and a half. And you can't choose if it's just a thousand Big Macs. You can choose whatever you want.

It's just a thousand dollars. Also, again, I saw this on Instagram or TikTok, so I don't even know if this is real, but we're running with it. Which I'm fine with, because it's a good challenge. Mr. Beast. Yeah, Mr. Beast, yeah. Let's see.

The Beast. Chris, you are gonna be a Beast man this weekend? A best man this weekend? I have to give a best man speech. First time I'm ever doing it. I've been preparing for weeks, but I'm feeling the pressure of the last couple days. And I'm wondering if anyone here has any advice for me.

Anyone given any best man, Stu, have you given a best man speech? Who's getting married, your brother? My brother's getting married. My younger brother. Stu, have you given a best man speech? I am mesmerized because Billy just informed me that Mr. Beast has 390 million followers.

Oh, he's like, that's what I mean, he's like the biggest guy on the internet. He's the biggest guy on YouTube. And his latest video was from five days ago, it's Stu Gotts and it's labeled, Would You Risk Drowning for $500,000? And just so you know, that's television for young people now, like when I was a counselor at the camp

that I volunteer at, like every single time I left the room and told the kids, oh yeah, you guys can just watch TV or whatever, what they would do is they'd pull up YouTube and they would watch Mr. Beast videos. So here's like the teaser, I just started the video, it's a 25 minute video, here's how just the start of it starts right and there's a bunch of things that you need to do But the first thing is just a boulder that he throws off of this floating like thing with a chain And it's like a hundred feet of chain, and it's strapped to someone's feet, and it's locked on them

It just threw a boulder into a lake and then for some reason we haven't gotten there yet There's a bear and the guys had grabbed duffel bags Like this is all fun and games until it's not and I feel like we're getting very close to the it's not part of this You you're literally signing your life away in that scenario, right? You have to sign a waiver because if you're getting involved with that type of stuff I mean drowning for the chance of doing this without a waiver, right? You have to sign a waiver because if you're getting involved with that type of stuff, I mean, drowning for a chance at $500,000. He'd be crazy to do this without a waiver. Right. I mean, yeah.

Like there's not really a chance of somebody drowning, is there Billy? There's always a chance of someone drowning, people drowning in bathtubs. But like, I feel like if you have the right lawyer, Mr. Beast can't just accidentally kill you and get away with it, right? I mean, if I'm dead, I don't think I'm gonna win that case regardless. I also wonder, like, if I, okay, if I'm a sponsor for this,

I don't know who the sponsors would be for these videos, that's putting up all the money for this, right? And I'm the video that Mr. Beast may or may not accidentally have like a bad accident on, and then they're like well Do we air the video or do we not in a video is sponsored like what do we do? Do we reshoot the entire thing and pretend that it didn't happen like what do we do here? What do you think that's brought to you by target and then this guy gets like decapitated?

Yeah, guys, mr. Beast is a three time kids choice awards winner. Oh my god Really another was still a kids choice award. Yeah for favorite male creator. Did they give away the surfboard still? I would think so nice I thought they stopped doing that when the weekend got a Kids Choice Award for a song about cocaine. Oh Wait, what? Yeah, I can't feel my face Kids pop that song cuz that'd be awesome. I Miss kids pop, you know that every year It's a choice award and it's just about to go. Did they do a Kidz Bop with that song? Cause that'd be awesome. I miss Kidz Bop. You know that every year, Isn't it still around?

Every year we see, it has to be right? Well I don't know. Yes, my daughter listens to Kidz Bop. I'm pretty sure they did a not like us version. But how does it work? Like is it just, it's just like on Spotify? Yeah. Cause there's no CDs anymore.

Yes, like you can do Spotify, Kidz Bop Kids. So they could just put out songs like every month if they wanted to. You could just cover the most popular song like that week. Oh, there's Pink Pony Club, like they have all the latest songs. Right. So would you have to change Pink Pony Club?

Yeah. To make it kid friendly. I mean, just the kids sing all the popular songs. Oh boy. Not Kidz Bop, there's a knockoff version called- It's not all hip hop songs, it's like every song you've ever heard. I didn't know this.

Like Taylor Swift songs, like it's not- There was a, did you know that there was a knockoff version of Kidz Bop called Mini Pop Kids? Well there is, and the lyrics to Can't Feel My Face are as such. I know she'll always be with me, at least she knows I'm fine. And she'll always get the best of me

so much as yet to come. That doesn't rhyme. What? At least we'll know, at least we'll both be beautiful and stay forever young. This I know, he told me don't worry about it. No, no, no, no, no, no. No, everything else is the same

Even though it's all about cocaine. So shout out the mini pop kids album 13 You know my favorite part of every Super Bowl like time Super Bowl radio row week is When we run into my guy Vince at Nickelodeon, I love seeing Nickelodeon at all of these events Like as a kid, I always grew up. I'm like, I wanna work at Nickelodeon when I'm an adult. And then I see them like walking around like media night and doing things and I'm like, I think I still wanna work for Nickelodeon. Like as an adult, like I wouldn't mind being like

a Nickelodeon like sportscaster, honestly. Like how many more jobs we need to give like Noah Eagle? You know, like it's, Billy Gill could do a Nickelodeon slime time game. He works hard, you know what I mean? I and Eagle, you could say that about Noah Eagle. Why know, like it's a, Billy Gill could do the Nickelodeon slime time game. He works hard, you know what I mean? I and Eagle, you could say that about Noah Eagle. Why are you taking out Noah, man? Dude, Noah gets every job, let's be real.

Okay, Nickelodeon, Netflix, CBS, like every job. Like, Noah gets. Does he not? Say what you wanna say. He gets those jobs because? I don't wanna say- He works hard. No, I'm not saying that it's a nepotism thing. I'm just saying, like, whenever it's like, hey, like hey, we really get like well, I can't afford iron so

And I'm sure Noah's very pricey as well now Yeah, so Chris are you are you trying cuz you like fancy yourself as a stand-up comedian, right? That's your next career. It's a goal. I'd like to do someday. I have not done it yet, so. What's stopping you other than you right now? That's it. Is this gonna be like a test, like an opening act? Are you gonna try some material for this best man speech? Cause it's a good time to do it.

Am I going to work just my standup routine? No, I'm gonna focus it on my brother and the bride. So there's nothing in your standup routine, which I find it funny that you already have it. Like it's in the desk drawer. Well, I have jokes written. I have not gotten up on stage yet. There's nothing that has to do with family,

nothing has to do that you can insert your brother into the conversation or the joke. No, there's nothing really there. I think just doing this job, I'm not that nervous about doing it. It's more of like, what's the tone? How mean do I wanna be? How funny?

Like, I don't wanna make this about me. It's about them. So it's really just the balance of how many jokes is too many. Like I'm just, I've never done it before. Schefter's kid works for Nickelodeon. Wow. So no advice, no one has any advice for me.

No one's gonna. No, I got nothing for you, sorry. I have to do the hard work for my kids to get. Maybe take a trip through the ex-girlfriends. Use that as like a Time marker for each piece of of his life as you're trying to tell my life story ex-girlfriends Yeah, these are bad bad. Don't make this about you. That's what I'm saying. They always make it about them You don't want it to be about you. You're not gonna do a stand-up comedian routine I think you try it out there. No, don't you can't his brother would like it though

I'm gonna roast my brother a little bit friendly, a couple jokes, couple singers. Isn't your brother known as the funny one? Well that's actually one of my lines. Right. I'm Chris, the older brother, also the funnier one. No poop jokes, that's the big one. I went to a wedding where the best man

sort of didn't really write a speech and was just going off the cuff. And somehow ended up down a path where he was making fart jokes and poop jokes and that's not gonna do well at a wedding. So just make sure to avoid that. Try to do it off the top of your head too. Like I think, and people will disagree with me,

I think the staring at your phone the whole time, a bit tacky. I hate staring at my phone. A little tacky. I would rather you actually just print out something or you can look at my notes. No, no. Hard than just your phone.

Funny thing is, last night was the rehearsal dinner you actually just print out something. Or you can do it with a card than just your phone. I read it nothing. Last night was the rehearsal dinner, and one of her, not her maid of honor, she'll speak at the wedding, another one of her very close friends, and then my dad spoke. And it was funny, she went first, and she had it on a phone,

and then my dad went up, and he made the joke of the young whippersnapper over there looking at her phone, I have, and he pulls out a scroll. A scroll, of course. Right, yes. He's just like, I've done this longhand. I have bad news for you, you're set up for failure.

Oh, I know, my dad's speech was great. Follow your dad, yeah. Well, luckily he went last night and not at the wedding. Because like, if he was going, like, yes, he was great. How much room do you leave for Sap at the end? Oh, and my dad got like emotional, it was. Well, of course. It was really.

He presides over that family. Guess what? He's a writer. Yes, and he's a writer. The best columnist in Florida. I honestly thought while he was doing it, it might be funny on Saturday for me to just read what my dad wrote.

Like just start, like start it. Well, yeah, cause there's a lot of people that didn't, they didn't hear it at that time. Most people will have not heard it. Exactly right. You should do, you really should just do your dad's exact speech. Well yeah, because there's a lot of people that didn't hear it at that time. Most people will have not heard it. Exactly right. You really should just do your dad's exact speech. How long do you think it would take before he noticed? Yeah, that's a good question because if he's drinking a little bit, he might not right away.

I would have to start with the joke of like, she used her phone and now I will use... Yeah, you gotta go second. He would love that. He would be so happy. He would be honored, but his brother would hate it. You gotta do this. About four minutes in, he'd be like, this speech is amazing, and then it

won't be until after he's done, and you tell him that he'll realize that. He'll just think it's the greatest best man speech of all time. Just every time that the word son is referenced, you just monotone replace it with the word brother. Actually, you can just get Roy to record the word brother, and then every time it's supposed to say son, you can just get Roy to record the word brother,

and then every time it's supposed to say something, you just play out loud from your phone, Roy saying, brother. I mean, that's a pretty, so far that's the best advice. Use, I mean, it makes it easy on you. You don't have to write anything, and you get a laugh, you get a little inside joke. Dad is honored.

And probably a little bit of an overall joke, because some people will get it. It puts to waste all, I have put work into this and I do have a speech of my own. If you have a real speech, what I would say, actual real advice would be try to spend, don't just throw in a line at the end about his wife to be. Oh no, no, no, I have all said.

If you've gotten to know, if you have a real speech. About her and my daughter, like she's my daughter's favorite person, like I'm gonna do that. Oh, so then you're good, dude. You win. It doesn't matter, even if you're good, dude. You win. It doesn't matter. Even if you lose on the jokes that you make

about your brother and all that stuff, that is going to win because the brother-in-law, praising the bride and the relationship that the bride has with his daughter, are you kidding me? You've already won. Chris, you're good. I have been wondering, what is,

I have like in my speech, Tati, you look underline. My brother's fiance is Tati. Careful, I just avoid that situation. No, what do you mean? You have to like my speech, Tati, you look underline, my brother's fiancee Tati. I just avoid that situation. No, what do you mean? You have to like. Incredible. Yeah, thank you. That's why I'm struggling. Beautiful.

Keep it appropriate. Beautiful. I think I was gonna go amazing. I was gonna go amazing. Avoid the look of the bride. Beautiful. I'm obviously gonna be stunning. It's gonna be stunning. Stunning is the one. Breathtaking. Stunning, yeah. I was trying to find that perfect word that's like not,

like, cause Billy's worried about, you don't wanna seem any kind of weird. Amazing, incredible, feel lecherous. Hot. Hot, lecherous. Hot, thank you, example's a terrible word. Yeah, just be Tati. You look sexy.

If I weren't already married. Hey Michael, how about us, huh? Good job. Tati, did you fist me? Did Michael tell you our arrangement with our brides? Don't say that. But yes, I don't know. So I'm trying to find the perfect word that I think will.

I think stunning right now. Stunning's always the word. But if you, I mean, you could ask your dad. He's the writer. He is the writer. I did want to wish. If it wasn't Michael, I'd be all over this. Ha ha ha.

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really what are you gonna do? Stugats. Oh god damn. I mean that's where she... I didn't have an answer. This is the Don LeBattar Show with the Stugats. I did want to wish somebody a happy birthday that we missed out yesterday because, well, Craig was here and he's always a pleasant distraction, but Jess Metana. Happy birthday to her! I don't care! It was her birthday yesterday, happy birthday Jess. And the reason I bring her up, because it must have been a decent birthday, at least for Lehman,

because Jalen Brunson hit that game-winning three, the series, and beat three. Stu, how scared were you? Pretty scared. I mean, we were going home for a game seven if we lost that game. But the Knicks tried to lose that game, tried to give it away. And Brunson bailed them out in the final minutes of that game, the final minutes of that game, final to lose that game, tried to give it away, and Brunson bailed him out

in the final minutes of that game, in the final minutes of that game, final seconds of that game. And I was thinking, the guard that Maverick fans should be upset about getting rid of is Jalen Brunson. They had the best backcourt maybe of all time if they would have just kept them together and let them run your turn, my turn type of stuff. But a couple things, like everybody, I'm sorry Tony's not here,

because I would love to have a Cade Cunningham conversation with him now. But there's no question, Jeremy, Cade Cunningham or Jalen Brunson, like today it's clearly Jalen Brunson, tomorrow it's gonna be Jalen Brunson. It always was. Yeah, if you listen to the show the last couple days,

we were singing. Yeah, big shock. We as a show, something that was predicted here started to look a little bit right, so we started taking victory laps before it was actually right. This show? No way! Look at Cade's numbers, it's inefficient, whatever.

He's a lead guard. Like I've always said, he's not an insult, he's pretty good, he's just not a lead number one on a championship team, he'll have to have somebody else do it. Like Tyler Hero. Like Tyler Hero, again, all-star level player. Who's better, Cade or Tyler? Cade is better.

Cade is the better player right now. It's just a build thing, man. Tyler, it's so unfortunate. If he was built a little bit more like even Jamal Murray or Devin Booker, dude would be like 30 points a game. It's just he's a little thinner. Physical limitations for him that are the ones that Steph overcame as the most freakish player of all time

Right. That's the reason why he is the freak that he is is because normally when you have those physical limitations Tyler hero is like the maximum of what you could be which brings me back to Brunson who as a small person physical limitation Exactly, right so ridiculously impressive so skilled, such a high IQ. Man, I felt terrible for Asar Thompson yesterday. You got abused, dude. That dude, okay, first of all, he started the season not playing because of blood clots, okay? Didn't know what the answer was going to be, how long it would take, finally worked his

way back. Okay, he can play. Worked his way into the rotation again, got in the starting lineup, great. First playoff game, embarrassed. Like didn't look good. Next, and then he got asked about what trouble do you have guarding Jalen Brunson? He says none.

And then the very next game, Jalen Brunson fouls him out, shows him how many fouls that requires, and then just, they show Asar over and over and over again. Now, Pistons won that game, wasn't that bad. He was good last night though. The game before last, great game. 22 points all over the place. Yeah, Cade saved him late,

but it was Asar who kept him in it. And then last night, more amazing defense for 48 and a half minutes, or 47 and a half minutes, however long that game lasted. And then in the final play, Jaylen lost him like he's never defended in his life. Like Asar's all the way over there. And I replayed that five times to see, did he trip?

Was it a push off? Nope, dude just went flying in that direction. And he takes so much pride in his defense and so much pride for recovering from that game. And that's the only play that's gonna matter in that game. The play before stripped him, I believe. This time lost, lost like a baby deer on ice, and then Jalen hits that, oh my God, that's just gonna haunt him

for the rest of the summer. And it wasn't only that play, it was really a few plays down the stretch of the last couple of minutes. I believe he's the one who committed the foul on the and one when it was 112, 105. I might be wrong on that, it might've been another player. But he's the guy, right, to go be a stopper of a player,

specifically like Jalen Brunson, where Thompson actually has the size advantage. It's rare that one of the Thompson twins gets placed on a player where they actually have the size advantage because their quickness is the thing that helps them both defensively, and now his brother is on that stage tonight and is gonna be tasked with a lot of the same things

of being the guy to go stop whether it's Jimmy Butler whether it's Steph Curry and he's gonna be in that position late in the game probably a close game defending another undersized guard and now he the other twin is gonna be in that position I hope for his sake it goes the other direction tonight because man if back-to-back nights those two dudes get put in the same exact spot. Oh man. I have a great stat here about Jalen Brunson. Chris, give me the stat of the day. Start of the day, start of the day. It is the start of the day.

Start of the day, start of the day. It is the start of the day. Start of the day, start of the day. It is the start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, and this is the start of the day. Start of the day, start of the day, and this is the start of the NBA. Before you give that stats to, I thought it was also perfect because they were just showing before that play from Jalen Brunson that he won clutch player of the year. Yes, there is no more clutch shot in the NBA than the winning the game winning shot for a series. Yep. This status courtesy of Taylor, the stolen stat of the day.

The only NBA players to have 40 plus points and five plus assists in a road closeout win twice in their careers, Jalen Brunson and Michael Jordan. Wow. How about that? Could have been teammates with Luca for a long time. And now neither of them is there.

That's unbelievable. You guys kind of mismanage it. You guys mentioned, somebody mentioned Radio Row earlier, and Stu Gatz said to me, if you saw Luca Doncic on Radio Row, like behind a table somewhere, or maybe like fixing a cable. As an engineer.

Right. Yes. With his like crack showing as he's, would you be surprised now? That's exactly what one of those folks look like If somebody knocked on your door and says hey, I'm here to clean your pipes. This is not a porn movie I'm here to clean your pipes, and he looked like Luca Donch it should be like yep plumbers here guys Everybody clear out the bathroom. He really reeks of cigarettes. Yes. Did you see the video where someone asked him like, hey, after you finish your playing career,

do you ever see yourself living in Texas again? And he's like, no. And they're like, doesn't have to be Dallas. Did you ever see yourself maybe living in Houston? He's like, no. I loved it there, but not really. What'd you make of what JJ Redick had to say? Well, let's play it if we have that sound. About Luca?

Yeah, about Luca. Because he said many things that annoyed me. Well, he didn't say Luca specifically, but we all know he was talking about Luca, and we all know that LeBron told him to say this. In your mind, what are some of the ways this team needs to get better in order to get back and get

another flag? You know, I think I'll start with the off season and the work that's required in an off season to be in championship shape. And you know, we have a ways to go as a roster. And certainly there are individuals that were in phenomenal shape. There's certainly other ones that could have been in better shape.

That's where my mind goes immediately, is we have to get in championship shape. I like the idea of somewhere in the locker room, they have levels. There's play-in shape, first round shape, and second, and there's like percentages on each one. Championship level shape. And LeBron's always there.

Yeah, he's at like, at six rings shape. It's like that hydration chart that they keep in college football locker rooms, where they're telling you that you're gonna die down here, but you're good to go up here, but it's championship shape. Or in Family Guy when it's a cop and he pulls somebody over. Yeah, the race car.

So Nico Harrison has to be watching that and smiling. Not my problem now, which your problem. This is now two teams. He's 25, 26 years old, and two teams have told him without telling him directly, hey, you're out of shape. You don't care about this thing enough. Well, it's funny if you're JJ Reddick, right? Like, and you said, Chris, that there was a lot of things

that he said that annoyed you. His whole first year of coaching annoyed me. Like, everything, his whole approach, his whole personality annoyed me, and it's sort of like he thinks he can do things that others don't, right? And he thinks he can come in right off the bat and talk to players this way

because he was a former player or whatever. You think that is what's gonna get across to Luca, oh, you put it together with championships, so now I'm gonna work my ass off and run up hills with Steph Curry. Never heard that one before. It's like, we know that Luca knows that he's not in great shape.

So rather than, as he's doing already, is trying through the media, your first try is gonna be through the media man Like you know, Luca's not gonna want to hear that and you know, everybody's like we're gonna pounce on that It's like the most obvious and he's a smart guy. Like he has to know what he's doing. He's also a free agent I mean, I'm just saying it's crazy Jay Jay Jay could come out and say I didn't say anybody's name You were the people who are attaching it to Luke.

Come on, man. Like we all know who he's talking about. And even if he's not just talking about Luca, everybody's going to assume he's just talking about Luca. It was a bad move by him. And this whole playoffs were showing he was a immature, I'm sorry, inexperienced coach. The one game where he played everybody in all five starters

for every minute of the second half It's just something you don't do and so like the idea this was wild to me the idea that More people bet on the Lakers to win a championship than any other team in the playoffs is Absolutely insane like I don't know if people are actually paying attention to what's happening to clarify a little bit on what we're talking About with free agency there with Lucas Dugats Yeah What you mean is he's going into the last year of a deal here where there's a player option after that and he's yet attention to what's happening. To clarify a little bit on what we were talking about with free agency there with Lucas Dugats, what you mean is he's going into the last year

of a deal here where there's a player option after that and he has yet to extend. So really what this is is a player being in a position right now where with one year left on that deal, if he says I'm not extending with you and I'm gonna eventually opt out of that player option, that's what puts the Lakers in an interesting position with him, that's not something anybody anticipates, but I can see why. It's the Jimmy spot. Yeah, that's exactly what it is, that's what puts the Lakers in an interesting position with him. That's not something anybody anticipates,

but I can see why. It's the Jimmy spot. Yeah, that's exactly what it is. It's the Jimmy spot. Well, coupled with LeBron and. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, totally. They're not gonna retire. Yeah, different thing.

I don't know, I need to think about it. Has Redick already reached the place where people are like, I don't think I wanna play for him. Like, he's cursing people out. I'm there. You don't wanna play for him? I'm not gonna play for him. I'm gonna take a stand right now and tell you right now, I will't think I wanna play for him. Like, he's cursing people out. You don't wanna play for him? I'm not gonna play for him. I'm gonna take a stand right now and tell you right now,

I will never play for JJ Rettig. That's strong. On record. Have the players spoken out on this because I feel like there's two lanes on this. There's how the media perceives you and how your players perceive you. Like, I don't know that the players dislike his style.

Well, it used to be that whatever LeBron does or says, they're gonna echo because it's his team, right? Oh, he did this podcast with JJ Reddick. They're obviously, if LeBron shows him respect, the rest of the team will show him respect. I said this yesterday, it's not LeBron's team anymore. It's Luca's team. So how does Luca get along with JJ?

Is he gonna put up with all that nonsense? Is he gonna be okay with the saying, cloaking the you're out of shape and championship shape talk the day after they lose in the first round? Like, I don't know. I don't know if that's a match made in La La Land. But players do wanna play for that organization

and play in that market. That market means something. It's one of the few markets and teams that mean something in the NBA. And the organization will always value the players over the coach, which is why I'm saying that. If JJ continues to show he's gonna be stubborn or maybe isn't gonna grow in his second year,

then they gotta move off of something before they, wow, I'm sitting here firing JJ Reddick already. Well, this is a really interesting transition because after last night's game between the Nuggets and the Clippers, as much as I wanted to be excited about game seven, which I am, because that's just gonna be, what an incredible first round basketball game, but I started immediately thinking about this off season. And obviously, I'm because that's just gonna be what an incredible first round basketball game.

But I started immediately thinking about this offseason and obviously I'm in that position because my team is already in the offseason. But I think this offseason has an opportunity to be one of the craziest in terms of superstar movement in a very long time. It was right there. Yes. The reason for that, I think, and I'm in agreement with you, if you play this out, like, it feels like the championship's up for grabs, right? The best team in the league is OKC,

and just everybody's like, wait a second, we can build a team to beat OKC. And so when that happens, then you're just like, hey, let me get a couple of friends, a la 2010, let's go create a super team. We are just coming off of an Olympics where that type of conversation happens. And now keep going because there are a lot of big names.

I was about to say, this sounds, as someone who follows the NBA passively, like give me the names that could be on the move, because I have no idea. Here's what's interesting, right? Because we knew going into the playoffs, KD, right, who's already out. KD, someone who's almost definitely gonna be on the move.

Not a super star anymore though. I would just say he's still top five in the league in scoring. He's still a, he's Kevin Durant and he's still an efficient top level scorer in the league. Reportedly Phoenix is going to work with him on a move which seems inevitable. Right, so that's where you start.

Then there's the questions of Zion Williamson. A guy who didn't make the playoffs, a franchise that's in a bit of disarray, could someone like Zion be available? Also not a star. Okay, but a really talented young player. Here's another one. All right, fine, Yanis.

Then we get to Yanis, right? The Bucks. He's a star. He's a superstar. A number two according to Witty. God, wow, that's one of the worst takes you've ever had. Where is Chris Middleton these days, by the way? Good Lord, he's rotting away in Washington poor guy the worst taking

show history Alex Smith over here but I think that's a good take but Alex magic to Chuck magic to Chuck yeah those are and now Brad Moshan he takes I'm a Sean this broad Brad Marsh and. Bad witty takes. Brad Marshand. Brad Marshand won. You know where Yannis was photographed, or seen lately, videoed lately? No. After losing, he was in New York.

We're still doing that? Yeah. Classic. It would have been better for the Knicks to lose to the Pistons so they could trade everybody for Yannis. Really bad decision winning that game. All right, so Yannis. That's a good one.

Yannis, Zion, KD. Yannis, Zion, KD. So one star. Now we have a conversation about LeBron James, right? Brian Winhorst sort of insinuating yesterday that, well, the Lakers aren't really LeBron's team anymore, right? Luka Doncic is the guy they just traded for. They're into this new transition.

Izzy's mentioning it here himself. That is this LeBron's Lakers team? Could he decide he wants to be elsewhere? You look at the Celtics, there are reports coming out about the Celtics that they're, not necessarily Jalen Brown, but that they're gonna need to move on contractually from guys like Porzingis

and Drew Holiday, who are not superstars, but are supplementary pieces to championship teams. And now, I've just named Kevin Durant, Zion Williamson, Yonis Santa Tecumpo, LeBron James, Drew Holliday, Chris Stops, poor Zingas. There are a ton of pieces that could potentially be on the move and there are several teams that we know

can or should be aggressive. If Houston gets knocked out in the first round, they'll be aggressive. They have a ton of picks available. Detroit looks like a team that should try to cash in and get somebody next to Cade Cunningham. The San Antonio Spurs can continue to be aggressive after adding De'Aaron Fox Obviously the Miami Heat were embarrassed this season and want to be aggressive

There are all these teams and all these players I throw in another name that if if teams start there's like super teams being built or a couple of big moves that it's just like Hey, Joel Embiid will be like what the hell am I doing here? Are we gonna build a champion the hell am I doing here? Are we gonna build a champion here, or am I gonna be asked, or I'm going to have to ask to move? Well, and then when you look at just name recognition,

right, if it's Joel Embiid, then there's Paul George who the Sixers are stuck with, right, there's Bradley Beal who's a guy that the Suns are stuck with. These are name recognition teams, name recognition players, and by the way, whatever happens in that game seven, between Denver and Los Angeles,

whoever loses is gonna be in a really fascinating position this off season because either Denver will have continued to fail maybe the greatest offensive center of all time and putting the right pieces around him, or the Clippers who are a team built on veterans continuing to thrive will be in a really interesting spot with Kawhi Leonard and James Harden. You guys are looking way too far ahead.

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That is a win for sports radio. Don't look, though. They needed Elijah Moore receivers. Wow. I mean, that is crazy. Like if you're that GM, if you're that GM. I knew that was coming. If you're that GM, you can't sign a receiver

that next day after you went on a radio show and went after radio hosts for saying you need receivers. Like you're just basically saying, okay, hey, I know I went on this radio show, but let's get Elijah Moore in here. You could say he received the criticism. I mean.