The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: Don't Lose Me, Izzy

Episode Date: July 3, 2024

Today's crew: Amin, Izzy, Chris, Lucy, Amin would like a new rule to be instituted in the fashion industry for all pairs of shorts and it leads to a very in-depth conversation about pockets. Izzy loses his AirPods all the time and Leeman tears up the dance floor at weddings. This leads exactly where we all think, which is to a large discussion about karaoke including a hilarious story from Jess about a time where Charlotte sang karaoke for a bunch of off-Broadway actors. Plus, what songs are on the crew's no-play lists for their weddings? Then, Amin and Izzy lead the discussion about NBA Free Agency including LeBron's extension, JJ Reddick's comments on Bronny James and where the Miami Heat go from here after reports they are pursuing DeMar DeRozan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Zippers, zipper me up. Let my belongings be secure, let me be secure in the knowledge that my AirPods aren't going anywhere. They're gonna be right here in my pocket because I'm sick of the number, I'm talking, the only thing really that holds my stuff is jeans. Jeans are the only clothing that is an open pocket that will not allow you to lose your stuff.

Great take. Hello, Amin. Hey Izzy, how's it going? I'm doing well, how are you? I'm fine. What happened today, in particular, that made you have to start the show with pocket tuck? I do have an opinion on this.

I have a lot of zippered shorts and zippered pants for that matter. Not a huge fan. Really? I really only buy them for flag football and now those are even outlawed. And they outlawed the zipper shorts. I think I ripped the zipper right off.

Have you ever put your hand in and out quickly of a shorts or pants with pockets in them? Yes. Just can like cut your hand. I bet you're zipped up. It's uncomfortable. You're supposed to be zipped up then. That's the point. Well then how can you put your hands in your pockets casually? You gotta look smooth hands, it's uncomfortable. You're supposed to be zipped up then.

Well then how can you put your hands in your pockets casually? You gotta look smooth sometimes, right? This is a you thing, Izzy. Come on, put your hands in your pockets smoothly. I also appreciate me trying to be inclusive of skirts and shorts for women, but those never have pockets, so you don't have to worry about that. I know. That was two years ago. I did that campaign very briefly.

I said, hey, let's get the ladies some pockets in their attire, can we, fashion industry? There you go. Thank you, Lucy, for demonstrating for the video audience. Jess was saying that no women's clothing has pockets, but Lucy's wearing shorts that have pockets. Well, she means like dresses and skirts. They have dresses that have pockets now.

No, but when they do, do you see how excited women get when they say, look, it has pockets! Thank you, Amin. And they're all small. These are just fun put your hands in kind of pockets. They're not really like, let me put valuables in these pockets. Amin wants his pockets zipped up,

so he can't put his hands in his pockets, so then it becomes a whole thing. Once you've expec- You have to unzip your pockets, then put your hands in, and are you protecting things from falling out? Because in that case, you just got your hands in your stuff with a bunch of stuff in your pockets. I would argue, and as we are both warm weather residing people, it is way more important

to secure your phone and your AirPods than it is to put your hands in your pocket. The feeling you get, I'm with Amin 100% on this, the feeling you get when you got something in your pocket and you zip it up, oh, I just start. It does feel secure. I can do like this whole hip dance where I'm just like swinging my hips.

You can ride a roller coaster. Yep. No fear. Check the pro list 100%. But the other side of it is. I haven't experienced the downside of it. Have you ever danced and then said, hey, let me put my hands in my pockets now? Well, nope, now you gotta unzip

and then you gotta do it smoothly. That seems very specific. Like you just walk down the street and break out in dances. Flash mob or something? Yeah, what's happening here? It's like Chris thing. You have a point.

I don't want pockets because I don't want the option of looking awkward with my hands in my pockets. You just walk down the street and break out and dances like flash mob. Yeah, what's happening here? There's a Chris you have a point I don't want pockets because I don't want the option of looking awkward with my hands in my pockets. Yeah, I Have shorts right now that actually are best of both worlds They have two pockets But then they also have a zip pocket on the side as Billy's looking at right now that I can put Something else like my wallet my key something a little smaller fits something else like my wallet, my keys, something a little smaller, my phone doesn't fit. But I got two for one. Separate pockets with a zipper.

Like the Nike Tech Fleece. Nike Tech Fleece has a zipper pocket and then has regular pockets. Why do you buy shorts with zippers to play flag football? Because you're not allowed to have pockets at all, right? Because if you reach for a flag and you accidentally stick a finger in the pocket and pull, it can break your finger.

There have been plenty of incidents of people breaking their fingers, so they allowed zipping up the pockets. But now, now they've outlawed those, at least in my league, for a couple of reasons. One, you can get hurt on the actual zipper, and two, there's no proof that you actually zipped up the zipper.

You could have it opened up and then accidentally have the same injury. Now, Izzy, can I present to you a different option? You can't put your hands in your pockets. What about the old thumbs in the waistband right here, like a cowboy? So you don't think you look awkward with your hands in your pockets,

or Jess thinks you look awkward with your hands in your pockets, but you don't think you look awkward with your thumbs in your waistbands. That's totally natural for a female has- How often are you guys dancing? Authoritative, that's what it looks like. You're like, hey, what's up, guys? You got your thumbs right in your waistband. That's totally natural for a female has- How often are you guys dancing? Authoritative, that's what it looks like. You're like, hey, what's up guys? You got your hand, your thumb's right in the waistband

right here and then the forefingers are flapped out. That's usually when I'm like trying to take a picture and I'm awkward, like I'm standing for a photo, it's like, all right, I'll stand and I'll put my thumb in my pocket. It's just, I've ruined many a photo, many a group photo. It's like right here in the waistband.

So, I mean, we actually had a pocket-related casualty at the last wedding that Lehman and I would, too. I decided, almost, it was really touch and go. I decided I don't wanna bring a purse with me. I'm sick and tired of carrying a purse around all night. I'm just gonna go in my dress and that's it. I'm not bringing anything. Oh, I thought you guys were gonna say,

I'm just gonna have Lehman. Well, he does carry around my lip gloss for me, but that's separate. So, I didn't have a purse and Lehman didn't have a purse. And so Lehman put his car key, we drove to the wedding, put the car key in his front suit pocket. Inside? Inside.

Love that pocket. Love that pocket. We go to the wedding. Can't put too much in it though. I don't know. This seems dangerous, because Lee seems like someone that takes off layers when he dances.

Well, he didn't. He didn't. We went to the wedding, we went to the reception, we ate the dinner, the DJ comes on, great DJ, he didn't. He didn't. We went to the wedding. We went to the reception. We ate the dinner. The DJ comes on, great DJ, dancing, having fun. Full jacket dancing, huh? Yes, full jacket dancing.

It's like 10.30, 10.45, and we're like, let's go home. That was really fun. We're going to go to bed. We go walk out to the car. The car doesn't automatically unlock. That's weird. What's going on there? Lehman puts his hand in his front pocket.

Key is gone. No key. We go back into the wedding, tell the staff, we tell everyone there. Did you Irish goodbye on the way out? Yes. We were so excited to go home and not say bye to anyone. We didn't say bye to the bride and groom. I call it an Israeli goodbye now.

It was... That's my name, Israel. Oh, I get it. Oh my God. This show took a turn. We went back in, we started looking for the key It was, it was. That's my name. Israel. Oh, continue. Oh, I get it. Oh my God. Same. This show took a turn. We went back in, we started looking for the key

on the dance floor, couldn't find it. We looked at our table, we couldn't find it. Spent like an hour looking for the key. The staff was like, if you wait until the wedding's over at 1 a.m. when we turn the lights on, I'm sure we'll find it. And we looked at each other and we're like, we're not staying until 1 a.m.

We don't wanna say goodbye to anybody. So we had to get an Uber home and we left the car there. We abandoned the car. Really? And the search for the key. At 1.30, someone from the hotel called us and said they found it on the dance floor. It was in the middle of the dance floor?

It was somewhere. We never found out where it was, but the key somehow jumped out of his pocket because he had the jacket on while he was dancing. And this was Lehman going, it was like a five out of 10 dance night. It wasn't even a 10 out of 10. Wow. Well that would explain the jacket being on,

because let's go back to that quickly. Why not take up, was it a fire jacket? Or, here's my other theory, is Lehman, one of those guys, love Lehman, one of those guys that needs the clothes to help enhance the dance moves, right? Like if you're using your jacket. A little grab onto the edge of the jacket.

Yeah, you see you can't, you're naked with your jacket off, you have to be able the dance moves, right? Like if you're using your jacket. A little grab onto the edge of the jacket. Yeah, you see you can't, you're naked with your jacket off. You have to be able to dance. So that's me. I'm the person that needs the clothes. This wedding was handing out shawls as like the little like party favor. You know, some weddings have like the little flip flops

for women, this one they had the shawl. So I was like swinging my shawl around and stuff. Lehman doesn't need props. He's just a good dancer, period. But he didn't take the jacket off. And the key, I swear to God, I was like swinging my shawl around and stuff. Lehman doesn't need props. He's just a good dancer, period. But he didn't take the jacket off. And the key, I swear to God, the key must have just jumped out.

Cause I never saw it, like no one saw it. It just, boop, it jumped out. I mean, if we're starting the show on Pocket Talk, I've got a traumatic similar story, but you know, let me know when we want to get that. Well, I don't understand. This is a good DJ booth. It was a five out of 10 dancing night for Lehman.

What happened? Well, it was like our friends, but we didn't know anyone other than our friends, so we were very, very, yeah. No, no, no, no, no. Well, it's a good place to, like. If you only know a few people, you gotta tone it down. Nah. Here's the thing.

Like, Lehman's 10 out of 10 is a lot of people's, like, can't fathom going that hard. So, like, a five for him is most people's 10. Where on your scale is starting a conga line? Is that like 10 out of 10 or is that a little lower? Well we don't really, I've never been to a wedding with a conga line but we do do like the hora and Lehman is always like da da na na na na.

Havana Gila. Yeah, exactly. And Lehman and I lead the charge on that. Did he, was there a lot of Russian dancing where he like? He can do that. See? I swear to God, this man's knees. That's where the keys went out, right there.

Yeah, did you think back, like retrospect in the night? Like what move do we think lost the key? Honestly, I would love to find out. Did Shout play, was it in Shout? There was no Shout. It was all like really, really good music. Shout was on my Do Not playlist. Really?

Yeah, oh yeah, no doubt. Band Shout. It's overd like really, really good music. Shout was on my Do Not playlist. Really? Yeah, oh yeah, no doubt. Band Shout. It's overdone, it's overdone. Little bit softer now. Band. Little bit softer now. Band, what else was on the band list?

I'm trying to think, Shout was definitely on their Wobble. Despacito? No, Despacito was not on there, are you crazy? It was a banger. Wobble baby, Wobble baby, Wobble baby, Wobble. I think Wobble was playable, I think that was on the okay list. Wobble baby, wobble baby, wobble baby, wobble. I think Wobble was playable. I think that was on the okay list. Wobble will be on my no playlist of I Ever Get Married

because I got an underage drinking ticket once while that song was on and it scarred me for the rest of the night. You know what else was on there? Sweet Caroline was on there. That was not gonna happen at the wedding. Send that shit back to Boston. Bop bop.

Nope, that was on the do not playlist. Electric Slide was on mine. Electric Slide is on the list. I just didn't, I wanted to have one at the most songs where they tell you how to dance. I wanted the people who knew how to dance and actually wanted to get on the dance floor to go do their thing.

I kept my jacket on the entire time, like at my wedding reception, and I think I kept the bow tie on also. Even at the bar after, like I was like, yeah, I'm not gonna look sloppy tonight. I was a sweaty sloppy disaster,, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna look sloppy tonight I was a sweaty sloppy disaster, but I was like I'm not gonna look at yet the bar me too Yeah after my wedding and I took all of the like light up like foam like stick So you had we just handed them out

We walked into the bar with a garbage bag full of those like light up things and just handed them out to patrons Yeah, it's fun night at the bar. The bar is always great after a wedding, because you can just walk right over. Yeah. We get married at the same place. Do we marry each other? Wow. I definitely need to go to a wedding with Chris Cody. Izzy, question.

Electric Slide, the song is banned, not the dance. No, no, the dance is OK. The dance is OK. If you can figure out that dance to another song, go for it. OK, so you remember the infamous all-employee meeting, all-talent meeting at ESPN, the one right before the world ended for us? Oh, yeah, I for it. Okay, so, you remember the infamous all employee meeting, all talent meeting at ESPN, the one right before the world ended for us. Oh yeah, I remember it.

I remember when John Skipper came to me and said, I'm really looking forward to where your career goes. I do believe you will have a nice long career. The number of things that happened that we weren't working together anymore. Leading up to that, that was just like, oh man, it's really about to take off. And then everything changed five days later.

But did you go to the karaoke, you weren't there? I did not. Oh man. I did not. This was like, it was a legendary night. Nobody invited me, but I did not. It was a legendary night, man. Look, if Gojo found a way to the black karaoke party, then.

I'd heard about it. I heard a lot about it, did not go. But one of the things that happened was I, for karaoke I did cameo, candy, and impromptu, the entire bar starts to do an electric slide. I've never felt more. It's electric. Oh my God, it was incredible.

Dun, dun, dun, dun. We have to have a show field trip to that karaoke room where it's like just 20 people and four mics and you just kinda go. You know what I don't like about those places? Is oftentimes the mic they give you has a stupid ass reverb on it. They don't give you a regular mic, am I right Lucy?

Very picky you are. Yes, these were very popular in LA and we used to go all the time and they do a good job of soundproofing, like in between songs you can hear the other room but it always has that little echo. I don't like the reverb. I want the pure microphone sound.

That's why I like karaoke places where it's general public. You got people, and you gotta perform to people who don't know you. Yeah, don't assume that I need the microphone to fix my vocals. Just let me either perform as well as confidently as I can, or let me bomb and have everybody sort of look as well as confidently as I can. Entertune.

Or let me bum and have everybody sort of look the other way and I can't wait till this song's over. That's the worst feeling is when you hear your voice for the first time and recognize, that's not what I remember sounding like. It's the worst part is when you have a song that you think you can do and you realize you can't. Didn't work that way.

That's terrible. What was this? Sorry, have you guys ever, have you guys ever left a karaoke bar because someone song choice was so bad Oh my god the song choice. Yes, not the song execution both Okay, I've never left because of execution, but I've left because of choice. I've left because of choice Yes, someone at a karaoke bar We went to decided to play a ten minute Taylor Swift song. You should never be allowed.

Yeah, 10 minutes all too well. Absolutely miserable. You don't get to hold me hostage for 10 minutes. Purple rain. Someone's tried to do the same thing. It's like this song is too long. You can't do that. That's illegal.

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That's how I get people when they're really mean to me. I'm not like go after yourself I'm like, I hope you have the day you deserve. It's a great kind. It's a great kind. So, yes, beautiful. It's leaving it to the cosmos to sort it out. That's a less southern. Bless your heart. This is the Duran Lebatar show with the Stugats. I have a good karaoke story about Charlotte for a mean. On my 25th birthday, Charlotte and Lehman and Priya and I, all my besties, we went out.

My friend Priya. Lehman and I weren't even dating yet. We went out to a karaoke bar and we were having so much fun and they came out and they were like, okay, we're starting karaoke, the only rule is no good singers. And we were like, oh, that's great. We all suck at singing.

So Charlotte was like, I'm gonna go first. And she went up and she sang a Cher song. And she's very normal at karaoke. It wasn't particularly terrible, but she's not belting it. I was hoping that you were gonna say, then she goes, I'm terrible, and then she picked up the mic, it sounded like a mixture of Fergie and Gina.

Well, so Charlotte goes up and sings Cher, and we're all like, oh, having a good time. Do you believe in love? No, I think it was Turn Back Time. You're back a turn back. Is that a Cher song? You're back a turn back time. I don't know. Yes, it is. Okay, it is Turn Back Time. Tell me. Is that a Cher song? Tell me.

I don't know. Yes it is. Okay it is. So then Charlie sits down and the next person goes up and is the greatest singer I've ever heard in my life. We were like, whoa, okay, we thought there was no good singers here. And then the third person goes up,

just kills it, so good. And then we realized we were at karaoke for like off-Broadway singers. And so Charlotte went up there and had no idea and just like sang her song to all these professional singers. This man goes up and sings New York, New York and literally he sounds like Frank Sinatra. We were all just sitting there like sinking into our chairs.

So did any of you all go up? I went up. Okay, I thought you guys should all be like, let's go somewhere else. I went up and then Charlotte and I went up together again. We were by far the absolute worst singers these people have ever heard. It was so much fun.

I've been to karaoke in LA of Hollywood Boulevard never again because it was like everyone who's like looking to get signed. And I'm like, hey, go find a cover band or some shit, man. This year, this is for us. This is for you people. I did that one time in LA, and I had the exact same experience,

and it happened immediately when I realized, oh, they'll let you do any song. And then I saw a white dude go up, and I heard Snoop Dogg. I heard Gin and Juice, come on. And I didn't even remember the lyrics right away. I said, nope, not here for this. I'm outta here. I was really feeling it. I said, nope, not here for this, I'm out of here.

I was really feeling it. Yeah, sorry. It was Chris. LeBron re-signed. Back to karaoke. Oh. When I go to karaoke bars, I always get hammered. I get so drunk, and I will go up to every singer

after they're done and be like, you are the best. You should really try to do this professionally. And they're like, thank you so much. I'm like, it was the voice they're like, thank you so much. I'm like, it was the voice of an angel. You are so amazing. There's one song that depending on how much I drink, I'm either out of there based on the song choice,

or I'm singing it loud as anybody. And it's American Pie, Don McClay. Get out of here if I'm not drunk yet, and you're picking that in a karaoke bar because it's sad. It's depressing Nobody wants to hear that but get me drunk. I'm Yelling louder. I'm getting close to the mic with the guy and trying to sing it just as loud as he does Have you guys gone to a bar that has a cover band taking requests from the crowd, right?

I you know what cover bands hate covering freebird by Leonard Skinner. So anytime I'm at a place all your free bird They're like buddy. We're not playing free bird stop yelling it It's like people keep requesting wonderwall Like in Wayne's world where they're like no stairway to heaven It's a guitar store. You know what I've never seen Wayne's world. It's always a little Welcome to Aurora, Illinois. Not just a place but a state of mind. It's like I've never seen any Fast and Furious movie other than Tokyo Drift. It's the only one I saw.

Huh. It's just a blind spot. You're wacky. No, it's just a blind spot. I don't know. I've never felt the need to watch any of the other. I watched it when it came out. That's why I watched it. And the reason I watched it when it came out was because I accidentally walked on the set. What?

Of Tokyo Drift. Oh yeah, you told me you were like in Cleveland Turnip, I was like. I was walking in downtown, no, that was the other Fast and Furious movie. I refuse to watch that one. Wait, so you were in another Fast and Furious movie that you refuse to watch?

I've been. You stumbled upon two Fast and Furious. Were you in Tokyo for Tokyo Drift? Shot in downtown Los Angeles. Okay, all right, hold on a second. Exactly right. I feel like I could say that about most movies. You're an extra in two Fast and Furious movies according to you.

Wouldn't call myself an extra because I wasn't on, both times they yelled at me to get out of the shot. Well were you walking through the street? Like they were telling you so you don't get hit by a car. No, I was walking down the sidewalk and they're like, you're in the shot. I'm like, shot what? And I was wondering't get hit by a car. Now I was walking down the sidewalk, and they're like, you're in the shot, I'm like, shot what?

And I was wondering whether- Hold on a second. So you're walking around and like fake cowboy, Brian, whatever his name is, in Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift is there, like the replacement for Paul, whatever his name is. Walker. Paul Walker, yeah.

Oh jeez. So you're walking through and fake Paul Walker is like spitting lines and you're like walking through the shot, I'm and like can you please move? No, it was, first of all it was downtown LA and they replaced all the street signs with Japanese signs and I thought that was kind of weird but I thought I said maybe I'm in Japan town or whatever.

So I just kept walking and then like. I don't think it's called Japan town. Little Tokyo, whatever. I call them Paul whatever so. There you go. And then like the cars come around the corner rest in power and the They're drifting and stuff and then like cut and like uh They get out the shot like well, you know, you should have had someone stop in foot traffic

Then again like ten years later or however many years later I'm walking through downtown Cleveland and I saw an NYPD squad card. I was like to downtown Cleveland and I saw an NYPD squad car and I was like, look at these guys using up taxpayer money to come out to the NBA finals and you guys should be ashamed of yourselves. And then I walked a couple more blocks and it's like a massive pile up. I thought we're like 14 cars on top of each other

and like there was a NYPD motorcycle at the top and it was on its side and its lights was going on. I'm like, oh my God, this is the worst accident ever. I need to call 911, and I'm like, why isn't, have they already come, what's going on? And then someone said, you're in the shot, I'm like, oh, again? So a mean is effectively that guy or girl

that you see at every NBA halftime with Mike Breen and Doris Burke right in between them, but you're like, oh wow, I'm on TV, look at that, as they go by. That's the mean, except the Hollywood version of that. And not knowing that there was a camera, so like I'm picking my nose or something. I think that's the one that they just had cars

somehow like launching out of the size of parking garages. I can't imagine how traumatic that must have been if you walked by at that moment, where cars are just flying out of parking garages. Okay, when we used to work at the Clevelander, I was walking one day from the Clevelander to Alton Road, and all of a sudden, I heard gunshots next to me,

and I literally jumped 10 feet in the air and ducked. And the Miami police, I jumped. I jumped and then I ducked. I was super alarmed. You jumped 10 feet in the air while ducking. That's impressive. It was terrifying. It was right next to me, and I turned,

and the Miami Police Department was doing a demonstration for like right next to me and I turned and the Miami Police Department was doing a demonstration for little kids next to me and they didn't even have the sidewalk marked off and I was like seriously like. A demonstration? Yes, they were like shooting at each other. I swear to God. Blanks of course, blanks.

It was terrifying and then I was like what the fuck and then I realized it was fake and I was like why do they not close the sidewalk? It was terrifying. Like it fucked me up for days. I thought you were gonna say Bad Boys, like for life was being filmed. I would like to recreate Jess jumping 10 feet in the air.

I was Simone Biles, I was 12 feet in the air upside down. Like it scared the shit out of me. It was right next to me. Like an armadillo, it's just one little ball in the sky. Sonic the Hedgehog or something? Oh yeah. I mean, what fell out of your pocket? It was right next to me. Like an armadillo, just one little ball in the sky. Sound like the hedgehog? I mean, what fell out of your pocket? My phone when I sat down. It just literally happened moments before we went on air.

You don't have this problem. I am having my keys, the shorts, like these fabletic shorts that I have, like all the shorts I have nowadays, falling, like I can't get out of my car without my keys being in my seat. I want you to look at the engraving on my AirPods. Does it say Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese

or WNBA All Stars? No, that's the other one. Close, it says Izzy, don't lose me! And it has hearts on either side because of course the AirPods have feelings. Yes, of course. These are the fourth pair of iPods that I have owned. I've lost the case one time, I've lost a left one,

I've lost a right one, and then I bought JBLs just because I was like, let me just change my luck, and then I lost the right one of those, and so these came with a lovely message. Every single time it has been from falling out of my pocket. I'll put one in there and put anti-zipper guy over here. But some of those were with zippered pockets. I just didn't zip it up. That's crazy. I didn't zip it up. I didn't zip it up. You know, you

just sit down, you don't zip up your pockets, all of a sudden, whoops, something falls out. Just put it on a key chain. And it's nice because when I lose my keys, I can track my AirPods and then I find my keys. We're moving away from those, right? Aren't we having a movement to go back to wired headphones? I only wear wired headphones. Well, not all the time, but if I'm on a flight, I might,

or if I'm just doing something where I don't need to have my phone somewhere else, it's just, I don't know. You can fall asleep without fear of it falling out of your ear. Yeah, but the radiation situation. They don't run out of batteries. I saw a video that Tony, you're gonna like. I saw this video. I've seen it, that's why I don't wear them.

You've seen radiation? No, I've seen them use like a radiation monitor and they go over the AirPods like, do do do do do do do do. I saw this video you're gonna like. I saw it was like a chiropractor, a doctor of some sort, and he had a guy and he was stretching his neck while wearing his smartwatch. I'm not gonna say the names so I don't get sued. So he's

wearing a smartwatch with an apple on it and he starts twisting his neck and it could only go yay far and then he takes it off and the guy's neck almost did a full circle. It moved so much it went like all the way down here and it was down by you know like his chest because he took off the smart watch. What does that tell you? He said there was some sort of electromagnetic something on that watch that stops his neck from moving. Tony. And I thought of you immediately.

Tony, you afraid of radiation? A little bit, yeah. Okay, let me tell you a little story about a guy who was exposed to radiation and became the most powerful being ever. His name is Bruce Banner. Don't talk to me about radiation. It feels like a different kind of radiation. I don't know, it's all radiation. Gamma rays Bruce Banner. Don't talk to me about radiation. Feels like a different kind of radiation.

I don't know, it's all radiation. Gamma rays and whatnot. They're all rays, there's radiation. Howdy folks, it's Mike Ryan, and as you know, I've been telling you on the air about the Game Time app. It is where I go exclusively for the secondary ticket market, and I've been there a lot this summer

between the hockey playoffs and summer concert season. I've been spending a fair chunk of my time on this app. Why though? Because I know they got the low price guarantee. I know that when I open up the Game Time app, this is the premier place for value in the secondary ticket market. I get all in pricing, just a little touch of a tab up on the top right of my app and I get no surprises at checkout.

Zone deals, flash deals, I made an impulse buy for game 7 of the NHL final and I absolutely loved it. I'm a world champion! Game Time is an authorized ticket marketplace of Major League Baseball so why don't you take the guesswork out of buying MLB tickets with Game Time. Download the Game Time app, create an account, use code DAN for $20 off your first purchase, terms apply again, create an account, redeem code D-A-N for $20 off your first purchase. Download Game Time today, last minute tickets, lowest price guaranteed. Don LeBretard.

Again, started on the Breakfast Flawn. Oh man, I've been singing the song to myself all morning long. Breakfast Flawn. Da-da-da-da. Stugats. Have you never heard the Breakfast Flawn song? No, hit me with it.

Okay, I wish I had some Breakfast Flawn. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da- heard the Breakfast Flawn song? No, hit me with it. Okay. I wish I had some Breakfast Flawn. Da da da da da da da da. Breakfast Flawn. Da da da da da da da da da. Where can I find a breakfast like that? Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da. This is the Don LeBathard Show with the StuGards. So Izzy, it was a nice couple of weeks, maybe a week, where we were here. LeBron's gonna take less so they can have that full mid-level and all the trappings

under the aprons and everything. The Lakers are gonna be able to do big moves, they'll get big names, and then everybody signs somewhere else within the first 48 hours. Was that just for Klay Thompson, supposedly? Big names and then everybody signed somewhere else within the first 48 hours was that Just for clay Thompson supposedly or was that for anybody because he obviously went ahead and took the extension We have the news you're talking about yes without taking a discount After a day or two after clay Thompson commits to the max clay Thompson was one of the names Yonash Valenshunas was one of the names and I thinkish Valenshunis was one of the names. And I think the third name was Demar DeRozan,

who's still available, but I guess LeBron said, nah, nevermind. What'd you guys think of Michael Thompson going on with Frank Isola and saying, hey, don't congratulate me, I wanted Clay to be a Laker? Oh, no, that's the most authentic Michael Thompson, that's how he is. He's always super blunt about things like that

and specifically wanting Clay to be a Laker. As long as he's a warrior, it's great, but I hope when he's done playing for the Warriors, he plays for the Lakers. He's said that for years. And I feel like I'd be like, Dad, come on, please, don't do this. Well, you think it's like a distraction.

People in Dallas are gonna be like, ugh. I'd just be like, can you support me a little bit instead of coming out? I'm gonna tell you something. Michael Thompson is very much the immigrant father. It's like every, like 100% he still treats Clay like Clay's a kid, like his kid, like a child in his house. Clay, if you guys remember, remember this, Izzy?

His first couple years, his salary went to his parents and they gave him allowance. I did not actually know that. Oh man, that was one of my favorite clay stories. At what age? Like his rookie year at least. Yeah, he was, I mean he spent what, three years in school? Yeah.

So he was 21. He was 21, but he was getting an allowance. He is one of the, I mean he's the most unique NBA personality outside of like the Dennis Rodmans, just kind of like within a couple of lanes, I think, that I've ever experienced. But it's interesting to me that LeBron, because it was what, 2010 was the last time

he took a discount, right? He said when he left, he's gonna take the max forever, he's never taking a discount again, and what, he was gonna do this just for a maybe of a, none of those names that you said, said, oh, that's gonna push them over the top for a championship. So it would have been an,

it was an interesting conversation when I saw it. For LeBron, I guess he felt like those were names that were worth taking the discount for. The discount is a little different. Back in 2010, it was just so they could have enough money to pay, I believe, Mike Miller and Udonis Haslam. Like, which again, I could see why. He was like, I'm never doing this shit again.

Right, that was Dwayne Wade supposedly convincing the Mardis to do that. This is different, right? This wasn't about having enough money to pay someone. It's about the Lakers being at a payroll where things are not taken away from them because now the new collective bargaining agreement, the higher you go with your payroll,

you begin to lose the ability to do certain things like engaging in any sort of sign in trade. Like, you know, and if you keep going and going, you go to where the Clippers were headed, which is draft picks are frozen. You saw the Knicks having issues, or still having kind of a question mark how that McKell-Bridge's deal is gonna ultimately get done,

because if they accept more money than they put out, then they're gonna be hard capped at the first apron. So there's all these things now. It's less about players, hey, leave a little money so that we can pay so and so, so that the franchise isn't paying a crazy luxury tax. And more about, hey, do you want better players? The only way we can acquire them

is if we have these tools available. So I mean, this has always sort of bugged me a little bit with LeBron, especially on the back end of his career, where we are now. The idea of if you're going to even suggest I'll take a small discount, why not go all in? And I understand, like financially,

it doesn't make any sense to give up millions, and anybody will tell you it's an idiotic decision, but are you not making more on the back end if you do create a super team, get all this attention again, win another championship, and then after that, you're talking, you can probably quantify it different ways, but making that money back.

Why not just take a full discount, make a five million dollar a year type of deal? I think for players, because the idea is that your window of earning is so finite, and I know LeBron kind of flies in the face of that, but for everybody else It's like dude I have this much time to make as much money as possible for the rest of my life my children's lives and hopefully my children

I'm talking about this one guy this one guy maybe but but also he feels like he sets a standard I think is it kind of like when Tom Brady was like, oh what if you just give Tom Brady like 1.2 million? Like whatever the league minimum is but doesn't that mess up with the CBA? The players association doesn't like it for sure. They're like, yo, your- Your best player's taking nothing. Yeah, but it's different in basketball, because in football, if the best quarterback in the league

signs at a number, that's the standard, right? Whereas in basketball, we have an actual maximum salary. So just because LeBron takes less than Max doesn't mean anyone else has the negotiation privilege to say, okay, everyone. LeBron sort of set his own precedent in so many different things, right? The guy, the homegrown guy,

he just won his championships elsewhere and came back and now doing it with a third team, right? Nobody ever did that. Nobody did like the big three thing, the way he did it in particular. Nobody did the, hey, I'm now playing with my son. Nobody's manipulated the NBA for his benefit more than anybody, than LeBron James.

And so you are the unique one. You are the one who is earning potential is never going to end. It's not gonna end after your playing career is over. You're the only one who's in that conversation with Michael Jordan where another championship might do it for you, another two, if you're really good with this,

might absolutely do it for you. You are the only, like maybe Victor Wenbinyama in 15 years might be able to pull off something like this and justify it, but LeBron would be the only person where even if I'm the Players Association, I'm just like, you know know what that's a good move I'm not mad at that technically Tim Duncan did in San Antonio Dirk did it in Dallas Kevin Garnett did it in Boston But these those were all well. I guess he's old too those they were all in that in this stage

So I don't know and also I think that was more about keeping their own guys and getting fresh guys It's what LeBron was trying to do One of the guys that has been linked, obviously, is Damar DeRozan, who is an LA native. But Damar DeRozan has other ties. Chris, do you wanna bring us up to date? Barry Jackson in the streets saying the Heat are interested and that Damar has interest.

I mean, it's a nice fit, man. Again, what we talked about yesterday, Izzy, was the idea that Miami, for whatever they've achieved over the last few years, the one constant is they've been awful offensively. In the half court, awful offensively overall. They just don't generate points easily because they don't have a guy that,

if you guys remember two years ago when I said, Boston is clearly more talented than Miami, Miami just has to win by execution. And Will Manso and the rest of the rabble rousers on the internet said, what? How can you say they're more talented than it? I said, dude, because they can run their plays, mess up their plays, and still have a guy say, I got it.

And you can't, Miami does not have that. And so DeMar DeRozan kind of provides something like that, no? He also plays. Got it. Is that interesting, is that important? I'm saying like Jimmy misses games. Damar I believe played like 70 something games last year.

I just like, I think that, those two things, like a bucket getter and just being there, I think it's a perfect fit. Don't you think they feel kind of the same role, Jimmy and Damar, when they're kind of on the floor at the same time? You don't want a guy who is going to be a lead score for you. Also do the exact same things that your other lead score does.

So a couple of things on that front to me. Um, and it's funny cause I'm making this comparison to like a Tyler hero. Cause when Tyler lines up against somebody, you're like, man, I hope this works out when Demar does it. I just look at the defender because that defenders in hell, it is so difficult to defend that guy in the mid-range. It is way different than a defender looks at Jimmy Butler, maybe not Drew Holliday.

Jimmy Butler, when he's lining you up, he's like, oh, if I play good defense, I'm probably gonna stop this guy, maybe he'll get a phantom call. Demar is so skilled in the individual, in the one-on-one, in the mid-range, at drawing fouls. He's the type of guy that puts 10 eyes on the ball at all times, and then if he makes the right pass.

I actually think, and this is not just because he shot 41% from three last year, Jimmy Butler, I think you can give him more responsibilities in the half court, Demar DeRozan, and let Jimmy play off the ball. Because there's a lot of people saying they're kind of very similar, yada yada, like Tony just said, but I do believe

that if you give Demar the responsibilities on the Heat in the half court set, way more potential for success per play than with Jimmy. I think I agree, and by the way, Jimmy, this is what Jimmy wants, he doesn't want to have the ball in his hand, like, even in the 60-some odd games that he plays, how many games do we see where it's like, Jimmy's doing this thing to start the game,

and it's like, oh, they're losing, Jimmy, you need to save. It's like, fine. And then he goes and he gets like 6,000 a row and gets to the free throw line and saves the day, or sometimes doesn't. And so, to me, if anything, he should welcome the lift of the burden off of all that by having someone who comes in there.

And DeMarce, like, he's not, you know, sometimes you get a guy who does those things skill-wise and production-wise, but it's kind of a son of a bitch in his attitude. DeMarce is a nice guy, man. He's a great teammate. Everyone loves playing with him. Everyone respects him.

No, Drake thinks that. Who? Drake. Aren't they on the outs right now? I mean, he was at the Kendrick thing. Hey man, look, let me tell you something. That dude, you know where Demar's from? He's from the thick of it.

From LA. Not just LA, he's like the thick of that stuff. Yeah, he's, there's- Drake wasn't surprised to see him there. No way, look, if I was Drake- Because the internet was like, oh, he's boys with Drake. Dude, if I was Drake, I would have picked up the phone like, yeah, you need to be at that concert, man.

Westbrook was the one who was more surprising. Really? I mean, he's from the thick of it, too. DeMar DeRozan is name checked in the song. Of course, he had to be there. But Russell Westbrook? I think, well, no, I think these guys are very LA guys, though.

They're very LA guys, right? From quote unquote, the thick of it. I also don't see a lot of Westbrook Drake connection, right? I see the DeRozan connection, but the Westbrook Drake one, I don't know. I just see Westbrook Taylor Swift connections, really. Yeah, well, I mean, look, when Taylor Swift comes out with a West Coast anthem, maybe Russ will be there

to lead the charge as well. Did you see KD with Drake in the picture with the hookah? No, but that could have been from anywhere at any time. I think it's very current. There it is right there. I'm glad you asked this question, because I follow Drake, I follow all these guys, celebrities on Instagram,

and I go to the comments on Drake's posts a lot, because I'm just like, wow, the haters must be going crazy. They filter. There's only certain comments that are allowed. So when you go on Drake's comments, it's just a bunch of slurping and glazing. Like it's absolutely nothing but positive comments. And I'm just like,

wouldn't somebody give him shit for that? Like why are you so thin skinned that you don't even just allow the comments to be open? Well, when you have the wherewithal to have someone whose job it is to curate the comment section, like they just sit there all day long, oh, new comment, oh, nope, that's gotta be good.

I go to Dwayne Wade's posts whenever he posts something with his daughter, and it's just living hell in the comments. He needs that filter, he needs Drake's person to come change his comments. Drake needs to just go ahead and deal with the hatred. Can we get that filter too? Does it extend to Reddit? Do you guys do this? change his comments, Drake needs to just go ahead and deal with the hatred. Can we get that filtered too? Ha ha ha. Does it extend to Reddit?

Do you guys do this? I don't really look at comments a lot of things. Not a big comment looker. Other people's comments? No, you know what? Some of the funniest things. Exactly, this is my algorithm, God bless it, it knows what I'm here for.

And as soon as I get into videos of things that I don't follow, it's literally just like, someone at their most vulnerable and then the comment section pops up. Somebody I saw recently who was doing the dougie but doing horribly, speaking of wedding dances, and it was just really stiff and the guy that commented said,

this person said, instruct me how to Douglas. I just was laughing for half an hour. Oh, man. The maximum. I watched Perfect Match on Netflix and as the season would go on, there'd be villains when the couples would break up, and you're like, I don't like this person.

And then I'd go to Instagram and be like, I wonder if everyone has gone to their comments and is just crapping all over them on post. Like, here's a picture of me with my dog, and it's like, you die, I hate you so much. And I'm like, yeah, I love this. Do you guys ever go, do you ever watch A, House Hunters International, and then B, find them on Instagram guys ever go do you ever watch a house hunters?

International and then find them on Instagram and see if they still live where they so what I hunted what I love about house Hunters international is unlike house hunters. They give you the exact part of town where they're at cuz they're like you'll never go to Sydney No stalkers gonna go there right you're never gonna go stalk these people in Thailand. Yeah Yeah, what's the percentage of people who are still living there normally? Yes Well the most recent one I watched it appeared that they lived in their apartment for six months that they found on house hunters And then they moved back to the United States nice I think if you go on some of those like home makeover shows like you'll find that the people that had like Extreme makeover a home edition whatever within a couple years

They end up selling the house because the house becomes so valuable that they can't afford it. So then they have to go and sell the house that they had made over for free. Happy summer everybody, it's Mike Ryan. As you know, I'm a big fan of Miller Lite. I tell you about it all the time. It's summer and it is the perfect time

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summer between the hockey playoffs and summer concert season. I've been there a lot this summer between the hockey playoffs and summer concert season. I've been spending a fair chunk of my time on this app. Why though? Because I know they got the low price guarantee. I know that when I open up the Game Time app, this is the premier place for value in the secondary ticket market. I get all in pricing, just a little touch of a tab up on the top right of my app and I get no surprises at checkout.

Zone deals, flash deals, I made an impulse buy for game 7 of the NHL final and I absolutely loved it. I'm a world champion! Game Time is an authorized ticket marketplace of Major League Baseball so why don't you take the guesswork out of buying MLB tickets with Game Time. Download the Game Time app, create an account, use code Dan for $20 off your first purchase, terms apply, again, create an account, redeem code D-A-N for $20 off your first purchase, download Game Time today, last minute tickets, lowest price, guaranteed.