The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: I'm Here, I've Lived, How About You?

Episode Date: February 26, 2025

Someone in our Shipping Container called other people at the company "short-sighted morons." Who was it, and why did they do it? We kick off today's show by celebrating the legendary Diana Taurasi as she announced her retirement yesterday. Then, was Nico Harrison ogling Luka Doncic last night? Yearning? Creeping? Longing? The crew shares their takeaways from the first game between the Dallas Mavericks and Los Angeles Lakers since the blockbuster Doncic trade. Plus, Amin is now a movie star and wants to ensure everyone knows it. Also, is Chris Cote a bad son for not calling his dad after his procedure? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Run amok. I hear just someone shout. You are a short-sighted moron. I don't know what it was about I don't know who it was directed at. Do you guys know that you don't work in a normal workplace? It's about the heat. I'm gonna go home. Okay, what was it about? I don't, Jess, I don't know what it was about. I wasn't in there, I was in the other room and I just heard someone shout and I don't know who was shouting it at whom.

The doors closed. You are a short-sighted moron and I just don't think that would go in many workplaces. I'm gonna try and guess. I'm gonna say Jeremy yelling at Fuentes. It was Jeremy. It was Jeremy. Wait, no, was it about the Heat?

Yeah, it was. So this nice guy thinks just a bit on air. I guess. You're a monster behind me. I mean, there were a bunch of short sighted morons. Well, I don't know what to do with this part of the tension on our show. Like Mike Ryan, who fancies himself inventor of Heat Twitter

and patron saint of protecting the doors of what excellence looks like with the Miami Heat is appalled by the idea that Jeremy would support anything that's happening with the Heat. When I'm gonna jostle you right now when I tell you the Portland Trail Blazers are basically as good as the Heat this year. If you haven't been paying attention to the last six weeks of basketball.

They've been on fire. The Portland Trail Blazers. So fun. The Portland Trail Blazers have the same record, essentially, as the Miami Heat. So this is a calamity. I don't know how you can defend it, Jeremy, but I can't imagine how your last two days felt

listening to this show, not being able to say anything. It was truly remarkable, Dan. I mean, I'm not defending what the product looks like in the last several weeks or even this season. It's more the premise of the argument that stems from Mike Ryan claiming he's been right for two and a half years. That you've been wrong.

When the start of that was get rid of everyone, lose the play in game and has now become going to the finals twice is the worst thing that could have happened to the franchise. It's a bad spot we're in, Heat fans are now. I mean it's insane. But can you just text him, because he's not here today.

Are we gonna drag this out for 40 minutes? I'd love to drag it out. No Jessica, you wouldn't wanna drag, no see this. I've already left. Yes, Jessica, no, help me. Jessica, I need help managing this because Jeremy hasn't gotten to speak for two days. That's not good for anyone in his life. So Fuente's got an earful.

But him speaking good today is not good for any of us. And you know he's been speaking the entire time. Yeah. Well, what happened with Fuente's? He's a short-sighted moron. What happened is the guys in there were talking about what this crew brought up yesterday, the idea of trading Bam at a Bio.

And I just reminded everyone that everyone in the shipping container wanted to trade Bam at a Bio several years ago for Bradley Beal. And that is why I called them what they are, which is short-sighted morons. Got them there. And that is why I called them what they are, which is short-sighted morons. Got them there. This is the Don Leventor Show with the Stugats Podcast.

I do not know what you guys think is the big story of the day today because Chris Cody's got a new game I'm dying to play here called Patriotic or Annoying. And I wanna get to it. Jeremy and Jessica have been hypnotized by Chalamet. And so I wanna get to that as well. We've got a wild Billy Wednesday in the middle of a mean here. Billy, were you just surprised to learn that it's a wild? Yeah, a mean's here, so it's an mean day.

I thought you were talking about Wild Bill Cody for a second. Oh, Wild Bill. How'd your dad's surgery go, by the way? Yeah. I hope it went well. You didn't check on him? No, you don't know?

I feel like I would have heard by now. Why would you? Your dad was having surgery yesterday, you didn't think he'd check on you? It was outpatient surgery. Outpatient surgery. Wait, first of all, I recorded with him yesterday evening, so I think he's fine.

You didn't? Wait. Did you just remember? I remembered that he went there after the show. I just talked to him later in the evening. Chris, I believe all of us are appalled and just, listen, just slow down. I spoke to him!

Chris. No, hold on. Chris, hold on. I don't think you understand how life can be taken for granted when old people go under anesthesia for any reason at all and your father's health has been coughing for many years here. So perhaps when he leaves surgery, you want to know immediately that he's okay. And so while you talked to him last night,

probably not soon enough, and it's okay that we judge you for being a bad son there. All right, fine, I'll wear this one. Did he get to keep it? That's another good question. Of course, gotta put it in the jar. What did you record about? Wait a minute.

Top 100 guests in Greg Cody's show history. He can't take a day off, he had surgery. Wait a minute, can we put that on display, that flap over his belly button, did he take it home? Did you learn whether or not, when you recorded with him, surely your father's gonna wanna talk about his surgery, but he's also probably on meds, isn't he?

Your dad left here yesterday to have a surgery, isn't your dad loopy during the taping of the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody? He's always loopy, so nothing was was different it might have been the Miller lights might have been the surgery you never know anyway so there are a number of things I want to talk about today but I really do think that the biggest story in sports today is Diana Tarassi retiring it plays her entire career with one team basically I don't have much of a recollection of women's basketball of any kind until diana to rossi and her teams introduced

me to it so although man united i was not watching your miller mania i was not watching women's basketball in the late nineties i was not i i was very late arriving to this diana to rossi basically this i can't i can't tell the story women's basketball without diana to rossi like i'm not going back to nancy lieberman like i know i can do the history of it but to me she represents a pioneer as a ten-time all-star playing her entire career in one place

to w n b a finals mvp one m one MVP, like she is not only a pioneer, what do you mean you're welcome? Guess who's on the staff? What, for a couple of those rings? You can't take credit for Diana Taurasi. Look man, organizations win championships. Thank you Amin, thank you. There you go, appreciate you.

As you were, you think that you had something to do with Diana Taurasi's? Well, for her WNBA Championship. The Yukon and the Olympic stuff, she's on her own. What, so six, is it six gold medals? Yeah, she did that on her own. What about the EuroLeague titles? Do you take any credit for those?

No, those are on her own too. Okay. It's just one of the great winners ever. And there's, you know, I don't know if we, what the proper way to celebrate these things is when they end, but the idea that, you know, UConn mattered before her, but that she was a part of continuing everything that UConn did

for women's basketball in the college game and then gets to Phoenix and plays her entire career in one place, and is gets to Phoenix and plays her entire career in one place. And is still amazing and a fan favorite at 40 and is a pillar of not just professionalism and caring, but also the cutthroat arrogance of she can be in a room with a bunch of Olympians and say to Draymond Green, hey, how does it feel to be the only one in here

who never gets double team? Because if you think, like, I mean, I can't even imagine how cutthroat Diana Taurasi had to be to be as great as she was for as long as she was. Whatever you imagine, multiply that. I can't, I don't even, I don't, like, whatever it is that Kobe had about rip your jugular out, like, I would love to have an honest portrayal

from all of her teammates of what it was to have someone with that competitive cruelty living inside her. I thought that the Time article that announced her retirement did a good job describing her. I think it was Sue Bird's words, she's a kind asshole. She's a very kind person, but she's an asshole. She's got a very sharp wit about her. If you've ever watched her do the Final Four broadcast with Sue Bird, you understand her vibe. She's ultra competitive, obviously, but a very generous person also. A kind asshole.

Can you explain, Amin, as someone who... I imagine at this point you get at least a little bit of regional identity from the sports in that area, right? Like where you live, what she means to Phoenix, what she means to the place, you know, a place you care about. I thought you were asking about me. No, she's absolutely one of the iconic figures of the valley, which is what they call the greater Phoenix area.

So it's like Charles Barkley, Larry Fitzgerald, Steve Nash, Diana Taurasi. Mike Wilbon. Mike Wilbon. Amin. Amin, yeah. Wilbon loves to claim Phoenix, but he just golfs there and has a rental home there.

Wilbon's Chicago, how does he get to be Phoenix? I'm gonna say right now. Will Bond's fraudulent Phoenix. Every time I see him on PTI, I see that background. Yeah, that's why I had this. Camelback Mountain, baby. He's not renting anything, that guy owns. Okay, well.

People rent from Will Bond. All right, he likes to be out there now and maybe he moved his home out there, but he just got there. He's not somebody who's been, I don't associate him with Phoenix. Relax Danny. But he's a Chicago, the Chicago to Phoenix pipeline is very strong.

Phoenix was one of the first places outside of Chicago to have Portillo's, so. Yeah, there you go. And it's probably Jerry Colangelo made it happen. And we're acting like Wilbon doesn't have more than one home? Yeah. No, but his home is Phoenix. It is now, but he's, look, look you can't can you claim both places?

Can he play claim Phoenix and Chicago? We're claiming him Charles claims Leeds, Alabama. I claim like six places. Yeah, I accept I Suppose the that most sports shows today are starting with the Mavs and Luca like that that that is the story that ends up Engulfing everything else. And you guys all saw this, right? These weren't optical illusions. Luca is a good deal skinnier in two weeks. Is he not?

Does he not seem- What happens after a breakup? Is that what it is? It makes sense. Does anyone feel bad for Nico? Cause I know we're gonna do this thing. We're gonna take a victory lap today. There's video of him like,

ogling Luca during warmups. Is it ogling or ogling? I think it's ogling. Googling. Oogle. You can ogle someone. You ogle. I'm ogling you right now.

Well, I think it's ogle. Yeah, you google. Tomato, tomato. You ogle. Ogle. You goggle? Maybe he's goggling him. Relax.

What is the word? It's ogling, is it not? Chris Cody's wrong. Yeah, I mean, if I said it, it's probably wrong. Like, what are we doing here? Well, so why would you choose that word? What do you mean to say? I think whatever you guys were saying.

No, no, what do you think? No, he's right. Ogling. I meant ogling. I want you. You guys did this yesterday with a word. I'm not the only one that does this. This is a tomato-tomato situation. Yes, I want you. You guys did this yesterday with a word. I'm not the only one that does this. It's a tomato tomato situation.

Yes, I'm defensive. I would just like for you to explain to me and to the audience, Malika, to define either oogling or ogling, what are you telling us that Niko was doing to- Put the photo up. To Luca. That's what he's doing.

No, tell me. He's looking, he's looking over with his arms folded. Leering at him? Leering, there we go. So he's looking. What's the word you use when you're looking at an ex-girlfriend's Instagram page? What am I doing?

Creeping. Okay, well that's what he's doing. So that's what he's doing. Creeping is so much better than good work. Good work. Good oog work. We got there. We got there. Back row. Lurking?

He's kind of lurking in the background. Lurking is good. Lurking is more, I think there's movement that happens with lurking. This is a lurk. Yeah, you got to do that. If you're standing still. He's in the cut.

Yeah, keep doing it, Jessica, so the cameras can catch you. There you go. Turn around. Come back. Come back the other way. way there it is okay yeah that's that's lurking okay but that if you're standing still that's the creep from the snl song do the creep do the creep uh well but there it was called the creep oh damn it i uh i'm pretty sure though that the way Jessica's doing that is sort of creepy and haunting and awkward, but there's also some lechery involved in ogling.

Is there not? Also, you can't see my feet. I'm tiptoeing a little bit. A little high step, a little high step. There you go. That's why I said ogling. Toe first. Because I see there.

That's kind of a ray gun situation. You've done very, yes, she did a lot of ray gun there. That's not creeping as much as it is, just sort of starch. That's lurking. That's lurking. There's a longing in that look. Longing. Longing.

See, okay. Yern. He yearns. Have you ever yearned? Do you yearn? A yearning? I don't wanna yearn. Put it on the poll at Levitard Show.

Have you yearned? We should just say what is Nico doing to Luca and put a bunch of options. Okay, that too, you can do that too, but. Is he oogling? No, no, we're not gonna do oogling or ogling again. But just to be clear, what you guys are saying, wearing a blue suit, and you began this

by saying you felt bad for him. In general, I do. Okay, but he is there and we're all looking at him and while he ogles the X, we're looking at him saying you're ogling the X because you really bleeped this all up. So he's sitting in the middle of his incompetence, right? It's been quite the storm. I don't know what he expected would happen when he traded Luca, but I'm guessing it's miles worse than he thought. you think I mean like they said

They've already admitted that Rick welts is the president of the team Patrick Dumont the governor the all of us are the fan reaction has been much more harsh than we could have imagined Which again is kind of weird considering you traded the franchise player the fan favorite for a guy like not for sure fire everyone's all you might have won that trade they don't like i can listen to their you know justifications as a ok place quick to think about it maybe but at the end of the day the the

popularity part which again at the end of the day this thing is a business you got a sell tickets you got a cell you got a move march you alienated a massive part of the fan base Dan two days ago was the 31st anniversary of Dominique Wilkins getting traded from Atlanta and That was the kind of a similar thing where they thought okay Well, this is gonna give us a better runway to the future Danny Manning was younger all this other stuff But at the end of the day they somehow many times are you gonna say at the end of the day? Do you think as many times as Charles Barkley? It's unnecessary. You don't need any of the at the end of the days

We're beginning of the break of all a lot first of all I think what you think at the end of the day is more important than when you think at the beginning of the day At the end of the day learned a lot throughout the day and then at the end of the day you draw conclusion Right, so we're at the beginning of the day. That's first of all that's at the beginning of the day at the end of the day learned a lot throughout the day and then at the end of the day you draw a conclusion right so at the beginning of the day that's first of all that's at the beginning of the day first of all Kenny and then Andrew that the end of the day your Barkley at the end of the day this Dan love Dan love it so Stephen okay I was gonna say I thought you were doing some work the end of the day right at the end of the day though, they massively underappreciated how much that dude meant to that market.

And Dan, if you go to a Hawks game today and you see dozens of empty rows and empty seats, it's all tied back to that. That was the day they broke the city of Atlanta's heart and they've never recovered. And I look at Dallas and being good i was a little bit of a good that'll solve it but the hulk's were good after the trade of dominique wilkins for another five years until they tore it all down

ultimately you lost the love and the trust of the people and i think that's what dallas is done okay but this is what i was talking about with terrasse in a connection to a community and what it is that got ripped away from dallas fans uh... Dallas has done. Okay, but this is what I was talking about with Tarasi and a connection to a community and what it is that got ripped away from Dallas fans. Because the unexpected in all of it, like when you're making a seismic noise

that gets everybody around the Super Bowl and around sports to be like, holy shit, what just happened there? That's unexpected to me. Imagine what it feels like to have it be that kind of unexpected to a fan base that did not see it coming and had a relationship in the morning with that player in that person they thought was going to be for ten years and then what

just happened it's all over and now they're all in pr spin and death threats any any needs home security now what some of these things have been over blow okay but there's been and there's been an outcry. There's an outrage that's real. It's not just internet yammering. There's been protests. Like it's an unusual thing.

A transaction, perfectly legal by any metric in sports, landed with a betrayal that makes a fan base feel like the rules were broken. But also the way that it was done was super sketchy, right, where it's like, we're just gonna give him to the Lakers and we're not gonna let anyone else know that maybe he's on the market and maybe we could get a better deal.

He's just gonna go to one of the most popular franchises in the history of the league, to LeBron. And also he's fat. Right, everyone was like, wait, what? It really is a staggering history of the league to LeBron. And also he's fat. And everyone was like, wait, what? It really is a staggering kind of justification. Have you looked at him? That's basically what they said. The MAF should have leaked the trade to NBA Central,

like a fake Twitter account, just to see gauge reaction. To the slow report. The slow report. Someone puts it out there. They see the internet's like, how could you do this? And they go, you know what, maybe we're not gonna do this trade. Nico has to regret it, right?

I know we did this last week, but like he, do you think if we truth serum, would he take it back right now if you gave him the chance? Well, give me some video here, some audio support to some of the things happening last night at this game. What were they chanting? They're chanting, thank you, Nico.

Thank you, Nico. Thank you, Nico. Oh, that's gotta hurt. As he's oogling. Thank you, Nico! Thank you, Nico! That's one video. They did it constantly. I heard it over the broadcast and they never mentioned it, the TNT guys, at least I didn't hear Brian Anderson and Greg Anthony mention it one time. That's, I mean, Dan, sometimes there are deals that in retrospect, oh man, that was a bad

deal. Paul, Shane Gillies Alexander, four first round picks for Paul George. I understand the justifications at the time. I was like, that's a lot, but it makes sense. And now as we look back, we're like, Jesus, what a terrible deal. This one, the moment it came out, it was so bad, literally everyone working in the industry, forget about fans, working in the industry, thought it was fake. They thought it wasn't real.

That's right. Shams, Shams the most credible, got, you know, he had to say, no, I was not hacked. This is a real thing. But I do want to go back to where we started here because I'm with Chris Cody on the front end of this... in that you work all of your life to get into a power position in sports i don't know nico's entire story here but he is running the mavericks and all i've associated with the mavericks and running the mavericks forever has been mark cuban

mark cuban said he would have never done this mark cuban you can't hear from he's running to he's running the hiding like the most public guy hasn't talked much about like giving his real commentary someone i think he still owns twenty seven percent of uh... of the maps like he had to be wounded by this this had to be an over my dead body kind of thing where

i'm guessing uh... i mean are tell me, you know the inner workings of like real power better than I do, but Mark Cuban originally said, I'm still gonna be in control of day to day operations. And then that turned pretty quickly. And then next thing you know, they're doing something that would have been done over his dead body if he was the owner of the team still.

So that gets traded, it sends seismic shock throughout the league, and now this person who has worked their entire life, who made this trade for whatever the reasons they made that trade, that person's an international shame at being incompetent at his job. Like, everyone chanting, you're just terrible. That could not have been what he expected.

It just couldn't have been. That's the job, though. That's the job, that's the job, right? One, that's why those guys are compensated well. And two, when you want to make bold moves, it comes in the face of, hey, not everyone is going to understand this on day one. Right? Indiana in 1987, the Pacers had whatever pick it was in the first round Steve Alford who played at IU and was this huge local hero on the board the Pacers take the skinny kid from UCLA and they get booed I think the draft was in Indiana they got booed loudly people booed they went crazy and a zillion years later no one knows who the hell Steve

Alford is and Reggie Miller is a Hall of Famer and one of the 75 greatest players to ever play. The job is when you are about to make a bold decision the job is hey they may not understand it in the moment but over time I will be proven to be right right that's why you get the ability to do that deal. That's why you get compensated the way you do. So you don't feel bad for him and it's the job. All you're saying is get out of the feelings, it's the job. And I know I'm expressing a minority opinion here. I feel bad for anyone that the internet leaps

on their neck, okay? And this one's too easy, right? Like it's not even that anyone disagrees. There are no arguments being made on the other side of this and then Anthony Davis immediately gets hurt I'm just saying that from inside whatever that man's life is right now that must be unpleasant whatever the job was It's probably not what he thought when he took that job then That two things number one you constantly urge the internet to leap on my neck And other people but the Aramese and oh my god and mine we put out a bill asking if I'm anti-american

Chris's for sure definitely Chris's it's a big neck to leap on Mike's stugots Anyone else why are you wearing sunglasses? I look I've loose right. I'm sorry. I'm sorry I'm distracted because I think I just realized Was that Sean Connery back there What kind of voice was that? I don't know. I mean who was that? He found a new neck to leap on that's what he did Howdy folks, it's Mike and look, it's been an exhausting couple of weeks. Even on the show there's all sorts of debate which sport takes it seriously enough. Where's the effort?

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You don't have one. This is the Don Lebatardar Show with the StuGats. ["The Zagatis Show Theme"] Where were we? We're talking about Nico and the job, right? We were talking about a mean sunglass. I know, but Jessica said I changed the subject on him. The thing I wanted to talk about is the sunglasses

because I think I know what's happened here. I was flipping through the trailers on Hulu the other day and I saw a mean on my screen and now all of a sudden, he's a movie star. He's a movie star. Look man, I mean Hollywood came calling and it was only a matter of time. The sports stuff was fun while it lasted,

but I found my new calling. You guys ridiculed Greg Cody and I wanted, where's my camera, right here. Greg, it's never too late. Look at me, I'm a huge Hollywood star and I'm in two movies this season. Two? Two movies.

I mean it doesn't really matter if you're delivering a line to the camera if you're wearing sunglasses, because we can't tell. Well I want Greg to know, that as I face him, because this is a one to one conversation with Greg Cody,

they want to shit on your dreams of being a thespian, of being an actor, but I'm here to tell you, Greg, you have the chops. You know why? Because you have the fire inside. You know what it takes is the fire. Everything else, they can teach you. They taught, oh, they didn't teach me that much.

You know, I was a natural talent, they said. Two movies you've got that are out now? Two, I only saw you in one. Well, the other one is in theaters next starting next week and then wide release by a streaming later on in q1 that's that's a Industry jargon. Yeah. Thank you. Yes. It's the first three months of the year. Thank you for the industry jargon Billy Chris I've seen on both of your faces that you're skeptical of what it is that I mean. I thought he got drunk and fell and had a black eye,

to be honest. Respectfully. When I did that, I came in here with no sunglasses on. But you didn't have a black eye, did you? You just chipped a tooth. No, my face was swollen. Oh. The whole side of my face was swollen.

I actually did the whole show not facing the shipping container. I was sitting over there and I just stared at Dan the whole way because I didn't want anyone to see the other side of my face. That was amazing to see all of that happen in real time and see Amin trying to hide on television while surrounded by cameras with his face.

You did a Jay Leno? He tried to do shows where his face looked swollen. His face looked swollen weeks later. That story just went away, the Leno one, huh? Kinda like I'm hoping mine goes away too. But the one that stays is that Jay Leno, great comedian, and Amin Elhassan, great thespian. What is happening?

Are you gonna tell us about your movies? Because I mean, Chris Cody is now frustrated with you. He's officially frustrated with you. The audience is like, what are you in? Tell me! Well, typically when you go on a talk show, the host is like, oh, and he sets it up and we have a clip and everything. Okay, I'm sorry.

All right, so yeah, do we have a clip? Yeah, let's play the clip. Do we have a clip? Okay, no, we don't have a clip? Okay, because you didn't tell me we have a clip. You just told me we're in two movies. I had to figure it out because I noticed 15 minutes too late that you were wearing sunglasses

because the front end of my day sped up on me. And so it literally took me 15 minutes to be like, let me look at a mean in the eye to see if his face is still swollen, if his teeth are okay, or if he's bleeding from anywhere. Let me look him in the eye to see how sober he is or isn't, and then I realized you're wearing sunglasses. Yeah, Dan, the movie's called Memes called means a nightmare that's on hulu it's starring

joseph johnson and jimelle johnson and a host of other people from around basketball that you may recognize uh... it is a mockumentary not unlike the spinal tap sequel that our friend brad williams is going to be in the team mockumentary this is not a document related to the one It's a mockumentary. This is not a documentary, ladies and gentlemen. The difference between a mockumentary and a documentary is this shit ain't real. We're making jokes. And the joke is that the J.R. Smith squinting meme has disappeared off the internet, has been scrubbed off the internet, and Jamel and Josiah are trying to find out who did it. And I'm in it as, I guess, in the mockumentary as an expert who's giving testimony about NBA Twitter.

Now, it didn't seem like Jessica or Jeremy were that interested, though they were nodding. I just already knew this, that's why I. Okay, I did not know. Great idea from great comedians. I did not know any of this. So that's one movie you're in. What's the other movie you're in?

Because Chris and Billy seem unimpressed. They don't, you're looking for someone. You're cyberbullying us again. He's trying to pit us against each other. It's not gonna work this week, Levitard. It's not gonna work this week. We're not gonna leap on his neck, Dan. You're not even in the main top cast part.

You gotta click on full cast to see your name. I'm surprised you got Matt Barnes. This is what I'll say to you. This is what I'll say to you, Chris. Watch the movie and let me know. I'm not he's not in it that much Well, wait, what's the second movie the second movie on this one? This one is because and this one essentially I'm playing myself I'm paying an exaggerated version of myself, which I don't have much experience doing then as you know playing an exaggerated version of myself Hold on. Let me take a swig of liquor at nine in the morning

myself hold on let me take a swig of liquor at nine in the morning. Steve Martin. He's like a method actor this guy. You got to sink into the role sometimes. No the other movie is called Americano and it's an indie film and I play an agent an agent who is trying to recruit a basketball player. And that this that impresses me more I don know why, but that one impresses me more. Well, you know, more lines than what's the endgame spent that one.

That one you're in top cast way more line. Does he have a character name? This one stars the dad from that's so Raven. I don't think that you wanted it to. It's two movies. Look, it's hard to get movies made. It's hard to get acting work. AI is consuming all of the actors in Hollywood,

and Amin is now making, he's gonna have a Screen Actors Guild card, right? You're gonna be an acclaimed actor. You're gonna be some, you're gonna have acting credits no one around here has. SAG Awards awards next year I'll be there then people who are worried about AI. You know what? I'm not worried because AI could never replicate the passion The depths of the human experience, right? That's not something that you could put in a little algorithm

And it comes out they try But they could never Dan. You know why? Because AI doesn't bleed. AI doesn't fall and chip its tooth and have half of its face swollen and have to do three hours of content while everyone is saying, why do you keep facing towards them and not towards us?

AI doesn't have to do that, doesn't have that to pull from. An act of bravery by you. Some notes, a little less, a little less. AI doesn't have that experience to pull from, to look at the camera dead in the eye and say, I'm here, I've lived, how about you? How about me, how about my notes?

That was great. Goosebumps. I like to be directed, I like to be directed. I like to be led. You know, this is more than Greg gave us yesterday when we asked him to act and he said he was better than every actor in White Lotus. Can we check in on your father and find out whether indeed

he's kept that little flap that is above his belly button? I was hoping yesterday to get the crew to see if they could find that clip from Freedom that I thought was the best thing produced in those 24 hours, which is the interview at 4 a.m. Amin, don't get your feelings hurt by that. I thought the best thing that we produced in 24 hours was at 4 a.m. when when Greg Cody checked in with a doctor in Tupelo, Mississippi on Zoom who was checking in,

he had wood paneling in the back of whatever his office was and he diagnosed the flap on Greg Cody's stomach to be something that was a benign sort of bird beak that we now have in our possession, I'm hoping, like that we're gonna be able to show to our audience. I remind you that we got thousands of people to come out and see his toenail. We did, like hundreds of people in line.

Thousands, well, it was over a thousand people were in line to see a toenail. Hear me out here. We construct right here in the middle of the table, in essence, a shrine. I like that idea. Put the thing in a jar, fill it with liquid, and then the jar has inside it LED lights,

so it lights up, and so this thing then reflects backwards to a projection screen back there. Jessica doesn't like it. What if it grows, and it grows a new Greg Cody out of it? Oh, that would be awesome. It'd be with us forever. Lil' Greg Cody. We have to do this.

Is there the possibility that the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody is gonna have a loopy Greg Cody talking after being drugged, after having had this removed, and where you'll get your exclusive information for whether this is now in his possession? Seems like a classic Greg Cody thing, because he got out of yesterday's show early

to go to his surgery. I texted him, how was your surgery? Did you get to keep the thing in your stomach? Those are the two questions I texted him this morning. He wrote, yesterday was my pre-op appointment with the doctor who will do the surgery. The surgery itself is scheduled for April 14th. So he horse shitted us yesterday.

But then he says, yes, they will not remove any body parts. Basically, there is a hole that the intestine is popping through. What they would do is push the intestine back in and seal the hole with a mesh screen. So there will be nothing, that's one of the more disgusting things I've ever read. I think it's a violation of both your dad's privacy.

A mesh screen. I don't think we're supposed to know any of that. Imagine popping your dad's intestines back in. You think you are a horrible son? Oh, now I'm horrible. Jessica, it's like the hot dog scene in role models. Oh, yes. Oh, god. With Jane Lynch.

Oh, that's all time. What's that? I need you to send another text to your father. Okay. And say, hey dad, also another update. Amin has been in two movies now. Does that change our ranking of him in the top 100? Okay, I will.

I can, I wonder if we can find this old footage and I don't know if it would still be available. But guys, when we tried to film the commercial last year at the Super Bowl for the Hee Haw 3, if you would have seen Greg's attempts at acting, the amount of times we had to do the exact same shot where all you had to know was that you're turning over your left shoulder, not your right shoulder. Greg is one, like Greg, a talented man with a beautiful voice, not an actor. You know what?

Oh, sorry. No, no, go ahead, please. I was gonna say, you know what? I blame the director. You have a talent, you direct around the talent. Guess what, guys, now we're turning over our right shoulder. And that's it. You're right, it was on me and Yeti

not being good teammates either and following Greg's direction. Dan, this happens a lot as an actor I really get frustrated when You know the directorial vision is a little too rigid doesn't have enough Flexibility for a grander vision a better vision might I add a better vision now a better vision Well, you know that the the people actually doing the acting that's the story right there Those are the messengers, the bards, if you will. The director is nothing more than just a guy who's,

you know, a little technical sidekick saying, oh, could you stand over here? Look, nerd, move the whole thing this way, and now I don't have to stand over there, I'm already here. Well, in our case, the director was a woman, so. She's still a nerd. There you go, my mic wasn't on. You gotta have your mic on.

It's one of my favorite characters, but the mic has to be on for it. I am a little worried about Amin and what's happening around here because he wants to be in movies, or I guess he is in movies. Want to be, people who don't have want, Dan, I am. Okay.

That was a poem, okay. That was a poem, okay. I want to say that that mockumentary I'm watching and I saw that it was executive produced by the king. That you're not just a movie star but you- Richard Petty? Jerry Lawler? LeBron? Elvis?

Billy Jean? LeBron James, that this is a LeBron James executive produced vehicle, so you're running in real Hollywood circles. Well, you know, me, LBJ, Mav, we go back a long ways before the Hollywood days, when it was just, you know, that human sandbox you guys call sports, the toy department of humanity I like to call

it yeah we know each other from back then so it was it was kismet I think you could say that we would all be working together on this side of the aisle Jessica why are you shaking your head what's the matter I didn't think his ego could get bigger we need to get him back on American Ninja Warrior you know I think back of my earlier exploits and they were, you know Jessica, you say that, but I think about them now as they were motivational, right? These were things, these were character building moments for me. American Ninja Warrior, losing the race to Billy.

When did this become Inside the Actors Studio? American Ninja Warrior again. I'm surprised. I thought that the way this would be played was you would tell us that was just your first of many characters as a thespian what which character the character of failing on American Ninja Warrior oh no no no no I wasn't an actor then I was I was I was just a young boy trying to make his way through the world but then it unlocks something inside me because they all

started with the same feeling that Greg felt yesterday right which is this I've never done this thing who's to say maybe I'm incredible at it and I just never known I've never given that side of me an opportunity and so you go out there you tie up your shoelaces you run out there in front of millions of people on TV and you fail and you what you find out is, huh, that wasn't quite as bad as I thought it would be. Is this gonna be all show? Look, I mean, I want to talk about Niko Harrison,

and Dan wanna talk about my acting career. Memes and Nightmares on Hulu, get it now. Okay, so give us 90 seconds of your best material on the Mavs, on Luca,, on last night, and during it, please just run on an endless loop, I mean failing at American Ninja Warrior, go ahead. Okay, so first and foremost, hell of a game by the Mavs who are missing a bunch of people due to injury.

Kyrie Irving looked incredible last night, Dante Exum came along late. For all the hoopla about the Lakers, they haven't played good teams since acquiring Luka Doncic. This is probably one of the better teams they played. And I haven't been as impressed. I know they lost their mind

after beating Denver on Saturday. But the other thing about this game is that Luka did not have a good game. You could tell that he was forcing it. Even he said it after the game, he was like, I just didn't have it going tonight and it's amazing Dan anytime you can say had a bad game had a triple-double. Well there there are three guys that have sort of bent the sports numbers right. LeBron Westbrook and Luka

are the only three players who have had triple-doubles against every team in the sport right. That's what also happened last night but no that's not a good luka game that's not that's an inefficient luka game luka 6 for 19 or whatever it was is is luka not good enough that's not it's a triple double but it's it's as unimpressive as those things can be yeah I mean it's it's not an unimpressive triple double it's an unimpressive triple double for him right an unimpressive triple double for him, right? And what he shot from the field, that was unimpressive for him. And I think that's the big thing. Ultimately, like we said about Nico Harrison, it comes down to this. This deal isn't about this year.

Neither of these teams will win the championship. Neither of these teams will represent the Western Conference, I don't think. But five years from now, 10 years from now, can we honestly say that we think the Mavericks will be better off than the lakers will be in the next you don't think the lakers are playing for this year you don't think all lakers think they can win the championship this year then whether they think it or not does not change what reality is right there this is not a championship team this is not I don't I think this is second round knockout I mean if you look at and I know we're over here but if you look at

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