The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: The Biggest Stories of the Day

Episode Date: June 28, 2024

Today's cast: Jessica, Chris, Jeremy, Lucy, Roy, and Tony. There were two MAJOR stories from last night between the Presidential Debate and Bronny James Jr. being drafted by his dad's Lakers, and this crew expertly weaves the two together. Are we allowed to think that LeBron and Bronny being teammates is awesome, or do we have to have *some* cynicism? What would you like to see Biden and Trump compete in as opposed to debating? Then, the dust has settled on the Panthers Stanley Cup Final victory, so we check in on Roy to gauge where his emotions are a few days later. Plus, Michael Jordan's jealousy, the Sam Reinhart discount, red sauce stains, Lucy's bad day, the burnt toast theory, Jeremy's breakdown of the Heat's draft, Caitlin Clark's potential issues with her coach, and Chris Cote's explanation of what it feels like to be Bronny James today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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To do that, you have to be quite smart and you have to be able to hit the ball a long way and I do it. He doesn't do it. He can't hit a ball 50 yards. He challenged me to a golf match. He can't hit a ball 50 yards. I think I'm in very good shape. can't hit a ball 50 yards. He challenged me to a golf match. He can't hit a ball 50 yards. I think I'm in very good shape.

I feel that I'm as in good a shape as I was 25, 30 years ago. Actually, I'm probably a little bit lighter, but I'm in as good a shape as I was years ago. I feel very good. I feel the same. But I took, I was willing to take a cognitive test. And you know what? If I didn't do well, I aced him. Dr. Ronny Jackson, who's a great guy, when he was White House doctor.

And then I took another one, a similar one. And both, one of them said they'd never seen anybody ace him. Thank you. President Biden? You can see he is 6'5 and only 223 pounds, or 235 pounds. Well, you said 6'4, 200. I noticed that. Well, anyway, that's what you're... Anyway, just take a look at what he says he is,

and take a look at what he is. Look, I'd be happy to have a driving contest with him. I got my handicap, which when I was vice president, down to a 6. And, by the way, I told you before, I'm happy to play golf, if you carry your own bag. Think you can do it? That's the biggest lie that he's a six handicap of all I was a handicapped. Yeah I have Seen this way. I know you swing

Let's not act like children Wolf that was tough to watch. Well, I'm glad I was watching the beer last night. Oh my god. I mean, I was actually not to brag. I won closest to the pin at the Golic Subpar Classic on the ladies hole. I've seen your swing. By default.

I should be in that chair. I've seen your swing. What? I'm in this chair because my swing's better than your swing. I'm a four handicap. What's your handicap? I'm a.

You hit the ball 50 yards. It's better to be smaller, right? I'm a three handicap. I'd be handicap? I'm a, you hit the ball 50 yards. It's better to be smaller, right? I'm a three handicap. I'd be in for them to just do a whole debate of things in life, like who's better at what? Who's a better cook, huh? I'm the grill master. Who can make a better linguine?

I've made a great grilled cheese. Who can draw better, huh? Draw me. Draw a stick figure. I'll be one of your French girls. My tomato soup is the best. I'll be the French girl, and whoever draws me the best on a couch wins the election. Ooh, I kinda like that.

We should have our own draw off of Chris naked on a couch. A draw off. A draw off. Who can sing better, a sing off? I saw a tweet that said who can open a PDF format and just download a file, and that should be who decides it. If that's the qualification for president, I'm not sure if we would all be qualified, all right?

Just saying. Sometimes you try to open the PDF and it ends up being something else. I feel like there was a theme in life last night of is this the best option? It was in the debate whether LeBron, a Brony getting drafted, is this our best option? We could just say that blanket statement for life.

Was Brony the Lakers' best option? Is that what you're asking? Did I say that poorly? Sorry. No, I said in the draft. I think you said draft, but that's okay. It's early. That's my accent.

I think most people would swap Bronnie for Biden. Pundation accent. Should we swap both of them and see if there's any material impact? Yeah. You're not gonna see Bronnie on the floor and you're probably not gonna see Biden speak a lot if he's elected for the next term.

I feel like we will see, what should we do over and around how many games we see Brawny and Braun play together next season? Under. Under what, five, 10? Whatever the number is. Whatever the number is. Look at us seamlessly weaving the two topics of the day

early on in the show, setting up the show. Those are the big two stories. What a day we have. What a night last night. Yeah, what a night last night. I didn't see Kaitlyn's game. I fell asleep. She had a better first half than a second half.

She didn't get enough shots. And it appears that she is not a big fan of her coach. Or at least maybe I'm reading between the lines too much. Said that a few weeks ago. I'm not a fan of her either. Don't say that, Jeremy. I mean, a fan of her either. We haven't. Don't say that Jeremy. I mean Lisa Bluter's no longer coaching so. She might be back, who knows.

Tell me what to say here. She might be back. Jess you were up for the 10 o'clock game first? I did actually, I stayed up for the entire game. So crazy, I didn't say it. Fell asleep during Panthers game seven, one of the greatest hockey games of all time, but you stayed awake for a regular season game at 10 o'clock.

Yeah I wanted to see how many points Jewel Lloyd would finish with, so she ended up having 34 points. Did you bet it? No, she went to Notre Dame. She was in my class. I'm a big fan of her and Skyler Diggins-Smith. So I stay up to watch a few WNBA teams.

The Storm is usually one of them. And they always tip off at 10 PM because they're on the West Coast. So I stayed up to watch the end. Jewel Lloyd got her eye almost poked out in the first quarter. She started out super hot, was hitting all the first quarter. She started out like super hot, was hitting all her threes.

She had like 13 points. And then she had to stay in to hit her free throws after she got her eye poked out. And literally her eye was swollen shut. And then she came back in and ended up with 34 points. It was a great game. I mean, not a great game for the fever, but Jewel had almost a,

I think it was tied her career high or maybe it was slightly, there it is. There is the eye. Not great. Not much worse than an eye poke. So I was watching, I watched about an hour of the debate, and then this game came on, and I said, thank God I have a reason to turn this off,

because it was very difficult to watch. Just lies here, losing train of thought here. I was groaning throughout the whole thing. 20 minutes in, I was like, I can't watch this. It was very difficult to watch. And I would say, honestly, and I haven't said this about many things, more difficult to watch than the Fevers offense.

Wow. That's how bad it was. I'm an Iowa fan, I'm used to it. Doesn't really bother me that much. Lack of offense. How frustrating is that to go from Caitlin Clark and the Iowa offense, which felt like this great, powerful thing,

to now see Caitlin Clark on nearly an equally bad offense in the WNBA while your football team has a terrible offense? I think it doesn't bother me that much because I think I'm immune to it. Like at this point, I've gone through the trenches. You can't hurt me anymore? I've seen a seven to three game where we didn't score one touchdown. If Katelyn's not scoring points in a basketball game, I've been through it all. I think we should just be explicit. The fever offense

is much better than the Iowa football offense. Oh my god. We got a new coordinator and we don't know. Katelyn hit a three pointer from the logo last night. It is, you know, the Iowa football has no equivalent on their offense. No Hail Mary for them. They have no Kaitlyn to a Leah Boston. What did my dad say? At special teams. What did my dad say early in the week taking a shot at Iowa?

He called like Wisconsin the. He said Wisconsin was the Iowa of Wisconsin. Which doesn't even make sense. Can we break that down for a second? I think he was trying to make a thing about bad offense, but it was just a weird way of getting there. Iowa is the Wisconsin. No, Wisconsin is the Iowa of Wisconsin.

Wisconsin is the Iowa of Wisconsin. I don't, I'm trying to get it, cause like it's- Should I call him and call him Kyle? This is a mystery crate, I'm not doing that. Yeah, save that for mystery crate. He didn't mean the big 10 or anything, because you know, it's a conference.

He's like not a Midwestern guy, and I don't think he realizes that there's like beef between mid-Western states. Like, it's like an act of hatred between Iowa, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Minnesota, Illinois. They all hate each other. So like, that was really not cool. I think he knows less about Big Ten football than he does about Connor McDavid.

I don't know about that. Pretty equal. I'd put him on equal ground. Seven to eight minutes per game. I don't know about that. You played seven minutes in that last third period there. Lucy, I think this is a good idea for maybe another segment later on where we try to describe all the Midwestern states when Dan is back. Because Dan is out, this is the start of his two- week vacation. We'll have various fill in co-hosts

throughout the next two weeks. So am I allowed to name names? I won't name names, it's a surprise. We're gonna have some fun guests come in and sit in this chair. But when he gets back, because he needs this too, we'll break down all of the different states of the Midwest for him, you and me,

and write little blurbs and try not to offend anyone. I wanna give him a map first. He fills out the map. We tell him how wrong the map is, and then we teach him, I don't wanna say teach him a lesson, because that sounds really aggressive, but literally teach him a lesson. We're gonna teach him a lesson.

You're gonna learn about the Midwest. Against your will. Who would be a better fill-in host, Biden or Brawny? That's a great question. I have to think Brawny, given we talk about sports often. Yeah. But I've also- Which gets better numbies. Never heard him speak.

Probably Biden. Biden gets better numbies for sure. I think that like to be earnest for a second was a very difficult thing to watch. A lot of existential questions for the Democrats. Mainly, why would you agree to this? He this guy has never been good at speaking before and you just you wanted this you wanted this and it totally Backfired from the second he walked out on stage or was exactly what they wanted and they went to plan, right?

So that there's like a vast conspiracy to like I mean I I don't know but and then like the other side of that is that you have someone on stage who's just like being crazy and lying and saying horrible things, but not getting as much attention because he's at least saying them like coherently. Right, yeah, that part's crazy. That like the greatest criticism that exists right now

when you ask every political expert, every person who watches the debate, it's, oh, but he's so old, while the other one is a convicted felon and accused of rape and all sorts of other horrendous things and tried to overturn the election. And we're like, but he is so old. But he is.

And it was so funny that the whole CNN panel afterwards all learned that Biden was old during the thing. They're like, I was getting texts the whole time. And they were like, he's old. Wow. He has a cold. Did he have a cold? Cause his voice was raspy.

He was coughing too. I need to hear about it. I need to, there needs to be a sickness there. It's like hockey. It's like the ad. Really? Like after the NHL Stanley Cup, you learn of the losing team and all their injury.

You need a broken sternum. Like I need to know Biden played through something. The spin when someone drops in the NFL or NBA draft of like, oh, actually, this is what came up on their tests, which is why they're falling. He had a bad migraine. Bad wonderlick test. If it comes out today that he had a bad migraine yesterday, I'm gonna be like, all right, I feel a little better.

Well, the situation is who do you replace him with? So you got your vice president Kamala Harris, which nobody likes. So that's the only person I can really think of in this situation. Yeah, they really set themselves up for failure here in so many ways, Roy. I don't know. I'm not a smart enough political strategist to really solve our nation's biggest crisis right now. Well, there is a third option, which is Robert Kennedy. You got to say that more dramatically.

There is a third option. There is an alternate here. I liked how the sentence started because I thought you were going to say something that was a real third option. There is an alternate here. I liked how the sentence started, because I thought you were going to say something that was a real third option. You notice how I petered out at the end of the rub. Yeah. Oh, man.

So that was a tough Thursday. Today's Friday. It wasn't a tough watch for me, because I was watching The Bear. How is The Bear? Let me guess, frantic. Yes, it was very stressful. That third episode because I got through four last night. Oh my god. The third episode.

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How irrational? Stugats. How am I irrational? Did you not hear your voice there? Your voice! If I were making a cartoon thing that was meant to symbolize irrational that's the voice I would give it. The entire premise.

This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats! I am curious in just checking in with you and as you've had a week almost five days now to digest being a champion In all honesty like what has been the cool like what was in the when they want it the coolest moment for you the most exciting moment The most exciting moment I would have to say probably the Sam Reinhardt shuffle and around double zero Sam Reinhardt started Sam Reinhardt shuffle and around double zero Sam Reinhardt started shuffling. He couldn't get his thing off. He's like, oh no, this is no, this is like before the horn sounded.

Like he was shuffling towards Bobrosky. He was like, he went over like, yes. Isn't it crazy? The video of the way that game ended, we left McDavid all alone. We put all five of our guys like in that corner. Like if they got that puck out, McDavid was gonna have the puck right in front of the net

Yeah, that would have been such a crazy Seconds left just like McDavid getting they worked on that play in the corner all throughout training camp But you see McDavid they're just like Yeah, that was not that puck was not gonna get to him at all and the fact that Chris now blocked the all his headcoats Saying oh we knew it was five more minutes. All we needed was five more minutes. Kiss my ass when you're talking about all we needed was five more minutes.

That's almost like Rod Brendan Moore last year saying, well it wasn't really a sweep. That's a ridiculous comment he made. Was, and I know, I wanna really get into the feelings here because you, more than anyone, have loved this Panthers team. And I know you're a journalist, you wanna be down the middle, but was there a media member that you had a hug with?

What was the coolest personal moment for you? Randy Mohler. Yeah. I gave him a big, big old bear hug when I saw him because he's been here from the beginning as a player and then in the media part of the team. So yeah, that was a huge hug that I gave him because he deserved it

I don't want to get you in that parade so bad you guys are going right? It's on Sunday. It's not there. It's what we were trying to get in the thing there But they said Roy on a float even though I don't think there's floats. They said you can't be on a float No, there's no room on the float is it floats is it golf cards is it? I don't want spoiler alert, but I think it's buses buses Yeah, we were thinking maybe they do like the Tampa Bay Buccaneers like boat parade I don't want to go after the Panthers, but plenty of room on these buses Two people is all we needed no I'm gonna be in the

the writers bullpen in front of the stage and the photographers is oh They're gonna have a bullpen as well in front of stage so that I'm gonna be there for the speeches Yeah for the speeches after the actual parade after being at 11 the other night I kind of like I'm gonna probably go out I'm just kind of like I got everything I needed from that 11 night I just feel like I could watch it on TV at this point This is such a you guys are already like such seasoned champions. You're like, ah, man Well, I mean, I already got to party with them at a nightclub

So I'm just gonna kind of like Miami Beach the traffic around Fort Lauderdale Beach is gonna just be insane. I have zero interest in dealing with that. Roads close at 8.30. So if you wanna get there, get there early. AM? AM. Why are they doing this on a Sunday? Don't they normally do parades on weekday mornings?

This was, I believe, this was a result of the NHL schedule because they have the NHL draft and all of these things that were happening this week. They could've done it today, though, week I think draft the draft is today. So it was today. Yeah Got to like celebrate it all. I feel like he probably just went right back to the work next day Well, that was a private dinner that the team had which that Luongo eating the pasta Pasta like you didn't want to eat took one noodle out of it. Although I did see after Dissecting the video there's a bowl in the cup like the inside the cup not actually porn

I'm sure it's still getting saucy But there is actually a bowl inside protecting the interior of the cup and apparently there's a shot of the keeper of the cup Just like having anxiety in the background. I feel like that's nothing. I feel like that guy's seen a lot Corrosive though. You don't want acid with the tomato. Yeah, you don't want red sauce. How do you get the red sauce stain out of like a to-go container?

You're asking me. I got ketchup all over my white shoes yesterday walking into work. Someone's gotta have a tip for that. These days, it looks gross. You clean them like three times and then they're still just like orange. You guys don't have this with your Tupperware? Yeah, I have this issue.

I have like this orange Tupperware. No, no, you can't even soak that in soapy water. I just wanna like throw it away. Tomato sauce stains, this is a fact. I'll tell you, for me being on the ice with Roy, it was cool to see Roy smile in a real authentic way that was so genuine that he couldn't hold it back and keep the sort of serious persona.

The video, I don't know if Rose took it, the video of them winning the cup where you get Roy's just like, he doesn't even know if he knows he's being stoic, but you see the smirk. The joy's creeping in. Dwarke kinda gives him the thing. Dwarke going crazy. Dwarke wanted more from Roy.

Dwarke was like, Roy. Roy's trying to do the journalist thing there, but you see the smirk and you see the happiness and you can feel the happiness off of Roy. It was so cool to see doing the interviews post game that he and David did with all of the players and having all of these moments. For me being there, I was really excited. I've been going to Panthers games for 15 years. I've been around the team, whatever.

But there was no way I could relate to what Roy was feeling and to see it exemplified in the interviews on the ice. Look at the smile of him right now. Look at this. Dwork needs to learn his press box etiquette. He's in the press box, come on. Roy's playing the game much better than Dwork, for sure, right here.

There's a picture that was taken of Alexander Balkov doing an interview. I'm behind him with a laughing smile on my face. And behind him is DJ Bean from the What Chaos podcast, who was dejected because he was the oldest fan. I'm trying to find that picture. I'm going to send it to the video team. I thought DJ Bean was a Bruins fan. What a weak... No, no, Peter Blackburn is a Bruins fan.

Okay, okay, fair enough. I do feel like a lot of people jumped on the Oilers bandwagon late there. Oh, absolutely. Now they don't get to celebrate on Sunday. Your loss. You should have jumped on the Panthers bandwagon like me and everyone else. Panwagon.

If we can slow down the tape for a second, I wanna go back to the point where Roy gives the half fist pump. He doesn't go all the way with it. He kind of gives you just like an ear fist pump. Like if he's throwing a football, just like right here. It's like, that's enough. That's it.

It was a great right there. It's kind of a golfers move. Yeah. It's like a golf fist pump. Yeah. It was a golf fist pump. There it is. Roy, how's your golf stroke?

Yeah. Maybe you should be sitting in this chair today. Yeah, no. You think you can out drive me? No, I can't out drive you because usually my tee shots end up going straight to the right. Trump was talking about swing speed. My man's got some swing speed.

Yes, Roy has a very fast swing speed. You hear that? Yes. Yeah, I need to slow it down. I think it's the one up one to dash. Every time I play golf with Roy, one word keeps coming out of my mouth, tempo Roy. Let me get a little bounce.

Let me get a little bounce in your step, a little sway action. He me get a little bounce. Let me get a little bounce in your step, a little sway action. He's just a horseback. I don't know my own strength. I'll just always remember the time we went golfing with Stu at his club. We had like nine of us. Roy almost took off Danny Benitez's.

Oh yeah. Sorry Danny. T-box. Hey, to be fair, he wasn't in the safest space. Probably should have been behind. You gotta watch yourself though, Danny. He's stunt Dan, he knows the risk that he's taking. So is anyone out there doing the take of

this is cool for Bronnie and LeBron? Yeah, I think that's, I don't see much of the opposite of that, why, have you seen a lot of criticism for the Lakers? Yes. Really? Like it's been nonstop, cynical, I can't believe Rich Paul manipulated the league like this.

I can't believe the Lakers are wasting a pick on this guy. It's all nepotism. I think this is the coolest thing. Like, and I think we should allow it to be cool. It's okay to like things. And for Bronnie and LeBron to get to be on the same team together, after LeBron was at 17 years old, the chosen one,

has gone through this career where he's achieved everything you could have asked him to, won championships with three different franchises, brought the LA Lakers back to relevance, not really ever gotten in trouble for anything serious, and now for his kid who was born after his rookie year to be on the same team it's so special like I just think it's awesome and and I think we should be allowed to be happy

about it I it's one of those things where I'm like no one cares about a second a late second round pick if it if they took them at 17 it's maybe a different conversation. If he was the first off the board yeah no one ever argues about the 55th picks I'm like it doesn't really make that much of a difference I don't know. Yeah, the video team now has the picture Behind barkey shoulder wow Of man right there between me and DJ bean What were you watching on the video board Roy?

I think I was just like you were just looking up right? Thank God looking at the sky someone had to have told you a joke there that is I know that That's a laughing that was me thinking God there Chris. Oh man. We'll never see we'll never see that until they repeat next year We'll never see that that smile in the studio because we never will make you as happy Roy the group The group chats already on the next year if we lose Ekblad who gets the A? We're saying either Forsling or Reinhardt. We gotta sign Reinhardt. We gotta sign Reinhardt, but I don't know. He wants to stay. Yeah, he does.

And then if you watch the, I haven't seen it yet, but the group chat is saying that in the, there's like a six minute miked up, oh, I'm gonna watch it on repeat today when I get home of like the whole championship game. And there's a moment between Rhino and Maurice where you kind of get a feel that Rhino's coming back. Like, or is between Zito and Maurice, there's something with

Rhino in that six minute thing where it's clear that he's coming back. Yeah, he absolutely wants to come back. The best part about this is with no state income tax, he's going to keep a lot of that discounted money. Yeah. Oh, I love it. What a week.

What a week. Tony, you had thoughts on the Brawny stuff, right? Yeah, sorry, let's go back to that. That maybe were different? No, no, it love it. What a week. What a week Tony you had thoughts on the brawny stuff, right? That maybe were different No, no, it's okay. It's it's everything that you're saying feels to me more like you're happy for LeBron Well that is the biggest thing that I I find I don't have like an issue with it but like I do wonder what brawny really wants because I think one of the probably one of the hardest things when your parent is Super famous and successful is that you end up Doing what they want for a lot of your life and and like your kind of identity revolves around theirs Because like no matter what brawny does LeBron James will always be the most famous and the best basketball player of all time

So it's probably pretty difficult to follow in his footsteps and to go a different way if you want to now This may be exactly what he wants and he's very sure that this is. He probably wants respect. Getting drafted by the Lakers is not a bad thing to happen to you. So I'm not gonna pretend like it is, but yeah, I think it's probably,

I do wonder what he really wants and if he'll ever be able to go. Get out of the shadow? Diverge from what the rest of his family probably wants him to do. Bronnie's probably today like, okay, I'm keeping track, oh you don't think I deserve to be here? I'm sure Brawny thinks he's going to get to a point

where he's like a contributor in the NBA. Absolutely, I mean look. He's a competitor. I'm saying his mindset. The kid suffered cardiac arrest and still came back and decided, I'm not just gonna rest on my dad being a billionaire and decide to stop doing this, I wanna come back,

I wanna make it to the NBA and realize this dream. And will he ever be a significant player in the NBA? Probably not, based off what all of these scouts have been saying. But I gotta imagine he will have that chip on his shoulder and be trying to prove like, hey, I'm not just here because of my dad, even though I am just here because of my dad.

You think that MJ is looking at all this and being like, man, I could have done more. I could have got my kid. For Marcus? I could have got my kid. Really, Marcus? I just feel like Michael Jordan is like, man, LeBron is owning this league.

I was him, why didn't I do that? I think in a golf strokes, that's what Michael Jordan's doing right now. He's just out there on the course, betting 20 grand a hole. I think Mike's doing okay I don't think he's caring about LeBron having the league in his fingertips I bet he's like had the league at his fingertips for 25 years He just kind of did the normal thing of like I'm gonna make a bunch of money with advertising Revolutionized the sport Jordan's like I could have just had a podcast with my friend and and gotten anyone I wanted to be my coach

Maybe that why didn't I think of this? I just came full circle on this Maybe that's why look MJ won so much because he wasn't like pulling strings in the organization getting his son in there He's just like please give me the best team. Let's do gots chair is rubbing off on you. Wow I did it with one organization. They built it all around him. They built it to his strengths He trusted them to do their thing. And then when they betrayed him, he left. He retired. He literally owned the Hornets.

I think if he wanted to put his son on the team, he could have. If he wants to win, he focuses on the Hornets. And that's why he owned the Hornets. Yeah. The Hornets did. Howdy, folks. It's Mike Ryan. And as you know, I've been telling you on the air

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Don LeBatard I think I would have been on his side. I would have looked at you like what did you say? I'm telling you me and my friend the rest of the way home all we kept saying was I ain't cheating Stugats I think he got your ass. I got his ass. Chris Chris won this one for sure not pathetic. It was great. This is the Don LeBathard Show with the Stugats. I do want to keep talking about LeBron and Bonnie for a minute because I did think it was super interesting and pretty cool. But I'm just curious, like what you guys would think if, say your dad or your mom or your parent were in the same field as you, and they were pretty famous for what they did and pretty well known,

and you ended up following in their footsteps and people, you know, you had to fight these accusations of nepotism for your whole career. Like, I just wonder what that would feel like. Yeah, I don't know. Anyone? It would suck. for your whole career, like I just wonder what that would feel like. Yeah, I don't know, anyone? It would suck, okay? It would suck to be disrespected constantly. And you worked really hard.

I worked so hard. And it doesn't matter how hard you worked. Why'd you say I? I was at, oh that's true, I'm just saying like if it wasn't me. Hypothetically. I theoretically. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Also hypothetically, like would you wanna work with your dad?

Not at the start, but you finally, once they hit a certain age, you're like, all right. You want that time together? It's not gonna be around forever, so. Like Holly Krushnable. Seems like the right time for Brawny then, because LeBron's not gonna be around forever in the lead. Honestly. I think he might be.

You just stumbled into something that is gonna be interesting, because there are gonna be, he is his dad. There are gonna be times, I wonder the dynamic there. Like there are gonna be times, like I wonder the dynamic there. Like I wonder if Brawny is one of these kids, cause you know sometimes kids that come up with like a lot of money and stuff can be spoiled and like talk back to their parents.

I wonder that dynamic and if there's any of that. LeBron's gonna be harder on him than he was on Rio. Like he's gonna be, I would think, but the only way for respect is that LeBron will be tough on him and Brawny has that sort of mentality. I can report on this nepotism. No one has credentials in this field.

That's true. I can tell you what Brawny is feeling today. Nobody can. No one else in sports media can tell you what it's like. And I'm telling you that there are times where he's gonna get frustrated with his dad. And how does he handle that? Yeah, does he talk back to him?

At practice like no I'm not shut up old man. Yeah, like hey Rook. Give me a coffee. No dad. I'm not Do you think he calls him dad like when they're playing like? Pass the ball dad gotta be bra do you think has LeBron sent the Johnny a text in the last 12 hours of? What up Rook? Hey Rook sure LeBron is like corny like that so it's exactly how he would behave do they live with each other I have to imagine Bronnie's got a place I actually idea

Like if he lives like if they live together and obviously they were watching the draft or wherever he was I mean they have the Unsure like let's see if he gets drafted I think we have video of him at the at the house or wherever they were like on draft night but if you live with now a Coworker yeah, right you walk by every day like getting ready for breakfast like which which co-worker would you want to live with Tony? hmm That's a good question It's not a very festive like environment here. So this is the video we're about to watch the video of them watching drapes behind them

Drafted are they in like a theater room perhaps like it. Yeah, that looks like it is dress nice Hmm. I think I could live with Lucy I Could live with you. I'm kind of messy though So I don't think you'd actually like living with me and I and I don't like that you sleep in so late Because I like to be up in like atom in the morning and I think I would be nervous that I'd be waking you up. I'm actually a really hard sleeper. When I was a kid, I rolled off my bed

in the middle of the night and I sliced my head open on my step stool and I didn't wake up. Woke up covered in blood the next day. It was kind of terrifying. Did you have to get stitches? I did not have to get stitches, but there was like, so I woke up and like my hair was sticking to my face. I was like, what is this?

This is one of my earliest childhood memories. And then I was probably like six or seven. My parents were still together. That's how I know it was old. And so I like woke up, I'm like, why am I so sticky? And then I touched my hand and I'm covered in blood. So then I started crying because I said, oh my God, I don't know what happened to me.

And then I get off the bed and I noticed my step stool, which was wooden, had like blood on the edge. I said, well. How high up was your bed? It was pretty high up. And so, and then I get off the bed and I notice my step stool, which was wooden, had like blood on the edge. I said, well. How high up was your bed? It was pretty high up. And so, and then I went to school. Maybe you should have still been in a crib. And then all the teachers had to pull me aside and be like, did something happen at home?

And then that made me cry, because it doesn't sound believable that I rolled off my bed in the middle of the night, didn't wake up. Wow, poor Lucy. But I'm a really heavy sleeper. It takes a lot to wake me up, except for my neighbor does it really well.

Because they blast EDM at 3 a.m. It's actually usually call of duty, so it always sounds like I'm living, yeah, it's horrible. In a war zone. Yeah, I'm like in the trenches, literally. It's horrible. I'll like wake up and it's like machine gun fire and I'm like, oh my God, it's nine in the morning, stop.

Chris, could you live with your dad at this point in your adult lives? I don't think so. I mean, could stay with him for a couple weeks maybe, but there's no living at this point. Couple weeks. I don't think so. That's longer than I would think

I could stay with my parents. I do think the Nepo baby stuff is kind of funny on Brawny, considering the owner of the Los Angeles Lakers directly is a Nepo baby. Like there's so much of this around the league and how guys get to the league. Are you a Nepo baby if it gets passed down to you? Are you a Nepo baby. Like there's so much of this around the league and how guys get to the league. And are you a Nepo baby if it gets passed down to you? Are you a Nepo baby if you're an athlete?

Yeah, that's what a Nepo baby is. No, okay, that's not where I was going with this. Yes, that is like actually. That's like textbook definition. But I mean, for athletes, like I feel like we never criticize sons or daughters of athletes for being good at sports. Like maybe you get a little bit farther

because you have the name. And obviously I think in Bronnie's case, like that's what the debate is over, right? Like would he really have been drafted by the Lakers in the second round, which again, like no one really tends to care about if you weren't LeBron's kid. But like there's tons of athletes that pass down

their athletic genes to their kids. And like, I just don't feel like we get upset over that. Right, like Austin Rivers, I've seen him kind of get that, like you're only, and he's like, I was a Duke recruit and I was player't feel like we get upset over that. It's still really hard to do. Right, like Austin Rivers, I've seen him kinda get that, like you're only, and he's like, I was a Duke recruit and I was player of the year. Yeah. He was good at Duke.

He's not like, he's not like, he's not like, he's not like, He's a different category. Right, but I've even seen him throw, like he gets hit with that. Yeah, he does because his dad kept trading for him or trading him away. But his whole career ended up being based around his dad's teams.

But like, there's no reason why, you know, Beau Bichette exists. And a lot of the time, the reason these guys end up being so good isn't just the talent. That's a cool name, Beau Bichette. I mean, who's not drafting a Beau Bichette? That's also true. But it's cause you have the money and the resources

to be able to train. The best trainer, the best nutrition. So, Bronnie probably wouldn't have been an NBA player, but there's actually, Tony and I were talking about this before, there's probably some undrafted player who only went undrafted because Brawny was drafted, because there were like four slots after that, who ended up getting to choose the team that he went to,

and maybe will end up developing into one of those good undrafted players, and so maybe that kid ends up being the beneficiary of this. We all talk about it like, oh, there's some kid who didn't get drafted. But you know what? Maybe there's someone whose career gets to benefit because of Bronnie's nepotism.

There's two people looking for a job. I'm gonna hire my son, hey, but you're gonna find another job. And this, it might work out for you. This will be better for you. So this is gonna be a good thing for you. There's some agents. I mean, it's not a terrible.

There's some agents that purposefully tell teams, like, like hey don't draft him because he wants to go play here That same player could just not could go get an invite to a camp get cut and then all of a sudden They're wishing they were possible. They could do that as a second Lucy What were you saying yesterday about when you spilled your coffee everywhere in the morning and told me not to get you a new one Yeah, I had a really bad day yesterday. Yeah, I saw my car. Sorry for bringing that. Thank you. No, I had a really bad day yesterday. I spilled my coffee. Sorry for bringing that up. Thank you. No, I'm doing really good. Thanks for asking. The burnt toast theory is like, it's this like theory online where I saw it on TikTok where it's like if you burn your toast and you had to make another toast, like the theory is, is like, if you hadn't burned your toast, you would have gone on your way to work and you may have gotten in a car accident or something. So. Butterfly effect.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. that's what I said. But I feel like that aged me. Because now that's an old reference. Good movie. When did that movie even come out? Like 2004? Underrated movie. Underrated movie.

2004, I was right. What setting do you guys go on the one through five on your toast? I like a crisp, I'm like a. Your four? Gymnance. I'm a gymnance level. Like I want that shit really burnt.

It's actually not levels. It's minutes Yeah, it's minutes on the toast in the kitchen. What yeah Yeah first of all a lot of toasters you just see like the like there's dots there's like a Little thing of toast and the first one's this high and but it's equivalent to a time. Yeah, I'm not so sure I don't know if he's right about that. I'm a big air fryer person I toast my toast in the air fryer the air fryer I hate to admit,

because I was like, I don't need one of those. It takes up too much space. Like I have an oven and a microwave. Why would I need an air fryer? And I will admit, that was very stubborn. Because it has changed my life. Big air fryer. And I love toasting my toast in the air fryer.

I don't know why. I like being able to see it. I like being able to know if I need to just turn the knob, just a teeny bit, just to get the right level of crispness. It is the perfect toaster. And I'm not being paid to hawk air fryers, but if I were. According to tasteofhome.com, Chris and I are right. This is about levels and not minutes.

I mean, there's also a lot of toasters out there, guys. But the levels correspond to times, right? Like it's not, it doesn't change. When I'm in there's also a lot of toasters out there, guys. But the levels correspond to times, right? Like, it's not, it doesn't change. When I'm in there four, I don't feel like my toast is in there four full minutes. It doesn't take that long to toast toast. If I put it at nozzle four, it's like two and a half minutes, three minutes.

We should time it. This would be a good science fair experiment. Do we have a toaster out there? I'll go do this right meow. I would wait until... Just wanted to say meow. All right, meow. According to the spinoff.co.nz,

you're setting one is one minute and 30 seconds, setting two is one minute and 49 seconds, setting three is two minutes and 12 seconds, setting four is two minutes and 38 seconds, and so on and so on. And that's according to what? Love New Zealand. This is the spin-off.co.nz.

It's New Zealand toast. Yeah, New Zealand toast. Down is the spinoff.co.nz. Maybe that's your toaster. It's New Zealand Toast. Yeah, New Zealand Toast. Down under. Toast backwards. That's a callback from Mystery Crate. No, I wasn't there. Can we go back to the Caitlin Clark thing for a second? Yes.

Because we didn't play the video yet. I wanna play the video of her in her press conference last night after the fever loss to the storm. And just tell me if you get the same impression from this as I get. And what's the best advice if that is giving you in game this season? Nobody gives me advice in game, I wish. Wait, what was the question? What's the best advice you've gotten in game?

And she says no one gives me advice in game I wish and then like kind of laughs. It kind of gives off everyone's against me. Her coach is not giving her any sort of like. That seems like a career thing though, right? Not just in the WNBA, but her entire career, including high school, right? Just not giving her advice on the court? No.

Oh, she don't have the coach there. Okay, I just read it. No, like Lisa and so Wright Thompson released a great article before Caitlin was in the W, just about her time at Iowa. And they talked about how you have to very specifically coach Caitlin. She's a very unique prospect. So they definitely coached her, that was the thing.

You would see in game adjustments at Iowa all the time. I think the thing is, is with me, I'm not used to seeing Caitlin on such kind of a bad team. And the pieces around her aren't bad, but Christy Seid just really hasn't, she makes weird roster choices, she'll take Kaitlyn out whenever she's playing really well, like she'll kind of shit on her players, like came out, read private texts from Kaitlyn.

I was like, why would you do that? That was after Kaitlyn wasn't chosen for the Olympic team. She had a very like diplomatic answer in her press conference and then the head coach of the Fever was like, she texted me and said, they woke up a monster. Yeah, she also came out and was like, they don't play with any effort, and it's just like, hey girl, maybe stop throwing your team under the bus.

I do. It is a pretty harmless quote to release. That's pretty obvious that that would inspire her to work harder. That's basically her saying, this is gonna inspire me. Like I'm gonna- Like Mick overrated. Yeah, exactly.

But I think when you're a player of Caitlin's just like attention level. Media training. We're like, the next game they lost, Caitlin didn't have a good game and the entire internet was like, oh, they woke a monster. Yeah, she needs to be smarter. She missed a bunny and was getting grossed.

You know it's gonna make news for her. Yeah, you know it's gonna make her look bad. And Caitlin like is a professional. She was a marketing major in college. Like she's a pretty professional when it comes to media training. She knows what to say and what not to say. And so for Christie to read her text message was weird. They don't seem to have any sort of vibe to each other.

It doesn't seem like a good fit. And that's also because I'm also biased and I think Caitlin should win every game. I think she should play for the best coaches in the whole world. And I, Christy, get it together. I see Aliyah Boston giving her some sort of like, I don't know if we'd call it advice, but she seems like she's giving her pointers

and stuff throughout the game. And Kaitlyn's talked about that, that Aliyah has been huge for her. Same thing with Erica Wheeler. That was very clearly a direct shot at Christy's sides and none of her teammates. Would you say you're not on Christy's side? Nope. Get it, at Christy's sides and none of her teammates. Would you say you're not on Christy's side? No.

Get it, because Christy's sides. Send them away. Ooh, I think I could do that. You have the power now? I don't want to though, it's mean. Thank you. I like when everyone's here. It's harder to do this when there's less of us.

That's also true. Can we add someone? How about when we're not, when we make good jokes, we add somebody? So not now though. Billy just walks in. Next good joke we make, Ethan walks in. First on air time for Ethan. Hey, okay.

Do you have that power? I just did. Ethan, come talk to me. I don't need to. You're not in the big chair though. Ethan, in the room. Your handicap isn't as good. Yeah, that's true.

I was draining putts by the way last weekend at the Golic Subpar Classic. We don't need to get into it. I've seen your chipping. I didn't say chips, I said putts, okay? And they were some really, they were the best putts. No one's seen putts like these before. Happy summer everybody, it's Mike Ryan.

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