The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: Words With Friends With Benefits

Episode Date: February 16, 2024

TODAY'S CAST: Dan, Billy, Chris, Jeremy, Mike, Roy, and Tony. Dan is feeling petty after the Bucks loss to the Grizzlies last night. There was a NBA fight between two players most of the Shipping Container has never heard of. Tony claims Cubans are taking over after meeting a Cuban uber driver in Las Vegas. Billy publicly criticizes his family for giving him gifts. Chris is concerned about words getting a little too friendly. Then, Klay Thompson exploded for 35 points last night so Dan and the crew dissect what it's been like for Klay as his career winds down. Plus, Billy's work is undercut by a video of Stugotz laughing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe Kings Network. This is the Don Lebatore Show with the Stugatz Podcast. This is so very not me, the entirety of my career. I've always sort of dismissed people who dismiss others as haters, saying that allows you to never do any introspection when you can just dismiss someone who's criticizing you as a hater. But I realized last night, and it's one of the first times this has ever happened to me. I've got a little bit of hater in me. I enjoyed what happened to Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Bucks lost to Memphis, and they're now three and seven under Doc Rivers. Portland's terrible. Portland is one of the worst teams in the league.

And it's not like the heater. Great. But I derived more enjoyment from watching the bucks lose last night to the Grizzlies than I have from any heat game this season. Mike, why are you standing like some sort of silver back gorilla back there? I'm still like trying to get adjusted to life out of the EP chair and the musical chairs game ended up with me sitting next to Tony, but Tony doesn't like to sit down. He just pulls, he pulls this alpha dog. They're having a contest to see who's taller. And as you know, I don't like being not the tallest person in the room.

So like, it's a thing now. Now you're here. Okay, so you weren't even reacting. I thought you were on the phone. No, it's just like, if you're gonna try to play me like that, I'm not gonna be a willing participant in that. But he's taller than you. No, he is.

No one is. Back to back. Jack. Billy, are you taller than both of them? No, I'm not. I also don't want to stand. I'm not taking a quiz. No one's taller than me.

It's one of Greg Cody's best moves. Jeremy, can you just get me some names? I want to quiz the room on a couple of things. Sports experts, first of all, before we get to this Memphis Grizzlies roster, this is what I want to quiz the room on. There was a fight in the NBA a couple of nights ago. These are usually pretty newsworthy, where a player for the Detroit Pistons punched another player.

I want more details. I want more details, I want more news, I want to understand more about this story, but I think that between all of us, we would have trouble naming the two players involved in this fight. So does the room want to take a shot at who the two players are

that were involved in a fight in which one of them, a Detroit piston, punched another. Jeremy? I mean, I know the puncher. I don't know the punch-e. The puncher is someone who's been known to sort of fly off the handle. Yeah. Mike Ryan is standing on a chair next to me, and I'm really nervous about it. Isaiah Stewart, I'll give the people that one. Detroit piston is the one who threw the punch. I don't know, these things come with ramifications. I'm more laughing at the fact that two NBA players got into a fight in the tunnel. And if this had been two stars, we'd still be talking about it two days later. And I don't think a sports show can name both the players.

Anybody else want to take a guess? Isaiah Stewart. I mean, I know Isaiah Stewart, uh, from when he's the one he punched. He's the one who ran after LeBron a couple of years ago when he was with the Detroit Pistons and LeBron on the Lakers. It's as rabid as anyone has ever wanted to actually fight LeBron. Correct, and so this, I imagine, he probably went after someone

who would be an equal level of importance, right, if he was throwing a punch? I don't know who Drew Eub a punch. I don't know who Drew U-Banks is. I need more information about why it is. You made that name up. I'm rattled after not knowing who Kaminga was yesterday. Put it on the poll, please at Levitard Show. I thought the Brooklyn Nets were good a few months ago.

Drew U-Banks put it on the poll NBA player or game show host at LeBatard show. Give me the names of some of the Grizzlies on that roster that beat the Bucks yesterday. What is going on with the Bucks? I know they don't play defense, Dan. I know, but they're supposed to overcome it with two overwhelming offensive players and their defense got bad just because Damien Lillard got there. Yeah, that's right. Their defense is horrendous. The team they lost to last night in the Grizzlies,

these are the names of the players on the team. Santi Aldama. He's good. Zyre Williams. Trey Jemison. They play hard. They basically play hard. Jemison had a nice hook shot in the early forward.

Kurt James. Jordan Goodwin. Vince Williams, Jr. Daniel Lorenzen. Lamar Stevens. Gigi Jackson, Patrick Monahan, but a huge one tonne nebé and Jake Gilead. And what all of you didn't notice is that three of those names were fake. One of them was the lead singer of train. What? Wow. Gigi Jackson is the player who got, he's real. He, yes. I know he got all lightheaded though, because TNT was even talking to him. Right. He was just, he had that odd moment earlier this season where he just got interviewed by Shaq and Barkley and couldn't believe that he was in a situation where he'd, you know, he'd arrived at his dream. He had a game yesterday, huh? He also had a quote earlier

in the season where he said, I try to be as coachable as possible. My high school coach called me a sponge back in the day and then stopped and said, well, not back in the day. That was like two years ago. I'm going to show you a picture of Drew Eubanks. And I believe this photograph of Drew Eubanks will tell you that the reason he was punched in the face is it's because what we all want to do. It's just his face. Mer-man. He just has a face that you want to punch.

Can you Chris Cody, please get me some details? It's been two days. There have to be some reported details on why an NBA player in the tunnel punched another NBA player in the face Tony come down to the microphone and tell people what you're doing Saturday and also I want to talk to you for a second about being Cuban because I was a bit startled by the number of Cubans I ran into in Las Vegas. Dano startled. Yes, very startled by the way

We'll get to that in a second, but UFC 298 the MMA hangout will be live at El Vecino Cocktail bar right here in downtown Miami very close to the Kaseya Center and the Elster very walkable We're gonna be out there starting at 10 o'clock With me and the MMA hangout and some friends so that'll be very exciting Saturday You too people will be able to get it on you Saturday 10 o'clock We'll be going live on YouTube to the the remainder of the fight So that's Saturday and then Dan in Las Vegas I went out and I was going about the town took an Uber over to the to the strip from where we were in downtown and I was with Bimmel our COO. Oh, right? You put three O's in there. I think I think that you may go

COO See triple O. He said COO. Oh, oh, because I didn't know really what it was. He's a CEO Is there cheap operating office? Okay, so me and him went out to a little happy hour a little mixer We're gonna get Tony getting the one-on-one invite with him. Oh, you know I'm not gonna lie. I heard that I was like where's my invite to that Well, you were you were doing something else that left me doing a 45 minute show after the live show by myself And Roy came in 20 minutes after that I was at meanest podcast. Yeah, so as you were doing that

I was doing another show after the show we had already done. I said I had a thing, but you should probably take Tony Yeah Well, I got these sloppy second invite, which is okay But as we were on our way back from the strip over to the circa We get into an Uber and I hear the guy playing low salsa music and I'm like, okay, maybe he's just a salsa fan, whatever me and Bimo are in conversation, we're talking, we're doing this and that. And then we get off at the circa. Yeah. We're just hanging out talking. Every single Uber I got into in Vegas had a Cuban driver, every single one.

Well, to my surprise, Dan, as I'm getting out, I hear the salsa music and I go, oh, yeah, and he kind of whips his head around and he's like, like, where are you, where are you from? And I go, so I go, I go, I go, I go, see? And all of a sudden, Dan, it brought back to my memory that there is a Cuban in every country in the world. Did you know that? Did you know that?

I don't know. Now I'm telling you, now you know. So it feels made up. No, absolutely not. you, now you know. So it feels made up. No, absolutely not. We are absolutely taking over. We're gonna infiltrate every goat you've ever seen before. Madonna has a Cuban kid, Michael Jordan has Cuban kids, Tom Brady's living in Miami,

it's just a matter of time before he has Cuban kids. Also, Nevada's a state, not a country. No, no, no, but that's not the point. The point is what I'm about to say, right? So another example, even though it's within the country, I went to a vacation in Hawaii, Dan. I went to Maui. Same country.

I've been very beautiful. Also a state. I know, but I'm just trying to say it's very far away from where we are on the mainland, okay? So we were out at a farmer's market in Maui. Dan, I know you've been very beautiful island. My heart goes out to the people of Lahaina, by the way. I love Lahaina town. Oh, they needed that.

In this time, more than ever. Because I haven't been able to say that on the show. Why is this becoming acceptance speech? I just wanted to say the people of Lahaina have my heart. I love that little town. Like it's a beautiful town. And I want to know it's not a... That's locked has been solved.

Dusty Rhodes has a Cuban kid. Tony... The Lopez brothers Let me just let me hold on No, I'm not letting you finish just you There is a Cuban I make your pens in Maui damn and Out of made of teak. I have out take hands Tony lasting last I promise out Tony out or there will be no MMA hang out tomorrow

Said you can't do that like which part of this are you not understanding I? Didn't want an acceptance speech He's now he's telling Billy things like, hey, say this, say this. Anya Taylor Joy in Dune 2, getting incredible reviews. We were headed in a good direction, I think. When he comes back, I'll tell you. No, you go ahead and tell me. You go ahead, wow.

I kind of feel like, now you can get the info. You kicked him out. He said there's a Cuban in Egypt selling camels. I don't think he's ever been to Egypt though, so. I had family in Las Vegas. Yeah. Still do. Well, yeah, they're still in Las Vegas.

They came up to me the last day. I probably shouldn't say this because I'll get in trouble or whatever. Yeah, you won't. I spur. So they had things for my daughters and they like on the last day after the live show, after like when we're in the middle of like the happy hour

or whatever it was, like they went to the hotel and my wife told me they're gonna like give you something for our daughter. Shit, you gotta bring back. They showed up with two massive bags of things after we've already packed and checked out of the room and I have a check, like a bag that I need to check. Ouch.

I have a carry on that's just a backpack and then they give me these two massive bags. So what'd you do? And they ask me, how are you gonna take this back? And I go, I have no idea. Like, I didn't know I was getting all of this stuff. So I had to go up to a conference room, I had to open my thing, I had my malatine,

and then I had to go and like take the stuff out of the bags, repack everything. Turns out she's Argentinian, but born in Miami, so it's the same thing. Yeah, same thing, yeah. I get to the airport. The bag is now 15 pounds over the weight limit. I have to pay $100.

Could have just mailed it to me. It would have saved me so much money. What were they giving you, though? Just clothes and blankets. Gifts, but gifts. Yeah, gifts for the babies, yeah. You can just mail it to me. Chris got out of that expense on the overweight bag.

How? I mean, my bag was over by like three pounds, and he gave me the look, he's just like, it's your lucky day. You're good. Thank you. We had Kiersten here who was over by like five pounds and there was 10 of us together

and she just ate it and like paid the like $100. If you were like, why did you just hand us your stuff? Like amongst all of us, we could have carried the five pounds like a pound at a time. No one wants to be that person though, going through your bag and it's like, God's just that's the worst in the airport was dealing with drunk Greg Cody at the time yeah that's right I would hate to get I was like can I put my dad in there can you guys take my dad just in the

under the belly check on your dad Billy are you saying I want to be clear on this are you publicly criticize I have no such thing I don't know where you're going with this but I know it's not in the right direction And I'll be cold in that penalty box. Are you? The first time I've seen Tony's look insecure in the in the biz we call that conage the nipples got hard in there And you got that cone is what happens when he sees the Cuban flag and his nipples get hard Hormones off balance, huh? Oh, they zoomed in. Oh my God. Make them dance, Tony. Nice Billy. You are not going to distract me with the frozen and

sharpened diamond cutting nipples of Tony. You are not gonna get me off of the subject, which is, it sounds to me like you publicly criticized Cuban family that brought you a many, many pounds of gifts for your baby. At least 15. For costing you $100 at the airport, and this is textbook Monday morning quarterbacking on criticism and telling them don't do it the way that you did it, you should have just mailed it to me.

So you are critiquing the family that gave your baby a gift. No, what I said was thank you. Well, that's what you said privately. No, that's what I said publicly. What I said privately was what I just said publicly. Right. What you just said publicly

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DraftKings, the crown is yours. Gambling problem, call 1-800-GAMBLER-AGE-ELEGABILITY-RESFRICTIONS-APPLY, VoidWare-Prohibited, see DraftKings.com for details. Did we get to the Cuban camp, the Camel Cellar in Egypt? Alright, tell me your story. Have you been to Egypt? No, but I know somebody who's been to Egypt and there's there's a hustle for every Cuban everywhere and one of them a guy got sent over to Egypt, you know, and all these doctors without borders things that Cuba used to do back in the

day got sent to Egypt. Do people know about that Dan or no? Okay, so go ahead. We're already here. For whatever whatever reason, Cuba's chief export is medical doctors and nurses. No, it's shortstop. I'd say outfielders, but I'd agree. I'm corner outfielders. So, starting pitchers too, that's actually no. Yeah, but they all have like a four and a half ERA. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, that? Hey, I'm Cuban. They've been doing it that way. He says next to the Jose Fernandez frame.

Not that way. That's the whitest anyone's ever seen. I'm Cuban. I'm Cuban. Long story short. A lot of suck girls said the same thing. Short story long, Dan. And fairness, they're older than they say they are.

That's what I'm saying. That is also true. Also true. A bit of the birth certificates kind of get forged, whatever, not a big deal. Right. So for whatever reason, outside of baseball players that have passports that are kind of fudgy

and birth certificates that are not real, chief export is medical professionals. So medical professional ends up going to Egypt. They have medical professionals over there. He stopped doing it and said, you know what's a good trade here? Selling camels to people. All of a sudden, baggots in there, sells camels.

In Miami, how many doctors do we have who are now plumbers or mechanics thousands thousands like everybody for medical and cool it's true everybody or a ball or whatever but for sure there so Dan we can I don't know if we can look it up but what up to me the camel sold in that there was a Cuban guy selling camels in action. Bingo. So that is how Tony arrives that there is a Cuban looking at every country, one country outside of America with a Cuban and Cuba. What these on the poll, please, juju at LeBatard show. Is there a Cuban in every country at LeBatard show? And is it a gift? If it costs $200, it was very lovely. It was, and I'm so so thankful how big the bags were though

Oh, did you see there like this? It sounds like criticism you're walking it back now your back. I'm very thankful and it was very nice meeting them I hadn't met them before Because they're you know family on my wife's side, but it's the rare family never met hold on Billy You have a lot of family I've family keep I haven't met you you hadn't met them And they gave you three bags of shit to get to know they gave me three bags of lovely gifts that I needed to find a place to put No, it was nice. It was clothes. It was blankets. It's a baby. Yeah, but I did I wasn't accounting for How generous they were gonna be it's my fault really is that I didn't take into account the level of

It's my fault really, is that I didn't take into account the level of generosity and the greatness of the gifts that I was going to receive and the amount of space that said lovely, wonderful gifts that I'm so appreciative of were going to take up inside of my malatine. I hate when we get a bag full of hand-me-down clothes. No, this was new, there was tags on it. Okay, because like, I don't know. This is such a nice gift.

I just, we have like for the space that these lovely gifts were going to take up and how heavy they were the blankets were heavy One of my wife's friends has a daughter a little older than my daughter So we get like every other month these just bags full of clothes we end up using like three or four It's just like just wait. It's she's doing this thing like oh, I'm so nice. It's like no You're just you're getting rid of your shit your shit. You're just clearing out your shit and you want me to have your shit. You're closer than Goodwill is.

Two birds with one stone. My wife gets all excited about it. I'm like, no, get these bags out of here. I show up from work like one day a month and there's just three bags of clothes. And I'm like, oh, thanks. So badwill. It is, it is, it's a gift under false pretenses.

More like convenient will. It really is. It's like, I'm doing a nice thing. They're not doing it for me. They're doing it for them. I will say this, and I'm, it's gonna be a long weekend for me after all the things I've said already, but I'll say this. We have a similar situation, and my wife is a friend that will do this as well, and like, will drop off like boys clothes with tags, because she has a son son and it's like, you know I have two daughters.

Like you're just dumping this stuff here. And then she's like, oh, oops, I must have missed. It's like, no, you did everything on purpose. You'll figure it out. Yeah. But great gifts again, so appreciative and thank you. I'm just, you know, I do kind of wonder, you know, is the Goodwill a little too far?

We're going to house, gas prices, like what's going on here? There's a Cubans in Egypt page with 105 likes, so Tony must be right. Thank you. I also just got word, Dan, you'd be very happy to find this out. I just got word via text. I just know I just got a text right now for my source.

An Australian Cuban doing tours in the Outback. I have just gotten a text as well, and Nick Wright is gonna join us here in a little while because he is making himself available. Is he Cuban? He is not Cuban. The goodwill thing is interesting though, because I've accused my wife of this

because every time I leave with something from good, I leave with a tax deduction. I leave with a receipt. Why? What do you mean why? When I go, I just leave with a receipt. Why? What do you mean why? When I go, I just drop off the bag and I keep it moving. You'd like, I have someone trying to figure out the value of these things.

Well, yes, because it saves money. You can have just do a nice thing to do a nice thing. Dan's got rich people clothes. I mean, we are giving away stuff that has worth that people would want, but it's also my wife cleaning out the house. And I do believe if Chris Cody's only finding three items from several boxes of things,

that those people are basically just bringing their trash cans over to your house and saying, here, you wanna go through this and see if you find a couple of shirts for your daughter? That's what's happening. And you can't decline it because it's charity, right? Because it's a check. They think they're being, they're like, here.

But do they think they want to thank you? But are they laughing? Are they laughing on the way over? Are they? They're definitely relieved of like, we got this shit out of the room. Like they're relieved for sure. What are you guys doing?

What Mike, what are you doing? Do you want a thing over here? I saw him. No, he's trying to do the thing where he lifts his shirt casually to show that okay? Hey, I can surprise you even though. I got the cone edge on my tits He's doing the same thing so I'm trying to one up them I recently have lost like 15 pounds of stress weight so I'll flash it to Just the last couple of days since you left this last Friday

Before the show ends we're seeing wieners. I already know it John. I don't know John wiener reaction This is I'm pretty confident where I see not here Yes, can I be vulnerable for a second Billy shared and he was vulnerable there? So I want to be I want to be vulnerable um If you find out your spouse or significant other is playing wordle with somebody that you were unaware there is It is catching your wife in a wordle game the same as catching your wife at lunch? Is that what I'm gonna ask? I get on that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. How can you play wordle with someone else? Don't you play wordle with someone? Is it a dude? Words with friends. I'm making my name, maybe I'll say words with friends. Words with friends, sorry.

Is it a dude? No, you should be concerned. The game where you send words back and forth. You have generally trouble with words. Is it a dude? Words with friends with benefits. Yeah, you should be worried. Is it a dude?

It is a dude. Oh yeah, okay. Be dude? Words with friends with benefits. Yeah, you should be worried. Is it a dude? It is a dude. Oh yeah, okay. Be concerned. Words with friends with benefits. Like, what's the line? Where's the line on like, what's going on there? Well, you're saying, but this is what you're saying. You're saying because usually some people

will have the argument about whether it's worse to find out that your mate, your significant other, is having sex with somebody or in an intimate emotional relationship with someone for- It depends on the words they're using. Many months. I was curious. Let me see your history.

Now, but what you're saying is lunch, if you catch your wife at lunch with a man, you'd be one kind of threatened physically, but you're talking about emotional, oh my God, he might charm her with words by being clever with words. And that's a weakness of yours. Yeah. All of everything you said, but this is not me. By the way, this is just a guy. I know. No, yes. Yeah. Any advice? How to handle? I think you're allowed to play games on your computer with others. No, but no chatting, but this isn't a two person game.

No chatting. You basically play Wordle and then you just send someone, look how smart I am if you don't return. No, no, no, what he's saying is words with friends, which is, I misspoke, it's not Wordle. I'm doing a thing, man, that you're totally fine. All right, cool. She's not cheating on you.

Is it a cubing guy? What were the words? I'd be worried if it were to a friend. Fika, Oita, that's a bitch. Stop, we're in a half year, all right? Palacosa. Yeah, you need to talk to him. Taru.

She brought it up, she brought it up to me, by the way. What's a four letter word for my Cuban friend, sake my wife? It wasn't like I was. Taru. She's confessing. It wasn't like I was. You said cook.

I wasn't snooping through her phone. It was like she was just casually mentioning, oh, I'm playing with this person. And I'm like, hmm. That's even worse guilty. Yeah Are you what else are you doing? You want to watch? Oh? Wow What? Feeling very vulnerable right now. You should thank you for sharing Chris I appreciate not since Whittingham have we had someone so willing to throw their vulnerabilities in the air for our piranha consumption

So thank you for doing that you offer us the vulnerability and what happens you get eaten by piranha You knew it was gonna happen like you knew as soon as you offered it Everyone all of us you were gonna be William H. Macy and Boogie night showing up to watch all of your friends have sex with your Wife in the driveway. That's what happened showing up to watch all of your friends have sex with your wife in the driveway. That's what happened. Spoiler alert, I haven't seen someone... Yeah, me either. Jeez.

There's a Cuban in it. Wow. Of course there is. You guys haven't seen Boogie Nights? You haven't seen Boogie Nights? Came out two years after I was born. Oh, Bert Reynolds. What am I gonna do with the young people around here?

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Don Lebatard! Did you ever have a crush on a cartoon character? Oh! Can I go? This isn't my question, but I did. Jessica Rabbit. Who framed Roger Rabbit? Yes, yes. She was married to Roger Rabbit even though he was a bunny and she was a humanoid, but they were both cartoons. Two gods. I had a crush on Betty Rubble.

Oh, wow. What? That's pretty good. That's pretty good. Whoa, with a surprise nomination from Stugas, showing you his dirty, dirty, inner nine-year-old. This is the Don Leitar show with his two guys I felt really good for clay last night speaking of vulnerabilities Chris because so many guys In this sport have to have the bravado

Have to have the sandpaper the the barbed wire, the armor all around them. And Clay has been, I think this is one of the many reasons that he's liked. It's not just that he's a pure shooter and he's kind of a stony surfer guy. He's pretty much himself and you see the weirdnesses and you see the frailty. So his teammate, I do want to talk about the three-point competition this weekend, the gender war, but I want to show you a clip here of Steph Curry real quick because this seems impossible to me and it's completely a routine thing for Steph Curry where he goes in the tunnel and he makes jumpers before

practice. People come from all over to see this. There are crowds. He gets hundreds of people every arena he goes to by walking off the court at the end and doing what he's doing here, where that's just asinine, where it's not even from the tunnel in the basket closest to his tunnel. It's from the tunnel throwing a ball overhand

into the basket that's, you know, I don't even know how far away that is, but it's a long way away. And so Steph has been the star of that team and the better shooter. Imagine your Clay Thompson, you're one of the best shooters ever, but the guy in your huddle is better. The guy who plays on your team is better. Imagine also your Clay Thompson, you're one of the best two baby, two way players in the sport while you're winning championships. And now you go to the bench and furthermore, and I don't think this part has been talked

about enough. How does Clay feel just in his feelings when he hears that LeBron James could have been traded to the Warriors for a package of Warriors that probably would have included Clay, that Steph Curry would have, Steph Curry would have been signing off. How does this feel to Clay Thompson last night? Maybe he knew it. Maybe his agent knew it.

Maybe they were all talking about it and they've gotten on his friendships. But how does it feel to be Clay Thompson and learn that Steph Curry signed off on the idea that you were going to be traded? Like, did they talk about that? But anyway, Clay goes off last night. Clay goes off last night. What were the final numbers for Clay Thompson last night? They scored a buck 40. They win it. Utah. They are a proud champion. They're not that good this year, but they've been playing well for the last couple of weeks

and people expect them to turn on some sort of switch in the postseason that I don't think they're going to be able to. It was his first game off the bench since he was a rookie and he finished with 35 points, seven of 13 from three, 13 of 22 from the field. It was really awesome to see him do it. It was great. How do you guys imagine that feels though all of that stuff for Clay? Cause it's not 35 points in an NBA game. I have no frame of reference. Damn. No idea. Why are you asking us?

How do we imagine it feels to score 35 against a Utah Jazz? It's not what I was actually asking. What I was asking is how do you imagine clay feels to learn that he could have been traded and that that's how it ends for him. Dreymon gets his money. Steph gets the team. Andrew Wiggins gets his contract, but at the end he's benched and traded signed off on by the guys in his own We talked about that locker. He's making Among the most forty three million dollars. He's a million dollars this and and guess what he gets to come off the bench and play less He's fine. Also. I don't think an aging superstar outside of Kobe has been this catered to. They are publicly acknowledging his feelings. They are publicly trying to lift him up. If you saw the highlights from last night, like I did,

everyone on his team was super happy for him. I mean, this is the life cycle of a, of an aging superstar in that league. Do you think that has anything to do with the fact that it happened because of injuries? Because I think his career sort of being shortened to where he didn't get to gracefully kind of fall off in the way that superstars normally do. He's someone who because of an injury during the finals hasn't come back to be the same. And I wonder if as a result of all of that, that's why the rest of these guys are like,

man, you got shortchanged in the career you could have. I'm not even talking about the money. I don't understand why you guys are doing that part of it. I'm talking about, do you get to choose your own ending at the place that made you? Do you get to, when you have made that much money for the economy around it, I'm not talking about money here, I'm talking about, he's going to the bench

with self-awareness. He's talking Out loud about this being the end of his career and then he finds out I'm asking you about the interpersonal relationships of how did he find out that Did he read it like the rest of us that LeBron almost came to the Warriors and that were Bob that LeBron is LeBron didn't want to go to the Warriors. Did he read that the way the rest of us did? I think that team has sort of proven that they're as good as anyone of this century at dealing with the interpersonal relationships

that are necessary when you have someone as volatile as Dreman, which is why they're still together. Yeah, and he says that even though someone got punched in the face. He punched it dude in the face, who then had to leave with the money. Yeah, well he ended up in Washington. Let me see who's right about that. I know, but you can't say there is good at anybody in

navigating these things. When they've been able to overcome it though, Kevin Durant didn't want to be there anymore. Like he didn't look at what's happened to his career since Kevin Durant is a nomad ever since winning the championship. Well, that only proves the point further. Right. Is that he left and hasn't been able to figure out any of those dynamics elsewhere where he was winning back to back championships with the work. My point is this, and this is the prism I'm looking at it through. I'm looking at it only through clays. Okay.

So Draymond's going to get the longterm security from my team while we're trying to trade for LeBron. Andrew Wiggins is going to be somebody who comes in and is our second player on a championship. I get hurt at the end. We fall apart. My body falls apart. I am a new player upon my return. I think that Clay Thompson has been unusually open and honest about what happens to mental frailties. You guys are talking about 42 million. Yes. But everybody in that locker room makes that, like everyone that they're looking at when they look at each other, those guys aren't counting dollars when they're being sent to the bench.

Dreymon has very publicly counted down when they're being sent to the bench. Draymond has very publicly counted dollars. When they're being sent to the bench, when you're a Hall of Famer who's being told at the end, it's the end. Go sit over there. You're not as useful as you used to be to us. I'm telling you that athletes that age don't look in a mirror and see that that way.

They don't usually have that kind of self-awareness. But Dan, that's the life cycle of an NBA player, right? You're great until you're not, regardless of its injury, if it's being old. Like Ray Allen, arguably one of the greatest 3-point shooters of all time, was a star until it's like, hey, you're going to be a role player. Clay is now moving into that time where this is signifying, all right, you're coming off the bench. Look how good you can be off the bench with limited minutes, not having to take the whole brunt of being a starter and playing all those minutes this could be the next evolution for him in the next five years where he's a legitimate bench piece. Can you guys get for me Billy I don't know how it is that you feel about

this because I may this may be a form of torture that I am administering to you right now given what your Super Bowl week was. Stugatz is not here today, but I miss his presence because I miss the echoey fake laughter that is the soundtrack to my entire life. I miss, I didn't get to partake in this on radio row, Stugatz as his crutch, not allowing for silence in interviews, laughing the entire time as a way to give him filibuster time in order to ask the question. Billy, how much of this has been swirling and circling around in your dreams over the last weekend? Play the clip, please. All right. Let's see what I'm doing. I got to get it. So it's good today, but I'm doing like the street dance and stuff.

No, they say, Breeze, you're going to be fine. It's not all this time. Let's wicker pick her. Hey, I'll still, I suck again. You're digging it deeper. Oh, okay.

I just get it. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I'm doing it.

I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I'm doing it.

I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I'm it right. Let's do it again. We messed that up. All right. So we have a lot. Nice. Yeah. Really. Yeah.

Twenty two twenty three. So thank you. That's part of all games. It doesn't matter. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Exactly. Oh. Back. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. I mean. Michael. Michael. No. Yeah. Come on. Give it to me. the I gotta say, you really are. If you don't have a stupid face, I mean there is a face off the charts right now. I was honest with you. Perfect.

Well, thank you guys. Appreciate it. Hey. Yeah. Hey, I'm born. OK. Here's the thing though, doggy. I love you, Steve.

Here's the thing. Boy, that is bad memories for me because I had to make a similar super cut of him laughing. It was like, what, seven, eight minutes of laughing? That was nine minutes of the Supodity super cut, yeah. That handshake with Mad Dog Russo at the end was the most painful part about all that. Can you guys just show that?

And just re... Billy's face the whole time. Billy, you looked like you were hurting. I hate it. I mean, cause we did good work and it just undercuts everything that we did showing that highlight. You really did. And I also asked like, Hey, can someone get us like a good highlight reel of all the interviews we did. And I'm still

waiting for that. But look, someone quickly turned around. Let's highlight how shitty it was. So it's great. Thanks guys. I'm sorry they did that to you. I didn't know that they did that to you. They just told me we have some stu-gots laughing and I didn't know it was two minutes long. When they said in my ear one minute left, I couldn't believe how long it was. Well, and that's like only a third of the interviews that we did, so I'm sure it could have been longer. Oh, that's painful. There it is. Fist me.

What? Are they recreating the God bless football logo? Carl Rudd is an honest horseman. He's a great horseman. He's a great horseman. He, that's painful. There it is. Fist me. Are they recreating the God bless football logo? Carl Rudd is an honest horse. Sports media's version of the predator handshake right there. Put that behind me again so that people can see the Carl Weathers, Arnold Schwarzenegger predator handshake side by side. Yeah.

Put these side by side so that people can see Russo. By the way, I don't know if you guys read this quiet as it's kept Russo multi year extension signed at first take. He was making $10,000 a show before while eating gummies and betting God knows how much money on games. Now what are they paying him? Multi-year extension for Mad Dog Russo. What a career resurgence. Yesterday's price is not today's price, Dano. Let me tell you that. Multi-year extension.

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