The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: BREAKING NEWS!

Episode Date: August 8, 2024

ROUNDBALL ROCK. THE SHREDDED VERSION. HAS. ARRIVED. EXCLUSIVELY ON THE DAN LE BATARD SHOW WITH STUGOTZ. First, Andrew Siciliano is here as B Boy Ronnie walks right behind him (and Ethan does, too? Why is Ethan there?) to discuss the latest from the Olympics including which American breakout stars are set to cash in when they return home. Then, WE'RE SHREDDING TO ROUNDBALL ROCK! John Tesh has given us the exclusive rights to the original Roundball Rock, so we get to premiere the new version that will air on NBC: Roundball Rock (The Shredded Version). Amin, Izzy, and the crew share stories of what the song meant to them as it set the stage for NBA on NBC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan LeBattard podcast. I'm sorry. I'm not going to apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries that if they're just there, that hasn't happened to you guys. I've done it.

And now here's the marching band to nowhere, fat face and the habitual liar. You may have heard Andrew Siciliano laughing there. I don't know what he was laughing at there. Siciliano, what were you laughing at there as we onboarded you in the middle of B-Ball Ronnie? B-Boy, excuse me. I don't remember, honestly.

I met Ronnie on the bus yesterday because we're all kind of staying at the same hotel and I was peppering him with some of the same breaking questions that you guys had. The idea that they don't know the music, the breakers don't know the music. And by the way, Ronnie might even be in the same room back here. I'm not even sure.

This place is massive. But the idea that they don't know. It wouldn't be funny. I improved my shot. It was so dark last time at the dressing room. It was like a hostage video. But anyway, they don't know the music, right? And the idea that they don't know the music

is just bonkers to me. Andrew, when you say you have the same breaking questions for Ronnie, do you mean questions about breaking the sport or do you mean breaking questions like we had? We had a breaking question. I mean, about the sport, but I guess we could have framed them as breaking news about breaking, breaking about breaking. I'm excited.

I can't wait for Sonny Choi, 35 year old, SD Lauder executive to get out there. I mean that, like it's an amazing story. There's so many cool stories, like how about Andy McDonald, right? Like skateboarding legend from the 90s. He won like X Games gold skateboarding with Tony Hawk, like in 1996.

And he was out there as a 51 year old yesterday, competing for Great Britain Britain because hey, I just found out my dad's from London. I could get a British passport with a bunch of teenagers yesterday in the skate park final. I mean, that's bonkers. He has a son who was older, he's 18, than every single woman who was on the podium for that event on Tuesday. What would you say, and there's been plenty here, Andrew,

the most surprised you've been at a result so far because there have been just, I mean, it's just nonstop snorting. It's like everybody is Marcus Jordan-ing the Olympics. There's just a nonstop snorting of everything. And it's just constant adrenaline. Yeah, that one's tough. We were talking about that actually last night.

I think... He was right behind you. I'm gonna go through that. He was right behind you. He just walked in. No, he doesn't. What's up? We did it.

What's up? Yeah. Well, look at this. We made this happen. Yeah, like the, yeah, the balcony and the... This place is shit. Yeah. It's a fucking mess.

It's a fucking mess. It's a fucking mess. It's a fucking mess. It's a sure of it. We made this happen. Yeah, like the balcony and the, this place is huge. Like I was trying to figure it out. I get lost here every single day. See you later. Like they have, honestly, it's a maze. It's like you're at Costco and you just have to look for the signs hanging over the aisles as to where to go. Where were we?

Most surprised. Doesn't he have to be in Paris? Isn't he a judge? What was happening? We're not in Paris. Many people are. We are not. So Kristen Faulkner was a rower at Harvard.

Stop me. Did I tell the story last time? And she started working on Wall Street and then she took up cycling because she went to a clinic in Central Park. Oh, I'm going to be a cyclist. This is fun. And then she won gold in the road race wasn't supposed to be in the road race. Someone else didn't go and so she subbed in and then she won a gold yesterday in the velodrome. So she is she has two gold medals. She didn't even take up cycling until five, six years ago. And

she walks away here with two gold medals. I mean't even take up cycling until five, six years ago. And she walks away here with two gold medals. I mean, to me, that story is just insane. You did tell us that last time. It's okay though. Well, not that she had a second one yesterday. She had a second gold yesterday. What the hell's going on there? Like, how is that possible? I thought, I thought the Turkish 50, 51. Yeah. What the Turkish 51 year old who shows up, put his hands in his jeans and then just wins a silver medal. What's what's with people just showing up at the Olympics and winning? That's not supposed to happen. medal in 40 years, something like that yesterday as well. We have we have like the U.S. women against Australia water polo that could get mean and nasty today.

Women's volleyball, big rivalry, USA, Brazil today. So we're getting to the point where it's like, you know, the big headliners finally going at it in the semis and finals. So we're getting to that. We got no miles as well today. I mean, no miles woke up and tweeted something like you're already dead. Did you see that? Like an anime reference here from a character that I don't know anything about, but you're already dead in Japanese. So he's calling his shot. He claims it's over today for the 200.

He's getting his double. Ceciliano, can you turn over your right shoulder and read off of that guy's shirt who's standing behind you? Can you just- Greg was right and you know it. Oh! And you know it! Can you take us through- Who else is in this studio?

These guys- Who else do you want me to find? These guys- Home Bro Call. They're all at- No, he's being negative somewhere else. Peacock's Gold Zone, they broadcast 329 metal moments from Paris by the end of this weekend. It's all gonna be over and are you hearing anything about what Tom Cruise is gonna do?

Have you heard any exclusive information about the stunt that Tom Cruise is gonna pull in taking over the Olympics to Los Angeles I have not I have only read what you have read which is they were going to do something in Will Rogers Park which is like right across the street from Riviera then they were gonna do I have not heard then there was something with the Hollywood sign so I mean I think I've just read the whole TMZ stuff that you guys have read. I am not privy to that stupor secret info. To be fair, if there was gonna be someone

who's gonna break that news, it would be Mike Ryan. I wouldn't turn to any other source in the world. Yeah, the excerpt that I've seen from this TMZ story leads me to believe that there's a transatlantic flying squirrel suit situation because it makes it seem like he's picking something up in Paris and then dropping it off. Now he may indeed, if anyone can figure out

interstellar travel and like breaking the speed of light, it would be Tom Cruise. In the squirrel suit. In the squirrel suit, so. 15 hours across the Atlantic. Some would say this mission is impossible. Didn't Bill Collins do that like during Live Aid where he played London, hopped on the Concorde,

then played New York? Yes he did, shout out to the Concorde. He did that in Squirrels. In a squirrel suit, yes. You mentioned Noah Lyles and I think for, in these Olympics there's probably nobody that has the more potential for just being a breakout star. He's already done the double in the world championships, but it's nothing like the Olympics.

What is going on with him? Is he just like a drama king and he wants to finish second in the semis, not really putting it all out there because I'm a little nervous for this 200. It's supposed to be his better race. Yeah, he doesn't lose even heats in the 200. So the look on his face when he didn't win that heat, I was reading his face and there wasn't like the big smile. Big deal. I don't care. It was kind of stoic there. So I'm curious to see. I think he's still going to have that same Noah Lyles energy. I don't know if he's going to take a Pokemon card out of his suit like he did back at, you know, the U.S. trials. But this is it. I mean, this is the Wheaties box.

This is this is everything. If he can get the 200 now, if he does it like, I mean, I guess whatever big deal, he's still got the gold in the 100. But this is his thing. I mean, he calls the 200 his wife and the 100 his mistress. You know, city of light and city of love. He's bringing them all together. He got the one that people doubted him, right?

He wasn't supposed to. I mean, he said he was going to get it, but people doubted him on the 100. No one doubts him on the 200. He is supposed to win the 200. But if he gets them both, then he's Carl Lewis, you know, Carl Lewis in 84 in LA. And I mean, he has written his ticket for life if he gets this.

Andrew, you said this is the make or break out story, but we've known about Noah Lyles for a while now. Simone Lyles we've known about for a while, Katie Ledecky we've known about for a while. Who is the breakout American star? Whose life is gonna change? Not just like, oh yeah, you want to gold medal, but you're coming back home and now you're getting

Wheaties boxes and commercials and all types of exposure. That's a good question. I'm a fan of Gabby Thomas. She won the 200 and did so cruising to victory. I mean, we know Gabby Thomas, I guess, but that was a big stage for her to claim it. I love Gabby Thomas as well. I'm a huge Gabby Thomas fan.

Steven Naderosic maybe, the Pommel Horse closer, your Mariano Rivera of Pommel Horse, if you will, who came in and closed and he's got the glasses and he's got the memes and everybody wants a picture with him. I think a lot of Mar women's rugby, which seems like a year ago already. But it was the first week and the fact that they won in walk off fashion like like that.

I mean, that was one of the first like shock the world moments, I think, for not only the Americans, but for the games in general. I think she with with that platform, Tom Brady. I mean, look at her social media. She already had a gazillion followers. She was already I don't know how many she had on TikTok, but she was a massive TikTok star. That has exploded. And I guarantee you, she's making serious bank there. Everyone wants a picture with her.

So I think those are the American names that have truly written their ticket, I think, when they get back home. Goldzone and Peacock have crushed it. 10 hours a day, day every day all week long You finally linked up with Scott Hanson. What was that experience like? What was the feedback of that experience? The feedback was good. We had a good time You know, maybe in retrospect would have been great to do it like on a Sunday like we're together on Sunday

But there were so many golds to hang out. We hand out over the weekend, like 48 golds and 49 hours. But making us the story, if you will, would have been silly. So we did it on Monday. We did 45 minutes thereabouts to an hour. To me, it kind of felt like that old Martin short, like synchronized swimming bit from S.M.L. like SNL like SNL like I know you I know you But we're not the same person obviously

It was it was fun. It like it was back and forth Nobody was trying to step on the other one. Maybe we'll do it again. I Like I didn't want to talk too much. You didn't want to talk too much Like there was so much great stuff going on, you know We're trying to cram as much on the screen as we can. But yeah, it was cool. It's like Pacino and De Niro and heat. Yeah, just like that.

We appreciate it. Like they put up the Kobe and Shaq pictures. I'm like, come on, guys. It was. Hey, I like that people liked it. How about that? If everyone at home liked it, then good times for everybody. We appreciate all the work and we appreciate you making so much time for us. By the

way, stunning to see your hair look this resplendent at the end of this gauntlet that you've run. I mean, it looks so good. Well, so I did make the turn when I made the turn. I'm like, there's a little I didn't like that little spot I saw back there. So we might have to go fix that before we get on air. Can you fix that in post, please? We'll edit it, even though it's live. And everyone's already seen it. Thank you, good seeing you, Andrew.

See you guys. Mike, you were singing in my ear. You're obsessed with Brandon Iuke. You wanted to interrupt everything Cecilia was saying. I wanted to do, I had coffee with McCully a half hour ago because I got heat on my mind. Not the Miami heat, I have nothing there. We have our news that we're breaking next,

but apparently it's already broken on the internet. No! Yeah, according to At LeBotard Show on various social media channels, John Tesh will be debuting a new edition of Roundball Rock after the break. The new edition. The new edition. Yeah, remember during lockdown, John Tesh made a promise to us that we could have the rights to Round Ball Rock. Now little did we know this would be a major deal

for us because we never thought that NBC would get the rights back and Round Ball Rock would be back in the big leagues. I know that Fox uses it for college basketball, but he promised us this and he could have just walked away from the deal, pretended like it wasn't legally binding but he's a man of his word. Honor. So, we are debuting a new edition of Round Ball Rock. The new. The new edition. The new, not a new, the new.

The new edition of Round Ball Rock coming up after the break. Howdy folks, we're in August now. It's the dog days of summer, but the summer tours are still crescendoing and really consequential Major League Baseball games are going down. It's a great time to get Major League Baseball tickets. Where do you get them? Well, I've got just the place for you. Game Time. It's an authorized ticket marketplace in Major League Baseball, which makes getting tickets faster

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Don Lebatard! If all the raindrops were lemon drops and gum drops, oh what a rain that would be. Stugats! Standing outside with my mouth open wide. Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah. If all the raindrops were lemon drops and gum drops, oh what a rain that would be. Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah Very exciting, this music makes me happy. I don't know how many of you are made happy by this music instantaneously. I am at least in part made happy because it's the only bit of music anybody's ever given us.

He just handed it over. John Tesch has the rights to this music and he says you can have it. And so he gave it to us. He just handed it over. John Tesh has the rights to this music and he says you can have it. And so he gave it to us. It was an amazing gift. John- Terrible deal on his part. Yeah, not a good negotiator.

John Tesh is a favorite around here because of that. And Entertainment Tonight. Also. And John Tesh was supposed to be here but he's busy making music at all times a rockin out at all times and he did do was the courtesy of explaining to us because i'm assuming now my head rock you kept saying uh... you kept saying

a version of round ball rock but i'm left to assume that the bit of uh... music we're about to play given to us by John Tesh For a reveal to the nation is going to be what NBC ends up using correct like it's been decided It's no longer negotiations talking back and forth John Tesh has made new music for NBC I did not know that we're debuting this Wow, we are a big deal. I thought that that's what we were doing now. This is the official new round ball rock. Yes, I believe that's what we're

doing. Whatever he's going to set up right now. I think he's here. He's not here, but he has sent word like at the Academy Awards when they're accepting their award, but they can't be there in person. So John Tesh has made us a video to include us in this process it's very exciting let's throw it to that hey guys it's great to be with you again I'm real excited about sharing this new piece that I put together I wanted to want you guys to have it first to see what you thought it is that we're calling it the the shredded version of brown ball rock we went back into the studio and got me on Hammond Organ

and a guitar player named Andrew Sinawick who's pretty incredible and the rest of my band. And we put together another, I wrote an extra piece to put on the end of Round Ball Rock and then we did what's known as the shredded version. So get ready because here's the first time anybody other than the people in the recording studio are hearing it. I do have one beef with you guys and that is you recently interviewed

an old friend of mine who sort of turned on me and his name is Triumph the Insult Dog. And I see the clip and you guys have Tishan and you're celebrating. Oh, yes, even though we're losing inside the NBA, at least we're getting round ball rock. Hooray. What a great deal. We're trading Charles Barkley for John Tesh. That's a fair trade. Maybe we can trade Kenny Smith for Yanni. And I noticed that when he was going after me

that you didn't defend me at all. It's cool, I understand, it's Hollywood stuff. But as we debut the shredded version of Roundball Rock, I just want to say to you, Triumph, because I know you're watching the show as well, to you, here is Roundball Rock, the shredded version for you to poop on! I'm gonna be a good boy I'm gonna be a good boy I'm gonna be a good boy I'm gonna be a good boy I'm gonna be a good boy I'm gonna be a good boy

I'm gonna be a good boy I'm gonna be a good boy I'm gonna be a good boy I'm gonna be a good boy I'm gonna be a good boy I'm gonna be a good boy I'm gonna be a good boy I'm gonna be a good boy I thought you said John Tesh was not here. This thing rips, Dan-O.

Oh my god, my eyebrows. This is a heater. You are smoking. What? My eyebrows are on fire. By the way, I was like Izzy, you must be very happy that there's a shredded version. I was so close to taking my shirt off, but these guys are all you needed to look at. Oh, you should have taken your shirt off. The Izzy version. Theded version. I was so close to taking my shirt off, but these guys are all you needed to look at. Oh, you should have taken your shirt off.

The Izzy version, the shredded version. This is the biggest thing we've ever done on our show. This is, this harkens back to a time. This is, this is the greatest thing. Is our guitar player like the third member of Simon and Garfunkel? What is this look here? Cause it's not John Tesh.

No, it's John Tesh's brother. Phil Tesh. For the audio audience, in the back there, Tony and Lewis, they were losing their headsets while also weirdly starting to break a crap wear out. Visually spoofing Saturday Night Live, which was spoofing the Dunk It. Bum bum bum bum bum, basketball, gimme gimme gimme the ball. Saturday Night Live which was spoofing the dunk it.

Basketball, gimme gimme gimme the ball. I'm gonna dunk it. That's amazing. I'm very happy. I imagine the audience that's nostalgic is going to love that. I don't know if everyone will be as enthusiastic as us nostalgic. Dude, I'm so grateful that John Tesh decided to debut this with us, but legitimate Goosebumps moment when that first guitar hit. Boom!

And I realized that this wasn't a joke and we were actually going to over-deliver on something. This might bring back hair bands, it's that good. Yeah. ["Hair Band's Theme Song"] Wow. Wow, thank you, John Tesh. I'm gonna go to the bathroom. I'm gonna go to the bathroom. I'm gonna go to the bathroom. I'm gonna go to the bathroom. I'm gonna go to the bathroom. I'm gonna go to the bathroom. I'm gonna go to the bathroom.

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I'm gonna go to the bathroom. I'm gonna go to the bathroom. I'm gonna go to the bathroom. I'm gonna go to the bathroom. I'm gonna go to the bathroom. I'm gonna go to the bathroom. I'm gonna go to the bathroom. I'm gonna go to the bathroom. I'm gonna go circuit, really. Quiet Riot was there. That's why I went. I went because, but I mean, no hair bands are still doing it? Like substantively?

Like new hair bands? No, of course not. I would assume that there are not any new- I imagine there are some that are trying to keep the art form alive, but no, it's nostalgia circuit now. And are any of them doing it well, or it's all crappy, playing crappy venues or somebody is out there,

not that Metallica is a hair band, but Metallica could get out there and obviously Phil Stegman. Chris Jericho's trying to keep it alive with his band Fosse. Sebastian Bach, is he still around? Yeah, and yeah. I like that guy. Yeah, there's actually a video of him speaking at a conference trying to do Steely Dan poorly.

But he's, no, Sebastian Bach, he was recently at Rockville. There was no announcement that, Why are we talking about hair bands? Let's talk about Round Ball Rock, man! What are you doing? There was an announcement. It was Nirvana, with Smells Like Teen Spirit. Dead, gone.

How did that make you feel, I mean, as somebody who is a nostalgic old person? Oh, I mean, I got emotional. I do a good job of masking it, but that song, that riff has something on me that I can't ever shake no matter where I am because it reminds me of all those great Sunday afternoons you turn on NBC and Marv Albert or Bob Costas

has this whole monologue. And as I pray, NBC has a department of people who are just writing these monologues to open every single one of these big games. Because that's the most important part, is you get this very uplifting kind of building music, and Marv Albert says something like, somebody's gotta set the tone, right?

Yeah, you gotta say that the banner in the summit hangs for, does not hang for Clyde Drexler. Like things like that like oh like Ernie Banks, Mr. Cobb never went to the World Series OJ Simpson the first man to run more than 2,000 yards never played in the Super Bowl and Michael Jordan has never played in the NBA finals That's a real NBA on NBC intro ladies and gentlemen like all of those things are burned in my head and at the end of it You get a statement today Someone gets an answer. Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba.

And the NBC peacock thing goes in there. Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba. The music hits and you get all that stuff and guys complaining to Jake O'Donnell and stuff. Bam, Peter Vesey. We can do this in real time. Why don't you give it the setup that you want and we'll cue up the new shredded version

of Round Ball Rock right after you. I'll do this what I'll do. I'll write one for a fictitious game in the future What can I do it where Anthony Edwards has just been traded to the Miami Heat? Complicated is like just like do it on the fly Leaker I get a tech I got a cute up and ready to go. He says he's not a leaker. I get a text from him. Not a leaker?

Who said anything about leaking? I get a text. It's a hypothetical in the future. Because I was going to set it up with the new shredded version. I was going to set up great new speculation and you just stole it from me after accusing me of being a leaker because of something I shared with you during the break. Is there news I hadn't heard? I was just coming up with something wild and wacky.

What do you want to do? I want to write this monologue. All right. Well, that's going to take a minute. You're not going to- Keep your eyes on the round ball guys. This was a big moment for us and our show. John Tesh gave us the exclusive. I think we're making a mistake

and not just going right back to it personally. Well, the way to go right back to it is as introduction to some speculation I believe people need to watch out for now that a mean has betrayed me and and leaked Information that I was giving him during the break But you guys are screwing up this aggregated report so bad the star of the show is John Tesch Yes, okay, so like thank you like regurgitate whatever old intro that you love You don't have to write a new one or come up with

With one on the fly, but let's get back to this shredded version of round ball It's pretty close to the original. Yeah, but it's shredded, Dan, to the shredded version. This one's not ours, just to be clear. I'm sorry, yours. Right, that is correct. This one does not belong to us. We actually owed them $20,000. This now belongs to NBC.

You may have heard that. Turn that down, Dan. They paid a lot of money for the rights to basketball. Music are expensive it's why Su Godz isn't here today we couldn't afford his daily rate the music has gotten very expensive ever since we left ESPN ESPN wasn't willing to pay for any music either no that was the whole thing there our issues with rights predate independence independence. Very exciting. A lot has changed over the years, audience, as you've been so kind in pointing out.

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I mean, Stugats, it's a great question. It's a great question. If they win game six, that hurts my chances of coming down here and being head coach with Joel. It's a real handsome question, Stugats. This is the Don LeBattar Show with the Stugats. I can't believe that Amin just did that to us. But anymore, you're writing, you're busy writing, you're going to spend the rest of the time writing an intro

because this was the time, I would say, this music harkens back to a time for you when you were first falling in love with Basketball as the idea that wait a minute I can make my living at this and then Eventually compare it to working in the salt mines I can make my living working in basketball because I'm falling in love with everything this sport is This is the musical background to that feeling. This is the soundtrack to that feeling. Absolutely that this is a The song that plays, you know, it's very easy in this business, Dan, to get jaded. Jaded in the sense, not in the sense

to call it a salt mine of a job, but jaded in the sense that, you know, people ask me, what's your favorite team? I don't have a favorite team. I'm like, why, how is that possible? I'm like, well, I just like basketball, but it's because I've consumed it as someone who knows how the sausage gets made

for 25 years or so, almost, going on 25 years. So a lot of that kind of innocent love is gone. I see things happen, I'm like, yeah, of course it's happening, because this guy is talking to this guy and this guy's got a problem with that guy, whatever. I don't get to have that fandom of just like, oh my God, what's my team gonna do whatever? That feeling only resurfaces when I hear that so I made my kid watch an NBA on NBC intro the other day

I went what was it cuz I was trying to explore. I was trying to explain. Oh wow This is gonna really spiral out of control. I was trying to explain the Alan Parsons project serious song, right? Like this is the Michael, the famous Michael Jordan intro, the way that they would come into the arena and end the introductions with Michael Jordan. And so I told my kid, I said, this song, literally,

if you play it to people of a certain age, it only means one thing. It don't even mean Alan Parsons project anymore. It just means, I'm Mark Caroline, I'm Michael Jordan, which by the way, they reprised in Hard Knocks that I wanna talk about later. So then I started talking about how music, kinda we had a, right now these kids nowadays,

I don't think there's a song or a music that has as great of an attachment to basketball as it did when we were coming up. Even here in Miami, for years, when I was working in Phoenix, if you heard coming in the air tonight, Phil Collins, oh, that's Miami. So we would go to other arenas and they would play like, you guys can't play that, that's their song.

Yeah, and in pro basketball, they tend to switch those songs up. The Bulls have maintained this, but I think the only thing in American sports that actually has something that connects and that is soaked in tradition that way is probably college football at this point.

Yeah, but I kind of feel like NBA teams need to go back to that. Stop trying to be, oh, what's the new song? Oh, Kendrick Not Like Us? How many teams are gonna have Not Like Us as their intro music next year? Not the Raptors. So through that conversation, I said,

we used to watch, before the NBA was on ESPN and ABC, it was on NBC. And he said, really? And I'm like, yeah. And this is how it would start every game. And I played this whole playlist of, and this is before practice, where I'm taking my kid to practice, I was sitting in the car, we're watching YouTube videos of just all of these great monologues by Tom Hammond, by Bob Costas, by Marv Albert,

where they are painting a picture. It's poetry. It really is poetry. As I'm trying to write this, I'm trying to mimic and imitate what they're doing. And it was this thing that got you ready. Oh my God, this game isn't just a game. This is for all the marbles.

It didn't matter if it was a February Sunday. Like you felt stakes attached to every single one of these. And then at the end, they would just end it with a line, like one man, one team figures it out today. And then you get that peacock outlined, and then the music hits, and all the endorphins. Oh! I think, I mean, Nailed It, Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! I think I may nail that just with the word stakes. Nobody sets the stakes quite like NBC. For me, at least it wasn't basketball. For me, what made me fall in love with the NBA was,

honestly, the replays of the finals in 84, but then a little older when I was, it was TNT, but it was because it was the late night game, right? I felt like I was doing something special because I was up late, and my mom's like, you better wake up early, and I'm like, don't worry, Mom, I'll get up. And so that was, but when we got to the weekend games,

it was, hey, put Mom away, put the children away, like, it's just focus on the TV, it was a big deal. Like, I remember telling my mom, especially for a playoff game, and it was on NBC. I remember telling her, Hey, listen, I'm going to get unreasonably upset today. I might even break like the recliner chair, just leave me be for at least 20 minutes after the game. And then, and all of that was set up by NBC. Nobody did it the way they did.

And I think bringing that back is they got Sundays, right? I mean, bringing that back on Sundays after Sunday Night Football is going to sort of reset that a little bit better than Turner did. I'm telling you there's nothing that used to for you talking about teenage I mean you want to drive me crazy like let's do it just say this NBC triple header oh triple header 1230 until God knows when We're doing game after game after game. And there was never a feeling like, this is too much. I got to go.

I got stuff to do. Like, nope. We're going to sit there and watch all three games. One of my earliest hoops memories as a kid, I must have been 11, 12 years old, where listening to that round ball rock NBA on NBC, JL Blazers versus Lakers, like 2002-ish, where they would have those monologues

about the jail blazers and then all of a sudden the shack and Kobe and they had just won a title and it's like I remember watching sitting in this little like a living room with a little square TV with a big back and just sitting there like oh my god I can't believe this is the biggest thing on planet earth and was like game 27 they made Bonzi Wales look like the biggest jerk in the world dude look they did great jobs of defining for us who the characters were, right? You didn't walk in and say,

who is this guy, Nikola, joke it? No, we knew, we knew because they had painted him as either the hero or the villain. My favorite ones are always the Game 7 ones. There's one, the Knicks Rockets Game 7 from 94, is insane because it goes through all the Game 7s in NBA Finals history and they show you like, they've got the cool music in the background

and they show you the winners spraying champagne and then they show you like the losers to see like Isaiah Thomas and Joe Dumar sitting on the bench in Game 7 in 87, or excuse me in 88 and just looking dazed. And it's like, these are the stakes, man. Either you're gonna be remembered as a hero or you're gonna be forgotten as a villain.

And man, there's nothing like it. There really is nothing like it. We're putting a lot of pressure on this song. No we're not. At least you think. But what if they can't recreate what they did in the past? But the biggest part of it was John Tesh delivering and that he did, he definitely did.

And when you talk about really fond memories of NBC, it's not just the games themselves, but it was the teases for what's coming next. Remember, the movie of the week was a big deal, or in my instance, as someone that was a fan of science fiction at the time, stay tuned for another episode of Sequest. I can't believe hearing you guys talk,

it's making me think that that, everything you're just describing in the modern age, can't be so again, because we're getting too much sports from everywhere to be falling in love musically with a triple header of regular season games because we have that, we are consuming so much of this stuff that it can't be the wonder and discovery that you're talking about. I think you're wrong because we're living in a time right now, you can't appreciate nostalgia.

20 years from now, if Carrie Underwood isn't still doing the intro to Sunday Night, people are gonna talk about Sunday Night Football on NBC, the way that we're talking about the NBA on NBC right now. Oh, Carrie Underwood, all right, Sunday night, and then the John Williams score, like all that stuff. It matters in the moment, and you don't really have a true appreciation

for when someone's absolutely killing it and knocking out at the park. The way that John Tesh did. The thing that Izzy and Amin are talking about though is being in front of the television on a Saturday and a Sunday is if you can't get that every night of the week now depending on your streaming service. They need something different.

They need, I think, a villain. And I said his name as a joke before, but Peter Vesey was kind of thought of that. He was the reporter that everybody hated, even the players. And when you listened to him, you thought, like, if you liked a player, you had a defensive stance. You're like, wait a second, is that guy telling me what's true or is he just telling me

what he wants people to hear? Well, I think you're in luck because Skip Bayless is available. Oh no, but Peter Vessi's a basketball guy, right? Like he wasn't an outsider, an interloper coming in. Skip Bayless is a basketball guy. No, he's not. He just parachutes in, has a basketball take

and then parachutes out. Steven A is gonna be available possibly. Steven A would be a good one because he's a basketball guy. I can think of another basketball guy that everyone seems to hate for some reason. Maybe. Oh, you're nominating yourself?

Maybe sitting in the studio right now. Can you parachute out? You can parachute in, but can you parachute out? Tom Cruise will find a way. Let us know the Olympics are coming to LA, baby! How are we able to keep secret that? We can't keep secret anything. I mean, we kept secret from ourselves, this John Tesh thing. I'm proud of us

This is this is a much more important thing than whatever Tom Cruise is trying to do until we snitch like 10 minutes before the segment came on I get what we were doing there because The fact that we actually delivered on something it was worth celebrating and getting audience in. We delivered on something! Hit it one more time! One more time! Yes, delivered! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Can I borrow your hair, guitar? A lot has changed over the years, audience.

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