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Welcome to the Big Suey, presented by DraftKings. Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan Levitard 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 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-Boy 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 yesterday.

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 um 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 um they don't know the music

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 Estee 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 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 is 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. Yeah.

That one's tough. We were talking about that actually last night. I think he was right behind you. We did it.

What's up? We made this happen. Yeah, the balcony and the-- this place is huge. 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 if, did I tell this story last time? And she started working on Wall Street and then she took up cycling because she went to a clubhouse

a clinic in Central Park oh I'm gonna be a cyclist this is fun and then she won gold in the road race wasn't even 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 to me that story is just insane you did tell us that last time it's okay though

Well, now she added a second one yesterday. She added a second gold yesterday. What the hell? So there you go. What's going on there? Like, how is that possible? I thought the Turkish 51-year-old who shows up, put his hands in his jeans, and then just wins a silver medal. What's with people just showing up at the Olympics and winning? That's not supposed to happen. Hi.

We had our first men's weightlifting U.S. medal in 40 years, something like that, yesterday as well. 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,

you know, the big headliners finally going at it in the semis and finals. So we're getting to that. We got Noah Lyles as well today. I mean, Noah Lyles 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. Siciliano, can you turn over your right shoulder and read off of that guy's shirt who's standing behind you? Greg was right, and you know it. 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? Tom Brokaw. 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 going to be over. And are you hearing anything about what Tom Cruise is going to do? Have you heard anything?

Any exclusive information about the stunt that Tom Cruise is going to 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 going to do. I have not heard. Then there was something with the Hollywood sign. So I think I've just read the whole TMZ stuff that you guys have read. I am not.

privy to that super secret info. To be fair, if there was going to be someone who's going to break that news, it would be Mike Ryan. I wouldn't turn to any other source in the world. Yeah, the excerpts 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 breaking the speed of light, it would be Tom Cruise. In a squirrel suit. In a squirrel suit. 15 hours across the Atlantic. Some would say this mission is impossible. Didn't Bill Collins do that during Live Aid where he played London, hopped on the Concorde, then played New York? Yes, he did. Shout out to the Concorde. Yes, he did that in a squirrel suit.

- In a squirrel suit, yes. - You mentioned Noah Lyles and I think 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 the U.S. trials. But

But this is it. I mean, this is the Wheaties box. This is everything if he can get to 200. Now, if he does it, like, I mean...

I guess whatever big deal he still got the 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 like he wasn't supposed to I mean he said he was gonna get it but people doubted him on the 100. um 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. Carl Lewis in '84 in LA. And I mean, he has written his ticket for life if he gets this. - Andrew, you said he, this is, this would make a breakout story, but we've known about Noah Lyles for a while now.

Simone Biles 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 going to change? Not just like, oh yeah, you won a gold medal, but you're coming back home and now you're getting Wheaties boxes and commercials and all types of exposure. That's,

That's a good question. I'm a fan of Gabby Thomas. She won the 200 and did so cruising the 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 Edorosik, maybe the pommel horse closer. You're 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 uh with that platform Tom Bray I mean look at her social media she already had the gazillion followers she's 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.

Gold Zone and Peacock have crushed it 10 hours a day, every day, all week long. My dad loves it. You finally linked up with Scott Hansen. 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, it would have been great to have

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 uh we did 45 minutes thereabouts to an hour um i to me it kind of felt like that old martin short like synchronized swimming bit from sml like snl like i know you i know you but we're not the same person obviously um

It was fun. It was back and forth. Nobody was trying to step on the other one.

maybe we'll do it again uh 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 across just like that we appreciate like they put up the Kobe and and uh Shaq pictures I'm like come on guys it was

I like that people liked it. How about that? If everyone at home liked it, then good times for everyone. 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.

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 Ayuk. You wanted to interrupt everything Siciliano was saying. I had coffee with McCulley 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. Yeah. According to At Levitard 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. The new edition. Yeah, remember, during lockdown, John Tesh made a promise to us. Yes. That we could have the rights to Round Ball Rock. Yes. 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 edition. The new, not a new, the new. The new edition of Round Ball Rock coming up after the break.

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If all the raindrops were lemon drops and gumdrops, oh, what a rain that would be. This is the Don Levitas Show with the Stugats. Woo-hoo!

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 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. 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, rocking out at all times. And he did do us the courtesy of explaining to us, because I'm assuming now, Mike, you kept saying, you kept saying,

a version of Round Ball Rock, but I'm left to assume that the bit of 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? What?

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. Wow, whatever he's going to set up right now? I think so. Well, 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 really excited about sharing this new piece that I put together and I wanted to, I wanted you guys to have it first to see what you thought. It is, we're calling it 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 Sinowick 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 Tish on and you're celebrating. Oh, yes, even though we're losing inside the NBA, at least we're getting round ball rockets.

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 Round Ball Rock, I just want to say to you, Triumph, because I know you're watching the show as well, to you, here is Round Ball Rock, the shredded version, for you to poop on! ♪♪

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I thought you said John Tesh was not here. This thing rips, Dan-O. Oh my God, my eyebrows. This is a heater. You're smoking. 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. 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? Because 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. Visually spoofing Saturday Night Live, which was spoofing the Dunk It. Basketball, give me, give me, give me the balls. I'm going to 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 folks. Dude, I'm so grateful that John Tesh decided to debut this with us, but legitimate goosebump moment when that first guitar hit. 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.

Wow. Thank you, John Tesh. Yes. What happened to hair bands? Are they gone? Are hair bands still out there? Are hair bands gone? I saw Quiet Riot play at Dania Hylia like three months ago. Exactly. Exactly. But I didn't see them at Hard Rock. It's been a minute. They were on at Dania Hylia, Dad. Nostalgia circuit. 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 ones. 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, Fozzy. Sebastian Bach, is he still around? Yeah, 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 Rambo 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 like 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

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 got to set the tone, right? Yeah, you've got to say that the banner in the summit does not hang for Clyde Drexler. Things like that. Like, oh, Ernie Banks, Mr. Cub, never went to the World Series. O.J. 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. 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.

And the NBC Peacock thing goes. The music hits and you get all that stuff and guys complaining to Jake O'Donnell and stuff. And then 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. I'll do. I'll write one for a fictitious game in the future.

Can I do it? Where Anthony Edwards has just been traded to the Miami Heat and he's playing against the Minnesota Bulls. Don't overcomplicate this. Just do it on the fly. I got a text. He says he's not a leaker. I get a text. Who said anything about leaking? It's a hypothetical in the future. Because I

I was going to set it up with the new shredded version. I was going to set up great news 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. Keep your eyes on the round ball, guys. This was a big moment for us and our show. John Tesh gave us the exclusive episode.

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 Amin has betrayed me 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 Tesh. Yes. Okay? Thank you. So regurgitate whatever old intro that you love. You don't have to write a new one or come up with one on the fly. But let's get back to this shredded version of Round Ball Rock. Hit it. It's pretty close to the original. Yeah.

Yeah, but it's shredded. It's 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 NBC. We actually owe them $20,000. This now belongs to NBC. You may have heard that. Turn that down, Ben. They paid a lot of money for the rights to basketball. Music rights are expensive. It's why Sugats 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. Very exciting. Spinoff knows there's no I in football. It's a we thing. An experience best enjoyed together. Whether

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The Smell Not Company, New York, New York. Please do not share with anyone under legal drinking age. Don Levitard. Doc Rivers. You know, Joel, he's going to tweet what he wants to tweet. And quite frankly, I'm fine with it. If anything, I want to go to Miami too. Is that all right? I mean, isn't Spoh supposed to be in the front office by now? Hey.

I could hit the back nine right after practice. Oh, he'd love that. Oh, my God. Stugatz. Me and Joel, let's go. I mean, Stugatz, 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, Stugatz. This is the Dan Labatar Show with the Stugatz.

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 and

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. This is the song that plays, you know, it's very easy in this business, Dan, to get jaded, right?

not in the sense to call it a salt mine of a job, but jaded in the sense that people ask me, what's your favorite team? I don't have a favorite team. They're like, what? How is that possible? I'm like, well, I just like basketball, but it's because I've consumed it as...

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, that innocent love is gone. Like I see things happen, I'm like, yeah, of course it's happening 'cause 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 song. I made my kid watch an NBA on NBC intro the other day. What was it? Because I was trying to explain. Oh, I was trying to explain. Oh, wow, this is going to 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, and 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. We don't even mean Alan Parsons project anymore. It just means I'm Michael Jordan, which by the way, they reprised in hard knocks that I want to talk about later.

So then I started talking about how music kind of, 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 then has that is soaked in tradition that way is probably college football at this point yeah but like I kind of feel like NBA teams need to go back to that stop trying to be oh what's the new song oh like oh Kendrick not like us well how many teams are gonna have not like us as their intro music next year not the Raptors

So through that conversation, I said, you know, we used to watch before the NBA was on ESPN and ABC. It was on NBC. Really? And I'm like, yeah. And this is how it would start every game. And I played this whole playlist of what is before practice. I'm taking my kid to practice. We're 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, by.

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! Oh!

I think Amin nailed it just with the word stakes. Nobody sets the stakes quite like NBC. For me, at least it was in 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 focused 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, the recliner chair, just leave me be for at least 20 minutes after the game. And then I,

And all of that was set up by NBC. Nobody did it the way they did. And I think bringing that back, because 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? 12.30 until God knows when? We're doing game after game after game, and there was never a feeling like, this is too much, or 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, Jailblazers versus Lakers, like 2002-ish, where they would have those monologues about the Jailblazers, and then all of a sudden it's Shaq and Kobe, and they had just won a title. And it was like, I remember watching, sitting in this little,

like 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 it was like game 27. They made Bonzi. Wells 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? Nicola joke. No, no, no. We knew, we knew because they had painted him as either the hero or the villain. I,

My favorite ones are always the Game 7 ones. 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, the

And spraying champagne, and then they show you, like, the losers, and see, like, Isaiah Thomas and Joe Dumars 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 going to be remembered as a hero, or you're going to be, like...

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 John. 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,

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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 going to 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 it out of 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 as 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 Vesey's a basketball guy, right? Like he wasn't an outsider, an interloper coming in. Steve Bayless is a basketball guy. No, he's not. He just parachutes in, has a basketball take, and then parachutes out. Stephen A is going to be a good one possibly. Stephen 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 he's 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 L.A., 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 a much more important thing than whatever Tom Cruise is trying to do. Until we snitched 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 did it one more time! One more time! Yes!

Can I borrow your air guitar?

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