Hour 1: Knick What You Buck
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You know why I'm smiling, Pablo?

Football season's almost here. Oh, boy. Yeah. You know why that makes me happy? Everyone's life gets so much happier and easier. And you know how I know football season's almost here? Because we got quarterbacks on whiteboards and hard knocks. Listen to my man Drake May get me fired up for football season. Dundolph and Wright. Dundolph and Wright, 72. Tundra, float, H-angle. Dundolph and Wright, 72.

tundra float h angle yeah so tundra stands for what 200 200 and what does float stand for uh it's got the corner of the app and flat we call it a flag so i mean we end up saying corner flag but it's like yeah and the angle is an angle you got me on that easy stuff then you use rita to the right linda to the left it was a flip formation good read it to the right linda to the left 72 five man protection slide to the wheel so if the strength of the formation is right which what formation is that again yeah good enough right yeah right he's he's there

wills over there the line would slide there we'd say 72 rita 72 rita gotcha oh look at everybody's like foreplay oh i hate it so i hate this entire genre hold on a video a person

Of cultural trend. What is wrong with you? How could you not appreciate that? All we just heard was a bunch of jargon that 99% of the audience has no idea what it means at all. You don't have to understand it to enjoy it. You know, a gun dolphin, right? Don't get you fired up. You are not American, my friend. The spider 2Y banana shit. We call that a post. Oh, yeah, easy. No problem. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A little flag.

Oh, yeah. We're just going to say vocabulary words that no one understands. Dude, Rita, Liz, Rip. We're not even at the MLB All-Star break. You've got to still be in base. You can't be in football mode yet. Billy, I need you here so badly. David, you have to understand what's happened to American sports. Not only has football overtaken the entire calendar, but football players being nerds. Oh, yeah.

What happened? Why are football players coming from my corner? That's why you're jealous, huh? It's but they're not even doing anything that I understand In the least you're so I don't even know if Drake may if his ability to do any of that is gonna translate to actually being good at quarterback and so here is This whole like American Idol contest of can you say the same the most amount of just bullshit?

That I presume is really something. But it's the point. It's not bullshit. Just because you don't understand it. But for everybody else, Dominique. I saw a video. It's like watching someone speak a language and be like, yeah, that's. No, but for Dominique, he's excited because what that means to him is it's almost football season, which means that he's got plenty to talk about and his life gets easier and it's the love of his life. I mean, absent family, et cetera. But football's love his life.

For me, I look at that video and I'm despondent beyond repair. The fact that we're going to talk about that when we could be talking so many things in baseball. We have so many other interesting things to talk about. Having Drake May. I realize what happened is.

Baseball's a dumb man's game and football's a smart man's game. I was just about to ask. I cannot believe football's getting away with this. And this makes you upset because you're like, obviously, hit ball, bat, run, base. And that is all you. You don't got no gun dolphin right. You ain't got a gun dolphin right nowhere near. It's like, you know the most intricate thing we could do?

base running and y'all be messing that up I saw somebody last week a guy on second base ran past a guy on first base come on dumb dumb no you gotta practice the third base coach giving the signs what's this what's this there's an indicator wait we don't have to do this we don't spend our life doing this oh wow I don't want to do that you do that with a glove though no we just do it with a glove yeah

Can I say this has been one of the great magic tricks of football media over the last decade? Thank you. Which is saying that if you can't identify coverages or know what the play is, you don't understand ball. You don't know ball. You don't know how good XYZ player is if you aren't looking at their air yards per attempt or their EPA per play. We know.

We watch the same football on Sunday as you do, Dominique. No, see, you've made a leap. You've put me in a category where I'm saying that no one can appreciate football unless you appreciate it on the levels that someone else appreciates it. Yeah, I was gaslighting you. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that that is objectively awesome. That's all. And I'm saying that if you can break our cheating scandals involved...

Spygate. That's a cheating scandal. Deflategate. Deflategate. Also a cheating scandal, but I'm saying that Spygate required extensive video footage review. You guys bank trash cans, dummies. But even, hold on. The whole thing of every football scandal, actually, even Deflategate. Fastball. It's actually for spin. Spin. Spin.

Even Deflategate wore the costume of science. The ideal gas law. Give me a weekend and a good book and I can manage a baseball team. It ain't that hard. And you're mad at me because your game is a dummy. I'm not a hater. You're jealous. I'm definitely not jealous of you. You're not jealous of football? Oh, I said I'm not jealous of you. I am jealous that people are interested in that drivel.

I feel like right now, speaking of gaslighting, you guys are gaslighting me into thinking that I'm the only one. This is awesome. And whether you understand it or not, I saw a guy on Instagram a couple of days ago juggling three Rubik's Cubes while solving them. I don't know how he did it, but it was cool as.

That's the same thing. Why can't y'all just watch it and say, this is cool as shit? Everyone can relate to juggling a Rubik's Cube and solving it while juggling. Ooh, hold up, check him out. Juju is currently patting his head while rubbing his belly, and that is hella impressive.

Anybody else? Can anybody else do that? Billy, God bless football. God bless football. You need football content. Do you look at that and say this is the content we love? I look at that and I say we're probably not allowed to play that, so I'm not going to address that. I do love a juggler. Wimby did have some great juggles. That was a little EPVEP situation.

I'm not convinced we were allowed to play the Gundy stuff either, but we can talk about that later. You don't have to comment on any of it. I just want to know. I want to get back to your hatred. So let's figure out what your hatred or jealousy is based on. Oh, you already said it. It's because you fancy yourself, like your greatest asset is I'm...

A nerd. And you don't like that someone else is nerding in an area in which you can't nerd. I think the pendulum has sung so far away. Did it swing to? Or it only sung? It swung. And sang. Be a good teammate, Dominique. Don't point out. And made the sound. Clip it. Clip it. God damn it. I have coffee. I got coffee in between segments. You don't have someone on your staff to do that?

How much time did Jessie spend on your under eyes? What? Jessie spends two to four minutes on mine every morning. I wake up... Jessie, our makeup person, for those who aren't on the know. She's the best. She's awesome. Love her. She's unbelievable. I mean, look what she does to me and to all of us, but I get very big pieces of luggage under my eyes. Brad! You look great, Pablo. You don't look tired at all. I feel...

like I want to go home right now.

Can I say that I'm a backup part of the Zach Eadie hive. The other day I let these folks bully me off of my mountain, and I was like, I love Zach Eadie, and they was like, brother, you are tripping. And I was like, okay, guys, I'm going to be your friend. But I saw something in Zach Eadie that I love. It wasn't the 15, 16 rebounds. It wasn't the points. Was he saying 90,000 basketball terms that no one could understand but were apparently very smart for basketball people? What was it? No.

What was it? Don't do me like that. It was whenever he had the back of his teammates. His teammate, JJ, got fouled and got kind of tried. And Zach pulled up and, nah, nah, bro, I'm ready. And this is the summer league. So imagine when he get next to John Wick. You feel me? Like, bro, he is going to, bro, Zach Eadie. I apologize to the Zach Eadie hype. I jumped off and I'm back on pause. I'm right back in here. I love y'all.

He also sets a hell of a screen. He also can touch the rim and the floor at the same time. Did anyone see that picture? That's a real basic thing. That was not a hatred. That was a jealousy thing. He was able... Do we have that? Yeah, let's show this video of Zach coming off a screen and dunking on people. Noted giant Asian Zach Eadie. Yum! I mean, big guys dunking, never fun.

Like Shaq's the only big guy dunking. I guess Dwight Howard, too. I found it very uncomfortable when LeBron James was guarding Jeff Van Gundy. Uncomfortable? It was awesome. I did. Oh, that's hilarious. At Team USA. Yeah, at the Team USA practice. Why was I uncomfortable about it? It just felt wrong to me. Let's explore this. It felt like Jeff Van Gundy.

was trying to prove a point, but it's like LeBron James, because of the size issue and the age issue, it just looked off. And it felt like Jeff Van Gunney was doing too much coaching. - You sure that was the only problem you had with it?

Don't. We got it here on the screen. It is a very funny visual. I just asked, are you sure? So Jeff Van Gundy is around 67 inches, and LeBron James is not. Well played. Let's see if LeBron can stay with him. You got to switch that. You got to switch that. You got to switch that. It is great. Watching him run is awesome. I mean, the Van Gundy brothers, you've seen the video of Stan. Oh, yeah. He got handles. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, Jeff, obviously, if he's on the floor, he can shoot. You got to go over that screen. A man like that is not on the floor unless you have to go over his screens. I do have a question about his hair. Yeah. It's the choice. Do you get that shaped up? Because that line is sharp. I feel like he'd look good if he just came home.

I don't think that he would look any different from the front, at least. I find this video. It's like they told Paul Feinbaum on the College Game Day show. They were like, he just go to the barber and tell him to hit the sides. Hey, that's all you can hit sometimes.

Nah, I think he gets a little, he gets tightened up. He get a line there. Yeah, I think, right, he get a little line. That's too clean. There's no strays or nothing. He get in the line. Get the razor blade out. Yeah, he back there like. What if Jeff Van Gundy started getting a little like lightning bolt on the side? I like that. That's a good move. As long as it's not two. Yeah, that'd be a problem. Salute to Black History Month. Yeah, shout out. We should have it, by the way. All months. 12 months of it. Nah, that's the scam. That's how y'all trick us.

I think that video is way more compelling than watching some guy talk about flash right. We never got. Can I can I express an observation about how we've evolved at talking about sports?

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where being confusing and extremely technical has become mainstream. And I just want to know when we decided this was a thing. You're back to your nerd. You feel like when we're too smart, that bothers you because then the difference between us and you is diminished? I am simply fascinated that there is one form of nerdery that everybody seems to be really into.

And they recognize this kind of sophistication that only a real genius could know is something that plays as both brilliant athletically and academically. Even though nobody who is saying, "Look how smart this guy is," knows anything about the formula that he's solving. This feels a lot like maybe Dirk Nowitzki being mad that Kevin Durant is here.

It's like you're a nerd that came to sports, and now you're like, sports are too nerdy. What are you talking about? This is all your fault, Pablo. I'm going back to being just a kid out there, guys. I'm pivoting. No, you're not. Deeply underrated. Your ego is way too big. Deeply as you came up for Daryl Morey. How dare you? How dare you call me out on a reasonable hypocrisy?

The Dan Marino school of gunslinger, the Brett Favre school of gunslinger. I just feel like we've gotten to a point where, and I think Dan Orlovsky is really good at what he does. I think he's the guy who's probably the best at the telestration and the breaking down and the dissection of

but it just feels like a lot of people nodding at something that they think they should be impressed by as opposed to actually knowing what's happening and we're getting away from the actual premise of like football players doing stuff on the field that is uh that is good it feels to me like you were someone in school who obviously did well in english class where you had to like evaluate a poem or break down the analysis in the book

Or a movie for that matter. David Sampson, you love movies. I do. So there are different levels for different people. So some people can see the allegory in a movie, in a book, and find that appealing, while other people can say, ooh, okay.

Big splosion. It's fine if you big splosion, guy. Don't get mad at us allegory bros. Relax, man. Just go watch people hit stuff and be happy. I think it's also the thing that makes guys lovable for women. It's like, get you a guy that can do both. We see this man out there slaying dragons every day, and he also has a knowledge of IQ. It's like seeing your favorite actor cry on stage. It's like, oh, dang. I'm with you, bro. I think that's a reasonable parallel. I just think we fetishize...

- I know what it is. - Jargon. - No, it's not fetishizing jargon, it's that, it's the one thing that you thought you had that you thought we could never take from you. And we've taken that also and it makes you uncomfortable. - So I think it's that, but I also think that it's about being cool. And when there's things going on that you don't understand, you wanna pretend you understand, which is pretty much me during the show.

I'm trying to understand stuff that I don't get. I'm trying to be part of a group that I'm clearly on the outside of. You did try to freestyle yesterday. I tried to do that. You were awesome, too. That was great. So there are people who will pretend they get what they're hearing when they don't. And they should not be. They should not be made fun of. They should be understood as making an effort to be included in something. My point is.

You can enjoy it without understanding it. This video only slaps in July. If this was week three, we'd be like, this is nothing. Exactly. Right now, we're just fiending for anything football. How about this? You listen to, this happens to me. Now at 41, I listen to hip hop music and I'm like, that's it.

That goes. You ask me what half of the slang in it means? I don't know, but that's all right. Shit sound cool. So why can't you just look at this and be like, hey, shit sound cool? Because you know it does, you hater. Are you comparing Drake May to...

Someone get him in here and give me a young rapper that I can reference. I knew that was happening. He needed help. He needed producing right there. He had not one name, and that's why we're going to say some old rappers. I mean, Drake May. He's going to run DMC or something. Oh, my gosh. I hope not. Drake May. NBA Youngboy. Drake May is the NBA Youngboy of quarterbacks. Well, NBA Youngboy, from what I understand, is like all his music is really aggressive and...

And like you don't want to mess with NBA Youngboy is kind of like or you're listening to that music It's like modern-day Nuck if you buck like all his songs are Nuck if you buck right is that I mean we have someone here who actually No, not give you bucks a fight song. Oh, we have someone here who I mob ho Mm-hmm. You don't know we got to teach you the lyrics in my entire life Cuz Billy just knew knock what you buck

Is it not what you buck? We could put a top five of white moments for David this week. We're going to clip that one too. The yesterday. I don't believe I'm good at that. Freestyling. If you're anywhere and true and if you buck comes on.

You better tighten your shoes and put your back against the wall because it's going down. I love when they play rap songs at bar mitzvahs because it's a full group of just Jewish people jumping up and down thinking they know what knock what you buck is and none of us do. I feel like my Drake May metaphor is really coming to fruition. It's not a metaphor. It's real, man.

It's more like a simile. This is why you're great in that chair. Like you are a first team all NBA side chair. Like do your side chair bit. You balling in a side chair. You said, knock what you buck. You know how many people are laughing right now every time you say, knock what you buck. You can't knock what you buck in this chair. This is not a knock what you buck chair. I'd like to sit in that chair.

But then you're not going to be able to knock what you buck. You might have to knock if you buck. You can knock what you buck. I want to sit in that chair.

Is it the chair or the actual seat or the position? You can switch chairs. So I did bring this up in an email that the chairs don't fit me. Well, if you want to know a secret, Stugatz has a special chair. I think you're in the Stugatz special chair. I think they move that chair over to where you're sitting. Because I'm 65? I think it's the 65 thing. So I can't get it higher than...

The chair I like is one that I can get higher, but the leg rest moves higher with you, 'cause right now my feet can't touch the floor. So I'm incredibly uncomfortable. - The director just said, in my ear, he for sure put that chair there because it's our highest chair.

For you. More cushion. You're going to put a garbage can? He's trying to help you. Well, so I've been looking for some sort of stool to rest my... You don't have any idea what I'm talking about. You don't like your feet to dangle? I do not like my feet to dangle. It's very tiring.

And these are the, you know how there's certain chairs that have a ledge on them. Okay, so I just want to clarify David Sampson and the many contradictions of him. David Sampson is tired because his legs are dangling. David Sampson also once ran seven marathons in seven continents in seven days. Outrageous. How are you the same person? Knock a few buck. Yes! Bravo. Thank you. I'm here all week. Including Friday. Hello. Hello.

Not alone with amazing people are going to be here just because you're not here. The show will go on without you in the captain's chair. It'll be great. It's been great all week and mainly because of you.

Mainly because you're in the chair? No, no, I'm serious. Mainly because of you. I would like to finally put a bow on this conversation about film breakdown. Pablo, just admit that it's awesome and you're just jealous and we can move on. Make me learn how to study for another standardized test to follow football now? Please, you would love if life was a standardized test.

If every station in life you had to do a standard lay is more successful. He'd be so happy. If he walked into his first date, it's like, here, stay there, I test. Give me that. Jump, stay there, I test. You would be scanning, troning. First thing they do for Survivor cast, you got to take an IQ test. That's how it starts. What else did you have to do to get on Survivor? A lot of shots, a lot of meetings with Jeff Probst and Mark Burnett. A lot of meetings with therapists, right?

Really? Yes. Yes. What were they checking for? You know, mommy issues. That's true. Can you be on an island for 39 days and not go crazy? And so how did you overcome yours to get on the show? Oh, I just lied. I pretended that I was totally normal and fine. You lasted one day.

Three days. Oh. Three days. And then I had an amazing... Look at this, man. That was me on Survivor. Was your tank top tattered before you got there? And you wore it because you think you would blend in as tougher? Or did that happen on the island? That was not on the island. Little known fact there, Normie. That is before shooting starts. You just called me some curds and whey-ass slur. He's killing you today, man. He is on your ass.

I love it. That is our cast. That is why I'm on the Brainstribe. The guy behind me was also on the Brainstribe, but I'm not sure why. And by the way, that's Cliff Robinson's tummy. Damn, that dude behind you has them DeAngeloids. He's a professional poker player.

And he was on the Brainstripe. And there's Cliff Robinson. Rest in peace. Oh, all right. Uncle Cliff. Uncle Cliffy. The shrug Uncle Cliffy. One of the most amazing men. It was so great to be with him on Survivor and to have the relationship with him after. He was just love him. And unfortunately, he's passed now.

But it was, what an interesting group that is of people just from all over. But none of them would be what you could have been on Survivor, any reality show, because your ability to take standardized tests, your ability to deal with jargon, you'd be a winner. You should go on a reality show. I do not want to do that. Yeah. I think you should apply. I don't think you should apply, but I do think you'd be good at it. It's because you like people. I do.

Just not the people in this room right now. There's an unfair stigma for people that participate in reality TV. Like Mike White was on Survivor multiple times and Amazing Race. And then everyone thought he was a genius when White Lotus came out. He had been doing stuff before he was on Survivor. Yeah. He's a very smart guy. School of Rock.

School of Rock. One of the greatest movies of our time. Jack Black. Speaking of school, today is camp day in the WNBA, bruh. We got games starting at 11 a.m., 12 p.m. Eastern time, and we got another one at 1, I think, where all the children of all the elementary schools pack out the arenas, bruh. It's going to be so loud. Bruh, I love camp day. Tune in if you're at home. I know we live. I want to squeak this in so we can get these ladies some numbers. Do you know who doesn't love camp day?

Who that? The players. Nah, bro. They don't like playing that early. Yeah, it's so early. It's an early start. The kids love it. Have you ever been to a camp day at Pro Player? Oh, yeah. Or at Marlowe's Park? It was fun at Pro Player. When you had that, there's a sound that Camp Day has. It's called annoying. It's not. Exactly. It was different, though, when it was at...

now Hard Rock Stadium because then at least there was the open air and so there wasn't just the sound of screaming children just echoing back at you but camp day at Lone Depot Park but it was also like for the Marlins it was like the second most attended game of the year that was it it was huge but it was my worst time because every foul ball petrified me

Because the kids aren't paying attention. And every fly ball, every single kid thinks is a home run. By the fourth inning, you're like ready to die. It's insane. That is pretty terrifying, the foul ball aspect. Because usually in most crowds, there's like parents for every kid. And this one, it's like rows full of kids. I love where your head's at. We would ask the camps and the schools to intersperse the adults so there was never more than four kids in a row. And we couldn't enforce it because the crowd was way too big. There were like 5,000 kids there.

And so every foul ball, you're worried that a kid's going to get clocked. The Marlins should hire us to snag foul balls during those games. We just stand in between sections, go out there with a glove and snag fly balls. That was the most lawyer I ever saw. You started talking about liability. He's like, I love where your head's at. Knock what you buck.

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Pablo, you've had some time. Folks, we have breaking news from the world of basketball. Kawhi Leonard will not be playing for the USA basketball men's national team in the Olympics. That's according to USA Basketball. Sham Strania is reporting that Derek White will be his replacement on Team USA. So a third Celtic.

Not named Jalen Brown. That's wild. Why isn't Jalen Brown playing? It's pretty amazing. Their best player. And for the player that's leaving, Jalen Brown seems like a more appropriate replacement for Kawhi Leonard than White. He's choosing the Clippers over the flag. What is Jalen Brown saying right now? Thank God they didn't call me. Zagaki. He probably at the house like, thank you. Bro, I want to chill. I don't have to go on the parents. I want to lay up.

The statement says, from USA Basketball, Kawhi has been ramping up for the Olympics over the past several weeks and had a few strong practices in Las Vegas. He felt ready to compete. However, he respects that USA Basketball and the Clippers determined it's in his best interest to spend the remainder of the summer preparing for the upcoming season rather than participating in the Olympic Games in Paris. Of course, hockey. Do you get a medal if you showed up for a few days and practiced? No. No.

It's not like a ring that you get, World Series ring for getting a day of service time. I think you have to be on the team that goes to Paris. Okay. Kawhi Leonard feels like one of those players that we're going to watch a highlight reel of in like five years and be like, oh, right, that guy, when he was healthy, was arguably as good as anybody in the entire sport. Is he any better than Don Mattingly, Josh Johnson?

The guys that got hurt that at their peak were great. I think the difference is that Kawhi led multiple teams to championships and was the focal point of those teams in a way where he dominated on both ends that...

We really haven't seen in this iteration of basketball outside of what, like LeBron, in terms of being a two-way player leading the team to a championship? I know the Josh Johnson that you just referenced, but I feel like a lot of people are like, who's he talking about? He's talking about the Marlins pitcher who at his peak was dominant and then he got hurt. But I just don't think that's a Marlins player. I don't think the nation is... That's a great blind spot. I don't think they know. I'm talking about players who are hurt. I'm talking about players who do not hit their potential well.

because they're hurt too much. Maybe Steven Strasburg would actually be a better comparison and that he actually reached those peaks and was one of the most dominant pitchers for several years, but never quite got to be the Hall of Fame dominant pitcher that everybody anticipated.

And will still be a Hall of Famer more likely than not. Maybe just because of the peak. Well, it's different in the sport. He's a Hall of Famer for sure. Basketball is different though. He's absolutely a Hall of Famer. He's also somebody who, again, in retrospect, we're going to realize, oh, that's why he was load managing.

That's why all of this happened, was because his knees were actually totally messed up, not because he was afraid or lazy or didn't want to play 82 games. The Kawhi thing's fascinating. He's going to be the person who's hurt the most by basketball reference when people look back at his stats in 20 years, because there is a legitimate period where you could argue he was the best player in the NBA. Yes. There's going to be people... 2019, certainly. Stop it, David. There's also going to be people who...

watched it who are going to argue who is the second best forward of this generation was it Durant or was it Kawhi Leonard and Durant will have every statistical accolade and then

Our people, the people who complain about the back in my day will be like, you didn't see it live. Why was it just as good? But Duran is interesting to bring in this conversation because I also think his career has been a little bit of an underachiever at this point. He's just moved around. Other than when he was in Washington, he's never happy. He's an all-time great, but are we going to look at his career the way we look at other careers? I know the Washington you speak of. I'm at Warriors. I'm sorry. Grunfeld. My bad.

But other than that, his career just feels like we think of him as, outside of LeBron, the best of this generation. But it's just something feels off about his career. One of the few players that I think, I've made this point before on my show, is that he's one of the few players that I think has had an all-time great career, but also kind of feels a little disappointing.

Like for that ability and that talent level, it's like we expected more, which it sounds stupid when you look at what he's accomplished. But you look at how talented he is. It's like, eh. It's like Brandon Roy and Derrick Rose. Like, man. Derrick Rose is a great one. And Brandon Roy was going to be incredible. He's an MVP. Incredible.

Can I, I mean, does anyone care why exactly he's going home? Because the way that that statement was made kind of. It seemed like it was Clippers. It seemed like he got sent home and somebody made a call. It was like he shouldn't ever have been there. And that's what bothered me is that now after two practices, the Clippers have prevailed.

The Clippers didn't want him there to start with. There's no way Ballmer going into a new arena wanted Kawhi Leonard there. Having just lost Paul George. So to me, did they just convince him? I

I don't think it works that way. - I think that is a press release that made Kawhi Leonard look perhaps more valiant than the choice was actually in real life. - Dave Sampson knows a firing. He knows a firing when he sees one. - Daryl Morey should take notes from the Clippers organization right now. Brother, your franchise is going to play in the Olympics right now.

We just, like I said the other day, one eye and one leg the last time we saw you, bro. We bringing PG-13 in. It's legitimately concerning. If I'm a Sixers fan, I love that they just added Derek White. I want as many Celtics players as possible playing through the finals. Now the Olympics, they're going to be so exhausted by the time spring training comes. There's no way they're winning 67-70 games next year in the regular season. Too tired.

So it is funny how sports, like the actual employers of these athletes, see and feel about the Olympics. Like the WNBA has an entire break. WNBA, Juju. Like the Olympic break, it happens during their season. Everybody takes time off because they realize we can't possibly do this. And I feel like if you're talking to any front office member, coach, president, and they have a little bit of truth serum in them, they're saying, we don't like this in the least. Right.

You don't need much truth serum to admit that. I'd say, though, my guess is, and maybe it's different now for the owners, but at a certain point, while on the coaches and general managers level, it's why are our players going over there? I would guess that, especially pre-globalization, most of the owners and commissioners were like, please, get...

get over there and sell this game, which is why the WNBA comparison is probably an apt one. Yeah, I mean, look, obviously, like, David Stern was the big brain behind, like, the Dream Team in 92. It's what changed the league. And now you've got to wonder if...

The leagues see the value or the upside in this in the present day. They want it for themselves, which is why there's so much international play now. It's why you see the NFL trying to get not just London, which they feel like they own, and maybe they do, but they want Germany. They're going to keep going through Europe. Baseball wants to try to claim Asia and then South and Central America. Basketball wants to claim China. They're all putting down their tent poles. The Olympics used to be a tent pole moment.

And we talked about this a little bit where what do the Olympics mean now that the Cold War is over? There's no commissioner, no owners who need the Olympics to bolster the international status of their games. They do it themselves. How do you feel about fighting Roger Goodell in various parts of the risk board of planet Earth?

He is extremely powerful because he's got enough owners who back every move he makes, and he does certain things that go against the owners who back him. And that is the sign of a powerful commissioner. I think that when baseball comes near Roger Goodell, Roger Goodell looks back at them with a... Hi, mob hoe. Good one, Mr. Thighs.

He is wearing a different set of open thigh shorts today. I was commenting on how great and vast his wardrobe is. So people who are not on YouTube might be confused. I don't have on assless chaps. What the hell are open thigh shorts?

I mean, I think you're looking for like... Assless chaps is open ass. I know, but... Open thighs is John Stockton shorts are open thigh shorts. Those are... I would call those hoochie daddy shorts. Short shorts. Hoochie daddies, short shorts, six inch inseam, something like that. Open thighs seem like just the thighs cut out. Right? That's a question for our sex therapist, I believe. Oh, yeah. She's coming up soon. Teach me how to dougie. Speaking of things that David has said and promised us throughout the week...

Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. You sound like you're doing a transition, which means that you need to be in this chair. Let me set a screen for you. Let me set a screen for you so you can get to the chair. No! Oh, my goodness. David stole the chair. Musical chairs winner. David stole the chair. Oh, wow. Unplug this headphone. The problem is David is more scared. I just pulled my back. Got up way too quick.

If you're not watching or you're for the DraftKings Network, David Sampson tried to sit in this chair of relatively normal height. I would say he got there. He got his butt in the chair. He got there, but I think he was concerned about somebody else being close to his microphone because he's a germaphobe. No, I actually couldn't find the hole fast enough. Whoa, she's coming later. Relax, man. Sex therapist is showing up later, David.

See, that's one, Dominique, let me help out a little bit. Okay, yeah, coach me up. That's one you just could have let go. It's subtle. There have been a lot of sexual innuendo and references. Are you trying to now make it seem like you've been intending to do everything you've been doing all week on purpose? A hundred, it's you of all people are really asking that question. Ugh, gosh. Knock what you buck. Yeah, that was definitely intentional. David promised us a top five list.

A list of the top five firings. I'm going to have to blow through this. Flip it. Not right now. I think we have a couple top five lists. I don't know if we'll get to Jeremy's top five list. Maybe we have an in-room vote or something to see whose top five list we want to do next segment more, Jeremy or David. Jeremy, do you want to sell your top five list? Sure. Because of the announcement of Shrek 5,

coming out soon. One of my favorite songs ever is in Shrek 2. And so I came up with a top five songs written for movies that ended up being the artist's best song.

Great. Thank you for that. Thanks. Thanks, Dominique. We're going to do a Democratic vote. And I think I know this is like when you just cheered loudly for that. But wait till my top five, Juju. Yes, sir. I think you're going to genuflect slightly more toward here. I'm going to give you my top five firings and why and why they were so awesome. I want to hear that one, too. I want to hear mine. That sounds great. Exactly. That's the better one.

You set me up for failure. Wait, you're giving up already? Yeah, that's so much better. Mine's fine. We can do that anytime. I get it. Maybe we'll get to it later in the show, but I got to hear that next segment. That's really good. I thought you were setting up a true competition where I had a chance to win. Bro, we've been tight all show. I've been looking out for you. I was setting you up for an easy dub. I was matching you up against the mismatch that we had.

That's why I set these screens. We created a switch. Got you on Jeremy. If Batman Forever isn't on Jeremy's list, I'm going to be pissed. That's a win for everyone. The matchup with me, you're coming out on top. I got right past Jeremy there. That was amazing. Yeah, it was pretty easy for him. Super happy about that. Mismatch. Now on iTunes. Like Jujungati. 265ers. Check it out.

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