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woozy from everything that happened over the weekend. It does feel nice to be like doing our normal show, have it be light and funny and not be constantly reminded about it. But like just during the break right here, Sukatz and I were saying like, tonight's kind of a huge night for the country. This is kind of a massive week.

It's a massive night. It's a massive opportunity for Donald Trump. I'm actually interested to see if he's going to try to unite this country, if he's going to do what it is that he said he was going to do, which is, and by the way,

Donald Trump is a very lucky man today to be alive. And the security breakdowns, we will be looking at those for a long, long time because there were many. But it is an opportunity and it is going to be interesting to see if Donald Trump indeed tonight tries to unite our country because he does have the opportunity to do that.

I think for a lot of people, Mike, I think for a lot of people, half the country, for the first time, there were legitimate reasons. Listen, you could be on any side of the political landscape that you want to be on. Okay? That's what our country's all about. But for the first time, I think everyone united in the fact like, whoa, this is crazy. We have arrived at a crazy place in this country and

Donald Trump and Joe Biden both have the responsibility to try to clean that up. And we'll see if it starts tonight. I'm interested to see. I think I know the perspective of some people listening to us right now. And they might think, like, you're foolish if you have certain expectations. I would say that this one's different and people can remain hopeful. I have tried my best to kind of...

squelch any of the feelings that I have. Like, okay, so he's going to be presidential today, but will the rhetoric pick up when he starts doing campaign hits afterwards? And I think we have enough of a resume there to have our concern warranted a little bit, but he's never been faced with an assassination attempt where by inches he is still here and hopefully every side takes an opportunity to kind of tone the rhetoric down.

down because the political landscape got more and more extreme when the talk around it got more and more extreme. And I do really hope that this is a decompression point for everybody to kind of equalize and realize that we're heading down a path where politically motivated violence is happening more and more. And that's not the American way anymore.

And unfortunately, mass gatherings and violence attached to them has been a staple of American culture. And I really think that this becomes more of an opportunity to do something about gun violence in this country because we've missed every opportunity we've had in previous years. This is an opportunity to really do something because there were a lot of good guys with guns there and a bad guy with a gun almost killed somebody.

the former president of the United States. I mean, the fact that a 20-year-old kid can purchase an AK-47, walk through a field,

Get to a rooftop that's 150 to 200 yards away from a former president and a guy who was running for president, leader of the free world. The fact that that can happen in this country. And spray a crowd. There was someone died from this. Other people got hurt. Is absurd. The fact that someone in this country can go buy a gun that doesn't that shouldn't have a gun that can buy an assault rifle and walk into a school and shoot it up is absurd.

I want to say that the gun laws are going to change in the United States of America, but I think we're all smart enough to realize that they're not. So unfortunately, I do not see that as something that will be a positive from what happened over the weekend because there aren't many positives that would be a positive. I just I am so doubtful that that's going to happen. Mike.

If it didn't stop after Sandy Hook, if it didn't stop after Stoneman Douglas and Parkland, it's not stopping. I'm fearful that it will. Hopefully it doesn't take a president dying. Thankfully he survived this attack on his life. You would think that

Look, I'm here. I survived this. This is an opportunity to do something because if anyone can roll into a secure location and feel like this isn't going to happen, it's the former president of the United States.

It's been several years since there has been an assassination attempt on one of our leaders over here on the highest office. There have been other government officials that have fallen victim to this. If the former president himself is falling victim to a mass shooting, this would be something, conventionally speaking, that you could reach across the aisle and get bipartisan support for.

And it would be really disheartening to hear someone who was, he's a victim in this, someone that was a victim of gun violence, kind of still cape up for it when, again, a lot of good guys with guns over there. I do hope that that's the opportunity. My expectations, um,

Just knowing what the company line has been from political leaders on that side of the aisle, I don't really have great hopes and expectations for that. But one thing that can change today is the political discourse and our approach to it. It's a time for civility. It's a time to tone down the rhetoric. I really hope that there aren't attacks on – like vocal attacks that just galvanize and –

get people more and more extreme on their beliefs i do think it's an opportunity to bring people together and sadly this is something that happens it's commonplace throughout the world right like mexico had an election where they had i think 30 candidates assassinated right like haiti's prime minister was killed right like japan like there's been a lot of this throughout the world and it's scary to see it now in the united states where the last time we saw it was 40 some odd years ago so it's like things are changing hopefully like mike you said

This can be like a stopping point for everybody to say like, all right, we can't let this get too out of hand. This is insane. It's a gun issue. I know it's a headline grabber. There was an assassination attempt on a president, but it is. And a lot of people want to politicize this. How can you not when there is an attempt on a political leader's life? But again, there was a large gathering of people in a really secure location and still alive.

an assault rifle made its way on the periphery and affected that event. And one person died. Several others were hurt, including the former president. And I really hope that things change. So I wanted to keep all the Trump and Trump

conversation around the weekend on the front end on its island because I don't know how to transition out of that. And yet here I am having to do a segment and transition out of that. Totally on me because I didn't think you probably thought there's no way Stu wants to go for a second round of this. No. But I did. Well, I wanted to start with another pop culture conversation because...

Chris, you really lashed out at us for liking this college football game, and you weren't a part of the conversation, and you're not part of the excitement. That's all right. I'm with Tony on that level. But while we were having that conversation on one end of the room, there was another conversation revolving, another pop culture moment happening on the other side of the room. And I guess I'm the Venn diagram, at least in this office, of someone that's into both discussions. I'm talking, of course, about Katy Perry's new single. Lucy and I have been working on a transition from...

the Trump conversation to the Katy Perry conversation. And it had to do with ears bleeding because Katy Perry's new single is an absolute disaster. It is a horrible song and it, the pandering, uh, within this song woman's world that, uh,

Somehow is the most like reductive version of feminism that anyone's ever seen. It sounds like AI. Chad GBT came up with like a woman's rights. Sounds like a song that would be played as free use music that you download to play, like on a reality show during a changing scene. This is the meanest Jeremy's ever been. It is.

It is horrible. It's one of the worst songs I've ever heard. And it's already gone through the cycle of being a meme and then going away because that's how bad it is. It's not even the type of bad that you can laugh at. It's so bad that no one even wants to listen to it. Morbius bad. Madam Web bad. In which it becomes a meme, but still no one will financially support this and it won't actually gain pop culture traction because no one wants to actually experience the art. Yeah, Katy Perry's had absolute history

hits over the years. And she was someone who was able to like have this fun kind of tongue and cheek way of writing pop music before. This is produced by Dr. Luke, who, you know, if you don't know, is just kind of a monster within the music industry. And the idea that he was behind this song that's supposed to be sort of women's empowerment. He and six writers. He and six writers. I mean, Lucy, the music video is out of control. So I watched the music video a couple of times, which is disappointing.

Destroyed my YouTube algorithm, but I'm going to explain the music video to you. I don't know if we want to play it at the same time, but I honestly think it's funnier without the explanation. We're going to play the B-roll. We're not going to play the music. Okay. So basically, Katy Perry shows up, and she's dressed as Rosie the Riveter, but like a hot Halloween costume. And her and these girls are pissing in urinals, and they're working on construction sites, and they're singing about women. And they're like, we're the best. We're the women, and we piss in these urinals.

Then she turns into a deflated balloon. Then she blows herself back up and then she starts walking. And then she comes on this like dystopian sort of like...

destroyed society. Whoa, where's that going? She pulls her ass up. There's a couple making out and you're like, why are you here? This is a woman's world. And then she gets a gas pump and she puts it in her butt cheek and she starts filling up her butt cheek with gas, I'm assuming. And then she goes and Trisha Paytas shows up who's like a weird TikTok-y influencer and they start driving this monster truck and she's putting on makeup and you're like, what?

What happened with the gas pump, though? Like, what was the purpose of that? Because she already blew herself up when she was a deflated balloon. But then she shows up at this girl's house and this girl's house says she's like filming a TikTok and Katy Perry's like, I'm going to film this TikTok with you. And then she films the TikTok and then the girl's like, oh my God, I just filmed a TikTok but has no idea who Katy Perry is. Then Katy Perry steals her phone in a ring light and she goes and hops on a helicopter and the girl's like, what are you doing? That was my TikTok and who are you? And then she's like, all right,

I'm Katy Perry and then she flies off on a helicopter, but she's like hanging off the side of it the whole time and that is feminism. - Is it safe to say that this is satire? Because I saw the video for the first time today and I thought I kinda knew what she was going for and her career, she's done a lot of satirical stuff. Like she burst on the scene with I Kiss a Girl and I liked it and like the video, like it was kinda parodying the times.

It was satire, and you always know satire is really good when you have to come out later with a video and be like, hey guys, this was satire. So they released a video of her in a Rosie the Riveter outfit being like, that was satire. Which, like, it was obviously satirical, but the thing with, like, satire is that I don't think you can half-ass it or, like, half-

But the song itself is terrible and it's not satire. She's like really was like very proud. The song is very bad. The song is a really, really bad song. And the lyrics like I saw someone comment that it was like if a bunch of men came together and wrote a song about women. And it's also like a.

you could tell that it was like something they tried to pitch for the Barbie movie and they were like, we don't want this. It's like, it's straight to DVD Barbie. Yeah. Really, really bad. And so the satire doesn't work when the song isn't satirical, even though if the song had been satirical, she might've done something. Yeah. She might've like cooked with this like Ray Dunn feminism. Yeah. Cause like the, the video, I understand what she's going for, but I'm, uh,

I'm listening to the music as a video is playing and I'm like, there's nothing of substance here. It's just a bunch of like rallying cries that you've seen like on sale at Walmart. And which even pokes fun at in the video, like the live, laugh, love stuff. Like I get that, but why isn't the song at all interesting? Yeah.

The song is straight up bad, and I think it's probably worth noting that this song was supposed to be a feminist anthem, and the guy who produced it, Dr. Luke, is alleged to have done some very bad things to women. Wait, so you said she flew away on a helicopter. She did, and the girl was like, who are you?

are you? And I said, you guys just filmed the whole TikTok together and you didn't even learn who each other were. And then Katie said, I'm Katy Perry. While she's holding a female ring light. Was she holding from a ladder? I've always wanted to do a getaway on a helicopter where I'm attached to the ladder. Was that from Batman? Yeah, the shark repellent where he has a shark attached to his leg. I've always liked

thought if I was ever going to make a getaway from a helicopter, I'd want to do it from a ladder. That's the way to do it. Put the town on alert. Limited fake Pierce Brosnan from Dante's Peak. It's not bad. It's a vibe. Hasn't this song debuted at number one? It's at the top of all the charts. No, it's fallen out of the charts, off the charts. What's the term? I don't know. I think off the charts. Off

the charts. It's not on the charts anymore. Off the charts is a good thing. That's how you know something is really bad. It's not off the charts in a good way. It's off the charts in a bad way. And I would say, listen to the song if you want to experience it for yourself. But I care about the listeners of this show, so don't listen to the song. And then thank me later. One day when you're walking through a Kmart and you hear it.

So you don't think it's going to have a second life because like everybody laughing at it, that this is, do you guys remember when the internet had convinced movie execs that people actually wanted to see Morbius? Like, no, no, no. Like you just released it at the wrong time. We are ready now because the memes were so good for Morbius. Do us a favor and please re-release this. And then even fewer people saw it. The only version that I can imagine this becomes popular is if there becomes a trend on TikTok where it's like people showing their car,

cat and it's like the the lyrics are sexy confident so intelligent she is heaven sent so strong so soft that might work if you're just showing a video of your adorable cat or dog or pet of some kind and maybe it trends and as a meme becomes something but I don't even know if this is going to be one of those ones that gets a second life because people are making fun of it I think it's just going to become irrelevant pretty quickly

Honestly, with like the events of the weekend, like it's gone. Like there's just no way it's going... Because that was like the funny thing that everyone was talking about. Like we could actually enjoy this light conversation making fun of this. Then the shooting happened and it was like, all right, we're done. And I don't think it's going to make a return. And she has been like...

promoing this for a long time. And it was just not, it was just not very good. And I would say try again, but if it's going to be like the first time, maybe just don't. It definitely missed its window because after 4 p.m. Eastern today, nothing else exists other than CFB 25. Wait, Lucy, are you telling her to retire? No, I'm just saying. It's a bad, it's a bad, she kind of, this was. You can't go out on that though. So this was supposed to be. Everyone's going to forget about it.

This was supposed to be a comeback record for her because I know she was doing like the idol stuff. But in terms of like being an active pop star with active hits, she was doing like a nostalgia residency in Las Vegas. She needed. She has a new album coming out. There's a chance that one of the other singles is better. And the marketing team just made a horrible decision on choosing this as the first one.

This is not the way you want to come back if you're making a comeback. It's really bad. It's really hard, especially when you're of a certain age, when you go away for a while. Fergie did this. Fergie had huge hits, left the Black Eyed Peas, was a big star in her own right, went away for a little bit, tried to come back with a stinker of a single, and out of it. National Anthem. And Katy Perry was in a run of...

of incredible female pop music in like 2008, 2009, 2007, where it was Rihanna and Beyonce and Taylor Swift and Katy Perry and Lady Gaga all at like the early points of their careers. But now we're in a new run with a new generation of female pop music with Sabrina Carpenter and Chapel Roan and Olivia Rodrigo, who are all young and just putting out

Like, absolute bangers. And it's going to be a lot tougher for... Does Sabrina have, like, an album? Or does she just put out a new single every three weeks? Presently, she has two singles out that are both... I believe it was... She had the number one single in America with Espresso. And then she topped herself with Please, Please, Please. Yeah, I was driving from Reno... That song's great. I was driving from Reno to Tahoe. And I heard Sabrina... That's a drive. I heard Sabrina Carpenter on the same station three different times. It was Kiss FM. Don't embarrass me, mother...

Sarah Carpenter song. Are you saying in a one-hour drive that song was played three times, same station? No, it wasn't the same song. It was a different song. I knew Espresso because that's been pretty unavoidable. Yeah, that song was huge. That's like a Song of the Summer type song. Tony, it's Sabrina, not Sarah. Of course. Sabrina Carpenter. Thanks for correcting Tony on that one.

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It's beautiful. It's leaving it to the cosmos to sort it out. That's a less Southern bless your heart. This is the Don Levitar Show with the Stugats.

Did you actually consume any good pop art late over the weekend? Yeah. Or was it all just like Katie Bear art? Well, I went and saw, I saw Long Legs, the new horror movie with Nicolas Cage. Oh, dude. Yeah. I definitely want to see that. I've been busy. I wanted to get around to it. And now I'm never going to do anything ever again because College Football 25 comes out today. But how is that?

So first of all, really, really good movie. By Neon, that's a good... They're kind of A24-y. They come out with good stuff. Well, and the big thing that I think a lot of people have realized now is...

If you market these movies well, you can have huge opening weekends. Did it have a big one? It shattered all of the expectations. I think it made $22 million and they projected that it would make $8 million. Whoa. A very, very creepy, creepy movie. Nick Cage is pretty horrifying to watch, but what's been...

Really fun about it. Is it still perfect on Rotten Tomatoes? I don't know if it still is at the moment. 86%. It did make $22.6 million. Right, which is crazy. And it was all seemingly because of the marketing. Because I know Lucy was saying earlier, like she's seen a lot on TikTok about it. That's where I saw what was going on, as did my wife.

And what's really funny, and I know we have it available for video at some point, but their Twitter presence and their graphic design has been great, too, because they're acknowledging what a big movie it's been, but they also had a graphic...

that was marketing the movie saying, "Number one movie in America!" and then in small print, "After Despicable Me 4." And just like for a horror movie, the tweet says, "Hail Satan!" and it has this horrifying image of like the shadow of Nick Cage's character and then it has "After Despicable Me 4" on it. And it's just priceless, but

The way that they've marketed it, it had a huge opening weekend, and it's not a jump scare horror movie as much as it's like a psychological thriller that's going to leave you a bit disturbed. That's my favorite type. And I really enjoyed it. Have you ever watched Hereditary? I haven't. That's one that I really want to. Hereditary for me is just not changing your life. Because of this, I now have a list that I'd really like to watch. Hereditary is, for my money, the scariest movie I've ever seen. It's the greatest horror movie ever. That's number one. Exorcist is number two. And while that...

Those movies did have jump scare elements to it. It was all about those movies stayed with you. I'm a huge Nicolas Cage guy and I wanted to see this movie because anytime horror movies get like at a time that's at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, like, you know, okay, this is going to be something that you're going to want to see. It's just a matter of getting out there.

So maybe when CFB 24, when CFB 25 becomes CFB 26, like two weeks prior, I can actually make some time in my social life for this. It seems pretty dynamite over there. The one thing that I did see on social media promoting this movie was really effective in that it was tracking the actress's heart rate when she sees Nicolas Cage's character. And in real time, like it jumps up to her. It's like 170 beats per minute or something. Yeah, like...

Source, just trust me, pal. But it was effective. Every actor in this movie did a fantastic job. That's the other part, is there are several great performances, and the people who needed to be disturbed by Nick Cage's character sure as heck felt like it, and the people who needed to stay steady felt authoritative. Just everybody really was cast very well, but...

But the ability, the way they told the story was interesting. And actually, the director of this movie is a guy named Oz Perkins. But what's crazy about that is... What else has Oz Perkins done? So not only was he... Goes around to teams and does the... The nerdy guy in Legally Blonde. But his dad...

Norman Bates in the original Psycho. Oh, yeah? So his father was Psycho, and now he is writing and directing horror movies himself, which is just a kind of creepy connection. Their whole family history, if you want to go down a rabbit hole on Wikipedia, his mom was on a plane that was hijacked in 9-11. His dad played Psycho and had a whole crazy backstory. Now he's making these horror movies. It is a fascinating story.

cast of characters in real life, but this movie is, it's worth seeing. Like if you're into that type of movie, it is, it's certainly worth it. And I'm super like natural, Nicolas Cage has kind of become a joke, but Nicolas Cage has taken roles for a lot of different reasons, a lot of financially motivated reasons. Mostly money, Mike. But if the script is good-

And it demands a good performance. Nicolas Cage has shown with movies like in pig and whatnot, that he can meet the script with a performance and knock it out the park as, and that's, that's great because at this stage in his career, most people consider him like an overacting joke. His final scene on screen is one of the like truly most disturbing things that I've ever seen. Did you say over actor?

Mike said over actor, and then I think it's from Liar Liar. I'm concerned because you guys, I was kind of sold on at least trying the movie out. It's 86 Rotten Tomatoes, 86%, but that's critics.

The fans have it at like 62%. That's because they're getting scared. That's because they're getting scared. Yeah, but that concerns me. I trust the fans more than the critics. Yeah, but if that metric was around when people were passing out and vomiting while watching The Exorcist, I imagine like, didn't have a good time. Someone yacked all over my food. Didn't have a great time. Like someone had an emotional breakdown because, you know, I was eating popcorn and this girl starts projectile vomiting and does something with a crucifix that I wasn't expecting. Yeah.

I can understand why the audience would be less inclined to give something a positive review. And there are some religious undertones in this one, too, that might isolate certain people who went in with one expectation and then end up coming out with, you know, Hail Satan, as it says on Twitter. So, you know, that might upset some people. So definitely watch it. I would say it's worth watching. Especially, I mean, you're such a big Nick Cage fan that his performance is...

It's crazy. And I was really like blown away because of some of the things that everybody feels about Nicolas Cage at this point in his career. I was really like impressed by the way that he met this creepy character in the place exactly where it needed to be. Maybe make some time for it during the off season when I'm...

You know, you get your crew. Twister double feature? On the flight to go recruit a five-star? Yeah. Well, you can DM them sometimes, so I think maybe I can do that. Because I work at the group's pace, because you do your off-season all together. I got like seven dudes in my online dynasty. Oh, we have like 30-something. Charles McDonald in front of the show. There's no way. That's going to fall apart, I'm telling you right now. Because it's going to be impossible to get 30 people on the same schedule to do the off-season. You're signing up for a mess.

Tony six sevens the right number what difficulty are we looking at Tony you think in Heisman all-american I think all-american is what the online like regular you gotta go dynasty Start off with Heisman and just have sliders up. Don't you work your way up to dynasty? I mean when dynasty is what you do Heisman is where you difficulty level up to yeah. I'm trying to write a type program settings In the settings yeah, that's why I need to go over the settings so people like you can understand And you have to and you're online now. Do you have rules for prestige?

We have rules coming. We're figuring that out. No, you can't have anybody try to start a dynasty with Alabama. Get the F out of here. Taylor might be starting with Alabama. No, you can't do that. He might be. No, proceed. Three stars and below. What are you doing? He might be. I don't know.

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Dane will be back in tomorrow. Obviously jet lagged from a trip over in Africa, but full cast in with the whole show. Back as you loved it, like it never left. Back tomorrow. He should try this fear on for size. I mean, Jesus Christ, he's jet lagged. But our coverage does not stop.

just because Dan is not here. We've got Amin and Juju out at Summer League doing all the hard work for Oddball. It is presently really hot in Las Vegas. The forecast, I think I saw, is 107 degrees out there. Amin properly in really cool Rocky Balboa shorts. We like that. Well, those are the Apollo Creed shorts, before you correct me. The Creed shorts that he gave to Rocky, correct. Yes, yeah. And then Rocky takes it when he fights for his dear friend's honor and

Rocky IV where he ends the Soviet Union. It's just an incredible film. Amin Alhassan. Brought the entire country together, Mike. It really did. And we can use something that galvanizes us right now before CFB 25 comes out. I may watch Rocky IV and that's it. That's it. I'm done. But Amin is out there covering Summer League with Juju Gotti and Oddballs doing great stuff out there. Welcome aboard, Amin. How are you doing in this heat?

Well, first of all, if I can change, you can change and everybody can change. Right. That's what we all know. But if I could change my clothes, because it's 125 degrees outside, it's been hot every goddamn day. My idiot producers would say, hey, we're going to do the hit, but we're not going to do it from inside of the set. We're going to do it outside on Fremont Street to let everybody know you're in Vegas. Hello. I don't need to prove that I'm in Vegas.

I'm just here. And as I'm here, as I said, it's ridiculously hot. It is so hot. I got Juju out here making breakfast. That's right, ladies and gentlemen. It's so hot you could fry an egg.

Wow. And bacon. Oh, my gosh. We're doing the morning show gag. Wow. Yeah, the local news gag where you show how hot it is by grilling. Are you actually going to – that's on a pan. Are we actually going to eat this? This is real deal breakfast. This is our breakfast. Juj is responsible for it. And guess what? The way it's cooking, I better hope I like my eggs over well done because they know he's over here, ladies and gentlemen.

Is that turkey bacon? Is it already bubbling? How long has the frying pan been out on the sidewalk over there? Yeah, can we pan to the pan real quick? Absolutely, we can pan to the pan. The frying pan's been out here a little bit before. We let Juju wait until the start of the segment. There we go, look at it. He's scrambling them. I mean...

Overeasy is what Juju just told me. He's going overeasy. Guys, it's absolutely pandemonium out here. We already got Stern talking to Trump security about our presence here. We let them know, hey, man, it's just a bit. We're going to clean everything up. They weren't really happy about the eggs outside on the sidewalk, but hopefully we'll get through the segment without any further interruptions. It's Fremont Street at 9 a.m. in the morning. That's what they're worried about, the egg on the sidewalk? I'm telling you, Juju,

Stu, we had like a swarm of security on the little golf carts. And at first I was like, okay, ha ha, whatever. We got to, you know, some stuff out here. It's not a big deal. A little frying pan, whatever. More and more showed up. And I was just like, look, what's going on, man? And then I realized what you just said, Stu, it's 9 a.m. in the Pima City.

prime time is later right now they need something to get their juices going to make sure that they're on point well i'd rather have egg on a sidewalk than egg on my face but unfortunately for brawny james he's got some egg on his face a lot of uh outsized attention to brawny james but this is what he asked for and the performances have not exactly blown folks away i mean what do you make of the whole brawny james thing

Mike, I could not disagree more. I saw, you know, I'm a basketball expert. I watch players. I see the things that you as a casual layperson do not see. And so what I did was I had our crack research staff, not to be confused with our research staff on crap, put together a little highlight reel of all the things that Ronnie has been amazing at at Summer League. Roll it.

All right, guys. Bronny exhibits so many things better than Savvy. Look at the way he's sitting on the bench, man. Like, most rookies don't sit at that kind of level. He's got a great ability to sit on the sideline. He's got that, look at that focus in the stair. Also, very important, confidence. Hold that ball through it, buddy.

Don't let these people know that you can or can't shoot. And what's up? You turn it over, what do you do? You go back and you get it. You fix your mistakes. You wipe up that spilled milk, and then you spill some more milk. That's what you do. That's an NBA player. And, of course, a nose for the ball. Look at this. Some might say this is an uncontested rebound. I say, he noticed it before anybody else. He went up there and got it. Let's do it one more time. And finally...

That touch from outside. I know a lot of people, oh, he's 1 for 8, 1 for 8. No, no, no. Look at that follow through. Look at that. Oh, we'll slow down for you guys. With a face on it. That was a main shot right there. You cannot deny. Bronny James, NBA caliber player.

So it hasn't gone well for, for Bronny. I will say he looked a lot like his dad, skying high for the uncontested rebound. Like he, it was a pretty good impression. Yeah. One arm and the flex with the back muscles. I'm like, that is LeBron's kid. But hitting that jumper when everyone else is taking shots at the same time, that is difficult. It's hard to do. It's like a carnival game. It's really difficult to do. Uh,

Beyond Brawny, is there anything actually of note going on at Summer League? Because, I mean, I'm getting ESPN mobile alerts anytime he gets blown by an opposing player. The Brawny mania is probably a little too much, and the play doesn't dictate all this coverage, but I understand why we're there. Is there anything actually worth talking about, though? Well, I got to tell you guys right now, we're about three years away from changing the name of the NBA to l'Association de Basket de National...

because it's nothing but French players taking over. Alexandre Sarr is back with Richausset.

The list is endless of French nationals who are out here dominating at Summer League. Other than that, to be honest with you, I could talk about Reed Shepard. I could talk about, you know, Saffron Castle, some of these other guys out here. But really, all I want to talk about is how hot it is. It is so freaking hot. I'm getting sunstroke out here. I'm trying to stay hydrated. It's not working very well. Let's take a look at Juju, how good the breakfast is going. Oh, yeah.

Wow. That is... Where do you get all the fixings for it? That is actually like... That is a legitimate breakfast place skillet right there. Cook it.

Do Do Gotti is a professional, ladies and gentlemen. When you put him on scene, on location, he doesn't just come empty-handed and say, hey, what do I do? Where's my mark? He's out here coming with his own reserves. And I'm going to lie, man. I'm not a pork eater, but that picture looks pretty good. I might give it a try. Well, I don't know. Look, for a sidewalk egg frying gag, I've never seen presentation that good on a skillet. Like, he's really dressed it up for folks. Like, he's not half-assing it.

Wow. Let's zoom in on that. That looks legitimately delicious. I mean, is that a drink from Fat Tuesdays? I mean...

- This is, I mean, it looks like a Pat's Tuesday drink, but it is a generic Las Vegas drink. You know, this is the classic Vegas, you know, you come here, you land, Stu, you throw your stuff in the room, you come back down outside and you say, "Hey, I'm thirsty. I'm on Fremont Street. I need me a beverage."

They said, do you want the 12-ounce, do you want the 32-ounce, or do you want the hand grenade? And I said, give me a hand grenade. In watching some of the Summer League ball out there, who is most likely to receive a $115 million extension by the Miami Heat? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Let me tell you something. The Williams gets to the Heat. Hey, man, I don't know if it's $150 million. That's pretty good. He's grown Manny the hell out of everybody. He's dunking on people. I think he's got that nasty streak that Miami's been looking for. Now, can he be someone who contributes offensively meaningfully, which is what we talk about so many times, the Heat need offense? I don't know, but I know one thing. They don't want to punk him out. He's going to be punking people out left and right.

So a lot of people go to Summer League for the industry chatter. Yeah, they want to see the prospects, but a lot of deals are made and a lot of groundwork for future deals is laid. What are you hearing? You are our front office insider. Are there any rumblings? Me as a Heat fan, I'm always hoping that there's another malcontent superstar on the horizon. Is there something a-brewing?

Mike, I'm going to tell you right now. I can't tell you if the Heat are involved, but I can tell you what's brewing. One of them, everybody knows. If you follow NBA basketball, you know, Lori Markkinen, a lot of trade chatter. Well, the state's interested. A lot of other teams are interested. And Utah, for its part, does not look like it wants to be good. That's going to be a theme this year. You know, we took a year off from teams tanking on purpose because the draft, as we know, wasn't that impressive. But Cooper Flagg is the big, you know, get.

That's the flag. That's the theme for 24-25 next season. So everyone's starting right now like, hey, I want to be bad. Detroit's like, I want to be bad. Washington's like, I want to be bad. And I believe Utah says, dude, I want to be bad because a white superstar in Utah is blah. They want to trade a white all-star on the off chance that they can get the white superstar coming into the league.

Like, Laurie Morgan, it's like, we know who he is. That's a solid piece to build around, but you've got no shot. Yeah, but this guy is Cooper Flagg. Yeah, you've got no shot at getting Cooper. Yeah, Cooper Flagg is worthy of the hype. We've seen all the other pros talk about him on the internationals team. What is your main takeaway of how all these other pros are talking about him? Well, I mean, I think that's a big deal, that he went to the Team USA kind of camp. He played for USA Select, he was the only –

let alone college player, he's the only high school player in the entire outfit. And again, a lot of plays from the pros, from the vets on the main team and also the select team. He was voted the best player on the select team by the players. That's a big deal for a 17-year-old. Look, is he going to be the next coming savior?

At this point, it's hard to say. But we know one thing about the NBA. If there's a white savior out there, we're going to find him and we're going to give him every opportunity to prove us right. Yeah. There are some players that are getting a lot of attention, some development projects.

Jordan Miller I saw in college down here in Miami. His game kind of reminded me a little bit of Paul George and it's a lofty expectation to think he can slot in at all. But it looks like they might have a regular NBA player. Who else is impressing out there that is more of a project than someone that's just starting out in the league?

Well, I could talk about projects, but I think you guys would rather hear about the other trade rumbling. You want to hear what's happening when I go to the Tower Feets bar at Wynn, what the NBA people are all murmuring about that hasn't really been talked about a lot in public.

the houston rockets with their extension for alfred shangri-la talks with a stall and there is chatter murmuring rumblings to god you pick one of the ones that of those words that i that you like there about

Shangoon being available. And this is a guy, if you're like, who's that? Ladies and gentlemen, last season in Houston, he took a huge step on his first year under Imei Yudoka. This is a guy that had Yoki-esque moments of being a hub for the Houston Rockets offense. I think they played a lot better than what they realized. Jalen Green's a nice player, but your main best player is Shangoon. So if he's available, like I'm hearing kind of shakings and kind of

- Shaking's is not one of them. - No, Shaking's is a conjecture. - Suze got one for you. - I prefer scuttlebutt. Scuttlebutt. - Scuttlebutt. - Yeah. - Scuttlebutt actually is the perfect word. There's a lot of scuttlebutt that he might be available. And if he is, it'd be very interesting to see where he lands because this is the guy who can tip the balance of power

wherever he lands in the NBA. So this is a busy time in the NBA calendar. While other sports are slowing down, this is where the offseason chatter really starts ramping up. And for Oddball and your cast and crew, you've got Olympic basketball to talk about. This is a really exciting time. Team USA is going to have some competition. A lighter group for them to get out of in the Olympics, but I'm excited to hear your coverage all offseason. And I know Juju's a part of what you're doing there. He just made a hell of an omelet. Where's Charlotte?

Well, guys, I actually have a little bit of sad news. You know, I have all the excitement in the hoopla here on Fremont Street. Charlotte was here. Unfortunately, she didn't really make it. The heat, I guess, got to her a little bit. We got a shot over here. I'm not quite sure what happened to her shorts. She's just wearing that Tatum jersey. But yeah, Charlotte, gone but not forgotten.

I was always worried about her complexion in that heat. It was not going to go well for her. I got to go back to these producers, man. Who the hell do you guys have me working with? I'm out here. It's 125 degrees outside.

I'm wearing layers. This drink doesn't even have ice in it. It's just lukewarm. Charlotte's freaking melted in a puddle like the Wicked Witch of the West. Why are we doing this outdoors? I thought we had this whole relationship with Beeson and Circa and this beautiful kind of thing where you guys did the show during the Super Bowl. Why am I outdoors doing this shit? At least you have an omelet, though. I'm such a fan of Con Air that I just wanted you stage steps away from where Cyrus the Virus was decapitated.

That is a great moment in movie history, but also you're right, Stu Gatz. Oh, my God. Drew Dugati, not only a great content provider, but also a great chef. This is great breakfast right here, ladies and gentlemen. Amazing. Oddball, check it out. All off-season long, lots of Olympic basketball for them to cover. Rest in peace, Charlotte. Wilder.

And you're getting kicked out right over your right shoulder right now. Oh, my God. Who are you? Well, they're investigating Charlotte melting into a puddle, I guess. That's funny. It's a murder scene.

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