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Local Hour: Don't Lose Me, Izzy

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Amin认为所有衣物口袋都应设计拉链以防物品丢失,并以自身丢失物品的经历为例。他认为这比方便把手插进口袋更重要。 Izzy则认为带拉链的口袋穿起来不舒服,并且在日常生活中并不需要经常把手插进口袋。他提出了一些折中的设计方案,例如既有普通口袋,也有带拉链的口袋的短裤。他还解释了在玩旗帜橄榄球时,为什么需要带拉链的短裤。 Lucy指出现在有些女装已经设计了口袋,并对Amin的提议表示赞同。 Jess讲述了在婚礼上因为没有带包,导致Lehman丢失车钥匙的经历,这与Amin的观点有一定的关联性,都与物品丢失有关。 Izzy详细描述了他多次丢失AirPods的经历,并展示了他新买的AirPods上刻有"Izzy, don't lose me"字样的故事。他认为这些AirPods丢失的原因都是因为从口袋里掉了出来,这进一步支持了Amin的观点。 Jess分享了她和Lehman在婚礼上丢失车钥匙的经历,这与Amin关于物品丢失的讨论密切相关。她详细描述了他们寻找钥匙的过程,以及最终如何通过酒店工作人员找回钥匙。 Amin和Izzy就Lehman的婚礼舞姿以及丢失钥匙的原因展开了讨论,这与主题略微偏离,但仍然与口袋和物品丢失的话题有一定的关联性。

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The discussion revolves around the necessity of zippers in pockets to prevent losing items, with anecdotes and personal experiences shared.

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Today's episode is sponsored by DraftKings. Stay tuned because you'll hear more about DraftKings and all it has to offer throughout the show. DraftKings, the crown is yours. What's up, guys? We had a lot, a lot of topics gushing down. But before we get started with any of the stuff that's dominating sports, we'll have to start with this. New rule for the fashion industry. Shorts, pants, don't care what the... Dresses, skirts...

If it has pockets, the pockets have to have zippers. I'm sick and tired of sitting down and, oh, there goes my phone. Oh, there goes my wallet. Zippers, zipper me up. Let my belongings be secure. Let me be secure in the knowledge that my AirPods aren't going anywhere. They're going to be right here in my pocket because I'm sick of the number I'm talking. The only thing really that holds my stuff is jeans.

Jeans are the only clothing that is an open pocket that will not allow you to lose your stuff. Great take. Hello, Amin. Hey, Izzy. How's it going? I'm doing well. How are you? I'm fine. What happened today in particular that made you have to start the show with pocket tuck?

I do have an opinion on this. I have a lot of zippered shorts and zippered pants, for that matter. I'm not a huge fan. Really? I really only buy them for flag football. And now those are even outlawed. They outlaw the zipper shorts. They can rip the zipper right off. Have you ever put your hand in and out quickly of a shorts or pants with pockets in them? Yes.

Just can like cut your hands. It's uncomfortable. You're supposed to be zipped up then. Well, then how can you put your hands in your pockets casually? You gotta look smooth sometimes, right? This is a you thing, Izzy. I mean, come on, put your hands in your pockets smoothly.

I also appreciate me trying to be inclusive of skirts and shorts for women, but those never have pockets, so you don't have to worry about that. I know. That was two years ago. I did that campaign very briefly. I said, hey, let's get the ladies some pockets in their attire. Can we, fashion industry?

There you go. Thank you, Lucy, for demonstrating for the video audience. Jess was saying that no women's clothing has pockets, but Lucy's wearing shorts that have pockets. Well, she means like dresses and skirts. They have dresses that have pockets now. No, but when they do, do you see how excited women get? Look, it has pockets.

- Thank you, Amin. - And they're all small. - These are just fun put your hands in kind of pockets. They're not really like, let me put valuables in these pockets. - Amin wants his pockets zipped up so he can't put his hands in his pockets. So then it becomes a whole thing. You have to unzip your pockets, then put your hands in. And are you protecting things from falling out? Because in that case, you just got your hands and your stuff with a bunch of stuff in your pockets. - I would argue, and as we are both warm weather residing people, it is way more important to secure your phone and your AirPods

than it is to put your hands in your pocket. The feeling you get, I'm with Amin 100% on this, the feeling you get when you got something in your pocket and you zip it up, ugh, I just start... It does feel secure. I can do like this whole hip dance where I'm just like swinging my hips. You can ride a roller coaster. Yep.

Yep. No fear. Check the pro list. 100%. But the other side of it is... I haven't experienced the downside of it. Have you ever danced and then said, hey, let me put my hands in my pockets now? Well, nope. Now you got to unzip and then you got to do it smoothly. That seems very specific. Like, you just walk down the street and break out in dances? Flash mob? Yeah. What's happening here? You have a point. I don't want pockets because I don't want the option of looking awkward with my hands in my pockets. You know? Yeah.

I have shorts right now that actually are best of both worlds. They have two pockets, but then they also have a zip pocket on the side, as Billy's looking at right now, that I can put something else, like my wallet, my keys, something a little smaller. Bird dog cap, it was.

Fan of those. Separate pockets with a zipper. Like the Nike Tech Fleece. Nike Tech Fleece has a zipper pocket and then it has regular pockets. Why do you buy shorts with zippers to play flag football? Because you're not allowed to have pockets at all, right? Because if you reach for a flag and you accidentally stick a finger in the pocket hole, it can rip your finger. There have been plenty of incidents of people breaking their fingers, so they allow zipping up the pockets. But now...

Now they've outlawed those, at least in my league, for a couple of reasons. One, you can get hurt on the actual zipper. And two, there's no proof that you actually zipped up the zipper. You could have it opened up and then accidentally have the same injury. Now, Izzy, can I present to you a different option? You can't put your hands in your pockets. What about the old thumbs in the waistband?

Right here. Like a cowboy. So you don't think you look awkward with your hands in your pockets? Or Jess thinks you look awkward with your hands in your pockets, but you don't think you look awkward with your thumb in your waistband? That's totally natural for a female. How often are you guys dancing? Authoritative. That's what it looks like. You're like, hey, what's up, guys?

You got your thumbs right in the waistband right here. And then the four fingers are flapped out. That's usually when I'm like trying to take a picture and I'm awkward. Like I'm standing for a photo. It's like, all right, I'll stand. I'll put my thumb in my pocket. It's just I've ruined many a photo, many a group photo. So, I mean, we actually had a pocket related casualty at the last wedding that Lehman and I went to. I decided otherwise.

Almost. It was really touch and go. I decided I don't want to bring a purse with me. I'm sick and tired of carrying a purse around all night. I'm just going to go in my dress and that's it. I'm not bringing anything. I thought you were going to say, I'm just going to have Lehman. Well, he does carry around my lip gloss for me, but that's separate. So I didn't have a purse and Lehman didn't have a purse. And so Lehman put his car key. We drove to the wedding, put the car key in his front suit pocket. Inside? Inside. Love that pocket. Love that pocket. We go to the wedding. Can't put too much in it though. I don't know.

This seems dangerous because Lee seems like someone that takes off layers when he dances. Well, he didn't. He didn't. We went to the wedding. We went to the reception. We ate the dinner. The DJ comes on. Great DJ. Dancing, having fun. Full jacket dancing, huh? Yes. Full jacket dancing. It's like 1030, 1045, and we're like, let's go home. That was really fun. We're going to go to bed.

We go walk out to the car. The car doesn't automatically unlock. That's weird. What's going on there? Lehman puts his hand in his front pocket. Key is gone. No key. We go back into the wedding, tell the staff, we tell everyone there. Did you Irish goodbye on the way out? Yes. We were so excited to go home and not say bye to anyone. We didn't say bye to the bride and groom. We just bounced. I call it an Israeli goodbye now. That's my name, Israel. Oh, I get it. Oh, my God. Same. This show took a turn. I know.

I went we went back in. We started looking for the key on the dance floor. Couldn't find it. We looked at our table. We couldn't find it. Spent like an hour looking for the key. The staff was like, if you wait until the wedding's over at 1 a.m. when we turn the lights on, I'm sure we'll find it. And we looked at each other. We're like, we're not saying we don't want to say goodbye to anybody. So we had to get an Uber home and we left the car there. We abandoned the car. Really? And the search for the key at 1.30. Someone from the hotel called us and said they found it on the dance floor.

It was in the middle of the dance floor? It was somewhere. We never found out where it was, but the key somehow jumped out of his pocket because he had the jacket on while he was dancing. And this was Lehman going like, it was like a 5 out of 10 dance night. It wasn't even a 10 out of 10. Wow. Well, that would explain the jacket being on because let's go back to that.

quickly. Why not take up, was it a fire jacket or, here's my other theory, is Lehman, one of those guys, love Lehman, one of those guys that needs the clothes to help enhance the dance moves, right? Like if you're using your jacket, hold on to the edge of the jacket. Yeah, you see, you can't, you're naked with your jacket off. You have to be able to dance. So that's me. I'm

the person that needs the clothes. This wedding was handing out shawls as the little party favor. Some weddings have the little flip flops for women. This one they had the shawl. So I was swinging my shawl around and stuff. Lehman doesn't need props. He's just a good dancer, period. But he didn't take the jacket off. And the key, I swear to God, the key must have just jumped out. Because I never saw it. No one saw it. It just

I mean, if we're starting the show on Pocket Talk, I've got a traumatic similar story, but let me know when we want to get there. Well, I don't understand. This is a good DJ, but it was a 5 out of 10 dancing night for Lehman? What happened? Well, it was our friends, but we didn't know anyone other than our friends. So we were very, very... No, no, no, no. It's a good place to... If you only know a few people, you've got to tone it down. Here's the thing. Lehman's 10 out of 10 is a lot of people's can't fathom going that hard. So a 5 for him is most people's 10. Damn.

Where on your scale is starting a conga line? Is that like 10 out of 10 or is that a little lower? Well, we don't really, I've never been to a wedding with a conga line, but we do do like the hora and Lehman is always the, like, da, da, na, na, na, na.

Yeah, exactly. And Lehman and I lead the charge on that. Was there a lot of Russian dancing where he like... He can do that. See? I swear to God, this man's knees... That's where the keys went out, right there. Yeah, do you think back, like retrospect in the night, like what move do we think lost the key?

Honestly, I would love to. I did shout play. Was it in shout? There was no shout. It was all like really, really good. Shout was on my do not playlist. Really? Yeah. Oh, yeah. No band shout. Overdone. It's overdone. A little bit softer now. A little bit softer now. Band. What else was on the band list? I'm trying to think. Shout was definitely on there. Despacito? No, Despacito was not on there. Are you crazy? That was a banger. Wobble, baby. Wobble, baby. Wobble, baby. Wobble.

I think Wobble was playable. I think that was on the okay list. Wobble will be on my no playlist if I ever get married because I got an underage drinking ticket once while that song was on and it scarred me for the rest of my life. You know what else was on there? Sweet Caroline was on there. That was not going to happen at the wedding. Send that shit back to Boston. Electric Slide was on mine. Electric Slide is on the list. I wanted to have one at the

songs where they tell you how to dance. I wanted the people who knew how to dance and actually wanted to get on the dance floor to go do their thing. - I kept my jacket on the entire time, like at my wedding reception, and I think I kept the bow tie on also.

Even at the bar after, I was like, yeah, I'm not going to look sloppy tonight. I was a sweaty, sloppy disaster. Went to the bar? Yeah, the bar. Me too. After my wedding or something. And I took all of the light-up foam sticks that we had. We just handed them out. We walked into the bar with a garbage bag full of those light-up things and just handed them out to patrons. It's a fun night at the bar. The bar is always great after a wedding because you can just walk right over. We got married at the same place. Did we marry each other?

I definitely need to go to a wedding with Chris Cody. Izzy, question. Electric Slide, the song is banned, not the dance. No, no, the dance is okay. The dance is okay. If you can figure out that dance to another song, go for it. Okay, so you remember the infamous all-employee meeting, all-talent meeting at ESPN, the one right before the world ended for us? Oh, yeah, I remember it. I remember when John Skipper came to me and said, I'm really looking forward to where your career goes. Dude, man. I do believe you will have a nice long career here. The number of things.

things that happened leading up to that that was just like oh man Israel it's really about to take off and then everything changed five days later but did you go to the karaoke you weren't there I did not

Oh, man. I did not. This was like, it was a legendary night. Nobody invited me, but I did not. It was a legendary night, man. Look, if Gojo found a way to the black karaoke party, then... I'd heard about it. I'd heard a lot about it. Did not go. But one of the things that happened was I, for karaoke, I did cameo candy and impromptu, the entire bar starts doing electric slide. I've never felt more... It's electric. Oh, my God. It was incredible. We have to have a show...

Field trip to that karaoke room where it's like just 20 people and four mics and you just kind of go. You know what I don't like about those places is oftentimes the mic they give you has a stupid ass reverb on it. They don't give you a regular mic. Am I right, Lucy? Very picky you are. Yes, these were very popular in L.A. and we used to go all the time. And they do a good job of soundproofing. Like in between songs you can hear the other room, but it always has that little echo. Oh.

I don't like the reverb. I want the pure microphone sound. That's why I like karaoke places where it's...

general public. You got people and you gotta perform to people who don't know you. Yeah, don't assume that I need the microphone to fix my vocals. Yeah. Just let me either perform as well as confidently as I can or let me bomb and have everybody sort of look the other way and I can't wait till this song's over. That's the worst feeling is when you hear your voice for the first time and recognize, ooh, that's not what I remember sounding like. It's the worst part is when you have a song that you think you can do and you realize you can't. Didn't work. That's terrible.

have you sorry have you guys ever have you guys ever left a karaoke bar because someone's song choice was so bad oh my god the song choice not the song execution both okay i've never left because of execution but i've left because of choice i've left because of choice yes someone at a karaoke bar we went to decided to play a 10-minute taylor swift song you should never be allowed yeah

- 10 minutes all too well, absolutely miserable. You don't get to hold me hostage for 10 minutes. - Purple Rain, someone's tried to do the same thing. It's like this song is too long, you can't do that, that's illegal.

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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.

I have a good karaoke story about Charlotte for Amin. On my 25th birthday, Charlotte and Lehman and Priya and I, all my besties, we went out. My friend Priya. Lehman and I weren't even dating yet. We went out to a karaoke bar and we were having so much fun and they came out and they were like, okay, we're starting karaoke. The only rule is no good singers. And we were like, oh, that's great. Like we all suck at singing. So Charlotte was like, I'm going to go first. And she went up and she sang a Cher song. And like,

She's very normal at karaoke. It wasn't particularly terrible, but she's not belting it. I was hoping that you were going to say, I'm terrible, and then she picked up the mic and sounded like a mixture of Fergie and Jesus. Well, so Charlotte goes up and sings Cher, and we're all like, oh, having a good time. Do you believe in love?

No, I think it was Turn Back Time. Is that a Cher song? I don't know. Yes, it is. Okay, it is. So then Charlotte sits down and the next person goes up and is the greatest singer I've ever heard in my life. And we're like, whoa, okay, we thought there was no good singers here. And then the third person goes up, just kills it. So good. And then we realized we were at karaoke for like off-Broadway singers. And so Charlotte went up there.

there and had no idea and just sang her song to all these professional singers. This man goes up and sings New York, New York, and literally he sounds like Frank Sinatra. We were all just sitting there sinking into our chairs.

So did any of you all go up? I went up. Okay, I thought you guys should have all been like, let's go somewhere else. I went up and then Charlotte and I went up together again. We were by far the absolute worst singers these people have ever heard. It was so much fun. I've been to karaoke in LA off Hollywood Boulevard never again because it was like everyone who's looking to get signed and I'm like, hey,

go find a cover band or some shit, man. This here, this is for us. This is it for you people. - I did that one time in LA and I had the exact same experience and it happened immediately when I realized, oh, they'll let you do any song. And then I saw a white dude go up and I heard Snoop Dogg.

I heard gin and juice come on, and I don't even I didn't even remember the lyrics right away I said nope not here for this. I'm out of here. I was really feeling it. Oh, yeah, sorry. It was Chris. LeBron re-signed back to karaoke. Oh.

When I go to karaoke bars, I always get hammered. I get so drunk and I will go up to every singer after they're done and be like, "You are the best on the board. You should really try to do this professionally." And they're like, "Thank you so much." I'm like, "It was the voice of an angel. You are so amazing." There's one song that, depending on how much I drink, I'm either out of there based on the song choice or I'm singing it loud as anybody.

and it's American Pie, Don McLean. Get out of here if I'm not drunk yet and you're picking that in a karaoke bar because it's sad, it's depressing, nobody wants to hear that. But get me drunk, I'm yelling louder, I'm getting close to the mic with the guy and trying to sing it just as loud as he does. - Have you guys gone to a bar that has a cover band taking requests from the crowd, right? You know what cover bands hate covering? Freebird.

by Lynyrd Skynyrd. So anytime I'm at a place, I'll yell, Freebird! They're like, buddy, we're not playing Freebird. Stop yelling it. It's like people keep requesting Wonderwall. It's like in Wayne's World where they're like, no stairway to heaven.

at the guitar store. You know what? I've never seen Wayne's World. Saw Wayne's World 2. Wow. Welcome to Aurora, Illinois. Not just a place, but a state of mind. It's like, I've never seen any Fast and Furious movie other than Tokyo Drift. It's the only one I saw.

You're wacky. No, it's just a blind spot. I don't know. I've never felt the need to watch any of the other. I watched it when it came out. That's why I watched it. And the reason I watched it when it came out was because I accidentally walked on the set.

What? Of Tokyo Drift. Oh, yeah, you told me you were looking for an Oscar game. No, that was the other Fast and Furious movie. I refuse to watch that one. Wait, so you were in another Fast and Furious movie that you refuse to watch? You stumbled upon two Fast and Furious. Were you in Tokyo for Tokyo Drift? Shot in downtown Los Angeles. Okay.

All right. Hold on a second. Exactly right. I feel like I could say that about most movies. You're an extra in two Fast and Furious movies, according to you. I wouldn't call myself an extra because I wasn't on. Both times they yelled at me to get out of the shot. Well, were you walking through the street? Yeah. They were telling you so you don't get hit by a car. No, I was walking down the sidewalk. They're like, you're in the shot. I'm like, shot what? And I was wondering. Hold on a second. So you're walking around and like fake cowboy Brian, whatever his name is, in Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift is there, like the replacement for-

For Paul, whatever his name is. Paul Walker. Yeah. So you're walking through and fake Paul Walker is like spitting lines and you're like walking through the shine. Like, can you please move? No, it was, first of all, it was downtown LA and they replaced all the street signs with Japanese signs. And I thought that was kind of weird, but I thought I said, maybe I'm in Japan town or whatever. So I just kept walking. I don't think it's called Japan town. Little Tokyo? Yeah. Whatever. I call him Paul whatever. There you go. Yeah.

And then the cars come around the corner. - Rest in power. - And they're drifting and stuff. And I'm like, "Cut!" And they're like, "Oh." They get out the shot. I'm like, "Well, you should've had someone stop in foot traffic." Then again, like 10 years later, or however many years later, I'm walking through downtown Cleveland and I saw an NYPD squad car and I was like,

look at these guys using up taxpayer money to come out to the NBA finals and you guys should be ashamed of yourselves. And then I walk a couple more blocks and it's like a massive pileup. I'm talking about like 14 cars on top of each other and like there was a NYPD motorcycle at the top and it was on its side and its lights was going and I'm like, oh my God, this is the worst accident ever. I need to call 911 and I'm like, why is it, have they already come? What's going on? And

And then someone says, you're in the shot. I'm like, oh, again? So mean is effectively that guy or girl that you see at every NBA halftime with Mike Breen and Doris Burke right in between them. And you're like, oh, wow, I'm on TV. Look at that. As they go by. That's the mean except the Hollywood version of that. And not knowing that there was a camera. So like I'm picking my nose or something. I think that's the one that they just had cars somehow like launching out of the size of parking garages. I can't imagine how traumatic that must have been if you walked by at that moment.

Where cars are just flying out of parking garages. Okay, when we used to work at the Clevelander, I was walking one day from the Clevelander to Alton Road, and all of a sudden I heard gunshots next to me, and I literally jumped 10 feet in the air and ducked.

And the Miami police, I jumped. I jumped and then I ducked. You jumped 10 feet in the air while ducking. That's impressive. It was terrifying. It was like right next to me. And I turned and the Miami police department was doing a demonstration for little kids like next to me. And they didn't even have the sidewalk marked off. And I was like, seriously, like. A demonstration? Yes. They were like shooting at each other. I swear to God. Blanks, of course, blanks. It was terrifying. And then I was like, what the fuck?

And then I realized it was fake and I was like, why do they not close the sidewalk? It was terrifying. Like it fucked me up for days. I thought you were going to say bad boys like for life was being filmed. I would like to recreate just jumping 10 feet in the air. I was Simone Biles. I was 12 feet in the air upside down. Like it scared the shit out of me. It was right next to me. Like an armadillo. It's just one little ball in the sky. Sonic the Hedgehog. Yeah.

- I mean, what fell out of your pocket? - My phone when I sat down. This just literally happened moments before we went on air. - You don't have this problem. I am having my keys, the shorts, like these Fabletic shorts that I have, like all the shorts I have nowadays, falling, like I can't get out of my car without my keys being in my seat. - I want you to look at the engraving on my AirPods, AirPods.

Does it say Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese are WNBA All-Stars? No. No, that's the other one. Close. It says, Izzy, don't lose me. And it has hearts on either side because, of course, the AirPods have feelings. Yes, of course. These are the fourth AirPods.

Pair of my pods that I have owned. I've lost the case one time. I've lost a left one. I've lost a right one. And then I bought JBLs just because I was like, let me just change my luck. And then I lost the right one of those. And so these came with a lovely message. Every single time it has been from falling out of my pocket. I'll put one in there and put... Anti-zipper guy over here. But some of those were with...

zippered pockets. I just didn't zip it up. That's crazy. I didn't zip it up. I didn't zip it up. You know, you just sit down, you don't zip up your pockets, all of a sudden, whoops, something falls out. Just put it on a keychain. Yeah.

And it's nice because when I lose my keys, I can track my AirPods and then I find my keys. We're moving away from those, right? Like, aren't we having a movement to go back to, like, wired headphones? I only wear wired. I see a lot of people do that. Why? Well, not all the time. But, like, if I'm on a flight, I might. Or if I'm just doing something where I don't need to have my phone somewhere else. It's just...

I don't know. You can fall asleep without fear of it falling out of your ear. Yeah, but the radiation situation... I saw a video that Tony, you're going to like. I've seen it. That's why I don't wear them. You've seen radiation? No, I've seen them use a radiation monitor and they go over the AirPods and do-do-do-do-do-do-do. I saw this video you're going to like. I saw it as a chiropractor or a doctor of some sort. And he had a guy and he was stretching his neck while wearing his smartwatch. I'm not going to say the name so I don't get sued. So he's wearing his smartwatch with an apple on it.

and he starts twisting his neck, and it can only go yay far. And then he takes it off, and the guy's neck almost did a full circle. It moved so much. It went like all the way down here, and it was down by, you know, like his chest.

because he took off the smartwatch. What did that tell you? He said there was some sort of electromagnetic something on that watch that stops his neck from moving. Tony. And I thought of you immediately. Tony, you afraid of radiation? A little bit, yeah. Okay, let me tell you a little story about a guy who was exposed to radiation and became the most powerful being ever. His name is Bruce Banner. Don't talk to me about radiation. Feels like a different kind of radiation. I don't know. It's all radiation. Gamma rays and whatnot. They're all rays. There's radiation.

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Don Libetard. Again, started on the breakfast flan. Oh, man. I've been singing a song to myself all morning long. Breakfast flan. Stugatz. Have you never heard the breakfast flan song? No. Hit me with it. Okay. I wish I had some breakfast flan. Breakfast flan. Where can I find a breakfast like that?

This is the Dan Levatard Show with the Stugats. So Izzy, it was a nice couple of weeks, maybe a week, where we were hearing, LeBron's going to take less so they can have that full mid-level and all the trappings under the aprons and everything. And the Lakers are going to be able to do big moves, go get big names. And then everybody's signed somewhere else within the first 48 hours. Was that...

just for Klay Thompson supposedly? Or was that for anybody? Because he obviously went ahead and took the extension, which is the news you're talking about, without taking a discount after a day or two after Klay Thompson commits to the Mavs. - Klay Thompson was one of the names. Jonas Valanciunas was one of the names.

And I think the third name was DeMar DeRozan, who's still available, but I guess LeBron said, never mind. What did you guys think of Michael Thompson going on with Frank Isola and saying, hey, don't congratulate me. I wanted Klay to be a Laker. Oh, no, that's the most authentic Michael Thompson. That's how he is.

He's always super blunt about things like that and specifically wanting Klay to be a Laker. As long as he's a Warrior, it's great, but I hope when he's done playing for the Warriors, he plays for the Lakers. He's said that for years. I feel like I'd be like, Dad,

Come on, please don't do this. - Well you think it's like a distraction? People in Dallas are gonna be like, "Ugh, Michael Thompson." - Just be like, "Can you support me a little bit instead of coming out?" - I'm gonna tell you something. Michael Thompson is very much the immigrant father. It's like 100%, he still treats Clay like Clay's his kid, like a child in his house. Clay, if you guys remember, remember this Izzy? His first couple years?

His salary went to his parents and they gave him allowance? I did not actually know that. Oh, man. That was one of my favorite Clay stories. At what age? Like his rookie year, at least. Yeah. I mean, he spent, what, three years in school? Yeah. So he was 21. He was 21, but he was getting allowance. I mean, he's the most unique NBA personality outside of the Dennis Rodmans, just kind of within a couple of lanes, I think, that I've ever experienced. Yeah.

It's interesting to me that LeBron, because it was, what, 2010 was the last time he took a discount, right? He said when he left, he's going to take the max forever. He's never taken a discount again. And what, he was going to do this just for a maybe of a claim? None of those names that you said said, oh, that's going to push them over the top for a championship. So it was an interesting conversation when I saw it. For LeBron, I guess he felt like those were names that were worth it.

taking the discount for. The discount is a little different. Back in 2010, it was just so they could have enough money to pay, I believe, Mike Miller and Udonis Haslam. Which, again, I could see why he was like, I'm never doing this shit again. Right, that was Dwayne Wade supposedly convincing the mob to do that. This is different, right? This wasn't about having enough money to pay someone. It's about...

The Lakers being at a payroll where things are not taken away from them because now the new collective bargaining agreement, the higher you go with your payroll, you begin to lose the ability to do certain things like engaging in any sort of sign-in trade. And if you keep going and going, you go to where the Clippers were headed, which is

draft picks are frozen. You saw the Knicks having issues or still having kind of a question mark how that Mikkel Bridges deal is going to ultimately get done because if they accept more money than they put out, then they're going to be hard capped at the first apron. So there's all these things now. It's less about

hey, leave a little money so that we can pay so-and-so so that the franchise isn't paying a crazy luxury tax and more about, hey, do you want better players? The only way we can acquire them is if we have these tools available. So, I mean, this has always sort of bugged me a little bit with LeBron, especially on the back

end of his career, where we are now, the idea of if you're going to even suggest I'll take a small discount, why not go all in? And I understand like financially, it doesn't make any sense to give up millions and anybody will tell you it's an idiotic decision. But are you not?

making more on the back end if you do create a super team, get all this attention again, win another championship, and then after that, you're talking, you can probably quantify it different ways, but making that money back. Why not just take a full discount and make a $5 million a year type of deal? I think for players, because the idea is that

your window of earning is so finite. And I know LeBron kind of flies in the face of that, but for everybody else, it's like, dude, I have this much time to make as much money as possible for the rest of my life, my children's lives. And hopefully my children, I'm talking about this one guy, this one guy, maybe, but, but also he feels like he sets a standard. I think,

Is it kind of like when Tom Brady was like, oh, what if you just give Tom Brady like $1.2 million or whatever the league minimum is? But doesn't that mess up with the CBA? The Players Association doesn't like it for sure. They're like, yo, your— Your best player's taking nothing. Yeah, but it's different in basketball because in football, if the best quarterback in the league signs—

at a number that's the standard right whereas in basketball we have an actual maximum salary so just because LeBron takes less than Max doesn't mean anyone else has the negotiation but privilege to say okay LeBron sort of set his own precedent in so many different things right the guy the homegrown guy he just wanted to win his championships elsewhere and came back and now doing it with a third team right nobody ever did that nobody did like the big

the way he did it in particular. Nobody did the, hey, I'm now playing with my son. Nobody's manipulated the NBA for his benefit more than anybody, than LeBron James. And so you are the unique one. You are the one whose earning potential is never going to end. It's not going to end after your playing career is over. You're the only one

only one who's in that conversation with Michael Jordan where another championship might do it for you. Another two, if you're really good with this, might absolutely do it for you. You are the only... Maybe Victor Wimbenyama in 15 years might be able to...

to pull off something like this and justify it, but LeBron would be the only person where even if I'm the Players Association, I'm just like, you know what? That's a good move. I'm not mad at that. - Technically Tim Duncan did it in San Antonio, Dirk did it in Dallas, Kevin Garnett did it in Boston, but those were all, well I guess he's old too. They were all in this stage, so I don't know.

And also, I think that was more about keeping their own guys and getting fresh guys. It's what LeBron was trying to do. One of the guys that has been linked, obviously, is DeMar DeRozan, who is an L.A. native. But DeMar DeRozan has other ties. Chris, do you want to bring us up to date?

Barry Jackson in these streets saying the Heat are interested and that DeMar has interest. I mean, it's a nice fit, man. Again, what we talked about yesterday, Izzy, was the idea that Miami, for whatever they've achieved over the last few years, the one constant is they've been awful offensively. In the half court, awful offensively overall. They just don't generate points easily because they don't have a guy that, if you guys remember two years ago when I said,

Boston is clearly more talented than Miami. Miami just has to win by execution. And Will Manso and the rest of the rabble-rousers on the internet said, what? How can you say they're more talented? I said, dude, because they can run their plays, mess up their plays, and still have a guy say, I got it.

And you can't. Miami does not have that. And so DeMar DeRozan kind of provides something like that, no? He also plays. Is that interesting? Is that important? I'm saying like Jimmy misses games. DeMar, I believe, played like 70-something games last year. I think those two things, like a bucket getter and just being there, I think it's a perfect fit.

Don't you think they feel kind of the same role, Jimmy and DeMar, when they're kind of on the floor at the same time? You don't want a guy who is going to be a lead scorer for you also do the exact same things that your other lead scorer does? So a couple things on that front to me. And it's funny because I'm making this comparison to like a Tyler Hero. Because when Tyler lines up against somebody, you're like, man, I hope this works out.

When DeMar does it, I just look at the defender because that defender's in hell. It is so difficult to defend that guy in the mid-range. It is way different than a defender looks at Jimmy Butler, maybe not Drew Holiday. Jimmy Butler, when he's lining you up, he's like, oh, if I play good defense, I'm probably going to stop this guy. Maybe he'll get a phantom call. DeMar is so skilled in the individual, in the one-on-one, in the mid-range, at drawing fouls. He's the type of guy that puts 10 eyes on the ball at all times. And then if he makes the right pass...

I actually think, and this is not just because he shot 41% from three last year, Jimmy Butler. I think you can give him more responsibilities in the half court, DeMar DeRozan, and let Jimmy play off the ball. Because, you know, there's a lot of people saying they're kind of very similar, yada, yada, like Tony just said. But I do believe that if you give DeMar the responsibilities on the heat in the half court set, way more potential for success per play than with Jimmy. I think I agree. And by the way, Jimmy...

This is what Jimmy wants. He doesn't want to have the ball in his hand. Even in the 60-some-odd games that he plays...

How many games do we see where it's like, Jimmy's doing this thing to start the game, and it's like, oh, they're losing. Jimmy, you need to save. It's like, fine. And then he goes and he gets like six fouls in a row and gets to the free throw line and saves the day or sometimes doesn't. And so to me, if anything, he should welcome the lift of the burden off of all that by having someone who comes in there. And DeBoer's like, he's not, you know, sometimes you get a guy who does those things wrong.

Skill wise And production wise But it's kind of A son of a bitch In his attitude Demar's a nice guy man He's a great teammate Everyone loves playing with him Everyone respects him Drake thinks that Who? Drake?

Are they on the outs right now? I mean, he was at the Kendrick thing. Hey, man. Look, let me tell you something. That dude, you know where DeMar's from? He's from the thick of it. From L.A. Not just L.A. He's like the thick of that stuff. Yeah, he's... Drake wasn't surprised to see him there. No way. Look, if I was Drake... The internet was like, oh, he's boys with Drake. Dude, if I was Drake, I would have picked up the phone like, yeah, you need to be at that concert, man. Westbrook was the one who was more surprising. Really? I mean, DeMar DeRozan is name-checked in the song. Like, of course he had to be there.

But Russell Westbrook? I think these guys are very L.A. guys, though. They're very L.A. guys, right? From, quote-unquote, the thick of it. I also don't see a lot of Westbrook-Drake connection, right? I see the DeRozan connection, but the Westbrook-Drake one, I don't know. I just see Westbrook-Taylor Swift connections, really. Well, I mean, look, when Taylor Swift comes out with a West Coast anthem, maybe Russell will be there to lead the charge as well. Did you see KD with Drake in the picture with the hookah?

- No, but that could've been from anywhere at any time. - I think it's very current. There it is right there. - I'm glad you asked this question because I follow Drake, I follow all these guys, celebrities on Instagram, and I go to the comments on Drake's posts a lot because I'm just like, wow, the haters must be going crazy.

They filter. There's only certain comments that are allowed. So when you go on Drake's comments, it's just a bunch of slurping and glazing. Like it's absolutely nothing but positive comments. And I'm just like, wouldn't somebody give him shit for that? Like, why are you so thin skinned that you don't even just allow the comments to be open? Well, when you have the wherewithal to have someone whose job it is to curate the comment section, like they just sit there all day long. Oh, new comment. Oh, no, that's got to be good. Like,

I go to Dwayne Wade's posts whenever he posts something with his daughter, and it's just living hell in the comments. He needs that filter. He needs Drake's person to come change his comments. Drake needs to just go ahead and deal with the hatred. Can we get that filter too?

Does it tend to Reddit? Do you guys do this? I don't really look at comments a lot of things. I'm not a big comment looker. Other people's comments? You know what? Some of the funniest things. Exactly. This is my algorithm. God bless it. It knows what I'm here for. As soon as I get into videos of things that I don't follow, it's literally just like,

someone at their most vulnerable and then the comment section pops up. Somebody I saw recently who was doing the Dougie but doing horribly speaking of wedding dances and it was just really stiff and the guy in the comments said this person said instruct me how to Douglas. I just was laughing for half an hour. Le Maximum. I watched Perfect Match on Netflix and as the season would go on there'd be villains when the couples would break up and you're like I don't like this person and then I'd go to Instagram and be like I wonder if

Everyone has gone to their comments and is just crapping all over them on post. Like, here's a picture of me with my dog. And it's like, you die. I hate you so much. And I'm like, yeah, I love this. Do you guys ever go? Do you ever watch a House Hunters International and then find them on Instagram and see if they still live where they hunted? What I love about House Hunters International is unlike House Hunters, they give you the exact part of town where they're at because they're like, I'll never go to Sydney. Yeah.

No stalker's gonna go there, right? You're never gonna go stalk these people in Thailand. Yeah. What's the percentage of people who are still living there normally, Jess? Well, the most recent one I watched, it appeared that they lived in their apartment for six months that they found on House Hunters and then they moved back to the United States. Nice. I think if you go on some of those like home makeover shows, like you'll find that the people that had like

extreme makeover home edition whatever within a couple years they end up selling the house because the house becomes so valuable that they can't afford it so then they have to go and sell the house that they had made over for free yeah

Summer's the best time to run the way you want. Dial it up with new challenges and programs and bring your workouts with you to make the most of outside sunny days. Stugatz, guess what? What? You know what you can do with Peloton? What? Get the app, go outside, ride a bike. Well, I thought you ride Peloton inside. Well, you do, you can ride Peloton inside if it's a rainy day or if it's cloudy or you just don't want to get outside, maybe it's too hot.

summertime, go outside. I record a lot from my office with you and you've noticed it's sitting there yet. It hasn't been used. Well, now's the time. Summer's the best time to start that push. Right. Can we do it together? Not on the same bike, but we could join a class together. I used to do that. We used to have Guillermo Tan. I'd invite people. We'd all take a class together. Okay. So I think you're starting to get concerned about my health and my age, Billy. I,

I sense that with you. We're beyond starting. Okay. Whatever road lies ahead, your training starts here with Peloton Tread and Tread Plus. It's not just a bike, a treadmill too. I'm going to go outside. I'm going to get in shape. I'm going to do it with Billy Gill. I want to be in your class. I want you to be my instructor. You know what? I won't be your instructor. You don't want to spend more time with me. No, I can schedule a class and we can ride together. I won't be the instructor of the class. We can have Camila could be our instructor. I like the Grateful Dead class. My daughter, she uses the Peloton. Mm-hmm.

She was on it once and an instructor who was playing Grateful Dead tunes. Let's do that. Okay. Why don't we go for a run outside? Guided run. Peloton. Me and you. That's something we can do together. Okay. Turn on the app. Me and you go outside. Enjoy the summer. Call yourself a runner with Peloton at onepeloton.com slash running. All right.

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