Are the Los Angeles Clippers the Best Team in the NBA?! The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Are the Los Angeles Clippers the Best Team in the NBA?! The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Stan Van Gundy texted me aggressively suggesting uh I need to watch We Are The World the documentary on Netflix and as is my habit lately I get about 20 minutes into things and then I just fall asleep I have not been able to make it through much of anything in the last two

Months uh so I don’t know if it’s any good or not I imagine a certain generation would love it just because it’s nostalgic just because the idea of all of the world’s famous singers in one place or many of the world’s famous singers in one place for one night it’s

Almost impossible to even make their schedules match up have any of you seen We Are The World the Netflix documentary the greatest night and Pop I believe is the name of it and I finally got around to it yesterday because there’s been a lot of positive word of mouth I watched

The NHL allar game and there’s been wired for sound uh Clips circulating of Justin Bieber asking anybody who would listen have you seen the We Are the World documentary I’ve heard a lot about it and I I I it was positioned as great insight into the creative process I

Don’t think Tony from the look on your face you don’t even know what I’m talking about I have no so so what is this it’s like a Greg Cody explain explain We are the world uh from your prism as someone who grew up on MTV it

Was a revolution to see music video come to life and this video come to life explain to Tony What We Are The World Is it was a charity single uh that included Michael Jackson and dozens of other luminaries in pop music like the biggest names in music at the time it was immens

Ly successful it was like a number one song for weeks on end and um and decades later it’s still famous if you say to anyone who’s middle-aged or or older if you say We are the world just that phrase the song comes right to mind everybody we had never seen that kind of

Star power gathered in one place for uh for one night of performance so it’s kind of like the allstar game back in the day where everybody was like oh these are all the allstars and now it’s like oh everybody already does that anyway so it really doesn’t matter but

This is the biggest collaboration there’s been I think before or since I don’t think well it it it kind of it followed Band-Aid so there was already a set formula and they tried to one up it and the question was asked like okay you have all these white artists doing

Something for Africa why don’t we have African-Americans doing something for Africa so that was kind of the concept and then Lionel Richie Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson were approached to put it all together in first viewing of the documentary I don’t plan on seeing it

Again I didn’t think I liked it but then the conversation pieces that come out afterwards I do find interesting for example if I can wear my producer hat logistically super challenging to get all those people the night of the American Music Awards just the thought of someone scheduling it when you don’t

Have to pay for budget and travel just have all these people who when they’re already in town come after the award show and it’s Springstein and Cindy ler and where do you stand people Stevie Wonder yeah where do you where where do people stand next to one another during

This because that’s something that you have to account for vocal ranges I thought some of the best parts of the documentary were Bob Dylan having a crisis of confidence because we he’s not this crazy good vocalist and he’s out there literally miming words because he realizes I’m going to be a distraction

What am I doing here what that’s darl Hall how am I going to keep within that range that is one of the best parts of the original video is watching and when they pan across everybody you can see Bob just kind of like sciously looking around and he’s known as one of the

Great artists ever but he knows like I don’t belong in the company of you know Tina Turner singing over here and Diana Ross singing over there it’s it’s kind of special is is it just the repackaging of that video Jeremy sag mod because I’ve seen that YouTube video it’s like a

10-minute video where but it’s not repackaging it’s all Lionel Richie’s home footage he’s an exe it’s access to a night unlike any in the history of pop music he has all this footage all this raw footage from the day the one day that they had this recording session so

It kind of expands on that and they just stop there is an interesting documentary a really interesting documentary to be made there but they just sto short of diving all the way in they have people touch on things for example the Spectre of Prince hangs over this entire thing

Because they were trying desperately to get Prince to be out there and they had negotiations why don’t you just play a guitar solo he didn’t want to there was this very real rivalry between Michael and Prince maybe more one-sided but they sort of tried to coax Prince into

Showing up because they knew that he was in love with Sheila E so there was a moment of self-discovery without giving things away that Sheila is like oh you guys are just using me you’re just keeping me here as long as possible in hopes that you can get Prince over here

There’s more fascinating things to dive in there but they just Veer off into another Direction sometimes the direction they Veer off into is a drunk aljo that doesn’t sound like a bad direction to me that was the best part of the documentary how drunk was he several bottles of wine deep because he

Thought it was going to be a party as a lot of people kind of came in on a party Vibe post American Music Awards but he just fumbles it every time and this is the old school way of recording everyone goes down a line and has to nail it there’s no autotune to

Fix it and he is just a drunk mess compared to everybody else the late Alero I’d like to see that video uh Jeremy has incidentally uh Jeremy because we have moved into the second part of the sports schedule here with uh some second half of some basketball and

Uh and hockey and baseball’s beginning Jeremy has the top five things in the NBA to watch out for the rest of the season I don’t know did you guys get all of your uh exhibition game takes out there I know there was some Jaylen Brown video that we wanted to play at some

Point of him flying around isn’t there some video out there that you guys can get me that I can play shortly as we go to Jeremy’s top five things to watch out for in the NBA any olis here Jeremy or just yeah there is there’s one oi um and

This oh God this video of Jaylen Brown is spectacular just flailing through the air as he tries to jump over a five foot tall person sitting in a chair just like that person that’s sitting in the chair is 5 feet tall this video is going to

Come back to haunt Jaylen Brown if the Celtics don’t do what they’re supposed to but the oi uh the Clippers are the best team in the NBA y they’re spectacular nobody really seems to be paying attention to the fact that all those Superstars are amazing okay yeah they are but tell me what

Happened the other night where I’m watching the Timberwolves beat them in Los Angeles by 20 and saying to them you guys are sorry you guys are old well that leads to my number five Dan they’re really good too number five Anthony Edwards and Carl Anthony towns playing

Off each other might be the best duo in basketball I thought it was jok at Murray but two of well what it is is their their ability at a pretty young age for this Duo right Edwards has only been there a couple of years cat sort of

Letting go of the ego and accepting that he’s the number two offensive option and just taking over when Anthony Edwards says have the ball been great so far hold on you think that Carl Anthony towns is going to go to the second half of the season after scoring 50 in the

Allar game just shot 35 times in an allar an allar game cuz he’s not doing it in the regular season look this might this might not work in the playoffs and that’s a huge part of it kind of need to see it Draymond Green make fun of him in

The game being like Oh look another game where he has 40 points and they lost right I’m just talking about the regular season basketball that you’re all about to watch they’ve been spectacular that’s why they’re the number one SE Taylor Rooks is there and all of a sudden

Draymond has a routine help me with the box score please did uh did Carl Anthony towns shoot twice as many shots as any two other players combined in that basketball game because I think you can say the allstar game was just a disaster because it showcased Carl Anthony towns that

Way number four number four sheay gildas Alexander probably goingon to win the MVP the metric say he’s the best player in basketball he’s been spectacular and the Thunder are really really good again I don’t know come postseason whether the Timberwolves or the Thunder will be able

To make the noise that they’ve made in the regular season but this MVP race is wide open and he’s at the top of it right now super curious ious about whether or not the way that the scoring has amped up into a place uh that that is crazed whether it will alter things

That we’re used to seeing in that sport which is Minnesota and OKC can’t Advance they haven’t suffered enough in the playoffs too advanced like the history of that sport is those two teams never actually make it to the final and I’m I’m curious whether this year it’ll be

Different just because you can make 43s yeah it might it might be I I saw a take on line that everyone on the western conference is a Hall of Famer every single person that dress out for for the Western Conference all square Allstar team you could say is a Hall of Famer

Even Shane Gillis Alexander were you talking about on his team or in the game because there were two East players if you add up their shot attempts it’s way more than towns but if you add up anybody else’s shot attempts on his team nobody equaled him

But no two guys even no two guys together in the game yeah Lillard and Jaylen Brown both shot over 20 times each the the West is absolutely loaded which leads to number three uh at this point the old teams have been old Golden State the 10 seed the Lakers

Are in the playin as well even the Phoenix Suns led by Durant they’re they’re the five seed right now but I think it’s part of why when you look at the top of the West and you see Minnesota and Oklahoma City these teams that haven’t really suffered yet you

Could see a ton of upsets in the West CU there’s a lot of really good teams at the bottom of that conference what you can also see and this is so rare Greg like this sort of happened at the end in football with Ben rothberger and Tom

Brady and sort of the Old Guard of stardom the bottom half of that conference is where the old guys are the future of the league is at the top of that conference and LeBron and Steph having to go through jokic at minimum and and and the Clippers are old as well

They don’t even get to be the face of the league but Paul George and James Harden and that that triumvirate to have them be that good I I you’re looking at the whole league being upside down at the end of this year where where Curry and LeBron get kicked out of the

Storylines don’t look now number two uh Eastern Conference top starting to falter which means things are setting up nice for Miami Heat to take number two you know what you know we and number one you should go give it to us that can’t be number two no because

Number one’s going to fix everything be after all of this all the NBA storylines you’re looking at talking about Shay gildas Alexander all these other teams in the west ultimately Nika yogic is going to win the MVP and the nuggets are going to win the finals they’re pretty amazing shouldn’t embiid pre-injury he

Was way on top he was which is why it’s wide open I feel so bad it’s wide open now guys like donit Jason Tatum all of these players are right there at the top because embiid was leading far and away and that’s why ultimately we’re going to

Do the thing where hey nobody’s paying attention to the nuggets and they’re just a few games back they may end up the number one seed and they’re the favorites to win M Brian a shocking story that uh escaped your radar during the Super Bowl in the chaos of it is

Jannis anmo says flatly that he gets as many scratches on his arm as jokic but nobody notices because jokic is just white he his bad team you missed that entire story I don’t know why did you miss that story gianis Sant Koo is claiming a legitimate race story that

You simply missed which is he gets just as many scratches on his arms but he’s not white you got nothing on that he silenced you you’re speechless how will you remember Rob Manfred do you do word association Tony’s saying what happened to him he he’s gonna retire yes he’s still with us

You don’t risk a $50 fine there he says he’s going to retire in four or five years 2029 he’s re Hing and so he is doing the the rocking chair tour of five years of my commissionership he made a ton of money for baseball’s owners and uh helped ruin or further ruin baseball

In Miami uh because he was such a mercenary and uh sold all of baseball’s traditions in search of advancement and evolution and helped modernize the sport part of his legacy will be fixing the sport because uh it’s a lot it’s a lot more fun to watch Ever since they

Discarded all of the all of the tradition Rich nonsense that they used to embrace so he did evolve the sport that’s what kind of stinks for him and the business or rather for us as fans is like everybody wants to remember all the bad things but ultimately 50 years from

Now that’s how it’ll be looked at is that he saved baseball in a way because of the way that the game has become so much more entertaining okay but do you understand it’s probably the last bit of Journalism I did where I actually got documents that showed that man knew

Exactly what the Marlins were going to do and that it was a dirty dirty business deal and I got into a lot of trouble at ESPN because we were League Partners in that interview is one of the worst a commissioner has ever done anywhere but they bleeped Miami again

And again continue to bleep Miami again and again and the finances of that sport have helped serve the richest so that Miami gets bleeped again and again and he signed off on it signed off on it with Jeter allowed all of it and treated South Florida the way baseball has

Always treated South Florida as the brothel that it is that that’s actually not true it is true it it’s absolutely true and I told you so uh sort of to your face uh on the phone it was the worst interview a commissioner’s ever done that’s actually not true I think it is

True so my passion for baseball kind of died on his watch but I do think that in terms of leaving the sport in better shape than he got it he squeezed out all the possible money from the old old model of TV deals with rsns they’ve made a lot of great

Investments and have proprietary ownership over certain streaming applications that really secured their future because many of the uh the streaming services that you’ve come to know today have actually used their Tech and in terms of the game play last year it was largely a success really good so

I do think that it’ll look better once you get a treetop view on these they were so ahead of the media game so ahead of the NFL of the NBA and he will be remembered 50 years from now as somebody who helped save and revolutionize the the business of baseball which is what

The commissioner’s job is and man I will tell you that I have run into a number of people over the last few years and I’m kind of shocked by this maybe I shouldn’t be gell not that smart it’s a bit shocking to hear but that sport can’t be led wrong there’s no way

That if baseball stumbles If Sports in general stumble into Financial wins where Rob Manfred making every mistake in the book still makes tons of monies for tons of money for his owners and Roger Goodell keeps getting what’s he earning now what is Roger Goodell earning annually after doing the move of

Saying during the pandemic he would take Z 0ar but then making his salary private because it has since become private even though people are reporting it 63.9 million annually it’s pretty smart if you ask me it’s ridiculous is it though it’s not if you’re making that sport

That much money I mean if they if that sport keeps getting isn’t the job of a commissioner simply to make the business run better than it ever has yeah but isn’t the success of the NFL just self-perpetuating by this time couldn’t you or I be the de facto NFL commission

And the league would continue to be successful just because it runs itself right um I’m saying to you I’m stunned by the number of people who have dealings with Roger Goodell and they’re like look this is not a brilliant Visionary leader this is the person who’s in charge of that thing taking the

Punches on behalf of all his very rich people who have a ton of infrastructure around keeping the media away from the secrets of the power and the owners he could reup soon cuz I’m seeing here that this deal expires spring 2024 so who knows what the I thought he no I thought

He already extended I thought that he signed some other giant monster deal I think so and has trampled Jerry Jones in the process Jerry Jones was vigilantly anti- Roger Goodell for a while and even Jerry Jones the most powerful man in sports another person who Dominique Foxworth has told us sat across from

Jerry Jones like this person’s not as smart as I perhaps thought that maybe he would be given his amount of billions he does have an extension through 2027 I don’t see the number here for what that was but the 63.9 was as of 2019 Tony I think you’re reporting you’re reporting

Exclusively what it’s really high I don’t know what the number it’s more than 70 his contract runs through 2027 and if he sees uh his tenure through to that date it would mean his career earnings are up to roughly $700 million he’s a billionaire you’re going to tell

Me he’s not smart Dan um come on there’s a lot what are we doing we shouldn’t all measure based off of finances people take advantage of that’s correct that’s that’s one of the things that ends up happening but I do understand why people arrive at a point that they think that I

Mean we’re just talking about Trump a second ago that’s what I was just about to say is some of the things you were saying about Manfred where you’re like oh you know he screwed Miami and this and we’re still G to look at him as yeah Dan four years later Trump’s about to

Get elected again like we don’t care if people get screwed financially as long as it’s you know beneficial to the top I I wanted to ask you guys something about this because I saw quietly this happened over the weekend and I don’t get offended by very much that happens anymore in

Sports I I really don’t so I’m when I’m watching the outrage about the All-Star Game in the NBA I wonder why the outrage isn’t similar on the story I’m about to tell you which is it’s been reported that the trustees the money in Penn State wants to put Joe Paterno’s name

Back on the stadium and we like in violation of public law by having the meetings in private when you’re supposed to do that stuff in front of people but the money at Penn State after the single largest Sports Scandal or Scandal of any kind that I can remember anywhere in sports it’s

Such ancient history that we get forgetful after three presidential cycles that 12 years goes by and you’re like ah so patno helped lead kids into wounding that they will never get off of them because sanduski was a pedophile running a muck at his university with young boys and their Futures sent to him

For future scarring because he was disguised in plain sight and protected by the saint of Penn State football that they would topple his statues and that the noise would be loud enough for the moment to topple his statues but that everyone would forget them and The Echoes of the years that followed it’s

Deeply offensive that this isn’t a bigger story never mind that you’re trying to do it in private when Public Law suggests that that’s a violation and a crime in and of itself but to do that with your money when you think all along that Joe patno has been wronged and you’re forgetting

Or or maybe don’t care maybe it’s not even forgetting that the largest Sports Scandal of our lifetime that a patron saint of college football an American hero was overseeing one of his assistant coaches leading boys to horror that they will never undo how does that happen quietly like

How is that something that happens and just escapes the attention because 12 years go by and well patno is dead and history doesn’t matter because it also forces you to relive that and hearing you just recap the story and what led us here was not easy to process and most

People would rather ignore it than be reminded of it are they talking about doing it they haven’t done it yet they haven’t done it yet because that’s a big difference though I think the outcry is if they actually have the nerve to go through with it you think they were

Doing it like they announced it in a gauging response no they didn’t announce it they were having TI meetings they did not want they wouldn’t do so in a fashion that could be held against them if this is indeed against some sort of rule but this is some this is some

Shadowy cult to be trying to like circumvent government law to have private meetings where the money rein the entire Scandal was shadowy cold I mean but come on like we’re going to get that forgetful about that we’re going to get that numb Sports controversy that the machine’s going to be noisy for

Three days on the All-Star game but this is going to be allowed to happen in the shadows like what sense does that make to anybody I know it’s not look man this isn’t fun but I was just shocked to even read it like I I was shocked to see like

I had to go and do more research to find if the story was real because I’m like wait a minute so the statute of limitations on pedophilia is 12 years so long enough for a generation to remember it like it’s that how do you get forgetful about that it was a giant

Scandal and Penn State people were Resolute about no you’re wrong you got it wrong about our St Joe they took down his statue they’re going to put that up no but they took it down under public pressure and now they’re talking privately not about the Statue but

Putting his name on his Stadium because a lot of people would make the argument on behalf if he didn’t know when he knows when his players are missing an 815 meeting I mean there there were several uh accounts of people informing Joe pno of what’s going on there and him

Turning a blind eye and Jerry sanduski is still having an office but the but the trustees turning a blind eye to him in that because they are Resolute that their money will win and they can put the name on The Stadium because they have money and can erase or cure or

Throw a balm on something that cannot have a bomb on it cannot be allowed to have a public bomb on it yeah you can’t like you might as well name it Stadium like we we don’t care that it’s the biggest Sports Scandal that anyone has ever seen that a saint in college

Football was overseeing the worst of crime crimes was was even tangentially involved even as you can understand that he tried to live a good life and you can try to understand through Joe pansy’s excellent book that this probably killed Joe Paterno that the the the end result is to is his

Death but then you’re putting his name on his stadium and resurrecting all of it the moment that you do that you don’t bury him or this with that you resurrect the name on the stadium and those victims are supposed to feel how about that in the middle of that campus and a

Lot of people tend to do the thing where they just see Joe pno as he was towards the end and say this guy didn’t have the faculties to truly understand the scope of his wrongdoing and then you you get familiar with the story and this is several years

Long you Stadium does have a ring to it yeah yeah where do you where did you go to school I want you hell yeah F us it is it’s pretty good what the mascot’s middle finger what’s the what is the what is the mascot double it’s

Like a double middle finger it’s two of them they run across theine one side of the stadium says the other side of the stadium says you it’s a good chant yeah it’s a good chant sorry tery and whoever is editing this make this very difficult Juju put this on the poll

Please when patino says this is the most unenjoyable experience of his lifetime do you wonder which of his lifetimes he’s speaking of at lebatard show uh I want to get to some Shack sound uh that made me a little bit sad but before I do

So I got a text from my wife about Greg Cody that made me a little bit sad as he continues to commercially sell out in a way that is uncomfortable for me my wife just told me that the pride of a lion cost $50 American what M you’re surprised by this my it

Doesn’t it does not well are you saying that my wife’s got it wrong yeah are you well then why would she why would she text me that that was so if that is not so I mean I I can look it up right now I think the I think the face value is

Respectfully she’s wrong I’m seeing Amazon $18.99 for the hard cover there you go well where is she seeing is she seeing an audio book perhaps there’s an audio book that’s around $42 I know Ron and I signed a lot of copies that are probably on sale for

More than the face value I I’m being told that it could be a signed copy on Le on lebatard AF aha so it’s your it’s my own company who’s doing that David Samson baby is that David Samson’s doing is David so I’m my wife is accusing you of something that’s

Quite the value wait a minute so the only the only place you’re finding it for what my wife is alleging is a ripoff is it lebatard a.com sign sign it’s a sign copy sign copy PR by Ron Mill and sign by two people so somehow everyone’s right so

That’s what’s happened your own see I don’t even sell my own book in my merch store which has the hew 3 shirt uh newly on sale but I don’t even sell my own book in my merch where’s that extra cut going by the way I don’t know is there

An audio book is that a real thing who read the audio book there’s an audio book did you do it no I don’t think Ron did either what well that’s not as fun you know maybe there’s not an audio book and should be I also want one I saw an

Audiobook option I want a bra let me open AUD as well I know we’re on sale in Germany and Italy a lot of big lion fans over there big in Detroit too Greg can’t get enough about how much we’ve talked about him on the show today he he thank he’s

Eating every bit of it more uh do you know any of the neighbors that Chris Cody is feuding with because he thinks some of his neighbors are partaking in odd behavior do you have has your son told you any of these stories nope this is this is I’m not feuding with my

Neighbors but I my neighbors have something that I find to be one of the strangest things I’ve ever witnessed I’ve never seen it anywhere else before you get into it you can pre-order the audio book of The Pride of the lion it releases on February 2 7 it’ll be

Available on Audible or wherever else you find your audio book it’s like the thing where it’s not actually been recorded yet it’s narrated by someone named Jeffrey beam oh Ron’s got to do that Migel should have narrated it he’s got such a a speaker’s voice so my

Neighbors I want you to have any of you ever witnessed this my neighbors it’s a couple they have a young child a married couple they both have the exact same car color year like the exact car there are two of the exact car in their driving I

Don’t know I I almost said driving range in their driveway yeah I don’t like that and it’s just one of those things where I’m like how do they know which car to take it it’s it’s just I don’t know I I think they might be serial killers they

Got a deals what they did they went over to the to the Jeep said Hey listen we’re getting two of these same thing all the way down Miami thank you do you get is it cheaper if you buy two absolutely cuz you can negotiate and be like hey I’m

Getting two cars off your lot right now maybe that is what they everything down the line now but I see it in the driveway and it just I canot you got to go different colors there exactly issues different wheel covers something you know something that delineates you

Think they have the keys just in a bowl and it’s like oh blind let me just see which one am I taking today well you put you know you put a a thing from the rearview mirror you know one of those little things that smells nice shaped

Like a tree I hate those a Christmas tree something like that black ice a hanging thing Greg do do you think forgive me is that something that people are still doing are they still hanging a a tree sent from trees had their best Year let me write that down back in my

Day I I don’t think that that’s I don’t little trees.com car tree sense what what are they even called well you need to know that before you shouted aesh I think is what they are air freshener little trees.com is exactly what it is really look little trees.com I prefer the thing you I

Prefer the thing you put in your vent the little thing that just one of those when I was in eighth grade and Obama was being elected a republican quote unquote friend bought me a Obama uh air freshener that smelt like weed really funny prank I propo the uh

I’m being told that the signed books available on lebatard AF do uh. shop um no longer available it was a limited release I think we should get Ron McGill to actually voice some of this and give us animal noises and stuff and it would make it’s not your call to make I mean

They’ve already recorded this with Jeffrey beam you’re going to put him out of work M um I would we should sell it for $100 on lebatard f.com I’ll sell it for 99 in my merch store little trees has an America sented tree it is.com I said do shop that’s it

Also smells like weed what does it smell like what is the I know smells like Pat America it smells like Patriots uh at lebit show put it on the poll please do use an air fresher in your car certainly none of you use what I have used on occasion which I will go

In there I’ll grab a $4.99 can of whatever that you just open and put under the seat and I will do it gas station Strawberry style it doesn’t smell good but it smells like a cheap gas station somewhere in hiia and it reminds me in some ways of my childhood

I don’t think a lot of people are doing that anymore I had a friend who would smoke weed in his car I’ve never done it but he would use Ozium oium is great get the smell out yeah that’s I mean if you’re trying to just you know you know

Freshen up a car Ozium that is a real good advice from a friend of uh of the Tony’s Tony seemed to be there’s also a true north scent use your imagination there I’ve got a life hack for you oh boy you take your Christmas tree you take a chainsaw you you cut out

A a a round of Christmas tree that’s about an inch thick put it under your car seat and you get that beautiful Christmas tree uh natural fresh scent in your car until the the round of tree completely dies and and dries up natural is what you’re saying going to the

Organic source of the Christmas tree scent instead of the cardboard Source yes correct instead of the chemical spray that you’re putting into your lungs every single time you inhale yeah uh let me uh play for the audience very quickly the sound of Shaquille O’Neal who has now re-entered he has

Reinvigorated himself on the podcast tour and the big podcast with Shaq had Jason Kelsey on and this made me sad for Shaquille O’Neal after Mo’Nique went on Club Shay and said he doesn’t have a woman don’t take any advice from him uh Shaq gave some advice to Jason Kelsey

That the last sentence of which made me particularly sad even though he’s talking about his wealth uh I had this conversation with Gabriel glacias who had a very difficult breakup and found himself wandering around a giant mansion that he was no longer able to share with the people who have like helped him

Build it so this made me Shaq this made me sad for Shaq my advice to you is if you are going to retire yes accept it enjoy your family brother thank you I made a lot of D mistakes to where I lost my family and I didn’t have anybody

That’s not the case for you so enjoy your beautiful wife enjoy your beautiful kids and never dwell on what we had what we had is what we got you got the ring people know who you are enjoy it because again I was I was an idiot and I’ve

Talked about it a long time lost my whole family SP 100,000 foot house by myself that’s when I got but again the way I was raised up yeah man up yeah deal with it but you know so so that’s my advice to you Mike Ryan what are you thinking back

There as you Gaz thinking that that’s a lot of mayo on the table I don’t have the back story I don’t have the back story on that but that was uh that was a refreshingly honest and slightly emotional clip and we all know what he’s getting at there and uh yeah you don’t

See that often Shaq that vulnerable either I mean to the point where he’s having difficulty making eye contact because of what he’s revealing well just keep in mind what Mo’Nique accused him of a friend who loves him says he’s got no woman in his life don’t take advice

From Shaquille O’Neal and he gave a word salad after that that was largely empty but one of the things that he did say about masculinity is you don’t open up to your partner you handle your problems yourself that is the the male way to handle things don’t show the

Vulnerability don’t show the weakness it’s ter it is terrible advice it’s a way to go through your marriage alone it’s a good way to get divorced I will tell you this Shaquille O’Neal story from 2006 the heat were celebrating their championship at a restaurant that he was no longer allowed to go to

Because of whatever was happening in his life but he was a street over in his car because he wanted to be near the celebration and they had to bring him food a street over he’s just in his car cuz he’s no longer allowed to go into this Hot Spot restaurant where all his

Teammates are and where all the crazy is because whatever is happening in his personal life is happening in his personal life and he’s trying to hold on to his family to go from that to in your 50s wandering around all of your success because he is said to have uh Michael

Jackson One Time wanted to buy his bed because it was so big and offered to buy the entire house just to have Shaquille O’Neal’s bed it is obviously he lives the most opulent of Lifestyles but it is lonely and it’s lonely even if you’re with companions if you’re not going to

Trust anybody with your vulnerability like he’s he’s saying that poignantly right I’ve got a 100,000 square foot house that every step giant Step I Take in it I’m reminded of my family’s no longer here I threw that away it’s especially pointing because Jason Kelce is cross the threshold into a new kind

Of Fame and so it’s almost as if Shaq recognizing like yeah you were famous before you were pulling down 10 11 million dollar a season but this is a different type of Fame you’re famously a family man don’t don’t squander it say that way and I thought it was really

Cool refreshing advice that that’s that certainly ground that these athlete driven media companies don’t feel all that comfortable covering it’s almost third rail so I I appreciate it Shaq’s perspective there I’ve seen a bunch of Clips to Mike’s point of Jason Kelce being swarmed by people and he had you

Can see there’s like a freshness in his face to it where he wants to give every single person a little something but it’s just overwhelming because he’s got hundreds of people reaching at him I also came away feeling pretty Shad watching that because Shaq clearly needs to be vulnerable with somebody because

If he’s not going to be vulnerable with the women in his life I hope that he’s getting help somewhere because clearly that’s a loneliness and a sadness that we’ve all seen like you need to be able to help your mental health and to take that himself is not great taking pride

In the fact that he conceals it from others and and does it the quote unquote masculine way of just keeping his problems to himself and that’s why he’s so Shad but but that there was vulnerability though in what he was saying to Kelsey I mean that that’s good

I I saw that as an advancement in in Shaq allowing other people to feel his emotions how about what Mo’Nique is saying though about don’t take any advice from him he he doesn’t know how to share his life in a way that is true comp companionship because that’s what

She’s saying I feel like he did it and you can listen to that and understand that he has this huge house he has all these things but yet he’s empty you can you can take that advice from him because he’s living it I have aired in not getting at any point during this

Show into a uniquely Florida tradition rarely more Florida than it was this week the Daytona 500 Pitbull made a return Dan this was the most Miami Daytona 500 ever you had the Grand Marshall being the rock you had DJ Khaled doing DJ Khaled corporate sponsored things and you have pitpull

Release a Daytona 500 edition of a EP that he released earlier called track house because he owns a racing team Ross Chastain a member of that racing team he’s a legit power broker in the world of NASCAR Pitbull I don’t know if you knew this his track house racing team at

One point had three of the top four Racers before the big one hit does this this album have Dolly Parton on it or is that this album has Tim McGraw this album has Dolly Parton it has a song about Jimmy Buffett on it the Dolly

Parton one’s a banger it’s so good is it nino5 is it it’s sampling nto5 and it’s called powerful women Dan and it’s got Dolly Parton on it is she singing or is she yeah she well she’s it’s pitpull and Dolly Parton not even she sings their

Spoken word sort of uh hyping up the powerful women of America it is I mean Dan you’re going to want to crank that on your radio the moment you get out of here what about uh the Daytona 500 what else was interesting this weekend Greg Cody you’re a big racing buff well big

Times for NASCAR because F1 has sort of been horning in on NASCAR’s popularity in the American Market but Michael Jordan Michael Jordan joins as a team owner they just signed A7 billion um TV rights pack broadcast rights package good times this is a new and improv latar show with the STS

Gamble on by draft kins

We begin the hour talking about the recent We Are The World documentary that came out before Jeremy helps get us ready for the second half of the NBA season with an NBA top 5. Then we talk about Rob Manfred and how he has run the MLB before reacting to a honest and emotional quote from Shaq to Jason Kelce.

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