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why is that happening? Why am

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I trending? And the reason is, and I'm

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my gratitude for the audience The reason

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I've listened to eighty

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thousand minutes or I saw

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somebody was, like, at hundred and sixty

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thousand minutes, which is just it's

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lunacy,

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the number of the

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amount of time that some of you spend

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listening to this and our

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gratitude is heartfelt from everyone

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except Stugotz, who doesn't know

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why he's trending yesterday. Well,

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now that I know, thank you to everyone.

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We greatly appreciate it. Why

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wouldn't you and I be trending? Like,

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the entire show, the Dan Lipitor Show

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Woods do God. Why was it just me trending?

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I don't know what trending means. I don't know how

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to find it. I'm old. I have no idea.

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My wife said you're trending. I said, what does that

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mean? Like, I didn't know how to explain it to her.

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I

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will I don't really know how the trending algorithm

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works. It's targeted to certain people. It's like

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targeted to your location. Stugotz, I have

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no idea why you're trending either. I will

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if you're listening to the show for over a hundred

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thousand hours, you are padding or you're

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padding your stats. There's no way we put out

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that many minutes of the show in the last year.

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You're going back two years ago just

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to look at me, Louis, with your Spotify

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wrapped. That's too many memories.

2:54

on you. We

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appreciate those look at me, Louis.

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We do not mock those more of all

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possible.

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I just don't think that there's that there's

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I mean, we've we do a lot of minutes of this show,

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a hundred thousand minutes. there's no way

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we've done

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more. No. I saw a hundred and sixty

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thousand minutes from

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we are and that you feel our touch

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on this Saturday, December tenth. Mike,

3:34

your DJ set here. I heard

3:36

yesterday with the stage and the production

3:38

on some of the stuff they're doing. around

3:41

the bands. Your DJ set is

3:43

longer than the ones that you have done.

3:45

How much work do you have to do on your

3:47

DJ set And how

3:49

much, how rusty are you during the

3:51

pandemic and stuff? Because have you

3:53

done very much of this since Gronk and

3:55

Shaq and the Super Bowl party? Not a lot,

3:58

but I think keeping myself active,

4:00

taking taking up coconut grooves, and

4:02

I played three points. So

4:04

but I I am putting a lot of work

4:06

into it because I'm challenging myself

4:08

by learning a new style of DJing.

4:10

I've done one disco set in

4:12

my life, and I wanna kinda combine

4:15

what it is. I think I do best which

4:17

is open format with some of the other

4:19

things that I do pretty well, which is Deep House

4:21

and and disco because of the challenge.

4:23

And I I've really enjoyed diving into

4:25

tracks. yeah, I went for ninety minutes because

4:27

it's sixty minutes. I'm just kinda just

4:29

finding my way and I want

4:31

enough time to kinda change it if people aren't

4:33

feeling it. It's always a weird group to

4:35

play. too because it's a bunch

4:37

of dudes that are sports fans and I'm

4:39

not really sure how how into

4:41

the BGs they are, but they love you. I

4:43

mean Yeah. But I'm not gonna be doing,

4:45

like, gimme key sounds like I've

4:47

I've tried to take a different approach for every one of

4:49

these because I don't want it to get stale and

4:51

this is a more ambitious thing.

4:53

This far more challenging. It's a lot harder to

4:55

mix tracks like this than it is

4:57

to match Deep House for

5:00

for example. So I've been

5:02

working hard on it, been fine tuning it

5:04

a little bit, been playing in my house,

5:06

been trying to learn these tracks inside

5:08

and out. I don't go in with like a set

5:10

list though, because you

5:12

wanna see how it vibes. I just wanna

5:14

get familiar with it because it's more like a vinyl

5:16

spinning type of thing

5:18

and those guys are really talented and I'm

5:20

not a a vinyl spinner and that's

5:22

kinda what I have to train myself to do in

5:24

the next few weeks, but it's gonna be fun. I wanna I

5:26

just wanted to play JMC can

5:28

sing along too and have a good time and disco

5:30

tends to put a a smile on everybody's face.

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So that's what I'm hoping to do and

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I'm taking it seriously. mos lebitar

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dot com is where it is that

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you go. If you wanna buy tickets

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that are affordable, we will have more

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music than December tenth,

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Wynwood MarketPlace is where it is

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that we're doing it. Chris Whittingham brought

5:49

up some things to God's that I think is in your

5:51

wheelhouse. Okay? He

5:54

said that Joe Joe Buck and Troy

5:56

Aitman suggested that we need

5:58

a new phrase besides

5:59

i'd in

6:01

the hunt.

6:02

the wow.

6:03

That in the hunt, I mean, I love in the

6:06

hunt. I gotta be honest with you. Well, you've in

6:08

the in the mix is the one that you like.

6:10

Yeah. But they They

6:12

are saying no more in the hunt. Every team

6:14

in football right now is in the hunt except

6:16

for the Houston, Texas. They're out.

6:18

Yep. That's but that no longer hunting, but

6:20

that but that is basically it.

6:22

Everyone else is in the hunt because everyone

6:24

in that league is four in seven. moving

6:28

the

6:28

cocaine fueled bears.

6:30

Yeah. And the the cults and the Steelers

6:32

probably see the feature game on Monday night football,

6:34

and The only way to sell

6:36

that game is to put the two of them

6:38

as loose appendages on the in the

6:40

hunt graphic. And so they showed the standings

6:43

coming out of commercial break And Troy Acumen

6:45

was like, I mean, come on, guys.

6:47

Can by next week, we have another name for

6:49

In The Hunt. But it's almost like it's

6:51

almost standard. that every

6:53

NFL every NFL network

6:55

that shows games puts

6:57

that there, that it would almost be weird to

6:59

see something else. It would be weird to kinda

7:01

call it in the mix or

7:04

on on the precipice or

7:06

something like that. It would be precipice

7:08

is terrible. No one wants that. That's terrible.

7:10

Yeah. And how about Troy Aitman come up with it? I

7:12

mean, he's asking the audience to

7:14

come up with it. He's asking his production team. Oh,

7:16

his production team. I mean, I would never do

7:18

that. That is Lynch coming from old look

7:20

it up. What about OLI?

7:24

I like that. If they just put OLI on

7:26

the screen, not even outside the TV.

7:28

It's not in the hunt, that's out side looking in.

7:30

You're not in the hunt, Dan. But you can be outside

7:32

looking in and still be in the hunt, Dan. Did you just

7:34

need your guy? looking in the hunt.

7:36

Yes. You don't think it's

7:38

possible. I don't think that you can be put it on the

7:40

poll wedding, Kim. Can you be both

7:42

outside looking in and

7:44

in the hunt? I follow computer cowboy

7:46

on he's from the athletic. He puts

7:49

out great NFL tears. A lot of charts. trying

7:51

to kick his robot algorithms ass once.

7:53

Yeah.

7:53

I don't know what his stuff is, but

7:55

it it it looks good, his charts. And what he

7:57

has, he has kind of teared up. And the

7:59

the group we're talking about, he calls possibly

8:02

frisky. Should

8:04

we like maybe about that? It seems just central.

8:06

Yeah. But like Dan, the Patriots are

8:08

six and five right now, and they're not

8:10

in the playoffs. they're on the outside

8:13

looking in, but they're still in the hunt.

8:15

You know what I'm saying? Trying to convince

8:17

you on this one. I

8:18

mean, they're right there.

8:19

they're not in, but they're right there.

8:21

I well, the thing about possibly

8:23

frisky is, like, if go one step above that,

8:25

is it, like, ready to get it on? Like, I don't

8:27

understand the His

8:28

tiers are there's there's four teams in Super

8:30

Bowl or bust, and then the next tier's other

8:33

contenders, and then he is possibly frisky.

8:36

Dolphins are in other contenders right now.

8:38

Oh, you're excited. Oh, man. They were

8:40

super bullish, though. Stukats

8:43

has been arguing that the dolphins are

8:45

too good. I mean, I

8:47

expect them to score the

8:49

offense is too good. and it's weird to

8:51

see them be this good because we haven't

8:53

seen them be this good. It's so

8:55

long. But when you're supposed to blow out

8:57

the tech sons at home and you blow them

8:59

out at home. And the other

9:01

thing that it's it's I can't

9:03

believe I'm saying this. When they don't

9:05

score an offense, I am shocked.

9:08

they don't score an offense, and they've gone

9:10

from this team that I've mocked

9:12

pretty much my entire career to

9:14

being the best team. I feel like

9:16

the most exciting team in the

9:19

NFL. I mean, it's so

9:21

fun to watch him. The offense

9:23

is near perfect. You

9:26

say that you expect them to score

9:28

every time, and I am in the same place

9:30

of being surprised every time there

9:32

is an incompletion. and it

9:34

it is a weird, disorienting

9:36

way after you've watched twenty

9:38

years of football that's totally constipated

9:40

that is somewhere

9:42

beyond impudent to see it free

9:44

flowing like this. But Jessica, you brought up

9:46

the phrase frisky and the only

9:48

time I've ever heard that

9:50

phrase was the father of

9:52

Ritchie Cunningham on happy

9:54

days, an old

9:56

old man who

9:58

when he wanted to

10:00

be sensual on American

10:02

television in the seventies,

10:04

dangerous and edgy

10:06

when he was talking

10:08

about having

10:10

sex with his wife. It's the only

10:12

time I've heard someone actively

10:15

use the phrase first ski. So

10:17

you're right that it is essential phrases.

10:19

Thank you. I feel like I gotta resolve No

10:21

support

10:21

for that. When I think of frisky, I

10:23

think of cat food of old people getting

10:25

a little hardy. Are you talking

10:27

about Tom Bosley? I am is

10:29

it Bosley? I think that's his name,

10:31

mister C. So old. I

10:33

mean, Jesse I've heard it, Jesse. on

10:36

Columbus. Okay? Yeah. So so

10:38

be be careful with be calling our

10:40

references old. However, I I

10:42

mean, you guys we we say

10:44

frisky all the time in sports context. I feel

10:46

like that that that's that's not one that's that

10:48

crazy. It's not purely AAA

10:50

sex based reference. It's we hear we hear

10:52

sports names all the time described as Frisky.

10:54

Do

10:54

we? It's sex

10:55

based. to me. I'm telling

10:57

me Risky, really. It's

11:00

because

11:00

of the food. Oh,

11:01

frisky, kitty, kitty, kitty. Alright. That sounds sexy.

11:04

Telling you yeah. If you say it that

11:06

way, Did we come up

11:08

with in the hunt and a

11:10

replacement? Are we setting it for the audience

11:12

to come up with something better

11:14

than in the hunt? Because on the

11:16

periphery or on the precipice is

11:18

max such a winning hand to her. It's

11:20

maximum winning hand, but I don't believe

11:22

that it's helpful here in any way. You

11:24

I I think precipice sounds sexual. Well,

11:27

frisky. Precipice? Yeah.

11:29

Is it just the is it the nature of

11:31

how the word sounds? because there's nothing about

11:33

the word or any context used in.

11:35

I don't know. It is sexual whatsoever. Say it

11:37

slowly. Precipice.

11:40

man. That's a sex word. Yeah. I

11:42

feel like that's a word if anyone

11:44

uttered it around or in or

11:46

around sex, you'd be they'd be a

11:48

turn off. Probably what what he does say when

11:50

he's on the process. I don't have to piss

11:52

off. Yep.

11:59

Oh, wait. I was like, let's I think

12:02

I ended up letting go of it. I know

12:04

the process. I have arrived.

12:10

Oh,

12:10

you had it you had it in the act.

12:12

I had it as he walks into the room before.

12:14

My apologies. That's the best of having sex. No. As

12:16

it's happening, I'm already As it a very

12:19

broadcast of her bring the threshold.

12:21

I mean, listen to the mic. I mean,

12:23

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13:15

dying and when you're on a countdown clock, imagine

13:17

all the life experiences like I could go skydiving,

13:19

a rocky mountain climbing, still got

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Roy brings up a point Roy

13:23

does bring up a point, like, you might be risking

13:26

paralysis in the It's the only turn on

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my bed. just totally trample my mind.

13:30

What if God forbid, it says it's a nuts

13:32

in the garden. What on? It says a week,

13:34

though, like, or two days or a month. I

13:36

don't wanna know that. Well, then you just

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love deeper and speak sweeter and

13:40

give forgiveness as those that

13:42

you've been denying. But some

13:44

day, I hope you get the chance. Absolutely

13:46

like you were dying. Do you

13:48

have more? Or is that it? No.

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It's the

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true story of a

14:35

bear that being made into a movie that

14:37

went on a rampage after ingesting

14:39

some cocaine. But the more interesting

14:41

part to you as a fan of the show,

14:43

will be that when discussing it, Stuttgart,

14:46

we believe, had his flemious

14:48

moment in the history of the show,

14:50

and it's Oh, yes. It it it

14:52

it went beyond. We think I'm with

14:55

Lewis on this one. You tell us

14:57

whether you think this is worse than

14:59

I'm with Lewis on this one. Ramagil

15:01

would still tell us not to run.

15:03

Was it cocaine fueled bears

15:05

or Jesus. Yeah. an

15:08

entire sentence. The look on Mike's face.

15:10

He had coiled

15:13

in horror as if he was being

15:15

a fact, buy a cocaine fueled

15:17

bear. Ramagil would still tell us not

15:19

to run. It was a cocaine

15:21

fueled bear or a Genesis.

15:25

Is it words Mike in the hunt? Was

15:27

it okay if you'll bear? Or Jesus?

15:30

It's the

15:32

death rattle. on the last couple

15:34

words that really get to me. Yeah.

15:36

Ramagil would still tell us not to run.

15:38

It was a cocaine fueled

15:40

bear or hands

15:43

of Jesus is great. I should have

15:45

stopped. Or Jesus.

15:49

Or Jesus. your

15:52

conviction that you can plow through this. So,

15:54

like, you just gotta keep talking and you can

15:56

get to the other side is

15:58

inexplicable. Ramagil would

16:00

still tell us not to run. It was a

16:02

cocaine fueled bear. Oh, Jesus.

16:04

That little hiccup. He still said,

16:06

sorry. Hiccup. My boys had the hiccup.

16:08

I Ramagil would still tell us

16:10

not to run. Was it cocaine

16:13

fueled bears or excuse me. What

16:15

the hell? You can hear the foot getting to

16:17

the parking stall where it's stops.

16:20

Ramagil would still tell us not to

16:22

run. It was a cocaine if you were

16:24

there or Jesus. It

16:26

hurts. I know this isn't possible, but every

16:28

time you play it, it seems like it gets worse.

16:31

Like, I know it's a recording of the

16:33

same bit of sound, but it it

16:35

feels like it's getting worse every time

16:37

I hear it. Was it cocaine fueled

16:39

bears? You hear something

16:41

new every done. You really

16:43

do. It's a panoply of misery.

16:45

It was a cocaine fueled bears. A

16:47

blood of what? Time

16:51

now for Mike Sures

16:53

daily stat of the day. Start

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of the day. Start of the

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day. It is the start of the day.

17:00

Start of the day.

17:02

Start of the day. It

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is the start of

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the day. Start of the day. At

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this year, start of

17:10

the day. Start of

17:12

the day. At this year's

17:22

I don't know

17:25

if

17:27

you

17:29

all saw this. Uh-oh.

17:32

Here he goes. It's Austin south. defeated

17:34

the Miami heat last night. No. Thirty four

17:36

one twenty one. Yeah. They're

17:38

good. Seltics

17:38

were negative nine and a half

17:41

covered easily. Interesting.

17:45

It was the third straight game, the Celtics have scored one

17:47

hundred and thirty or more points

17:49

according to a stat they showed on NBC Sports

17:51

Boston last night. The

17:53

last time this all they scored a hundred and thirty or more in three straight

17:55

games was March of nineteen sixty

17:57

eight. Wow. Now

17:59

to give you some idea,

18:02

of how long ago that was. I looked

18:04

this up in the first of those three games,

18:06

a one hundred and forty four to one eighteen

18:08

win. A rookie guard

18:10

chipped in eleven points for these San Diego

18:13

Rockets. That guard's

18:15

name, Pat Riley.

18:19

aisles, a rookie guard

18:21

named Pat Riley, shipped in eleven

18:23

points for these San Diego Rockets.

18:25

So the Boston Celtics

18:28

ruining Pat Riley's day since March

18:30

of nineteen sixty. My

18:34

favorite moment of last night's game

18:37

was on the perimeter. Jason

18:39

Tatum being guarded for one

18:41

of Adonis Hasland's nine

18:43

minutes in the game. It Oh, that was so

18:45

bad. I felt I've I

18:47

rarely feel pity for the Miami Heat, who

18:49

I truly dislike. I

18:52

felt bad. They put in Hasland, I think, to

18:54

foul Tatum. And then Tatum just ran past

18:56

him before he could foul them. It's just blew

18:58

past him so easily. That was

19:00

the easiest layup of Jason Tatum's career. I it made me

19:03

actually feel pity for you, Donna Sizlom.

19:05

You are super excited

19:08

about how well the Celtics are

19:10

playing. Correct? This seems like the

19:12

most overwhelming version of this team and

19:14

it was plenty overwhelming the second half

19:16

of last season. Yeah.

19:18

This is the best I've ever seen them look

19:20

at least since the original

19:22

big three year. they had a lot of

19:25

holes in their game, all of which,

19:27

every single one of which, was

19:29

infuriatingly exposed by Steve

19:31

Kerr, and Steph Curry and Dream on Green in the finals.

19:33

They haven't I don't want to say

19:35

they've filled all their holes. I'm not

19:38

smart enough about basketball analysis to know if they fill all their

19:40

holes. They filled a lot of their holes. Their second unit

19:42

just so much better. They had no wings

19:44

you could score last year off the

19:47

bench.

19:47

And so every time Tatum

19:50

and

19:50

Jalen Brown went out, they they

19:52

just got run off the court. They now

19:54

have an entire second unit that's

19:57

pretty competent and can score, and

19:59

create, and give

19:59

their starter's rest. Their ball

20:02

handling has improved significantly, partly

20:04

because they got Malcolm Brock

20:06

in partly because Tatum just

20:08

appears to have worked really hard on his

20:10

dribbling on the all season. Geline Brown's

20:12

still iffy. I don't I still let Rosie had

20:14

six turnovers last night. I don't tirely trust

20:17

him. But Brock didn't makes an

20:19

enormous difference. And by the way, they're doing all this without

20:21

time load who isn't gonna come back

20:23

until Christmas. it's pretty exciting to

20:25

be a Celtics fan right now. Like, they they

20:27

don't seem to have a lot of weaknesses.

20:29

They're not as locked in defensively as

20:31

they were last year, but they also don't

20:33

have to be because

20:35

they're they're off to a

20:37

historically good start of things. But they will be

20:39

when Williams comes back

20:41

That's what you'd have to assume also

20:43

is that the defense, the interior defense

20:46

especially. The teams they've lost to, they've lost to

20:48

bulls twice and they've also cleaved them twice in

20:50

overtime. So the Bulls are the only team to beat them

20:52

in regulation. And the Bulls wins, if you

20:54

look at those box cards, it's like Vuzavic

20:57

has like, twenty seven rebounds. Like, they get

20:59

hammered on the boards if they have if there's a really

21:01

good rebounding four or five

21:04

that's where they can run into trouble because they don't have time

21:06

or to clean up the pain.

21:08

But you

21:09

would assume that when he gets back, they're giving

21:12

up like hundred and ten points a game

21:14

or something or a hundred and fifteen or

21:16

something. You would assume that that would go down

21:18

significantly. The middle of the

21:20

pack defensively in terms of points giving up per

21:22

game, but when you score to your point, when you

21:24

score one twenty five plus every

21:26

single night, does it really

21:28

matter? And Derek White has been exceptional

21:30

for the Celtics. He has been really, really

21:32

good, Mike. He is the other guy

21:34

who's taken this weird leap. Like, they

21:36

talked a lot in the off season guess

21:38

about having him play with more confidence, and he looks way

21:40

more confident. Like, he's not flinching

21:42

when he's open for three. He's

21:45

driving a lot more. He's getting followed

21:47

Maury is taking contact. Like, he had I mean,

21:49

look, Miami last night shot

21:51

fifty two forty five

21:54

one hundred. that was their shooting line. And

21:56

they lost by thirteen. Like,

21:58

they they Strouse

21:59

Robinson, someone

22:01

named High Smith, and gave

22:03

Vincent worth like twelve of twenty

22:06

one from three. And they lost by

22:08

thirteen. Mhmm. Like, they they

22:09

that's the thing is no one can

22:12

match them currently offensively. So I I

22:14

think that there's a little less pressure on

22:16

them to, like, play every

22:18

defensive possession as intensely as they

22:21

can. By the way, what is the strategy here with Kyle

22:23

Lowry? Mike Ryan, what are we thinking

22:25

here? Lead the league in minutes. Is that the best

22:27

strategy for Kyle Lowry?

22:30

I don't know that that's the best

22:32

strategy to employ. I only have

22:34

thirty

22:34

eight year old who's not any good. III

22:36

only have so much bandwidth.

22:38

And I cannot devote anymore

22:41

to a Kyle Lowrey team

22:43

playing this many minutes. I have

22:45

moved on to college hoops. And it has to do

22:47

though, Mike. I mean, Alright. This should

22:49

be both. This is such a cop out. This

22:51

is such a cop out. I've listened to you

22:53

rant about the heat and how crazy the heat

22:55

are for around years now. And now the

22:57

year where the Celtics are dominating, you're like, well,

22:59

no, I don't have time for that. I mean, I

23:03

really I really don't though. I I told you what

23:05

I thought about this team entering the season. I

23:07

told you what I thought during

23:10

this during part of the season. I Ten

23:12

games in. You said go ahead and tank. You've

23:14

given up. No. I think they're

23:16

They haven't addressed the Ross. He's mentioning

23:18

he's mentioning all the improvements that that

23:20

Boston has made. That's a team that made it to the

23:22

NBA finals, and they still tweak the Ross

23:24

and the Miami failed to do so. And the

23:26

plan was, let's just get older together.

23:29

And it's not it's

23:29

not working out. But the man has been great.

23:32

James Butler didn't play last

23:34

night. And bam, they are

23:36

illegal. illegal. still when bam

23:39

when bam is on the court and

23:41

offensively, he's gotten better. Guys, they're

23:43

missing their best player. It's not just last

23:45

night. He hasn't been there that often. And

23:47

so, like, they either gonna be fine. What's

23:49

if Jimmy Butler is fine. I don't think there's

23:52

nothing from this season, that would be evidence that they're gonna

23:54

be fine when Jimmy Butler gets

23:56

there. Jimmy Butler was there at times and they weren't

23:58

playing their best ball

23:59

either. I I think that they absolutely have to make a

24:02

move. And if they're gonna keep rolling out with

24:04

the status quo, I'm gonna keep

24:06

devoting my attention other places.

24:08

I just I'm not

24:10

not at all bullish on them. And yes, it times up with

24:12

Boston being better, but it this is really more of

24:14

a Miami Heat thing than it is a Boston

24:17

thing. Mike, I'm interested as

24:19

a Celtic fan, are you more

24:21

concerned about the Bucks or

24:23

the Nets? Because I'm telling you, the

24:25

Nets, if they're healthy, gonna be a

24:27

problem. Big problem. I

24:29

am

24:29

concerned about the Bucks because they're

24:32

great and they're also playing they're

24:34

playing without Middleton

24:36

and they're right behind the Celtics. So

24:38

they're I think they're they're the

24:40

other great team in the east. But

24:43

I still this is the problem. I

24:45

actually I texted your friend,

24:47

Immuno, Hasson, last night, out of

24:49

frustration in the first half because then

24:51

the heat run won't unplay.

24:53

They run Bam brings the ball up. They run

24:55

a high pick and roll for hero or

24:57

Max Strouse, and then that person either takes

24:59

a three drives. and kicks

25:02

or hit hits a floater. And

25:04

I was losing my

25:07

mind because running that play over

25:09

and over and over again. And then on

25:11

defense, they were running that stupid

25:13

petty college zone thing that

25:16

they do. And the Celtics,

25:18

momentarily, for some reason, forgot how to

25:20

attack a zone in the NBA. And

25:22

it was working. It was, like, forty eight

25:24

forty eight. And I was furiously texting Amin

25:26

and saying, explain to me what's going on in this

25:28

game. Please, I beg you. I can't take

25:31

this anymore. And then I had

25:33

another realization, which is if I care this

25:35

much about a regular season

25:37

NBA game in November, I'm

25:39

going to have a heart attack and

25:41

die. And I to cool it.

25:43

So I'm officially announcing

25:45

that I'm cooling it a little

25:47

on worrying about the net and worrying about

25:49

the heat and worrying about the bucks. I'm just

25:51

gonna try to enjoy the NBA season at least

25:53

until April, and then I will go

25:56

back in to the heart attack zone that I was in last night and the first time.

25:58

I'm sorry. I'm not giving you the tears that that

26:00

you're looking for. Just know that what you're

26:02

seeing in me is resignation didn't watch

26:04

a second of the game. I was at Miami Rutgers.

26:06

III don't like this heat team

26:08

right now. They need a they need a thoroughly

26:10

team. It's shocking to hear you having

26:12

given up. It's a quarter of the way through

26:14

the season and you've given Ira win anything.

26:16

Ira gonna win anything. They may make the

26:18

playoffs, probably a play in battle if

26:20

the roster stays status quo.

26:22

Do do you disagree? I just don't

26:24

think it will stay status quo. I don't know why you'll

26:26

be I don't know why you why would you think why

26:28

would you assume that it'll stay

26:31

that as well. be back in one when they do that. And and until

26:33

then, no, it seems like a gigantic waste of

26:35

time. Does it not? No. Jeremy Tasha,

26:37

it just called you gutless in the chat.

26:39

No. No. That works. Jeremy, that

26:41

that banter. That banter works when we

26:43

have a good team. You can't be throwing that out

26:45

when you have a bad team. Mike, are you in or not?

26:48

You're You'd think you know, through good

26:50

times, through bad times with this with this unit?

26:52

No. I'm not in. With this unit, they need to You

26:54

can't bail on your team because of Kyle

26:56

Lowry. Like, what are you doing? They

26:58

bailed on me when they put Kyle out right now. One

27:01

other thing that I wanted to bring up with Mike

27:03

Shore going back to the conversation we

27:05

had with David Samson in the

27:07

low Galower, LeBron

27:10

James, has actually

27:12

achieved what he was trying to achieve

27:14

at the end of today's

27:16

press conference. When after the game, he

27:18

waited for reporters to ask him and

27:20

they never did. And he wondered why is

27:22

it that no one has asked me about

27:25

Jerry Jones why have none of you

27:27

asked me? When Kyrie Irving is in

27:29

trouble? You asked me about Kyrie Irving. And

27:31

that one makes sense because he's a fellow

27:33

basketball player. who used to be a

27:35

teammate, but he has

27:37

applied pressure by doing this because now it's

27:39

a conversation again. Mike,

27:41

people are talking about Jerry Jones

27:43

being in that photograph from nineteen fifty

27:46

seven racist Arkansas. And I'm just

27:48

curious what you make of the most

27:50

recent development and

27:52

everything happening with that Jerry Jones

27:54

story and the Washington Post

27:56

reporting on how poorly he has

27:58

done with hires,

27:59

minority hires. Yeah.

28:01

I mean, that's that's a little

28:03

unfair of LeBron.

28:05

Like, it's a little bit of a cheap

28:07

move. I get why he's doing it.

28:10

because he's a he has a point to

28:12

make. But I forget about

28:14

that, I guess. The thing with Jerry Jones

28:16

was like, to me, I don't I don't

28:18

know of how much you've covered this or haven't covered

28:20

this. I mean,

28:21

were was anyone shocked by this?

28:23

He's a billion years old. He grew up

28:25

in a segregated state. like, it's

28:27

not it's neither surprising

28:29

nor defining in terms of what kind of person

28:31

he is. It's the it was

28:34

the cut like, that was the life he was he was fifteen and

28:36

living in Arkansas wherever the hell he

28:38

was. There are some

28:40

there are some things I think that are

28:42

worth thinking about and discussing

28:44

that that we should keep thinking

28:46

about and discussing. Number one,

28:48

he said he went because he was

28:51

curious. Right? Which is definitely a quality

28:53

I I associate with Jerry Jones. Just

28:55

rampant intellectual curiosity. That's

28:57

what that's what I think of. The

28:59

thing the thing he said was it was

29:01

I don't oh, wait. Hold on. I wrote it

29:03

down. He said I

29:06

didn't know at the time the monumental event really that was

29:08

going on. I'm sure glad we're

29:10

a long way from that.

29:13

I am. That would remind

29:15

me just continued to do

29:17

everything we can to not have those

29:19

kinds of things happen. That

29:21

was what he said about the

29:23

the event that he witnessed, which was

29:25

the desegregation. The attempt to stop

29:27

the desegregation of his schools, quick

29:30

tip for people being

29:32

caught racist and old photos. You

29:34

wanna forcefully propel yourself

29:36

away from the racist thing. Right? You

29:38

wanna say things like, you know,

29:40

Those demonstrations were despicable and

29:42

hurtful, and I'm so sorry to

29:45

the men and women who suffered at the hands of

29:47

that display of hate, whatever, something

29:49

like that. But what he said was I'm sure glad that we're a

29:51

long way from that, which is what you say

29:53

about you say that

29:55

about a traffic jam or or

29:59

when Stu Gots tries to talk

30:01

with

30:01

Flemming his Or or the cowboys last

30:03

Super Bowl.

30:04

Yeah. Like, he's like, So

30:07

I we should continue to do

30:09

everything we can to not have those kinds of

30:11

things happen isn't exactly

30:13

Like, yes. So I agree, We should definitely try not to have

30:15

segregated schools again. Like, I'd I've never

30:17

understood this about this guy. Does he have a

30:19

publicist that he ignores? Does

30:22

he, like, why did he

30:24

insist on doing his own press conferences all the

30:26

time? And he's terrible at giving them. Like,

30:28

he's terrible at and the

30:30

reason that we're we keep like

30:33

wondering about him is because

30:35

he's so bad at at being

30:38

straightforward and

30:39

saying things that you should say in

30:42

these moments And so, yeah, those the broad

30:44

is right. We should keep asking these questions of

30:46

everybody. Like, when it's not

30:48

only revealed that he

30:50

was there, But now when he talks about it, it's in the

30:52

sort of, like, mealy mouthed way where

30:54

he doesn't really address the

30:56

issue or talk about it like it's a

30:58

serious thing. And the post

30:59

is right. Like, the cowboys have never had a

31:02

blackhead coach. They're one of only a half a

31:04

dozen or so teams who have never had a

31:06

blackhead coach. Since I

31:08

mean, there are people high up at his organization

31:10

who are of African American

31:13

descent. But since Jerry

31:14

Jones took over thirty years ago, they've had two

31:16

black coordinators, like, very it's

31:18

like he's uniquely bad at the

31:21

at doing the the sort of even

31:24

optics based things that you should do if

31:26

you're him. And

31:28

the whole thing just it just

31:30

he's he runs the

31:33

league.

31:33

He and Robert Kraft run the league,

31:36

and it's so embarrassing to the league

31:38

to have that guy be caught in that

31:40

situation. Regardless of he can say

31:42

everything he wants about, oh, I do this and I do

31:44

this and I'm, you know,

31:46

I'm proud of my track record, but

31:48

he's just so uniquely bad

31:50

at explaining his way out of these

31:52

moments. I just don't understand why

31:55

I don't know. Someone has to get to him and say, like,

31:57

hey, can we give you a publicist? I don't think we I

31:59

don't think he has

31:59

to though, because, like, it doesn't matter.

32:02

Like, he is like you said, he basically

32:05

runs one of the biggest sporting leagues

32:07

in the world. Like, he can get away with

32:09

having these weak responses and

32:11

no one can hold him accountable to

32:13

it. So he could just couldn't go

32:15

out and say what he wants without a publicist

32:17

to be like, hey, this is maybe not the right thing to say

32:19

here. But when

32:19

Sherr says, does he have a

32:22

publicist? He had one and he was

32:24

fired or let go because he was

32:26

peeping on cheerleaders in the locker

32:28

room. Oh, that's right. It's

32:30

downriver. Yeah. And

32:32

and beyond that though, Mike,

32:35

he is clearly someone

32:37

who philosophically just

32:40

wants to be at the center of the

32:42

attention. And I don't mean that

32:44

as even disparagement. He just shows

32:46

again and again that he likes

32:48

being the ringleader of the circus

32:50

and doesn't care what the criticisms

32:53

are. doesn't care what you think about him doing

32:55

press conferences or what he says in those

32:57

press conferences. It's a billionaire's toy

32:59

and he treats it as such and he

33:01

doesn't feel like he

33:03

needs the advice of anybody. He's going to

33:05

say and do what he wants always for the

33:07

rest of his life. Yeah. That's

33:09

the problem. Right? Is that he

33:11

has the, like, he has the

33:13

thirst for fame that,

33:15

like, rock stars have,

33:17

I think, where he just it doesn't

33:19

Batard. what's happening, what the subject

33:21

matter is. You know, I

33:23

think I believe I heard

33:25

Sally Jenkins say when you interviewed her

33:27

the other day about this, that they

33:29

asked every owner to comment on the story. He was

33:31

the only one who said, yes. It's like he just just like

33:33

he wakes up at the morning and was like, where is

33:36

it? Where someone who wants to listen to me. Where is

33:38

that person? And how quickly can I

33:40

get in front of that person? And

33:42

that's not a that's

33:44

not attractive quality in anyone,

33:46

I don't think. I say that literally

33:48

as I'm at a microphone doing

33:50

something I did daily. But

33:52

in my defense, I will I

33:55

signed a contract. The scientist wants to escalate

33:57

your contract that has has very

33:59

significant punishment

33:59

if I disobey. My

34:02

good talking to you. Thank you, sir, and

34:04

don't ever disobey. Don

34:08

Libertard.

34:08

Well, Charlie sent

34:10

Charlie had this Charlie as far

34:12

as I know. So just Charlie's title

34:15

in my You're gonna stay

34:17

in the next two minutes. And

34:20

how how familiar were you at the time

34:22

with Chubakka? Like, how your

34:24

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34:26

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34:46

First question before we get into why

34:48

it is that you're on with us.

34:52

Are you the

34:54

owner of the most famous goal in

34:56

the history of American soccer. I

34:59

don't know if

35:00

I I own that

35:02

right. I know I have a

35:04

a goal that was absolutely

35:05

monumental and changed the

35:08

outcome of

35:09

a game. So I'll

35:11

take that. But I think Christian politics scored

35:13

a pretty immense

35:15

goal yesterday.

35:18

So let's

35:18

let's say, everybody gets

35:20

to share in in both of those

35:22

goals.

35:22

How did it change your

35:24

life immediately? Like, in what and

35:26

one of the your life.

35:29

Well, this morning, I'm

35:30

talking to you.

35:31

So I wouldn't I wouldn't have the

35:34

opportunity to

35:36

be in your presence and for us to talk about

35:38

the game on such a great level.

35:40

And, you know, on to

35:43

have partnerships like the one that I I

35:45

have with free

35:46

delay and that they have with US

35:48

soccer foundation and the fact that

35:51

they are impacting communities

35:52

across this country of young people so that

35:54

they

35:54

can have access to the game is is

35:59

incredible. And so for me, I think that goal

36:02

that that I happen to score, but

36:04

really was a team effort

36:06

collective throughout the the

36:08

World

36:08

Cup created a platform for all of us to use

36:10

soccer as a vehicle for for better

36:12

and for

36:12

access and for equality and

36:16

inclusion across ACROSS

36:18

OUR LANCREAZE. WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT ACCESS, WHEN

36:20

YOU WERE AT DAVIS JR. HIGH SCHOOL,

36:22

RIGHT, THERE WAS NOT

36:24

A GIRL SOC team. Correct? You had to borrow on

36:27

the boys soccer team. Yes? Well,

36:29

no.

36:29

Technically, it was the co ed team that

36:32

only

36:33

had boys. So Yeah.

36:36

And All of what you like. Okay. So

36:38

you were the only girl on the team

36:40

though. Correct? I

36:41

when I came

36:44

to to the

36:44

school, there was about four girls that

36:46

I played soccer with that we all wanted

36:48

to participate and we all came out at

36:50

the same time. And there was only boys out there and the coach

36:53

asked us what we were doing there and we said we

36:55

wanted to play on the team or at least

36:57

have a try out. And

36:59

he kinda gave us the up and

37:01

down look and said, well, this really doesn't

37:04

isn't

37:04

for you. And luckily, one

37:06

of my good friends who

37:07

is still to this day, one of my good friends

37:09

Stephen Robertson said, coach, you

37:12

should watch them play.

37:13

They're pretty good. And so with that

37:15

that advocacy he gave and I think that's really

37:17

again what we're talking about when you have when

37:19

you have advocacy and you

37:22

have allies You

37:24

know,

37:24

it makes things it makes barriers

37:26

to entry a little bit

37:28

less

37:29

and opportunity greater. what

37:31

are the

37:31

landmarks you would point to in how that

37:34

shaped you? Just playing high

37:36

school soccer against

37:38

boys shaped you how. Well,

37:41

actually, I can just playing the game, shake

37:44

me in so many ways. Again, and

37:46

this is why this initiative with the US

37:48

soccer foundation is truly and Frito Lay all that is

37:50

truly I I think

37:52

immense in nature

37:56

because I learned not only

37:58

things about

37:59

myself, whether that

38:00

would be determination,

38:03

grit, a healthy mindset. It also

38:05

gave me a greater perspective of that I

38:07

am one amongst the team and that

38:09

my contribution should

38:12

not be you

38:14

know, heavier than anybody else's nor

38:16

should I be the most important thing.

38:18

So I think there's a lot of lessons that

38:20

our young people learn through

38:23

collective team sports

38:24

that we just don't get

38:26

other places. And when it when it comes

38:28

down

38:28

to the pressure moments, teaching young

38:30

people that it's okay sometimes that we don't get

38:32

it right, that we fall down, we have

38:35

to get back up, that there

38:37

are people who support us that

38:39

that believe in us. And sometimes you're

38:41

gonna get cut from the team and sometimes you're

38:43

gonna sit on the bench

38:44

and sometimes you're gonna score the winning

38:47

goal. And all of those things are

38:49

really valuable. And I would

38:51

say, there's

38:52

not one of those lessons

38:54

that for me has been more important than the other.

38:56

When you mentioned determination

38:57

and grit, when you were at Davis

39:00

junior high school, did you have

39:02

to be

39:04

tougher than the boys? I don't think

39:06

I had to be, but I think I was.

39:08

That was pretty much in me.

39:09

I think I had

39:11

this competitiveness that that

39:13

just existed from the beginning. And

39:16

I loved the challenge, and I loved to

39:18

compete. And I think sometimes,

39:20

especially for girls, those two words get a

39:22

little bit of a negative

39:24

connotation. And I think last

39:26

night, when we were out

39:28

in Piga Rivera, for our all

39:30

in

39:30

initiative with about two hundred and fifty young

39:32

soccer players. There was girls and boys.

39:34

And I think the idea of inclusion was

39:37

absolutely seen. We have two young players

39:39

that play for US soccer

39:41

and national teams at the young level and

39:43

also at the at the full level

39:45

that

39:45

play with boys every day. And so I think

39:48

when we when we when we get

39:50

those

39:50

two groups together and they see that there's value

39:52

in each one and maybe it looks different

39:55

than

39:55

the other, then then we we have a

39:57

a great opportunity for even more success

39:59

than when

39:59

we're separate. Where does the six

40:01

hundred thousand dollar

40:04

donation go with the all in Frito Lay

40:06

initiative. How is that money being

40:08

spent? And how do you see

40:10

it moving MOVING

40:12

SOCCER AND MOVING THE PARTICIPATION OF YOUNG

40:15

PEOPLE CLOSER TO ACCESS. Andrew: WELL,

40:17

I THINK WHAT

40:18

WE WILL SEE IN THE MODEL

40:20

IS that we're going to influence

40:22

coaches, a

40:23

more more than a thousand coaches

40:26

will be

40:28

trained, educated, given resources, given equipment

40:30

so that they can have the

40:32

proper training so that they can go out and be

40:34

great role models. And then when they get

40:36

to those parks

40:38

and those fields, the thirty

40:40

thousand or more kids that we will

40:42

influence will now have people

40:44

who are

40:46

knowledgeable who

40:46

care about what they're doing, who wanna make a difference

40:48

in the lives of these kids, who have

40:50

the proper training to do so. And

40:52

now what I

40:53

told the kids is real

40:56

byproduct of this, Dan, is

40:58

that they then will become the

41:00

coaches and

41:01

the mentors for the younger kids.

41:03

And now the ripple continues to

41:05

go outward. And it's not just we'd say, okay, it was a six

41:07

hundred thousand dollar donation. It

41:09

was we impacted tens

41:12

of thousands of lives, and it's not just this generation. It will

41:15

be the generation after

41:16

and after and after. Are you

41:19

amazed given where you

41:21

were at the time that you made

41:23

the goal that we are now in

41:25

a time, it took way too

41:27

long to get to

41:30

pay equity to get to

41:32

this US World Cup with the

41:34

men also being money

41:36

for the women. Well,

41:38

of course,

41:38

I mean, I think we're we were

41:40

highly exhausted prior to the

41:42

signing of the CBA because for four

41:44

decades, we've been talking about the the

41:47

power of women

41:49

in sports, the power of women

41:51

in business, the power of women just

41:53

to impact communities, not just

41:55

their households and what contributions

41:58

they can make. And so, yeah, it was slow

41:59

going. And yes, the conversations

42:02

were exhausting,

42:02

but look at what we're doing. And

42:04

I think just to be in the presence is really important. We

42:06

need to know where we came from and

42:08

and how we got here. But what we

42:10

can do going forward with initiatives

42:14

like the all in initiative is truly

42:16

the purpose. And

42:17

that's the drive, and that's

42:20

absolutely what gets me excited

42:22

about, what's software can do.

42:24

It is absolutely a

42:26

vehicle for change,

42:27

and I am

42:28

proud to be on the bandwagon.

42:31

What's

42:31

the most moved you get by

42:33

someone being moved, by being

42:35

in your

42:37

presence? You

42:39

know, I'm overwhelmed every time

42:42

and honestly humbled because

42:44

I saw myself

42:46

and all those kids

42:47

last night you know, the ball is just brings

42:49

such joy and delight to me

42:52

every time I see a role, it comes

42:54

my way,

42:56

I I literally sometimes will have an event and I'll have a soccer ball with

42:58

me. I'll be walking through an airport and I pass

43:00

it to someone and they pass it back. And now

43:03

all of a sudden, we've made

43:05

a connection, our eyes meet, we smile, like, to me,

43:07

soccer speaks all languages. It

43:09

doesn't always look the same, and it always doesn't

43:11

play with the

43:13

same tactics. But when but

43:15

people can can rejoice in the beauty in

43:16

the essence of the poetry and the grace

43:19

of the game and the athleticism and

43:20

the power and the strength

43:23

of the players And really,

43:25

that it brings us all together in a way that

43:28

nothing else