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Did you guys find it interesting at all last night? Uh, this is unusual. That Wemby was being celebrated as a story of redemption.

So weird.

And, uh, the amazing return turn on the story arc of a guy who did something profoundly dirty during an NBA playoff game and probably wouldn't have been playing last night if he had done that and been just about anybody else in the world. Uh, we're already starting a story that we're going to get really tired of 5 years from now if you allow the 7-foot-3 guy to derail OKC and swing his elbows and be the positive story because he's French and a little different. Like, that was super weird last night to see him celebrated a conquering hero because he's got 16 points in the first 6 minutes because he's bigger than everyone else and he's growing both physically and as a player and this is going to destroy the league soon. You could have knocked him out for a game and at least treated the return as if it was controversial, not wow, this is heroic, the guy who's taller than everyone else is going to be better than everyone else.

If you didn't know the full context of what took place and you just turned on the game in the first quarter last night, you would have thought this was a, a conquering hero returning to the floor. I thought the way the broadcast treated last night was so strange, was that as if he was the one who was done wrong and now he's back and this is such an incredible story, this performance he's putting together, when the fact of the matter is he did something unbelievably dirty and probably cost his team Game 4.

But this is the Wemby propaganda that I've been railing against. Everything that he does is perfect. Everything he does is better than everybody else.

He was really good enough.

He was great. Okay, he He was great in the first quarter. He had 16 of the 18 points. That's not the point. The point is they were cheering him like if he had just come back from— like Ricky Pierce, like, got shot and came back.

It's true. It's true.

A heroic return by Wemby. Uh, I'm surprised the narrative— part of the narrative wasn't, thank God he didn't hurt his elbow on that guy's jaw. You know, it, it was over the top, but expected.

All right, you say expected, but I wanted to take this a step further with these conversations. I told you guys the other day, they showed Adam Silver on the screen on one of these streaming services, and they started talking talking immediately about what a fantastic job he's done. Jeff Van Gundy is no longer on the broadcast, at least in part because he doesn't speak glowingly enough about the league. You can rest assured that the streamers are going to speak well of the product they've just gotten into bed with. So I ask you, do you care if this is compromised? I'm not saying it was last night, but if you're into storytelling, I'd like the whole story. I've said this before. I don't want just the pieces of it that are sanitized and packaged for me. And you have to make sure These are partners. These— ESPN ended up in a whole lot of uncomfortable positions with leagues as partners because they were aspiring to journalism. These other entities are not. These other entities don't care about that. And you don't have to care about that. And the public at large has shown they don't care about that.

So I'll ask you again, when Wembley gets framed as something that is framed exactly the league— the way the league wants it framed, Are you suspicious? Do you wonder at all if everything is bought and what's getting diluted there is a version of the truth? Because that was asinine last night. That's one of the dirtiest plays in the history of the playoffs, and he's returning to the league like, we really need you now, big guy. Somebody's gonna knock off this boring, droning thing in OKC. You're here for something new. We'll change the MVP just to make it something new. We'll give out awards that are diluted just because we want something new. Are you guys good if I tell you? I'm not accusing the league of this. I don't think there are any meetings on this. I do know that these corporate partnerships compromise the partners like that is something that you have to be willing to navigate. And ESPN didn't have to get into the journalism business and did. And the leagues didn't like it. The number of times, Greg, that they'd get a call from Manfred about me from LeBron about me, that where ESPN is getting the call and there has to be someone there to protect you.

There, when the partnerships are involved and the partnership is the overarching thing, there has to be somebody there to protect the voices that are willing to be honest. But if the public doesn't want it, if the streamers don't want it, if the league doesn't want it, you get what you get last night, which is These playoffs have been bad, the games are not close, nothing has been good. That's a star, we can't suspend him, rules are different for him, and also let's keep this story going exactly the way it goes even though that's one of the dirtiest plays in postseason history.

Yeah, it is, and that's why he got ejected. I mean, there is debate on, on how grievous that was considering it didn't cause grievous injury. I don't think it was a grievous foul, but So if—

but if it had, if Nasrid had fallen down unconscious for the same action, then you would think that.

And we discussed that yesterday. That's exactly right.

I'm saying it's not the action that you're criticizing, it's that he got lucky with the result because it was dirty enough to knock a man out. Yes or no? Um, yes or no? It was dirty enough to knock a man out.

Maybe. I don't— I can't answer.

In the right place, absolutely.

I mean, that guy with the— with just the way that the body— you've seen him stretch during yoga, right? And you've seen how kickers and pitchers, their strength comes from their legs. That guy swimming, swinging the slingshot of his elbow when it's coming from his feet, yes, that can knock anybody.

If he got him between the eyes, he'd have been dead. You know, that's what happens when you hit someone between the eyes. You always have to be careful when you're in a fight because you don't want to hit someone between the eyes. If you hit them right between the eyes, they could die. And that's murder, Greg. Could've hit him between the eyes, he would've killed him.

Is that— I've never heard that before.

Oh, between the eyes? Everybody knows.

That's how they did Goliath.

Everybody— that's exactly where David was shooting with that little slingshot and the rock. That's how he got him. If the rock hits him like in the chest, you think Goliath is going down?

Absolutely not.

Not a chance. He hit him between the eyes. Dead.

I thought that was biblical hyperbole.

No.

No.

That was biblical truth.

Actuality. Thank you, Zazz. Actuality.

Put it on the poll at Levitard Show. Did you know that if you hit someone square between the eyes, you could kill them?

That's murder.

I did not know. I'm learning that now. That's not something I've heard before.

You ever been hit between the eyes?

I guess not.

Clearly not, Tony.

I don't believe that. I'd rather be hit between the eyes than in the eye. Don't poke me in the eye. If you want to start a fight, poke me in the eye.

You didn't know this, correct? He's claiming something as a fact. Roy, do you have any information on this? He's claiming something as a fact that that I don't know to be a fact. And I've got to tell everybody in the audience, okay, this is the most confused I've ever been in terms of what are facts and what are not facts. 1 out of 4 Americans in recent polling think these assassination attempts are on the president of the United States are, are made up. AI and general social internet rot is making it so that it is very hard to discern what is true and what is not true. What is fact here?

Well, he's right about David, uh, hitting Goliath.

That's not the part I'm asking about. No, that's biblical. That was written down.

Called precedent, Dan.

It was not hyperbole. It was actual. It happened.

Okay, here's the reality. Slingshots are not real accurate, okay? Particularly if you're from any distance at all. I used to be a slingshot user, uh, as a kid. Slingshots actually were pretty popular in the '60s with youth, and, and I used to do us The slingshot thing, they're not real accurate. It's like, I would liken it to dart throwing, okay? You get a bullseye every once in a while, but you can sling 10 shots without—

Greg, you're talking about the Y that has the little pullback string on it?

Yeah.

Oh, it was one of these where it's like—

No, it was one of those. David had one where he went over his shoulder and then threw it out. Those weren't invented.

The second one. The first one wasn't invented yet. David was using the more primitive version where— The old school one.

Yes, Link!

Dan, he killed lions and bears in the pasture. Did you know that?

What was it? Just a rock at the end of something like a cloth? Yeah.

Less reliable than us.

He was a sniper with it.

Well, uh, Roy, that doesn't happen to Dave. That doesn't answer your question. I apologize.

I, I need the information of whether or not Zaslow has it correct when he says that everyone knows that if you hit someone square between the eyes, you can kill them. And he's advising fighters, even if you have a chance to win a fight, don't win the fight that way because then you're going to end up with attempted murder. I don't know if any of what he's saying there is true.

Whatever happened to Dave? He gets a lot of credit for slaying Goliath, but what did he go on to do with his life?

Became king of Israel.

Did he?

God's most favorite son. Wrote the Psalms.

Okay.

Did a lot of stuff. Again, if you open the Bible, you'd read it.

You understand that.

He had some success.

Yeah, the whole thing with Bathsheba.

Bathsheba was a, was a mark. Yeah, but God redeemed him.

It's been a minute since I've read the Bible.

Uh, isn't there a giant movie called David that is either— it's a show just coming out or has, uh, has come out?

Excellent show on Amazon that is you know, through the life of David, King Saul and everything. Very, very well done.

I stand corrected. I didn't give Dave enough credit.

It's an odd way to flout your ignorance though, to go after a figure in the Bible knowing nothing and saying, what did he ever do after? One of the most important figures of the Bible, with no facts whatsoever behind this. And also correctly underestimating the group enough to assume that no one's gonna know anything or call you on it.

I didn't know we had Biblical scholars in the building.

I don't think that takes a biblical scholar.

It does.

David is the greatest underdog in league history. That's— that is— that, that right there would be J.J. Barea knocking off Wembenyama. I want to get back to the story because the giant guy never gets to be beloved. I've told you guys before that Shaquille O'Neal famously would do magazine covers. When he was doing magazine covers, they would do poorly. Even though people thought he was popular because nobody roots for Goliath. Everybody's rooting for David. Wembenyama is clearly Goliath. Paul Pierce is saying already that's the best basketball player there's ever been. Paul Pierce is already saying that he does all of the little things. That's the best player we've ever seen play basketball because he can do everything. And it's unfair. It's legitimately unfair how big he is. And generally speaking, People don't root for that. The reason the guys in the NBA who are talked about as the best ever are never Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. It's always the wings guy, wing guys. And it's because we enjoy the humanity of it. It seems more normal. It's still not normal. I've told you guys the story, sitting courtside, uh, courtside with Valerie, and she's watching, uh, she's watching and she's like, who's the little guy out there?

The little quick guy. How tall is he? And I'm like, That's Tyler Herro. He's taller than I am. And she could— she's courtside and she can't tell how, how, how big he actually is because these people are giant human beings. Kobe, Michael Jordan. These people were immortal because it seemed like they could be bigger and better than height. That height didn't matter. But Wembenyama is now here to save the league. He's here to save the league from OKC. He's here to save the league from all of our beloved popular guys. Are now old, and yesterday he gets celebrated exactly the way the league would want, the Spurs would want, as if nothing happened in the last game.

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Dan Lebatard!

This is the quickest it goes! Hey, this is the quickest it goes!

Stugatz!

Everybody, this is the quickest it goes! Yeah!

This is the Dan Lebatard Show with the Stugatz! Yes, Dan, as expected, a severe hit between the eyes can cause death. A significant impact to this area can result in catastrophic trauma, including skull fractures, brain damage, a ruptured globe. That leads to fatal complications. The proximity of the eyes to the brain makes this area highly vulnerable, particularly with penetrating trauma or intense blunt force.

Greg, why are you laughing?

Who refers to it as a globe? What are you referring to as a globe?

I'm not referring to anything. I'm reading something that doctors put down.

Yeah, but what's a globe? Is that another word for skull? Call it a skull.

That's what you're laughing at?

Yeah, why are you calling it a globe? A snow globe? I mean, what's a globe? It's never referred to the head. I'm diverting attention from myself because I'm on the wrong end of the shot between the eyes.

Not comfortable with how much the video team is enjoying using AI. I'm not comfortable in general.

That's good though. You got to admit that's good.

Ethically, how much AI is distorting things. I don't feel like I'm good. With our general lack of ethics and overall laziness in using AI, which is coming to destroy the world as a toy.

What's the right ethics to use AI then?

To put— well, to get things right.

We do.

No. Well, no, AI does not get things right. What has been happening lately— look, I don't mean to sermonize, okay? But the amount of misinformation out there that is making everyone in the world be confused about what's true and what's not true is only going to get worse. And there is a breadth breathtaking amount of look this up and get the wrong information. Like, it's not that the search engines have been contaminated and everything you're looking up to find out what's fact and what's not fact is harder to find what's true than it was 5 years ago. This feels purposeful and it feels dangerous. I know we like our toys here, but there's a lack of ethics involved in— we're gonna all regret this in I don't know how many years.

Dan, I think the confusing part though is If you're dealing with a Cyclops and you hit the Cyclops between the eyes, that area between the eyes of the Cyclops is actually their eye. So can it cause death by hitting someone between the eyes that is actually their eyes? You gotta be careful. You might actually have an out if you're dealing with a Cyclops, Greg.

I don't think a Cyclops is real or has ever been real. Is a Cyclops not a fictional creature? A Cyclops has never been a real thing.

They're extinct.

I don't think it was ever a real thing.

I think it was.

So the Cyclops was a human being with one— was a one-eyed human being? Being one-eyed— what, a one-eyed what? What kind of animal was a cyclops?

A one-eyed people purple eater. Purple people eater. Oh, you almost had it. I know, damn it.

He's fading.

Wasn't, um, wasn't Goliath a cyclops?

He's fading.

He was a Nephilim, different story.

We've been doing this show for, for 80 minutes. He's got a stamina issue. Let's do a movie to see if we could confound him.

All right, here's our next movie line. The first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club. Okay, I mean, this is too obvious. I think there was a movie called Fight Club.

Did you play the one that was obvious even though I told you that's actually one of the more diff—

no, we have easy. My, my answer is Fight Club.

You don't have easier than that. How can you have easier than that? All he's going to do is listen to the clip.

There is one easier.

There's two.

There is There's another one.

You want that one now? How can that not be the easiest one?

It's not the easiest one.

I'm telling you, with the Greg Cody Doesn't Know Movies, that has worked many a time where we put the title in the question 3 times and he doesn't get it right.

3 times you put the movie in the title? 3 times? Because he would have missed it the first time. But when Brad Pitt's repeating himself—

who knew it was Brad Pitt? I didn't. It's another guy without a distinctive voice. I want a question from It's a Wonderful Life or The Wizard of Oz. Oh, a request? Then I'm gonna nail it.

Brad Pitt has a distinctive voice.

No, I don't think so. Imitate it. Do your best Brad Pitt. The first rule of Fight Club is— What? You do not talk about Fight Club. That was good, Dan. What?

You asked me to impersonate it and I did.

Yeah, okay, well that was right on. Spot on.

You asked me to do it and I did and I showed you one of my hidden talents. We're having fun now. I can't believe that you can't make it that easy. Do you have another one?

I'd like the easy ones coming.

No, this doesn't work. The game doesn't work as well if he gets them right because you make them too easy.

Leave the gun, take the cannoli. Leave the gun, take the cannoli.

Craig, no!

Is that what he said? Yes, that's what he said. Okay. Leave the gun, take the cannoli. Goodfellas.

Unbelievable.

You're close.

You are close. Maybe the only one that's more famous than that in terms of mafia movies.

Um, Casino Royale.

Oh my God, that's a Bond movie. You're close.

Same genre almost. Yeah, close.

Put it on the poll at Le Batard Show. Is the James Bond franchise Mafia movies.

I have no more guesses.

Wait, it's— so I want to stay here for a second. The biggest, most famous movie ever made involving the Mafia is—

oh, The Godfather.

Yes.

But which one? There's like 9 of them.

Well, that's from the first one.

Okay, there's 3 of them.

That's the— I think that's the most famous line from the first.

I don't think so. I saw The Godfather and that's not a remarkable line.

I don't think you saw it.

I did. I don't think you saw The Godfather. Yeah, Marlon Brando doing his thing. Yeah, I saw it.

Give me a—

the second one was better.

That one had Robert De Niro in it.

Damn right it did.

Al Pacino. That's an Italian. As Cody likes to call— as Cody likes to call—

he must have been confused, like, wait, wait, it's the same guy.

Well, they're— they are interchangeable, and everybody knows it, you know.

But the polls came back yesterday saying that everyone didn't know.

It was a close vote.

It wasn't that close.

I think it was 57%. Get Juju on the line. He'll verify it.

Give me one more movie line. I don't know how we're going to do better than that. I didn't know how we'd do better than yesterday when he had Al Pacino in both Raging Bull and Bull Durham.

A blind Al Pacino.

All right.

It's a good correction.

All right.

All right. Here's our next line. Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads. Roads? Roads? R-O-A-D-S? Yes, as in street.

Where we're going, we don't need them.

Where we're going, we don't need roads. Okay, it screams Western. How the West Was Won. Well, part 3 was.

Part 3 was a Western.

You got the Ticonderoga wagons rolling over rough terrain. You don't need roads. No. Now I'm closing my eyes and picturing someone on a horse saying, Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads. How the West Was Won. Wrong.

You said that one already.

I did?

Yeah.

Is that the only Western you know?

Yeah. Really? That's Blazing Saddles? I mean, that is a Western. That didn't sound like a comedy. Good movie. Okay.

How is it that you've gone the entirety of your life sort of this oblivious to just general pop culture things? If I feel like movies are very high on the list on sort of fast fast-forwarding any kinds of friendship connections just for easy conversation. If you do not know what to talk about with somebody on a first date, at an awkward cocktail party, I feel like movies are very high on the list of just easy fluency that a number of people have with the same language.

Yeah, the problem is I don't need that kind of a crutch when it comes to small talk. First of all, I don't I don't do small talk really as a habit, but when I do, for example, I was having a conversation before the show began about the comparative art form of knitting and crochet. That's something I'd much rather discuss than, you know, some line from a movie.

Well, thank you for doing that, because the reason you were discussing that and we were discussing that is because Steve Sarkisian did something, okay? He went old school with this, and I really don't feel that Steve Sarkisian, with his particular resume, should be lecturing anybody on how to do anything. But he was perfectly comfortable saying of Mississippi, "They don't actually go to school there. We go to school at Texas. They can get away with basket weaving." And the reference struck me as straight out of the 1950s. It was something an old person would say, and furthermore Basket weaving doesn't seem easy to me. Put it on the poll at @LebatardShow. Does basket weaving seem easy to you? Because this is something you've heard since the 1970s. What's an easy throwaway class? Basket weaving. But I don't believe that is a class, or has it ever been a class? Like, why is basket weaving the cliché of choice here when he says, says this of Mississippi?

I don't know the origin of that. But it's the opposite of easy. Last time my wife and I were in Key West at the Sunset Pier, we bought a basket that we saw weaved. It was made out of palm fronds. Very supple. Nothing to do with what he asked. Very supple and dark green. But as it ages, it gets more brittle.

Did you listen to anything that I asked you or do you just want to go on a meandering route on your own? Just a little Greg Cody adventure.

I saw a basket. A basket that was weaved once? Yes, and therefore I have a firsthand respect for the art form. So when people say, liken basket weaving to something easy, it couldn't be further from the truth. I dare anybody out there to go weave a basket today out of any material you like, and you'll find it's not that easy. You know, anybody knows the interlocking weave of a basket, but— Shonkylarrr! How do you tether it all together? You know, that's the key.

The term is called underwater basket weaving to show the easiness of the class that you'd be taking as an elective, underwater basket weaving. So I'm going to see what universities offer that.

So wait a minute, I guess it's just because that doesn't actually exist is the joke then, right? Because there's not such a thing as underwater basket weaving. The joke then becomes that the classes they give are not a class, that are not a thing that anyone has to take. We'll call it underwater basket weaving, but it's not something that exists? Or is it because we actually weave baskets underwater now.

Why wouldn't that make it more difficult?

I just don't understand what the reference is, why the reference started, and I'd like to know why Steve Sarkisian is using it. I, I would enjoy having some factual information.

It is the tongue-in-cheek elective. If you're going to take something in school, it's going to be underwater basket weaving. A couple of good notes here: UC San Diego offers a weekend workshop through its Rec Class department. I mean, Rutgers University has occasionally offered it through scuba and aquatic departments.

Rutgers!

You can do underwater basket weaving at Rutgers via the scuba school.

What is underwater basket weaving?

They give you the basket and you weave it underwater.

Why is it easy? Why is— why would that be easy? Why would putting a basket in the water and then weaving it be an easy thing? And how the hell did it become the cliché that Sark is going to when he's making fun of Mississippi not going to school? Like, I don't— this I had not heard the phrase basket weaving since I was in college. I hadn't heard anyone use it.

Don Lebatard.

A woman who was out swimming with her friends is believed to have been swallowed whole by a 13-foot shark without any of her friends noticing.

Hmm.

That's the weirdest part about that story. You're swimming with friends, you're having a good time, and then all of a sudden people are looking around and go, where's Shelley? Like nobody screamed.

Every friend group has a Shelly, though, that if they go missing because a shark ate them whole, you wouldn't notice. Classic Shelly.

Exactly right. Yeah.

Stugatz.

She went quietly, apparently. If I'm swallowed whole by a shark, you're going to know it.

This is the Dan Lebatard Show with the Stugatz. I just don't understand why are we busting on Ole Miss? Ole Miss has never had any success in football until this last year. They're like the poorest state in our entire country. Why are we taking shots at Ole Miss?

Ole Miss is like Sark, never had any success at football. Keeps getting pretty good jobs. Perfectly fine as the bully punching down on Mississippi, talking about their education.

Weird.

You got the best quarterback in the country. You got a draft class in tech. You got the best job in the country. You got the best job in the country. And I don't think you should have it. I mean, it's rare on the resume to have a guy who's drinking on the job at one job before, like where he ends in a scandal because he's just drinking at work, allegedly. And, and he pops up real quick through the Nick Saban.

Yeah, that's, that's Saban rehab program.

And you get the best job in the country. Usually it's a little bit harder than that.

Going back to the underwater basket weaving situation, tying a little bit of a of a tie to Vietnam era. It was actually talked about as a snap course, which taken by students to maintain draft deferment, and has since evolved to represent any useless, overly specialized degree or class.

I want to give you a stat from ESPN when we talk about Wemby and returning as a conquering hero and how close he is, because he's really close to ruining the league for a while. Uh, this series that has Anthony Edwards in it. Wembenyama has more blocks than the Timberwolves have made field goals when he contests their shot. I told you, first 7 games of the playoffs, he had 35 blocks. There's an extraterrestrial playing basketball who's going to get better at basketball, and celebrate it while you can because this is going to become less fun when he's reaching from the free throw line and just dunking on everybody in the league because of of how dominant he is. I don't think this is going to feel quite like Shaq, who had a dominance advantage that felt similar, because I've told you before, Shaq underachieved by only winning 4. He— great as he was, and great as winning 4 is, because 4 is hard, he underachieved given what his dominance level was.

Not only that, they had 50 shots in the paint last night, right? They scored 68 8 points in the paint, which is an insane number for a Game 5, um, when you're coming back to your home court, you're trying to get things going. It was insane. But the, the cool thing is about Wemby, when he's running a pick and roll with De'Aaron Fox, he gets to a point where you just throw it up as high as you can and literally nobody else can get it. When he spins off and runs, runs to the, to the hoop, it's the easiest play in sports. Throw it up to him, he catches it, he dunks it.

He's a good player.

It's not quite playing cappella. Back when we were changing all of basketball with positionless players, this is more authentically what generally wins in the NBA. It ain't from the perimeter. It's the efficiency of I can dunk, I can dunk, I can get closer than anybody else, I'm taller than everyone else, there's no one to block my shot. The other big story from basketball yesterday, I'm just curious how you guys feel about this, uh, Darryl Morey was cited as a bit of a pioneer. He did do something that gets forgotten that I think will become the greatest part of his legacy. But I will ask you guys how it is that you'll remember Darryl Morey, because I don't think he gets another job. I don't think he's allowed— not, not that job, not the job that has the power to pick all of the players. But the greatest thing that he did with Mike D'Antoni— Mike D'Antoni said to James Harden upon meeting him, you're gonna be somebody who takes 15 threes a game and you're going to have 15 assists a And James Harden's quote was, "Coach be trippin'." Because he didn't believe that he would be that player.

That was all Darryl Morey seeing the market inefficiency of threes, threes, threes, threes, threes. I'm going to pick up the pace and I'm going to play threes. But the sport catches up to you. So the legacy of Darryl Morey as he's fired by the Sixers and The Process is an enduring failure for all time. Joel Embiid, best he's ever done. Is the worst that LeBron's ever done. The best Joel Embiid has ever done is the worst that LeBron ever does. Getting swept in the second round of the playoffs this year by LeBron, that's as bad as it gets. It's about as good as everything gets with Joel Embiid. He's their best player. They've got him locked in for 3 years. What's the Daryl Morey legacy?

Trade for James Harden. Like, that's his legacy. That, that that, that made his entire career. Traded for James Harden. Harden became a superstar with Houston. They were never quite good enough. I mean, Morey made a bunch of moves pairing guys with him, uh, Chris Paul, Dwight Howard. They were never able to get over the hump. And his entire career has been made from trading for James Harden.

I think his career is going to be— he thought he was the smartest guy in the room when he was at one point. And I think at Houston, when he was in Houston, he struck gold and he thought it was going to be an avalanche of gold. And then he realized it was a couple of specks of gold with James Harden, then tried to recreate that, and then tried to consistently be the smartest guy in the room because he had gotten success at one point. And now he looks back and he's like, man, I made a lot of really stupid moves.

Uh, for me, his legacy has ended badly, failed in Philadelphia.

That's the end of it. I don't— that's not what I associate with with, uh, him. I associate the Houston stuff with him and also failed in Philadelphia where everyone failed. You guys are saying traded for James Harden, helped make James Harden an MVP, uh, helped improve the legacy of James Harden. Here's James Harden though telling you what he thinks at a Chinese basketball camp about Daryl Morey.

Um, let me say that again.

Daryl Morey is a liar and I will never be a part of an organization that he's a part of. Let me say that again. Daryl Morey is a liar and I will never be —part of an organization that is a part of— Couldn't hear you the first time. Thank you for repeating it. That is such a vibe, though, choosing to do that in China where the audience isn't responding to it because it has to be translated.

Where Morey also had some things to say about China. You remember, he got in a little bit of trouble a few years ago.

Yes. I want to play the sound here, Chris, if you would, of Darryl Morey with us. We can now empty this file. He came on with us and he talked about a play that he wrote called Small Ball. And there was sex involved and basketball players.

Do we wanna have sex with giants or no? It's between 4 and 6. How to bring the parts into compliance. I just cannot grasp the mechanics. Was he singing?

He was trying to. He was sort of— I think we kind of made him do it, if I remember correctly. He wrote it on a page and we just asked him, can you recite some of the lines? And he decided to go into song because it was a musical. It wasn't just a play.

Do we wanna I have sex with giants or know what's between 4 and 6, how to bring the parts into compliance. I just cannot grasp the mechanics.

Yes, he lost some confidence there at the end because he realized he was singing poorly.

Compliance and science there, and then he went mechanics.

Yeah, he wasn't going to get a lot of opportunities to do that. He realized by the end of it that he had blown the one that he got, uh, on a play that he wrote. He is a bit of a there's a creative in there, and the job that he had only allowed so much creativity.

More so what my parents would call un inventor, which is what they called me. Did they?

An inventor. An inventor, like Thomas Edison?

Yeah, but more poorly. More things I would make to fatidiar. Used to be— how would you say fatidiar in English, Dan?

Holed? Holed, yeah. Holy Lord. Uh, yeah, somebody, an instigator.

All right, it's time for our next movie line. I drink your milkshake.

No shot. I drink it up. Don't bully me, Daniel.

No shot. See, this is just unfair because the other things, the other lines you read read, I've heard of at least. You know, I can't think of one offhand, but the other ones you read I had heard of. This one I have zero.

Do you want to try and recite again the Fight Club line? Do you want to give that a shot? Just the line on the one that you got. Do you want to give a shot at the pop culture line that is referenced in Fight Club?

No, it's like 3 sentences that all had Fight Club him. You know, it's a guy pimping for his own club, I guess. I don't know.

You don't know what this movie is? Do you know who the actor is? Do you have any idea?

Let me hear the voice again. I drink your milkshake. No, I, I don't know who that actor is. Um, it's Daniel Day-Lewis.

Do you know anything that he's been in? Can you name— name one of his movies? A Daniel Day-Lewis movie?

Um, Um, I know Dan— I know Dan Lewis has a great reputation. No one—

no one refers to him as Dan Lewis. He does have— he's—

he's Dan Lewis. He's one of those guys who like really gets into the role. Yes, he's a method actor. Yeah, method actor, you know. So I guess a lot of people like that when actors do that. You like that? Eh, not so much. You're an actor, you're faking it, you're pretending. You don't— I don't want you to immerse in the You know, the key, don't gain 50 pounds for the role. Be thin and make me believe you're a fat guy. That's what acting is. Anyway, I don't know the name of that movie, nor do I have an educated guess. Put it on the poll.

Be thin and make me think you're a fat guy. That's what acting is. Yes or no? Just all one word. I don't think that's what acting is, but that one's too tough. There Will Be Blood is— well, it's not that tough, but it's obscure compared to the last one.

I wanted to get tougher. Yeah. Oh, that was the name of it. Okay.

Oh, you didn't even know when he said there will be blood that that's a movie.

Why is there a hyphen in his Day-Lewis thing? What's that all about? Dan? Dan Day-Lewis though. It's Day-Lewis. Pick a name. Anyway.

Put it on the poll at Levitard Show. Daniel Day-Lewis. Pick a name. Yes or no.

Not big on hyphenated names.

Give me another movie please with our terrible, terrible public domain game show music.

All right, here's the next movie line. I love black people!

I love black people! Who's your motherfucker, Jerry? You my motherfucker! What you gonna do, Jerry?

Show me the money! Okay, my clue is the word Jerry. Um, uh, he hasn't gotten any yet.

No, he got Fight Club. I got Fight Club. He got Fight Club because we gave him the name of the movie 3 times in the quote.

I mean, to be fair about this one.

No, what do you mean to be fair? This one's pretty obvious, Greg. Especially Greg, it's sports, Greg.

Oh, it is? It's sports.

Let's play it again for him. I love black people! I love black people! Who's your motherfucker, Jerry? You my motherfucker! What you gonna do, Jerry? Show me the money!

Oh, Show Me the Money. Is that the name of the movie? Show Me the Money? No.