Transcript of Hour 1: The Peacetime Consigliere

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All right, as everybody knows, we, uh, every day we have Roy's video of the day. Roy, can you let us know what we got today, please?

Hey, you know more than I do.

Okay, uh, excellent job, Roy, previewing your video of the day. Can we, can we put Roy's video of the day up on the screen? Our visual audience, the YouTube audience, DraftKings Network, you have the pleasure of being able to see Roy's video of the day. He does, as you heard, a tremendous job, a lot of research picking out his video of the day. Roy, do you want to explain your video of the day to us here as we now all see it together?

It seems as if they are doing— these people are doing a hammer throw with large tuna.

Shot put vibes, Olympic shot put vibes.

But like, shot put is the one with the ball.

That's more discus than, than shot put.

Yeah, Roy, I think you're describing an Australian fish toss, I think, is the video.

He knows that he's playing.

That sounds like a slur.

Yeah, he's very humble, Roy. All right, so he doesn't want to take all the credit for the tremendous video.

All women, by the way. Yeah, notice that, all women.

Well, they're good at that over there, everybody knows that. So that's right, there's a guy.

Look at that, there you go. That's Daz right there. Look at that.

There you have it. So Dave, I don't know if you saw this, but yesterday— well, over the weekend—

and women's sports, you don't like it?

Well, that brings us to this story.

Okay, very appropriate.

So over the weekend, you had the WNBA draft, and the number 1 overall pick, not surprisingly, was UConn's Azzi Fudd. She was selected by the Dallas Wings. All right. And it's, uh, it's, it's relevant for a couple reasons. Number one, Azzi Fudd's a really good player and totally deserving of being the number one overall pick. Uh, was it a no-brainer number one overall pick? Probably not, but totally deserving to be the number one overall pick. And apparently also, it's not a secret, her girlfriend is last year's number one overall pick by the Dallas Wings, also from UConn, her former teammate. Page Beckers, who is certainly one of the best players in the league. And there hasn't been a whole lot as far as covering that angle of the selection. Well, yesterday, Azzi Fudd was introduced to the Dallas media for the first time alongside the, uh, I assume, you know, the general manager and the head coach of the team. She was flanked on each side by two gentlemen and Give this a listen here. This is a reporter who finally decided— like, somebody finally decides to ask a question about her relationship with Paige Beckers.

Give it a listen. Easy. Kevin Sherrington, the Dallas Morning News. Paige announced last year on TikTok that y'all were a couple, and I'm wondering, still the case? And if so, if y'all have talked to any other couples in the league about how they negotiate that dynamic as pro teammates? I understand why you have to ask that question, but we're going to respectfully decline from commenting on our players' personal lives. The next question. Okay, so that was the PR person who is off camera who jumps in. That is not AZ Fudd. That is the PR person who jumps in off camera and says, we are not going to answer those questions. So I mean, my— first of all, we are not going to answer those questions. Okay, like the Dallas Swings don't have to answer the question. Like, is AZ— does AZ want to answer any questions? They're like, We are not going to answer the question. So are they telling their players that we're not going to talk about personal relationships? So that part's a little strange. But, but I guess I would also like to throw it out. Does anyone have a problem with the line of questioning?

I don't have a problem with the line of questioning because there is a draft pick here at stake. And that's, you know, something that fans of that franchise are curious in. It is a franchise decision, as you noted. Terrific player, but not a consensus overall number 1 pick right there. There was some debate about this. And look, it's not like players have dated one another in that league in particular. It is commonplace across the pond.

It is.

But in other women's sports that are big professionally, they don't necessarily have the same kind of draft system that the United States has over here with the WNBA. So when you're making a decision and you're evaluating talent And this is something that is certainly worth talking about, I think, and a question that is worth being asked. Now, most organizations have a default position like, we don't have to talk about our personal lives.

I get that.

But I do think that there's something a little bit more to it.

Yeah, especially when we're— like you mentioned, I mean, take for instance, you know, the number 4 overall pick in the draft was Lauren Betts, who just won a national championship with UCLA, and she's 6'7". Which is a monster in the WNBA, like certainly a player who could have been worthy of the number 1 overall pick. And, and it's, it's starting to gain steam now because there are other journalists out there, especially because the question was shot down yesterday that we're not going to talk about it. Like, I do think it's a fair thing to ask. He certainly didn't ask it in a confrontational tone. Like, really, the question wasn't even, Chris, Do— like, were you selected because you're Paige Beckers' girlfriend? No, no, it was more along the lines of, have you talked to anyone about how to negotiate, how to handle being in a relationship and being on the same team? That's a completely legitimate question, no?

I think the PR person made this a bigger story. Like, if she just answers the question, I feel like we're not even really even playing the sound today. So it's just— it's interesting, the PR person trying to help. This is more of a news story because it's like, oh no, we're not talking about that.

And from a basketball perspective, you think of, all right, is this the right fit X's and O's-wise?

Did—

could they have maybe gone another position that they had in need? Did Paige Beckers, who's the face of the franchise, be like, hey, obviously every face of the franchise—

specifically, Tony, specifically that team apparently, uh, because I know what's going on in the league like from a periphery, you know, uh, I don't want to try and make it sound like, like I really know what's going on in the league, but like I am aware of what's going on in that league. And that team, Dallas, loaded at guard. Loaded.

So they got another guard.

Yes. So doesn't it make it kind of a fair question if someone were to say, does this play any kind of— and again, I just gave the example of Lauren Betts, who's 6'7". They could have used her, you know, but they went for the second year in a row and drafted a point guard number one.

I think their view was just best player available, but I also like— I think I really agree with Chris here, which is it became a bigger story because the PR person intervened. And, and maybe it was a conversation on the front end with with AZ of like, hey, are you comfortable answering this question when it comes up? Because everyone knows it's going to come up. It's why the PR person said, I understand why you have to ask that question, but we're going to decline from here. Maybe it was a conversation on the front end, or maybe it was the PR person getting out ahead to try to keep it focused on basketball for this specific press conference, whatever. They've answered questions before, but I think all that does is, is make it a bigger story. And if you would have just let her answer the question— thank you— which —which was a, like you said, the way you could tell that the reporter—

That question was dainty, Jeremy. It was a dainty question.

He was really trying to just ask it in what was the proper and respectful way, right? Like any questions that have existed across the street about Bam Adebayo and A'ja Wilson didn't pop up until they went public with their relationship. This relationship has been public for about a year. And when those questions started getting asked, it wasn't, hey, what, what are your, you know, what are your kids going to be like athletically? The way some things have happened and rolled out on social media, it's always been like, how do you support one another? All of those things. And this reporter came in with a question that was—

it's not an uncommon thing in women's professional sports. And this is where PR probably overthought this one. You said it right off the top. You could have just maintained the line. We drafted the best available player. We believe this to be the best available player. That could be a uniform line and one that is a subjective thing that you can hold on to with conviction, actually. To shoot it down is why we're talking about it.

I find— go ahead, Dave.

Well, I just think it's weird that the standard is that you have to ask the question, you have to phrase it in a dainty manner or otherwise. And even if you do that, it's somehow taboo. Somehow there is a weird implied stink on the reporter perpetuated by the PR person, right, for even having the temerity to ask such a question. Because the reason it's interesting, Zazz, is because you know that they had— that the Wings decision makers had to have had that conversation before they made the pick. Like, are we doing this because they're in a relationship? And so how will that impact things? So then to to, to brush it off like, hmm, I understand you have to ask that, but we're not going to address something so, so, uh, untoward. This is their personal lives. Did you guys discuss that before you made her your, your first overall pick?

Yeah, it's like, that league is interesting to me sometimes, uh, or, you know, that league is strange to me sometimes also, I suppose I could say, because they re— and this has really been the case over the last couple years when they've started to really grow you know, and get the attention that they deserve. They want to be treated like all the other big leagues, and a lot of times, like this for instance, I believe, when they are treated like the other big leagues, they don't like it. You know, like, it's not that they want to be treated like the other big leagues, they want to be treated— they want to be covered the way they want to be covered.

Well, this is one place where inequality might work out for them, because we've never run into the situation where Max Crosby's dating Fernando Mendoza. Heated rivalry.

You know, like, I saw— I saw yesterday, uh, our friend Trista, you know, she has a platform, I think it's called The Daily W. All right, Trista's really great at covering the women's sports, okay? And, and they were talking about this because this was a big thing yesterday, that them denying the, uh, you know, answer and the question, what have you. And I, and I saw like people commenting, you know, and, and one of them was, I, I wonder if a man would have been asked this question. And I'm like, Huh? If this was in the male league, it would be one of the biggest stories ever. Yes, yes. Ever. The biggest.

Yes, yeah. Ever.

Don't get that perspective. Right? You know? So that league can be strange to me sometimes. I think it's a completely fair question.

You don't get to, like, this is happening more and more. It is the Daniel Day-Lewis thing. Like, well, I like, I'm a thespian and I want to make, I wanna make films and I wanna, the craft of acting and all of that. This thing of having to promote my films is ugly stuff and I don't wanna be a part. Too bad, man. This is part of it. This is part of it. You can't separate yourself out from it. Sorry, I shan't promote the films that hundreds of millions of dollars were devoted to making. I'm not going to put myself out there to promote— sorry, man, this is, this is part of the deal here.

You know about that, my left foot?

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This is the Dan Levatar Show with these two guys. So I was also fired up yesterday. Uh, big NBA news. Tony, I know you got top 5. What we're going to— we're, we're getting to it, all right? We're getting close, all right? Calm down. And we have a couple of play-in games. Now we have do-or-die play-in games tonight. The winners do, the losers die. That's tonight. We got two of them. But the big NBA news yesterday was the league ruled in favor an extraordinary circumstances clause for Luka Dončić, who fell one game short of the 65-game minimum rule for NBA awards. And Cade Cunningham was also granted an exception as he fell short, suffering an injury late in the season, a collapsed lung actually. On top of that, Anthony Edwards was denied his claim, but Doncic and Cunningham are eligible for all postseason awards despite not reaching the minimum of 65 games. I, I I was outraged when I saw this. I really was. And obviously I've been on a kick with Adam Silver over the last few years because he's done nothing. He, he, he's afraid to do anything that might upset anybody. And in this case, you know, it was upsetting the players because, you know, who cares that this is something that was collectively bargained by the league and the players?

This 65-game rule. But Adam Silver, if players can potentially get upset, like in this case, for not qualifying for the 65 games, he's gonna side with the players. Like, you know what? You know who Adam Silver reminds me of? It's like in The Godfather. It's like in The Godfather. He certainly doesn't remind me of The Godfather. Let's put that out there first. But it's like in The Godfather Part II when Michael tells Tom Hagen, you're not a wartime consigliere. You're not. He wasn't. So, Tom, you're gonna step aside. My father is gonna be my consigliere now. Tom Hagen was a peacetime consigliere. That's Adam Silver. Adam Silver is Bobo Tom Hagen. He's a peacetime consigliere. He can't handle any type of controversy, any type of debate with the players, any type of—

any war between the families. That's right.

He's a peacetime commissioner, Adam Silver. Anything that has to do with controversial or back and forth with the players, he folds, man. He folds. I don't understand this. Luka Dončić falls 1 game short and they grant the exception because he went to Slovenia, missed 2 games because of the birth of his child. Luka Dončić didn't not qualify for the 65 games because his child was born. He didn't qualify because he missed 18 games this year. Like, the rule is in place so that early in the season you don't take off games because what if life interjects itself and you have to miss a couple of games because the birth of your child? By the way, maybe Luka Dončić shouldn't have been suspended a game for picking up 16 technical fouls. And—

Ah, but don't worry about that, Zach.

They rescinded one of those! And then he picked up another one and got suspended. But no, no, no. The two games that you missed because the birth of your child, we're gonna grant you an exception. And then, and then there's Cade Cunningham. Why is Cade Cunningham's injury any more important than anyone else's injury in the NBA? Like, What if Cade Cunningham suffered the collapsed lung instead of in the end of March? What if it was in December? Do you get an exception then? I mean, that's what caused him to miss the games. I'll tell you what, LeBron James— LeBron should get an extraordinary circumstance exception. He's 41 years old. Like, the reason he sat out games was because he's 41 and playing 82 games is really hard. Why doesn't LeBron get an extraordinary circumstance exception. He would have played if he wasn't 41, but he is 41. He's the only one in the league who's 41. Isn't that an extraordinary circumstance? Why isn't he eligible for postseason awards, Tony?

What postseason award was he going to get? I, I don't know.

That's not for me to decide.

I'm not— I know, but that's the point. Like, he didn't do it because he's not really in the running for anything. For Cade, he's in the running for All— for First Team All-NBA, which he should make. Luka, the same thing. He should have been MVP also, in the mix. But The K thing is interesting because it's like it's an NBA basketball injury. Like, is it a freak injury? Yeah.

Is it just because it sounds like it's just a collapsed lung? Yes. Just like if it was named differently, I feel like—

100%.

I mean, he only missed a couple of weeks. Like, I think Tyrese Halliburton should be eligible. He tore his ACL. That's an extraordinary circumstance. Tyrese Halliburton should be eligible for NBA awards this year.

He should be MVP, right? Because they were the worst team. Yeah, he should be eligible. He should be the MVP. That's right.

Oh, look, everybody agrees with Zazz in there. Listen, you, you're gonna have to park out on the curb because you are not welcome in my garage with this one, Zazz. This, that, I mean, this is— do you remember the— well, you don't remember it, you're too young, but don't tell me what I remember. I'll answer for myself. Okay, the pine tar, the George Brown.

Of course I remember that whole thing.

The AL Commissioner, which is funny that you used to have National League and American League Commissioners, not League Commissioners, but either way, The American League commissioner at the time said, that's not real, the pine tar, maybe it exceeded where it was supposed to, but that's not really the spirit of the rule. That's what, that's what's going on here. I agree with you largely with your take on Adam Silver, but with this case, this is sort of addressing the reality of things. This isn't the spirit of the rule. Kate Cunningham had a collapsed lung. He wasn't taking, he wasn't load managing, and neither was Luka Dončić. Going off with it, with the, with the birth of a child. This is reacting to, to human beings. I think this is, I think this is a decision.

I will tell you, I like the idea in pro sports, instead of, you know, you know, it essentially being a blanket rule, right? I like being able to judge things on an individual basis and using common sense, but What is the— what's the tipping point then for injuries that you're allowed to miss games? So they clearly just said that—

That he's not— that he's— because the answer is, is like you say, it's not that he's taking a load off. He has a collapsed lung.

No, I understand. So if a player, let's say next season, a player plays only 60 games, all of the other 22 games he missed because he separated his shoulder. Is he eligible for awards?

This is, this is a tougher question to answer in the vacuum of what was his stat line. If you only play 60 games, you better average 34 a game, right? Okay. I mean, you're really going to have to be spectacular to offset the 25% of the season that you missed. I think the human beings voting will acknowledge that.

Does death in the family— you miss a few games because of death in the family. I'm being serious!

I think they would give you the exception there. Like, if birth counts, death counts.

I hope so!

How many shows off would there be if Zazz passed away?

Like, the show goes dark? Yeah, yeah, one day?

Like, we can't do it. It'd take a week. A week?

No way. A whole week.

So like, how many days? Like, I'm in the afterlife, and I don't want to be offended at how little the show mourns me. How many days does the show have to be dark? Yeah, like, I wouldn't—

I just want to go on record again, people always do this thing to me make it okay for themselves to move forward. They're like, he would want us to play these games. I wouldn't. He would want us to go out there. I don't want that. Neither do I. I want at least, I want at least a week of national mourning.

Your ass better be sad.

Right, and then like, I want an entire year of sorrow for people closer to me. Yeah.

Zazz, if you pass away, what would you want me to do? Do you want me to eat a certain thing? Do you want us to enjoy a certain thing that you enjoy?

Yeah, I want you to eat a bagel and lox.

That's what I want. Bagel and lox, watching wrestling?

Yeah. Jew.

No TV allowed in the Zazz home after he passes.

Tony got a top 5 for us today.

Got a top 5. Now that we have the, the playoffs kind of set— we're still missing a couple of teams—

once we have that, we're trying to figure out who's gonna play the 8 seed.

Well, once the 8 seeds are locked in, we'll have the entire thing set up. But I've got a top 5 storylines and interesting things to watch for of the teams that are already locked in.

Okay, sounds good.

Hopefully you do better than last time. Your last top 5 was It's a little rough.

It was, it was, it was completely fine if you knew ball. You don't know ball. Start in the OLI. Please let us get Charlotte and Detroit in the 1-8 matchup. The reason why, because if you remember earlier this season, Beef Stew took to the Hornets. Yep. They had a big scuffle. All of a sudden now we're gonna get LaMelo Ball fresh off of this whole situation. Is he gonna try something with, with Detroit? Is B-Stew going to come in and give him an elbow?

Maybe Duncan Robinson will have Bam's back.

He'll walk away from 96 feet back and merge back into the crowd.

I do think that's a fun story.

It's a fun storyline when you look at everything that's happening with LaMelo right now, plus what happened with them earlier in the season.

If something goes off, we might have a little bit more. Orlando's just not interesting. Charlotte's interesting. Moses is getting fired.

You had it in pen. He's getting fired Saturday. Yeah.

I mean, if they, if they didn't play this game tonight, he'd have been fired on Wednesday. Instead, he's going to be fired tomorrow. Yeah.

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Number 5, we're looking at the Raptors' wing and speed versus the Cavs' slow pace. Raptors play at some of the fastest pace in the league. They got a bunch of wings, a bunch of athletic guys. The Cavs play at a super slow pace with James Harden. That's gonna be an interesting back and forth. The Raptors want to get in transition and push the pace. Are the Cavs going to want to play half-court, which they're great in with Donovan Mitchell and James Harden? Interesting little combo there.

Must admit, I did not have this NBA TV series cracking your top 5.

I feel like it's— I feel like your explanation is exactly how NBA TV is going to preview it.

It's the 1 o'clock game. See you at 1 o'clock.

The Tuesday 6:30 PM tip.

Is it NBA TV or where are they on?

Let's see. I'm not sure NBA TV has the playoff games anymore. Oh, really? Yeah. What a shame. I think it's all like they should make an exception.

Let's see, the peacetime president.

You know what? Our contract ran out with NBA TV for the playoffs last year, but we were in extraordinary circumstance here. It's Raptors-Cavs.

We have to put it on. We must mobilize. It's going to be on Prime Video, by the way, 1:00 tomorrow.

Number 4, Knicks bigs versus the Atlanta Hawks' lack of size. KAT, Mitchell Robinson, two big boys. Mitchell Robinson grabs every board that's on the, that's on the iron. That the Hawks— Okongwu, not a big guy, 6'8". There's a lot of great wings for the Atlanta Hawks, not a lot of great bigs. So can New York take advantage of the lack of size at Atlanta?

Oh, it was payday. So your boy started placing a bunch of series bets, and one of my favorite bets was this series going over 5.5 games.

Uh, yeah, I like that.

What was the price on that? You lay the -150, so you tie up some dough for a little bit, but I like it.

All right, I like that. Number 3: can the Blazers give San Antonio any problems? Deni Avdija, budding superstar.

Do you want the answer to that question?

He's not budding anymore. Bonafide.

Wow, bonafide superstar? Mike had this take a couple of days ago and I didn't want— giving Deni Avdija bonafide superstar.

And he went for 2 first-round draft picks, the forward-thinking Portland Trail Blazers that ended up winning the whole Damian Lillard.

Well, I don't, I don't agree with that, but well, they did because they traded him, got a bunch of stuff, and then got him back, and then they're paying him more money, and then he gave them a—

that is true. I forgot for a moment that next year they have Damian Lillard. Yeah, that is kind of cool. That's fun.

Just a lot of bigs, a lot of good defenders there in Portland. They got a great defense. I'm gonna be interested to see if Deniavega can do anything against San Antonio, if they're gonna give Wemby any sort of issues.

Number 2, by the way, Portland, a shining example to everybody who holds up a rebuilding process takes 5 years. They turn that thing around pretty quick to the point that Lillard's on the roster.

They're a play-in team also, and their coaches— and they won't get out of the play-in for another 3 or 4 years.

I don't know about that.

Like, they— they— I'd rather be them right now. I'd rather have a bona fide superstar like Deni Adbiya.

Remember, their coach got taken by a RICO charge midway through the season. That's true. Tiago Splitter. Tiago Splitter. And how about that?

Great job. That's true.

First thing you think of when I say Tiago Splitter, what is it? LeBron blocked him at the rim. Absolutely. Number 2, LeBron versus KD, nostalgic viewing, maybe for the last time. It's gonna be cool to see two legends of the game, two easily top 15 players, 10, uh, 20, top 20 players of all time.

Easy 15. I'm going 15. KD top 15? I can be talked into KD top 10. Oh yeah, really?

Just so that people don't continue— like, I get accused of hating LeBron. I want LeBron to win this series. Like, I want the Lakers to win the series.

But then you'd be wrong though on what you predicted.

Yeah, I know. I mean, I said that the Lakers are not going to win a game, and I think it's totally possible they don't win a game. But I think it's so much more interesting if LeBron gets past the Rockets here. If LeBron, at 41 years old, plays well— there's a lot of time off in between games. I, uh, yeah, like, I'm, I'm rooting for LeBron.

The Lakers back in the States too, so we don't know what his situation is with his hamstring. We don't know what, you know, Austin Reeves' situation is. Maybe they come back game 2, 3, 4, somewhere around there. All right, um, and number 1, can the Wolves stop Nikola Jokic in the greatest season maybe we've ever seen before he even gets started in the playoffs? We knew, we knew the situation. The Wolves and the, and the Nuggets For the last, I think, 28 games they've played, they're both tied at 14 wins. So they're exactly.500 against each other, and they wanted to lose to be able to get to a different seed, and now they're facing the Minnesota Timberwolves. The Timberwolves have some sort of juice against Nikola Jokic, and I'm very interested to see what's gonna happen because I think Denver can be a dark horse and win throughout the Western Conference and win the NBA Finals, but it could get stopped against the Minnesota Timberwolves.

They meet in the playoffs for the 3rd time in the last 4 years. This is, uh, it's the rubber match, and you Yeah, I think this series has a chance to be really great. All right, good job, Tony. That's an excellent top 5. Thank you. So, uh, Jeremy— uh, Dave? Yes, I'm sorry, Dave.

I'm just curious where you guys come down, since you were in close proximity to LeBron before he arrived in Los Angeles. What's your, uh, collective stance on the rumors that this might be it for LeBron? It's a, you know, there, there's a report out there that he does not want a farewell tour, and he might just, he might just, he might just go away after this series should they lose that. Is this his passive-aggressive way of getting the attention that a farewell tour would kind of deliver? I'm trying to figure out what it means, how that report is out there right now.

Dave, my wife also says she doesn't want anything for Valentine's Day or for Christmas or for Mother's Day or for her birthday, but I have to get them. So yeah. All right.

This is the other thing. The other thing is quickly, uh, Zazz, is with Jokic. I appreciate what Dan said earlier in the week. I do think it's hard to really categorize Jokic against the other centers, let alone offensive players that we've ever seen. And I think it really boils down to he looks like Greg Ostertag. Jokic does. And is he, you know, in the 21st century with hyperfitness and all of that, he really is a throwback to Babe Ruth, you know, and Wayne Gretzky. Even Wayne Gretzky looks like an 11-year-old girl at the height of his powers. And Babe Ruth is a slob at the height of his powers. Jokic is kind of a throwback to that. And I think that's why we have a hard time making sense of him in the year of our Lord 2026. Well, I mean, continue.

My, my first response would be I don't believe him for a second because he like— this is on brand because he lies all the time, LeBron. And so the idea that he doesn't want— I don't think there's been a player who— a player ever who would want a farewell tour more than LeBron James. Matter of fact, I think he's gonna do a farewell couple of years. I think he's gonna announce like 2 years in advance so that we know, all right, he's got 164 games remaining in his career, let's make sure we celebrate all of them. LeBron not do a farewell tour, like nobody believes that, right? You kidding? Well, I guess we'll know in 2 weeks. Yeah. Yeah, all right. Jeremy has a bunch of things.

No, you won't, because he's going to draw it out and take the time to consult with his family.

Hasn't thought about it yet, hasn't talked to his wife yet.

On the day before free agency?

Yep. Not a single— Yeah, don't worry. Not one dinner. Not a single dinner, Dave.

We'll get some programming out of it in July, don't you worry.

He has not been sitting down with his wife, with his family, one dinner where one of them said, "What are you thinking next year?" Has not come up.

Well, if the Wings PR, if the Dallas Wings PR person were handling this, we understand the question, but that's an untowards direction to take things. We're not going to answer that one, right?

I mean, that would be the response. So Jeremy has, Jeremy has a few things that he wants. Like, we all have things we want to talk about every day here. Okay. And, you know, there's a lot of us, but we have a lot of room. We make room for everybody to talk about the things they want to talk about. And Jeremy has a bunch of things, or at least a few things, that he wants to talk about today. I, I saw what he wants to talk about. I, I don't want to hear about any of them.

Yeah, that's my experience here. Yeah, my experience is walking in like, oh man, did you guys see this? Like, I'm so excited about that.

And like things in pop culture, most of the time I don't want to hear about none of you care about things that he's—

can I give you like a few? Because I have more. No, we can't have a few. And they have one. Okay, so but let me get— let me throw a few out there and you could pick the one you want to talk about.

Okay, so, so, all right, so give us like 3 of the things that you want to talk about and we can commiserate and give you one of them.

Okay, so exciting, earlier this week cast list announced for the new movie musical Octet directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda and it is a Banger cast list.

I'm already leaning heavy on—

I want to hear— Ifriq, Rachel Zegler, Gaten Matarazzo from Stranger Things. That's one. Oh my God, Jonathan Groff. There's legends in this list. It's unbelievable. Next. Okay, new Olivia Rodrigo single out today. Olivia Rodrigo, she's back. Best pop star we have, huh?

Great songwriter. I got to tell you, we don't care.

Yeah, I— she's great. That's going to be a no for me.

Future Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Olivia Rodrigo. That's my prediction. We'll check that back in about 200 years.

Now the dating partner, at least of the Geese frontman. That's right. Geese is in the news.

Look at this guy.

They are now regarded as a psyop. Look at Dave.

I hope, I hope this third one is—

I don't know anything that's been said in the last 30 seconds. How about this? You know about psyops?

The Geese, the Geese frontman.

Oh, Geese is good.

The only Gee I know is Guy Santos.

They're good. You can stay with me, honey.

You can You're gonna keep going? I don't know. Tony, there's, it's a white people thing. There's geese and goose at the same time. Got it.

But geese is better than goose. Okay, and, and this one maybe you'll go with.

Focker-in-law? Looks kind of good. And Ariana Grande. Oh, is that the new Fockers movie? Yeah, new Fockers movie.

Write that down, sounds like a slur.

It does. Okay. But Ariana Grande, it looks like she's going, she's going to crush this.

Okay, so those are the three. The, like I told you, the first one I first— two were miserable immediately. All right, we are going to commiserate. We will let you give us something on one of these.

Okay, so I'll go— well, is it—

we're gonna meet. We gotta, we gotta talk.

We will let you know.

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