Transcript of The Big Suey: Funniest Thing From the Sports Weekend (feat. Amin Elhassan)

Welcome to the Big Suey, presented by DraftKings.

Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan Lebitard podcast.

I'm sorry. I'm not going to apologize for that.

In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys?

I've done it. And now, here's the marching band to nowhere, Fatface and the Pitchou a Liar.

This episode of the Dan Leventard Show is presented by DraftKings. Draftkings, the Crown is yours.

Amina Elhassan will be here momentarily to give us his weekend observations and spend the hour with us. I will remind you that the Carolina Panthers had Sam Darnold and Baker Mayfield in their quarterback room, and then just decided to start spending draft pics on quarterbacks. I'm watching the television right now, thumbs up or thumbs down on Dominic Foxworth being on Get Up, and they've got a segment, Zero Fox Given, and then it's Dominic Foxworth's head on a cartoon fox. That is a down from Tony. It's on site with him still. It's still on site with him. Okay, so you're biased. I want to do Funiest Thing from the Sports Weekend.

Thumbs up, thumbs down, great bit.

We've gotten away from Funiest Thing from the Sports Weekend. Do you like Zero Fox Given? It's Dominic Foxworth's head on the cartoon body of a fox that didn't look like a fox that only looked like a fox because it was Zero Fox Given.

It's a play on words.

Yeah, I get that. Thumbs down to the Zero Fox Given. We want that to go this direction. Thumbs up to the cartoon head.

It's not a cartoon head. It's his head in a cartoon fox's body.

Well, that's what I mean. Yeah, the same thing.

Well, what does the fox say?

Chris, finally, what does the fox say sound? But can you give me in the interim, what was the funniest thing from the sports weekend? What would be your nominee, Chris?

Hey, people.

Tell us what in the sport made you laugh hard this weekend?

It is the segment we call What Made You laugh This Weekend.

Dan, my answer is easy.

It's Jared Goff doing his version of the Lambo Leap in Detroit. Now, we can't show this on video because it'll get us pings, but look it up. It is hilarious. He's acting like that wall, which St. Brown just leaps, goes backwards, and falls into as easy as possible. And Jared Goff comes running up. He's like, I want in on this. And he gets Climes it in a way that you would see a 70-year-old trying to climb something. Pathetic. It's hilarious. And then the people are trying to help him up. And then St. Brown's like, I got you. It's just hilarious. Jared Goff can't jump.

Jeremy, what is the funniest thing from the sports weekend?

Anthony Rizzo having a home run ball hit directly at him in the bleachers and just completely whiffing on it. He had an opportunity for this to be the coolest moment ever. The first career home run for Balesteros. The Cubs catcher hit right at him, and it just bounces right off his hands as he's inducted into the Cubs Hall of Fame.

And there's Bert Kreisher. He got the ball instead of Rizzo. Rizzo has got to come up with that. Obviously has to come up with that.

Why did he try to one-hand that? What's he holding? His phone? Put your phone down, buddy.

A brewer's fan gets it, is that?

Tony, what was the funniest thing from the sports weekend?

Dan, nobody wanted to talk Jags with you yesterday. It was very unfortunate. I was listening back. I was like, Guys, great game. Somebody talk about it.

No one wanted to talk boxing with me yesterday either.

I'm here for both of them. We can do Jags/boxing.

Why don't you call each other?

We could.

We were texting, actually, during the game. We were like, This is it. This has to be it. Btj has to do something. Then he shied away from 16 balls and dropped a fourth down that would have won the game. Anyways, most importantly, the funniest thing from the sports weekend is Trevor Lawrence in said game, rolling out, feeling pressure on the right side, going to the left, saying, Oh, I got an angle here, running three yards past the line of scrimage on the side that the chains are on. So he sees the line of scrimmage, runs right by them, then throws the ball out of the end zone to nobody.

He stinks. We got to find a way to get this yellow line on the field for the players. Is Trevor Lawrence- Or the black one for the line of scrimmage. It'd be very helpful for them.

Is he the quarterback in the league most likely to do that? I feel like he's the one I most associate with a lack of awareness about where these things are.

He does it once a season.

I can see, too, Adona.

Trevor Lawrence, he's the anti-Baker Mayfield. He's the guy who started off like he's the superstar. He's going to be the next big quarterback. That's been the opposite. Then his career has gradually gone this way.

They got him a lot of weapons, man. I know. Billy, what is the funniest thing from the sports weekend?

Ucla paid New Mexico $1. 2 million to come and just take a loss, and instead, they beat the Bruins 35 to 10. They fall to 0-3, and now they have fired their coach.

It's one of my favorite things in sports when the college team pays the other team to come play at them, and then they lose.

I love that. But losing 35 to New Mexico. Deshawn Foster, you guys remember his initial press conference, right? That career lasted one year and three games. That's an apocalypse.

We could have known from the press conference, right?

It was pretty bad press conference. Greg, what was the funniest thing from the sports weekend?

No, I I did not hear Tom braided say this, so I'm using my imagination to imagine what it sounded like when Tom braided mispronounced the name Kareem Hunt.

Yeah, we're not going to play this audio, but it's Yeah, let's not.

But I love making fun of Tom. How do you think he said it? I love making fun of Tom.

Great run by Kareem.

I'm afraid of shot clock for that reason. I'm afraid of certain words.

I'm not afraid of any word. I'll say what I say.

He said it and you're like, Was that... I didn't hear the H there. Herneated disk you got to be careful with.

Zazla, what was the funniest thing from the sports weekend?

I don't know if you guys saw this, but when the Colts kick the game-winning field goal against the Broncos. So the kick, it's going straight down the middle. They got to do over the kick. It's good. But if you notice, the Colts' mascot, first of all, he's standing directly underneath the crossbar.

Always makes me laugh.

Number one, why is that allowed?

It's allowed because he bangs his head against it when they miss it, and he celebrates it when they make it, and it's delightful. It's delightful every single time.

So he's right under the crossbar as the ball is mid-flight. But as he sees it's going in mid-flight, he's doing the thing where he's doing the pelvic thrusts while we're mid-play.

That's right.

And he's standing practically in the end zone doing pelvic thrusts.

That's why it's great.

He's got the best angle of the game.

It's so good. It is funny. And he's got the pelvic thrust. He's got the Bill Parcell's pair-shaped body. And so it undulates the love handles the lower half. It's wonderful. I'm going to nominate something that not a lot of people saw. John Daly broke the professional for most strokes on a hole. He had a par 5 and he got a 19.

I saw there was a four-way tie for 18 that he was included in earlier in his career. So he broke his own record that he was tied with. So now he stands alone, 19 strokes, one hole.

That's on brand for Daily. I hate to say it, but he's now the man of the people drinking beer on the course. This enhances the image he has cultivated post-real career.

I read the details on it. This was a 10-cup situation where he just had a thing of like, I can make this. Stubborn. I'm going to get this. He had four penalties in a row on one shot.

I mean, what was the funniest thing from the sports weekend?

19 strokes, one hole. It was pretty funny right there. No, I had the Russell Wilson throw. You guys know what throw I'm talking about. It was like second down at the end of the game.

He was so good that game, throwing deep.

He was. And then he had just that one throw where it was like, What's wrong? I'm going to steal from my weekend observations, but it reminded me of my shot. Well, it was like- You can't call it.

Correct me if I'm wrong, because while I remember that was a bit of a punt, it felt to me like he was just saying, Do I have the wrong receiver? I just thought it was, Neighbors, go do something. I'm going to throw one of these parabola balls up there, and I've got neighbors on my team. Go do something. Isn't that who he was calling to?

It worked for most of the game, but I'm not talking about that throw. I'm talking about the throw right before the I&T. He's trying to throw it out to the slot, and then it just got away from him, and his hand did this weird thing. I saw it. I was like, damn, that's my shot.

I think we all thought you meant the I&T.

No, not the I&T. The I&T was just... That was a prayer. That wasn't funny. It was just sad the way it ended. But I'm talking about the play right before it, where they were second and long because his hand flopped when he tried to throw the ball.

Can you turn down the circus music real quick so we can transition to more serious subject matter? If you have not seen Amine lately on Pablo Tori finds out, he's been kicking ass with David Samson. Before we get into that story and before we get into Amin's Weekend Observation, since Jeremy mentioned it, can you just play What does the Fox Say? So that we can close the loop on that and just make fun of Stugatz's pronunciifications. Dan goes, Vogue goes Tim goes, and Pat goes, and Papp goes, and Papp goes, and Dan goes, and the Van Gundi goes.

You don't break your mind.

Lamp says, and Bill goes, and Bill goes, and And my giggle goes, Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh What the God says.

Value, Lebray, Nudamiko, Nudamakong, Nudamakong, Nudamakong, Numaka, hard boyer. What does the guy say? Or era Van Leep, and it'll be to make Nira, Roger, Roger, Roger, Roger, Human. Tuffy. Unparalleled. What the God says. May I meet free agent. Stubborn. Open. Apple.. What the God says. Makes it a cult. Hard working. Copper. Recovering. The elderly. Digested. Remaining risks. What the God says. Value. Lebrac. Nudamical. Nudamacong. Nudamacong. Nudamacong. Nudamacong. Hardboyard.

What does the God say?

Sideway, visit, refray, atony, rationalization, brain test, communicating to, how long ago... What did God say? Sophistification. Stat. Stadien. Recollation. Among us. A friend, family. What did God say?

For those of you asking, Stugats, God bless football, Stupadity. It is quite the undertaking to do some stuff like this that is business building on your own. You should know that Stugatz will be back here shortly as soon as he's got everything up and running.

He'll be shortly?

Or no? He always arrives everywhere shortly. Yes, that's how he does it. I mean, the story that you've been working on with Pablo Torre that continues to have advancements, and he is months and miles ahead of everyone on. One of the more curious things, and I didn't get this, why was the NBA media feeling like it was downplaying this story before Pablo had the second episode? It was weird to me to watch so many people just wanted not to be true that Balmer wouldn't know. I thought that they would go the opposite way on that. What happened there? Do they just like Balmer?

Yeah, I think there's a lot of things at play. One of them is Balmer is a nice guy, and he is overall good for the league. He's a good ambassador for the league. He's been a good owner for the Clippers. He's invested a lot of money into the fan experience. So overall, I often wonder if this were Jim Dolan, how would the media respond? I think everyone would have their knives out because he's an easy target. But Steve Ballmer makes people like, Oh, not Steve. He's a good guy, et cetera. The other thing also is, it goes back to the thing you always like to talk about, is that we like to think these guys are so brilliant. When we are face to face with, maybe not that brilliant, that shatters our preconceived notions. I think people have a problem with that. Then the last part is, I'm going to say it, I think there's a little bit of jealousy, a little bit of hint of jealousy because Pablo not only has the resources to do this reporting, but also he's got the freedom to not have to do the type of reporting that most of these other people have to do.

Everyone else is chasing, who's signing where? Get traded wear and all that stuff. And Pablo doesn't have to spend any molecules of energy on that. All of his time is spent on breaking these huge stories and/or having Alonso Hamburger Jones on the show. It's quite the niche carved out for himself.

I can speak from experience. When you get beat on a big story, your human instinct is to downplay that as if what you got beat on wasn't that big a story. If you're a full-time NBA journalist trying to get stories just like this, and you get beat by a guy in a podcast who really isn't affiliated with the NBA much, you sting. It stings.

Greg, what's an example of either a story you got beat on where you It felt like, Oh, man, that's not that big of a story, or a story that you beat someone else to, and they tried to downplay it for you?

Well, I go way back to the '80s where there was the... What was it called, Dan? Autogate? What was it called?

The Miami news was breaking stories about the University of Miami. What a quaint time now that you think of NIL. Somebody may have gotten a car as Carson Benk gets his Lamborghini stolen. From a $5 million house. One of his two cars. But yes, there was a Greg Cody, to be fair to Greg Cody, and I wasn't good at this either. The breaking of news I was terrible at, didn't like doing it, and Greg wasn't great at it either.

No, I wasn't. I did have a couple of minor scoops when a guy- Dan's engagement. Was arrested, and I had that first. But that was a big story that Miami news broke. And yeah, my instinct is, Man, how can I follow this story and make it seem like I wasn't beat as badly as I was on a big story? I think that's what was at play in the wake of Didn't our last DraftKings deal get reported, and you didn't get that scoop?

I think that's what you're mad about.

It could be.

I find it hard to believe, though, that what you guys are saying here would be right in terms of jealousy, just because this story is so complicated and took so much time. I don't think anybody would have wanted to do it. It would have been too hard to do this story.

Yeah, Dan, it's hard because most people, most reporters, don't have, again, the resources and the latitude Even given the resources, just the latitude of, I can focus all my energy. For seven months, Pablo investigated this, which is why when Mark Cuban has his rebuttals and all these other podcasts, you guys are sitting on your couch basically, whatever. This dude put in seven months of reporting on this, and it goes a little bit beyond just an opinion, Well, I don't think he would have done that, or he couldn't have done that. The other thing I want to point out is people keep saying he wouldn't be that sloppy about Steve Ballmer. This was anything but sloppy. This was an incredibly sophisticated scheme, allegedly, that is only uncovered by either, a, Quai Leonard deciding, I need to get every last penny of mine, so I'm going to be listed as a creditor, b, this company even going on there to begin with. And C, Pablo Tori spending seven months tracking things down and talking to people on the record and all those things. That's a lot of stuff stuff that needed to go wrong for the Clippers to get found out.

Stop talking about how this was sloppy. This was anything but sloppy.

I mean, let's say that the NBA's findings, I know they've hired an outside firm, but let's say the findings are what Pablo has reported on. Worst case scenario, what does Adam Silver do?

Worst case scenario, we're talking forfeiture of picks. We're talking voiding of Quye Leonard's contract. Steve Ballmer suspended. Dennis Wong, probably suspended. Hefty fine, probably up to $10 million, I believe. That's pretty much it. I know the commission has broad powers, but the collective bargaining agreement is pretty specific about what the penalties are. I had someone ask me, can they lower the cap on them or lower the April? No, you can't because the rules in Article 13 of the collective bargaining agreement are pretty specific on what the Commissioner can and can't do to punish a cap circumvention situation.

Does Malik Nabors doing the night-night celebration leading to the Cowboys win? Is that something that would have been the funniest thing from that game instead of you choosing the throw before the interception?

Yeah, the night-night thing. As soon as he did it, I looked at the clock. I said, That's not when you do it. You do it when it's done, when they're in the ground. And that hasn't happened quite yet. Again, it wasn't funny because I was watching the game and I went from the of, Oh, my God, the Giants are about to do this the day after Georgia Tech beat the shit out of Clemson. How about that? We're not going to just scoot over that one.

Congratulations. We talked about that yesterday. You've got a well-coached team. You've got a team that overachives. It's such a nice-looking team.

Dan, you know what? I was watching that game, and I was so happy, and at the same time, I got incredibly sad. It reminded me of... I was sad because I watched Brent Key, and I was like, Oh, he's going to be Alabama's coach next year. There's no chance we're going to hold on to this guy. He's too good of a coach. He's going to get a bigger job, probably Alabama, when they fire the Jamoq that they have right now. But when I thought about the happiness and the sadness at the same time, it reminded me of my dad. My dad would sigh deeply on Friday. I'm like, Dad, what's wrong? He's like, Monday is the day after tomorrow. He was already looking forward to the disappointment of Monday. On Friday, coming home from work. And that's how I felt. I was already looking forward to the disappointment of Brent Key leaving after he's done so many amazing things at Georgia Tech.

That's an excellent way to go through life, always miserable, never feeling actual joy. Put it on the poll at Levitard Show. Should DeBore's First Name be Legally Changed to Jamoak?

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It doesn't matter anywhere. We could do it in Buffalo or Baltimore, either. He said you could do it where? Anywhere. Oh, that's crazy. That's crazy. That's crazy. He said he could do it anywhere. That's crazy. Murder. Tell him.

Stugatz. I had no idea if Mena had that in his locker.

That might be his best. I'm not kidding. That's crazy killer. It's two Americas dead. You don't get it?

This is the Dan Levatard show with the Stugats. Let's do weekend observations, please. It is time for his two guys to share his game notes. No.

No one in the media will tell you what happened better than my boy, Stu.

He's coming.

Dan. Oh, Weekend Observations is presented by Miller Lite. Dan. This past weekend in Vegas, we had ourselves a throwback. The stars were out. The pomp and was first class. The attention of the entire sports world was fixated as we watched the Black guy and a Brown guy beat the ever-living shit out of each other in a meaningful boxing match, courtesy of the Saudis. Remember when everyone was up in arms about live golf being in Saudi Arabia? That was fun. Patrick Mahomes gets the blame for the interception because Travis Kelsi made a business decision. That seems unfair. There should be a different stat for when an interception is thrown because the receiver messed it up, right? That shouldn't count on the quarterback, should it? No opinions. Got it.

No, I'm sorry. Tony's heckling me. I'm sorry. I'm not heckling you. While you were talking, Tony's like, Hey, Dan, how about Sam Marelle taking 500,000 from the Saudis to do the Comedy Festival? That's what I was getting in my ear.

And Joe Coy is on fire.

As you were- Everybody. Everybody took the money. Everybody took the money. I think Santino's there, too. Santino's there. Bobby Lee's there. Everyone's there. Chip Kelly, offensive coordinator for the Raiders, said he goes through film 2-3 times a week with Tom braided. Might want to up the dosage there, chief. Great seeing Max Kellermann working again. So that's where he's been. Hey, Smetty, your alma mater sucks. No, not that one. The other Although that one sucks, too. Where's the When you need them. Canelo Álvarez looks like Blake Griffin's cousin from Mexico.

Put it on the poll, please, that Levatard show. Does Canelo Álvarez look like Blake Griffin's cousin, shorter from Mexico?

Next time someone asks me about something I don't want to talk about, I'm going to start talking about construction going on at my house. The Dolphins are all in, too. Greg Cody, Stay Strong. Baker Mayfield, got the goods, dude. Haynes King, best running quarterback in the nation. Book it. I can't tell whether the injury Turf toe has great PR or terrible PR. Is there any injury that sounds more benign than Turf toe? Turf toe sounds like, Oh, I had some Turf toe. And this guy's out for three months now because of Turf toe. The Giants lead the League in fun names. Dark, Neighbors, Skatebu. They even have a Thibodeau. This one is black, though. Jorge Garbajosa. Is the President of FIBA Europe. That's where he's been. Russell Wilson, threw that one pass like I shot that one shot. You know both the pass and shot I'm talking about. Apparently not, though, because everyone acted like they never remember that pass. Okay. What's the Charlie Sheen doc? In it, we learned that Charlie Sheen once got loaded drunk on a commercial flight, and the captain let him fly the plane. That was horrifying. What?

That was horrifying. That's how it started. That's how the documentary starts. What?

What? Dan, for some people, that idea is horrifying. For others, it's slightly less horrifying than having a black pilot. Isn't it weird when drug addicts are clean-shaven? You think about that? I'm watching Charlie Sheen throughout this entire documentary, two-part documentary, which is really revelatory, and him crashing and all this stuff and looking really He's a wild-eye and crazy. His hair is crazy. But he's always clean-shaven. Every morning, Charlie Sheen is getting up in front of the mirror, all drugged out. Hold on. Got to make sure this thing is nice and smooth.

I think the Sheen's and the Esteves just have trouble growing facial hair. All three of them, Martin, Emilio, none of them can grow facial hair.

I don't know. He had those side burns that one time he came out of rehab that were really funky-looking. Everyone needs a Tony Todd. That's his best friend. He stuck with him through thick and thin. Everyone also needs a Marco. That's his other best friend, who's a drug dealer, who made the crack weaker so that Charlie could get weaned off of it.

That's thoughtful.

Put it on the poll at Lebitard Show. Is your friend making the Coke weaker so you can get weaned off it thoughtful?

Not Coke, crack. Sorry. 7 Gram Rock, folks. Sorry, crack. That shit was real. Hey, Netflix. Reboot Ozark with Steve Ballmer. Jamal Haynes, First Round Talent. Genevieve O'Reilly should have won an Emmy for Andor. It's the best show none of you guys are talking about because it's Star Wars, but it's actually a really well done show. It's got a lot of politics in it.

You should watch it. Where did you side when I said that if I gave Mobland six or seven seasons like the Sopranos, it would be better than the Sopranos?

I think I could see how you get that logic, but I think you always have to give respect to how well the Sopranos was done because that basically informed a generation of TV creators. Oh, this is the standard now.

There have been so many good shows that fall off after a few seasons. I get that you don't think that would happen here, but that happens a lot.

Understood, but Guy Ritchie tends to make good things, and it's usually not directors that are making the shows. It's not signature directors from the movies. You think Scorsese is going to fall apart after five or six seasons? Do you believe that he's going to make things that are bad?

To be fair, Boardwalk Empire, while I liked it all the way the end, it certainly wasn't the same as it was at the beginning. I'm almost done with it.

I think it's good.

It is good, but it's not as good as when it started, right?

Correct.

There you go. And that was Scorsese, right? All right. The more Steve Ballmer, Mark Cuban, Andre Cherny, and the worldwide leader, and anyone else deny the allegations, the more Pablo looks like the truth teller of the year. Half-time of Raiders Chargers came after 11: 30 PM Eastern. East Coast, how do you all do it? Rip Charlie Rosen, great author of books like The Wizard of Od, More Than A Game, Players and Pretenders, and perfectly awful, all of which describe me on a date. Adam Silver, calling the NBA a Highlight League, is like admitting that you don't actually read the articles in Playboy. We know you aren't lying, but don't say the quiet part out loud. Shout out to Niall Knight this weekend in New York City. Tickets available now. Support a good cause. Keelen Rutledge is a grown-ass man. Dan, do you know about this kid?

He's a grown-ass man.

Yeah. He was a place for tech. He was in a car accident two years ago, and they nearly amputated his foot. Same foot would go on to help stomp on Clemson on Saturday.

You're feeling yourself now, huh? You're no longer a rambling wreck.

Dan, I actually started looking at hotels for the ACC Championship game. Wow. That's where I'm at.

That's going to be Miami Georgia Tech.

Well, you know how that's been recently. Northwestern will be the first sports team in history to make a massive step down when they move into their new arena. Do you see where they're playing? They're in a makeshift stadium, but it's on the lake. It looks beautiful.

It looks picture perfect. The surrounding area is gorgeous, but the stadium itself, those seats.

No bounce house.

No. George the Messiah in an Aura ad makes me want to call my agent and wonder where we went wrong. You guys know who George the Messiah is? Yep. Yeah.

Scalabrine took that ass.

Yeah, he did. He was in an during the Canelo fight for the aura rings, and I was like, This guy's got an agent?

Have you talked to Scalabrine about taking him down in Rucker Park?

It wasn't Rucker, West fourth Street. It was at West fourth. But yeah, I talked to him briefly about it.

This is a guy, for those of you who do not know, this is a guy who trash-talked and said he could take everyone down on the playground and then he could beat NBA players, and then Scalabrini just dusted him.

Well, no, he specifically said he would beat Scalabrini. That's call out.

Had no chance. None. That's why Tony has no chance against Amici. Come on.

Amici is like 80 at this point.

This guy hasn't touched a ball in 17 years. Come on.

It's like riding a bike, Tony. Back to the Canelo Crawford fight. Some faces in the crowd. Stephen A. Smith. Looked like he got his shirt from Dan Flashes. Dave Chapelle. Looked like he was by the Incredible Hulk. I pray I never get buff enough where sleeves are an impediment. Mark Anthony. Button that shirt up. Angel Rees. Yawza. Wilmer Valderrama. That's where he's been. Macaulay Culkin. You still got them, Oakley? Mr. Beast, when is your 15 minutes up? Turki Al-Sheikh. Let me hold a dollar. Dan, that was the conspicuously Saudi Arabian-looking gentleman sitting ringside and then entered the ring after the fight.

The most important guy in the building.

The most important guy in the building. Tennessee, you had one job. Dan, do you know what a Georgia Tech alum will respond if you ask him what the good word is?

I do not.

To hell with Georgia. Speaking of hell, Art Bryals. Those are the weekend observations.

Don Lebatard.

Again, started on the Breakfast Flawne. Oh, man. I've been singing a song to myself all morning long. Breakfast Flawn.

Stugatz.

Have you never heard the Breakfast Flawn song? No. Hit me with it. Okay. I wish I had some Breakfast Flawn. Breakfast Flawn. Where can I find a breakfast like that?

This is the Dan Levatard show with the Stugats. Before we let you get out of here and before we talk to you about xenophob, you mentioned Pablo and Looking Good During These Times. I'm reminded of a quote. I do not know who said it, During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. What do you believe to be the most interesting thing of all the things that you and Samson have sat there for as Pablo surprises you again and again because he's unveiling his news to you guys? From the entire macro of the story, not just surprises individually, what do you think is the most interesting thing?

I think the most interesting thing, like I said, is how sophisticated this alleged scheme is. It involves a corporate partner and shell companies and money is diverted and a no-show It's your job. There's a lot of layers to this. It pains me whenever people say, Well, call me whenever they have the Joe Smith smoking gun. I said, I mean, clearly, they learn from the Joe Smith situation. You can't have just a direct piece of paper, Here's money, under the table. You've got to be more sophisticated. I think, like I said earlier, they did a remarkable job, allegedly. The only thing that basically undid them was the corporate partner being a huge scam. They couldn't have seen that coming. That Quye Leonard and his camp could not just let the last seven mil go. And that Pablo Tori exists, that he exists and he did all this work and dug and found all that out. But other When those three things happening, they would have got away with it scot-free. I think that's something that a lot of people need to keep in mind. Also, the fact that the dude's daughter worked for the company, Dennis Wong' daughter, come on, man.

She works hard.

Come What's been the most enjoyable part for you as a bystander watching all of it unfold?

I think the most enjoyable part was watching... Having recorded the episode already, but the episode didn't drop until Thursday. So watching people react to Adam Silver's press conference after the board of governors and then making up all these, Oh, I'm sure these explanations or whatever, and knowing, Oh, no, you guys don't even know the next part where the vice chairman has a $2 million cash infusion into this crashing ship. Just that part, just finding out, oh, the money came from DEA 88, and that's registered under Dennis Wong, who owns 1% of the Clippers, the only percentage that Steve Ballmer doesn't own. Oh, yeah, he's his college roommate. Oh, yeah, he knew that the company was going down or had to have known because his daughter worked there. All of that, having to sit and keep that to myself while people were like, Yeah, I don't know about this reporting and all that. It was just so good.

One of the things we've been telling you guys around here is that in this time of individual creators, a lot of people around here are starting their own thing. Amin for a long time has had Cinephob. It is a project, a labor of great love for him because it's different than anything else out there in terms of who's talking about movies where. What's coming up on Cinephob, Amin?

This week we have the 2007 movie War featuring Jet Lee and Jason Statham before he fully committed to shaving his head. He still has this weird peach fuss on the top of his head. It is Everything you want from an early 2000s action movie, the action movies that don't exist anymore. I missed them. It's not about quick cuts and slick hand-to-hand combat like John Wick. No, it's just big, dumb action. Get a gun, shoot a bunch of people, Have Jet Lee roundhouse kick someone. Great fun.

We have not talked about Robert Redford passing away at 89 years old. I'm wondering if this is when he dies, if that time dies with him, that it's not even possible for someone to be a movie star like that anymore because of how fractured things are and where it is you get things, some of them on television, some of them on your phone. Do I it wrong that the movie star cannot be what Robert Redford was anymore? Do I have this incorrect?

I mean, it's harder for sure. Who even has a chance of being that?

Timothy Chalame.

Chalame is the argument.

Is DiCaprio too old for me to put in that argument?

No, DiCaprio, he's the same ushered in. I'm talking about next. I'm talking about- Did he do weaning?

Yeah. No. I said, Yeah.

I like it. See you later, I mean. Good talking to you. Thank you. Did you guys see the numbers that Netflix put out on Canelo and Crawford?

No.

41 million, they claim.

No way.

Million and what?

No way.

What do you mean no way? What do you mean no way? No, 41 million viewers.

I don't believe that. I can't believe that.

Would you believe it when I tell you that Jake Paul and Tyson did 108 million?

Yeah, because Jake Paul is a face of boxing.

Wait a minute. You guys, you are sitting here saying that you think that it's normal for Jake Paul to do two and a half times what the best boxer in the world did against Canelo Álvarez?

Is this them claiming that this is how many TV streamed it, or is this their math of people watched it? You know what I mean? Because I could have 10 people at my house watching one TV. We did.

I was at the bachelor party, and there was 12 dudes huddled around the TV watching Canelo Crosby.

That's why I'm wondering if they're doing some math of that's how many people watched or that's how many sets were streaming the fight.

I'm used to the narcissism you guys generally have that if you haven't seen it, it's not important to anyone else. But there were a lot of people who were interested in this fight, and it still only drew a third as much as a Circus Carnival act. Somebody's going to put... It's being put together, Mayweather and Tyson. We've turned boxing into the circus. The thing that's going to get numbers is the circus because there There aren't very many people in boxing right now fighting that the mainstream finds interesting. You've got to have boxers people care about. If it's not going to be giant punching power, it has to be either stories people care about or people fighters people care about. That's what happens, right? The Mayweather-Tyson fight is going to happen, correct?

Yeah, it's just like, at what point do you feel like the circus runs out of gas? It's like, Mayweather, okay, this is the last time we saw him fight, Logan Paul stood him up at the heart.

It's all a scam. It's such a scam.

Is boxing dead?

Well, no, it's not dead. 41 million people allegedly just watched Canelo... When Canelo Alvarez fights, it's always pay-per-view monster. Always. Can you remind me what's the other guy's name again?

Terrence?

We're really doing this? He's the best.

Bud Crawford. He's been on the show before.

I hate this. I hate what we're doing here. No respect, Dan. No, but it's just we don't see what we're showing in terms of our ignorance by yarning and being indifferent about a story that a lot of people do care about. Not any of them in this room.

It says 41 million viewers. I don't know. I want to know what they mean here, whether this is 41 Netflix accounts that we're streaming or 41 million people.

It was 41 accounts. All of them had a million people watching. There you go.

That would be clear for me.

I mean, you can't think that Mayweather versus Tyson is a good thing for boxing. You can't think that, can you?

What's a good thing for boxing? That I saw Canelo Álvarez look undressed the way I've only seen one other time with Floyd Mayweather, and Canelo said afterward that Crawford is better than Floyd. I'm not going to not find that interesting, but I'm talking to a group of people who could not possibly care any less about this. And neither does that younger and smarter audience that you want, Dan.