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[18] Hello, everybody.
[19] Happy Friday.
[20] Howdy?
[21] How is everybody doing today?
[22] It's Friday vibes.
[23] Fantastic, Mike.
[24] Fantastic.
[25] Hot start.
[26] Having a blast.
[27] Hey, Roy.
[28] Hey.
[29] why what what's matter i'm just waiting to next week that's all we are going to key west right that's something you should sound happy about aren't we all yeah but i gotta wait to go i got another week no i i relate to roy here if i know there's like something exciting happening up ahead like i get really really shy leading up to it like ah man i just wanted to be next week already but it's friday like you're headed into a weekend it's not like why are you acting like it's monday like all right we're we're just a day closer it's friday vibes Substitute is in.
[30] Yeah, well, I got more work to do during the weekend.
[31] That's fine.
[32] I love you so much, Roy.
[33] You're not going to win this game, Mike.
[34] No, Roy is never once giving me an inch.
[35] No. He's afraid I'm going to take a mile.
[36] Dude, just want that inch.
[37] Give a man a rope.
[38] He wants to be a cowboy.
[39] Key West, though.
[40] Exciting.
[41] Jess is going, too.
[42] They're competing with Dave Williamson and something.
[43] Is it a fishing competition?
[44] Yes, it's a fishing lobster and barbecue contest.
[45] All three?
[46] Simultaneously?
[47] No, not at the same time.
[48] It's doing the entire weekend, Friday through Sunday.
[49] I like the idea of a competition where you have to go out on a boat and you have like a smoker on there.
[50] It's like you got to come back, you got to catch some fish, have some good brisket, and eat two lobsters.
[51] We'll figure it out.
[52] And Jess is doing this with you?
[53] She is going to be a barbecue judge at the event on Sunday.
[54] I've never judged anything before.
[55] I'm very scared.
[56] Food -wise, I should say.
[57] Except for people.
[58] You're doing this next week?
[59] Next weekend.
[60] College football starts next weekend.
[61] It's like Sunday.
[62] And it's week zero.
[63] There's like four, what, five games, six games?
[64] I'll be fine.
[65] Look out for Georgia Tech.
[66] I'm not going to like, oh no, I have to watch football games from a bar in Key West.
[67] Oh, no. That's going to be terrible.
[68] Actually, that is like, that's my sneaky week zero spot.
[69] Last, I figured last year I missed week zero because I was in Ireland at the Notre Dame Navy game.
[70] And I was fine.
[71] really miss much.
[72] So this week I can handle a Key West trip.
[73] FSU and Georgia Tech are kicking things off in Dublin.
[74] Yes, they are.
[75] That's a weird one.
[76] Yeah, I heard FSU traveling very heavy to that game.
[77] Yeah.
[78] I would travel too.
[79] A lot of Florida State fans in Dublin next week.
[80] So with Notre Dame, I understand the tie -in.
[81] But I'm struggling to find the tie -in to FSU and Georgia Tech.
[82] This is just like an annual thing that is going to happen every year in Dublin.
[83] It's not always going to be Notre Dame.
[84] I think Farmageddon is going one year, I think Wisconsin's going another year, like there's going to be a rotating group of teams that accept the invite to go to Dublin and have the game there.
[85] So yeah, it's just, I think they want to just put on this event every year in Dublin because it's such a fun event and great and good for tourism, et cetera, et cetera.
[86] I'm a big fan of starting your season off with a neutral site game.
[87] It's why like one of my solutions, every bowl season, everyone throws their arms up and is frustrated with all the opt -outs.
[88] that bowl season isn't what it once was.
[89] My whole plan for bowl season is, all right, you play your season, you start your season with the bowl game the following year.
[90] That way, you don't have players opting out.
[91] You start your season off with a big neutral site party.
[92] And everyone's pushback on that is, but it's a totally different team.
[93] Have you not seen the bowl games?
[94] They're totally different teams too.
[95] So, like, Miami was starting its third string quarterback in the bad boy mowers pinstripe bowl last year.
[96] That's a totally different team.
[97] You're not with that idea, bowl games to start the season?
[98] I just like that we threw in an excuse from my Miami loss to Rutgers in the first five minutes of the show and the pinstripe bowl.
[99] It's not about that.
[100] I was just citing a recent example.
[101] But like, look, FSU had.
[102] I was only half paying attention because Chris, Jeremy and Roy were all talking about it.
[103] It was very clear.
[104] Roy was not talking.
[105] I was not talking.
[106] I can guarantee you Roy was not talking because I saw everybody else talking.
[107] I was locked in on Roy.
[108] Roy, still not giving me an inch.
[109] I'm excited to go to QS with Roy.
[110] A game of inches.
[111] Roy's going to drink the bar clean of all of its scotch.
[112] Yeah, you're going to see a really happy Roy.
[113] Dave Williamson has a way to tap in and get all the inches from Roy phrasing.
[114] No, I'm not drinking.
[115] I don't see scotch.
[116] That's a lie.
[117] I don't see scotch as a Key West drink.
[118] It's not a lie, actually.
[119] You're not going to take a sip of alcohol all weekend.
[120] No, I'm not drinking.
[121] Oh, you're fasting or another?
[122] I think every drink is a Key West drink, Chris.
[123] I don't think there's any off -limits drinks in Key West bar.
[124] I need a glass bottle of beer.
[125] And I don't like that.
[126] If I'm in the keys and someone walks in and says, can I get a blah blah scotch, please?
[127] I'm like, you asshole.
[128] I usually, if they have Miller Light and it's only available on bottle, I don't like drinking from the bottle because.
[129] That plastic cup.
[130] Bar rescue.
[131] Give me that plastic cup.
[132] I can drink more.
[133] You let the CO2 out in the glass.
[134] Wait, explain.
[135] I'm not sure I understand.
[136] This is a life hack.
[137] I've done it several times.
[138] There's a bar rescue episode why.
[139] Taffer explains why you want to sell draft beers because you can sell more of them.
[140] because if you sell bottled beers or canned beers, people, your patrons, get more full because the CO2 expands in your stomach.
[141] It's the smartest I see when I tell people in bars this, because I've seen that thing with him, and I'm like, you guys know, you see here when he pour poorly, the gases are exploding.
[142] If you don't do that in the cup, it happens in your stomach, and that fills you up.
[143] Really?
[144] Well, luckily for us, Miller Light is less filling, so.
[145] That's true, but still, I love Miller Light, and I want to drink more of it, and I don't want to feel all bloaty, despite it being.
[146] the greatest light beer, I still want to be able to have more of it, especially if I'm in the keys and in vacation mode.
[147] So if they have a bottle, I pour it in.
[148] This explains a lot because I'm a real bottled Topo Tico drinker of late.
[149] And I've noticed when I drink it out of the bottle sometimes, whoa, it is super carbonated.
[150] Sometimes it explodes in my face.
[151] If I pour it in a glass, it's a much more mellow bubble.
[152] Yeah.
[153] So guys, listen to me right now.
[154] That's the tip.
[155] Pour your bottled or canned beers into a cup.
[156] If you're marathoning it, if you're pre -gaming, and if you want to feel a little less bloaty, expand that CO2 inside the glass and not in your stomach, and you can drink a little bit more and be less filled.
[157] Chris Cody, I wanted to talk to you because I heard some musings around the studio about car keys.
[158] Everyone's talking about it.
[159] We were having a back and forth, and I'm like, what do you mean you don't have your car keys in your pocket when you're driving?
[160] Of course not.
[161] Now, I think if you're wearing jeans and you're driving, with your keys in your pocket, you're just doing it wrong.
[162] Like, you don't, your keys must be the, like, you have one key or something.
[163] I have one key.
[164] I hate, like, see, that's what I mean.
[165] Most people, like, you look here, I have, like, my car key.
[166] I got three keys.
[167] I got a bottle opener.
[168] Because, of course, I have a bottle opener.
[169] And it's just in my pocket while I'm driving and you're wearing jeans.
[170] It's, like, tight on your leg and it's just uncomfortable.
[171] There's no way that doesn't stab you.
[172] Right.
[173] The bottle opener looks.
[174] So, what you do is, I'm leaving my house.
[175] I lock my door.
[176] My keys stay in my hand.
[177] I get in my car.
[178] and then it's like, where am I putting my keys down today?
[179] There's a lot of options here.
[180] There's cup holder.
[181] There's the little, like, what do we call this space below the radio?
[182] Just this little, like, tray area.
[183] The coins?
[184] There's the door.
[185] You can put it in the slot.
[186] Yeah.
[187] But you ever do what every action movie successfully did?
[188] Like, if you wanted to break into a car, you just check the visor.
[189] And everyone keeps their keys there.
[190] That's an outdated one.
[191] I don't know anyone that's ever done that.
[192] But in the movies, it always works.
[193] It has to be like a little key, right?
[194] Right.
[195] And the one thing for sure is if you put it in your cup, cup holder that's where you're most likely to get out of the car and you're like oh shit my keys are still in the car because it's like got the deeper hole so you lose sight of it i literally had that issue today i put my keys in a place where i don't normally i normally will do the cup holder or the front or even leave them on the seat in between my legs wow that's just to make sure that i don't forget that's where i put my phone a lot see i'll put my phone and sometimes if i hit the break my phone falls from in between my legs onto the floor that's the worst all of a sudden i'm like reaching If only someone could invent some sort of small personal bag that you carry with you from place to place and put your wallet and your keys and your phone into.
[196] So that the things that you look for are always inside that bag.
[197] But what if you lose the bag?
[198] You don't lose the bag.
[199] People lose the bag.
[200] The correct answer is in the door.
[201] That's where you put the key.
[202] But that was my problem today is I don't normally put it in the door.
[203] I put them in the door and I had to wait for Taylor and Mike Malley to come in because I couldn't get upstairs.
[204] You put it in the door.
[205] You turn off the car.
[206] and as you're pushing the door open, your finger feels the keys.
[207] So you always remember to grab them.
[208] It's just where you put the keys in the car, in the door, correct answer.
[209] Keep them in my pocket the entire time.
[210] Monster behavior.
[211] It's not a monster behavior.
[212] Where are your keys right now?
[213] In my...
[214] Shit.
[215] I don't have a lot of options right now.
[216] It's not while you're driving, though.
[217] And this is where that...
[218] You actually have more options.
[219] That's interesting bag that Jess is talking about.
[220] I do have a backpack.
[221] Could be useful.
[222] But in the car, you have other options than your pocket.
[223] So you should use those other options.
[224] Where do you put your phone in your car?
[225] Well, because I play music and I charge it up, so I have it like in that cup holder area.
[226] There's some asshole right now that's like, I put my phone in my back seat because I don't want to have it near me when I'm driving.
[227] It's like, shut up, guy.
[228] Do you guys fight over the control of like the 1A and 1B chargers in your car with your spouses?
[229] Because Lehman and I, we have two chords.
[230] We don't have like a Bluetooth car play thing.
[231] So like the one chord controls everything.
[232] And the second chord, you've got to, like, get in there and mess with all the system to play what you want.
[233] I always get the chords because I'm terrible with charging my phone.
[234] And my wife, it's like, she's better at nothing in the world than charging her cell phone.
[235] Like, she's never below 90 % ever.
[236] I've never seen my wife below 90 % on her phone.
[237] So it's one of the most impressive things I've ever heard.
[238] So it's always, I get in the car.
[239] I need this.
[240] I'm at 12.
[241] Thank you.
[242] So you purposely don't charge your phone so you have an excuse to use the charger.
[243] I'm like that with my gas tank.
[244] Like, I don't get worried until I see, like, single digits.
[245] Like, I can be 14%.
[246] I'm like, good, good to go.
[247] I take the train, so I don't have to put the phone in the backseat.
[248] What about when you're driving to the highlight draft?
[249] So, Jess.
[250] This thing.
[251] Thank you for the buying.
[252] Fireworks.
[253] Fireworks at the battle court draft yesterday.
[254] Loan representative from the cartel, clone cartel contingent.
[255] No, Fuentes wasn't there?
[256] Based off Fuentes' engagement in the group chat, I thought he was there.
[257] No, I was the only person from our, and we have a massive front office.
[258] we have a huge group and yet we were divide and conquer last night and yet i was scouting i was the only person there and i got to say it took me by surprise a little bit i expected a few faces didn't we have an entire group chat and the group chat is legion mo wasn't there mo wasn't there mochetta wasn't there foentes wasn't there foentes didn't know what time it was that was his excuse he said that he was still at work which I mean that's a really long day I know the weather was bad real bad but so I get to the battle court draft and I have to be very careful here because things happened last night that may actually result in us losing the team we may lose the cyclones this may be our final season of battle court because I was in an heated argument with a commissioner of battle court the Roger Goodell the Mr. McMahon, basically.
[259] He became Mr. McMahon last night.
[260] So, look, even though Chris and I, we know Ball, battle court is life.
[261] We live the Haya life.
[262] We watch so much High Lie.
[263] I'll stack up our time spent watching High Lie with anyone in the nation that doesn't play the game.
[264] Seriously.
[265] Like, we know what we're talking about.
[266] We know these names.
[267] We have our own scouting reports.
[268] We have an analytics department that also wasn't at the draft.
[269] We've watched way more than Lawrence Taylor has.
[270] Way more.
[271] He's an owner in the league.
[272] When did that happen?
[273] But occasionally, like, we'll talk to people that are in and around the game and we'll get some advice.
[274] And the commissioner who just ultimately wants to see a balanced sport will often give his input.
[275] He's done this before where he's tried to, and we've kind of seized on it.
[276] He's like, you guys should really take Douglas over Manu.
[277] And we're like, huh, well, the head -to -head stats say something.
[278] and Douglas hasn't won a game all year.
[279] Our eyes tell us that Manu is the way to go.
[280] And sure enough, we draft Manu and he destroys Douglas all season long in every head -to -head matchup.
[281] We get to a final and we feel like our decision -making there is rewarded.
[282] Last year, there were warnings as the draft happened.
[283] You don't want to go back court, back court.
[284] I'm getting really in the weeds here, but trust me, I'm getting into fireworks real quick.
[285] The way that the draft broke, somebody went a little renegade.
[286] It wasn't the renegades, but someone made a shocking draft pick, and it changed the entire draft board.
[287] We went back court, back court, got a player that reports tell me was claiming he was on vacation mode entering last year, and we really struggled.
[288] So, Chris, you and I were pretty much aligned.
[289] We're not doing back court, back court again.
[290] We can't be doing that to our team.
[291] Scott, the commissioner, comes up to us, tries to like, because the league owns the fireballs who are picking number one.
[292] Cyclones were controlling the sport.
[293] We had three picks in the top seven.
[294] So he's talking to us, and he's like, you know, you should take Ferranda with your second pick because you don't want to go back -or it, backward.
[295] And I'm like, Scott, I don't want to go back -or, back -or -and -again.
[296] Oh, no. So, like, we have the talk, and I'm pretty locked in on taking a front quarter with a second pick.
[297] Manu, my team captain, legacy Cyclone Liber, kicks the door down.
[298] Boss, we cannot take Ferranda number two.
[299] And this is a great impression for those.
[300] Boss, we cannot take Ferranda number two.
[301] I'll take your word for it.
[302] are trying to screw us.
[303] He's a good player.
[304] He's a good player.
[305] We get them in third round.
[306] We can get them in third run because look, they're not going to go front court, front court, front court.
[307] So we end up getting, we end up getting Amiga Renna with our second draft pick.
[308] And you would have thought, you would have thought I did, like I would have just throw my drink on the ground with the behavior.
[309] The reaction from the fireball table and the commissioner was really unprofessional.
[310] And you're supposed to have three minutes for a draft pick.
[311] they took like seven we really shocked them with this decision and then guess what round three manu was right they didn't take for honor we got veranda so scott he's like guy he was telling us to take he passed on yeah and then we ended up getting him in the third round so we did a great job classic draft tactic though we did a great job so a couple picks go by they're taking forever to draft you could cut the tension with the knife like it's getting a little awkward commissioner comes over to the table.
[312] My team, I have players there.
[313] Drafted players.
[314] He's like, I'm done being nice.
[315] You guys just guaranteed yourself last place again.
[316] You're going to be worse than last year.
[317] Imagine telling me a legacy owner, a former champion in this sport, and my team of legends, that they're going to be bad?
[318] He said that to the players?
[319] He said that.
[320] Yeah, they all heard it.
[321] They all said that.
[322] I was like, whoa, when did my commissioner become Mr. McMahon all of a sudden?
[323] And the logic makes no sense.
[324] It's like, we got the guy you wanted us to take in the second in the third.
[325] That was my rebuttal.
[326] We're a deeper team, according by your logic.
[327] I go, Mr. Commish, this is a weird way to congratulate me on a brilliant draft.
[328] I got Ferranda as my top front quarter, just like you said.
[329] And I got him in the third round.
[330] You should be congratulating me. He's like, yeah, but it's on sportsmen.
[331] On sportsmen.
[332] On sportsmen.
[333] I'm like, Mr. Camish, it is my job and my only job to make sure that the cyclones have the best possible draft.
[334] It is not my job to restore the competitive balance of this league and make sure that the fireballs are okay.
[335] I got screwed last year in the draft.
[336] Where was a sportsman like behavior then?
[337] It wasn't the fireballs that did that.
[338] Erroneous.
[339] I don't care.
[340] Doesn't matter.
[341] So like we're like it got really contentious.
[342] Some of this was caught on camera and we got massive storylines, but we piss off the commissioner.
[343] Commissioner and I ended the evening on good terms.
[344] He was fired up.
[345] Look, tensions run high during the battle court draft.
[346] If you guys were there, you would have loved it.
[347] Probably way more than the audience did.
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[357] Don Lebertard.
[358] Mike Ryan's in there, and he's the one with a baby.
[359] He's the one who's got to, like, worry about what the future is.
[360] And Mike Ryan bet on draft kings, because Mike Ryan bet on us.
[361] This is the bet you're afraid of doubling down on, putting up a billboard and Edmonton?
[362] Stugats.
[363] I care more about Matthew Kachuk than I do my daughter.
[364] This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats.
[365] Well, Chris and Mike had something really important going on.
[366] I just had my daughter by myself and I didn't want to bring her to a bar.
[367] Right.
[368] Was that a bar?
[369] Yeah.
[370] Was that a brewery?
[371] Yeah.
[372] There were plenty of kids.
[373] For some reason, I was picturing like you all standing on the fronton.
[374] That's exactly what I was thinking.
[375] Just like arguing and just standing in a circle.
[376] The trip used to be at the fronton, but this was at a local brewery and there were kids running around like that.
[377] This wasn't a workplace.
[378] Bringing your kid to a workplace, I think, is pretty unprofessional.
[379] I would never do that.
[380] People should not do that.
[381] I would absolutely never, ever do something like that.
[382] Especially on the last day of summer vacation, right before her school after she's nagged.
[383] Especially on Cheecherone Friday.
[384] Checheroon Friday, which is kind of bubbling up right now.
[385] This is a second straight show where that cilantro sauce is not only kicking in the mouth, but kicking in the stomach.
[386] It's like we had six different things to choose from that all are like, this is going to make you really fat.
[387] Yeah.
[388] It's like, usually it's like chicharones and it's like, okay, we're going to have some fruit with it.
[389] It's like, no, this is chicherones and like empanadas.
[390] Friedas.
[391] Friedo.
[392] So like there is a, there's queso frito out there?
[393] Yeah, there's queso frito.
[394] I mean, it's just like every choice is like, let me have some fried cheese.
[395] Let me get some pork fat.
[396] Thank you.
[397] Keto friendly.
[398] There are healthy options.
[399] If you're like subscribed to the carnivore diet, go nuts.
[400] Chicheroon Fridays for you.
[401] But yeah, feel a little bit.
[402] Squirming in the seat.
[403] right now.
[404] Not feeling so great.
[405] Second straight week.
[406] I was a hero last week.
[407] People have no idea the adversity I overcame last week in that co -host chair with a mean.
[408] And, you know, it's popping up again.
[409] Speaking of hero.
[410] Yeah.
[411] Wow.
[412] Another great segue.
[413] Wow.
[414] We are on it today.
[415] Chris, I was getting to that segue myself.
[416] All right.
[417] Tyler Hero had a photo yesterday circulates on social media.
[418] And Jeremy Tashay is here.
[419] So that means I got to talk to him about his boy.
[420] As you can see, Tyler Hero has brand new ink.
[421] Now, he's gone viral for his tattoos before, but on his very lean -looking stomach, I got to say good stomach.
[422] He's got a Milwaukee Brewers logo, huge.
[423] That's got to be super painful.
[424] The shading in that spot, don't envy it.
[425] He's got a convertible car, and he's got three jerseys on his stomach.
[426] Pretty centralized.
[427] So what are the three jerseys I'm looking at here, Jeremy?
[428] I believe you're looking at his high school, college, and NBA jerseys here in this photo.
[429] So you have his high school photo to our left, his right, then his Kentucky jersey in the middle, right around the belly button, and then the heat jersey to his left side, our right side.
[430] Right above that Milwaukee Brewers logo you were talking about.
[431] So this is a bold choice because the three jerseys are equal in size, spread evenly across the entire midsection of his body.
[432] the mind wanders to a certain place why is Tyler Hero so sure he's going to finish his career here in Miami Because there isn't going it could go around his like a full circle But yeah but the way that he decided to start it like I've just figured this is going to be chronological now We have now put ourselves in a position where we're starting we're going left to right in terms of the history of Tyler Hero Ball So he's he's in all likelihood going to have other stops in his pro career.
[433] What I'm telling Tyler Hero and Jeremy is he should have left more room for the Phoenix Suns jersey.
[434] Well, you know, if you looked at our big board the other day, I can understand why you'd be, you know, thinking about those Phoenix Suns.
[435] But what I would tell you is, hey, if you're Tyler and you've been in trade rumors every single year of your entire career, and you've never been traded, I can understand why he's like, no, he're going to just keep me forever.
[436] I'm going to keep playing here for the rest of my life.
[437] Why would I think that I'll be wearing another jersey?
[438] because he's been to trade rumors every single year and he's never actually been traded.
[439] Hmm.
[440] I'm not sure about that logic.
[441] I do want to know what's around his belly button.
[442] I realized I generally like try not to judge other people's tattoos too much, but I don't like belly button related tattoos where they use the belly button in the theme of the photo.
[443] Is his belly button wearing a crown?
[444] I'm not sure what's going on in this.
[445] The nipple also, I don't like when the nipple plays a role in the image of the tattoo.
[446] Yeah, it's not the great.
[447] resolution.
[448] I can see, by the way, it's tricep day, so that's good.
[449] But there is a crown, what appears to be a crown above the navel, and right in between the crown and the Milwaukee Brewer's logo, which is...
[450] Is that like a Norwalk walking?
[451] It looks...
[452] It looks like the top half of a Norwalk with legs.
[453] It looks like a chubby knight to me. Like a chubby knight in King Arthur's court.
[454] This is why we need better resolution here.
[455] But all in all, huge mistake made by Tyler Hero, because where do you put the next team's jersey?
[456] Then it's going to be uneven.
[457] I'm pretty sure that tattoo is a Power Puff Girl.
[458] Power Puff Girl?
[459] The next spot for a jersey would be the love handle.
[460] Not that he has him, but that seems like a vulnerable spot.
[461] The thing you thought was the narwhal is a Power Puff Girl.
[462] When I see that again?
[463] Is the belly button part of the tattoo?
[464] Oh, wow.
[465] We got better resolution.
[466] solution here.
[467] Okay.
[468] So the crown is over the belly button, but it does not appear to be part of any sort of image.
[469] So that's good.
[470] And those are convertible on the right.
[471] With the hair going down from his belly button, his belly button almost looks like a rose.
[472] Yeah.
[473] I'm not a big fan of the happy trail.
[474] Golden Bachelorette fan.
[475] Why the Power Puff girl?
[476] I mean, there's got to be some sort of significance.
[477] Maybe his child.
[478] I don't know.
[479] I'm not sure.
[480] You know, he is a father.
[481] Yeah, I'd consider like a bandit tattoo.
[482] Honestly, the thing that I noticed more in the last couple of weeks, aesthetically with Tyler is he went back to the buzz cut.
[483] You know, he was growing out, he was growing out his hair.
[484] That was your takeaway from this.
[485] It was.
[486] He was growing out his hair for the last couple of years, came into last season with the longest hair he's ever had.
[487] Now back to the basics.
[488] You're looking like what he did at Kentucky.
[489] What do we think that that means, Jeremy?
[490] Yeah, Jeremy.
[491] You're good at reading into this.
[492] Focused.
[493] No longer worried about the aesthetics.
[494] Shaving off the hair, not worried about it, just focused on.
[495] I don't know, man. What do you want for me here?
[496] He's had like some weird behavior on social media this offseason, a little bit more passive -aggressive.
[497] You mentioned that his name is always in trade rumors, and yet he always persist and stays with the Miami Heat.
[498] I can understand how that gets to a guy.
[499] I mean, remember last year, he was having lunch with Spoe thinking he was going to be traded to Portland when the news broke that Dame was traded to Milwaukee.
[500] and they had to have that sort of like awkward moment together of all right here's what we're going to work on going into next year and I got to imagine it wears on you every single offseason being in those rumors look he played well to start the beginning of last season let's hope that he can have a decent start and not get hurt this time around when you're hiring for your small business you want to find quality professionals that are right for the role that's why you have to check out LinkedIn Jobs LinkedIn Jobs has the tools to help find the right professionals for your team, faster, and for free.
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[515] For weeks, months even, during the regular season, I wondered allowed what Kevin Stenland did.
[516] And then about three weeks ago, it hit me. Stugats.
[517] He gives him one of these and he gives him one of those.
[518] This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats.
[519] Mike, is there anything in American culture, pop culture, music that makes you as frustrated as Maroon 5 having a ridiculously good first album and then completely selling out and only making.
[520] bubblegum pop music from there.
[521] I love this question.
[522] Yes, I'm sure there are things in pop culture.
[523] No, it bothers me so much.
[524] It bothers me so much, Mike.
[525] What made you think of this?
[526] Bad tattoos?
[527] Okay, no. So I can tell you how we got there.
[528] Ironically, yeah, that would have been a better way to go there.
[529] What?
[530] I started singing this love.
[531] Well, Chris Martin and Dakota Johnson.
[532] What?
[533] This love has taken?
[534] All right.
[535] Go ahead.
[536] Chris Martin and Dakota Johnson announced their split after seven years.
[537] They were dating, which is a big deal.
[538] That's, I'm just learning they were dating.
[539] And so Chris Martin, the lead singer of Colplay.
[540] Dakota Johnson was with Chris Martin.
[541] What?
[542] Yeah, for seven years?
[543] Huh?
[544] Seven years?
[545] For seven years?
[546] No. Yeah?
[547] The whole time, Daniel?
[548] The whole time?
[549] So they were together the last seven years.
[550] They announced their split.
[551] Wait, Madam Webb?
[552] Yes.
[553] He stayed with her through that.
[554] Anastasia Steele.
[555] That might have been the thing that ended it seemingly.
[556] I am shocked.
[557] Dude, I'm usually.
[558] I have a moment to sort of register that first.
[559] I can't believe that there was a celebrity couple dating for seven.
[560] years and I'm learning about it through their breakup.
[561] Well, Dakota Johnson, the daughter of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith, was dating Chris Martin, the lead singer of Coldplay for seven years.
[562] Uh -huh.
[563] Okay.
[564] Wild.
[565] I learned about it.
[566] I learned about the breakup through the Liza Minnelli outlives account, which is my favorite way to get news.
[567] It's just, it just tweets out.
[568] Liza Minnelly has outlived the relationship of Chris Martin and Dakota Johnson.
[569] Yeah, I love it.
[570] So, nonetheless, I said that, and Roy said, man, And that new Maroon 5 album is going to be crying out loud.
[571] Terrible.
[572] Or, you know, and so I said, well, that's cold play.
[573] Like, I can't wait for the new Maroon 5 album.
[574] That's cold play.
[575] But then we talked about Maroon 5, and I really loved Maroon 5's first album.
[576] It had it had harder to breathe.
[577] It had this love.
[578] It had shivers.
[579] She will be loved Sunday morning.
[580] There were great songs.
[581] This may surprise you.
[582] I loved that first Maroon 5 album.
[583] Wow.
[584] It was really good.
[585] I'm a high register.
[586] Like, that's a good.
[587] I'm a fan of pop rock.
[588] Right.
[589] Then they went off the rails a little bit.
[590] That's where it went off the rails.
[591] It's the worst.
[592] It's bad.
[593] That song stinks and everything since then.
[594] I like that song.
[595] Every song since then has bothered me. They have a lot of songs.
[596] They have a lot of songs.
[597] So like Maroon 5, my wife always likes to throw the fact that I wanted to go to a Maroon 5 concert in my face.
[598] because she always categorizes it just like that, a Maroon 5 concert.
[599] I wanted to see Maroon 5 in Broward because the hives were opening up for Maroon 5.
[600] That's a type of first album that Maroon 5 had.
[601] Because today, if I tell you, the hives were opening up for Maroon 5 doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
[602] So I'm a huge fan of the hives, and I wanted to see the hives, and I'd stick around for Maroon 5.
[603] My wife knows to needle me, and she says, remember when you wanted to see them in concert?
[604] I didn't want to see them specifically in cons.
[605] But you could also have wanted to see them, because that first album was great.
[606] If they were playing a show, I'd watch them.
[607] I don't think I'd pay money at this point because I'm not a huge fan, unless they were touring the debut album.
[608] Yeah, I'm there.
[609] Absolutely.
[610] Did you guys know moves like Jagger is the second most downloaded song of all time?
[611] That's a good song.
[612] That's a great pop song.
[613] I think my beef with bands like Maroon 5 is not really their fault, I suppose.
[614] that like any time that any one of these bands had a hit, it got so overplayed so quickly that I just associate it with like feeling nauseated by hearing the same earworm.
[615] It's similar to Imagine Dragons, right?
[616] Like where their first album actually had some like cool alternative music on it, but then their songs got so overplayed and it got oversaturated and you can only think of that breath.
[617] That's such a great impression.
[618] Limited fake Imagine Dragons.
[619] Wait, crap, Chris, one more time.
[620] Makes me wonder is a banger for Maroon 5.
[621] I think you're a Maroon 5 guy.
[622] I love Maroon 5 guys.
[623] And Imagine Dragons.
[624] I'm a sucker for Pop.
[625] You're an Imagine Dragons guy.
[626] I mean, I don't go to these concerts, but when they're on the radio back in the day, like I love these pop hits.
[627] I just associate Maroon 5 with how disappointed everyone was that they were the halftime show during the Atlanta Super Bowl.
[628] It was so disappointing.
[629] And also, didn't Adam Levine have like a. he hasn't really bounced back from that major affair scandal yeah where yeah it became a meme super like really cringy messages yeah you didn't see that meme of him like uh deeming mrs met like oh god that body that body i remember that oh man the mrs med meme has he not made a comeback from that's like the first thing i think about he's been laying low but you guys mentioned something about like how these songs were inescapable and now i don't really listen to the radio so the The way that I can escape a song is through social media, and I don't have TikTok, so I imagine it's like 10 times worse for you guys.
[630] But for a song to be inescapable, it really has to be gigantic.
[631] Like, espresso, that song was pretty inescapable, but it was because it was being used on social media all the time.
[632] I don't really hear it all.
[633] I took like a car ride from the Reno airport to Tao.
[634] It's the first time I've listened to pop radio in like almost a year, and I heard espresso like twice, so I get that.
[635] But I think these days.
[636] It's harder to have those sort of inescapable songs if it's not living specifically in the TikTok IG sphere.
[637] Yeah, but I feel like on TikTok, like the songs that go get really popular and overplayed aren't like real songs.
[638] Half the time, they're just like sounds that people cut out of other songs or just made up things.
[639] It's sped up versions of songs or it's just like randomly the bridge of a song that ends up.
[640] 20 years ago.
[641] Yeah, that ends up becoming super popular.
[642] When I was at camp, all of the kids there were obsessed with careless whisper.
[643] That's funny.
[644] Because it's recently gone viral in a trend on TikTok.
[645] And so they all, when we were doing like a karaoke.
[646] Yeah.
[647] And so we were doing like a karaoke night.
[648] They were losing their minds.
[649] I couldn't believe it.
[650] For me, a song that's inescapable is like an IG real soundtrack.
[651] So like that, who is my cup.
[652] That was like for an entire summer.
[653] I couldn't.
[654] couldn't avoid that song at all.
[655] But there is like a cool like I'm glad to hear careless whispers going viral again because like a couple years ago I was driving around Savannah and on a contemporary hit station they had Miguel's Sure Thing, which was an older song.
[656] I'm like this is like a top 40 station and they played it like twice on this car ride.
[657] I'm like this is not a coincidence and I googled it Sure Thing was charting well after its initial release because it gives these songs all new life and now Miguel is like the sure thing guy like he is known for that can we can I have jare bear explain this whole thing about Taylor Swift and putting out a new song while chaperone was about to have a number one hit because I've seen a lot of angry people on the internet about this yeah this is really interesting because obviously number ones now don't really stem from actual record sales they stem from streaming and so Taylor Swift for for years now in her sort of like business ploy has been releasing bonus singles on her website where you can go buy it.
[658] There's like a six to 12 hour window.
[659] You go buy this single and you're one of the only fans that can get it.
[660] It's an unbelievable money -making tactic because nobody is really selling music digitally that way, the way that you can get it on streaming.
[661] But what's kept happening is every time there's a new song that is going to potentially, either a new song or a new album that's going to potentially get to number one on the charts, everyone seems to notice that Taylor Swift releases a new version of something.
[662] So whether it's putting out for, last night, I believe it was she put out for six hours, a live version of one of the deeper cuts on the new album.
[663] And that's because when people start buying that and streaming that again, it boosts the numbers back up.
[664] And Chapel Rones, the rise and fall of a Midwest princess, which is her album, was about to reach number one in the U .S. It was number one in the U .K. She's having a moment, huh?
[665] She is having a moment.
[666] And as that was happening, everyone was making jokes like, oh, Taylor's definitely going to release something.
[667] Same way she did when 365, or sorry, I don't think it's 365, I think it's guests with Charlie XEX and Billy Elish on the remix was rising on the charge.
[668] She released another single, another live version of something.
[669] People were making jokes.
[670] Oh, Taylor's going to release something.
[671] And what do you know?
[672] Last night, as the reports start coming out, the Chapel Rhone's going to be number one.
[673] What happens?
[674] but Taylor Swift releasing another new version of the tortured poets department it's just a ploy to stay at number one it really is not it's not well it's the least it's the least likable Taylor's ever like I rarely hear a new story where I'm like Taylor's unlikeable here and that no it's really surprising and it's weird that because the internet already kind of started talking about it leading in to the Charlie XXX Billy Elish one there were already jokes being made and then she did it there you would think that whoever on her PR staff, where they're normally always making the right move, would have seen that internet fodder and said, hey, maybe we don't do it this time.
[675] Maybe we let Chapel go there.
[676] Hey, maybe we even praise Chapel Roan and how great she is when she becomes number one.
[677] And instead, it seems a little overly competitive and not wanting to let go of the road.
[678] You can be second.
[679] You can be third.
[680] Hell, you can be fifth.
[681] Taylor usually was pretty good about like rising tide lifts all boats.
[682] I do think there's a little bit right now.
[683] Gomez and stuff like that, like contemporary orders.
[684] I think there's a generational divide a little bit right now, because you just mentioned espresso, right?
[685] Espresso was a gigantic song.
[686] She got big because Sabrina got big because she was open for Taylor Swift.
[687] And Chapel Rhone has risen over the last six months or so and that she opened for Olivia Rodriguez.
[688] I like Olivia Rodriguez.
[689] And Taylor Swift have had their own sort of issues where Olivia Rodriguez was such a huge Taylor Swift fan.
[690] But then Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff ended up getting writing credits on a few of the songs on her first album.
[691] they sounded too much like Taylor Swift's songs.
[692] And so they sort of haven't been as publicly supportive of each other.
[693] It's a really interesting dynamic as you see, you know, Katie Perry flop with her music and Taylor Swift still really being the only one consistently releasing music of the women at that age who were pop stars at that time.
[694] Now with this next generation in Olivia Rodriguez, Chapel Rhone, Sabrina Carpenter, Sabrina Carpenter working with Jack Antonoff on her album.
[695] Like, there's some interesting competitiveness going on.
[696] it's going to be interesting i don't know i that one really really surprised me working with jack antonoff he's good man i do love me espresso i do in fact i'm gonna go get another one right now because i only have one this morning and i could use another one hey well you're out there why don't you open up the game time map maybe you want to see chaparone you want to see uh some of these acts out there touring in the summer have you seen what adele's been doing she's like just built an entire structure out there if she ever brings that to the states guess where i'm going to go i'm going to go to the game time app download the game time app today create an account if If you haven't done so, use the code, Dan, and you get $20 off your first purchase.
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