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Start of the day, start of the day. It is the start of the day. I need you to cut that music off and start with the music that celebrates the who won his third MVP yesterday. Here's a stat of the day from that big man, Nikola. Godlike skills put on display, but we're feeling so plaza, setting records all the time. We've become so indifferent, This is from StatMuse. Jokić just won his third MVP. That means he now has more MVPs than this combination of players. Jerry West, Elgin Baylor, Isaiah Thomas, Dwyane Wade, Kevin Durant, and here's the big finish, Kobe Bryant.

Oh, boy. More MVPs than all of them combined.

And all in a row, and he's amazing and great, and we're still making Anthony Edwards, the next Michael Jordan, and we're still wandering around over here when you're faced with something that is impossibly unprecedented.

Needs another ring, though, right? I mean, just to validate the first one. I don't know. Three MVPs, one ring, that's four. That puts him in rarefied air, but a second ring.

I would say that the three MVPs in a row puts him in the most rarefied of airs.

Well, not in a row. It's one in between.

Three out of four. Apologies. Then Shaq in the middle- That's the one that makes me crazy. The one that Shaq lost to Steve Nash.

How could Shaq have been MVP one time? One time? Nuts. One time. I know how great Jokich is, but if I told you right now, Prime Jokich or prime Shaq, we're taking prime Shaq, right? No. No?

I mean, I know I'm like 12 years old. But hold on.

It was a different game when Shaq was playing. Hold on.

Shaq is the most dominant thing physically that we've ever seen in the history of that sport. Jokich is a different skill set for this time, right? For this time, offensively, I think I might be tempted to take Jokić because of all of the different things that he does. But that is no insult to Shaq because wherever it is that Shaq was in his careers as He wasn't three MVPs. He was largely a career underachiever before he even got to the MVPs.

I think Shaq would find it insulting.

Okay, that's fine. Shaq told Jokić to his face, told him to his face yesterday that he thought Shay Gilgish Alexander should have been the MVP, and a lot of people had a problem with that. I did not, and neither did Jokić, who didn't seem to care because he doesn't seem to care about much of anything. Really, the announcement that came in that he was MVP when they scanned through the room and you saw the pomp and circumstance of the Nuggets, he seemed totally between bored and indifferent, wherever that needle is that we were talking about earlier.

He gave a little fist pump, a little bit.

But I think Shaq played during a time. It was unfortunate for Shaq because he was so dominant, and you're right. But he was playing during a time where you had Duncan, you had Garnett, Jordan was still going. There were a lot of guys to choose from.

It's not like Duncan and Garnett were dominating the MVP awards.

He was losing them for those guys.

Duncan wants to choose, he has. All right, but Shaq played for 15 plus years. Only one of those years? Could you have said Shaq was the most valuable? That's crazy.

You can make the argument. The thing that's different and can't be ignored, okay, and you can do whatever it is you'd like with this information, because it can be argued that Shaq made Wade and Anthony Hardaway and Kobe what it is that they were because he was such a dominant presence. But winning three MVPs with Jamal Murray as your second best player is vastly different than doing it with Wade, Kobe, and what did you call Hardaway, Tony? Afreeny. Afreeny Hardaway. That's right.

I didn't have my glasses that day. I think that's what happened. But to be honest, Tom Haverstraw did a deep dive on Jokuj's teammates, and he's never had an all-star, he's never had an all-MBA player. Like, nothing.

You're going to have a hard time explaining what all of this was to your grandchildren. When people talk about Josh Hart right now, he's played more minutes than Wilt Chamberlain, and we're not of the time to understand what the hell Wilt was doing, the idea that Jokuj would win three MVPs playing that way at that size, and that nobody would know that he's any good when they were drafting players just doesn't make any sense.

It's like the body shape, though, right? You think that your center is something, and then you see big doughy Jokić, and like, Okay, he can run. He's got some moves, whatever. Then they trade Nerkich, and it's like, Oh, wow, this guy's a superstar.

No, that's the key, right? If Jokić was super fit, if he looked menacing and super strong-If he had his brother.

It's a big a jump.

We wouldn't think he was as good, right? That's what it's about.

I do think he's hurt by the absence of muscles, that his thickness is a bit soft. It's pasty. Absence of muscles. The thickness is a little bit pasty.

But the brother looks like Tommy the Cop, like Samarro was saying. His brother's huge and jacked.

Oh, no, but no, wait a minute. Look, I think one of the things, you've heard me say this before of Kawhi Leonard and James Harden, no human being listening to this understands how strong those human beings are. That's a cement mixer covered in skin moving through your lane. Its arms will get scratched, but the same way a cement mixer will get scratched when Ferrari's got to get caught under its tires. It's idiotic. What's moving through the lane without breaks is an ocean liner. All of these helicopters can swoop all around, and they don't bother him because he knows he's an ocean liner.

They're all shooting bullets, but they're ricocheting off. No, all of it.

All of it. It is fearless. It moves very slowly, methodically, and it does need Jamal Murray because it looks like it's going to lose in this round.

It's down to 0.

Bad news for the haters. I found a list of every joke from airplane ranked. Oh, hell, yeah.

Wow.

They're great. Really? All right. This is the hell of a- Right?

This is the wrong day to stop sniffing glue.

That's right.

Hold on. Are you going to do a top five list? A top 10 list?

You can't do a top five list, Dan. There's 500 jokes.

There's 176.

Do a top 10.

All right, but you've got 176. Wow. Do you want to sort them?

The rare top 176. Go for it.

Do you want a second to gather yourself or you're just ready to go?

Let's see. Number 33.

Out of order.

Ted says, I had to ask the guy next to me to pinch me to make sure I wasn't dreaming. And then the guy pinches him.

That's too high.

That's really funny.

I tried to look I have a room to find one I could read.

32.

27. When Ted recalls crashing while playing in the war, he also recalls old-timey plane crashes. We're in a montage. We're speaking of a meme now.

I could see that.

Too high.

I wasn't ready to read these.

I can give you one-off the dome. You announced it. You said you came to the microphone.

I thought you were going to give me a minute, and then I was going to be like, here's the five.

I got you. I've been trying to scroll to the top for three minutes.

You came to the microphone and said, I have this thing. Then when I asked you, show us the thing, you're like, I don't have the thing.

I finally scrolled to the bottom. It literally took me four minutes to scroll all the way down on my iPad.

I know, but you announced it, and then Dan said, Do you need a minute?

You're absolutely right, and I did.

All right, do me this favor. Go Get in the penalty box. Get the two minutes to gather yourself.

Tony, you should act out the part where the female passenger is freaking out. Oh, wait, no, we shouldn't do that one. That one, no, we shouldn't do that one.

Go to the penalty box.

Different time. Airplane fans, no.

Gather your thoughts. Organize yourself. When you come into the room with information you're telling us you have, have that information.

I finally have the top five, though.

No, not right now. We don't need it anymore.

I can give you one-off the dome without even looking it up. When he has the two pairs of glasses on, he yanks one of them off and he's got another pair of glasses on. It's great.

Airplane, it can't hold up. It can't. I think it does, dude. It's not possible. There's no comedy from the 1970s that's going to hold up. It can't hold up.

You heard the 33rd joke.

It's not going to hold up. The joke Tony said was I got two on the list, by the way.

I'm telling you that it's not possible for... Is it a 1973 movie? For the comedy of that, for the jokes of that, it's just not possible.

Dan, what are you talking about? When he asked them to take him to the airport and the taxi guy is sitting on the runway and he's like, The bill's running and everybody's honking. He's there like, I don't know, the guy's gone. He took off on a plane? It's incredible.

Are you saying Meathballs? Does it hold up?

Juju, put it on the poll, please, @Lebitard Show.

That's a good movie.

Is Meathballs a good movie? Because it's not.

Oh, it's so good.

That's Bill Murray. And does any comedy from the 1970s hold up? Does it a single comedy. Correction on that, it was 1980. Okay. Now I'm stuck.

Tell me where to watch Stripes, and you're not going to laugh your ass off.

Of course you will. Stripes is good. He doesn't know.

Stripes is so good. I don't know. This is my wheelhouse of movies. I I love all of these movies. I saw Caddy Shack recently. I'm like, whew, whew, whew.

Can't do that today. Pool in the pond, part of it good for you.

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I Hey, Mina.

Hey.

Have you ever seen the airplane?

The movie airplane? Yeah. A long time ago. Why?

I don't know. Do you think it's funny?

I watched it when I was a child and I thought it was funny, but I don't know if I would find it funny as an It's been a long time. Probably.

We were talking before you came on, Mina. It's nice to see you, as it always is, about whether comedies from the '70s can possibly hold up and whether airplane, which has more jokes per minute than any movie in the history of movies, would be something. Obviously, you have to grade on a curve for the time. Some of the stuff is going to be permissible there that would be offensive now. So it's not going to hold up that way, but just in general, Will you stop on any 70s movie and stay there for a while? Because, for example, Jaws holds up for me.

Yeah. I'll watch dramas and action movies from the 70s. I rarely watch old comedies generally, I think. That's pretty common, right? Sometimes from the '80s, maybe, but pretty rarely.

Where on your timeline would a movie, because '70s is a long time ago, airplane was 1980. But where on your timeline would you reference an ancient or fossilized comedy and wonder whether or not it would still hold up today?

It's funny because I think about this right now that I have a kid. I'm like, What movies from my childhood will I share with him? I think '90s comedies, ones that I grew up thinking were unbelievably funny, like Chris Farley movies. But how much of that is actual humor versus nostalgia, that illicit feeling of going to the movie theater alone for the first time to see, I don't know, Black Sheep or whatever? I don't know. I don't know. I think it's probably a little bit... It's funny through the lens of me being a child when I watched it for the first time. But I will say my husband had never seen the Adam Sandler movies of our youth, my youth, Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison, which is very funny because so many of those phrases and jokes from that movie have entered the lexicon. We watched it as adults for the first time, and they're very funny. I know that's not that far back, but it is. When did Happy Gilmer come out or Billy Madison?

Like mid '90s? Yeah, those are 2000s. No.

Early 2000s, I think.

Oh, '90s.

No, it was the '90s. It was mid '90s.

That's old. That's 30 years. I think- 30s, pretty young. Yeah, I think they're still funny.

I'll tell you what happens here because I was very excited to show my kids comedies from my youth, and so I tried Stripes out. What you tend to do is build up the movie because you loved it so much. I did this with my kids, and I tried it out with Stripes and 48 Hours.

That's a strategy, though. Dad talking something up.

Yeah, I talked it up too much. That's the problem. That's what I'm saying. Work for me in an airplane.

Would you call 48 Hours a day a day a day?

It was. I mean, wasn't it? Like Tootsie? Not really. Tootsie, was that a big one? I tried out Tootsie. I tried out. There were so many movies I tried out. What was Robin Williams when he was dressed as the housekeeper? Mrs. Dauphier. I tried that one out of my kids. They hated all of them. All of them. Mrs. Doufire? Yeah, hated it.

You know what movie I'll be devastated If My Child Doesn't Like, because it's probably my favorite movie of all time, Groundhog Day with Bill Murray. If he doesn't think that's funny.

That's your favorite of all time. What a quirky sense of humor to make that your favorite of all time. I'm not saying it's not I like it, too. But to make it your favorite of all time, you have to have a quirky sense of humor. It's almost obligated.

You know what's odd? Two of the other movies of the last 10, 15 years that I've liked a lot. One is Edge of Tomorrow, which is the Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt action movie that's basically Groundhog Day. Then I really liked, I think it was called Palm Springs, which was a Hulu movie. It was a TV movie. Really good. But again, that's also the Groundhog Day premise. Maybe I just like the idea of people having to relive a single day over and over.

My kids never want to watch movies that I recommend that I loved growing up, mid-nineties, because they say it's too old, they don't want to sit down and watch it. And then I remember, Oh, yeah, that be like if when I was their age, my dad wanted me to watch a movie from the early '60s. I never would have wanted to watch that movie.

I feel like movies have gotten way better. If you go back even further, let's say you had grandparent who's like, Well, watch this movie from the 1940s. Now, people who aren't cinephiles are probably listening to this in absolute horror. They're like, How dare you not love, I don't know, whatever. Nasferatu. Nasferatu. When I say better, they're certainly more Movies from the '90s and '80s are certainly more palatable to a modern audience than movies from the '40s, '30s, whatever were to people in the '50s and '60s, I think.

Can you guys give me some assistance? I always thought that Robin Williams, I thought that Ms. She's Miss Doubtfire was single. I did not know that she was married or widowed. I didn't know she was a miss. I didn't know. I didn't remember. I thought she was just single. I didn't know. It's okay. No, it's not okay. Look at the disgust on Mina's face, because I would dare to think that she's Miss Doubtfire, not Mrs Doubtfire. She's horrified as if I said something offensive.

She wants an apology from me. Miss Doubtfire. I'm surprised they haven't remated as Miss Doubtfire. Maybe the new generation is she is single, and maybe she has a robust dating like. Maybe she's on the app.

She's on Tinder. Put it on the poll, please, Juju, @Lebitardshow, Ms Doubtfire or Mrs Doubtfire. See how many other people might line up with me in making this mistake. Guys, if you think you show your daughter's The Blues, brothers, would they laugh?

No. No way. No. 48 hours was probably a stretch.

Beverly Hills cop trading places.

You should have seen that reaction when I tried Rambo out. I mean, first blood.

Just because she's a Mrs.

Doubtfire doesn't mean she's not still on the menu.

Jessica, your Mrs. Doubtfire, your limited fake Mrs. Doubtfire, was a real revelation. I really enjoyed. Yes, thank you for sharing.

It was really David Cross as Tobias Funker as Mrs.

Doubtfire. But thank you for sharing her or them with us. Mina, I want to get to some football here, but you love your music, and Steve Albini passed away, and I would just like to get some of your thoughts there if you would share them with us.

Yeah. This really hit my husband hard, who... I don't talk about this at all. He's a music producer. He's super influential on him. He was devastated to hear this. He had met him. I think he's going to be writing about him. But for me, personally, there's the big albums we all know, obviously, Nirvana, the Pixies, the Breeders. But when I saw the news, I just went down a rabbit hole of looking at his discography. It's really interesting because Albini often wasn't identified as a producer. He's just identified as a mixer, the engineer on some of these albums. I think he had personal reasons for that. But the list is so insane. It is like that Wilt Chamberlain meme of the numbers. It's crazy how many incredible albums he had a hand in, albums that were influential to me. And their albums, what I loved about looking at these lists and reading these retrospectives, their albums were I didn't realize there was any connectivity between them. And then when you realize one man was involved in the sound behind them, suddenly you see this through line and you realize why maybe, Oh, maybe I'm not just a fan of McClusky and Lo and Super Chuck and the Cloud Nothing.

Maybe I'm just a Steve Albini fan because he had a hand in all of these incredible albums. Just an unbelievable sound, unbelievable impact on rock music, post-punk, indie. All I'll say is just look at the list, and I dare anyone to not find one or two albums that they love.

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Dan Levatard.

Did someone say a conservative entity?

No. See, this is why... Stugatz. Wait, five? Yours is better than mine. In the fifth, Sagaki. Yours was bloody. How is the fifth, Sagaki better than the third and the fourth, Sagaki already? This is the Dan Levatard show with the Stugatz.

Mina, a couple of things here on the braided Rose. Did you enjoy it? And were you surprised that he opened himself up and did it?

Allowed everything except jokes at the expense of Robert Kraft and the massage partner.

I wonder what the DraftKings odds were on Dan not being the first person to ask me about the braided Roast in Netflix. Here's 45 more minutes. No, just kidding, Dan. Yeah, I was there. In the moment, I was like, Whoa, they're really going for it, especially with the divorce stuff, the Giselle stuff, in particular, going so hard on that. I thought a lot of it was really funny. Comedy is subjective, obviously, but I thought Nikki... I thought Kevin Hart was surprisingly funny. I've never been a big Kevin Hart person. I thought Nikki Glaser was hilarious. I think that seems to be the universal reaction. Some of the later comedians I wasn't familiar with, comedians who went later, I thought pretty funny. But then when I sat back and I thought about it, I don't want to say they pulled their punches, but there's a lot of stuff that I think Katie would have been more vulnerable on that they didn't go to. Instead, it was a lot of like, Hey, guys, he seems gay, especially from the teammates, which I don't think it hurts him at all to hear that. Like I saw, Nikki was talking about one of the jokes she cut was on Katie getting work done on his face.

There was one joke on that. I thought there was going to be a lot more on that, for example. There's just a few topics I was surprised that didn't come up, and it seemed like by the end, it's like, Okay, we're going to the same well. But it was really funny on the whole.

Drew Bledso told us that Tom braided getting up because I thought that was a really fascinating peak at how power protects power. Tom braided telling Jeff Ross, no matter who you think Jeff Ross is, and Jeff Ross has been in a thousand circumstances like this.

Jeff Ross was very concerned that he crossed the line. The entire rest of the roast, he was thinking, Did I cross the line with braided?

Jeff, well, he obviously did. They made up afterwards. And Drew Bledso and everyone who was involved with it said that was not a scripted moment. Tom braided was caught off mic in as about as honest a moment as you will find around the Patriots, where he is protecting only the owner and the shame of the owner on something that was a sex trafficking accusation that the owner managed to make go away with all of his money and power for Tom braided. I The part that I thought was so clear and revealing about this is where athletes have confidence and where comedians have confidence, different places. A lot of comedians are insecure. A lot of athletes get to confidence and success and power. For braided to cut through with, Hey, no more of that shit. You saw Jeff Ross, who is expert in that circumstance, bow. Like, Okay, okay, okay. I just thought that was a real interesting glimpse on how power protects power.

Yeah, I don't know how That was also in the moment we were like, whoa, was this planned? Because it was a little bit off-putting. I think at that point, they had already done some pretty... They had really gone after the divorce, for example, which I think that was obviously, braided knew that was coming. I'm sure it was discussed beforehand in some ways, but Giselle wasn't there. It made me wonder, Dan, if she was there, if he would have done the same thing. I felt like probably he was involved in getting both Bill Belichick but also Robert Kraft to come. In the moment, I thought, Oh, maybe he feels like, Well, I told Robert Kraft to come to this, and now this favor that I pulled in, you're attacking him, and I feel bad because I called in a favor to bring him in. I don't know. It's weird. The weirdest thing in professional sports is that they call owners Mister, and nobody else gets called Mister, which feels like a microcosm, pardon me, it reflects what we saw there.

You understand why both Giselle and Aaron Hernandez's family would be upset by some of the father that became jokes?

Did Hernandez's family come out and say stuff?

Yeah, upset. Very upset. Yeah.

The Giselle thing, they didn't attack her. The thrust of all the jokes was, Tom braided, you've been cucked, right? I don't want to say she doesn't have a right to be annoyed by having her name in the news and having, I guess, being a part of event that she didn't agree to be a part of. I don't know. I assume that her and Katie talked about it beforehand, but I don't feel like she was attacked by it, personally.

Give us your thoughts here. Chris Ruso came on with us, and we've been making fun today of the fact that he had some trouble with jiu-jitsu as a word. I just want to get your analysis as we play this for you. What was happening with Chris Ruso and a theory that Jessica has that I believe to be the most accurate one on what happened right here.

How did he lose his beautiful wife to a jiu-jitsu... How do you pronounce it? Jiu-jitsu? Jiu-jitsu Instructor. I mean, that's the whole theme of the night, that she's going out with a jitsu Instructor.

Did he say jizu?

That's what he said initially. He did.

Jizu to a jizu construct. I love his producer so confused. Jujitsu? Jujitsu?

Jizu. Jizu sounds like a porn that we shouldn't be talking about.

She's going out the jitsu instructor.

Play the whole thing again, because maybe you'll get a better clue here at the end on what Jessica's theory is that I believe is accurate.

How did he lose his beautiful wife to a jitsu instructor? How do you pronounce it? Jujutsu? Jujutsu Instructor. I mean, that's the whole theme of the night, that she's going out the jitsu instructor.

Jitsu at the end. What's your theory, Jessica?

My theory was that he perhaps was confused confused and thought that his producer was saying it was a Jew jitsu instructor.

A Jewish person who was partaking in jitsu.

Okay, as opposed to someone who works at a zoo.

Or a zoo or anything related to a kuzu. To a jitsu instructor. That's where I ended up at the beginning. Does he think that it's somebody beaten to death by a kuzu?

She's going out the jitsu instructor.

Because then in the end, he just says the jitsu instructor.

She's going out the jitsu instructor. He's just afraid to say because he doesn't know how the first word is spelled.

Well, there are jitsu-instructors, then there are Jew-jitsu-instructors. I would be a ju jitsu instructor.

Same here.

If I were a jitsu instructor, I'd be a Jew-jitsu-instructor.

To a jitsu-constructor. A jitsu instructor. To a jitsu instructor.

A jitsu. You'd be a ju jitsu instructor.

I'd be a Ju-Jitsu Instructor.

But you'd also be a Ju-Jitsu Jitsu.

According to him, Ju-Jitsu. Ju-jitsu?

Ju-jitsu is what happens when Stegatz interviews Ron McGill.

Let's play the music here for... Let me see here. Let me play the football music for Mina so that we can speed her up and we can get maximum football information from her. Let's start with Bryce Young. I said, and a lot of people have made fun of me for this, I'm like, they fast forwarded the timetable so much. These guys aren't going to get time if you need I'll tell you, at that position to prove itself quickly. I've seen enough to know that we're not going to allow that to mature, to become the player that it might be. I think that we can make the evaluation now that that's not going to be special. Bastard, Dan. Why am I wrong?

You're saying you're done with young. It's over.

I'm not done with young, but not all young people, just this young person.

Yeah, I think you get two years now, Something that's quietly slept on a little bit is the Stealers, how quickly that they moved on. They moved on from Kenny Picket. He was first-round draft pick, and he wasn't horrible. He wasn't good. But I do think it's a new NFL where that regime was just perfectly ready to rip the bandaid and move on and keep going, which I think is probably the right decision, honestly. But certainly something that didn't happen years past. Josh Rosen was the exception when they moved from him in Arizona to draft Kyler Murray, but that was also because they had that draft pick. Steelers didn't have top draft pick, and they still said, No, we're good. We've seen enough of Kenny Picket. I think where it gets tricky is a situation like Carolina, where the circumstances were so awful. It is hard to bifurcate Bryce Young's performance from how awful his receivers were, the shit show around him. They did everything possible to reinvest, or to, pardon me, invest in the offense, spent a ton money on the interior of the offensive line. You go out, you add a bunch of receivers.

But it feels like after this year, if it doesn't happen, it's not happening. And that, I think, is pretty unusual, or it's new, rather.

Mina, did you hear what Austin Rivers was talking about? Football players playing basketball, basketball players playing football. What's your take on that?

No, I didn't. That's the thing that people talked about in sports media. It's May. You know how it is.

It's May. It's a busy sports time. It shouldn't dominate the landscape. It's plenty busy now. We don't have to have sports radio discussion. But it's football. From 30 years ago.

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And yet here we are. Okay, I don't know if this is the hot take on it. I haven't really seen all of the reactions, so I don't know if this is the common view, but my feeling is that neither would have success in either league, right? Certainly not 30 players. Obviously, he's talking about current players switching league, I guess, having time to train and whatever. I think there's just too much skill and specialization required. The case for the basketball players who I think do have a better shot just because of the numbers, there's three times as many, of course, active players, and you do have more specialized roles. But I think when we think about a basketball player playing in the NFL, we think about a tight-end, like LeBron James, Zion, whatever, switching to tight-end and then just posting up in the end zone and being a red zone target. Okay, fine. But that doesn't happen. In fact, tight-end is a position that's so difficult to master in the league because of all that is required of it and the nuances of blocking and all of that. That, that, rookies rarely come in and make an impact.

If rookies who have been playing this their entire lives can't do it, what makes us think 38-year-old LeBron James could do it? I don't think either would succeed.

Well, me and Stugatz have cooked up a list of a team that we know will beat not only the Washington Wizards, but also the Charlotte Hornets. One through five. Are you ready?

I'm ready.

At our point guard, Tyreek Hill.

Tyreek Hill. Tyreek Hill. Hooper.

Just because he's fast?

No, he's got an incredible three-point shot. Bully down low. Yeah, he does. Scored 61 points in a courtside game once.

We did some research. Yes.

He's 5'10. He's really small. That's okay. That's okay. Yeah.

That's okay. Two guard, C. J. Stroud.

Is there a 5'10 player in the league right now? A single 5'10 player in the league?

How tall is I say?

Team is looking up for it. All right. C. J. Stroud had 40 points on Hyme Haka's junior in high school.

How about that? Yeah. How about that?

At small forward, D. K. Metcalf.

D.

K.

He's going to play celebrity basketball games. He always plays in the Ruffles, Pringles, free Dose game every year, I feel like, and does pretty well.

All right, at the four, Max Crosby.

Have you seen him play basketball? Why?

He's incredible. He's incredible. I want you, after we're done here, go Google Max Crosby basketball. He's slamming on dudes at the park. He looks amazing.

Real hoopers, no. Thank you.

And at center, Miles Garrett.

Oh, wow.

Of course. Okay, so basically, you just chose the strongest three guys for three, four, five.

We have a guy off the bench, Hoopa Nakuwa.

Does he hoop?

Cooca Hoops? Cooca Nakuwa is amazing.

He wanted to just make a Hoopa Nakuwa joke.

No, see, Dan, real Hoopers, Hoopa Nakuwa. Excellent. That's a good joke. I need to help you out. This is crazy.

Yeah, we got David Bocciari off the bench, too.

Your center's 6'4.

Miles Garrett is... Look, come on.

You're going to get some offensive rebound problems with Tyreek Hill in your 6'4 center.

Dan, please watch the screen right now. Watch Max Crock. He's playing against me. Okay.

All right. Tony, being in the NBA is hard. I know these guys are great athletes.

We're talking about beating the Hornets.

Let me ask you this question, Amina, because multiple NFL teams have reached out to Olympic gold medalist Gable Stevison after he was released by the WW. He's 23. He's 6'1, 265 pounds. He went 67 and 2 in collegiate wrestling. These are different skill sets. Yes, obviously, he's strong. That doesn't make him a football player, but football players are reaching out. So the evaluation of someone like this, is it practical to think that a professional wrestler can be someone who's good at football?

Yeah, it's practical to think that the NFL has so many players. When I say, there's 1,600, I think, is if you do 32 times 53. Yeah, there's that, but then there's twice that. There's all these guys that they just bring in to see, is this somebody that we can work with? For example, there's the International Pathways program. You always hear about the NFL like, Oh, we found this guy in Germany. He played soccer, or rugby, or whatever, hockey. Let's see if we can make something out of him. He's moldable clay. But it takes Years. Years. For all these guys, and often when they do bring in players from other sports, we hear about them coming in and working out, and then nothing happens. You never see them on the field. It's so rare that you see one of these multisport athletes actually become something in the NFL.

Zazla, do you think that a sumo wrestler would make a good NHL goal tender?

Oh, my God. He pretty good.

Isn't that the plot of Mighty Ducks? Just taking the biggest guy in Goldberg. Goldberg.

By the way, Nate Ebner would like a word.

You tell him, Tom.

Lamar Jackson playing at 205 pounds. What do we think of that?

I was surprised to hear that, and it's something that's been on my mind because we talked about it with Jaden Daniels in the pre-draft process. Is he too small? Because he's very slight, and I think probably he weighs about that. I think he came in a little bit above that, probably in water weight at the combine or his pro day or whatever. But that is skinny, and there's not that many NFL quarterbacks who are that slim who have had success in the league. That said, Lamar Jackson's superpower, he has quite a few, but the one that I think of all the time, it's not his straight-line speed. It's the fact that he has this pre-natural ability to avoid hits. How many times you watch him in the pocket and he's like, weirdly, frogging his way through traffic, and it feels like nobody can ever really square him up or get a hit on him. Jaden Daniels is not like that. That dude takes hits. So I actually think it's probably not a big deal if it's a weight that he's comfortable with.

Lamar Jackson, our backup two guard, by the way. That's exactly why you said, is he gets in the lane, Euro stepping by people, great finish off the glass. Off the bench.

Again, you guys I'm going to underestimate how good NBA players are.

I'm going to underestimate how good Lamar is.

So disrespectful. O'bj to the Dolphins. Your thoughts there. That seems useful.

That's a great take, Dan. That seems useful. I feel like you just TLDRed a week of football contact. That seems useful is really all that needs to be said. You guys know with the Dolphins, it's felt like, okay, who is the third option? If you're facing these defenses that are, I don't know, playing these two high coverages or they're racketing Tyreek Hill, and there's a safety hub out Jalen Waddle. Somebody's open, but it has felt like there hasn't been that third option who is a reliable target for them, who works that short to intermediate part of the field and gets yards after the catch. And I do think OBJ, while he's obviously not 2014 OBJ, he can do that. He can still take a slant for 20 yards if given space. He is a reliable third down target. He has good hands. He had very low drop rate in Baltimore. So I don't think it's this massive, massive impactful change or addition, rather. But I do think he is a useful player. I've remained puzzled why the Dolphins didn't do more to address the offensive line, but I'm a broken record on that year after year after year.

But I do like that signing.

Number one, the scene where the little kid tells Kareem Abdul Jafar, who's the pilot, he's like, Hey, aren't you Kareem Abdul Jafar? And then he's like, I'm Roger Murdoch. I'm Roger Murdoch. And then the kid is like, My dad says that you don't play very hard and you don't run fast enough and you're a bad player.

You only show up in the playoffs. And he said, Kid, yanks him in real close. He says, Kid, tell your old man to try carrying Lanier and Walton off the court every night.

That's so good. Lanier. They're playing, am I right, guys?

He also, by the way, is such a—this is what I do remember, he's such a good athlete. Is he one of the top five athlete actors?

That's the list. I'm going to do that list tomorrow.

That's a fun one. Shaq's up there for sure.

Mina, we have less than 30 seconds here. Do the bears have the best wide receiver core in the NFL?

No, I don't think they have the best wide receiver core. I still think that there's some one, two punches that are ahead of them. Miami, Cincinnati, since Higgins is coming back. Then, of course, the Dunees day is a rookie, but they're top five.

Faster, faster, faster.

You know what's funny? You're doing this Can I tell you? Can I let you in on something? I actually haven't told you this for weeks. You've been playing the music. I don't hear it. For whatever reason, the audio isn't going through. So you've been doing this all like, it's actually not... It hasn't been coming into my ears for weeks. And I just haven't told you. You're saying that, and I don't... Oh, now I can hear it. Yeah, okay. Damn, I shouldn't have told you.

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