The Downbeat on ninety seven to one, the freak. I will say, we do recognize that we're being full sports every day, but jesus, the MAVs were on national television last night. The Cowboys news came down last night. It's all happening. Yep, it's all going on. We're covering the top news. Oh except for the beginning with this station, the Josh Giddy News. We'll get to it in a minute. Good news for Mikey yesterday. Good for the Giddy family. I did let you guys via video into
my home. I fist bumped. I was excited for you man. Thanks, But let's just let's just skip the introier day. Let's get right to it. Because the MAVs and the Lakers played last night on ABC, and it was a game. It was odd because it was in La to start at seven thirty, and on the schedule it was at nine thirty tip, you know, So to see that be a seven thirty tip, it was very nice for morning show fellas like us and I'm sure people at home that
like staying up till midnight to watch the MAVs. It was scheduled at nine thirty. Yeah, so they just all got there early, and I'm like, screw, let's go. Yeah, let's get this thing going. We sitting around for you here, right here, let's tip it. Yeah. ABC's been doing the whole and this might have been a Riders strike thing. Let's schedule a bunch of content for Wednesday nights. So they have, you know, a primetime NBA game during the week, and you know, great.
I was pumped to watch it. Man, I was pretty locked in. And then what is that noise? It represents a part? Okay, thank you. It started out pretty damn good. You were thinking Derek Lively was going to just bust out. Yeah, I thought he was gonna go for sixty. Yeah, he had like eight points in four minutes. I'll tell you this. You know Prize Picks, that's our one of our partners. They partner closely with The Bend and Skin Show. I played a lot
well props. Yeah, it's props, and I am in almost every game. I play over on Derek Lively points. And look, it's not it's really fun to play. I wouldn't say it's easy to win, but that's kind of what gambling's all about. But and sometimes he can hit the under but I'm like, if Luca's playing, I'm betting the Derek Lively over because he's gonna have three of those pick and roll alley you dunks oops. And they always set his over under right around eight eight and a half something like
that. And yes, when he scores the first four or six points in the game, six points in the game, that that's good time. I think eight out of the first ten when you're shooting for Derek Lively over, so it's fun. But yes, I Luca loves having that dude as they outlet that you know is just there for the flush almost not whenever you want it, but damn near man, they seem very different when he's there.
I'll get out of hand in the second half. Last night, watching that game last night, it makes you wonder, how in the world are the Lakers of five hundred team? What happened to them? Like they won their little in season tournament and then just doukie the bed they start the last night. Apparently they start slow a lot, doing the worst for the first quarter teams, and they were good last night in the first quarter. I knew that's like when we were at four of sixteen from three at halftime, I
was like, it's one of those nights. Here's nothing you shot, you lose. Lucas does not look right now, he just doesn't. He looked sluggish. He's hobbing wet sponge. Hey, yeah what and not for I think you. I can't hear sluggish without for my whole life, like a wet sponge. That airplane, Yeah, have you seen an airplane? Kevin? I would say bits and pieces, the straightforward, watched through it. Listen, that's in it. This is the noise. It's the noise of
the airplane. Well, the door plug is still off my phone, my shirt. That was the airplane handling pluggish like a wet sponge. Because I mean, obviously try to get I'll see to whenever. Was booking a couple of flights last night, and I was going to keep me away from the window. God, I want that window checking. I like the window to
window for like in generally you will choose window the time. Whoa yeah drink like you Yeah no, well tall drinks can have his leg out in the aisle, getting hitting the knee by the legs stretched out in the aisle, but just the ability to get up and exit row window. Bro Okay, so you do it. You didn't say that, Kay, you have fancy so he said exit row. Yeah, Danny, no one talked about exit row. You're as tall as I am. Yeah, I'm aisle and you're
getting run over by the drink cart. No I'm not. I'm standing up. You know. I know why you want the aisle because you need to go t tea a lot vape in the bathroom. No, that's not to make a poo poop Kevin piece four times a day. Talk to him before eleven. All right, go go you know what real quick. I was watching the game, right, I've been to Staples a few times, and I had a moment thinking the AAC is pretty damn great. Yeah, Staple sucks, dude, Like the concourse area, it's all kind of lame.
Like we sat lower bowl behind one of the baskets when I was there for the NFL Draft was or no super whatever, and it almost felt like the fold out chairs that were kind of like zip tied together. It was just not great. And I just had a moment of appreciation for the AC. And it's not like AC is new, but I just think it's a nice stadium. Staples only gets talked about because it's in LA you know, whereas like massive Square Garden legit iconic, right, at least there's a classic iconic
line to it. But Staples. I think that's part of why they lowered the lights in the lower bowl at Staples, so you can't see much. Where was the Forum. It wasn't Downtown LA was Inglewood, Okay, so maybe that's kind of the allures when it was Staples. I can't remember what it's called now, Crypto. Yeah, yeah, when it was Staples and
New was you know, in downtown proper Los Angeles. And look, you say what you want about it, but I think it's a big part of what helped revitalize what at the time downtown LA when that thing was built was a cesspool. It was homeless, central, it was it was empty buildings. And man, the development that's happened around there probably because you know, in great part due to that the Staples Center. Yeah, it's really helped downtown. But yeah, it's the exterior is nice. It's not that great.
There's all the screens in downtown. It does look very different. But anyway, I had that moment I was like, if you haven't been to a lot of NBA Arenos, it's we have a pretty good one. Yeah, even one that's old, and probably he's getting replaced, you know in five or seven years whenever that police runs out. Do you have the moment? Uh? Yeah, Well, because Danny we were just talking, well
it's like how far did you make it? And then our eyes kind of locked and he's like, I don't know, like ten minutes or so left in the fourth quarter, and there was a reason for it. And I'm like, about exactly ten minutes was it? And you actually have the audio And I think it's funny because you and I hit click Schwartz TVSA and I think it was great. Mark Jackson right or no? It was a no doc Rivers, doc Rivers Sorry, doc Rivers kind of set us up.
Yeah, And I don't know if the network is pleased about this part of an email that's like, don't do to do that. You kind of gave everybody in the Dallas market a collective reason to turn off their Schwartz television sets and it was due to this analysis. Me up Jason. Fourth quarter, We're down twenty yep, and Jason Kidd has a tough decision right now. Luca's been injured, it comes back. It's a twenty point game. And this stretch right here with a side wherever Luca comes back in or not,
Russell brings it up. He's feeling confidentis another five for seven for Dows. Hattie's got twenty nine and this is now the largest leave of the night time out Dallas. The Angelo Russell back of the starting lineup for those good fuddy Austin Reeves due knocking that out. I didn't even hear this, Russell Austin. No. Schwartz was powering down a two minute cycle squeeze in an episode of Miss masl before Night Night. Because the MAVs had the ball. They're
down twenty maths is a shot. Laker's gonna rebound. The Angelo Russell hits a three bang of time out head to commercial, don see you like he gave me four reasons, and Doc Rivers Terrible said, there going, man, that's a two point game. At halftime the halftime show, they had that old Warriors GM, real dorky looking guy. Bob Myers is his name, and he's not very good at TV yet because he was like focused on his iPad tablet. He was just reading the box score. At the halftime
show. It was very strange, but he was like, Yeah, this is gonna hold up for the Lakers. They're three of sixteen for three and the Maps are four of sixteen for three, so I think the Maps are gonna win. I was like, good inside for the guy who created the dynasty of the Warriors. What the hell right? I saw a stat that that blew my nuts off, and it did have me thinking about, you
know, it's not the way I want to do it. But if things got bad for the Lakers and Lebron wanted a soft landing, you know here with his buddies, you know, Kyrie, his friend Luca, he gets along farewell. Watching Lebron last night was fun, and it sucks when you're losing to him. I saw a stat that said he has played against thirty five percent of the NBA players in NBA history. Geez, really, and this year got eight eight head coaches He's played played against them, and that
nuts. Thirty five percent of the NBA players in NBA history he's played against them. That's what was the other one about the coaches. Eight current NBA head coaches he played against, Jason gidd being one of them. Steve Kerr would be one of them, and then I struggled to go through, you know, from there, but that is kind of great. Darvin Ham his own coach. Yeah, I'm trying to find there's got to be a crazy list of people that Lebron played against. Doc Rivers mentioned it says roughly eighteen
hundred players. Is that what you just said? I know you said thirty five percent of the league? Man, that is wild less players. I guess on the roster back in the day. Probably less roster turnover, I'm guessing. Yeah. Doc Rivers mentioned somebody either was himself or someone else that played on a team that had a coach younger than he was as a player. Do you remember that. I didn't hear that. Okay, never mind, I thought it'd spark something. I definitely don't remember. I was I
was watching with Christina and she's like, oh, old is Lebron? And I'm like, and do you know? Do you know immediately he's thirty nine? He's thirty nine, but I was thinking forty forty one, Like I don't know, and he just turned thirty nine and he is the oldest player in the NBA, Because what is it Adonnis Haslam finally hung it up as city. Yeah, is this player coach roll or whatever he had? And like the Tom Brady comparison is very odd, like how how are you that?
Can? You know? I don't know. Lebron's not the best player in the NBA, but on any given night, he he can be can crank it up. And I think that's proven by how we started this segment. I was like, why they won that mid season tournament, Like he can crank it to and he's see exactly he wanted to. It's the first one and the Lakers kind of have that. And I think Lebron's smart enough to know there's ebbs and flows this season. And you know, look we
talked about this too, taking nights off. He knows when to do. Yeah, exactly. He's very strategic. He's been in the league long enough he wanted to win that damn in season tournament because you know what it's going to be named after one day him Ron. That's amazing. Yeah, I've never thought that here, because every trophy's got and that will be the Lebron James Trophy Lebron probably as early as next year. Man, you are so right, that's great. But yes, they can crank it up they want
to, and he can half take nights off. He knows how to manage the whole damn thing. But it is odd that that dude is the oldest player in the NBA and still still on any given night, can be dominant. He's taveraging twenty seven, seven and eight, and I think it's his highest three point percentage year that he's had in a long time. I was looking at that too, because he was forty percent from three. They were mentioning that last nights he knocked down a bunch. Yeah. I mean he
is shooting like an elite three point shooter. Two. Just spread him out, go to There's gonna be a problem if they make the playoffs, yep, but they may not like playoffs. They have a lot of teams they got a hot. The questions always asked of players like uh, Tom Brady, Lebron James, They always ask you, how long do you think you
can do this? I think what it comes down to for those guys, they'll do it as long as they can still get up the interest and energy to do what it takes to get on to get on the court or the field. Because I think Lebron could probably extend his career. He could probably play till he's forty six years old. I'm not kidding. But the work that it takes for Lebron to be Lebron at thirty nine takes so much more effort in so much more time than it did when he was twenty three.
The thing about you, you know what I'm saying, Oh no, absolutely, at some point you're forty three years old and you're like, dude, I just don't want to do this anymore. Tom, I can, but I'm just not like Tom Brady, very in tune with his body and the TV twelve things. Ever, the rumor gossip is that Lebron sleeps like twelve
hours a day. Yeah, I remember that's twelve hours of sleep came out and I had some weird revelation where I was like, maybe that's what we're supposed to do as humans, sleep for half the day twelve on twelve off, like in some perfect world where you have pure darkness in your little chamber of sleep. Whatever. Maybe that and it's just not realistic for you know, the lives that we've now. We need fashion for ourselves as humans in twenty twenty four. But yeah it I mean, probably not, And I
don't know. It's just like the workday screaming forty hours a week, you know, which is rooted in industrial revolution and stuff, where tod eight hours, eight hours. Okay, maybe we're supposed to sleep when the sun goes down, right and get up when it comes up. Yeah, maybe that's like our natural rhythm of as human beings living on this planet, which everything revolves around the sun. It's all quite simple. It does make a lot of sense. And the sun is gone, you sleep the whole time,
Kevin, and you're kind of lebron at this place. You're always saying that I'm not the lebron of this place. You don't sleep twelve hours a day, No, Jesus, let me check my monitor. I'm gonna go with four and a half last night. What'd you get if I did four and a half. That's that's good news. Five hours and fifteen minutes. That was a solid night. And thank you to the match for losing by that much so I could go to bed earlier. Get to that extra forty five.
Uh yeah. Shout out to Coop in the gang calling the game and Kevin Gray because we were the home of the maps. He uh oh, no, okay, go ahead, Well, just I was just thinking of Dirk who retired at what age forty uh huh and he's forty five right now. And Dirk all of our hero but looked like a creaky wooden ship that they were trying to, yeah push down the court. He knew it. My ankle hurt, and so he retired at the age Lebron is right now.
Yeah, and Lebron is just still a damn battleship. He's incredible moving forward and what if he wants out of there? Come on, did you see Kyrie get trucked by Lebron? There was a three weird plays, two of them Grant Williams when Grant Williams got grabbed by the neck and thrown to the ground, which was odd. He gets hit every game. He's had the worst luck of Ednie Maverick I remember. And he got elbow in the face by by Lively, our own player. Yeah, flying, he just
got busted up. But the Kyrie play was on a weird you know pass where Lebron's flying in he got crunched in the side, landed full weight. There was some like hard hitting in that game too, And I'm glad Kyrie came back into it because that looked pretty bad. Lit's do the Josh Giddy thing a little bit later in the show because I want to do birthdays too much. Like in Jerry Jones's statement about Mike McCarthy, he talked about Mike
McCarthy's winning percentage. It was funding the pressure release the other day that Danny pointed out Jake Ferguson three touchdowns in that game. No, you pointed that out. Jake Verson's twenty five today, twenty five years old? Yes, and people on Twitter are always talking about his girlfriend. Really yes? Why she's from the Cavender family, the Boot people, No, not the Boot people. What what? What is she? Just? What? Is she
a TCU girl? Is that that one? Yeah? Basketball player cabin but also get a little famous by doing the side the side swap of Also, you know where were a lot of videos online? Is that that? So? Yes? What is the relevance of Cavender? You may that's your last name? Is Cavender? What? What? Okay? Okay, they're famous on Instagram, the Cavender sisters, is that right? Yeah? What do they probably TikTok do they do what naughty stuff they do, stuff like this
fanny. Yeah, they they wear stuff like that. They're in bikinis, they're dancing. They're just fit women. And her sister and her sister Hannah have a large social media following on TikTok. They share on the cow with millions of followers, and that's a reminder to go follow. At ninety seven, one of the freak on TikTok, Well you can see Kevin in a swimsuit. Yeah, promoting today's show. Its firm buns. I'm at a bikini. It's telling you with the camera in my face is a Dave Campo
calls in at eight. Then you can't get that anywhere else. People, Kevin the washboard Turner, Happy birthday. Jake Ferguson making that scoonmaker pick look more and more like a bad decision. Jason Siegel forty four. That is one likable dude. And Shrinking is a great show on Apple TV. Need to get to that. I'll get to it. I'm about to subscribe to Apple. See my password? You know, I'll give you my password. You get that for me? Yeah? Absolutely? Does your password access other
things too? Sure? Like what I anything Okay, I get it all. Okay, he can get it all bikey Okay. He's also great and of course forgetting Sarah Marshall and as Marshall on How I'm at Your Mother, which was good for the first four seasons. Uh and then uh oh. Jonathan Davis of Korn's fifty three, Oh did you ever get into corn? I bet you loved CORNU, A friend of mine had their greatest hit CD, so we throw that on the once in a while. Their cover of
word ups pretty good. Yes, word up by Cameo freaking a leash. Yeah you know I was aging out of that when they were Yeah. Yeah, it was a weird time. You never had a corn phase? No, not really. Dave Bautista's fifty five A great Dave Bautista and amazing in g O TG. A good actor Dave Bautista. Who would have thought following the footsteps of Dwayne He's been on a lot of huge movies What Oh You Got the X all day? But he's just a way better actor than the
Rock. But I mean it's like the trajectory of footstep. Anyway, go ahead, Who's the next birthday? Brady Anderson's sixty mic the very hot. Brady Anderson, center fielder for the Orioles back in the day. Lead off, dude, his forty forty or what he hit fifty one year? Yeah, he found steroids in one year. He'd made steroid hogies part of his
daily routine. He'd been steroids in a hopeless place. He went from one home run per year to fifty once it went and he tried to start jays out, try to start some pointed sideburn trend or was following one maybe during the Jason Priestley nine years he went thirteen, twelve, sixteen, fifty, eighteen eighteen. Come on emty, dude, hide it. I just cut off thirty two, Like, okay, what a year. All these little little warning track fly balls turned into barely escaping the wall and the guy hit
fifty in one year. Stupid. He's never he's never copt to it though, has he? I don't know about that. I don't know. He's sixty years old. No one really cared to ask him. I think because he's Brady Anderson, so gosh, he was kind of old when he was doing that for for a twenty eight baseball player. Yeah. Kevin Tossner sixty nine, Kevina your favorite Kevin right, Oh, you know he like he's probably rated just about where he needs Okay, name is he because he's another
dude who just does the same thing right in every movie. Well, his best movies are sports movies, right, The He Got Bull Durham and For the Love of the Game, and The Bodyguard and JFK. I guess he did a voice in that. And he's really good country is it up in Yellowstone? Just saying the Range Field the Dreams, didn't you. I'm not saying not good movies. I'm just saying what you know his Yeah, he's part of the most popular television franchise going right now with Yellowstone, as you
mentioned. But he's rated where he should be. Nobody's saying he's Daniel day lewis properly rated, fully ensconced in the Hollywood History Book. He doesn't fully ensconced in Jewel. I met him at the previous studio. Yeah, and I had to go downstairs and escort a very famous and very funny morning show host at the other station's mother upstairs because for like the first time ever, she came to the studio to meet Kevin cost And it was really sweet.
She was very old and she was really dressed nicely. I just like almost got teary eyed. It was really really cood. That's great. Yeah, well there's your birthdays for today, Kevin and next if you want to join in on this, because we want to let you screamable that two and four eight one seven seven eight seven one ninety seven one is the number and it involves Mike McCarthy. Your thoughts on him getting getting to return. Did Dak
have anything to do with this? I think that's an interesting angle next to ninety seven won the freak