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Hakeem Jeffries was going to join us here, and then there was a bunch of scampering.

I saw an American flag whisked in the wind as people ran in and out of a room because things are happening in the country slightly larger than the Knicks winning the Cup.

And so we will get to Hakeem Jeffries here, hopefully, in a second.

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Brunch is just an excuse to drink alcohol with your eggs. Basla looks like a skeleton wrapped in masking tape.
John Cena's working with a hair system, right?

Doesn't it fake Jose Gaki going on a levitard rant about Notre Dame not making the CFP? Hey, Notre Dame, more like Notre Lame.

Every time Tony says, I got a guy, I picture Eugenio Suarez from the Seattle Marines. Catholics versus convicts.
We're like hypocrites versus convicts.

I think the reason Mike ran wanted miami into the playoffs over notre dame is because miami won the head-to-head matchup over notre dame jonathan zaszlo looks like the guy who tried skateboarding at 13 tore his hamstring and never rode again only to be found at the local park every weekend tapping up the youngins reliving the good old days jared goff looks like the adult version of the kid in your neighborhood who always had a kool-aid mustache and would snitch on you every time to his mom.

And his mom is Jackie McMullen.

Hakeem Jeffries was sitting through that, listening to that, wondering what the hell this show is all about. They're busy doing it.
They're very busy trying to lead our country.

He's been proudly representing New York's 8th congressional district since 2013. So I believe last night is his greatest sports moment in all of New York time, correct?

Like you're look at him smiling.

Are you busy planning the parade? Well that would definitely be my greatest New York Knicks sports moment of all time. I'm a long-suffering Knicks fan.
I'm also a Yankee fan.

I'm a Jets fan, so that's a disaster. But I'm also a Yankees fan, so I did get four or five World Series in during my lifetime.

So how did, how did, but while in office, have the Yankees, the Yankees won while he's in? Oh, nine,

2013, 2009?

Yeah, while in the United States Congress, they have not won. Okay, I just wanted to get that on the record.
I wanted that.

Yes, but the Knicks last night won, and I'm curious what that experience is like for you. Were you watching?

Yeah, I was able to see it down the stretch pretty much locked into the game with about 10 minutes left. It was a great game.
It was a competitive game.

First of all, one of my reactions was, whoa, we actually have a bench that is playing now. It's a foreign experience based on what we've seen over the last four or five years.

So it was great to see, you know, Kotek and Clarkson, and, of course, Mitchell Robinson do his thing. I think he had 10 offensive rebounds in like 20 minutes.
That was a shot of Thibodeau.

That was a shot of Thibodeau, wasn't it?

Not using his body.

I'll say that Thibodeau did bring us back, right? So we're thankful for that.

And he had a great run, but

there was an open question as to why are we only playing five, six people down the stretch. Same thing happens at the end of the season.
They burn out, they get injured, and we get overwhelmed.

So, you know, it's interesting. The Mike Brown experiment, so far, so good.
Yeah, still Dan Lepatard is only 30 years old, so he thinks that Jalen Brunson is the most beloved Knick of his lifetime.

Hakeem, who is the most beloved Knicks to the Knicks fan base?

Listen, I think Bernard King always has a special place in my heart, but if I would go like top five Knicks during my lifetime, of course, I never really saw Walt Clyde Frazier play, of course, experience him as an announcer, but he brought us two championships, so he's got to be right at the top of the list.

Earl Monroe, of course, the Pearl, the original Pearl,

was great and was wonderful. I think he was part of that second championship.
Bernard King did his thing. I think Larry Bird at some point called him Superman or something like Superman.

I mean, when Larry Bird says that type of complimentary thing about a Nick, or any player, Bernard King, of course, from Brooklyn, was great.

But Jalen Brunson clearly has emerged as the type of player who's both skilled and he's got that New York grit that the fans have fought. I want him to rank them, though.

I want you to pick number one. If I pin you down and say the most beloved, you're 55 years old, the most beloved Nick of your lifetime is blank.

Bernard King. It's a good choice.

Do you want them to put up a banner for the in-season tournament? Well,

no, I don't think we should put up a banner. I don't want to go that far.

But

this was a strong step in the right direction. One name that I did omit, but I omitted him for a reason.
I think Patrick Ewing was a great Knick, clearly top five of all time.

The Riley Knicks, the Van Gundy Knicks, the run that they were on was amazing. I was a St.
John's fan and then had to convert to a Patrick Ewing fan when he came and was drafted by the Knicks.

I think there was like a love

There was a mixed relationship that the Knicks fans had with Patrick Ewing during those years.

I think think post-Patrick Ewing leaving, there's been a greater appreciation for just how tremendous a player he was. So I think he, of course, is at the top of the list as well.

But, you know, maybe it's because Bernard King's career was cut short that there's just a lot of affection for the time that we had seeing Bernard King be an amazing scorer, an amazing player.

And of course, he's from New York. So that's...

Well, that's the thing that you're throwing in there that would make the argument more complicated because I do believe Jalen Brunson is the most beloved Nick I've seen and it's at least in part because he won more than Bernard King like he he promises to win more Bernard King would score on everybody but you never thought they actually had a championship chance yeah I think that's about right but I think if if if Jalen Brunson can actually deliver a championship to the Knicks, which I think they have a good shot at,

they clearly, I think, are our favorites to win the East. I mean, Detroit may be too young.
It'll be an epic battle to see us play them.

But if he delivers a championship, he may be one of the most beloved players

in New York modern sports history because you know, we all know the city has a love affair with the Knicks. There's nothing better in the city than when the Knicks are good and on a run.

We'll get to the real world in a second, but I heard you have some thoughts on Notre Dame not getting in and Miami getting in instead.

Yeah, well, my thing is I understand the choice that was made because of the head-to-head dynamics, but I think the ACC messed up, y'all, because

who could really understand,

a mathematician can't understand that tiebreaker for the second seed. It was crazy.

And how Duke winds up in the ACC championship seemed to me, as a casual observer, to set in motion a chain of events that ultimately jammed Notre Dame because if you just had a simple tiebreaker right for the second entry into the ACC championship the highest ranked team then it would have been Miami and then either one of two things would have happened either Virginia would have won and I was rooting for Virginia but Virginia would have won and they would have represented the ACC and we wouldn't have had a second school necessarily make it in from, I guess it's called the group of five.

or Miami would have won

and you wouldn't have had a second school from the group of five Miami would have still made it and Notre Dame would have been able to make it so I think something needs to be done as it relates to how the ACC is making the determination with the monstrous number of teams that it has so this is going to happen again this traffic jam that occurred just let the ACC change their rules so that you have the best two teams, the highest ranked two teams, in

the championship. Well, you'll be happy to know.
They've heard the criticism and they changed it. And their solution is some teams play eight conference games, another group plays nine.

And we'll see what happens. Yeah, I don't know how that's going to work out.

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Don Lebatard. I'm just here to say one thing: the Knicks are back.
Stugats. Ty Saliburd, six points? Fraud.
Everybody was like, yo, he's better than Jalen Brunson.

He's better than the Knicks should attract him. Fraud.
This is the Don Lebatar show with his two guards.

You've also had something to do with what you're calling the Lane Kiffin Protection Act, have you not? Like

you're getting your hands dirty with sports.

Yeah, well, listen, I mean, I think sports is such an important part of life, particularly during these complicated times where we're dealing with so many heavy issues.

that to be able to have that kind of escape for everybody, root for your team, whether it's the college that you went to, the college that's in your hometown, or of course the sports teams that we all fall in love with at a very early age and then continue to track.

So even for us as members of Congress, you know, we all have our team affiliations and we lean into that.

And, you know, it's a release, I think, for all of us who are working through these very challenging dynamics that we're faced with in this country right now.

But the Lane Kipping Protection Act, I mean, that was interesting to me.

I'm thinking to myself, we got all of these issues that we're trying to deal with, including, of course, extending the Affordable Care Act tax credits so that tens of millions of Americans, and we're talking about people all across the country, rural America, urban America, suburban America, small-town America, the heartland of America.

We're talking about Republicans and Democrats and Independents. Like, this is not a partisan fight.
This is the patriotic thing for us to do.

make sure health care is not ripped away from tens of millions of Americans. We have a clock ticking on the expiration of these tax credits, the end of this month.

And Mike Johnson, you know, who I've had a forward-looking relationship with, communicative relationship with, my counterpart, the Speaker of the House, who just happens to be connected to LSU, the week after this whole Lane Kiffin debacle occurs, they bring the SCORE Act to the floor.

and it's deeply flawed. The players unions all are opposed to it, led by the NFL Players Association.
It doesn't necessarily provide college athletes with

the type of compensation structure that I think many of us believe would be fair at this moment in time. It does nothing to rein in sort of

outlaw behavior by some of the college coaches that we've seen, but would constrain the ability of college athletes to really earn what they should be earning or negotiate safe, healthy working conditions as they're playing these major sports.

And so I thought it was a fundamental mistake that they even brought this bill to the floor.

And again, there was Democratic opposition and Republican opposition to it, which is why they ultimately pulled the plug.

True or false, Lane Kiffin loves that there's a Protection Act named after him.

I'm surprised I didn't get a thank you note from Lane Kiffen after I've made that statement. But you know what's interesting?

I've had, you know, from time to time, you know, legendary figures, including Coach Sabin, have come up to the Hill to kind of talk about the need for Congress to step in and at least create one set of rules, one standard, so you don't have 50 states kind of all doing different things.

I support that. I think that makes total sense.

But at the same period of time, it's got to be done in a way that is consistent with our values and doesn't allow a handful of major conferences or major schools within those conferences to run over everyone else.

And that was sort of our problem. It's clear, look, we can't have a situation where

things are left totally unregulated. And

that leads to the Pony Express situation, which was out of control. Leader Jeffries, could you give us a blow-by-blow on what your day has been like? Because it's been a roller coaster.

I see that you've secured 218 signatures to force a vote on the floor about Affordable Health Care Act tax credits.

And then I just saw that there won't be a vote and I'm once again looking at the news saying how are they allowed to do this? Where are we now? Yeah.

So we launched what we call a discharge petition a few weeks ago that allows any individual member of Congress, there are 435 of us, to sign a petition that would force a vote on a particular piece of legislation, in this instance, a three-year straightforward extension of the Affordable Care Act tax credits so we can protect the health care of tens of millions of folks all across the country we've got earlier today 218 signatures which was a big development now that does force the speaker to bring the bill to the floor however under the rules he has a total of seven legislative days to do it which means that the earliest that a vote this is our last week scheduled to be in session before the holiday recess, which means that there will be a vote, but the earliest that the vote can be under the rules would be in January unless the Speaker decides to bring it to the floor today or tomorrow, which he could do, but it appears, unfortunately, as of the moment, he will not.

Is there going to be another government shutdown? Like, what are you predicting here?

Yeah, well, listen, I think what's in front of us now is to try to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits because we know they expire by the end of December 31st.

And listen, we have a broken health care system. There's a lot more that needs to be done to address it.
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What percentage of people call you Hakeem, and what percentage call you leader? Because Chris Cody didn't really, it seemed awkward.

It felt awkward to Chris Cody to hear Mike Ryan call you leader Jeffries.

Yeah, it is an interesting title, but most people, listen, when I'm back at home, people call me Hakeem, and you know,

for me, I've always interpreted it as a sign that that I've been as effective as I can be in establishing a close relationship with the people that I'm privileged to serve.

And it's something that we'll continue to lean into. In the House, we kind of view the institution based on what the framers set forth.
as the institution closest to the American people.

It's the reason why we have these two-year terms.

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And there are a variety of ways to do it, but the familiarity in terms of how constituents I'm privileged to serve call me by my first name is always something that I've been that I've embraced.

Thank you, Leader Jeffries. We appreciate the time, sir.
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You got to know I'm a big Colombo guy. Salute to that boy.
Okay, I don't think that's proof. I don't think that's proof.

I think that could be a lie. I think that's a lie.
I don't think that's evident.

I don't think that is evidence. Salute to that boy.

It suggests suggests camouflage, it suggests that Juju has no idea what we're talking about. Um, and now it's just googling it.
Stugats, I'm not googling it. My grandmama stayed in the country.

I watched the Braves, I watched Columbo, I watched Matt Locke, I watched Andy Griffin. Yeah, salute to you, sir.
If you go to the pillar of the box, Dan,

Dan, take your ass to the pillars,

call me a liar. You talk, Juju.
Back to you, Stu. This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats.

I wanted to get to something that Zaslow told us before the show here. I don't understand this rash of strange dreams he's having.
Two days ago, he dreamt that he was co-hosting a show with Giannis.

Look at Amin getting away from the show. So now we want to do dream talk.
Amin, look at how engaged Amin gets here. Amin the dream.

He has a lot of dreams that are weird as well, but you've got another weird one. The first one was two days ago.
You woke up. You were hosting a radio show with Giannis onto Tacumpo.

You were not sure why he was so weak on football. You had to cover for him as your co-host.
He was only strong on basketball. What was your dream?

Oh, I mean, you had not heard that that was Zaslow's dream?

Yes, it was just of all the dreams I thought that Zaz would have involving Giannis, him doing a show with Giannis where he was here and Giannis was in Milwaukee and they were just doing ESPN radio was not what I had on the list.

What was your dream last night? So

I have very, you know, vivid dreams. I remember them.
And sometimes, you know, you'll have a, like, do you ever have a dream, I mean, where

you wake up finally in the morning and you're in a bad mood because of the dream. Yes.
Yeah. So that happened to me today.
All right. I woke up in a,

like I was, I was anxious and I was sad in my heart. I was sad because my dream last night,

my wife was

I'm not gonna say she was cheating on me. What? She was openly having an affair.
All right. I think that's cheating.
No, no. Cheating on you.

No, but I say it like that because she was doing it right in front of me. You know, like I feel like cheating is like behind your back, you know? Like something you're into.
It only

well, I was a cuckold. All right.
I was. And I didn't appreciate being.

I don't. People know one thing about me.

Yeah. People

if there's one thing people know about me

that's right if there's one thing people know about me they know I don't ever want to be a cuckold all right and I'll have cuckold last night so she was having an affair like in front of me now I left the room before anything started happening but she was doing nope so I wasn't into it I didn't respect fisticuffs I didn't like it all right and so I it was very upsetting to me wait I'll be back wait

I'll kindly leave you I'll give you your privacy like I don't have to take this yes yeah but I was sad It was making me very, very upset. All right.
So I ended up waking up very upset, you know?

And I... Are you mad at her? Well, no, not mad.
I was just, I was sad. How you do this to me? And so I told her this morning when I woke up.
I don't ever tell her, you know, my dreams, because why?

Who the hell cares? But I had to tell her this morning because I'm in a sad mood. So I had to tell her about it.
And, you know, she giggled a little bit. And then she asked me,

who was she having an affair with? Like, was it an actual person? That was my question. She was intrigued.
In this part here, I was very embarrassed to tell her. Because it's just...
Wait, wait, wait.

What do you say? Guys, let's go around the room. Now, everyone nominate who do you think? Zaz is a little bit of a drink.
I was thinking Giannis Anton Cumpo. Yeah.
Tame Devitu.

I gotta be in John Cena. Tim Reynolds.

You'll never guess it. It's so not even worth going.
San Man Gundy. Kendall Gill from the Nets.

I'm like embarrassed to tell her. Like, I go, no, I can't tell you.
You won't even believe it.

It doesn't even make any sense. So now she's like really intrigued.
You know, now she's excited. She's laughing.
I'm like, it's so stupid. I mean, I can't even tell you.
I'm embarrassed to say it.

And Tom Cooper. Tom Barroso.
And she's making me tell her, you know? And finally, I'm just like, ah, F it. You know, I'll just tell her.
Billy Crystal.

An 80-year-old. You got cucked by Billy Crystal?

I'm not leaving that room. I'm staying in there.
It was stupid. I'm curious.
It was so stupid. He starts doing show tunes in the middle of it.

Honestly, you had laid out one of the few situations where I might be cool with it. Yep.
It was. I'd be like, fist me, Billy.
I mean, I was a cuckold, right? But Billy Crystal fisted me?

That is the appropriate response there, if you don't have any context for what

Mike

was doing.

Zazlo, I have a number of follow-up questions.

So who else is in the club? You're in the room. Fist me? You're in the room.
You're in... What is it? Is it your bedroom? It was a bedroom that had two different beds.
I was in one bed.

I love Susan. And they were in the other bed.
And before I left the room, like, I took the sheets. I'm like, I'm not staying in this room.
I went to another room.

So many questions. Two single beds or two master beds? I don't know.
I gotta bring out each crystal. Two master beds because that's how Billy Crystal does it.
Two master beds or two single beds.

I think they were definitely bigger than single. Like a queen, I'd say.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, but you don't recognize the room.
I don't. Are they dressed? Are they dressed? I was like, not looking.

I didn't like it, you know. They were in the bed.
So, Okay, so Billy Crystal's in the bed. Is he wearing shoes, socks? Is it like how? I wasn't looking.
I was like, I don't like this.

Is he doing his Muhammad Ali impression? Or Sammy Davis Jr. Talking about Joe DiMaggio and the Yankees? It was mostly just my wife.
She was like throwing it in front of my face. And she knows.

I don't ever want to be a cuckold. She knows? How does she know that? You've told her that? Well, I mean, she just knows.

Everyone knows that. You got to cover all your bases.
Usually implied. Everyone knows that.
If there's one thing that people know about Zaslow, it's that he doesn't want to to

be top of the LinkedIn profile. It's true.
I was at NBA Cup and people were asking, how's Zaslow? He's spotting. I was like, so is he still not a cuckold?

Apparently not. You walk out of the room disgusted.
I take the sheets. Leaving is a wild move.
I took the sheets with me. Well, he doesn't want to be a cuckold.

If he leaves, he's not a cuckold, right? If he leaves. You say, hey, stop that.
And

I felt bad.

I was upset. Hold on, Dan.
You said if he leaves, he's not a cuckold. What if he has a glass to the door and he's eavesdropping? No, no, no.
Does that make him a cuckold? I didn't do that.

Like, I wasn't deriving any kind of pleasure from it. I didn't like it.
The opposite. You're the opposite of a cuckold.
As people say. When you shared that it was Billy Crystal, how did that land?

I mean, she howled. How else would it have? With pleasure? No, with laughter and how stupid I am.
How stupid this dream is.

And then she changed her iPhone password. My dream wasn't that wild.

I'll get to your dream in a second. All right.

Just out of curiosity, because I still have questions.

Is it Billy Crystal now at 80? Yeah. She asked me that too.
Yes. No, Sadie's Lickers.
Sadie's Lickers. It was like Billy Crystal today.
I had to forget Paris, Billy Crystal. No, it was today.

Forget Paris. Billy Crystal could lift anybody's chick.

Harry Met Sally, Billy Crystal, could too.

No mama from the train.

He had a run, didn't he?

He did have a run. What was the movie he did with Gregory Hines?

I can't remember. Buddy Cop movie? Buddy Cop movie? No, that was the first one I thought.

I thought that was the first one that he did.

I'm sorry, Zach.

I didn't like it. I woke up.
I was very upset this morning. I'm sorry that all that happened to you.
Amin, you're usually

our resident, thank you, our resident leader in weird dreams. But, Chris, you keep wanting to tell us about your weird dreams.

Well, everyone's saying that they had weird dreams the night of the, before the high-light championship, last Friday, we played.

The night before, I had a dream that unda and i won a pickleball tournament

unda's one of our great players and i was just like this has to be a good thing you didn't have to explain it dan knows as a premonition i was like ah morning of the championship winning a pickleball tournament that can't be a bad thing i will i have to admit now when i went backstage before the game yeah i looked into everybody's eyes and It was a universal truth.

I just knew we were going to be Battle Corps champs. I just saw it in everybody's eyes.
Oh my God. There's no way we're losing.
I can see it. Did you jump into Unda's arms?

What was the nature of your celebration? Kind of like the championship. Yes.
I don't remember all of it. I just remember being on a pickleball court and him and I like jumping in celebration.

So, yeah. Two great body types.

What a time. I mean, do you feel left out here as Chris and Zaszlo give us some of their weird dreams? Have you had any weird dreams recently? I sure did.

Just two nights ago, I had a dream that I was part of an ownership group for an NBA team, but the main owner, the majority owner, was like an Eastern European MMA fighter, like an older guy.

And so we were sitting, I'm sitting on the right side of the bench, and his court side seats are on the left side of the bench. And the opposing team throws the ball off of one of our guys.

And so the refs say it's their ball. And the owner, he says, no, it's of them.
And then he starts demanding that the team review it. It's a good owner.
And he just keeps going and going.

And I'm like, Jesus, no, but that's not. You got to let the guy do his job.
And finally, the head coach, he throws a challenge flag or whatever and calls the timeout. He's frustrated.

And I could tell, man, I'm going to have a conversation with this guy because I got to let the owner know he can't do that.

But in the moment, I was so embarrassed that I literally slunk away and went to the bathroom. And then, this is the part where the dream gets weird.
I levitated. I levitated in the bathroom.

So once I got to the bathroom, I did not touch the bathroom floor. I flew about eight feet high.
That's nice. Then your shoes don't get dirty, like the laces don't touch the ground.
It's awesome. Yes.

So in front of people, you were a coward, but when you got to the bathroom, you had the superpower of being able to levitate. I can fly in my dreams.

I have a lot of dreams where I'm just, and it always starts the same way. It's like, what if I jumped and then I didn't land? That's the secret of flying.
Put it on the poll, please.

Can you fly in your dreams?

Because I cannot fly in my dreams.

And I believe you're having, you're also having the precursor to the dream that wakes everybody up, which is if you can't fly, then you wake up before you hit the ground. You're right.

That's never happened. I've heard that.
Yes, but that's never happened.

I've had way more falling dreams than flying dreams. Flying all the time, dude.
Me too. Always levitating above people.
That's a mean. It's always about eight feet high, too.

It's not like in the sky like a bird. It's just like

high enough where like I'm not going to hit anyone's head. I get up there.
Low enough where people could, if they ran and jumped, they could touch my feet.

Trista's shaking her head because you're thinking to yourself, that's unusual that Amin would have.

We're in agreement that levitating in your dreams is a little strange, especially in this circumstance. It seemed as well that the owner, you gave him an accent of some sort.
Absolutely.

It was Eastern European. Eastern European MMA fighter.
It feels like a front office PTSD from your time in the NBA. Absolutely.

It's funny imagining Amin in the middle of the night, wake up out of sleep and get the writing.

This is what I was dreaming. And then I levitated.
Okay, night, night.

Well, you got to write it down, dude. Otherwise, you're going to forget.
Amin, if you wake up in the middle of the night, can you then re-enter the dream when you fall back asleep?

That's, it can happen because I could do that. I've done it before.
You can't do it every time. If you can't dream, yeah, I could do that.
I try to lock in like inception. No, but bring me back in.

In my experience, when you try to do it, you don't do it. No, I could do that.
I've re-entered dreams before, but it's a rare thing. That's a power of mine.
I could do that.

How much waking up are you doing? Are you just opening your eyes or are you going to the bathroom, coming back? Yeah, just opening my eyes rolling over. Yeah, no, that for sure I do.

But like the getting up and going to the bathroom and coming back, very rarely, very rarely I have to do that. I didn't know anybody.
Can you put that that on the poll at Lebatard show?

Can you go back to your dream after you have woken? But this is good dream analysis from Trista here.

She's saying you have post-front office trauma that as soon as you get away from where the power and the responsibility is, if you could soar freely in the bathroom, you levitate.

That if unshackled from front office yellers and screamers, all of a sudden a free Amine is in the bathroom floating eight feet above the earth.

I think it's actually just that, because I levitate a lot in my dreams. I think it's like the worst cameo.
It just makes an appearance in every dream.

So the dream is about post-traumatic stress disorder kind of reaction of like having to explain to people why the people, the guy in charge, is an idiot and we just got to kind of work around it.

That absolutely is a recurring nightmare. But then it's like, also, and also featuring, I mean, flying.
It's like, hey, guys, remember me.

What's funny about this as just a career analysis of the insides of your strange mind is that you care so much and obsess so much over loving of basketball, and your nightmares are a bunch of people at Phoenix or in your actual sleep coming in and getting in the way of you truly being able to be great.

Dan, this is the funniest part. You want to talk about me caring about basketball.
I did not mention this the other day. I went to Jason Jackson's annual Christmas charity thing, Santa Jackson.

Exactly. right

and it was a lovely event and it raised a lot of money

and there was karaoke afterward yes But like the main event where all the people show up and people, I mean like luminaries from the local sports teams or whatever.

And I got into a very deep conversation several times over with several different people who work for the Heat where I became emotional talking about basketball.

Like emotional like lump in my throat emotional.

I mean, I'm not unsurprised by that because just when, and it's actually quite quaint that when you get most excited about basketball, you were starting to talk about 10 toes to the floor.

You were saying it was the shock of your life.

You were not speaking with any perspective because you had come back from Vegas and your sport feeling alive again to you when a lot of people have been criticizing it for a couple of years, including Mike Ryan, who hasn't necessarily even been watching.

And then you come in here and you get emotionally defensive protecting your sport. I think you care about it unreasonably.

What makes it unreasonable? I think it's very reasonable.

We just detailed his background, and he likes it. It's very reasonable to have a deep passion for it.
Anybody that has a passion about anything can identify with it.

To dream about it and then levitate is reasonable.

I mean, that's a different

thing. That's a cameo appearance.
It's like, you know. Recurring character.
Could there be a correlation between going to sleep hammered and levitating?

How often do you have to sleep hammered? I would have to go to sleep not hammered in order to find out.

So

it's mad. I don't have enough data points.
It's a love of alcohol, not basketball. The flying part part is.

With the Entei.

Any of you fly in your dreams? I've not, I don't.

I was run fast like the Hulk. I can run real fast and hop, and then I'm falling every time.
I'm like, oh, I was good.

I've had dreams where I'm falling all of a sudden and I'm like, I better wake up because this is not going to end well. And that sounds clumsy.
I don't have a common thread.

Every dream is a new adventure. Really? Yeah.

You don't have reruns? No repeats. Dude, when I was like eight years old, I had the same dream like every night, and it always ended with me flying.

Like like i i escaped it was a witch was trying to boil me and i was tied up in the corner and then i like wriggled free and then i would literally get out of there and fly and i'd land at school i'm like oh this is great i know how to get home from here i had that dream like a hundred times when i was like eight You levitate so much in your dreams that while you're levitating in your dream, you're totally unsurprised by it because you're like, this is what I always do.

It's who I am. Not only am I not surprised.
Not only am I not surprised.

Sometimes, Dad, I'm like, holy shit, maybe this one isn't the dream maybe it's finally happening it's been a premonition this whole time because sometimes they feel you know dreams sometimes feel very real and very visible I know I was like this morning for me

and so all of these very real very plausible things are happening to you and you're like oh my god like okay this is real and then I'm flying I'm like wait a second I can't fly like or maybe I can because this isn't a dream this is reality and then I wake up

This is delusion of grandeur at

its greatest scale that Amin in his heart of hearts, in his soul, believes that he should be capable of levitating.

Try hard enough. All you have to do is jump and then not land.

But symbolically, I believe, given that it's a dream about what he literally cares about the most, it's what he thinks he could do if he ran a franchise. He could be Oklahoma City.

He could be, yes, he could be floating above earth with the best team if it just wasn't for that damn Eastern European owner who, for some reason, threw a challenge flag from a different sport.

You must challenge. You must challenge Cole.
It's all of them.

He just kept yelling and he's huge because he's a former MMA fighter. So it's like there's a double fear.
It's not just he's rich and he could fire us. He could also whoop all our asses.

But he was also dumb, correct? Yes, of course.

But he's incompetent and you're better at your job than he is and he's holding you back. And I felt for the coach.
The coach was so frustrated and pissed off. But I'm like, just don't, I'll handle it.

Don't worry. And then I went to the bathroom.
Who is the coach that you felt the worst for in your career? In real life? Yeah.

Wow, that's a great question.

I don't know if we have enough time.

Speaking of dreams and crying and emotion about basketball, I did have that moment as well when Alicia Gray from the Atlanta Dream won a three-point contest in the skills contest. I shared it one.

There you have it. What's the verb? Shedded.
I think it's a ghetto.

Ghetto. Woman of faith.