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Cheap Gas And Even Cheaper Flops
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The sports world can feel like it’s running on two fuels: actual competition and pure chaos. We ride that line all episode, starting with the World Cup semifinals and why the biggest matchups aren’t just star power, they’re style clashes that expose every weakness. We talk tournament momentum, standout players, defensive walls, and the kind of late-game swings that make soccer fans lose their minds.
Then we go where every group chat eventually goes: flopping. We break down why diving and injury theatrics are driving people away, how replay rules and VAR create their own controversy, and what consistent officiating could look like if the sport actually wanted to clean it up. From there, the conversation jumps to real life, including the stress of gas prices tied to overseas conflict and a disturbing public incident that sparks the uncomfortable question of when it’s smart to intervene and when it’s safer to stay back.
We also hit a run of sports and culture topics: Summer McIntosh breaking a major record, the WNBA’s officiating problem, and the Caitlin Clark spotlight that the league can either embrace or fumble. We wrap with NBA rumor season, LeBron’s never-ending gravity, and a UFC check-in after Conor McGregor’s blink-and-it’s-over return. If you like a fast-moving sports podcast with World Cup talk, WNBA debate, NBA contract chatter, and UFC reactions, you’re in the right place.
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World Cup Semifinals And Standouts
SPEAKER_03All right, so let's start with World Cup.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, sounds good.
SPEAKER_03So we got four teams left.
SPEAKER_01The semis are set, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, and what's so weird is it's the it's the top four. Yeah, and the rankings, of course, are France one, Argentina two, Spain three, England four, and uh France is playing Spain, England is playing Argentina, which is gonna be great games. But uh the games to get in there are pretty good too. Oh, yeah. I wanted Norway to get in, though. I like that Harlan guy, he's just a monster. Yeah, he's a goal scorer man for Man City, real good guy.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, no, they uh there's been some good games in this tournament. I I know a few people at work too have been saying like they're really enjoying the tournament this year. Oh, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03And uh we gotta give a shout out to this guy. And maybe that cat thinks he's a monkey. Um the Spain goaltender.
SPEAKER_00Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, some cats are exceptional. Uh the uh uh exceptionalities, of course. But the Spain goaltender uh has a a set of record. He had no goals for over uh like 650 minutes. Yune Simeon, his name is there. Uh 36-year record, bro. 650 minutes. But here's the thing, like I was saying earlier, and he had six shots. So Spain defense, holy cow, look out.
SPEAKER_01You know, so that's a good Spain and Spain-England's a good game, then. Yeah. Defense versus offense. Like France, uh sorry, so Spain, France. No, no, it's the France uh France team is like uh offensive power out there. That's great.
SPEAKER_03See that Mbappe is so good it doesn't even make any sense. So good, so good.
SPEAKER_01Well, I saw uh the fellow for England that scored the two goals in the game yesterday. He's now got what five or six in the tournament?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, more than almost as many as Kane.
SPEAKER_01Kane has seven, yeah. And and I think they've like, and I think they've only so what is that? Let's say that's 13 goals that they only scored like 14 or 15. So like they've scored almost every single one.
SPEAKER_03Remember though, last week I was telling you that they've they've set records way more goals this year.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03You know, but what also astounds me is it seems to be way more good saves. Yeah. So I don't know.
SPEAKER_01Statistics, but that uh yeah, that Norwegian goalie last night made a couple of really good saves now.
Flopping Culture And VAR Replays
SPEAKER_01That uh we talked about this. That uh the the the I do think that that goal should have should not have been allowed. I think it was the right call. That big big Viking definitely two hands shot the guy, not once but twice.
SPEAKER_03Oh, that was a hell of a W wrestling move. Guy fell proper too, right? Nice he practiced that one in the hotel.
SPEAKER_01Now, I'll also say the first goal that Norway scored, you know, if Kane wasn't rolling around on the ground grabbing the back of his leg like he'd been shot in his calf muscle, like you know, he they would have been at full speed, like full, full strength. Instead, he's sitting there rolling around like he's uh anyway. I was like, get up, man, get up. See, what's so funny?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, they keep forgetting that the whistle doesn't stop when they're hurt. Yeah. So they're like, ah, and then they go, oh yeah, shit. And then it's too late. Yeah, you're down a minute. Right? Yeah, it's stupid. Like, God. And I know you want to be, you know, phony baloney, whatever, right? It's just bullshit. No, it's bullshit. That's bullshit. You're flopping.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, even my wife was saying that the other day. She's like, so bad. Mike, I've been seeing videos like she goes, it's ridiculous, all the like the flopping and all the like, you know, like grabbing their legs and rolling around on the ground. I was like, Yeah, it's bad. It's this is why like a lot of people have a hard time with soccer, because it's I showed you that video, it was like the difference between the rugby and the soccer.
SPEAKER_03Just ridiculous.
SPEAKER_01The guy got creamed and gets gets back up or whatever, and rugby like he's staggering around, but he's back up. And then you know, the the soccer one was the guy had his ear flicked and he was rolling around on the ground like he got shot in the head.
SPEAKER_03Like oh, dude, it's just unbelievable like the theatrics that goes on. Oh, it's ridiculous, man. It's hard to watch.
SPEAKER_01It is hard to watch. It's hard to you. Oh, I'll tell you, I've turned off games when it gets ridiculous. Oh, I know. You can't do this, right?
SPEAKER_03That's why I stopped watching the 90s. I'm just like, I can't do this anymore. I know it doesn't hurt.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Or if it does hurt, it hurts for 10 seconds and it stops.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Oh man, like, hey, listen, I've had that I've had a cleat in the cab. Oh, everybody's been clipped good, right? Like it hurts.
SPEAKER_03But you're not dying.
SPEAKER_01But yeah, you're not, you don't need to roll around on the ground for five minutes begging the ref to make a call.
SPEAKER_03Well, and here's my other thing now, because of the rules, like you don't have to wear shin guards. Well, if you get clipped on the shin, then fuck off. You don't want to wear shin guards. That's on you. Remember before they put these little things inside your socks.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, that's what I had, yeah, growing up. Right. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03It's unreal. Unreal. Yeah. But yeah, so anyway, so World Cup replays. This is very interesting. I was telling you this. They're not allowed in the World Cup to watch replays in slow motion.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I didn't know that. That's crazy.
SPEAKER_03That is bananas. Then how are you supposed to make a proper call?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Right? Just go back and watch it again and be like, didn't it?
SPEAKER_03Again and again and again and again and again?
SPEAKER_01Like, get the f- You got the one right, you want the one, the one ref and the two linesmen, right? Trying to make trying to and it's a lot of area that they need to cover, so I get it, but I mean, what's the what's the point?
SPEAKER_03What's the point of not watching it in slow motion if you're gonna be able to re-watch it anyway?
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_03Let's just watch it again at full speed.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_03Okay, we missed it the first time and the second time too. Yeah. Let's watch it again at full speed.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. From yeah, but you know, you're watching it at full speed from a couple of different angles.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, but the funny part is is when you when we're watching it, ESPN slows it the fuck down anyway. Like it's not even in the truck. It's like, oh look, he did. You can actually see where it hit his hand on the way out or whatever, right? Unreal. Oh, then there's a red card in the Spain game.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I saw it against the Spain. That changed the game.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Yeah. I say Swiss? Spain.
SPEAKER_01Whatever. Oh no, it was Argentina and Swiss. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because there was an red card in that game last night as well against the Swiss.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and so they were down a man and Argentina, Argentina beat them. Yeah, that's the one I meant actually. Is that one? Yeah.
SPEAKER_033-1. Yeah, I watched that. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I went to bed. It was it was uh 1-1, I think, when I went to bed.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, because they scored like the last five minutes or something. Both goals. It's crazy. But that's what happens when you get tired. Um, all right, well, let's let's uh let's wait to wait on the NBA
Iran Tensions And Gas Price Anxiety
SPEAKER_03here. So I was saying to you about the the war in Iran. It's gonna be on because Uncle Donnie said if somebody tries to assassinate me, tries or does. He does. If somebody does kill me, I will kill you. Huh?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, well, he's if somebody kills me, I author I authorize you know, the bombing, bombing into obliter uh oblivion or whatever, whatever, whatever he says, man. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03So is the straight hermoose open or what? No. I'm like, come on, man, I need cheat gas.
SPEAKER_01That's why I said when you said, oh, I played the the gas roulette, I was like, oh, but the the ceasefire ended. So that's why I gassed up on the Thursday, because I knew on the Friday it was gonna go up, right? Because the ceasefire ended. So of course the ceasefire ends, straight's gonna be closed again.
SPEAKER_03Listen, if if the little hardy at the gas station where I go to doesn't know. Because I said to her, I go, I went out on Friday, and I go, I said I played gas gambling, I lost. She goes, Yeah, me too. I go, Oh, you don't even know. She goes, No, I have no idea until I get here. I'm like, oh, okay. She goes, Don't you think I would gas up ahead of time? I go, gotcha. So yeah, I I didn't know what you knew. Did you ever phone? Uncle Donnie called you. Oh, he just didn't like.
SPEAKER_01No, they they like they they said the ceasefire's over. They have they started bombing each other again. So I was like, well, of course the prices can go up. Idiots, right?
SPEAKER_03Ugh, unbelievable.
SPEAKER_01Normally what they do is they kind of they'll they'll they have their little mini, you know, back and forth, they fight a little bit, but then as they get close to the weekend, they uh they they uh or no, sorry, it's the other way around. They they they're they're good through the week while the markets are open and all that stuff's going. Then the weekend they'll fire some missiles back and forth at each other, they'll trade some barbs. Then on Sunday, before the markets will open back up again, they'll say, Oh, it ceasefire's talks are going great. You know what I mean? And so it's uh it's ridiculous.
SPEAKER_03It doesn't make any sense. But uh see what happens there again. Just we just want cheap gas.
SPEAKER_01Well, I mean, like I mean, we're not we want this thing to be done, like well that's okay.
SPEAKER_03We want that too.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. At the grand scheme of things, nobody wants war. No. But I mean, you know, if you gotta slap around a few people, fine, but just give us cheaper gas.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, right. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Get it over with.
Slap Fighting And Viral Violence
SPEAKER_00Sure.
SPEAKER_03Uh go go to the Dana White's uh slap uh whatever the hell that thing is. Now you stand in front and get smoked. Yeah. Like, that's good for brain damage, might. That's all that's that that one I just dumbest thing I've ever seen in my life.
SPEAKER_01Well, you know, that's that's it. Some people like people loving it. Uh I don't. I think it's kind of silly, but well, it's a coin flipper, bro.
SPEAKER_03Are you gonna get unconscious or not unconscious? Heads, tail, damn it. Yeah, all right, stand there, take this. Yeah, yeah. And the women too, like that's just brutal.
SPEAKER_01No, it's crazy. Yeah. And we're not talking a little like limp wrist here. We're talking like fucking arm as solid as can be. You're coming through with that. Like that, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Hitting with the palm, you're going out. Yeah. I would love to hear like a woman take one of them shots and just get up and go, you know, and hit near as hard as my husband. Yeah. Just for just for shits and giggles. Because it would be so funny, it would go viral, but you know, hey, whatever.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_03But listen, the whole thing's a sport and it's a show. Just do it because it's funny. A man could do it too. You don't hit as hard as my wife.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Dude, I don't know how these guys get up afterwards. Oh. Like, you're you're just okay.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. No, and then some of them they like they take the hit and then they give a big grin afterwards, right? Yeah, that's the other one. That's a good one. My turn, right? Yeah.
SPEAKER_03That's the one I remember. That cop goes, he goes, the big fucker coming at me. I just shot things. He goes, nice.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03He's like, uh-oh. What do you uh now? What do you do?
SPEAKER_01Speaking of taser, and you see that they uh uh the
Costco Racist Tirade And Bystanders
SPEAKER_01game at the moment. Did you see that guy that was at Costco that went on the race, the racial tirade? Did you see that? The story that was all over the news here for the last week.
SPEAKER_03Making it was making global news. My brother got caught again. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01So anyway, so this yeah, so this this guy was at Costco and he he went on like he was, you know, telling people to get out of his country, threatening to kill people like he was caught. Oh my god. Oh, he looked like he was on something. Anyway. So then the white guy? Yeah, oh yeah. Okay. So they uh cops eventually this was just this past week. Here? Yeah. Oh my god. Dartmouth Cross in Costco. Oh well that's that's surprising. So they uh so anyway, so long story short, they finally found him. Found him? He went to his house. He was obviously had brandishing when the cops showed up, they were he was brandishing a weapon, so they tased him to take him down or whatever, right? Yeah. Yeah, but he's gonna be charged with like 20-something different things, man. Yeah. It was bad too, like in the middle of Costco, just going off or whatever, right?
SPEAKER_03In the middle of Costco.
unknownYeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Telling like people to leave the country, like the foreign people?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah, just very racist and Islamophobic, I think. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Oh, he was specific.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. He was the people that he was targeting, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03They think he was on something? Maybe just read the Bible.
SPEAKER_01Well, I mean, I like it looked like he was on something with how he with the way he was acting, right? But yeah, craziness, man.
SPEAKER_03At the Darkmouth Crossing Costco. Well, warning to you, everybody. Don't walk over there with your brown scan.
SPEAKER_01So it's and that's the, you know, that's like somebody hauled up their camera, started filming it, right? Like it's I'm sure there's more than one, right? Oh, they're probably anymore than that. Yeah, holy shit. But the only person that really stepped in and didn't it was like this tiny little woman, like kind of was telling them like the to you know, like calling them out. A lot of people, and I said to clo I said to my wife, I was like, Yeah, when you're in, I said, the guy looked like he was crazy. You don't know if he's brandishing a weapon. We have no idea. That's the right. Like, so yeah, of course. Like you're you're sitting in the middle of Costco, you're watching this happening, and you are evaluating, do I step in and say something? Do I not, right? Mm-hmm. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03You never know.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Right? I don't know, man. That's rough.
SPEAKER_01You'd like to think that you would step in and do something, but you just don't know, right?
SPEAKER_03No.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03No, you don't. It reminds me of that. Uh came up on my feed the other day, but there was one of those shootings in the US, and the the lady like basically hugged in all her kids and got shot, and the kids didn't die because of her kind of thing. Oh, yeah. Jesus. Crazy, right? Yeah. Yeah. Anyway. US jeez guns. Anyway.
World Cup Tourists On US Culture
SPEAKER_03Guns don't kill people. Cars kill people.
SPEAKER_01Well, I've been watching a lot of the videos of the uh like uh people from all over the world being in the states for the World Cup.
SPEAKER_03Saying how nice it is.
SPEAKER_01Well, saying, like, yeah, like talking about the things they like, but the one of the things they were like, well, you know, you know, what what life is like in the States compared, they're like blown away by the food portion sizes. Still, still, yeah, blown away by it. They're um like the the variety of things that you can get. Because I remember when we moved to New Zealand and we went in there, it was mind-boggling how little selection they had compared to what you were used to, right?
SPEAKER_04Right, right.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. And uh yeah, and then they were looking at things like um uh the the guns and stuff like that in the stores. He's like, I'm sitting here, the gun's right there, and there's nobody around me. He's crazy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, but I'm sure like the gun must be locked in. Oh, of course. There's no bullets in a different way. There's no ammo in the guns, right? But it's just, you know, it's it's still funny. I remember the first time, this would have been a long time ago now. We were down in, I think it was South Carolina as we were making our way down to Daytona. And uh I remember going into a like into a gas station, so there was like a restaurant on one side, the gas station on the other, and in between was like a spot where there was like selling rifles and stuff like that, right? Yeah, and so uh for us that was like mind-boggling, right?
SPEAKER_03And this would have been in the 90s, so I'm I remember seeing a show, and the show was like you know, there was like live camera kind of thing, and they went into a Walmart and they showed the guns. I'm like, what? Yeah, Walmart. Where's that Walmart? Yes, not in Saxville. No, yeah, that's fucking crazy. Well, I remember also being in the US as a young fella and going to the corner store and there'd be beer. Oh yeah. The corner store. I was like, Well, that's not allowed. No, oh yeah, stupid dogs. You get them, get them, boys. Yeah, that didn't last long. No, all right.
Summer McIntosh Breaks Records
SPEAKER_03Uh listen, good old Canadian summer Macintosh. That is not a type of apple, by the way, but also both good. Uh uh 200 meter butterfly. She broke a 17-year record.
SPEAKER_01She's an impressive, impressive swimmer, man.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, she's what, she's not even nine or 20 years old.
SPEAKER_01No, and she's crazy good. You know, multiple medals at the Olympics and at the world's like she's breaking records. She owns a shitload of the records already, right? Yeah. Yeah, she's uh just one of those free channels. And so she, I think after the last Olympics, she uh switched and she's now training down in Texas, I believe, with the coach who trained Phelps.
SPEAKER_03Oh, now you're in trouble.
SPEAKER_01And then now she just broke the record that she's been trying to break for a long time.
SPEAKER_03So Wow, and not by much either, right? No.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, like well, it stood for how many years did you say?
SPEAKER_0317.
SPEAKER_0117 years, yeah.
SPEAKER_0320165 was hers. The previous record was 2018.
SPEAKER_01And yeah, now, so 17 years ago. So here's the other thing about that record. This was when, well, this was when remembers two people were wearing the the full body suits, like all these different things. Before they started banning China, so yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, they were wearing everything if you remember.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, bananas. But yeah, good on her. She's uh legit. She's just a freak. She's a phenomena.
SPEAKER_01She's a phenomena, yeah. Right.
SPEAKER_03Just what everybody, oh, Michael Phelps was so good as he practiced. No, no, no. Michael Phelps had a genetic disorder that he didn't get lactic acid buildup. Do your reading. Why do you think he never got tired? Yeah, it's he's a freak. There's a couple people in the world like that. He was one of them.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03Nuts, right? You just swim forever. Yeah. At your top speed, you never get lactic acid. Okay.
Celebrity Deaths And Sudden Loss
SPEAKER_03Um, Bonnie Tyler, Mike. 75 years old, died in Portugal after having intestinal surgery. We know intestinal surgery is not good. Brock Lesnar had that a while back, uh, years ago, also. But uh, what do it was called? Ventriculatus or something. But uh man, how many girls did you have sex with during that time? Bonnie Tyler. All those songs. Slow, slow music, a little dancing. Total eclipse of the heart was her. Yeah, of course. That was a good one. I definitely had sex by myself many times. Oh, everybody's a hero, Mike.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah. I was terrible, yeah, it was terrible. He was young. She was actually gonna go back on tour. Yeah, yeah, she was ready to go back out, so she was ready to go.
SPEAKER_01So I don't know. So, yeah, did you see? I don't think we talked about this beforehand, but um soccer player for South Africa, 25 years old, just died. Yeah, yeah, just played in the World Cup. Yeah, just played. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so I haven't I I just noticed it right before we kind of came.
SPEAKER_03Well, the first thing I wanted to know is did he make a mistake?
SPEAKER_01That's it. So I had don't bring it up. How did he die?
SPEAKER_03Like, hey, bro, you let the goal and oh he suicided himself. Uh what?
SPEAKER_01Well, that's what I don't know. Like, I have to go see it. Like, I just I just saw 25 years old, and like, you know, well, I was just playing a door.
SPEAKER_03Well, here's what I was wondering. My buddy Herschel is from South Africa that I know. Um interesting. He didn't hit me up on that one. Because I figure Herschel knows all the all the boys in blue over there and what's going on. Yeah, he'd been in some trouble. Yeah. So yeah, you know, but uh too young. Hopefully it was just I don't hope. Well, that's what I mean. We were just saying 75. Did he get murdered?
SPEAKER_01That's what I mean. We're just saying 75 was young and then you go shit because I was 25, right? Still Lindsey Graham just passed away right before this just this overnight last night.
SPEAKER_0370 71, yeah. Obviously, heart attack, I'm guessing, right? Yeah. Complications, yeah, heart attack. So that's just listen. Uh a friend of my uh family's uh passed away this week, too. She had like real bad lung cancer. Oh yeah, yeah, down to like 20 or 30 percent, something we were saying. So anyway, pretty old. Yeah, man.
WNBA Officiating And Caitlin Clark
SPEAKER_03This happens, right? Yeah, um so another thing we had here was uh WHENBA. I was telling you when I was I watched a couple of the games, and just like I can't I can't even watch it because I'm getting so angry. Like, like foul, no, it's clean. No, that's not, that's not what she threw her to the floor and then stepped on her. That's a flagrant. No, no, it's okay. She's white.
SPEAKER_01What's going on? They follow through. You ever watch like when they go up the block? Oh my god, they follow through on the block and fall to the head across the bad man.
SPEAKER_03Fully legal, kept up the ball.
SPEAKER_01And that's again, that's the thing, right? Is that it's you know, we were talking about this, it's like, oh, it's like the you know, MBA in the 80s, early 90s.
SPEAKER_03Dude, there would be fucking fist fights right now if you allowed that shit to go. That I'm first of all, okay.
SPEAKER_01The WMBA needs to do better.
SPEAKER_03First of all, let's start here. I'm gonna we're gonna clean this shit up right now. We've got three minutes to do it. Ready? This is my camera. Sure. Change the fucking ball. Why do you have that fruitcake Harlem Globetrotter fucking piece of garbage? Can we get a real ball? You better think those ladies want to play with that ball? Can we play with a real basketball player?
SPEAKER_01So you just don't like the colors.
SPEAKER_03Who the fuck came up with that idea? It makes it makes it right off the bat, it makes it like it's not real.
SPEAKER_01It looks like a money ball on the three.
SPEAKER_03Whatever you want to call it. Well, there ain't no money in that damn. Yeah, yeah. But anyway.
SPEAKER_02They're now. They're doing better.
SPEAKER_03A little better, yeah, yeah. Sell two tickets, but yeah. Still, like fix the ball. It's yeah. There's not one girl that complained. Oh, it's pretty. I like the colors. No. Real basketball. Okay. Oh, what's another okay. A female soccer.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Is the ball all of a sudden bright pink and blue with sparkles?
SPEAKER_01Well, I can say I'm not a big fan of the fucking ball they're using right now in the World Cup.
SPEAKER_03But settle down now. It's not the fucking sparkles, though, is it?
SPEAKER_01No, but it's still like a multicolored ball. Uh, whatever.
SPEAKER_03I know it's got the thing on it. But yeah, it's just saying, like, come on, man. Just do better.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03So I'm saying.
SPEAKER_01No, the referee needs to do better. They need it's and it's not just that, it's not just like what they don't call, it's that there's zero consistency. It's like one game you might get there and they won't let anything go. The next game they don't call a single thing. The next game they're only calling it on one. It's it's just really bad.
SPEAKER_03There's just I'm surprised there are not more fist fights. Because there are so I'm just I look and go, swing on them like I would. Yeah. Like, are you kidding me? They're trying to hurt people.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, well, they'll still get suspended. Like, you know, that stuff's still what's going on.
SPEAKER_03Oh, so why I got to spend three games.
SPEAKER_01The NBA in the 80s and 90s, they might have got suspended for a game if they got into a fist fight. Maybe not. You might get into a fist fight and just get called for a regular foul and be back in the second half. Yeah, exactly. Come on, foul. Yeah. Listen, go over, have a drink and a smoke, relax, and come back in a moment.
SPEAKER_03Come back in. It's fine. It's fine. Don't worry about it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's cool. Yeah. But no, the NBA is bad. They're the referee, the officiating. It's actually they're trying, you know, kids are watching that. They're making like ridiculous. So the NBA is not a well-run organization. They make bad decisions. Uh say what you will about Caitlin Clark. I don't care where you sit on the fence, on the, you know, on the line with Caitlin Clark, how you feel about her. She has done for the NBA what like the magics, the Larry Griffiths, like she's bringing eyes to the NBA. Yep. And she's awesome. She's treating her like crazy.
SPEAKER_03Garbage. Right. Exactly.
SPEAKER_01So it's like, what you need to be promoting this. You need to be pushing this. It doesn't matter how you feel about her. It doesn't matter if she's the best player in the league or not. It doesn't matter. No, she's not playing. No.
SPEAKER_03She's not.
SPEAKER_01She's not the best player. She's not even, she's not even in top. She's probably not even top ten. Agreed. Like for like the whole league, I think. For the whole league. You know what I mean? She's gonna be top 10 guard, sure. But she's not top 10 in the whole league. The player now. She's only in her, what, third year in the league? Yeah, yeah. But she's a shooter. Right. She's a shooter. She she plays a different style that the MBA, the WNBA is not used to, that's all, right? Like and but it's brought eyes in. It'll change. It's brought money in. It's brought advertising.
SPEAKER_03Money in her park with that Nike deal.
SPEAKER_01You know, it's it's brought a lot of people into the league. So like they should be promoting that, and they just don't, right?
SPEAKER_03Pretty stupid, really.
SPEAKER_01So they saw and I saw that uh you know the the narrative around it is a little bit skewed, of course, because they want to push the push their stories, but they did. The all-star voting and media and fans voted Clayton Clark like one or two in the guards. But then the players, she came in 11th in voting. That doesn't mean that they voted her as the 11th best guard. What it is is pick your top four guards. Right. And then so then it filters out, and she finished 11th in that in that voting, which is crazy, right? Because she is not like that bad.
SPEAKER_03Well, it's just clearly takes hate.
SPEAKER_01But again, that's just it. Like the players themselves can't stand her because they've been there, they've been doing this. Yeah, nobody's saying you didn't pave the way for this, but the fact is that she is now the face of your league, and you need to embrace that, right? You cannot like her, but don't be petty, right?
SPEAKER_03Can you imagine if the NBA did that?
SPEAKER_01Oh, exactly.
SPEAKER_03Can you imagine? Yeah. It wouldn't even be allowed.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. First of all. Well, like, I mean, there's guys out there that like will sit there and tell you that LeBron's overrated and they'll vote, try to vote him down. There's there's people like uh that idiot Skip Bayless. They'll sit there and say LeBron's not even top ten all time or whatever, whatever the fuck the bullshit is. Yeah, I don't know what he's been drinking. But um, but you know, but like for the most part, majority of them would still be like, no, that guy is still like he's the face of the league. Yeah. We talked about this last week. That when he goes to your team, it's not only what he's gonna do for your organization as a player, but it's like for your organization as a whole, what is gonna happen. Yeah, ticket sales are gonna go up, um uh, you know, uh merchandise sales go up, like you know what I mean? Like everything goes up. You start making more money just because this guy's on your team. It's the Caitlin Caitlin Clark has that same effect, and they just don't want to embrace it. It's the stupidest thing in the world, man. Anyway, that's my rant.
LeBron Rumors And NBA Money Talk
SPEAKER_03You know, maybe LeBron's had enough of uh LA too, and he just wants to go back to Cleveland and just hang out and then be part of the city.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, you you you are you are uh you are uh adamant that he's going back home. I say I don't know, I have no idea.
SPEAKER_03Okay, here's what I heard there's a certain academy there that takes young ladies of a certain age, I'd say between 10 and 17. Okay, so happens young lady, last name James, signed up to this academy to go to school in Akron, Ohio. Not saying it's LeBron's daughter, just saying do your research. Sure. All right, yeah. Remember who said it first? You would think Bobby D. Mikey D. We want a contract, we won't even read it. He can't read, and I'm just gonna look at the number and sign it like most NBA plays.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but doesn't have pictures on fucked.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah. Well, good luck with that. You're trying to do the fucking matching I'm not a robot thing. That's a fucking game. I hate that game. Uh okay, so uh we talked about all right, so I was telling you, and you didn't even see this one, they hit it because they're too busy talking about LeBron Wimby. Wimby signed his uh 25% of his 38% max contract. Is that how I say it, right? Yeah, yeah. So he saved 50. What did they say? 50 something million over four.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I think they said he was eligible to sign a 30%, whatever, whatever, however the fuck it works. You know what? I actually sat down and went down that rabbit hole of trying to understand the aprons and all this stuff. It's difficult. Yeah. Um I mean you can, it's not you can figure it out, but it's it's it's not as it's not just straightforward. But yeah, so yeah, I think they said 51 million over the the life of his contract is what he what he sacrificed. Yeah, and but you're like, whatever, five, it's only five percent difference. 51 million though, dude. Like, you know, and that's what, a four-year contract?
SPEAKER_03Well, and if you don't know, the tech uh the taxes in Texas are very low, he's gonna keep most of that money. Yeah, right? So good on him. It's not like LA where you get next to nothing. Yeah. Which is another reason why LeBron would want to leave LA. All that money and all the taxes he's paying is a b b billionaire.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Holy. By the way, we were just watching what uh what's Rich Paul's uh stupid podcast called? Game Over, I think it's called the case. Game Over. We're not giving it a shout-out, but Rich Paul, have us on whenever you like. Here's the thing listening to him, not even watching, like looking at him, listening to him, all I could picture was Malcolm X or Don King talking. The whole time, like, come on, man, listen to you. And my brother, you know, well, listen. And then Max Kelly, hey, is the reason the Warriors in the top corner to throw us off? Or is that you know, you take it or whatever you like. Like, you son of a bitch.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Well, that's what I think, you know, they were saying. Ah, the whole board's their jam. There's 10 teams that we're considering.
SPEAKER_03You know what? If you flip stepboard over, Mike, you know what says, fuck you.
SPEAKER_01There's not 10 teams that you're considering. No. Explain to me. So this is the conversation we had. It's not about the money, it's about happiness.
SPEAKER_03It's not about the money. So because LA had the money, they told him that.
SPEAKER_01That's right. But when they when they say when they say not about the money, it means yeah, he he's he's gonna be like, okay, we're not, we know we're not getting a max.
SPEAKER_03So he's gonna take four million.
SPEAKER_01Is he uh is it gonna be, yeah, right? Is he? I don't know, man. I would assume he's gonna try to get like a 15 million million. Like, because if it isn't 15 million like the I can't remember what it is. Anyway, it's the max? The mid-level exception, is that what is what I was thinking? Oh, whatever. Yeah, whatever that is. But he could play for free, it wouldn't even bother him. Yeah. Honestly. But yeah, so well, he doesn't need the money, that's not the point, right? It's uh like uh if it wasn't about the money, and if it was just about being happy, what is it about LA that he's not happy with then? Like his family's there, his family all like LA. He's he's outside of basketball, he's had he's got his fingers and so many different things out there. Do you know what I mean? Like, yeah, yeah. So why isn't LA a happy place, right? Right. So there's more to it than just he wants to be happy, or it's not about the money. Um, Cleveland, sure. That's your storybook. Go back and retire with Cleveland. You're not winning in Cleveland, I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_03Um if you want to win, winning anywhere. You should have stayed in LA. You want to win.
SPEAKER_01No, I know. I still don't think the Lakers have a chance. Um I think if you know, if he if you if it's about winning, well fuck, go to the Spurs. Yeah, that's not happening, right? Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Uh I mean, it's Warriors isn't about winning either. It's not gonna win with the Warriors. No.
SPEAKER_01Well, that's what you said. So that's where it's like, oh, it's not about the money, it's about having. There's the Hamming Garcia.
SPEAKER_04Yep.
SPEAKER_01Um season two. So playing with Staff, like that, that I told you, that all it's funny. Like he said, if there was one guy in the NBA you'd like to play with before your career was over, who would it be? Staff. Okay, well, the Warriors, all of a sudden. You know, Pat Riley comes out and says, Oh, if LeBron wanted to come back here, like sure, like we'd open the door for him. Oh, hey, he's going to he's going to Miami. Bob Myers goes on the Rich Paul podcast and says, if I was to see if LeBron was here in front of me right now, here's what I would say to him. So he's giving a sales pitch right in front of like LeBron's agent. If you want to win, the best place to win is Philly. Now all of a sudden, Philly, they keep talking about Philly all week this week.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01So Cleveland's always going to be there because it's the fairy tale. Go back, end your career with you know the team you started with, where you're from, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Right? So it's just uh who knows, right? But like we said again, like I think we said this last week as well. Everything that's happened in the NBA, and he is still all they're talking about.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Don't knock anything over up there, bud.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, whatever, Pop. Yeah. Well, I mean, he's gonna make a decision soon, right? He's too busy playing golf and signed his kid up to school. So that's it. Yeah. Right. So it is what it is. Like I said, he kept his house. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01So I mean, maybe the plan is to always move back there, like retire back there. I don't know.
SPEAKER_03Where's where's where's grandma? Where's mom?
SPEAKER_01Well, I'm assuming she has a nice big house somewhere in LA. I don't know. No, I would have I would have thought. I'm guessing then Akron. Yeah, that's what I would have thought. But who knows?
SPEAKER_03Mom's there, right? You know.
SPEAKER_01Just saying. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Just saying. No, I listen.
SPEAKER_01If he goes to Cleveland, I won't be surprised. Yeah, it won't hurt me.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_03But he's gonna have to talk to Harden. Yeah, that's right. Come on, man. Do something with that guy. I know. Last chance romance. Um, listen, I'm on to some of
Summer League Notes And McGregor’s Return
SPEAKER_03the summer league. Rookies are looking pretty good.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_03That uh Diobonta guy, man, he's good, man.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03That guy's good.
SPEAKER_01Summer League.
SPEAKER_03It is, but still. Still. Lakers are looking good now. Kevin. Never seen so many white fellas, but uh yeah, so we'll see. We'll see. Um, so last night was uh the big return of Connor the Dork McGregor. Yeah. The UFC. Everybody, oh, they're waiting. It's been five years. Well working. The man's been fighting. Here I go, and he never showed, like I told you, I said that something was sketchy. He never showed any videos.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, for the last little bit, I think.
SPEAKER_03For the longest time of what was going on. So that knee was hurt, it was clear, right? It blew out too fast. He knew he just wants some money.
SPEAKER_01Oh, it was crazy how like he tried that flying kick, and soon like you as soon as he landed, you saw his knee buckle and was like, that looked like there was something wrong to start with the way that knee the way he landed. It was like he couldn't put the weight on it, right?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, and who the hell does that anyway, right?
SPEAKER_01Like, what were you doing?
SPEAKER_03Like, whatever. Yeah, whatever.
SPEAKER_01So, yeah. Uh, and uh the big joke 30 some million for 90 for what 69 seconds?
SPEAKER_0369 seconds, yeah. Yay. Dana White's probably so mad. Uh oh, 100%. Drake put a million bucks on Connor DeGregor to win. I was like, why are you guys betting on Connor McGregor? Yeah. 90s, I think it was 90 something percent of the money went on Connor McGregor to win.
SPEAKER_01But so here's the thing, though. His like his paydays are done now, though. Like he's never like this is he's now one and four in his last five last five fights. He's lost three in a row, and the last two fights he's gotten injured in the fights. Like he's they're if they get injured.
SPEAKER_03Oh, he's lost more than three in a row, it's like five in a row. He's not one in five years.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I thought it was, I thought it said he was he lost, then he won, and then he lost three in a row. Like this is his his MMA fights, right?
SPEAKER_03Uh maybe, yeah, who knows? It's it's bad.
SPEAKER_01It's not like he's excuse me, folks, for one second.
SPEAKER_03It's not top of the mark. Uh-oh, here we go. You got a raccoon in the house.
SPEAKER_01Things are gonna get started start getting knocked over on my head here.
SPEAKER_03Giant ass cat. Yeah. Um, yeah, so I mean, whatever, but there was a lot of knockouts on that cart, by the way.
SPEAKER_01There was, yeah, I saw that. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03This uh freak Gable Stevenson, his name is, he's like a top wrestler uh flatlining everybody.
SPEAKER_01Like, see the guy that actually tried his hand at football and at wrestling before going into MMA. There was one guy I was reading about that said he tried his hand at uh at football and at like actual like wrestling first before he came into the mixed martial arts.
SPEAKER_03Oh well, this guy's a wrestler wrestling, like one of the best of all time. Okay. So probably not.
SPEAKER_00No, maybe not.
SPEAKER_03But yeah, and then all of a sudden he realizes he's got power in his hand that he's flatlined to it. Yeah, well, he weighs like 265 and runs around like a 155-pound dude.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that's crazy.
SPEAKER_03So yeah, and he's coached by John Jones, the heavyweight champion. So that's a problem. Yeah, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, a lot of a lot of uh uh wins last night. Patty Pym was another guy that won very quickly. Darts choke, choked the guy in conference.
SPEAKER_01But he was he was being interviewed during the McGregor fight. Did you see this?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, he's like, What happened to you? What do you mean? It's over already, yeah.
SPEAKER_01He goes, Well, I guess that sells it. I'm now the face of the just like that.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, just like that. Yeah. Well, now he's gonna fight Ilya Taporia, probably. Okay, yeah. Right, and then the winner of that'll probably fight Gagey again, I'm guessing, but Gagey should just retire soon.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. Well, so as well, so again, so should McGregor.
SPEAKER_03Well, he better retire now. Well, here's the joke, okay. Let's light him up. So, before they interviewed him, and they're like, So, you know, what did you do different this time? He goes, Oh, well, I abstained from touch from me wife. Yeah, it's like, what about all the other girls that were like charging for sexual robots? I know. You forgot to add the part my wife. Yeah, so he's like, Yeah, I didn't have any physical touch. Not by choice. She's probably like, Motherfucker, you go sleep in that room until this shit blows over. Yeah, because he was guilty. He went they fucking got him on that, right?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03It's not like maybe guilty in the court of law. So, yeah, so I'm sure she's real happy. But yeah, I love love when he said that. Yeah, I was abstaining. Not by choice. He went on um Jimmy Fallon.
SPEAKER_01Fallon, yeah. And they were like giving Fallon shit. Like, what are you doing having this guy on your show? Yeah, fucking rapist.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, basically. Yeah, yeah, whatever. Um fuck off, Connor. Shout out, yeah. Dirty sci-fi Buddha
Listener Shoutouts And Pop Culture Riffs
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SPEAKER_01What is Dirty Sci-Fi Buddha?
SPEAKER_03I'm just the person that comes in the feed and says, Hey, good job job, fellas.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_03I was like, all right, a couple times here, so I give him a shout back. You know, well, hey, I'm assuming it's him. I don't want to misgender anybody. Buddha. I'm just saying Buddha's a him, right? It's a god, deity. I don't know, bro.
SPEAKER_01Sure. Dirty sci-fi Buddha. All right.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, dirty sci-fi Buddha. Um, so this week, US.
SPEAKER_01Keep it up.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, thanks, bro. Uh we didn't hear dirty clothesline guy, but anyway, uh, USA, Canada, Brazil, Latvia, and UK in that order.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_03And uh everybody likes our uh Brazil again, World Cup stuff. Yeah, like did we slander Brazil?
SPEAKER_01No, it's probably just because we're talking World Cup. World Cup stuff, but uh and we talk of World Cup for about all of five minutes at most.
SPEAKER_03Well, it's just uh everybody seems to like it. Everybody's cool on the World Cup.
SPEAKER_00That's right.
SPEAKER_03They like our perspective. We tell the truth, nothing but the truth. What's that movie? You can't handle the truth. A few good lesbian. What is it?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, a few good men, I think.
SPEAKER_03Oh, right with uh Demi Moore, right? And uh who's that fella, superstar? Tom Cruise.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, Tom Cruise.
SPEAKER_03I just read that Tom Cruise won a 25 million to be uh Iron Man.
SPEAKER_01Oh, and they gave it to Downey and for 500 grand.
SPEAKER_03Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yikes started at 500 grand.
SPEAKER_03Downey started money since yeah, whatever, right? Yeah, but anyway.
SPEAKER_01Um listen, I can tell you right now, I could I can't watch anything now. You if you were to uh replace Downey now and try to bring Iron Man back if Marvel's gonna do all that kind of crazy shit.
SPEAKER_03You can't do it.
SPEAKER_01Nobody he is Iron Man. Like there's nothing. I can't I could never see anybody else playing that character.
SPEAKER_03Captain America was also Johnny Torch. Mm-hmm. Huh?
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03What? Okay. There's not enough actors, you can't make a different Yeah, no, shit. Yeah. Alright. Well, and then, you know, let's be honest. Uh Ben Affleck was Batman and Daredevil.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Right. Go for one more.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Who knows? Anyway, whatever. Oh, I'm hearing that uh that Fidget Landy movie with the Army Armin Hammer Bacon Soda fella there. It's supposed to be pretty cool. But apparently they're banning it in all like all kinds of places.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's well they're saying it's uh he's basically a murderer, right? He's a murderer, he's going around murdering, and then there's like some scenes in it, I guess, where he goes and uh murders a bunch of uh immigrants in in Germany, I think it is. Like, you know. Uh oh. Yeah, yeah. So it's is he Jewish? Uh oh fuck, I don't know.
SPEAKER_03Uh well, you know, he comes from the the arm and hammer bacon soda ledger uh money.
SPEAKER_01Oh, I have no idea. Yeah, yeah. No, I just no, I just know that the movie itself has like got a lot of controversy. Yes, the the German government has banned it.
SPEAKER_03Yes, they have. I saw that. Yeah, and then uh the uh one of the podcasts had the director on. Patrick Bet David had him on. He's ah whatever, man. He goes, this is the way the world's going. He says, either sort it out or get the fucking police involved. Yeah, do what you gotta do. I'm not gonna stop making movies. I'm like, all right, right on, pal. No, yeah. Do what you gotta do. Yeah, it's I saw some of the scenes. Pretty intense. Pretty crazy.
SPEAKER_01That uh, I mean, he I mean, God, I mean, all those like text, those voice messages and text messages came out about that, like at the time with that army hammer or whatever his name is, right?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, didn't he say he wanted to eat somebody or something?
SPEAKER_01Essentially, yeah, talking about cannibalism or something crazy. I don't know.
SPEAKER_03Well, if that's how you took it, maybe.
SPEAKER_01I don't know. I didn't read them. I didn't read them.
SPEAKER_03I just did he really say he wanted to eat ya? I don't know. I have no idea, man. Oh, I'd like to put some barbecue sauce when you're in your okay. Whatever happened to the whipped cream, yeah. I don't know, man. Some people anyway. I couldn't see he's come back good for him. Depends. I like him at Long Ranger.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I thought Long Ranger was horrible.
SPEAKER_03I liked him at Long Range. I thought it was great. It was so cheesy, he was fantastic. That's why I liked it.
SPEAKER_01The only thing I really remember him from is the social network there, the Facebook movie.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I would see two people. Very impressive. Hell of an actor. Yeah, yeah, the social network. Oh, yeah, the Winkelvoss twins. He played both of them. Yeah, that's it. Let's go kick his ass. Yeah. There's 6'4 and 220, and there's two of us. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, anyway.
Where To Listen And Closing Sponsor
SPEAKER_03All right. Well, that's it for us today. On uh, you would think now, on the way in here, Mike, I was flipping through the radio channels and I came across iHeartRadio.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Okay. We are on iHeart Podcasts.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_03But I don't think our podcast is gay enough. Because when I was listening to iHeartRadio, I'm like, I don't know any of these songs, and I'm certainly not gay, and I've never been to a rave. I didn't even I didn't know one song. Okay. Not one. And usually I would know one. I'm like, okay, our demographic is not on this iHeart, whatever. So if you're on iHeart and you're a gay man or woman, you can still watch us, but clearly we're not for you. It doesn't look like.
SPEAKER_01So I'm pretty sure like Ryan Seacrest show is on iHeartRadio. Like I'm My point exactly. Yeah. No, I'm just saying, like, yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Me too. We are Spotify certified, though. Now, uh, you can watch us on uh BuzzSpro, Spotify, like I said, Apple. And uh I was looking at the demographics that was sent to me, and it was like they're all like pretty much even. Like it's not like the phone and the computer, it's like pretty much even across the board.
SPEAKER_00So interesting. Yep.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, anyway, whatever it is. Uh so uh right here, Mike, is our sponsor, W.gg. And of course, our code for 10% off is uh Bobby hyphen Mikey D and uh for any and all orders. And I don't know. Is Uncle Donnie letting that come across the board again? Do we know?
SPEAKER_01Um unless you're hoarding it all.
SPEAKER_03I'm not hoarding it. Our American friends are getting it all, but our Canadian friends are getting it. We got a little bit of trade talks. Maybe Kearney can figure some shit out. Can somebody just give him a gun from Turkey? Anyway, good old Kearney. Yeah, so Kearney, hmm, is that what they work at the carnivals? Is that why he's name Kearney? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway. All right. So uh once again, stay busy, bitches. Later.
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