Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: So I went to a parents' weekend at my son's
Speaker 2: college this past weekend. He's going to school at Alabama.
Speaker 2: So took the whole family to Tuscaloosa to go visit
Speaker 2: my younger kids, to go visit their big brother, and
Speaker 2: for wife and I to go visit our oldest son.
Speaker 2: And it's interesting because when you meet there's tons of
Speaker 2: parents there from all over the country and going to
Speaker 2: see their kids. And so when you're having small talk
Speaker 2: with people and they find out you're from Dallas, what do.
Speaker 1: You think they want to talk about? JFK. Luca.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Luca, that's it.
Speaker 1: It's Luca. It's so much Luca. It's like, hey, what
Speaker 1: what happened on that Luca thing? Why?
Speaker 4: Why?
Speaker 1: No? Seriously, I'm just are they moving the team to Vegas?
Speaker 5: You should have just said yes. I mean I would
Speaker 5: have lied to every single.
Speaker 1: One of them. I don't know what to say.
Speaker 5: Say they're moving the team to Vegas. Say yes, they're
Speaker 5: moving the team to Vegas? Did you not hear?
Speaker 1: Nothing makes sense to anyone.
Speaker 2: And then you tell them and then they're like, hey,
Speaker 2: but seriously, so he's they traded He's twenty five?
Speaker 1: When they trained like, yeah, yeah, I know, I know, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know what to.
Speaker 5: They're moving the team to Vegas. I just told you
Speaker 5: that they're moving the team to Vegas and they're.
Speaker 2: Trying to win, now, right, I'm like, yeah, well they
Speaker 2: want to win in Vegas.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 1: It was. It was painful, man, it was so painful.
Speaker 1: Why don't you just tell him you don't follow basketball? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: But still every single person Dallas, huh, I should need
Speaker 2: to say I wasn't from Dallas.
Speaker 5: Now say it from Dallas and just say, man, I
Speaker 5: live in this area called Salina and we and honestly,
Speaker 5: we don't have a basketball team there.
Speaker 2: Any person that found out I was from DFW was
Speaker 2: gonna want to talk about Luca. It's just it's amazing, man,
Speaker 2: it is. It's it's hard to escape. You know what
Speaker 2: you can do?
Speaker 1: Who do you think the Cowboys gonna take? Yeah, cout
Speaker 1: switch over the cowboys. Cowboys. It's brutal, it's brutal. But
Speaker 1: there was something that happened.
Speaker 2: So I was We're at this big bar and we
Speaker 2: met some people who were neighbors of the great John
Speaker 2: Daniels and so their whole family is talking to us
Speaker 2: about Dallas sports. And so we're talking Dallas sports and
Speaker 2: their daughter is there with them, and she's seventeen, and
Speaker 2: she comes over. She goes, oh, she's talking to this
Speaker 2: big group of people with us. She goes, okay, so
Speaker 2: you guys.
Speaker 1: You know JD. We're like, yeah, JD's great.
Speaker 2: She goes, oh my god, yeah, like the best right,
Speaker 2: like back to back world series.
Speaker 1: And so I was like, oh my gosh. She's seventeen.
Speaker 2: She knows a little bit about sports, and she knew
Speaker 2: JD's daughter, and so she goes, you guys have a
Speaker 2: brewery too, is that right? So she's asking because her
Speaker 2: dad knows a lot about it, okay, And so I
Speaker 2: was like, yeah, we do.
Speaker 1: We do.
Speaker 2: And she goes, so, what's the why'd you guys decide
Speaker 2: to do that? And so I start telling her and
Speaker 2: you know, there's a big group of people and she's seventeen,
Speaker 2: she's seventeen. Wow, And she's asking me great questions and
Speaker 2: so and her big brother is, you know, one of
Speaker 2: my son's good friends and so. And then I also
Speaker 2: happened to know the dad, one of the few dads
Speaker 2: that actually knew prior to going there. Gotcha and uh.
Speaker 2: And they were neighbors of JD, so they.
Speaker 1: Knew JD's family and all this stuff, and.
Speaker 2: So they were actually his dad was actually at the
Speaker 2: ribbon cutting ceremony and well for our business, and so
Speaker 2: she asked me these questions and I was like yeah,
Speaker 2: and so we decided we wanted to start this business.
Speaker 2: And uh, we have this beer named after Dirk and
Speaker 2: she goes who.
Speaker 1: And I was like, I was like, hold on fraud alert.
Speaker 2: No not so you know about the back to back
Speaker 2: World Series trips that happened around Dirk taking the team
Speaker 2: to a title.
Speaker 1: So she was given a script.
Speaker 2: She knew of JD because she was friends with JD's daughter, right,
Speaker 2: but she's not a sports fan.
Speaker 1: Ah, and so she did not know who Dirk was.
Speaker 2: And I was like, oh, I was like, oh, you're serious.
Speaker 1: You know Dirk Novitski? Nothing, No, I'm I don't know.
Speaker 1: Did she know who Jerry Jones? Like, like, dude, I
Speaker 1: couldn't believe it.
Speaker 2: I was like, it's the first person that I've ever
Speaker 2: met that did not know who Dirk was. That was
Speaker 2: from here garbage, And now now I want I want
Speaker 2: to have this discussion.
Speaker 1: Keep in mind. She was born in two thousand and seven.
Speaker 3: She's three when they won the title. Four, So how
Speaker 3: did you know?
Speaker 1: Does she know who Luke at? My kids know?
Speaker 5: Well, it's a little different, is it. We have a
Speaker 5: Dirk statue in our front yard? Did she know who
Speaker 5: Luca was?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: I think so? I think so. I just I was dumbfounded.
Speaker 2: And her brother was like, dude, she doesn't know anything
Speaker 2: about supports. I was like, but she knows JD. Shecuse
Speaker 2: and but he was like, man, she's like your neighborhood, dad. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: your neighbor But you know, two thousand and seven.
Speaker 1: So what what is the age where I don't know
Speaker 1: where Dirk matters to you? I guess I don't know.
Speaker 1: I I was literally in shock.
Speaker 2: I was like, this is the first person I've ever
Speaker 2: met who from Dallas who doesn't know Dirk. But I
Speaker 2: wasn't critical, Like I was like, okay, well you're you
Speaker 2: were an infant.
Speaker 5: I would say probably if you care about sports, I
Speaker 5: would say twenty three and up are the people that
Speaker 5: would have some sort of attack, Like, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, we're a little different because we're way into sports,
Speaker 2: but you know, my sports memories like tangible sports memories
Speaker 2: go back to being six years old.
Speaker 3: Six is the cutoff for me.
Speaker 5: I remember Tony dor sat in the Super Bowl. I
Speaker 5: remember crushed the orange Crush. I remember watching Harvey Martin
Speaker 5: say crush the orange crush and squeeze a can of
Speaker 5: that soda.
Speaker 1: Okay, like I have an actual memory in my memory
Speaker 1: bank of that. But I was six.
Speaker 2: Okay, But we're talking about a girl who's not into sports, right,
Speaker 2: and so what would be the equivalent for us being guys?
Speaker 1: That's something that girls.
Speaker 2: Guys can be into multiple things, girls can be I'm
Speaker 2: not trying to say that sports are for dudes. I'm
Speaker 2: not saying that. I'm just saying for her, she's not
Speaker 2: into sports. So what would be the equivalent for us
Speaker 2: of Dirk in the female world locally for.
Speaker 1: Ye, for girls that age. Yeah, Kendall Jinner, I thought
Speaker 1: a makeup or clothing have a makeup line?
Speaker 3: Yes, she does. You're talking about the Pepsi commercial.
Speaker 2: So if she was like, you know, Kendall Jinner and
Speaker 2: we were like what, I don't know, what is that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you would have looked real old.
Speaker 5: And then fred And says, she is fo.
Speaker 2: Uh have you guys ever interacted with anyone from Dallas
Speaker 2: who did not know who Dirk was.
Speaker 4: I mean, so not from Dallas, but someone who had
Speaker 4: moved here from Dallas. Dude, I will call him out,
Speaker 4: but like it's someone who works here, and then I'm
Speaker 4: sorry on who Dirk is run marketing?
Speaker 2: Okay, so somebody came here from the West Coast and
Speaker 2: somebody was used to being from the West Coast.
Speaker 4: And probably didn't care about Hoards or the Master too much, right,
Speaker 4: But I remember I gave her the dog.
Speaker 1: Look he's confused. Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, if you don't follow basketball, why
Speaker 5: would you know who Dirk is? And if you if
Speaker 5: you're not from here and you don't follow basketball, why
Speaker 5: would you know who drk is. It's not like he
Speaker 5: was on every Nike commercial.
Speaker 3: In fact, he was the opposite. Yeah, stay out of it.
Speaker 5: There's really unless unless you're a part of the community
Speaker 5: or you're a basketball fan, there's no real reason for
Speaker 5: you to know who Dirk is.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think the power of Dirk though here is even
Speaker 2: more magical than it ever was in the wake of
Speaker 2: the Luca trade. Mm hmm, because in a lot of ways,
Speaker 2: it was like one unicorn passing the baton to another.
Speaker 2: As an organization and as a fan of sports, your
Speaker 2: favorite organization is not ever promised to have one of
Speaker 2: those guys ever, And they had one past the baton
Speaker 2: to the other.
Speaker 5: It was a headhorn that it passed right, and then
Speaker 5: Dirk just became a normal horse.
Speaker 4: Can I ask this because he's in the news a
Speaker 4: little about the power of Cuban, because I certainly thought
Speaker 4: after the trade happened, it would be more of like,
Speaker 4: let's look back and maybe be grateful, and instead it's
Speaker 4: kind of turned the other way into why.
Speaker 1: Would you do it?
Speaker 4: And then he's now doing hest and he's doing panels,
Speaker 4: which is there are so many panels by the way, there.
Speaker 5: Could be that could be legitimately because of south By
Speaker 5: Southwest that that stuff came out.
Speaker 3: There are so many panels.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know, but I'm just saying that's a legitimate
Speaker 5: thing that he's on that new video that's going around.
Speaker 1: That's a lot that is he was.
Speaker 2: He was at south By Southwest, But Cuban is different
Speaker 2: because Cuban was a TV star.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, Shark Tank is different people. You know,
Speaker 5: there's there's a dividing line you know, do you remember
Speaker 5: how hated Mark Cuban was in San Antonio?
Speaker 1: Like he was hated because he was criticizing the riverwalk,
Speaker 1: right he was.
Speaker 5: I mean they were just yeah, the maps and spers
Speaker 5: hated each other and Cuban's the worst. And then he
Speaker 5: did Shark t Shark Tank, and then he couldn't walk
Speaker 5: the streets of Santoni without people wanting to take their picture.
Speaker 3: He could have worked at the Dairy Queen for a
Speaker 3: day when he was on Shark Tank.
Speaker 5: It changed everything before that. Yeah, So but you know,
Speaker 5: did y'all read the h I didn't even know. I
Speaker 5: haven't read McMahon's book, but they're dying to read it.
Speaker 5: There's ESPN posted the chapter about Jalen Brunson today, and
Speaker 5: that does not make Mark Cuban look very good, right,
Speaker 5: because it was I started to read it and then
Speaker 5: I had something else came up, but it was I
Speaker 5: can't wait to read the whole book. But it was
Speaker 5: something to do with and I remember this him saying, hey,
Speaker 5: we have.
Speaker 2: His bird rides.
Speaker 1: He's not going anywhere that type of thing.
Speaker 4: Hm.
Speaker 5: It starts that way, yeah, but it's like it doesn't
Speaker 5: It starts with them lowballing him over and over and over,
Speaker 5: and then not even offering him a deal, and then
Speaker 5: basically offering him a deal after the trade deadline because
Speaker 5: they wanted to trade him and they couldn't trade him
Speaker 5: if they signed him. So then once they can't trade him,
Speaker 5: they're like, here's the Dory and Finny Smith deal. And
Speaker 5: then Rick Brunson and Jalen they're laughing at the marks,
Speaker 5: like we're not signing that now. And then there's this
Speaker 5: thought that and the Mavericks could have given Jalen Brunson
Speaker 5: way more money. But I mean, I know this for
Speaker 5: a fact, and it's not just it's not just Guban.
Speaker 5: There were several people in that front office that didn't
Speaker 5: think Jalen Brunson was worth the money he got. And
Speaker 5: in fact, if you go back and read the national outlets,
Speaker 5: a lot of them are saying that the Knicks overpaid
Speaker 5: and they clearly did not.
Speaker 2: Right because he would, Okay, so his value skyrocketed when
Speaker 2: Luca got hurt in the playoffs and then he stepped up. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but he had been benched like earlier, right well, so
Speaker 2: he had had a really good year.
Speaker 5: Like the Mavericks made a huge mistake in not signing
Speaker 5: him to that fifty five million dollar deal in January,
Speaker 5: Like they could have signed that in January. The Bruntsons
Speaker 5: were down and they were still thinking, on do we
Speaker 5: want to do a deal? Can we put someone better
Speaker 5: with Luca? And I would honestly argue, like he The
Speaker 5: thing that's brutal is they got nothing for him, right,
Speaker 5: Like this is an MVP caliber player that you got nothing.
Speaker 5: But I would still argue, no one would understand how
Speaker 5: good Jalen Brunson really is if he didn't have his
Speaker 5: own team to run. And that's actually in the article,
Speaker 5: like his dad was like, hey, I get it, Luca
Speaker 5: gets everything, but like Son, if you have your own team,
Speaker 5: it's different. Like Rick Brunson was the one who was saying,
Speaker 5: you need your own team. Jalen still wanted to be here,
Speaker 5: and if the Mavericks came in. According to this article,
Speaker 5: if the Mavericks had offered one hundred and five million
Speaker 5: dollar deal that New York offered, Jalen would have taken
Speaker 5: it because his wife.
Speaker 1: Wanted to be here. He wanted to be here.
Speaker 5: Instead, the Mavericks never got to the bargain to the
Speaker 5: bargaining table with him and just lost him for nothing.
Speaker 1: Again.
Speaker 2: If you want to focus on anything good with the Mavericks,
Speaker 2: that goes back to Dirk. Yes, Dirk saves all butts.
Speaker 2: Like Randy Galloway said, like the only thing that can
Speaker 2: cheer me up right now from the sports depression is
Speaker 2: Dirk highlights, Dirk montages. Dirk doing anything well about Anthony Davis.
Speaker 2: Hi there done Towers doesn't help. Coming kind of hurts
Speaker 2: about that. Victor Hovelin. When I mean, if if if
Speaker 2: Anthony Davis and we'll get into this at four ten,
Speaker 2: if he comes back, I'm super conflicted about it because
Speaker 2: I want him to tank and get the best draft
Speaker 2: pick they can. But if he comes back and then
Speaker 2: they make it to the play in or whatever and
Speaker 2: immediately get destroyed or get to the first round, and
Speaker 2: you would assume they would get destroyed because they.
Speaker 1: Probably play the thunder will destroy them.
Speaker 2: So how is that good? It's only more thrashings you
Speaker 2: still do? Oh wait, no, okay, if they get Yeah,
Speaker 2: if they get to the first round there, what if
Speaker 2: they think we made it to go get swept?
Speaker 5: If they go if they get to the play in,
Speaker 5: they're still in the lottery. Yeah, but not if they
Speaker 5: get to the first round.
Speaker 4: All right, now, I think you have a one point
Speaker 4: three percent chance of getting Cooper flag, so you know
Speaker 4: it's pretty good better than your chances.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well what is your okay, what do you have
Speaker 5: a better chance of getting it?
Speaker 1: Right now?
Speaker 5: Do you have a better chance of getting Cooper flag
Speaker 5: or beating the Thunder in the first round of the playoffs?
Speaker 1: Cooper flag?
Speaker 4: Given what the Thunder have been doing in their postgame celebrations,
Speaker 4: they do. You suck at that and we own them.
Speaker 1: They can't. This whole conversation reminds me of something. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure what it is.
Speaker 2: All right, coming up next, uh in the Hollywood Shuffle,
Speaker 2: there has been a notable death.
Speaker 1: We'll discuss it next