Hour 2: Zas Sabotages Rachel (feat. Rachel Nichols)

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This is the "Dean Labour Party Show" with this "Dougat Spot" cast. The Michigan Coach Dusty May is going to join us tomorrow. Rachel Nichols is going to join us here in a few minutes to talk a little bit of basketball. I can't believe that I did not know

that Michael Mann, the director of heat, a very good director, makes big splashy things. I did not know that Miami Vice, the TV show, not the movie he also made, but that he was not only the executive producer

of Miami Vice, the television show, but I was not aware what Miami was nationally before that television show. That television show, in some ways, helped start make Miami an international city

and it was colorful, it was splashy, it was musical,

it was loud, but I was not aware that that television show. That Miami was a bit of a national wasteland, considered much like swans of humans. Yeah, it was. Yeah, and so Michael Mann,

he's also involved in the heat sequel, correct? Yeah, heat sequel, he wrote the source material, the book sequel, and yes, he is going to direct the upcoming sequel that has stars like Christian Bale, Leo de Caprio, attached to it.

“And he's also going to do yet another Miami Vice movie, right?”

No, he's not attached to the Miami Vice movie outside of perhaps a producer, credit because his involvement with the TV series, the director that is trying to bring Miami Vice back to the big screen, because Michael Mann tried it. And you know, the director's cut is good,

but there was a whole bunch of things I went wrong with the filming of that. Mike, you know what a place we get some more, he doesn't know. Great place. Colin Farrell, Jamie Fox, that movie was supposed to be, it was much anticipated and it was supposed to be good, it was plagued by a bunch of shit in the background.

It was plagued by Michael Mann, who's an insane person, too. And I think Esquire did like a whole write up on what went wrong with the filming, Jamie Fox left the project because of something that went real sideways in a favela, somewhere in South America, because Michael Mann's one of these authentic guys, but the director that is trying to bring Miami Vice back is Joe Kizinski,

who directed Top Gun Maverick and F1, which was nominated for Best Picture. And the stories that are reported to be attached to it are Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler,

“which I don't know, I think Austin Butler might be a little too weird,”

but we'll see, I don't know which one he's playing. Crocodile Tubs, it could be anybody's guess. Oh, the flip flop. But the most interesting thing that has been reported about this, is that Tom Cruise is being circle, as the big heavy.

The villain, the villain. And the director, who's worked with Tom Cruise, helped save cinemas. We know it, thank you. Alongside Tom Cruise with Top Gun Maverick.

He'd be able to convince Tom Cruise to do this, I think. Dude, Tom Cruise, I've just learned this during the Oscar season here. He loves Michael B. Jordan. They would tell me that he, in the middle of promoting his own movie, he stopped the promote center.

Tom Cruise, for those that know him, I don't. I do know people that talk to Tom Cruise. You don't know Tom Cruise? I don't know Tom Cruise. I don't know if you knew him.

Is that you know about the Tom Cruise? Well, about him. But Tom Cruise is very much a caretaker of the industry and takes real deep care of people that he's worked with. The holiday cake is like a thing of legend.

Yes. Apparently Tom Cruise is a legit mentor to many in Hollywood. Dude, I've told the story before. Mo Dakil, good friend of mine, his sister is Tom Cruise's agent. And when a lot of stuff was happening over in Gaza,

she tweeted out free Palestine. And they tried a railroader and Tom Cruise said,

So like, to me, he's always going to be a one in my book.

“Because as someone who looks out for the little people and looks out”

for any other Hollywood star would have been so easy to be like, "Well, that's a controversy I don't need and just kind of kicked it to the side." But he was loyal to her. And so for me, I'm always going to have a lot of respect to him.

Do people generally know how close Tom Cruise before traffic thunder was to falling completely out of favor with the industry? I think it was. Because of Scientology?

The Scientology, the Oprah thing, the Katie Holms. Like, for those who don't know that story, he goes on Oprah and jumps up and down on the couch talking about how in love with Katie Holms. And there's been a lot of reporting about Scientology,

but the Matt Lauer interview. Which came out better. The Matt Lauer? Yes, especially.

He rebounded better from that interview than Matt Lauer did.

But Tom Cruise, at the end of traffic thunder, there are any number of people who watched tropic thunder and didn't know, leaving the theater, that Tom Cruise had been in tropic thunder. He chose a role with Ben Steller.

“He chose a role where he was a fat guy with Harry Arms,”

a balding less gross men with scarcer. Yes, of course. A movie executive that was totally obnoxious. It's all every scene. Yeah, he was great in it.

But there were many people who saw the movie left the theater and didn't know that Tom Cruise had been in the movie. I didn't know what was him until at the credits. I was like, "Which one was Tom Cruise?" Is that right?

So we're to God. And so I'm pretty sure, though, that that movie resurrected Tom Cruise, like that he was very close to not being able to get substantive work.

So he was supposed to actually play Ben Steller's agent.

He's supposed to play Matthew McConaughey's role. And Tom Cruise read this script. He said, "Actually, what you guys need is a slimy studio executive." And obviously, tropic thunder is a very inside baseball movie. But I'm sure with everyone involved,

they're like, "Of course, there has to be this guy because they've all dealt with that guy one way or another." Rachel Nichols next. There's something about college hoops this time of year where you tell yourself,

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Then a text comes in. We've got multiple screens set up. That's how they catch ya. So I said, "Yeah, I grabbed a pack of Miller light on the way." A little while later, nobody's casually watching anything.

Somebody's yelling because their bracket is already cooked. Somebody else suddenly cares deeply about a school and thought about it in 10 years. And a game that looked over is somehow tied light. You take a sip, you look around, and realize, "Yeah."

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So Zaz says that I may suck up for going to jury duty for handling my civic responsibility.

“He says he always takes his jury duty paperwork and throws it immediately into the trash.”

There have never been any consequences that he knows of.

He's never been to jury duty. Look at Rachel laughing here at Justin. I was on American as low as nobody wants to go to jury duty. But it's a civic honor and responsibility. Well, actually, winning him likes to go to jury duty.

But Rachel, you're saying what to Zaz low here? Well, I just want to know what they asked you that you got selected. What were the questions that they were like? This is a fine upstanding citizen. Well, I wasn't asked any questions.

I've never asked. Your assistant was asked. I've never done jury duty. But I've always gone and marched and sat in the sad room and just sat there for several hours. And then they let me go.

And as a media member, they're not likely to select me anyway under almost any circumstances. And so I've never actually served. But I get summoned way too often. They can do it every. They can do it once a year.

And so it happens to me. It doesn't feel random. You've done jury duty. Would you dare to ignore jury duty, Rachel? I went through some years in my 20s where I ignored jury duty.

I got to say, I was once got the thing in the mail for grand jury, which is just a nightmare. Right? If they pick you, it's like two months, you know, on these like longer trials. But now as a responsible fine upstanding citizen like yourself, Dan, I do reply.

I've never gotten picked though.

So I just want to know how they picked you.

“Because normally, if you want to, while they're asking you questions, you can get out of jury duty.”

Just say, I don't believe our criminal justice system is really unfair. And I just don't think anyone should be penalized to we fix it. That's a good one. Rachel described two months doing a grand jury. That's like doing Pablo's show.

One episode of that. It's like sitting in a grand jury. I can't believe Zaz is willing to put his name on the phone. Whatever. Come at me, bro.

What's going to happen? Nothing's going to happen. Nothing. Bacon put out a warrant for you. Yeah.

For what? It means you can do that. You can do the show from jail, which could be like, oh, I should do that. Come get me. Come at me.

I don't think they can. Is that something that they can say? Can he just say I didn't get it? I didn't get the mail. Yeah.

I didn't get it. Nobody's ever done that before. Right? That's not anybody. Don't think they have anything after that.

The people. They never got to me. Meal never gets lost. Right? Never got to me.

Jeremy, look up for me. Please, what's the worst possible punishment the government can put on you in the event that you are a fraud about jury duty. They've got their own problems to deal with. And you're going to come after me for busy one six minute jury talking about break.

It's well, it's not six minutes like they want you to sit in the room. I need a break. My commitment today. This is what I had to do to it because I was supposed to have it. And I'm postponing to April 8th.

They told me when I got there expect to be here until five. I got there at 8 a.m. And they said expect to be here until five p.m. To see whether or not you're selected. It says those sitting here still staring defiantly at this government.

You can be put in contempt of court in the state of Florida and a warrant may be issued for your arrest where you can serve up to 10 days in jail. That part I don't have a tip. I have a tip for you. My mother-in-law is the New York.

When you get there and they give you the instructions for jury duty and they make you watch a video.

I love that the way you described that occupation was just to I drawing it on. I picked your frame. I had it as a TV. My mother is a picture of TV. Hey, I come on down.

But you watch.

You know, I've never, again, I've never served.

So I've never made it to that step. I have responded. However, I've shown up. But then I have been kicked aside for more responsible services. It's not for me, Dan.

You've mentioned that.

“The Lakers, I believe everyone who knows basketball for the entirety of the season have been saying of the Lakers.”

They absolutely cannot win playoff games playing defense the way they do. However, the Laker team that I have watched play the last three or four games, I'm wildly impressed by everything that they're doing, doing against pretty good teams. I mean Orlando and Houston and Miami on the road, they were impressive in all of those games. Your appraisal of the Lakers Rachel is what?

Well, I picked them to be third in the conference. So I'm feeling pretty good about myself right now because most people pick them to be fifth or sixth. But this is a team with so much offensive firepower. Sometimes that's the defense, right? You just, you can get out of any situation.

That becomes the defense. Also, they've been running a lot of zone, which during the regular season is pretty effective. Because teams aren't used to it. They don't have a lot of time to prepare for these regular season games. And you walk in and you throw them a defense that they're not used to seeing.

And you saw especially against Houston. It just gets guys really flimuxed and they don't kind of know what to do out on the court. Obviously, the playoffs are a different story, though. You know, plenty of time to prepare for an opponent. You play them, you know, day after day after day.

That kind of thing. So that'll be some of the questions of do they stand up. But here's the thing. I saw it in Miami, even when the Brown was at his peak, there are times where he's just not as focused defensively. But you know when he is all the time is during the playoffs.

So his defense in particular, I always figured was going to pick up this spring regardless of how old he is.

Regardless of how those three are on the court together. But yeah, I mean, they don't play defense like the Oklahoma City Thunder.

“And eventually, I think that's going to stop them if they play the Thunder in the second round.”

You know, that that might be the end of them. But I think they're fine to go a couple rounds in the playoffs, at least. Karim Abdul Jabar played late in life because he could make the skyhulk against anybody at any age. But what I'm seeing from LeBron James has no human precedent. Like I really know, I don't understand how he's able to do that.

Even if you were to go the route of saying, well, it must be modern science or pharmaceuticals and Tom Brady and Serena played well late. I still don't have context for what he's presently doing. Can you give me any history of the game? Can you give me anything that suggests the oldest player in the league should be having a triple double when he's down here in Miami? Six dunks.

The night before the triple double, he had six dunks. I mean, that's insane for someone his age. So many of the guys we've worked with as analysts are in their late 30s. And you want them to go do a dunk like as part of a segment or something. And they're like, oh, my back.

I don't do that anymore. I mean, it's, it's harder used to be like that. He's like, oh, I don't dunk anymore. LeBron, it's six dunks. And then they, you know, got to Miami at four in the morning.

And then he had that triple double is just insanity. There is no equivalent. We can say it's no argument. No human body ever, correct? That, that, that is a human body unlike any human body there's ever been.

Not that I have ever seen. And to your point, look, whatever is helping him get there, whether it's physio or anything else. Like, you still have to be the guy who can do that. And we have seen at every stage of LeBron's career. Yeah, no one else can do that.

And we're just seeing it now in a way that no one else can do that. Not just in the league, but through history.

I mean, it's, it's incredible.

Rachel, what do you make of Luca Donchich's 16 technical fou being rescinded, so he could play tonight against Detroit? Um, you know, it's, it's interesting. He's had a lot of text rescinded to not get to this point. Um, I'm curious if at some point in the playoffs,

we're going to see this issue flare up because we all, of course, remember what happened to Dre'mon Green in the 2016 finals.

“And a lot of people sort of miss remember that.”

As, oh, he got suspended for the scuffle that happened at court level. And sort of, you know, them rolling on the ground. And that's not worth the one game suspension. It wasn't worth the one game suspension. And he just got a tech and it happened to be, I believe,

his eighth tech. I mean, is that right in the playoffs? Yeah. And yeah, so when you get your eighth tech in the playoffs, you have to miss the game and him missing a game with the MBA finals. And it turned around to Big chunk of that series.

So, you know, I think that's the danger with Luca is, you know, he can't help himself. And I've asked JJ throughout this season.

I've also worked in progress. This is the answer all the time. And we're just going to have to see how much he can control himself. Even in the Mavericks run to the finals. He did not get suspended for tax. He did not reach number eight.

But he got, you know, he got taxed throughout that playoff run. Rachel, I'm curious because I feel like it's been a big topic this year. Luca complaining Luca technical fouls look with the officials.

And from my perspective, like, well, that's who he's always been since he came in the league.

Yeah.

“Is it, is it actually worse or getting worse or is it just a factor of people in L.A. are discovering this part of him?”

Yeah. I mean, he's on TV more. And, you know, highlights go, there's more highlights of him. I mean, there's always been Luca highlights on TV in on your phone. But when he was playing in Dallas, the visibility is just, it's never as high as for when you play with the legors or the nicks when they're rolling.

And, you know, I think more people are seeing it across the country. More people are seeing it in L.A. Just every time they go out and play the way they haven't before. And when they're losing games, right? And there's been patches this season.

The Lakers have lost a string of games. You know, Luca tends to do this more. He feels more under pressure. He sort of falls back on old habits. And then you have the combination of the Lakers losing a lot.

And Luca doing this a lot. And then Lakers fans suddenly are like, ah, this guy's killing us. I just said that my impression of a Lakers fan was pretty good. I just wanted to say that. Well, I think it was a good one.

You're a professional broadcaster. You know how to do polish. I want your assessment here. Pussycat dolls are getting back together. There are three of them on the today's show.

And this looks like a giant choke here. What happened here? What's your assessment? After they found out, you guys were coming back as a trio. Not as the original group.

How did you arrive at that decision? Well, I mean, listen, we are just, we are like, we are so, as women today. I mean, it has been an overchanging lineup. And, you know, this is what it looks like now in 2016.

You never know what comes next.

And I think ultimately we've got a protector piece. And when something like the Pussycat dolls has so much history, we have ruptured in the past. She's still frozen. She still frozen.

I don't think that's a rigor mortist. But what's your assessment there? Professionally Rachel. Wasn't there a misamerica contestant who did this? That like it went around the internet for a long time,

where she just, every word of I don't know how the amount was. Was such a piece? Yes.

“You know, I think it's important that we have world.”

The question was about like some economic issue or something. She's like, I really think it's important. We have world peace. And then she couldn't find a way. And she kept talking about world peace.

I don't know. We've had presidential debates that sound like that to be honest. So let's not eat up. Let's not go out too hard on the pussycat doll. Come on.

What are you? Oh, that's right. Why don't we know it? Oh, why? Are you rooting for, well, you can't root necessarily.

But is when be winning this year? Good or bad for the sport given that if he wins this year, he's likely to keep winning. Uh, you mean winning the title? Yes.

Okay. I'm winning depends player of the year. Winning MVP with cheese up for. Um, I think it's nothing but good. I have been super high on one be since before he was drafted.

I got a lot of flag for saying before he was drafted.

“I think this kid is going to end up being a top 10 player of all time.”

I have stuck with that. Um, less people are giving me a hard time now, which is good. Um, obviously all of that statement is barring injury. But I just, I think what this kid can do is so different from what we've seen. Anyone else be able to do.

And then he in addition to those physical skills. He is one of the most sort of mentally focused, interesting, curious guys. I have ever seen come into the National Basketball Association. I mean, if you have a guy who's that thirsty for learning, who's that receptive, who's that curious to find new things, who's that dedicated to what he does.

Like, life may come into, you know, come into play at some point. But right now, all that kid does is play basketball. He reads instead of, you know, watching TV or playing video games. His teammates keep trying to get him with play video games. And he's like, no, I'm good.

And it's not that fake reading some players do.

We're like, the first page keeps getting opened and nothing else.

Um, he plays chess in central park. Um, that's a fine known fun. Yeah, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, he's not listening. I said, oh, he's just watching Instagram. That's not what I'm doing.

You know what? I'm sorry. Yeah. I mean, we got to get out of here. Like, we know about that out there.

What was that? I was a jury duty. I don't know. I don't know. [MUSIC]

You can't be, you can't be not listening to Rachel Talk so much that you're just watching videos on the internet and not even hiding it.

I heard a jet too holiday thing. It's unbelievable. Make sure he pays. Should I feel about that?

“He hasn't been paying the phone offended.”

I mean, it's very easy. It's very easy to pay the phone. I feel wounded. I feel, I feel, I feel unloved. Right.

I feel, you know, don't know.

He's a Charlotte and don't, don't pay him known never mind.

He is a Charlotte mystery. I feel like the middle pussycat girl. I don't even know what to say. He's a woman. He's a woman.

He's a woman. I'm very, very something about that. [MUSIC] Don't live a tart. John's as law.

Are you law man? I had choice. [MUSIC] Bad news for all. Proposing teams in the triple layer.

Two guts. [MUSIC] [MUSIC] This is the olive tart show with his two guts. [MUSIC]

Rachel, as you know, I'm responsible for pressure in the NBA over a decade. To get the all start games out of cold small markets. And we finally, we finally made that happen. My next, my new crusade is the 65 game. We got to get it up out of here.

Dude, you know, you and I have talked about this on the air before. I think this is the most insane thing. It's kind of like tanking, right? They're trying to solve the wrong problem.

“They're like, why are these teams playing so badly?”

Let's penalize them more for playing badly. The reason people tank is because they have to. They have to because there are no other good ways to get better if you're a bad team, especially in a smaller market. Fix that and you will fix tanking.

Nobody is like dying to lose for nine months straight and have their fans be pissed and teach young players bad habits. Solve the real problem. In this case, the 65 game rule was brought into effect because player participation was sucky frankly.

That's a technical term. And they had guys sitting out big TV nights and Saturday night.

You know, ABC and all three of the most important guys aren't playing.

And they were like the TV networks are mad. They stormed the NBA offices. The NBA office takes that to the owners. And they're like, yeah. All righty.

Did we lose her? That was fun. We might have lost you Rachel. We definitely lost her. Yeah, that is.

She's been taken over. What part is it? It's a little bit. Yeah, 100% it's as sabotage. A whole bunch of entire walking back.

She's back now. Yeah, you're here now. Go ahead. He walks out. He turned into a monster.

Yes, yes, you.

Wait, first he's watching Instagram.

And then you guys move. And then he pulled the plug on you. Yep, he pulled the plug. He pulled the plug. He really is.

But. And he's also a cock. Yeah. Everybody knows I'm not a cock. Everybody knows.

You were you were weaving a tapestry that he interrupted. Please continue Rachel. He's not a cock. Everybody knows that. Kind of got to go.

The 65 game rule was brought in because player participation was Sucky because guys were sitting out big TV games. So they were like, let's bribe the players into playing more. By saying they can't have their awards. If they don't play 65 game.

Guess what? That's dumb. The awards have nothing to do with player participation. These are two completely separate things. To link them together is basically ripping apart some of the integrity of the game.

These awards are how we judge who are the best players in a certain year. And you can be one of the best players like Kate Cunningham. You're going to tell me that the all NBA team is going to go out for this year. And Kate Cunningham won't be on any the first second or third team. And someone 25 years from now is going to look back at the record of this year.

And they're going to be, yeah, I guess Kate Cunningham didn't do anything. Rachel, man. 10. 10 of the 15 all NBA players from a season ago are either guaranteed not going to be all NBA or in serious jeopardy.

10 out of 15 then. So we're talking. It's not just about.

“We're going to look and say, oh, how is Kate Cunningham not all NBA?”

It's also going to be like, hey, how to pay and pressure make all NBA? Or whoever whoever someone's going to make all NBA was not one of the 15 best players just for playing 60 just for playing 65 games. It's ridiculous. And it's also the way we judged players across areas.

I think that's one of the things you get lost here for all of the lazy who's better Michael Jordan LeBron James debates that you know, people tend to start. It's hard to answer that question because you are watching players who play in different areas with different rules, with different, you know, physical, knee surgeries and all of that kind of stuff.

If a guy made all NBA eight times among his peers in his era, he made it eight times.

And then a guy 25 years later makes all NBA 10 or 12 times in his era against his, you know, compatriots with his rules.

“That's how you can say, man, this guy might be a little bit better than that guy.”

That's it, that's the only thing we have that sort of is a way to test across areas. And they're screwing with it. And I hate it. I absolutely hate it.

I've been saying that Jalen Bronson is the most beloved player in the history of the New York next because what he's doing at his size specifically. But I've also been saying you cannot win the title if your best player is a player of that size. Over the last 30 games, the next have the best defense and the best net rating in the NBA. Half of those 30 games have come against the top six teams in each conference.

And they're eight and five in those games. Do you believe the next or better than they were last year? And do you believe that they are a legitimate contender to get to the finals? Because I don't believe they're a legitimate contender to win. Look, they're different than they were last year.

Last year that team got to game six of the Eastern Conference finals. Like whatever you want to say about them about, oh, we only played six guys in the very predictable and all of that stuff. Guess what? You know how I know that that was a good look for that team?

Because they got to game six of the Eastern Conference finals. That's it. That's the answer. So until this team does that, I can't say they're better. They're wildly inconsistent the next.

Like they'll go on a five game winning streak. They'll go on a six game losing streak. They'll go back on a 10 game winning streak. I don't know if that is going to get you to the finals or even to the Eastern Conference finals over time.

“And I really believe in Boston this year.”

So it kind of depends on when they run into them too. I mean, a lot of this, how far will they get in the playoffs conversation is, hey, where do they hit that big team in the bracket?

Do the next hit the Boston Celtics in the second round.

Do the Lakers hit the Oklahoma City Thunder in the second round. There are some matchups where you can say, that's the one that's going to get them. If it comes early, it comes early. How do you do birthday parties?

The twins have one coming up. Do they not? Are you a good party plan? We just had one this weekend. We had 27 girls over at our house.

27, 15 year old teenage girls at my home at one time. The decibel level was so high. I almost felt like, you know, those people on the plane who bring a baby onto the plane. And they like bring little like packets of cookies and stuff for their neighbors. Because they're like, oh, please don't get mad at us.

We have a baby. I this morning feel like I have to go to my neighbors and bring them cookies or something like that to apologize for the sheer volume that was going on in my backyard yesterday.

I'm like a gaggle of geese.

Like what is it sound like? It's just they talked to talk and it goes over each other and then over each other. It's like a jet engine taking off for two and a half hours. It's you shouldn't do it.

“I would say if you have 30 teenage girls that you have to do something with.”

You know, take a new movie theater where they could be quiet. We made an unforced error here, just having them in our backyard. Fox Sports Sports Illustrated all the smoke. She's a longtime NBA reporter, host and analyst. She's also an Emmy award winning journalist.

How many Emmys have you won? Because Jeremy loves to say that he put the Emmy in Jeremy. How many of those of you want Rachel? Um, is it bad to tell you? I don't know.

I've had it. It's it's multiple. That man. I'm sorry. You win.

It's a great humble act. This is the end of the end of the hair. I can't even count. And the hair flip. I don't know.

Wait. Did you guys talk about what Bam said after the Lakers game after they lost the Lakers? Because that was the one of the best humble brags I've ever seen. That's so easy to score eighties. All right.

I love that. I don't know how good it was. What Luca did because I mean, man. It's so hard to score 80, 83. Like, I mean, it's just.

It was not perfection. I would do that every day of the rest of my life. Every scenario I could bring up the number 83. I would bring it up. I would change my birthday to 1983.

Just to remind everybody Rachel. Good talking to you. Thank you for stopping by. Before we get to the post game show here. Can you just give me a sound.

Please from the twins Spring Training broadcast. So good start for the twins year in the fourth inning. You ever seen Buck with his pants down? Uh, no. Like shorts?

No, like he's got he doesn't have his. No socks showing. Ah, I see what you're saying. Oh, that way. There's a baseball in you.

You mean it seems confused. It's up heads down and you know the stir-ups where they show you. Also, you could just change your birthday to August 3rd. Hey.