00:00I'm mad about something, Hawk, and I want to share it with you.
00:03All right.
00:03Yesterday, I think it was during the 5 o'clock hour,
00:06but maybe earlier in the show,
00:08we discussed the halftime performance
00:10that was announced for the FIFA World Cup final.
00:14And the halftime performance was a very long list of names.
00:19Justin Bieber, Shakira, Madonna, BTS,
00:22and then like three or four other performers as well.
00:26So it clicked to me.
00:27Well, if you had one halftime performer, cold play,
00:31like if you had one person, okay, they'd go up there,
00:34do a little 10-minute set, and then they walk off.
00:36There's 15 people on this halftime set list.
00:39How could they fit 15 people into a 10-minute performance,
00:42which is usually the halftime is 15 minutes long.
00:47These mother bleepers continue to mess up the beautiful game.
00:50Don't tell me the halftime is going to be 30 minutes.
00:5330-minute long halftime.
00:56From 15 to hydration breaks, too?
00:58And hydration breaks.
00:59Wow.
01:00Come on.
01:01It's entertainment.
01:02Y'all are silly.
01:03The entertainment is the soccer.
01:05How would you like it?
01:07Oh, them kicking the ball backwards 100 times?
01:08Soccer, yes, that's right.
01:09The most highly rated sporting event in the world, yes.
01:14The soccer seems to work without the concert in the middle of it.
01:17How would you like it when you go to see Beyonce
01:19if they take a 30-minute break to play a soccer game?
01:23And then we go, oh, well, it's entertainment, Crowder.
01:25It's sports.
01:26Just enjoy it.
01:26I mean, this is America.
01:28Freedom.
01:28Ridiculous.
01:29It's ridiculous.
01:30Freedom.
01:32Absolutely maddening to mess with the beautiful game in this fashion.
01:37You're trying to find the best soccer team nation in the world.
01:43Let's change the rules for the actual match that determines that.
01:48So why do y'all not get upset at basketball or football games,
01:52but now it's soccer and it's a big problem?
01:54No, no, no, no, no, no.
01:55What if the basketball game, if the NBA Finals halftime was 45 minutes
02:00in the last game of the NBA Finals?
02:02More rest for the players.
02:03Come out and have a good second half.
02:05Okay, so you don't mind rules and standards.
02:08No.
02:09Yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:10No, you don't.
02:11I, we're, we are entertained and they make $60 million a year
02:16because of our entertainment.
02:18That's what I know.
02:19No, I get that.
02:20But there's a, a, a past of how you do things, right?
02:25So we're entertained by basketball.
02:28Generally, what's the halftime?
02:3018 minutes.
02:31Yeah.
02:3117, 18 minutes.
02:32So you're saying again, the NBA Finals only halftime is 55 minutes.
02:37You're cool with that?
02:38Yes.
02:39Okay.
02:40I just, as long as, as long as you're consistent with it, as long as none of that bothers you,
02:44hour and a half, 90 minute halftime.
02:46You can't have four hour halftime.
02:49You, you went from 17 to 60.
02:51I'm asking if there's a limit, you said, you said nothing bothers you.
02:56I'm just saying like the, the, the money that's made the, now I'm watching Amazon prime and all this crap
03:03to watch basketball.
03:04They are monetizing this game.
03:07They are monetizing this game.
03:07Understand that it's a business and a sport.
03:10It's sport.
03:11And I want to see the best players play and we're watching the best players play, but it's also a
03:15business guy.
03:16Stop complaining about hydration breaks and halftime.
03:19But again, you're very concerned about big businesses making more and more money.
03:25That's all that's why, that's why the free market hog.
03:29You taught me this.
03:30Oh, I don't know.
03:32I'm not arguing why it happens.
03:34I'm just curious why you're so interested in NBC, Fox, Amazon making more money than they already have.
03:42I'm not interested in it.
03:44I just, I can't complain about it.
03:47Cause I understand what this is.
03:49Oh, oh my goodness.
03:51They're giving the guys time to take a break so we can hear about Pepsi.
03:55Yeah.
03:55Cause Pepsi's paying them a billion dollars.
03:58Let them pay.
03:59That's why they make $50 million a year.
04:01Figure out how to make it in 15 minutes.
04:04Like you do the rest of the, the, the soccer games in the world.
04:09I watched 50 cent hang upside down.
04:12And halftime.
04:13And I loved it.
04:14Not only that, but it's supposed to be an 11 minute halftime show.
04:17There's 14 entertainers.
04:19A part of the halftime show.
04:20Like how entertaining could that be?
04:22Madonna can't perform into the groove.
04:24She can only do groove.
04:26She can't even into.
04:32Just stupid.
04:34Coldplay's not going to have time to do clocks.
04:36They'll only be able to perform.
04:38Well, bad example.
04:39Bad example.
04:40Bad example.
04:43They can't even do clocks.
04:47How old celebrity birthdays real quick.
04:49Cause we're out of time.
04:50Real quick.
04:51Celebrity birthdays.
04:52I'm going to give you a little quiz.
04:53We did a quiz earlier.
04:54How old do you think Tom Hanks is today?
04:58Oh, Tom Hanks is 60.
05:0070.
05:02Woo.
05:03Looks good for 70.
05:04He does look good for 70.
05:0670.
05:07How about Fred Savage?
05:09Do you know who Fred Savage is?
05:11No idea.
05:12He's the little boy on Wonder Years.
05:15Wonder Years.
05:16The original Wonder Years.
05:17Oh, he's older than me.
05:1940.
05:2148.
05:2250.
05:24Fred Savage is 50.
05:28Hmm.
05:29Oof.
05:29Alec Ingold.
05:33Waste of contract.
05:36Who's he with now?
05:37The Chargers.
05:38Oh, that's right.
05:39He's back with Mike McTagall.
05:4130, 30, 32.
05:4330.
05:4430.
05:46All right.
05:46The rest of your headlines.
05:50The Marlins are going to play tonight.
05:51Today is National Sugar Cookie Day, by the way.
05:54It's an underrated cookie.
05:56I love sugar cookies.
05:57I know.
05:58It's underrated, though.
06:00Yeah.
06:01You want a hot take about sugar cookies?
06:03All right.
06:04You know how people go to Publix,
06:05they swear those chocolate chip cookies at Publix
06:07are the best cookie at Publix?
06:08No one swears that.
06:09No one's ever said that.
06:11No, the sugar cookies are a thousand times better.
06:13Well, that's my hot take.
06:14But everybody swears by these Publix chocolate chip cookies.
06:19Nobody does that.
06:19Which are great.
06:20Nobody does that.
06:21Nobody does that.
06:21I had a child.
06:23Yeah.
06:24Granted, he's 22 now.
06:25But when we went to Publix,
06:27he would always get the sugar cookie.
06:29Well, no.
06:29They would give you the chocolate chip cookie.
06:31That's what you did as a young kid.
06:32No, you get to choose.
06:34They have chocolate chip and sugar cookies.
06:36Everybody I've ever met in my entire life growing up in South Florida.
06:39When's the last time you took a kid to Publix to get a free cookie?
06:42I don't have a child.
06:43That's why I'm telling you no one swears by the chocolate chip cookie.
06:46You can't make a baby.
06:48I was a kid closer.
06:49We'll see about that.
06:50I was a kid closer.
06:53I'm closer to the age of being a kid.
06:55Correct.
06:56And have memories of being a kid.
06:57I got you.
06:58Growing up in Miami with a Publix.
06:59Right.
07:00Every single kid would go to Publix with their parents for one reason.
07:04And that one reason was to get the free sugar cookie.
07:07Chocolate chip cookie.
07:08Solana.
07:09Nobody got the sugar cookie.
07:10I have a six-year-old.
07:14He gets the sugar cookies.
07:15He asks for the sugar cookies.
07:17He gets the sugar cookies.
07:18Every kid does.
07:21You want to know how to make a baby?
07:26That's a different show.
07:28I'll text you.
07:29I'll text you.
07:32I'm good on that.
07:36The Marlins play tonight.
07:38The Kawhi Leonard trade is on hold if you missed that story.
07:41And there's really no update on LeBron James.
07:44Nope.
07:45Nothing.
07:46There are certain reporters out there, like credible reporters, who are putting out that
07:53he's going back to Cleveland.
07:55But that, to me, almost seems like they're just guessing he's going back to Cleveland
08:00and they're putting out those reports.
08:03And it sounds like nothing from Shams, nothing from Rich Paul, nothing from any of the top
08:10reporters.
08:12It just makes sense.
08:15It makes sense.
08:17But also Miami does as well.
08:19I mean, if you're believing what Rich Paul is saying is important to LeBron, Miami makes
08:26sense.
08:26It does.
08:28If it's all about lifestyle.
08:31No, but lifestyle and happiness.
08:33That's what he said.
08:34It's why he wants to take a minimum contract.
08:36Lifestyle and happiness.
08:37You're telling me you're not going to be happier in South Florida than Cleveland?
08:43No.
08:43And I'm with you, Hulk, but he's from Cleveland.
08:46He went back to Cleveland.
08:48I'm just saying they both make sense.
08:50I'm saying they both.
08:50If you look at what Rich Paul is saying is important to LeBron, you can make a case for
08:55Miami and Cleveland.
08:57I know.
08:57I'm with you.
08:58I can make a case for both of them.
09:00But I would bet money on Cleveland.
09:02I would, too.
09:03Yeah.
09:05Is it not a little ridiculous, though, that we've gotten to the point where LeBron wants
09:08to pick a spot based on the golf that he can play?
09:12I mean, either you're all the way in on being an NBA player or you want to golf and retire.
09:17You're going to put the hammer down on LeBron and his effort in professional sports.
09:24I mean, I'm researching the best golf courses in Cleveland to find out how they compare to
09:29Killian Greens.
09:30What are we doing here?
09:31Either you want to play basketball.
09:32You want to commit to being an NBA champion again to win your fifth ring so that you have
09:36the exact same amount of rings as Kobe and one less than Michael Jordan.
09:39Fine.
09:40Then pick the best scenario to put you in a position to win a title.
09:45But I have to keep hearing about the best places to play golf for the greatest basketball
09:49player, second greatest basketball player of all time, because he has to make sure.
09:53But no one has said that he's looking for a great place to play golf.
09:56I don't know.
09:57No, no.
09:57That has never come out of any one official associated with LeBron.
10:01People are doing that on Twitter, but they would do that with James Harden and strip clubs,
10:06too.
10:06And I don't think that ever officially came from his camp.
10:09So I don't think golf courses are actually part of the parameters.
10:13Well, no, Rich Paul said it, like places where he can play golf indoor or outdoor.
10:19Well, that kind of covers every place in the world.
10:22Let me tell you this as well.
10:26LeBron can get on a plane at 6 a.m., be to South Florida at 8 a.m., play around
10:32the
10:32golf and be back to Cleveland by four in the afternoon.
10:35Like, it's 2026, bro.
10:39It's an expensive round of golf, though, man.
10:42He doesn't care.
10:43He's a billionaire.
10:48Just commit to the heat.
10:50I mean, what are we doing?
10:52Golf.
10:54Can play at the Biltmore every day.
10:57Beautiful there.
10:58Absolutely gorgeous.
10:59Oh, I can take him to Western Hills if he wants to go.
11:02But, yeah, I don't know if that'll get him to the heat.
11:04Nice breakfast at the Biltmore, too, if he likes breakfast.
11:08It's a great spread at the Biltmore.
11:10And he can get the chocolate chip cookies at Publix because we know he likes a chocolate
11:14chip cookie.
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