Casting The Mavs Trade Movie

Who should play Ben and Skin in the Luka trade movie?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thanks Johnny Man skin with some weird edits to the
lyrics that I had never heard before. Yeah, it's he's
actually singing about a refreshing citrus drink. Right, that's not
as popular as some of the others. Right, Okay, Kate,
you've had a squirt before? Absolutely? Yeah, very good? Can
I make you one? Sure? All right? Love to get

(00:20):
a squirt. I'm only going to ask this question with
the three of us. Yeah, I think Christina can be
asking now. I mean, so does for everyone? Not like
that slogan. I prefer honestly all right, thank you. Have
you ever heard of Rondo character Rondo Blackman. He was

(00:41):
a great mid rain shooter that quit on Carlo. That
is actually a great name for like a social media
account or something, Rondo black So she sprited, and we're
all squirting. D I' drinking of Rondo. Uh dude. When
we were kids, Rondo was right in the same category
as squirt, all right, Like it's like sub standard seven

(01:01):
up right. I mean I didn't even know about that
back then. Rondo squirt. Okay. Yeah. So in the commercial
for Rondo, it's a guy skiing down a mountain of grass.
He's just skiing down a hill. He put the ass
in grass. Yeah, and then he's got a quench his
thirst at the bottom. And I think they always crushed

(01:22):
the can. Do you want to here? If you can
ski on grass, right, you're taking it. That's called field skiing.
What's that thing called cross country skiing around grass? Okay,
isn't that what they do it on? That sounds like
a soroy industry things? There a cross country skiing there is,
but it's it's it's where you're not going super fast

(01:44):
downhill and you're just like wank, wank wank, but it's
on like snow. I think it's on snow. Still still,
I think so this is this is a guy that's like,
I'm so extreme before extreme sports, I'm going to ski
down this grass hill. He predicted extremes before they happen.
How has the cheese wheel not made it to the Olympics.

(02:07):
The cheese role is incredible sports. That's correat.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
I'm starting to get into more more sports now the
cheese roll here looking for some other things. You got
a void in your life? Oh no, they traded Colby?

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Oh damn, dude. I have no problem with the cheese bracket. Really, God,
I love cheese so much. I would love to do
a full sixty four seed cheese bracket about a month away,
my friend from Bracket Time, Let's do that, amness. Uh
speaking of the madness, our phone started blowing up a
little bit within the last twenty four hours and uh,

(02:45):
I saw it on Twitter last night. Skin, one of
our listeners tweeted us and said, said, Hey, Bill Simmons
just mentioned you guys on one of the biggest podcasts
in the world. It was so amazing to me because
once it got out there, I had no way idea
that many people here locally were still listening to Bill Simmons.
Like I'm not I don't mean that in a jerk

(03:06):
way or whatever, but like, he built up his empire,
which is amazing, and then sold it to Spotify, and
I thought that his slice of the pie had decreased,
and maybe too, because I know a lot of people
that worked at The Ringer and they all have bad
taste in their mouth. But I just assumed that he
wasn't the dominant figure in sports that he had been.

(03:29):
Like when Ben and I were at ESPN, you aspired
in sports media unless you wanted to be Skip or
whatever you aspired to be. Bill Simmons. Okay, here's an
outside guy, does it on his terms, ended up on
national TV on NBA. Get like, he did it his
way right, and then he made a ton of money.
And I didn't know people were still checking for his
opinion like that. Maybe they were when a big thing

(03:51):
like this happens. Okay, great, but I had so many
people reach out to me, and they did it in
a way that was like they were shocked because they
were just going through their normal routine of listening to
the Bill Simmons podcast. Yeah, suddenly our names popped up,
and he had on Brian Curtis, who's a local guy
from Fort Worth, I believe. Yeah, And so he and
Brian Curtis are going through this podcast and there just

(04:14):
in case Field don't know, I think. I mean, Brian
Curtis has done a lot of stuff, but I first
became aware of him at the Ringer, or maybe he
was actually at grant Land before the ring Yeah, but
I always think him as a guy that does a
really good job of covering sports media, you know, and
especially he's always been a guy that Simmons turned to
and other people turn to when they want Dallas Cowboys

(04:35):
opinions because he's from here. Yeah. So those guys Bill
Simmons and Brian Curtis are having a fun discussion about
a new angle on all this MAVs talk, and it's
they start talking about, all right, if there's a movie
ever made about this, who would be cast in all
these different roles and went a little something like this.
I was playing with some casting here too. You got

(04:56):
to help me with this. I mean, I'm just so
sorry we lost Penny Marshall because Miriam Maidleson. I mean,
that would have been the ultimate casting spot on. Yeah. Yeah.
Do we want Josh Gadd for Patrick Dumont? All right,
that's a question I think we should discuss. He's the
guy forgad Is. He's a guy from Frozen, Yeah, I

(05:17):
mean yead Okay, yeah, you see him everywhere, despite not
being in a lot of things that you would probably watch.
I thought I thought Jeff Daniels would be a great
Patrick Dumont. I think they're saying Josh Gadd because he's
got a big full face. Yeah right, yeah, maybe okay,

(05:41):
let's keep it going. What about former uh, you know,
jazz drummer Steve gadd Well. I mean I think Patrick
mumoos a little bit like George Dunham, but that's not
like national casting. But he can kind of see it
that will come back up later. I kind of like
that a little bit. That's really good. I mean, you
could also go Chris Pratt putting the weight back on.
Who do we like for Cuban? It feels like Jeremy

(06:02):
Strong and a zag. Nobody expecting Jeremy Strong here. He
could be Polinka too, Okay, Rob Blow is absolutely Polinka. Yeah,
there's no way that it could be anybody else. Let's
cast dude. Jeremy Strong is bad ass. That is a
great can you show me suggestion? Well you didn't watch Succession? Okay,

(06:24):
you guys are gonna have to. So Jeremy Strong looks
about thirty years younger than Cuban. Yeah, oh he is.
You know he's well, it's like twenty years. I mean
I guess now that. Yeah, I would not think of
that guy as Cuban. But that guy's great. Okay, here's
some Cuban off. You have to think about the the
guys he's he's played like the character he played. I
think that he's method aced guy. He looked to me,

(06:46):
he looks like he's just done some fensive. Jeremy Strong
is amazing. He's like the most self important actor too.
He's like, when I get a story, you know this story.
And then Kieran Colkin's like, well you didn't write the
story like jars amazing. Here's my Cuban options. I have three, Okay,
but hold on. I just came up with the Patrick Dumont,

(07:07):
John c Riley. That's good. Yeah, that's good. And and
he's played an NBA owner before. Yeah, oh that makes sense.
Who's the guy who played President Bush in the movie.
He's in everything? Roland? Yeah? Could could Brolan be Cuban?
I see Brolin as Luca Cuban. Jeremy Piven, that'd be good.

(07:28):
Weal Keene Phoenix, that would be really good. And if
we're going for what Cuban looks like now in terms
of like he was always wearing glasses, Rachel Maddow that
you're gonna say Roy Orbison, Oh, Roy Orbis would be
great if we could bring him back. Okay, let's keep on.
What are you talking about? Okay? Who else could be Cuban?
Only I had jab Affleck could Ben affleck be cub

(07:51):
I had JK. Simmons with a wig. Dirk was a
tough one for me. Derek plays himself. What do we
do with Luca? Luca's tough. This is where you into
like the uh, the Aaron Hernandez show, which I liked,
and the guy didn't really look like Aaron Hernandez, but
by the end of the show you kind of felt
like he was Aaron Hernandez, so you almost need I

(08:11):
know exactly what he's saying there. You start a series
like this and you're watching, you're like, dude, this is
terrible casting, and by the end you've forgotten that you
ever thought it was terrible casting because he sold you
over the course of the performance. Luca, who all, I
got one who Chris Evans? I don't know who that is?

Speaker 2 (08:30):
Christina yeah, Captain, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I could totally.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
He would definitely have to be fup a little bit,
but he's had to be fubled, but he's got the Lucas. Yeah, definitely.
He could also be Klay Thompson. No, yeah, I don't
know about that. He shows you, I mean I kind
of see it. What about uh James Cordon Cordon being

(09:01):
dumont Ye would have to play basketball, though Cordon does
have the baby face thing. That's why I said, Chris
Sevans Lucas baby face. James Gordon could play Luca if
it was a musical. He's a cat. Okay, Uh, it
needs to be. It needs to be a white guy
with a with a fadeace, with a baby face, super lovable,

(09:25):
sweet face that you love. And it could be Chris Pratt.
I think it could be Chris Pratt. Took Chris Evans
will like him than Chris Pratt. Chris Evans kind of
looks like Ben just showed me a picture of Clay Thompson.
I still don't know who Chris Evans is. That's your problem.
Keep going. Well. One that's not mentioned. I would like
to cast Jason Kids, Garth Brooks Okay, pretty good. You

(09:45):
need somebody that's big and a little doe, and that
could be anybody. Maybe are going with an unknown for
that one. Who's playing Skin? And who are the Maps
radio guys talking about Ben and Skin? Who's playing Benn's
Oh my god. I would have so many ideas for
Mavericks Sports Radio, and there'd be so many. This would

(10:06):
be unbelievable. Yeah. Uh. He very quickly wanted to turn
it into a conversation about the dumb zone. But Bill
Simmons has no idea who that is. So I think
I knew exactly who should play us me and been together.
It's perfect. That's Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. We're the

(10:26):
same age, we're very very Boston accent. We're both we're
all ripped. And Ben Affleck has put on weight before
for Roles, right or he just put on weight because
of j Lo. He keeps with that ass because of
the stress, smoking, drinking benefit two okay, son. One of
the things I realized is people were hitting me up

(10:47):
is like I'm out of date on actors, a lot
of stuff Yaddy, So I wanted to read you this.
That are our old buddy. Adam Rainer, who's obviously still
a Bill Simmons listener, sent this. He's one of the
guys hit us up, and he was like Anthony Michael
Hall for you, and maybe Kevin James for Ben Okay,

(11:11):
And my thought on it was one, okay number one.
As Anthony Michael Hall got older, he got swollen, so
it'd have to be high school Anthony Michael Hall playing me,
and also Ben's like in the last five years, lost
weight and slimmed down. I think he's smaller than Kevin
James significantly now. I think Kevin James would have to
lose weight to play really. I like the sound of that.

(11:33):
I was thinking John Goodman, he's slimmed down a little bit. Yes,
I was thinking Brian Dennahey, that'd be the great honor
of my life. Yeah, one of the greatest character actors
of all time. But I think he's probably passed away, right, Yeah,
I think so, And I see more John Goodman Ben. Yeah.
What about Jonah Hill playing u? K t uh No,
I'm not gonna be in the movie? Oh man? Why not?

(11:56):
Wait you're Chris Elliot, right, Yes, I'm clear. I've a
thought of a Nico casting. I weirdly have three. Oh
my god, really so. The first one's off the beaten
path a little bit, but he looks a little bit
like the situation from Jersey Shore. You're gonna have to
look at it and figure it out. He looks a
little bit like him, all right, uh Lenny Kravitz. And

(12:18):
then my last one is the one I think I
would go with here, I think eric Andre could pull
it off. Uh, there is a guy that I've seen
recently that looks exactly like eric Andre in the NBA.
Now I'm blanking on who that is. There is a
player that looks exactly like eric Andre. Hell. I think
eric Andre could maybe even play Clay. Yeah, he's pretty versatile.

(12:39):
Taylor Swift for Christina, thank you. I was gonna say
lead a Ford. Okay again, I like Katie, I don't
need to be in this. You're both in it, both
in it. The crowd. All right, we forgot the intro
and dang it just happened sometimes. All right, coming up
next in the Hollywood Shuffle, we got to make a
note to ourselves to remember it. The next big act

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