The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Ben Stiller Tells The Truth About Dan: "You're Knicks Fan" | Local Hour

Episode Date: May 21, 2026

"Why did I try to TALK?" Boog Sciambi is going to join us later in the show, so Dan, Zas, and the Shipping Container work to decide which Greg Cote catchphrases to ask him to work into a broadcast. Then, we've learned that Dan is clearly a Knicks fan, and Jeremy has the evidence. Plus, did you know you can hire a beautiful woman to show up at your funeral? Today's cast: Dan, Zaslow, Chris, Jeremy, Mike, Roy, and Tony. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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did you know there was a service where you can have a mystery woman? You can pay to have a mystery woman cry at your funeral. $500. They stay silent the entire time, kind of in the background, an attractive lady from what is advertised, and they'll just cry. Now, this could be really useful for some lonely types, or it could be one hell of a last prank to play on somebody. Okay, now you're hiring this woman, so it's not like you're hiring her so that people around think that you have a very attractive woman at your funeral. You're alive. You're hiring her. So what is the purpose?

The joke that I would play and really mess with somebody is, you know, family distraught. Your wife. I just primarily the joke is on your wife. Oh, the other person's wife. So maybe it's like your brother-in-law who passed away is your sister's husband and you're playing a prank on your sister? Let's say we have this, I have this relationship with you where you and I've been Josh. each other the entire life, right? Not bad. Yeah, you know? Like one last rib.

I'm going to have this attractive mystery woman cry at your funeral. And do you imagine your friend who's watching down, hopefully from heaven, find it to be funny? If you've had that kind of relationship. I have been doing some estate planning because we had a sudden death that didn't have estate planning around it, and it has been quite the mess to try and handle that. I'm trying to figure out all of the funny jokes to put around the estate planning and the funeral itself. You got $500 bucks? I don't think that one's as funny as you do.

I think it's funny to talk about his content. I think it's a bad prank to play from the beyond because people are going to be. I'll put you down as a maybe. Be confused by that. Now I'm definitely doing this for yours. I did think that there would be, you know, clowns and stuff could be funny. Just clowns at a funeral that no one's explained. just that somebody, somebody sits in the back row dressed head to toe as a clown that nobody knows is just sitting in the back row and you don't know whether that person came to the funeral dressed as a clown as a joke or has a job immediately after the funeral and doesn't want to get in between gigs.

I actually think he came from work. The clown car isn't included, the clown car. I'm thinking these things out. I have to figure out how it is, how it is to do these. And who's an attractive young woman on his own? No, see, that's, no. And the balloons? No, see, the mystery woman crying, what is this service?

How do I, what is the place that you, that you rent a weeping woman to grieve at a funeral, a mystery woman? Yeah, hang on. Let me put it. I put it in the group chat. All right. It's called Dark Secret. That's the name of the service. And, like, I'm led to believe that it's a gothy woman.

And the woman will show up at your funeral, cry in silence, and then vanish. This is the Dan Levator show with the Stugats podcast. Boog Shambi, perhaps, the best baseball play-by-play guy going right now is going to join us in an hour to talk about a cause that's very personal to him. And we are helping him with. He had a friend locked in the... prison of ALS. And so for the last several years, he's raised a lot of money and gotten all of baseball behind his cause.

And so the show is going to be helping him today in an assortment of ways. But I don't have any chemistry on air with one of my greatest friends. Always awkward. And Zaz has great chemistry with Boog because Zaz's first job was basically Boog's producer. and so I think Zaz should do it and I should just sit here because I don't have chemistry with... You'll ruin the chemistry pretty instantly. I mean, I had him on Zaslo's show 2.0 last week.

I kind of already did this. Do you want to just play that? No. But I do want, at the very least, to give him an assortment of catchphrases. What is our goal to get him to say how many of these Greg Cody catchphrases during a Cubs broadcast?

What if in exchange for our audience, time we ask our audience for money. Our audience is one of the most special audiences there is anywhere in terms of getting behind causes that matter to us. Ron McGill, most notably. When Boog joins us, what's a success? What are we negotiating in exchange for our audience's support? How many of these do we need to get on the air for you guys to feel like it was successful? Well, I like spending your money, Dan. How about for every one of these cats? Patch phrases that he decides to deliver, you stake a cash total behind. A lot of money.

What should the amount of money be to make it something? $10,000 per catchphrase. He is your best friend. And it is an important cause. You do want to end ALS. Or 9,000, right? Either way. Okay, nine. What are the phrases on here most likely to make it on?

He respects baseball, but over the years, I've actually been quite delighted to see him go from somebody who was super anxious about over preparing for stuff to somebody who can just sit in the middle of the chaos because it's a bit of air traffic control, the number of people talking to you and the things that are happening during a baseball broadcast that is televised. Boog Shambi has gotten very good at being relaxed. So when Mike says that, I wince, because that could cost me $200,000 because he cares about this cause and he's comfortable enough in his career, his profession, how good he is at this and the safety of his employers that he will get carried away. New math, 180. I'm not listening to you guys on this. I'm not going to give this much money to something. Well, you can do it. If any of you would match me, we can do it. I got five for me, at me. I'm spending all my money on a dark secret. I think about it.

Which are the phrases here, Zaz, that we have that might be likely to get said on a Cubs broadcast. I think of the Cubs broadcast as being a manicured, sacred place. And so if all of a sudden he's yelling sassafras on a home run call and it's got no context or explanation. Jeremy just said in the background, this count is fuller than Vern Fuller. I mean, this is going to be easy money for him. It's going to come easy to booge because one thing that I've noticed about Greg Cody's countdown is a lot of these catchphrases

were born while he was calling baseball games that his son was playing in. My guess is because it has to be something that he can somewhat fake that is part of the broadcast. So I could probably see him going with you're going to go to Buffalo with Bernie Parnily. That's what I want to make it difficult for. I want him to work in Georgia, Georgia.

Does he have leeway to change things a little bit because Bunt? works a lot better than punt Yeah, he can do that He can use some Creative poetic life Could probably also see him going With nice hat asshole

Where's yours by the way Yeah, where is my hat? I want during the broadcast There's just like a promo for some movie And there's a trailer and you just say Trailer's full sailor Where's my clip clip? You look like a billiard ball

That stray laugh From the soundproof room outside was Ethan and annoyed me. I annoyed me last night. Be easy for him to say. I'm sorry, Jeremy. What happened to your guys Colorado Avalanche? You promised me that they were going to win the title easily,

and now all of a sudden, Tortorella's got his players taking 40 bucks to the face. Well, the first thing was Carol McCard did not play, so they lost a firepower from the blue line. It's a big one. And they blocked a lot of shots last night, Vegas did. It was good defense. Yeah. Can I walk back?

my take. Vegas, with Eichel and Marner and Carlson, they got these defensive forwards that are not going to neutralize Colorado's rush, which, by the way, as Roy mentioned, their rush, pass at Blue Line is affected by not having Kail McCar, one of the brilliant, offensive-minded blue liners in the league, and really great on the rush. The thing about Colorado is they have McKinnon and McCar. And when you take one of those out, then you have a recipe with them eating pucks and with their aggressive forward checking with very capable two-way forwards. This could be a really interesting series, and the added bonus of it appears their goalie is getting hot,

and they're playing their best hockey at the right time, and they're villains. They're kind of embracing it. That locker room thing, while it was punitive because they lost a second round pick, it appears to have galvanized this team. This is the United States of America. It ain't the United States of Tortorella. The thing that Mike is talking about there is that they've frozen out the entirety of the media.

It's not just a second round pick that they've lost in violation of league partnership rules. I think it's also a $100,000 fine. No, but they goes $100,000 specifically to Tortoella. That's a lot. You've got to think that hurts. That's very punitive. And Tortorella probably smiles a menacing grin and delights in the tax deduction of that because he's not supposed to be at the top of the sport again.

And he, it's kind of crazy. Everything that's happened there with that franchise in general. Just all of it is nuts. It, you can make the argument that that is the best sports thing that Vegas has ever had. It would be that or Jerry Tarkhanian. Like, that's the list. It's not close. It's the biggest golden nights.

Granted. Really? You and L.O.B., it was such a big deal early 90s. It made it to the Stanley Cup in their first year. They made it to the Stanley Cup in their first year of existence. This story, though, to hire Tortorella, what was it? Seven games, five games? Like, how many games before the end of the season?

Did anyone see any of that coming? The idea that they would get a notoriously coaching villain. You watch them all season. They can't beat a single good team. They played playoff teams. They would get just trounced. They weren't that good this year. No.

They lost more games than they won. It's an interesting story because, you know, mourners rewriting his whole narrative in the postseason, Jack Eichel is a brilliant player to watch. You can't walk it back, though. You can't say a couple of days ago, it's, like, who does that? Where have you ever seen on television? Someone say, hey, I've got Flatley. OKC and Colorado were obviously going to win the championship. And then two games get played and you're like, never mind. Yeah, no, I regretted it when I said it. I still think Colorado wins this series. McCar coming back will be a huge boost. And look, for all we talk about Vegas,

Utah showed that they aren't unbeatable. And Colorado is certainly more talented. I'm stunned to hear what you're saying right now. I think Colorado wins this series. Don't get me wrong. But there's a lot of things working in Vegas' direction that lead to a pretty sizable upset, in my opinion, especially when you take the entire context of the NHL season.

This is the United States of America. It ain't the United States of Tortoella. A manager gets ejected, and you hear, don't go showering, try to please me. All right, we'll see what you guys do with Boog when he's here in about 30 minutes. I'm going to try and sit some of it out because I'm not joking when I say it's one of the weirdest things of my professional lifetime. The fact that one of my closest friends in the world, I don't have any on-air chemistry. Does he feel the same way?

We'll ask him. You should ask him, we're going to rummage around in your relationship because Boog's the one who saw. Boog is the talent scout who first saw something in the billiards ball. Like he looked at this head that was not bald. That was not ball. It was the big dog. Boog saw, he looked at the number five ball and he said, I think that should be talking at a microphone,

and he helped birth the rising stardom of Zaslo around here and everywhere else. So we will get to that in a little bit. Thank you. I heard him the other day. I actually heard him the other day because I had left the Marlins game from the previous night on and so I'm driving in. He was calling. They were trying to find him. He was in Northern California at 5 a.m. and they clearly found him late and woke him up and the big dog was calling in from some part in North Carolina. And I was both delighted and hurting for him because he sounded so groggy at what was 5 o'clock in the morning, California time. Just someone couldn't. find him and then they located him. There was a producer talking for a while. I don't know how much. Hollywood? I got to hear his take on the whole

inner Miami thing. So we will get to that in a little bit. We've got David Samson today and Jessica as well. But Jeremy has spent the morning accusing me of something and I haven't really gotten the details of this accusation. He's just

simply calling me a Knicks fan. That's right. So well, okay, so what's happening here? And before I get to the details of what's happening here, who are you guys rooting for in basketball? You guys are rooting for what to happen in basketball. Spurs. I'm good with the Spurs. Spurs and not the Knicks.

Because I'm from here. The Cavs out of here. F the Knicks. You want the Knicks to have the most pain. I want the Knicks to get to the final and lose to the spurs. Yeah, that's how I feel. I mean, that's fine. But I'm certainly not rooting for them the way day.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Quervo is a thing that turns hanging out. into this is the night. It has that effect on people. It does. You usually take the credit for it. But again, it's the Cuervo effect. It's like that moment in a big game where everyone in the crowd

just starts standing up, hooting and hollering. Keep it quervo. Keep it quervo, baby. Don Lebertard. I'm just here to say one thing. The Knicks are f*** back. Stugats. Tavis Hallibrand?

Six points? Fraud. Everybody was like, yo, he's better to jail in prison. He's better. The Knicks should have drafted him. Fraud. This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugats. So the problem with what you guys are rooting for is the Knicks and the Spurs, the matchup, the way that that one works.

There's no one in the league who's been better bothering Wembenyama than Onanobi. Like there's no one. Statistically, no one exists. And you saw OKC's resorted to thuggery. They're just, Hartnstein is out there not playing basketball. Yep. What are you talking about? He's playing tough physical basketball.

has a limited offensive game. What he's going in there to do is wreak havoc. It's the biggest wemby hater in the world. How clearly biased over here? That has nothing to do with Wembe. What? Nothing to do with Wemby? Literally.

All he's doing is hooking Wemby's arms and grabbing him and try to tug him to the ground. I have not mentioned the Galactic dictator's name not one time. All I said was that Hardinstein went in and did what he's supposed to do. Hook an elbow. Throw a chicken wing. Like that's what you're paying to do, buddy. Grab boards, shoot that little floater and give somebody an elbow. Kind of true.

Like, it's the old, hey, you have five fouls, you know, use them. Well, maybe they should call one of them. He also pulled Castle's hair. That was crazy. Guys, we got to keep our head on the ball here. Eye on the ball? I'm a ball. Dan's a Knicks fan.

Stay focused here. He's trying to get us on last night's game. He has trying to push us away. It's been a three and a half year a bit. That's right. I have proof. Keep your head on the ball? He knew what I meant.

Thank you. No. Damn you, Chris. Maybe Boole will say that. We have. You let them squirm away. Why did I try to tie? Speaking.

What is the accusation? I am a Knicks fan because I thought that that game, that game one was a delightful thing if you love sports? No, because you're a Knicks fan. You are. You are. You've been actively professing your Knicks fandom for years. I can go out. I can show you.

Do you want me to physically show you how you're a Knicks fan? Do it. I have proof. Don't make me get the super cut of all the moments that were like Larry Johnson. four-point play. Don't make me do it. It is shocking that whenever you refer to Larry Johnson's four-point play, you also don't mention that

it was a phantom foul. Like, no one touched him. Everybody knows that. The thing that I'm mentioning there that most people, I'm guessing, don't have any idea what I'm talking about. Put it on the poll at Levitard show. Do you know what is being said when someone mentions Larry Johnson's

four-point play? Yes or no. I'm talking about the noise in a building. I'm talking about just specifically the way New York felt connected to that basketball team in a moment when this century, it is the best that New York basketball has felt. Didn't we say that after they were chanting Bobby Portis's name in the garden? I get it. It's a great atmosphere. I'm not denying it. You asked the question, what are you rooting for? I didn't have an answer. I want to see this thing play out. I'm rooting for great

games. And so far, this is delivered. This part of the NBA playoff. is delivering, and I just want to see this sport be captivating again because Zaz coined this, and it's stuck in my mind ever since you said it back in the heat days. The NBA playoffs are all about drama, drama, these big moments where it's mono a mono, ISO ball, mid-range jumper against great defense, these dramatic moments. And because of the way that the sport is gone, you're not getting these game situations that allow for those theatrics. And I just want to see those moments.

And we've had him so far through three conference final games. We've gotten moments. This has been so exciting. But I'm not going to forget what happened last year when Halliburton had us, you know, just jumping out of our skin. I did feel watching last night. And I turned to my son late in the game. This series is going to be a war. You know?

But last night I thought was a really good sign for the Knicks. because you see because of the way the Thunder and the Spurs are playing. Jalen Williams has already hurt now. Dylan Harper is already hurt now. If that series goes seven games, what kind of physical condition is the winner in? And that's why a team like the Knicks, or the Cavs, for that matter, does actually have a shot. Okay, but this is a bit of a distortion, okay? What you've seen the first two games in terms of how it is you do the measurements.

The Spurs don't have a point guard, so Castle keeps turning the ball over. It's how OKC wins. Last night's game was won by OKC. Castle's got 20 turnovers in two games because they're not playing with a point guard. Good luck with that against that team over an extended period of time. But when he comes back, you've got a different series there because they need someone who handles the ball. What are you shaking your head at me for, Tony? I'm just thinking, like, do you?

Is it a different series when Fox comes back? He hasn't been healthy enough to play. So now he's going to be out there and playing against guys that are piranhas? This is unprecedented turnover territory. We're in because you've got a young guy who shouldn't be handling the basketball that much, turning it over 20 times against a team that feeds off that. The reason OKC wins is defense turnovers, fast break. You can talk about Shea Gilgis Alexander all you want,

but what they do on defense is the thing that's special, and it starts everything else. Guys, we are not keeping our head on the ball right now. I know. Imagine, if you will, sad day. We put Greg Cody in the dirt. No. And we turn to our right. and there is this tatted up goth girl just weeping and then she disappears.

Nice. We should have some fun with that particular funeral. I think he would want that. I still want to get the game involved that rewards a listener for coming up with the correct thing we're putting on the tombstone. Crowded tombstone. There are a lot of things. We put a lot on there every year. Presented by Brad Williams's podcast.

Let's go out to Jeremy. A night and babble. Let's go out to Jeremy in the other room and find out what it is that he's accusing me. Go ahead, Jeremy. Dan, there is a five-pronged approach against you. You do nothing efficiently. One. Dan Lebitard himself has said he's fed up with the Miami Heat Organization,

trying to distance himself from the fact that he used to be a Miami Heat mouthpiece now propping up the opinions that are anti-Miamy Heat for several years now out of the shipping container and out of his own mouth. Point number two, he was looking for more New York Knicks correspondence, going back several seasons. The first time he evoked the Larry Johnson game, while his own co-hosts that was sitting next to him was a self-proclaimed Knicks fan. No, we needed to have more New York Knicks. Point number three, as the George Soros of sports journalism, he has funded a now Pulitzer Prize winning journalism. where's he from? He's from New York, Dan. Pablo Torre, who refuses, by the way, as a guy who went after

Kawhi Leonard in aspiration, he refuses to go after Jalen Brunson. Chris, play the clip. I would like to say to Jalen Brunson, to Rick Brunson, to John McRey, to Joe Budden, to the guy I will encounter on the sidewalk today. I am not looking in to Jalen Brunson. Point number four, one of the biggest Knicks fans in the world. Ben Stiller. You know what it says here, Dan? It says, Dan, I know your Knicks fan.

It should have said you're a Knicks fan. But it said, I know your Knicks fan. Why does he know that, Dan? Because he's a Knicks fan. It takes one to no one, as they say. And number five, and this is the real smoking gun. What is the first

thing that Dan Lebitard thought to do as he delayed his own production crew by 45 minutes to do a show in the studio you're presently sitting in. He went on Sam Marelle's podcast, grinning like a fool, praising the way in which he loves the Nix. How happy he was for the Nix to win the joy that he felt watching this team. And oh, the beloved garden, Chris, play the clip. Yeah, I know you're not a Knicks fan, but you got to, at least have enjoyed that a little bit last night. I was legitimately happy. Case closed. Wow.

Wait a minute. I said I was happy for him. No evidence to that. Wow. That's creatively left. Wait a minute. Incredible, Jeremy. Great work. Mule Eaton Briars. That's Dan's body. You just heard Sam say, I know you're not a Knicks fan.

That seems to go. He's trying to help you out there. Seems sarcastic. Then you rebutted it with I'm happy. Can I hear that again? I know you're a Knicks fan. Knicks fan. Yeah, I know you're not a Knicks fan, but you got to at least have enjoyed that a little bit last night. I was legitimately happy.

You can't on one end hold up Sam knowing you're not one and ignore that Ben Stiller knows you're one. You're, you are Knicks fan. You are Knicks fan. Dan, I knew you are Knicks fan. They are the best story remaining. says the Knicks fan. I think it's Wimbunyama versus OKC. Pretty obvious.

The guy taking over the league, becoming the next LeBron. Put it on the poll at Levitard show. Bigger story. Wemba Nama winning the championship or New York winning the championship at Levitard show? For the same reason that I was telling Greg Cody, I believe that he's wrong about the Knicks being the best thing that could happen to the league, them winning the championship. championship, totally off base. You see? Every year, us being able to point at the Knicks,

are they going to do it this year, and they continue to not do it, is the best story. Don't let this guy slide off the hook again. Keep your head on the ball. Keep your head on the ball. He just changed the poll question thinking we wouldn't notice. What's the biggest story, New York winning the championship or Wembe winning the championship?

That's fine. That's a discussion for another day. It's not the one that we're having right now. The bigger story right now is Wembe taking on this OKC, budding dynasty. And I'm sure the ratings will reflect that. Championship, yeah, I'm with you. New York finally winning an NBA title the same year they win an IST potentially. Can you imagine? I mean, they're going to repeat against the Spurs if they do that. But Dan, the first thing you went to go do was celebrate on this Nix podcast with Samarrel, of which, by the way, at the end, I heard him say

to you that he's going to go get a bunch of other Nix fans, but he wanted to start with you. Ridiculous Ridiculum as some would say The Little League theory Hey Butterfinger inexplicably Well I think he can get the Little League theory in there Because he can just be talking about Little League

There are a number of other ones here That are harder to get in Well hey Butterfinger you can do it for an error Well they had three of them in the first three innings yesterday Tony yesterday I was waiting for the bathroom And Dan was ahead of me And the door was closed He farted?

No. I heard it. I did hear a wayward. Yer! Dan, did you throw a yur? No. He's making that up. All right.

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It was excellent. I feel like there's legs. I tried at the beginning and then I lost confidence in it. Why? It was good. Yeah, you got this. There's nothing official. Yeah, it's so good.

Conversations are still ongoing. Stugats. It is trending towards Nick Siriani, remaining the head coach of the Eagles. This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats. I want to not get out of the show today without a couple of things being discussed around here. One of them being what it is that happened

across the street here yesterday at the Freedom Tower. Another thing, you know, related, actually. Stephen Colbert leaving the air tonight. That's tonight? Yeah, it's the last show. is tonight and I want to talk about that as well. But before we get out of the local hour, I want to talk about what Bobby Marks is saying about Janus Antecumpo. Bill Simmons and Zach Lowe have been talking to people in the league and saying they're surprised how lukewarm the interest

is in Janus. Zach Lowe is saying that Miami remains suitor number one. And Miami is also the large betting favorite if you're someone who bets on these things to land yannis and i just think boston has more to offer and boston now has to change its game plan because we've all seen what the structural flaw is in boston correct they want it uh when the the game is changing so much and they're out ahead of the curve they won it the one year was available to them by playing the style of play that now everyone has caught up to and losing to the sixers that way in a game seven at home after you already lost to the Knicks that were built to beat you because on the nights your threes don't work you're a disaster and people hate watch you including your own

fans because going nine for 53 from three is just really unpleasant to watch Boston has more assets and more ability to get him and then becomes more formidable than Miami if you team Janus with someone who's better than Bam? Sure, but isn't it a conceit top to bottom starting with Brad Stevens on to Joe Mazula onto the entire roster? If you trade

for Janus and do the complete reprint of the blueprint where you're taking all these guys and sending them somewhere else, it's a conceit that the whole thing is a farce and it's done, right? Because you're adding in Janus, you're going to have to send shooters, you're going to have to send Jalen Brown. Like, what are you going to do with Joe Mazzula who coaches

a certain style? No, no, but it is done. Once you lose to Joel Embed's fractured remains in the first round and New York's built to beat you, it is done. I would think Boston has been ahead of the curve, and Brad Stevens wins executive of the year because he's not afraid to change things. He's not afraid to be aggressive. And the things we're presently watching with Jalen Brown also suggests that he'd like his own team. and I'm, are you not assuming that that is done?

Are Boston fans not assume? Boston fans, let me do this another way, actually, because you mentioned I'm a New York Knicks fan. I have been talking to a number of Knicks fans over the last three years who simply don't want, they don't want LeBron. They fall in love with Hartnstein when he's there. They've fallen in love with An Anobie. They do not want to trade Ananobe.

And so when I say, like, one of the things I was talking to Sam about is I'm like, you people have become just totally crazy. the last three years, you reject the idea of having LeBron James. What an amazing thing to have happened in the cultural leadership of the New York Knicks as that the Knicks all of a sudden are in a place where their fans have fallen so in love with what they presently have that they're like, no thanks, LeBron James. Yeah, it makes sense to me. And this is something that means a lot to me as a sports fan also.

Sometimes you want to win with your guys. and the Knicks fan these are their guys. They want to win with this group. It won't, look, winning a championship is obviously the goal, but it means more if you win with your guys as opposed to bringing in a mercenary.

That does mean more to me. I'm not even surprised. It's obvious. I felt so seen by him there with that point. This guy loves O.G. Ananovi. are Knicks, man. He's obsessed with him. Oh, the Wembe Stopper. I'm going to be so torn when it's the Knicks going up against Hartnstein. I don't know who I'm going to root for. You guys still love

Hartnstein, by the way. They love him so much. You love him. We love him. I'm sorry. I've got to get my pronouns right. It's confusing time. Careful. Who made it to Charlotte? That's going to be tough to get on there. I can't wait to hear his vote for what is the toughest one and the easiest one to get into the toughest one's a fun game to play. Tuffest one has to be asshole, right? He can't see it. That one's gonna be tough. Are we gonna read all of them to him? I think we're gonna have my dad. We're gonna replay

one of my dad's reciting him. He's gonna be bored. Fow ball. What do we break a window? We're gonna ask him to have a pen and write it on his phone or whatever put it on the poll at Levitard show. Do you still use pens? I guess yeah, punt would be hard.

Show an opposing fan. Look at that jerk. I know you can make it bunt, but if he used punt, that would be difficult. I think the one that we have to have that he has to say on a strikeout is he-h-3 Badeo. He-Haw-3! I love after an air. Hey, butterfinger! Steve Morton.

No, I'm just saying. Like, that's what I think. You're saying it again because it's been said. No, I'm saying that that's one. We should highlight that one as well. You got to eat a peck of dirt before you die. I'm talking again. We will get to him in seven minutes or so, but I did want to talk for a second about what

it is that happened across the street here yesterday as politics seep into everything. And you're talking about something very personal to me, very personal to Miami. You had in the streets of Miami yesterday something that felt like right across the street, a community celebration of something that was done just for the symbolic optics and politics of hassling a Castro. So Raoul Castro, we could

have indicted him on any number of things at any number of times over the last number of years. And the thing that he has been indicted on, because he was charged with murder, for those of you who do not know the story, this one is a uniquely Miami type

of thing. Brothers to the rescue, if you do not know what that is. Many years ago, Cubans were so desperate. Kind of as desperate as they are now as we choke out their oil supply and They go 22 hours a day on the island without electricity so you can imagine Zaslo how you would have to live life if at whatever time the electricity comes on for two hours You have to get up at that time and make sure that you handle all of the things that need electricity in those two hours That's what's happening? Yes, they there are 22 hours a day the

The island is both starving and rotting as it has been in some ways for 67 years. But this is as bad as it's been because they don't have oil because we are denying them oil. And you have people who have been suffering for a long time who are super resilient. And in our country of great opulence and arrogance, we have the ability to choke out. the island and we also have the ability to rescue the island but the people in charge now do not care about the people of Cuba they care about the land of Cuba and so what happened yesterday was symbolically a 94 year old man is being indicted for something that was shooting American civilians out of the sky 30 years ago and it's murder and it's Raul Castro as

defense minister who made that order And so you have basically a 94-year-old man who can't really walk being aided by a bunch of 80-year-olds to walk being indicted. And it's a Castro regime that name symbolically is the one we're taking out, even though he's the former president. And what Brothers to the Rescue was doing, Zazlo, for those of you who do not remember this history and this time, there was a time that in Key West, I'm going to say thousands of people a day because I think it was two thousand. thousand a day were landing on the shores of Key West in automobiles that they had turned into boats. They're literally throwing their life to the sea. And what Brothers to the Rescue was doing is flying airplanes over, we overwhelmed the local coast guards, flying airplanes between what is considered the greatest graveyard that there is, which is the ocean between Cuba and here,

between communism and freedom is filled with death. And so the planes were flying over, and Raul Castro allegedly ordered an airstrike that killed Americans, three Americans, four people total, three Americans, who were trying to provide humanitarian aid, who were also doing some propaganda where they were flying leaflets over the island,

but they were violating international airspace. And so that's what the charge was yesterday. And so the weird scene right next door to us was a celebration in the street of murder charges. And the celebration was such that it was happening before the charges were even announced because Cubans in Miami have been waiting for this day where a Castro comes to justice, right? I thought Raul Castro, I honestly thought he was already dead. He's not in power anymore. This doesn't meaningfully change anything.

But America is going to do there. It would appear what they did in Venezuela. we want that land. We want the ability to build resorts. Well, not we. Trump wants the ability to build stuff in Cuba and it's valuable land. It's a tropical paradise if you give it oil. Yeah, it's the jewel of the Caribbean.

And it is an interesting situation because, like you said, Raul Castro is 94 years old. Like the indictment of murdering and manos arrecate was something that happened 30 years ago that people were really upset about. And like as the years and decades have gone by, like people have kind of forgotten. We have on, I want to say it's on Flagler and 17th Street kind of close to the ballpark. You have the Brothers to the Rescue Memorial that's over there. Like this is something that is entrenched in the community. But the next generation doesn't really understand what happened, right? It's civilian guys, Cuban families, flying over there and dropping and trying to help people.

Heroes. Literally heroes that got killed because there was an infiltration of Cuban spies into Brothers to the Rescue their group. So they knew exactly where they were going to. to be, they had the coordinated attack, all that happened, and we've kind of forgotten about it. So anytime there is justice for the Cuban people against the Castro regime, people are going to celebrate it, no matter what the underlying theory, the underlying idea is behind whatever political parties in power at the time to use that as a pawn in their game. Like this is a win for our people because they tortured and killed and completely dismantled

a nilean for 70 years. And like you need some sort of retribution on that. And seeing that, again, 80 years. old's walking a 94 year old out. Like that's what the regime of Castro and the Cuban government is. It's all these guys from 60 years ago that are still in power. Think about that. Also think about the fact that it was happening at the Freedom Tower.

It's the first place my father was in the United States. It's the first place they gave him food. They like gave him a bag of things to live here. And between us and the Freedom Tower, which we can see from our windows out here, they've given Trump that land to put what is going to be a library for a man who's never read a book and isn't going to actually be a library. And Mike Ryan loves to tell me monthly that my father is going to be a casino greeter there in five years. I should have a library.