The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: Jessica Earns a Face Time (feat. Jessica Smetana)

Episode Date: June 18, 2025

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Chris Cody and Roy are late to the party at the elbow room. It is crazy there already. I told you it would be. You wanted it to room. It is crazy there already. I told you it would be. You wanted it to be done, and just people were ready to move on. And yeah, we gotta get them there. Now we're worried about traffic. Oh boy. That is correct.

It takes a while to get there, but Chris Cody has left, Roy has left, and you will forgive us for just generally being a little bit drunk here. That is gonna be my excuse for confusing Reinhardt and Bennett a couple of segments ago. And Zaslow was on ESPN Radio Game Night last night, immediately after the victory.

He doesn't remember anything he said. I don't remember that. I mean, I think I did fine. I think I gave them what they wanted. I mean, I don't remember. He doesn't remember. It was celebratory elbow room feeling. Break that shit. Jessica. Exc feeling. Jessica is about to join

us here because we have an emergency. There was another giant thing that happened in Fort Giles last night. This was huge. Yeah, the video is amazing to watch just any time there's a fight. But on our list of tensions, right right we have a a hierarchy of tensions we begin with what to describe this fight how to describe this fight during uh... fever son we've got chicane areas at the very bottom hijinks malarkey skullduggery shenanigans tiff spat quarrel tom foolery skirmish fr Hullabaloo, Ballyhoo, Dust Up, Brujaha, Armageddon, Agree to Disagree.

You just went to Urban Thesaurus and you came up with words. I mean, this is not. You interrupted me as I went from Armageddon to Agree to Disagree. You stepped right on the joke. Well, I mean, this is how you're setting this up. This was a great entertaining basketball game.

Fever 88, Sun 71. This was chippy basketball. And this was the return now, this week, of Caitlin Clark to the League. And announcing her presence with authority versus the liberty in the way that she did. And now this was good basketball that is now veering off to something else. And Jessica, we bring you in here. And I want to get your take on this.

What you saw last night. Start with the Sheldon Fowl on Caitlin Clark, the poke to the eye, and then what happens after that. I'm going to start with Dan and say fracas. It was a fracas. When I told you I wanted to talk about this, I said it was a fracas. And I stand by that designation. I don't think this was anything more than a fracas.

It was certainly not an agree to disagree. But it also was not tomfoolery. Was it a dust up? No, it was not a dust up. But we need to establish this right at the start. This is an allowable fracas in the playing of basketball in your opinion, Jessica. Yeah, I think this is competitive sports.

And did Sophie Cunningham take it a little bit too far? Yeah, and I think she was penalized for that. But I think if you're going to criticize any aspect of what happened in the game, it's that the referees sort of let things get out of hand and maybe did not adjudicate some of the earlier fouls properly. There was, you know, J.C. Sheldon and Katelyn Clark had been playing against each other for a long time.

They played against each other in, you know, J.C. Sheldon and Caitlin Clark had been playing against each other for a long time. They played against each other in, you know, the Big Ten in college. And so J.C. Sheldon was guarding Caitlin Clark during the game. And as early as the second quarter, there was obviously some words between the two of them. If you want to, you know, do some lip reading, there were maybe some F bombs dropped around from Caitlin Clark. And then when J.C. Sheldon appeared to poker in the eye later in the game,

Marina Maybree comes in. Marina Maybree is a former Notre Dame player, so of course I have to defend her because she's one of my favorites. But Marina Maybree, Marina Maybree, she does what Marina Maybree does, yes. She's going to step in and defend her teammate, so she kind of like hip checked slash like pushed Caitlin Clark. Caitlin Clark fell. That was a point in the game where, you know, I think Jacey Sheldon got a flagrant one for the eye poke, but then everyone else was assessed technicals.

And there may be some criticism that Marina, maybe we should have gotten ejected there. I think, you know, that's certainly up for debate. And I think it's also worth noting, the Sun are not the best team in the WNBA. They were actually the worst, if not maybe like the second worst, I think it's also worth noting the Sun are not the best team in the WNBA. They are actually the worst, if not maybe like the second worst, like the Dallas Wings are also pretty bad.

But the Fever are a championship contender team. So at the end of the game, when most of the starters were out, the Fever were up by 17 points. And Sophie Cunningham decided to prevent J.C. Sheldon from scoring on a layup. And that's when the fracas began. I would say everything before the fracas was just sort of basketball-y players defending their teammates

sort of thing. And then the fracas occurred in the fourth quarter, which was, it took the referees like 10 minutes to decide what to do. They ended up ejecting a bunch of players, including Lindsay Allen, which I don't, like I don't even know what she, she looked like she was trying to break it up. It was just very silly. And so, yeah, there's been there's been a lot of internet discourse today about Sophie

Cunningham. Dan, I think you would probably like to know this, but the people call her Maga Barbie. That's part of all of this, too. So, yeah, it was a it was a spicy meatball. I love that our show went from what we were describing as hungover slop to breaking out into around the horn where Tony's hosting and we're bringing in Jessica and she's using words like adjudicate to give informed analysis. I don't know what happened, but I love it.

Well, this is a very interesting story to me, for me and Jessica. I think the conversation really needs to start with how people view Caitlin Clark and whether people view that the WNBA needs to protect Caitlin Clark, the golden goose of a league as which she is being called, from rough play in the playing of game and your view of that. Because for me, when I watch this with my eyes, I'm on that little face guarding, that's

a poke in the eye, that's in the play of basketball, Mabry comes in for a hip check, well I see that in other NBA games and it's not front page of USA Today the next day, that happens. And then Cunningham, well Sophie Cunningham is on this team because she's going to now be an enforcer for Kaitlyn Clark and I think that's a wise move by Indiana. But do you believe the WMEA has to be more serious in protecting one player over other players because of the physicality around how defenders now are with Caitlin Clark? Yeah, I mean my take on this I think has been pretty consistent since Caitlin Clark was in college which is that she dishes it out and I think that it's a disservice to her as an athlete to pretend like she can't also take it. Like I think her being someone who can

play really aggressive, hard basketball and competitive basketball and can, you know, smack talk back and forth with other players is something that's part of her game and something that, you know, should be celebrated as well as her long threes. Like those are the things that we love in athletes. And so I think that like, you know, this conversation is sort of spun out of control and like needing to protect her. I don't think if she's going to swear at other players and like getting other players' faces,

then like they should be able to get back in her face and the referee should be able to assess penalties if it goes too far, which is what they did. And I, again, like I agree that there's, I think a conversation we had about if Marina should have been ejected for that or not. Obviously people that don't like Caitlin Clark are saying that she flopped when you know, Marina hip checked her and she sold the foul, which is again, something basketball players do and should do.

That's part of the game is to sell fouls and to get your opponent to have a technical or whatever so that they're in trouble for the rest of the game. Like this is all part of the game is to sell fouls and to get your opponent to have a technical or whatever so that they're in trouble for the rest of the game. Like this is all part of basketball. So yeah, I don't want it. I really don't want this to like go to that extreme level where now people are saying just crazy things because this has been around in the WMA for a long time.

It's a really aggressive sport. It's a competitive sport. It's a contact sport. And yes, do things get out of hand? Of course they do sometimes, and I think the pressure should be on the officials to prevent that, and to, when it happens, be able to assess it and give fair punishments.

Jeremy just chimed in while he was watching what's happening around here, and when you chimed in very precisely there with the word precisely, he was expecting to hear the around the horn sound of points given. Because evidently. It's been ingrained in all of us, Moby and response. Evidently, that's one of your tells.

Jessica, I would say that would have been a 15 point answer. Really? Wow. Absolutely a 15 point answer. Wow. That would be, you'd be leading going into the fire. A 15 point answer.

Well, I mean also here's what happens with with if you're watching a game and then you're watching social media watch a game it becomes it goes so sideways so quickly and this should be celebrated for physical basketball because we wouldn't be leading parades that the NBA needs to protect these certain players from being poked in the eye. Last time out of the court, Kaelin Clark hit six three-pointers from over 26 feet. How do you stop that? Well you got to put a hand in the face. Eye poking happens in basketball. Now the hip check that comes afterward, it happens in basketball too. It's not a basketball play. It gets assessed a tee

or an ejection and we move on from that the indiana fever built this team their wagon this year they haven't played a full game of basketball really this whole season they haven't got the full duana bonner yet they haven't gotten the full caitlin clark as we know she missed three weeks but they're going to be a contender this season but what they were smart they built the team now with some enforcers so the cutting and is happy to mix it up

that's cool uh... when you say the words that's a wagon i've heard them all the time the panthers are officially a wagon now they were officially they were wagon last year their double wagon something that's just not the best players it's a team that really complements each other i think more than the team where does the expression come from forgive me for not knowing I don't they're a wagon I know what it means, but I don't know how it starts or why it is the Panthers are a wagon But they're called a wagon. Do you know you're asking me for the etymology of a phrase that is that not it?

I'm going downhill and it's really hard to stop wagon like someone has a wagon. Ooh, they got a big butt. Okay Yeah, I'm not saying that either in this discussion feel like that's a caboose the New York Liberty and the Minnesota Lynx are the best teams in the WNBA but the fever now are right there with the roster that they put out there and we can keep this conversation always as we should about basketball but that is a team going down the old in a way that it's hard to, but no, we're not doing this. Stop, stop. No, he's right, he's right. He's right about that. He's right about that. We're not doing this.

Got a fatty dumpy, Dan. So now you're at minus 15 points, Seth, and now you're back to back broadcaster of the year. Jess is killing me now. Is really, I mean, this is, I mean, this might as well be a Jessica FaceTime here. 15 point answer, you just gave that up? Have you heard another 15 point answer

from anybody this week? You've been here all week, have you heard a single 15-point answer? Well I really like Billy going for the Oceans 14 job stealing the Stanley Cup. I thought that would have been outstanding. That was well thought out. It was there. It was there for the taking. It still may be. What is going on with Roy and Chris Cody? The elbow room is insane. I'd like video as fast as you guys can get it behind all of us. Videos all over the internet if we're breaking the trophy. The trophy's being broken at the elbow room. The party has begun in South Florida. Yes, Jessica?

I would just like to say if I were there today, Dan, I would be begging you not to go to the elbow room because that is... Who would want to drive all the way to the elbow room? Again, it's about the driving. This is unbelievable. Driven all the way down to Miami. There's no way in hell you could pay me to go to the elbow room today, Dan. It's been what? Probably seven, eight weeks since the last time

I drove on I-95 in Miami. I never want to do it again. We talked earlier, Jessica, about what the championship fatigue was in play here. And we didn't think it was true for this particular team the Panthers because of the way they I think I think Jessica had to move because of the traffic she's not complaining about a small thing it is a suffering down here we have we have seven times too many people we don't need this many people down here we don't have the

infrastructure for this many cars like Jessica I think she moved because traffic number one. I live a pretty beautiful life. I have multiple jobs that I love. I have a beautiful, loving wife. I think the thing that keeps me from feeling like I have a perfect life is the drive back and forth from Broward County to come do the show every day.

Are Chris and Roy there yet? We sent them too late. No. They have not gotten there yet. They're not gonna get there. They're gonna get there at like 4 p.m. Dan. It's like, it's a work day and there's traffic pretty much from 4.30 in the morning. If only we could have foreseen

that this was a possibility. Yeah, not. It's going to take them hours to get there. Hours. And then they have to find parking. All right, so we will see. That's gonna take an hour and a half. We will see when a hungover Roy,

well, Roy's dry, a hungover Chris joins us with hungover Zaslow who can't remember what he said on ESPN Radio game night. I was talking earlier this week about, and I don't know, we became fascinated for about a week before about that submersible being stuck in the bottom of the ocean and the idea that people were trapped

down there. There are now not one but two documentaries. I've only seen one of them, and I know this is a Jessica interest from going back where we were all captivated by this story. The documentary I saw, I don't know which one of the two it is, it was very good and it answered almost all of my questions. Were the two documentaries comparable? Have you seen both of these?

I have seen both Ocean Gate Titan Submersible documentaries, Dan, so you don't have to. I am here to report that, yes, they are about the same. There's some subtle differences in them. One was on HBO. It was, I think, produced by Discovery and BBC. That one has more of the Coast Guard investigation in it. It has the mother of the 19-year-old who died on the submersible with his father.

It has a few interviews that the Netflix one doesn't have. And then likewise, the Netflix one has David Lockridge, who was a former Ocean Gate employee who sued, filed a whistleblower complaint with OSHA and sued, was sued, counter sued, and he sort of blew the whistle on the whole thing before the submersible actually imploded saying that this was unsafe.

And so that, they're a little bit different, a little bit different talking heads, but essentially the same thing, which is that this thing was doomed from the start and it was a terrible idea to use carbon fiber to create a submersible that was going to go down this far. It had never been done before because that material is not conducive

to that amount of pressure. And the guy, if he hadn't died, stocked in rush with his submersible, he would be the most sued person alive. Like the most in jail person that's ever been accused of a crime. Because he- Is that measurable the most in jail person that's ever been accused of a crime. Is that measurable, most in jail? Yes, like he knew that this was not a good idea,

but he kept going. It felt to me by the end of the documentary I saw, you correct me if I have it wrong with the other documentary, but not just that as the conclusion, but that it is possible that he at the end took one of those trips because he knew that's how his life was going to end, to get away from what would be all of his problems

because there was no way that his dreams were gonna come true on whatever the commerce of that thing was supposed to be. And he took five people down with him? I mean. Yeah, I mean, that's exactly, Tony, that's the supposed to be. And he took five people down with him? I mean. Yeah, I mean, that's exactly Tony. Like that's the tragedy of it. Like this, it's sort of easy to laugh at, I guess,

if you can try to not think. It's hard to like separate the fact that like some innocent people died for me. So it's like not funny, but like, I don't know. I guess people find some humor in the fact that like these super wealthy people thought they could do this. I'm not sure, but anyways, yes, Dan, there are people that speculate that

he was sort of like borderline suicidal because he had so much money tied up in this. And he knew that the second hole that they constructed after the first one was compromised and needed to be rebuilt was actually not suitable. And so he'd rather be on the submersible if something happened versus on the the boat that you know the like recovery boat whatever the boats called support boat I think and I don't know if that's true I think I've also read other people say that no he actually believed this thing was really safe and he totally had complete faith in his creation so I don't I think there's a lot of speculation there have Have any of you been on a submarine? The idea of it, the comfort level that you would have

going to pressures in a tube? I've not been in one, but the idea, this thing is super small, okay? It was, the craziness of going to the Titanic in this thing and him thinking that the carbon fiber was making it the safest place in the world, while it's making sounds from the pressure of carbon fiber breaking

in a way that reminds you, oh, this thing is breaking while he's saying it's safe. The whole thing sounded horrible. How big was the window that they were looking at? Very small. Very small, so the point is. And it was bolted on with four bolts, and that was it. And you couldn't open it from the inside. The whole thing felt claustrophobic to me in a way

Explain to you glass bottom boat and it's always underwhelming. It's always like oh, there's there's one fish You know that looks to be moving by there's more Schmutz in the water than you're expecting so not getting the views not worth it It's so and everything about it. When we thought it was possible they had what was it Jessica? 24 or 36 hours of air if they were you know not immediately deceased by the crack and pressure and we were pinging noises down there. Just imagine being complete darkness for 36 hours. I mean everything about it is a nightmare. Yeah. The Dan Leventar Show with Stu Gotz is sponsored by Liquid IV. All right, so I'm getting ready for another beach weekend with the boys.

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Lightning, Panthers, what do you think? Stugats. Look at this face while I tell this to you. Okay, because I don't want there to be any kind of confusion. You look me right in the eye. Panthers can take that ass, man. This is the done libertar show with his two guards Let's segue to other things just like that part of the morning around the morning I didn't submersible around the morning around the morning submersible trivia have been good. I didn't, I didn't. A submersible around the morning. Around the morning, submersible trivia

and questions about Alonzo Morning. Around the morning. Oh, that's actually decent. Stop, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't hear him. I would say. There's nothing decent about this. There's nothing. One more thing, which is that like,

the audience is probably sick of hearing us talk about this and I understand. However, I also thought I was sick of this story and didn't care about it anymore until I watched the first, I also thought I was sick of this story and didn't care about it anymore until I watched the first documentary and then I was like, oh no, I can't get enough of this. This is like one of the most absurd things

that has ever happened. And I keep reading more and more about it. I'm on the Ocean Gate Titan Reddit, like the sub Reddit. I'm beautiful. Should I watch the second one? I've seen the one with the mother. So is it worth watching the second one or is it just gonna be redundant?

I mean, it depends how much free time you have. Because was it the fire festival? I watched both of those documentaries and those were both very different. I enjoyed both of them. It's unfortunate when two documentaries on the same subject, those people had to be rushing each other

to try and beat each other to market. I want a documentary on that Documentary and the two documentaries and how we are navigating that I am told we have live elbow room coverage Do we have a camera present wherever it is that okay? They've gathered on that corner look at the frenzy Canada eat your heart out right there the frenzy on the corner What is that that's near Los Olas which the quarterdeck is around the corner. What street is that the corner, is that near Los Olas? The quarter deck is around the corner. What street is that? What corner is that?

Do we know the street names? I believe that's the corner of A1A and Los Olas, specifically. It could be sunrise, I will confirm for you. Beach looking good today. Well, yes, it's looked lovely the last three days, but not worth the traffic, according to Jessica. This is unbelievable. But Chris andoy are not yet there we have a camera there a live cam but not yet chris and roy okay we'll wait for them

to get there uh... yesterday stugats left and i thought it was funny that he left this is the first art story that i have ever seen stugats take interest in and it's because some tourists in italy were in a museum and just sat on a chair that was like who was it made by who was the chairman Jessica may know this for sure but I believe it was it was not made by van Gogh it was made in the spirit of Van Gogh that's why it's not maybe a timeless piece right Jessica exactly it's like a contemporary rendition of the famous chair painting that Van Gogh painted, you know, in the 19th century. So it is not in itself a priceless work of art,

but it is a Swarovski crystal chair in a museum in Verona, Italy. And they just all been dipped after they broke it, right? Yeah. This is incredible video because it's exactly what you would expect to happen. We've all been in museums and you want to get your chance to get real close and then do something silly like, oh I'm going to pretend to be licking the Mona Lisa or something like that, right? In a photo or you do the, ah look at me, I'm pushing the leading tower of Pisa type thing. You never actually touch it, you never actually sit in it. Yeah, they broke it and then it's it's just, oh, let's get out of here.

And they left. I mean, they actually they did the they did the smart thing though, which is like they didn't get up and run away. According to the article I read, they just like sort of slowly walked out and blended into the crowd and they still have it. There's video of it, though. That's what you get. You get that look when they realize we did it, right?

We sat in the chair. We broke it. But but I heard people saying they sat in Van Gogh's chair. They didn't sit in Van Gogh's chair. They sat in somebody doing a little version of it with some nice quick ones. You can never run away. The whole point is if you do something nefarious,

you gotta walk away like it never happened, just like Ethan Hunt. But you don't turn back. You don't turn back. The explosion is happening behind you. You never turn back. It's like Ethan Hunt where he's walking in a crowd and all of a sudden he disappears

and you're like, where'd he go? Boom, just like that. You can never run away running away draw some signs You know like I mean the number one question that everyone was asking when this video came out was were they American and I guess We still just don't know because they haven't they haven't come forward. So that's it's kind of never found them Yeah I want on all the videos and all the televisions in here to see elbow room celebration the Stanley, the Stanley Cup, is in its rightful place between Rock Bar and the Quarter Deck and Ben and Jerry's.

It is where it belongs. This is where the Stanley Cup should be forever. I am told that Bennett is chanting eight more years. He is at the Elbow Room telling everybody that he's gonna sign an extension. I just associate Bennett with cash register every time he scored. The announcer analysis was always, oh my God, he's gonna get paid so much.

And now he's just shouting, what's that gonna cost? As low, eight more years. The Panthers are drunk on power. They've got the business to afford expensive players. Hopefully something like eight by eight, maybe eight and a half. The Panthers have 19 million in salary cap space. So eight and a half on Bennett's lot,

but it's doable, they could do it. It's hockey, it's like a million dollars a year basically. What's going to be the cost? Who are they going to lose from the deepest? I can make the argument, this I can say, right? There was an undefeated Dolphins team and obviously LeBron and Wade and Bosch, but I can say this right, there was an undefeated Dolphins team and obviously LeBron and Wade and Bosch, but I can say this right here in front of us

is the deepest South Florida championship thing we've ever seen, so who are they gonna lose? Yeah, so remember, hard salary caps, there's no wiggle room, but Bennett's gonna resign. I would guess we will get the Bennett news like on Parade Day. I feel like last year on Parade Day, we got the Reinhardt extension.

Like that's gonna happen this year. On Par On parade day we'll get the Bennett extension. And so then it's, do you keep Eklad? Eklad's not going to make another $8 million, like eight and a half that he makes right now. If they can get Eklad for maybe five, that would be great. Does Eklad say, hey, I just won two Stanley Cups. Let me cash in one more time and leave. He might. I think they could work it out with Echblad. And then you turn to Marshand and you're like, hey, we'd really love to keep you. That was fun, huh? Yeah. Like, let's do it again. And then if that works out, they literally have the entire core of the team locked up for years. This is not gonna end, potentially won't end for a while. And then you just, you know, the back end of the roster,

you bring in more one year guys, like they did this past year. To your point on Bennett, Reinhardt last year, it was announced that morning, and then he actually ended up sending in a video for the championship parade. Oh, because he had a wedding. Because he had a wedding he had to go to for one of his best friends and it just so happened

to be scheduled for the parade that was after game seven. So it was the one time it couldn't happen, but he got his money, he got to celebrate and I imagine that wedding was for him. There's just no way that they don't lock up on it. There's no way. Well, if he's chanting at elbow room. I would imagine it's done. Yeah.

That makes it official. No, I mean, look, once you get to chanting at the elbow room, it's finished. That is a binding contract. And everyone knows it, and it's the history of the elbow room. Should I report it? Yes. Yes, if he's chanting, if he himself is chanting eight more years, doesn't he know that he's locked up for eight more years? All right, you know what?

You know what? I'm a journalist. This doesn't sound like journalism. Well, what you know what I'm a journalist this doesn't sound like journalism Well, it is journalism. I'm a journalist I Have something to report put on the crawl Sam Bennett and the Florida Panthers Have agreed to a long-term contract extension. Would you say that's about it's about eight years, or I'm thinking I'm hearing that it's eight years This is not journals. I'm hearing that it's eight years

I don't have the exact figures yet, but I can report put on the crawl I Can report Sam Bennett in the Florida Panthers cons might winning Sam Bennett have agreed to a long-term contract extension so When someone else there on Twitter or whatever else? Instagram I don't care. Whenever some other journalist. It's Sam Bennett himself, that's the other. I'm not revealing my sources.

You're trying to get me to reveal my sources, I would go to prison before I reveal my sources. If another journalist comes out and reports it, it better say as first reported by Jonathan Zaslow. Otherwise, you sus and you have no integrity. I want you guys to look at the elbow room right now and I like to call it a land of a thousand Chris Coadies. That is the elbow room everybody.

Chris Coadies is there and he is multiplying. Guy in the top right there security guard sweaty. I've seen him do the shirt over the brows and wipe his sweat a couple times. Yes, it's very hot over there. Big hoss in the hallway right there. Chris Coadies was not joking when he said he would fit right in. Jessica, do you miss, it was a year ago at this time, you were in the middle of a championship

celebration, you saw Greg Cody and all the majesty around him during the parade. Do you miss being a part of us being extra obnoxious on a winning day? No, I honestly didn't know the Panthers won the Stanley Cup until when I tuned in this morning at 9 o'clock. So congrats guys, I'm so happy for you. But no, I'm glad I wasn't in person for the J-Off between Zaslow and Cody. Journalism Off. The J-Off, yes. What Realli just did there though that's not right is that he attacked Jonathan Zaslow there. Oh no, no, I was attacking his reporting. And his journalism. What do you know? You talked to Jackie McMcmullen a few times i think you know something that's as low doesn't attack him back

like uh... and what do you think you know about journalism that's as low doesn't look at it but it him well that he's not really confidence that respect the government is reporting not only is he reporting that it's done he's saying they're not going to answer until the parade i he didn't have that part that's just extra stuff he's given okay cool it marshall Marshan, whichever one it is that is weird about journalism.

Oh, pronouncing names is how I should be allowed to age. Thank you, Jess. How many names do Tony... Not that Tony. How many names do Tony... What are the signs of Tony and Mike aging? What are the televised signs? Well, I mean, the Wilbon Shuffle. You saw it firsthand when he came in televised signs? Well, I mean, the Wilbon Shuffle.

You saw it firsthand when he came in for South Beach Sessions. You know, the Wilbon Shuffle is incredible. I mean, Tony has, his curmudgeonly ways have softened. I mean, I feel like he's much more lovable. I meant on air, the mistakes being made on air because they're aging. She's making fun of me because I haven't pronounced

Marshawn- No, I actually wasn't making fun of you. I was trying to make fun of the columnist that was like mad that like Tony's that he was a journalist or something. The mistakes are always calling somebody by their father's name, right? That's always the mistake.

So let's say it was Andrew Luck, it was Oliver Luck. That's always what happens. You remember somebody who you first covered. Cody Bellinger, Bellinger type type mix Oh, that's an interesting one. I was gonna say saying the wrong person won the cons my trophy Well that would be another one. Yeah, now I'm making fun of them That one hurt that one hurt It's why it took two hours to get to somebody scored four goals in a clinching game last night

Usually that's the thing that echoes. You did more time on traffic than you did on on Conn Smythe. That first goal was unbelievable. That was one of the greatest goals you've ever seen. That first goal from Ross. You see that? He scored on his back. That game was over. This game's five nothing. Can you guys, can anyone here give me the historical context of what it should feel like, four goals in a clincher? Like if I'm, in a series that you've dominated, if you become a champion that puts the punctuation on the championship with four goals in a clincher, who are the comps there across sports on somebody

just burying someone else with just an outsized performance? Yannis. Yannis had 51 in that closeout game He made all of his free throws in game six of the finals Yannis I think it's a Freddy Freeman last World Series or he was just going bananas hitting home runs all over the place. I Don't know in hockey I didn't do the I didn't do the reading necessary to know how rare a four goal game in a clincher would be well They said on the telecast when he had the hat trick

and then into the fourth, Wayne Gretzky, that's a good name to be brought up when you're doing things. Decent. So that's pretty decent. And then that's, you know. Messier guaranteed game six in 94. That's a different thing. And he got a hat trick.

Yeah, that's a different thing. He guaranteed a win. Two empty netters. Eh? Does that change to what you feel about four? Yes. Yes. Yeah. Let's be honest. Okay. Okay. All right. Yeah. Like the first two goals, little weightier than the last. So that's some journalism I can respect. Not only is that journalism, I wonder if history will remember that.

No one will remember that. No one will remember. No, no, no, no. People tried to do this with Ovechkin this year with 895 because Wally now has the all-time goal record he also had the all-time empty net record you know sooner definitely had a bunch of empty net goals of course but I know people who want to make that a half a goal in your all-time rankings that's ridiculous I want to leave you with this have you guys seen anything with the the Pedro Pascal lookalike contest winner? I don't know about that. So Pedro Pascal is like, because of, I guess it would be the combination, right, of the last two.

He did Narcos, he did the Last of Us, and he's become like a real crossover. Game of Thrones. Game of Thrones, that's correct as well. So he's become a giant star. And what happened with the lookalike contest winner? Does it not look anything like Pedro Pascal? Let me see some video here. It actually, Dan, looks so much like him that I think that it's actually just him

tending to be the other guy. That's a good bit. That's a great bit. If he can carry that out for weeks without letting it be known. Do we have it? I don't know, I haven't seen this. One upping Chalamet, who just showed up to see the winner.

Pascal actually decides, you know what? I'm just gonna compete myself. So this is what middle-aged people do now for fun. They show up at events where they, who do we have for a Levitard look-alike? Who do we think, can we do that? Can we do it? That's exactly the game I wanna play,

but let's watch the Pedro Pascal look-alike first because he has an interesting actual career that is relevant to look at this is kind of funny. That's him is a Pedro. Oh that is amazing. Just like. We've been that even the just to kill a you know he's he's giving you a little bit of a flare to kiss you know I think here at the show because that Pedro Pascal

is our lighting designer. It's amazing that's great to what a great fit. No way George is George what you know way but he's leading into it right never. He looks like. A dress go to have a picture of what he looks like around the office. Okay, clean it up. How did you do this. It's pretty funny Tyler Goldman stage manager sent out a group

text on maybe Wednesday last week where style. And he was like yo you should go in a year of free burritos and I was like okay and I went home on that day and I forgot about it and then on Friday I showed it to my wife and she was like yo you're doing you're doing this a neighbor in my building is a stylist she has like more like still photography shoots and she was like yo I've got pants I got shoes here's glasses she's like you just got I've got pants. I got shoes. Here's glasses. She's like, you just gotta get a shirt. And I showed up on father's day.

You were supposed to like pre signed up. I did not sign up. I rolled up and I'm like, yo, I'm here. And they're like, you're gonna win. It's the haircut. It's a good bit. It's everything. It's a good bit.

You throw some glasses in a mustache as opposed to the beard and it changes everything. He looked nothing like Pedro Pascal and now I've never seen someone look more like another person. Yeah, he's got a Clark Kent Superman thing going on there. Crazy. Jessica, good seeing you again. Talk to you next week.

Danny Benitez as our Dan LeVittard lookalike. That was my idea. Okay, bye. Chris Penn, Chris Penn, I thought her flounder from Animal House. 15 point answer earlier in the show for Jessica. Leading after one round.