The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: Like An Apple (feat. JuJu Gotti & Trysta Krick)

Episode Date: March 25, 2026

"What about one jone?" Trysta, donned in her cardigan, and JuJu each have competing Top 5s, in no particular order: Top 5 College Basketball Names and Top 5 Sentences That If You Would Have Told Me Happened Before The Season I Would Have Told You To Stay Off The Weed. Also, Chris leaves the show in shame. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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They are in the queue. You can catch them on Alleyoop, on YouTube at DLS Hoops, and on good follow. the show on Draft Kings Network. Before we do that, I want to update our tournament, though, with them, for them. Miami is out, sadly, and also, sadly, this is out. Jim Rome looks like the guy who regularly takes practice golf swings in his office. Purdue advances. Yeah, I know that one hurts, right, Juju, but at least this advances.

Purdue advances. That means this advances. Jonathan Zaslow looks like he says, uh-oh, Spaghetti-o, when he sees someone pulled over. Trista, you laughed before we got to the punchline. The punchline wasn't, uh-oh, spaghetti. Oh, is when someone's pulled over. Are you wearing a cardigan? What are you doing?

Are you making fun? You're making fun of Nick Wright? Had to do it. Saw it. Saw that it was getting a couple of laughs. I was getting ready for the day since I'm on West Coast time, and I said, I got fancy cardigans too. Is yours, though? It's Farm Rio, which is actually more for the culture.

That's Fucci, then. Fucci, then. Butchee. Utah State. The Zaslo Conference is strong. The Zazlo Conference also advanced to this next game, but Utah State has been eliminated. That means this is eliminated.

Kirby Smart looks like the wholesale tire rep who tells you he didn't charge you for that alignment, even though it's complimentary. Deserves to be gone. Arizona deserves to advance because this deserves to advance. Jonathan Zaslo looks like an off-duty mime. Oh, come on. It's a nice headshot. Kentucky is gone.

that means this is gone. Fernando Mendoza looks like he makes his animal crackers fight each other before he eats them. His coach advances, though. That means number two, Iowa State. Don't hurt yourself laughing and coughing, Cody. Number two, Iowa State advances. That means this advances. Kurt Zignetti looks like the uncle who comes to your house for Thanksgiving.

And before even saying hello, says your doorknobs loose. That picture with that one is great. Virginia's gone. It hurts me to say. It really hurts me to say. this is gone. No, Dan. No. Bill Plashke looks like he's the father of Jonathan Zaslo. Crushing. No! Anti-Virginia forever. Crushing. Tennessee shouldn't advance, but Tennessee does.

Pete Alonso looks like a police officer who, even when he's not working, still asks what's your 20 when waiting for you to arrive. Number four, Kansas is gone. Kansas is gone because they don't defend layups at the buzzer with no time left. That means this is gone. Mario Cristobal looks like he disapproves of his daughter's choice. John's advances, that means this advances. Scott Hansen looks like an orthodontist. Solid team. I can't believe this one's gone.

It's a number one seed, so it deserves its ranking. But Florida's gone, that means this is gone. Larry Bird and Adam Silver look like the couple in that famous painting American Gothic. I mean, that's amazing. It really is. Iowa advances, that means this advances. Mike McDaniel looks like the barista who asks if you've ever tried journaling while making your oatmeal latte. I want to do some stats of the day here because I'm told Zhuju has one and I have one to counter and I want you guys to vote on who's got the better stat of the day. Let's make them compete.

Start of the day. Start of the day. This year, start of the day. Start of the day. Start of the day. This year, start of the day. Start of the day. start of the day What do you got, Juju? Joel M. B has appeared in 91 games since he won the MVP. Nicola Yolkic has 88 triple doubles since Joe L&B won the MVP. Trust the process, Greg.

I did not know that you were going with a Yokic stat, so is his better than mine? Zazlo and Greg Cody, were incredulous during the break. Nick Wright making Yokic sound like a clown because everyone is done with Yokic winning the MVP's. They again have the number one offensive rating as they have all season.

And last night, Yokic goes for 23, 17 and 17. 17 rebounds, seven assists. He's got three such games. In the history of the NBA, there have been four other such games. So he's incredible. I mean, it's unbelievable. Is there a single general manager

in the NBA right now that wouldn't take Wemba Niyama or Yokic over Donchich. Trista, where are you on this? Where are you on the MVP voting? I just thought it was hilarious and impressive and outrageous that Nick Wright

and I don't know how he does it to be honest does he just sit in his like some sort of a leather lounge chair of hot takes and he's like you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to muster up the strength to hate on Wembe. I'm going to find the most nitpicky, logical ways to say, I think he's arrogant. I think

everything that we love about this Frenchman, I think I hate. Yes, it's the answer. The answer to your question is you do know exactly what Nick Wright is doing and you know exactly how he's doing it. It's in a leather chair that has, it's a bit, it feels like whatever you imagine hell would look like, fire all around him and stuff. Wow, fire and brimstone. I don't know if there's brimstone, but there's fire. Juju, do you have any thoughts on this? Oh, no. Victor Wimiyama is the best basketball player I've ever seen in my entire

life, so that's my opinion. And I want to take it further. Yes, I agree, Nick. I think the Spurs will win the championship this year. I'm going to go out on a limb because they have one key ingredient that you need. They got a veteran that can score in the fourth quarter.

A means guy, Deerrin Fox. He is going to play an important role in the playoffs, and then he's going to all those other pieces, do what they do the rest of the game. I got them for the chip this. You guys do realize, though, that if the Spurs win the championship, there is not precedent for a team never playing in the playoffs and then all of a sudden winning the championship.

Like usually you have to lose sometimes in the playoffs to grow the way you need to grow in order to win. The only example that I would give there. 1977, Spirit of 77, Portland Trailblazers. That's true. The other example I would give, and now granted these players had a lot of playoff experience. but the 08 Celtics were just put together and won immediately. Okay, but it also took them a bunch of seven games series to do that.

It took them longer in games than it has ever taken, and the three core players had playoff experience. It's not Deer and Fox's playoff experience. Do you guys think that matters, or are we in a new sport? It is possible that my information is dated, Trista, because the thing that's happened the last couple of years that doesn't happen very often in that sport is you've had teams in the finals that have surprised you.

Like Indiana being in the finals, surprised you. Dallas being in the finals surprised you. So maybe with threes it's a totally different sport than it has been historically. Well, and historically, we don't have a guy that's 7 foot 5, maybe 7 foot 6, maybe 7 foot 7.

He keeps growing who can do all the things that Wembe can do, who I see him doing downward-facing dog and the pigeon and all these different yoga moves. He's certainly very limber at that side. which is not something that we could say for someone like Yao Ming or even Arvita Sabonis back in the day. So the things that Wembe is doing sort of break our imagination of what is possible to start with. And then you add what the spurs have surrounded him with.

And you say maybe this is just a new paradigm. And the paradigm I was going to speak of, my bad, I was going to add on to that. Like she said, we ain't never seen a brother wearing a size 48 shoe dunking from the three point line. So that's pretty unprecedented. So I would expect them, his team to do unprecedented things. Do either of you or both of you have top five lists? Both. Trista, kick it off, Trista.

All right. What is your top five about Trista? Top five NCAA names. I've been making this list. I have about 20 of them, but we're going to go one O-LI, which I, of course, just found out what it was, which I had to educate my mom on. But I didn't actually know, so I had to look.

it back up. But I have one OLA and then a top five list. All right. So any better than Concanipple, our favorite from last year? Do you have any better names than that? It was last year, Dan. You can't do better than nipples, really. Put it on the poll at Lebitard show.

Can you do better than nipples? O-L-I, Trista. Greg. Oh, can you do better than nipples, Greg? Baby. I have nipples, Greg. Can you miss me? Folks, this episode is sponsored by BetterHelp.

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It's all about drama. And now, there's baseball on every night. We're back into baseball. We are? Every random Tuesday feels like October when you're into the sport as much as we are. Which is why I texted you the other night, 10-day, Tony. Hey, I got a couple of Miller lights. I got all the games on.

Why don't you come over, pal? Guess what I did. You came over? I hauled over there. You hold over there, but not before you stop by a convenient place to pick up some Miller Lite. They sell it pretty much anywhere. They have beer. You had the white cans.

I brought over the brown bottles. Oh, I saw two for one there. We had ourselves a time. How many times did we jump up off the couch and cheers? Every time. We looked at each other, took a sip, said, yeah, bud, this is exactly where we need to be. We made the right call. That's why we reach for Miller Light every time.

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I ain't never met nobody in the world that's the hate on blues clothes, bro. Like, who don't like blues clues, bro? If you don't like blues clues, you're a loser. Stugats. Look, you get one pop print, that's the first clue. You put it in a notebook. Now what do you do? Blues, clothes, blues, clothes.

Sit on the chair and think about it. This is the Don LeBatar Show with the Stugat. O-L-I. Boopy Miller. I mean, come on. That just instills whimsy. Boopi? Yes, you're right.

Put it on the poll at Levitard show. Does the name Boopi instill whimsy? Yes or no. Number five. Number five. Actually, this is in no particular order, but we're going to start with number four. What do you mean?

What do you mean? What do you mean? What do you mean? It's in no particular order. It's respect the rules. What do you mean? There's no order. It's five in descent.

You can't say five. Wait, you know, no particular order of a five. It's a sending order. It's them getting better as we go. Number four. Well, I got to tell you, number five, David Punch. You mentioned that already. Yes, you mentioned that.

But then you said in no particular order. Not to be confused. I have to get this joke off because I thought of it and it's too good. Not to be confused with Punch the Macaque from the zoo that got bullied by the rest of the macaque. Worth it. Worth it. Not worth it.

She didn't have to get that joke off. She should have edited herself. Number four. Solo ball. Guys with Cajonace on your team, but what about just one honay? This guy is the Han Solo ball. You put it in the wrong place. It's not a honi.

It's a cohong. One hono. Code does not mean two in Spanish. Number three. The alley-oop at DLS hoops. Number three. La Baron Phylon. French word la Baron, the Baron.

Phylon could be reminiscent of pylon, could be reminiscent of the making of the band, Dylon, Dylon, Dylon. I need to hear him say, Phylon, Phylon, Phylon and Phylon. Number two. Coa Pete It's like something I have to go and get from Petco to add to my soil when I help my mom make tomato plants

Is that what sounds like? Oddly specific Yeah Coa Pete Exactly right That is what that sounds like Okay number one Number one of course for y'all is Chandler Bing

Oh come on man He's a black kid who doesn't know anything about the whitest show on television's friends Just very rude for his parents to have named him that when he had You don't know Chandler Bing? Dan? I was confused the moment she said in no particular order. It's so disrespectful to the top five. And she had no confidence in her number one.

Wait, his last name's Bing in the show? Yes. That's wild. Chandler Bing. I knew he was Chandler. I didn't know his last. That's insane. You know my mental name is Chandler because of Chandler Bing.

Is it? I can't believe his parents didn't put him on. Put it on the poll at Lebitard show. Did you know that Chandler from Friends's last name was Bing? Juju, what is your top? list. Yes, sir, man. It's the Tis of season for the NBA, bro. So I got

sentences that you thought you would never hear on the brain since you said it earlier with the brady with the quadriplegic situation. So it put me in the mood. Top five sentences that if you would have told me happened before the season, I would have told you

to stay off the weed. You got five sentences. So I mentioned the headline quadruple, a quadruple amputee cornhole player fatally shoots man. And that inspired you to make a top five list. Any OLLI or just number five? Yeah, OLLI had Paul George PED,

but y'all got too heavy on him earlier. So I'm going to just leave my brother off the list and respect his mental health. Yannis will become a supervillain slash liar slash salesman. Did you guys have any thoughts on the NBA Players Association, rebuking the Bucks for wanting to sit down Janus. Did you guys have anything on that subject? Because Janus wants to play, wants the optics of wanting to play,

and now the NBA PA is saying he needs to be able to play, and you guys, the Bucks are wrong for not allowing him to play or not wanting him to play. Yeah, I think this is just a good old-fashioned standoff. And I agree with the PA, to be honest with you, like if Janice is healthy enough to go ahead and, play the rest of the season out. I think he should be able to do that. Clearly, it's the bucks wanting to maintain the value of their asset to potentially either give him an extension, which I don't know if he'll ever accept, or to trade him to a team like the Knicks or the

heat or wherever it is that he wants to go. But if he has an hyper-extended knee that turns into a torn MCL or a torn ACL, what is his value really this summer? Right. Ju-JU, the next one? Number five. Number five, Anthony Davis and Tray Young are wizards. Lizards. Right. Wizards. I would have never thought that. Number four, Jason Tatum has been back for weeks.

It's funny. I would have never expected that. Number three, Bam out of bio had 83 damn points. How is that number three? You got two better. Number three? You got two better than that. Exactly.

I do, bro. Number two, Chancy Billups got caught up in a RICO. All right. You got one better than that. All right, let's see what you got. Damon Jones slit on that one. Let's see what you got.

And number one, Josh Hart stuck his thumbs of Jalen Brunson's behind after winning the end-season tournament. You've been obsessed with it. That does not deserve to be number one over. No, the shocking part was at the Knicks won something. The shocker. There we go.

There we go. Trista, what is your issue with David Sampson, beyond him saying you were dressed in your PJs the last time that he saw you? What kind of objections do you have today with David Sampson? Well, the first time we talked, we were discussing the CBA, and I asked him about revenue share, which we had to pull the receipts on. and I feel like we should play that clip before I let you know exactly what my issue is. If the players are not going to move on a revenue split versus derive revenue share off of a fixed number,

what is your opinion on what happens? Maybe the end of the WMBA. The players will move. What happened, folks? We got to a gross revenue split. And I would have just appreciated a little integrity from David Sampson. a little Maya Copa because he said it would be the end of the WMBA if they didn't move upon that. And now I saw a new clip that he believes that the NBA got exactly what they wanted.

This is some goalpost moving nonsense. I need to correct your Spanish, and it's not because I'm still bitter because of the way that I pronounced Iran instead of Iran, because it's how I was pronouncing it 30 years ago when I first got it. And it's how the rest of my fellow Americans were pronouncing it 30 years ago, incorrectly. I don't think it's Maya Culp. I think it's Mia Culp. Oh, yeah. Mia Culp.

It's actually Latin, not Spanish. Maya, mea, mea culpa. Oh, Maya. Yeah, I don't think it's any of those that Dan said. You had it Spanish. It's not Spanish. It's Latin. So it is Maya Coppa?

I think it's Maya. Well, it's not Maya, and it's apparently not Mia. This is an important conversation. At least we weren't correcting people on it. Let's do a stat of the day because we have not done this in a while and we were supposed to be doing, I'm sorry, an MVP of the day because we were supposed to be doing this with Zaz every day and we have not been doing it every day. Let's do Juju and Zaz. Zaz's MVP of the day. MV. Be of the day.

Dan, there's a lot of good players in the NBA, and it's about time we have a discussion as to who should be the MVP of the league this year. Season's almost over. If we're going to talk about the MVP of the NBA, we better have a conversation about Nikola Yokic. Last night, the Nuggets beat the Suns, 125-123, Yokic, 23 points,

17 rebounds, 17 assists. I mean, I know Nick Wright thinks that Yokic is a bum, but it's possible that we should have a conversation about Nicole Yokic being MVP. You've nominated him a lot, I feel like. I feel like we can do that every day. This is appearance two and a half for Nikoliyokic. The half coming from the fact that there was one day

where on Zaz's behalf, it was June. Juju saying it should be Nikola Yokic. So Zaz has only said it once. Juju said it once. Okay. So it's really like the opposite. I haven't said it a lot like Dan said. Yeah, that's right.

Yeah, no. You've said some others a lot. You and Nicola have the same agent. He needs to watch his tone. You can watch Juju and Trista on the alley hoop on YouTube at DLS Hoops and on Goodfollow. The. Of the Day! On the Draft Kings Network.

Thank you, Tristan, Juju. They have excellent chemistry. I urge you, their information is also good, and they are excellent on pop culture. Again, Allie Oop on YouTube at DLS Hoops. Thank you. Appreciate the time, the information, and the sweater. Hey, Roy, buddy. You know that energy shift when the game gets good,

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Quervo, man, it's at high five, a random stranger effect. That's right. The game is popping. You're hugging people you never met before. That's the kind of energy that Cuervo brings. It's so smooth, so delicious. That's the Cuervo effect. Keep it, Cuervo.

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You owe me everything. You have added 10 years to my career. Yes, I have. This man has. You haven't. That man! Who the hell are you? Stugats.

I am. Who the hell are you being? Bullshit. Me. You're a rude young man. You're a fool. You're a fool. I already called you a fool.

You can't call me a. You're an idiot again. It's a fool of. You're an idiot twice. You're an idiot for dismissing how much I've had. I've helped you. This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats. Chris Cody today greets me.

This was hello today from your son, Greg. He greets me with Levante David was blubbering, is what he says. He used the word blubbering and he's like, A little unfair. Am I quoting you directly or not? That's verbatim. You are. I may have couched it a little, but go on.

No, what he really said was worse. Well, yes, I was protecting you. I was. What do you say? I was couch. That's usually our jobs, ass. Allow it. I was couching it for you.

The blubbering made it feel like you were making fun of Levanti David. And then you started apologizing saying, I don't want to make fun of the guy. But once you use the word blubbering, like that is the word that was mocking him. I think what we're about to listen to is a very sweet message of him. He's retiring. He'll tell you what he's grateful for. Very sweet what he's saying. But I would think he would even admit, in hindsight,

the noises that he makes doing this are, he's got to be laughing at it a little. For those of you, you guys, for those of you are not familiar with this sound, you guys have done this before when Brett Farve retired one of the 17 times he retired. Whenever guys break down, and you guys, can you guys do me the favor, please?

Find Mike Schmidt, when he was retiring, sort of falling into his locker. Find Brett Farv for me and the video of him crying in a way that makes four, mockery, even though it's the most sincere of emotion from a group of people that don't get rewarded for showing emotion that's not passion or violent. Because our athletes, at the end of their time, when you've been as great as this person has been, I can't even imagine how much Lamante David has cared over the years, because I could make an argument, this is a top five buck of all

time, maybe top three. If I, in terms... It's a buck off. Go ahead. And name, them, Greg, if you think that there are five better in terms of allegiances to city, loved by their city, excellence at the position, because he's been a great defensive player for a really long time, really counted on by that team, but you're objecting, you think you can name five who are more associated with Tampa Bay. I know it's a defensive position, but you think you can name five that the fan base is more connected to in Tampa than this guy. I don't think Tom Brady can count. He was only there for a couple of years. This guy played 14 years for the bucks. My argument isn't that he's

the best or fourth or whatever. My argument is that he's been such a great player. I don't, I think of him as a consistent, really good player. I don't think of him as great. He made one Pro Bowl in 14 years. I'm sure he's beloved in Tampa. I don't know that outside of Tampa he's seen as an all-time great. an immortal, I would argue, like Mark Andrews in Baltimore, to Tampa, to Tampa, I would believe that the connection here, it's just really unusual to have a player play for the same team for 14 years and then retire.

It's not a normal thing. And he cares about all of it a great deal, and this is what caring sounds like. I might get a little emotional because it's how I always get when I talk about my parents. I mean, everybody has parents, man, but I understand how much they meant to me. Growing up where I grew up, it ain't easy, it ain't easy, but they found a way for me. And you don't understand that until you get older until you have kids in your own. And the sacrifices they made for you, it's just thinking about my dad, the sacrifices he made, he was never the breadwinning our family, but for some reason him and my mom made it work.

and their relationship lasted for so long and when you saw you know how they was compatible with each other and how they made all lives easier and you know

we had one car my mom took the car to work and my dad used to take me to practice on his handle bars you know and on a bike we used to walk sometimes and you know as a kid you like dang man like

that wall was a fall walk but you realize like it's a sacrifice that you've got to make the help your son's your kids' dreams come true and they did it I didn't hear the whole thing

let me explain to the audience what just happened here okay because Tony was laughing in the back and it might have confused you why it is Tony was laughing in the back Chris Cody could not look at me I've never seen him shrink quite this way

he hid behind he hid the entirety of his behind the microphone. All I saw was his hat, okay? Because, well, wait a minute, you're not going to skate here. You're not going to skate here. Because as your son hid and shrunk so that all I saw was a microphone wearing a hat and Tony laughing behind him, because Chris didn't want to be seen. Both Lewis and Jeremy were saying into each of my ears, he's lost both of his parents, okay? Another thing I didn't know. Okay, hold on, hold on, okay? Because it seemed from the way you were hiding behind the microphone that you did know. Your father, and look, I would say in this case, the lack of courtesy doesn't fall far from the tree.

The lack of decency. Like an apple. Greg's right. The lack of courtesy and the apple are the only two things that don't fall far from a tree. A common phrase. The lack of courtesy falling far from a tree. First time ever said this guy, inventing a new phrase. Go on.

What were you saying? lack of courtesy not falling far from a tree I didn't say Apple because that's the reference when a child it's like his father or his So proud it's the joke you were going there

All he did was repeated And he's proud of himself But that's not the part that was funny No let's stay here Yeah as you're hiding behind the microphone He threw his coughing Raspie voice That anyone can barely understand

Because it's so spent and we're broadcasting the dissent of his career. Live. Barely. Greg Cody says of Levante David in the middle of that, he's squeaking. There were a couple funny noises there. I'll admit, that was very sweet.

Come on. There was a few, like, he got, like, really high pitch at one point. There was a squeak. This morning, okay, I'm the one who first found. the clip because I love it. I think it's great. And this morning, Chris walks in the room

after hearing it or watching it for the first time and he says to me, Zaslow, is it wrong that I laughed throughout that entire thing? Probably not a direct quote. Let me get the entirety of this again. I said that I was softening it for you and

after you just merely dismissed him with a blubbering. This man, is getting emotional immediately after saying he doesn't want to get emotional and it grabs him pretty hard but it's his parents he cried several times throughout this speech

it's his late parents that he's thinking about and the sacrifices they made so that he could get to where it is that he is now so let's hear that again I might get a little emotional because it's how I always get when I talk about my parents I mean everybody have parents man But you don't understand how much they meant to me. Growing up where I grew up, it ain't easy.

It ain't easy. But they found a way for me. And you don't understand until you get older until you have kids on your own. And the sacrifices they made for you, you're dasted. All right, I'm going to go to the penalty box. Yeah. Yeah, well deserved. Glad you faded.

I'll never forget the look on your face when you were giggling. in the microphone, and then I told you, hey, both of his parents have passed away. That was when you disappeared behind the microphone. To be fair to him, he did not actually know. He probably should have looked it up. Ignorance is not quite a defense. Most people would.

Ignorance doesn't fall far from the tree. When you see someone react like that and the words that he used, my natural instinct would be like to Google, what's going on there? Came in and flipped me off. You guys always want your athletes to care. It's one of the complaints that you have. On top of everything else with Levanti David's career, can you look up for me how many games he missed? Because when I think of that guy, I always think of him, not unlike Bobby Wagner, being in the right place all the time on knowing where it is that football requires you to be,

and always showing up because you're incredibly tough and you care in a way that's unusual, at least in part, it would seem, because you appreciate what it is that your parents did in raising you. and it's instilled in part of your fiber. It's what made you excellent. From 2012 through 2025, he played 215 games. The fewest games he played in his season was 12 back in 2021. He missed 13 games in a 14-year career. It's unbelievable.

I feel sort of bad. I feel sort of bad. He's a Miami native, a Miami kid. He had a great career. I just pushed back a little bit at the overarching opinion of who he. He is in NFL history. I don't think he's an all-time great outside of Tampa Bay. Well, let's do this.

He's got an unusual connection to his community and his team. You're going to find very few players with the longevity of 14 years. You're going to even find a great many fewer with the longevity of 14 years in one place, retiring at the end without any movement. But let's go ahead and do this because when it comes to all-time greats, I don't think. that you can name very many at linebacker. There are sums, but my guess is that we will run out after about 10 on linebackers. And for the modern day, how many are you giving me right now outside of Fred Warner and Bobby Wagner in terms of people that you're watching right now that you say are all-time greats at the position? Brian Erlacher gets a lot of credit for being an all-time

great, and I understand it. It was in Chicago who he was following some people. But I think of Levante David as being something very close to all-time grade, even though, as you mentioned, one Pro Bowl isn't the standard for that measure. Yeah, Luke Kickley just made the Hall of Fame. He was Keeckley. I don't think of him as one either, incidentally. I was surprised he made the Hall of Fame. I wasn't surprised he made it on the first ballot. He had a short career.

I don't think people were blaming him for an injury that ended his career. But when you think of right now, all-time linebackers playing presently, if you're not willing to extend the distinction to Levanti David, who are you extending it to? Yeah, I mean, I don't think you can extend it to Levanti David. He's been all pro once. Yeah, that's what he mentioned, and that's the indictment. But give me the guys that you are. The position has been devalued in the NFL. Right. I mean, Roquan Smith is considered one of the best. He was made available. Inzoloni, he moved teams. You don't see many legacy linebackers anymore. other than Van Ginkle. What do you do with Michael, Micah Parsons?

Is he a linebacker? Is he an edge rusher? Is he a hybrid? He's an edge rusher. He plays linebacker. Yeah, I mean, he plays all over the line. Edge. No, again, great career, but I think he's a regional great career. I don't think he's a national great career. But got a little squeaky there, right?

Yeah, it did. Yeah, thank you. Not like Levante David squeaked. How do you feel about what's going on with your voice? Because I'm not sure it's ever sounded quite as ill as it does. another coffee will help. Whatever you do, don't drink any water. I don't, look, he's coffee. I've been saying it for two hours.

It just sounds like he's in a desert. Great coffee. Get this guy, I bet we get him a glass of water. He will sound instantly better. Oh, you think it's not great for his voice that he drinks tar all day? That's what I'm saying. Dad, you should pour that out. You should see the sludge that is his coffee.

Have you considered tea? A little bit of caffeine through tea? We did the throat coat thing with him a few years ago. I don't like tea. I'm not a big tea drink. You guys don't agree with me that this is the worst he's ever sounded just in terms of quality of his voice. Last week. There was a couple years.

We're forgetting how bad it was with him. I listen back to old Greg Cody show podcasts, like hear clips and you hear him. And it's like I, he sounds so good nowadays compared to a few years ago. This is good? This is night and day better than him and his worst right now. Get me that video, please. I didn't think I would be saying this sentence. Please get me the video from that bare knuckle. I'm going to call it a press conference.

I'm not sure it's sort of just it's not a press conference. There's a pre-fight in the squared circle, Dan. Yeah, and I want to get to this because Arlovsky's been doing this for a while. How old is he? Arlowski's got to be 42, 43. He's fighting on the Netflix card, by the way. I don't know if he saw that. Dan or Lovski.

Andre Arlofsky. No, no. My mind went right down. The quarterback? I think this Arlofsky is older than that Arlofsky. Do I have it right? This fighting Arlofsky is older than Dan. 47.

Okay, yeah. Look, he has been somebody who has been muscular and feared in the combat sports for a long, long time. And this, as they start a new venture, a bare-knuckle venture, which seems unsafe, seems dystopian, seems really dangerous in a way that's uncommonly dangerous. You could say that, but we fight on. Well, bare knuckle sports, there's a reason there's padding on boxing clubs. Like, there's reason that all of that is in play. It's hard enough as a sport, and the brain chemistry gets rattled enough going, you know,

the brain moving through the liquid protective buffer. Some would say that the knuckles, bear knuckle is actually more humane. That's right. Okay, put it on the poll at Lebitard show. Is bare knuckle fighting more humane than having cushions, tender cushions on your fist? That's often cited. And then you watch the fights and there are absolute bloodbaths, which is hard to, like, put those two things together. Because it looks worse.

It's not. But it's safer for the brain. Okay, but this particular conflict amid the conflict is pretty funny. Any words for Pradova? And Russia, perdoma, means fucking fart from the ass. So, you fucking smell. Can you fucking keep him away? I say, that the bogos do it way, but take the control.

Because he's a great moment. We love grandpa. I do not like translations in sports for that reason. They always clean up the translations and make it different than what was actually said. Arlowski said that his mouth smelled like farts from an ass, and that's not what, that's not how it was translated in Spanish. That's right, because our Spanish speaker, our Cuban guy who's translating, is taking care of the Hispanic guy, Dan.

That's exactly what he's doing. That's what he wants to be. It's a great translator because he's taking liberties to put his own little spin on it. And also, he didn't need to translate Relaxed Grandpa. Orlovsky definitely understood that part. But for the audience, he cleaned it up. You know about that far from the ass? Guys, Draft King Sportsbook, the number one sports book for live betting.

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