The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: Tony's Massive Announcement

Episode Date: June 24, 2024

Tony has a bone to pick with FIU, which relieves us from the ever-approaching doom Mike Ryan and Chris see heading toward the Panthers. However, we quickly turn back to the nerves of tonight as Roy has some exclusive reporting from Bill Seidel Nissan about the Panthers' lineup choices. Mike goes deeper into the roots of his love for the Panthers and we have some video of how dejected Chris Cote was after the loss in Game 6. Plus, Jimmy Butler was fed up with Ryan Garcia and Mike Ryan is becoming more of a gear head every week. Then, the show instills doubt about the magnitude of Tony's massive announcement, but he delivers some wonderful news that makes all of us smile. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Podcast. Mike Ryan's stomach is genuinely upset and that's just getting started. Greg Cody's rage is genuinely upset and that seems to just be getting started. Emotions here are they are antsy, they are troubled. Billy I see the smirk on your face. Vibes are good today. Billy I feel like you're secretly rooting for the Panthers to lose now why? I'm a Panthers fan. Yes, I know I'm from South Florida public go ice cats You're you like if I use Panthers up. That's right. Tony is a bone to pick with that fire You we can get to that we're at a standoff of me and if I you what happened careful

Don't mess things up for me and Dan Dan Levitard Me if you can think of this as an old Western right fi you standing outside in the middle of the that like long hallway We'd tumbleweed I'm there in a classroom. Is it a classroom? It's like the dirt that dirt road where the in the middle of town Miami the tumbleweed is just a Flanagan's tumbleweed on it's just a big bale of the middle of town. Since it's Miami, the tumbleweed is just a Flanagan's tumbleweed onion thing going by. It's just a big bale of Coke.

So I kick open the door, right? I step out of the saloon. Wait, are you inside or outside? I'm inside, but I'm kicking the door of the saloon. Generally, we kick into a room. No, he's kicking out because he knows there's a standoff. Saloon doors are big. But usually, it's usually the sheriff entering the saloon.

No, I know, but it's rarely you get the out. Remember when saloon doors were a fixture in homes usually into the kitchen, Greg, you remember that? Yes, I do. I miss those days. I like those. A simpler time. Yeah.

It gave just enough privacy. Let me ask you, did any of you guys have in your grandparents' home when you were young instead of a door just like beads that came down from the top of the doorway that would just, it would create distance between the two rooms. Was that a Hispanic thing or was that, what was that? Was that unique to anybody's childhood?

I don't think so. I think the Brady's had that. That's associated with shag carpeting. Yeah. So it's a 70s thing? Yeah, it's a 70s thing. It's a hippie thing? Or whoopi Goldberg in Ghost.

Yes. When I bought my house I had to take one of those down. Sad didn't want to get rid of it had to I associate it with Hispanic though It's not Hispanic. Well, that's because they're in Miami. Yeah, Jim Martz had beads in his house Take open the saloon door Walk out there. I'm in my in my Western garb. I'm kind of doing this walk right here Fi you the entire Fi use just right in front of me. We got the picture, you've painted it.

We're at a standoff right now. Is it a building you're up against, or like the president? It's the president, it's all the workers, it's everybody. He's a nice man. The IT department mostly. But I'm standing there, both hands next to my holsters. We got it, you're facing off.

Hold on, he's painting a picture. He's painting a picture, guys. He's painting a picture here. More clearly painting. I'm a big fan of you. It's like an oil painting. It goes slowly. Speaking of beads, incidentally, and I want to get back to this, Joe Mazzullo

prays with rosary beads that are made out of the actual Parquet floor in Boston. Speaking of beads, that guy in New Orleans probably had some around his neck. Greg Cody? Not Greg. He had some all over the place. Anyways, so I'm looking at the IT department.

They send me an email. What? They send me an email saying saying we're deleting your account June 25th your email account with us will no longer be valid. We will be deleting it You haven't used it. I have been using it like a mother. So why why are they doing? I don't know I don't know, but that's the issue. That's the standoff. How is it that I'm using your domain's EDU like, Hey, I'm, I'm, I'm a proud graduate of the school. I'm emailing people, I'm doing business.

I'm shaking hands, kissing babies and all this stuff with FIU EDU as my domain address. And now you want to take it away from me. I've got Papa John's there. I've got Panera there. I've got probably got Domino's there. I got McDonald's app. I've got Uber. I've got all my different apps into that one thing. So. Who do you have to call to get this?

You can't, I told him, this happened to me. This happened to Billy. I actually got locked out and every account that I signed up for, I have like apps, like I have this gas app, this upside app that I've used where I go and I scan it and you get 10 cents off, right? But you don't really get 10 cents off.

You pay the full amount but then they credit you the 10 cents per gallon, right? So if your car is 16 gallon tank, that's $1.60, you get back. It lives in this app until you cash out. What happened to old Billy Gill? He signed up for it with his college email, and then he got locked out of his email, so now I have damn near $107 that I can't get out

of that account because every time I try to log into the app and say, hey, send it to me like in a Walmart gift card, an Amazon gift, because those are the options, or send it to my banking, whatever. It's like, okay, we're going to send a confirmation to your email. And I said, I don't have that email. Can I switch my email? No, you cannot. So I'm stuck. I'm at like $107.28 that are just sitting in that app. And I'm telling Tony, you better start unloading those emails right now. You need to start switching when you can because they're not playing around. When they switch email servers, it's gone.

You have like 12 hours of change. Can't we rattle their cages at all? Can't we rattle the cage? Well, we rattle the cage, but that's on Saturdays. That's on Saturdays. Sometimes Tuesdays now because of the situation that they're in. I know a law firm if you guys need one.

I may need one because it might be Collaudi v. FIU. Here's my question that I wanna know. And I'm a proud Panther. Sometimes I'll call some games for them. I try to do my part. You're wearing, right now, you're wearing how much Panthers gear are you wearing right now? That you can see just a hoodie.

So anyways, I'm a proud Panther. That's gotta be tough. I try to raise awareness, but I also like to say what's just and what's unjust at times. You know what I mean? I'm not trying to rattle the cages. You're trying to paint me out to do it. I don't want to stand on my leg with falling asleep.

The point is this, okay? Tony, myself, I don't know who else would consider themselves a proud alum. I had one of those email addresses. Of the great Florida International University. When I would send out emails, I would send it out with pride, with panther pride, if you will,

at my Guillermowhatever was at fiu.edu. And I wanna tell you in case it reactivated, I don't want a bunch of people knowing my emails. But I would send it out with pride, the at fiu.edu. Much like, much like, much like, many Harvard grads send things out with their at harvard.edu. And I don't see much of a difference between the two, if I'm gonna be perfectly honest with you

Yeah, whether you got an email from an at Harvard edu and at fi you dot edu Not much of a difference, but I bet you dollars to donors that Pablo Torre still uses at Harvard dot edu And he's a million years old door, and he's still using it. How's that possible? Why can't I spread my panther pride year after year? Is that what's happening? 10 years, five years? It's exactly 10 years since I graduated. Dude, checkmate them.

Go sign up for a class today. Go sign up for a class today, and then they can't take it away from you, and then drop it tomorrow. You gotta checkmate them. Go sign up for a summer class. For a standoff. Exactly right.

This is how you win in a shootout. You go out there, and they're expecting a gun. And what do you have? A computer where you register for ENC 1102 I bet that one already though I bet that in this the T.Y. Hilton so T.Y. Hilton is a whole another story what the hell is his son doing going to Wisconsin okay there's nothing going on in Wisconsin respectfully to the great people of Wisconsin. Respect the legacy. Yes, Dan? Edwin James' son is at Cincinnati. You go where it is that the scholarships are,

where the availabilities are. I don't know if FIU was offering T.Y. Hilton's. No, they were. Yeah, they were in the final six, I believe. Maybe he found out about the email situation Wisconsin's offering you I think do you see a scenario which? Wisconsin offers him a scholarship and if I use like, you know what? He's just not there yet Maybe Wisconsin offered him a lifetime email

You can have them. We don't see him as a Sun Belt player or conference USA How do you turn down if I use football? You know that that big program. Out of the cage. It's been a big program for a long time. Frank Gore also has a son that's in Wisconsin. What's going on there? Greg Cody, Wisconsin's got a good program. That's your power.

I mean, who's their quarterback? Nine and four every year. Exactly, well now with the expanded playoff, you're gonna get in, pity invites. You guys, wait a minute. You're gonna say that Wisconsin doesn't have a good football? Wisconsin sucks. I mean, whatever. I look at the goal say that Wisconsin doesn't have a good football? Wisconsin's sad man.

I mean, I look at the goalie. Is Barry Alvarez still there? Have they had a corn something, or is that Nebraska? What is Wisconsin? They're the Iowa of Wisconsin. He's exactly right about that. Wisconsin's the Iowa of Wisconsin? Yeah, it's just one of these mid-west,

boring mid-west teams, you know, run the ball a thousand times with Jonathan Taylor. Well, one more time so I can get it. Jonathan, they're the Iowa, Iowa of Wisconsin, Wisconsin is the Iowa of Wisconsin. Right. He's right. Greg Cody's podcast, the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody

with he has been trying to the entire show. He says that he has something on his podcast that's going to enrage Mike Ryan and delight me. So what is it that you're doing on the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody? Well, you have to listen to it to believe it because this shocked me, but Paul Maurice through one of his PR people

gets in touch with me a few days ago and asked me to address the team to give the team a little pep talk Preparatory to the biggest game seven in the history of the biggest game sevens And so I did and so my address to the cats is is heard live and exclusively. It's not live That's true. It isn't but it is a In a special in a special hard knocks hockey. It was like our, yeah. Greg's Lobos hard knocks, like you know how hard knocks has a bunch of different variations. We got an off season hard knocks. Right. I do wish I could, I'm

going to listen to that because I do wish I could enjoy this a little bit more than I could. It is, it is pretty crazy. I wasn't, I was nine years old during that Rangers run against the Canucks, and I felt the enormity of that as it was, but I was only nine years old. This would generally, and I hope that they win so we can look back and say, wow, what a cool time. I don't think I'd look back on it. Wow, what a cool time.

I don't think I'd be able to separate myself from the pain if they actually make history and blow this. But this is the biggest hockey game of our lifetime. I'm stunned that you're going in expecting them to lose. I don't know if you're trying to manage your expectations in the thoughts that you're going to dilute the disappointment, which you're not. No, I'm not going to. Me preparing myself for loss is not gonna is not gonna make it hurt less I don't think and I do like people know how much I care and I'd like to thank everybody that didn't text me

Over the weekend because they knew like what kind of state I was in I I dude All the blood left my face and I don't think it's come back yet. I am a zombie back yet. I am a zombie. Howdy folks, it's Mike Ryan. It is hot. It is damp. It is summer. And it's a perfect time for grilling outside over an open flame or charcoal grill or propane. I'm not really sure. I'm not really all that manly. I think you guys can tell. But once a year, I'll bring out that brush and I'll scrub down the grill and I'll make myself a nice meaty feast and you can bet your bottom dollar That I'm doing so with a Miller Lite in my hand because Miller Lite keeps it simple Undebatable quality tastes as great as your barbecue

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World Rawr 3. Stugats. We're going to get that off the ground. World Rawr 3, colon. Our group chat has a pretty good feeling about this one. This is the Don LeBattard Show with the Stugats. It is a terrifying thing and I love terror with your sports. I love caring so much that it is unreasonable.

Caring so much that you have a hard time getting it out of your head. Chris Cody, how was your weekend? Swear to you that Friday night, what happened Friday night, I imagine that people who care about that team locally had a shitty weekend because of what happened Friday night. Almost nothing else is gonna fix that it felt shitty to you all weekend.

Do I have this wrong, Chris? It's been a terrible weekend, Dan. I've been trying, my wife has just been like, what's wrong with you? And she knows what's wrong with me. My wife is dreading the game because she knows how I am during these games. Sell that ticket, man. I'm not selling the ticket, Billy. What's your price? Is it $10,000 for? I'll do $10,000 for both. $10,000 for both tickets. $7,500. $9,500, man. Come on, how can you say no to $9,000 for both. F*** it. What'd you do, nine five? $10,000 for both tickets. $7,500.

Nine five, man, come on. How can you say no to $9,500? Nah, I gotta be there. I'm already regretting saying that. You can buy tickets upward deck. I'm telling you, get in. I wanna be with my people. I got my people around me.

Nah, the upward deck people are more fun. No. Yeah. You're expecting to be down three one and chasing scared all games? You said you wouldn't be nervous if the Panthers were down going into the third, one goal,

will you at least give me that? We can't be down by more than one. If we're down by more than one. They were down four to two last time at home and I thought they were going to win the game. And they made it four, three, five minutes inside of the third period. And then they just spent the rest of the period

pelting Edmontons and I'm sitting there thinking to myself okay they're gonna do what they've been doing all season I'm really stunned that you guys have lost faith when the sample size is more than 90 games on you have the best third period team and the last three games have erased 90 games for you. Skinner's due for a bad game he's had great games he's due that's the way the hockey gods work I have a question for you Greg. Skinner's due for a bad game. He's had great games, he's due. That's the way the hockey gods work. I have a question for you, Greg. When Coach Maurice invited you in,

what day did you give the speech? Was it yesterday? I wanna say it was yesterday. Oh wow, so Sergei Bobrovsky was not there. No, he was not there. Wow, so that's a big question mark in this game. You made a big bounce back game for him. Yeah, they gave bad quotes key.

I think in the speech though you say to him, hey Bob how's it going? Yeah I assumed he was there. He expected him to be there as a team player. Big room though. A couple of guys on the team look a little bit like Bob from a distance. Imagine just to put things into perspective, Sergey Bobrovsky getting the game off is as though you're in the middle of a seven game series and you give the goalie the day off before the Biggest game of the season the practice off. Yeah the practice. Okay. He was the first one on the ice Roy is there at Bill Seidl's

I want to laugh, but where they came from was so bad. I want to defend it I'm like no, it's better, but it does look a lot like a dealership. It's not even an insult. But it's so nice. It's like the nicest facility in the NHL. I don't understand what you guys are doing. The new car dealerships all over South Florida are beautiful.

Especially Williamson Cadillac. They're just sort of antiseptic glass wall, new buildings, and they look like all the other buildings. That's the only point I'm making. I'm not doing anything else there, but they look like all the other buildings. That's the only point I'm making. I'm not doing anything else there. But Roy is there near the action and he reports exclusively that Bob was the first one on the ice tonight. They are no longer hiding their goalie. Their goalie is no longer a fugitive, being hidden from fandom and the authorities and he is out on the ice. and whatever it is that Mike thinks Bob is doing

with scrambled egg for brains, because it's game seven, and Edmonton is scary, that he is now out in public in front of people, they are no longer hiding the goalie. I trust Paul Maurice to know how to manage this situation with Bobrovsky better than I do. It just all kind of feels like, it's such a strange. It seems like a lot, it seems like a lot. It's such a strange position. No one

knows what's going to work. And I, the one thing that I felt like pretty certain about it was like, wow, for the first time in the postseason, I think they have a goalie advantage and Stewart Skinner who's been pulled that points this. I think at one point he had the worst save percentage for a goalie that had been that far in postseason history and For whatever reason games four through seven He's been lights out and Bob who hasn't had many games in the Stanley Cup His Stanley Cup stats are really bad and that's with having to like dynamite remember for all-time games Yeah, I feel like them giving Bob a day of rest

Smell like a little bit of a desperation to me. All of the line tweaking that Paul's been doing the past week, it just feels a little bit desperate. Maybe it should, maybe desperation is required, but when all of a sudden you're giving Bob a day off, it just felt a little. I like desperate. Let's say, how about we just make it all maximum desperate?

Everyone's maximum desperate. We've got maximum of all of the motivation effort There's no bulletin board material anybody could say whatever they want We're all ratcheted up to the place where this is the maximum of all of it This is the thing that everybody's been dreaming about Panther fans for 30 years these guys play for the Panthers their entire lives They've been dreaming about being in this scenario, scoring this goal since they thought about being hockey players for a living. There was one person that was reaching out to me a lot, and thankfully I think they finally got the message

yesterday and they left me alone. It was David Sampson, who genuinely does this. He wants to see how I'm doing. I think he kinda offered me a ticket to game seven. What? Take it. I said no. Why? Because no matter what happens tonight,

and I like David, this is not a shot at David. I just want to experience it next to my wife. She's been there with me for like this ride, a stay for one game in New York that I went to with Chris. I just want to be, no matter what, if this is going to be the extreme highs or the extreme lows, I want to be with my wife. So I turned down what I think was an offer for a ticket.

I wasn't exactly sure because I didn't even want to consider it. No it was it was an offer for a ticket and he called Me worried that you were in an incredibly dark place and I had checked on you No, I think cuz you knew not to text me which I appreciate really I do. I have this is I'm Really really shook by this. I want I told you on Friday, that was no bullshit. That was a legit part of Mike right there. I want this title more than I've ever wanted any pro sports title because the actual connection. There's not a lot of connection points this market has to it.

Went to a job fair when I was in high school. The Panthers were the only organization that hit me back. I met with every single team. I was a sales, I ruined my eyesight putting the white pages into Excel, I was there, I saw so many of my friends lose their jobs, I didn't even get a hockey season when I was over there interning,

and all of that was built from the 1996 Cup run that made me a fan seemingly for life until Michael Yormark kinda beat it outta me in ways that David Samson kinda beat out baseball fandom, and I got it back, I finally got it back. I finally had a team that I could identify with. I love Matthew Kachuk. Like he's part of my own family. These runs, there's nothing like a deep cut cup run.

And to be the butt of every joke forever more, because the teams that you hold up as examples of chokers, they're not of an era that anyone has a connection to. But Mike, you win tonight, you will remember all of that forever. This will be the most magical night of your sports life. If you win it because of how vulnerable you are, you're in front of the audience,

which is growing in Legion in front of us today because everybody wants to taste these tears. The idea that this could go from Celtics being up 3-0, Panthers being up 3-0, to Celtics celebrating the title and us asking which would be funnier, which blown lead would be funnier. And now only one group is left after that parade with a million people in the fights that have been with in both sports hockey and basketball, Miami and

Boston for five years in basketball for two years in hockey. The idea that everyone can turn around and laugh at you and know that you're exposed on vulnerability, you can laugh at everybody at the end of tonight in a game seven that you have at home that if you win or lose it, you're gonna remember it forever, but it'll be the most fulfilling thing you've ever felt if you win. I think I'd feel relief first and foremost from it.

And you've always maintained it and I've always bucked against it look I would have preferred this thing be over in four but what you remember from these championships you remember that Thunder series the heat lost the first game and then they won in five and what we remember in terms of the pit in our stomach sphere it's always that LeBron image that's how the lasting image from that you remember you remember the details about game six and Ray Allen. You don't remember the details about game seven. Maybe you know that Wade and LeBron did some story.

I know Bosch didn't do shit. I know Bosch didn't. LeBron's a big elbow jumper, by the way. Big elbow jumper. Yeah, the LeBron elbow jumper. I know Bosch didn't do stuff. Battier recalibrated his three-point shooting. I remember the details.

You remember that game six and game seven because of the fear that you had in game six. You remember the other final, the one that was a House Money final for the Miami Heat, more because you didn't really fear the Oklahoma City Thunder. That stuff does form and fortify these championships to the point that it means more. If you fear, and the Panthers have had a relatively charmed postseason, if you have the fear that everything is over, then yeah, that gets made and all of that

crashed on top of me Friday night. Chris Cody was at the hockey bar, I had all my friends. I was so amped and I was so primed and I told you, I thought I could guarantee that the Panthers would have a good effort. They didn't play well, their effort wasn't there, and now all these ghosts I'm seeing there, and I was haunted dude. I was haunted. I was pale, people kept trying

to console me. Chris, you tried to console me. I wasn't moving. Yep. Yeah. I was despondent too. I mean, I didn't want to talk to anybody. Yeah. You know, it's funny that you mentioned that, because I got a text sometime on Saturday, and I thought everybody just left the bar in the same way that I did which was I called my uber I put my head down I even said an

uber like the pickup was at another person's house I was just like a zombie and then I caught wind of how difficult this was for you and how hard you took this loss this is video from moments after the Florida Panthers lost game 6 here is Chris Cody you could almost see the tears in his eyes, at 11. At 11 nightclub. Come on. Just really. What is happening here? They have a huge wall graphic that says welcome to the Dan LeBattard Show. Look at Chris Cody. He is so sad. Look at that. He is a broken man. Jesus, Greg. Oh. That's your son. Look when Izzy Gutierrez offers you a free entry, what are you going to do?

What are you going to say? No? Look at Chris Cody, not broken at all at the end of Friday's game. Look at the smile on his face. Look at how pleased he is with everything happening in his life. He's trying to describe how Connor McDavid is moving across the blue line. He is being misunderstood right now. He is not in a good place right there.

He just turned the vice of Miami nightlife. He looks so sad that the Panthers lost. You can barely make out his eyes. Greg, they're so red and watery. Where are you as you, you have to get out of here. You've asked to be let go because you, this has been a couple of years of crazy deadline work for you last year was unprecedented two eight

seeds get to the final in both sports and and beat one seeds they do things that you weren't expecting and you were exhausted by the end of last playoffs. These have been easier because the Heat have not been having dueling games but you seem just as exhausted. I'm a little mentally exhausted more than physically. I'm ready for it to be over but what you all said the the joy of winning tonight is is pretty obvious. What's brutal about the opposite is that if the Panthers lose tonight, there's no way to rationalize it. There's no way to see a silver lining. It's going to be nothing but eternal dejection.

It's an epic loss. You can't, you're not even allowed to say, well, you know, two finals in a row is pretty good There's gonna be none of that if they lose this game There should be there should be long. There should be perspective No, no perspective is is going to be trampled tonight if they lose and that's sad and and you know I'm gonna I'll probably spend a couple of paragraphs saying just that but nobody cares if. If you lose tonight, there is no perspective, there is no line. There's no immediate.

There's no immediate perspective. There's not going to be any anyone who cares about the Panthers who's going to be able to watch the coverage or get up off of their knees for a week. Like perspective will come, but it will come later because this has been a great season. The fact that they're one of two teams playing one game for everything I will not minimize that but it is a big difference between the joy that is on Chris Cody's face when he's on 11 and total despair because everyone's laughing at on 11 what hello listeners it's Mike Ryan it's the summer some of you guys are traveling you want to see the sights and experience all these wonderful 11 WHAT? city and it's never failed me because Game Time takes the guesswork out of

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I am told that Tony has a massive announcement. I don't totally trust some of his adjectives. I think, Billy, you can endorse with me the idea that Tony tends to inflate some adjectives. What could simply be an announcement sometimes become a massive announcement because Tony is the one making it. Do you know what the announcement is? I don't. This has not come up.

And I so I cannot discredit it or endorse whatever this is. But do you think that generally the way that I frame that is accurate that if Tony says he's got a massive announcement it's probably a few degrees short of massive because he tends to be a bit of an overseller? Yes, I believe, I think, that Tony thinks it's

a massive announcement. I don't necessarily think that the rest of the population of Earth would think it's a massive announcement, but I don't know what it is. It could very well be, but based on track record I would say it's probably not. We will find out together. Before we do so, however, I want to talk about the travails of Ryan Garcia. I don't know that many of us are following super lightweight division. I'm not a huge fan of the smallest guys because I want bigger punching power, but I was very surprised

to see him knock down Devin Haney three times. And Haney trained for the right fight properly and Garcia seems to be a bit out of control in a number of different ways where he has had police call to his hotel room multiple times. God knows what he is doing in the celebration of this title. People didn't expect him to win that fight in any way because he's such a partier, and he's also now made his way

through all of the right-wing media and was gambling the other night for hundreds of thousands of dollars with Jimmy Butler. Who else was there? Damblerzerian, there was like a bunch, Ninja was there, the streamer, Neym. There was like a bunch of ninjas there. The streamer, Neymar. There was a bunch of other people.

He was also stripped of that title because they found banned substances in his urine, not once but twice, and two separate and different independent tests. So he has to give $1.1 million, and I think growing to Devin Haney, the belt is back. Like he went from, oh, I'm doing this crazy thing, beating him outright, beating Devin Haney like

Handily and then going back now where it was just like oh no He was on something and he's kind of still kind of out there weird The poker that was being played What's the backstory on Jimmy Butler waving around hundreds of thousands of dollars and Neymar winning a bunch of money? Yeah, they both they both won over $100,000 at this thing, allegedly. And the video of Jimmy Butler waving around money was fans came up to him and Jimmy was just giving some of that jackpot away to fans. Jimmy, do we have the video of Jimmy being visibly annoyed by Ryan Garcia?

That was the best. All right, I'm being told we do? We do? All right, let's see. This is Jimmy Butler over this whole Ryan Garcia experience. I'm saving my fastest. I saw your fastest. I think that was Shades on. Trying to ignore Ryan Garcia as much as he can. Give me that! That seems a bit of a bluff.

The Robson's H7 is falling off. A bit. What's happening? Are those pants just falling off? Great observation of Ryan Garcia's sand, but this pants falling off. I don't know what it would look like if somebody who was celebrating a title had some sort of problems with partying, but it would look a lot like Ryan Garcia's public incidences over the last few weeks.

Twice a Beverly Hills hotel was called to because he was destroying property. One of the times there was a wellness check. We could just, we're part of the problem. We could just ignore this. Well, we have ignored him. That's how you become a revenue generator in that sport is be a conversation piece.

And now you don't actually have to achieve really anything like through legal because he that was a big that was a big win that he had but he was very clearly on banned substances this was a guy that was maybe on his way out of the sport had he not won that and now he's out of the way of the sport although boxing tend to he's also banned for a year because of the the substance yeah but like it's just it's the it may be too unfairly put on the on the family but since the Kardashians came around it's not really about merit usually in previous incarnations of human history people like this would just be cast aside be punchlines joke left turned around but he's a social media

sensation so he's just gonna keep being around. I don't know when it is that we sort of became more and more immune exactly to the cheating because I'm old enough to remember how it is that we chased all those baseball players through parking lots with the steroid scandal, but somewhere along the greatness of Lance Armstrong and Barry Bonds, where they were defeating everyone else who was cheating by also cheating but being better than when everyone started cheating. Somewhere along the line here we have developed more of an immunity to the guy who cheats and gets stripped of all his titles but now can parlay it

into something because he's got a name and fame and it almost doesn't matter that there is so much crap around his name. He is now a name and in these divided times, if people line up behind you and you're making the podcast circuit of I believe in right wing ideals and now I'm going to go on all of the media to celebrate the fact that I'm a champion in sports. Once it gets stripped, they don't circle back around and re-talk about it. You already had your moment. You mentioned the right wing stuff and I'm not going to call him a liar. I'm sure he has his convictions, but all that stuff, it's just part of the playbook right now. You just continue doubling down on the infamy

and you get rewarded for it. And attention used to, generally, yeah, you have those people that come through, the pop culture zeitgeist that are infamous, but they tend to just fizzle away. And he's not gonna fizzle away because no one fizzles away now. Like they all just, they all have ways

to get straight to revenue streams from the people that just are fascinated with these people. It's how you have someone that, you know, was a victim of something that their parents did, but go to jail for plotting their murder and then become this huge sensation on social media. We just are drawn to this. It's sad. Sure, but those famous people that are famous for being famous have the revenue stream where they can be famous, right? Like when you're a boxer and now you're famous

because you were a boxer, when you go out and you're not a boxer anymore, you're just that guy who's kind of like a weirdo and kind of doing things that are kind of weird, like you lose that ability to go out to the masses, what's his platform? He tried, I don't know if we have that video either, he tried at the Comedy Store to do a set of like it was it was a lot of it was a laugh act react because Chris DeLeo was here oh well the laugh act you try to do

a set he had like one line forgot his punch line and then started like shadow boxing in the yes like yes that's what you do shadow boxing why is the gearhead in front of you Mike? Why is the... Someone brought it in. Maybe it was Greg Cody's attorney, but there was a big... Is it to talk about John Force? Did you see that crash? Yes.

Gnarly. John Force has been a part of my life on ESPN2 at like afternoon. Just, hey, this is some drag race. He's an old man. He's 75 years old. This is the accident that 75-year-old John Force is some drag race. He's an old man! He's 75 years old. This is the accident that 75 year old John Force is apparently okay from. You see a car fully engulfed in flames, it explodes a little bit and then at 302 miles per hour, hits the median.

The extreme force. He's okay. 302 miles per hour. These cars, what are these cars called? Because these are always, are these funny cars? They're funny cars, Dan. Is that what they're called? I think they're funny cars or drag cars. 300 miles per hour and flames all over the place. The moment you start,

there are flames because of the flames that shoot out of the back of the car to get you started. A 75 year old surviving and like apparently being okay. Like he went to the hospital. I think he might still be there. But when I saw this clip, I was like, really the same John force teeth. It's a great racing name. Incidentally, John Force is a great name. He's synonymous with the sport. Is that his real name or did he go with,

is he actually John Schwartz and he just made him it's like a John Force. It's like a TV weatherman. I mean, is that a real name? Is John Force a real name or does he have a stage name? John Harold Force. Okay. He was born for this.

Zero to 300 in what, four seconds? Those are the cars? As you know, I'm a gear head andhead and only getting more and more into motor sports that one the appeal of drag racing doesn't really do much for me That one you haven't gotten into no I haven't really but there was an amazing it was an amazing motorsports Sunday every major Motorsports circuit had something going on I don't think you caught it, but did you did you catch the USA Today 301 from New Hampshire? No. You didn't catch it? All right so it wasn't a great race because they trotted out these all

weather tires these rain tires and it there were so many cautions that it was just a really bad finish to a race that was looking promising because two top guys in that sport for my money two two best racers, Denny Hamlin and Kyle Larson were going at it. They were aggressively racing at one another for three laps and it was boogity time. Like this was great stuff. Boogity time? Boogity time, boogity boogity. Like this was great racing.

I was fired up watching it. The adrenaline starts flowing. You know what it means. And the USA Network, NBC now has the rights to this part of the season. They had access to Kyle Larson's team radio and check out this exchange because this is after Denny Hamlin tries to kind of bully him a little bit.

Check out what Kyle Larson's spotter says to Kyle Larson and how Kyle Larson dismisses him. You run you like that every time, you know why? Because you let it happen. Shut the f*** up. Yeah, that's right. The tone the spotter took with Kyle Larson, who's the best driver on the planet. Kind of like a caddy though, right? He knows how to push his driver's buttons. Maybe he knows what he's doing there. Yeah, let's play it one more time to hear Kyle Larson's voice on this.

He runs you like that every time. You know why? Because you let it happen. Shut the f*** up. Yeah, let's play it one more time to hear Kyle arson's voice on this That's good You need people around you who tell you know why because you let it happen Well Yeah, you got to eat it at that point Once you've gotten Kyle Larson to that place and he tells you to shut the bleep up and he's your superior and he pays For everything you got to just kind of eat it. I'm going to my first NASCAR race I've never been to a race, but I'm going to Chicago the street race that they have in Chicago, which is like part music festival part

Racing I'm really excited to take it in for the first what just fell off of the gear head a gear Gear Tony. What is your massive announcement can't beat Mike's announcement. He's going to the race going to the race. That's a massive announcement the there's a lot of things happening in the world, you know and Nothing could be more massive When it's something about you. We do a lot of navel gazing here on this show, and I wanted to bring it to the masses because at the end of the year, December 31st, I'm gonna be a dad. Whoa!

Wow, wait a minute, that is a massive announcement. It's a massive announcement, right? I told you. That is massive. That is massive. Billy was prepared to be born, but now he has been- Wow, how do you like massive announcement, right? I told you. That is massive. That is massive. Get some handshakes around here. Billy was prepared to be born, but now he has been-

Wow. I'm now worried. How do you like that one, dude? That's great. How do you like that one? Congratulations. Billy, can I shake your hand? It will be a girl for sure because nobody around here can make boys.

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