The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: Ahhh (Paul McCartney Voice)

Episode Date: March 6, 2024

Before political journalist Tim Miller joins the show to discuss Donald Trump, Dan reads off 5 pages of things that Trump has done while the shipping container tries to find a sounder that works to fill the void. Plus, Mike Schur and Juju commiserate about the Boston Celtics' loss last night and what Jayson Tatum has to do to be more like Jordan and Kobe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe Kings Network. This is the Don Lebatore Show with the Stugots Podcast. So Stugots has been an easy all show because the Kelceys have elbowed their way into the Stugatz game and all he's getting out of it is a book deal for a book that he won't have to write and he wants more. And he's been uneasy all show, but one of the things that Metal Arc Media has chosen to do is Stugatzbook.com by the way, pre-order. Books and movies also have the freedom of microphones to talk about whatever we wanted to talk about and so for those of you who do not want

politics with your sports I understand you can fast forward it's you know a lot of people accuse us of being an echo chamber maybe there aren't a lot of people here from the other side how do I do it you can go sit in the penalty box if you want really just asking how to fast forward that's all please no the audience no fart noises though yeah well this is what Stugots was doing earlier in the show he was giggling Stugots was giggling 50 years old he's like I just polluted the show with Farch yesterday I made it rain farts that's what Stugots was doing yesterday sorry I missed it what's a

giggle let's consider that giggle versus a chuckle oh that's okay you understood understood? You understood the difference. Two minutes, sir. I mean, you can stay here if you want. Oh, thanks. What is tee hee hee? That's a giggle, right? Yeah. Hee hee hee.

Hmm. Hmm. Flourless. Things to ponder, I guess. Yeah. Upload it to the file. We'll get it next week. Pond it. All right. Well, this isn't furiating me. What's do gots did with the last segment where he infiltrated the ponder file

in a way that makes it seem corrupt because that dumb conversation from yesterday that he polluted the show with for 20 minutes about whether or not Russell Wilson should be traded or should sign with the dolphins for a couple of million and they should not get the $50 million quarter back to it's upload speed thing. Yeah. It's upload speed thing, yeah. It's an upload thing. Again, it's an analog system. I didn't know that that happened yesterday,

so when it was uploading today, I had no idea. I took a Napster, how long it took to download things, it's like that, but uploading it. Correct, I took advantage of Tony. I don't remember that. You finally did? Oh yeah. You finally took advantage of Tony.

I wish I could every day, but today I did. Okay Congratulations. Heavy hand is happy. I mean, dude's what I do. I mean subtlety is allergic. What I have in front of me still got. I have in front of me simply a set of facts Okay, because it seems like we're headed toward a just a general dangerous year in America. So I mean, it's, that seems obvious no matter where it is that you stand. You've seen the gun violence. You've seen how divided everyone is. You've seen how everyone has a different set of facts and it doesn't, you know, it's

just all scary. They're all bad facts. It's, well, I'm going to give you what is all bad facts here because I'm just going to tell you facts about Donald Trump. They're just facts. And it's not going to have anything else in it. And I'm going, I have so much of it here, I don't know whether to hit fanfare, whether to do it quickly.

But so many of these things at one point in time, Stugatz, in American politics, we have gone from, I am not a crook of Richard Nixon to no, I'm a crook and I want immunity. And we've gone to that with this set of facts, okay? Accused of sexual misconduct by at least 26 women since the 1970s. Called for the execution of five wrongly imprisoned teenagers. called for the execution of five wrongly imprisoned teenagers. Ran a real estate business that turned away black tenants. It seems like you have a lot of these. Founded at a fake university. Oversaw the worst performing casino in Atlantic City.

Oversaw a foundation that misused donations for self-dealing while failing to pay victims of 9-11. Spread a conspiracy theory that the first black president of the United States was not born in the United States. That's one page. I have five. Holy God. You're going to read them all or I mean next week. I'm going to save the fanfare for maybe the end.

Right. Well, I don't know how to do this. We should change the imaging to be honest with you. I don't know. Do you have different imaging? I mean Stugatos, yes Stugatos fart sound maybe from yesterday. Not a good sound. Okay, we don't have better. We don't have better No, I have five pages and I don't want to do this incorrectly, but they're just facts. Yes, sir. Paul McCartney's sound Do you have the Paul McCartney sound? I'm working on it.

He works hard. I'm getting to it. We did just drop it on him out of nowhere. We did. But I would say to you that, in all honesty, OK, I'm God, I feel so stupid. I feel so naive because I really thought once upon a time, because I'm an idiot, because I'm naive, that when Trump said, or heard, we all heard the audio of, yeah, just grab

him by the p***, I'm like, no president can get away with that. That's where it ends. And I was like an idiot so so wrong because every presidential shame i'd ever seen before that is scandal everything i'm reading to you here would be a crisis or and ending of any other president when it comes to what this position is supposed to represent in our country dismissed russian interference in the two thousand sixteen

election that obstructed the investigation into it. Ban traveled from seven major majority Muslim nations, appointed an attorney general who actively wanted to take away voting rights from minorities, spent $15,000 a month in taxpayer dollars on golf cards, had a porn star paid $130,000 in hush money to cover up an alleged affair Called Mexicans drug dealers rapists and criminals while launching his own campaign for president of the United States Do we have a better sound? How many more pages three more pages? That's a good one yes, we found her that's a good one

Specifically ask you don't play the one that's not. I'm doing a lot of stuff back here. I gotta go for comedy. Come on. Come on, guys. I don't know how to. There's an aff you gotta mark that, Tony. How do I do this as comedy? I'm asking you.

It's imperative in 2024 that we be able to do this as comedy. This is God, like, it is our calling to be able to somehow laugh around what's coming this way. Well, the issue is he, it's gonna, okay, there's a bleep version and we're gonna have to go back and bleep it regardless. So why don't you just play the one that's bleeped? Cause if not, you're causing double work.

I'm not trying to call. Not you, Chris. For some reason they're talking to me about that. They're not helping you. We've got total division here. We've got, you've noticed that we've arrived at, at Billy is now just lobbing all grenades across all floors. He's worried about work flow.

False hoods. Yeah. Right. Tony, is it false hoods? No, he's right on this one. How was he, how was he right on this one? Cause at the end of the day, all the Fs get bleep no matter if we play them or if we don't play them They're just causing more work for me back here because I'm doing Jeremy's job and my job at the same time. Okay, so

Okay, but it's less funny it's not as funny I'll do that No Billy Let's steal Keep reading them to me. I think it's poignant what you're doing right now three pages to go You think it's poignant I mean it's you're proving a point I have pages of shit most people have done two or three wrong things in their life This man has done five pages word then it's front and back to Is it it was one shoot we gave you was.

No, reveal that to him. No, I didn't. Well, hey. Continue with your pointy. Yes. You're right, though. We are in a crazy time on Earth's existence, where this stuff is happening and we're trying to find

some way to laugh about it when it's such serious BS that's going on. So we wish it'd be a bro, it's just shocking. Okay, Juju, but here's where you've been right today, okay? Because the place that I should be spending all of our time. Snoop Dogg? Little, no, not quite Snoop Dogg. Please stop that, please stop.

What the fuck? Paul McCartney is haunting me and I'm like, thatop Dogg. Please stop that. Please stop. What the fuck? Paul McCartney is haunting me. And I'm like, that sound has been bothering. Oh, now I can't even stop it because Jessica can do it on command too. Juju knows that the place we should be spending time is neither Trump or whoopie cushions or Paul McCartney sounds.

It's on the Boston Celtics being called soft. Also, Zion Williamson said he will be in a dunk contest if y'all make him an All-Star. You can't say that, right? You need to play your way in the All-Star game. How about being All-Star first? Yeah. I'll be honest with you.

I would take that deal from the NBA. I'd make him an All-Star because who cares? He's an all-star to get him in the dunk contest that'd be great Yeah, him versus my long I'll take it the volume three. What's he dunking donuts? Too far low blow too soon Get it. It's the whole thing Do I get it is what you're asking. No, so Billy, let me laugh. No, but yeah, no, I will tell you why.

That's the question. This is, but this is why this is why Billy is an anarchist of an uncommon kinds to God because the whole room there, I don't know what Tony and Jessica were doing, but because Billy was playing on the razor wire of, let me see if I can fat shame him and just make a joke about dunking donuts, like just the worst joke,

and then stare it in with a giant smile on my face, because he knows it's not funny, and I know it's not funny. I want you to laugh. You were seeing so sad reading that list, I wanted to cheer you up, you know? He just left it's not funny. You were seeing so sad reading that list. I wanted to cheer you up. You know, he just left it there by making a joke about whether Zion is dunking donuts and you're going to fat shame him when well, I don't do a Charles Barkley impression

in my head. It would have worked better if Charles Barkley made that joke. You know what I mean? Tell your point. If Diane do what Snoop Dogg did and was like, I'm going to stop smoking. And then he was like, whatever he starts smoking, if did and was like I'm gonna stop smoking and then he was like whatever he started smoking If that Zion say I'm gonna be in a dunk contest doughnuts. I'm my new partnership with Dunkin doughnuts It is he could do it as a mark as a marketing deal Yeah, big announcement involving dunks and he can be he can be a spokesman on behalf of people have been heavy all their Life and are tired of Stephen A Smith making fun of Them for being heavy just because he's skinny any boxes that he trains and look at it right too good hips by the way

I did the math Really hey That was evil what you just did there was evil because you want to fat shame Zion Williamson. I don't want to. A Dunkin Donuts joke, Billy. I mean, I lobbed it up for him. We're very anti fat shaming around here. So this is absolutely. Tim Miller's going to join us now. So I'm going to force the politics down down your throat whether you want it or not. A recovering Republican, he was the communications director for the presidential campaign of Jeb Bush. He has become one of the most outspoken Republican critics of Donald Trump and

he left the party in 2020. He hosts the Bull Work podcast, a smart and funny show that you could catch every weekday. Did you get through all five pages of facts there? I don't know. I get through all five pages of facts there? I don't think I did. No, I've got three more pages of facts here, but I know you guys don't want it. So Tim, walk me through some of this please, because I've got more and more facts here

of things that are appalling, and they are just facts, but evidently the people on my show don't want to hear it. They don't even, they don't want to hear it. Stu Gatz is like, no thank you, I don't, eh, I don't want it. Yeah, I don't want it. That's Stugots is like, no, thank you. I don't, yeah, I don't want to hear it. That's enough. The facts about our former president, I don't want to do it.

So walk me through it. How do I make this entertaining? And how do I make it nutrients for my audience that every last fact I can put in front of people is fundamentally appalling? Yeah, well, Pablo asked me to point out that you skipped over the key fact of Donald Trump's frequent appearance under Dan Levitard and Stugod show. You know, so I think that that was,

that's a historical fact that you missed. I did. Yes. That's true. It's weird. And that's a fun thing. I'm just saying, if I'm guilty being a former Republican, I got to spread, I got to spread the love on that a little bit. Look, I mean, I think we can really just focus on one. There's only one fact that I don't understand how everyone has not gotten over it. This man sat in the White House eating pizza and watching cable news while the Capitol was stormed by people waving his flag, attacking a police officers and trying to end our democracy. That's what he did. He spent five, six hours eating pizza and watching TV while our capital was attacked. Capital is not, that has not

happened in any of our lifetimes. I don't know if Stu gots, fuzz the news, but that, but that is something that hasn't happened recently. Um, we have not had a non-peaceful transfer of power since the civil war. He incited one and then did nothing while these people tried to hang his vice president and attack police officers. Some of them died afterwards. So I just, it is, it'd be wildering to me that my former party has nominated this man for the third time after that happened. And we can go down the rest of the fact list. We can talk about how he told black women from America, they should go back where they came from. And we could go all the way down the way down, all the way down the list of things that he did. But I like, I just

don't understand why that one fact is not enough for us to just move on. All right. Just, I'm going to do some more falsely claimed. He won an election that he lost, called up an election official, official telling him to quote, find more votes, anointed a Supreme court justice after Republicans stalled out his predecessor's nominee for almost a year appointed a Supreme court justice who served as a quote, handmaid for an anti-abortion Christian community that expels gay people for having sex, appointed a Supreme Court Justice who was accused of sexual assault by three women, pardoned five of his own advisors in addition to four Blackwater security guards who were convicted of shooting an eight-year-old

to death, commuted the sentence of the former governor turned celebrity apprentice contestant Rod Blujowicz. I mean, I don't know how to do this for people. I mean, they know it, right? So it's not changing any minds to tell them or remind them, correct? Do they know it? Do they know it? I mean, here's the fact that I like to, that I'm not sure people know that should be pretty straightforward to people. Every national security advisor that this person, that Donald Trump had around him for four years has spoken out and said that he's a menace and said that he shouldn't be the president again, except for like the little stooge that he put in like in the last three months there. But you know, the normal, the relatively normal people, John Kelly, who's a general Jim Maddus, HR McMaster. I think I'm probably

guessing a lot of your listeners, a lot of regular folks don't really know who these people are. They might have heard the name, but these are serious, leading military advisors, general Maddus, that all of them to a person that were around him, everybody that led his department, secretary of defense department, everybody that led his department, secretary of defense department, everybody that led the state department, none of them are for him. So I just, I don't understand why rate, why random people have decided that they think that they are a better judge of whether this person should be the commander in chief and the leader of the free world, then literally every military official

that he appointed to be around him. It's not like it was random libs that he had around them. They were leading military generals that he chose and they all looked at him and said, this dude is insane. We cannot have him in charge of the military again. So I did, it seems to me like that's a pretty straightforward fact. And we could use, I think more effort to promote those folks and to get their stories out there. Because I think a lot of them aren't that good at PR, they're military guys. You know, they do one interview with the New York times or New York or whatever. And they feel like they've said their piece. And I think that we need to do a better job of, of making sure people have heard their warnings.

Why does your former party continue to fall in line? Well, because he hates the same people they hate. I mean, I look, I think that there was some, some legitimate grievance among people in my former party that the leaders of the party were not listening to them. And I think I'm guilty about that. Um, uh, you know, I think that, uh, they, they, they didn't like the wars, frankly, or that a lot of them were serving in the Iraq war. They weren't happy with globalization. That is how it hollowed out a lot of communities, weren't happy with immigration,

and they got a bunch of kind of moderate chamber of commerce leaders that like cared more about tax cuts and stuff. And I think that Donald Trump was the person that said, no, I'm gonna listen to you. I'm gonna be a big middle finger to all the people you hate, the elites, the media, gay and trans people, whoever it is that you hate, I hate them too.

And I think that they feel heard by him because of that, or they feel like they are heard by him. Obviously, this isn't true. He's a narcissistic egomaniac. He doesn't hear them or care about them, but because he echoes their concerns and grievances, um, they feel a lot more loyal to him than they have past Republican leaders. I think that part of that was a mistake of the, of the Republican leaders of the past. But I mean, at this point, we need to educate as many people as we can about the dangers of this guy because he might play lip service to caring about what they care about. But we know what he actually cares about number one and you know, whoever he's okay. I could have no care about them either actually probably, but okay. Enough of that please. You're making the editing of this

impossible. I'm sorry. We not cussing on, do we not cause this a family? Sorry. It was just jarring. It was all you were doing journalism. And then you went straight to the hard, I mean, you went, you went aggressively. And yes, we can curse. I'm glad you're free to curse. I, I can't believe, Stugans, because I'm, I'm putting these two things side by side and I can't believe I'm saying either of them. Okay. Shared highly classified information with the foreign minister of Russia. I'm going to put that over there.

And I'm going to put this group over here when he talks about the divisions of, like running on a platform of I will hate people on your behalf, the way that you hate others, the way that you hate others, because there is a poison, a viral strain moving through our country, where you have the following,'m gonna say is facts, told a group of minority congresswomen to quote, go back to their countries. Pretty sure that's where we got gone at ESPN, right there.

Called Haiti, El Salvador, and African nations, quote, shithole countries. Called white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and members of the KKK, all of whom have made a resurgence, very fine people called the removal of Confederate monuments, quote, so foolish and sad. Like that's not concealed. That's not, that's not by accident. That, that is how you run on a platform of I hate others. I already gave you Mexicans or rapist criminals. Yeah. You know, Dan, I mean, I, this segment though, I think is kind of telling

us in seriousness, I appreciate what you're doing and that you're getting these facts out there. But there's a quote from Steve Bannon. I've interviewed him a few times and, and he's explicitly said back in 2015 or 16, that their strategy was to flood the zone, warning cuss is coming, was to flood the zone with shit. And I do think that a lot of this stuff just starts to wash over people. This metaphor is getting kind of gross, but you know, like it's, it's when there's so much, I think back to 2012 and Mitt Romney, who I supported back then and he had this one Gaff, do you might remember, where he said that 47% of people are helpless basically.

And so, we can't expect them to vote for us because they just want daddy government to take care of them. That was essentially the quote. This quote was like news for months for the whole campaign. It ruined the campaign. It was all people talked about. And Donald Trump says things, if Donald Trump said like that in a speech, people, it wouldn't even make the

news, right? Because he says so much crazy stuff. He says so much racist and hateful stuff. And so I do think in some ways that that has helped him because, you know, people just start to tune a lot of this stuff out. Forgive me, Tim, because Billy fell out laughing because, and I'm assuming I was trying to connect with him while you were talking, because he can one up you. Howard Dean had a presidential campaign wrecked because the wrong sound of enthusiasm came out of his mouth. It wasn't even a, it wasn't even a word. It was, it was, see that's how Howard Dean did it right there. That ended that correct. That was presidential

scandal once upon a time. Can't have a guy screaming, bro. Can't have a guy screaming in the White House. That's not presidential enough right there. That's what ended that campaign. Correct. People didn't trust a man who would be that out of control. Unhinged. No, but we needed somebody sober like John Kerry. It was a smart move by the Democrats. They needed somebody very appealing like John Kerry instead. Tim, get out of here. Nobody wants politics with their sports. You ruined it all, but thank you for we invited them all. Yes, but for conjuring the image with a jarring note there of Donald Trump Bye y'all thanks for having me

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I feel like we need to normalize saying these scientific terms for organs on the air. Like if someone, yes. You know what? If someone takes a foul ball to the penis, we should just say he took a foul ball to the penis. Say it. Stugats. That freak can't get him right in the cock-a-doodle-doo.

This is the Don Lebatar show with the Stugats. ["Stugats"] This is how I know Hollywood has gotten back to work. It's so nice to have him all the time, have all of his talents during the pandemic, just bored out of his mind, helping our show whenever he could. But now he's gotten back to like writing giant television shows and doing important things. And writing my book. And helping you write your book.

Yes, I'll get to that in a second with Mike Scherr, but I'm happy to see his face. And before we go any further though, the book or anything else, I wanna talk about what happened to Boston last night. And I wanna talk specifically about why it is that you and Mike Ryan and Jeremy are having these crazed arguments already

when you need to pace yourself. We've got two months before any of this really makes you crazy. Will you slow down please? First of all, I'm made crazy in October by the NBA. That's the difference between me and everyone who works at your show. I actually watched the NBA before the playoffs. Second of all, what happened last night was a fluke. The Celtics had a 20 point lead in Cleveland.

Some dude that no one's ever heard of hit 10 straight shots on the fourth quarter. There is one thing that bears watching. Tom Haberstrow's whole column on a sub stack is about this today. And a lot of people are talking about it. Jason Tatum is one of the worst clutch shooters in the NBA, not just on the, he's like the fourth best clutch shooter on the Celtics. And he has this one vestige of his Kobe obsession left. It's been driven out of him, except for this one thing, which is that he still thinks that the best shot that the team has with two minutes left in a three point game is for him to slowly dribble the ball up the court, wait until there's four seconds left on the shot clock and then take an absurd 20 foot fade away jumper. And it's bizarre and it caught. It is the reason they lost last night. They had, they are unstoppable. Those five, when they play the team basketball that they've

been playing all year. And for some reason in clutch time, he still has this. Now it's not bad that he has the mentality of like, I'm the guy. I think that's what the team needed to take a next step, but it's really bad. And I don't like it. And it scares me a little bit. It's the only thing about the team that scares me. It's so interesting. Sure. Because I can't believe that this is an actual conversation now because we're going to really do this. I remember people hitting LeBron with mentally frail. And then he goes off for 46 and game six in Boston.

But when the numbers bear some of this out, when he goes one for nine in the fourth quarter yesterday and when you've come on the show and said, no, that team needed Marcus smart to lead it because Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum need someone to lead them. And now what's just obvious to everyone, wait a minute, if Porzengas is helping and true holiday isn't a waterlogged Corp like I mean, said he is that for is better than anybody else in the NBA has is totally overwhelming. But the one weakness you're scared of is that headed toward Jimmy Butler, your guys not

mentally strong enough. I can't believe you're articulating that that headed toward Jimmy Butler, your guy's not mentally strong enough. I can't believe you're articulating that. No, no, no. I'm not saying he's not mentally strong enough. In fact, I'm saying the opposite. I'm saying he's overconfident in moments when he shouldn't be. And need I remind everyone in that studio, most specifically the guy sitting to your

left that the reason Jordan won titles is because he drove and attracted double teams and then kicked it to John Paxson or kicked it to Steve Kerr. Like the guys who could shoot. Yes. Yes. That's right. And so that I think Tatum is at the level right now where he's like, I'm Jordan, I'm Kobe, but he hasn't reached the next level above that, which is when you're Jordan or Kobe, the thing that you do is draw all the attention and then kick it to somebody who's open. And I book, go ahead. How much do we blame Missoula for that is what I'm saying. Like I, at some point someone's got to save Tatum from himself. Well this was the problem I deeply believe. And I talked about this with Charlotte and

Amin and Dan in LA months ago. I believe that the problem with the old version of this team was that Marcus smart was the big brother. And that the, until the big brother left, the little brothers weren't ever going to like step up and take over the team. I think they've, I think I've been proven mostly correct in that regard, but the next love, the next thing that the big brother has to do now that Tatum is that guy is understand that the offense functions best when he is a facilitator. And that guy, again, I watched the NBA, you guys don't. So you have no way of knowing that guy has become that guy's

become a very fair pass. He's right. It's very fair. We're going to have to watch Tatum has become an incredible passer. He's a really, really good facilitator of the offense. And so all it has to happen is for someone to tap him on the shoulder and say, Hey man, late in the game, like let's just run our offense. Let's do the thing that we do for the rest of the game, which is like find the open shooter. Right. Or either drive at least do not settle for a 35 foot fade away with this little man

guarding you at least bare minimum drive to the paint. So like you said, when the defense collapses, who, oh, is that Derek White? I see over there is that Chris stops the way I'm passing Mike. Can I if I may real quick, I know this Celtics team does not have depth and I know we can make fun of the regular season. They have big Al, but do I have it wrong? Uh, when I say, and you've watched a lifetime of Celtics basketball, that this team feels like it's as good or better in comparison to the league than the one you most recently had that won the championship, which was Pierce and Garnett and Ray Allen. This team, what you're saying is I don't trust my team, but I'm guessing the next step on this is, and I also think it's

the best team I've seen this century from the Celtics. I listen, the difference between this year and last year is I do trust the team. I did not trust the team last year because they, because Marcus smart thought that the best shot that you could take late in a close game was him launching a three and he was the worst three point shooter on the floor. That is gone now. And now drew holiday shoots like 65% from the corner. It's insane. Derek white is like a Derek white and porzingus are both incredible shooters in clutch time. Jaylen Brown is a good shooter in clutch time for all the crap he gets. So I, it's not that I don't trust the team. I do trust the team. I, I get scared in this one very specific situation. And I think that's an easily correctable

situation. And I believe that they'll correct it before the playoffs easily correctable. Yeah. I do. I think because look, if you can get Michael Jordan to pass the ball in late in the fourth quarter of a finals game. You can get Jason Tatum to do that. Like just show him the tape of John Paxson hitting the three and everything will be fine. But Mike, you've followed the last 10 years. We're showing him a tape of holiday from the corner. I mean, okay. But yeah, you guys do this. But what's funny about Stugatz as he roars with laughter right now, Stugatz spent 10 years in the very comfortable lane of, hey, LeBron

James might be the second best player of all time, and all I'm going to do is criticize him for passing at the end and saying he's a choke artist. And now you're telling me Jason Tatum has to prove something else, which is he's got to learn, no, I need to shoot less and be the man as we pressure him to be the MVP of the league and the leader and the guy who's the top dog on the Celtics as we argue every day about his yoke it's the best player in the league and he says he's the face of the league he's gonna have a pressure to not pass it now that's gonna come straight from your laughing voice to God. But damn when you're all those things and this is

what Mike is saying when you're all those things you get the attention especially at the end of big playoff games and Mike Mike is saying, if you're getting that attention, give it to someone else who can choose. I know, but you criticized LeBron James for seven years, for not having a killer instinct, because you would pass in those situations. That was then, this is then. That's why he wasn't as good as Jordan.

Are you forgetting this? No, I remember. It's the seat I sit in, it's a great one. Somebody should at least tell Jason Tatum that we would love a shot from you within the paint in those situations. Get to the rack. Right, stop trying to be Kobe, stop trying to have that moment. Brother, we need a W only. And finally, to be fair to Tatum, he was fouled three times yesterday on that final play.

So like, I look, I'm not last year. No, he kicked out. He caused the contact with his, he caused the contact with his legs. We can talk about that. There'll be a brother. We lost a 22 point lead in the fourth quarter. No, it was a disaster. Look, it was a disaster game. Would you rather be the Celtics right now or any other team in the league? I would always rather be the Celtics than the league. I already know he's talking to. Oh no, but you say that and yet you, wait a minute though.

Wait a minute. You'd rather be the Celtic. I agree. I would agree with that. Everyone would agree with that. But Jeremy wouldn't. You know he is 12, but wait a minute. Mike sure is tortured emotional fan.

He has warned you for years. He's been more right than anyone in the media about what was going to happen in that sport and was yelling it from mountain tops for months. He was saying my Celtics are going to break my heart. I'm terrified of the heat. Now this team is better. They do the controversial hard thing. Marcus Smart, we know you're a fan favorite. Get out of here. And they get two guys, Porzenges and Holiday, who make them appreciably better. And yet you still fear the heat. So you can't tell me that you, you want to be the Celtics more than everyone

else, but you have a fear. But headed into yesterday that Celtics were three 64 and no when leading by 20 plus points in the fourth quarter, dating back to 97 98. Like yesterday was just a blip on the radar. I was a bit headed to yesterday. We beat the breaks off of the, uh, the warriors and they tried Jaylen Brown for some reason, leaving him wide open. I think that was amazing. Right. I think Jaylen Brown's confidence is finally at the moment where give him a chance at the end of the game or two. Something has to change about the late game strategy from Joe Missoula. Did you happen to see the text that I sent to Meadowlark employee Matt Sullivan about the next four heat games? Have you seen this yet?

Uh, yes. You predicted we're doing this. You're going to become cornhizer and will bond. The I told you so you've predicted all of these games. It was right. The only one that was right. All right. Well, he told Sullivan, he privately texted Sullivan. Yes. Only Sullivan, almost the exact scores by which the heat would win the next four games. And what would happen? He has been a, uh, he has been a truth teller, but when you mentioned the thing about Jaylen Brown, I saw J. Mon Green said this. He says we're three and O on a road trip. We were going to let Jaylen Brown shoot three pointers cause he shoots them at 34%. But not if you don't guard him. If you don't guard

him, he shoots them at 40%. But does anyone think that playoffs are going to have with people not being guarded out there? Like what, what are we talking about on what it takes to be the beat the Celtics when you're sitting here saying does the only way they beat themselves is with themselves. That is if Tatum can't figure this part out. Yeah. Obviously they're not going to let anyone be unguarded. No one's going to let anyone be unguarded at the three point line. But what does that matter? Like look, I, it's not that I don't have fears. Of course I have fears. I live every day of my life with crippling anxiety about the sports teams that I root for. But this is not last

year. The team is different. Their offense is different than it was before. They have more weapons than they had before. The nuggets lost last night to Phoenix. Like every team, like the reason that there's so much high, there's so much highlighting of a game last night for the Celtics is because everyone's looking at the Celtics. So like, you know, you can, why, why isn't everyone talking about how Yokech didn't come up big last night and overtime? It's because the nuggets aren't as good as the Celtics this year. Well, he went to title. That doesn't mean the Celtics, it doesn't, yeah,

Floors years doesn't mean the Celtics aren't, aren't, aren't like, don't have problems. It just means that like all the whole spotlight is on the Celtics because they've been, they, their first team in NBA history to win 350 point games. So everyone's looking at them and that's just the deal. And I think that the team has to own it and understand that they're the best team that they should win the title and then let the chips fall or they may right with great power comes with great responsibility. So you are definitely right. And I think that you are right as well with the sons last night because they collapsed. They gave a epic comeback and in for the other

nuggets. But then the overtime Joker was nowhere to be found. So you're right, more support to Mike Schur. Everybody ladies. He's right about everything. More support to Mike Schur. He doesn't have quite enough support. All right, Mike Schur, I have for you more questions, but I don't know whether you had something prepared or not.

Do we have a stat of the day? Do we have February observations? Are you just joining us because you wanted to talk about last night Celtics debacle? I am a professional and I show up prepared and I have a stat. I always have a stat of the day. You never have to ask me if I have a stat of the day. I'm not Greg Cody. I come with the work that I was assigned to do.

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