The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: Friar Territory

Episode Date: February 10, 2026

"The F you think I was drafted to Detroit for?" Tony finds the ugliest possible spot for his Top 5, the entire NBA fought each other last night, Bad Bunny reminds Dan why he's named Dan, and the cr...ew learns that Gabe Vincent is indeed an Atlanta Hawk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stucats podcast. Against the Spread is presented by Draft Kings. Draft Kings. The Crown is yours. Roy, what do we got? Olympic women's hockey tonight is the United States versus Canada. The Canadians are without their captain, Marie, Philippe Poulin. She's out with a lower body injury.
Starting point is 00:00:37 He has a big blow to Canada. So I say go with the Americans who are a goal and a half favorite tonight. spread. Mike? Gancel spread. Lines move some, but I'm going to take to Miami Hurricanes plus one and a half. Seven o'clock tip ESPN tonight. Biggest game of the season. Biggest home game of the season for the Miami Hurricanes. Letdown spot for North Carolina. Miami's got a tough defense, especially at the point of attack. Going Keynes. Oh, Gansillerspride. Give it that spread. Roy, how did you took the U.S. women's hockey team minus five and a half goals. What happened with that bet? On the previous bet, I believe they did not cover.
Starting point is 00:01:15 They scored five and the line was fired at half. That Swiss goalie is awesome. Awesome. They should have covered that game. They were pounding her with shots. I think that she's like had like in her last few games, she's faced close to 100 shots. I'm sorry.
Starting point is 00:01:31 Yeah, that was on me. Minor penalty. Let her go for leaking confidence. No, I saw it. I saw you look at you look at me out of the corner of your eye, pounding her. Get out of here. Just get out of here.
Starting point is 00:01:43 You're leaking confidence. I'm losing people right and left. Jeremy is preparing a song. Tony has been banished. I have reason to be mad at Tony, okay? Because Tony was going to do the whole show today in Spanish and just forgot. And it would have been funny. Him trying to talk to Zaz all show in Spanish and Zaz not understanding anything.
Starting point is 00:02:06 He said, let's go out to Tony now. He's laughing. He's laughing. He's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, He's out there. He's at Dwayne Wade statue. He's chosen a symbolically ugly spot for his ugly performance today. I don't know what the sound is there. It seems like he's buzzing. So let's get that down. We'll come back to him. It's continuing with his ugly performance. We will get back to him as soon as we can.
Starting point is 00:02:31 Hold on. The pressure washing the building. So that's the pressure washer. Tony is good. So it's not buzzing. I thought that was a connection issue. All right, so then we'll go to him with pressure. Yeah, lean in. All right, lean into pressure watching, washing in the background. I am now pressure watching you,
Starting point is 00:02:47 feeling like you're going to fail here. Let's do a top five here, but you're laughing at the fact that you forgot to speak Spanish during today's show, correct? At a time of great, proud cultural heritage. I'm laughing at the start of the segment where Chris knew that he had said something
Starting point is 00:03:05 that was going to reflect poorly on everything. Excellent. And that made me laugh. And then the Spanish thing made me laugh, but then right where they're about to come to me, the pressure washing starts. It's kind of been, it's adversity, Dan, but that's what we do. We push through adversity.
Starting point is 00:03:21 You've got to play in the elements. Yeah, Klosterman likes it that way better. Go ahead and give us your last top five of the season. All of this needs a good, vigorous power washing. I can't believe he started right when you were talking. Roy thought the audience. was bad because of the nearby power washer. Any OLI are you starting with number five?
Starting point is 00:03:45 No, we're starting off OLI, no OLLIs, just five, but this is the last one of the NFL season. So I'm going to have to find a new side hustle day, and obviously the NFL is my thing. We're going to maybe move forward, going forward after the All-Star break for the NBA into Tony's top five NBA edition. So that's a little something to look forward to.
Starting point is 00:04:05 Now that the NFL is done, there's also a jet plane flying by too. guy too. So we are against the elements right now. So and if somebody wants to, Dan, if somebody comes over and wants to take a picture with the statue, I have to let them, right? Just in case. Yeah, or you can include them in your top five. If anyone stops by to get a picture of Michael Chickles in statue form, that'd be good. All right, we'll start off in the, with number five. I nailed the defensive TD call. I was looking back at the things that I said were going to happen a couple weeks, two weeks. ago and I only nailed one thing which was a defensive touchdown I missed the
Starting point is 00:04:41 JSN one I missed a bad bunny one I miss both QBs to throw no you got Vrabel you got Rable will be a coward on fourth and short you got that speaking of that number four Mike Vravel did what Mike Brayble does on fourth and short coward cowardice for a guy who said he was gonna cut off his own dick okay you got to have balls to say that well you would only have balls if that were to happen because you cut off your dick but to have those balls you got to go Go for it on fourth and one. Okay? Fourth and one on your 47.
Starting point is 00:05:10 You know what you do? You get the offensive come around. You say, hey, we're going to kick their ass on this one play. Give me a yard for the rest of your lives right now. And you go get that yard and maybe things would have changed, but he was a coward, Dan. Sending out the punt unit on fourth and one was despicable, diabolical. Something that's not being talked about enough is that your reigning Super Bowl champion
Starting point is 00:05:29 was also the most coward-filled coach there was in the league on Fort Down. Didn't care for it, didn't need to do it. trusted his defense wasn't somebody who did much of anything on fourth down was played scared the entire time and won the championship yeah but when you have that defense i think you know he he has a stance the reason he trusts them a little bit more uh number three will campbell wolf we'll move that one on very quickly there's nothing to say there wolf that's it bad number two number two Seattle was really the best team to wire to wire this season. We just didn't see it quick enough.
Starting point is 00:06:05 That's the truth. All season, they were just beating teams. And they were like, oh, wow, like Seattle's kind of good, huh? Oh, Seattle's kind of decent. And then all of a sudden, they're winning the Super Bowl, not letting up, what was it, 10 straight wins? They didn't have a turnover in how many weeks in a row. Like, their defense played amazing.
Starting point is 00:06:21 They were really wired to wire champ this season. Number one. Number one, Bad Bunny only got bigger. after this amazing Super Bowl performance. Again, it's been politicized left, right center. Everybody in the, everybody in their mother has something to say about Hispanics, has something to say about Bad Bunny.
Starting point is 00:06:39 The only thing that I saw is that the biggest artist in the planet got bigger, getting put over by the biggest league in the world in the NFL. So it's a very cool moment for Hispanics, a very cool moment for Bad Bunny fans that have been like me watching him when he was just on SoundCloud in 2019,
Starting point is 00:06:55 before the pandemic, before the albums, before all these things. And I was like, wow, man, wait a second. This guy has a sound that's so different in the genre to now see the entire revolution of what he's been able to do. And then coordinated on the biggest stage in American sports is super cool from a Hispanic point of view and from a bad bunny point of view. So as a fan, I'm very excited for what the future is because there's only up to go from here. Like he's already the biggest artist on the planet. Like how much bigger can he get?
Starting point is 00:07:21 Thank you, Tony. Appreciate it. And you chose a good spot. An ugly performance, but you salvaged today by going to the space. where Michael Chickles is commemorated forever by the Miami Heat Organization. We appreciate it. Hey, everybody, it's Mike Ryan. Now, if you've been following the show, you know I've been traveling, been super busy,
Starting point is 00:07:41 been supporting my favorite football team with mixed results, right? Not the greatest hang so far in 2026. I try to find every excuse in the book. I had one buddy that was trying to invite me out. I wanted to stay in. He's like, come on, let's watch this NBA game. So I go over to his house. I watch this NBA game.
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Starting point is 00:10:56 Don Lebertard. I want to address Tony and all men who would wear that shirt in public. Stugats. Don't do it. This is the Don't Lebetar show with a Stugats. I wanted to talk to you guys before I get to the NBA fights because I do want to talk about the NBA fights. But when he mentions the idea that that halftime show was politicized, okay?
Starting point is 00:11:27 that word. You've heard me say before that generally speaking, Hispanics, no matter which group you choose from, wildly grateful to be in this country, know very often what freedom or lack of freedom looks like. And so you rarely have issues with Hispanics appearing to you to be ungrateful for the opportunities this country provides. That's not something I hear a lot of. When Tony uses the word politicized for a guy who is doing that show in his native language, but is saying during it, God bless America, and is also celebrating the United States as part of the gratitude in that performance, okay? You guys take speak English as a political stance. Like just, I'm talking about, I'm not talking about you guys, I'm talking about everyone listening to this. Speak English
Starting point is 00:12:24 is a political statement because it's not been a... platform that I've seen that undisguised before. You might go immigration to be anti-Hispanic, but it's not speak English, mother bleeper. Like, it's not quite that brazen. When the president of the United States says that the country's language is English, then that makes it political. Again, more subtle than speak English. Like, even more subtle than what's happening right now, which is you just saw someone saying. And the objection politicized is, speak my language. That's not a political position. Since when? Since when is it a political position? Hey, Hispanics, you're not welcome to speak your language and celebrate your language in this country, even though you come to this country gratefully.
Starting point is 00:13:10 You often come to this country not having learned English because any of us would have trouble right now if we were in China or Russia trying to get around. But Hispanics are generally, I don't believe that the people who are objecting to the lack of English here have any problem with the gratitude or humility of Latin people as a group for being in this country. Is it speak English or is it speak English around me? It's sing English. He speaks English. He knows English. He's learned English. So it's just make me more comfortable because my psyche is so fragile that I can't in the English. endure for 12 minutes, you trying to do something entertaining in your own life. But do I sound like an idiot when I say how this, is this politics or is this just politics of the day? Like, is this what politics has turned into? Because at no point in my life, okay,
Starting point is 00:14:07 as somebody who speaks English first, but had a household where my grandparents didn't speak English. There are giant swaths of Miami where you can live more comfortably in Spanish than you can in English all around Dave County. because there are so many people here who don't know English, and it's not because they're not trying to learn. There are other problems when you come to this country and have to make a living when you used to be a doctor in your country, but you've got to be a plumber here,
Starting point is 00:14:36 and learning the language is not, you know, taking a course when it's hard, very hard to learn a language after the age of six. Like it's a very difficult thing. Most of the people listening to this do not speak a second language because of how hard that is, no matter whether you took it in high school or college or not. I've just, am I being an idiot when I say, I get that it's the politics of the day, but it's been
Starting point is 00:14:57 distorted so that this is also politics, so you could just wrap your hate or ignorance or your lack of tolerance in something else. My own theory is that the language, the fact that he was singing in Spanish, only became as controversial as it did because Trump and Trump supporters led that feeling. And why did they do that? because Bad Bunny is openly anti-Trump and anti-ice. If Bad Bunny were a very conservative person who was pro-Trump and who had no problem with the immigration tactics going on,
Starting point is 00:15:35 I don't think the fact that he was singing in Spanish would have nearly been the controversy. I agree. I agree. Look at all the people that talked themselves into liking Kid Rock. I agree. If it were like Nikki Jam, I think it would have been received differently. but it so would have made some waves because it's a first song. So K-pop, if it had been K-pop. Even K-pop, like there's plenty of English lyrics, especially with the ones that have crossed over over here.
Starting point is 00:16:00 Like there's big time English lyrics. But if it hadn't been, if I'm trying to think of what the parallel is for this because. To answer your question, this is what politics has become over the last 10 years. If it were about policy, policy isn't exactly positively affecting American people right now. They're getting a whole bunch of stuff they didn't vote for and they're talking themselves into it. What's more important is who finishes fifth in a swim meet. That's something that you can rally people around because you can divide and conquer. And then you make it about your culture, not about policy.
Starting point is 00:16:33 Am I too numb to this because I've been in Miami all of my life so that I underestimate what the reaction was, which is just to cloak yourself, cloak your hatred in something that people can get behind, which is, yes, I'm oppressed. I'm the threatened one because you're singing in Spanish. I'm under, I'm losing my country. It's what I was saying to you before about any conversation about inclusion excludes me as soon as you start talking about inclusion. It was really a fascinating social study to watch Maga Cubans interact with this Super Bowl halftime
Starting point is 00:17:16 because none of them were going on a turning point USA's halftime show. They love their bad money too. And they're willing to overlook that because it's a part of their culture too. They like it. And it's, it really, it was a wet form. But do they also get offended at what, you know? I mean, they'd like to. And then, like, I was privy to some group chats that were like, well, he didn't wear a dress.
Starting point is 00:17:37 I was fine. Like, it's just some of the dumbest commentary that's possible because that's what works. Do you not see the position that we're in? People were so dumb. I saw some of these, like, the images with him burning an American flag wearing a dress. And, like, I don't think that picture is even real. I think that's a fake picture. You're right, Zaz.
Starting point is 00:17:56 It wasn't. Yeah, but people think it is. And they're like, see, this is what's performing our halftime show. We had the first generation ever actually walk back the IQ standards, millennials to Gen Z. We're dumb. We're so dumb. Look who's been president twice. Look at the platform.
Starting point is 00:18:16 It's not about policy. It's not about nuance. It's about like they're trying to make boys' girls. Are you okay with that? No, I'm not. So just getting... That's like actually what it is. That's exactly what it is.
Starting point is 00:18:30 It's been 100% that. Yeah, it becomes tell me that a man can get pregnant. No one's been inconvenienced by someone speaking Spanish in their everyday lives. And I live in Miami where you kind of need to know Spanish to get around. I haven't once been inconvenient. recently because I don't know Spanish. Like, I can speak my language in the hardest part to just be solely speaking English in this country in Miami, Florida.
Starting point is 00:18:56 Like, all these people, like, Megan Kelly doesn't have people speaking Spanish to her. Making Kelly doesn't have any reason to be offended. Megan Kelly probably hasn't had to speak Spanish in a decade and hasn't affected her once. I wonder what the narrative would be today if Bad Bunny had sort of placated the controversy and sold a little bit of his soul by speaking in English between the songs, by maybe performing one song in English and the rest in Spanish.
Starting point is 00:19:22 I'm glad he didn't, but it would have been very easy to kind of quell the controversy. I don't think so. This one's for Megan Kelly. Yeah. I don't think it would have. I think it would have been something.
Starting point is 00:19:35 If you're going into this already angry, about already aggrieved, about all the things happening in America, you're going to find the place to put it. your outrage. But before I move off of this topic, I just want the people listening. I believe that we are as Hispanic a thing as there has been in the sports environment when it comes to the sports media over the last 20 years. And I don't know the actual backstory when it comes to Billy and Mike. Mike Ryan Ruiz became Mike Ryan. Guillo became Billy Gill. My father
Starting point is 00:20:08 was going to name me Gonzalo or Luis, my grandfather's name or his. his name, but decided to name Mike, his kids, Dan and David, because during a different time, that's what we're doing to sort of acclimate here and make sure that there are no issues on wherever it is. Our culture gets diluted because we're grateful to be here. And we understand, as we become Americanized, some of our culture is lost. My brother's dead. We didn't have kids, whatever was left of Los Hermanos Levatard, the orchestra from Cuba becomes Dan and David
Starting point is 00:20:46 as part of fitting in here and being grateful about fitting in here. I don't know how Guillermo became Billy. Mike, I don't know the backstory on how Mike Ryan Ruiz for a while was just Mike Ryan. I said it several times. I was a child actor. I got typecast.
Starting point is 00:21:02 I didn't speak Spanish fluently and all I got offered were Spanish language rules because of my last name. So in my lifetime and around here, the parents are the ones who are having to do things, but in my lifetime here, I've never felt the hostility of speak English. Whatever that is, whatever's behind that on, hey, brown people, something about you is wrong. Even though you're grateful to be here, even though you're humbled by all of America's gifts and know that its freedoms represent
Starting point is 00:21:35 things for you that aren't back home, I have not. in my life felt what this halftime show became. Not in my life. It's not something I, when I was a little kid in our neighborhood, it was stupid Cuban. But since then, in my adult life, the hostility of this is not something that I feel day to day. Not even in the 80s, because Miami-Dade County passed a law that all government business, between 1980 and 1993 had to be done in English only. So you didn't feel that? I lived in Broward. Broward was becoming homogenized first. Okay, my Cuban friends were in Miami.
Starting point is 00:22:12 I was living in Broward County, which is where the people who have fled Dade County to Fort Lauderdale make Fort Lauderdale not quite as diverse as Dade County is. Yeah, I'm sure your dad named your Dan to help you assimilate, but he was unintentionally foresightful in doing that because if you were named Gonzalo today, you would be more apt to be stopped and interrogated because of your name, because of your background, right?
Starting point is 00:22:41 I don't know what my father might be subjected to in the present age of America seems to be okay with state militia running around disguising the proud boys. Like, I don't know. I don't think I'm immune to that. I don't think when I see what happens to Don Lemon and whatever passes for politics these days, I don't think it's safe to speak freely whether I was born in this country or not. Like I think there are dangers now. look this is the first year of this shit
Starting point is 00:23:09 I mean it's the fifth year but it's the first year of what was what was promised in all of the secrecy of project 25 or whatever the hell the name of that project is promise yeah be aggressive with all this stuff never back down never apologize
Starting point is 00:23:25 and just trample people with yes Kid Rock and his allegiances need to be fed because divisions need to be fed the other thing is Spanish speakers are in a safe haven here in South Florida, but if you're having a conversation in Spanish in a diner in Montana, you're still going to get looks because you're speaking what really is a foreign language there.
Starting point is 00:23:48 But this is why I'm saying, though, I must be numb to it living in South Florida. It's just been such a common part of my upbringing that there are different people here speaking different languages and they're all sort of from the same struggle of poverty. Like, thank you for being here. We're grateful to be here. Like most of them are, you know, some of them come from money, but not. The struggle's real for people who are fighting in this country just to stay in this country the way that our parents did. And Miami is a melting pot.
Starting point is 00:24:15 You don't even hear Spanish all the time, right? Like you hear French. You hear Portuguese. You hear German. You hear Creole. You hear all these different languages because there's so many people coming in from all different parts of the world. And you can be walking by somebody at the mall and they're speaking a language you've never heard of. But like it's so commonplace that you don't even stop and be like, oh, what is that?
Starting point is 00:24:33 It's like, all right, I'm moving on because it's like normal. But imagine, though. Okay. So I live in a tourist center, okay? So I'm surrounded by all sorts of languages that I don't understand. Imagine me running out in the street, hey, speak my language or speak one of my two languages. Right. What is it?
Starting point is 00:24:50 Play your music. I don't want to hear your cultural heritage celebrated for 13 minutes as a break while Klosserman's walking his dog. Because half times a break. I didn't like that from Klossman, by the way. He should have sat there and watched that. He would have listened if it was Bruce. Didn't you find it weird, by the way, that he didn't take a moment at all to go back and watch it, you know, on the internet? Yes, yes.
Starting point is 00:25:12 He still hasn't seen it? He's in a log cabin, he said. Plus, there was like 20 minutes between the end of the half and the start of that concert. We had to get McCordy's thoughts on Will Campbell getting his ass whipped for three seconds. Weird. I think it's the only thing McCordy said. Get his ass whip! Will Campbell's getting his ass kicked.
Starting point is 00:25:31 Don Libetard. Billy, somebody is written in here. I need way more. I'm sorry. I just said in his headset, haven't you been to all of them too? It sounded like you were speaking aloud. My bad.
Starting point is 00:25:48 Totally on me. That's 100% on me. Stugats. But that goes without saying. Right. That it couldn't have. Well, now he said. He didn't.
Starting point is 00:25:58 He didn't say it. He said it. Greg. Greg. Greg. Greg. Greg. Greg.
Starting point is 00:26:02 Greg. Greg. Greg. Greg. Greg. Greg. Greg. He apologized.
Starting point is 00:26:07 Craig. Sincerely. This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats. The fights last night and over the last couple of days in the NBA. I know that Shaq said very recently that he couldn't name Three Pistons. That is the most physical team in the league. I'm a little bit stunned to see somebody trying to reinvent the three-point NBA with, no, we've got Isaiah Stewart and we're going to kick your ad.
Starting point is 00:26:42 and we're going to be super physical. Like, Knicks beware, Carl Anthony Towns is going to get super physical when Detroit starts playing basketball trying to take things from you. And they fight with Charlotte, and Charlotte's better now. Charlotte is feisty.
Starting point is 00:27:04 Sneaky decent. A sneaky decent team. And Detroit won last night in Charlotte. and Isaiah Stewart comes off the bench. That's going to be a big... You're not allowed to do that anymore. That right there is going to get a giant suspension for Isaiah Stewart. Yep.
Starting point is 00:27:21 Sees on what Greg is saying and reacting to and then ask him, why is it different than hockey? I've done enough race this hour. I don't think that I should be doing anymore. It's not political. It's race. My favorite's Duncan Robinson during this fight. Where is he? Just on the outskirts.
Starting point is 00:27:38 Indifferent. wildly indifferent. At one point. he, like in the middle of the fracas, he just turns around and rolls his eyes. He has no interest. But look at him in the middle of that. Watch right here. You see him pop into the screen and he's just like, guys, you can tell it with his face. He's like, guys, come on. Look at him right there in the back. He's like, oh, no. He'd been to practice with Jimmy Butler before he knows. That's literally a Tuesday. Beef stew is going to get 10 games. Isaiah Stewart is somebody that they're not making a lot of those anymore in the NBA. will come off the bench and everyone knows there, everyone involved there on his team
Starting point is 00:28:15 and the others know, oh, this is like Stephen Jackson, this is the guy everyone knows once his hands come out, nobody wants any part of those. We're not doing very many of those anymore, right? We're not doing, like the villains in that sport are Dylan Brooks or Jemann Green, it's mouth stuff, it's not somebody who'll come
Starting point is 00:28:30 out here and kick your ass and nobody actually wants to mess with him. I mean, he's standing on the bench. He wasn't in the game. He's standing on the... He's got his warm-up on in the video. He's got his warm-up on. He's standing on the bench and then, you know, the altercation begins, and he's just like, oh, it's time to fight. And he runs out there.
Starting point is 00:28:47 He's like, Duncan, you got this? Nope. All right. I'll come out. Like, it wasn't like he went out there and like a few seconds later someone tried him. No, no, it's like, oh, it's time to fight. And he runs out onto the floor and fights. You guys do realize, though, that Isaiah Stewart is of a generation now.
Starting point is 00:29:05 We're generation enough removed from how it is. This has been scrubbed from that sport. that guys do not come off the bench anymore because the consequences are so severe. Isaiah Stewart did not give that a thought. There was not a thought of a consequence. Nobody else is doing what Isaiah Stewart is doing there, which is like, oh, there's a fight. Let me go get in this right now. Everyone knows Amari Stademeyer helped cost Amina al-Hasson's Phoenix Sons,
Starting point is 00:29:31 but a generation doesn't know that. Isaiah Stewart's generation doesn't actually know that I'm, is that right? Do I have that correct? That Malice in the palace is so long ago now, and the NBA is so successfully scrubbed out the fighting because you couldn't have Nick's heat, Alonzo Morning, and Larry Johnson. We can't have Jeff Van Gundy on the calf of Alonzo Morning anymore. This has been scrubbed out.
Starting point is 00:29:56 Isaiah Stewart doesn't actually, like he knows the rules, but he might not be of a generation that understands that you cannot do that anymore because it seems like everyone else understands it. It's 24 years old. What year was Malice and? the palace? Oh, four. He was right. Four years old. That's funny though, right? Because everyone else knows not to react that way. You don't see, even in the middle of that fight, you don't see anybody else coming off the bench because the penalties are so stiff. Right. Everyone else is
Starting point is 00:30:19 standing there still. He, a beeline. Time to fight. I've seen this happen like four times in the last couple of days in the NBA where there's like, oh, this looks like it could be like a scrum, scrum, there were two fights last night. Yeah, and there was one on Sunday. Super Bowl's Sunday, Clippers Timberwolves, like, guys had to be separated and you thought like, is somebody about to a punch here? I kind of like that. I don't think, though, that in any of those games you had an Isaiah Stewart situation where somebody was throwing
Starting point is 00:30:45 caution and consequence to the wind. You cannot come off of the bench. The league will really make an example of that guy. I'm interested, not only the suspension, but I bet he will be fine, six figures easy. Well, in the six figures. I think he's going to get 10 games, and 10 games
Starting point is 00:31:01 for a guy like Isaiah, you know, remember, that's 10 miss game checks. That's millions of dollars. He's going to lose a lot of money. I think He's getting 10 games. Why does it feel different? I'm looking here, and I don't know if it's an unsubstantiated report, but I'm looking at 25 games without pay right now. Whoa.
Starting point is 00:31:18 Where are you seeing that? Ask Greg. Full court. Is it Charms-Taronia? No, it's a third of a season. Feel different. Why does it feel different than hockey, Greg? Black and white, Dan.
Starting point is 00:31:34 Yeah. Beef stew is a great nickname. He likes his beef. And it's due. Gabe Vincent's a hawk? Yeah, he got traded. Good to know. Deadline move.
Starting point is 00:31:46 Yeah, the Lakers waved him. LeBron says they're not a champion. Can this be a real quote? I think this is a real quote. Can this be a real quote from Isaiah Stewart when he was asked why he came off the bench? He said, you're not expecting me to stay on the bench. The F I was drafted to Detroit for. That's a video.
Starting point is 00:32:02 No, there's a video of him walking underneath the tunnel, walking out and saying that. The F I was drafted. How do you feel about how you read that? Not that good. You had it nice. All it needed to do was be read correctly. Yeah, the ball was on the T. It was right there for you.
Starting point is 00:32:21 Do you want to give it another crack? I do. Can we pretend like, you know, the last minute didn't happen? You're not expecting me to stay on the bench. The F.O. is drafted to Detroit for. A lot of these there, you're trying to like, it's a little bit of a tongue twister, all right? Can we acknowledge you?
Starting point is 00:32:38 Do you want to try it again? Because it doesn't seem like. I know there's now pressure on this, but the... I don't feel pressure. Okay, you don't feel pressure? I welcome it. All right, well... I thrive in it.
Starting point is 00:32:48 Wow, I have very little proof of that. You're not expecting me to stay on the bench. The F.O. was drafted to Detroit for. It's a did Detroit for. That's what it was. Minor penalty, two minutes for tripping the entire show. At least I don't claim to hang out with people who rip the crust off their pizza slice. There's no way that is real.
Starting point is 00:33:17 He even screwed that. Yeah, you screwed that out. He's going to feel that one. All sins erased on the show. Thanks, Zaz. No, that's true. Oh, man. He caught him off mic.
Starting point is 00:33:37 Let's get a chair, man. He actually shouted it over his left shoulder. He's like, I got the killer. Wait until the off-mic dismount is going to get him, and he couldn't say that clearly either. He is headed to Vegas. With his wife, look, Tony. Look how much.
Starting point is 00:33:55 Zaz, I don't think you understand how difficult it is to have the show Tony's ad day. And to enjoy how poorly you just did. Really fake. Let's do it. Let's do it. Tony wanted it done hours ago. Listen up. Time to think fast.
Starting point is 00:34:17 Is this a real or fake podcast? There's a reason I'm so prepared for this segment. You're welcome. I'm not sure. It was obvious to us that you were trying to speak privately and quickly to Chris and hit the wrong microphone instead told the audience real or fake and it had no context. Do you think the entire, I don't think the majority of the audience noticed what the nature of your mistake was,
Starting point is 00:34:41 which is that you were speaking into the wrong microphone after forgetting to start the show speaking in Spanish. Yeah, you know, again, Zaz messed up on the way out. Like, who cares about what I did? Lots of podcasts these days. Lots of podcasts hosted by celebrities and athletes, so many that you don't know what's real and what's fake anymore. So I'm going to read you some podcasts. You tell me if it's a real podcast or a fake one.
Starting point is 00:35:05 It's been a great game and I'm not good at it. And the worse I am at it, the better that it is. Greg Cody, you fancy yourself good. Greg Cody, actually, I should say right before we get to this, actually ended that segment with his wife saying off air. I don't think of myself as a stubborn person. I honestly don't. Well, this one looks funnier than it sounds. It's called Friar Territory,
Starting point is 00:35:30 and it's hosted by former Padres, Mike Cameron and Heath Bell. Friar Territory. I thought you were going to say, hosted by former dolphin receiver, Irving Fryer. That's what I thought, too. Yeah, but the Padres are called the Friars and Fair Territory is a thing in baseball,
Starting point is 00:35:46 so it looks really funny. It doesn't sound as funny. Friar Territory. Mike Cameron, Heath Bell, real or fake. That's got to be fake. Heath Bell didn't like the media. I mean, he was colorful, though. Zaz, would you like to venture a guess?
Starting point is 00:35:59 Would you like to turn on your microphone on? See you, buddy. Long flight to date. For tripping the entire show. Gentlemen, that is a real podcast in Friar Territory with Mike Cameron and Heath Bell. Soup to Nuts with Dave Campbell. Soup to nuts. Campbell's Soup.
Starting point is 00:36:22 with Dave Campbell. All right. Do me a favor video. Find a photo of Dave Campbell for the people who do not know who Dave Soup Campbell is. But the lasting image whenever anyone mentions his name
Starting point is 00:36:33 that I think of is him, Radisson Pool, in Bristol, Connecticut, 2 o'clock in the afternoon on a Wednesday, a cigarette in one hand, and one of those tanning silver things
Starting point is 00:36:44 under his chin, leathery. I don't think that's real. I don't think he's still doing this stuff. He's 84 years old. Soup to nuts. Real podcast? You think it's real? You think it's real? It is a fake podcast. I made it up. It should be real.
Starting point is 00:36:59 Next one. Off the Edge with Cam Jordan. That is not Dave Campbell. I don't think folks, that's a different. I'm going to say that's a different Dave Campbell. But I don't doubt that it comes up when you Google Dave Campbell baseball. I don't doubt. I assume that's what happened there, but that is not Dave Soup Campbell. No, but he's holding
Starting point is 00:37:17 up a football book. So he's not He's not, yeah, it's not Dave Sue Kim. Off the edge with Cam Jordan, real or fake. I'm going to say that is real. I'm going to say that he likes his media, and I'm going to say that's real. I say fake. That is a real podcast. Next one, ear candy with Michael Oloa Candy.
Starting point is 00:37:36 Oh, no way. Wow. They can't let that guy in your mic. I'm not sure that Michael Oloa Candy spoke great English. Like, is that? Wow. Slippery slope. My day's looking better.
Starting point is 00:37:48 I don't remember. Whoa. Is it a real or fake podcast? Minor penalty, two minutes. Accidental racism. I say real. That is a fake podcast. Michael Oloa Candy does not host a podcast that's called Your Candy.
Starting point is 00:38:05 And finally, say what needs to be said with Asante Samuel. I'm going to say fake again. That's real. It's real. I'm sticking this game. I was one for five. Hey, everybody, it's Mike Ryan. Now, if you've been following the show, you know I've been traveling, been super busy.
Starting point is 00:38:25 been supporting my favorite football team with mixed results, right? Not the greatest hang so far in 26. I tried to find every excuse in the book. I had one buddy that was trying to invite me out. I wanted to stay in. He's like, come on, let's watch this NBA game. So I go over to his house. I watched this NBA game and guess what? Something amazing happened. He pulled out the Miller lights. And I knew right away, I made the right call. Next thing you know, we're toasting, we're celebrating, we're having a great time. We're talking about nostalgia. We're talking about, old friends that we had, and it was all thanks to Miller Light, that icebreaker. Because when you actually say yes, and you actually show up, you want a beer that fits the moment. For me,
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