The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: I Think They Have Something There

Episode Date: May 19, 2025

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you drunk with power. Hey man, I'm happy man. Play the song. Oh no, Nix Van Taylor, no, no, no, no. I come back from a garden night. My mother asked that the Nix must have lost right. Oh mother dear, we're now the fortunate ones New York has Jalen Brunson Oh New York has Jalen Brunson

The bonus hands and the score is tight My father yells yells best thing to happen in my life. Oh daddy dear signing him is number one. New York has Jalen Brunson. Oh New York really has. He's all we really want. Brunson, Brunson, will win the game when it is done because New York has Jalen Brunson. New York has Jalen Brunson. Jalen Brunson. Jalen Brunson Jalen Brunson People have paid us for 20 years. Mm-hmm. It's

Yeah, wrong immoral Sam moral That's a hack. He's mad at all of us. You know I used to like him. Now I can't. He's mad at himself. Be funny.

He's now mad at everybody. Tony, I'm sorry, I'm gonna have to, this is a delayed penalty. Minor penalty, two minutes for adding nothing. ["Dreams of a New World"] Minor penalty two minutes for adding nothing In your dismount on the timber I know what it was I know it was I know it was like I'll go Wait, I want to know what I'd like to know. All right seems like a ticky-tack call Fall off me I don't actually know. I haven't talked to him about this,

so I don't know if he has this right. I wonder if he knows, and I want to call him back in here to get him to explain. You can't. What could he have possibly thought it was, that he was that worried to just walk out? I just want to see what he's got here, if indeed he's got anything.

Because I want to see if we're on the same Wavelength here because he I can't believe that he would know exactly what my criticism is going to be no I know exactly what it was and I know because when I said it I was like, okay Thank god, he said something I didn't have to say anything other than that when I when you asked me if it was a size Like yeah, it's a size I think they have something there and then we kind of just left it for like three seconds And then you moved on and I was like whoo Okay, good. You know what you you can know this to God stay For just a blanket for for review

Judge because the honesty and the ability to know now still God says I should escalate it to a five-minute major But I think he should be forgiven because what I was going to complain about is, you may have noticed, Zach Lowe, very popular, very popular at least in part because he's doing a very, very difficult thing well, which is explaining in bite-size morsels something that shows you that he has more information

than just about anybody analyzing basketball the way that he's doing it with the analytics. That's what he does to great success. I throw the NBA is back to Tony, he says of the Timberwolves, there's something there. Well, that was after a long conversation about narratives, about now the league is changing hands and we're passing the torch.

I know, but there's something there is something we can say about every there that's there There's always something right and I had something the thing is do you want to go on a long diatribe about how the wolves have? Great size how Julius Reynolds been playing great how me and me and Jeremy were talking about how go bears actually the anchor of that defense allows Julius Reynolds to play more of like a three instead of a four or five allows him to play bully ball with guys that are Smaller than him which is by the way what cats been dealing with when they play him smaller defenders all the sudden cats not that good the Knicks Aren't that good if he gets defended by smaller guys what happened in Denver all of a sudden Alex Caruso playing against Yoke Turnovers did you know what the third the different turnover differential for the Oklahoma City Thunder off points and the Denver Nuggets was yesterday

37 to 7 37 points on turnovers Oakley okay see you did have so and that was another thing I'm gonna leave after that. Thank you Zach low block me on Twitter one time get out of here. Yeah Yeah, it was weird. It sounds like a low blow. I had no idea why Okay, you know what? What are we doing? Two minutes high-sticking. Jeremy, we're gonna have to name that the Jeremy Memorial Award.

Two minutes for being Jeremy? Yeah, I mean, are you ready to do weekend observations? We haven't gotten them in a while, and Amin is a pale imitation. Are you ready to attack your weekend observations? Sure. Is there some Scotty Scheffler in there? Is there-

There's some Scotty Scheffler in there, yeah, of course. Roy, do you have any thoughts on RG3 making a heel turn? Do we have, is that gonna be found? Probably not in weekend observations. Let's see what's in weekend observations. It is time for Stu Gatz to share his game notes. No one in the media will tell you what happened better than my boy Stu. Weekend Observations brought to you by Miller Lite.

Then after they announced their final tour in 2023, I made sure I was at every show. I thought it was over. Then they gave me not one, but two residences at the Sphere in Las Vegas. Once again, thought it was done. But Dan, for their 60th anniversary, that's right, I said 60th, they announced a three-night the What's gonna happen? It means I'll be off in August. I know what it means for me Stu gots his line now is just to go. Hey when Zazz says something. I'm happy for Zazz Thank you for allowing me on your show today Boston Celtics At least you'll always have the Luke Cornett game For a brief moment after game five how many people also thought the Celtics

might just be better without Jason Tatum? I did it. That team, if Brown hadn't also been hurt, I believe that that team without Tatum could be as good as the Knicks. I don't think that that's an absurd thing to say. They won 60 games, They're not a 50-win team. It's a good bet. They're five deep in a way that is unusual for the league. Shea Gilgis Alexander not only won the series but he won the MVP. Congratulations SGA. Now do it in the Western Conference finals NBA. Now, do it in the Western Conference Finals and if you

do, do it in the NBA Finals. There it is. Nicola Jokic, the choker. Jokic the Joker. Jokic the Joker. The choker. I would love to watch five Alex Caruso's versus five Al Horford's. Something would have to give. You would watch that.

Oh, yeah, but you would watch that. There's five Caruso's on the court, taking on five Horford's. There's so much diving for loose ball that they're going on. Unfortunately, the game is nine to six. Yeah. Nick's in the Eastern Conference Finals. Mets and Yankees little Subway Series. WFAN 20 shares. Collision course. What a time to be a sports radio host in New York. Oh my god.

Wants Soto. Overrated Taylor Never say that LeBron tweeting the best two words in sports is game seven. Hey LeBron get your own bit When you think MLB rivalry week you think Mariners Padres The Vedetter Cup. The Angels swept the Dodgers this weekend for the first time in 15 years. Yeah. But Mariners Padres?

Rivalry? The Vetter Cup? Vetter's a Cub fan. That's true. It's weird. How was Pearl Jam? I haven't seen it in a while Jam so good greatest so good Jalen Brunson is what Chris stops porzingis was supposed to be he's also

what Luca donkic was supposed to be that's the one they let get away You agree Don Chich. I don't care. It's obvious Win something and I'll pronounce your name correctly Win anything I Thought we might be able to trick him if if we asked where's Julius Randall playing even after timber walls just no I but I think we could have gotten you if I think we could have gotten you. No coaches name and looks Work better in the city that he coaches in than Rick Carlisle He should coach there forever Hasn't he? I don't know, has he?

I don't imagine there are a lot of coaches that have had that much. He looks Indiana. How much? How many years has Carlisle had in Indiana? Is he the longest? Would his tenure in Indiana be longer than anybody but Spolsters in the NBA? Like coaches don't get the last. It's his second stint there. I know, but in terms of total years, if we're talking about Carlisle coaching the Pacers, does he have more total years with one franchise than anyone but Pop and Spoh? Who am I forgetting?

Am I forgetting somebody? Steve Kerr? No, he's gotta have more years than that. Carlisle would have- He has to, yeah. Would have, I think he would have the third longest amount of years by a good amount, given how much. Weren't you complaining this morning?

Did you come in here complaining that being an NBA coach used to mean something? It did. I mean, listen, we have four teams right now playing in the conference finals. And I'm telling you, I couldn't name a Western Conference Final head coach. What has happened to Cotton Fitzsimmons? Yeah, but this is just because you've been at dead-end company frying your brain. It's not because...

If I was playing Blackjack in Vegas, okay, at the win win before a dead show with either of the coaches of the Western Conference finals I wouldn't know it more people would recognize me at that blackjack table than either of those two coaches I used to mean something what happened to Del Harris He's right though Adam and is very Inconspicuous Gene shoe Inconspicuous. What happened to Del Harris? Gene Shue. Put it on the poll, Juju. What happened to Del Harris?

I mean, the only reason I know the Eastern Conference coaches is because I'm paying attention to the Eastern Conference. You don't say. Otherwise I would have no idea that Tom Thibodeau was coaching the Knicks. This is the eighth season in total that Carlisle has been with the Pacers. Huh.

I thought it was the head coach. He was an assistant there for three or four years before that. So Steve Kerr has been longer with the Warriors than Carlisle has been with the Pacers. So I had that wrong. I'm just remembering. I had his first run being longer than that

because it involved the malice It was four years and then this he's in his fourth year now It was oh three through oh seven, but the coaches were everything it was Billy Cunningham. It was Casey Jones You remember this you long for this I do what happened to the coaching profession. I don't really staff I don't know Bernie Bickerstaff Kevin Lockery, lock. I mean, you've still got a Bickerstaff. I thought if you liked that name,

you would just like it now that it's his son. Like there's, put it on the poll at LeBotard show. Is there always going to be a Bickerstaff in basketball? Who does he coach? Who does JB Bickerstaff coach? Ooh, JB Bickerstaff. You haven't been watching. They had a really good season.

Made the playoffs. good season made the playoffs Made the playoffs Shaquille O'Neal he shagged and and well, but not only that hmm historically bad Pace Second stints think I'm Malice in the Palace. The Bucks. I mean, Jalen Brunson had a moment for all time to break his heart.

J.B. Biggerskens? How are you not watching that series? I was. Second in Coach of the Year voting this year. I'm not watching the coaches. One of the greatest crossovers I've ever seen. Who was it against against Iverson what happened to Paul Westhead Paul Goldschmidt still got it that's crazy that he's still got it

I still got it. How? How? Yankees. Pablo Torre doing a report on Bill Belichick's girlfriend and UNC immediately saying how wrong he was. It sounds like Pablo Torre f**ked around and found out. That should be the new name of his podcast. Pablo Torre f**i around and finds out

Well Taylor come on his fingerprints are all over that one I mean, but it's also why it's called Pablo Tori finds out he fucked around and and and he got it right and North Carolina's line You got nothing right here like nothing not the coach of the Pistons. Not where DiVincenzo plays. The Pistons, huh? I can't believe you told them, Dan! Chuck Daly. That was a coach. Thank you.

Roy says Larry Brown, not a coach though. I don't like Larry Brown. What? What do you mean Larry Brown? What about the championship? Listen I am saying all the coaches were celebrities back in the day. Cotton Fitzsimmons did win a thing but you knew who Cotton Fitzsimmons was. None of those people did. None of those people. Paul Westfall. Yeah but you knew him. Where is Dan Issel? You knew Dan Issel? If he was if you were playing blackjack with Dan Issel you knew you were playing blackjack Tony Tony just so that you know, okay

The NBA will not be back until Stu gots looks on a sideline sees a guy in a suit and says that guy looks like Dan is so that's what I needed I needed someone's paroling the side the sidelines in a suit. I wonder what the the Diagram that we would have to make of like Stu knowing the coaches versus when they stopped wearing suits like whatever that you know we have to do we have to do this we have to quiz him next time he's on with just faces of people who are famous in sports that he should know that his brain has been fried because Grateful Dead put that on the calendar mid-Aust was to do it at the end of the gun

yes every god that's when we can do it when he's not here you already told us he's going to be on vacation bag i mean three shows golden gate park early august i'll be back mid-august i'm just saying if you if you're going to do it to it right after three dead shows that's all you can't spell austin matthews without no show. Try it.

I have. Austin Matthews is the Wayne Gretzky of Joel Embiids. Do you know how much spelling you just made us do on Austin Matthews? There's only one O in Austin Matthews. No show. You only need one O. You can use it two times like Martinez on first and third. He's there in both places.

Oh, slide into that O. Mm-hmm. The seven in game seven stands for how many straight game sevens the Leafs have lost. That's crazy. I mean, it really is crazy. I mean, what a bunch of losers. I mean, you can't even, I'm not even being mean. Poor people in Toronto. It's just factual. I mean, they're in an igloo ice fishing right now.

That's... Toronto's a major city. Nastu's right. Things are like Eskimos. Yeah, we're at the beach in there. We have hockey. We have everything. I think we lost a sunrise. I mean. Sturgans is rapid descent into just spectacular ignorance.

Like you just put Toronto's a big ass city Sturgans. You say so. You have them ice fishing in an igloo Like that Ottawa That's Winnipeg Those poor people yeah, do you know how frustrating this is where they're like Tampa's as far south as all that's gonna go That's like we're not gonna go any further than that. All the Canadians on Hollywood Beach wearing socks and sandals.

We're not gonna go that far. Really? Really. That's gonna take out McDavid. It's gonna hide the puck in the corner and take out McDavid. Dallas. They must hate us so much right now. I sounded like Trump the first two hours of the show making fun of Canada.

I love when the announcers say a goalie is standing on his head. I don't know what it means. That's the same thing Chris said last week. What it means is instead of legs He's on his head and he's stomping everything. Why do you guys not know what this means? Just like it. Well, it's ridiculous because if he actually stood on his head, he'd be a much less effective goalie. Not if you were Bobrovsky. That's the point. Now I get it.

The point is that you try and get it past him and he saves it with his butt. He saves it with his head. He saves it on his head. He saves it however he wants. Carlo saved it with his butt. But Bobrovsky can also save it with his butt while standing on his head he saves it however he wants. Carlo saved it with his butt. But Bobrovsky can also save it with his butt while standing on his head. The O in O Canada stands for how many Canadian teams have lifted a Stanley Cup in the last 32 years.

It has to make them insane, right? Poor Canada. Right? Like just, they care so much and Tony's back there saying He doesn't know this the name of a crease or the color of a blue line Maybe they should care less I saw Kachak was on spitting chickless this morning basically saying Like the fans deserve a little like that's too much pressure We don't have to deal with that like I don't want to blame the fans for too much pressure But there is something to the effect of,

back off a little bit, you're not helping. Where's Jim Linum? That's what I'm talking about. That's what I'm talking about. You knew him. You're sitting at a Blackjack table and Jimmy Lyman's there, you know it, Jim. I think you just went dyslexic there.

What happened to Dr. Jack? The M before the M. What did happen to Dr. Jack? Rest in peace. Grutter. Leonard. Thunder. Thunder.

Dan. You know what the N in the cola and the J in Jokic stands for? They stand for not Jordan. Never will be Jordan. Never should have been compared to Jordan. It stands for not today, not tomorrow, not at any point in history will Jokic be better than Michael Jordan. Little wordy. Except statistically, when you do the advanced metrics on offensive game and efficiencies.

The greatest player ever. But okay. You know. Okay. Six shots in a game seven. It was nine, but. Nine? Get your own shots.

Okay, so he's very good at defense. They can frustrate me. I don't know, the Pistons weren't where's George Carl? That's what I'm talking about. I know what happened to Georgie Zazz can play this game for the rest of your life. I'm waiting for a dick Mata Just got him John Lucas Show hey, Otani.

Do it against the Angels. I don't like this Otani guy. What? Not that good. You're infuriating. Unbelievable. Three majors. 15 wins.

28 years old. Close your eyes for a second, Dan. Imagine Scottie Scheffler was black. Holy shit. Oh my God. That arrest would have gone over differently. Oh yeah. He'd still be in jail.

Only have two majors. We're not talking enough about him. What a head of hair. Silver right? You know it. If you look closely at just their faces, Scotty Scheffler and Elvis Presley look exactly alike. The King. Scottie Scheffler, droopy face.

It's impossible for anyone to run downhill and not look clumsy. Tart, put it on the pole. That level ground. At Lebatard Show, is it possible to run downhill without looking clumsy? Read a story over the weekend, Dan, about the Celtics needing to start over. That was quick. Right? That's kind of stunning, right? No one had it quite like that, right? Where we go from, oh, whoa, ah, eh, what? Over? Yeah. That, no.

Second apron? No. Again. Rebuild. Again, these things, four and five years at a time, really hard, ligaments tear, bodies break, people hate each other. Seems, it seems like these people don't,

Denver just fell apart at the end, still got us. Is there a worse reputation to have than being the franchise that is called the best part at the end. Is there a worse reputation to have than being the franchise that is called the franchise where quarterbacks go to die. The Bears. I mean, Caleb didn't

want to go there. I don't blame them by the way. Quarterbacks go to die. The Jets are going to have that reputation shortly. They have it. If they I don't know that they had Gino Smith. He's moved on. They had Sam Darnold. He's moved on those guys have made Pro Bowls. They have that reputation. Anyway, where's

Doug Mo? Oh Doug Mo. Jesus. Coach K. great name for a drug. Things you think about, man. When you think you're seeing Coach K walking around the wind at the sphere. Oh, what a great time I had with him, I think. A thousand Coach Ks. I don't know if I know that. It really does sound like mushrooms and Grateful Dead to just see a desert of just unending Coach K's. I was asking people, is there a coaching convention going on here? I keep seeing Coach K.

No one else saw him, that's why I'm a big fan. That's probably why it was the drugs, yes. saw him. That's why I'm a big. Well, that's probably that's probably why it was the drugs. Yes. If you have the Maple Leafs in a game seven on their home ice, you've got them exactly where you want them. Amazing. Put it on the poll. Is every single Maple Leaf fan a loser? Yo, where's Rudy T? Rudy Tachronovich. She's one of the great T? The two most magical words in sports are game seven. Unless you're a Leafs fan, then it's hell on earth. Speaking of hell, or Pryles. Dan, those are the weekend observations. Okay, so I thought I was good with money. Turns out I was really good at ignoring it.

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It's a three, the crowd goes into a delusion. Winning in the playoffs not an illusion. It's a heat check, he's on fire. Stugatz. Harry Osh, Jalen Bronson. Hums up clutch, that's why we won. New York knows you are the best Not the joke no more

This is the done libertar show with the Stu guards Since 2018, the Toronto Maple Leafs are 0-7 in make or break it games and they've been outscored 28-9. Yesterday, yesterday was 75 shots in two periods. Like, that, just for a moment, imagine Stugats as a sports fan, 25 years of failure, irrelevance, New York Knicks, New York Jets. It hurts, it stinks, he dares to hope, dares to hope.

They fail all the time. Aaron Rodgers injured after a play. Three plays. Toronto was buoyant. Toronto hasn't felt that good in a long time. They were an overtime goal away from up 3-0 on the defending champions and then they come and do the unthinkable. They win game 6 and shut out Florida at home and make Florida fans, whether they admit it or

not, a hiccup of, oof, game seven on the road isn't very comfortable except against them. Historically against them because the fans care so much that the players feel it and all of a sudden Matthews is a no-show with one O, which is not how you spell no-show. You know what? I'm actually annoyed about this

because it took an extra game for the Panthers to beat them. They should have won Game 6. Like all this flying to Toronto, potential injury, now you got to fly to Raleigh. Like they should have gotten the job done in Game 6. I love how you have, why do you have flying to Raleigh? Why are you pounding on the desk? It's 48 minutes, I mean.

Now they have to fly to Raleigh. But why are you pounding on the desk as you say this? It should have been 6? It should have been six should have been six Well, then you would have been denied outscoring them twice two of three games for your season two of them at home Come on, Roy. That's the best feeling in sports their home ice Their fans were leaving early. That's the greatest thing. Hold on put it on the pole at LeBattard show What is the greatest feeling in sports winning game seven on the road or winning game seven at home

because i don't know if um a lot of athletes say that shutting up the opposing team's fans is the best feeling like they say it all the time i don't know if it's true well i would say the i would say the players who are most villainous say that i don't say a lot chipper jones said it reggie miller said it i don't think that that's a greater feeling except unless if you're Brad Marchand It might be if you run your life fueled on a on a flume of hate I believe that was actually the first time that Marchand won game seven against the Leafs in Toronto I think all other four times were in Boston So that was his first experience doing that in front of them also.

Dan, this is your thing though, you love forcing a game seven for your team even when the fan base doesn't want it. Last year when the Panthers were up 3-0, you wanted them to blow it and go to seven, and that was not something that was gonna be fun. This one though, I'm with you. I kinda was happy that the Panthers lost game six

because I knew that they would go into Toronto and win game seven. There's no more fear as a Panthers fan. And so you knew that you could experience the greatest joy of going into their barn and scoring six goals and winning. All right, the barn was unnecessary there. Very needed.

Hockey guy. No, you need that. The only part I liked. The Indian arena? This was actually the only part I liked of what he said. Marshawn had an apple in that game, right? The barn is not needed there. No one needed the barn.

I will say to you though, as I'm watching a champion defend its title, and you've heard me be scared of Winnipeg, be scared of Toronto, be scared of Dallas, Edmonton's the scariest. I don't know what you guys are rooting for next. Roy, you can shrug your shoulders. I thinkon's the scariest. Like that, I don't know what you guys are rooting for next. Roy, you can shrug your shoulders. I think Carolina's the scariest. Carolina's good. That's crazy. Okay.

Hockey can happen to anybody. I'm supposed to be afraid of Fredrickson. Yeah. Yeah. I want to go back for a second. I just, I want to examine, not unlike with Tony's, there's something there with Minnesota. I want to examine the conversational defect

that Stu Gotts has when he stares at you after you've said Bob Hill, and the back and forth is, what a head of hair, silver, right? So is he just wanting you to know that he knows that Bob Hill's hair was silver? A special kind of silver. Like, you know, and when he says silver, right, it's not because he's asking you the question or is confused, it's because he wishes to show us that he knows the

color of Bob Hill's hair. He's trying to make up for not knowing that JB Bickerstaff is even still coaching. But was it silver? I feel like Bob Hill was like whitish. I thought, I didn't even know, that's why I stopped. I wasn't, closer to. Stugatsa's right here. This is maybe white by the end of his career, but this is, I mean, I've got pictures of him right next to Greg Popovich in a more modern time, and that is a clear and obvious silver hair. Look how uncomfortable he looks as coach.

They all had to dress like that? That's crazy. That's what it meant something, yes. That is the time that Sturgots is longing for. Again, the barn, unnecessary, and I don't know why it is that hockey people insist on referring to it as a barn. There is no other place where you go into someone else's barn. Do you think it's insulting to all the taxpayers in the city who pay billions of dollars

to create this glorious arena, yet we're calling it a barn. I don't even, but I don't, can you give me the origins? Because Chris is back there saying this is why it's called, put it on the poll at Levitard Show. Do you know why everyone refers to going into the opposing hockey arena and only the opposing hockey arena as the barn? Do any of you know why you say this thing? Also, also does it stop being a barn

when the Raptors are playing a game? Oh, wow. Apparently they used to turn barns into field houses where you could play hockey in the early times of hockey. So in turn, that's why you're going into the barn. Anytime I walk into that arena where the Panthers play, even if I'm going to Disney on ice, in the early times of hockey. So in turn, that's why you're going into the barn. It's someone else's barn. Anytime I walk into that arena where the Panthers play, even if I'm going to Disney on ice,

I'm saying you're ready to walk into this barn, honey. Well, wait a minute, what about Indiana? Do you play in a field house? They do. That's a different thing. A field house isn't a barn. It's not a barn. Field house is a field house.

Barn's a totally different thing. Do you realize that Canada listens to this today, Toronto specifically, and says, listen to those idiots. They get to advance. They don't know shit about anything. Like every one of our grandkids grew up in a barn playing hockey.

We called it a barn. You are in a barn. They're like, whoa, these guys know puck. We called it a barn. Tony, nose, hockey. Knight. Between the pipes. You're so right, the generations of families. No, they're our friends, listen to me.

They're not ice fishing. They all play hockey. Listen to me. There's a family in Toronto right now where the suffering has been passed down a hundred years of caring too much. All the blankets are maple leafs, all the things in the house are maple leaf.

For some reason, they've tuned into today's show to listen to what the winners sound like and how little they know about the sport that Canada cares about. It is insulting. If I, I'm trying to think of an example I could give the audience right now of something that you care about deeply deeply that some other country just came around and just stole it from you again and again

And for 30 years all you do is lose and the worst of you is Toronto because you get kind of close It's not even like the other losers in Canada that just lose forever like honest to God I don't know anything about Winnipeg except they've got the Jets and the Jets never win anything. Like, I literally don't know anything else about Winnipeg. Put it on the poll at LeBittard Show. Do you know anything else about Winnipeg other than they have the Jets? Well, it's the second time that they've had the Jets.

The first Jets moved to Arizona before moving to Utah. Second stint, yeah. Losers, losers, losers, and none of them are worse than Toronto because Toronto gets close and then loses and everyone knows, oh, and none of them are worse than Toronto, because Toronto gets close and then loses, and everyone knows, oh, the pressure of that got to you. Look, you didn't lose one, nothing. No, they caved your head in because you couldn't handle any of that.

All of it was too much, and everyone knew it before they got to the arena. When you drove to the arena, you carried my grandfather's breath, loser breath, my dad's loser breath, my dad's loser breath, my kid's loser breath, all we do is lose, we get close, we're gonna lose, and the Panthers win all the big games. Especially in the road barn. Yeah.

How? With guys from your country. How? With a bunch of players who are down here going to Sawgrass Mills thrilled that no one bothers them because no one cares about hockey over there like thrilled every every every last panther that gets to walk through Sawgrass Mills loves loves you know what it's like for McDavid and Edmonton I love the visual of them going to the mall after it

walking around with a no one bothers one of those like carts you pay a dollar for if there's still a rainforest cafe I bet you I bet your bark off can eat in a corner without anyone bothering sitting on one of those tools It's actually an animal, but I think bark off consider the bar Tell me I'm wrong sad slow Tell me I'm wrong that any one of these guys goes to Hollywood Beach and the only reason they'd get Recognized is because of the Canadians who were there I told you at UFC last month everyone was is because of the Canadians who were there.

I told you at UFC last month, everyone was fawning over the celebrities who were sitting on the floor level and sitting in the row right behind me, completely inconspicuous, Sam Bennett and Aaron Echblad just drinking beers. Elbow room specifically, Kachuk's a king there. They know him there, but I'm with you in general in Fort Lauderdale. This is the thing they love so much beyond you know no state income tax about living here. Fame's not a menu item. You don't get to choose how you get it. These guys do. If Kachuk wants to go drinking at the elbow room and be recognized that's where he's gonna go. He wants to go anywhere in Dade County. Have at it. Nobody

knows who the hell you are. I would tell them to move out of the way. But get out of the way. Who is this guy? People are honking at him. Eklad, I don't know. Fighting him. You could put a lineup and I wouldn't be able to pull up Eklad. Let's do that.

Let's do the game where we put coaches in front of Stigots and hockey players in front of you and let's just have an ignorant off. Imagine, I mean seriously, imagine Dan Don Nelson walking through sawgrass Mills back in the 80s. I want to play this game now. I want to play the game. Who can I put in front of Tony and Stugats

to make this work the best? It's gonna be a boring game for Tony. Oh, who's that player? I don't know. I know. Next. Imagine how it makes Toronto feel when that's what knocks out Matthews.