The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: I've Seen Clips

Episode Date: June 4, 2025

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Visit your local Mitsubishi dealer today or see mitsubishimotors.ca for details. Conditions apply. This is the Don LeBattor Show with the StuGuts Podcast. Hello, Katie. Hi. This is the Dan Leventor Show with the StuGuts Podcast. Hello, Katie. Hi. What's up? Nothing. I mean, good. I mean, what? How are you? Nice. They go just cover all the bases.

I'm good. How are you? I'm just so good. I already said what's up. No, it's okay. We're doing it. We're doing it. Small talk in it. That's us. How's the it. We're doing it. Small talking it. That's us. How's the weather?

Shitty actually. Oh, it's nice here. It's like 80 today. It's rainy season. Billy's been complaining about rainy season over here. Thrain, loud lightning, unusually loud lightning is hitting everywhere here. Scary. My dog would be freaking out.

What's with dog? Like you gotta, at some point you gotta learn. Get over it. I know, I know. Every 4th of July I'm like, Murdo, get over it. And they learn some things. Like there are a lot of things dogs pick up on, but just something with this lightning and fireworks

they just can't pick up on. It's not gonna hurt you. You're fine. I know, but it's, she gets so shaky. Like her whole body shakes. Like I get it. And I just feel like a monster. I get it year one and two, but that third year,

you're like, last year I was fine, the year before I was fine. No, I had to get some heavy sweater thing that like. Yeah, the Thunder Buddy. Oh, I love a Thunder Buddy. Do you? Do you get the spray for it, Katie? No, what spray?

There's like a spray that they put on a little patch on the Thunder Buddy. We didn't splurge for that. We just got the vest. I wish there were human ThunderBuddies, but then I realized, oh, this is just a sweater. It's a hug, I think. I think a human ThunderBuddy is just a hug. I can see your ThunderBuddy.

Yeah. I don't think that's appropriate. Please don't do that. That felt awkward. Don't do that. Casuals with Katie Nolan, Tuesdays and Thursdays. You can listen on the SiriusXM app or wherever you get your podcasts.

You could watch. Subscribe on youtube at katie nolan uh... katie i don't want to speak for you but it seems like you're having a great deal of fun and so i don't know uh... i don't know what this experience has been like uh... fighting in this space again but casuals with katie nolan seems to be a personal project that uh that has your voice firmly imprinted on it in a way that seems satisfying.

So, fulfilling, yes or no? Yes, and that's it, right? I just say yes and then I go? Yes, as I speak for you on how fulfilling a project is. Dan, you're right, it is fun. It feels a little removed from what I was doing before in a way that I like and I welcome. I feel like I'm back on the fan side of things and that's okay. Whereas before it kind of felt like, I don't know, maybe by nature of

me being a woman, I had to be an expert who was perfect at knowing and analyzing everything. And that's never really how I got into things in the first place so I've reconnected I'm realizing how crooked my dad's pictures are now that we're on well let's do this you are literally in your dad's basement you are literally right now broadcasting from your father's Boston my family my mom and dad they're still married shout out yeah they I'm in their basement I am I'm channeling all the people who do I can I say s words on I am, I'm channeling all the people who, can I say S words on this part?

Yeah, please do. I'm channeling all the people who talk shit to me online and I'm in my parents' basement. Can we go through that basement and take guesses at what might be there if your father is a cliche, is he a cliche Boston fan? 100%. We are in a, I believe he calls it Mann town. I know others would call it a man cave

I know in a commercial that used to repeat on your show would always call it a she shed And so this is we've got plenty of Boston memorabilia around me out of Marsha Jersey any Marsha injuries up there What do you think no jerseys? I know that's an immediate strikeout But we've got like a we've got Orr diving on the wall over here. Okay, no, but don't give too much away. I want to be able to take guesses because look at what you heard what she said, right? This is the highest of royalty. Her father is such an ego monster that he doesn't have a mere man cave.

He calls it a man town because that's extra Boston to have it be a town. It needs a level for those pictures though. It's a town of caves. It's not a singular man cave. He's probably proud of this. Would he show this off to his friends this room? Yes, he would. So what would be the prized possession in that room, guys?

I see signed baseballs back there. Like, what would be the prized possession in that room? These are golf balls. Are we guessing? Oh, golf balls. Okay, my size is distorted here. Yes, well pick something. Boston cliched sports fan.

I bet you have a picture of Bobby or diving in there somewhere. You got it, good guess. Wow. Really good guess. Really good stuff. Is there a picture of the Larry Bird towel swinging? No, no.

No, we don't. We're not. It's embarrassing how little of a basketball family we are. Oh, I was growing up. No basketball anywhere in here. Got a golf, a lot of hockey. Carlton Fisk, Carlton Fisk, home run, waving at fair. No picture somewhere. No, we have, we've got like Yankee socks fighting photos.

Don Zimmer. Is it Don Zimmer and Pedro Martinez? Yes. An 80 year old, your father's funny, an 80 year old Don Zimmer attacking Pedro Martinez? We have the glove in the face that fight. A-Rod and Veritek. Yep, yep. We've got Tom Brady, the dynasty cover

where he's got his hands up. Oh, Tom Brady, of course. How did we not get Tom Brady? A lot of Brady. Tuck rule, him on the floor. Katie, I have seen you in the middle of Pablo Torre finds out you guys are doing sort of journalism and fascinating gossip and also super weird for you.

Sort of journalism. Got Bill Simmons in trouble, Dan. It's journalism! Weird pitch. Did you guys guys see did you guys watch? Simmons V Tora, of course. Yep, even though we found out Simmons didn't watch anything that he was talking about That's how we won that one easily. I saw clips crazy. What was that? Chris has a Bill Simmons in his locker Who was that? Simmons I'm not doing more. I do that what I do and I get out I know but that was that? That was Bill Simmons. I'm not doing more. I do what I do and I get out.

I know, but that was a very limited fake Bill Simmons. I don't think Katie even heard it. You want to try it? Can you do it again? Can you say stamp.com? Say the exact same thing again, but Dan, you have to promise and not try to pry more. I've seen clips.

See, it's way worse. I got worse. That's Dan's fault. You choked. You choked. Let it happen. Choked. You choked him. You did choke. Now happen! Choke! You choked him!

Now do the Katie impression you do when she's not around. Where is your stance on Simmons and Torrey? Pick a side. I mean, Torrey. I'm Torrey till I die. I've sort of hitched myself to that wagon. I just, you know, I think Bill is being sensitive because he loves Belichick. And I get it. As someone who's had to sit there while Pablo reveals to me what he has in fact found out, a very stressful situation for a public Patriots fan. I've sucked it up and handled it,

so I need Simmons to do the same. It's weird, Pablo's investigating it, he's doing a fantastic job, so I'm team Pablo, and I assume you are as well. But what do you make of it though, just as a phenomenon? Of course I'm team Pablo, but I like making fun of the fact that he's gotta go to the sewer here to grab the story that's gonna get the clicks, and it has gotten the clicks,

because everyone's fascinated by it, and no one's actually covering it either well, respectfully, or factually. So people are actually grateful that they're getting details from him on a mystery that feels kind of creepy, but people want to snoop around it. So it really is one of the weirder stories of our lifetime to see Belichick.

Like, I don't know how your feelings about Belichick change in any way. Do you separate art from artists here? I don't know. feelings about Belichick change in any way? Do you separate art from artists here? I don't know. I think it's certainly, you know, when the run that they were on ended and there was the conversations about was it all Tom or was it all Belichick?

I remember having to go through that on your show, you guys making fun of me and asking me if I thought that it was all Tom or if it was all Belichick. And I liked to think that it was like 50 50. Someone's calling our house phone. How embarrassing landline, landline in the basement. Can we go pick it up? Can we see somebody? I'm sure my mom is freaking out upstairs being like the fudgering she's on camera. I think yeah, that's definitely what it is. I feel like I used to think it was more I wanted to think it was 50-50 and at this point I'm starting to feel like it was maybe 75 25

I don't know. Oh, you lost respect for him like that like oh, I'm a woman and so I don't know I I look at it differently when a man that old Reaches down to date a woman that young I don don't find that, unless I see that they're perfectly in love, which I haven't, any interactions with them I've seen, I'm not going like. Yoga pictures. Yeah, but I'm not going like, wow, look at them. Yeah, she got him to do that.

I still kind of think, just based on my own opinion, that he didn't know that was going out onto social media. I don't know if he was quite aware that we were all seeing that. Kind of felt like something he thought was gonna be internal. It seems like she's brainwashed him, is that right? I don't know, I just think she's,

look I think, and I don't hold this against her. Wow. You know, more power to her. If you can do that, then why wouldn't ya? I don't know what's happening here. What is brainwashed? What is that? What like she's been she's hypnotized him. I'm just throwing it out. Okay He said it seems like also not she had a lot of ownership on the woman this takes suit of tango brain

Also sex is awesome great brainwashed Man, I think you guys you guys some sex is awesome. You're discounting how awesome sex is. Come on. Sometimes. Yeah, but wait. Has Pablo found out how amazing their sex is? Because I bet dollars and donuts it's pretty awesome for him. He did it again.

He went to the Airbnb where allegedly it may have, you know, the relationship was, and the bed didn't look big enough for it to be all that awesome. It looks squeaky. Okay, this is what you guys. It was very small. All right, this is what we're doing now. It's a cot. You know, the relationship was, and the bed didn't look big enough for it to be all that awesome. It looks squeaky. It was very small. Alright, this is what we're doing now.

It's a cot. What? This is one of the great legends in sports of all time. I don't think it's irresponsible to assume Bill Belichick likes having sex with her very much so. He's got thick wrists. Oh my god. Oh god. Really? He's got to.

I don't want to do this. Look at the tone on the legs though, it's cheerlegs. Very impressive. Look at him, look at his. I'm looking at his. Yeah, nice. Okay, the thing that I don't think, Katie, anyone in the audience is gonna have

is us being able to decide for others what perfectly in love looks like. Like us getting to be the standard bearers on that from afar when we don't know what their life is. I'm just saying show me that side of you then. Show me the two of you together in an interview sitting next to each other having a conversation with each other and then maybe I'll go like wow they're really in love he's head over heels and he believes that she is a brilliant businesswoman and should be in

charge of his business because right now what it looks like is just that like when a hot person talks Bill goes goes, whatever you say. And then that's where how he's found himself. But doesn't that lose its luster after a couple of years? They've been together through the episode that I saw that you featured on. You guys deduced that she was 19 years old when she first popped up into his world. Like, doesn't the novelty of, wow, this hot girl is talking to me wear off after a couple of years? You gotta have something there.

Why is it so outrageous to venture the take that maybe, perhaps, they are in love and they love having sex with one another? Why do you keep going back to them loving having sex with one another? Well, and there's Chris Cody for you when you need him. Thick wrists. Okay, you mentioned that.

All right. I don't want to do this again. It's a barrel chest. All right, listen. Some people would find that comforting. Okay, enough. You'd be shocked those times. All right, enough. This is all gone way over the line and I'm now deep.

No, no, no. I'm not telling you what to think. I'm asking you if you'd like to. You're asking me to think too much about thick wrists and we're gonna back off from the microphones right now. All right, that's what we're gonna do. Katie is upset for a couple of different reasons okay and I don't blame her one she still rabidly hates the Panthers we

have not had a voice we have not had a voice this rabidly anti Panther around here so Katie look at Roy's laughter like Roy's laughing with the Marchand behind him yes yes this is disgusting what's happening down here in Florida for you as they broke Boston's heart, soul, roster, everything else. So you must hate them more than you used to. Yeah, and here's the thing. Watching this, and I've tried to watch as few

Panthers games as possible in this postseason because truly, Roy, look at me. I hate them. I hate the way they play. I hate the way they look. I hate the frigging mouth guard hanging out at Kachuck's mouth. I want to get that thing out of his face.

I hate them. And so I've watched as little as possible, but what I have watched was a game when you guys were down in the third period, a game I believe you ended up losing. Your fans did the wave. Relax, I've been in that barn every playoff, the last three, we don't do the wave. I've never seen the wave.

We don't do the wave, we saw the wrong game. No wave. You did the wave. You don't put that on us. We're so bored with making St. Luke finals that we're doing the wave. She takes that back, I've not seen the wave in that barn. I've never seen the wave there.

Also, you guys claim to hate Brad Martian. And yet, you get him, and now you're like, oh, he's actually really good at hockey. No shit. What a locker room guy. No, not all of us. Some of us have not regained that loyalty. You drafted him today.

I said he was a 15th place player. You drafted him in the top 15, yeah. Neither here nor there. Chris, one of the more, well, I'll tell you where. It is a good question, it is a good question, thank you. And where, the where I'm going to, is Chris Cody saying as if it's some sort of taunt, relax, I've been in that barn.

Yes. Every playoff game. Season ticket holder, he'd know if they did the wave. And it seems as though we had a rebuttal to Katie and her take that we've all just accepted Brad Morchan. No, no, not all of us have. Some of us can acknowledge that he's played well for this team, but also hate his stupid face. Regardless, how high does your hate climb? Do you want to say anything else? Because I'd like to feed a little more on the Boston heartbreak,

because one of the impressive things about the Panthers is that they've broken Toronto, Boston, and New York. And Tampa. And Tampa. Well, just maybe temporarily. Maybe temporarily. Oh, you guys are rebuilding. You're rebuilding.

We're not broken. We're fine. Brad's coming back. Brad's just there. He's doing deep dive. He's spying. And he's bringing back intel. Brad's just there. He's doing deep dive. He's spying and he's bringing back intel. This is so sad. Go ahead and embrace him.

He's coming right back. He said he'd be right back. One day contract to retire. Collecting intel. It just is crazy to me. And if you guys, if Kachuk ever came to my team, no chance I'm rooting for him. No chance.

Wow, so if Kachuk was traded to the Bruins, you would leave behind. Oh, wow. A patui. Ladies and gentlemen, the highest of the indignities there can be a public and spit patui. I'm down with that. That's real fandom right there. She loves her bees. So you're alleging that if the Bruins were to trade for Matthew Goodman, stop speaking it into existence, they're not going to do this. You would have you would tear the mouthpiece, half the mouthpiece out of his mouth and then you would spit in a nearby spittoon. And it would ding with a sound that made that sounded like Patooie. Exactly right. That's exactly right. You are also pissed off, I understand.

Two-fold pissed off Katie Nolan today, because she does not like, I don't know if it's because of the lack of stimulant or what, this week in sports, that we have too many days off and then they're not giving us games until later in the week. Is it because you've got attention deficit disorder?

Do you need to mainline? First of all, rude. Second of all, yes. Third of all, it just feels like this time of year for sports is like bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. It's like NBA playoffs, hockey playoffs, NBA players, hockey players. And then all of a sudden there's just this like week

where we're waiting for the end of it all. And I feel like it's this big hype and that's what gives us, you know, Torre V. Simmons is like, we're all looking for something to do. It's too much time leading up to it. I disagree with it. I think we should dive right in. I know it's tonight, right?

So it's like the complaining is over, but this last week has been like, I've been watching the Red Sox lose by a run in a new way every single night it's not good for me I shouldn't be paying attention to baseball like this right now I need my playoff hockey and I need my playoff basketball. This week gave us Greg Cody versus White Hat. Well I've got to hear more about Torrey Simmons because I didn't realize this was something that

had captured the American public. It wasn't really a V right it was like Pablo explaining to Bill Simmons what he does and Bill's like, oh, I didn't know. That's a good point. I know, but isn't that wild? Isn't that wild? Bill took such a swing to be like, I take issue with what Pablo's doing. And then we find out that he never even watched

what Pablo's doing. It's kind of like me. The watch. Oh, okay. And is that a good or a bad thing? Katie, I have to play for you. Greg Cody is indignant right now because you've been on this podcast, right?

The podcast is called What Chaos? And you've been on it. You tell me these people are talking this way about Greg Cody. Greg Cody has called them cowards and says they're disrespectful. What happened? It's the laziest, stupidest, f***ing mailed in column that this guy probably hasn't watched a second of the Oilers this postseason. That's columnist behavior though. I f***ing hate it. I love that people like this exist though.

This is way lazier. He's not making any sort of like coherent or strong point that you can agree with. He's just like the Stanley Cup thing is fine. You can have that argument though like you can't truly be considered one of the great until you win a Stanley Cup thing is fine. You can have that argument though, like you can't truly be considered one of the great until you win a Stanley Cup. But saying that's part of a reason why he's overrated right now in the middle of his career is so stupid, so lazy, so dumb.

It's been trotted out there 900 million times for 900 million athletes. He's not doing anything new. He's just replaying and moving the pieces back into place so that it fits the narrative against the team that the Panthers are going against. White hat, nerd, fake tattoos. That's Pete Blackburn.

You put respect on his name. He didn't respect me. He called me a senile old man. I heard he's short too. I didn't hear that clip. He said that? But he's a senile old man. Yes, he did. Oh. He's never even met me. It's a different clip I didn't hear that clip. He said that? Yes he did. It was a different clip.

It's a different clip. For the love of God. Have a little respect. Listen, let me apologize on his behalf. Let me apologize on behalf of Pete. I don't think he meant that. I think he knows you're a sweet guy. What was it? You were talking about the Oilers? You were saying that they're...

No, McDavid's overrated. Katie, you can be honest here. I'm in a group chat with Pete and I agreed with him Yeah, and he's not walking it back trader. No Napoleonic complex All right, well the fake tattoo sleeve like I don't know why you'd make that it's not it's not I have a fake tattoo on my hand right now. All right. I like it. What is it? That's fake charcoal stain What is that? It's an eyebrow is a charcoal stain Why do you have an eyebrow on your eyebrow? Because I want to test how long it stays on so i've had it on for a couple days you know if somebody were to lose an eyebrow that you get to know you can just tattoo it on now i don't want to play the whole sound how do you feel

about this beef between uh... greg cody who's calling uh... east he's calling it cowardice he called them coward take a side what's up it's not cowardice to to call you out no i think that i had me on on their show to represent myself and they chose not to because they were afraid I don't think they were afraid. I think they probably just didn't know how to get your landline No, they reached out got his number and then Pete was like, I don't want to bring this guy Okay, but here's the here's the most incendiary commentary especially for the Americans perspective like people don't get to get called the goat without winning anything like

Right that's just that's just true But like but he's a senile old man. Yeah talking about how all of that It means that's overrated. I guess with it Ultimately is that like the energy of this is that you're trying to invalidate who Connor McDavid is as a hockey player Which is not no, I'm not that's very fair. No, he's not. Fair criticism. He's never done that. I mean, you are doing that, right? I'm pointing out the crater-sized hole

in his legacy and resume. That was a good line in your column. Maybe I'm wrong. I feel like this is what columns are supposed to do. This means your column did well, that people are reading it, they're annoyed by it, and they don't like it. You did it.

Katie has it right. Your opinion on re-releasing last year's column. He's playing the hints. Yeah, different words. No, it was the same column. Katie. Choppy and paste. Oh, what?

You did this last year. It's totally different. He updated it with all the trophies. It's a fair game. Basically like Rick Riley, this is like a, you're just plagiarizing yourself? He rewrote the column and he's like, it's still the case.

That is a great reference by Katie. Casuals with Katie Nolan, Tuesdays and Thursdays. It's lovely to hear her so happy. Listen on the SiriusXM app or wherever you get your podcast. Katie, nice seeing you. Good to see you. Thank you. Bye, guys. Roy. I you're the only Panthers fan I like. Tony tonight. Next. Folks, listen up.

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you know, he had dark hair and was really good looking. Now he has gray hair, he's still good looking. And he had to teach these guys how to play, who never played before, and he was like, hair, he's still good looking. And he had to teach these guys how to play who never played before. And he was like, oh, but now he's very proud of the accomplishment. We're here with Julen Goitian Dia. That was right. Yeah, that was right.

That was 100% right. I didn't say that right. So you say it. Goitian Dia. Goitian Dia. Goitian Dia. Goitian Dia. Yeah, you got it better.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's it. That's it. Front quarter for the Warriors. Do you guys know who they're supposed to be? No, back quarter. Back quarter. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,. My grandfather, my uncle, my brothers, me, myself. Everyone. The whole family. When did you first take a basket? I don't remember the first time I took a basket. It was already there.

Yeah, it was already there. I think it was born there. I don't remember the first time. It's a kid, not a girl. It's a basket. The most crying. I knew it! When you see a legend like JR, in your country, when you see someone like that,

what do you feel? Everyone knows him. If you go to my town, to Lavenly Cate, or to my town, to the side of the street, to Arrasate or Guernica, if you've been a figure, a person who's been good at high life, everyone recognizes you.

If you go down the street and they say, look, that's him, that's him. Everyone knows who you are. It's like... Seth, Bad Bunny, Jimmy. That's it, yeah. And even here in the 80s, when my grandfather used to play here,

like people were waiting outside in the parking lot for them. Like they used to get out of the front door and everybody was waiting for them. So we're here with Mike Carballo, member of the Cyclones. You guys dropped SESTA, but you brought your SESTA with you. So we have a lot of questions for you. Number one, an official SESTA. You have somebody that makes these in-house.

Handmade, handmade. They take more or less around 24 hours to make. Like all of this is hand stitched and woven together. Like what do you mean handmade? Yeah, so it's kind of, it's interwoven. There's actually only like about five or six testamakers in the world, so imagine. How'd you get into HiLite?

Cause it's not something you grew up with, right? As far as how I got involved in the sport, I literally read a paper in the Miami Herald and called in. You like an ad? With an article in the Herald, right? In the sports section. Imagine, right, thousands of hundreds of thousands of people probably read that article,

but only one guy actually read it and go, all right, man, these guys can't be more athletic than me. And just called in. And they're like, yeah, please. Well, no, I'm sure that's a trial. You showed them to a trial. Sure, but if you look at it, it's like, is that athletic guy playing minor league baseball?

You're like, you got great teeth. So they're like, they already have like forms of things. They got a good look at you, the face of the highlight. The boss behind this all, Scott, Scott Savin. When I read that article, I called them and they go, listen, who are you and why are you calling us? That's crazy. Just like that.

A super Miami story, dude. Just someone just trying to grind. Just trying to make it happen. So you get here, they pull you out to the front, Tom. You had never seen this before, touched this before. Never, never, man, never. And actually when I saw Huang out of South there, our player manager, he just he handed me that. Kind of like you right? He goes, all right here show us what you got. Tied it on my arm. He goes, all right man let's see what you got. Start throwing and catching.

Now long story short, I kind of picked up the sport kind of naturally. From baseball right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're in the box. Listen a big white ball coming at you. Catch it and hit it. Same thing. When you look at Highlight, were you always a fan? Did you become a fan at that time? So I grew up in Connecticut, and you had to be 18 to get in. But if you had a fake ID at 16, you could go in.

So everybody had their first beer and their first bet at Highlight. So that's my Highlight. Then I had nothing to do with Highlight for about 30 years, but then I'm like, oh, I had my first beer and their first bet at highlight. So that's my highlight. Then I did have nothing to do with highlight for about 30 years but then I'm like oh I had my first bet in my first beer this is pretty cool sport and you know the sport itself is really amazing fastest ball sport in the world. The guys wear no padding, they wear a helmet, just a little dangerous, very dangerous. Yeah so 150 mile an hour great athletes and it's

sort of like a gladiator sport. What do you like about playing Highlight? I like the adrenaline. The ball is always there, and you're always on top of the ball. The communication between the two of us, you go, I go, they come out. You're always there, you're in action. How do you feel about the audience in the US and Spain?

The difference. I think here it's louder. People get more excited. In Spain, you respect more when someone fails, when they do so much. It's like golf. You respect more the failure and the amount. On the other hand, if you've done so much,

there's one person who's lost. So you respect more. Here, you shout when you fail. You shout if you fail, you get hit, you do well, you're bad. It doesn't matter, everyone shouts. What are some things that you shout when you're playing, well, I imagine in Spain, in Basque,

common phrases? Aupa, ori, mucho. Mucho, yeah, mucho is mucho... Mucho is Spanish. Ah, mucho is like mucho? Yes, mucho. Imagine you catch a difficult ball. You say wow, mucho! Or aupa, ori, ori... What's ori, ori?

Ori, ori is hard to... Like the literal translation is that, that. It's like dale? Yes, dale, dale. like the literal translation it's that that okay echo my valley yeah that is they told me only righties can play highlight is that true yes that's the walls on the left side this basket right here has to be fastened on your right arm doesn't matter if you're lefty or righty wow if you're lefty you teach yourself how to catch them throw righty. Yeah, because you have to Playing lefty being second baseman like it just doesn't work that way. Right exactly. Yeah, like a lefty catcher I know it doesn't but there are there are some upsides of being a lefty because when you're a lefty like in tennis, right?

You have a forehand, right? Same thing here. All you're utilizing there is your right arm. There's two other shots in highlight You have the reverse and you have There's two other shots in highlight. You have the reverse and you have the costado. So like you're gonna cost the muscles. We call it the costi. Okay. You literally just throw it over your right shoulder. And that's those are the...

Is that catching it like on a backhand? Yeah. And then you like throw it over like that? Exactly. You push with your left hand there. So if you're a lefty, that's where you get the back power. Exactly. Is there a moment that you said

I can do that? Play it? Oh yeah because he has moments where he thinks he can do anything. So I was at Deena which is another front that we ran for a couple of years and I thought nobody was around and I went out there with the sesta and the pelota and I'm throwing it against the wall throwing against the wall and kind of catching it underhand about the fourth throw it bounced and hit me right in the face I'm like and it hurt it's a cue ball right it's basically a people and I didn't realize there were cameras okay so all this surveillance department got a great laugh on a that's somewhere your house we've destroyed that's gone that's gone And it gives you a place in your body that is more painful. More painful? I would have the balls.

But anyway, yes. But I think the bone hurts more than the muscle. Ok. So it hurts in the elbow, in the knee, in the hip, in the hip, in the hip. It hurts more than if it hurts in a muscle, for example in the butt or here. Yes, yeah. What's your favorite thing of the sport? Coasting, speed.

Yeah? Yeah, man. Just right out like, I whip it, man. One speed, full speed. Drops it back inside. Carbayo gets it, slides, picks it up. So talk to us, man. How's your hand feeling there?

My hand feels good there. Feels really like a natural extension of my body. You told me before, it's like, your fingertips don't exist Yeah, he just said that is this right? That's a fair tip. Yes. Oh, you're for the fans back at home So your hand his hand right now is in there flush. All right It's like this right now. My hands like this hand is flush and fixed So essentially his new fingertip is a tip of the basket here Wow, and the only thing

And the only thing you're gonna do right now, man, is just break, break that wrist. But with all that wrist action. I got a nasty dumb shot, so like I'm pretty ganked. With the wrist, dude. Is this being used correctly? Am I pulling this correctly? You got it, man. You're ready to go.

I locked in. You should figure it out. Oh, come in here. Bro, the cue ball. Yeah. Well, actually, this right here is, that's the core of the ball. That's the core. It's wrapped. It gets wrapped in a couple layers of electrical tape. So

It's pretty action. Yeah. Damn. Let's get you out there, dude. Let's go So it's not like baseball where you pronate right right this has to stay think of this is like a spigot open and close gotcha Oh Open and close. Gotcha. Oh. Alright, it feels really weird because I'm used to throwing it at a certain level. Less is more here. Arc it to the front wall. Gotcha, okay. What am I doing wrong?

You're going to throw it all around like this. The first one here? You gotta open it. Open one here. I'm ready. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. by the hour, supply chains, squeeze tighter than stugots in a pair of skinny jeans, and cash flow. Forget about it, tighter than a Levitard show segment. If your business can't adapt in real time, you're in a world of hurt. Enter NetSuite by Oracle, your AI-powered business management suite. It's trusted by over 41,000 businesses. NetSuite gives you total visibility from global shipments and tariff impacts to real-time cash flow. It's the number one cloud ERP for a reason. It pulls accounting, inventory, HR, and financials

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