The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: The Face Reveal

Episode Date: April 25, 2024

We finally get to Mero's Refrans Del Dia and see if Taylor can pass as a Dominican. Then, JuJu delivers today's Thursday Thunder and we listen to a snippet from Joakim Noah on this week's South Beach Sessions to show the way athletes care. Plus, folks...we have a Face/Off 2 in the works. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. Folks, Mother's Day is around the corner and let me talk to you about 1-800 flowers. I can't wait every year to tradition. I send stuff to my mother, my mother-in-law, and my wife because they are three amazing moms. They're better than all your moms out there. You think you have good moms? No, I have good moms in my life. I'm just kidding, this was a little harsh.

I'm sure you guys all have good moms too. From your mom to the mother of your children, and all the moms in between, this Mother's Day, give back to the ones that have given you everything. 1-800-FLOWERS helps you celebrate all amazing moms from homemade bouquets, sweet treats, gourmet food, and one of a kind gifts, ordered easily, and delivered fresh.

For a limited time, you can save up to 40% off Mother's Day bestsellers at 1800flowers.com slash Dan. Don't wait order today and save up to 40% at 1800flowers.com slash Dan. Now's a good time to remember where the story of tequila started. In 1795 the first tequila distillery was opened by the Cuervo family and 229 years, Cuervo is still going strong. Family owned from the start, same family, same land. Now's a good time to enjoy Cuervo. The tequila that invented tequila.

Go to Cuervo.com to shop tequila or visit a store near you. Cuervo, now's a good time. Trademarks owned by Becle, S SAB, the CV. Copyright 2024. Proximo. Jersey City, New Jersey. Please drink responsibly. This is the Don Leventor Show with the Stugats Podcast. The mics hot?

Now they are. All right, Dan, count us back in. They've been hot. Yeah. As soon as you got here, isn't that the way that works with you? You get in and mics get hot. Just keep them hot all the time. You didn't answer my question though.

If I made you sort of rank it on how it is that you felt about the, you're down five with 28 seconds left. You believe in this team. I believe this team is gonna break your heart because I fear that the Celtics are better than everyone in the conference. But what you saw last night reinforces the notion

that poor Zengis might not be trusted in that spot. No, not at all. The durability of a hymen is what my brother says. Exactly, exactly. You know what I'm saying? Shout out to Juju for calling me. Thank you. You know what I'm saying?

Since Slu's not here, Juju's getting all the thank yous today. But last night wasn't a durability problem. It's that he was in the post with guys that were nine inches shorter than him and he wasn't passing out of it to create The threes or even making the turnaround jumpers that they needed him to make you know I'm saying Durability is a compound word part of that word is ability

You know I'm saying so his durability and his ability but the do the do the do Durability you know saying because he's out there catching a bull in the post looking like Jesus on the cross, and you know what I mean, you got a five, six guy on you and you're not making nothing happen. So what are you doing, Chris Stapps? You know what I mean? So hey, you know, maybe Phil Jackson was wrong, okay? I delight in saying that.

Phil Jackson, you were wrong, okay, if you're still alive. I don't know if you are, I'm sorry. Whoa, that'd be a $50 fine if you just killed Phil Jackson. He's still with us. He was asking me. He's still with us, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. I just had to Google it, you know what I'm saying? if you are. I'm sorry. Whoa, that'd be a $50 fine if you just killed Phil Jackson. He's still with us He was asking. I just had to Google it. You know what I'm saying? That's why Who is the most hated figure who is Nick's history? According to you like in terms of a because Phil Jackson would be pretty high on the lip falling asleep on the subway Yeah, trying to do the Pat Riley thing lazy. Yes

subway, trying to do the Pat Riley thing lazy. Yes, that guy's so lame, God. But honestly, it's funny, I had this conversation last night, like poolside over many, many, many villains. It's Mike, man. It's Michael Jordan, dog. If you're a real Knicks fan and you grew up, and you were young, because I was young in the 90s. I was like junior high, elementary school.

So Mike broke my heart every year. So he is like the ultimate villain because unlike Reggie Miller, unlike Alonzo Mourning, all those other guys, we could beat them. It's like, yo, you're beating these guys. You have a chance. With Mike, it was like, ah man, now we gotta,

it's Thanos now. But I was talking to you about like in-house, somebody who did damage to your organization from inside the house. From inside the house? Yeah, because Phil Jackson, when you mentioned Phil Jackson, I was thinking about where Knicks fans will get rabid on. You fouled all this up.

Phil Jackson, bro. It was Pat, it was like a bunch of guys, it was a bunch of different front office people, like just doing dumb stuff, but it is undoubtedly Phil Jackson. You know why? Frank Nilekina, dog. You wasted a lottery pick on Frank

mother nila Kena my guy you know I'm saying you did that and for that I will never forgive you that is a forever wound in my spleen dog I don't even say heart like it was my liver you know I'm saying of another vital organ like he deflated one of my lungs with that pick asshole do you guys have a refrain del dia you said you have one here for no no no no oh and you're going not cuban this time you're Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! This is what we're gonna do. We usually do. With Crypto, with Yuju, with Miguel, with Tony, with Jessica. You know what I'm saying? Everybody's here, damn it. Ready. So instead of doing a cubified thing as we usually do, my Dominican brothers here, we're gonna do it Dominican style.

So I'm not even gonna give him one. I'm gonna give him a bunch, rapid fire, and he's gonna explain to the crew and explain to the world what these things mean or what he likes out of these things. So we'll start here. Que lo que. Ah, que lo que, bro.

Ah, I love it, I love it. Que lo que works. Also, if you are, if you look Dominican, but you're not, you could get away with anything. If you just be like, que lo que. You walk into a party, you don't know nobody. Get okay, hey, get okay, hey, way. And you just throw a way after it, away, get okay.

But smiling a point like, you know what I mean? Like Will Smith in the Miami video where he's like, hey, people are like, hey, get okay, clean them. And you can connect with anyone from there, right? Second one, this one you have to explain because there's levels to it. I call it niveles de vaina. T. Explain what vaina is

and how you can use it in certain ways. Vaina is literally an all purpose word, bro. You know how in like when you coming up, I don't know about the Florida education system, but New York, my teachers used to be like, yo, don't use the word nice. You know what I'm saying? Cause that's a dumb ass word.

Like it means nothing. It means everything and nothing all at once. You know what I'm saying? So that to me is vaina. You know what I'm saying? But in a good way, not in a bad way. Like dame esa vaina. Dame esa vaina.

E quala tu vaina, Daniel? Isn't coño in Cuban, sort of an all purpose word? The same sort of all purpose, like you can use it 17 different ways. You can't explain to anybody what all of them mean. Baena in the simplest terms is that thing. Give me that thing. Give me that thing. Give me that thing.

Give me that thing. Efebreze. Efebreze. Give me that thing. Give me that thing. Give me that thing over there. Pass me that thing. Eeeh... Eeeh... Efebreze. Efebreze. Pass me Efebreze. You know what I'm saying? That thing. All that thing.

Who is someone that can fool you with that thing that's not Dominican but can pass? I'm setting the bar at Tracy Morgan. Tracy Morgan definitely. Tracy Morgan looks like all my uncles. That's why I love him. You know what I'm saying? That's my uncle. Also, I was talking about this yesterday.

Daniel Senjata. Y'all know, I know it's like, he doesn't have name, he don't got name recognition, but if you Google him, if you bring up a picture of Daniel Senjata, he could be anything, dog. He could be Dominican, he could be Puerto, he could be middle of Eastern, he could be Sicilian. I just Googled him, I can't believe it. You're totally right. Boom. Look at this. What are you?

Rescue me I'm gonna bring somebody in from the outside that I think can pull you if they say okay As we do that, they could do explain explain La Cuarentido La Cuarentido, oh baby La Cuarentido for the real ones La Cuarentido, if y'all It's it's The Wire is a classic show, right? So I'm assuming I'm gonna go off the assumption that y'all are all familiar with the show The Wire

La Cuarentido is a healthy version of hamster damn, you know I'm saying it's just turned up all the time okay okay stay right there Taylor talk Nick's basketball with Marrows since you're the secret Nick's fan that we have here. But do it in Dominican. Yeah. Oh. Bobby, que tu cree? Dime. Put him in a bad spot.

You got this, Taylor. Impossible spot. Just do it. Yo, use the trick, brother. I told you. I just told you the trick 20 seconds ago. Que lo que. Que lo que.

He's a slow learner. He's terrified. He's a Knicks fan. He's scared. Como tu te sientes de los Knicks ahora mismo, en este momento? How do you? Si the Knicks right now? I love the moment. How do you feel? Excellent work, Taylor. I appreciate all your help.

Also, it's all your help. Taylor can be Dominican because you don't even have to talk if you're Dominican. You just talk with your hands. How do you feel about the Knicks? So sick. That's what it is. That's what it is. That's where you can use Vine. A great thing.

A good thing. An incredible thing. Tell them about Los Tres Gopes. Oh, Los Tres Gopes. Yo, Los Tres Gopes is wow because this is how you know. This is why Dominicans are the best baseball players. Because you're working against yourself when you have Tres Gopes for breakfast. You know what I mean? Because people don't know for that. Those of you that don for breakfast. You know what I mean? Because well people don't know for that

Yeah, those of y'all don't know I'm saying today. Gorka is a traditional Dominican breakfast that consists of mango Which is mashed platanos aka plantains if you're born here plantains mashed platanos green not sweet with salami Frito like with salami, frito, like fried salami, queso frito, fried cheese, and fried eggs. You know what I'm saying?

So you eat that, bro, and that sticks to your ribs. Well, literally translated, that's three hits, right? So there was, bam, bam, bam. So you're doing three terrible fried things to your organs. For breakfast. Just coming out of the gate aggressively Dominican. Aggressively Dominican at 6.45 in the morning

right before you hop in your Lincoln Town car and get to work. What brings you to Miami? I did not know you were coming. You announced it. Not that you need excuses to come to Miami. You like, you have been absorbing this city for a long time.

I feel like I'm part of heat culture now. You know what I'm saying? It feels blasphemous to say. You know what I mean? But heat meaning like, cause I'm hot. You know what I mean? I'm popping. You know, Manjaro M blasphemous to say you know I mean but heat meaning like cuz I'm hot you know I mean, I'm popping when John Romero in the building Look at the traps. You're not answering my question. You're flexing You know I'm saying but I'm here too

I'm doing a series with MLB and Corona called La Vida Mas Fina Where I speak to and highlight Latino ball players, you know from around the league The fine life the fine life, you know I'm saying last episode was with Nick Castellanos Cubano and Loey and I'm in the bubble. You know, it's a tough win easy Mucha gracias. I'll go shut up for the la pollo. You know I'm saying and today I will be when I leave here I will be kicking it with Luis Reayas and from the mall is local Miami legend We said I is you know I mean and we're gonna play the show and eat at it pass You know what I mean then what I want to ma Dan

I don't know if I can interject here for very quick you can but refram del dia was supposed to be one phrase No, it's too big. He's in person. It's too big This is gonna be a either or, OK? El Alfa or Rochy? Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

Ah! Dime. Yeah, you put me in a dime. Oh, man. This is like, I'm getting a bit. Can you explain to the people at Dembeau, first off, those are two Dembeau artists from Dominican Republic. Can you explain who they are, why they mean so much to the country?

So El Alfa is a Dembow artist. If you don't know what Dembow is, Dembow is like Dominican street party music. You know what I mean? It has roots in like reggaeton and dance hall and all that kind of stuff. Can I play a little something? Yes, please, please.

Okay, hold on. Listen, if you're gonna play something. ["Cualidad de la Caza"] -♪ Yo, le iba a grabar pero en baja calidad. Que ella me dijo que no, que no está. Es una maldita loca, una ratata. Y ella lo que quiere es que la p*** es cuatro car, cuatro car, cuatro car, cuatro car, cuatro car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, man, that's pretty good. Come on, Doc. There you go. That's a lot, Fadim. Yo, by the way, I did MLB All-Star, and I had Bryan Cranston dancing to Dembeau.

Yo, that's a real video. Bryan Cranston with a long ass white beard hitting the, could you block, could you block, could you block, at home plate. You know what I'm saying? Shout out to Bryan. I love that song that translates to just put it in, take it out, put it in, take it out.

4K, 4K though. that's the most important part. Brugal or Bacelo? Brugal, papi, con la magia, tu sabes que cuando no hay cuarto uno bebe un puchino de lavagallo, you know what I'm saying? Like, most people don't know what you're saying. Brugal or Bacelo? Rum, two different rums. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and what they call la bagallo is, you know, in various Caribbean Latin nations, they partake in cockfighting. You know what I'm saying? And I'm not talking about, like, you know, like Don Staley versus Iowa. I'm talking about, like, two... Oh, come on, come on.

Yeah, that was a bad joke. I'm sorry. 7 p.m. in Brooklyn is the show with Carmelo Anthony. It is every Thursday. Stefan Marbury is this week. That's right. That has to be great. Always good seeing you thrilled for your success. My guy, let's go. Gracias, señor.

Gracias, ade, papi. Hey everybody, it's Mike, and typically I record these Miller light spots in the studio, but I requested that I specifically record this one from my home office because I got a window and I'm looking outside at those beautiful fishtail palms knowing that in just a few seconds I'm gonna go out there. I'm gonna crack open a can of Miller Lite because while sitting outside by my fishtail palms is usually a good time, I like to take it up a notch and make it a Miller time. That's right, you crack that puppy open and you don't have to

think about what you're drinking for a darn second. A lot has changed over the years, including my backyard. Lots of landscaping being done right now. But the one thing that hasn't changed is the undebatable quality of Miller Lite. You don't have to choose what quality is the best. Miller Lite has great taste and it's less filling. Tastes like Miller time. To get Miller Lite delivered right to your door, visit MillerLite.com slash Dan, or you can find it pretty much anywhere that sells beer. Celebrate responsibly Miller Brewing Company Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

96 calories per 12 ounces, fewer cales and carbs than premium regular beer. Don LeBretard! 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. Stugats! Harry Osh, Jalen Bronson, thumbs up clutch that's why we won. New York knows you are the best, not the joke no more.

This is the Dunlavatar Show with the Stugats. That's right. It's time for Thursday Thunder. I'm pushing through, gonna fight through. Thursday Thunder is sponsored by Draft Kings. Stay tuned because you'll hear more about Draft Kings and all it has to offer throughout the show. Draft Kings, the crown is yours. Juju, do it. We are back in the building baby and if you bet Thursday Thunder last week, you won because Draft King had their special.

If you you win your money line bet instantly, if your team takes a two zero lead and the San Francisco Giants did just that. So salute, getting money everywhere. It's the most dangerous lead in sports. Being up two. Alrighty, you already know where we going. The association baby, the New York Knicks and the Philadelphia 76ers are playing tonight in Philly.

That means the veteran presence has to step up for the Knicks. It's going to be turbulent. It's going to be a wild place. I think Mick Mill is going to be there. So I'm going with the big dog, Boyan Bogdanovich. Seven point five points. He's going to hit that. I'm going over on that.

Veteran leadership, baby. What you got to say about that, Dan? I thought that you were going to win the other day when you got the first two legs of something, and then Herb Jones, you needed him to go 11.5 over on points, and he failed us. Yeah, but the caveat was, if you made that bet because the 49, oh not 49, the Giants were in it, you won instantly on Thursday. So that was just for us. I'm just saying you've been on a hot streak if people are taking your bets individually.

It's been a long time since you gave an assembly, a number of bets and had more losers than winners inside of it. Juju over the last, I don't know, 25 pixies made has gotten like basically four or five wrong. And so you've been on quite the hot streak. I'm gonna follow you until the wheels fall off. Oh, you just jinxed us.

But we are gonna, now we're gonna take it to the next game, the late game tonight, guys. We're gonna have to stay up tonight baby. We got Billy Gill, we got his draft show, so we're going to be up already. So we're going with the Denver Nuggets to win the game baby. Moneyline Denver, I think it's fool's gold. That game we saw last game was LA Lakers best shot and they still lost.

Anthony Davis, what you say he was in a sea of ass sweaty ass at the end of the game so I think that's gonna have some residue. Kulo. Kulo. Sweaty ass residue. And staying within that game I'm gonna go with the point guard De'Angelo Russell he's had some rough games bro he had some shaky stuff that happened that really swung the

momentum of the last couple of games. So I thank him back in front of that home crowd. He's going to be juiced down 20 points. So he's going to go over 17.5 points tonight, daddy. That is Thursday Thunder. Lock him in. Thank everybody in America. And remember, if I lose, you choose my punishment, baby.

I don't know why you keep doing that. That seems excessive and it seems like a form of self-flagellation that's not necessary. You are giving your best- It feels necessary, it's implied. He likes costumes. It's a lie. You are giving your best to these picks.

You are doing a great job with these picks. You've done them better than anyone around here, so salute to you. I want to play- Oh, oh, oh. Pick the heat yesterday. Yes, you do. And you were like, well, that's terrible analysis. around here so salute to you i want to play pick the yesterday yesterday and you're like well that's terrible analysis but was terrible analysis but it was correct analysis it was it was but it was terrible analysis you can be uh... okay

i'm glad we talked about it joe keem noah is on south beach sessions tomorrow and i've heard a lot of people talking here recently in a way Noah is on South Beach Sessions tomorrow and I've heard a lot of people talking here recently in a way that gives me some recoil because for example Paul Pierce comes on yesterday and he sounds like an old head complaining about an assortment of different things that the young people aren't doing that he and his guys did. Joe Keemgo is very careful about criticizing anyone in public. He is somebody who doesn't want to take the route of being someone who brings attention

to himself because he's ripping a lot of other people. But he brought up something when it came to Joel Embiid's reaction to being heartbroken about losing that way to the New York Knicks. It seems like Joel Embiid, even though he is all, you know, size and muscles, it seems like he is of his age. He's someone who cries leaving the court and falls down without worrying about how you're going to receive it because it's heartbreaking to lose against Kawhi Leonard on a bounce and he cares deeply.

He's trying so hard that he's taking God knows how many needles to be out there and so after the game he just looks broken when he's saying we're a better team, we're going to win this series and he physically has got his head down and Joakim Noah had a problem with all of it. I have a hard time understanding how this person fits with that person though they seem like two different entities in terms of how you carry your way through life and who you had to be in the furnace hundred percent

hundred percent of manly i think i think everybody is it's uh... it's interest just even watching the games now is, it's interesting. You know, I watched yesterday the Knicks come back, win that game against the Sixers. And you know, Joel Embiid is going to have to live, that one, that was a tough loss yesterday. You got to mentally get yourself right for game three. And I'm seeing him do the interview yesterday. Head down.

I was like, it's not just about how you're feeling. You're the leader in this locker room. You got to conduct yourself a certain way. It's different as much pain as you're in. The other guys in the locker room can't see what you had down like that. That's just I'm just and you know it's one of the reasons why I don't love it. I'm not saying that to critique I'm just saying this as it's just my opinion. I've told you guys the story before of Alan Houston the ball is

dancing on the rim and the Knicks is an eight seed beat the Heat as a one seed and Pat Riley realizes he's got to blow the whole thing up with your mom Ashburn and every everything else and Pat Riley is at his desk weeping as the coach of that team and Alonzo Mourning comes in to the locker room and tells Pat Riley in uniform do your f***ing job. Get out there and talk to those people. You're the leader. You can't be in here all broken. It's more, it's about everybody.

It's not just about you. I understand why Joel Embiid would feel it's almost all about him. I don't know the correct way to lead in a situation when you're fundamentally emotionally broken. Did you see what Goran Dragich said? Remember through his early struggles, Pat Riley straight up came up to him and said,

we don't pay you for this shit. So just anytime you think I'm too tough on Terry Rozier. The thing about- I see what you did, can't do that. Crossfire. Which part can he do? That's not the same thing, but I agree what you do. You can't do that. Crossfire. Which part can he do? That's not the same thing, but I digress. You're my brother. Nope.

It is not the same thing, and you have not digressed. One of the other things... Look, man, I didn't wake up one day and decide I was going to be the only person keeping it real with the Miami Heat. I woke up one day and everybody else just ceased keeping it real. How is this still where we are? Well, I was trying to move away from it, but he's remaining there. and everybody else just ceased keeping it real. How is this still where we are? Well, I was trying to move away from it,

but he's remaining there. Joakim Noah also had, and I don't know how you guys would react to this because I reacted in a way that was really surprised to playing for him the video of the woman who was giving him the middle finger when he walked off the court after being ejected. She had a middle finger in his face

and then we read afterward that she had a suspicious murder in her past, allegedly, because this is Maximum Miami and that's how we do things around here. But how do you guys imagine? I put in front of Joakim Noah, this photograph of him leaving the court, how would you imagine that Joakim Noah

would react to all of what I'm presently showing you? That became a thing on the internet, but I imagine it's something that's way more important to fans than it is to Joakim Noah. I would think, man, that was pretty nasty. How strange, why did that happen? I wonder if she's murdered anybody. People are real assholes.

I guess that would be my reaction. The thing that I had not accounted for and was taken aback, and we'll play this at some point because it's super awkward, I got the reaction all wrong and when you say fans care more than the players do not this particular player this particular players looking at that and saying i'm glad i didn't see her because of the level of his rage

and i say to him thinking i'd miss read it all the disrespect of a human being is putting it feels entitled enough to walk up to a six ten man in a moment of pain to put an f u right in his face he's like nahal i still hurt as we lost a game of thirty and i'm getting ejected and i'd let everybody down

and one of the things he's saying is i have scars here that have not healed everybody down and one of the things he's saying is i have scars here that have not healed i care in a way he's saying that make losses failures in front of people and near death experience do you know how much pain i have to play through to even get out there do you know how much i have to care to be joe l and b and not just do the thing i'm

best at in front of people but just fail in front of thousands of people and have them say after the game had broken guy keep your head up you gotta care so much that you're also strong enough in this situation to be broken but pretend for your teammates that you're not pretend for the public that you're not because the public can't beat trust it i can't be trusted with your vulnerability they're going to be cruel about it you have to appear strong even in moments when you're not because the public can't be trusted with your vulnerability. They're going to be cruel about it. You have to appear strong even in moments when you're not.

I think people who watch these games and think they care more about the thing that they're watching than the people who are being embarrassed in front of others and are hugely prideful about not wanting to be embarrassed, I think we misread all the time how much these people Care and why Joel Embiid would be broken in that situation and how annoying it would be to be Joel Embiid Broken in that situation and have everyone have an opinion about how you shouldn't look that broken in that situation And I mean Joel Embiid's been through this on multiple occasions. He lost the game 7 Bounce that went in for Kawhi that eliminated a team in the Sixers that might have gone on to win a title then invalidated his career. And now

he has this ending against the Knicks. It's got to be exhausting to go through that and have that be the singular criticism of your career and the Brunson three it late in that game had a weird bounce. So that's pretty hilarious. Sixers have had some bad luck with bounce. Right. And we see the way that people react to players showing emotion. I mean, the way people reacted to Chris Bosch crying

when he was down here and the amount that he cared. It wasn't, hey, look how much this guy cares. It was, oh, come on, suck it up. Let's think about the lack of accountability in general around us when we make a mistake. And let me put this in front of you now. You've scored 30 plus points on one leg. You're clearly injured. God knows how many needles you're taking not only do

you get beaten by that bounce when you're up five with twenty eight seconds left but then the next day you get the report of brunson had a foul hard had a foul and also nick nurse clearly should have gotten the timeout hey joelle do more make the referees better joelle do more do what you are why are you broken after the game? Do more, they need you tonight.

Save your season, MVP. Save your season. Don't cry on the court. Beat the Knicks now. Mental health, brother. Like, I keep those brothers in my prayers because I know the weight of the world is on their back, with the cities and all of that.

So, much respect to all those brothers. Don Lebatard. Cheaters never prosper. Stu Gats. I ain't cheatin'. This is the Don Lebatard show with the Stugats. There was very exciting movie news that popped up on my social media feeds that it got me so excited when I first saw it but I've seen all these fake news articles about movies I had to really do a deep dive and find out if this was legit and it is. Face Off 2 is in development. Face Off was for its time in the late 90s arguably the premier action movie.

John Woo, what a moment, what a guy. Now, I don't know if you recall how Face Off ended. Casher Troide. I don't. Spoiler alerts all over the place. This is one of the two successful movies of all time that has involved a plot twist that involves pulling your face off.

I've never seen it. So the reports are that both John Travolta and Nicholas Cage are back in to reprise their roles of Sean Archer and Castor Troy. How? Well it was amazing acting because they played both of them. Yeah, John Travolta took his turn as Sean Archer and then Nicholas Cage took his turn as Sean Archer. John Nicolas Cage took his turn as Sean Archer. John Travolta knocked Castor Troy out of the park and somehow outperformed Nicolas Cage doing Castor Troy. Peach, I could eat a peach for hours, the whole deal. It was incredible.

It's maximum cage. John Travolta did a better Nicolas Cage than Nicolas Cage is what you're claiming in Face Off. Right. So there's a part where it ends on this crazy high-speed chase with bad body doubles in like a speedboat, and it crashes onto the shore. And at one point, like the vocal thing that is on Nicolas Cage to make him sound like Nicolas Cage,

even though he's actually John Travolta in this moment, because he hates Castor Troy because he killed his son Michael. And he does this weird thing with his hands over people's face and it was just traumatic for him. So he gets stabbed with like this spear and Castor Troy who has the face of Sean Archer is like,

well, you're still gonna have to look at my face in the mirror. And then he starts taking a knife to his face and Nicolas Cage is just screaming, die. But remember Nicolas Cage is just screaming die but remember Nicolas Cage is Sean Archer they load him in an ambulance and they have to save the face so Sean Archer can walk back into Joan Allen's house who has already been convinced man you want to talk about a mind bleep that she's had sex with Castor Troy even though it looked like

Sean Archer but John Travolta It was her husband what could she have known it looked just like her husband Daddy's got a brand new bag he walks into into the house, everything's fine, that's Face Off, how can we possibly make a sequel? Exactly. We're making a sequel. How? Well the screenwriter says he was never convinced that Caster Troy was dead.

So that's one way, I mean, he got loaded into an ambulance and they had to save the face, what if he never actually died? Or what if it was Pollock's Troy by bro the entire time? But how about this for a pitch on Face Off 2? It's not actually a sequel to Face Off. Instead, it is Nicholas Cage and John Travolta acting out what they did to prepare for Face Off. Cause I don't know if you know

what they did to prepare for face-off. I do not, but I do know that John Travolta did a very good Nicolas Cage. So, the legend is that Nicolas Cage and John Travolta went to some isolated cabin somewhere for roughly 10 days and studied each other. I swear to God. That's why John Travolta did such a good Nicholas Cage.

Can you imagine being a fly on the wall over the course of 10 days? I'd watch that as face-off too. That's essentially, you could make the lighthouse again by having the two of them go completely insane. That sounds like the plot of the lighthouse. The lighthouse, 100%. That's amazing.

I need them only interviewed. Can you get them on South Beach Sessions? We'll promote Face Off to The Cows Come Home. But I need an in-depth, long, long podcast series on the 10 days spent where John Travolta and Nicolas Cage studied each other. Can you guys please find for me till the cows come home? I'm not an outdoorsman, I'm not a farmer,

I don't know why cows come home, I don't know if that takes a long time, it must take a long time, but I don't know why or how that takes a long time. Is John Woo also the director? There were a lot of slow motion doves released in that movie. That's his thing, yeah. Yeah, that's his thing. Two things that John Woo also the director? There were a lot of slow motion doves released in that movie. That's his thing, yeah.

That's his thing. Two things that John Woo invented, the doves and double guns, double handguns. Those are John Woo's signature things. I have said before on this show that there has never in the history of cinema been a good movie where someone peels their face off as a plot twist, but I have been corrected

by both Face Off and Silence of the Lambs. And Mission Impossible. I argued against that. I think that was- Fallout's the greatest action movie of all time and it has a face peeling off. And the greatest, I think that's the Wolf Blitzer one,

which is like the craziest reveal out of all the reveals. I believe it's what started the conversation that made me maintain that you can't have the plot twist be, oh, I've been fooled, that person can pull off their face. You think that Mission Impossible cannot fool you with a face reveal and then they do the Wolf Blitzer one. It fooled me. That was nuts.

I can't dispute that it did fool me. I was not expecting. The red one? Yes, Wolf Blitzer was, you don't know this? I don't want to spoil it, but at one. Yes, Wolf Blitzer was, you don't know this? I don't wanna spoil it, but at one point, I thought Wolf Blitzer was actually there as a part of the proceedings, but nope, turns out they just peeled off Wolf Blitzer's face,

and the bad guy had been foiled, because how could he expect that Wolf Blitzer was actually Tommy Bruce? Shut up to Scooby-Doo. He's really ahead of the curve on that. They showed this terrorist who was convinced because he was recovering in a hospital bed that he actually carried out his mission

of detonating a nuclear device. And they had CNN news reports on the TV and Wolf Blitzer was doing a news report on it and he actually ends up fessing up and giving the IMF all the information that he needs. And after he does that, the doors of the hospitals, like all the, it's a facade, stage doors open up, Wolf Blitzer takes his face off, and it's Tom Cruise.

I mean, what a moment. Did you guys see the Jennifer Lopez film yet? Because there's a, it's not a face, no one's face is coming off, but there is a reveal in the credits of that movie that have left me reeling, honestly, for months. It's honestly atop my docket, but now we're in playoff time, which means- It's only an hour long, it's very short.

I'm not watching any of these baby reindeer shows. I'm not, pop culture, for me, ceases to exist. Mike, I'm with you, to be fair. I'm really behind on everything. It's just sports are coming out of my eyeballs right now and the draft is tonight I haven't done nearly enough draft prep I'm gonna be doing draft prep in the hours leading up to the draft show when I have to come back here with Chris later I mean, it's been brutal this spring has been the sportiest of all the springs

The Jennifer Lopez movie was panned by all she made it herself, correct? She she decided she funded it herself, correct? She decided. I think she funded it herself and she was the star of it and it was very weird, but honestly, it wasn't un-entertaining, so. What was weird about it, though? I don't know what it was for or what it was. I don't understand why it exists, but otherwise,

I couldn't look away. It is the quintessential vanity project in that no one really wanted to support it financially, she had to figure out how to do this really crazy movie. Worth it for the reveal. Worth it for the reveal. And you don't wanna spoil it. I'm not spoiling it.

But it stayed with you for months in a way? I'll never forget it. I heard Ben Affleck say, we shouldn't put this out, and then she put it out, so. Well. Supplementally, I've heard that you also have to watch the documentary, The Greatest Love Story Never Told, which is actually being told.

Which I have not seen yet, because the sports are coming out of my eyeballs, Dan. What an odd thing that must be, in what your reporting is there is accurate, Juju. You've made a thing, your husband says to you after you've poured your heart into that thing, you shouldn't put that out. What an awkward thing that is for the people involved.

But he's part of it. Yeah, the reporting was that he kind of advised at the beginning, like, hey, are you sure we should be doing this and then ultimately just Decided like all right. Well if we're gonna do it. I've got to try to help Valerie must say that to you often Why are we putting that out? The idea that She would care about something that deeply and early on about something that deeply and early on, a piece of art, that personal, and that her husband would say, are you sure about that?

That doesn't sound, it sounds like good advice, but also not support and I can't imagine, the reason that I was stunned by that, I can't imagine J.Lo taking that advice from anybody if she's done this personal a project. I can't imagine anyone in the world could tell that person, not her husband, not anybody, you shouldn't put that out without that landing hurtfully. I'm just running through the scenarios in which 25 years later you need Sean Archer and Castor Troy to both switch each other's faces once again. Is it because of Castor Troy's son? Is that it?

Is that how you reach him? Is it like they're peeling off the skin? Or is it like a mask? No, they actually take the faces off. They don't actually take the faces off. No, they do. It's like Game of Thrones. We should do that with Billy and Tony.

Face off each other and then say, stay over there and you come back as Billy and Tony, face off each other and then say, stay over there and you come back as Billy and. They take the faces off and then Margaret Cho dies. Do they have like scars from the? No, it was really like ahead of its time. They even do a little lipo and they address the hair. Buckle fat removal.

How are they gonna address the hair with Nick? Because I don't know if you saw the Oscars, he looked great. He's finally got a system in place that works. I don't know how we do this. Because you imagine, while Castor Troy, his hair, is not Nicolas Cage's hair, you've got to maintain that late 90s receding hairline.

I mean, so many questions for where they go with this. Number one, John Woo has to come back for it. Or do you think he's like, that's ridiculous? It's 25 years later. I've already released all the dubs in slow motion. I guess I could do three guns. Mike, when you said you heard movie news that made you, I don't know, your ears perked up a little bit, it reminded me of movie news that I read the other day, which was that

an executive at AMC, I guess like paraphrasing here but if we knew you guys were going to be weird about the dune popcorn buckets we wouldn't have made them. And as I was reading it I did feel a little bit of shame. I mean anything that has that kind of cylinder is going to be made a thing but I love what Ryan Reynolds did with it which is he demanded of Marvel execs and Disney execs that they also have a sexually suggestive popcorn bucket for Deadpool and Wolverine. I know that there's been a couple of stabs,

a couple things that have gone viral that are not actually real, because I don't think, maybe Ryan Reynolds does want you to f*** his face, but I don't actually think that that's going to be allowed. But I think the studios maybe are like, they pay someone from a shitpost or account to put up a fake one Just to see what the reaction will be be like will someone on the internet

Be able to have sex with this we're just gonna put out feelers that needs to be the first question a movie theater exec to ask if the popcorn bucket Can be something some people can have sex with if the answer is no back to the drawing board feel like it's always yes If the answer is no, back to the drawing board. I feel like it's always yes. Deadpool and Wolverine opened. Its trailer opened as the most watched thing in the history of the internet upon arrival. Watched by so many people so fast

because of how popular everything around that is. I mean, goosebumps when they both jump into the portal, the end game portal. Are they gonna find themselves in that scene? That's wild. I'm such a nerd Just a big nerd Face-off to will be bigger than Deadpool Wolverine

Hey everybody, it's Mike and typically I record these Miller light spots in the studio But I requested that I specifically record this one from my home office because I got a window I'm looking outside at those beautiful fishtail palms knowing that in just a few seconds I'm gonna go out there I'm gonna crack open a can of Miller Lite because while sitting outside by my fish tail palms is usually a good time I like to take it up a notch and make it a Miller time. That's right you crack that puppy open and you don't have to think about what you're drinking for a darn second. A lot has changed over the years including my backyard. Lots

of landscaping being done right now. But the one thing that hasn't changed is the undebatable quality of Miller Lite. You don't have to choose what quality is the best. Miller Lite has great taste and it's less filling. Tastes like Miller time. To get Miller Lite delivered right to your door, visit MillerLite.com slash Dan, or you can find it pretty much anywhere that sells beer. Celebrate responsibly Miller Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 96 calories per 12 ounces, fewer cows and carbs than premium regular beer.