The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: Top 5 Professional Loser

Episode Date: April 21, 2025

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I thought them being in a basketball uniform was a first certitude, but the second one was they were going to be bigger than the Lakers. I mean, they got a guy who's seven foot two, who's a defensive player of the year on the other side, and they're going to be very physical. It's weird, is it not? Is it just because you have to say something or is it because suddenly in playoff basketball, it became even more physical than it was before? I mean JJ talked for a living now He motivates for a living and coaches for a living you got to come up with something better if that's something to say

It's not hey, we didn't realize how physical they were gonna be Yeah, it's like the only thing that you know about the Timberwolves is that they're going to be physical So it must just be his way of calling out his team right of saying clearly these guys I knew that we were gonna be physical, but they clearly didn't know how physical it was gonna get yeah but wouldn't there have been a point like in the middle of the game in a huddle in a timeout huddle like you got to match their physicality like wouldn't you do it in the middle of the game if he's waiting to motivate his team why would you wait till after the reason I'm more interested in it is because of how obvious it is, oh they did, not me, them.

And not just them, my team, players, employees, them because they're soft, them because Minnesota was more wolfy, right? That's what he should have said, they were too wolfy for us. That would have been better. It would have been funnier than the way that he did it. Because do you really think that the Lakers,

that they went into that playoff game and they got surprised by the physical nature of Minnesota? Or Minnesota, the second half of the season has probably been better than the Lakers. And there are some matchup issues that the Lakers have when it comes to what they traded for that can be exposed by this particular set of ingredients more so than most.

We'll see how Redick is as a coach by how long the series goes because this oddly feels like one where the two teams are juxtaposed against each other in such different ways with such different styles, that it feels like one of those six or seven game series where there's never a close game, like where the Lakers can come back here and win by 20

because they have the firepower with Luca and LeBron, but then the next game, Minnesota comes back and punks them. It just, it has the makings of one of those types of series if JJ can figure out what that quick Adjustment is to to spark their offense the thing that would worry me the most or that does worry me the most about the Lakers It's not like it's not like Anthony Edwards had this dominant type of game Well Anthony Edwards took over couldn't stop him. That's not at all what took place there like maybe all right, Minnesota won game one They they wanted in your building,

and Anthony Edwards couldn't stop them. That's not what took place. If you said to me who in sports looks like when they were young their mom was a notary, I'd say J.J. Reddick. Oh yeah. J.J. Reddick was the kid like, you need that notarized?

Yeah, my mom can do that. Grayson Allen. Oh. It's gonna be all the Duke guys. Just Duke guys? Yeah, it's gonna be Christian Lehmann. It's gonna be all of them. All of the annoying Williams, him too. Payton Pritchard. See what you did there. I, I think we all did.

The tough part too is like the Lakers wasted a really great Luca game where LeBron and Austin Reeves kind of didn't match Lucas intensity and Lucas game into that first, into that first one of the series. And it's like, how are they supposed to fill the needs that they were gonna address with the Mark Williams trade that ended up not happening? They didn't really play Jackson Hayes that much either. And it's like, Minnesota's so big and so physical

that their frontline, the Lakers, they don't have that to match up. My analysis of this, the moment they traded for Luka was, well, they're going, the Lakers are now gonna add Luka. That's going to immediately make them when you make it Luca and the oldest player in the league the worst defense in the sport and then what happened for about 12 games is no Vanderbilt Vanderbilt and I'm like against the T Wolves that you're gonna try to flog the T Wolves with Vanderbilt

okay that seems like a good way for the whole LeBron thing to end and collapse on its knees if that's the way that you're gonna do it, and I know we can overact overreact to one game, but we've been covering the holy hell of the Lakers this year and Minnesota came in and flogged them in their place and Everyone knows Minnesota would have exactly the kind of legs you would need to flog a team. That's Old guy and hook a guy. Like what do I need to do? What do I need to do? And white guy. Yeah, what are you gonna hit me with? And when you're in on, then you come the most white with the

white school Vanderbilt. And it's like ah, ah. What if JJ Reddick got to the microphone of the postgame press conference like, we got flogged. Better than not being able to match physicality, right? It would be better. We'd talk about it more. I feel like for the Lakers to win this series, they're going to have to shoot like 50 threes a game because they just don't have anywhere near the size that Minnesota has. Don't threaten Luca and LeBron with a good time. It'd be great. That's what they should be doing.

They took 42 threes in that game or 41 threes in that game I think that number needs to go even higher for them to even have a chance The difference was that Minnesota hit 50% of their threes to hit 21 and they were just taking open shots, right? Like there was just Jayden McDaniels did whatever he wanted 11 for 13 and it was like, oh, there's another open shot Oh transition. Oh another open shot. The Lakers defense was just abysmal The Lakers need an assistant coach who cares as much as Jeff Van Gundy. That's what they need if they're gonna win. Did you see that?

Can we see this? Let's see this here. Jeff Van Gundy back in the middle of the mix here. Let's go ahead and play that B roll of Jokic and Jeff Van Gundy in the center of things. What a grip. Yes, Jeff Van Gundy. Look at that.

Yes, that's very strong. It's like Spider-Man. How is he gripping the ball? There's four, I see four hands on that ball. Who's the assistant coach to the right over there? This other assistant coach is mad today because he put himself out there, but everyone's just focusing on Jeff Van Gundy.

Of course. Now I do understand that you're impressed by the Van Gundy core strength there and arm strength. I will remind you, he is lifted full off the seat by Jokic trying to take the basketball from him. Van Gundy is levitating, his ass is no longer on a chair that's a 200 pound man who has been, I understand that you're looking at that and saying,

good grip by Jeff Van Gundy, but I will remind you, he just lifted a 200 pound weight. Jokic just lifted it and easily. Now what he's doing there is what a lot of the league thinks, right? Isn't this the thing with the Nuggets that they think they cheat when it comes to balls out of bounds?

Like Jokic in particular, he likes to get the ball, start a fast break. Yeah. So I think this is Jeff Fangundi attempting to slow down the fast break. Yeah, the Thunder came up with a thing where, I think it was the Thunder. Yeah, they tried to sub someone. Yeah, every time there was an out of bounds play that goes to the Nuggets, there was a guy designated on their bench. He was to automatically run to the scorers table.

And so the referee said, ho ho ho, can't inbound yet. And so the league is looking out for that. And so Van Gundy there, no hesitation by the way. Cause that seems like a job of the assistant coach throughout the week preparing. He's like, hey, they like to speed up. Grab the ball.

Let's, hey, if it comes, he even said in a meeting, he's like, if the ball comes to me, I'm stopping it. You know, I'll stop it. And he had to let, he had to be about that, it couldn't just be about, what am I trying to say here? He's about that action. He's not just saying it. He's not just saying it.

No, see, I had to get there. I had to get there. Yeah, but it didn't, oh, heavy tongue Cody in the mix right there. You don't wanna hear what I did that last segment. No, we do actually. We have a bad one from last segment. Okay, find them both, mix them together,

and find a way to, yes, figure out a way for me to hear both of them. You're gonna give us the last one? This first one brings me incredible shame. This is me. Hold on, hold on, hold on. This is bad. Hold on.

I don't even wanna play it. Let's just not play it, actually. Well, but let's play it after. No, I think we should. After my voice instead of yours. Instead of yours, okay, be an executive producer that knows what he's doing and play it after my voice Pablo you and three other people your dream my mouth dream watering dream living your dad Thank you to Dan and Pablo there for kind of drowning me out

But I was like trying to find the word for like your dream for some but for weed I was like your dream rotation, but your dream guests come on like your dream. Rotation buddy. Your dream guests. Come on. And it was just, this is bad. Pablo, you and three other people. Your dream. My mouth is watering. Dream let. Dream let.

Living your dad. Damn, that's your fault. Did you say Gene? It is my fault, damn it. I'm like dream, dream. Jimmy Johns could have had the best. Pablo, you and three other people.

Your dream. My mouth is watering. Dream let. dream let. Living or dead. Jimmy Johns must be so proud that they come on as. Dream let, your dream get, your dream not. Get the other one as well so that heavy tongue Cody. Pablo, you and three, one's enough.

No, I need both. I need both of them. Pablo, you and three other people. Your dream. My mouth is watering. Dream let, dream let. Living or dead. Dream dead. Please. I need both Pablo you and three other people your dream my mouth dream watering Living your dad Please

Please Figure out a way before the end of the segment. I want that edited to get me out of there So possible I think it is I think it is I think There it is Possible that we can edit the me out of there so we can just hear what it would have sounded if I had not interrupted you with an obviously a watering mouth. Pablo, you and three other people, your dream.

My mouth is watering. Living or dead. Like a lot of these, I'm like, all right, this is just me, I'm doing a thing. This is, I hate this. Okay, so go. This, I hate this sound. He knew he was in trouble when dream came out.

He was like, dream. Your dream, get, get, what? Pablo, you and three other people. Your dream. My mouth is watering. Dream, dream, dream. Living or dead. Halliburton and Damien Lillard going at it yesterday.

Stu Gotz has left, toothache. He's got a toothache, he was not joking. He was wandering around the parking lot. I'm not making what I'm about to say up, okay? You guys tell me whether or not you think that this is weird because I told you earlier this morning, he came and I can feel, because he was chewing on bacon, the greasiness and the crunch,

the audible crunch of someone who was telling me that they had a toothache so bad they might have to leave early, while chewing crunchy bacon. That's what I got this morning. Just now he left in the parking lot and he told me, Dan, it's too much, I gotta get out of here. My mouth's a real mess.

I've got something that I've gotta get to tend to with it's an emergency. And he's smoking a cigarette. Like the smoke is going in and out of his mouth in a way that would seem to be less than healthy. And so he has now left with a toothache. And I believe, I honestly believe this. I believe that professional honestly believe this.

I believe that professional critics do God's 20 years as a Titan in this industry. I believe we are in jeopardy of him missing the draft with a toothache. Like that it might escalate to he's a professional critic of the toughness of others. And during the most important time of year, he will not be available to work

because he's got a toothache. He's got smoke going through a little hole in his tooth as he's smoking that cigarette and it's coming back out the other side. The tooth is smoking. It's not healthy. Put it on the poll. The tooth itself is a little cigarette inside.

Put it on the poll at Levitard Show, do Stugatz's teeth smoke individual cigarettes themselves? The visual of a little hand on each tooth has a little. Tiny cigarette. They're all French. They hand roll the cigarette. He's got a little bit of smoke is coming out of his mouth.

What's going on? He's like, oh, one of my teeth must be smoking. I believe, I believe, I believe the draft, his draft coverage is now in jeopardy because he did seem to be in legitimate pain And he doesn't take very good underrated pain He doesn't take very good care of himself, but the Milwaukee Bucks I think a lot of people watching right now the Milwaukee Bucks are assuming that things they break up

after this year if they get eliminated quickly and embarrassingly in the first round. And we're gonna have a bit of difficulty with the legacy of Giannis because of the one year where he ends up getting to the championship and we're all gonna be like another person in that region. Aaron Rodgers was really good for a long time and probably should have won more than once if he's as great as I think he is.

And that was a weird year too, remember, because the COVID season ended in like October, September, and then the new season started in like November. It was a weird year that they ended up essentially capitalizing on. Not a lot of people in the arenas either, you know, it wasn't full attendance or anything like that. Yeah, it was a weird year they won, his only win.

It's weird that they haven't been better around him because he has been dominant every single, oh, but he's been dominant every single season of his career and even in the postseason he's been great. At this point, I mean, listen to this list, this is gonna be his seventh consecutive season finishing in the top four in MVP voting. That joins Michael Jordan, LeBron, Kobe Bryant,

Bill Russell, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson. That's it. Indisputably great, indisputably great. And the funny thing is this season is probably his best season ever, and it doesn't matter, he's distant third in the MVP race. He shacks. But all of those guys you just mentioned there,

multiple championships, right? Right, but that would be the point about how the Bucks have potentially failed building around him, no? Let's talk about architecture here, because here's Kyle Kuzma's stat line, and this was the reinforcement at the trade deadline. This is Kyle Kuzma. I think I can say this.

Can I say this without dilution? Go on. I don't want to say it because of, it just seems cruel, but when I think of Kyle Kuzma, I'm like, ah, yes, professional loser. Like somebody who loses professionally. For the audio audience, his stat line yesterday,

22 minutes, 0 of 5 from the field, 0 of 2 from the free throw line, zero points, zero rebounds, zero siss, zero blocks, zero steals. I feel bad about this part, right? Because what I think of with Kyle Kuzma, I'm like, oh yeah, famous, influencer, great at the fashion of basketball.

And I am not trusting you in the fourth quarter with any of this, sir. Like, I don't believe you will play this game correctly if we're not doing the whole Instagram influencer thing. Wait, Stu Gotts' tooth is on the screen and it looks sad smoking a cigarette. That's the best part. It's exhausted by how often it has to smoke cigarettes on behalf of Stu Gotts. Exhaust being the key word there, just smoking right out of his mouth. Dan's a writer.

Professional, you understand what I'm saying though. In terms of the league, the Wizards have a particular kind of stench on them, right? Yes. Even Charlotte doesn't get this. The thing that I'm talking about, Charlotte is a professional loser of a franchise. One of the things that I love talking about with the Clippers is, Clippers have always been that,

so this is kind of confusing to see them have a legitimate, not laughing stock chance at the championship but when i think right now and i don't know if i'm doing this because of the harlem globe trotters they always played against the opposite loser by uh... you know typecasting the washington generals were the biggest loser franchise ever

i assume sit i associate k Kyle Kuzma with losing basketball back when the Lakers were less interesting and wherever it is that he ends up and then he ends up in Washington. I'm like you trade for that when the Heat were talking about trading for that I'm like that's not gonna help anybody do anything. So you just you skip right over. I agree with what you're saying but you're also skipping right over him being a 2020 NBA champion. I know.

Was just about to mention that. I know, I am doing that. But I agree with you. How is that, the reason that I'm presenting it to all of you is because look at what I'm doing. It's not even fair and also inaccurate. Feels like he played for the Wizards for 15 years. But all of that, it felt like they were losing 143 games a season.

Like they'd leave their 0-3. Every time they played, you'd lose three bets on just, they lost that game three times. How did they do that? They were only playing one game. They played a triple header of losses. How is it possible? It's one thing to play three minutes and you have zeros across the board. How is it possible to have zeros everywhere in 22 minutes?

He didn't even have a turnover, I don't think. He had nothing. El Fantasma. How is that possible? Let's applaud him. No turnovers. No fouls. No nothing. Just stood. Against the spread. No fouls? Yeah, no nothing, just stood, just, ah, against this friend.

The box score, if not for the number under minutes, would not be historical proof that Kuzma had played in that game. There would be no evidence. You couldn't, a team of detectives and forensic investigators looking through the history books would have had no evidence that he played in a game to help Giannis.

Do you think he's aware of it? Because he had two free throw attempts. I'm picturing like 17 minutes in, he's like, all right, these two free throw attempts, this is big. I need, if I don't make these. Oh, but that is proof though, I stand corrected. There's a number in the box score there. It's the two free throws that prove he's not an apparition,

he is not a ghost, he's simply Kyle Kuzma. Not gonna help you at the trade deadlock. And 0 for 5 from the field, so like he existed. He did up two fouls. Oh, now my box score is ruined. I thought it was just zero. Chris Livingston played one minute in that game and recorded a rebound. So he had more of an impact in his one minute

at the very end. Livingston leaves the game like Jeremy. Little fist pump. I did it. But Halliburton and Dame, you guys make fun of me because I'm rooting for a Clippers-Pacers final because the Pacers are fun and I really like the Clippers. But Halliburton and Dame, the whole Lillard thing hasn't quite gone the way that that was supposed to. It's weird because you figure with those two guys, like they were at one point when Lillard was healthy, they were the highest scoring duo in the NBA and then

obviously the blood clots and things change but for me I don't like when a guy is on the bench and a Louis Vuitton sweater and then has something to say to the best player on the other team it's like buddy you're on the bench what's the backstory why does Dame not like Halliburton is there anything there other than just trying to I think Halliburton was just talking during the game and then he told mama bust your ass a lot of people don't like the way Halliburton talks because it's rare wasting it's yeah Well, there's he has like seven different voices, but it's also that he mostly you notice only talks if they're like up

25 and he's not a big talker when they're losing and that was exposed last They're losing the best time to talk. Who talks when they're scoreboard buddy? But it's solely when it's, hey, I can point at the scoreboard behind me. And they're sort of saying, the best guys are trash talking all game long when it's close, right? When that game is close and are able to pull away late.

And a lot of the time, what ends up happening is it's not until the Pacers have already run away with it, at least is what people are saying. And the great part is it's going to be like, oh, you're going to, at least is, you know, what people are saying. And the great part is it's gonna be like, oh, you're gonna see when I'm out there, you're gonna see. And no, no, you're gonna see, I'm gonna show you. No, I'm gonna show you when I get out there that I'm gonna show you what I'm gonna show you.

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Very few people talk trash down. Jimmy did against Giannis in that one playoff game that makes some people like Zaslow think that bad news is coming up for the Cavs. This guy thinks right here. This guy feels bad for Cavs fans today. Heater winning Wednesday. Heater going to win Wednesday. Wednesday's game two. They won game two last year against Boston with the worst teams. Put a scare into them. That's right. Heater winning game two. Want to make a wager on that? Wait, we were a worst team last year with Jimmy?

Jimmy didn't play in the post season. Oh, he was hurt last year, damn it. You guys remember that one? Remember how he got hurt? Thought I caught you. Thought I tricked you. You didn't though, you're having a hell of a day. Old heavy tongue turned around to get Jeremy and it exploded in his face.

Big exploding cigar. Pablo, you and three other people, your dream. My mouth is watering. Dream living your death. Never been happier to hear Dan and Pablo talk. Yeah, I ruined that, Pablo ruined it. Can you get me the other one though? Because I think the one this hour is just as bad.

You know, they're not grabbing it. I told them to grab that. Weird. Yeah, please hurry up and grab that as fast as you possibly can. I need some more ammunition at Chris Cody's expense. Yannis had two starting teammates in this game play 20 minutes or more and not score.

That feels impossible. Two starters that played over 20 minutes and just goose egg offensively, the rest of the starters combined for 14 points and five of them were from Ryan Hollins. But you're confident though that Doc Rivers will figure it out. I do think that, what kind of laugh was that?

I do think that Chris Middleton and Drew Holliday were kind of important to what it is that Giannis was doing that one strange year that he won a championship over the toenail of Kevin Durant. It's a perfect situation though for Lillard. Like Lillard's gonna show up in game, if the Bucks win game two, Lillard is a hero coming back to Milwaukee for game three. Perfect win-win situation for Damian Lillard when he returns.

Again though, when trying to place the legacy of Giannis in the middle of this time when you've got Jokic over there and you've just got a real mastery of the sport for you got Steph Curry over there. Giannis, I will remind you that Chris Whittingham very definitively said that Giannis forevermore could never be a number one and win a championship. He would forever have to be a number two.

It's kind of turned out in these playoffs, Giannis is probably the NBA's best number two, because I think it's kind of been determined that he can't be your one. In terms of his specific skillset and the areas of the game in which he struggles, you can't rely upon him to get baskets at the end. Oh!

And who was, can everybody, because I don't remember guys, I wanna just make sure that I'm remembering correctly. Who was the number one? He was talking about Middleton Chris Middleton, please for whom now. I mean I was the 972 wizard the loser wizards. I mean, I also remember winning him saying Matthew Kachuk It's all empty stats not a good year for me went to the state like a final Growing how does he keep failing his way up in our business?

Like these are epically wrong takes He's great at soccer the problem he sucks at everything else apparently put it on the pole Please that Leviton show is winning him great at soccer, but he sucks at everything else evidently everything's wrong It is what it's not just wrong. It's wildly wrong It's like saying you know who the X Factor is in that Bucks Pacers series in game one Kyle Kuzma But you probably would have said by the way if you'll were still here. Can I ask you guys though, when, cause it's not fair, I don't, God, career, just calling someone a professional loser, it feels wrong to me, but I'm just admitting

a private inner thought honestly, and I'm not comfortable with myself doing it. It's just a reflex I have, that I'm looking at somebody who's a champion, and I'm still saying that that person is not a champion that person Loses at basketball games is it is this is the stench and the stain of the Wizards that bad for me right now That I'm gonna do it to anybody in the world I also think there's a major difference in the way that you said it the first time because first you said he's a

Professional loser which sounds really awful and then you follow it up It's less bad when you say he's a loser professionally Professional loser is I'm not okay with either of them frankly And I'm like trying to I'm trying to walk it back right now as we speak because it felt wrong coming out But I am being honest with you when I say this team has Kyle Kuzma. What's gonna happen? Well, they're gonna lose. Except for the time they won the whole thing. And I'm like, yeah, but he didn't really have anything to do with it. He was milling about the way that he was

in that box playoff game. It just, he wasn't doing against the spread. I don't know why. No, I did see a box score from that Laker series where he had 20 something minutes and two points. So close. Look, this is what I'm saying to you guys publicly and privately.

I'm perfectly willing for you guys to tell me, Dan, you are so very wrong. Look at all of these amazing times that Kyle Kuzma won. I have no recollection of Kuzma winning anything ever and even when he won, according to you guys allegedly, I've put it in my memory bank as a loss. Him winning the championship does not exist anywhere in my Kuzma library as something that's jubilant at the end. That loses. He was pretty bad in the finals against the heat

I'm looking at his numbers right now. He was pretty bad Shut 35% for the series He was one of those guys he'd start and then just like go out and not come back in but his highest scoring Postseason game was in a loss to the Miami Heat in that NBA finals with 19 points when the Lakers clinched this clinched the Championship he scored two points that night. Yeah, that's right. Okay, again, I will publicly apologize and privately to Kyle Kuzma at another time.

I'm gonna gather myself and rethink my position and see if I have to offer a public apology. Awfully similar stat line. In that game six, they won the championship too. 22 minutes also, points one rebound nothing else What do you want to do guys? He had LeBron? He had a DS like guys you got something would be the answer No, I did something this yesterday. He did nothing he did He scored double-digit points in 12 different playoff games in his NBA career

I can't imagine the list of guys who have done that is actually that high That's a guy who's had a lot of success. That didn't sound like it to me. A lot of people have. Double digit points in 12 or more playoff games, that's a, you know, double digit, that's. They're 0 and 12 in those games, yes. Let me look at it. Please look up there, they must,

they lose 17 times in those 12 games. Cause that's how I remember it. Zaslow, has your family, this, I, someone's gonna have to explain to me, as I have aged out as someone who doesn't have children and is in his 50s, the Minecraft phenomenon that has teenage boys scaring a lot of people at movie theaters, bringing in live chickens and, and an assortment of, of things that the theater industry needs some life, needs some energy.

I don't think if they want live chickens to be part of that energy. There are a lot of strange videos, unruly videos, making their way on the internet with live chickens and other things that- Chicken jockey. Are your kids participating? So this Minecraft movie, right? There's apparently a scene in the movie where- Look, where a chicken jockey, alright, is on the screen.

That's a live chicken that person is holding right there. That is a live chicken. Somebody on someone else's shoulders in the theater holding up a live chicken. So that's right, so there was a person holding another person who was holding a chicken. Chicken jockey. Up in the air there was a chicken in the air and there was a person in the air. Chicken jockey. So everybody apparently goes crazy during this one scene in the Minecraft movie So my son my 16 I have two teenage boys my 16 year old son He doesn't care about Minecraft, but he cares about chaos. I mean he and his friends

They are engineers of chaos and my 16 year old son went with like a dozen of his friends to go to Chicken Jockey, to go to the Minecraft movie. And they waited for the scene. The scene happens. They're throwing things everywhere. There's soda on the screen. And my son, my son bought a rotisserie chicken from Publix. Snuck it into the theater, and during the chicken jockey scene, he took out the chicken and ran around the theater holding a rotisserie chicken over his head

during the movie. He got thrown out. Man, I would have loved to have been there. I would have been like, let me get a wing. Is he handing out like pieces of the chicken? It is delicious chicken. Oh, the best. Oh, it's good chicken. Running around with a rotisserie chicken over his head. That's better than the live chicken at this other period.

Your son did it right. It's better than the live chicken, yes. Your son did that right. I think his son had two options. A son cannot be permitted to behave this way in public at a movie theater. Everyone's doing it. If I'm at a movie where no one else is doing it

and I'm running around with a chicken, rotisserie chicken. It's a nice theater too. Are you ashamed of your son? Yeah, because there's probably a picture of him at the front of the theater at Daniel Point. Don't let this get in. Ooh, nice theater. How was the call to the Zaslow Mansion?

How does what? How was the call to the Zazzle Mansion? Oh there was nothing to call. I mean he drives, like he got kicked out. Nobody said anything to him. Does he get home with pride or shame? Yeah, he was proud of himself. Yeah. Okay, what are you in for kid? Chicken Chocky.

Yeah, let's think about this for a second. He was proud. This is as close as Zazzlow gets to the advisory warning, the parental sticker on the hip hop albums. His son running around with a rotisserie chicken over his head and kicked out of a theater. Zaslow's son banned from Dania Theater. That is his gangsters, my wifi right there. I do feel bad for the staff,

because at the end of this, there's popcorn everywhere. Oh, do you? Really, yes, because it's totally lawless! Well let's see like the popcorn to me is more offensive like bring your chickens run around with your chickens. You're not going to create the mess that popcorn is and the sodas. They have to sanitize the theater after a live chicken is there no? I'll put it on the poll at Levitard show.

Teenagers they shouldn't be allowed to do anything like this. uh, teenagers, they shouldn't be allowed to do anything like this. Teenagers are lawless. They- they- you cannot- you cannot allow teenagers to make the rules in a place where a mess shouldn't be made. Teenage boys, you cannot give them permission to run around with rotisserie chickens on their head. I don't mean to be the spoiler of fun! You really are, like like fun police here.

And it wasn't boys, it was one boy, it was my boy. Banned from the theater, was anyone else banned from the theater? They kicked the whole group out. But- But him for the chicken? Yeah, it wouldn't have happened if he didn't run around with a rotisserie chicken holding him above his head. So he got all his friends, so years from now,

this is gonna be the legendary Zaslow family story on the rebellious young Zaslow who got all his friends kicked out of the theater running around with a rotisserie chicken on his head. He said when they got thrown out that the theater gave them a standing ovation though. He did say that. That badass moment at the Dania Point Theater next to the anthropology and Menchie's frozen yogurt.

So worth it then, Zaslow? So when teenagers ask for forgiveness, not permission, Apology and Menchie's frozen yogurt. So worth it then says low did so When when teenagers ask for forgiveness not permission he comes home raised by his father and and what are the consequences? Yeah, like unruly teenage. What am I supposed to say? I mean like it's so stupid What was I you got thrown out for what you commit a crime? No, I held up a rotisserie chicken and I ran around the theater. It's like, what am I supposed to do with that information? I don't know. Discipline, consequences, you got banned from a theater. I don't know. Show better judgment, kid. I don't know. I'm not a parent. You tell me.

Funny's funny. Funny's funny, right? How old is he? It is funny. Funny's funny. How old? 16. Yeah, I mean, Dan, there are a lot worse things a things a 16 year old boy could be doing than bringing a rotisserie Chicken to a movie theater. So I think that's in good shape as a parent. It was uncooked. That would be dangerous

Oh, yeah, what is this? I mean, I'm proud of him for that. That's the high jinx. He's getting into riding out as a kid Oh, that's great. I'm not writing about I'm saying that's a great thing Jeremy you are correct There are indeed a lot worse things that a teenager could be doing than getting banned from a movie theater running around with a chicken on their head Also better things he could be doing I would say also better things I would just say that if I were that child's parent

Not a lot more embarrassing things that my son can do Yeah! I will generally concede what you're saying, Jeremy, is so. But now it's all on everybody's radar. Hey, Zazz's kid, you know what he does? He runs around movie theaters with chickens on his head. I think this is a good cop, bad cop situation. One of the parents has to be, hey, don't do that.

And the other one's gotta go, hey, that's awesome though. Give me a fist bump. Nice. Both of us believe in funny is funny. And that's funny. Okay then, but you came in, yuck, you were conveying embarrassment? Oh at first, of course, yes.

Okay, so the laughter dissolves you and then the consequences disappear because as a father. Funny's funny. Okay. Okay. Really though. We have a rule in our house. We have a rule in the Sasslow Mansion.

Would your wife think the same here? Because I think you think there's a version of funny that your wife does not think is funny. No, we are very similar in regard to things like that. Funny is funny, all right. We calm down, like all right, anybody get hurt? Did the chicken attack somebody? No, because it wasn't a real chicken,

it was a rotisserie chicken. Funny's funny, all right. As a hurt? Did the chicken attack somebody? No, because it wasn't a real chicken, it was a rotisserie chicken. Funny's funny, all right. As a parent, I feel like you like your son taking control there, being a leader of sorts. Well, like that he's not a sissy. You could have a kid also that's like at the movie theater with the other kids. What? And he's just like, I don't wanna do this.

He's not a follower, he's a leader. Yeah, exactly. That's an important trait, Dan. Let me do funny or not funny here, okay? What's an important trait? Being a leader, not a follower. Okay, but if you're... In that spot, being the kid to be like,

I'm gonna get the rotisserie chicken. I don't have access to a live chicken, but I can get a rotisserie chicken. Someone put in the group text, who can get the rotisserie chicken? Yeah, and he probably said, I can do it. And Young Zaslow was like, I got it. I'm a leader.

Initiative. Leader and initiative, I will assign any number of circumstances. I'll even give you that Russell Westbrook at the end of that game was not a loon. He was in attack mode leading with championship medal. What I will not do is say that Zaslow has raised a child, led so well that that child then did the pioneering

visionary leading thing of putting a rotisserie chicken on his head and running around a theater. I'm not willing to assign leadership to that. Steped up in the moment. Particularly if originally in the group chat, one of the kids says, hey, where can we get a live chicken? I wanna bring a live chicken to this movie theater.

Irresponsible. Yes, it's reckless, it's irresponsible. I'm gonna go to Publix, I'm gonna pick up a rotisserie chicken, we're all gonna get kicked out, but it's gonna be in good fun, we're gonna get a standing ovation. And, clean fun.

And, somebody already did the live chicken bit. I mean, the video's everywhere. I'm gonna do the rotisserie chicken bit. Funny or not funny here, Jimmy Butler's outfit headed into the game. Is it headed into the game last night? Yeah, pre-game. Let's see. Funny or not funny, what we have here, Jimmy Butler has, I don't know what this is in the front. A pocket. Just a ridiculously oversized pocket. Well, but it's in the center of his chest. It's as big

It goes from nipple to nipple at his square. It looks like What is it a baby? Bjorn your own yeah, but I hate great. I love baby Bjorn tell you wake up any time. I put her on there She's she shits every time although. It's great tell you fit that pocket rotisserie chicken angle Could have snuck it in with that that would have been good Bjorn Borg. So what is this though? This is so this is all muscles. This is style sleeveless. It's style, but it it it's also carrying a bag It's there's a bag inside of a bag in there. Is that a hot water bottle that's in there? There's something I can see in there

What is what is at the center of the bag inside of the bag that is draped like a necklace from Jimmy Butler's chest. There's something in there. You guys can see it, yes? Fred Van Vleet's mist field goals? It looks like a bottle of bleach. It looks like a, what is that? What is happening there? There's something there.

Thank you for the investigative team. Zooming in. Big face coffee. How about this, funny or not funny, the Belichick lobster situation. This was adorable. What, so this is, you mentioned that this was Belichick's daughter and then you corrected yourself

because you were going subliminal there. Rough day for me, yep. I was like, his daughter, I mean his girlfriend posted a picture and it's like lobster dinner, but it's not lobster, it's strawberries like designed in raspberries to look like a lobster. So they're having what might be a healthy-ish meal,

but they're calling it that. That looks like dessert right there. That's ice cream. Well, that doesn't, is that dinner? That's dessert, that's ice cream and fruit. Wait, can you please put that back up? Does Bill also have the fun little lobster-looking fruit set up?

I can't see a problem. Zoom in on that, zoom in on his. Look at his face though, he's not happy. No he's happy, he loves a good food game. No but he likes. He's like oh this is not a lobster. Yeah but no, he does love a good food game but he liked the food to be more decadent than this. He doesn't want it to be oat milk ice cream.

Yeah, oat milk ice cream. Is that an Iowa hoodie? That's not what he wants. Or Iona. I think it's Iona. I don't, I'm just kinda guessing. No I think it's Iowa. Let's get I just kind of guessing I think it's Iowa Let's get your bottom of this coach of let's let's get the sound please Chris from this hour

Oh boy, I want to hear you stumbling through the finish line here I thought that the one from this hour was better from than the one from last. I'm not lying They still haven't grabbed it. So okay, but I'm gonna wait here until they do So we're just gonna sit here staring at each other until I hear it in the post game No, I'm just gonna stare at you until I hear it. Okay, let's get ready. The segments gonna end. No, that's okay It's not gonna end twice what I'm saying. I'm going to stare at you until you find it and then you're gonna play we're locked in Guys, you got it Guys, please. All right, they'll have it in the post game. Good show everyone gonna do it

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