The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: Akbar Domestique

Episode Date: March 26, 2025

"Jeremy, please." The Jimmy Butler statue committee takes control of the show, and it goes completely off the rails. Today's cast: Dan, Amin, Izzy, Roy, Billy, Jeremy, Jessica, and Tony. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Shadow Show. Shadow Show. Shadow Show. Shadow Show. Shadow Show. Shadowing it. Shadowing it. The oddball guys made it about themselves yesterday.

Like it couldn't be about Jimmy Butler, it couldn't be about Miami, it couldn't be about the story, it had to be about oddball. It had't be about Miami, it couldn't be about the story, it had to be about oddball, had to be about how can oddball trick a journalist? How can oddball make a name for itself on basketball's big stage? Oh boy, this is how we're starting. That's not even close to what we set out to do. What we set out to do was to honor

and commemorate Jimmy Butler, and we wanted people to come up to us and share their thoughts on what a Jimmy Butler and we wanted people to come up to us and share their Thoughts on what a Jimmy Butler statue should look like if there should be a Jimmy Butler statue Which most people agreed that they should I know you're saying us to mean I don't remember you there. Well, I produced the show Oh, okay. I'm just saying like what that was the show Objective was to have people come up and talk to us about a statue should there be a statue I feel like most people is he were supportive of a statue very supportive nobody said no I mean where did you have the options

where did you find the gentleman the artist where did you find him oh he's known he's known in circles he's from the opposite side of the world he came from all over across the world he's made very he's made statues some very famous people mm-hmm right I don't remember the names uh one was Abdul Khalil He's made very, he's made statues to some very famous people, right? I don't remember the names though. One was Abdul Khalil Mukhtar, and then the other one was Sharon Stone. And so.

Diversity. Yeah, he's been around. He's done a lot of great work around the world, and we got him, and he was gracious to do it. I mean, you know, it's just a look book. It wasn't really, he wasn't like sculpting right in front of us. Sharon Stone because Stone? I mean, you gotta ask him, he was just like sculpting right in front of us. Sharon Stone because Stone?

I mean, you gotta ask him, I don't know. But the point is, Dan. Give it a second at least, Jesus. The point is, you know, the point is, is that that's what was the aim, and then the team was approached by a journalist who was very fascinated by the work of Akbar and so he talked to Akbar.

Well, but this was Jeremy's friend and this was embarrassing. Like what happened? For whom? For whom? It's never whom. What do you mean? For Jeremy's friend, this is.

I thought you were saying it was embarrassing for me because Jeremy's friend, a South Florida journalist, did not recognize me. That was embarrassing for me because Jeremy's friend a South Florida journalist did not recognize me That was that was bad recognize Akbar I mean is a bad thing for everyone involved right that no one here who's of note was recognized and that Journalism is clearly very very dead. Maybe we're not as famous as the only one here. Well, I'm bars very famous He got interviewed by the media last night. So he's famous We had a giant sign in front of him that basically said come interview me.

How could you guys how I know it's oddball. I know I get it. It's oddball. I get it. But how could you guys make Jimmy Butler about you the way that you did yesterday by by creating news, by creating news that appeared in the Sun Sentinel, uh, doing so making the day about you. Allow me if I may see Dan is seeing this through his Dan glasses. In Dan's world, how can I make the, oh, guys, I gotta dress up like a chicken

and then say something controversial, and then people pay attention. That's how you do it. The way we do it is, we actually go out and try to do the show, and then accidentally, this is how it used to be, guys. Things would go, remember Boom Goes to Dynamite? That guy didn't show up that night

and say, I'm gonna say Boom Goes to Dynamite, and then everyone on the internet is gonna talk about me. He was just trying to do his job, but the way he did his job was so magnifique that it went viral. Now you got guys like Dan LeBattard, click baiting, trying to go viral. Let me say something crazy now.

I'm dressed like Pirates of the Caribbean. If it happens behind a paywall at the Sunset's, no, didn't happen. But you can read it for like five seconds before the paywall comes up so you can get like a different graph each time. Put it on the poll please, Juju at Levittodd Show. If it happened behind the Sun Sentinel paywall, did it actually happen? That was a surgical slice by Billy Gill. What do you mean? You know the crazy thing is there were comments underneath and I thought for sure the comments

underneath the tweet are going to be like dude that's not Akbar domestic that's someone else and no everyone's like I don't know why Jimmy Butler should have a stash. This is the Don LeVittor Show with the StuGuts Podcast. Does the audio not work? Okay, see if you guys can get the audio up there so that we can, uh, Jessica, why does that delight you? You've got a little Billy in you on a wild Willy Wednesday. That we can't get even the simplest things right, is that what's making you laugh?

Yeah. Yeah. Okay, so sound is important in this medium, as you guys know, so if you're trying to set up a joke, you need to have sound with the video, we've been working hard on the video. So perfect. The sound is sort of a problem at the moment.

Jimmy Butler, last night, that entire spectacle, the entirety of it was sad. I was made sad by all of it and... Which part specifically? That a relationship that was good with everyone involved can't even shake hands at the end. That the money would get that corrosive. Look, I'm gonna tell you a couple of stories here

because allow me here to get here because it's going to take a second but the nature of competitive people okay my father my brother was very competitive okay that's an impossible industry art selling shit out of the back of your car fighting for money because you want to do what you dream about and at the end of his career because somebody was getting in the way of his money, there was an 80 year old man who runs a company that my brother was ready to fight, physically fight,

because of whatever competitive is at the most competitive. Jimmy Butler is a million times more competitive than my brother. And I think Pat Riley is more competitive than that. And those two dudes wanna fight. And I imagine the marketing meeting where Riley's coming into the room and telling everybody, I know we wanna be class and everything,

but can we say at the end, and also bleep you Jimmy, at the end of the video. I wanna know who talked Riley into doing that. It had to be the Erisons. I'm gonna find out because I don't know what you guys made of the emotion of that, but it wasn't just that the game was a bummer, it's that, man, that was a good relationship.

That was a good relationship for everyone involved. And the money gets in the way like that. Competitiveness is overrated as just a value to have, right? Because it ruins a lot of things. It ruins relationships. It ruins a lot. And when you talk about somebody like Steph Curry, for example, who's kind of in the center of their universe, what do people say about him? I mean, what do people say about Steph all the time? First thing they say,

great guy. Jimmy Butler said in the story by Anthony Slater in the athletic, uh, he's real, real, right? He just treats everybody really nice. You know, that's not like a skill, right? You know, that's something that you can just do to people, right? And so when you watch the end of that game or beginning of that game, where they don't shake hands, I mean, nobody, like Bam walks past him as if he was a stranger. And then after the game, they have, you know, not only does Jimmy just kind of slink off

and go back to the back without talking to any Heat players, what does every single warrior do that played with Andrew Wiggins, including Steph Curry, who had already gone back to the locker room, came back out to played with Andrew Wiggins, including Steph Curry, who had already gone back to the locker room, came back out to talk to Andrew Wiggins, why? Nice guy, people love him. Like, how is that not so telling about,

as much as we enjoyed this Jimmy Butler experience for five plus years, it was always gonna be that because that's who he is. And I'm sorry for the Warriors, but at some point he's going to be that there too. Wow, you calling the shot now? Well, I mean, you know what? I take that back.

Steph Curry could be that powerful of an alien that his power of friendship is just more, you know, stronger than everybody else's. But it's just, it was the relationship between Miami and Jimmy Butler in a nutshell last night. Like, what are we doing? He didn't leave on good terms. He didn't leave on good terms. And again, we've made it about the root cause,

which is true, I think the money, but in his pursuit, he burned bridges inside, before he was out of here, he burned bridges with people that he played with. And so like, I didn't look at that and like, they're not saying hello. I'm like, yeah. Inside before he was out of here. He burned bridges with people that he played with and so Like I didn't look at that and they're not saying hello I'm like that don't really happen like the the issues between the player and management that's usually hey I'm dunking and i'm yelling at the gm on the sideline. This was just icy This was this was worse than kobe shack because it was nobody on that team

That he wanted that jimmy wanted to talk to nobody on the Miami team Can I talk to you guys about the idea of proud men being disrespected because when i tell you the shack wanted to fight pat riley at the end over money and disrespect when the conversation is and all of this starts with jimmy saying and i would have taken us to the finals if i hadn't been injured and pat riley publicly saying

shut your mouth shut your mouth the word shut your mouth on on disrespect of a proud man when I tell you that my brother wanted to fight an 80 year old and Jimmy Butler it Jimmy Butler whatever he was doing in private that's where disrespect started and so he enters the game yesterday saying I've got nothing to say to Pat and he better not have anything to say to me. What is he gonna do, punch an 80 year old? Like what is that? What's an 80 year old gonna do, punch him?

Like this is a ridiculous scenario in which neither person is actually gonna fight the other. I'd love to see them fight, I really would. No you wouldn't. I would absolutely love to see them fight. This is tough guy bullshit that they're both going back and forth, I'll fight him, I really would. No you wouldn't. I would absolutely love to see them fight. This is tough guy bullshit that they're both going back and forth, oh fuck him, I'll fight him, and neither one of them wants to actually fight the other.

What's Pat said? I would love for, Jeremy please, I would love for everyone to just kind of stop being the guy that holds the other one back, and everyone just wouldn't be like, you know what guys, go, let's resolve this exactly how you guys want to, and see what happens there. Because neither one of them would actually

fight the other one. Let them fight. See how it goes. Because neither one of them will hit the other one. Jeremy was so excited about today and with two words in seven minutes you have crushed him, Billy. Not me.

Nothing can crush me. He was so annoying. I walk into the makeup room this morning and he's like, this was the best night of my whole year. And I was like, you were fist bumping a buzzer beater like a month ago. Yeah. Don't act like this is the only heat game that best night of my whole year. And I was like, you were fist bumping a buzzer beater like a month ago. Like, don't act like this is the only heat game

that's made you happy this year. I was fist pumping my own interview. He said, this was better than my wedding day, he said. Yeah, we all believe that, Jeremy. I told my wife that last night. Honey, are you watching this? Isn't this better than our anniversary? No, look, I don't know if the word fight came out

anyone's mouth. You guys are making a leap here, right? He, when he says, you better not have anything to say to me, it's not, or I'll punch him in the face. It's, or I'll say things that have been behind the scenes that no one has revealed that I will reveal. And I think both parties kind of feel like,

hey, you know, I could have made this a lot worse if I talked about the way you guys did this or the way you did that. But I'm trying to take the high road. They're both trying to do that and you know, it is what it is No one's trying to take the high road. Yes, they are. No, they're not Dude, if the law they're not taking the low road is what I'm telling you I think the lower like when he puts out a tweet of Andrew Wiggins Saying hi to all of his teammates and then put something along the lines in the caption of great to see a former player go

And make up with his coach and teammates. Like, come on. You're not trying to take the high road. Well, they definitely didn't. I mean, look, that intro video was half-baked. It wasn't, it didn't have like the play-by-play, it didn't have the celebration,

oh, Miami Heat win the Eastern Conference Championship. Didn't have any, it didn't have quotes from Jimmy Butler showing his personality and everything else. I wonder why the quotes weren't there. Is it because they were all lies? They also don't normally do that, Jeremy, please. They also don't normally do that in the intros because they want it to build up a little bit, right? And they do that as the, after the first break,

you're coming back. And also because no one's there. Because no one's there, that's another reason. That building was packed. Now, 40% of them were Warriors fans. There were a lot of Steph Curry jerseys. Can we talk about that? Look, we thought the Warriors fans were going to be like, yeah, Jimmy Butler's going to

go. No, they're like, Jimmy who? No, Steph Curry. 90% of those fans, yeah, 90% of the Steph Curry fans didn't speak English. This man is an international megastar. Jimmy Butler's just another teammate to them. It's still the Beatles. Dan, I get it, they're like the seventh seed or whatever they are in the West.

They're still the Beatles. People still show up and they show up early to watch that guy warm up. But I mean, I mean, come on. If I told you in some incarnation of the future, there's going to be a bunch of human beings who are unbelievably athletic, but one is an actual wizard, floats around the court and does something

that no one's ever been able to do. Like everyone who comes internationally to watch Steph Curry, just because you watch the games every night and know that you're no longer amazed by something amazing doesn't mean that you're watching something. It's not in sports, it might as well be God coming to life and appearing before you because it's unlike anything you've ever seen before, and you you can imagine anything better than that either at

that side i'm not desensitized by his magic but i am uh... not surprised that a team that has fallen from grace you know relative to where they once were still attracts the traveling caravan of people from across the globe to just glimpse him. Dan, I was- They don't even have to, he doesn't even have to play.

There were so many, there was so much media at the game that PR had to seat us like in the stands. That's how many people were there. And as I'm sitting there, Dan, as I'm sitting there, I'm hearing people, they know he's not playing. When he came to sit on the, hey, that is, where, look, over there, look, over, over to the left, and like they were losing their mind

at just glimpsing him sit down. I didn't recognize that nationality. Well, I did. On the side of the world, yes. Foreign. Global. Global. International. It could be from anywhere.

Do we have the oddball clip here of, and I just learned before the show that, I mean. The Sun Sentinel reporter did not know that this was you. I just want to be clear. Is he in or is he not? Go ahead and play the clip. You make show? I do, I make a show, yes.

What's the name, what's the name of the show? Oddball. Odd, like strange, weird, like, yeah. Ball. Ball. yeah. Ball. Ball. Ball. Ball. Ball is life.

Art is life. Life is art. I do a show with somebody called Amin Elhassen. Amin Elhassen. Amin is a very good name. Amin. It means trust. Trust.

Amin, trust. Oh, okay. Trust, yes. And Amin, we trust. Trust. I mean, trust. Oh, OK. Trust, yes. And I mean we trust? Yes. OK. Yes. Very good.

Very good. Hello. Hello. He's magical. Tell me about Steph Curry being magical. Akbar is magical. Was that Borat? No, that's Akbar the mystique. Just to be clear

I know he's got some French Accessories, I don't believe not French. I don't believe that French. I asked him a million times. He's not French. I was Remember we had some guys from well from Congo. That's right approach him and Jonathan Kaminka's cousin Jonathan Kaminka's cousin came up and tried to say what's up. But Jeremy what happened to your friend? What happened to your friend from the Sun Sentinel? Well, it seems like he wrote an article about, according to Amin, a very real artist that was out there trying to get a Jimmy Butler statue created.

And if that artist wasn't real, then it might have been a bit mean-spirited to go unrecognized and fool a journalist. Well, since Amin wasn't there, I'll explain what happened. You know, Akbar and I were sitting there trying to get fans' votes on which Jimmy Butler statue pose we should pick, right? Because I told everybody, hey, things are gonna ease off

between the heat, cool down between the heat and Jimmy Butler, and they're going to put a statue up there. And so what were the options again? They were, Jimmy Butler was tired. Yeah, so first of all, Akbar walked tirelessly on this. Nobody, we should take a second to thank him for all of his work that he did pro bono, by the way. It doesn't, until the statue actually gets made,

he doesn't get paid. He made all that money from the Sharon Stone statue. Thank you, Akbar. Yes, exactly. Thank you, Akbar. Thank you, Akbar. Thank you Akbar, thank you Akbar, thank you Akbar. So Mr. Domestic came up with five different options.

Monsieur. Oh no, he's not French. Oh, my bad. Let's be clear, Jess, I just said that. Thanks. It's okay. He's from Kazakhstan. No, he's not.

It's confusing. Wow, you guys are so jingoistic and nationalist. Where are you from, boy? Where do you come from? What country? Is that Dan? That's what all of you sound like, demanding to know his national origin.

Is there an if in there? Do you wanna see his papers too? How about that? Hey, Akbar, show us your papers, your passport. We wanna see, what's your visa say, boy? Huh? You wanna go eyes up in here? Classic Dan.

That would never. I mean, it seems like maybe the guy that interviewed Akbar should have asked these questions to confirm he was a real person. That's usually what editors do when you do an interview with a random person on the street. And now I'm kinda like, ugh, I feel bad for this guy.

He got fooled at the same time. Someone probably should have caught it. Someone should have Googled, is Akbar Domaistique a real person? Well, I'll tell you what. You Google. Before they publish the story. Google Jimmy Butler statue, let me know what the number one,

the result is. It's Akbar domestic. Akbar domestic. Spoiler alert. Number one on Google, baby. Okay. It's really hard to do this whole bit now because like half of us are,

you're right, I'm sorry. I'm confused, like when we started the show, it's like, we wanna talk about this thing that happened, but now we're like, this thing never actually happened because this was a real thing. And I'm lost. Did somebody get fooled or not get fooled? I'm lost in space right now.

Well, this is what happens with Oddball and when you start a show with no audio. Like this is part of what it is that happens when you're trying to communicate with people and don't know. Just like the Miami Heat did last night. Oddball is odd. And if you wanna explain to the audience

what it is that you guys were doing yesterday and what you did to a journalist with a clip that would show us what happened to that journalist, that would probably be the correct way to do this. But they're odd. Well, I would say, first of all, watch Oddball to get the full segment.

Number two. Not now, though. Not now. A little later. It's not out yet. Number two. But our audience would like to understand what happened here. What happened was. Some of it's confusing. It's not confusing. No, trust me when I tell you.

Trust me when I tell you. Let me give you a quick note. But no, trust me when I tell you. I mean him. It's confusing. I can explain it or not, right? Like explain real quick. We wanted to get a Jimmy Butler statue commissioned.

We had the artist out there, his name's Akbar Domestique. He sat out there with Izzy. Izzy was soliciting people to come give us their opinion which one was the best of the designs. One of the people who came up to us unsolicited was a reporter, we did not know from which outlet. He said, I'm a reporter. I identified himself as media.

So Akbar granted an interview. He never does this, by the way. So it was a real artist then. Akbar Domestique, yeah. I don't know, Jessica thinks it's a bit. You know, you thank you for explaining it, it's not a bit. There you go. I don't understand if this, like,

why did this reporter not see a camera crew around you guys with microphones on you and not ask questions? I had a microphone in the reporter's face. It was reporter inception. And he still didn't know what was going on. And so yeah, next thing you know, there's a story in the Sun Sentinel. But it's a real story.

It's a real story. So we'll just move on. So then we're fine, right? The journalist did his job? But this is the problem with the real story. Like, Jeremy's friend is the journalist who wrote this. Who did a great job, apparently, writing about this real artist, question mark?

Is this a real journalist? It's a real journalist. It might be fake news, but it's a real journalist. Do they put out a retraction or a comment on this, like, hey, we were duped? Well, why would they have to do that? Apparently, Akbar Doma-stique is a real person. There it is.

Right, Amin? The lead is, does Jimmy Butler deserve a statue outside the Casaseya Center? Most Heat fans would likely say no, considering why the star five and a half year Miami tenure ended. But Akbar D'Amistique, an artist from Khartoum, Sudan, oh, so that's where he's from, says yes,

and he set up a tent outside the arena before Butler's return to Miami with the Golden State Warriors on Tuesday to advocate for the cause. Quote, Jimmy Butler, great Miami Heat player, he wins very much, he great things for the organization. You don't have to, great Miami Heat player. He wins very much. He great things for the organization. You don't have to do it in his voice.

Well, I didn't. I just read in my voice. By the way, great reporting. Now we know where he's from. See, we should give this reporter some standing ovation maybe? Not great reporting. Not great reporting overall.

Got to the bottom of something. I'm glad that Jessica is protecting journalism here. I genuinely am. I'm not, honestly I'm not. I'm glad that Jessica is protecting journalism here. I genuinely am. Honestly, I'm not. I think people listening probably are just so confused right now. This is incredibly confusing. Because I'm confused right now.

Is it confusing? How about this? Let's do Q&A. We'll answer. We're the oddball representatives here. We'll answer any questions. We're opening up the press conference. Qs? Any Qs?

Yeah. How did the guy not know that there was a guy with a fake mustache and a beret in front of the stadium? Well, the beret is a sartorial decision. I think a lot of people around the world will look at that and say that's a snazzy hat Particularly the color scheme red for Miami Heat red. Yes, pretty nice I've to the scarf is matching a little little hints of black there as well, but mostly red as well. Also heat colors. Also heat colors. How about the fake mustache?

Well the mustache is a little gaudy, but you know, some people like to put in a little bit more product, a little bit more extra. I'm sorry, there are people every day that I see with fake eyelashes. So what's wrong with a little bit of extra enhancement of your mustache? You have a fake mustache, there's more hair

to the mustache than there is the eyebrow. Plus I saw a little bit of an extra? Mustache there's more hair to the mustache and there is the eyebrow plus I saw a little bit of the glue I think on the back side Shout out shout out to that my guy from white lotus women have full frontal nudes all the time and nobody cares But when a guy does it all the sudden there's also two questions. He's not you walk that back, right? He's like I shouldn't have said that I'm sure I borrow walking back one day, too Any other questions questions so the the the journalists, I'm forgetting his name by the way. What's his name? It's still confusing. The journalist's name? Barry? Was it Barry? I don't

know it's a Barry. Jeremy, your friend's name is what? His name is Adam. Adam, okay. So Adam got very close to Akbar. Yes. Did he not look at his lookbook? That's close. Yeah, showed the lookbook. That's close to me and Dan right now. Weather is starting to warm up. Regular season starting to wind down. Games of consequence in sports starting to ramp up. I know what you're going to need by your side. It's by my side already. Miller Lite. Yeah, that's right. I'm making my spring time a Miller time. I'm making my sports time Miller time. Going to a car race? Miller time.

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This is the Don Lebatard Show with the Stugatz. I have a question. Amin, are you embarrassed that no one recognized you considering that just looks like you but has sunglasses and a beret? Was Amin there? I was in the vicinity. I mean, how are we supposed to do this show, Dan? No, but that's Billy right there.

That's what a Wild Billy Wednesday is. You were trying, yeah, what do you mean? What do I mean? I was trying to get to the bottom of this and we're pretending this artist really exists. I cannot believe this is what we're doing and not talking about Jimmy Butler not showing up for that game.

Billy, thank you. Jessica, that was Billy simply doing the show for just you there. He wasn't doing it for anyone else there. No, he's doing this for the millions of people sitting at home right now that are like, what the hell are they talking about? So check out Oddball.

Check out Oddball, it's a bit of a mystery and that's the reason that you should listen to it. I'm guessing though that many people would like to hear your serious basketball analysis on a dumb knight That did not live up to anything But allowed us to do the thing that we love to do more than anything in sports Which is just gossip about whether people like each other or not didn't have any live up to anything. And how much do they dislike each other? And how much disrespect was there? And what's wrong with that?

I mean, what do we do? What do we watch all day on TV? It's just that drama. And I think after five and a half years of them being together, to go from even the fake platitudes and the fake niceness and just, hey, that's my teammates, those are my boys, to just absolute nothing, like the eye, that has to be a falling off,

like one of the worst you've ever seen in the NBA. Like, I even, like, Kobe Shaq wasn't even, I mean, I know it was bad, but, you know, people figured, hey, they'll get over it. This one, it just feels like this is just the end of any relationship he could possibly have. And he said they didn't want to burn any bridges with the organization.

It seems like he has. I think, so we keep bringing up Kobe Shack. I know we have to consider the source. But according to Shack, it was all marketing. Like Shack took something that was real and inflated it for the sake of theatrics. Shack is a master of this, of going in there and taking something and making it way larger

than it really is, just out of sheer entertainment of himself. Man, I think that's some revisionist history from a guy who's in the tank for Shaq. Like, Shaq was on that. Oh, wow. The big fella. I don't remember beating a drum at Shaq's games,

like, hey, Diesel. But Shaq was on a stage in a New York nightclub. You're singing. Hey, Kobe. Tell me how my ass tastes It was funny. No that I mean come on By the way comparing this to Kobe versus Shaq is the most insane thing that's happened this entire segment You're welcome I mean it is it is the relationship like the ended It's not like it's dissimilar, but I think the best part about this to me was all the pettiness from the heat.

It was not just not talking to him. I think Alec Burks might get in trouble, by the way, because he actually did go. The only guys who Jimmy spoke to last night were Kevin Love, Terry Rozier, and Alec Burks. If that doesn't show you everything about Jimmy, I don't know what does. Shout out to K Love.

K Love said he posted the clip before the game. I don't got a problem with these guys. My beef's not with them, never will be. But I'm not gonna go acknowledge them. I'm not gonna look in their direction. I'm not gonna speak with them. It was, I could not believe the way that that all ended. Can I ask you, did you see Bam and Tyler going,

Jimmy, Jimmy, wait. Who's the one that left? I'm just saying, you're saying like, oh, he didn't say what's up. It's like when people say, you didn't call me, MF'er, you didn't call me either. What are we doing? Oh, like it's only on me to call you?

I gotta be the one to pick up the phone. But if you don't pick up the phone, I never give you any problem. But he did call people, called Kevin Love and Terry Rozier. But the relationship didn't end when he left, I never give you any problem But he did call people called Kevin love and Terry rosier But the relationship didn't end when he left the relationship was over before they were here So they don't I mean they they're not happy with shimmy as well I'm just saying I don't know if look if they had done the look

I've seen it before just happened to me where I went and reached my hand out to shake hands with someone that I'd had a strain relationship with and They looked at my hand and walked away and I just stood there with my hand out and I looked at everybody around like see I tried I reached out they didn't do anything that's not what happened no you're right look I'm not saying Jimmy's an angel I'm just saying let's go oh poor BAM they didn't even say hello look at him neither did he neither did he yeah one guy showed up for the game and the other didn't it also feels like if this score was opposite Jimmy would

have been center court that's exactly right he would have been the worst that exactly right I'm gonna tell you right now I don't think so I don't think so you think he would have said all the glowing things he said after the game if he would have won he had to get his butt kicked by the team to be able to go say anything nice look man there are some guys when the lights are on on national TV that show up for big games and other guys don't and Jimmy's just not one of those guys. He just doesn't show up when the lights are on.

This is fake right? This is acting. He's wearing glasses. Yeah. You need a mustache? We got Akbar in here. Should we get Akbar? Is this where we're at?

Can we call it? Should we call Akbar? Like we're celebrating getting to 10 games under 500. Like this is where we're at gloating. I'm ashamed. I'm ashamed. It's a fun night. You know what I'll say? I will say and this is this will be the most embarrassing thing that I say. I was so proud watching heat fans last night.

No taboo every time Jimmy touched the ball because before the game I was I was talking to other people in the media and saying like, the most passionate of fan bases would know, right? Oh, this is, it's cheers and boos during the intro, and then every time that guy touches the ball, you boo him. That's what happens, right? And I honestly did not expect it.

I didn't expect it from the crowd. And then it happened, there was a guy heckling him and he got a five second violation. You couldn't have drawn that night up better in the lab for the worst of people like me. You speak for all of us, Jessica. I can't speak. It's embarrassing, I know it's embarrassing.

I don't care. Well, that's okay, and I understand that you don't care. But I legitimately left yesterday's show thinking to myself and not knowing the answer because the Heat were coming off of a 10 game losing streak. I wanted to ask you guys, like, which is harder to do in that league, winning 10 straight or losing 10 straight?

Because- Honestly, losing 10 straight ain't that hard. Well, I mean, Cleveland's won 10 straight three times. Like, 10 straight losses for the Heat, it's confusing to me where we've lived for 15 years that makes everyone crazy around here, and makes Jessica put her head in her hands when Jeremy does what Heat fans do.

It was just fun watching Jimmy stand in the corner during a regular season game, and it not affecting the Heat in a negative way. Okay, and so Heat homer Jeremy has this to say about Miami fans, it was great for them to be knowledgeable enough to know to boo Jimmy every time he touched the ball. And then there's Steve Kerr saying this of Miami fans.

I didn't know what was going on pregame because there was a video with no sound. So I was wondering what was happening. Miami is a great place to live. And some people don't ever seem too amped up around here. They're living the good life. So it really wasn't that rabid of an environment. It was typical Miami.

So hold on. Hold on. Respectfully, respectfully to Steve Kerr, he does a great job. He has no idea what he's talking about. Nobody in Miami is am amped up brother. Have you been to like I owe it you during traffic during primetime five o'clock rush hour, please that that was the strangest part of the whole night because As the beginning of this show had no sound as soon as you're supposed to hit the music They played this one part and it was like I think it's this part of Eminem, right, where it's just like, it's the return of, just kidding.

And I was like, wait a second, that seems like a shot at Jimmy Butler, but it was like the Vice Jersey thing, right? So that was the beginning of that one. And then the music just didn't play. The video was playing, but no music. There was a popping sound that happened. And I thought, oh, they got fireworks,

but then there was no firework. And then the intro video plays exactly like how we started the show today. I would say that we were doing meta stuff. And I'm not blaming the video department. The video department was downing on the spot. It was a tribute. Because they played the intro video to complete silence

and it took like a strong five or six seconds before like the Game Ops people were like, start a chant or something. People started getting let's go heat. And then that like, it couldn't, I was like, wow, they can carry this throughout the entire video? That'll be an insane environment.

TNT will love it. And then like, three of them goes, let's go Heat! Let's go Heat! It was a feeling of, oh, Jimmy Butler's gone and everything goes to shit. The energy was so weird to start yesterday's game because you had like the mixed cheers and boos, right,

during the intro video. Then you have the heats intro video where the sound goes out and the speakers go out. Then a minute into the game, Draymond Green is hurt and laying on the ground and you're wondering what's gonna happen. Then not two minutes later, Jimmy Butler himself has a five second violation where there's a fan

behind him yelling you're a bum. Then the- Andrew Wiggins. Yeah, Andrew Wiggins immediately gets an eight second violation after that. Then there's a back court violation. Then there's back to back 24 second violations by the Warriors.

It was like, and that was all in the first eight minutes of the game. It was one of the strangest starts to a basketball game, including Jimmy Butler having two points at the half. I'd like to explain for one second. Everyone was like, it was mixed cheers and booze. At first I was like, wow, so there are a lot of Heat fans that are still happy about Jimmy.

Then I realized, oh no, that's just the Warriors fans because 40% of the building had Steph Curry jerseys on. That's the thing that I think people are missing. You guys are thinking the Miami crowd was split. No, they weren't. It was just a bunch of Warriors fans. I'm surprised that you're surprised by this. So last night, yeah, the Golden State starters,

did they have 10 points by the half? The five of them? The starters. Oh, it was insane. I mean, their starting lineup got dominated and Jimmy was basically taken out of the game from the jump. Like bam, out of bio, shut him down last night. I would say-

He just did. I would say that Jimmy did, like, I've seen people who are trying to force the issue. I've got to prove a point tonight. He did the opposite. Yeah, he didn't show up. He seemed very passive. Okay, but can we just examine, look, I don't want to talk about this anymore than Jessica

does anymore. Wait, hold on, no, time out. Let me stop you there. You and Jessica. I'm sorry, what the hell did you guys think today's show was about to be about? Golf? Tennis? What do y'all think it was gonna be about? You're not here every week.

This is what every show has been about for years. This is literally the last day that we can do. It's literally the last squad. And it won't be. No, it will be. It will not be. This is it. They're not gonna face each other in the finals.

Dan's saying, I don't wanna talk about this, is the funniest thing that has ever been uttered on the show. Yesterday also, by the way, we were talking about should the Heat be tanking for the lottery? They should, by the way. So now the question is, you had your NBA finals today. Making sure they're not tanking.

Maybe the Heat tanked the game. Meta. You know what? Maybe that is what happened, is Jimmy didn't want them to get a higher pick. But we were talking about yesterday, should the Heat tank for the lottery. So now that the Heat won their championship last night,

the Jimmy Butler revenge game, are we now back to tanking with this Heat team? Sagin for a flag in? I don't know if it's a serious conversation, but look at the standings, there's just no chance. Cooper for Cooper? They're stuck in this play in purgatory. They can't, I don't even think they can move

into seven and eight, they're just in that nine, 10 land right now. Bailing for Bailey? You know what, I'll let you guys have today, if you can promise me you will not say the name, this is for Jeremy and Dan, you will not say the name Jimmy Butler for the rest of the NBA season. Can you do that, Dan?

I gotta figure out what I gotta trade Jessica for that. Oh, that's a good boy. There's gotta be a negotiation. I'm not gonna just. Just say a week. Just say a week. A week is gonna be hard enough. Like a week.

You're a bad negotiator. I will figure out what it is. Let me think about it. I want it to be a thread throughout the show and at the end we will make a bet on whatever it is that is so that, don't let me forget, I wanna have stakes on this because I also want stakes on yesterday's bet

where there was an oral commitment there. Billy said for a raise he'd have another kid. So we've got a deal. Get on that. Get on that. He might have last night, I don't know. Oral commitment. Be respectful.

Oral commitment. I'm sorry, what? Can't have a kid that way. Be respectful. You and me have made a deal. Everyone heard it. Everyone'm sorry, what? Can't advocate that one. Whoa. Be respectful. You and me have made a deal, everyone heard it. Well, if I have a child. That's right, well. Oh, have confidence in yourself, man.

If you have a child, you can have a raise. We made a deal. I want there to be a huge, I want. I don't think that this is binding in any sense of the word whatsoever. The words being spoken right now are an oral commitment. No, no. Oral commitments are not, is by oral commitments or not

They're oral commitments. You're backing down. No, I'm just saying he's scared Dan is what it is You put the money up and he's like, no, I don't want to do it It's a good question. Well, I just had a kid so he could talk after right oral And what if you have a fake baby? Oral. And what if you have a fake baby? Wow. Oh, fake baby. But you get the million dollars.

Adoption. Like, let's work this thing out a little bit. Let's figure out what the consequences are on that bet. The kid's gonna have to be named Cash, right? Obviously. Yeah. Because I'm going to be willing to make the bet of,

it's just the name Jimmy Butler, correct? Just the name. Yup, yeah, I already lost. I'm not having lost. That's why I said we, Jess. It's not just the name, it's that you just can't talk about him. Problem is. You can't say his name, but you also can't talk.

Ooh, I have an idea for this bet, and I'm just if we're figuring out bets. If Dan wins, you have to wear a costume of some sort. If Jess wins, Dan can't wear a costume for a year. Oh, wow. That would kill him. Wow. You know what's frustrating about this?

I was undefeated last year. Undefeated. It's the reason I didn't wear a costume all year. I was undefeated at the grid of death. I went every single week and never lost again. And hated it. How about if he loses, he shaves the beard? Oh.

Oh. And if he loses, Jess has to grow a beard. Oh. I've got a mustache for that. Not a bad trade, because I can't grow the beard. Oh. Oh. And if she loses, just has to grow a beard. Oh. I've got a mustache for that. Not a bad trade, because I can't grow a beard, so. You can wear a mean, ridiculous beard. Akbar. Apparently, that was not a mean.

So now we're back to square one. Yeah, who was that? This beard is mine, what are you talking about? Akbar. Well, the way the show should have started, I saw in preview the clip of Jeremy's friend being fooled by Akbar, and I just am curious where we are with journalism, because Jessica asked, where are the editors here?

And the answer to your question, Jessica, is WPLG in Miami closes down with ABC after 80 years and has to go totally local, is there are no editors anymore. We can't pay anybody anymore. So Greg Cody has to write his own headlines on his own stories because the editors are being all chewed up and bad things are getting into newspapers and hey. I thought Akbar was quoted warmly and accurately. Well, also like that story, so ABC is still gonna exist,

but WSVN now is gonna have Fox and ABC on their like second channel. And then WPLG announced that they are focusing on journalism and they're reinvesting all of the money that they were going to be asking for to get the ABC license into local journalism. And they're gonna do more local journalistic shows and they're gonna have longer news days in the morning.

And they're gonna have different programming that's specific for local because they thought that ABC was asking for too much I Believe are you PR for WP? You know The guy that runs the network doubled down on his commitment to local journalism and covering local stories So it's not a situation where the network is folding. Oh, okay. Billy, let's bring back Sports Bang.

Sell it to them, local journalists, Billy, Gil, Tony, Gladion, all of a sudden, take on sports. Wait, who is that second person that's doing this? Me and you. Me and you. Pass. Take on sports.

Pass. I love that idea, it's like they've been covering politics and Wall Street and all of a sudden, we're gonna take on sports. Yeah. With sports bags. We both wear like suits. We'll beat Jim Berry. Jim Berry keeps jumping back and forth between sports and news. He can be the third guy.

Ooh, I like that. Me, you and JB. Okay. Roy must be wounded in the history of WPLG, that's 79 years. Dwight Lauderdale. I mean, that's what, I mean, they taught me about news. Yeah. Like that was television news when we were growing up,

and then ABC comes in and says, no, it's gonna be network. And yes, they're trying at Channel 10 to do something that is a special thing where they take care of local news. But to answer Jessica's question, there are no editors. There's not money for editors. There are like five newspapers in the country that can afford editors.

Also mentioned in the announcement, they will still have Wheel of Fortune, so don't be worried about that. Oh great, yeah. Jeopardy? Good lead-in for us. I think Jeopardy too. Excellent.

And Kelly and Mark or whatever the Kelly show is called now. I never really liked Wheel of Fortune that much. Really? It's fine, it's just like, I think Jeopardy is so much better. I haven't seen any of the Seacrest episodes. Yeah, me neither. Not a one.

I guess that sort of, we agree then. You know, speaking of 10, when's the last time you saw number 10 Jimmy Butler show up for a big game, huh? Oh, boy. Like, Teronny Shrinks. I don't think Dan's allowed to talk about that. He's got his boys in matching joy shirts. I don't ask him that.

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