The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: Fake Pregame Show

Episode Date: January 12, 2024

It's a FAKE PREGAME SHOW! We're getting you ready for Dolphins/Chiefs. Will this be the coldest game ever? The shipping container debates who brought up Eric Bieniemy first, the Panthers have won 9 in a row, and we learn how Dan's beef with Jason Whitlock started. Tony's athletic prowess is once again doubted by Billy, which leads to an investigation of his friendship with Luis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We drafted the game family. Kick off his 35 hours. The way the factory game show begins now! Head in and his family will give us everything they have. Great, great game, show. Fail forward fast. Knock and fools out, new gods. Knock and fools out.

Hey, we need a thumb to go this direction. I was dragged up when I saw that. I'd forgotten about Cam Cameron's fail forward fast. Remember, if you will, that Cam Cameron once sat out a preseason game coaching and allowed someone else to coach it in the event of an emergency, they needed to have a new head coach ready because something happened to him. He then went one in 15. Fail, failing forward, not quite fast enough. I have watched this December stugots. Ever since we decided to go to Las Vegas, everybody on our show. Yep. And the failure has been forward so fast that it does

in classify as learning. I know you think the dolphins are going to win this weekend. I do. Yep. I am less confident of that, but I would say in that whether how can anybody predict anything? Because it's going to be the third coldest game ever, uh, wind chill. And uh, I want to know from the audience is there. This is a sincere question.

Did you put it up on the pole at Lebitard show? Is your sports identity strong enough to sit in negative 30 wind chill for five hours for five hours because I don't believe Miami's is Kansas cities might be, but if that game were here, there'd be nine people there. If that game were in Miami, well, if that game was in Miami, it wouldn't be negative 30. I think we'd have bigger issues. Yeah. If that game was in Miami, climate change is coming. Man, how about this El Nino, huh?

Just terrible. I thought Nina had some nice predictive analysis, last night, especially when the weather is that cold, you lean on the trenches and the run game, and the Miami dolphins run the ball well, particularly outside, as she said, and the chief struggle with that. The chief's offense has been bad.

And you know what, it's been like a national conversation that hasn't happened as we try to figure things out and all the blame shifts to these crappy wide receivers that Kansas City allegedly has. Be enemy. No one's talking about that. They're offence. This is a guy that every hiring cycle, every coaching carousel, we're like, well, it's a punchline at this point.

No one's going to talk to him. So he leaves. Niggie comes back and their offence is shit compared to what it used to be. And no one is mentioning or invoking Eric B. Anami. It's wild. Still got why were you making faces while Mike was talking? Well, he's talking about the point that Meena made yesterday on the show. Tony and I made that same point three days ago on the show. No one's in here. He doesn't listen to us.

That's not Godless. He's not Godless. He's football like six weeks ago. No, wait a minute. The point that was made by you guys, I think she's struggling with the outside run. I'm sorry. We're talking about two separate points here. Go ahead. The BNM. Yes.

Okay, well listen. Mike, Stugot and Billy and Tony came up with the genius analysis that in 15 mile-power wins and 30 degree windshield run the ball. Yes. Paul Foods, I asked Keisha Johnson about B being a me at the barbershop. That's a separate one. Separate one. Yes. These are two different things. Yes. The arguments that are being made here, Stugots wants credit with Tony for the student analysis of run the ball when you can't throw it. Yeah. Maybe mean it delivered it better. I was doing most. It's sarcastically as do's do's do

to nature most of each. Most of each. Most of each. Can I just give everybody credit and we can move on. I'm sorry. If you had to take that BNM user longer there. I'm sorry. Well, that's how I haven't heard it nationally.

That's why you're the Duke and that's why your top six in the nation. I appreciate that analysis. And if you said the Miami Dolphins will run it in Wild Card Weekend outside when the Chief Struggle against that before Mina did yesterday. Bad weather. I apologize to you.

Credit has now been issued. Jessica, you were the only one in here nodding because I've got a bunch of Miamians in here that you would sit in negative 30 because let me read the numbers to you in here that you would sit in negative 30 because let me read the numbers to you just so that you understand. Well, no, I don't think you have because this is the third coldest football game ever played. And when did you sit in negative 30?

I was at the coldest game in Notre Dame football history my junior year. And I believe the wind chill was under zero. I don't think it was negative 30, but it was close. Under zero. I think the actual temperature was nine. Do you know the difference between 170 degrees? It's that, but cold. Yeah. The Chargers Bengals game in 1982 is the coldest game ever played, colder than even the ice bowl. That's in the egg, huh? Negative 59, negative 59 on the windshield. And the ice bowl in 1967 Cowboys Packers was negative 48.

And I'm legitimately trying to figure out what in the world I love enough that if I have the option of not doing it or not loving that person, that I would sit in that weather for five hours. I have a little bit of an anecdote from last Christmas because there was a huge blizzard that hit Chicago and this is after I'd been living in Miami for a year and a half and I had a flight booked to Chicago to go see my family for Christmas. And as this blizzard hit and the temperature kept dropping lower and lower, I realized

on Christmas Eve it would be negative 40 degrees with the wind chill in Chicago. And I called my dad on Christmas Eve Eve. And I was like, hey, I don't know if I'm going to come home for Christmas this year. It's really cold out. And he was like, you're an idiot. Just get on the flight.

Because that temperature does not face people who live in it. It gets cold like that sometimes. And being in Miami completely warps your ability to withstand those temperatures, even if you grow up in it. Jessica, I feel like negative 30, right? When you say those temperatures, right? When I hear negative 30, I'm thinking like Antarctica, I'm thinking about barely livable colds. Like you've got a problem if you're stranded somewhere

and don't have the right stuff. I once celebrated New Year's at an outdoor music festival in Quebec City. It was negative 17 out. I was in a light jacket and a tank top and I swore the people behind me had stolen my scarf. It was in my pocket the entire time because I was super drunk.

Tony, yes, drunk, huh? Tony, you want, you want, uh, tried out, uh, for FIU football as a walk on, uh, and, I was robbed with no actual football and through imaginary passes. What are you, damn good passes? What do you imagine it's like to throw a football in 15 mile per hour wins? Dan, have you ever tried to pick up a cinder block? Like, you know those cinder blocks,

I have like the two holes in them? That's like trying to throw a cinder block where the ball is so hard that there's no way that like the air compresses it. So which is why Brady was probably like, hey, you're kind of deflated a little bit so I can get a little squeeze on it. But it's like basically trying to throw and catch a

center block. That's pretty good analysis actually given that I don't really was rolling his eyes of course because you know, he knows everything and I know nothing. Go ahead. If you said that first though, he did. Chris, I know. I think the qualifier of you once threw

an imaginary football, your football expert. What is it like throwing in the cold? I can throw a real football. I can throw a real football,y. We can do that. I get thrown in a imaginary one just as far as anyone. All right. Let me get at this tension here. Okay. Because it's been here since Tony got here. And I'll tell you where I saw it for the first time. I don't know if it was here. Well, I'll tell you the tension. If you'd allow me,

appreciate it. Billy, you had and rained down judgment on Tony when he got here and put on Instagram him making a bunch of jumpers in the gym when we are the show that celebrates the missing of all the jumpers. It sort of runs contrary, showing athletic greatness to the internet because everyone's putting on their best selves on the internet because everyone's putting on their best selves on the internet isn't really what this show did. It's the first time that I saw you look at Tony in a way that suggested there was an undercurrent of disgust.

And fair. Yeah, okay. So it's not a falsehood. Thank you. Not a falsehood. It's fair. Okay, but since then, I've only seen that grow. It hasn't gotten smaller.

You see it all the time. And Tony leans on you with, let's go throw a football. Watch me throw a football. I'll show you, I can throw a center block. I'll show you. Good, probably. Well, you miss this day and the other day. Tony is like Chris on steroids in terms of like,

I'm really good athlete. What does Chris have to do with this? No, I'm just out of this because Chris used to be like I'm really good at these things. I'm really good at bowling, I'm really good at softball, whatever. Almost quite literally. Yeah. Yeah. Don't be confident.

Tony, that's all. Tony takes it to like another level. Like the other day we were walking around the office and someone comes up to me and goes, she hear what Lewis said about her flight football game yesterday. And I was like, no, I didn't. Why would I hear that? Where would I hear that? Like Lewis said that it looked like Tony was Tom Brady and Taylor was West walker out there. And I was like, of course, because Lewis exists to blow smoke up Tony's ass. Like, this is the role here. Billy, like, it's the greatest thing he's ever seen. Billy, I was at Tammy M. Park and Tom Brady. I was at Tammy M. Park.

I was at Tammy M. Park minutes from your house. Can I tell you why? Dimitri from your house. Tammy M. Park, can I tell you why they're at Tammy M. Park? Because Tony texted me and asked me. Tony normal text. Ask me if I could reach out to the FIU athletic department and ask them if they could open their intramural

field so Tony and his friends could play flag football. And I was like, that feels like a text to say, Lee, not. I am not going to do that. Why on earth would I ask the people I know within the athletic department to open their intramural fears so you and your friends can go play football when it's literally if you like look at a map It's literally next to a public park with ample field Ample grass ample space for you guys to play which is where you ended up playing the issue is that there's a lot of little kids playing baseball There so it's tough to get a field

Yeah, I can't reserve a field when there's little kids everywhere. So why it's because these games are meant for children Or for great athletes who then make it a profession see he doesn't get it you need no you don't get he doesn't get feel when there's little kids everywhere. So why it's because these games are meant for children or for great athletes who then make it a profession. See, he doesn't get it. You need, no, you don't get it. He doesn't get it. When you reach the age that you're at, you need to realize you're not actually good at sports.

No, you go. You're not actually good at sports. There's a difference. I can go out and be good at sports and have fun, which is what I like to do for exercise. But you're competing against, you're competing against Danny's brother, Johnny. He was on my team actually.

I was throwing dimes. Okay. I can Danny come in here so we can see the people respectfully that Johnny, catch it and dredge. Johnny B. Danny Dimes. I'm just saying, she's stilts. And that's not even, Dan, this isn't even the greatest tension in this room today.

Jess is pleased. It's due. Nothing. What? What? You know why I did do anything. Hold on a second. in this room today. Jess is pissed at Stugas. Nothing. What? You know why. I didn't do anything.

Hold on a second, Jessica. I'm going to get to that, but I need to construct the circumstances in which I punish Tony now with actual cold. I want to punish Tony with actual cold. No more fake green screens. No more Kansas City by the end of this, by the end of this hour, at some point I want you experiencing actual cold. And I also want, and I think this might need to be vetted by lawyers. I want Lewis to come on in here and actually blow

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Like simply safe. Don Lebertard. We got a freini hard away. Oh, freini? Who's a freini hard away? I was trying to read fast. You deem on the team. Big Jackson, Bobby Jones, the Matrix, Sean Marion.

Stugats. Woo. Zo, Shaq, Misch Parker, Chris Quinn. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Jason Williams, they're all right. I mean, stacked roster. This is the Dan Lebatar show with a Stugat. I'm going to go to the next week. I'm going to go to the next week.

I'm going to go to the next week. I'm going to go to the next week. I'm going to go to the next week. I'm going to go to the next week. I'm going to go to the next week. I'm going to go to the next week. I'm going to go to the next week. I'm going to go to the next week.

I'm going to go to the next week. I'm going to go to the next week. I'm going to go to the next week. I'm if you listen to God bless football this morning, you already know why. And this is the reason. Stugots came into work on Monday and said, like, you know, how was your weekend in blah, blah, blah. And I was like, oh, it was good. I saw Mike Goliak who is in town to call the dolphins game. We had breakfast with him. It was great.

And Stugots goes, oh, yeah. He said on God bless football that Christine Leese is a better baker than you. And I was like, I don't think you would say that. Turns out he didn't say that. Stugats is trying to drive a wedge in between me and my co-host. And this was all just a fabrication by Stugats. What Mike said was that Christine Leese

bakes different kinds of stuff. Like his example was she'll stuff a chocolate chip cookie with an Oreo, which is great. And I'm just like, she does use gluten. A classical baker. I mean, they're both great bakers. I just, Stugats just essentially made this up. No, I did not.

To make, yes you did. I mean, listen, what Mike said, he said that Christine Leesey, I'm getting in trouble here for finally telling the truth, he said Christine Leesey takes more chances that you will make a cupcake, she'll make the standard cupcake, she will make a cupcake and Ch'll make the standard cupcake, she will make a cupcake and

Shovenorio cookie in it. To me, that's Mike saying she's the better baker. Jessica, let me, let me circle back for a second because Stugots does this move a lot. Whatever. This, this move that he does a lot because I fear something that happened with Stugat recently can be found in here that has caused us some problems because he will make stuff up. This has been since the beginning with you. He doesn't like that you seem to be closer to go like quickly than he is. And he doesn't like anyone. Oh, a truthhood.

I mean, the truth is a truth. I mean, a rare truth. What would you know? I told the truth, the truth. What would you know? I mean, you can't handle the truth. I mean, you don't know how to deliver the truth. Well, I did and I got in trouble for it.

I mean, this is why I lie. This is not the truth, okay. For the record, I also don't care if she's a better baker than me. What I care about is that you lied and said that Mike, my friend, who told you this morning that he loves me like a daughter I should add, said that, which he didn't say you lied. And I have a witness, Jessie, our makeup artist. She heard it too. You lied.

But here's the other story though because Stugot's who wasn't here yesterday texts me the story that I had forgotten about which is he sends me the story of a clip in which he's talking about Jason Whitlock and Colin Cowhert and Stugot says, I was ahead of all of you guys by seven years. He sends me the clip. And as I listened to the clip, I realized that everything in that clip is why Jason Whitlock is mad at me. Everything in that clip. And I believe that clip is a lie, which that clip has Stugat saying that Colin Coward has told him that he hates Jason Whitlock. that clip has Stugat saying that Colin Cowherd has told him that he hates Jason Whitlock. And I believe Stugat's may have been lying about that.

No, well, I said Jason Whitlock was saying stuff about Colin Cowherd, that's a fine, by the way, Roy Bellamy is a witness, he doesn't lie. Roy was right next to me when it happened. Like Stugat's, why would you get mad that I would think you are lying? I know, I know, I lying? You're always lying. Also, like, the whole center of your take there

was how sad it would be to still be talking about ESPN after you left ESPN. Let's get back to Chief Stoffin, a good segue to point a mirror to us on our hypocrisy. I just tried to tell Dan who his friends are, who his friends aren't. And I tried to tell him like seven years ago, I'm gonna do a top five list next week

of people that Dan thinks are his friends, but aren't his friends. Okay. Do you know that if we let her do you a prank on that one? Number one or two. If I let everyone in my life make that top five list, Stu Gotts would be on a lot of people's top five. I love you buddy. He wouldots would be on a lot of people's top five. I love you, buddy.

He would be real high on a lot of people top five. Fliar, right? Billy, you're no better. Thank you. Oh, the highest insult. Whoa, what I do. The highest insult. No, exactly.

What's going on? What can be predicted? Critic. Chris Cody is bailed on this game. He saw the temperatures. He was going to fly up with his friends. He said something about a tradition. He was going to fly up with his friends. He said something about a tradition. He was going to buy tickets and he canceled all of it.

Last year, that was like 35 and sunny. Bobby. 60 degrees warmer. But it was I was positive 35. I was also Skylar Thompson. Sorry. I honestly would have gone my, I'm just going to deflect. My friends are all cowards.

Like I couldn't find really anyone to go with. Mike Fuentes the other day was like, said me like stick it's her cheap and let's go. I was like, don't tease me. I'm down. Well, that's the tickets for the actual game or cheap, right? Because Jessica saying people in cold weather are used to cold weather. I'm like, not this cold weather. Like this is like not used to this. I agree with you. I looked up the temperature of the game. I went to it was nine degrees at kickoff. So it probably got into the negatives with the windshield, but, but it was not negative 30. I don't think I would do negative 30. But what are the price of tickets because, uh, the stagots, what's happening in Kansas City? Mike mentioned, uh, be enemy. Uh, we're watching

Billy mentioned be enemy six months ago. Yeah. Uh, T barber shop. Yeah, at the barber shop. That's correct. But we just watched or were presently watching the golden state warriors dominant era is sort of falling apart. And I won't say that's what's happening to Kansas City, but this is a Kansas City team that's headed into the playoffs being doubted more than just about any since the Mahomes era started. And plenty of people would think that dolphins could win that game. The conditions I really don't know, Stugat, how you can accurately feel like you can predict what's going to happen in this game, given that as a variable, because the dolphin offense, because the reason the dolphin offense is great is because the reason they can run the ball that way is because

they always have the threat on first and second down that they might not run the ball that sets it up. Yeah. And they don't run that way on third down. They have more problems on third down because down in distance dictate the situation. So I really don't know how with this many injuries and these circumstances, how I can have a good feeling about the dolphins headed to Kansas City. But if I were to develop a good feeling, it would only be because Kansas City, the last, I'm gonna say, 10 games

or maybe since the beginning of the season, I mean, they lost the first game to Detroit and only scored 20 points. So you might be able to say all season, but certainly over the last few games, they haven't looked a lot different than Philadelphia, right? When you lose at home to the Raiders, when you lose to Denver,

like this is a wildly beatable team that I think people think might turn it on in the playoffs because they have my homes, but they haven't been able to turn it on all season. And now the cold comes and you're throwing a, you know, a center block. Parenially hitting their team total unders all season long. There's only been one half of football where they kind of looked like the chiefs of old, which was a second half at Las Vegas. Right.

Where we all thought, okay, there they are. They've turned the corner and then they dipped right back down. Last time they scored 30 points. Was that game? So Stu Gantz, I ask you this because I don't know what you think declines look like, right? It takes a minute in football. Jerry Jones ran off to Jimmy Johnson and

Barry Switzer still wanting for a couple of years. But then the decline happened. Kansas City was overwhelmingly better than everyone. The last, is it the last eight division titles are there. And I think the last five AFC championship games have been played in this place. Now it's a wild card game. And, and I don't think anybody listening to this And I don't think anybody nationally is saying yeah, the chiefs are gonna absolutely win that game What's the point spread in that game? Is it gone up to four and a half? Yeah chiefs might as four and a half Patrick mom's even played a wild card game Let's share definitely not on the road. I mean I know they're at home. How has he ever played a road play?

I don't know. No, that's crazy. He will this year. Well, hopefully they're the three C, right? There's a chance. You just took the chiefs. Shit. It just take the chiefs. That's what just happened. He publicly accidentally was not. I thought you're subconscious talking in a way that you didn't know you were saying that out loud in a microphone. Yeah. I mean, yes. I think I don't disagree with you, Dan. This is a coin flip game for me. But the dolphins, this is it for that. We're going to Baltimore next.

That's going to get pretty scary. If you lost, I don't think even the most ardent of dolphin fans would be surprised if you lost a 17 to six game or, you know, what, 12 to three game, can we say, and I don't know if I feel, you know, comfortable saying anything in the way of predictions, but can we say that you probably don't expect it to be high scoring? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Base off of the chief's production and the elements. I think you've got to think the dolphins are going to get slowed, right? And you got to think they are pretty fast though. It's that cold that it'll look slow out there and it'll look cold. They've also gotten pretty healthy on offense. Like outside of Connor Williams, they should be at full strength on offense. Healthy in the sunshine. Don Lebertard, did you ever have a crush on a cartoon character?

Oh, can I go? This isn't my question, but I did. Jessica Rabbit, who frame Roger Rabbit? Yes, yes, I think she was married to Roger Rabbit, even though he was a bunny and she was a humanoid, but they were both cartoons. Still gots. I had a crush on Betty Rubble. Oh, wow.

What? What? That's very good. I mean, that's very good. Two gods I had a crush on Betty Rubble. Oh wow With a surprise nomination from stew gods You is dirty dirty inner nine year old VCC down lebertar show with this two gods. Jessica's head is in her hands. Tony is legitimately been sent to somewhere that is cold. We will get to that in a little bit. The green screen bit again. No, no, we're not doing the green. No, I demand that he actually be cold.

And I demand that Lewis blow smoke up his butt. Where are we on that? I feel like it's just going to be another background. Uh, no, I demand that it's not. I understand. I understand why it is that you would feel that, but I'm telling you that that's not what it's going to be. I am sit for one of the rare times around here. I am cracking down and I am insisting that Tony feel horrible cold for not really understanding that our show is not the show that's going to brag about its athletic achievement. That's not. And if you are, you have to be fat.

Well, that's the one, that, wow, I was going to say that's the one qualifier, but I was going to say or a woman because Jess has bragged about her athletic achievements and it doesn't bother me as much as when Tony does it. I'll kick Tony's ass by the way. When Tony does it, it's really defensive. It's a bit angry. Well Tony's still in the phase of his life where he's thinking to himself almost on a daily basis.

If I just took a year to work out, I could still make one of the big leagues. Well, this is what Billy is saying though. What Billy is saying is there has to be an age where you simply give up on the dream in all of its forms. And Tony's saying, I have given up on the dream. I just like to practice sports excellence when I exercise.

That's how I get my exercise. I exercise at being excellent. It's an easier way to do it than just jogging on a treadmill. Grow up, Peter Pan. Like you're an adult now. It's not going to happen. You're not hurt, Warner. We will get to that in a moment. But to God's, I don't know if you're watching. It's got to be a pretty great feeling on one side and a pretty dreadful feeling on the other to have a Goal scored with seven tenths of a second left and over time. That's got to hurt

They're going to have trouble paying Reinhardt Mike and you are already you're already doing the finances on all of that. The Panthers of one nine and a row, but you're just saying to yourself, point seven seconds. If I could have just done this, I mean, that's too much time for Sam Ryan heart. We should play a game in which we see what Chris Cody can't do in seven tenths of a second to see. I don't actually, I still think that there's seven tenths of a second left on the clock. I don't think that they actually came back and dropped the puck and center eyes. It just, it was one, one goal. These said, let's go home, baby. Like they all literally

did. Sam Reinhardt, I think the most of Panthers, maybe Zito can finesse it a little bit. I think the most they can offer him is eight million. I think Sam Reinhardt can get 11 and a half there. But with the state tax situation as it is in the hockey market, some of them being in Canada and you get tax to high hell over there, this is an attractive place. Players want to win here. Sam Reinhardt has fulfilled the promise. He entered the league as a really promising prospect and he kind of struggled out the gates and he's really finding his form now.

They believe that they have a shot to make this happen. And if we're almost in any other state, maybe not, but Sam Wright Hart, if he's going to stay in Florida, has to give Florida a hefty discount. Trade heck, Vlad. Can that free up some money? He's got, he's got no trade. So as difficult, barcov has no trade, nothing you want to trade barcov. I think he's been exceptional this year and deserves a lot of the credit for

Sam Reinhardt's hard campaign here. But Eckladd, he's been hurt. Eckladd's been on the Panthers and he's not that old. Isn't Eckladd like 29? Yeah. Eckladd's been down here for 20 years. It feels like, but I think he has a no trade. If I were to told you three weeks ago, all right, in three weeks, either these two things

will have happened. The Panthers will have won nine in a row or Bella check and Sabin won't be coaching their teams anymore, which would you have predicted after that blues loss? There was no way that you could have forecasted this Panther run. Let me tell you, the LA Kings are exceptional on the road. This isn't just like your standard nine game win streak. They're nine on the try to catch the Vegas goal of the Knights, two of which, two of those nine wins have been at home and on the road

against the Vegas goal of the Knights. They've been dominating these games, leading most of them at the Colorado avalanche with McKinnon having the season that he's had at St. Louis. And then only one day off that fell of a long road trip to come back home against one of the tougher teams, a team that I just put a futures bet on being Stanley Cup champion in the LA Kings,

respect the hell out of them, and they won that game. They are an absolute fire right now. They have never played better as a franchise. But Mike, you want Sam to give a hometown discount. He's having the best season he's ever had. This is a career year for him. Sam, I don't, I would love for Sam to give the Florida Panthers a discount.

We're going to lose them. I, we're talking about a pretty hefty discount here. Every fan base thinks their athlete is going to give their team a hometown discount. I mean, thank God they have Chuckie locked in the way that it is because Chuckie hit the open market. He'd make a lot more money right now and Matthew could chuck, by the way, is all the way back doing the could chuck things. Having that lead equalizer goal by getting a deflection right in front of the net, he is all the way back. You mentioned Chuckie and I want to ask the group a question because I can't believe I'm

asking this question. Is John Grooton going to be back in football soon? What is there were are there groomers? There were rumors that he was going to join the Saints to help like a a dare to our to help Dennis Allen who the players very clearly don't respect or listen to yeah surely players would have nothing but respect for John Grootan given his recent controversy. I can't imagine that happening. I just can't. One last thing on the Florida Panthers, I do want to get into the John Grewton stuff, but last night was 90s night,

and Montel Jordan sang the national anthem, but that wasn't all. Can you fill me in? Montel Jordan also played the first period intermission, and he did, this is how we do it, but he reworked the lyrics to make it Panthers specific, and the party wasn't out here on the West side It was out here on in sunrise and he was talking about the Panthers and the playoffs and Broward County

Goldie had a hard time following this act. It was unbelievable. You loved it Yeah, it made you nostalgic. It was a Thursday night, but he still still felt all right Is there a sadness in getting booked for a 90s night for him? You think? Where it's like I'm only getting booked because of something. It's work, man. It's work. Can I send myself to the penalty box because Craig David's saying, can you fill me in? Not Montel Jordan.

None of us caught that, though. I assumed that you were making judges. You're not going to go wherever Tony helps you safe. Yeah, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, because Lewis is followed in Mount there and I want to see what the blowing of smoke out. He's a he's arrived, but we took a hit on our internet. So it's going to be next segment. Billy, can you explain to me because you're complaining about this relationship between Tony and Lewis, they are around each other all the time, like they are, they're

at each other. Yes, they're at each other's hip all the time. And I think they're friends, the way that nobody here is friends. Well, I don't have any friends. So that's kind of why I don't seem to understand how the dynamic works. Am I wrong when I say they are closer than any two people here are? Well, they grew up together. They did. Yeah, I don't think they knew each other until like 20, 20, I think Tony knew like Lewis's brother or something.

That's very different. They grew up together and they met in 2021 is very different. Lewis knew Tony's brother and they went to like the same church or something and then he convinced him to go to Tahoe for free a couple of times and got him a job and then they become thickest thieves as they say. One is a lifelong friendship. The other is a cup of coffee. I mean, that's correct. You guys need to learn your Tony and Lewis lore. Come on. Yeah. We will definitely have known

each other along. Maybe like what's the definite like when did they become best friends? Like I think recently, but they've known each other a long time. We don't know if that's true. We will find out whether those are true. Usually important to me. Lewis also filled in said best friends is a lot. I've known Dan a long time, but you know, Dan is not longer than Lewis is known Tony. It seems I guess you guys are the two closest ones here. Joe Kronin was trending last night. Did you see why? Still got no. Do you have any idea what's going on with the Damien Lillard List Portland trailblazers? I know they

blew someone out last night, the Celtics, right? Oh, I'm sorry. The trailblazers. I know they blew someone out last night, the Celtics, right? Oh, I'm sorry, the trailblazers. I thought you were talking about the bucks. What are you doing? So you don't, you don't have any ideas. I was looking up Joe Crowden. That's what I was doing. Okay. So Joe Crowden is the Portland Trailblazers GM who again, if you'd been listening instead of looking it up, it runs the Damien Lillard List Portland Trailblazers who lost by 60 last night to the Oklahoma City Thunder and are now 10 and 26 or 10 and 27 while the heat's young players continue to play well. Joe Cronin again came up through the organization and became not unlike Eric Spolstroms to

God's came up through the organization to get to a power position. And that story is not going to end quite the way the Spolstrom one did. As soon as he came into power, those superstars, they're hard to get. And when you get them, you cannot trade them for a bunch of injured players. All the bad faith analysts that were touting the package that they got, I've checked on social media. They're still not going to admit they're wrong on this. So, okay, fine. Joe Kronin, you played yourself. They are silent on this. I told you at the time that the heat thought that if healthy, the package that

they got was better than what the heat were offering, I still don't know what the heat offer is. I still haven't gotten an accurate appraisal from anybody that I believe on what the heat offer is. But clearly, they were holding back some of those young pieces, like they weren't going to offer those, and it didn't matter at all, because Portland wasn't taking the calls at all. I suspect there might be already a touch of regret about not taking some of those calls.