The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: God Bless Friday

Episode Date: May 10, 2024

Today's cast: Stugotz, Billy, Chris, Jessica, Lucy, and Roy. With Billy and Stugotz in the main seats today, it's time to introduce some new games to the show. The crew plays a few rounds of "Closing the Loop," "The One Moment Hall of Fame," "Checking the Box(es) Scores," "End of Discussion," and "Wheel of Topics We Won't Discuss." This newly devised strategy takes us around the sports world and touches on boyfriend hoodies, the NHL playoffs, the Duff Cut sandwich, sex sounds at Luka Doncic's press conference, and why there's something wrong with the Celtics. God. Bless. Friday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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God bless football Billy you God bless football, Billy Gill. God bless football, Jess. God bless football, Chris. God bless football, Lucy. God bless football, Roy. God bless hockey, oh football, sorry. Oh wow. Classic.

Yeah, classic Roy. I was the caboose in this situation, so. Well, those here. We're not doing this. No? No, God bless football. No, we're not. Yeah. No. That was the bit. Well, the bit. We're not doing this. No? Not God Bless Football. No, we're not. Yeah.

No. That was the bit. It's over. If we're gonna be honest, I thought you were gonna interrupt and be like, what are you guys doing? We're not doing this. What are we doing? I've done that before on the real God Bless Football

and it doesn't go over well. But this isn't God Bless Football. That's because we're doing God Bless Football when you do it. Yeah. We're followers, Billy. Don't, don't. We're following your lead.

Don't tune out. Yeah, no, but the bit that we discussed was like, ah, we're pretending that everybody gets mad and then Chris is like, I'm in charge here. This isn't God bless football. I wanna have fun though, come on, let's do this. Let's do GBF. We did it, I mean.

That's it. Well, I mean, we can still have fun even though. Should we go home now? No. I'm tired. You know, we had a pact. God bless Friday. We had a pact.

God bless Friday. Fridays we a pact. God bless Friday. Fridays we end here a little bit earlier than usual and I tried to get everyone to agree to a pact before the show. I don't know if you were here. Where we all agree that we can all politely just leave when this is done and we won't feel the social pressures of hanging out and talking to each other.

Like we can just go on with our lives and go home. Why, do you guys feel some amount of pressure after the show to chit chat, some small talk? No. No, but I feel like I should say yes. No. But at least if we have the conversation, like hey, I won't be insulted if you leave,

then everyone can leave, and also then I can just leave and I don't. So we're saying goodbye right now. Yeah, goodbye to each other right now. Have a great weekend. No, but hello to the listeners. Oh yes, of course. And welcome to your nightmare I'm in Dan's seat. Dan's nightmare. Yeah. Wheel of topics? Well hold on okay so here's the thing is I have a number of games that I'd like to play today. Right. With Stugats I want to do the One Moment

Hall of Fame which I told has been going on since yesterday, behind the scenes between Stugats and Jess. Yes, I said Reggie Miller's in the one moment Hall of Fame. And so that's part- This is so offensive. What a great career. No, we did not. Name something else he did in his career outside of those nine seconds at Madison Square Garden.

Name one other thing, I dare you. Chris, you can make your own list. The one moment Hall of Fame also led into a bleed over conversation of a The one moment Hall of Fame also led into a bleed-over conversation of a potential two moment Hall of Fame, but we'll get to that later. Yes. The other game Billy wanted to play was one that we couldn't decide on if we should play or not.

I have at least four games, plus the one that we don't know if we should play or not. So I have End of Discussion, which we stumbled upon in God Bless Football, because Dugas just said an argument and then he said end of discussion. And I'm like, well, then I can't say anything. Like the conversation's over. So if you guys here at home or whatever wanna play along with these games,

think of some end of discussions that you can just, it's basically you make a statement, end of discussion. So I made a point to Billy and Mikey A during God Bless Football and I said, period, end of discussion. There was a minute left. Like we had to talk and Billy wouldn't talk because he said the discussion is over Yeah, spoiler alert. So Alexander Barkov is gonna win the silky trophy in the discussion. Well, hold on There's music friend of this guy. There's music. I didn't know we were playing end of discussion right now

We also have closing the loop that we're gonna get to we have wait What's closing the loop? Closing the loop is an important game that I feel like we should play every Friday, whether or not I'm sitting in this chair where we kind of, I'll give you an example, Chris. Do you have the music for closing the loop? Okay, so closing the loop, I'll give you... Oh, for crying out loud.

All right, it's time for closing the loop. So in closing the loop, I feel like this is a great opportunity for us to bring back a topic that was discussed earlier in the week That we can close the loop on today Friday, so it doesn't carry over into next week. So I'll give you an example earlier this week Stu gots reveals Unintentionally or maybe it was last week, but we're closing the loop anyways, right that he wears a hoodie without shirts underneath

I did shocking revelation. Yeah. That was earlier this week, I believe. This led to some debate amongst the crew. Some people were kind of confused as to how you do this. Other people say, no, I do that. That's not that crazy. So yesterday I was in the, this is crazy camp for just wearing a hoodie without a shirt underneath. Yesterday at home, I decided to do this, Stu Gatz.

Okay. Because I felt very judgmental and a lot of people were like, what's wrong with you? So I wore an oversized hoodie, I bought a 2XL because I wanted to feel like I had a boyfriend's hoodie. Right, good, right. So I wore a 2XL hoodie. And they're not making XLs like they used to,

I mean they're just not. Yeah. Right. So I put on my 2XL Under Armour hoodie, Under Armour if you're out there, without a shirt underneath. Wait, you bought a new hoodie just for this? No, no, no, I bought this hoodie when it was on sale, but I bought it extra big because I wanted the feel

of a nice big comfy. Cozy. Yeah, like if I had a boyfriend and I took his jacket, because my wife will steal my hoodies sometimes and it looks so comfy because they're so much bigger than her. So you wanted to feel like her? Yeah, so I bought sizes too large

so I would have the comfort of the loose fitting clothes. On sale though. Yeah, of course. Have you ever purchased anything not on sale? Like at retail, like at regular cost? I try not to. I try not to. Here's the thing, the price is just a suggestion, because there's always a way to get that object cheaper. Anyway, so I put it on without a shirt and it was fine. Thank you. Close the loop. All right, good. That's it, let's get looped. End of discussion.

No, no, no, no. It feels like you ended it, it does. So if you guys have any loops you wanna close, just let Chris know and we can play the music, we can close the loop. If you wanna end any discussions, let us know. Also can play the music, we can close the loop. If you want to end any discussions, let us know. Also, here's the thing that I'm most worried about, because I saw the schedule,

and I saw that Stugats was gonna be the one in here today. And I said, Stugats, if you want, I can go and I can sit in the studio. And he said, perfect, you're driving. And I wasn't expecting that. You should've. So my main concern was that we were gonna be accused with not talking enough sports today. Mm-hmm. So I tried to come up with a segment and

a game in which we check the boxes scores. So we check the boxes scores of covering sports and then we go around and we talk about things that happened last night. So I don't know if anyone here wants to volunteer to be the person that checks the box's scores and they just kind of tell us what happened in the sporting world last night. And then we discuss the box's scores. Okay, well, the Rangers won in overtime against the Hurricanes last night.

They did, they're up 3-0. Up 3-0, it seems like the- What was the score? It was 3-2, won in overtime. The Bretman. Yeah, Bretman. Yeah. He scored a game-winner goal. Very early in overtime, by the way. Yeah, bread man. Yeah. He scored a game-winning goal. Very early in overtime, by the way. Very, very early in overtime. Because the last game went to double OT.

This game was over inside of two minutes inside the first overtime. So it's the hurricane season. It's over. So the Rangers are through to the Eastern Conference finals. They'll wait. They are. I mean, they're up 3-0.

Carolina's not coming back. They'll await the winner of the Panthers and Boston. A big game three tonight. Now this is good. As a Panther fan, Carolina's kind of had our number over the last few years. So I actually, even though the Rangers seem a little scarier on paper, I would rather face the Rangers

than the Hurricanes. Well, swept them, the Panthers did last season in the playoffs. So we kind of had their number last year. That was last year. I know we got them in the playoffs. That's a different game. But overall, of all the season in the playoffs. So we kind of had their number last year. That was last year. I know we got them in the playoffs. That's a different game. But overall, of all the teams in the East,

I feel like Carolina's had our number. If any teams had our number, it's been them over the last couple of years, outside of the sweep. I don't know. I think the Panthers are going to beat Boston this season. They didn't beat Boston. Roy's not afraid of anything. Roy's not afraid of anything.

No, absolutely not. You're just too confident, you're too confident. You're not fearless. I don't understand who you're putting this on. Billy, are we allowed to do game analysis during this game, or is this just like we read the box scores and then we mark the next game? Right, this is a pregame kind of, right.

Checking the boxes scores? Yeah. I think checking the boxes is just checking off all the things you're supposed to hit. Yeah, which is sports, but we're doing it with box scores. Should we do it with things that we're actually going to talk about in earnest, or are we, you know, is it a segue into a better, longer conversation?

No, you can discuss. Okay, so we're doing it the right way. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're doing it the right way. There's another game that we were afraid to play that we discussed before the show, and the decision wasn't made before the show so I don't know if we should carry the conversation on to the air as to whether or not we should play the final game slash bit hmm the bit was wheel of topics we won't discuss

oh in which we spin the wheel and if it lands on said topic we we can't discuss that topic can we try it out The only reason I bring it up is because hockey was submitted to that wheel. Now it didn't necessarily land on hockey because we haven't spun the wheel yet. Yeah, you can check that off now. Had we started the game though and we spin the wheel of topics we won't discuss

and it lands on hockey though, we can't talk about it. But we already talked about it. Yeah, so it was lucky that we got that in in case we spin. Right. What else is on the wheel? Let's just spin the wheel, see where it lands. Let's spin it, right, spin it. Okay, but we already talked about it. Yeah, so it's lucky that we got that in in case we spin. What else is on the wheel? Let's just spin the wheel see where it lands. Let's spin it, right, spin it. Okay. Here we go. Friday though. Stu?

Comedians. Huh. Alright. So that means we're not gonna talk about that. Look, we can't. We can't talk about it. We'll get to it next week. We can't talk about it. Oh. Yes. We'll get to it next week. We didn't end that discussion.

That's a different game. All right. This is just a wheel of topics. Can't close the loop on that. It feels like if you land on a topic, We'll never close the loop. End of discussion though. Right?

For the day. For the day. Doesn't carry over. There's always Monday. Exactly, right. There's like a tie-in to another game when you spin the wheel of topics we're not gonna talk about.

I kinda like it. Yeah. Nice synergy there. Should we try it again? I mean... Ready? Spin the wheel. Spin it. Jess? Oh, it landed on the Kendrick Lamar Drake beef. Oh wow. I wanted to discuss that today. Well, end of discussion. No, that's another top, that's another game. So we can't discuss that. Yeah, but let's stop spinning the wheel because we're gonna run out just things to discuss today. Yeah, get back to it later. Not certain we'll run out, but okay. Also later today I want to play a game. It's not really a game, it's more of a conversation where we discuss

the proper way to eat a sandwich because I saw a picture of someone in the way that they cut a sandwich and it's not a way that I've ever seen before and they were saying this is the proper way to cut and eat a sandwich. Well, it depends on the sandwich, right? Like, what if it's a hoagie as opposed to a grilled cheese, like for bread. No, we're, yeah, I mean, we mean more like the regular toast. Oh, regular toast, okay. I mean, is there more than one way to cut like a sub like a whole no there are some places that cut at like

A diagonal on the hoagie. I don't like my hoagie Agnol cut it in half. Yes, but that is such a good point to equal halves, please a square sandwich diagonal all you want a Sub a 12 inch. I totally disagree angle cut that you are a monster. You know that first bite is so weird No, the pointy bite no, I are a monster. You know that first bite is so weird. No, the pointy bite? No, I hate the pointy bite. The pointy bite is the starting point of the bite. I love the pointy bite.

Yeah, but if the bread's not good, the pointy bite is not great. I'm under the assumption that it's good bread. If we're talking about bad bread, then that's a whole other conversation. Yeah, absolutely. I love the, I like that there's more, I don't know what to call it.

Like the part of the sandwich where you can see the filling. I like that there's more of that surface area with the diagonal. Well, you pick it up and then like Stu said, that pointy end, if it's like, I'm with you. If you got great bread, maybe you point cut, but hey, most of you rest, most of you subshots, subshops, you don't have great bread.

So Jess, they don't know great bread. In New York, Oh, New York has the best everything. It does. Well, it's a fresh, it does. It does. I'm so tempted to put New York on the wheel of things. Hey, now, come on now.

New York really does feel like, Stugats, can you make a list? The bread is better. The pizza's better. Oh, the water is better. It's the water. It is. Why is it? The minerals are so good.

That's why you can cut it the way Jess likes it cut. In New York, the bread's always good. You can't do it down here. It's two guys. Brad man. Different bread. Thank you. End of discussion.

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Wow. I think Billy typed an eight instead of a B. Fine. It's a clear as day. Stugats. Number eight. It's Chris corner on the line. This is the Don LeBattar show with the Stugats. Well end of sandwich discussion, but I also- No, it's not. We don't have the picture yet. Not end of New York discussion yet,

because I saw a video yesterday. I don't know if this was recent or not, but this video really disturbed me. It's Clyde Fraser eating fries at a Knicks game, it appears. And the way he's doing it is unlike anything I've ever seen. He's holding the cup up and he seems to be gnawing at the cup. He's eating more cup than fries.

Like there's a wet ring. He's eating it like it's a sandwich. He's eating a cup of fries like it's a sandwich. I feel like if you're sitting courtside, you gotta do all your snacking in between when you go underneath. Like if I ever sat courtside, you would not see me courtside eating a hot dog.

I would be one of the people that accidentally spill something on the court and they have to stop the game to like come. If I ever sat courtside, you would not see me courtside eating a hot dog. Right. I would be one of the people that accidentally spills something on the court and they have to stop the game to like come. I'm surprised that doesn't happen more. Happens to, I think Mike Ryan's daughter like spills M&M's all the time or something. I don't know, that was an off-air conversation.

But this is really alarming. And to me, it seems like a guy who doesn't want to get grease on his fingers because he wears really nice suits and nice clothes and he doesn't want to get grease on his clothes, which I understand, but it is a very strange visual. So if you're sitting courtside, is your play, let me be as weird as possible

or let me be as normal as possible and blend in? Cause I feel like I would want to just blend in, but then like, why did I spend so much money? I think it depends. Like if you're a celebrity, you're there to be seen. Yeah, so do you think he really tries like that or he be seen, right? I'm not trying to board in. Yeah, so do you think he really eats fries like that or he's just doing that so hoping someone,

I mean, he's old enough that I don't think he's trying to do that for attention, right? MSG is basically his living room, right? Correct, yes. Like, he's not, this isn't like- No, it is his living room. Yeah. Not basically.

He's just comfortable enough where he's gonna do his thing there. Imagine going in pajamas, because you're so comfortable and it's your living room, and you're just like, ah, I'm gonna be maximum comfort here. While Frazier should show up in BJ's. Yeah, so we have the picture of the sandwich if you want to get to the sandwich now.

Cause I feel like there's no point in going back to it later. Cause we already got off our talk. End of discussion. So here in the left is the new Duff cut, which is this Y shaped triangular thing where you're, instead of two, you get the three. Nope. Yeah, it seems crazy.

I like it. It's better than the chef gruel. Nope. Yeah, it seems crazy to eat it that way. It's better than the Chef Gruul. But no one. What are we doing here? Why a Duff Cut? Who's Chef Gruul? Isn't that the top one? No, but why a Duff Cut?

Why is it called a Duff Cut? The guy's something Duff or Duff something. They're TV chefs. No, it's not that Duff, it's some other guy, just Duff. Chef Gruul is a TV chef. Well, he's a monster. That doesn't make any sense. He's cut one third of the sandwich. Yeah, thirds. Pure idz, if you will. Hockey. I think it's one of those things you do, you stamp your name to it, you get credit for it.

I'm gonna come up with a cut. Are you? Yep. I don't think you will. A stew cut. And what would your stew cut be? 80-20 my way. Exactly right. His more as a chef gruel looks like the stew cut,

where it's 80% of the 20%. Yeah. I'll cut the crust off. Now that you're talking. There we go. I don't like crust. I'm not a crust guy. Have you ever?

OK, this actually brings back a traumatic babysitting story from when I was like 13. But I was babysitting these kids once twins and they both hated crust so the mom asked me to make them peanut butter jelly sandwiches but cut the crust off another cooking a problem problem was she left and when they wanted the sandwiches i was by myself and i open the bag of bread any only pieces left for the two ends of the bread omegan so i told the kids these kids are like really little i was like hey guys like who unfortunately is the only bread your mom the two ends of the bread. Oh my god. And so I told the kids, and these kids were like really little,

and I was like, hey guys, unfortunately this is the only bread your mom left for me and it's the ends of the bread so it's all crust. And they were like, we're not eating that. And I was like, well, what do you want me to do? Because I can't cut the crust off because it's all crust. And they were like, well, we're not gonna eat the crust.

So I had to peel the layer of brown crust off of the ends of the bread for them to eat the crust. So I had to like peel the layer of like brown crust off of the ends of the bread for them to eat their sandwiches. Bad parenting, just leaving you with no bread for the kids. Oh, it was devastating. Do you guys ever eat the ends of the bread, anyone? Yeah. Yeah, no. If it's toasted, I like a little crispy, you know,

I'm kind of like Jim Nance, like I'll eat like a super toasted piece of end of a bread. I usually don't, but like if I'm like really, really hungry, I can toast it and put some butter on the good ends and then I can, you know, put it down. But you have to be really hungry and desperate. I don't want to say desperate, but I'm also a bit wasteful guy, you know what I mean?

But I do more often than not throw away the last piece on each end of the bread. So which game are we playing? Well, no, I mean, this is supposed to be a sports radio show. It's not just games. I was just listing the games that we had, should you want to get to them. We could get to them.

These are opportunities, avenues, if you will, that we could travel down to get to these games. The One Moment Hall of Fame, something you said you wanted to do, and I was kind of, when Chris was saying the whole New York thing, I was wondering if you wanted to make a top five list of things that are better in New York,

that New York's the best at XYZ. Because basically anything that's mentioned, any New Yorker will say that's better in New York, no matter what it is. I would just say that the pizza's better, the bread is better, the water is better, the delis are better. That's about it.

I mean, the football's certainly not better. Ooh, Hall of One Moment, Aaron Rodgers on the Jets. Wow. Well, he won a Super Bowl. But I'm saying Aaron Rodgers on the Jets. Oh, okay. Well, he had one moment, right? One moment, Hall of Fame.

One moment, Hall of Jets. So far, I mean. Literally one moment. Yes, amazing, had three plays in one moment. None of them were Hall of Fame worthy though. No. The most memorable thing he did was run out waving the American flag I'm confused as to how to play the one moment Hall of Fame because Reggie Miller everyone thinks he's a Hall of Famer He's in the Hall of Fame. Well, Dan doesn't but I'm saying well Dan doesn't right but I you know

He's defined by that one moment. Like I could do one moment and say David Tyree No one thinks he's a Hall of Famer, but that's one moment. That I could do one moment and say David Tyree. No one thinks he's a Hall of Famer, but he had one moment. That's a one moment. That's a one moment. One moment in time. Yes, that's one moment. Reggie Miller had multiple playoff series,

was like an all time great shooter. You don't remember any of it though. That's my point. But I know he's an all time great shooter. Right. He was 12 and 33 against the Knicks on the road. He had one moment. One moment.

Are the Knicks in trouble, Jess? I will ask you as the Knicks expert. I did say yesterday, thank you Billy, while you're sitting next to the studio. Well, here's the thing, right? If we're gonna be honest. It was perfect. I feel like Jess has seen more Knicks games than you

just because Lehman puts on the Knicks every single game. So you are a bigger and actual Knicks fan, but Jess is an actual Knicks authority this season. You know the meme that's like, are you winning, son? And it's like the dad walking and the kids gaming. That's like me and Lehman's relationship. But he'll be watching the Knicks and I'll be like, are you winning, son?

Anyways. Is Lehman like a little boy in the sense that he's just so excited about his team still? And you're like, oh, Lehman. It's just sports. Yeah, exactly. But I said yesterday it felt like game two may have been the apex of the season because the Knicks are dealing

with so many injuries now and they're going back to Indianapolis and it's gonna be really tough for them to do much more with the level. Jalen Brunson's questionable, OG's out for game three. It feels like game three is gonna be an Indian. They're gonna get the friendly whistle because of Rick Carlisle. But it just feels like, you know, this an Indian. They're gonna get the friendly whistle because of Rick Carlisle But it just feels like you know

This team's given New York a lot But the amount of injuries that they've dealt with is going to be really tough to play through I would say this because I checked the box score the Cavs beating the Celtics on the road last night The NBA is freaking out. They cannot have Cleveland and Indiana in the Eastern Conference final Oh, no, this bodes very well for the Knicks either tonight or in game four They cannot have Cleveland and Indiana in the Eastern Conference fight. Oh no! This bodes very well for the Knicks either tonight or in game four. The NBA needs the Knicks to advance because of the threat of the Cavaliers. I like that.

That's a good conspiracy theory. I have an end of discussion submission that goes along with this. Really? I mean, Juju has been telling us all season that there is something wrong with this Celtics team. Yep. There is something, and he is right, there is something wrong. End of discussion. I don't know if that's the end of the discussion.

No, the discussion's ended. I'm just saying. It's 1-1. There's just something about this Celtics team. Everyone has them on paper as clearly the best team and they can't stop farting. You're right. Respect the game. Farting sounds like a problem.

Are you declaring the Celtics season is over? No. You? No winning a title? No, but I just think that well, then you can't end I don't think I don't think what what happened with the heat is they got game two and then the Celtics blew them out the Rest of series I actually think we're gonna see a long series in this one I think that's just like to juju's point There's something wrong with this Celtics and I can't even put my finger on it, but there's something wrong. That's a different game. Mm. Yeah, a different game.

Can't put my finger on it? Hey, yo. I can put my finger on it. What? Go ahead. Porzingis is out. Oh. I put my finger on it.

There you go. I checked the box score. I put a finger on it. We ended a discussion. Your finger is currently on it. Did the Heat fans get some satisfaction out of seeing all the Celtics fans leaving with like four minutes left in the game last night? I did I also got satisfaction out of hearing you talk about the Knicks injuries and like make like cuz the Heat have been

making these excuses for seasons now. I don't want to hear about it. I'm just saying it's not an excuse. We have four and a half players. But but but the counterpoint there is also the Knicks are winning that series they're leading to over right now right and The Heat were like always down Excuse for roster construction or anything like that I think it's just like a rational outlook on what the next two what series I'm irrational look like exactly Whereas the Heat have been like well if we had Jimmy Butler in the playoffs, oh, then like it wouldn't matter that all of our other role players are maybe not as good as the players that we could have gotten if we had done better to get them.

In defense of Heat fans, it's Jimmy Butler who's saying that. Are Heat fans saying that? Like first, do you feel like if you had Jimmy Butler, you'd still be playing? I think the series, yeah, I think we would, I'm not saying we would have beat the Celtics, but I think it would have been a longer series. Oh Hmm. How's this going so far Lucy? What grade would you give this? Why are we talking about the heat so much? They lost I don't know. I've been thinking about this for like a week Hold on you can end it. Let's spin the wheel Lucy what topics on there we can't discuss anymore today?

The Miami Heat. Wow. Oh, man. I drove Taylor into work today and we were driving and I literally said, I cannot do Heat Talk today. Did he? I said it to Taylor and he agreed. This is Chris Cody's fault because we brought up the Celtics leaving and he turned it into

like, oh, this is a Heat thing. When you talked about Nick's injuries, it opened the door for me. Bucky Dent, One Moment Hall of Fame. Absolutely. Wow. Thank you. That's a good one. Thank you. Speaking of Taylor, we had a conversation privately

off air. Taylor's having a moment. He is. Very big for Taylor right now. His basketball team, his hockey team. Taylor's already trying to get me and him to New York for the Panthers Rangers. He said that you were going with Roy that what what what I know How about you get past Boston hmm that is true. Thank you

What no Taylor's already planting seeds if you go if you cover Rangers Panthers I want to take a train in a video guy. I'll go with you wow he's like let's do the same game time bit We'll take a train up there. It's not that bad opportunists around here Hey listeners, it's Mike Ryan and I've changed a lot over the course of 20 years that you've known me. I've gone from unlikable to, well, my hair has changed. But my point is, while a lot's changed over our relationship, there's one thing that hasn't changed one bit. And that's a great taste of Miller Lite. Another thing that hasn't changed is that it's less filling.

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fewer cows and carbs than premium regular beer. DELIVERTARED! Photography is not as hard as it's made out to be, and now with computers, I mean, you can make anything look like anything, Dan. It's almost cheating. It's not fair. If you push a button and it takes a thousand pictures, you're going to find a good one in the batch.

There were a lot of photographers there, taking thousands of pictures. One got that photograph. Okay, good retort. Stugats. Haven't you ever passed by photographers? Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch Like in my ear with that. He does a good camera. This is the Don LeBathard Show with the Stugats. Roy. Yes sir. How's it going today?

Well, let's check some boxes. Oh, okay. I was just generally asking. I noticed during the break that Roy was doing that. He was checking a box score. Checking the boxes scores. Yeah, I was looking at the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association. I saw that the Mavericks beat the Thunder 119 to 110.

Wow, nodded up at one game a piece, Roy. Yeah, but that's some good knots. Golly knots, I love that. It's a top five knot, yes. It's a top five knot. Roy, I want top five knots, okay? What? All right. I want Roy to come up with top five knots. I love that. It's a top five knot. It's a top five knot. Roy, I want top five knots. Slip knot. What? All right.

I want Roy to come up with top five knots because I was telling Roy that when you're down 1-0 and you tie a series up at one game apiece, it's all knotted up at one game apiece. That is a top five knot for me. How about that? Huh? That's a statement. Yeah. By the way, Luca went 2910 and seven. Slipknot. That's a good not. It's a great one. Steve Martin. Yeah. No, I heard it and listen, Denning Company is

coming up at the Sphere in Vegas. Help on the way. Slipknot Franklin's Tower. Just unbelievable and that's why I was taking it. Sorry. I was on the internet earlier and saw that there was like a weird press conference moment last night with Luca. Did you guys see this video? No. No? We were open shots. We were open shots.

So just our sharing the ball and our energy was great. What do you think? Okay. Okay, moving on. The okay from the reporter mid-question where he's like about to ask a follow-up hears moaning and is just like

okay, this is awkward. Now has someone met like, has there been any reporting on this? Because this is either one of two things. Someone's messing with him or someone's having sex in the other room. And I need to get to the bottom of it, end of discussion. That's not how end of discussion works.

That's how it's working right now. He wants to close the loop on this. But we can't answer you, we can't talk about it. Speaking of close the loop, the guy who invented the Dove cut is, okay, sorry, my bad. It seems obvious that someone had a tab open on their phone perhaps Closing the loop the Duff cut was invented by a guy on Twitter named Ryan Duff see not Duff Goldman

So this was an amine situation. Yes. Yeah, this is an amine. Oh, hasn't yeah someone had porn on their computer at work I believe so yes, that's great Yeah, but I mean was doing research I believe so, yes. That's great. Yeah, but Amin was doing research. I thought that that was very obviously like teammates of his or something like messing with him, just like moaning in the back. I went to an all-boys school.

These things happened where, you know, you're trying to be doing something serious and then just that would break out. Wait, you don't think it was a reporter's foe? I thought it was a reporter's foe. Like, I thought it wasn't a mean thing. Like I thought a reporter had something they accidentally played. Now we're playing a different game? They'd have to have it so loud.

Time to throw away all journalistic credibility and get reckless. Here is something we like to call reckless speculation. We're all good. You're saying Daniel Gafford was making sex noises while he was doing that press conference? Maybe. I think we need to listen to this again.

I agree. I wanna hear. let's go play it guys. Yeah. Okay, moving on. Let's restart it. We were open shot so, just our sharing the ball and our energy was great. What do you think? There's an echo there folks. started sharing the ball and our energy was great. What do you think? Uh, okay.

There's an echo there folks. Well, hold on a second. The acoustics in that room. Hold on a second, because here's the thing. If Jess is right, then it has to be either the person that was asking the question or the people directly next to that person because that person's holding a microphone, so the microphone picked it up. So if that is what it was,

there's probably only four people that could have been responsible for that. Luca's reaction here, we might need to watch it again. Yes. We were open shot. So I'm just sharing the ball and our energy was great. What do you think? And just our sharing the ball and our energy was great It feels like it may have been the person holding the microphone the way like okay move on I've got it. I got someone getting freaky in like a closet next to the Games over right it's time. They have no idea what It's time. I can't wait till we get home.

Celebrate this week. I think it was people that work for the arena that are married also. So they were just like... There's no infidelity. They have three kids, and the kids are all up. They just got a text from the babysitter that the kids are up, so they're like, we're not going to have another chance to do this. But they both work there.

And then they just kinda do the thing to the closet. There's a closet over there, so they do a little head point. Yeah, go in there. Next thing you know, we got this sound. Oh, really? That's what you think? Two married stadium workers. Are you ending the discussion?

What are you doing here? Just recklessly speculating. Oh, wow. You're good. I already said he's good. So the Thunder loss for the first time in the playoffs, huh? just recklessly speculating. You're good. I already said he's good. So, the Thunder lost for the first time in the

playoffs, huh? They did. Yeah, I'm tired of them. I mean, you're telling me, oh, you haven't watched the Thunder all year. They're so good. They're this. They're that. Luca is limping around like they. It looks like he's 77 years old.

That guy, Kyrie gave him nothing last night. Absolutely nothing. They lost to PJ Washington. I don't want to hear about how good Oklahoma City is. I am tired of the Thunder. I am tired of that team. And I'm tired of everyone telling me what I missed the entire season.

I didn't miss anything. I missed a team that's about to get bounced out in the Western Conference Semifinals. What about SGA? End of discussion. Okay, I can't talk about SGA. Wow. Now you can talk about SGA. No, you're into the discussion. I'm into the thunder discussion. Technically, right Billy? How does that one work? Spin the wheel? Hmm. Sorry, Chris.

the commercial thank God SGA still available okay what do you got? Well he went 33 and 10 and 33 and 12 and pretty much was a catalyst in that game for them but they just couldn't finish basically so like don't blame the thunder don't blame him for the thunder's roles I'm not blaming him I just said I'm tired of people telling me what I missed all year with the Thunder.

Like they were sitting around watching Oklahoma City Thunder Games all year. Can I ask you a question? I ended it, that's right. Yeah, can I ask, yeah. We're very loosey goosey on the rules of these games and they don't respect it. Whoa, that's a different game.

Whoa, what? Whoa, that's her game. Oh, that's, yeah, that's the other game, loosey or goosey. I'm worried that people here don't know my name. It's happened so many times. What's your name? Iowa. Exactly.

Hey, nice to meet you. Rodin. Hey, you said it right, thank you. Dan calling her Iowa was an all time show moment for me. Doug Flutie. My friends were there for that. It was so embarrassing. One moment Hall of Fame.

Doug Flutie. Wow. Because of the Hail Mary. I have a controversial one for you for the one moment Hall of Fame Yes, really USA hockey Two moment Hall of Fame or one moment one moment Hall of Fame. Yeah when they beat Russia in the semi-finals TJ Oshie Oshie said two moments enough that was not his one moment wasn't a moment. Well, he's had three moments actually

Oh, that was a him moment. Not a u.s. Hockey moment. We want them to go now. That was one of his moments Yeah, another shootout moment, right? Yeah So that's so he's had two moments, but one of his his moments didn't count. No, there's a US hockey correct TJ Oh, she's standing and making the entire table stand at Lake Tahoe for the national anthem was his third moment. I witnessed it. That's so niche. I saw it. You're never done.

Like he was sitting at the national anthem, there are a bunch of food trucks out there. Oshie looked at his entire family who was not standing. He gave them the look. Wow. That you get when you're disappointed. Why were they playing the national anthem at like a golf tournament banquet though?

I don't know, it was weird, but Oshie, when an anthem is played, Oshie stands. Was he at the table next to the sad Brian Kelly table? Yes, Brian Kelly was by himself. Just by himself eating. By himself. Classic BK. I almost went over there. Why didn't you?

I don't know, I got nervous. Is that happening this year? I hope. I'm going. Okay. In the discussion. For me. So here's my question to you, Stugat. So you said you're tired of hearing about the thunder,

you're tired of people talking about it, saying you didn't watch it all year. I have a suspicion that you want the teams that you paid no attention to to lose immediately so you don't actually have to learn anything about them. That would be most of the teams. Yeah, but no, but then you can also be like, I told you, I told you.

Yes, I mean, of course, I'm rooting for myself to be right. Plus I wanna see Dallas in the Western Conference Finals. I wanna see Luca versus Anthony Edwards in the Western Conference Finals. I do. Do you? I do.

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I've gone from unlikable to, well, my hair has changed. But my point is, while a lot's changed over our relationship, there's one thing that hasn't changed one bit, and that's a great taste of Miller Lite. Another thing that hasn't changed is that it's less filling. So what's the best thing about the original Lite beer? Miller Lite has sparked this debate way back in 1975 and we still haven't settled it. They keep it simple. It's got un-debatable quality, great taste, 96 calories, you know all those things. It's a beer that strips

everything away that you don't need and holds on to what matters most. But with Miller Lite, you don't have to choose what's best. Miller Lite has great taste and is less filling. It's both those things. Tastes like Miller time! To get Miller Lite delivered right to your door, visit MillerLite.com slash Dan, or you can find it pretty much anywhere that sells beer. Celebrate responsibly. Miller Brewing Company Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 96 calories per 12 ounces. Fewer cows and carbs than premium regular beer.