The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: Mark's Wife Emmy

Episode Date: March 20, 2025

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I know you guys like to pretend around here that I'm in charge, but a lot of things happen around here that have nothing to do with me ever knowing about it. And I saw as Jonathan Zaslow, Greg Cody's nemesis, comes into the studio looking very much like radio. I saw that out of the shipping container the framed Greg Cody trade Marino column was taken out of the shipping container and placed. Now this is, you have to understand, this is an heirloom, this is a treasure, this should be something that would be at the center of a church if the church worshiped bad takes. And I'd like to know who made the decision to take something that is a family heirloom and remove it from our walls in here and put it outside. Is anyone

accountable on this? Pete I was surprised to see it too. There was some redecorating and generally I must say I'm a fan of what they did but I also noticed that the Greg Cody column is missing. Thankfully if you're just listening to the Shadow Show you don't have to experience this trauma visually for the moment but it's coming. I know who did it. I don't feel comfortable saying because they do a lot of good things around here and we don't need to shame them but yes I know who did it. And how does the decision get made on this?

Zazzle, how did you feel about that column and you've made fun of Greg Cody a couple of different times to his face. I don't think I've made fun of him about it. The column is what it is. There's nothing to make fun of. I think it's the greatest column that he's ever written because everybody knows about it.

Everybody knows that he tried to trade Merino. There's no column that stood out more to me as a kid than Greg Kodiak saying we should trade Dan Merino. So I mean, I think maybe it took it out of there because everybody knows it by heart at this point. Like you don't need it up there. This is definitely the article being removed from somewhere over the last 24 hours that I'm most concerned about. Well Jeremy, we've got something for you today because I can't believe what I saw last night. Why? What happened?

We'll get to it in a second. You at the center of things in a way that's amusing. Because I'm a star? Because your team stinks. You notice things have gone downhill since I'm not there anymore, right? Oh yeah, that's true. I thought Zaslow not there anymore. Or two-time champion, you know. Haven't done any winning since I left.

Not there anymore covers a lot of ground because Zaslow was a pre- and post-game fixture on the Miami Heat. Then he left and then they stopped mattering. I was kicked out. Now it's Solana. Yeah, not going well for Solana so far. Tommy Tige's still out there doing it. He's a lifer. His hair is so dark.

Lifer. You got kicked out? I mean, I get kicked out by heat. As far as I know, they love me, or they did love me. I don't know, one or the other. I mean, they tend to keep the people they love. That's true. But not Len.

This is the Dan LeBattor Show with the Stugats Podcast. Since we have Zaslow here as part of getting us ready for how it is we're going to cover the NHL playoffs when the Panthers start kicking ass there. What happened, Tony? NHL playoffs. We had an incredible game last night at the Casaya Center. Another feather in my cap for the Cade Cunningham bandwagon. It's an incredible night. I don't believe that you get feathers in your cap for anything Cade Cunningham does. A bandwagon?

How's that? Can you guys give me the history please of feathers in caps and why it is that people get feathers in caps? But last night, the Miami Heat lose for the ninth straight time, they are in a particular hell hole that I don't think we've seen around here in 15 years, unless my memory, well, your history, Zaslow, is good. Is this the worst Heat team we've seen in 15 years?

Yeah, yeah. I know a lot of people want to go back to the 2018 where they only won like 15 games. But here's the thing, you're experiencing that season knowing or at least believing there's a light at the end of the tunnel. That light being the number one overall pick. We have the worst record in the NBA. It ended up being the number two overall pick.

We know how that went, Michael Beasley. The most wrong I've ever been in my sports life, Michael Beasley. But this team, there's no light at the end of the tunnel because they're not even gonna miss the play-in. Now they may miss the playoffs, but they're still gonna be a play-in team even if they lose the rest of the games this season. And there's no light at the end of the tunnel

as far as the lottery goes. So I have found this season to be one of the least enjoyable of my lifetime. Let's examine for a second around the room most wrong you've been in your sports life. I want all of you to examine this for a second and come up with an answer for me as I play the video from last night where Cade Cunningham, who's becoming a star this season because the pistons do matter, the pistons are fun and beyond that, the way that offense is working

in this sport is crazy to me. A spur that I've not heard of, perhaps you guys can help me with how to pronounce his name, scored 34 points in less than 20 minutes last night. Seven for seven on threes, 13 for 14, and even he after the game was wandering around the locker room saying, I don't know what bleeping happened out there because he scored so much so fast.

And last night, you may not have noticed this, the Pacers scored to win 135, 131, 45 points in the fourth quarter. That used to be the average Miami Heat half. And is again, I think, I feel like it. And is, it's the average second half now. It's the average second half now. Before we get to the game winner though

that I wanna play, I just wanna ask Zazz because I do find this part to be a bit staggering in the last 16 games. We talked an awful lot about Jimmy Butler. We argued a lot about Jimmy Butler, but how many more examples would you like that he didn't have enough help while he was here because it's been flooring to me to watch Bam and Tyler Hero do this, be this, because those are two all-stars that you

have, maybe in name only, but they are all-stars and the way this team is playing is a far sight from you have two all-stars I can't believe how bad they are and I'm surprised that taking Jimmy Butler away 16 games proves this well the part that I have a hard time understanding not that I disagree with anything you just said okay? Because this team is rotten by the way like there is something rotten about this team, but Jimmy Butler It's not like he was playing for them, and then they traded him, and then everything went downhill. He was suspended. They lost him for... He served at least nine games suspension.

If I'm remembering correctly, they were not this. They were a game over 500. They were 500. They were two over five. Like they weren't this. And they've essentially been playing without Jimmy Butler the entire season. So there is something rotten Surrounding this team right now because you're right. They're not this bad The other thing is Tyler and Bam both had a good game last night Like Bam's kind of been like turning a little bit did nothing in the fourth quarter

Oh five zero points in the fourth quarter agreed. But again, he still had 30 right, so it's like we don't we don't't see that from BAM typically we see we see him with the 16 11 and 7 game where you're like He left so much on the table, but last night again, they just completely collapsed in the fourth quarter They don't have a guy like we watched the Pistons and Cade Cunningham is able to go out there He's a dude and do what he wants. We used to have a guy They don't have a guy anymore who could do that. And Tyler here is just not big enough to do that, especially in the fourth quarter when everything tightens up.

But again, the Cade Cunningham shot, you get at the top of the key, he runs over, Bam covering him on the inbounds by the way, he shoves Bam with a chicken wing, okay? Pushes, I don't know, Haywood Highsmith out of the way, gets the way gets the ball gets to the top of key gets his shot off bank shot he didn't call it again but still he says he whispered it says he was hold on a second I just saw something here can we watch this again this replay I see someone in the background here looking dejected hold on all right this again so this is a bank, this is great defense by BAM, and there is Jeremy Tachay. The shoulders he looks in, oh, what's gonna happen? Dejected. Let's put that picture in picture here

and spot shadow Jeremy Tachay so that you can see what is, this is, I'm gonna do this for the audio audience, okay, so he's got his microphone at the center of his chest the way Shane Gillis does stand up, okay? He's got his microphone at the center of his chest the way Shane Gillis does stand up, okay? He's got the microphone at the center of his chest. The perfect description, honestly. That's exactly right. And then, as soon as the shot goes in, if you're just watching Jeremy, you're seeing the microphone, his only useful tool, other than the ones that are inside him, of course, and the microphone just drops with a sudden disgust and it goes to

where the hand was when he fist pumped after doing his side line interview he is crushed there because that's your best defender he's defending well it's still crazy okay it's still crazy to me that BAM is the one that you send out there at that size and that Cunningham's not getting a good shot. He's getting a lucky shot. He made it, but that is good defense and that's just unfortunate that the Miami Heat lose there. Was there any part of you, Jeremy, that almost, because me, if I was in your spot and especially a younger version of me, you're a little bit younger than me, especially a younger version

of me, I know people can't tell because we look like we're the same age, but you are younger than me, a younger version of me. I know people can't tell, because we look like we're the same age, but you are younger than me. A younger version of me would have chucked the microphone on the floor. A present day version of me almost did the same thing. I couldn't believe, you know, there was a part of me that didn't want to believe there was a chance that Heat could win the game.

And down the stretch, they start losing with about two minutes left. It was an unbelievable game. The fourth quarter was electric. It was such a fun game. And I was, you know, hoping that I could get to be a part of fun energy after a close win like that. And, you know, be able to fist pump

toward an NBA league pass camera. And instead I had to experience one of the more deflating moments of my work life at the very least, if not professional life. Yeah, I mean guys, that would, it would have been to break an eight game losing streak, the longest of Spoh's career. I can imagine whoever I would have been able to talk to

after the game would have been a really good interview. This is about you. Yeah, of course it was about me. That's what I said the other day too. I need to explain to people how rare it is for a body under any circumstances to physically sag that way with overt disappointment. Like you give me all of the times,

I've said this before about sports, right? Whatever you'd think is the happiest moment of your life, you weren't jumping up and down when your child was born, the way you were jumping up and down, wherever it is you were, when your best sports moment ended up happening. So much happier in 2006. And I'm asking you guys to tell me

on what circumstances you would find yourself so visibly dejected. That's an argument with your spouse, right? Like what, where are the places where you're so physically dejected, that's an argument with your spouse, right? Like where are the places where you're so physically dejected that you see his shoulders go from where they were at a man's height of about five, nine, or five, 10, whatever it is that he is, to the height of a man who is now five, six, or David Sampson size,

because his shoulders sag so much, in an arena full of people whose shoulders are sagging that way, after several years of feeling people whose shoulders are sagging that way after several years of feeling like your shoulders are sagging that way. Last time my shoulders did what Jeremy's did was when Jacoby George had that personal foul penalty as Miami was driving at Syracuse. Killer.

Oh, we were so close, Jacoby. How about the third down where that guy from Georgia Tech wearing number 49 or whatever ran for like 27 yards and you're like, no, get him, get him. Isiah Horton dropping the slant, that seven yard slant. It was in your hands. Put it on the poll please. Juju at LeBotard Show, do you know why anyone

was putting feathers in their cap? So it goes back to military traditions in Europe. Native Americans would do it, Genghis Khan would do it. You would award feathers for acts of valor. Like helmet stickers? Yeah, it's like the stickers. Buckeyes. Okay.

For any act of valor? For acts of bravery or, you know, just like, hey man, good job out there on the battlefield. Kicked ass, dude. Yeah, here's a feather. So just to be clear, I just wanna, I just want to be clear. So someone has done something in war. They have killed a person, they've come home, and what we do is then pluck a bird and hand them some, hand them a single feather as a noble act. Sometimes, but also

sometimes it's a lot more gory than that. So if you run into a guy who's got like a bunch of feathers, like that guy's not to shriveled with. For example, like that is one of the Native American practices, but there are others. You don't want to mess with the guy who has a bunch of feathers in his cap. I've got one from Cade, or it's a huge feather, by the way.

I also want to play for the audience the greatest spinning leg kick that I have ever seen in my life. Tony probably knows this. I don't know if the rest of you know this, but someone who has perfect form on the spinning leg kick that I have ever seen in my life. Tony probably knows this, I don't know if the rest of you know this, but someone who has perfect form on the spinning leg kick, which is the deadliest of all the kicks, there's no more power that can be had from a kick than what we're about to show you,

but someone who's got exceptional form on the spinning leg kick is Joe Rogan. Do you have to clarify with a kick that it's a leg kick? Okay, I get it I get it this is Yeah, it sounds I a lot of people say ATM machine. That's redundant a lot of people say NIT tournament That's redundant and number spinning leg kick might indeed be redundant I know when they specify like spinning back heel kick, but Tony I got this right right. It's not spinning kick It's spinning back leg. Yeah, it depends on where you hit with the with the foot right spinning heel kick is what we saw the other day where Bobby

King green got knocked out by Mauricio Rufi Which was an incredible like temple hit his heel like it was over until yeah spinning like it but Dan Joe Goo my favorite part of this video is how little concern this fighter has for what he's just wrought. Like, he is so... The splash zone is incredible from this kick. Look at all the moisture that flies off of this young man's face.

Triple H. Yeah, it is exactly Triple H coming out to the ring. The last time I saw that much sweat get hit off a body was when Kamaru Usman knocked out Jorge Masvidal We were like, oh god, that's a lot of water that guy died, right? He did not die But that is a reasonable assumption for you to make Because in the center of the ring as he gets a foot under the chin that makes him fall to the center of the ring

His sweat goes ten rows deep into the crowd. It goes straight up. It's a punt. It is. The sweat travels the way a punted football would travel. He lands a kick at the absolute apex of it. And Jeremy, congratulations. I think that's the shortest range in picture in picture. I was going to say, he fell even harder than my shoulders did.

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Now they're gonna see a different Jimmy. Now he's just, just playin'. Nickelback in the locker room and- Stugats! They'll play D and show threes As they chase the Nats for the sixth seed These five words in his head Scream, are we winning games yet?

This is the Don LeVatar Show with the Stugats I have another video that you guys can put picture in picture and it's just and I think all of us will stop on this you correct me if I'm wrong all of us will always stop on the video of somebody falling on a treadmill put it on the pole please juju at lebatard show your thing you love these things so much yes anybody falling on a treadmill I'm not alone the net when it comes to the comedy. I'm not alone I am not alone in finding funny and always stopping on The person at the gym who falls on the treadmill children

Children that's how you know it's real. I'm a member are set up. You know it's real rules against this That kid's legs broken, right? He hit the wall so right there. Mike says you love these. Who doesn't love these? This is, this is, you can't, I know we can't get consensus on anything, but you can't tell me that there are people in the world who don't love videos of people falling on treadmills. I think I forced myself to not like it. Honestly. It's like when, because farts are funny, but if someone goes for a fart joke in a movie,

you're almost like, I can't laugh at this, I can't sign off on this, but you know, it's funny. Zads, what do you do about the Miami Heat? I'm not even talking about this year when I suspect that most Heat fans are just like, lose all of the remaining games except the one against the Warriors. Well, and by the way, speaking of the Warriors,

they only have two more games until Golden State comes here. If the Heat are on an 11-game losing streak when Jimmy Butler gets back, that is such an embarrassment. I'll tell you, winning that game to break an 11 game losing streak would be worth losing every game for the rest of the year. I don't want the storyline. I'm so embarrassed by it.

That's going to be a headline all day long on ESPN television that Jimmy Butler returns to Miami with the Heat on an 11 game losing streak. Zaz, we debated last week. You think the Heat do a video for him? Great question. I think the answer is yes. And I've also, I thought about this yesterday, very good coincidence that you brought this up

because this was in my head yesterday. I think the crowd will cheer him. I agree. I think you'll hear some boos. I think enough time has gone by. I think the crowd will cheer him. And, because you know, Mike Biamonte is gonna do the whole, the big intro, which I don't like by the way,

but he's gonna do the whole big intro at the start. I think Jimmy's gonna get a very good- Can we make a bet here because- There's a difference though. I think we all agree during the starting lineups announcements, he'll get that. But will he then in like the first quarter get a video montage?

That's the extra step. Yes. All right, well you and Mike Ryan are on record and I've seen this move from Mike Ryan before, it's a crafty one, where he puts himself in a position where he gets to win no matter what by trying to be classy about Jimmy Butler and saying I'm rooting for him

in the event that he does win so the pain hurts less. I'm not rooting for him. No, I know. He says he's rooting for him so that the pain will hurt less if he is hoisting the trophy. But when you guys say that you believe this, I haven't talked to anybody at the Heat, but I do know how angry Pat Riley is,

and I'd be surprised if he puts down that anger in the name of optics. I'd be willing to bet the other way that you're not gonna get the glory. You might get something but you're you're gonna get a token something so that it can't be a conversation, oh the Miami Heat were super small in this instance, but you will not get the biggest grateful thing. You think it'll just be a picture of him on the Jumbotron? Thank you Jimmy, not even a video. I don't believe that they're gonna get past all their pettiness while possibly in the middle of an 11-game losing streak that they

blame him for. You're gonna undo everything that is said about your organization though in one season because the culture thing has become a punchline and another thing that they usually say about this organization is that it's first class. So we're gonna choose that opportunity to be petty. It's just, it's over, it's done with. His problem was with the front office and ownership and Pat Riley. It wasn't with this community.

I know people feel a certain way about Jimmy and I understand if you're a passionate Heat fan, you don't like the way that went down and you don't like what he did. But it's over, it's over. You have way more good memories with Jimmy Butler and you have to give the opportunity to the fans to respond however they may want.

But you leave it up to the fans and you give them that opportunity. Ignoring it makes us seem like we're so hurt by this. I didn't say ignore it. Yeah, they're not gonna ignore it. I didn't say there would be an ignoring of it. But just like a thank you, like a small thing will make us see like, oh wow, they're hurt.

Look how hurt they are. You guys say you have more memories, good memories than bad memories, and that's true, but you also have as the bad memory, something unprecedented in the history of the franchise. You have a mess unlike any other, and I don't think either, I don't think two things. I don't think that the heat will put on some grand display,

and I think you guys are giving Miami fans more credit for how it is that they behave when they're angry than I'm willing to give them for when they're angry. That's fine. I would give them the opportunity. I just, I think you owe it to the fans even more than you owe it to Jimmy to let them have that moment and speak for themselves.

I do think they're getting a video. I think you're getting the big introduction to starting lineup. I think you're getting the video and then they move on. I can only be so mad at Jimmy for making it messy. That's what Jimmy does when he wants to get out of town. I'm mostly disappointed at Pat because I think he backed Jimmy into a corner that made it extra messy. But also you know that, right? Like the common fan might not understand that Jimmy always makes a mess when he leaves and then has a really good start in the next place. So there's kind of, I would imagine,

it's probably 60, 40 cheers for Jimmy, maybe 75, 25. 60, 40, that's a lot of booze. I'm telling you. That'll sound more like booze if it's a lot of booze. In talking to fans around the arena, there was a fan there yesterday wearing a Jimmy Butler Warriors jersey. Oh, man.

I have a little integrity. Right. And the people, well, but exactly. That was the response from every person I talked to around him in that section. You are applying logic to something that's emotional. It's not really how rage works. Like, that's not. you're saying that Jeremy's making

a good point by taking into account the history, being reasonable, and if you attack this unemotionally, all of you are right, but that's not the nature of fandom, to be unemotional. Well, but which was worse, LeBron leaving or Jimmy leaving? LeBron, way worse. Well, we gave LeBron a really good welcome when they came back.

When he was able to come back and he actually played, because remember, he avoided that situation entirely for his first several opportunities to do so. But I guess I have some separation from it. That's not true. The first time they were able to come, and he beat them. Remember, Jawan Howard smiling on the side. Jawan Howard, was that the very first time? Yeah, yeah.

Okay, well I know that he was like a DMP for a lot, but okay, you're right. But I've been separated from the emotion of the Miami Heat because of the way that the season's gone down, but the Jimmy thing is totally different than the LeBron thing because Jimmy's at the end of his career and he may have one last run at him. Which you would believe would make the response

to LeBron even worse and we gave him a nice response. Well, I'm just explaining how I feel about it. Not only was I more passionate about the brand itself, but I knew LeBron leaving at that point in his career ripped away several more NBA finals. So much more devastating. So much more. Whereas this, this is the guy at the end of his career and he's

a essentially a role player. This was just nasty is what it was. Yeah. And when it ends that way though, and you're looking at it from the perspective of a fan that that knows how the league works, knows how basketball works. When you're talking about the common fan, that's just like buying tickets to a game and they're saying, oh, Jimmy's coming back into town. That sounds interesting. No, I'm saying that not everyone works

on a sports radio show. Not everyone works for a sports podcast and has the ability to look at it and say, oh man, for the rest of his career, he'll be this. They might've just looked at it when LeBron came back into town and say, he won two championships, we still have D Wade and Chris Bosh, things are fine,

we're gonna be competitive, it's cool. Where that same fan might look at it now and go, hey, Jimmy never actually won officially anything here, we had those great moments, but the way this gets sabotaged and leads to the longest losing streak of Spoh's career, it might leave the common fan a little more bitter than those of us with the perspective

to look at the long term of both of their careers. The perspective you're giving the common fan while also saying that, oh, Jimmy's coming to town, we should do it again and just kind of hang out and watch him. It feels like they can't both be the same. Some people will say, oh, Jimmy's coming back to town. He ruined everything. Let's go and boo him.

And some people will say, oh, Jimmy's coming back to town. That's going to be an event. Let's go cheer. I've never understood either the mentality of the heckler or the booer. It's not something, I'm not saying that you shouldn't do it or that it's not right to do it. You've never got up at a game and went, boo! David, no I have not, but David Sampson used to be a heckler before, as a fan he was an actual heckler.

I've never understood, because it's not just boo, okay? You're suggesting that taboo is just to get your frustration out. No, it isn't. It's so you can see all around you that people are watching you and your frustration. You're trying to be so loud that you make sure that everyone notices you're disgusted.

And the reason that I don't agree with you guys on what he's gonna to get in terms of a return is because you guys aren't paying attention to how many unhappy people there are in Miami who want attention for their unhappiness. And the state of the heat right now, no matter what your logic is, the state of the heat right now is it didn't feel like this the five years he was here. It didn't feel like this until he did everything he did at the end whether he was right or wrong to do it what you presently have which is a what feels like a hopeless future right

now right because you're like how are they gonna fix this you could blame it on one of two people and only one of them is gonna have the opportunity if you give him a video in order to express your frustration with him. Because it's either him or Pat Riley, and your frustration is just going to be about the nine game losing streak. Boy, that's going to be an ugly scene if they're playing a video and it's just raining down booze.

I don't see that. I don't see it either, but man, that will be an ugly scene. We keep talking about how the Heat fans are going to react to it. I'm starting to warm up to, I'm more interested to see how Jimmy handles it. No matter the reaction, let's say the fans largely applaud. Is he going to do a classy wave to the crowd and try to share the love?

And yeah, we had great times together. Well, he's always said that about the, he says he's connected to the city and the fans he said that throughout He's a different guy when he's on the court and he knows the cameras are on him And I'm genuinely curious like is he gonna be able to separate the reception from the fans from his feelings about the organization? Does he take an opportunity to show that he doesn't care? Does he just blankly stare which I think is probably a likely outcome I'm mostly interested in they're playing that video and then they pan to Pat Riley and he gets up and goes, boo!

And he's the only one who's actually- Or there's boos everywhere during it and they cut to Riley and he's just got a maniacal smile. He's just like, that's what I really wanted. I knew they'd boo you. So I did the classy thing just to inspire them to boo. Hey friends, it's Jarabare here, and I'm here to tell you all about Boost Mobile, which is now a legit nationwide 5G network.

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You forgot about the league's cup. Stugats! Yeah. La Carreta is a place where the best of the celebrations has to be the 97 Marlins celebration, because it was Levant and... Well, when Fidel died the first time. This is the Dan Lebatard Show with the Stugats.

["The Star-Spangled Banner"] I wanted to ask you guys about our tournament and the tournament that begins today with a plethora of action everywhere. What are you guys doing? Well, we have our own tournament of fans going against each other for the right to watch the national championship game that I don't want to watch with them. So. Well, OK, so I got questions. How do you decide the fans? How does how does that? How is that? to watch the national championship game that I don't want to watch with them. Okay, so I got questions. How do you decide the fans?

How does that, how is that? Well, we have an assortment of videos, 30 seconds or less. We have seated them and we've asked the fans, I need to clarify by the way, I didn't mean to say I don't want to watch the game with a fan from our show. Oh, I understood exactly how you meant it. Though I don't want to watch the game

with a fan from our show. It's too bad. What I was meaning to say it. Though I don't want to watch the game with a fan from our show. It's too bad. What I was meaning to say is that I simply don't want to have to watch the national championship game. With a fan. I don't want to be obligated to do it and it's been given away as a prize because I'm pretty sure Billy just wants to bother me.

It's not watch the game with our show, it's just watch the game with me, which is also less fun for the fan than it would be to watch the game with our entire show Is he coming over your house? Like what's the deal? He or she I don't know what the rules are to this year. She come on No one has informed me so far all the videos we've shown are of men know that what do we have? What do we have to update our tournament?

Because the thing I wanted to say about the tournament that I didn't realize until reading it this morning, the eight one and two seeds, five of the coaches are 65 plus. I mean, I just spent time last weekend with Larennega and Leonard Hamilton on our show where both of them like, I'm out of here, man. I gotta go, this is crazy what is happening out there.

You got Leonard Hamilton's team is boycotting because they want more money. Larenneanaca two days after he gets to the final four eight of his players are like love you coach I'm leaving and and so to have five of the coaches who are the top seeds and the favorites to win this tournament be 65 plus let's see if we can name them here Bruce Pearl Barnes Patino is oh who am I missing I'm missing somebody I'm gonna tell you Duke name them here bruce pearl barnes patino uh... uh... is old who my miss in a missing somebody i'd tell you to can florida are not sixty five alright those are two of the same and i don't know if in samps and is the

is the fifth one it is a little bit that's unusual is it not getting isles isles got to be seventy right iso how many consecutive tournaments is is a mate? Like this is a, the coach, thank you, I appreciate that. But I think it's a quarter century of consecutive tournament appearances for Izzo. Not 70, it's not 70 straight. No, he's 70 years old, you got that.

That would have been wild. Which games are the fans watching with you? The championship games. The championship games. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And how many of these you're and how many of these fans like how do they how many? One winner. One one the fans will vote on whatever is the best video here. Can we play some of these for uh for Zaslo so he can see what it is that

we're doing? Look at that guy. You you asked for if there are you asked if there are any women in this tournament. Our first matchup we're going to preview here is a one seed Thomas from Flanagan's versus 16 seed Sarah. Hit it guys. Why do I deserve the crown for this year's March sadness? Well, if I've learned anything watching the show, it's always side with Greg Cody. So I spent a lot of money on cameo for this endorsement. I hope you like it. Who needs me? It's the manager, the Lobos just want to support this guy because he gave me money through cameo and I do want to say in all seriousness back in my day we used to take our Al... It's Dan, Stu and Greg Cody on ESPN radio.

Hey Dan, my name is Sarah. My husband is a super fan and I'm a super fan. We share the same friends. I think you'll appreciate this. This was our wedding. Lebo painting. And I'll prove it. Hope to see you soon.

No, that's cheating. Lebo painting at her wedding. Wow. That's strong. Yeah, that's cheating. That's a 16 seed,. Wow. That's strong. Yeah, that's cheating. That's a 16 seed, so that's going up against Flanagan's guy. We move on now to our two verse 15. We have Mark's wife, Mark wife's Emmy.

Try it again. Mark's wife's Emmy versus 15 seed Logan from Iowa. Hello, no it's not Pitbull. My name is Mark Alexin and I would like to enter the contest, but it's not about what you can do is Mark Alexin and I would like to enter the contest, but it's not about what you can do for me, it's what I can do for you. If selected, I will give Stugots this 1980s starting lineup Mark Gastineau figure. Also I'll give the crew this Fruitopia.

And most importantly, you guys can have my wife's Emmy. I didn't win it, but you guys can have it. I don't think it's his to give. What up? It's Logan. It's your boy. Reasons why you should pick me for this competition. I am from Des Moines, Iowa, so I fulfill Dan's need to constantly throw Des Moines, Iowa into a conversation for no reason. I am the winner of the inaugural Iowa PFPI. I can give you a looks like at any time. For example, Mike McDaniel looks like Sid from Toy Story. It looks like he grew up and got

his life together. And I got a song about Smeddy ready to go. Do you realize that the way that you did the apostrophes, Chris, that fan was allowing me to have his wife, Emmy. If you're listening to the podcast, you're pretty certain that guy says we can bang his wife. You should watch with that guy. You'll definitely pull up a chair. Let's play some more of these here to update our tournament and see if Chris Cody

has any more trouble with apostrophes. More reading, let's go. Excited about this. This is our number three seed, Cincinnati Lou versus number 14 seed, Austin. He's opening a Miller Lite. What a sound. Everyone can tell by the sound.

He's just chugging a Miller Lite. He's got a Lobo Bowl number one shirt. That's vintage. Is that a pitch clock hat? Pandering. Chugging a Miller Lite. That's strong. Now let's see what Austin's got. That's all he did?

That's all he needed, Dan. I mean, come on. How is that a three seed? Oh wow. Just caught me sipping on a beverage A lot of show swag There's pride of a lion I mean come on Copy it's it's not as good a bribe who gots his personal record as the Gaston on bobblehead It's not as good a bribe. So he gots his personal record book. As the Gaston on bobblehead, it's not as good a bribe. You get the idea. 64 guys, no, no, no, numero uno.

Gracias, man, they give me a shot. These are largely video instead of audio, actively alienating our audio audience with our tournament. Go ahead and do the last one. Final update here, we have number four seed, David from Toronto, famous show listener, versus 13 seed will All right, this is David from Toronto

I'm working. I want to be watching with you dad. You're my idol I'm doing I'm plowing a graveyard And not only that I don't even have a windshield. It's plastic. If I don't deserve this, nobody does. Let's see Austin. Dan, one of the very first times I ever listened to your show, you told Ron McGill

that you thought penguins were more closely related to fish than to birds and yet I kept listening so if I'm chosen by the listeners to watch the NCAA men's national basketball championship game with you and to do an in-studio visit I will require us to do so in penguin costumes because I know you love that great stuff Austin I can't believe you're doing this. That was Will, not Austin. That's not me. Excellent work by you as always, Chris. It's why you're in the chair that you're in.

I still maintain that the penguin feels to me closer to a fish than a bird, just because I don't think of birds spending a lot of time swimming underwater. And so forgive me for that error, but I still, put it on the poll, at LeBotard Show, to you, what is a penguin more of, a fish or a bird?

I just wanna see what comes back. I just wanna see what comes back. It's got wings. So voting for all those matchups and all of our first round matchups will be for 24 hours right now. Go to our social media, vote for the matchups, decide who wins, and we will update next week.

Dan, I will say the body of the penguin, very sleek in nature, right? So that's why the fish kind of thing, like in smooth water. No feathers. No feathers. You got no feathers to put in your cap off a penguin. What are you talking about? All covered in feathers. Is this a thing? Do people confuse penguins with fish?

This is not a thing. I don't think it's a thing. I think I'm the only one who does it. They have feathers. I think of them as sleek. I don't, I've never seen a penguin feather away from the penguin. That's not something that I've seen. Is an otter a fish? Yeah, pluck it. You think it's like a killer whale? I think, yes, I think of the penguin as having a... They're just wet because they're, they go into the water. More than other birds. More than all the other birds. You watch March of the Penguins? I mean they're they're they go into the water like more than other birds you know than all the other birds you'll watch March of the Penguins I mean they're in snow that's also why there's moisture on them I learned a lot during

March of the Penguins yeah you learned that they were birds I know that they're birds I'm saying that before learning that they were birds I thought of them more as fish I tell you speaking of Penguin a couple weeks ago I went by I passed by Batman Returns on television Penguin Danny DeVito movies horrible It's a great Christmas movie movie is horrible Christopher Walken's in it. I hadn't seen it in probably 25 years Movie is horrible. I love when the penguin goes to like the holiday party Good impression nobody thinks it's weird that he looks like that's like Yeah, ooh good impression nobody thinks it's weird that he looks like that's like

Yeah, he runs for mayor awful movie In terms of things not holding up. I I remember okay. I mean Rudy Giuliani looked the way that he did when when Jack Nicholson played the Joker, it was seen as seminal and groundbreaking, and then you see Heath Ledger, or you see Colin Farrell do the Penguin, and you look back at the 90s

and how we were doing those things, and none of it holds up. Yeah, yeah. You seem disgusted. Well, I was disgusted, because it felt like a part of my childhood was taken from me where the original Batman and Batman Returns I thought were really good movies And then I passed by this dreck with Danny DeVito, and I just how how did anyone I?

Immediately went to Rotten Tomatoes to see what the tomato meter was on Batman Returns because it had to be one of the lowest rated Movies ever and I just didn't know it and like it's got a high score and I don't get it the movie is to see what the tomato meter was on Batman Returns, because it had to be one of the lowest rated movies ever and I just didn't know it. And like it's got a high score and I don't get it. The movie is horrible. I mean, there's still Batman and Robin. I mean, that's pretty low. Yeah, but everybody knows that movie sucks.

I feel like people think Batman Returns is good. It's not, that movie is bad. Really, disappointed in this take. I happen to really like that one. Can you guys just find for me, please, what I associate always with the best and funniest video ever produced? by Batman in any form which is The original Batman television show with them running. No, this is a great one

If you have not seen this I George Clooney's nipples. No, they know I'm going to the original. I'm going it's from the movie I know Adam West Batman? Yes, Adam West Batman, and it's the helicopter scene where Batman is hanging from a ladder and is attacked by a shark, and it's the graphics from 1960s, so he's using a shark repellent to get a shark that's off, like the helicopter is hovering over the ocean,

this is groundbreaking for its time, but it's clearly a toy plastic shark. And I want to find that video and simply put it up on the screen and I just wanna watch it together. Even though this also alienates the audio audience, I just wanna enjoy this together so that we can howl with laughter

the moment that this shark attacks. Tony has not seen this. Please just focus on Tony's face right now so that you can see his reaction to when the 1960s, our friend Adam West, the late Adam West, has a problem with a shark that emerges from the water because the TV graphics and special effects aren't quite up to snuff.

Just stay on Tony's face. He's just... He's dropping down into the water. Whoa! What? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What? Yeah.

Robin is shook. It's just attached to him. I love that Robin had to break it to him. You got a shark on your leg. You are supposed to punch the nose of a shark, by the way. It's so inflated.