The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: That Doesn't Sit White With Me

Episode Date: December 1, 2023

Stugotz has a swagger in his waddle this morning because of his massive success with Chris Cote on Bob Does Sports. We take a look at the video of his golf game, and today might be a day you want to watch the show, too. Then, Thursday Night Football was spectacular, and DK Metcalf reminded us (in sign language) why he's capable of being such a dominant receiver. Plus, the Dan vs. Stugotz Athletic Decathlon, and Jeremy and Mike Ryan go at it over who had the right Miami Heat takes first as the show celebrates Jaime Jaquez Jr. after last night's high scoring victory over the Pacers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. This is the Don Levertor Show with the Stugots Podcast. I just got the joy of the rare Friday's Stugots waddles swagger into the room because he's been a while. He's popular with young people today because of what he and Chris Cody did on Bob does sports. What can we tell people about everything that happened there without spoiling anything. All of this content just came out. Was it yesterday or was it today? It came out yesterday. It's two gots in all his two gots glory. Bob does sports as a fun group of guys that do golf for a living and two gots seems to want to steal it. Spoiler alert there. I do want to steal it. I want to do their show. I want

to do it with you, Chris, but it was interesting for me because Chris was really on me to do this. Like he stayed on it. He did a great job, he got it done. I had no idea that this show existed. I had no idea what it was. We shot the show. We had a great time. The episode came out yesterday. My daughters, nearly 20 years of doing this show, they have never texted me a single thing

about this show except the one time I played tennis against the tall guy with a cigarette in my mouth. That is it. Yesterday, I got so many texts from my daughters, oh my God, dad, you were on Bob Duh Sports. The boys are so impressed. I'm like, I had no idea that people were consuming stuff like this. Uh, still got, I don't think you know any of what's going on on YouTube. I don't.

With our show, not with any show. I believe that there's an entire universe of things that you don't know. There are many, put it on the pole, please do do. An entire universe. An entire universe. An entire universe. An entire universe. An entire universe.

Of things that Stugots doesn't know about. I'm voting yes of that christ what can you tell me about the drama of the competition what can you tell me without spoiling anything about the highlights of what you guys made with them i don't want to spoil it but i will say that stugots contributes you know stugots is as much as he golfs you think he was better i'm terrible so you know you never this is the much as he golfs, you think he was better? I'm terrible. So, you know, but you never, this is the first time learning your terrible.

You're always telling us how good you are. No, but here's the problem. My course has been shut down for nearly a year, so I haven't been able to play nearly as much as I used to play. And therefore, I am not very good right now. And I haven't been good in a while. And it's all relatives. Stu gots is, he plays enough that he is better than a hack that never plays, but for some,

it's all so you say, you play as much as two gots does. He is terrible, right? But he's fine. Yeah. And so basically we had Lee Roy Hor, because of how stew got so you got to might be the worst golfer ever on this channel, by the way. That's like how I don't want to be insulting to you, but that's the let like these guys are pretty good at golf. So that's why we brought Leroy Horde out and Leroy Horde.

He was entertaining and a good golfer. Stugats is great. So long as there are no hills and everything is flat, so you can hit it and it can just roll for quite a while. Yeah. So I know and hit I don't get a lot of air on my ball and you're right about Leroy. My daughter texted me. Leroy is a lit. I don't even know what that means. Mike Ryan, can you play a snippet of this so that we can just watch something and see what happened without spoiling anything? I would feel it for today. Oh, we're feeling good, man. We are a little. I get two sets of clubs. I have these, which are my clubs, and then I rented a set of clubs,

metal arc you'll be getting the bill for that. Because I want to try these new clubs out, I'm not terribly confident in the clubs that I have, but I'm not terribly confident in my game. This is what I'm trying to tell you, my fuck's suck of golf. You got it, sweetie. You got it. Oh, hi, though.

Hi. That's the ball. It's haven't found my groove yet. I've used my shot off the tee, both first goals. Chris is doing this thing. Where he hits a drive, left, scatters it right, and just because he hits it farly, roists smack it in the middle of the fairway.

Chris's drives, it was balled, as soon as we're all going to play it. And he's doing that so we could just say they used to have my troughs. It's total bullshit. It's right at it. She's straight. It might be my fault. It might it she's great it might be my

confecaling the over like Chris things we're playing at like the RBC heritage I need to get the locker room back I'm gonna fuck she like your like horrible oh dumb really what I think Bob wants to do is get rid of one of these two guys and hire me it's fine I understand

what he wants to I mean my golfers it's not good. But I'm a lot more entertaining. So, you know, I said yes, Lepidard. Under. Well, I know, 32 seconds from the time Stu takes the T-box. Want the over, you want the under?

I'm going to hold. Oh, start the clock. Start the clock. I'm going to start the clock. Start the clock. A big shot, Stu. Right here right now. This is not a great audio for our shop. It's just a clock.

It's standing over the ball. Oh, 30 seconds is what it ended up being. The ball. Yeah, they were right. I think it was underbought. Cash the under. Well, have mine now. Just try straight to it like Chris. Oh my god, if I just rip in these trees, man. That's great Cody, busy today. No.

Invitational, I lost in the mail. No, I know. Oh, I hate it, Bob. The way to just happen. I never thought. Jesus Christly right. I want to apologize to the five cast audience. It's so much of the silence that's not the same as the other cast. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. right I want to apologize to the podcast audience so much Yo. I'm a f**k. Like pussy. Come on. I need that. Come on. Let's go. Let's go. Yeah. I can't jump. They're going to say this was the Leroy Shrub.

But Stu got's made a putt. And those two drives remember we talked about them? They said the tone. They said the tone. Tone setter. It's my moment. What's this thing? This is for the wind.

This is for the wind. This is for the wind. This is for the wind. This is for the wind. This is for the wind. It's at the town tone setter. It's my moment. This is for the win This is for the win I feel like Tiger Woods I feel like Tiger Woods! I'm a boss. I an off-boy. Spoiler alert. That was awesome. That was awesome. And my guys, that's the great one.

I got you. Thank you. That was awesome. A lot of fun. We're really in our area, Robyn. We have a few more. For the video audience, I was spoiled. We all have a lot of fun.

A huge part. A huge part. Timothy, that's the real hard show. What makes it worse is, I'm the oldest guy here. Man, can keep playing. Who said you thought can he play at the end of the game? Who said that? Big one there. That's been another addition.

Big thanks to these guys. Big thanks to Draft Kings. Bob, those sports you see next. Golf talk. The audience on podcast still doesn't know what happened. It's not spoiled for anyone who doesn't have the video. So I will not tell you what just happened there. It seemed fairly dramatic.

And my takeaway from that entire video is that under his breath with a little bit of melancholy in his voice, do got while watching himself said, this bending thing is hard. It is. The bending down thing. Yeah, Ben, like I used to, Dana,

to pick up the ball. There was a lot of, I feel like we did this better when we did it with Greg Cody in terms of what it feels like to play golf. Oh, fuck me. I like it could have been a lot quicker. Like, let's go. Bob does sports. Do it better. You can do it more efficiently. Yeah, we gave you Cody Prodigy and Progeny back there. We gave you another Cody, the less talented one, and he gave you in four minutes, not the excellence that his dad gave you in two seconds.

Oh, fuck me. Ha, ha, ha, ha. That's all golf is by the way. Yeah, swing and then, oh, bleep me. Yeah, that's a swig your drink, I Yeah swing and then I'll bleed me. Yeah, then swing your drink. I mean, if you're Greg Cody put it on the pole at LeBetard show, please is golf only swinging and then saying, oh, bleep me. That football game last night, we don't normally come in on Fridays.

We game with no punts. We came running in. What? A game with no punts. Yes, you did God bless football already. Did you not know that that game with no punts. We came running in a game with no punts. Yes, you did God bless football already. Did you not know that that game had no punts? I mean, we talked about the game. It was a fun game. It was an entertaining game. I did not realize there were no punts. I did not realize that. I'm sorry. I didn't realize that I'm sorry to Geno Smith because some of the throws he made in that game, I never thought that man was going

to be any of this. I know he did it all of last season, but that throw to DK Metcalf where they ended Daron Blanz defensive player of the year chances, even though that guy had him covered was holding him. That's the guy with five pick sixes this year. And I felt bad for him last night because DK Metcalf was covered on that 75 yard pass. And the thing that I realized that I did not know, I've been, I have been questioning the idea that DK Metcalf is as fast as Tyree Kill. Since DK Metcalf said he's as fast as Tyree Kill, I'm like, that's ridiculous.

You cannot be as fast as Tyree Kill. But his speed on that 75 yard runs to got was the fastest time miles per hour that anyone in the sport has had this year. He was more than 22 miles per hour. I just did not know that a guy who's eating skittles and coffee. That's what I mean, candy and coffee every day. I did not know that that size could remain that fast after five years in the league.

Six catches, 134 yards, three touchdowns. That's going to catch up to them at some point. I don't care who you are, right? The skittles and the coffee. It is like you could do it now. You're young football on the football too, but you're young. You could do it now. Try that one. You're 40. You'd see how it goes. I mean, okay, but there Jerry Rice was successful in his 40s and didn't, you know, no, most receivers don't get to 40 being excellent. That body type, I don't expect to be that fast for as long as it's been that fast. It's crazy.

For that to be the fastest guy and like, like, he takes a beating, no matter his size, but he has presently the coolest celebration anywhere in sports where he talks trash with sign language, so he doesn't get fined. It is by far the coolest thing of any of the celebrations we've seen. I know we saw the Tyree kill backflip video. That's cool. But when you're going, it's scoring touchdowns like that one and then signing standing on business or after one of his most recent games, signing number 44, my son, because he beat

a DB who is wearing number 44. It's unbelievable. And it's like, it's taking trash talk to a whole other level than we've ever seen it before. I mean, we can't be mean, right? He's still got to be nice. No, no, he doesn't. I don't like this. I believe he said, be as white as once. Yeah. He said, you can be white. He could just start cursing at people and sign up. Yes. Yes. Yes. Well, I mean, the middle finger's pretty obvious. Kind of people are you. Well, who's going to find him to find them? What do you mean? Yes.

He is signed among other things. Number 44 is my son, but we have him talking about it here on Rich Eisen's show. I take ASL now on my updates. What's that? American Sign Language. Okay. What calls you to do that? I mean, I kept getting flags from my mouth and so.

I got a sign. I sit talking now. you to do that? I mean, I kept getting flags from my Mal thing. So I've got to find my shit talking now. Come on. Is that what? Really? That's what I got to do to keep myself busy. But don't I mean, okay, what happens if you get an official that knows what ASL is and you I will not just I'll just be talking to him on the on the side. Okay. I love. Oh my But we can celebrate this this is this is offensive to me. It's it's a loophole I mean, it's a defensive to you because it's just like we're okay with this. This is insulting I think I ask hearing impaired people because I don't think they we're okay with this. This is insulting. I think I would ask hearing impaired people because I don't think they'd be okay with this.

We're not sure the guy that wanted more David Pollock on game day yesterday. That was a poorly timed take by me. Who would have known that? I was going for just funny. Like who's longer than we could have. I think we could have. And then right after that,

he does the most, I was like, this someone has to be, someone texted me that. I'm like someone's trolling me. This can't be real. It looked like a fake picture. That thing holding up. I was like, this can't be real. You thought it was AI picture, that thing holding up. I was like, this can't be real.

You thought it was AI that David was talking about? That's all I was messing with me in particular, just because of what I said on the show. You thought that after missing David Pollock on game day, there a Pollock away was the joke. There. That you know that he kept hitting. That David Pollock would then trend as, you know,

hold their retweeting and holding up a sign that reads that we shouldn't be allowed to use the transfer portal to have men play women sports. Who he tagged in that tweet was just so sad. Oh my god. Besides, for the just a give me a job please. What a truly, truly small man to use that platform for that level of ignorance. And then tag, play Travis and Ted Cruz and just a whole host of other, I mean, this wokeness one hour after I said they're a polygal way. Like the time it's a worse timing in a ball of take aging poorly and this shows history. Don Lebertard, Kenzley Janssen. I got to be careful here. Well not just

either. Let me start again. Stugats is the closer comes in, night thinning, closes the game out. His name is Kenley Janssen. He has blamed his region. DCC down, Lebatar show with this two gods. Let's go back to what you were just saying for a second, though, because you saying I'm offended and saying it's offensive to

the hearing impaired. I'm not sure how it's offensive to the hearing impaired. I mean, you still realize it's a chuckle fest there. I mean, you're so rich. I mean, it's a chuckle fest there. They're like, oh, sign language. That's so clever. I mean, they don't know it. I mean, it Chris's defense. He's saying it. He found the loophole, but he's still

saying the things that he's saying, you know, that is correct. And that's why it's funny. Wait a minute. You're going to argue against the loophole. Well, I love a good loophole. I mean, how can you? How can you be the guy that put Lee Roy Horde on Team Levitard. Hey, Crash it, Evan. Here's the thing. It's the only thing that the hearing impaired actually saw and actually understood from the game was the American sign

language. So what for them? What a great thing for them to take away from that game. Although I imagine they're also listening to the broadcasts or watching the broadcast through the captions. I want to ask Chris, if DK had learned Spanish or French and was trash talking in that language, would you be offended on behalf of that group of people? If he was doing it sarcastically, if you're learning...

That's not sarcastic! Ah, this doesn't fit just... He's taking the time to learn sign language. He's a host! That takes time. He just knew sign language and this was part... You don't just know sign language. He learned sign language just to learn sign language. That takes time. He just knew sign language, and this was part like, you don't just know sign language. He learned sign language just to troll people on the field.

No, apparently he took sign language in college, as an elective or something, and then now he's using it and perfecting it to say Cowboys Suck, 44 is my son. You guys suck. Chris is like Taco Bell. Just doesn't sit white with me. White? White? White? Well, I was gonna say, what?

I feel like you might be a little scattered because rare is when the whole room turns on you like this. And you're entering these waters that you don't normally enter of being offended by something. Is it white with me, huh? It's why I'm trying to defend him because I know that feeling when I'm out trying to be a polych. All right, you know what? Angel, make the t-shirts. I've got an announcement to make. I want in the next 90 minutes. I want t-shirts that say, uh, sit white with me.

See? Even when I'm good. We have the merch store. The merch store is reopened just in time for the holidays. It's a big announcement. David Samson has got the merch store up and running Stugots, levitard AF.com. I will give you more information as soon as I go into the

back room and tell video to put up all the graphics because I forgot to get prepared for the fact that we're opening the merch store today. But I do have to do that and I need your help and the remind you, oh, look at that video is ready. Wow. The merch store is revamped. There are discounts there.

There are discounts there. There are discounts there for people who had problems with the previous merch store. If you subscribe, so levitardaf.com is where you end up going on this throwblank. It looks incredible. But angel, you need to in 90 minutes, we're going to have the ability to make t-shirts very quickly now. I am told, we will see how successful that is. What is the idea behind stay white with me? I think we should send one to David Pollock. We should send one to shit. I think we should have like a board review this one. This doesn't sit white with me. It was what I said. Even better the second time. That's how he loves it. That's right. Some form of that we need to put up

on a t-shirt. We need to figure out how to do that. Do we have the Tushay Tashay t-shirt yet? Or, we're working on it. We are working on a variety of things. We just got the merch store running. So he just yelled shut up. Yes.

But he did it in sign language. Everyone's fine with it. Yes, everything, it seems like everyone is fine with sign language. Look, now check back in a couple of years. Yeah, something feels off. I'm with Chris. I, everything. It seems like everyone is fine with sign language. Look, now check back in a couple of years. Yeah, something feels off. I'm with Chris. I mean, put it to good use.

I'm getting out of here. I'm getting out of here this. You know? I look at what is happening there, Chris. And when you say that, I think to myself in general, right? If most people in most workplaces, if fellow employees trash talked them the way athletes trash talk each other, they would go home weeping, weeping,

and tell their partners and their kids about how awful it is. We do that here every day. No, no, no. And by the way, I call Jeremy Magician the other day. Yeah, and my grandparents used to speak in Spanish behind my back all the time because I didn't understand. We do that here too. Right. Wait a minute. I just responded to you. Tony, you cannot be looking me in the face and thinking that the trash talk around here is the same that it would be on an NFL field.

No, people who are competing who don't like each other. It's a equivalent. You know, I've seen Billy after a bad segment. Yeah. don't like each other. It's a swiveling. Do you? I've seen Billy after a bad segment. Yeah. That's just Billy being Billy though, right? I have thought to myself, it is, I mean, Trash Talk is unsportsman like. It is mean and offensive.

I, I don't have it anywhere in me, right? But it's also why I'm not good at sports. There's one of the reasons I'm not competitive that way. It's like you wanted that bad. That's, that's why, Toby. Mm-hmm. One of the reasons I'm not competitive that way. It's like you want it that bad. Okay. That's that's why it's a big one of the other reasons. And pick up basketball. You just be like, good shot to the other team. Just pretty quiet. Loose balls of the floor. You let somebody else get it. It was out on me coach. What are they still got? You're very pleased with yourself over there. What are all the other reasons that

I'm not good at sports? We just saw you have trouble bending down. How are you? I want you in a position like I would be happy. In fact, I hit the big putt, Dan, producers. Can we have a sports off or physical off with stugots? I'm ready to do it on 54 and he's 50. Just a little trash talk. Let's have an athletic competition with stugots and see who does better at physical fitness things. Start with golfer. We could throw it in there. 10 ball one on one. I will listen. I will take you to the wood shed.

If we go one on one, you pick five events. How about that? Stu picks five that he's a lot of events. Marri three to decafellons. That's an event. They each pick three events. You're right. They're old.

You've got to say maybe not one on one. Maybe we just do foul shots or something. Yeah. No, you don't negotiate your way out of, you're not allowed to make fun of me athletically in the shape that you're presently in. Dan's gonna back stew guts down the way Tony would back down John Amici.

Oh. I know that all of these guys aren't enemies on the field when they talk, but there is uncommon honesty on an NFL football field. And I was amused by seeing Jibrill Peppers go up to say, Juan Barkley, they are friends after the game, after the Giants beat the Patriots 10 to 7 because Mac Jones ended his career with a terrible interception. And here's Jibrill Peppers coming up to say, Juan Barkley, after the game, a friend.

The Giants defeat the Patriots. 10 to 7. Lucky A. Your lucky we're ass. You can put that tombstone on the Patriots season, right? You can put it actually, you know what? You can put it on a t-shirt. You can, you can also just remove the name AFC East

and just put that on the top of the division of the Patriots looking at everybody that they've beaten for 20 years and saying you're lucky, we're ass. Ass is the best critique. It's my new favorite. Remember, the guy put ass, what was it, the park? I love ass, it's just so simple.

Council. Craig council got smeared. He looked at me and like gave me one of these and I was like, yeah, I don't know. It's all new. I was talking to Friday. Chris. He's look man Thursday. Chris. Oh, who didn't know what I was talking about? Oh, that's right. You all did. Well, but the audience may not have and we've got more people listening than just in here. By the way, he said, I love ass. I mean, speaking of more people listening than that we have here today, I'm with Mike Ryan now after getting so many, so many tweets and texts from our listeners who are really proud to got of how much they listen every year at this time. It booves, no matter what it is that we're going through, that our listeners like to brag about how many minutes

they listen to our show in a year. And I'm getting a lot of this from Rob Walden and others. Last year, Levitard Show was my number one pod on Spotify with 39,000 minutes. My listening habits haven't really changed this year and a different pod was my number one with about 9,000 minutes. So something is definitely off. Mike Ryan has accused Spotify of Jerry rigging the numbers.

And some of the people who work at Spotify have claimed that we, the entity that builds more by a lot than any sports podcast that we are fooling our sponsors by tricking them with the way that we count our numbers. But our listeners are legion and they are loyal and they're all telling us, hey, I can't brag about it this year and my habits didn't change any. It certainly can't be because we're way worse right Your head looks like it's gonna explode Does it hurt does the helmet hurt? It's tight. I can't even tell my Mike's Like he works up in this

He has right of the tent He's talked a lot less today. Maybe we have to get it. No, no, this helmet's coming off. It's a famous Talked a lot less today. Maybe we have to get it. No, no, no, this is how it's coming off. It's a famous bad. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done, Taylor. I quit. No, us done. Lebertard. Did you ever have a crush on a cartoon character? Oh, can I go? This isn't like question, but I did. Oh, 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.

Two gods. I had a crush on Betty Rubble. Oh, wow. What? What? That's very good. That's very good. Whoa. With a surprise nomination from Stugat. Showing you a dirty, dirty inter-nine-year-old! VCC down Lebatar Show with this two-gats! Stugat's this has been a big week for us. The last few years have been hard. Everyone in this country having a conversation around the Go-Woke, Go-Broke culture wars, we've been tested in a shaking industry, an industry that is changing. Everyone at ESPN who wasn't asked to take pay cuts was, let go. And this week we got to an island that has 97 million people on it. Max

is here to support what it is that we're doing. And it's the beginning of what we're doing with Max. And so there were some announcements made on social media during what is an exciting time for us. And this was a turbulent week for me, as most are on social media. But so this was good news. And so I checked in, even though for my mental health, I have been avoiding to the degree I can, right? Because I've got to stay on top of certain things

if we're doing a daily show. I've been avoiding what has become for me, a mental health minefield, when I already feel really bad about a lot of different things. And so this was good news. And I'm like, well, surely, surely if there are announcements being made and publicly it's saying a version of our show is coming to Max. And here's the here's the levitard show clearly winning 97 million people, although I am getting some commentary from people like this, where the hell are they on Max? I re-subscribed to Max and have the sports tab, but I can't find them anywhere. I even searched the show and

Metal Arc and still nothing. Can someone help me out? Maybe Dan can walk us through how to find the show. Yeah, maybe you can walk them through. There's a sports here, the the BR section on Max, where you can find us. I know there's been some frustration with some fans that video on demand isn't necessarily available. Just yeah, in time, we hope, but the live version, what is it? 11 a.m. 11 a.m. I thought I'd tell you.

Let's go. 11 a.m. A lot of people want it after it's already run. And that's why they're having trouble finding it They go. Well, let's keep performing And gaming some numbers and maybe we can get some VOD on there I would like a producer and unlike most of what I say around here I want this followed up on I would like a producer to film Stugat trying to find our show. Okay

I don't think that I was gonna to make the same request for you. No, I can find it. I have, I have, I have been concerned about how our future looks. Can we make that part of the de-Cathalon? Is that one of your sports? That's, that's a good one. I would love to see him try to find a fast channel by the name of DKN as well. I can find that one. Yeah. I have the Samsung TV. Great. Yeah, the Samsung TVs make it easy. Roku also.

Yeah. A lot of places. And also YouTube.com slash at Leopardtard show and loads more exclusive Leopardtard show content coming on the YouTube. So please subscribe. In fact, we're going to give you a special edition just for the YouTube audience. The club comes back today. But please reward us for making you happy by subscribing.

Also today, not just the club, Mike Ryan has won a controversial culture war in the building because he is calling Jessica and Lucy's show over their objections. The male boss is calling the show Foot Girls. I don't like how this is being framed. I like it. We're just trying to punch up foot girls. And we'll see how the maiden voyage goes today. You'll find out in a little bit their reaction to it.

I'm very happy with the results. We can relieve that a little bit later in the show. You could have called it the Made Invoidage. You could. Yeah. For the first episode. I don't understand what's happening. Like just, this is a very good segment.

There's a very good, there's a very good segment. You guys and Lucy know their football. Jeremy, please stop. I'm just, I'm just, I'm just for Charlotte Wilder. Just generally speaking, just stop. Jeremy and Mike, I'm just for Charlotte Wilder, just generally speaking, just stop. Jeremy and Mike, there's some tension here,

with Jeremy and Mike, because Jeremy has been quiet and respecting authority around here, but Jeremy has objected vigorously to some takes that Mike Ryan has had recently. Mike Ryan's now taking credit for Juan Wick and knowing everything about Juan Wick. When Jeremy said, he said first that Juan Wick was an excellent player before you did what?

No. I texted Mike Ryan three weeks ago saying I had a song that I wanted to bring in about Jaime Haka's junior after he hit a game winner when BAM had dominated in a previous incarnation of the Miami Heat. I sit and listen to the show when I'm not here and I feel like I'm being gaslit. Because on the days that I'm here, we don't talk about the Miami Heat after big wins

or give anyone an opportunity to actually break down and relax, it's a Pacer. They score the second most points in franchise history and regular season game and regulation. Like, it was, no, and it's a Pacer's pace that led them there, but it was an incredible second half. And I come in and, you know, we talk about it on the production meeting,

but nobody seems to want to talk about it on the air. And yet, when I'm not here, it's Juan Wick is rookie of the year and look at those Miami-T. I mean, it's unbelievable. You are an egomaniac. What? You are.

You want this? I mean, I'm not this. I've been the person saying you can't trade him for Damien Lillard. I was the co-chair of the Real Hooper's No Society that called the rookie of the year earlier this week. I don't, it's okay, you can like him too, but the fact that you want ownership over this,

I mean, you've been around here for five minutes, kid. The kid is just so good. It's great. It was intended to be so. That is right. Mr. God's, we have a Mexican basketball player that people are now talking about. A rookie. They're saying, and I can't believe we got here, right?

I understand that we hyperventilate and do prisoner of the moment stuff, but a franchise that historically doesn't do a lot of trusting of young players, you have in Jaime Haka, somebody they think might be a lead guy that we're talking about on a team that has BAM and Jimmy, we're talking about, oh, that's what the future looks like. And I did not have that. I mean, Stonato's been talking to me about this kid

since he was in college for quite a bit, but I did not have that. He was in collegeano has been talking to me about this kid since he was in college for quite a bit, but I did not have it in college a while. Yeah, he was. Well, that's what I thought when you're in college a while, I don't think you're that good. Like how good of a prospect can you be? Yeah, no, it breaks a lot of preconceived notions, but because you didn't leave early, and that's the reason. Tough. Look, tough. Look, these last couple of weeks for old Joe Kronin. As everyone was celebrating the trade and the hall that they got and no one may be pointing out that, hey, there's one working knee in this package.

And that turned around pretty quickly. Brockden, I think, has been better than most people except, but he was one working knee in the package. And he's not super efficient. Hakez out of all the players that were rumored for the services of Damien Lillard. Hakez looks like a guy that if I told you right now, given how Damien Lillard is still good, still a great piece on a championship contender. And he's got plenty of clutch posties and moments for that Milwaukee Bucs. But if you asked GMs,

who would you rather have from this point forward? Damien Lillard at his cap number or Jaime Hawke is at his cap number. I think you'd be shocked at how many people would say going forward. I'd like Jaime Hawke. It's so interesting. You say that about Joe Kronen, Mike, because I'm pretty sure I was on the show two weeks ago saying that for the long term, don't like right? I mean, this guy, Jeremy, like, what is this? Mike, he wants to be part of you.

I get laughed at it here as the Homer guy the Homer guy. I'm not actually breaking down the game I'm watching the game. I'm the only one watching the game. What are you doing? I mean you are the only one watching the game I can see that doesn't mean you know more ball than me. You come. You're repeating everything. He said three weeks ago. Yep Chris He'sider you on. He's on my side. He was, he was baptized in my waters. Are you kidding me? During a break to say,

it gets all his takes for my subscription platform on Twitter. Hey, here come on. He's there. I do pay for that because I support my friends on like Mike. Taylor, can you come in here and put that helmet back on Mike, please? I will not, I will not. No, we'm sorry. You know, Jaime Hock is shooting 52% from three over his last six games.

He shot 30% from three in college. Look, the all-squint team also translates into basketball. And if you squint, real hard. Oh, I don't see a guy. He looks at you. He's the worst. How hard? Show me, Tony.

You know what I'm going to say? If you know what I'm going to say is incredible. He's a kid. No, if you squint real hard. Squint. It what I'm gonna say is in crowd. Jason kid. No, if he's squint real hard. Squint. It's a little bit of Luca in there. Oh, come on.

Oh, I thought you were gonna say Jimmy. I don't love random. Just a touch. I don't love random game. Thank God. I thought you were gonna say something ridiculous. Just a touch of Luca. A touch.

Okay, I'm on behalf of the audience. You gotta really squint though. The half of the audience. My eyes are wide open. Oh, wait, I see it. I see it too. I do see it. That doesn't, that doesn't sit wide with me. That's behind the back of the move is like, I see it. I see it. Yeah, I do see it. That doesn't sit with me. I don't hide the black move.

It's like, I see Jason Kid with a better shot. That doesn't sit white with me either. Jeremy. Jason Kid, I agree, totally. I want, how does that one sit with you? It's always been a mystery with me. To speak to the audience and speak for the audience about what it is that just happened on our show because

I don't want to spend the weekend hearing from people. I really did you hear them say that Jaime H. No, that's what my sense is. He said long story. Wait, hold on, hold on. I told you. I told you, push back on that. I'm the only reason for one. I will walk it back if you find that to be an inflammatory take. I think it makes perfect sense.

Cheating hat number. It's a cheating take because you're doing the finances instead of the players. But I'm also doing projection for the next three years. No, he's doing age long term all of it. I understand what he's doing. And what is fair to say is, hey, Cronin, you took a bunch of unhealthy pieces instead of some young ones that the heat were offering you because you said redundant skill sets is what you had. And I'm just telling you that what we've seen so far is stuguts from the

heat the season, small sample size. I love that the pastors are leading the league in pace. I love that Halliburton is putting up numbers this month. Stugat's honestly. He's crazy. It's only LeBron and Michael Jordan this month. He had a month like this in terms of percentages from three and two and efficiencies and everything else. Feel free to play defense once in a while.

Bam is also in the place where his numbers, it's willed. It's crazy. uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, BAMs, B for for now weeks. Yeah, he's been sensational offensively and that's already with being someone who should be the defensive player of the year and and that's been the case for for multiple years at this point. But the part that was fun about last night's game and seeing the heat be able to play with that level of pace. It was in part because in the second half they had to play without BAM,

who's been one of the best players in the league who you imagined in the second half would need to be the guy to slow down Tyree's Halliburton. Instead, they made the adjustment of putting Jimmy on him, which really changed the game and made him have to shoot from deep a lot more than you did in the first half. And Kevin Love was such a huge part of that game. I think he had seven rebounds and six assists. And so much of it was to Jimmy Butler.

A lot of them were outlet passes that allowed the heat to run even more than the Pacers did. So to see them be able to play in both of these different styles and have high May Hakez, looking a little bit like their other version of Jimmy Butler in the pants. Pretty impressive. We're obnoxious is a show. That's why we don't let you talk.