The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: The Job Is To Get The People "Jaiped"

Episode Date: March 7, 2025

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The vibes were immaculate prior to entering this room. They really were. Like, I can feel like today's gonna be a good day. It's Friday, right? It's every workplace, right? What is it about Fridays? Why can't Mondays feel like Fridays? I think I know exactly what it is about Fridays, Chris.

It's because the next two days, you're not working. But although I'm here for Chris, starting his own chain of restaurants called TGI Mondays. What's on the menu at the TGI Monday? Sadness. Salad bar, like a sad salad bar. Like eating light. And regret.

I had so many carbs on the weekend that it's just no carbs today. No carbs, one bar. Maybe it would be like a nice health food spot. TGI Mondays. Maybe. Guys, I have a huge hypothetical question I've been dying to ask.

Both of these things feel like they are positives, but one has to be more positive than the other. Before I pose that question. Oh boy, we're taking a trip on a Dan Lebatard roller coaster. We sure are. Can you just get to the question, man? The question is gonna come after we play a pair of videos. First up, as we know, the day journalism died,

Dan Lebatard went to a Panthers game, wore a Panthers jersey, and banged the the panthers drum and this is what it looked and sounded like practice that way. Let's go, Dan! Let's go, Dan! Let's go, Dan! Let's go, Dan! Let's go, Dan! Let's go, Dan! Let's go, Dan!

Let's go, Dan! Let's go, Dan! Let's go, Dan! Let's go, Dan! So, Dan, Dan, first of all, my favorite part of the video is that right there. My second favorite part of the video is before he starts drumming, he has a maniacal, before the wave even, he looks like Ray Lewis is about to run out the tunnel. He hasn't run out the tunnel yet, but you can see he's getting into the game mode.

It's like he's got his posture facing upward, but his neck is looking down. So he's like, his posture is pointing up, but his neck is looking down and waving. He does not look human. Like you were to tell me this was an AI robot, I would absolutely believe it. And he's going for like,

like he thinks this is the most intense moment of his life. Right here. He's not going for it, he's got it. That is intensity. Totally. Is this Goblin Mode or Demon Time? No, he's on Demon Time right now. He's on Demon Mode. That's a face that I don't wanna see ever.

You walk around the corner, oh this alley is a nice quick shortcut. You see that waiting for you on the other end. That's, you're terrified. That's Star Player and Elimination Game in the playoffs. Also, a little bit drunk. That's, you're terrified. That's star player in an elimination game in the playoffs. Also, a little bit drunk. Oh yeah, I mean. A little.

What? A little? Dan Leventhal drinks? So, we've got the damn thing. Now, he was, as Tony pointed out, a little quick on the beat, right? Oh, I'm telling you, in the arena, it's perfect timing. Like I know from our angle, this video.

Well, we're not in the arena. Okay, but he's doing it for the arena. I'm telling you, in the arena, it's perfect timing. I know from our angle, this video. Well, we're not in the arena. We're here. But he's doing it for the arena. I'm telling you, he did perfect. No, the fourth time, it was a little bit too fast. The rest of the time, it was perfect. That happens. OK, so that's what you guys have been saying all week.

But then, last night, Jaime Jaquez gets to bang the drum, right? And so this is Jaime Jaquez banging the drum in a panther tree. Let's go Panthers! Let's go Panthers! Let's go Panthers! I can do it! Let's go Panthers!

Let's go Panthers! Let's go Panthers! He thinks he's gonna impress me with chanting along. Like that, Dan was way better than him. All he was doing was elbow. There was no energy in that. Seeing Jaime's makes me think that Dan thinks you have to hit that thing really hard

for it to be that loud, and nobody told him that, no, these drums are just loud. Okay, so now that we've seen both and heard both if we're just listening, I asked the hypothetical, would you rather be on beat like Jaime Hotkeys, or would you rather be more hype like Dan LeBata? But, because Jaime's was on rhythm. Everything you guys told me earlier this week was a lie.

But I bet you, you're watching it from that angle. I bet in the arena, that was a tad slow. I'm telling you, because there's a delay with the claps. You need to be a little ahead I'm telling you I'm a four-year season ticket holder. I know this It's like your third drum you've ever heard I've heard I've heard dozens of these guys heard a lot of drums I'm telling you he nailed it. Come on. You're gonna have to defer to Chris Cody here I'm not gonna defer because number one I've been to a lot of sporting events,

and what I've learned over the years, and Izzy, back me up on this, most crowds are off rhythm. You can't trust them. His hyming was fine. His hyming was fine, but it wasn't great. His hyming? Oh, we thought about hymies or...

Hyming. Like, come on, guys. His hyming was fine, but it wasn't as good as Dan. There are performative aspects to the person that is bestowed this honor. So it's not just the cadence, which is important, but it's also the job is to get the people hyped. Exactly. See, you would think, like just from the outside looking in,

you would think that Jaime is this sort of humble star, right? He is the basketball player. Here's the people that, you know, the person that people should know more, should embrace more than Dan. So he's just hitting it, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Hey, I'm doing my thing. Dan makes it look like everybody is here for me.

And for those, however many seconds it was, we were. We were there for Dan hitting that drum the right way. He might've scared children a little bit. You know what? For the most part, he nailed it. You know what it reminded me of? It reminded me of when you watch the dunk contest and you see a guy who clearly

not only spent time thinking about this, but had people like tell him, coach him up on all the external aspects. You gotta play to the crowd. You have to have a presence. And then there's the other guy that's like, well, I'm just gonna go out there and wing it. And how many of us, it feels like there's like play to the crowd, you have to have a presence. And then there's the other guy that's like, well I'm just gonna go out there and wing it. And Jaime Haka, it feels like he's like,

play the drum, cool, didn't think about it until he got to the arena, and said here's the drum, and the lady, like she did for the Dan video, probably told him, hey this is how you do it, and if it's really good, we'll ask you to do it a fourth time or whatever. Jaime didn't need three tequilas to calm his nerves. It was four.

And it was mezcal. A little different. Jaime, by the way. Uh, is he in this rotation now or is he out of this rotation as he is with the Miami heat? You tell me, I say he's out. Has there ever been a repeat? Long ago probably did it once before. Yeah. They called them back in action for the biggest game in franchise. I think Mike McDaniel has done it more than once. They will go back to some people.

How long have they been doing this? That's a good question. Want to say like three seasons? Yeah, just about. This is like one of the marketing initiatives of the new ownership group, yes? Well, once we were playing meaningful games, they're like, we need something here to hype up the crowd.

So when the team gets bad again, the drum will go away? No, I don't think so. The Panthers, you can't find anything on the internet of this. I've been trying to secure a video of this. Remember, for like a two week period, they had monks ringing a bell? Say what now?

They had a guy named Friar Puck. Wait, hold on. And they had monks. With the bald head and the fur around the ring? They would wear the Friar. The internet has been scrubbed of this. All I could find was a Reddit post. And it was like, you guys remember when the Panthers did that weird thing with the ring? The friar, yeah. And like the internet has been scrubbed of this. All I could find was a Reddit post and it was like, you guys remember when the Panthers did that weird thing

with the monks? That was like a two week stretch and it was received so poorly. Put it on the pole, Juju. Is the most impressive thing, the ability to scrub everything off the internet? Because that's happened to me too, Mike, where I'm looking for something, I know it existed,

and then the only evidence I can find is like a Reddit post from five years ago talking about it, and then I'm like, maybe someone will link it, and I find a link, like, aha, click on the link, this video's no longer available. How do they do it? The internet? Like, are there people whose job it is out there,

like, I can hire someone and say, hey, I want this off the internet, and they, like, a week later, they come back to me, and they're like, you're good. Might be a Panther thing, because I remember in the mid-90s when the Panthers made their cup run and Quad City DJs had the world by the balls. No, what a time.

The Power 96 would play the Panther train. There was a Panther train version of Come On Ride the Train. Let me tell you something, nobody milked multiple versions of a song like the 90s. What about North Carolina? Wasn't there one for like every city? But, P.D. Pablo But I've been trying forever.

Miami. To secure Come on Ride the Panther Train. Because instead of like the Chugga Chugga, like it goes like Needamire, Spaylet. Like it just like Raticat Pads. I'm telling you, the 90s. The players' names. The 90s were good for one thing and one thing only.

We're going to take this, oh this song was a hit? Okay, I'm gonna go to multiple markets and multiple businesses and we're gonna tailor it to you. There was a version of This Is How We Do It that was about New York. No one remembers it, they used to play it on Hot 97 only. Only on Hot 97. So Montel Jordan would be riding in a 6'4

or would he not be riding in a 6'4? And that was in the height of the West Coast, East Coast thing. Exactly, that's not a New York thing. Right before the tensions popped. OK, so he could get away with it? Yes, it was right before the tensions popped. But yeah, like, oh, this is my favorite thing.

It's like, oh, you guys were singing that Chaperone song that I'd never heard of. I mean, that's crazy. You're doing the Roy thing. That's ridiculous. I've never heard this popular song. I'm telling you, I've heard of it. You never heard it either?

No, I don't listen to it. What's her name again? Chapelrone, Pink Pony Club. What are we doing? Nobody ever gets more offended than Roy does when you ask him about popular culture. It's like, of course I haven't heard of that. What do you think?

I didn't say, of course I never heard of that. I just never heard of it. You didn't have to. That's the way my voice sounds, god damn it. I know, your eyes did it too. Me too, I mean. No, but I'll tell you how it happens. Because of technology, I live in a world where I don't

listen to current music. All the music I listen to is the music that I select. And the music I select is mostly 90s R&B and 80s, and sometimes a little old school soul and stuff. But I don't listen to current music. And by the way, most of the time when I get in a car, I don't even listen to music. I'm listening to podcasts because I'm trying to catch up

to either this show or All Fantasy Everything or Cinephobe, which this week we're doing nothing but trouble featuring Chevy Chase and Demi Moore and Tupac's first acting role, check it out, Cinephobe wherever you get podcasts. But that's what I listen to. And so there's no radio. There's nothing that would make-

If you're on social media, there are inescapable pop songs. That's still very much a thing. Like Espresso by Sabrina Carpenter, you could not escape it. You don't, you know it. Like sing it for me. Like that's the problem. Like- Me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, to just hit it. OK. But like, I'll give you an example. My given F is on vacation.

Bad Bunny. Oh, yeah. There you go. That's it. I see. Oh, yeah, I've seen it. But it's like, it's always, I haven't heard the song. I've heard people do like parodies of it,

like, I'm going to the bathroom now. I'm going to take a massive dump. Yeah, you got the cadence. Yeah, so like, I've heard. Yeah, they got it. But I have not heard the actual song, right? But compare and contrast, I don't have any Bad Bunny in my Spotify.

I've heard all these songs a million times. Yeah, well you come to mind. Thank God. The biggest artist on the planet, by the way, sorry. But I'm just saying like, to me, when people are like, this is a big deal, I'm like, no it's not. Like if it's a big deal, it would have pierced.

I almost had my gay card taken away by a bunch of straight dudes because I didn't really recognize that song off the top. And so I agree with you, Mike, that like, yeah, there's an inescapable songs, but that one was escapable for some people, I would say. I don't know what's happening right now. It's the most anthemic song that's come out in the last five years. I'd never heard it. I'd never heard of it. I'd heard of it, but I've never heard it. But then you heard it. Yeah, that's right. I saw the goosebumps on your arm.

It's freezing in here, number one. Number two, I'll tell you how you know it didn't move me, because the very next song on the playlist was Toto Africa, and I got out my seat, and guess what? What did you say, Chris? The room did. It picked up. You can't mess with Toto, baby!

There was a pop. Give it 30 years, you'll get Pink Pony clip. Sure, okay. It's also like the most unfortunate battery dying situation of my entire life. Yeah, that was wild. Where you have this wonderful prologue and you're building up to the hook

and the battery just died. I had to start the song all over again because without the build up, the chorus doesn't mean anything. So, I wanna spin the wheel of topics here. Wait, I have an update on Friar Puck. Oh yeah? Yeah, and also I challenge the internet

because I specifically want video or sound of the Panther train from the mid 90s that was played on Y100 and Power 96. I've been searching, can't find it. The internet, man. The Panthers have the internet on lock and I need Friar Puck video. George Richards, according to an article in 2009, he said need Friar Puck video. George Richards, according to an article in 2009,

he said that Friar Puck was a guy named Jeff who lives in Coral Springs. Now that's 15 years ago, but Jeff from Coral Springs, if you were Friar Puck and you were listening, please reach out to the Dan LeBittard show with Stu Gatz. And by the way, while we're putting the internet on, finding things that the internet destroyed, can we find the intro from the Montreal Canadiens hockey

playoff intro in arena from like roughly 2009, 2010, where I believe that they were playing the, not something, the Bruins, and this is right when the projection on ice technology was new, and it starts with like 1912, three, four, one, 1913, four, two, and they just start, and it starts picking up 1912, three, four, one, 1913, four, two, and they just start, and it starts picking up pace faster, faster, and it took me a while to realize,

oh, they're saying every time y'all played them, they whooped y'all ass. Like, it's all the records. That's the most badass intro I've ever seen in my life. Somebody on that. For a playoff game. Did you ever see the one with Oli Yokenen gathering up the rest of the Florida Panthers

while they're dressed in like mid-2000s MMA garb and he's just going about town while Nam Point's cover of In the Air Tonight is playing? Because that is crazy. Is that scrubbed off the internet? No, I found that. I actually had that one saved on my phone. Yeah, you gotta save stuff.

I'll text it to you. You gotta save stuff. Oli Yokenan turns into a Panther. But I do wanna spin this wheel. I do wanna spin this wheel, and the wheel only has two options on it. What? You wanna give us the options? Never happened before.

Generally we know the options before we spin the wheel. Option one, I'm setting it up. Option one, LeBron James. Option two, Steph Curry. Oh! Can we throw a third one in there? Because otherwise you're just flipping a coin, which feels like it should be a new sounder. No, no, it's a wheel. We're spinning a wheel. A wheel needs a third one in there? Because otherwise you're just flipping a coin,

which feels like it should be a new sounder. No, no, it's a wheel. We're spinning a wheel, it's a wheel. A wheel needs a third thing. No, it does. Izzy's so right about this. You can't have a wheel with two halves though. Let's just put a third one on there.

Then we flip a coin. If we're doing it this way, we flip a coin. We're doing big names, we'll just throw Jay Cole on there. Okay. That's a third option. All right. Ready? Here we go. All right. Jeremy, you wanna tell us what it lands on? Okay, all right ready here we go

Jake Cole Wow, that wasn't a mean one of one of wasn't one of a means topic we take another spin J Cole It to toys there's no chance in hell he's going to your funeral, I mean. Whoa. There's no chance in hell J. Cole's going to your funeral. What's that supposed to mean? Is he going?

How is he going to your funeral? How close are you guys? Because like, look, I'm a maybe. At my funeral? Jesus. Oh my god. Wow. Oddball, Monday through Thursdays. Like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is it like, is Monday through Thursdays. What state is it in?

Exactly, is it in Arizona or is it here? I have, I've given instructions to my family that to burn me wherever I am. Oh wow. I remember. There's been a bad car accident, we know that. The premonition, right? Yes, the premonition.

And that's more likely to happen in South Florida with South Florida drivers, so let's just say it happens. Let's put something to rest. Bad drivers are everywhere. Thank you. See, everyone concentrated down here, I would argue. I think the farther south you go in the world, the worse the drivers are.

This is what I'll say is, in New York, they're reckless, they're not bad. Like, they know what they're doing, but it's just like you're taking risks that you don't need to take. Other than that, everywhere else, they're just bad. So we're already, everybody is in agreement here, no chance Michael Jordan is showing up

at a means funeral, right? Because he also implied that yesterday. Maybe, he might be. Okay, he's a maybe. He's like, we get the third crying meme. Certainly not if it's in South Florida. He's not crying, he's not crying at my funeral. He's coming to the funeral, but he's not crying.

Michael Jordan? He's coming, but he's not crying. Michael Jordan is coming to your funeral in South Florida. Senior. Yeah. He's coming to the funeral, but he's not crying. Michael Jordan? He's coming, but he's not crying. Michael Jordan is coming to your funeral in South Florida. Yeah, he's here all the time. If you died in Arizona. Wait, what if you died in Cleveland? There's no chance.

Okay, if I die in Cleveland, then that obviously impacts greatly how many people are coming to the funeral. But if my funeral is in New York, South Florida, or Arizona, or California. Or Ibiza. So, it's in Cleveland. Ibiza. You know what, I'm gonna put it in my will.

Verivina Ibiza. I'm out by the way if it's in Cleveland. If it's in Ibiza, you're not coming? Ibiza, come on now. It's a strong maybe. There's no chance J. Cole shows up as the most famous person at your funeral and just sits there and is just one of the guys.

Maybe he performs? I don't, okay, this is uncomfortable because I don't want to get into this conversation but I don't think you understand like the level of friendship. Really? Yeah. So you could get a message to him. Get a message, I could call him right now.

Could you? Yeah. Can you get him on the phone? Don't do this. I'd love to talk to him. Call him Kyle. Call him Kyle. I'm not, definitely not gonna do that. But like, again, like this is like, so I don't know, I'm not gonna get into it. It's a family thing.

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Aggressive description. I mean, what is it? What is that? I'm just saying. No, you're just saying what? That's me. Daniel Day-Lewis does something. I see that photo of Daniel Day-Lewis looking like Lincoln

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Did I say Jake Cole? No. No, I didn't. It landed on LeBron James. Oh! And I will say, before we get into whatever your topic is, Stephen A. Smith has just tweeted. This is my topic. Okay, did you see what he tweeted?

So let's start with, let's head it up for the people who don't know. They went to sleep early last night, they don't know what happened. They haven't talked to anybody. They don't know anything. All right, early last night. They don't know what happened. They haven't talked to anybody. They don't know anything. All right, so the Knicks play at the Lakers. Big game, TNT game. All the luminaries are out.

All the legends are out for Dan Leventard, right? A fan captures video of in the middle of the game, LeBron James confronting Stephen A. Smith about, well, let's try to read lips, right? Definitely shaking the head. If we try to read lips, right? Cause there's no volume. She's definitely shaking the head. If we try to read lips, it seems- Does it look like a happy exchange?

Well, it's not a happy exchange, but specifically, it seems to be about something something don't talk about my son. Is that what you see? Oh, wow. I tried to say this again. So the internet, the best that they can deduce, the lip-syncing quotes that they've pieced together

is I'ma tell you bro one time, keep my son out of this bleep, bro. Is that Scotty Brooks in the background just chewing gum, by the way? Look at him right there. Yeah, I got it. Just checking it out. Might as well be popcorn.

What's gonna happen here? Oh, nothing. Eh. I mean, I don't wanna just rip LeBron, but Bronny is a G League NBA player. Well, let's get a little bit of context here. Why are we keeping anyone out of this that is in the league? But we believe,

cause this is what we believe happened, at least the internet sleuths, is that during one of his podcasts, Stephen A. in the visual portion of the podcast, they're playing clips of Bronnie just being bad. And they're not really talking about that necessarily, they're just playing clips of Bronnie just being bad. And they're not really talking about that necessarily, they're just playing clips of Bronnie being bad, which is kind of what the internet is these days,

it's clips of Bronnie being bad. That's just a producer. And you're right, so it might not be Stephen A's fault, but he's getting this message across in a very public way to Stephen A directly and storming off. So it's a- I don't control the B-roll. It's the Chris Cody of the Stevie Nates Smith show

who's doing this. He's just playing, pushing buttons. I mean, I just don't think that, you know, Dan is not selecting the clips we have on B-roll over when he's talking. Like sometimes they are... Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uh I don't know about that, Chris. There's been a lot of times he's selected a lot of the B-rolls like yesterday. He's kind of like the member that happened in the corner. But there's that one time where he's like,

I didn't want that on there. That could have happened. So the Stephen A. Smith tweet is, we're still calling them tweets, even though it's on X, right? Do me a favor. When you're done reading it, text it to me so I can read it. No, how about that? No, no, no, no.

We don't need redundancies here. I'm just going to text it to you right now. OK. So but basically, Stephen A. Smith has been ridiculing Brawny. While we're waiting for this tweet to come in, the question is what Chris said, which is if he's in the league, which he is,

isn't he fair game? Like could he have told Stephen A. Smith, hey, stop talking about Gabe Vincent? Could he have done that? Would that be a request that's been delayed? Perhaps the light and connect. That's not one of those that LeBron does in front of everybody.

That's one of those he does in the back hallway, hey, take it easy on Dalton. I texted you two things, Squirrel Pass, Oli Yolkinen turning into a panther. Yeah, this is a terrifying look. He does look like a cat though. Not as much as Sam Reinhardt. Sam Reinhardt looks like a panther.

I'm telling you, pull up a picture of just Sam Reinhardt without him, like, take his helmet off. Oh, I love when our friends mess up, huh? There's nothing better than our friends. Oh, did we get to you? The greatest column, Sam Reinhardt. What'd I do earlier? Reinhardt.

Reinhardt. Vibes? No, not rhymes. Yeah, I was like great fight, god damn it. Alright, that's enough. Friday Rhymes. This is what Stephen A. Smith tweeted verbatim. I didn't want to have to address this. I wouldn't have either had it not gone viral. Now, I have no choice. First first at 10 a.m. Eastern then

the Stephen a Smith show on YouTube some things just have to be said that's why he's the goat yeah can you imagine some things just have to be said hundred million dollars so Tony you do MMA hangout I do know I heard it coming up the Saturday by the way. Oh, where at? New spot. American Social in Brickle. On the water, the boys are gonna be out at MMA Hangout.

I like that place right there. Come on now, so we're gonna be there, presented by Cuervo. New look, by the way, new everything, brought to you by Cuervo. UFC 313, very exciting. So, on, whenever they have, there's the Cuervo bottle right there. Whenever they have the fight posters right for the big fights

They always have like a tagline every dog has his day or whatever. Tell me that this isn't a great tagline Some things just have to be said Take a Creed poster when he fights Jonathan majors Absolutely, some things just need to be said just need to be said was so was this a favor It's like a Creed poster when he fights Jonathan Majors. Ah, absolutely. Some things just need to be said. Just need to be said. So was this a favor for Stephen A. Smith then? Because look, the whole thing about

Bronnie being criticized, like Stephen A. is not the only person that's doing it. It's not even the first person I think of. Who's the first person you think of? I just think of the inter- I think of this one dude's voice and it's just like Bronnie's on fire. I don't know what he does, but he's just like, oh, there he is with the lay. And it's like a complete air ball,

and it's just hilarious. I don't know what it is. But that's the first person I think of. To me, like this whole Brony gets bad publicity stuff, and he's being the dad, like it's such kind of BS. Like he's sort of selective protecting from him, of him. Because I remember back in the day, like I was trying to do a story on,

this was maybe six, seven, eight years ago. Actually no, he was just, yeah, so about eight years ago. He was with Cleveland, I'm trying to do a story on players whose dads played in the NBA. And you know, trying to talk to them about how they raised them, whatever. And he was like, no, I don't want my son in the media like that.

His son is already an NBA player? No, not yet. Okay. This was at the time he was still coming up and I was just like, well, wait a second. Like, first of all, I don't even have to talk to him. Just talk about you, how you raise him and your thinking of it.

But he definitely pushes him out there since then and has put him out there in the public eye more so than even I was. So Izzy, I have an example where I have an NBA player, retired NBA player, who confronted me about what I said about his son's contract. And confronted me, confronted me. Not like, hey man, why are you saying that stuff?

Ran up on me. And so then I sat there in the lobby of the JW Marriott in LA, and I just said, yo man, here's the deal. I'm talking about this stuff from a contract standpoint, from a guy who worked for teams, and when I broke it all down He was kind of like Touche it was like Ben Stiller in dodgeball. He was like, okay

And then I proceeded to have the same conversation with him two more times Like in different places one time all-star weekend and one time and so I was like wow This dude's really overprotective of his son. Like come on. He's a grown man. He's in the NBA and he's not even a rookie He's a guy's on his second deal or whatever very good guy is Current player or the the older player player the current player so I can try and figure out who the dad not like okay I think it'll be pretty obvious that decent guy decent guy, right? Michael Thomas if he tells his name we're gonna That's what I thought it was like Clay is too good to be okay.

Is it Hardaway Jr.? Who is his dad? Come on. Here's why I found out what the deal was. Because then I had a run-in with the son. And the son was decidedly not like the father. The father was like, mm-mm, and I was like, all right, man.

The son was passive aggressive, and like whispering to people like, oh, don't trust him. Like, we were in a social kind of setting and he went around whispering to everybody, oh, he's a reporter, don't, I'm not a reporter, everyone knows that, but it was like whatever, man. And then I found out that later on in the night

after I went to a different place, he shows up with his people and he was sitting behind me and the whole time he was like gesturing and stuff but then when I got up to go to the bathroom it was like oh what a jerk Del Curry is. Who is the scariest NBA dad? Oh because me Kenyon Martin would scare the hell out of me. Kenyon Martin is up there Kenyon Martin is definitely up there I'm trying to think NBA dad. Michael Thompson is not up there Michael Thompson's my buddy he's he's he's Jake Cole buddy my favorite no no Michael Thompson's my again I call him

right now would you be at the funeral? Michael Thompson? Michael Thompson would be at my funeral Michael Thompson that's that's what that's an OG right there man Clay wouldn't I don't know I don't even know Clay thinks that no knows why now I can't wait for you to die cuz that's just gonna be like a front row. Let me tell you something. But you're a maybe though, so you don't know if you're gonna be there. Yeah, I know.

I'll let you just know if me and Izzy go, we're gonna be snickering like, Izzy thought all these people were coming. With this many people coming, like there's gonna be cameras there. Like it's gotta be televised. No, no, no, no media. I've also written that in my will.

You have to sign like an NDA too. There's J. Cole's flowers over there. He didn't make it. Beetle sent flowers. Beetle will send me a cheese head in her head, in her vision or whatever. You guys know that story? No.

The story of Michelle Beetle's cheese head? No, we haven't heard that one. Michelle Beetle, when she left Sports Nation, they gave her a guest as a gift, a gag gift, a bust of her head made entirely of cheese. And you can look it up on the internet, it was the last episode of Sports Nation with her on. We presented to her, everyone was like, that was awesome.

And so for weeks leading up to Michelle's departure, I was laying claim to her cubicle because cubicle space in LA was very, very desired. So I started moving things in, I had my PlayStation in there, I had my sneakers, everything in there. So months goes by, and I talk to her in New York, and she's like, hey, so, there it is.

There's the cheese head right there. That looks nothing like her. So she's like, how's the cubicle? I said, it's great. She said, everything going good? I said, yeah. She says, everything smells all right? And I said, yes. Why do you ask? Oh, no reason. She said, when you good? I said, yeah. She says, everything smells all right? And I said, yes.

Why do you ask? Like, oh, no reason. She said, when you get back to LA, why don't you just take a look in the rummage around there? And I opened, the last drawer I pulled out, it was that head, and it was a colony of, it was an advanced civilization. They had like nuclear power.

Play your PlayStation. Yeah, they had PlayStations. There's a whole community there, and they looked up at me and they said, it is he! He has finally arrived! And they started bowing, and I closed that thing shut, and then the stench hit me. And let me tell you something. My stomach, friends, on that day

was not the strongest place to be. No. No, it wasn't. Do you think Stephen A would send a message to your funeral? Cause he wouldn't show up. He's not, no, he's not showing up. But would he do like his own voice and say this is a mean doing Stephen A?

No, I don't think so. Like, look man, you guys think I'm just naming the biggest names I can and say they'll be there. Look, I know. I mean, you went to Michael Jordan's. I don't think, yeah. Michael Jordan's gonna be there. It's fair for people to think that. Charles Barkley would be there. Shaq will be there. I mean, you went to Michael Jordan's, I don't think, yeah. It's fair for people to think that.

Charles Barkley will be there. Shaq will be there. No, Shaq will call it. You said Shaq will not be there. Shaq will send in a video. Charles will not be there. Charles will be there. Charles will not be, is it in Scottsdale?

If it's in Scottsdale, yeah. It will be. If Charles is there, Shaq's showing up. Like he won't let him one up here. No, no. Like Kenny wouldn't be there, Ernie wouldn't be there. Lefkoe, maybe. Maybe Lefkoe. Greenberg? Nah, same dude, no, like Kenny wouldn't be there, Ernie wouldn't be there. Lefkoe, maybe, maybe Lefkoe. Greenberg, nah, same dude, no way.

This is absurd. You've turned this into, I'm going to be heckling you at your funeral. You won't be the only one. I'm gonna be like, he thought. Freddie Coleman RSVP, no. So is Shaq and Charles Barkley, by the way, they'll be heckling me at my funeral too.

The other topic on that wheel was Steph Curry who yesterday continued his brilliance. Oh. Is he? You're having a day. I've died, she's having a month. We got a video actually we need to play this later of Chris's Chris having a day earlier when we were at the Clevelander. We don't have to play that random clip

that has no context with today's show. It's a perfect context. You've had a day, and that's gonna be a continuation of your day. We won't play it just yet, though. We'll play it later. Just have it queued up. All right, so Izzy Steff Curry last night,

sensational as ever. Warriors win. They've been awesome. The Lakers also won last night. They've been awesome. Charles Broccoli wants us to not talk about them because they've only been good for two weeks, according to Charles Barkley,

while the Cavs and the Thunder have been good for six months. And so Izzy, are you going to follow Charles Barkley's words? Are you gonna break the code and talk about a team that's only been good for two weeks? And that's the Warriors, right? I wanna talk about the Warriors. I wanna talk about Steph Curry,

because I was thinking about this the other day. You know, people, like, they throw around the phrase alien. It's a lot when it comes to the NBA. They're like, oh, that guy's an alien. He's a freak of nature. Usually it's with Wemby now, right? But even guys like a man, Thompson, get that. These crazy athletes.

Wouldn't be an episode of Oddball without Izzy picking up the Thompson twist. One way or another. Just saying. Steph Curry is the one person in the NBA who if there had to be, you had to tell me one person in the NBA is absolutely not from this earth, it's absolutely Steph Curry.

Like the control and the stuff that he does with a basketball is absolutely insane. And not like I've just thrown, oh, I'm Kobe, I practice left-handed shots. No, like he did, I was talking to, look at me, Louis, I was talking to DeMarcus Cousins the other day, and he was saying that whenever Steph would come into practice. Look at me, Luigi.

Unnecessary, that's positive. Did we get rid of Louis? We only have Leroy now. He would just walk into the gym, pick up a basketball. He hasn't done it yet. That was not me. Those buttons work, by the way, man. Here, if you need to see what you're doing, please.

Just pick up a basketball right off the rack, throw it behind his back, and just swish off the third basket all the way down. And it's just like, there's no way. It can't be luck. It can't be luck. And it can't be human. Like the stuff that he's doing is absolutely insane

from the tunnel, from like, even the ones that he does like 60 feet in the air and it bounces up and in and he's calling it while it's in the air, not human stuff. That's the, my kid asked me the other day, like how do they do, how does he do it? That particular one, the straight up in the ass.

I said, look man, this dude is something else. We've interviewed his trainer multiple times on Basketball Illuminati, keep your third eye open. And he tells us things, and every time, his name's Brandon Payne, I'm like, is Brandon messing with us? So for instance, Steph Curry knows his weight to the decimal.

To the decimal. Like every time, like right when he's about to step on it. Like right now, like, hey, Steph, how much you weigh today? Oh, about 202.7, and then he'll step on it, and then be like, yeah, it's 202.7. I'm pretty good at that, but not to the decimal. Like his brain, he's a math whiz. I don't know if people know that.

He's a math whiz, right? He can recite pi to like 12 places or something like that. So, but I always think to myself, how does all that tie in, right? How does the ability to do this? Remember in the finals, he's warming up in Boston, the one in Boston where he's warming up, and he looks at the rim and he's like,

that rim's not regulation. And they come out and they measure and it's like a quarter of an inch off. But like also, number one, to be able to eyeball that. Number two, the arrogance, to be like, I'm not making it like I usually make it. I'm making it, but it's not the way.

I'm hitting front rim a lot. It's not going the usual way. Hey, check that. And then they check it and it's like a quarter of an inch off. It almost can't even fix it from how little it is off. It's like, er, er, er. That's like me at a sushi buffet I can see from like a mile away. I'm like they need a new they need to refill that roll station the goy's getting a little

wasabi Yes Goys, uh, you're having a day The guys is when he goes to sushi deli How's that said yes Yes? Give it to me. Someone. You have it! There it is. Got it!

For the rest of the kids, I'm a fan. Thank you. Gleezer. Everything you just said about Steph Curry is why I'm just like, can people just stop talking about Jimmy Butler for a second?

The reason, first of all, look who they've beaten, and then look at those couple of good teams that they've beaten and who was actually playing those nights, they haven't beaten anybody. Haven't beaten anybody. All right? Yes, paper. And Steph is just doing Steph, man.

Like he is absolutely insane. Jimmy Butler got there, yeah, play a little bit harder defense, yeah, cut when you need to cut. We already know that. But Steph is just effing doing crazy shit. Like you watched him in the, what was it called? Courts of Gold, is that what, the Olympics one? Where he's basically telling him,

hey, run this ear tug thing because they can't stop. And even when they did that, it wasn't an easy shot. It was a ridiculous catch and shoot three in between two people. I got this. Like Steph is an alien doing alien shit right now and the Warriors look great as a result. That's why Draymond Green was saying we're gonna win a championship,

not because Jimmy Butler was on the team. It's because like, oh, Steph's back. 36 or about to be 37, right? Your old Steph Curry. Looks like 25 year old Steph. And so, let's throw in numbers around. And so yeah, that guy is the reason,

just go look at Jimmy Butler's numbers and I know offensive numbers are not the whole example or picture of what he's doing there. But he is not the impact that we're saying he has. This is a Steph Curry situation and if they go ahead and win it all it's because dude's gonna be healthy throughout the entirety

Of the playoffs and nobody knows how to stop that dude He doesn't didn't you tell me he doesn't take half court shots because he doesn't want to blow up the minds of all of the MBA so that was he could do that whenever the hell he wants so that wasn't that was ten years ago basically 2016 Asked Ethan Strauss. Yeah What what's something crazy that you see in practice that the Warriors don't do? And he's like, well, Steph Curry routinely pulls up from half court, like normal.

And this was before anyone was doing this, like in pickup games or anything. He would pull up from half court, and I said, why doesn't he do it in games? He said, because it would destroy everyone's mind. And then like two weeks later, that Oklahoma City shot, alien. Yeah.

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