The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: The Ruiner of Man on the Street

Episode Date: April 17, 2024

Today's Cast: Dan, Stugotz, Chris, Mike, Billy, Tony, Jessica. Ding dong, the Warriors are dead. Or are they? Nick Wright didn't invite Dan and Mike to his vow renewal. Do you have to buy a gift for somebody to celebrate not getting divorced? Happy one year at the Elser! Does anybody miss The Clevelander or just ESPN? Plus, Nick Wright was up late trolling Warriors fans after they lost the play-in game. Billy and Stugotz are going to Detroit for the NFL Draft, but Stugotz may be doing the show from Ann Arbor. Then, David Samson joins the show to discuss Pablo Torre uncovering the Knicks Tony Soprano video, why LeBron signing with Miami was the worst day of his career and his live tour extending. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to DraftKings Network. This is the Don LeVittor Show with the Stugat's Podcast. Today's episode is sponsored by DraftKings. Stay tuned because you'll hear more about DraftKings and all it has to offer throughout the show. DraftKings, the crown is yours. There is, Dugat, a lot of energy around here and a lot to talk about because it felt like the playoff started last night,

just if you were watching hockey and how it is that Washington got in. Oh, it was great. And then you're watching the playing games, which are a of the and then you're watching the play on the plane games which are a genuine success where you're watching you can tune in one game are the warriors finished are the warriors as we know them finish and are they really going out with clay thompson going over ten

over ten clay thompson that's going to be his last game that's how it sputters to an end so you saw one of the old greats extinguished and somehow lebron is beating zion at his best when the lebron is six for twenty and anthony davis is six for sixteen you've got to win that game at home road playoff games if you're new orleans you have to win that game at home you do you're the lakers you can't believe

that you want to a road playoff game the equivalent of a road playoff game with the oldest player in the league anthony davis and lebron james they played good games but they were not efficient games you have to beat them when you're at home they just got a bunch of free throws. That was a fun game to watch last night. LeBron is incredible.

He really is at 39 years of age to give you 23, nine, nine, three steals, two blocks. Incredible. But it was unfortunate because I wanted to see that game play out with Zion being healthy. That was the best game Zion has had as a pro, 40 points at home in a must-win game and he got hurt late in the game and I have no idea what happened to Zion Williamson. It was strange. Okay, but this is where I wanted to start today because the Warriors are finished. It's over. I told you that a lot of people thought that they were going to turn something on in the playoffs and it's just an old thing now and I want to put

up this tweet from miles brown because you have to understand Stu gots this thing burned hot for a decade best shooting back court we've ever seen you've lived long enough to see them revolutionize the sport they left it different than they found it the game is played totally different because of how they mastered it and showed us away three on one break what they've got two guys going to the corners they don't want the two-point shot anymore they want the three-point shot but in the middle of that a furnace

and here's what miles brown says about that furnace they were seventy three nine but this guy couldn't contain his not touching fetish. They got a top three small fall whatever and this guy ran him off. They got a top tier six man and this guy punched him in the face. He pods poorly with no respect for reality and is terrified of open jumpers. Free Steph Curry. I don't want to hear it today.

I mean it's easy to take shots and poke holes at Draymond Green today Draymond Green Was a massive part of that team winning four NBA titles and he helped recruit Kevin Durant I don't want to hear it today Okay But nothing he said there was untrue and I thought you would buy in on as soon as the game is over Fetish is strong. Free Steph Curry. Who are we talking about? I don't know. Who is he referring to? You think fetish, you think nut fetish is too strong? Nut touching fetish feels strong.

I mean he's done it a ton of times with his feet and his- Competitive advantage via nuts is probably more like it. Okay, you don't like the wording? It's just weird. He got ejected for a game in the final. He cost them a championship because he couldn't stop kicking people in the junk. Sounds like you're kink shaming. Of all people.

The NBA kink shamed him. Not me. They suspended him. Not me. I like when somebody, when a whole team builds around a crazed furnace that makes Steph Curry cry. These are solid points that he brings up. Yeah, he ran off Kevin Durant, but they also had a lot of success. And I mean, lamenting the loss of Jordan Poole is a decision,

I guess, but they won plenty. Yes. And he was a big reason. They won four titles. Yeah. I'm sure you've seen that clip of Klay Thompson explaining to Draymond on Draymond's podcast exactly why they need him out there. Even during this stretch where there was a dip in form, he was still hugely important to them. So I understand like dancing on the grave of the Golden State Warriors at this time and particularly dancing on Draymond Green's grave, but it feels like a weird flex. Hugely successful, immensely successful.

Their season was over the second they signed Chris Paul. LeBron, they almost traded for him, which would have made... He didn't want to go there. Made things interesting. I want to, give me a start of the day here. Give me the start of the day music. Start of the day, start of the day, and this is the start of the day. Start of the day, start of the day, and this is the start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,

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to go over 125 and five and finish at ninety two point seven two years ago jordan pool on the last day goes four four four on the last day to pass step curry for the free throw percentage lead from ninety two point three to ninety two point four uh... that is inside the weeds i'd just can't believe that that's statistically so. That two straight seasons, not only has Steph Curry shot exactly 92.3% from the line, but both

seasons, his teammate has passed him on the last day in free throw percentage. You think Steph cares, do you? I think about that. I think if you're that good at such a meticulous thing like that, I don't know that anyone else does. I didn't even know if I could engage the room because it's just math and who cares? It's free throw percentage. Why are these balloons here? I have no idea.

Is it Stu's birthday? It's one year here at the Elcer. It's our birthday. One year here at the Elcer, which I am eternally grateful for because you want to talk about an upgrade in terms of venue and just studio size. But I was kind of taking a back at how loud the volume No Pun Intended was

of people really enjoying the Golden State Warriors losing. And then I kind of figured it out. They didn't really get to grave dance on the Golden State Warriors when Kevin Durant left. Because if you remember how that finals ended with the Raptors beating them, Clay got injured, Kevin Durant got injured, and it was really unsatisfying because Golden State had all the excuses in the world to say you didn't actually

knock out the champ. So we've had that in reserve. We haven't really had the chance to celebrate with good reason saying definitively you're not good enough to this Golden State team in quite a while. What Mike is saying about the now of this, Stu Gotz, it is rare that you get the stage to yourself because LeBron won. LeBron won last night. Yes. So you can't turn, and even if LeBron had lost, he would have had another chance.

Something ended last night. Steph would look like he was crying on the court ramon can't stop getting injected they've got a problem with because this part is fascinating to me stugatsi i would think that winning would always be fine i would think that being better than everyone else all the time would always be fun and yet it's a pressure cooker that spits out kevin durant that makes uh...

dream on run so high that he's punching teammates in the face seems totally out out of control last night on the stage by itself we get to say before the playoffs really start goodbye to the golden state warriors as you know them immediately after the game steve curr is saying we want clay back and other people will want clay he would be a great shooter for somebody but that team was light years ahead their ownership said we're light years ahead they built that's nonsense Dan they're not light years ahead they had Steph

Curry who got no but then they got no they had competitive advantages because of what they could do around the salary cap and cut around the business they were light years ahead and the league caught up as they got old and now it's over, it's done. I mean, our basketball expert, I was telling him all season, I mean, all season, I'm like, this is finished, right?

And he was, nope, I'm still scared of them. I'm scared of playoff experience. I respect too much how hard it is to win. You just mentioned, who did you mention? Did you mention Toronto? Kawhi Leonard won one, solidified himself forever. how hard it is to win you just mentioned uh... what who did you mention to mention toronto kawaii lennard one one solidified himself forever it's really hard to do to run was falling apart since then that sacramento

team in freefall at the end of the season they didn't want slash here then the expectations came freefall that's what ended you that everybody was fearing what if they turn up that championship thing? No, they got crushed. Clay's 0 for 10 in a game that they needed. Well, Steph wasn't, you know, he wasn't great. He needed to be great last night,

especially with Clay being that off and he was not great. And people are probably celebrating, Mike is right, the fact that this team appears to be finally finished. Steph Curry is not finished. This team, the core of this team is done and people are delighting in that. It just felt like Steph had to wear all of the burden of Draymond, of Klay Thompson, of the entire team and it was almost too much for him yesterday. In the first half, he was terrible. Ellis was taking his cookies. Keegan Murray was stopping him everywhere he went.

He got off a couple of shots, but that was it. I'm amazed that we all stayed up that late to watch it, first of all. That was locked in. Second of all, I'm confused what Nick Wright did, and third of all, were you a little sad you weren't invited to his wedding thing this weekend, Dan? I'm just learning right now

that he had a wedding thing this weekend. Wow. Mike also was not invited. Yeah, I'm so glad about that. A wedding thing. Renewed valence. Really? That's a little bit more intimate, though.

It was basically a wedding, and I mean mean Joy Taylor was there but he was there you are informing me I'm learning yet you're correct should have been there I mean Jessica put it in put it on the side I want to talk about this with you because you're just teaching me something right now I'm just hearing this for the first time you're hurt Val renewal Billy do not invite me to your vow renewal. How many years is it? Well, I mean, I don't know the story there. You buy a gift for that?

No, absolutely. If you get a first wedding gift, that's it. No renewal. Billy, we all know why you weren't invited, okay? I don't know if they had a big wedding initially, and maybe this was an opportunity to like, okay, a few years come by, we'll like, let's renew our vows

and actually have a wedding to the size and scope that we didn't have before. I don't even understand the concept. We're just congratulating you on not getting divorced. That's everyone that's not divorced. They might have eloped. You don't know the deal? Who in our crew do you think is most likely to renew?

Dan. Yeah, Dan for sure. He just got married. Yeah, Dan. It's still Dan. Did the invites in the mail. I think it's funny that we're critiquing somebody else's romantic vow renewal when we have a bunch of balloons

in the studio celebrating our year in a building. I don't think that's even right, if I'm gonna be honest with you, because I got one of those flashback things that I was already in the building a week ago, so I think that we got the date wrong. By the way, when I was walking in this morning, I saw on the sidewalk right in front of the Elcer

a pack of Newports inside a half-drinking beer cup, like dip cup or something. That was mine. And I thought about the Clevelander for a second, because I was like, man, we used to see this every single day. I kind of look back the way I do, like Marlins Park is nice, very fancy,

but I look back at Pro Player and I kinda miss those days. You guys don't have any nostalgia for the Clevelander? Like a little, like there's part of me, obviously this is so much nicer, but there's things I just kinda miss that time. Man, I don't miss it at all. I really don't.

I wanna meet you there. It was so smelly. Yeah, I, there are aspects of being on ESPN I miss. That's what Christmas is. Yeah, but from the aspects of being on ESPN. I miss that what Christmas is yeah Facility standpoint now miss it every time I see McAfee on TV That's it when I got my seats for WrestleMania, I'll tell you that just every airport every television I'm there, you know and I'm on vacation at a bar just getting a virgin piña colada. I look up Pat's on every TV. I go, I used to be there.

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Last minute tickets, lowest price, guaranteed. Don LeBretard. You are very comfortable talking about how you met your wife, how much you love her, how important she is to you, and that's the reason that I asked the question. I've always admired that about you, that you have no problems whatsoever professing your love.

Well, the thing is, I got a new wife now. Me and Bianca didn't make it. So I moved on, we moved on. It was for the better for both of us. Stugots. Things just got a little awkward there So let me be the first on this show to congratulate you on the new wife Vince Congratulations on on on feeling whole feeling complete, you know Let's talk tailgating. Yeah

Don't be those don't feel awkward buddy Don't be don't don't feel awkward, buddy Appreciate you soothing me in this regard But I already feel terribly awkward and then my teammate comes to my defense with not a question Just a healthy congratulations and the further pointing out of that awkwardness because he's always good for me in those spots I'm also thinking of divorce, Vince, after many, many years, 18 years, with a partner who does things like that to you. This is the Don LeBathard Show with the StuGards. Tony, do you know where Taking His Cookies is from?

Do you know? Because you used the phrase, taking his cookies, and I think you're too young to remember where, that originated, the first time I ever heard it was about Pablo Prigioni of the New York Knicks and it was the loudest Nick fan I had ever heard to that date talking. Pablo Prigioni taking your cookies! That's right. I remember that.

From 2010, that's the first time I'd ever. It's been around since way longer than that Dan. We're talking about like annual mix tape days, real Hoopers, no back in the day, early 2000s. Okay, I just thought first time I'd ever. It's been around since way longer than that, Dan. We're talking about like annual mix tape days, real Hoopers, no back in the day, early 2000s. Okay, I just thought. I reject all cookies. I thought you were too young to know where that phrase came from,

but I will tell you now, Jessica, what happened with Nick Wright. Warrior fans, you can imagine, right? I don't know how the people listening to this feel about Warrior fans, but any fan base that does a gluttonous amount of winning and has the best thing is going to become an entitled spoiled loud fan base i don't think there's such a thing as a graceful entity inside of sports fandom if you've won a bunch like the

heat fan base any fan base that does a good amount of winning gets used to it and that one to me like imagine what the patriot fan was like last season i mean you're running bill bella check out of town and nobody even blame you cuz yep that's where he put the standard the warriors have put this standard on that they've change the entire sport and now fans are mad and they're saying steve kurr doesn't know what he's doing but understand what you saw last night that whole conference is better than them

that's they lost to a team in freefall one game for your season the game was not close nobody fears sacramento this year if it happened last year you would have understood that team was was not playing well at the end of the season and the dynasty falls to its knees when you expected something from it. And so those fans are going to be rabid about why did that just happen? Why is it over?

Why does everyone get to dance on our grave? Those fans need to get over it. They've had Steph Curry, they had Kevin Durant, they had Klay Thompson, Draymond Green, four NBA championships. Get over it. Seriously, Dan, any fan base would take that run and be happy with it. They're not over it because last night after this game, there is a time for blame. And Nick Wright has ended up, I don't know why he's doing this.

I think perhaps because he's just addicted to giving his opinion to people and winning arguments. And he's mad. He is mad because now mean and Pablo Pablo just broke that huge story yesterday Mina and Pablo are teaming up to do like celebrity game show stuff together and so Nick is up in the middle of the night pathetically desperately looking for a place to argue with warrior fans and he found it on Twitter spaces. Think we have a good idea of what our coach is and isn't incapable of doing

since we watched all 82 games this season. Of course I understand the idea that you what you are doing right there is like an appeal to authority fallacy but I will go with it that you guys are the authority but then that but if you go with it that you guys are the authority. But then that, if you wanna follow that same exact logical train, then don't you think the general manager, team president and owner watch it even closer than you guys? Like no, you don't.

I disagree with that. No, I'm saying no. Oh my God. I disagree with that. The same way that you don't watch every single game. Bro. Okay, so I mean he destroyed this entire fan base as if it wasn't destroyed enough.

He did that from his bathroom. Your kids were sleeping. That's something you do that your wife doesn't know you're doing. Yes, and this, I thought at the beginning, what I thought was happening at the beginning, I'm like, man, I've never heard Nick so reasonable, and this is a great way to do debate

when you have the winning argument. Pound the facts. Don't pound the table. And so I'm thinking to myself, he's been a real pro keeping his composure. No, he didn't want his wife to hear it. He was gonna wake up the kids. And so this is how he argued with the warrior fan base

while dancing on its grave to their faces. The way you just said about Trace and like you trying to make it sound like it's a ridiculous thing, you've got to understand something. Dario Saric, you know Dario Saric, right? Do you think that Dario Saric is a guy who can play the five? No, what I think is, here's what I honestly think, and I don't think this is a controversial opinion.

If the amount of minutes Trace Jackson does or does not get is the difference between Your team getting rocked by a Kings team in freefall and winning a championship Then you're kidding yourself Winning an argument argument whispering from the bathroom at 1 30 a.m Is something is there is a place the take has never been taken before. It almost turns down the volume on the entire argument, right, because everybody's like, all right, this guy's whispering,

I've gotta kind of also whisper too. He's got a new show, take a shit. 1.30 a.m., go to sleep. Adoose. We were all watching! We were- Not all of us. We were all awake watching the game.

If Jessica's complaining, Jessica has spent her late 20s complaining about 930 starts in the NBA, and you're watching to hate the war, or for it to be finished. Honestly, I really didn't have a dog in that fight, but I did just kind of need to go to bed after Reggie Miller's late game Analysis on if Anthony should make his free throws or not after that. I was like, it's it's sleepy time I feel like I'm going crazy. Is he okay? All right, let's let's play that for the audience

Here's things that you talk about on the bus As players if he makes the first one You're up three. Do you try to purposely miss the second one knowing that they don't have any timeouts and they've got to go coast to coast. Cause as soon as you miss it, time is going to start as soon as it's touched. Or do you just make them both be up four and game over.

These are things that are disgusting. Yeah. It's not disgusting. It's not. I'm going to take the game. Jesus, Reggie. It's not disgusting enough. I mean, my God. He's right, it's not. I'm gonna take the game over option, Reg. I'm not, basketball's not my favorite sport. I have other sports that I understand the Xs and Os of a lot more than basketball, and when even I'm watching it

and I'm like, that doesn't sound right, then you know it's bad. Jessica, I want to, when you say that doesn't sound right, I called Billy into the room here before the show because i what i was genuinely curious about something that was on the tv screens in here that i was learning of for the first time just like i learned that nick right renewed his vows uh... there and a cold chill ran through me jessica when you inform me of that on air i did not know how to react because it swept through me

with uh me with pain that I had not been invited to that because I thought Nick and I were closer than that. I can't imagine how much it hurt Mike. But when I walked in here today. I'm good. Well, before you say you're good, wait till you see what I'm about to show the audience.

Can you put behind me, please, the promo for what Billy and Stugs are doing for God blessed football? So right behind me. They're going to Detroit draft city and you see that as a lovely image behind me for some reason that is Billy and I'm told Stu gots That are in not me in kiss makeup, but I'm pretty sure it's Adam Lefkoe. It is not Stugats. Like that. Is it Jojo Siwa?

There is, it might be Jay Leno. It is not Stugats. I don't, I see Billy in there with Kiss Makeup, but when I look at this other person, this other person is in no realm Stugats. That's Stugats. That's him. I mean, how do you not know that that's Stugatz? You sit right next to him, and Stugatz is saying that's him.

I'm gonna need to check dental records on that one. It doesn't look like him. It looks like it's somebody with a far bigger chin than him. Yeah. When I was younger days, I was like two years ago at the Cleveland Earth. Well, what is that? What are you guys doing?

You guys are gonna be in Detroit? The first time learning of this is- No idea, the Motor City. Well, guys is that? What are you guys doing? You guys are gonna be in Detroit. This is the first time learning of this. No idea, the Motor City. Well, guys, very exciting, and I guess this is the announcement. Next Thursday, we're gonna be doing a draft watch-along. Wow! Multi-city draft watch-along will be happening.

That's what these balloons are for. They told us about one year, it's to celebrate. A multi-city draft watch along. You can join us at 8 p.m. And we're gonna be taking you roughly between 8 p.m. and the Dolphins pick-ish. Dan, be honest. You're asking for a printout of this

to go home with tonight, right? Whoa, this doesn't look like Stugatz to me. I saw the table move a couple of times. He's jealous he's not in the graphic. That is Stugatz. Look, that's him. And we're gonna be joined by some friends. Stugatz is gonna be on scene in Michigan. We's not in the graphic. That is Stugats, look, that's him. And we're gonna be joined by some friends. Stugats is gonna be on scene in Michigan.

We're not on the scene, he's gonna be in Michigan. In Arbor. Yeah. Where's Lefkoe gonna be? Stugats will be up in Michigan. He's gonna be there with Mikey A reporting live. I'm gonna be here holding down the fort with Jess, with Tony, Juju will be here.

More friends will come along. You guys are welcome to attend if you'd like. And then we're gonna be trying to check in with Lucy, we're trying to figure out exactly the legalities of that situation, because she's gonna be at the draft. He's in Michigan? Talking to the fans, yeah, he's gonna be in Michigan. Are you writing off this trip?

Oh, of course. Because you're in the state that the draft is being held, but not the city? He'll be in Michigan. So Northwestern plays at Michigan on Sunday, winner wins the Big Ten, I'll be writing this all off, I'm very happy about that. Then I just take a little 30 minute drive

down to the Motor City and cover the NFL Draft. How about that? You can actually go, I think we can say where they're gonna be. If not, we'll just clean this up somehow. Stugatz is gonna be at the Draft King Sportsbook in Michigan, so it's open to the public. You can go and visit him.

You can visit Mike Ye. You can take in the draft along with Stu Gatz in Michigan. Stu Gatz looks like Mrs. Doubtfire with the pie on her face. Doodaloo! Were you accusing me of being jealous that I don't get to be at the NFL draft? No, they're dressed up. Dressed up, dressed up.

Didn't you go to a kids' concert dressed up? Do you not know Cannon? I did. How offended was Nick Wright when someone asked him, Do you know who Dario Sarich is? Don Lebatard! We love you, we've got you, we've all got each other. Let's go. Right. Now. Stugats!

One, two, three, Brett. One, two, three, Brett! This is the Don Lebatard show. With the Stugats. ["The Stugats Show Theme"] We skipped over yesterday a little too quickly, Stugats. The news that Pablo Torre was breaking on Pablo Torre Finds Out, I do find amusing that a couple of weeks ago, a more difficult story that is legitimately scandalous

where you've got mortgage crisis at the top of the NBA, you have two owners in Dan Gilbert and Matt Ishbia who don't like each other and it was legitimate great reporting and a scandal that is super interesting and it didn't resonate the way that yesterday's news coverage resonated because pablo tori unearthed on pablo tori finds out

the recruitment video that uh... the nicks tried to use on lebron james and stugat it's not just that they ruin the sopranos they also ruin the sopranos story by having by telling us the ending that tony soprano snitches at the end and ends up in witness protection but let's play that clip for david samson yes going on some glad we moved to new York. Life is so much better now.

Yeah. Life's good here, Colm. Even if we are in the witness protection program. Now, we just got to find a place for your friend LeBron to live. What's he like? He's a modern guy, but he respects tradition. You're something classy on the East Side.

Was he big enough? He's going to be entertaining a lot of people in New York. It's very expensive. Oh, that's not gonna be a problem. You gotta find something magnificent. Something that's nothing in the world like it, one of a kind, like he is. Well, here's a place.

Says it gets really loud there. Take a look. Oh yeah. Yeah, that's it. That's gonna be perfect for him. Allow me to reintroduce myself. My name is. Oh my God. Oh my God.

Jesus Christ. So that story has exploded. Pablo Torre finds out that video will be the most watched that he's had. What did you make of all of it, David? Because that's one minute of it, but it's 10 minutes of recruiting lebron of course those videos never mean anything

and you spend you get a mandate from your honor hey we're trying to get this free agent let's get celebrities let's put their name on the marquee will do a jersey with their name and players don't care about that they really don't the broad in watch that video and say oh i want to be a nick it didn't even occur to him to care.

It's great that Pablo unearthed he found out but from a practical standpoint, it was pretty meaningless. Wow, you really suck the air out of that. Yeah, what do you want me to tell you do you want me to tell you wow that video did it. I can't believe LeBron took his talents to South Beach. What did the Heat do to get LeBron? Their video must have been amazing,

showing him Fisher Island or Star Island or Fantasy Island. That's not what happened. He became a Heat. That was the worst day of my career when LeBron took his talents to South Beach. Why? I was in an elevator on the road because I knew that was it,

total irrelevance for all teams in Miami because LeBron, he was in his prime coming to Miami, and we had survived the Shaq stuff, but now it was over, and I knew it the minute he said it. And it had been rumored, but I didn't want it to be true, and it was. What did the video look like that you guys did for Heath Bell?

It just, it was the game Hangman. It was not a video. It was Billy's Bites. It was, you're gonna pay me how much? I'm in. That's actually exactly what happened, if you want to know. Tastes like a lot.

I saw the pitch, I know that's what happened. Yeah, we offered him an extra year than anybody else, and we had been told he was the cream of the crop. He basically crapped on the crops. That's the way recruiting goes. It goes with contract length and in the NBA, it goes with who you can be with, how you maneuver the cap. It's not about Spike Lee or it's not about Gloria.

Stefan is just not about that. You're just awfully cynical. And I think crapping on crops would help grow them but you're awfully cynical of going just at every point it's all about money only money matters uh... it might not sway the decision but you're not gonna tell me that it's not cool to sit there and watch the most popular television show of the time uh... you know pretend to give you a new ending with actors of our time

uh... what do you do when you saying that doesn't mean anything to anybody? I'm saying when they were in the conference room watching the video, I'm not even sure they were watching the video. If you ask LeBron what I would like to have seen on the episode and I asked Pablo whether or not he would speak to LeBron about this, I wanna know what LeBron was thinking during that meeting because he

was meeting with a bunch of teams at the time. Did he have any recollection of any part of that video? And I would say we're Draft King's to lay odds. It would be three to one that he couldn't name one part of the Knicks video. He remembers laughing at it. I'm totally with David. Like Pat Riley walking in, dumping rings on a table. That's what gets LeBron James. I will tell you that when Pat Riley was trying to recruit LeBron back in Vegas, to David's point, that LeBron and his guys

had to be asked to turn off the World Cup because their feet were on the table and they weren't listening to the recruiting pitch. They were watching a World Cup game. I imagine LeBron living the meme and just saying, I knew he was in witness protection. I had actually called that. I knew that the entire time.

What I love about that episode of Pablo Torre Finds Out is that Pablo, as such an important journalist, he wants to be known for what he does in journalism. And you sort of buried the lead a little bit. He's way more proud of the Ishbia episode that didn't nearly resonate the way this did, and this is not resonating because of the journalism or because he found out anything.

It's resonating because people are saying, wait a minute, now we know how the Sopranos ended, and that's being associated with the problem. It's not just that. It's not just that. I'm sorry. It's not just that. Everyone loves a leaked video. Everyone loves a leaked video.

Well, mostly leaked sex videos, not leaked recruiting videos. Showing your hand there. Wow. I made a leaked scandal video. Like, that's something that will... What are you doing? What are you doing? What was the scandal in this?

I'm just talking, like Draymond Green, the the TMZ video anything that's leaked is made more salacious But David saying this isn't a scandal was just a pitch Did he dip it in pain? I mean no the skin it is a scandal that the scandalous part of this was can we laugh at? The Knicks because they botched a sure thing they botched the play a generational talent. How did they botch it? They'd heard rumors of a video and the video confirms the incompetence. That is why this is, it's not just the Sopranos, David. That's part of why this is resonating.

I'm sorry, I've missed the whole thing. You're saying that LeBron is not a Nick because of that video? I am saying that this story is resonating because you have a leaked video. You have a video that people have wanted to see that is not supposed to be in someone's possession. Nobody gave a flying rat's ass about the video.

What they're talking about is the Sopranos ending and the fact that it's not the blackout. David, are you not familiar with how rabid and passionate Knicks fans are? Like you're talking about a pop culture thing and you're ignoring how crazed Knicks fans are about this. We're at 2C though, we have Jalen Brunson. Like you're ignoring that part of what's happening now is New York is getting resuscitated, something that hasn't been here in a long time,

which is the world is laughing at us. Watch us, we're gonna prove them wrong. We've got lovable Jalen Brunson. Their fan base is being laughed at again today it's allowed proud fan base don't tell me that the next fan that isn't at the center of this because it's it allows everybody to laugh at the next. I don't want to create any issues I love metal arc and I

love Pablo I'm in New York City and I'm sort of around town. Nobody's talking about that part of it. Nobody. You're sort of around the streets, Dan. Like, what does that even mean? He's a man of the people. It's got to be in Michigan. Yeah. What does that mean?

You're sort of around. It means that yesterday, if you feel that I must tell you, I got back from Nashville where I did a show and I'm on my way to Pittsburgh, but I stopped in New York City to unpack and pack. But my girlfriend asked me to go to Times Square to do a scavenger hunt in order to prepare for something that she's doing for the children she teaches.

So I was in Times Square for an hour and a half. And instead of paying attention to her and what she was doing, I was asking people Square for an hour and a half. And instead of paying attention to her and what she was doing, I was asking people about the Pablo episode. Wow, David Sanchin finds out. A little research. Bing bong. And it turns out whether it was tourists or not,

the ones who had seen it, all they wanted to talk about was the Sopranos. It wasn't, oh, woe is me, we didn't get LeBron. Never came up. Coming for Lucy's stuff. to talk about was the Sopranos. It wasn't, oh, woe is me, we didn't get LeBron. Never came up. Coming for Lucy's stuff. The saddest man on the street. You should, you should do, we should rebrand you

as the Ruiner of the Man on the Street interview. The saddest man, where you're just lonely and trying to hide in your work instead of your life, and you're just wandering around asking people Your tourists from Guatemala Inside You said you wandered away from your life to do sad man on the street interviews. We all heard it the same way. I'm not revealing anything about your life.

You're revealing it. It wasn't my finest moment. There are no Knicks fans in Times Square also. Just tourists. There's businesses around there. There's office buildings. And it's funny, I wanted to make sure it wasn't just tourists.

You buying a hot dog and just, let me ask you. You should do it, Dave. Like you're undercover to the dog vendor. I would like for you to do that. Can David Sampson do sad man on the street interviews where you get us 12 and a half minutes of content where we could. If you are in the New York area and you saw David Samson

just cupping his ear to a halal card, please let us know. Samson, how's the tour going? I heard some tension yesterday with Cody making fun of it. The tour is about to end. I think you've done a brave thing trying to hustle your way. What did Cody do? Greg Cody. Oh, what did Greg Cody do? I didn't hear it. He was talking to crowds, the size of the crowds, you know, the fact that you're a tour, all of it. I, I, I, they've been great crowds. There's been great engagement. Every stop is fun.

It ends in New York on the 29th, where Pablo will be there. And Dan, you've been threatening to come. I don't know if you will. But it's been we talked about Nashville sports. We're going to talk about Pittsburgh sports tomorrow. There's a lot to talk about with Russell Wilson. So I've loved it. So I've been asked to continue the tour in different cities.

So I'm going to Chicago and St. Louis dates to be announced. Miami, maybe even Montreal. So the tour has been extended. I would have heard that stuff. Wait a minute. The tour has been extended. I was offered.

Remember the tour is yes, it's a profitable tour in every way. It's good for metal arc. It's good for me. It's good for nothing personal. And I love it. It's a lot of work because I still do the 8 a.m. live shows where I had fun talking about Reggie Miller this morning. But I don't mind traveling.

I don't mind escaping my life. Are you allowed in Canada? Montreal seems like a bad idea, David. Like, honestly, don't go back to Montreal. No, Montreal is such a great city. It's been so many years that it's been 20 years. It's enough already. Since what?

Since very bad things happened. Caused by whom? He stole the Expos. He brought them down here. I was being sarcastic. I know what happened. Okay, well I'm explaining to the audience lest the audience not know.

They might not, they might just associate him with the Marlin stuff, not also the Expo stuff. I'm guessing there are large swaths of our audience that don't know a Montreal Expo's ever existed. Tony, can you name an Expo? Vladdy. Boom. A second one? If it's our audience, it's because of senility. More with Samson next.