The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: The Worse Question

Episode Date: May 29, 2025

Let's take a trip to the local watering hole and have Dan regale us with stories of his recent game of 1-on-1 with a 17-year-old. Today's cast: Dan, Amin, Andrew Hawkins, Roy, Chris, Jeremy, and Mike. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Oh, let's get into it. Andrew Hawkins. Your team, Roy, Mike, and Chris Cody, is the best postseason thing on the road there has been over three years. There's no such thing as another team that's been better going into somebody else's arena and snatching away things.

Carolina being good at defense and Florida not caring about that and putting up five and six goals a game in their place and making them change goalies, making their coach answer the question when he's asked, is your team fragile? He says, I don't know. Hawk, you tell me, if your one in 31 Browns,

if the coach was asked, is my team fragile, and his answer was, I don't know, how's that one going over in the locker room? Well, first off, I wasn't a part of the one in 31 Browns in its entirety. I was a part of the one in 15 Browns. Just entirety. I was a part of the one in 15 Browns. Just half. I was half of it.

Yeah. And must I say the winning half of that. Yep, the better half. We had that in there as well. Is there a winning? It is the better half. Is there a winning? Is there a winning?

One season had a win, the other one didn't. Yep. Double the win total. Wait a minute, that's not math, that's right. You need to talk to my math friends. Also 6x the win total, whatever we wanna do. Feels like double. We could throw it all on there.

It's infinite, infinite amount of extra wins. Yeah, if you asked my one in 15 coach if our team was fragile after going one in 15 and he said I don't know, I would say thank you for saying that. Put it on the poll Juju please, does one feel like double of zero? This is the Don LeBattor Show with the Stoogats Podcast.

I'll run the folks off who don't want their hockey in a second because I do want to talk about the Panthers and there's something specific I want to talk about with the Panthers because they are better than the team that won the championship. It does not mean they will win the championship but when I tell you they're 8 and 2 on the road this postseason with a plus minus on goals of plus 27 through 10 road games it has no precedent in the league this is all supposed to be harder than this and When I've told you through three rounds, I'm scared of everybody

It's because you should be when everyone is even and you're headed into something as random as the postseason where a goalie can beat you but what they're doing in the postseason has no precedent in being able to go on the road and just ravage people. They won the championship last year, they didn't do that, they did not do that. Well they didn't have to, they had home ice. No, no, no, they planned to play on the road and they were not overwhelming on the road when they had to. I ask you, Hawk, you've played in hostile places. Hockey playoffs are hard, harder on the road. No one's ever been eight and two with a goal differential of 27. It's never happened before in all the time that ICE has existed.

I hear you and I know what you're saying. We need to turn our barn into a road barn. Is that what you're saying? Start booing our own players? I'm saying overwhelming on the road is exactly what you want if you're a team that comes into the playoffs and isn't one of the top seeds. You can cherry pick them being good on the road.

Last year you could cherry pick that they were good at home. They can beat you any number of ways. They can go in the mud with these teams that want to turn games into rock fights and be better at it than them. Uh, Edmonton is a bit of a concern if it is Edmonton, if we're, if you're getting into a track meet up and down the ice, Florida's speed isn't quite there, but they showed last year after they can

figure those teams out too and beat them. They can, this is one of the greatest runs a franchise has had in the history of the sport. They only have one trophy to show for it. We'll see. But in the modern era only they are the fourth team to pull this off go to three consecutive cup finals What are you smiling about? I mean they were throwing up images behind Mike of Various Panthers first of all like Florida Panthers holding this trophy then other Panthers and then one of a Transformer. And I don't know why this Transformer counts as a Panther. I think it's known as a Panther. It's a Panther of some sort.

It's not a must-be. But I'm a Transformers fan. I don't remember Panther being in Transformers. Maybe I could be wrong. I could be corrected, but what? Well, they are robots in disguise. They are. I just like the idea of Chris's road barn at home.

So what, do you just like the idea of Chris's road barn at home. So what do you want? Like one section of fans that are specifically dedicated to heckling the Panthers to try to get under their skin and make them play more like they're on the road. I'm just with Dan the last few weeks. This this team just something happens on the road and we just got to switch something up at home. The vibes at home they're just not the same. I'm so much more confident at my local water at the Brightside watching a game on TV than I am at the barn. Because-

Did you just wanna say watering hole and got scared? Absolutely he did. He wanted to give somebody some shine. Yeah, I was gonna say where it was last night. I'm with all you guys. Now seems like the perfect time to change something. Minor penalty, two minutes rambling. That's me? Yeah, it's you. Your local water and then you just did a promo and ad for, you wanted the local establishment to get some love?

Yeah, you get out of here. Dan, I just want to point out on the DraftKings Sportsbook app, the over was on, the line was on Jeremy being the first penalty of the day, so anyone who bet not Jeremy, you win. Yeah, that was 11 straight shows where I had been the first penalty, so real upset here. Minus 3,000. I had a ticket for Ramin,

and when he started going on that Transformer bet, I was like, I'm about to catch. Get me the information, please, on Transformers. The thing that I wanted to get to before, though, the hockey, and I know I will run you off with the hockey and I do not care because we have not had something this excellent around here. Excellence is a little hockey.

Thank you. In sports. Come on. He thinks he's great at everything, he is great at many things athletically, but he's obsessed with two things. One, he's obsessed with flag football because if I were as quick as him,

I too would be obsessed with flag football. I'd wanna play against everybody. But because that seat, I mean, I've accused Stugats of having Dunning Kruger, which is someone who believes that they are excellent at everything, even if they don't have a lot of proof that they are excellent at everything, even if they don't have a lot of proof that they are excellent at those things.

And Hawk, at 42 years old, is telling me that he is thinking about, and he has not announced this publicly. Yeah, thank you for that. Yeah. Now the whole world is gonna know what my plans are at 42. Would you like to tell them, or would you like me to tell them? Well, we're already down this road now.

You gotta finish it out. Also, Dunning-Kruger sounds like a middle reliever for the Royals from the competitive fight. It does. Yeah. Off speed, keeps you off balance. Weird wind up. Are you trying to go to the Olympics?

I didn't say I was trying to go to the Olympics. I said I think I could. Hawk, let me tell you something. As the only person here who has any Olympic experience. Please, give me some mentorship here. It is absolutely, if you have the opportunity, you gotta go for it. You gotta go for it.

What are the, what are the, what are the downside? Put all the chips in the middle of the table. Why not? Yeah, just give it a try. What's the worst that happens? You don't wanna live, you don't wanna live old, and graying and thinking, man, I could've won an Olympic medal. That one year.

Yeah, and it said I got scared because the Levitard Show guys were making fun of me. You're, that's a great point, cause here, I will be 42. I'm not 42 now. Right now I'm 39. So I'm in my 30s, my late 30s, my latest 30. I'm in my latest 30. And I don't work out very often. You work out enough though. But I work out enough. Enough.

And I feel like if I can really put the pedal to the metal, there will be a chance. Surely you're not going for 42 year old sprinter You must be going in one of the like you're not going for You have him on the pommel horse did ya? You think that I'm the idiot? I just want to be clear on this miscommunication Okay, cool runnings. You guys think that I'm the idiot because he might think that he could be in the Olympics in any Category you think I'm you think I've got that wrong in overestimating what his arrogance wow confidence might be

Yes, yes Thank you your question. Thank you. Yes It was very clearly flag football because we would just assume the rest of the world is going to be pretty terrible at it And we can actually win the gold with a 42 year old Andrew Hawkins out there being wide receiver one Thank you so much. That's exactly what my thought process is Hawk. I have a very controversial question Okay, let's just assume because we've getting a lot of rumblings from the flag football players. Hey, why are you dressed like an 80s rapper? Well, can we address that first? I'm a panther.

Okay, panther, got it. That's the panther you went with, all right. He likes to do that without it ever being explained. He's been doing this artwork for many years where he comes in and wears something and hopes no one asks, and then four people get what he was doing. I'm not the guy for that, baby.

Wow, when one person tweeted me like, were you doing this? I'm like, yeah, I was like, oh, that was so funny. I'm like, that's right. When? But to the point, right, let I'm like, yeah. I was like, oh, that was so funny. I'm like, that's right. When? But to the point, right, let's just assume, because the flag football players, they're making a lot of noise.

Like, hey, they don't want NFL players up in here. They want, they say, we worked hard to make this sport legitimate, and now at the cusp, we're gonna take it away from us. Would you consider suiting up for our neighbors to the north? For Canada? Yeah, like if the flag football people have their way

and say no, this is our thing, team USA is going straight flag football players, would you consider? Would I commit the treason? I'll go another way, not just the treason of that, hold on, let me go another way, because I told the story recently. That's a damn good question.

I think I'm gonna ask you a better one. Oh, okay. Dunning-Kruger over here. I was gonna say, it looks like a couple of them, Dunning-Kruger. Well, but Dunning-Kruger I was gonna say, it looks like a couple of us have Dunning Krueger. Well, but Dunning Krueger is when you have an ability or the thought that you have a skill you don't have. Asking questions.

Yeah, well, I would say flag football, but I digress, continue. I thought it was all of the Olympics though. That's why I choose you. You don't have Dunning Krueger for thinking you could be in the Olympics in flag football. I diagnosed you with Dunning Krueger because I thought you thought I was gonna go in a hundred meter dash Got it total operator error from Dan there. Thank you was it was obvious the rest of the world bad at flag football

We're good throw out 42 year old Andrew Hawkins. Come on. Again. I feel like I could be forgiven for Overestimating that he had more for overestimating that he had more confidence than I. That I overestimate myself. Overestimating my overestimation. I mean, that's pretty bold, dude. Would you play for another country if you were eligible? Yeah. I just asked that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, I'm trying to get to the answer. But hold on. I'm trying to get to the answer. I've got the question, if you let me ask it and stopped. It's a better question he's got, guys. Clear out. I told you guys the story of when it is that I was introduced to Qatar or Qatar as a country. First time I saw it was at the Olympics.

It was weightlifting and Qatar was trying to launder all of the things that it was trying to launder by getting the Bulgarian weightlifters to represent their country, and those Bulgarian weightlifters all fled the Olympic Village with diarrhea because they were all steroiding, and so the steroid-addled Bulgarian lifters were representing that country while cheating. The question to you is, if I could get you

international fame as a flag football star, would you sell your soul to a country that has all sorts of human rights issues in exchange for that fame? Is money attached to the fame? Yes, of course. How much money? Oil money. Oil money, okay. They take care of you.

I think it would be a discussion. No, I'm kidding. I would not sell my soul for like a discussion. No, I'm kidding. I would not sell my soul for a discussion. Counterpoint. It would have to be a guaranteed contract. There you go. Okay, guaranteed, we're good. Because as a counterpoint,

this country's gonna have some human rights violations on its own, and we don't like that. We always think it was our way. I think we've reached consensus back here. Worst question. Yeah, thank you. Wow, yeah, that's it. Dining Kruger. You threw in human rights. Just overly complicated. It was such a fun hypothetical.

We were probably going to get a yes if you had. Why would you do that? He would have gone to Canada. We need to be better. This close to playing for the Canadian Olympic flag football team. We were on the verge of cheese. Canada's right there. He played in Canada. I played in Canada. I lived in Montreal. It would be an easy It would be a good story Absolutely, that's the reason to make it a more difficult decision because you chose the easy of course I'll do the traitorous thing to be in Canada. Give me a number. I'm a business I said oil money. I said oil money is you know, I don't Need some zeros on that would you line up for the Dominican Republic if they came?

They do not have the money. You want to be an Olympian? They don't have. Yeah, I'd definitely do the DR. What's it for, like an all expenses paid trip? What are you doing it for? A cruise for me and my family. Well, because you're working on whatever the sports version of the EGOT is, right?

Right. You got a lot of interest. If I can get an Olympic gold medal to add to that thing Oh my gosh, you're talking about Dunn and Krueger As I could say someone was one of an Olympic gold medal yes There's nothing like like it premium. I do think I can play in the Olympics though I went and watched some film so after those those comments came out from the flag football players no great football players Don't salute don't get me wrong salute to the USA

from the flag football players. And they're great football players. Don't get me wrong. Salute to the USA national flag football team. They're on the record saying that NFL guys wouldn't be better at what it is that they're doing, right? Yeah, and I don't agree with that. But I think their sentiment is more, we don't need them. And that is true because America is where football is born.

We obviously are the experts at flag football, even for those who aren't as athletically and skill-wise gifted as the NFL players. But I did liken it to the three-on-three team that came in next to last place in the Olympics. Now, there's a bunch of rules of why the NBA players aren't there, but I would even say, go get former NBA players and that team does a lot better in the Olympics than it did, which was led by Jimmy Ferdette, who got hurt. But still, it's like, yeah, what are we, why are we messing around here?

Jimmy Ferdette, that's a fine, but I'd like to ask you, how about open tryouts, right? Like, you guys are better than us, cool, prove it. Yeah. Open competition. I think that's where I'll thrive. I think that's how I'll make the team. Him running around?

We do one-on-ones? Come on, you think a flag football player could keep up with this guy? Bro, I'm telling you, I'm not, I get it, I understand. When's the last time you tested your quick? Yeah, ladder drills. Last time I tested my quicks, like three weeks ago, there's a kid, high school kid that I'm like,

I think you have potential. I matched him up with another quarterback that's going to college to go take him and run routes so I can get a look at him. The other receiver didn't show up, so I jumped out there. Uh-huh, and I'm like like riding a bicycle, right? I still got it Goddamn your boys change of direction 2011 all over like three weeks ago, man Sort of the opposite thing happened with me where I'm gonna shock you guys by telling you this for the first time

and I'm gonna say about 15 years. I played basketball the other day. No way. No way. Yeah, just one on one against a 17 year old. Oh no. That was a bad idea though. Well I did win. Okay. But. Was it their first time?

He was terrible and so was I. Like I did not have the experience that you had where I felt good about beating the 17 year old. All I did was I hope no one sees me and recognizes me playing this 17 year old and sees how terrible I am now. So you understand the rules, right? You take this ball, you gotta keep dribbling. What dribbling is when you bounce it off the ground

with one hand, if you put two, that's a penalty. Halt, you missed the first statement, which says, welcome to America. On Memorial Day, I went to go see Mission Impossible. Now my tradition is to get out of my car and sprint full speed to the movie theater. I always do that any Mission Impossible movie. Your tradition.

That is my tradition for the last six movies. I've done that. Go to the theater, get out of my car, full sprint. Do you videotape it? Like put it on social? No, no, no. This is just for me. It's ridiculous.

That's ridiculous. I keep hoping that someone's going to jump in and we can have a nice little moment. Doesn't happen. Anyways, my asshole just fell out. OK. I lost it. It fell on the floor.

It's there in Tamiyami if you want it. How old are you? 39. If you want it. How old are you? 39, also in my latest 30. Latest 30, yep, the last one. Dan, I need some of the details of this basketball game. Are we at an outdoor court? Are you flop sweating?

Who is this 17 year old? How did you come to play each other in basketball? Outdoor? It was outdoor. You're mad. Well, it wasn't this hot. It was three weeks ago when the heat just got. It's still made, brother.

Same day as hot. Is it the court on the beach, or are we talking like a driveway court? It's on the beach. Oh, okay, so you got the, it's still hot, bro. No, it wasn't that hot, it was fine. The heat was not the problem, it was the game. Okay, the moving around.

The moving around was the problem. Who challenged who? The age. Picture you out there with the ball in your arm. Do you check it? Do you check it? Yes. You guys, Dan coming out with the,

throwing the ball like, hey, little ones, and he throws it hard at the kid. Do you check it? Little ones Throws it hard at the kid that sweatband and goggles or just the sweatband I'm gonna guess that the kid actually asked you if you wanted to play one on one he did of course yes I was just shooting I was just there drills come on if you haven't played in 15 years. You're not gonna Looking for that played in 15 years, you're not gonna... Yeah, you're not looking for that smoke. So hold on, you were already out there, just getting some gays up?

Yes. So you were warmed up. Ball is life. Ball is life, I mean, that's one thing we can all agree on. What inspired that? Is that something you regularly do? Was it your ball? It was my ball.

I like, you guys have a lot of questions. One way to exercise that I enjoy is just sort of running full court, you know, lay ups, jump shots, just running back and forth full court. Instead of just running, jogging empty, I'm throwing in some, some shots. Like Kurt Russell in an Escape from LA, just full court, run up, take a jump. No, that's a good workout. I'm gonna be on Dan's side here. That's better than just jogging because that gets boring and it's, you get mentally you want to quit, you're like, it's over. You give yourself a little task a little hoop

It's like I'm building skill as well as getting the run in somebody missed an opportunity though to just catch that and like put it on social media Once I started shooting and missing I I became afraid of that I checked my Jimmy When you say when you ask the question did he know who you were? I was looking for that recognition, because if he did, I would not have been playing against him. Yeah, but did you see his cell phone

and where it was set up? Was it like laying somewhere, potentially recording him? He lost, he lost. I took him out like 11 to four or something. You think that he's not gonna go back and edit it and just have his four buckets and you bricking over and over again? There is no way to edit this

and they have not made the intelligence artificial enough to make any of this look good, I assure you. All of this would be embarrassing to me if anyone in the world saw it, but when I got home, Valerie, I beat a 17 year old, 11 to four. Oh man, what an ego stroke that must be. How'd you do it? Low pose, you 11 to 4. Oh man. What a what an ego stroke that must be low pose You sound like a prosecutor

You gotta teach these kids, man. Like a molded chair. You sound like a prosecutor. I think it's a little black kid. One of my- Grown teenager. Indicted for murder. That's right. Try him as an adult when you get in the post. I don't remember, it was many years ago,

but I think his name was Tracy McGrady. The thing about all of it that is embarrassing to me is just whatever it is you were versus what you are. One of my favorite questions to ask on Highly Questionable was to ask athletes, when did you stop playing against your oldest son? And the answer's always, always, the first time he beat me. So LeBron's just gonna keep going forever, huh?

Goodness gracious, man. LeBron's gonna be 84 or so. Do you understand that mindset as both an athlete who likes physical contact and someone, you'd run up the score on a child. I would, I have. I'm not gonna lie and say I'm above that. I think when it's hard, it's good.

So I put that pressure on my kid to let him know, hey, there's no easy buckets out here. How old is your oldest? He's 13. Okay, so I got a 14 year old and my 14 year old has gotten close and every single time, you gotta put it full throttle and all types of old man strength,

like ah Knocking the side it's getting close cuz he's really coming into his athletic self like last year I could beat him in a race still I haven't raised him yet this year. It's on the docket, but I've retired He's in the 11th now and like 11th in the hundred as a 13 year old pretty damn fast You just got to stop racing. You gotta do other things. I'm okay with losing. It's like a rite of passage. I will say I'm different and I want my son to beat me. Like that's gonna be a proud moment for me

when my son just gives me the Usain Bolt look as we cross the finish line. I'm gonna be like, just a slow clap, teary eyed, like, you're ready. Now, we've done this before, but it's been a few years. We did like the Patrick chewing derivatives. Tracy McGrady. Yeah, we've done that before,

but it's been a couple of years. We've got Paul Gorge already, so in the chat, if you wanna name Dan as a basketball player, Shane Gillis Alexander as a layup. This is the one, Mike, we gotta do new players, right? So let's make a rule. It's gotta be players last five years since COVID. Well, it can't be any more Dirk Notfinsky.

It can't be any more Patrick Chewing. Yeah, next gen. 2000 draft class and up. Someone just said, obese topping. There you go. I like that. Tyrese Halleberger. Yeah, there we go.

Okay, we're cooking right now. What else you got? Hold on, okay. We're cooking right now. What else you got? Hold on, man. Yes, obese topping, yes, that's right. That's right, obese topping is what they hit me with and you threw your head back with laughter. Oh my gosh, man. I just looked to my left and one of your teeth was sparkling and made a dinging sound

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It's fresh. It's a good thing. Eat one more. I cheated he's pretty Speaking of which Tyler you know Leland Brunson. Whalen Brunson, I like that. We haven't even gotten to the chat yet. These are just coming to us. This is just off the dome in studio. Ham out of bio. TJ McDonald's.

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I thought the context was applied. We'd like to rip that out of context. I was going for a thing. And I have a family. You're going to pretend here that you don't love Matthew Kachak more than you love anybody you've ever loved? I don't love Matthew Kachak more than my daughter. Stugats!

Now it's pretty damn close. This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats. ["Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy"] Speaking of McDonald's, Hawkins is here to tell you that the chicken tender is wildly underrated. Oh man. I'm skeptical.

Why are you skeptical? Are you talking about the McRispy strips? Oh my gosh. Are you in on this? I had one and it was bad. It was not crispy. I also, same. It was not crispy.

We have a group chat, like no one's had a good experience with this. You're the first good experience. In fact, if you look at social media to McDonald McDonald's whenever they talk about the McRispe strips They get just torched social media hates this thing However, we'll say if it's just simply a vessel for the sauce that they made for this. That's fine They got new sauce. Oh, yeah, they got new sauce. I just expected it to be like a different shaped chicken nugget That's what I wasn't everything. I think that's the fact like a different shaped chicken nugget. And it wasn't. I think just the fact that it was different

was like, oh, okay McDonald's, I see you shaking it up a bit. Right, I see you trying to get in your bag a little bit. Somebody was in the lab cooking up something new for the new generation. You remember the chicken selects though, from like 15, 20 years ago? Yeah, yeah, I remember what you like.

They were actually crispy. These say crispy in the name, and my biggest problem with it is it wasn't crispy. It was crispy. Man, you got lucky. Maybe they had been sitting under the burner the whole time. You got lucky because that is the overwhelming feedback on this menu item is that it says crispy in the name.

It's not crispy. Did you get it? Drive-through, delivery, or in store? Drive-through. Did you eat it immediately? Immediately. I know better. In you eat it immediately? Immediately. I know better. In fact, it was so not crispy that I'm like,

I should let this sit. Wow. Oh, that's bad. That's a McDonald's. Like what McDonald's are you eating at? The 10117 thing. Great. Okay.

That's where it is. What kind of follow-up question is that? That's a great one. If you've been to the 117th one. It's a great one. It's a great one. I'll tell you my idea. Terrible question.

Real McDonald's eaters know that that's a great question. They're good McDonald's and there's This was a bad one absolutely of all people I expect you to know this Hakima large one Can't get a name. I believe that the question would generally be good And I agree with your premise that there are good McDonald's and bad McDonald's you asking on an international show for someone on the air to stop and give us the Address to the McDonald's while makes it a shitty question No, this one's bad if you've been to this one on 117th, you know, right?

But let's say it as was this a good one or a bad one You said which one is that again correct which street is that I know I'm all bro I know much you know how much money I've dumped into McDonald's in my life the one by the Caballero woodland yes especially after 11 p.m. they have a late-night menu they haven't even redone it it still looks like a 1990s ass McDonald's it's a it's a new franchise e-model that they have, man. It sucks, but anyway, go ahead. It is fine that you feel all of these things

and that you are the McDonald's expert that you say you are. I believe you, but the narcissism in you is a little bit breathtaking when you're the only one, when you get the answer to that, that will be entertained by the answer to that, when we are entertaining more people around here than just you. I want everyone in the audience to know

not to go to that McDonald's. So it's like, I'm giving information to our listeners. Like if you try the McChicken's crispy chip-ity things, do not go to that location. You're giving this information though, no one agrees with you on your assessment. Everyone is violently against what it is that you're saying. You're the only one saying that,

because you're talking about the same thing. It's not just a chicken tender. You're talking about a very specific thing that you've had recently that you're the only one here saying it's amazing while the others say it's not any good. Because who needs validation? Is that a you thing? That's not a me thing.

Well that is how things become popular though. That is, and so you're- Counterculture. I'm trying to get you to argue on behalf of what is a contrary opinion, and you're telling me I'm a rebel, I'm a renegade, I don't think other things that other people think. I'm giving my honest opinion.

And for those that trust my opinion, as a McDonald's expert, who have consumed way too many chicken nuggets and double cheeseburgers and triple cheeseburgers, you probably didn't even know they had a triple cheeseburger, did you? Oh, I did. Okay, of course you did.

I am telling you, you can trust another McDonald's connoisseur in that the McRispy chicken strips at McDonald's are tasty. Take with that what you want. Mike has his opinion, I'm trying to let him understand. Maybe try at another location, the one you picked. Yeah, I knew what I was getting into at that location. It wasn't my choice.

How are the fries? They need salt. It's not a good location. It's a bad location. Which one was it again? All right, there's one way to do this. Let's put out a poll and ask for people only to vote if they've had the McRisbee strips.

That way we don't have a tainted poll. So only vote if you've had the McRisbee strips, good or bad. As an eating experience, I would say there's very little that's going to soil an eating experience worse than I expected it to be crispy and it was soggy. Yeah, that's a bad one. Fred Van Eet.

Thickle a yoghurt. Fed Van Eet would be better there. Fed Van Eet is a good one. Back to the hockey game last night, Roy. The Carolina Panthers, and this is a weird thing. Hurricanes. I did that again. The Carolina Hurricanes, and it's a weird thing to say,

this time they were swept. This one definitely felt more like a sweep. Actually, after this series, I kinda got what Brendan Moore said two years ago. Because that one didn't feel as much of a sweep, even though it was, as this one did. Because this one was way more of an ass kicker. Are you guys with me on this team

is better than last year's team? It may not win the championship, but it's better. It's deeper, therefore it is better. Deeper usually does mean better. I would say the goalie's been way more consistent this year. Bob's probably had his best postseason so far as a Florida Panther. We'll find out.

They could actually be better than last year and not lift the cup because Edmonton is better. Although they- I think that's what's going to happen actually. The Hyman injury, even though Hyman's kind of like on a downward trajectory, certainly from where he was last year. He's out for the season. I know, he was getting there.

Oh, okay. Yeah, I led with Hyman injury. He's not gonna be there. That was a guy that, you know, in his past was a 50 goal scorer. So we'll see how that reshapes him. But man, a pissed off McDavid. They've done the suffering.

They look like an absolute wagon this year. Ultimately, they have the weight of a nation on their shoulders and they have a goalie situation that at any moment can turn on a dime in the bad direction. It'll be a great series if indeed that does happen. We'll find out tonight if Dallas can put up a fight at home. Michael Porterhouse Jr. The Carter Verhage goal and the goal creation

by Alexander Barkov, that was, that's world class right there. Roy, I'm so happy you highlighted that play. That is gonna go in the montage when Sasha Barkov gets his jersey retired here. That is such a... Number one, holy God is that a strong play. The strength that it takes for him to skate along the boards with Orlov, who's a really strong dude in his own right, move that puck along with one hand and the ice vision to make a perfect feed. That is one of those plays that doesn't look super sterling when you're putting out the YouTube highlight package

to dubstep, but that is a play that very few people in the world can make. And Alexander Barkov, led by example, that is what you need from your captain. He's a different type of cat. He's not gonna fight guys. He's not overly vocal, especially not on the ice, but he does stuff like that, that hockey players who have actually played the game know exactly how difficult it is to play the game

Like he does and he's just he's overly impressive Evan mobile order now. Keep in mind Demetri Olaf he's gonna have to look at that tape during the offseason and just Taking for a walk dude. He got dog walked on that play. That was crazy. And not just that, he was holding, he was holding, that was a penalty that should have been called. He was holding Barcop and then he just, Barcop just used his edge and got out in front and able to find Verhage. Panthers are 25 and two in the playoff since 2022 when Carter Verhage scores a goal. It's good to see him playing well. We were talking out there before the show, like how confused you must be if you just started watching

the Florida Panthers for this postseason run. You probably would guess their goalie is the best player, and then after that, maybe after last night's game, Barkov, but try to rank the Florida Panthers from like three to 17. This is- There's a different guy stepping up every shift. This is what I want to ask you guys, and I want your expertise on before I go a little further

here. Put it on the poll, please, at LeBittard Show. Does the highlight package have to come with dubstep? Also, answer this question for me. Do you think that if I made that Barkhov statue, that play from last night that many people would object. That as the play for your lifetime that you're going to remember during an emotional run when the Panthers are the first, the fifth team in 50 years, okay, to make three straight. This is hard. I've talked to you before in

basketball, Kevin Durant's Achilles break, you know, blows out. Golden State can last a few years doing that, then they have to be apart from each other. The Heat, do it for a few years, apart from each other the Heat do it for a few years Apart from each other you saw how Yokel just ended how the Celtics just ended you go three or four years with these things They're really hard. I think of the hockey playoffs as harder Harder than basketball harder on the body harder in every single way harder in the pressure Because of how close everything you had a poll like this on yesterday's show I got really offended because the majority of the votes were

like, no, the best athlete on the planet can't be a hockey player. What? In terms of athleticism and what they put their bodies through, what are we talking about? This is the part that I am most worried about. And I know that too much of my analysis has just been, I'm scared of this, I'm scared of this, I'm scared of this.

Because when things are random and I got a bunch of 100-point teams in hockey and I'm scared of this, I'm scared of this, I'm scared of this because when things are random and I got a bunch of hundred point teams in hockey and I've seen great teams, every President's Cup team loses and I've seen goalies make all the results weird, this is what I'm worried about. Because I know Barkov is considered the best two-way player in the world. I'm worried that McDavid is about to show

that this is why I'm an all-time great that will be remembered differently forever than Barkhoff will be because this is what's demanded of greatness when it's as great as McDavid. You take out whoever the top guy is who was never supposed to be as good as you are at this sport. He's got the pain from last year.

He is a physically overwhelming player, and I fear that he will be better at offense than Barkov is at all the things he's great at, even though I understand that Barkov is championship great, but Edmonton has a better player. Victor Wendy's Yuma. Don't forget about Leon Dreisaitl. They got two of the best players in the world.

But after that. But then again, they did lose last year to the Florida Panthers and the Kings. Yeah, but Dry Sitals also in that conversation in terms of two-way players. It'll be, Markov was better last year, although McDavid won the Con Smythe as a losing player, as a losing forward.

That's only the second time that's happened, right? Let me do it this way with you guys. And I mean, let me speak something that is very specifically your basketball language. Jello ball. I mean, let me speak something that is very specifically your basketball language jello ball Why is that funny and it's the literal name but just the thought process of it being actual jello spelled differently The way the Spurs came back after losing to the Ray Allen shot, the way the Spurs did that after losing that way, I can't imagine what Connor McDavid's mental life has been

losing to that team that way when he's the best player and everyone knows he's the best player and he's been living with that for 12 months. I fear that more than I fear anything in the sport. No doubt. There's a guy that was writing letters to Sidney Crosby when he was eight years old. He's the best player from the best hockey nation. He had the game winning goal in a Four Nations,

which was the best on best tournament of the first of its kind in 11 years. He's pissed off to the highest level of pissativity to quote Chad Johnson. Yeah, he's- That was stolen from Tim Hardaway. He's really great. He's really great.

And I know we do the Mick Overrated stuff. The guy is just, he's on a different tier than Barkov. Barkov's amazing, an incredible two-way player. And what Barkov can do is mitigate what Connor McDavid can do, but Connor McDavid's going to get his, and it might be too much. Edmonton look really, really good this year.

I didn't want to see them in the final. Did not want to see them. No, it's a one team. I'm like, we could be better than last year and still lose, and it's the only way that we do is if it's Edmonton. Can you explain to me where we're at in the NHL playoffs in Mighty Ducks terms? He's Banks.

Oh shit. Big Mac, beyond. You should have led with that. But he's healthy. Healthy Banks? He's healthy Banks. And man, and Ventral. No arm injury?

No arm injury. Oh my God. He's got full rotation. He's buying himself in his driveway all summer long. Yeah, but it's weird. Now Evan Rodriguez is a Bash brother all of a sudden. I don't know what's happening. It's crazy how much more this makes sense to me now

Jeremy can you do me the favor please of finding the Tim Hardaway quote? He said it of the New York Knicks and he said he was pissed off to the highest degree of pissed offivity But there was more to the quote than that. I don't know why Mike Credited Chad Johnson on that one. He said it on hard knocks pissed off to the highest level of positivity Tim Hardee's way. Mm-hmm It's Carl's jr. In some places in the country, but here it's hardies. It's like rallies and checkers situation