The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: Zaslow Is Back, Jack

Episode Date: April 3, 2026

"Anal hole lot of parking." Zas has oddly returned from his 'skiing trip' on a Friday, and with that, he has a Top 5 "Did You Guys See This?" Moments from his time away. Also, Tony has some thoughts on trips to the moon, and Amin takes a certain New York venue and schools Zas on his own hometown airport. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode is brought to you by Defender. With a towing capacity of 3,500 kilograms and a waiting depth of 900 millimeters, the Defender 110 pushes what's possible. Learn more at landrover.ca. This is the Dan Levator show with the Stucats podcast. I'm back, baby. Zaslo is back, Jack? I'm back, baby.

So, I cut my vacation a day early. Hey, you love doing that, by the way. No, I don't. You love doing that. You did it? It's like the second time you've done it since you've been with our show. Like North Carolina, you went to North Carolina or something. Oh, well, that was.

Oh, Panthers named me and then you came back. Okay. You hate your family? Okay. Very fair observation. And obviously in North Carolina, my team needed me. The Panthers needed me. And I said, everybody, we're going home.

And we got in the car. We packed up the car. We came only two days early there because I had to get back home in time for game two. But other than that, you never do it. Other than that, and this time, I never did. do it. How many times have you done it absent those two times? Well, I don't know my memory is going to serve me while enough

because Tony said you do that all the time and I was very defiant and now I never do it. So I... Well, I guess two times, though, you have done it. Right. And then you said your kid and your wife on a cruiser, you didn't go on. Well, this trip, we left my older son home. We didn't even bring him a big... All right, I'm going to say it. Zazlo's weird vacation family.

Do you think your family is okay with you doing that? We left my older one home. Did not even bring him to this one. We didn't get to ski. I was in Vail, I mean, and we had never been to Vail. We're a skiing family to Zaslos, and we usually ski. Yeah, we had a lot of questions about that.

What? We took a straw poll the other day on the show, and most of us do not believe that you, yourself, are a skier. Maybe your family, but not you. Well, you think I don't ski? I don't think Zaz is that weird for this. He is weird generally, but not for this. I'm not in ski culture. I don't even know how to, but a lot of people.

that have been going on ski trips have been really disappointed with the lack of snow, the conditions are not great for it. I was told Vail had their worst winter ever. Yeah, my partner in Kane's Insight also cut his ski vacation short because of the conditions. I mean, look, the timing wasn't great and also, it was first spring practice with full pads on, so they want to get down here. We normally go to Park City and we normally go in like December, okay? We knew it was a gamble.

We knew it was a gamble going at the end of March. of March and try and fail. So we didn't get to ski. So what is there to do in Vail if you're not skiing? We did like other outdoor stuff, you know? We rented ATVs where, you know, we took the ATVs up the mountains. That's sick, though. That was cool, you know?

So we did ATVs, did some of that fly fishing. You know about fly fishing? I don't know about that. You put the fly. It's like a mosquito on the hook and you cast it. No shot you caught anything. I did. I did catch some.

We need pictures on it. Okay, I'll send a picture of the video team. So you put on like the overalls, right? And you went into the... Yeah, yeah, got the deal on. Yeah, okay, I'm gonna send the picture. If you're wearing the deal? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You can see, I'm wearing the deal. All right? You had the rent of the deal, right? No, no. We had family who lives close by, and they had the deal. And they brought the deal over for me to put on. You're a fly fishing family, too? Do you guys ever see, like, those mall places that do family photos?

And you bring your toddler in and you can dress them up as a fly fisher. That's what I imagine him. Just shirtless wearing the deal. We'll say, like, a lot's been made of what Zaz looks like because of our tournament. It does look like someone who would enjoy fly fishing. I did enjoy fly fishing. You know why? It's easy, man.

I'm just standing there. Isn't all fishing easy? Is it, wait, this one. I thought of all the fishing, fly fishing was like you had to like. Casting seems so involved. I've never been fly fishing, but I've seen people do it. And, like, the casting process is really like kind of. The only part of the fly fishing that is, like, hard is you're standing on, like, you're balancing on the really wet, slippery rocks.

You know, I don't want to fall in. That's happened me before with fly fishing, where I fell in, and then I was freezing. I was very, very cold. How's your casting form? It's fine, man. You have a video of it? I'm practically a fisherman, all right? The perfect cast.

I just uploaded the picture, okay? And you can see, I'm wearing the deal. File. Yeah, all right. So you're wearing the deal, but the thing is the fly fishing rod is not like a regular fishing rod. It's got like a thing. We got like a pull it from one side and then cast it and then pull it from the other side. It's very similar.

It's not as complicated as you're making it out to be, all right? But I take offense that you don't believe that I can ski. Why can't I ski? The belief is that you don't have the physics of a skier, right? Got a big eye head, right? So to drink his body. Yeah. Like all up on the slope.

Like I don't even think you could stand up straight. Wait, wait, wait, oh, here's a picture. No, that's not. That's just you holding a fish. What do you mean? I caught the fish. I wanted it, like with the hook still in it. Okay, well, you don't want to have the fish in pain, so you take the hook out, all right?

Fish don't feel pain, by the way. You hold up, well, you've asked one. Scientists have. Chris did that one time. And you see, I'm wearing the deal. Now, I took the suspenders down because, you know, it wasn't really feeling the suspenders but I'm wearing the deal there. That's me, man.

I'm like a fisherman. How do you look like an undercover cop while fishing? Whatever, man. It's like we got him. He's offering something to me. Like, I don't want that. So this has never happened to me before. And, like, I don't believe in jinxes.

Oh, you say the things in something. You know, like with my taxes and stuff like that. And with the jury duty, like, whatever. Come at me, bro. Like, nothing's going to happen, okay? I don't believe in jinxes like that. I have never, ever lost my luggage traveling. It has happened on my way to Vail and now on my way back.

Lost or delayed? Delayed. Well, right now it's. lost because I don't have it. So they're calling it delayed, but my luggage was delayed on the way to veil, didn't have my had to leave the airport without any of our

luggage, and right now, it got back yesterday, still don't have my luggage. Happened both ways. Yeah, there's a feeling of simultaneous, like, oh my God, what could have happened, what could have gone wrong, and also a freedom. I walk out of this airport a free man. That part I kind of like.

Instead of waiting at the bags, and I get the email, my wife's like, oh, let's go home. I was like, yeah, all right, let's go home. And, you know, so they're apparently going to drive the bags to my home when they find them. When they find them. What are you going to do without your hitman heart shirt? I didn't bring it with me. That's a good question.

That's a good question. I did not. I didn't go to the closet and pick out another one. Yeah, that's right. I didn't bring any wrestling shirts there with me because I don't have them in long sleeves, my wrestling shirts. Need a long sleeves, even though it wasn't showing. Every shirt I saw from you had short sleeves on.

Okay. You know, you make it observations here, and I don't have good comebacks in the last few minutes, right? Why do you take it down a notch on the observations? You put on your Instagram, I had Zaslo show, whatever it is that you are. And I was like, dude, he looks like he's in Hawaii. It's like sunny, and he's out there with a lot with no shirt on. Sunglasses? Yeah.

Well, let me tell you something, right? So I was away. I was away for the past weekend. I don't know if you guys were aware, but a lot of things happen. I have a top five things that you all, while I was away, may have missed. You ready? You ready? You all ready for this?

Okay. All right, here we go. Do we have the fanfare ready? Yep. Born ready. Number five, did you guys see Yukon beat Duke at the buzzer? Did you see the finish of that game?

Did you know what happened? Yeah. I'm glad you brought it back because there was something that I discovered after we had that segment. Duke actually put out a video on their social of a former Duke basketball player in the pros now. It was like a late game situation. I think it was a Suns game. It was a Bulls game. It was talk about Jones.

Yeah, Ty's Jones. I think it was Tyous Jones. Yeah, I think so, too. And it was the exact same situation. It was Trey Jones, his brother. It was the exact same situation, and Jones throws a ball up. Oh, yeah. And Shire's like, this is what you do.

This is smart Duke basketball in this scenario. So maybe I was wrong in saying, like, I can't imagine that happened into a Coach K team. Maybe this is on Shire and not so much the panic players. Well, that video is all. is old. It's from like a couple of months ago. Right. So again, I stressed on the day you weren't here when we talked about this. At the end of the day, Caden Boozer, who's the one who threw the turnover, he's like, he's 18 years old. He's never seen anything like this in his life.

So I'm like, you guys have to remember. Like you can't judge it with like, oh, you should have done this. It's like there are kids at the end of the day. You got to, like, something like that. If he had said it in the huddle, then that's one thing. But it's like a video from a couple months ago. That kid's not going to remember. Peter Keenan Boozer, I mean, he's an elite prospect. He's played a lot of big time travel basketball. He played at Columbus, even though those were largely blowout. It ain't that. It ain't that is what you're saying. Because like I think in a vacuum, if you ask Boozer, what you do in this scenario, he'd probably know, but that's one of the moment is big. It's one of the fun things about the tournament where, you know, they're college kids. They're kids at the end of these games. It's like when the kid goes to the free throw line late in the game and they show, he's 81%. So. Yeah, so. Yeah, exactly.

So what? It's late in the game. All these kids can miss free throws. All of that, like, clutchness that we see in the pros of guys stepping up to like 81% makes both. They made it because they've been through these experiences before and had failures and learned and grown from it. And so this was real time. You're watching him experience this for the first time. Yeah, you're going to make a mistake, man.

So you guys saw that? What a games has. All right. Just make it sure. Because I was like, man, I wonder if they know what happened here. So, Yukon, they beat Duke. All right. Number four, you may have missed.

The Marlins are 5 in 1. What? Yeah. You know that? In the time that you've been away, I like baseball now. Yeah. Really? Mike's back jacked.

Mike went to a game recreationally. Yeah, I've been watching baseball all season long. All season. They fix the sport, dude. Wait a second. I went to a game recreationally. I went to a marlins game this week. And how quick did that go?

It was amazing. It was fast. Tony, you went to about. Too fast. Yeah. Do you not agree with me? You have one beer, all of a sudden it's the fourth inning. You're like, what happening?

I get two beers in the game. That's it? I'll be honest with you. I had a little bit more than two. See, you can't do the nine and nine trick anymore. You can't do the nine and nine trick. And it goes by two seconds. You can, but it's at your hazard.

Okay. At your hazard. Better catch a ride home. I genuinely had two beers at the game before like, oh, ninth inning. That's it. Man, that new in game host is really attracting people to the game, huh? So five and one. You guys saw that at the Marlins?

They're five and one. You know who they got now, though. Yankees. Today at 1.35. Because it's Yankees' home opener. It's a little awesome. A day Friday baseball. Ayudy Perez on the mound?

We kind of find out this weekend, like if the Marlins are a little bit for real, right? You don't feel good about Chris Paddock versus Max Reed? I just see. Get one of the first two. Rockies and White Sox. I don't really know what to think about this Monon's team yet. That's all I'm saying. All right.

So you guys. Hey, whoa, blah, blah. The Rockies took two of three from the Toronto Blue Jays who were just in the World Series. Okay. Okay. Just need to make sure that's clear. You miss that while he was out. Number three, you may have.

missed. Did you guys see? Tiger got another accent. Tiger Woods. Tiger Woods got, I don't know who that is impression of, but I would lose that. I saw that. I know this is not really a laughing matter, but the ET memes. Dog. I didn't know what I was looking at at first. There was someone on social media that said, I actually thought that this was a photo of what's going on on Ordomis. And I'm like, I could see how someone puts that together. Tiger got another car accident. I mean, buddy, like, I don't know.

You gotta hold your breath, man. Going for two when you're up by five. Switching the zone when man isn't working. Oh, and building your new stadium in the state your team actually plays in. In sports, some things just make sense. You know what else makes sense? Drinking Yeagermeister shots.

Ice cold. Drinking it any other way would be like, punting on first down, or letting your worst hitter bat first, are like going for two when you're down three with a second to go. It wouldn't make any sense. So don't let the team down when it comes to Yeagermeister. Drink it cold.

I don't drink it at all. Yeagermeister. Damn, that's cold. Drink responsibly. Yeagermeister liqueur. 35% alcohol by volume imported by masked Yeagermeister U.S. White Plains, New York. Hey, Roy, buddy.

You know that energy shift when the game gets good? And everybody, altogether, in unison, knows to stand up on their feet. Oh, absolutely, Mike. Yeah, you've been at many big time sporting events. You know that moment quite well. That's what it's like when you take your first sip of Cuervo. Oh, delicious. It's the signal that says, we're not checking the time anymore, pal.

It's when small talk turns into stories. Quervo, man, it's at high five a random stranger effect. That's right. The game is popping. You're hugging people you never met before. That's the kind of energy that Quervo brings. It's so smooth, so delicious. That's the Quirvo.

Vaux effect. Keep it, quervo! Chime is changing the way people bank, and it matters because a lot of people are still dealing with fees that do not need to be there. You know, overdraft fees, monthly fees. Chime is fee-free banking built for everyday people, not the old system. But Chime, you are upgrading to a smarter way to manage your money. With direct deposit, you unlock access to up to $11.50 and annual awards. And they are rated five stars by USA Today for customer service with real people available. 24-7. The benefits stack up. You can get up to $500 of your paycheck when you need it with my pay.

SpotMe lets you overdraft of the $200 fee-free. You can earn 5% cash back on your Chime card and savings grow with 3.75% APY. So one I know could benefit from this. Chime is not just smart banking. It's the most rewarding way to bank. Turn a million to are already banking fee-free today. Head tochime.com slash Dan. That's Chime.com. slash D-A-N. It only takes a few minutes to sign up. Chime is a fintech, not a bank. Bank, banking services for MyPay and Chime card provided by Chim's bank partners.

Optional products and services may have fees or charges. Stateed annual percentage yield and cashback for Chime Prime only. No minimum balance required. Checking account ranking based on a J-D-Power survey published October 20, 2025. For more information on APY rates, My Pay, Spot Me and Travel Perks, go to Chim. I've never stepped foot on that campus. If you told me right now, your life depends on it, go to Santa Fe University and just take a picture. Stugats.

I would die. I don't know where it is. This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugats. Now, Zaz, one of the things we talked about, Zaz was that he insisted he doesn't need a driver because he got privacy concerns. Well, what's happening in the car? Privacy concerns. You put up the window, you know? Maybe it's not always happening in the car, but what about the destination?

Didn't Beyonce partition? Isn't that what that song is? Do it, Tiger. What about destination? Maybe he's worried about the destination. Where's he going to Jupiter? He's going to Shoney's again. One of my initial takes was, I'm stunned that he didn't try to call the president when all this happened.

And we've come to find out, oh, it was the first move. Now, to be fair, in the video, we might play it at some point. He just says the president. Could it be the Homeless Association. Yeah. Could be of like his car. Maybe a car dealership. He doesn't say Donald Trump.

Yeah, he just got an accident. Cardinish president? I'm Tiger Woods. Who do you think I'm calling my phone with Pat Riley? I got up on my phone with President. I'm calling those guys from Pembroke Pines. What are they? Seekiah Pembrokeye-Pinds.

So here is, I haven't even, I know what happened, but I haven't even seen the video yet. So here is, I guess this is body camp footage, right? That TMZ got a hold of, here's your boy, Tago Woods. Take it. I just keep you down here with us, please. Yeah, I'll just talk to me to the president. That is such a douche move. Yeah, that's not the HOA guys.

He does that in such a cocky way, like the handfliping now. That was just no big deal here. To be fair to Tiger, like, you got to pull all the strings he can't. Of course. You got nothing left. You're like, ah, you can't. And he was trying to be slick because that video's a little longer. He was like 100 yards away, and the cops like, he got to stay down here with us.

Do we know when this happened? Because that day, the Tiger News was that Donald Trump was the first to report that he would not be participating in the master. I think that was before. Was it just a coincidence? Or did he, like, get off the phone with Tiger? And he was like, I got a scoop. Trump said it on some, like, I think he said it on Fox and France. It was like a morning show.

Hold on, hold on, you got it. Tigers calling Trump. Don, Donald. He just got an accident. I have a scoop. I'm turning an ad in Shepter. It's like, does this mean you won't be in the Masters? I mean, I guess, like the cops are here.

Like, okay, say less. Can you help me? Like, will you be at Augusta? So he definitely has the president's, like, sell. Of course he does. Oh, no, no, that's not the question I'm asking. But what, so now that we've confirmed. affirm that when he decides to call the president.

Like, does Donald Trump, he has his phone, like, in his pocket and it vibrates? He just picks it up. Like, that's how it works. There was an article written about this. Donald Trump answers a lot of cold calls. That's what I'm wondering. No, he doesn't. He's no, he doesn't.

I'll find the article for it. Hello. It is absolutely a thing. Even with numbers that he doesn't recognize. Come on. Yeah, and his numbers are out there. We have to do this. Scam likely fine.

We have to do this. But he definitely recognizes. He recognizes it because he has the ringer on and then I the Tiger plays and he's like, oh, all right. It's YMCA. You got him ignoring Scam Likelies? I don't. All right, so you guys know Tiger got another accent. You didn't miss that, right?

You know? Hold on. Scam likely. I think it's unlikely. Unlikely, I can never get scammed. One's ever seen anything like this. Top five, you may have missed. What else you missed?

While I was away. Number two, Jaten Ivy. Sheesh. Oh, boy. You know, can you run in your... down this list. You're lucky you were gone for the last couple of days with those two stories. Jane Ivy. We ran

that one into the ground. Get it together. Come on. What are we doing here? Number five. You guys saw that though with Jane Ivy? You missed that? We saw it. We got nothing else on it. Wait, I mean, do you have anything else on it? No, I think we plowed that ground. Roy, you know what happened with Jane Ivy? Yes, yes, I do. Number five. Number five. Things you may have missed.

The fifth one. Number one. The fifth number I'm doing is number one. Artemis the second was going around the moon. Did you see that? Yeah, you know, every time anyone says something about Artemis, I keep thinking of Artemis from Always Sunny.

I cannot shake that image. He said, Artemis going around the moon, I can just see her going around the moon. We had actually a funny moment. I wanted to talk about Artemis, and before the show, like, Dan's like, why do you want to talk about Artemis? What's the talking point? I'm like, what's the talking point?

Buddy, it's the biggest thing on the planet. The furthest humans have ever gone into space or going around the dark side of the moon. Now, why are they going around? Why don't just go like, you know, take what's what? Take the most forward path. We saw that one already, so we got to go the long way around. It's like me and my backyard.

I got to make a lap. See what's what. Are you familiar with what the plans are with the moon? Not really. So apparently. I live here. Apparently, we've just given Elon the moon. And the plan is...

We're going to steal the moon! The plan is to build a nuclear reactor on the moon. Okay. This is not a fake thing. Yeah, I've played civilization before. It's a real plan. It's something they are trying to do. And this is, Artemis is, this is exploration, or at least under the guise of exploration.

But the end game here, Spence, is a nuclear reactor on the moon. So how do we get it down? If it's up there, how do we get it down here? What, the moon? No, the nuclear stuff that's going to be made up there. I think we get the moon down here because of the nuclear reactor. when it goes wrong. And then it comes back down.

This has sparked a lot of people on threads at least to bring up the challenger. Be active on threads. I'm very active on them. I love threads. I love threats too. Where else can I find? People get paid for threads?

I can't get into it. Do you get paid for threads? I do not. I don't get paid for threads either. We should get paid because people get paid for threads. Well, they did and then they stopped that campaign. I was getting paid for threads. Then the thread stop.

You got paid? I got paid like a year ago. I just like threads. I like threads too. We're talking. But I'm going to tell you this whole you need to follow. Follow Jamel Hill and just wait for this post that comes from her. I ran to the comments.

As soon as you see Jamel Hill post, I ran to the comments or some variant of that. You know this is going to be an amazing threat. Dude, that's my algo. I know what Zaz's Algo is. Mine is much better if that's very much better. I get run to the comments. And what I like about threads is you can like deer algo it and you can manipulate what your algo has.

You say Dear Algo and let it tell it what you want. We should. If we weren't getting paid before, we should get paid now. Look, they invite me to all the parties. Every time Threads has a party, I go. Well, not every time, but a lot of times it's an NBA thing. But as I was saying, the Threads algorithm for me was doing a lot of challenger talk. A lot of challenger talk.

And I was curious, are any of you guys old enough to remember? Like, not remember it. I'm talking about being in school and then wheeling the TV in. It's interesting that you say that because, like, watching the Artemis 2 take off, whenever one of these shuttles take off, I always think about the challenge. They all make me nervous. I'm scared every time, too, especially since we had done this type of deal in a while, but so far, so great. I remember when it happened. Did you remember being school?

I think I was like five or six years old around like 86, 87. Yeah, I was in third grade, buddy. They rolled that TV in. And the whole big thing was because one of the. people on board. It was like five astronauts and then one of them was like a school teacher who won like some contest or whatever. And it was like a big deal that one of America's teachers is going to space.

You can come back and teach her class about all the things she learned about space from being on a space shuttle. And then like the thing takes off and, you know, I don't know if you watched it, but it's like you see some flames. I'm like, is that supposed to happen? And then you see some more of them like that definitely ain't supposed to happen. And then it was just like all across America. All these school teachers are like, oh, what else is on TV?

It's like the scene in succession where he watches the ship on his phone and it blows up, just kind of puts it back in his pocket and goes about the rest of the day. Since your algo is so dialed into this, do you know where we're at in the timeline? They're still like gaining momentum. They're supposed to orbit the earth like three times and like slingshot, right? Slingshot, yep. We learned that from Apollo 13. Apollo 13, there you go.

Rocket man. I was going to say Armageddon. Armageddon was no slingshot. All right. now all of a sudden you're a man of science I'm a man of movies is what I am I trust his algo more than yours when it comes to this oh one of the things that you miss

Christine Homme Yeah Is that story real? Like I saw the headline It's Rathustallat You got those moves on your algos You would think with your algo You'd be totally doubted

Well no they're not real All right thanks Jeremy I don't want to be that guy on the moon landing But how all this All the science all the stuff we have now You better not pull some flat earth bullshit No I'm talking about the moon

I just on the moon Hey, how are you going to tell me about flat on when I'm talking about the moon? I thought he was saying. How am I going to tell you about flat over? What we're talking about the moon? Strap one on. He's going to do something close to it. All I'm saying is, 1969, we had the technology.

Nice. And we put people on the moon. Got Carl Everton in the studio over there. But it's going to be really tough to get people on the moon now. 50 years later. It's not tough. They're going the long way around it. When was the last time we went to the moon?

Me? Me? No, people on the moon. No, the other night, baby. Hey. No, like, I don't know. I don't know what the exact thing. But the point is, there's no point in going to the moon.

You go to the moon to see if you can do it. Once you've done it, you don't keep doing it. But we haven't got to the far side of the moon, which is what we're doing now. I mean, I think there are steps, again, end game. You've got to build a reactor on the moon. We may need some boots on the ground for that. Sure. But that hasn't been the plan sitting in the 70s or 80s or the 21st century.

1970s is the last time that people were on the moon. Yeah. But a long time. People or the United States? Has anyone else, has any other countries been to the moon? I don't know. I don't know at the top of my head. I guess my point is there's no point, right?

Like there's nothing happening up there. People like, well, haven't they gone back? Because there's nothing to go. They went, they saw, okay, it's some rocks. Got it. Nothing of use to us. You got some plans? Not really.

Don't have any technology to do plans. All right, cool. Let's holler back. Let's circle back when we have the technology to do shit, which we do now. But like, I saw Channing Fry and Bridgett. What are you say? Man, they were talking the same kind of talking. about like, oh, Channing was like, no, we never went to the moon.

And it was just like, why haven't we been back? And I'm like, that can't be your, you know, like, I've been in Switzerland. It was in 1998. I haven't been back. Why had you been back? You ain't never go to Switzerland. Like, come on, man. I went, I saw.

That shit makes me crazy. Good chocolate. Makes me crazy. Didn't land on the moon. Shit like that, man. Oh, it just seems like a very tepid conspiracy. Like, this is like my first conspiracy. Give me some real shit, man.

Give me the pyramids at Wi-Fi. Now I'm in. You want real shit? We got a problem. We got a big problem. There's a lot of talk about. You don't want the real shit from him. I mean, the reason why people want to gravitate to that is Space Race was a huge deal. And there was so much pressure and geopolitical ramifications that people believe. Also, when you speed the video up and we're the stars and what is the flag move?

And Stanley Kubrick did it in Pasadena or whatever, right? You're talking. Keep going. Hey, it's Mike Ryan. And I want to talk to you about the random midweek hang that you have with your friends. Maybe it's an NBA game. You get a text, hey, come over. You want to watch the game. And maybe you're like, I don't know.

I kind of just wanted to stay home. And then you think about it. After your buddy hits you up, and you know just the thing that'll make that regular hang, that regular midweek hang around the basketball game into a special time, into a Miller time. That's right. This happened to me just last week. grabbed a six pack of Miller Light said I was on my way. And next thing you know, we're arguing

about rotations like we're on the coaching staff, yelling about a miss call. And the game's coming down on the final possession. It was one of those nights that you look around, you take a sip and you think, yeah, this was the right call. And my friendship's stronger for it. Cheers to legendary moments with Miller Light. Great taste, 96 calories. Go to Millerlight.com to find delivery options near you. Or you can pick up some Miller Light pretty much anywhere they sell beer. It's Miller time. Celebrate responsibly. Miller Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 96 calories, and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces. Going for two when you're up by 5.

Switching the zone when man isn't working. Oh, and building your new stadium in the state your team actually plays in. In sports, some things just make sense. You know what else makes sense? Drinking Yeagermeister shots. Ice cold. Drinking it any other way would be like punting on first down. Or letting your worst hitter bat first.

are like going for two when you're down three with a second to go. It wouldn't make any sense. So don't let the team down when it comes to Yeagermeister. Drink it cold. I don't drink it at all. Yeagermeister. Damn, that's cold. Drink responsibly.

Yeagermeister liqueur, 35% alcohol by volume, imported by master Yeagermeister U.S. White Plains, New York. This episode is brought to you by FedEx. These days, the power move isn't having a big metallic credit card to drop on the check at a corporate lunch. The real power move is leveling up your business with FedEx intelligence. And accessing one of the biggest data networks powered by one of the biggest delivery networks. Level up your business with FedEx.

The new power move. Dan Lebatard. My algorithm on Instagram is dance, all boobs. Stugats. It's a good algorithm. This is the Dan Lebatard. our show with this two gods So I'm glad

you guys didn't miss any of that I saw it as well, we're all on the same page even though I was away. Yesterday when I'm leaving the airport, without my luggage by the way, I flew in and out of Miami and out of Miami. And right next to the Miami International Airport is New Stadium.

Yeah. And you, New Stadium. That is where Inter Miami is going to open their home schedule in the brand new stadium tomorrow. Now, when you say brand new, you mean the brand...

It's a little confusing. I get it. I mean... New stadium. New and you. Yeah, I know it's a new stadium. What's it called? New stadium is a new stadium. I know it's a new stadium. Right. Right. What's it called? I knew that. New stadium. It's new. Stop yanking our cranks.

So I'm leaving the airport yesterday, and I point to my wife and my son, I go, that stadium right there, they think they're having a game on Saturday. It looks beautiful. I'm looking at the video right now. We're looking at the inside. We're looking at the inside. It looks fantastic. The outside, there's a lot of cranes.

There's a lot of construction going on. There's a lot of dirt roads. Ain't a whole lot of parking. I don't know how this stadium is opening tomorrow for a little. Ain't a whole. Ain't a whole parking. Ain't a whole lot of parking. You just said it again.

Ain't a whole lot of parking. It's a third time. You're doing this on purpose now. Yeah. I don't know how they're opening up a home schedule tomorrow. I mean, well, we can see the stadium. The stadium seems to be fully functional. There's a pitch.

The seats are in the stadium, which, you know, it was dicey. They weren't always there. It was only until very recently. I had a friend go over there because I had a practice and kick the tires. And from the inside, it looks all right. And then I asked, like, for a video on the outside. and the outside is everything that you were saying they are so, this could not have been the part.

I mean, the outside looks six months behind, I would say. Yeah. Let me say this about even the video that we just saw because at first it was like, it looks beautiful. Then I saw a dude in a construction hat and the vest carrying metal pipes. That's what they're going to give to every fan who goes in the stadium.

They have to wear a construction. Now that you mention it, the videos that my friend sent me from like the hospitality lounges in there, they were active construction. since two. There were construction people wearing vests walking through. The players are going to be wearing construction helmets. Look at this guy right here. This is not a complete

What is he? That's this morning. That picture is this morning. It looks like chairs, not pipes, but still a little alarming. That's a quick fix. Don't worry about that. But also, the other thing, Mike, I'm surprised they went with the pink seats. Pink seats because if you remember, you might remember this. You're a man of age. I know what you're talking about. American Airlines

Arena when they first opened, lots of bright seats. Yellow. yellow, bright yellow seats. And what they found out is when the Miami people are late to come into a game, you see every single empty seat. Yeah, well, I mean, the pink ones are out of most of the camera frames, right? But, I mean, there are plenty of white seats, too. It'll be noticeable.

But historically, Interimmy has not had an issue drawing. And I know, well, that's easy to say because they've had messy, even pre-Messy. One thing that did happen pre-Messy. Imagine this stadium will, that they'll fill this stadium. Yeah, I mean, yes, this is a big market for major league soccer. You just need 20,000 soccer fans willing to pay to get into that stadium, and you can find that in Doral. Guys, I have an unpopular opinion, I think, I think. I think that soccer stadiums like that and basketball arenas that are made for college programs,

that have all the bells and whistles of a pro facility, but are smaller in size, more pretty. I like that. I like that look better than a massive 80,000-seat stadium. I'm with you. We're parking our car in the same garage. I also love, like, the big, opulent, like, Jerry World and brand-new stadiums because they're so luxurious and it's cool.

And I just love going to stadiums. But in terms of experience and actually being a patron, I'm with you. I guess I agree with you, too, because. And granted, it was like the first arena slash stadium that I loved as a kid, but it's part of what the charm of Miami Arena was here. Like, I love Miami Arena so much, and it was small. Like, there was an intimate feel to it. I don't know if you guys have ever been to USC, the Galen Center,

their basketball arena. It's like an NBA arena if it was shrunk to like 10,000 seats or 12,000. early 90s in NBA arena. But yeah, being in the seats, like great sidelines, good, good atmosphere. But not like Pauley Pavilion, which is a dump, right? Like, I don't like Cameron Indoor, dump. Like, people romanticize these places. They're awful, right?

Worst stadium you've ever, arena slash stadium you've ever been to? In terms of reputation versus the reality. That's a good game. Reputation versus reality. Oh, you're like, hey, you got to go here. Oh, my God. And you do, and you're like, this is it. Cameron Indoor for.

short and I'll give you another one before they fixed it and I'm going to piss a lot of people off the world's most famous arena that place used to be a bleeping dump oh but I loved it before they renovated it but I look like I get it it had its charm or whatever it was a dump dude rats running around

and stuff everything low ceiling bad lighting it's way better I liked it better before ramped concourse but did it have anole parking that's crazy that's what I sounded old Trafford Anel hole parking. Anel hole parking.

That dump site is definitely edited. You're bullshit. Is it dump? Yeah, it's dated and they very clearly need a new one. Now, there's plenty of... They need a new trapper? They do. I think famously, they're actively trying to get one.

But Stamford Bridge is also older. A lot of the great mecas in European soccer are older. What about the Spanish Camp New? I haven't been to the new camp, Camp New Camp. Camp New Camp? New Camp. Yeah, there's a new camp. New Camp.

Are I talking about new stadium? No, camp. That opens tomorrow. New camp. And I haven't been to Real Madrid's new stadium either, but these were places in need of an overhaul. I guess in the NBA, Washington, I've been to Washington for an N-HL game. I was there a couple months ago. It's not a...

It's not heralded, though. Right, right. I'm going to think what's heralded, though, Staples slash crypto, people love that place. That place is, I do not like it. I've been there a long time ago. It was fine. You know what was the one for me? MetLife Stadium.

That place is a dump. I hate that place. That's a great shout. It's one of these newer ones, but it came around when just new is good. And then, like, Jerry World kind of changed the game. No, you have to be nice, too. You just can't be new.

That stadium is a nothing, MetLife Stadium. It looks like an air conditioning unit, by the way. I'll give you another one. Piss some more people off. Fenway, thumbs down. I disagree. That's wrong. Fenway thumbs down.

Although, Riggily, thumbs up. Rigley's good, too. The same thing. It's the same thing. Riggily has charm. It's the same thing. Regley has charm. Fedway doesn't have charm?

No. No charmless. What are you on about? Have you been in that bar in left field? You're totally wrong. You could look through the hole. You can see right through it. The bar in left field's cool.

I don't want. Can't see white through it. Yeah, nuts, man. You're wrong about that. Mike, are you going tomorrow? You're not a season ticket older anymore for Ingramia. No, I'm not. I was an inaugural season ticket older for Indemimeimee.

I gave him up last year. Very, very expensive. Yeah, same. As of right now, I'm not going tomorrow. I will go to a game this season. It's got to be quite the hookup to get me to go through what those people are going to go through tomorrow. I'm telling you, basically, yeah, right. I'm telling you, I drove past it yesterday.

Get there 10 hours early. I mean, seriously. Wait. Or take the metro. How about the airport? I'm trying to, I'm flying out today. Am I going to have airport issues because of traffic? For tomorrow?

No. No. You'd have a problem if you're flying out tomorrow. Yeah, you should leave right after the show. It's going to be bad today for tomorrow. 24 hour. No, but yeah, is do you foresee airport traffic being disrupted by people going to the game? On game days, yeah.

Yeah. Damn. Last weekend when I flew to Vail out of Miami, I had a 5 a.m. flight, earliest flight I've ever had in my life. Had a 5 a.m. flight. Missed it. We missed the flight. Because the TSA or? Yep.

Yep. Missed the fire. I remember talking to you the day before and you're like, we're going to get there an hour before. Yeah, hour? Dude, have you not been watching the news? That's when boarding starts. 4 a.m. I got to get to the airport before 4 a.m.

Are you not watching the news? You started boarding. You're flight boards at 410. They got stormtroopers in the airport, man. I looked at what time the security opens, and it says 4 a.m. So I'm like, okay, 5 a.m. flight, 4 a.m. I will get there. I'll have my bags checked by 4 a.m.

I will get in the line, because here's the thing. I have TSA. All right, so I'll be able to get through quick enough. The TSA line, different from the regular security line, TSA line didn't open until 4.45. Missed the flight. Straight up missed the flight. Did you get on one like hours later at least, same day?

Yeah, yeah. We were able to get on a flight four hours later. So you could have gotten there at midnight and it wouldn't have mattered because they opened late. Well, no, he would have just had to stand in the regular line. Yeah. And just be a regular line. I like the idea. I don't stand in regular lines.

What about my flight? Okay, what about the priority line? The priority line? Because they have a separate entry way just for priority. Yeah, that separate entry lane just for TSA. Yes. The TSA one was closed. TSA pre.

Yeah. TSA pre. As a man of travel, how do you not have clear? No, TSA pre is better. TSA pre is not better. No, it's way better. Clear is better with TSA pre.

You should have both. I have both. TSA pre is better, though. Okay, but they didn't have that line anyway at Miami International. They do. It's in the E concourse. Okay, well, I was at the American Concourse.

I know. There is an American one about this. Let me school you about the airport that you grew up next to you. Go on. Right? If you go to the terminal E gates, there is a clear line there

and by the way it all connects where that chick-fil-A is and all that you can walk to the concourse you know about that TGI Fridays with the smoker section you probably don't right there with the glass

they don't explain it very well the signage is not very good then because you're not for Miami you're for Fort Lauder that's crazy that you've never every time I get like the American Airlines flight

that's in Gate E I'm like oh man I'm going back to 1993 it's very preserved like this is how this is how air travel used to be They have like a pizza hut kiosk. And the signs are like the plastic ones where you have the individual letters.

They slide it on, yeah. They still have that. Really? Yeah. Get some breadsticks sometimes. Yeah, man. It's pretty dated. When we realize we're missing that flight, my wife was shook.

She's never missed a flight. She's freaking like, calm down, all right? Well, get on another flight. What did you do? Did you have to wait in the line? I specifically told her to calm down and guess what? It worked. Wow.

Yeah. It did not. Wow. Always worked. Yeah, wives love that. It's one of the worst things you could ever say. to a woman. Calm down.

It never works. Oh, relax is up there too. Relax. Calm down. These, they just, they don't work. You're acting crazy. Quit making a scene. It's like they're, you're saying it's like like the factory reset button.

Chill. Oh, man. Calamete. That never works. Calm down. It just did not. It didn't have the effect that I wanted it to. People are looking at us.

When I said it to her. Sometimes my wife's yelling at my daughter and I have to like look over it like, relax. Oh, wow. Oh my God. Where I'm like, my daughter doesn't see it. You want some of this too? Where it's just like, I hit her with like the. The LeBron? I just hit her with the like, that's just.

You do the LeBron Selly? I mean, sometimes I'm just like, let's just bring it down. Hey, it's Mike Ryan. And I want to talk to you about the random midweek hang that you have with your friends. Maybe it's an NBA game. You get a text. Hey, come over. You want to watch the game.

And maybe you're like, I don't know. I kind of just wanted to stay home. And then you think about it. After your buddy hits you up. And you know just the thing that'll make that regular hang, that regular midweek hang around the basketball game, into a special time, into a Miller time. That's right, this happened to me just last week.

I grabbed a six-pack of Miller Light, said I was on my way, and next thing you know, we're arguing about rotations like we're on the coaching staff, yelling about a miss call. And the game's coming down on the final possession. It was one of those nights that you look around, you take a sip, and you think, yeah, this was the right call. And my friendship's stronger for it. Cheers to legendary moments with Miller Lite.

Great taste, 96 calories. Go to Miller Lite.com slash Dan to find delivery options near you. Or you can pick up some Miller Lite pretty much anywhere they sell beer. It's Miller time. Celebrate responsibly. Miller Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 96 calories, and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces.