The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: Daddy Broke the Bird Feeder

Episode Date: July 7, 2025

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The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan LeBattard podcast. I'm sorry, I'm not gonna apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries that if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys?

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It's your phone. What do you mean, for what? You know what? Had you not banished me to the room there, I would never have turned on my phone to catch up with someone. I'm a very busy man, but I wait until I'm sent to the penalty box to turn off on my phone. So had you not penalized me, I penalized you because you just said it's a glorious thing, the mangrove. Right. And and then

It's a thicket. It's beautiful. There was a swing in it. Put it on the pole, please, at LeBataard Show. What do Americans stink at more, tennis or soccer at LeBotard show what do Americans stink at more tennis or soccer at LeBotard show? Do you have either opinions on either of these things? Yes, I have opinions on both. Tennis, look, I was raised by Jimmy Connors and, and McEnroe, right? Hold on a second. We should say the women are good, but go ahead here. We'll give you the floor here. Go ahead. The women are better than the men today. I'll give you the floor here go ahead the women are better than the men today I'll get I'll give you that but who's

the name and after that there was Pete Sampras who's the name and and I see Agassi okay who's the next nobody's coming along I know there's something somebody's ranked number 10 big deal nobody's coming along a man hasn't won a major an American man hasn't won a major in in a in a half century in a quarter of a century since since around 2000 I think it was I don't have the stats right in front of me your glasses are fogging up I know that's because I'm I'm very clemped about the state of American tennis it's ridiculous the women's are the women are a bit better I'm a big fan of Cocoa Golf but even Cocoa even her you know She wins the French Open and it's like alright, alright

And then she takes a crap in the in the first round of all right Wimbledon. All right So I'm frustrated by women's men's tennis the state of American tennis because as you know I'm a tennis fan. That was one of my favorite sports. That's the sport that I played That was my exercise when I was a little younger in my 20s and 30s particularly. Now I just can't watch tennis anymore because I don't see the American domination or representation even. And soccer is a little bit frustrating. You know, I don't fault the U.S. men's national team for not beating Mexico in the gold cup final because they were playing with the B team.

Okay, they were missing a handful of starters, including Christian Polisic. They did not have their A team, but it does make you wonder how they're going to do in the world cup in less than a year. Do they have the team to even survive the group stage and get into the knockout round? Right now, you'd have to say that's very iffy. What do you make of their coach saying the lessons from that loss are priceless? Like, I just think it's a loss. What are the lessons? What are you learning? It's hard to learn anything when you don't have your full team. And I didn't like the

fact that he's complaining about the officiating, the referees after the game. You know, if you're looking for an excuse, you have a good one. You didn't have a handful of your best players. That's your excuse, not the officiating. The other thing is the game's played in the United States. It's a pro-Mexican crowd. That's not ideal if you're the American coach.

You'd like to have home field advantage there. But yeah, they just continue to disappoint. They disappointed in the Nations League a few months ago and now they've disappointed in the Cool Tanks. That's gonna happen in Houston though. You're gonna get Mexico, Mexico travels well and it's not surprising that they would be feeling like they're playing on the road in their own country.

That's exactly right. If it were St. Louis, it would have been more of a pro-American crowd, 100% right. But priceless, the lessons? I don't get that. I think that's coach speak, right? Like you have to learn, and the Panthers always say this as a mantra, that you learn more from your defeats than you do from your victories. Well, I want to ask about the Panthers for a second, because I do remember 15 years ago going on a free agent summit show with Tony Kornheiser,

Bill Simmons, and Mike Welbon. And we were just fooling around at the beginning of like transactions are going to become a thing. And they were all making fun of me as I just kept arguing on behalf of why wouldn't LeBron, Dwayne, and Chris Bosh, if they're really friends, why wouldn't they just go into business together right now and and decide that their friendship was going to be something that they could navigate all the business in. In basketball, over four-year runs in Golden State and in

Miami, these things do blow up and get so pressurized that the friendships don't work with the money. But you just mentioned the Panthers, and last week Mike mentioned and other people have mentioned this, that these guys are like vacationing together with their families and stuff, and it's just clear they're having the time of their lives with their friends. And so I don't know what behind the scenes is going on with I'll take six million You take seven million. He'll take eight million. It's all like we'll figure it all out. We like being together Let's just keep this running forever Where the relationship seemed to be real? I'm curious

What's happening here because these things can be? Romanticized but it does seem to be happening. Golden State and Miami ended up breaking apart because of whatever the difficulties are in managing all the money and egos around everyone taking discounts. But there's no disputing that everyone's saying of these Panthers that these guys enjoy their company, each other's company in a way that's now showing in contracts. They're going for six and eight years to older players because the ownership is intent on keeping whatever that is together.

But it's been my experience over the last 15 years, that breaks up after four years. Like the money gets complicated, the pressure gets complicated, and the disease of me sets in where people don't actually want to share. But what if you're really friends? Like, what if you're really legitimately having the time of your life with your new best friends? Then what difference does the money make once you're in a stratosphere of millions and millions of guaranteed dollars for many multiple years?

I couldn't agree more. But I think it's what the Panthers have managed to do. Create that that it's beyond camaraderie It truly is a friendship in a in a family situation. It sounds corny to hear it It sounds unbelievable when they say it, but I think the proof is in the results It's the exception is that I think the rule is what happened to the heat where? When they first came together in LeBron that night is going, we're going to win not one, not two, not three, etc. championships. He meant that. They all thought they were going to stay together and be a dynasty, stay together more than four years. Looking back on that, it ended

ugly for that, for the big three era. It ended ugly. It wasn't pretty. And right now the Panthers are in the middle of all that and there's no sign of it ending. And it's an extraordinary thing that they've done. And you said the families, the wives all get together, the families vacation together after the season. It's an extraordinary thing. I'm not saying it's unique in sports, but it's the exception, not the rule. I mean, it's pretty unique. And I don't know why it's happening with this Panther team right now as Opposed to why it never happened say in the NBA because these guys You know guys like Ekblad who are taking six and a half million a year when if he hit free agency

He probably could have gotten what he was making before and the difference when you're making six and a million between one or two million per year is a pretty massive difference and then you got guys like LeBron who it's like it like like can you take a little bit less than 52 million what if you take 42 million no no no I can't like I don't know why the NBA player can't do that and and these Panthers they they have no issue with valuing the winning the camaraderie and the lifestyle I I don't understand why it doesn't happen more. Yeah, I think at the beginning of the heat, there was some of that, right?

Didn't Dwayne Wade take less money so they could take more money? No, they all did, and look, I know, look, this sounds over the course of the last hour and a half like we are just sitting here, especially Cody, pining romantically for the way things used to be when a guy would take a discount just to stay with his home team.

I'm not telling anyone to take discounts. I'm just a bit startled that all of the Panthers are coming back. All of them are voicing the same thing. They're getting all their players to stay when in free agency. The reason a million years ago that the Steelers won multiple championships with Terry Bradshaw is because the same 22 starters kept coming back year after year. They never left in free agency. Free agency changed the ability to have legitimate dynasties because everybody wants to get paid. Them retaining everybody when people

expected them to lose these people. They didn't even hit free agency. When they're already the deepest team in the league, there's something unusual happening there that I'm remembering what I told you about 15 years ago where we were on the radio in Miami arguing for the better part of a year. If you're legitimately friends and you can get together and just dominate your sport, wouldn't you really want to do that most with your closest friends? Now you start getting the families involved

where the kids know each other and the wives know each other and everyone takes a discount and now all the management is getting praise for, the guys really like being around each other and are doing this thing that in basketball, for whatever the reasons, has been hard to keep these things together beyond the four years. So why doesn't it happen?

I mean, like I'm genuinely asking, why don't, why don't, you see the hockey guys, they're making six, seven million dollars a year taking discounts and the NBA player can't take a discount from making 45, 50 million a season? Like, why can't they do it if it means playing with your friends and it could result in winning? Like, I'm asking why they can't do it, I don't know. If I was offered 50 million dollars and someone's like, you wanna take 40?

I'd be like, nah, I'm good with 50, thank you. So why doesn't the hockey player have that attitude? I don't know, I don't understand that. Maybe I'm asking the question backwards. I don't understand why they like each other. I'm like, you know what, let's keep this going. Let's not make, because hockey players, like to what you're saying,

they're going from like eight million to six million, which is like a quarter of their salary. Huge. Over six years, hockey players don't make basketball, baseball, football money. Could it be that hockey hurts in quality of life? Like I like it down here. You know, when I was in Ottawa, football money. Could it be that hockey hurts in quality of life? Like, I like it down here. You know, when I was in Ottawa, that sucked.

Like, could it just be, like, maybe they, it's such a painful sport that they value my time off the ice, I wanna be at the beach. I think that's part of it. I mean, look at the Panthers. They're celebrating, they're working in a place where people save all year to come on vacation. They're celebrating on the beach

uh... bringing the trophy into the atlantic ocean that's a pretty good place to live and to work not many teams are showing up to the practice facility in sandals that's right yeah and and also you know in the case of aaron eckblad i really believe that there's their pitch to him was we want you as a as a lifelong career long panther

there's a job waiting for you after you retire you're going to always be a part of this club a face of this club and and I think that the only thing bigger than than money in sports is is the assurance of winning okay can you imagine being a free agent in the NHL right now you've played ten years you've never won just use Conor McDavid as a as just a totally random example you played 10 years, you've never won, just use Conor McDavid as just a totally random example. You've played 10, 11 years, you've never won a Stanley Cup. You have a chance to meld into this dynasty that they have right now in South Florida.

Might be a good way to go. I mean, he's gonna pass up $10 million because he'll have a lifelong desk job after this as part of the beloved Panthers front office forever? I'll take the $10 million now, please. Like why a player who just signed the last contract of his career in Brad Marshand, who has been on this team and in that dressing room with those players only for a few months has decided yeah, you know what?

I'm in like this is what I want the rest of my career to be I want to be around these guys and Doesn't even bother hitting free agency wasn't it being reported that Boston was gonna try and get him back So somebody was gonna offer him a lot more money than the Panthers just gave him something He didn't even wait to see what the offers were. Okay, but he won his only Stanley Cup prior at age 23, right? He thought it was going to happen every year. This is great, this is easy, probably took it for granted, goes his whole career without another Stanley Cup.

He experiences what it was like this time, and he's like, yep, I want that again. I want that feeling again. Win winning equals money or close to it hockey hockey can keep some cores together but the part that I'm saying is super unusual is the kinship seems to be Blossoming into something that is making guys sign before they even test free agency. Guys we thought were leaving. Guys that we assumed they would not be able to afford. It was just a natural assumption to make. Billy, I know you've got the face of something's going on is all you're offering to this conversation. I have theories but I

can't go public with those theories. Well you're giving me is something's going on. I mean, all of a sudden, no one likes money? I don't understand this. These people want, oh, you know what? I wanna go into this sport where they're beating me and I'm going to feel it for the rest of my life. And I have the opportunity to make generational wealth that generations from now, obviously it's generational wealth,

can benefit from it. But I'm just gonna turn down 25% of that because I like going to the beach. Get out of here! Something's up here. Something's up here. But what if I were to tell you it's love? No state tax. Love is in the air. It's love and eight-year contracts is not just a salary it's the length of contract. You don't see many eight-year contracts. It's not just a salary, it's the length of contract. You don't see many eight-year contracts offered, particularly in hockey. In hockey you do. Well, not so much for players Marchand's age. That's true, but that's not an eight-year deal.

That's a six-year deal. Didn't they explain to us last week that something happened with the CBA or whatever where after a certain point he'll get the money and it doesn't count against the cap, so it could just be fun with numbers. I mean look, I'm the last person here that knows about NHL CBA deals so I don't know how this money works but it seems as though there's something going on there. Roy, maybe you could tell us where he can get the money

and if he retires early it doesn't work against the Panthers. Roy, you can tell us but I believe almost uniformly, the person who knows the least and begins with, look, I don't know anything here, is exactly the person who also says, something fishy is going on here. Like, it's the person who's- I'm just saying, what is this stop? Hypothetically, I'm not saying, for the record,

very clearly, I am not saying that this is going on or would ever go on or happens anywhere or should happen anywhere. I am not saying that this is going on or would ever go on or happens anywhere or should happen anywhere, I am not accusing anyone of anything for the record. But what is to stop a team owner or management team from just setting up offshore accounts for players that then have access to said monies and can stay under salary caps in different sports.

So commit crimes? I'm not saying. It's not taxable money. I'm not saying that that happened. I'm not saying it should happen. I'm not saying anyone is doing that. I'm just saying, if said accounts do exist, do you think it's impossible to think

that that's ever happened or why a team hasn't thought of doing a situation where, you know what, like here's this little paper that like, you know, that Jason Bourns of the world have and then you go and you type it into a computer and there's $400 million, right? And no one knows that that money's there and none of the commissioners are gonna know anything, but, and then all of a sudden someone's like, you know what, you wanna offer me

$14 million more? No, I wanna stay here to go to the beach. I'm not saying that happened, I never would say that, but what's to stop something like that from happening? Yeah, criminal laws. It's not criminal laws. Rules in your sport. Rules in your sport are not real laws. Who cares about rules?

All of a sudden we think athletes are following the rules in your sport. Wake up, Jack, that's not what's going on here. Ever heard of Pete Rose, ever heard of Barry Bonds? Rules in your sport? Huh! You sound silly. Again, the government tracks major transactions of money. It's in a different country. Shadow accounts, yeah, dark money.

Have you never heard of Swiss bank accounts? Have you never heard of the Caribbean? Uh huh, yeah I've heard of both of those things. It's a shell account. Weren't the Marlins registered at a PO box that Andy Slater tracked them down? Yes. I will also say that Mark Cuban was punished because for a while Dennis Rodman was living in his home

and that was against salary cap rules to offer Dennis Rodman lodging for free. I am a house in Switzerland, you're good. So what you're alleging is irresponsible. I made very clear I'm not alleging anything on the front end so you couldn't spin this. I know your next step before you can think it. I knew that's where you were going on this

and I said on the front end that's not what I'm alleging. But what is to stop a team owner from doing such a thing? I'm asking the question. Okay, thank you for asking it so vigorously. That's fair, Billy's just saying, were I alleging that? I didn't say were, I just said what if someone were to? I'm not. That's different.

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I tried to speed it up for you guys. You forgot about the league's cup. Stugats! La Carreta is a place where the best of the celebrations has to be the 97 Marlins celebration because it was Levante and... Well, when Fidel died the first time. This is the Don Lebatard Show with the Stugats. If we go back for a second to the United States losing with its backups against Mexico,

what do you make of Chris Richards saying after the game, one of the defenders, that the refs, quote, hate them and that in any other league it would have been called off sides? But again, that's conca cap for you. They hate us. End quote. I don't know. I saw the replay. It looked like he was on side. Am I wrong? Conka calf for you. They hate us. Yeah. The you were lamenting the idea of complaining about the refereeing. Nobody wants, nobody wants to hear the losing player say it's,

it was the officiating, everybody hates us. You know what? The US problem is that they didn't have their best players on the field. And Polisic, on vacation, sends out a photo of him on a beach somewhere while the gold cup is going on. And he rightly got so vilified and criticized for that social media post that That he might never live it down. The problem is the system. Okay, and that's not that's not accurate Never live that down it depends on what he does from here. Okay. Yeah, wait a minute You're willing to give him a legacy stain for... Yes, he put his rest and relaxation

above the national team. Okay, this wasn't just a gold cup, which is a big regional tournament, this was a prelude to the World Cup in less than a year. They need their team together. But it was just the gold cup, it was just the gold cup it was just okay that's a that's a big regional tournament okay but it was but what but wait a minute and it and it's a big regional tournament is a prep tournament for the world cup what about that don't you

understand the coach himself said this is not the way to run a national team program it's not that i don't understand i'm just objecting to the hyperbole of he will never livele of he will never live this down. He will never live down a photo sent out during the gold cup because Mexico scored in the 77th minute. Okay, you don't know the reaction to that social media post. It hit an off key.

It was the star of the team putting himself and his rest and relaxation above his national team. That done by a comparable player in Spain or Germany or Brazil would have been a national scandal. It wasn't here because soccer in America is still not that big. Keep in mind that the United States, Canada and Mexico are hosting the World Cup so they're automatically in. Yes, yes.

But because they're the host nation, the onus is on the U. end. Yes, yes, but because of the host nation, the onus is on the US to at least, at least... It's just a regional tournament. It's the gold cup and Mexico always wins it or the US always wins it because... Roy and I are talking about the World Cup, now let's move on. Those three nations are hosting the World Cup, not the gold cup, okay? And now there is pressure for the US to at least get out of the group stage in the World Cup. Will they do it? Who knows?

You are a bucking bronco of sports opinion today and I appreciate you coming out of the gate roaring today. You seem tired, you seem a little winded from the amount that you've been carrying. I'm just getting going. Okay, you've been giving very strong, strong sports opinion and you had that one moment where all of a sudden you had a softball having to whistle Yankee Doodle Dandy

and you lost yourself in the thicket of mangroves. But you're back now. Yankee Doodle Dandy. Billy, can you please tell me. Probably not. What the update is with you and your neighbors and general feuding that is going on with your neighbors? Oh, you got neighbors, bro?

Okay, for a feud to exist, I think two parties have to be involved, not me and my mind. So like, they're not actual feuds, they're just, I get upset about certain things. And my backdoor neighbor has really been a thorn in my side as of late for a number of reasons. But the latest is they have bird feeders now behind me, which was fine, but they're like these fancy bird feeders.

And I'm okay with birds. We had a bird feeder for my daughter. So we would see and then little birds would come over. There was a Cardinal that would come. Blue Jay would come. We gave them names. Of course, as children do, the kids, the birds names were Mickey and Minnie,

and then Daisy was one of the birds, because that's what kids, at least my experience, name everything after Disney characters for themselves. Like everything that my daughter sees, like, oh, what's this doll's name? And it's just her name. Like that's what they name. They know like four names.

So they name everything those names. Now that my neighbor has these fancy bird feeders back there, the birds have stopped coming over to visit my children because I guess we don't have as good food. They got the Cadillac. And we don't have like the nice bird feeders. So we've lost the birds now and I don't know what to do

because I don't want to get in a bird feeder battle with them and build some sort of elaborate bird feeder. But I also don't want to tell my children, hey, you know, this is how life works, the birds don't love us anymore, we're not giving them the fancy things. Well what were you giving them? What kinds of foods were you giving them?

Were you going to cheaper? Bird food. And it's just not as tempting anymore because the nature should put out a better situation? No, well, okay, so we have one of those like, clear plastic bird feeders that's suction cupped onto the window so that you can see the birds when they come and they eat the food. And then we had an incident where there's a lot

of vegetation in my neighborhood, and with vegetation, you get animals. So it's not rare to see different types of animals running around. There's foxes sometimes that are there. We'll get like squirrels. We'll get raccoons. We have iguanas. You know, get like armadillos every once in a while.

We have to startle the birds. Next time they are gathered at their bird feeder, we got to do something to startle them so that they don't want to go back to that bird feeder. Well, what happened with our bird feeder is we gotta do something to startle them so that they don't wanna go back to that bird feeder. Well, what happened with our bird feeder is we had a very large, heavy bird that we would hear making a lot of noise and it had a long tail and it was a rat. So we're like, okay, well now we need to get rid

of this bird feeder, because I don't want rats anywhere near my house because they're coming to steal the bird food. So I asked Ron McGill what I should do and then I asked the internet what I should do and the internet said if you put pepper, that scares off the rats, but it doesn't harm the birds the birds can digest the but we didn't do it for a while I ended up getting rid of the bird feeder

We got a new bird feeder so we could get the birds kind of pepper black pepper crack red There's different types that they say to use but I only had like the regular black pepper So I set up a new bird house. I put the pepper in it and no birds have have come so far. That's always sad. Put it on the poll at Levitard Show. Do kids name everything after Disney characters or themselves? And also put on the poll at Levitard Show. Is it very sad to put out a bird feeder and not get a single bird? Well the first time it happened that's what happened and then like two weeks in eventually the birds came so I'm, I know this is like something that we have to be patient with,

but also this time there's pepper in there so that we don't get rats, right? So then after like two weeks, we moved the bird feeder to a different window. And now it's in the backyard where now the luxury hotel bird feeders are in the neighbor's yard that are multi-levels. There's different type of seeds.

I don't wanna blame my wife, but I think she got the wrong bird food this time. But something's going on that the birds aren't coming, and I think it's because my neighbor is outdoing us with the bird feeder, which honestly, if you're an adult with bird feeders, leave it for the children. There's children here that wanna see the birds.

What do you need to see the birds for? So you're basically putting this on your window because you like the idea of your kid seeing birds swoop in and land from on, and not get confused by the clear glass and just land right there as if they're flying into your child's life like a cartoon. And that's why you put it on the window. They like birds, what do you want me to tell you?

They'll learn to hate birds, that's what happens when you get older is you start not trusting birds and thinking birds will attack you and then you end up disliking birds. Like, they're there, and we're trying to get the birds to see, for them to see the birds, and it'd be like a nice, magical Disney movie. She goes, oh, Mickey's coming, Minnie's coming.

But they haven't been coming. I haven't even told you about the other neighbor that's not my neighbor. It's a guy that walks the dog, and I haven't pinned down where he lives yet, but if I do, then there's trouble. I know that this guy walks around smoking a cigar at odd hours of the night Has this dog also back going there then all of a sudden there's always poop on my my yard And I know that it's him

I haven't been able to prove it yet but I thought about buying a deer cam so that I could get it and catch him on camera put it in one of the Trees and then take a picture, print out a picture, and then say, hey, stop having your dog poop on my lawn. I have a lot of questions here. Put it on the poll, please, at Levitard Show. Do you hate or distrust birds more as you get older? So you wanted to bring Disney

to your impressionable young children, and instead a rat horrifies the children, and now the birds no longer come around. Well, we, I mean, I don't know how we explain the rat situation. I think we're like, oh, that's not supposed to be there eating that bird food, but we took it down, because I didn't want a rat.

Understood. Imagine you open the window, there's a bird feeder there, it's clear, and you just see a rat right up against your window eating the bird food. I'm just saying that I, if I were you, would take that rejection and that failure a little bit personally if I were you. And I'm not saying- What was the failure? It was over successful. I attracted not only birds but other species of animals as well, wanted to eat from my trough. The failure is that you're feuding with your mind because your neighbor is better at attracting the birds now than you are and you've got a pathetic bird feeder

that you filled with the greatest of delights and keep in mind that, okay. This is different bird food than I got the last time. My wife got this one and I don't. Look, here's the trick. You look to see what kind of birds are in your neighborhood and then they sell specific food for those birds. It's a cheat code really, but it's kind of like

if Zazz is my neighbor and I know Zazz likes hamburgers and wants Zazz to come visit me. I like hamburgers. Yeah then I put I put hamburgers in my windows so like a pie you know and then Zazz sniffs the hamburger and then comes floating over. I would eat it. You put exactly what they're if it's cardinals that are there you get the food that the cardinals like if it's Blue Jays you get the Blue Jays food. She got specific just for cardinals which now the Blue Jays don't want to come and eat. It's crazy. Okay, so perhaps it's not the greatest of delights because your wife has failed. What I'm saying as to why it is you should take this personally is

because those animals have to hunt in order to find food. You're putting out a smorgasbord. You're putting out an amount of food for free that they can just have. And they're saying nope That's the house with rats. That's that's the house. I don't my house doesn't have rats to be clear But there's a rat there's lush vegetation. I think there was just one they also don't normally pay for their food That would be funny if they did well, they have to hunt for it. They have to find it. It's not out there for free It's not it's not a slug. It's It's well, they it's just they have to find it Well, if they work for it, they're not it's it's not every day you can show up and and and the wife has put out the wrong food

We don't know that for a fact just a working theorem. I said it twice Well, I can say that you guys I have to stand up and defend her honor How dare you guys insinuate my wife did not hunt a shot for bird food. I'm sorry. You sons of bees. You did that. You kept saying that, otherwise I wouldn't know.

You know what I saw this weekend in the realm of animals and eating food? I saw a dolphin right down here. We came over, because my wife had family in town, so we were doing like touristy things. And we were here by the museums museums and we saw a dolphin just swimming in the bay and I had never seen this or considered it. The dolphin was jumping out of the water with a giant fish in its mouth and then would let the

fish go and the fish wasn't dead the fish was still living would swim away a little bit and then it'd catch it again and jump back out with the fish. It was playing fetch with itself with a live fish. And then eventually it sounds awesome, but I imagine it was very traumatic for that fish. Like I don't know. You know it was the same fish. Obviously.

What are the chances that, well it was the same size roughly, it would come up, it was going like in a line, it would do it. There was people watching and I was trying to figure out, is this dolphin putting on a show for the spectators, and what is the ending? Because the fish seemed too big for the dolphin to eat,

which maybe what was happening is it was trying to eat and it was too big. Eventually it got away because the dolphin disappeared for a little bit, and then came back up without the fish, so I think that the fish got a fast one. But I had never thought about what dolphins eat in terms of hunting,

and if they entertain themselves by catching. I'm gonna ask Ron McGill the next time he's on about this. got a fast one, but I had never thought about what dolphins eat in terms of hunting and if they like entertain themselves by catching. I'm gonna ask Ron McGill the next time he's on about this. It was playing catch with itself with a live fish. What would be your guesses here? Because that's a good guess that the fish was too big. I do think that animals do play with their food sometimes. Again, why it's so insulting that you're putting it out for free for birds and they don't want the free food that you're giving them To even play with like they don't want it They don't want to be near it because there was a rat there recently We took the bird feeder down because of the rat we didn't we had to figure out a solution and then if I'm gonna be

Honest what happened is daddy accidentally broke the first bird feeder So then we had to track down a new bird feeder, but I was trying to be like, conscious of the cost of said bird feeder, because the first one was like $5 a target, and like that section when you walk in, and then those things, you basically have to get them when you see them, if not they disappear forever. So then $5 bird feeders are out the window, and I don't want to pay $30 for a bird feeder. I'm not an idiot with my money, I'm not Aaron Ekblad. Did you say that you did other tourist things this weekend?

Yeah, we're not a boat just it was a touristy weekend when people come in in town We take them on touristy things say I want to see Miami so you go star island by the way by the way It was crazy to me. So we were on a boat I'm not gonna tell you which boat cuz I don't dissuade people from going on the boats to take you're on star island and stuff Like that 90 minute if you if you can't buy it on group on it's like half the price So we go we get that we go and we try to negotiate the guy so take you on Star Island and stuff like that, 90 minutes. If you can't buy it on Grubone, it's like half the price. So we go and we try to negotiate with the guy. So we go on it. The guy's just following a script that he has memorized. He's doing it in English and then right after in Spanish over and over again. And then we get to the

area of Star Island where you wonder, is this going to be on the tour still? And in case we're wondering, yes, they still tell you where Diddy's house is on the Star Island tour. It was still there. They tried, they tried, and then it was Diddy's house, and then it kept going. Like, all right, quick turn, we're gonna keep going. But yeah, they showed us Diddy's house for some reason.

Which seemed like a crazy decision by me because they could have just said anything. Those houses, they could tell you anyone lives there, right? What do you know? Why would you go out of your way and tell us that's where Diddy lives? Was there a for sale sign on his lawn? There was not.

Why would that happen? No. I love when it's like the owner of like a random company. Minor penalty, two minutes for adding nothing. It had to be S. That right there is the owner of Kellogg's. Dude, no, the Viagra guy is living large, no pun intended. That guy, that house, crazy.

So that one is life is cruel when you read that Viagra medication is just a total accident. They were just fiddling around with heart medication, and then they stumbled on Viagra by something else and Give you a heart on Why you still here that is it done You're right Roy you gotta let that sit Roy You're right. Roy, you gotta let that sit, Roy. I'm sorry. Roy, you gotta let that sit. I gave it a couple of seconds. You gotta- Roy! Come on! Major penalty, five minutes. Screaming comedy. FIVE MINUTES!

You gotta let that sit, Roy. You gotta let that sit. You gotta go. You can't leave fast enough. I wanted to stare at him for nine straight minutes in the silence. And that's when you ran into the breach. Your dad's lack of subtlety there was excruciating. The chair.

Excruciating. The chair. Excruciating. Billy's hiding behind his computer, trying to hide from the shame of Greg Cody just blurting the phrase. Breaking news. We're getting to the sounder. Per Shomstrarania, the Clippers, Jazz, and Heat have agreed to a trade that sends Norman Powell to Miami, John Collins to Los Angeles,

and Kevin Love, Kyle Anderson, and a 2027 Clippers second round pick to the Jazz. So Norman Powell is added to the Miami Heat. I believe an all-star last year. Bradley Beal was the reports today for the Miami Heat as they go into the buyout bin and the discount bin and the Norman Powell bin. So is Barry right?

Jeremy just said twice, off mic, that is a great pickup. He's a good player. He's a really good player. For Kyle Anderson, a second round pick, and Kevin Love, who didn't play? It hurts the Clippers as well. He was valuable for them. Not an all-star last year, borderline. He's a good player, not an all-star.

Honestly, the part about that trade that I like also is it clears a roster spot. Like, maybe there's gonna be another guy they get to. You're going to assume that they're going to be doing something. But when they're shopping in the Bradley Beal discount bin, and that's what you're hearing about today, trying to talk yourself into whatever it is you were trying to talk yourself into, Andrew Wiggins would be that.

It's not very exciting. Why does Bradley Beale want to play here? Like, it's the same thing with Damian Lillard. I don't think these guys want to play here right now. Beaches on the off day. They wanted to play here two years ago when they were Eastern Conference champions and they had Jimmy Butler. They can hang out with the Panthers

They can hang out with the Panthers by the beaches with no state income tax and he can play he could spend time playing He's one of only two players with the no trade clause So he'd have to want to be here like there's no circumstance under which he gets here in which we may get bought out It seems well, but I'm saying he wouldn't end up here unless he wanted to be here That's the only circumstance under which it happens