The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: Deep Breath, Panther Fans

Episode Date: March 22, 2024

Kentucky's first-round loss has us wondering about John Calipari’s future. He's been rumored to be looking to step away from college basketball. Mike Ryan includes him in the category of coaches leaving college sports amid the rise of NIL. Plus, Lucy talks about the offensive lineman who transferred to Iowa from Alabama, then went right back to Alabama before ever taking a snap. Then, we reveal more of the contestants in our March Sadness tournament and Adam McKay continues to try desperately to get into the Looks Like Game. To wrap up, the show discusses the stubborn Coral Gables resident who forced developers to build an apartment complex around his house, which he refuses to sell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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 if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys? I've done it. And now here's the marching man to nowhere, fat face and the habitual liar. I'm not too worried about the Panthers though. Everybody breathe a sigh of relief.

Barkov should be coming back into the lineup on Saturday against, man, this league is incredible. If you look at that Saturday slate, if you see the games and the teams that are clashing on Saturday, it's insane. You have a national television game with a team now that has proven they can draw ratings in the Florida Panthers. You have Panthers at Rangers, two teams that are neck-and-neck atop the Eastern Conference, 8 p.m. primetime. Hopefully Barkov is back for that. I like that they're taking a cautious approach with Ekblad. We're starting to

feel his absence a little bit. It's a murderer's row's row after that they have Philadelphia which is a slightly easier opponent you would say if you're just looking at points Philadelphia's had Florida's number and they're getting him on the back end of a back-to-back John Tortorella wants to drag everyone into hell that he plays with and plays against so it's a really difficult sport right now the teams are so good Nathan McKinnon plays hockey tonight folks that That's appointment television But I would be I would be cautiously optimistic that this is gonna happen whenever you rip off a run like that This team has shown you whenever they get hot they settle down a little bit and they build themselves back up

I actually think that they're gonna be fine. I'm not worried about the Panthers, but last night I know what it came in hurt and five days off. They had a little bit of rink rust on them, but that was embarrassing, man. They were entirely too slow against this Predators team, and they got outclassed. They got out-panthered by Andrew Brunette's Nashville Predators. That one was a tough pill to swallow. Lucy is not happy with you guys talking hockey when she wants to talk college basketball. I mean, you're not helping.

It's March. I mean, she just, look, that's a good comeback from her. It's March, there's gonna be time to talk. I feel like we've talked about college basketball today. Again, I give- You've hated on college basketball today. You haven't given us our day. We are a sports show.

We had a little tae-da-tae, and a little back and forth. And the topic du jour, March Madness, We had a little te-da-te and a little back and forth. And the topic du jour, March Madness, I gave you a little different opinion, you spoke for the people, you remained popular, I talked too much, the villain, we're all happy. That's what keeps this whole machine going. Exactly.

Disagree. What? I really wanna talk about Coach Cal after the Kentucky loss yesterday, because I think it became like very clear to me that NIL was sort of going to be the death of Coach Cal because I don't want to say anything or accuse him of anything but PayPal Cal had an advantage before NIL that now allegedly he no longer has because it's open to everybody and I think you're starting to see it.

Kentucky doesn't recruit as well as they once did. Even when they do, they're losing in the first round of the tournament. They lost to Oakland this year. They lost to St. Peter's two years ago. Those are double digit seeds and now Kentucky basketball is at this really crazy point where if you want to remain a relevant program, you have to get rid of Coach Cal. His buyout is over 33 million dollars. Get rid of him. I think they can't get rid of him but this is Coach Cal is now the latest because his comments it kind of feels like he's been laying the foundation for his exit for quite some time seeing the writing on the walls. There is no bigger red flag for me than if you decide to leave college athletics

after you were running shit for 20 years. Because it leads me to believe you were doing something that wasn't on the up and up. And I know I'm not breaking any news here with Coach Cal. I mean, Saban's not getting any of that. He's not getting any of that. Saban, that's what pisses me off. Because I don't know if you saw him speak to representatives.

And I wanna be very careful because I respect the man immensely. We played it with him sitting next to Ted Cruz. We played that sound and it bothered everybody. Man of high character despite lying to Dolphins fans. He has since atoned for that. One of the greatest leaders in the history of sports. Tell me if I've said enough to protect me from what I'm. He behaved like a punk ass when he was on the hill. He behaved like a

punk ass sore loser. Sore loser. Displayed to be... He is not a punk ass. He is a Titan. He is the greatest ever. Do it in a sport where it's really hard to be that great. But also, he had some advantages that other people started getting and they were above board and then he left he he dipped I'm not gonna say he tucked his tail in because he almost beat Michigan the national champion but the game changed the game changed and he left Gino Oriyema writings on the wall there coach cow writings on the wall there unprecedented runs these coaches have had and when the talent gets dispersed, you see that they don't want any part in the game anymore.

Once again, a little chicken shit behavior. Okay, punk ass, I don't know what the hierarchy is on this. Roy, can you look up for me, please, why there's writing on the wall? I'm not familiar. This might be biblical in origin. I don't know what it is in origin. I was, are you? Is Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego? I don't know what it is in origin. Iowa?

Shadrach, Meshach, and Bendigo? Might have been. I think King Nebuchadnezzar's in there somewhere. Iowa, are you going to Iowa this weekend? Well, I go by Lucy. That's what my birth certificate says. And yes, I'm so excited. We're going to Iowa for the first round of the tournament.

So if you thought I talked about Caitlin Clark a lot before, just you wait. We're flying out tonight. We're gonna go to the first round, I guess tomorrow, and then Monday they'll play the winner of West Virginia Princeton, and it'll be a little celebrities watch. Pat McAfee's gonna be there, he's doing a show there.

Why didn't we do a show there? Well, you're going as a representative. Yeah, but all of us. I had a conversation with Skipper the other day about what things cost to move us, and he said, and he called us your traveling circus. And it's a lot of people. So is Pat McAfee, but that's the worldwide leader,

and we're a startup company. And so we're sending just Lucy and an assortment of resources, as opposed to all of us going to do a tournament game there. Me and Rose. In the book of Daniel, 5 verses 5 through 31, you can find that. Great book by the way. Great book. In which the prophet interprets some mysterious writing that a disembodied hand has inscribed on the palace wall

telling King Belserar that he will be overthrown. And this is the saga that culminates with Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego? I don't think so. I think it's Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego adjacent. But they went into fire, correct? Yeah. Off the air, I called that that was a book of Daniel. Yes. I went to Christian school, K-5 through 12. You did a little hip hop there, and I wanted to ask the group here,

does anyone, did anyone recoil when Kendrick said there is no big three, there's just me? It's just me. He knocked out Kendrick is so back, Dan. Kendrick is so back with one verse. We are back. There's no big three. It's just me. It's just big me. I'm going to put it on Peter Rosenberg who called them the greatest MC ever. And that was like two albums ago. Kendrick for me is him, but Jay Cole is also in that. But he's never done that to Drake and J Cole before, right?

He doesn't, he, no, he. But shots fired across the bow though, because he also had another line in that verse talking about how Prince outlived Michael Jackson. Drake has famously compared himself to Michael Jackson. It's like, there's a lot of things going on there. But they do these songs together. They occasionally collaborate and they say these things.

It's not like they're getting one over. It's not like Cannabis and LL Cool J for hip-hop fans out there so they're just saying things yeah and and J Cole I don't know if you saw a recent interview that he did well it wasn't actually that recent but J Cole actually had a hand in in the discovery of Kendrick Lamar so there's there's a lot of mutual respect there but I do think Kendrick's the best and if you can't listen to a dude in an NHL All-Star Sergei Bobrovsky jersey about hip-hop who can you trust? I wanted to ask you guys if you wanted to take a stab at I don't know if you

guys drive in the same way I do and see the same billboards I do but right across from the arena advertising to people who park before going to a heat game. There is a giant billboard for a person selling a skill set that is asking you to fear the beard. And the billboard just reads, winning is my sport. And I want to ask you guys what you think that is a commercial advertisement for, because when I see it,

I don't think of winning is my sport or fear the beard with the profession insurance attorney. I was going to say, I can refuse myself cause I've seen these commercials and on the Metro rail, he actually has big pictures of himself and his little cartoon characters like my sport is winning and he's there like very serious beard. Yes. It is my sport is winning. It's, it's a very aggressive marketing campaign and he's really,

I think we can all side with him if it's against the insurance company like that you can go aggressive as an insurer. You can go aggressive with your marketing and advertising. If you're someone who wants to tell others, I'll help you go after the insurance company. I'm an insurance attorney and winning is my sport. But his law firm is called your insurance attorney or something like that.

Like names and then like the name of the. I don't know what it I just saw insurance attorney I didn't even see a name on the billboard. I just saw a beard I saw that winning is his sport and then I saw an occupation that said insurance attorney I did not see a name for what it is that was being advertised there. I don't know if I would trust him as a lawyer Because of that advertising just because I'm sure is interning is like that's not where the law that's taking out advertising I think it's a bit of a red flag right there or that he's just a lawyer speaking of attorneys attorneys

should have looked over Caden proctors contract no doubt we've talked about Iowa athletics a little bit on this show I don't know if you've had the opportunity to talk about what kid and Proctor did. For those that don't know, Kaden Proctor was from Iowa, had initially committed to Iowa, ended up going to Alabama, then went in the transfer portal and went back to Iowa. It was a huge gift for Iowa, but as he went back to Iowa, he kind of let the cat out of the bag and revealed that Iowa reached out to him

while he was enrolled at Alabama. Iowa got in trouble for it. And then it was announced a couple days ago, the proctor has re-entered the transfer portal and is now headed back to Alabama, leaving everybody to wonder, wait a second, did this guy just steal money from Iowa? What's the latest on this, Lucy?

His stat line for Iowa, zero minutes played, zero snap played, one NCAA investigation, and unknown amount of money taken from Iowa's collective. So basically, Kaden Proctor, once Nick Saban left, decided to come back to Iowa. He was committed to Iowa up until National Signing Day and then was like, ah, gotcha, just kidding,

I'm going to Alabama. And we were like, you know what, best of luck, my guy, live your life. He then leads. God bless you. Yeah, God bless him. Okay, let me write that down. Comes back to Iowa and randomly,

like it was kind of out of the blue, it's announced that he's transferring back to Alabama. He came to Iowa and the collective for Iowa came out and said he did take money from us, not from anything that was fan donation, but just like business deals or advertising. I don't know how much of that is accurate because they do need to save face

because you don't wanna say, hey, we gave this guy a shit ton of money. He came, took it and left. But because there is no real like system where, you know, he's held accountable for that, and I'm all for players getting paid, I'm all for NIL. There is a potential that he came, took a crap ton of money from Iowa watch Caitlin Clark play basketball and said you know what? I'm good. I'm going back to Alabama

It's one of the weirder in IL stories We've seen and I think there's gonna be a ripple effect because people are gonna want more regulation now. Oh, they always did Well, there there should be a collectively bargain standard because different states have different rules and depending on the state he could have gotten paid in full. In certain states you can just get paid and I know this for a fact, certain schools or certain collectives pay for just commitments, just a graphic that people can break at any time. So there's going to be way more Caden Proctor's and Rashada's and Cormani McClain's before this actually gets any kind of regulation.

Incredible logo on the beard by the way. So good. Yeah, that is a great logo. Howdy folks, it's Mike Ryan. It's springtime. And while every time is a good time for Miller Lite, springtime is among the best. I was sitting out in my backyard,

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because we missed football in general so very much. You didn't watch the ending of UTEP Jacksonville State. It was awesome. Adizzi. Boom. Stugatz. Such a lane for you. Just everything in college football is awesome. Any single thing that happens, she gets deliriously happy about. Don't you miss viewing sports through that prism though?

Like, I'm envious of Lucy. Like, I wish that I could still be happy. This is the Dunn-Levar Show with the StuGats. ["The Stugats Theme Song"] Our wildly popular pivot for March Sadness, March is on, Dan. I've heard from our fans, and while I don't want to discount negative feedback, there's been a little bit here but generally overwhelmingly positive with what we've done with March

Sadness which I have to remind you is all presented by Get Your Guide. Discover over 100,000 unforgettable travel experiences in the US and around the world at GetYourGuide.com. We thank them for presenting this March Sadness and as you know there's all sorts of different regions That's not at all confusing whatsoever. They all have to do with the show and given that we're entering our 20th year doing this together It's nice nostalgia for all of us. So Dan out of the club region We have a 6 v 11 matchup of two really popular sounds Up first the number six seed.

If you think I'ma shoot the fair one with Ben, you out your mind. It's 6'10". I'm going straight. The shit that I'ma do is ridiculous. I'm from the danger zone. You gotta Google that shit. Oh, go Google Lennox Avenue, the danger zone.

Go Google Lennox Avenue, the danger zone, 139th Street, see what we do for a living. See? And when you come back next week, you be like, okay see what we do for a living. And when you come back next week, you'd be like, oh Kim, you from over there. I'd say I'm just gonna pill Hill projects. I spent some time in some other kind of projects. Nope.

I spent some time in some other kind of projects too. Yo, let me tell you something about that real quick. I can tell you this, you ain't never heard nobody f*** with me. Yo, O, how many of you getting the beef? I ain't even, I'm not beefing with you. How many of you getting the beef? We just talking about best service. I may help you with this.

There we go, that's my man. Dan, that is from the Is What It Is podcast that is OJ, kind of referencing that, you know, he's murdered a couple of people potentially. I don't know what that was, but we don't want beef. That is the sixth seed? That is the sixth seed, and I gotta tell you, I think the committee got this one wrong, because it goes against an 11th and I think the 11 seed is far stronger here is Stone Cold Steve Austin entering a cold plunge. God damn it! Whoa!

Ah! Ah! Ah! God damn it! Hey what's up? God damn it! Hey what's up everybody it's Steve coming to the Broken Skull Ranch. I got this Renew Therapy.

Hey what's up everybody it's Steve coming to the Broken Skull Ranch. Hey what's up everybody it's Steve coming to the Broken Skull Ranch. About to do my first cold plunge and a renewed therapy. My shop says 43 degrees right now, so I'm sure the water is sub 50. I was gonna start off at 50, it's gonna be a little bit colder than that. And we're going three minutes here,

once it gets on to 12, and five, four, three, two, down we go. God damn. four three two there we go son of a bitch That's it. He's out. He's out. Not three minutes. He's not doing three minutes. He's doing a few seconds. I'm going to revisit this mother******. So you could head over to Lebatard AF and actually your voice can be heard because if you're like us and think that unjustly that's an 11 seed, you don't have to count on an upset in the actual tournament for this who advance. You can vote for it yourself.

In the bracket of death bracket, which is all costume punishments, we have a number two seed, which is Greg Cody dresses Harry Styles. I've actually never seen this before, and I don't know how we got Harry Styles there. That looks pretty bad from Greg. And that is going up against Stu Gatz from My Nightmares dressed up as Larry Bird. So these are just all costumes in the bracket of death. This is a two seed Harry Styles, Greg Cody, looking slightly like Jerry Seinfeld's as Tony.

Tony as Jerry Seinfeld earlier this week. Looks like the girl from the Drew Carey show. And Stu Gotz as Larry Bird was truly disturbing, incidentally, because 15 seat, I do think, is low, but I think it's just general disgust that got us there. Yeah. Historically inaccurate. Historically inaccurate costume.

I believe Bird was wearing the home whites, and he wasn't wearing a Travis Matthew hat at the time Stugatz has worn like three costumes in six years. Like I don't know how he skated on this. All settled The number three seed in this bracket of death is represented by Lucy Rodin. It was a run it back From our show's illustrious history. You once did this as Bobby Petrino'd in, but I think Lucy took it next level. A lot more scars on her face. And that is a three-seat.

It's going up against probably the committee got this one wrong too. Sleeper, this is a giant sleeper. This is one of the funniest moments to have happened. Me talking to Rob Delaney and us crying about sad things while Billy made an appearance as the number 14 seat is as funny a thing as this happened on a show the last six months. We have a video clip to actually speak to how how creepy and and weird this entire segment was and how useful the costume

actually was to get in this segment off the ground. It's a New York Times bestseller, it's a heart that works, it's out now in paperback, and I have not talked to you since this happened to me, so I will tell you that the places that you and I talked about the loss of your son at the time that we talked about it, I didn't even know my brother was sick when we had that conversation,

and in the time since then, my brother has died. And I will tell you that the pain of that has been, I don't know what your pain is exactly, right? I can't possibly know even though you've written a book. But I feel like I lost a son because I raised him. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's brutal. And I'm glad that you are talking about it.

I'm so incredibly sorry. I'm glad that you're crying and that people can hear that because the pain truly is. There's an old timey baseball player here, Rob. Like, what? Yes, thank you. Like, I can't cry. That's a 14?

How? There's no way. How? That may win the entire thing. It's on you. Not just Final 14. That is a national title threat right there. I don't know how we topped that.

We probably should have closed with that, but Dan, you dressed up as a really unique costume that I hadn't seen anyone do, especially after the Halloween season. Dan decided to dress up as Cowboy Ken, which again, hadn't been done before, hasn't been done since. Great job by you.

You're an eight seed. I don't know how you're that much higher than old timey baseball player. That's crazy to me. My bracket was wildly disrespected in a way That's crazy to me. My bracket was wildly disrespected in a way that enrages me. I don't have enough in the tournament. This was not one of the best costumes I've worn. Who am I up against? You're up against a group shot here of the Anchorman News team. So that's a

that's a lot of people. Man, I am literally holding that suit together. You have no idea the real torture what was going on around my waistline That was the actual punishment also perspective people Jeremy is not even remotely close to being that much taller than me It's all perspective. I'm very tall What is in Jeremy's left pocket? I? Don't know throw that image back up. I didn't notice what was in his left pocket I just noticed that we were essentially the same height and as you know that is not accurate many people say I'm one of the tallest people they've

ever met put it on this in this photo I'm like the shortest guy that's his all perspective I am three feet behind the rest of the group just so you know I am a very tall individual put it on the pole please at LeBittard Show. Is Jack the perfect name for a guy who makes 10 threes off the bench? Jessica is texting me while you're doing this, Mike, enraged. I don't know how she got this already. Enraged at your March midness takes. And the other thing we haven't talked about is that the women have sold six times as many Final Four tickets as the men so you you are just attacking so far yesterday's men's bracket is what you're in fact I laid out I'm happy that the women have their day and I think the women's sport is better than the men's in terms of

people think that yeah in terms of power that's indisputable yeah yeah I mean look there there's bad basketball being played all around. And don't hold it against me. You're going to find some dreadful execution in the women's game, too. But in terms of physicality, a lot of the stuff that sports fans are drawn to, some of these games on the women's side of things remind you of like 1980s NBA basketball with the physicality. And the refs are just a fish like just terrible

the officials are so bad in that sport Gene Serator probably backs every single one of them up. Many people have written longing for the looks like tournament and I will tell you that as we sit here because Adam McKay is a little bit crazy he has just bombarded me because he's always every year trying to get into our looks like tournament. He's just bombarded me with a dozen of these by text. Do you guys want to hear some of these? Would these, any of these have made the tournament? Eric Spolster looks like a guy on his cell phone you'd walk past while entering a steak restaurant and hear him say damn it Barbara I have a right to see our son. That's actually pretty funny. It'd be

funnier if someone read it perfectly but this is not really giving this ample opportunity to succeed the way that you're doing this Doris Burke looks like the veteran homicide detective who while looking at the victim's dead body says and I thought I was having a bad day also good it's also good but we don't have Stu gots here. This is not a good situation. Caitlin Clark looked like the girl who after kicking your son's ass looks at you and says you want some too, Grandpa? Roger Goodell looks like the mayor who after after warning you of a zombie outbreak says can't this wait until after the election.

These are good. These are good. This makes me miss the old tournament. They're double seeds for sure, like double digit seeds. You should have, you probably should good. This makes me miss the old tournament. They're double seeds for sure, like double digit seeds. You should have, you probably should have given it some space from the actual tournament. Dan Lebatard looks like a cruise ship captain who can't swim. Well, I know a lot of Cuban men your age that can't. Greg Cody looks like he moved on. My dad. Greg Cody looks like he moved on to a houseboat in the 80s to meet ladies and solve crimes But then realized the crime rates pretty low and women don't hang out on boat docks So I wanted to give the people an idea of why Adam McKay never makes the tournament yeah, but those are actually pretty solid

We just a device of sugaats laughing. He's very good We just didn't have the device of Sugat's laughing. He's very good! Adam McKay? Yeah, he's solid at writing jokes. He's very good at comedy. His resume would suggest that he's pretty good at it. That is correct. Yeah.

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I haven't been talking about this. It has been a great controversy in my neighborhood and has been national and I think international news that Miami Beach broke up very publicly with spring break. Some parties burn too hot and all parties, the best parties have to die. And Miami Beach was very aggressive. There was some policing that was excessive.

There were some things being done over the last few years and have been done over the last few years to try to militarize and police that area in a way that has felt aggressively un-American, has felt controversial because you had the issue of the party was very black and Roiling it was fun and spring break had a lot of drunkenness in it a lot of crime This is different from Memorial Day weekend and some of the racist policing habits that were around that

But much of what has happened around spring break and the drinking has been partying That has resulted in something that feels like state emergency or actually is state emergency, declared state emergency, and also there have been in that stretch of very public tourist Miami Beach land, there have been some shootings and death that has made as the area has been actively blighted has made it dangerous. So over the last month, what has been parking rates that are super high or just unavailable, traffic so bad that nobody would want to be there, Miami Beach is largely quiet and empty the way that it felt at the very beginning of the pandemic

when everyone was in their homes. Not like that quite, but the quietest spring break you will ever have on that area of land because they've policed the holy hell out of it. And they told you they were gonna do it, and they told you they were gonna do it with a commercial where they went viral, where they broke up, Miami Beach publicly broke up with spring break. Hey we need to talk. This isn't working anymore. And it's

not us it's you. We just want different things. All right do you have a good time? It's relaxing on the beach. Hitting up the spot. Or checking out a new restaurant. You just want to get drunk in public and ignore laws. Do you even remember what happened last March? That was our breaking point. So we're breaking up with you. And don't try to apologize and come crawling back. This is insane. So we're done.

And just so you know, we're serious. This March, you can expect things like curfews, bag checks, and restricted beach access. DUI checkpoints, $100 parking, and strong police enforcement for drug possession and violence. Whatever it takes, because it's time to move on. Maybe we can talk when you're done with your spring break

phase, but until then. $100 parking, so it's cheaper than it used to be. Yeah. They made it initially $100, then they just stopped providing parking. They just closed the parking garage. Well, they closed the parking unless you're a resident of Miami,

because actually last weekend, Lehman wanted to go fishing on Miami Beach, and we couldn't find anywhere to park, because all the lots were blocked off. So we eventually like pulled up to one of them and there was like a parking guy there, some sort of like attendant, but not really like a police officer,

but maybe security guard, I'm not sure what he was. But they're trying to inconvenience everybody into not wanting to be there and they've succeeded. It was completely empty. So we pulled up and we were like, can we park here if we live in Miami? And he was like, yeah, go ahead. And we're like like okay, so we got like a primo parking spot right on the beach It was very bizarre, but I do think we need to reiterate how embarrassing this commercial is like what those actors

They were just like things that no one would ever say it's a big Greg corny Ultra will solve everything this weekend. We'll just get all the drugs and the drinking and the chaos and the overabundance. It'll just be, it won't be on the beach, it'll just be, because this is... It's on the bay, Dan. It's, it's, it'll be right across from here, right? Wasn't there a mass herding? They did it on Key Biscayne a couple of years ago and they realized the traffic disaster that was where people end up walking miles because everything is so spread out here And if you don't have access to traffic you're gonna be proper bleeped

one of my British friends who covers formula one is coming to the Miami Grand Prix and he's he was asking me for you know Some some info on Miami before he plans his trip and the first thing he asked was is Public transit reliable in Miami and I was like If you go to downtown to Kendall, yes, absolutely. Call me Greg Corny. The ultra thing was weird, because they were like, we don't want this in downtown anymore.

And then they just put it in Kiva Ska, and they're like, oh, we now have a billion people on this little island, no way to get them out of there. And they shut down the roads, so people had to literally walk to Rickenbacker. If you don't know what that means, go look at Rickenbacker Causeway. It is like 47 miles a strand

They run that for exercise all the time Six minutes, it's very Steep it goes up. It's a nice little run. You should do it Tony. I've done it you haven't Neither one of you have done. I definitely have have done it. I can show you a picture. I take it out. If you go and you run it, you have to take a picture. The run on. What's the point of running it if you don't take a picture of it?

Looks like we got to run off. Both of you have run on the Rickenbacker Causeway. It's beautiful. It is. It's nice. The people who ride bikes or roller-bikes on that are insane. Frankie rides bikes on there. He's shown me videos of him driving He's a crazy person. Driving up the bike.

I respect you, Frankie. Driving down's crazy. You're crazy. We don't have a lot of strips of land more beautiful than that. However, late at night on drugs, walking on a highway is not the way to traverse that piece of land.

No, especially not. Which is how the people were trying to do it after ultra-lash. Still safer than riding a bike on it, though. Well, a lot of people die there, yes. A little dinner at Rusty Pelican. That's still lovely, I think. Miami Marine Basin. Still lovely. for the writing a bike on it though well a lot of people died there and then i was the pelican that's still lovely i think he's still lovely uh... miami is a weird place though and i don't think you guys are gonna have to

walk me through this story because you were telling me that there is a very stubborn resident in coral gables that simply refuses to allow all of the developers who are coming down here we don't have any more space to sell that isn't straight up. And so, because Miami is wildly overcrowded, it's way too expensive and way too many people from everywhere are coming down here now. And in Coral Gables, there's been a plot of land that has been overdeveloped. And what is the backstory of the resident that simply refuses to be bought and so now has a neighborhood home that is planted in the middle of what looks like a giant straight-up-in-the-sky resort

This visual that we're showing is crazy because you can't really see because it's literally in the shadows, which is what this NPR Story the headline was a Florida man who refused to sell his home to a developer now lives in the shadows. Literally, because he's next to this huge high rise and there's his little house and he used to be in a development in Coral Gables and then a developer came and bought all the other houses and everyone sold their houses to the developer but he refused and he said that his mom or his dad

was sick and he didn't wanna move and he couldn't move and basically, I'm not leaving. So they built this entire development around his house and now he lives across the street from this humongous Lowe's hotel and the pictures inside of it are not across the street not across the street he lives in the middle of it he lives right it's not across the street this person's home it makes no sense where this person's home is we should try and get this person on the show and ask because this must be emotional for him He will not sell his parents the memory of his parents sure but I get punto

Yeah, you know what I mean like they offered him five hundred thousand dollars cash They offered him to pay up for another house in the gables, which if you don't know the gables is like one of the most expensive real estates in anywhere in Florida, right? Plus a car, like they were giving him a lot of things for him to just be like, yeah, okay, sell it, whatever. It's a bad business. They don't want that there.

They don't want his home there. They wanna be able to put something else there. Of course not, $500,000 cash. And they were gonna pay for a house in the Gables. At what point is this guy just bad at business? No, $500,000 is not enough for that property. No, Billy, they were gonna give him 500 cash and they were gonna buy him another house in the Gables. Point is this guy just bad at business no five hundred thousand dollars is not enough for that property no Billy They were gonna give him five hundred cash by him another house in the gables

He claimed in the story that he didn't trust the developers I don't I don't necessarily you know no blame him for that the developers will pay for that That's what they want. They'll pay for that. They'll pay whatever amount of money that they say they're gonna pay for it Then they don't then you take them to court court I mean that's really easy that which cost money I know but you're gonna get on the back end Tony's got it all figured out everything is very easy in this world that Tony has created. When the when the developer comes to me and says hey this rickety house we're gonna build a Lowes Hotel on it perfect oh you guys are building a hotel for the Lowes Hotel

excellent these are my demands I want ten million dollars or a house over there that I pick in Coral Gables and I'll sell it to you write the check. Okay. You've got you've got leverage in this situation unless you're not willing to sell at all, which he isn't and evidently There is no price because someone has stopped negotiating if that's still there that hotel does not want him there It's really weird and they also like he lived in this house while this entire massive And they also, like he lived in this house while this entire massive construction was going on around him. And it was like 24 seven construction noise and then his mom was sick and needed to go to the hospital

and the street was obstructed and the 911 or the emergency vehicles couldn't get there. Yeah, 911. Those are two different, that's a tricky one. That's a try, you say 911 it means one thing, you say 911 it means another another but it's the same thing At what point is it like hey my mom's sick But I can't drive her to the hospital because there's a crane in the way because I didn't sell the house

It has to be inconvenient I will tell you guys because I'm trying to find a place that I can stay It's hard to find stuff. It really is in South Florida that's available And I'm trying to find while while i'm trying to have a home built i'm trying to find a place to stay and it is hard to find anything that doesn't have something under construction next to it that you're that even if you're trying to buy temporary housing or a or rent for a

little while everything that you want that would be an affordable price range to anybody to human being has construction happening next to it that for a little while, everything that you want that would be in an affordable price range to anybody, to a human being, has construction happening next to it that you have to endure while you're sleeping or around whatever your days are. My mother-in-law's house in Westchester has an efficiency next door for rent,

no construction, if interested. You interested? Yes, let's see, let me see, I wanna see one of the, does it have a virtual tour? He can FaceTime me, it's an efficiency in Westchester. Yes, it has a functioning toilet. I'd be sure does it have construction next? No construction Probably like 400 square feet has look you guys have certainly noticed that Miami has become in every respect just like America Less and less affordable. No, right Everywhere you're going, everything is more expensive

than it used to be. Correct? What are you talking about? That's obviously not true. Everywhere you go, including Westchester, if Hialeah is the least, one of the top five least afforded. You can't even buy something for a million dollars in Westchester anymore.

Nothing is affordable anymore, correct? Raises? Could use one. Trying to buy a house, Dan. You you know, I was in Palmetto Bay is really nice That's what I'm trying to look at With the raise though, I mean we can make some happen Palmetto Bay you should represent this guy since you have it all figured out No, well, the problem is he's not listening to sound comment advice. That's that's the problem. So he should hear you That's I should knock on his door to be honest, but I feel like it's already gone or too far gone on this He's already staked his claim. This is stubborn principle gone awry, correct?

There you have to have a price on this at some point There has to be a price the prices you pay off my house and the gables. How about this? Let me paint a picture for you guys. He's gonna die at some point for you guys he's gonna die at some point oh come on don't wish that upon that man you don't know that he's gonna die he's gonna live forever you know that he's gonna live forever I forgot the if he doesn't have any kids the house is gonna go into probate with the government and they're gonna sell it anyway you gotta go you gotta go why to the house I'm gonna go get him howdy folks it's Mike Ryan it's springtime and while every time is a good time for Miller Lite, springtime is among

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