The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: The Batman Logo (feat. Sam Morril)

Episode Date: March 17, 2025

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This episode of the Dan LeBittard Show with Stu Gotz is presented by Smirnoff. We do game days. Please drink responsibly. The Smirnoff Company, New York, New York. I wanted to ask the fans of the champion Florida Panthers in the room a question. Four unanswered goals allowed

Against the Islanders. They've lost a few games they allowed three goals in the third period to the Bruins and I'm here to ask you if you believe vibes and a Marchand Haunting have arrived for the Florida Panthers because Mike Ryan has been worried that trading for this particular man, Roy, you're shaking your head no. But the dumbest thing. Vibes are fine with the Panthers.

In Pantherland, we're doing great, Dan. I don't think it's the dumbest thing. I think injecting Brad Marshawn, but he's not really playing. So I don't think that's what's happening. I think what's happening here is Aaron Echblad, because of performance enhancers, turned into a really good player For Florida and we've seen these dips in form from Florida this season when Aaron Ekblad is not at his performance

Enhancing best and right now they miss Aaron Ekblad and that's what's happening Also, this is a natural dip in form after they I mean they set the world on fire And yeah, they've lost three out of four. In the middle of that, they beat Toronto in Toronto, come back victory in its own right against the team that's in the division right now that's presently chasing them. This is exactly where you want this dip to happen in the season.

Yeah, they just need to cheat a little bit to get good. That's right, that's right. I do get a little angry in the group chat, and this is me like coming out anti-homers, That's right, that's right. I do get a little angry in the group chat, and this is me like coming out anti-Homers, like well, yeah, shocking that Aaron Echblad's out and we suffer and this is all because Aaron Echblad's out, but you have to kind of acknowledge that Aaron Echblad

was what you think he is because of clearly performance enhancers. Could you theoretically schedule it so you only lose one guy on a line at a time with performance enhancing drug suspensions. So like you get like a system going where like okay, Ekblad's gonna be out 20 and then when he comes back, hopefully we don't get caught but if we get caught

this other guy will be out 20 but Ekblad will be back and he'll be juicing again and we'll be fine. And just kind of like start scheduling the cycles possibly. You never want any of your guys to get caught but if they do, you make sure they're getting caught at different times. So Marshawn will probably be back before the playoffs. That's the expectation.

Kachuk will return with the playoffs. Ekflat's suspension carries him into two games into the postseason, and then Ekflat is back. So during the postseason, you're gonna have those three talents essentially all coming into your lineup around the same time. And you would imagine that the form will be much better when the playoffs roll around. And added to that is the injury of Dmitriy Kulikov, who got hurt in the Alliners game

last night. So they went down the defenseman. But I am shocking because the Panthers, their whole thing is if they have a two goal lead, they never lose that game in regulation and now we've seen it. And you can understand the emotion of the Bruins one and Florida was just so hot there that it had to give out at a certain time. But the Islanders loss is pretty troubling. This is a pretty difficult road stretch, probably the most difficult stretch in their calendar when it comes to travel, quick turnarounds and you certainly don't want to have a less deeper team for it but I know I'm the guy that originated the Marchand take it's something

to keep an eye on but I think this has more to do with ECBLAD and the current congestion of their schedule. I mean this yeah this schedule sucks I mean that was the first of five back-to-backs for the rest of the season for the Panthers so yeah yeah, it's not really good. There is a chance that Toronto catches them in this division, despite that result that Florida had directly against Toronto. And that'll make it interesting in the playoffs. Right now, most people have their eye on the Kachuk brothers potentially playing in the first round.

It may not get to that point if the Cats don't win their division. One of the interesting things about sports that I'm always sort of like, how do we remain consistent on this one? Is a title gets vacated in college sports because of some cheating and it doesn't actually matter. The title was won, we saw it won,

vacating it is not a thing. I don't know who has to cheat on your team in order to stain it in a way that actually stains the championship and makes anyone go back and take away the Marlins championship because Pudge Rodriguez you know lost 40 pounds one offseason. I know what you're doing we don't know when this happened with ECPLAC. I'm not no you don't know what I'm doing I'm leading over to the Buffalo Bills who just now signed two free agents

and the first thing that they're doing with those two free agents is announcing the apology of they're both out for six games for performance enhancers to start their Bills career. One of them on a one year deal, one of them on a three year deal. The three year deal they were going to take the suspension no matter what and keep the guy but if they had known the other player was a performance enhancer they say publicly they never would have given him the contract and so what i'm asking you is where the entanglements on all these moralities

get when do you start actually using any of this stuff to stain the team accomplishments or do you just when jessica smears you with at glad to cheaters so when the cheater gets back alright so you went exactly where i thought you were gonna go. Eklad was a different player in the postseason last year than he was this regular season. It was a pretty clear and obvious night and day,

to the point that you're asking, man, was he just really, really hurt during the postseason? Last two postseasons, Aaron Eklad hasn't been very good, and he certainly wasn't the player that he was before. This season in particular, it was a revelation. I don't know when the sample was. There's that curious Islanders Reddit post that was circulating about someone just posting.

I think there's a PED thing going on with the Panthers and it's gonna end up reversing the championship. That's all people have right now. I don't know when their sample was for him to test positive for performance enhancers, but I will say this season, he's looked the best he has in several seasons for Florida, and it made all the sense in the world

when that press release came through. I think the simple answer is if you're a fan of the team, when your player gets caught cheating, it's like, oh my God, why did this happen? And how did this happen the first time he ever tried to cheat? Like, that's so weird. And then if you're not a fan of the team,

always dirty-rodding cheaters and everyone else is cheating. That's exactly what I was gonna say, Dan. It depends on who you are and who the team is. I am completely writing off the Panthers Stanley Cup because they're a bunch of cheaters. And I think America's with me. What I don't like so much about it is you had those things happen at the same time. You had the Panthers And I think America's with me. What I don't like so much about it is you had those things happen at the same time.

You had the Panthers. I think Canada's with me too. Canada is definitely with you. You had the Panthers finally taking advantage of the long-term IR, that all the teams that they were chasing, Vegas beat them in a Stanley Cup because of it. The Tampa Bay Lightning eliminated them

because they took advantage of it. Now all of a sudden, Florida's playing that game. Then you bring in Brad Marchand, who leans into everything that they say about the Panthers and Sam Bennett and can Chuck and now You don't really have much of a defense because at least you could say well We're at least better than Boston now We're not and then you add the Echblad thing all these things happen within a couple of days And so it's kind of like okay We're just embracing the dark side here real Panthers fans like me and Mike and Roy and Chris we kind of look at her

like did did Marshawn come down and see like a bad influence on Ekblad like because all of a sudden these things just started happening once he got there and like it also makes you wonder like we did things the right way the last couple seasons we overtook the Tampa Bay Lightning. We overtook the Bruins. We beat McOverrated. We did all of that stuff the right clean way. Why did Aaron have to do this now? Is it just to show off for his buddy Brad?

What's going on here? You don't know? And it kind of makes it a sad story, because again, all of this happened clean, legitimately on the up and up, and it didn't need to happen this way. Well, I don't think you have the support of the timeline. No yeah. I don't think that that's how that happened. I don't think he injected himself in the

overnight steroids. The NHL was like well we got ya. Here's the thing that I'm thinking just knowing the character of Aaron Eklat and how he's a good boy and how again we did this the right way. I think what happened is is maybe this Brad came down here, bad boy Brad, and he wanted to impress bad boy Brad, so he did the steroids, and then he felt so guilty about it that he self-reported to the NHL,

and he said, you know what? I did a thing, Commissioner Betman. I'd like to come clean, and I'd like to, I'm not gonna contest this at all, I'm just gonna serve my suspension, and that's where we're at right now. And you know what? I think we should all commend Aaron Echblad

for doing the right thing. Thank you, Aaron, for coming clean after you did the wrong thing, self-reporting. Self-reporting? And shutting the suspension because you were peer pressured by Brad Marsh. But in this scenario, he didn't do it for the Stanley Cup, so the Stanley Cup is not tainted.

Exactly, that's what I'm saying. It was like it went off me, coach, like in that one commercial. Self-reported. I think that if the Panthers keep losing, Mike Ryan is going to reinvent his history and claim that Marchant was a haunted spirit who came in and poisoned the vibes.

I think he is, you keep shaking your head no, Roy, but if, look, I don't know. If this ends badly for the Panthers, Mike's gonna say this one for sure. Oh, I've left the groundwork. Oh, for sure. I don't like this one bit. I don't like it because, yeah, what Billy said

outside of it taking a fairly ridiculous turn was actually true. They felt like the Panthers did this the right way. They didn't take advantage of the long-term IR. They went through these evil dastardly teams and now it's just, it is a vibe reversal that I'm not necessarily comfortable with. I like the scrappy underdog Florida Panthers

that had to go through teams taking advantage of loopholes and now they've become one. Roy, why are you beaming? Why are you smiling? You're smiling staring. Scrappy underdog Panthers. We haven't been an underdog in like four years. Look, they're the Florida Panthers.

They're a historic underdog. They are a historic underdog. Plus, they had the misfortune of winning the Biden Cup, which we know historically in hockey is a curse when you have that cup. You never go on to win the Stanley Cup. That's not the cup you want. Every team that Mike likes is an underdog and also morally superior to every team everyone else likes.

And then if something bad happens, like, why did they have to do it? We've done things the right way. If something bad happens, Mike can say, I knew this bad thing was going to happen, which is why I jumped off this bandwagon, like the Terry Rozier, Kyle Lowry heat bandwagon years ago. I was right the whole time.

Right, Mike? I don't like this show ago. I was right the whole time, right Mike? I don't like this show today. I'm dying man. This show's not with it so far. And we got a terrible playoff. It looked like I was playing golf in it. Why are they sitting in a lake? They're not sitting in a lake.

They're just in front of the lake, Billy. Billy. Self-reported. I'm really trying. It's the island set. You guys have been very disappointed by the golf. I don't have it on the televisions in here. It's over.

Rory won. The playoff was plus three to plus one. It was just not good. It was just very disappointing. We could have done this last night. We could have done this in the evening. This is stupid. They should do playoff golf at a putt-putt golf course.

That would be so much fun. There's no way Rory wins that way. Exactly. The only way that Rory could, I wanted the drama of Rory having a make-up problem. I like Rory. I like him too. Why does everyone not like Rory now?

I like him. But you wanted to see him make a big putt, given his reputation. And Spongebob just made it so easy by playing so poorly that we didn't actually have to see Rory conquer demons at the players. Like the story won't be at all, Rory did it. It's just gonna be like this guy took a big shit in the playoff. He did that at 17. I didn't like it. I thought

it was a bad omen that he took his pants off and took a shit at the tee box. That was not good Juju. Might as well. Put it on the poll please Juju, at LeBotard Show. Should they do playoff golf at a putt-putt course? Because that is very well said by you and me, Jessica, in not caring about golf that much. But I am assuming the purists are going to be infuriated by that. They want Rory to majestically rise up today

and conquer all of his doubts and not just have the other guy fart away the game. Guys, have you seen what 17 looks like? That's essentially a mini-golf. Like, it's a ridiculous hole. I want all 18 to look like that, though, and then a little, like, you know, a windmill maybe? A fallen-over windmill? What if we do this, maybe for one tournament next year,

just because there's a new Happy Gilmore coming out, instead of, like, a playoff at a putt-putt, you have one natural disaster hole, right? Where you have a regular hole, and then you have a collapsible set that just falls all over the green. And then you need to figure out how you play it, a la Happy Gilmore.

Or any of your takes are gonna be rooted in reality. Soon every hole will be a natural disaster hole. Just like any of them, just one of them rooted in reality. What do you mean? Self-reported. I'm trying to get tethered here. Same. I'm trying to help out Dan.

I'm seeing Dan, and Dan's out there, and he's looking for a lifeline, and I'm tossing them to him all day. You keep tossing me anchors is what you keep tossing. There's a line attached to that anchor, though. Just grab the other end. I'm sitting there. I'm trying to flail around.

I'm trying to grab onto something and you just keep throwing heavy things at me. That was a fun ending though, the happy Gilmore. Remember, he like went off the thing. Yeah. Imagine if that's how you settle the players. But it's not serious golf analysis. Okay, do it at the waste management then.

But we've got sports happening right now in our face. Like we never have. I just said a guy pooped on the green. That didn't happen either. Okay, but metaphorically, metaphorically it happened. Well metaphorically I'm throwing anchors, I didn't do that either. We were, you.

Metaphorically you're pooping. You're throwing anchors covered in poop at me, is what you're doing. There's a lot of animals that live off of eating poop. Okay, there's another one. It's sustenance, you just need to know which poop to eat. All right, excellent. That was actually helpful.

Did you know they drop retired subway carts in New York into the water to become like reefs? I learned that while I was in New York over the weekend. Interesting, that's fun. Isn't there all sorts of stuff in the bottom of the ocean that's just thrown down there that becomes reefs? Well, this is on purpose. The rest of it is just to, we're just

going to get poisoned by it. They just drove, like, last week or two weeks ago, this giant ship, like, that they were intentionally sinking to make a giant artificial reef, like, off the coast of something. Yeah, drove by it right down the East Coast. I wonder if, like, do you think fish get in there, and they're like, this is my room.

I got this one. Like, that's essentially what they're doing. Like dibs. And then a bigger fish comes. And then a bigger fish comes. It's like, no, now it's mine. Yesterday's show was so good. It was a top three show.

According to Jason. We announced at the very beginning of this that no one had any material left today. This is the truth. We all got home at 10 o'clock last night and then we immediately, at least me, I immediately went to bed and woke up seven hours later to come in.

I have not read anything, I have not watched anything. All of the, we emptied it all out yesterday. I think what could have happened yesterday for Jason also is that, well was Jason here or not? Because there was pizza here and Jason loves pizza because he does that weird pizza thing where he spins it into a taco, and then he eats it as like a round thing.

Jason doesn't just love pizza. Jason loves every single food we put in this place. No one makes a bigger plate of lunch than Jason, our director. So if it's a good spread, Jason thinks it's a good show, is the point. Also, he's a Florida fan, and they're a one seed. I think that's why he liked yesterday's show.

Okay, regardless, we don't need to relitigate whether it was or wasn't good. What we can agree on is that so far, today's has not been. Correct. So I'm having a good time. Pull by in there. We're gonna get, I've got consensus on that. Howdy folks, it's Mike Ryan,

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He's better than the Knicks should have drafted him. Fraud. This is the Don LeBattar show with the Stugats. We're going to get help here from a professional comedian who I'm imagining is feeling a little broken, not just because the road is hard and the grind is hard. And he's probably been in 50 hotel rooms in 39 nights, but also because his Knicks aren't quite as lovable as they used to be. And I don't know if you guys saw over the weekend they lose to the warriors the warriors are now fourteen or one with jimmy butler

after the game uh... carl anthony towns had been you know pumped by dream on green who said that he hadn't played in the previous game against jimmy butler because he was afraid of them and he apologized for it because carl anthony towns was attending uh... a friend's uh... funeral and then what happens after the game after the next lose is a bunch of nicks are dapping up jremon green and uh... now nicks nation is hurting because this team is more talented than the team of the last two

years but it's not quite as lovable and it's not quite as underdog either even though i've gone from thinking they could win the championship to thinking they can't and they won't sell samorals are senior nicks correspondent that no one asked for he's currently on the stand-up tour the errors tour he's got stops all over the place u s and canada through may columbus grand rapids milwaukee madison demoine kansas city go to sam or l dot com for dates and tickets stops all over the place, US and Canada through May, Columbus, Grand Rapids, Milwaukee, Madison, Des Moines,

Kansas City, go to samorail.com for dates and tickets. Where are you now? Are you hurting from the night before? Is the road beating you down or is it the Knicks? A little bit of both. I've done like 25 cities in the last month and a half or so, so I'm feeling it. But yeah, that game pissed me off, man.

I was a 90s Knicks fan, that's what I grew up with, so that never would have happened with Mason Oak on the team, John Starks, that was a different type of vibe. I think the AAU ball has kinda changed how these guys are, but yeah, I thought, Draymond bothers me, and you said he apologized, he didn't apologize. He gave a Draymond bothers me and you said he apologized. He didn't apologize. He gave a Draymond apology He bothers me the the podcast he has bothers me because he brought in Baron Davis to make himself more likeable

He's not likable. He's terrible broadcasting He lacks charisma the way Shaq and Barkley ball-bust, Draymond, he's not able to do that. He's like the kid who thinks he can ball-bust, but then says, like, your mom has cancer, and you're like, that's not a joke that she actually does have cancer. That's like his sense of humor, he sucks. And you think a guy like this,

like is he a Hall of Famer? Of course, he's a great player, he's a great defender. He's mentally ill. If he was a football player, he'd be Antonio Brown by now. He's un great defender. He's mentally ill if he was a football player. He'd be Antonio Brown by now. He's unhinged he He has like the ego of like it's like if Ringo Starr was the biggest dick in the Beatles, you know Like it's weird that Paul George and John are nice and then Ringo's a dick. I Don't think you can just accuse him of being mentally ill. I think that's a bit irresponsible

Okay, he's got all his marbles you think he's not mentally ill I don't know. I just don't I don't know that I'm not comfortable just saying that about somebody certainly the resume has a lot of behavior That's unstable on it. Yeah, I mean he's just upset that Rudy go bear that's unstable on it? Yeah, I mean, he's just upset that Rudy Gobert, it's not Rudy Gobert's fault, he keeps winning defensive player of the years and he just like puts him in a sleeper hold. That's not the behavior of someone who's got it all together.

It bothered me that the Knicks tapped him up. I think if Jalen Brunson was there, it would have been a different vibe. I don't like, I didn't like that. Well, where are you right now emotionally with the Knicks? You don't like them as much as you've liked the team of the last two years, right? It's tough, man.

Yeah, I liked the identity last year a little more. It's hard to root for a team that doesn't play defense as well. Yeah, I miss Dante and Hardenstein and Randall for sure. I mean, Randall would do stuff that would make me crazy, but you couldn't question his toughness, and I respected that. So now you're questioning this team's toughness.

Sam, I have to speak out. There's been something that someone said in like a game of telephone that has swept the entire production studio. What you're about to do is not right. This is not good. So I just can't unsee it now. Some people have pointed out that your mustache presently

looks like the Batman logo. No. No. And I gotta say, it is so bad. It is so good. It is so bad. It is so dead on. I don't understand how did you do this on purpose?

How did you, how do you have the Batman logo on your face? I don't know man. I I've not heard this but this is uh, I'm looking at my face and hey, I can kind of see it Sam are you okay with us going straight up to your mouth here and just staying here as you give us your Commentary with the Batman logo under your nose and above their top lip as As long as you're not doing this to interns in meetings, I guess this is okay. We're comedians operating in the margins, Sam. Can someone please, who maybe is watching Photoshop, this into the little spotlight,

into the sky in Gotham for me? Please tweet it at me, thank you. So Sam, you understand, and this part has to be hard for you as somebody who loves and cares about the Knicks the way you do. Scrappy underdog gets very loud, lovable team, everybody was go New York, go New York, go, because it felt scrappy and Jalen Brunson was nice as an underdog.

You change everybody out, you bring this team in, it's less liked, and now Knicks fans have been very loud on behalf of their team, and now they've got one that's less likable than the previous incarnations. And a loud fan base goes from hopeful to what? Like are you sitting here saying, well, now that Mitchell Robinson is back, we can get past Cleveland and Boston?

Boston's tough, man. I mean, they just don't. Al Horford is like the ageless wonder. He's 38 and he's he just seems like he could still guard anyone. It's crazy and he hits the open threes. They just don't miss Boston. So they're tough man. And Derek White is like that X Factor who just I mean, they have a ton of great players

where he just seems to be that guy who always hits the big three and Cleveland got better. So yeah, right as of now, no, I don't think we could beat them. But I do think we are in a place where we have more talent. I just think they have to make moves to make the team fit better. You know, like the team doesn't seem like it really fits right now.

But also they haven't really had a lot of time to play with Mitch, Jaylen, like the whole team healthy. So maybe I'm wrong, I don't know. Sam, I don't like this. I don't like hearing you. You just don't, you're lacking enthusiasm for your basketball team. You already sound broken.

Like you, for two years, you've been like, no, here we come, I'm hopeful. And now you sound like a different human being as our Nick are you taking solace and what's happening with Philadelphia? What's happening with Miami? Are you are you riding some vibes because they're down bad? I'll tell you what hurts me about Philadelphia is that they got my guy Quentin Grimes And he's falling that guy can play and we knew we could play in New York And that's a guy we could use right now, a little energy and three ball off the bench, good defender.

But yeah, I mean, look, I don't like Philly. It's fun to see them fall apart, but I mean, look, a core of Embiid and Paul George, that contract's like as bad as it gets. So that I take, yeah, I do take some solace in them falling apart. But I don't think we're screwed. I think we have a good nucleus still.

And I think Brunson is still that good that you could still build around him. But yeah, you just need, you need to get back to that defensive identity. That's what made us good last year is that we beat you up. So I don't feel like we're a team that teams are scared of like they were last year. Last year, they were last year last year

They were like we got to play the Knicks like it was that type of thing where you knew they were gonna be physical Sam You're basically Acknowledging that the team's not good enough, which is not an acknowledgement You've made the last couple of years you were hopeful at every turn that you could get past even Boston You were not at that point afraid in any way of Boston. I never said they're not good enough. I said we don't look good enough right now. I mean, look, if we get healthy, yeah, maybe. Maybe we could figure something out.

I love Deuce off the bench. I love a lot of the guys we have on the team. I mean, OG is looking great right now. Bridges hit that big shot the other night. We have the talent, it's just not coming together right now. But we hit that big shot the other. We have the talent it's just not coming together right now. We definitely have the talent. What did you make of Josh Hart and Tom Thibodeau mixing it up and also how do we stop the Riddler from poisoning Gotham's water supply? I can help you with the Rizzler but I don't

know much about the Riddler. What was the first question again? Josh Hart and Thibodeau. I can understand how that. The clash Josh Hart and Thibodeau, I can understand how that. The clash of Hart and Thibodeau, they're arguing on the sideline. I don't care about that. That's like they're two intense guys. It's like, they're gonna be fine. It's like when a toxic couple gets together

and they scream at each other in public, but then they go home and have hot sex. That's Josh and Tibs. Yeah, but then that couple usually breaks up and it's very messy. Yeah, but that's Josh and Tibbs, you know? Yeah, but then that couple usually breaks up and it's very messy. Yeah, but that's what always happens. Josh's next five years are gonna be rough. We just know, we know how it is.

It didn't end well for Noah or Dang. Tibbs has his guys he loves and they give everything and Josh will be a favorite Nick forever, but I don't know how many years Josh can do this. I mean, he's playing like 46 minutes a night and doing everything. It's not like a 46 minutes where he's just camping out in the corner.

He's like the Energizer Bunny the whole night. So I get why he's angry every once in a while. He's doing a lot. And it came out, Bridges was like, what the f*** with all these minutes? And then he's like, no, we're fine, but they're still playing this many minutes. So I don't know.

What are your thoughts on Kendrick Perkins saying that if it were his locker room, he would have smoke with Josh Brunson and Hart, I'm sorry, Brunson and Hart for having their podcast together? If it was Kendrick Perkins' locker room, he'd have smoked brisket in there, because he's fat.

None wrong with that. He's a fat. It wouldn't be if it was his locker room. I mean, what does it, I mean, this is a guy that like, I feel like all his, I like Kendrick Perkins, he's fine, but I feel like all his former teammates are like, shut up, you know?

The podcast, yeah, like look, any podcast you do when it's not, when it's not going as well, you're gonna get shit for, right? I mean, I remember like Duncan Robinson's a buddy of mine. He stopped doing his podcast when he was on the bench. He's like, why am I podcasting if I'm getting benched?

Makes sense, right? So when things aren't harmonious, it's weird, but at the same time, they have a self-awareness. I heard them on their podcast talking about how they're not beating the good teams. And it's actually nice to hear that they hear the Knicks fans. And there is a weird connection that Josh and Jalen have to like Knicks Twitter and the city.

So I have no issue with it. It's not like they're not practicing and working hard. Those two are the guys I'm not concerned about. When you're analyzing the specifics of the changes in the team because you fell in love with Hartenstein as well, are you mad at Bridges? Are you mad at Carl Anthony Towns? Like how does this work in terms of where it is

that your emotion is spent? Understanding that you're positive about the team and you don't want to be somebody who's negative But you blame somebody here for this feeling less good to you, don't you? Yeah, I talked to blame the guys who've come in. I mean, I think bridges and towns are good players Towns sometimes makes me crazy on defense I don't I don't always feel like he's playing defense and that's frustrating because he is a talent. Right now he looks like he's absolutely injured. So it's hard to get as mad at him right now. But yeah, there have been periods where like it is weird that we have to sit Townes and Brunson on every last play defensively.

I get it because Mitch and Deuce are great defenders, but it's weird, you don't usually see that, right? And I think Bridges took a lot of the blame out of the gate because Towns was shooting the lights out and Towns's first half was incredible, but we don't care who does that stuff in the regular season. I wanna see you do that in the playoffs and I wanna see you hoop in the playoffs.

So yeah, Towns, when he's zesty and we're winning, it's funny. And then when he's zesty and we're losing, we're like this f*****, why is he so zesty? What are you enjoying the most these days creatively? I don't know if sharpening up the tour or your podcast or your script writing is where you're pouring your energies, but what's inspiring you these days?

Lot of nicks. I'm on the road like crazy. So we've been on a tour bus and we went on a tour bus for like 20 cities. I almost died before we got the tour bus cause we were in a Sprinter van at like 3 a.m. and our driver fell asleep at the wheel. And that inspired me to get a tour bus.

So yeah, I don't want to die. I was watching that movie, The Substance, and I didn't like it, and it kept me awake. And that's how it saved our life. Cause I was like, wake up! Cause I was awake. It seems like you're grinding at a way that's a bit unreasonable.

Do your loved ones tell you to slow it down? No, not really. They just, this is how I am, I guess. Broken? I saw someone drew a big old dick on that tour bus. Um, no, not really. This is how I am, I guess. Broken. I saw someone drew a big old dick on that tour bus, so. Congrats. Someone drew a big dick. Yeah, that was in, I think, Buffalo.

The Buffalo people, man. Ah, the scarecrow. I know, it's, I will say it is. Ra's al Ghul, damn you. I mean, yeah, I like Buffalo people. I went on Tinder there once and all the women looked like Artie Lang. It was pretty intense.

But still fucked one of them, but still. That's my guy, wait, no, I wanna kill you. You are going to do something different with the mustache? Do you think self-consciously or do you think you're gonna just keep going and ride it into the sky? I'll ride it through the sky. I mean, there's worse things that could look like

than a bat signal. I mean, I'll take that, you know? It's kind of a- No doubt. Well, I think you should darken it to accentuate it even more because we have spent the entire conversation giggling or smiling because all of the words are being belched out from the undercarriage of the bat signal.

Yeah, I mean, yeah, I'm alright with it. I'm going to keep things as is, I think. Alright, Sam, you sound a bit defeated by the Knicks. I don't like to hear you this way. I'm still positive they have the talent, but I think, yeah, I think you just, you need Brunson back what he's our he's the whole he's the engine man he's everything so hopefully he comes back healthy that Lakers game was tough I thought we'd get him and

then it turns into like now do we lose but Jalen goes down that was one was like this is I forgot what city we were in but it was like not a good it was it was a finished a bottle Of wine type of night. We're like this. How do you celebrate or how did you celebrate Stephen a's big contract with ESPN? I was so happy for him. I think he's been Such a wonderful guy for years and doing it the right way. So it's nice. Hopefully he's our next president, too He seems really level-headed. We'll make Draymond VP Good seeing you, Sam.

Thank you. Again, a reminder, the Errors Tour, upcoming dates, Columbus, Grand Rapids, Milwaukee, Madison, Des Moines, and Kansas City. His is the bus with the penis drawn on the side. Thank you, sir. I wanted to give you guys here a Rick Pitino stat because I find it fairly stunning

because we were just talking about the Belichick stuff, right? Clearly, there's something Patino does, wherever it is that he goes, that is something that evolves into is going to win everywhere. And he's back in the top 10 in the sport. And you have a stat for me with the stat of the day music. Long version?

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Why is he being applauded there? Why is he? I think it was a perfect read. Yeah, he did great. He did a good job. Oh, okay, so yeah. We just make fun of people too much around here. Why can't we applauded there? Why is he? I think it was a perfect read. Yeah, he did great. He did a good job. Oh, okay, so yeah. We just make fun of people too much around here. Why can't we applaud when someone's successful?

I just wanted to know why, because I wasn't used to it. Golf claps. Air and egg flat of the day, doing the right thing. I'm not used to the group embraces someone else's success. I ain't cheating. And Rick Pitino, people rooting for him now that can't be a thing, right? That's not can you turn

that down, please? That can't be a thing right? Right? Where people are rooting for Rick Patino? I think so. I think he's part of the nostalgia circuit too. There's a lot of people that maybe as the game evolved have aged out of following the sport day to day, but Rick Pitino is like... I know that guy. Yeah, and he's doing it with a smaller program and people just like to either root for brands

at this time of year or one of the few recognizable faces. It's such a transient sport. But it's not aged out though of this time of year. It's that the sport has become something different when you have all of the changes to it that you have and so college basketball becomes something that is focused on intensely in March as it always has been but then curates to its fan base the rest of the time and then this one month is an insanity of gambling and many people are tuning in just to watch their money

run up and down the court. I think honestly like the casual fans need someone like a Patino because all of the other coaches that we, other than like maybe Tom Izzo, like all the other coaches that we grew up watching have now left the sports. We're desperate for a familiar face for the casual fans. And also the fact that he's doing it at St. John's,

who has never been good in my lifetime. The last time they won the Big East, I think it was 2001, right? Like this is crazy. Oh my Jarvis and them boys. Well, but what is crazy is not merely that Rick Pitino is back and in the game is the vampire who never dies over 700 years It's that he's brought back Big East basketball where we used to remember

Back when that was a thing because all the coaches matter whether it was George Thompson or or you know Karna Saka any of the Massimino, you know, really Massimino Like the ridiculous names from the past. The idea that he's resurrecting that conference when the SEC is all anyone's talking about is crazy. And he'll have a shot at Florida. He'll have a shot if they both make it. It, college basketball is a very difficult sport to follow, even if you're a fan of it. And Rick Pitino does numbers. He is often aggregated the social channels, if you follow all the college basketball sites that you should.

And Rick Patino is probably the person that's pushed out the most. So it's been a connection point for a lot of people throughout this season, one of the few storylines that you can get a grip on. Like I said, if you love college basketball and you have a team that you're following, it's easy to follow your own conference and the teams that you're playing. But there's so many games and so many legitimately good teams. It's not like college football. There's so much wealth distributed that to be locked in on everything this time of year, you have to be an absolute sicko. Who are the coaches that we're talking about? Calvin Sampson and them boys, Calipari and them

boys, where you're talking about just the coach is the program, the coach is the face because it's a famous coach. How many of those are left from the past? I just, I can't believe. Huggy Bear's gone. Patino's still one of them. Bill Self is still wandering around.

It's just a big year for vampires in general.