The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: The Thank You Tour

Episode Date: April 4, 2024

It's time to relive some of the great LaVar Ball sound while reminding ourselves WHY we haven't hear from him in the last couple of years. Then, The Kid Mero is here as our Knicks correspondent. He and Stugotz have a Thank You-Off, The Butcher can't stop talking about fouls, everyone better win before Wemby does, and Tony delivers his Refran Del Dia with celebration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan LeBattard podcast. I'm sorry, I'm not going to 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 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.

My larger point, Stugat, was just that I was hoping after reading an old fashioned article in the Miami Herald by Barry Jackson, still out here doing it, asking one home stand into the season, do they blow this whole damn thing up again? I wanted to see Billy today because I believe there is no greater feeling in sports friendship. What's the better one? What's the best of the feelings in sports friendship than being able to make fun of your friend because he's come out of the gate in a season? He's not bold or hopeful enough to actually ever show you, I care about this team.

I've given my heart to it. The way that Mike and Chris and Jeremy are gonna have their hearts broken. Roy, if those teams don't win the championship this year, you guys are headed into two months of insanity where America's gonna be laughing at you. You guys wanted that defensive style of hockey. You wanted it.

You wanted it all season. You haven't allowed any goals, the fewer goals, but now you're broken at the end of the season. All of your torsos. Are you starting to question the Panthers? Is that what you're doing? They're just, they're not finishing strong. My only point is that Billy rarely dares to dream is my point. The Marlins have knocked it out of his fandom.

He's a father with two kids. He pretends not to care about anything in the world, but he genuinely cares about this team has since he's a little boy probably still has little collectibles all over his house about this team. And for them to come out of this gate this way buries his soul and nobody will not let you see it. Quizzique! I wonder if he still has the Andrew Miller giveaway T-shirt. I still see that around the ballpark sometimes for whatever reason. That was the best quality giveaway T-shirt

they ever had. The black one with the silver letters. I would argue Sergio Mitre. I still have one of those. You still have the Sergio Mitre. That's just because the Flanagan's giveaway jersey hasn't happened yet. June 1st.

Gonna be the best day of baseball of the season. But to Dan's point, Billy loves the Marlins so much and doesn't love to travel. This is a person last year who went to Detroit to see Miguel Cabrera's 3,000th hit. I mean, he cares. I can't explain to the audience that we do not have a more concealed,

true fandom around here. Like true will live and die with the team more than Billy's, which has been shriveled to a little nub of black and coal because this franchise has taken boyhood Billy. I'm pretty sure my mother has given Billy an assortment of Marlin's memorabilia from like 1993. Billy cares about this team from a child, dares to dream about sports. And it's always Samson running the thing. And they bleed it dry and they've just, they've turned his fandom into a shriveled little

thing that he doesn't want to show anybody. He also won two World Series. little thing that he doesn't want to show us a one two world series are the all you can eat tickets working has attendance been better they they're allowing instruments into the stadium now all after the band are working i saw some guy ate a bunch of food at the marlins game last night i mean there they show they showed some clips on the on the video if you're watching on max or on youtube right now i didn't that's why I was like the Gator dog ain't involved. I don't want them all you can eat seats I don't I don't need regular hot all you can eat regular hot dogs regular bro big update

I mean, okay, the Gator chili dog is included in all you can eat. Yes. Who's going on Marlins game? The schedule right now on the game time app before the show Director forgive me, Director Jason, who rarely tells us that he's got something, he spoke up and he said that they had some producer somewhere did the All You Can Eat, Diarrhea, Tumble of Wright Field, Marlins Baseball, we're gonna shit chili dogs until...

Gator chili dogs, Dan. No, but I mean, we're gonna shit chili dogs until... Gator chili dogs, Dan. No, but I mean, we're really doing this, all you can eat to $52, you're gonna put a buffet in right field. Why not? They are 17th in attendance. Right in the middle of the pack. That's way better than them.

Wow, that's middle of the pack. Wait, a lot of teams haven't played at home yet, though. Yeah, I mean. Yes, that's right. lot of teams haven't played at home yet though. Yeah, I mean. Yes, that's right. So then, if someone is playing at home, Chris. There are only 19 teams that have played at home. Yeah, so they're 17 out of 19. That's all right, middle of the pack.

Middle of the pack. Okay, here we go, all right. So this guy started with a hot dog and a burger, that's as one would, and then he went to a- Nachos? Wow, another hot dog. That's two chili dogs, then nachos. And a Pepsi.

There's gotta be a bathroom stop in here somewhere. I mean everyone's gotta stop. Little popcorn. How do you go pop risotto? You gotta go popcorn early there. Mac and cheese. That's an appetizer, right? No.

It's a ballpark appetizer. You can only eat so much. The Marlins. And cookies. He's finishing with peanuts? Diabolical. This guy doesn't know what he's doing. The Marlins serving Pepsi instead of Coke

has to be the biggest betrayal for Billy, right? Well. Yeah, he's a Coke fiend. This is a weird area of the country. Coke head. Because the Heat also are a Pepsi product place. And I believe Hard Rock Stadium, if I'm not mistaken, is also a Pepsi product.

And so as a staunch advocate for all Coca-Cola products, I am always kind of flummoxed when I go to events here, whether it's a Marlins game or a Heat game, and I gotta drink Aquafina water and Starry, and I'm like, ew, all these off-brand things. Well, Aquafina's better than Dasani, and that's what you get for Coke. It's not?

You're insane. You don't like a little, that's your worst take. When you open your water? No. We've argued about a lot. They're all equal, all waters are created equal. We love all waters. Oh, that's right. They're all equal, how did you tell them apart?

Well, I have a superior taste palate. You drink that smart water though, you're like, ah, I can feel it working. Can we get back to LeVar Ball for a second? Because I feel smarter. I have also missed him, and Chris Cody, I would like for you to just give us the audience. I will recall, so very nostalgically fondly we tried to get the Big Baller

brand sneakers very early buyers they arrived nine months late I think. You got yours? And were a different brand and they just weren't what I bought and so and I thought this man was gonna revolutionize the business like I was really hoping that you know why not why not he's got two great NBA first round picks if he thinks he can get into the sneaker business why wouldn't I want to support the anorak in yeah and and and then one of the reasons we bought in is because do we have that sound of Chris Cuomo talking to Levar Ball because I wanted to watch these interviews

before LaVar Ball got cancelled by First Take and everybody else I wanted to watch these interviews for the last time. You know he got them shoes and I tell you what behind closed doors I think he got them on his feet just dancing. Are they? You know what song he's singing? What song? Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

That is not a real song. That's what song he's singing. That is not a real song. That's what song he's singing. That is not a song. They just made one. You made that up and it is not a real song. Hey, he got a new song, it's just for him. Heartfall for both those guys. The world was a better place

when LaVar Ball was on our TV screens. Basketball was a happier place when LaVar Ball was on our TV screens. Just loud dad comes up dad come. Oh my god Oh, I forget about all these people arguing societal issues and stuff I just need someone to come delusionally tell me that their son is better than Steph Curry No, and then he could beat Michael Jordan that he could be One-on-one no, but can we just for just a moment, please?

Because unfortunately man weren't weren't his kids playing in high school in like Lithuania and had a huge influencer following as they came up through? Like the- Well a couple of them did. Like Lamello played in Lithuania and so did Liangelo. The man was trying to revolutionize the business with two prodigy children that he did get to the NBA.

And if he could have turned them. Poor Jell-O. Into marketing machines and succeeded at. He's a coupe manning. He said he has two prodigy children and Jell-O. So he had three prospects and two of them panned gold. Yeah. And then he became a famous dad who was loudly in charge of his kid's life.

And I really loved that shaking the paradigm of sports power. Dude, it was so fun. It was, I remember he came on Sports Nation, he dunked on Marcellus Wiley and he did a little dance. Like, it was so fun. And people, and I blame the sports media industrial complex. They got all upset, like, oh, who is this guy? How dare he say that he could beat Michael Jordan? It was so fun and people, and I blame the sports media industrial complex. They got all upset like, oh, who is this guy?

How dare he say that he could beat Michael Jordan? I'm like, don't you guys understand what he's doing? He's doing a bit here. Why are you guys taking him seriously? He's your drunk uncle at the barbecue. You just laugh and let him say what he's got to say. But no, we have to get, we have to get Levarar up out of here, and what did we replace him with? Anger.

Wait a minute, can I, forgive me, because I don't want to have a blind spot about this, when you said we had to get LeVar up out of here. I don't remember what he was doing, but I think I remember something on, was it on Cowherd? Like, there's a reason LeVar Ball stopped appearing on television.

He flew too close to the sun. I think there's a couple, like, this is what before it was too close to the sun i think there's a couple of this there's this is what i don't remember the details so you're not a family throwing this out i remember details details were uh... for one he said something along the lines of like uh... you know he was very hard on his kids and whatever that they want to be they could do whatever they wanted but they want to basketball players so i'll be there from if they want to be librarians and I would let my wife do it or

something like he made some sort of kind of illusion that I remember sexism but I don't remember the exact neither do I I think that's what you're referring to said something to Molly Karam as well that was pretty inappropriate on the air what did he say it was something like dismissing her in the conversation or something I mean the details matter though when you say I know. Maybe we should look it up. When you say I know the details and then you're like, wait, what? I gave you some details.

Some details, but there was a reason that from, look, you were enjoying the, we were all enjoying the content machine that was LeVar Ball saying crazy shit. And then it got serious. It flew too close to the sun. But, he flew too close to the sun. But the part that was close to the sun. I'm good with it.

Another part. Yes, of course, we'd be good with it. Yes. He's your drunk uncle at the barbecue. Sometimes he says inappropriate things. Sexist things that can't be done and said or tolerated anymore. Just like your drunk uncle at the barbecue.

That's my point. But you need to know what the details are before you give the show cart lunch. The details I don't think we should repeat on air now that I'm reading. I see. God damn it. I mean, go sit in the penalty cart. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I mean, I knew it.

You didn't know the details. I do know the details. Two minutes for flying too close to the sun. Gee. Get out of here. Get out of here. Get out of here. He said, no, what does that mean? Get out of here now.

It's irresponsible. Like, hey. Like the board ball? If you go back and listen when Amin asked me what the details were, I just went, I'm going to find that sound and isolate it, because I just didn't want to say it. I mean, how could you that confidently go into the breach? He knew some of the details though, Dan,

of the things that he knew, he knew the details. The question I was asking is why was he canceled? And he's like, yeah, those details, I don't know. Too close to the sun, Dan. Don't know. He covered it in too close to the sun though. I can give you, before that it was a great deal of fun, the media was dancing, yeah woo, and then we learned some uncomfortable details and then he disappeared.

It's not like we wouldn't have kept the content machine flowing if something really questionable hadn't happened. His kids ended up being not that good so. You guys want to hear a sound of LeVar saying Lonzo is better than Steph? I trained my son, I know what he's about. You guys know what Steph is about from what you've seen. I don't know what Steph is about, he's a good player. But to me-

He's a two time MVP. He can be a 10 time MVP, I still don't think he better than my son. Ha ha ha ha. Yeah, it's a blowhard fool wandering the sidelines. Chorchester, who wouldn't want that? Just can you play nice with others? Yes, no? He's back back. No is the end. No, no, we gotta get Jeff out of here. But what a glorious mess it

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Celebrate responsibly. Miller Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 96 calories per 12 ounces. Dan LeBattard. All these high-paid analysts, I don't want to mention names, TNT, ESPM, you know, oh yeah, they're dead, they're not going to make it, you know. Even if they win in, if they lose it in Miami.

I need to calm you down. That's right, they lose in Miami, they don't get a chance in Boston, or they are going to have their ass, you know what, in Boston, you know. Stugats. They were wrong, they were, are they going to lose their job? No.

Are they going to get a cutting pay? No. What are they going to do? Keep predicting what is the obvious. They are going to say, oh the nuggets are going to win, oh Denver the altitude, and you know what? The heat are going to win it all. This is the Dan LeVatar Show with the StuGats. He's coming in high energy already.

He's coming. Why are you so high energy? I would think that you'd be despondent because your Nick's- Despondent. Your Nick's- Get out of here. Your Nick's lost to the-

No, wait a minute. So? Wait a minute, Mero. It don't matter. It don't matter, we still turned up. Okay, no. No, wait a minute. Wait a minute Mero Okay, no I Mero you can't I don't understand what's happening here I would think you'd be quieter after the Knicks come into town and oh and Jalen Brunson Looks inefficient and Miami size looks like it's a problem for you You but you don't back down.

You don't think that that's indicative of anything. It is not indicative of anything, Dan. We've seen the Knicks throughout the season. We see, you can't win 82 games in a season. That's first of all. Second of all, the Yankees, pardon me, the Knicks, rather, have taken a Yankees approach where it's not about the regular season anymore

nobody cares about seating we're ready for anybody were ready for the celtics what we put in front of us it does not matter you are not on a simple laws to to to to jimmy and them you know i'm saying doesn't matter bro i would say i would say it was a good loss that is were playing without some of their best players that they were still in the day very late in the game brunson having a bad. They were still in the game very late in the game. Brunson having a bad game. They were still in the game on the road against the Heat. That is a good loss for the Knicks. Thank you.

Thank you. Listen, there's no such thing as moral victories like Jay-Z said, but this is a moral victory. This is like, yo, we can hang with any team in the East with one of our guys and he's hobble okay oh geez know what to be found we're saving him for the playoffs we're gonna keep him eyes to the playoffs I know that's I'm not official medical staff but I am unofficial medical staff and I can tell you in my heart that's what's happening okay thank you I'm bothered by something here and I think the shipping container was gathered by the same thing off here yeah you guys just thanking each other because you guys are the chemistry kings.

You know how to make every environment work. Why are you saying thank you to each other over things that don't do? The stew is a various, listen, you can't spell astute without stew. Thank you. Okay? And that guy knows what he's talking about. Stew knows both. Come on, guy dinner. Okay, And that guy knows what he's talking about. Stew knows both. Okay. Okay.

You know what? Come on, guy, dinner. Okay, I just got checkmated. What's a stew? I cannot spell a stew with that stew right in the middle of everything. Let me play Thibodeau at the end of the other night. Now, you know, my father calls him the butcher

because he looks like somebody in another career who would look like a butcher. You can imagine him doing this in an apron with some blood on it but this is very rare for very rare for him for easy like this guy doesn't get into controversies and at the end of this game he's saying no Jalen Brunson come on let's referee him differently than we are it's that well he's getting filed fouled. He's getting fouled. He's getting fouled. He's getting fouled. He's getting fouled. That's about as controversial as anything he's ever said, isn't it? Like he doesn't say controversial things. He does not say controversial things. He's a very keep your head down. Don't complain about the calls. You know what I'm saying?

I'm gonna bark like elephant seal when I'm upset. You know what I'm saying? I'm gonna bark like elephant seal when I'm upset. You know what I'm saying? But he is right. He's right. Jalen Brunson, listen, I know we talked about this last time I was on and, hey, yo, you got a show with Carmelo. So you're like, yo, you're gonna act like, you're gonna act like you're not excited about Jalen Brunson versus Mello.

That, the connection here is this. Carmelo Anthony also never got those superstar whistles, even though he was a superstar. He did not get those calls. Jalen Brunson, we saw it last year in the playoffs against your Miami Heat. They had to go review him getting MMA elbowed in the face by Gabe Vincent, who is no longer a member of the Heat.

They had to go review that. I don't know what you just did there. What just happened there? Reminding you. I know, but he held the side of his nose and talked into his hand. Was that a secret you were telling someone? I'm just letting you know that GameBiz is no longer on Heat. Heat fans don't actually watch the Heat games during the regular season.

Just in case you didn't know. You know what I'm saying? Because there's a lot of roster turnover, a lot of people that you don't know who they are. A lot of people who, when you play NBA 2K, there's no picture of them. Like Highsmith, like Highsmith, you hated Highsmith. Hey, with Locksmith. Oh God, oh God. Jalen Brunson had no shot against him. He went one for four against him.

And O for four against Bam. And O for three against Jimmy. Locksmith. Get out of here. Not Highsmith. Come on, Stop it bro. He's, they're beating Jalen Brunson down bro. He's, look, it's the same thing. I always make the Yankees in the Knicks comparisons. It's like Aaron judges Stregs zone. It's like yo, the man

has been in the league for like a decade and you still don't know he's tall? You know what I mean? It's the same thing with JB bro. He's six tall, dog. He's getting abused when he goes in the paint, but he's finishing strong because he is that guy. Jalen Bronson is fourth in the league amongst point guards in free throws, attempted. He's getting called. Should be first, but he should be first. Over Luca, Shay, Damien.

There you go, see, why is it? Thank you. Thank you. It's like, hello? Soulmates? Duh. Soulmates, you have found. Come on, Stooler Merrell going on tour next summer. Thank you Hello soul mates it's so many to you Okay, thank you to her you guys better We're gonna crush it. Two languages. The thank you tour and you just wander around the earth telling people thank you for what?

Thank you. It doesn't matter. Because I'm smart. Alright, I will warn both of you that the Heat but that, that the, the heat, the next, they better win the championship this year because when Benyama is going to win all the future ones, everybody better yell and get your arguments in now because what's happening over there, that's the worst form of it we're ever going to see.

And it's like oh my god Ben why do you think i'm so passionate now why do you think i came on the air playing them bowl at maximum volume i'm extremely excited and i'm extremely i'm willing the next two championships because like you said after this year it's over it's one but yama season you bet you better win it before one ben yama gets to the playoffs because he's gonna keep growing and he's a bit of a spider and and nobody Yeah, yeah if he gets to the weight room and the playoffs it's over cancel the NBA. Okay, let's call it the Wemba Yama league Yeah, did you see what he did to Jokic?

Jokic comes out and he said I blocked my first shot and I'm like you do that again and I'm gonna and then he did four more times My mind still can't comprehend yokich and now you're gonna tell me it's something there's something extraterrestrial that now confuses him Listen the moment I saw like I said it last time the moment I saw him on that breakaway dunk against the Celtics Where he blocked the shot on one end just basically pulled it out the air Ran like a baby giraffe on steroids all the way down the court and just yet

Like I don't even can you call it a dunk when you don't jump? You know I'm saying like when you just float to the rim and place the ball inside the hoop. Like, that's what he's doing. And nobody can stop it. By the way, Jokic had 42 and 16 that night and won the game. Understood, yes. Thank you. Yes, Jokic is still out in front for now. Thank you, thank you, Stu. The thank you tour.

Might drop 62 against the Celtics, bro. But I still took the W, so, you know what I mean? This is what counts at the end, you know what I'm saying? Duh. That's all that matters. I will tell the people again, You know what I mean? This is what counts at the end. You know what I'm saying? To dump. That's all that matters. I will tell the people again because Carmelo and the kid Mero are doing something that's got a lot of chemistry in it and he's bringing out the best Mellow 7pm in Brooklyn. There's a reason that Mellow chose.

Look all of these guys who have Mellow's power now can make the choices they want in this economy in the podcast game and there's a reason that he chose this guy to team up with on what it is they're doing so i urge you to support seven p m in brooklyn as he continues to try out to be our next correspondent have you got any feedback on your performances the other times you've been on a you do you do you feel like everybody everybody agree that is this market taking and i'm saying I feel like Eli Manning in the draft you know like I picked where I want to go I'm saying so if you want me let it be known you know

I'm saying I know still wants me in the building yeah if everybody else wants me to buy no just wants me to build a chandelier if everybody wants me to anybody else wants me to build it let me know I'm here I want I was mine but while Sam Morrell is somebody I want in the building but let me know I'm here. I want, I want. The job is mine. But while Sam Morrell is somebody I want in the building, but his sardonic darkness, his fandom is really rooted in childhood, really rooted. I don't know if yours is. I believe yours is rooted in adult business.

No, no, your fandom, yes, of course. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I don't want to control it then. This is your show, but let me, let me, let me get, let me speak. I don't want to control it then. This is your show, but let me, let me, let me get, let me speak. I claim my time. I have been a Knicks fan since the moment I exited my mom's uterus at St. Luke's Hospital in Harlem.

You understand me? I have been a Knicks fan since my uncle Gabe used to take me out to the f**king, to the, to the playground and teach me the triple threat with Rex Bex on, cause he played for Stony Brook when they were like D3, you know what I'm saying? I have been, El Tio, you know what I'm saying? Shot the Tio game, you know what I'm saying?

Like he out here taught me hoops, taught me the game and made me a Knicks fan since the days of Pat and Mace and John and X-Men and all those guys. I remember being in the fifth grade when the Rangers won the Stanley Cup and they said 1940, because they hadn't won since 1940, they crossed out the one, they crossed out the zero, they had the 94 in the middle,

they said this is the Knicks year, it wasn't, but I've been a Knicks fan since before then. It's just been enhanced by my relationship with Mello. Bonifides, thank you. How do you feel about Pat Riley then? How do you feel about Pat Riley? I didn't know it was- He's a rat, Pat the rat.

He left, he's a rat. Thanks. Get him out of here. Listen, there's a little bit of love, right? Because you can't have hate without love, right? It's the polar opposites of emotion, right? So at one point I loved Pat Riley. I thought he was a genius.

And then he turned out to be a fraudulent, backstabbing rat who is now doing what a lot of washed up New Yorkers do and moving to Florida to live out their last days in the sun. Wait, I did that. Thank you. No, but and to spend... You know what I'm saying? No, and...

I'll be doing too. If I don't make enough money to buy half of the art, I'll see you down there in a couple years. But, and in that time though, buried 20 different versions of the Knicks. Like that's part of it. You're heartbroken still, right? Yes. It hurts to have someone to know that you had the basketball.

God, he could have done it for you, and you you have never forgiven him and will never forgive him because he came and did it in Miami. Listen, listen, first of all I thought you were talking about Michael Jordan for a second. No. Okay? He didn't do it in Miami, fam. He went to Miami and maybe, listen, I don't know, maybe... Okay, listen, all I know is that I think I saw his name in those Diddy files, all right? So that's all I'll say. No, no, no, you've gone too far. No, no, no, you can't do that.

You've gone too far. No, that's ridiculous. No, no, this is totally reckless. You can't do that, no, you can't do that. That's unacceptable. No, I will not allow that. Look, we've got to have some... Jones was raided in LA and it was the rain in Miami, there was no rain in New York.

You don't have any journalistic standards. You are not... you're just making... I work for the Associated Press. No, look... Don LeBretard. We got Afrini Hartaway. Afrini? Who is Afrini Hardaway. Who was Afrini Hardaway? I was trying to read fast. UD was on the team.

Luke Jackson, Bobby Jones, The Matrix, Sean Marion. Stugats. Zo, Shaq, Mush Parker, Chris Quinn, D Wade, Jason Williams, they're alright. I mean, stacked roster. This is the Dunn Lebatar show with the Stugats. Want to get your expertise on a couple of things here, because when we came in here today, Stugats is claiming that he knows what a lottery

winning gas station or bodega looks like. That he has it in his mind and he knows where to buy the winning tickets. And he thought that you would be good on this subject. He thought that you- 100%. Thank you.

You and Stugats are kindred spirits. Come on, T.T. sent me to the store many, many times to get two loose Marlboro's and the lotto numbers. A couple of loosey's. A couple of loosey's and the lotto. Right there, right there, right there. Come on, here. OK.

This is my guy, man. Right there. Right there? Yes. Shipping container. Yes. Take a good look at that Deleon grocery, AKA, well, there you got.

That one right there will win you a gazillion dollars of Powerball. You know why? Because you can't even see through the front. Yep. You can't see through the glass. If you can't see through the glass at all, it's covered in bitches of sandwiches and cigarettes

and Arizona iced tea cans, you're going to win. You're going to win it. Two creams. It was too clean. And they got organic snacks. You're not going to win there, bro. You're not going to. You know what you. And they got organic snacks. You're not gonna win there, bro. You're not gonna, you know what you do in there? You win the scratch offs there.

That's why you win the scratch offs. The final scratch offs, you get the final back. Wait, wait, wait. Are you alleging that in the place, in the gas station where they sell the sushi, no, you're not gonna win anything big there. That is not, no, you can't win it there. You're never happening. You're gonna max out at $20 on the scratch offs. No, you're not gonna win anything big there. That is not what no you can't win it there

They will put it in a place of bigger desperation it has to look a little it It has to look a little we're covering our windows for a reason We don't want you to see there needs to be a front like that needs to be a front for something else That's where you know, it's good. Okay, too. I Want to bring I want to bring Tony in here, Stu Gatz, because I'm told we have a Refran Del Dia to play again. And this was very popular the last time that we did it. So he's ready to do it. Let's go, Tony.

["Refran Del Dia"] Vamos a toro! ["Refran Del Dia"] The Kid Mero. Exactly right. El Príncipe, el Rey, el amor, el corazón, de todo. Ha! Tu cielo, tu Rey. Muchas gracias to our coming back.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Your heaven, your king. Thank you very much, you two are coming very soon. The queen of the doves. Latin Papi. The swaggering Latin Papi. We have the wheel. Let's get to it.

Let's go do it. Let's go do it. Oh my goodness. Oh, Mero, can you explain to the people what Se Rayo el Disco means? Se Rayo el Disco. Se Rayo el Disco. That is also an equivalent say to when my mom says, Pusita la nota discordante. You know what I'm saying?

That's the, that's the part of the conversation, yo, where you're like, yo, yeah, you know what I'm saying? Yo, your cousin is very, she's beautiful. She won a, you know, Miss Hialeah last year. She's very pretty. Starararara, and then your other cousin goes, yeah, she's back, back yo we kissed in the fifth grade and you're like all right yes that is the record what do you say my friend it is that

isn't it's the record is scratched in the middle of a conversation hold on no but this is happening throughout the latin community the record is scratching throughout our community right now. We also use it in a way of like, in a stutter, where you're like, draft crings. Oh, cerrayo el disco. Algo se paso ahi. No, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah. Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah. I want to ask you, I don't know, excuse me,

I've got a $5 fine here, I think, because I can't get that out. I got it. Yeah, yeah. Straight to Jess. Yes, the money does, straight to Jess. Yes, the money does go straight to Jess. Can you get some spending money?

Dan's been out for a while. Just getting a GEL-X this weekend, baby. You know what I'm saying? Y'all just came for that. Thank you, I need one. Are you, I want you as an NBA aficionado to tell me where Malachi Flynn scoring 50 in an NBA basketball game for for the pistons off the bench

Where it is that it ranks in terms of most amazing things you have ever seen to devalue the fifty-point game Hey look I once I once watched I believe it was a lens oji drop 45 at the garden so Hey, look if I look and we're the era of like everybody's dropping 70 you know what I mean like it's a we're talking about 7pm in Brooklyn a wonderful show which I go alongside Carmelo Anthony and we're talking about how it used to be averaging 25 points was like yo whoa he's averaging 25 now Malachi Flynn is averaging 25 no he's not he's averaging no he's averaging five and he's inflating it to

25 by putting in the occasional 50 off the bench out of nowhere listen these games they don't mean anything nothing means anything anymore then because there's always a stat for something every day somebody brings a record Malachi Flynn was the only player under 25 to score 50 points off the bench in Detroit on a Wednesday night in April. You know what I'm saying? Like, and that's on stat news right now all over your Twitter. Meryl, what people don't know is that Malachi is Dominican. He's your cousin. Malachi Smith. Malachi. Malachi. That Malachi. That tiger.

Hey, let me say something about Malachi. Malachi had a hangover in Santiago. And they realized that he had a jump shot. So they were like, man, stop selling cheese and money. And go play. Go there. Go there to Detroit. To Michigan. Where to? Where is that? No Caribbean person with those with the Dominican people know where we go Cuba Dominican Republic

Haiti every they don't know they like yo, what is Michigan Meryl we will talk to you buddy. Thank you for being on with us. I will tell the people again He's got a new ish show with Carmelo at 7 p.m. in Brooklyn you check out new episodes every Thursday on YouTube and wherever it is that you get your podcast I've talked a lot for you on what it is that this is but you know why don't you tell us why it is that this is the project you've chosen to attach yourself to because you've gotten some tastes of some pretty good entertainment options and this is the one that you've decided to dedicate

your time to. Yeah, man. Like you said, I'm an NBA aficionado, you know, and I enjoy the game. I love talking. I love just having those conversations. That's why I love coming on here. Do you know what I mean? Because it's just the vibe.

We have a conversation. There's no like, hey, let's talk about this. Now switch to this. Now switch about this. Now switch to this. Now switch to this. Now switch to this. There's structure, but it's loose. You know what I mean? And that's where I feel like I thrive.

It's just like an open gym. You know what I mean? It's a show biz open gym. Mello's there, I'm there. We're just hanging out. And it's a good time. And it's not just basketball. Like if you want to talk about pin downs

and roll screen, this, that, you might get a little bit of that. But JJ and LeBron are doing it and drinking wine while they're doing it. But for 7 p.m. in Brooklyn, come have fun. You know what I'm saying? It's a late night show that happens to be hosted by your boy and Carmelo Anthony. You know what I'm saying? So it's hoops, it's culture, it's fun, it's laughs. If you watch an episode and you know left once for here is story that makes you feel like all well then you could write me and i'll catch up in fact and if i if if i may on uh... on his behalf uh... as you guys continue to

thank each other i will just tell the people who might not know the history uh... because uh... you and these is an on comic uh... an uncommonly comical chemistry duo uh... you were gonna you were gonna have your run of late-night options and uh... you did and then things changed aggressively in the industry and now you're making choices on behalf of your career that are smart to partner up with the people who are aligned with how you think about what individual brands should be in the next 10 years of whatever you do with your career right I don't mean to speak for you but I've I've been impressed by

it watching it from here because you've gracefully made your way into a second career it's hard to do when you've always been a part of a duo. That's right Dan and you know ball and you know entertainment. You know what I'm saying? So you obviously know strategy as well coming from you know what it is you know how what it is to leave like a big machine where everything's cozy and they send you a car to pick you up to go in and do an Indy. You know what I mean?

And then having to look at spreadsheets for the first time in your life. So you know, as well as anybody, the freedom and the joy that comes with hanging out with your people, you know what I mean? It's a little extra work, you know what I mean? You got to crush some numbers and do some things. But at the end of the day, the freedom that it affords you to create unencumbered is priceless, bruh. So thank you, you know what I mean?

Shout out to everybody that tunes in to 7 PM I mean? Shout out to everybody that tunes in at 7pm in Brooklyn. Shout out to everybody that tunes into Victory Light, the more unhinged version of your boy. And you know what I'm saying, we here baby, we ain't going nowhere. I might have a third career, Dan. I might be an opera singer.

You know what I'm saying? I saw Andrea Bocelli the other day, you know what I'm saying, getting a sandwich. And I was like, yo, what's up? Let's get into this opera shit. Thank you. And he was like, let's go. Yeah. I'm thinking of me and you on tour too, right? Correct? We're not losing that dream. I've heard you on auto. let's get into this operation uh... they don't know yet michael i'll be in the u r two or two we're going to react

without losing that i got to have heard you know yes thank you my brother okay thank you should you know uh... thank you maryl it's good uh... good seeing you and i will urge the people again seven p m in brooklyn because your you're also supporting someone who is trying to do something that is difficult in self-employment because he has learned through the Hollywood hard way, oh it might be really cool to just own all of my own shit I think that would be fun not to have to

share my freedom with anybody. That's crazy, what a concept dad. Yo, the brand comes straight to you and gives you the money instead of giving the network the money and then the network gives you like a bullshit salary Wow Wow Who would have thunk thank you? Thank you You're coming on tour with us Thank you Really we get to do it this way this is funny Muchas muchas

Thanks, Meryl Thank you, buddy. Thank you, man. That was great. Thank you, thank you. Thank you, thank you. That's our open. Yes, that is. See you in the playoffs.

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