The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Zaslow Almost Got Into a Fight At a Dave Matthews Concert?! | Local Hour

Episode Date: May 22, 2026

"Buh-duh-da-da-da-rah-rah-duh-duh-dun-dun-dun-rap-doo-bow" Yeah, we should probably get to Dan's New York Knicks winning Game 2 over the Cleveland Cavaliers, but Zaslow is offended that the crew (rightfully) accused him of being a Dave Matthews Band fan. That leads Dave to declare a Radiohead album the greatest album of all-time as the show devolves toward being unbearably white. But then, ultimately, we get to Ben Stiller and Dan's New York Knicks. Wait, where is Dan? Is he not here because he was at his team's game last night? Today's cast: Zaslow, Your ol' pal Dave Dameshek, Roy, Jeremy, Mike, and Tony. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This is the Dan Levator show with the Stucats podcast. Yo, let's give it up, everybody for Friday. It's here. Friday's here. We did it, everybody. We made it to the weekend. That's right. Hello to Friday.

Hello to everybody on the other side over there in the shipping container. I don't know if this crews work together yet. Dave, good morning to you out there on the West Coast. Hello, Dave Damashek. Zaz, company. What's the poop? These are sunny times. Aaron Rogers is back as well as basketball.

Oh, I could tell you're very excited about Aaron Rogers being back. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Before Memorial Day, what was everybody so worried about? Why am I being peppered with questions about my musical taste before I walk into the studio here this morning, Mike Ryan? Okay, first I am asked, do I like Radiohead? And, of course, I like Radiohead. All right?

I've seen Radiohead several times in concert. This is the first European band that I know you to like. All right. I've seen them several times in concert. I used to be a huge radio. A matter of fact, I left this country one time to go see Radiohead in another country. That's a little bit redundant when I say left this country to go see in another country. But nonetheless, I said what I said.

I've seen Radiohead several times and then I feel like I was being judged, not based on my answer, but when you are then putting me on the spot and asking me, do I like Dave Matthews band? Yeah, because you look like you like Dave Matthews band. Okay, but like... That's an indictment. But why are you asking me today, do I like Dave Matthews band? You know, you know Ethan, right? Ethan Bedowski, when you take him to a restaurant, it doesn't matter how fancy it is,

he's going to order chicken tenders. And I think your rock music palette is basically ordering the chicken tenders. Like, you don't know any bands from the greater Manchester area. I like what I like. Yes, which is chicken tenders. So I was just curious. I'm curious because Dave had an interesting radio head take. Are you telling me Seattle in the 90s is chicken tenders?

It is, yeah. To like Pearl Jam as Chicken Tenders. Okay, but it's Pearl Jam and it's Allison Chains and it's Soundgarden. Yeah, it was the most popular version of rock at that time. It was Chicken Tenders. All right. But they're great bands. No shout to Nirvana, though.

Yeah, I love chicken tenders too. But if I'm in a, you know, sometimes I'm moved for a nice steak or some sush. I like Nirvana, obviously. But unless Nirvana is your favorite. band, which I don't know, like, is there anyone today who still says Nirvana is their favorite band? Unless Nirvana is your favorite band, I feel like it's a little bit trite when you are going over the 90s, rocks. Oh, love Nirvana. Everybody likes Nirvana. I get it. What's the distinction between Nirvana and Pearl Jam? I know Pearl Jam obviously still

exists and all that, but what do you think the musical distinction is? Well, they don't. Do you think Pearl Jam has some enduring sound that eluded Nirvana? Well, I don't know because Nirvana wasn't around long enough. Okay, I don't know if Nirvana would have had this enduring sound if they would have kept creating music after those first. I feel pretty confident in that one. How do you know? How do you know? Because fans break up all the time. How do you know? Well, because their music still holds up.

Right. But how do you know they would keep creating? They were a three piece. So their sound was always this garage rock type of style and that is always going to be a timeless sound. Oh, I'll push back on that. The evidence available to us is, and obviously Kurt Cobain was the driving force of Nirvana, but Dave Grohl's band, the foo fighters, he seems like a nice human being for all he does in the community or for the world at large, um, philanthropically, but I, I have yet to hear anybody make a good case that every foo fighter song doesn't sound exactly like every other foo fighter song. The only distinction between them is when they're plugged in or acoustic. That's how they differentiate their music.

Dave. Grohl, unplugs, and he goes acoustic. Otherwise, the songs are indistinguishable. Meantime, how we got into all this conversation is, it is in 1997, yesterday was the anniversary of the release of OK Computer, which I declare hyperbolicly or otherwise the greatest album of all time. It recently jumped to number one on my all-time album rankings list, Just jumping past

Eat a Peach by the Alman Brothers and physical graffiti by Led Zeppelin and pretty much every other recorded album. Okay Computer is a great album. No one's going to push back against that. It's not the greatest album of all time because I think you have to be the greatest radio head album of all time.

And it is certainly a top three. Pablo, honey? No, I'm a kid A. I'm one of those in Rainbows guys. I'm one of those in Rainbows guys. I like in Rainbow's best and then I like Kid A and then OK Computer. Okay, can I defend myself, though, for a second about the Dave Matthews band accusations?

What? Are they not true? Well, I mean, like, Dave Matthews, yeah, I guess I like Dave Matthews band, but they had been forever my wife's favorite band. My wife got me into Pink Floyd when we started dating when we were younger. They were her favorite. Whatever. This entire segment, please? Oh, my God. How many flip-flops do you have that have a beer opener on the bottom?

Whatever, man. How many toe rings in the crowd? Notice he played the fifth on that one. My wife got me into Pink Floyd, and then eventually Dave Matthews band. Now, they're not exactly. Like, they're still her. Rangy music tastes for your wife.

Who did that? That was me. White woman. White, white, white, white, white. She probably likes Drake. So we used to go see Dave Matthews band every summer. They're always here every summer. We have not been in a few years.

All right. We're not as into it as. And she is not into it. as much. And I, like, I could take it or leave it. I've seen them enough. Like, I don't need to see them again. Dude, there was a video. Is she into the Florida Panthers? Is she, like, as a make-good, since you're into Dave Matthews on her behalf, apparently, does she return the favor? She, she likes going to sit around and watch the Panthers on the very uncomfortable Zaslo Manchin, family room couch. By the way, we're getting closer and closer to having a new couch sponsored. If you are

interested, hit me up. My DMs are open. But anyway, uh, yeah. Yeah, so we're not, like I asked my wife, actually it's a few days ago. I said to her, I said, do you want to go see Dave Matthews band this month? Because it's, I think, next week. And she's like, no, no big deal. Matthews bands are there. Jesus, he's always down here playing West Palm. Yeah.

Where everyone's just wearing cargo shorts, backwards hats, flip-flops, and just bouncing from side to side turn. So, Zaz. Yeah. Yeah. I'm bad, man, ma'amma, ma'amma. None of the music makes sense. It's bad, but there was this video, I guess Dave Matthews band played Magic Kingdom. And I saw all these videos from it.

And I was like, man, I could not concoct a worse place for me to be. What if Dave Matthews and Eddie Vedder did a duet? That would really sound like that. They would never happen. Hamma, haemma, haemma, haemma, hur. Like that. I almost got into a fight at a Dave Matthew's concert. It's true.

Details, please. With Romberg? No, with Romberg, that was that, that was with Slipknot. Yeah. No, Romberg almost got into a big fight when we saw Slipknot, and that was going to go so poorly for me. It would have went fine for him, but it went really poorly for me. but yeah I almost got to a fight of the day

Matthew shit like we were all right whatever we were you stepped on my flip flop okay you're you're really close so so so we're play a hacky sack over there well no this is during the show no one's playing hacky sack during the show okay

you can't say that with certainty so you're right there was West Palm on the lawn you're right there was some hacky sack those lawn seats are very affordable you're right put it on the pole if you're on the lawn in West Palm Beach is their hacky sack being put in. I put my beach towel here. This is my spot of the grass.

You know, there are certain areas now on the lawn that are reserved. Yeah. It's not the free for all it used to be. Oh, I hate that place. I rarely go to that venue. Now, I just do seats. And nice little secret. They have like this little mid-club area with like a little patio furniture.

Yeah. You go the day of the concert. and upgrade your tickets, it'll cost you like 40 bucks. I did that for Big Boy and Kid Cutty. Three seats got upgraded, was in my own little patio section. Yeah, it's awesome. Like a little Sun Sports Pre-game show. That's the venue where Tony and I both went and saw Alana Smorecette.

I was taken against my will. Hold on a second. All right. I was taking together. Oh. Yeah, no, we didn't go together. Okay. But that would have been awesome.

I would have loved to teach him about Jagged Little Pill. I sat in those sweet seats one time. at the amphitheater for a comedy festival there. I had those seats. It was wonderful. Anyway, you do get to a certain age where it's like, I can't be in the lawn anymore. I have to be in seats.

Because you might get in a fight. Okay. Well, the fight that I almost got into at Dave Matthews Band, we were actually in the pit, okay? So it was right up front. Right in front of the table. That's my cooler of hard lemonade. Beat it.

So it was one of those deals were like, you know, stupid, you know, stupid drunk college kid who was there with his girlfriend, and kept bumping into my wife. And like, what am I supposed to do in that spot? Kept bumping into her, like, once, twice, it gets to the place where, like, you know, kind of gently shove him off. And then, like, by the third time, all right, now he needs to get shoved. And I need to, you know, you know.

Hey, you want to get a room? And I need to let him know what's what. Now, now, I will tell you, I will tell you. because I don't know if you know my stature I'm not a big guy all right and

but for a Dave Matthews band concert like you're above average yeah I wasn't going to be afraid of any you're one of the tougher guys so you pushed him in your flip-flops that's why I like going to Dave Matthews band because they all make me look tough all right

I will admit I will admit that that when I was in this guy's face now and I was ready for whatever with my opposite hand And I did tap my other friend who was there with his wife, okay, and he's a big guy. He's a former baseball player, like a former professional baseball player. And I did tap him so he could be aware of the happenings right now.

I got a little bit more courage. You just go to this venue with former athletes his backup? That's right. I do. I do. So anyway, there you go. How old were you when you tried to fight? Zaslo and Wayne Gretzky has his Semenko with him.

How old is I? Marty McSorley. When you tried to fight this college kid, how old were you? I would say this was 10 years ago. So I was mid-30s. Yeah. You feel good about that? I had to defend my wife.

And you know what? I take it back. He was probably like mid-20s. He was probably mid-20s. But at that point, whatever, if someone who's mid-20s steps to you... 14. Not going to back down? Yeah.

No one touches my wife unless I say so. And I sit down over there. How dare you? The kid was there celebrating his bar mitzvah and Zazlo's getting in his face. The option of you switching seats with your wife actually pop up a unit. Well, wasn't seats. We were in the pit. Yeah, we were in the pit.

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Don Lebatard. Stugats. These are smiles to love bro. This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats. What goes on with that Dave Matthews band? Who is this creep, this vein, this narcissist, Dave Matthews, who says the whole band is named after me? And why doesn't anyone else push back in the band? They've all been in the band for however long a quarter century.

That's not enough time under your rule, Dave Matthews. You creep. You evil man dictating to me that I'm in your band. We're all in a band together, friend. All right. There you go. Didn't expect the show to open this direction. You know what happened to me the other day?

Yeah. Let me tell you something very quickly if you're talking about confrontation. Quickly. The other day, I'm pulling, okay, I'm pulling on to the one. 101 freeway here in Los Angeles. And the guy in front of me is not moving quickly enough for my taste. On the other side of the street is a cop car. He's writing a ticket to somebody for a traffic violation.

The guy is, I'm trying to get onto the ramp to get onto the freeway, is very slow in front of me, starting to stop. He's on his cell phone the whole time, so much so that I'm gesticulating wildly and now I'm honking my horn and otherwise. And now he stops his car in the road before the ramp and gets out of his car, not seeing the cop across the street writing the ticket. And he holds up a badge. And he says, stop tailgating me, MFer.

And then realizes as he says that, oh, there's a real cop right across the street there. He's now flashed a badge. He's just a random guy doing that. And I say to the cop, you see that? He's so he showed me a fake badge. The cops across the street so he doesn't follow what's happening there. The guy realizes, though, uh-oh, I better not, I better get out of here. And he jumps in his car and he drops in his car.

and he jumps in the freeway and is weaving in and out of traffic, and I'm trying to follow him to take a picture of his license plate. What should I do here? I now have an image of this guy's license plate who claimed to be a cop. Do I turn him in? Okay, hold on a second. Was anyone else in the car with you? Yes.

Your child? It was a child. Was it your child? No, it was Dave Matthew's child? Who's child? Okay, but I said, was it your child, and your response was it was that child? Was it Hoover? No, it was a kid you almost kicked the ass of for touching your wife.

What do you mean? Yeah, it was my child. Chris is a child. Got about flashing a badge. Flash in a badge. Don't tailgate me, M. F. Or do I think that you're a cop when you tell me don't tailgate you MFer? Hold up a badge at me?

Dave, did you just decide you're going to chase this guy and not explain it to the child in the car? After you, I guess, suspended your chase, did you explain what was going on? Did your child put it together? As you can imagine, Dave provided a running commentary of what was going down in the moment. So the little one in the back seat knew. And they were a part of it. You know, they were my deputy in that moment. I deputized.

Get them. I don't know. It's outrageous, right? I don't know what you should do in that spot. But I like that the child that you had in the car with you was not afraid. That's important. No, no, no. that we were rocking.

We did an up-tempo Dave song, you know, to really get our juices. Oh, so while you were following. While you were following, like, you put on some tunes. That's right. Yeah, all right. That's interesting. Soundtrack. That's interesting.

Baby driver. We'll get to the basketball from last night as the Knicks went up two games to none. We got basketball tonight, game three, series shifts to San Antonio. But there continues to be rumors if we're talking about NBA. There continue to be Janice Antitacumpo rumors, all right? And apparently, if you look on these, you know, you look on some of the wagering sites, some of them have the Miami Heat as the prohibitive favorite to land Janice onto Ticombo. Now, there's certainly something to be said for the idea of, do you give up all these players, you give up all these assets for just Yonis

Ante Ticoupo when you see what San Antonio's doing, when you see what Oklahoma City's doing. Heck, even when you see what's going on with New York, I mean, does acquiring Janus put you in a position where you think you're competing with one of those teams? But what if I were to tell you you could acquire Janus and maybe there's another superstar that you can wind up acquiring? Like, for instance, what if because Messiah Jiri is shaking things up in Dallas, could I interest you in a Kyrie Irving? Not instead of Janice, but what if you find a way to get both? Is that something that would interest you? Man. All right.

This one's an interesting one because Kyrie's what? What's his salary cap number? He will... 40, a hair under 40, I think? It's 39.5 million, and then he'll have a player option for the following season at 42.4. I guess you can get them cheap. You just need to make salaries work out, right? but I'm over here worried about Janus's body.

I mean, Kyrie's body gives out on him all the time. Remember, he missed the finals pretty much against Celtics, right? He's always hurt. But that's probably the type of guy you need to target if you're looking to add a third star to Bam and Janus. And that's an attainable one because you're probably going to be depleted some assets here, right? So that's the kind of star that you're looking at. It's interesting. I mean, your season will be undone by injury,

but you have the off chance that if they're all healthy, at the same time, you have the interior defense, and honestly perimeter defense, bam, both of them come out and can guard the perimeter right now. And Kyrie was no slouch. We'll see what he is. Yeah, it might be worth a shot. Might be worth a shot.

Last time Kyrie played 60 games was 22, 23. other than that 40, 20, 50, 58, 50. Yeah, I mean, it didn't play this year. Health would be a huge part of that. Health would be a huge part of if a third guy you were going after was Kauai Leonard. Health would be a big thing if you were going after 42-year-old LeBron James. Like, no matter what, health is going to be a thing. Health would be a thing with John Morant.

But that's also part of why the trade and free agent markets for these guys all seem to be relatively depressed from what you would expect for the names that we're talking. about. Would you rather have Kyrie or Jha? Jha? Really? Jop. Okay, hold on. That's interesting. That's an interesting little proposition. He said Jha. I was like, wait, that's another superstar that I can get on the cheap. And yes, I think John Morant would come cheaper than Kyrie. It's because he has more money attached to the law. Even though he's significantly

younger, I think Dallas would want to look like I think Memphis just wants to get rid of John Morant while I think Dallas would want a little something in return. Now, we have to keep in mind. Both Kyrie. because the Miami Heat were considering Kyrie, I think I recall these reports correctly, and they decided against it, you know, given Mickey Erison's the owner. This is when he was back in Brooklyn. This is when Kyrie was going through it. He is settled down. And the Miami Heat had the discussion very recently on John Morant and decided against it. So right now we're hypothetically identifying two stars that are risk-reward type of dudes that the franchise has already decided

at least one time in their history. That's not for us. But it might have to be considering how much they give up for a guy like Yonis. It depends on what you ultimately are able to get Yonis for if you're able to get Yonis. Like I don't want to assume the clothes there. I've been burned by this before. But if the heat were able to pair Janus with BAM at a bio, then you end up in a situation where you go, okay, we've set ourselves up purposefully for this season and for next.

Yeah, it becomes a right now thing. Yeah, it becomes right now, and you have guys who are, you know, either Andrew Wiggins opting out of a deal or as a potential sign and trade in that scenario or an expiring deal. You'd have Norman Powell as a potential sign and trade, so there's money to play with. Zaz, what do you do? I, okay, are you asking me, would I be interested in Kyrie Irving or are we doing Kyrie or job? I mean, either way. Like, they come with some risk. But I think with how the lottery broke for Miami, now I'm kind of more in on the honest.

where before I was like, I was kind of in on this lottery pick, but they didn't get a great pitch. I think you just, you want the heat to do something. You want them to shake it up in some fashion. You want to be excited for next season in some way. I think that's probably where you stand. So I'm in on them acquiring Yonis, especially if it means that they don't have to give up everything that you thought that maybe they would have to give up at the trade deadline. If the temperature around the league on Yonis on Dicombo is in fact lukewarm, then yeah, I, I, that's your quintessential heat move, where you try and pounce on a disgruntled player,

a disgruntled star, and you can get him when the atmosphere around the league is lukewarm on him, that's a heat move. So, yes, I'd be good with them doing that. When you heard that report that the market has been lukewarm, and obviously Bill Simmons and Zach Lowe talked about it on the pod a couple of days ago, it was like, oh, wait a second. If people are lukewarm on it and you can maybe get a little bit less of an offer,

like that's a very interesting situation. Now you have to backfill the roster. Norman Powell becomes super interesting because that redundant skill set of him and Tyler, Tyler's gone. Yeah. You need Warren Powell back, Norman Powell back in. Yeah. And I would like, yeah, I think that there are going to be guys out there that you can also acquire.

Maybe it's a John Moran, which is something that was talked about, by the way, back in January or February, can the heat acquire both of those guys? I think if you're going to do it, do it. You know, like go out there and acquire that. second guy. If we're talking about what I'd be more interested in John Morant or more interested in Kyrie Irving, so that one's tough. I think I'd be more interested. Jock can't shoot. He can't shoot with a lick. And he hasn't gotten to the room like the past years. Then again, Kyrie hates the Jews. So it's like six

a lot. That is something that, you know, sticks out to me. It doesn't make my job more difficult. Yeah, that is something that he's got great handles though, guys. I know. But yeah, it's true, Dave. See, then that's the other. You know what I'm doing. Great handles. anti-Semi. On behalf of the Jews. Come on down. You don't speak for us. I don't think you can speak for all.

You don't do that. You got one. The Semitic Warrior? Yeah, we're good, right? You got another one over there. No? No. No.

that is, you do not speak for all of us. Last night, the New York Knicks pull away in the second half. They go up two games and on the Cavaliers. You know we're going to get all the series is over stuff, and that makes me nuts. You know what? That makes me nuts, Dave Damach. It makes me nuts because. because there's seemingly people who say that this series is over,

and you're going to get that all day today on television and on radio, that this series is over. There's a difference between the series being over and believing the Knicks are going to win. I believe the Knicks are going to win this series, the same way I believe the Knicks were going to win the series before it began. But you can't say that the series is over before Cleveland's even played a home game. I mean, Cleveland was down 02 to Detroit. and then they went to they won the next three games, including the next two, which we're at home.

But we're going to count Cleveland out before they even play a home game. That's going to make me nuts all day today, Dave. People declaring this series is over. I hate that. It's a major pet peeve of mine. I hear you. And, you know, I have asked some people before a Super Bowl if it's a must-win game. And so we get fast-a-lossed in these terms.

Yeah, well, we get fast and loose with the idea of like it's over. but, you know, I think what you're pointing at is ultimately accurate. This is a very tall mountain for a team to climb with James Harden trying to defend the score of the other team throughout. It does seem unlikely that the calves are going to rally here, but I take your larger point. I appreciate it, in fact. Tony, you know that moment at a party or a tailgate where everything just sort of clicks? I know it well. It's usually when I show up. Everybody goes crazy. Yeah, you usually take all the credit for it. But it's because Tony usually walks in.

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Don Lebertard. You're a big disappointment, Paul Pierce. I'm only upset right now that I don't get to do this in person, Paul Pierce. Hey, how disappointed is it to be a Miami fan right now? Stugats. Brother, actually, you make a really great point. This is the Don Lebertar show with the Stugats. By the way, just very quickly, I don't want to get back to three minutes ago.

But, Janis, if you get an assuming LeBron is not pursued. by the Lakers, isn't that the formula that makes the most sense? Luca with Janus. Then I'm with you on the heat that Janus doesn't make them rightly a contender in the East, just plugging Janus into what they have going, isn't enough to compete with the high end. You put Janus with Luca for at least a season or two. Now I'm in. Why would he ever go to the West?

Yeah, I mean, Dave, do you see what's going? Do you see who plays for San Antonio? Like, why, listen, why would any play any play? I'm just talking about if you're talking about on a piece of paper, what is a compelling, you know, core. If you keep Austin Reeves plus Luca plus Yonis, okay, now that has the makings of a team that viably could make a deep playoff run, right? No matter who else is out there. I get what's going on with WMB and OKC and otherwise, but that's the West and that's been the story for 30 years. So I went into the game last night, very transparent about what I was.

was hoping for, and that was for James Harden to just have another embarrassing game, too. Because I like that narrative. I like that storyline. I don't like the player. I don't like how he plays. And, like, he was fine last night. Like, it wasn't good, but it wasn't terrible. I don't know. We talked about on the alley-up last night, me, Tristan,

Juju, we were doing in a post show. If you look at his counting stats, you're going to be fooled and think, oh, he had an okay game. A lot of those... He had two assists. He had two assists, no turnovers finally. But when you look at a stoutling, it went six for 15, He had a couple of shots that went in. He was good in the first half. But he was two for 14, like halfway to the game.

Like, it just wasn't good. Well, that's not true. Because I think he was like four of eight at halftime. Like, he was actually, he was, he was playing in the first half. I'm talking about third quarter. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He didn't do anything in the second half. The first half, he was all right.

He didn't do anything in the second half. So, like, he had a nothing game. All right? He really did. He was like a nothing last night. If Adam Silver was at the game last night, he walked up to James Tarnie, said, welcome to the club. He had a nothing game last night.

New York, though. He's fat, though. That's the excuse, you know. They give him some grace there. He's heavyset. And Adam Silver is very thin. I mean, you've seen him, right? Look a little bit gaunt.

Anyway, seen here and no there. Josh Hart last night with 26 points, had the monster game. But I want to show you this. So, you know, they pan to the celebrities all throughout the game. I love that Celebrity Row in New York. I love the dynamics, Dave, of the Celebrity Row where, like, if you are a celebrity. If you are a movie star, TV star, what have you, you want to go

to the Knicks game, you say to your agent, right? You're like, hey, you know, can, you know, see what kind of tickets we can get? And what if, what if, what if you come back and you're offered with, because they don't purchase these seats, like the NICs have the seats and they give them to you, you know, hey, come, come sit, celebrity row. What if you're, what if you're, you're, you're given row B? You know, like, what's the, what's the tipping point for what's kind of celebrity you have to be where, all right,

I'll sit row B or it's, oh, I can't be seen in row B. I got to sit row A. You know, it is a, you know, I'll post images. I'll take, uh, take my boys to a ballgame or whatever. And people randos on social media will weigh in like that's the seat you got. You didn't get better seats than that. People critique where I'm sitting. The world has become more and more if you aren't aware about the haves and have knots and the haves are about two dozen people. through which all the rest of us are supposed to live vicariously. Ben Stiller happens to be one of those people, and we're all supposed to swoon because he has an HD image of James Harden and close up at MSG, and we're all supposed to, like I say,

swoon over this because, of course, we're no longer, that's no longer accessible to any of the rest of us. There is Kevin Hart, there's The Rock, there's Ben Stiller, and a short list of other people, like I say, through which we will experience the world. So here, you know, as Dave Damashek mentions, for the visual audience, Ben Stiller is sitting Celebrity Row, and that's video that he's taking. It's beautiful video.

Well, yeah, but I don't get that. He's at game two of the Eastern Conference finals, and it's just like, let me take out my phone and start, you're at the game. Why do you record? Is there going to be a moment? What's his wife's name again? Christine Taylor? Is that her name?

All right? I mean, she's a big-jum actress. I want to make sure I get her name right. Is there a time where they're saying, hey, Christine, let's watch the video I took from the game. We were sent first row. Like, really? I don't understand that. For whom?

Right. That's exactly right. The question is always that I have whenever you are, you know, seeing the great sites of Europe or the Bayou or San Francisco or otherwise. What? You ask the exact question. questions, Aslo, that is absolutely, what are you doing with that video? For whom is it? Like, do you scroll back through it in 10 years? I don't think you do. So basically, drop the camera and experience. Drink it in with your actual eyeballs because this video that you think future you

is going to enjoy does not exist, right? I do understand what you're saying where if you go to a sporting event and you post a picture and then you'll get the messages where it's like, wow, those are the best seats you can get. I remember going back, this is like a dozen years ago when I was doing the morning show here in Miami on 790 a ticket with Joy Taylor. And she went to Marlins' opening day. It's like, I mean, it's the only day of the year where there's going to be a lot of people there. And she was sitting in the upper deck in center field. Upper deck, center field. And she posted the picture too. You know, hey, you know, having a great time. Marlins open day. You know what I told us to you, you're embarrassing the show. I said that to her.

So what are you doing? You're embarrassing the show. Center field's one thing, okay? Outfield, you're Joy Taylor. You're sitting in the outfield. Upper deck? You're embarrassing my show. It's so far from where home play it is, too.

It's like a mile long. Yeah, that's right. But at football, this is the one I'm thinking of. I took me and Jean-Claude Van Damashek went over to see Ben Rathusberger's last game with the Steelers when they paid a visit to the Chargers in SoFi, and we were up high at the 50, which is where I like to sit to see football games. And that people reacted to that. You like to sit at the 50? You like to sit at the 50? What I like to do is I like to sit up high. The basic rule is, I think we can all agree, is football, up high, hockey, up high, down low, up close,

baseball, basketball. How high, though? That's the basic rule. How high? I mean, I like to see the whole field. I like to see it play out. I like, I like the, I like the, um, I like the, um, I like the All 22, if you will. How high? Is this a bit you're trying to do? I think you're trying to send me up. No. Like, are you going to sit at the top row in the upper deck?

What is the measurement? 600 level? Is that relatable? Is that a universal reference? You know what? That's too high. If you're in the 600 level, if you told me, you're going to the game tonight, I say, wear your seats, you go, 600 level.

Like, buddy, get some better seats. What are you at home? I mean, listen, like I say, not for basketball. I don't want to be up there. That doesn't suit my interests. But yes, football hockey, I want to see the whole thing. Basketball, the quickness. That's the appeal of that is the speed at which they play.

It's jaw-dropping. I don't need to see where all 10 guys are. It's pretty easy for my eye to drink all of that in. Same goes for baseball. I want to see the pace of the pitches and otherwise. Football, I can be way high up there and track the whole thing. I just think it's interesting that your preferred area to sit as the 15. yard line. That's where we should it be? And for football, where should it be? Of course it should be the 50

yard line, Dave. That's not unique. Yes. Of course it should be the 50 yard line. Uh, well, but I wasn't bragging about that. I wasn't trying to make a point. A distinction. Of course, the only place to sit for football is the 50 yard line if you have a choice, right? The only place. The only place to now in hockey, in hockey, I like behind the goal. The choice is a lot of people behind the goal of the team that you're rooting for shoots at twice. That's, of course, that goes without saying. No one, no one's ever said to their kid, where do you want to sit? Would you like to sit on the shoot one side? No, it's always the shoot twice side. Yes, of course. I think people who lack attention to detail might buy tickets and say, oh, we're behind the goal. Like, you have to ask

the question. Is it the one that we're rooting for, they shooting at it twice? Of course. Isn't it amazing, by the way? Everybody's not expert like you, Zaslo. I'm a man of the people. I'm trying to provide some counsel for people, and you're jumping to the end of the story, as though everybody's up to speed like you are. Isn't it amazing, by the way? Like, you're saying where you prefer to sit. I'm being serious now.

You're saying where you prefer to sit for a game. I'm saying where I prefer to sit for the game. The youngens, the youths, all right, who are listening and watching right now. Isn't it crazy to think back? There was a time where, and not that long ago, where you would buy tickets to a sporting event and like you didn't really get to pick where your seats were.

You would say to the person who is behind the glass, like, what do you have available? And she's like, oh, you got, I got 10th row, you know, on the 10-yard line. Like, they wouldn't tell you it's on the aisle. It was just like, all right, I'll take those tickets. What? Yeah. Oh, I don't remember this time. You didn't get to pull up Ticketmaster online and look at the blue dots and pick which ones you want to

sit in like you just, I want two tickets. I hope they're good seats. You don't remember box offices? Of course I remember a box office, but I don't remember being in a position to not know where my seats were. Yeah, just like, hey, I would at least ask like, hey, is it on the aisle? Is it in the middle of the row? No, you know what happened?

You would go and you'd have to say, give me two of your best available. That's what it was. Best available. And I mean, their seats could be anywhere. What a time to be alive. Is it still foreign to young, or has it become foreign to young people, the idea of going to a movie and just going into the theater and then finding your seats?

Is it assumed for younger people that you know where you're going to be sitting? What the hell are you guys talking about?