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Speaker 2:
[01:15] Chris, where's your father? I wanted to start the show with catchphrases.

Speaker 6:
[01:19] He's sleepy.

Speaker 2:
[01:21] Is he going to be part of our draft coverage on Thursday night? Is he resting? Does he need to pace himself? Is he at the point where he has to pace himself? Is he doing a change of show regimen where instead of doing two shows consecutively, he's doing a show in the morning and a show at night? Is he now just stamina broken?

Speaker 3:
[01:42] He did say when I told him of this week's schedule, he's like, you get me for one on Thursday. I'm not doing both. So we will have him tomorrow, main show and then Thursday night for the watch alone.

Speaker 7:
[01:51] I also had that decree, so I'm only on live show at night.

Speaker 2:
[01:54] I don't believe that we should be making decrees around here, you or him. I don't think that decrees are what we need.

Speaker 8:
[02:01] I made a decree. The Marlins are playing a midweek game and that's the only time I go to a baseball game. So I will not be here. I'll be at Lone Depot. I won't be here either. I'll see you there.

Speaker 9:
[02:11] I'll be here. I'll be here.

Speaker 2:
[02:14] Zaslow, did you cut yourself shaving?

Speaker 9:
[02:17] Oh, underneath here? Yo, don't worry about that.

Speaker 7:
[02:20] What's in that gullet? Let me see.

Speaker 8:
[02:22] Wow, it's a nice little chunk you took out.

Speaker 9:
[02:24] Thank you.

Speaker 10:
[02:29] This is The Dan Lebatard Show with Stugotz Podcast.

Speaker 2:
[02:37] Did Zaslow watch that Anaheim game against Edmonton late into the night, one o'clock in the morning yesterday? Did you?

Speaker 9:
[02:45] OK, I didn't watch that one, but I was lying in bed. We established late at night, after I was watching my stories, I went upstairs to bed. My stories is wrestling. And I brought out the tablet because my wife doesn't let me watch TV in the bedroom anymore when she's trying to sleep. And I was watching hockey.

Speaker 2:
[03:05] When did that get banned?

Speaker 9:
[03:07] A few months ago.

Speaker 2:
[03:08] Oh, wait a minute. What happened? So you made it through two years of majestic playoff runs in hockey? What happened a couple of months ago?

Speaker 9:
[03:17] She feels that she's got hand now, I guess, in the relationship.

Speaker 2:
[03:20] So you've got to watch it on the tablet in a different part of the house?

Speaker 9:
[03:23] No, no, I'm watching it next to her. But like I got the air pod in and, you know, I'm lying next to her, pitch black.

Speaker 3:
[03:29] Sucking his thumb.

Speaker 9:
[03:31] I got the tablet on a pillow on my stomach.

Speaker 8:
[03:34] Got your powers of pain pajamas.

Speaker 3:
[03:37] Because if you're on your back, you'll fall asleep and drop it on your face.

Speaker 9:
[03:41] Yeah, that's embarrassing.

Speaker 8:
[03:41] So you're on your tummy.

Speaker 9:
[03:42] I can't and I can't put the brightness. I got to put the brightness down a little bit on the iPad because, you know, it could wake her up.

Speaker 3:
[03:49] There's nothing better. I'm with him on this than like when it's dark in a room and you put that brightness down and like the, ah, there's nothing better than that.

Speaker 1:
[03:58] That would be your choice.

Speaker 3:
[03:59] When you turn down the brightness.

Speaker 8:
[04:01] I prefer sex, but.

Speaker 2:
[04:02] That would be your choice on nominating something for the best. Okay. All right. That's.

Speaker 9:
[04:08] And I can tell you, Dan, if I position the iPad properly on my stomach, it kind of feels like I'm watching the TV, you know, it's because it's like the same shape. So I trick myself.

Speaker 8:
[04:20] You're cosplaying TV time.

Speaker 9:
[04:22] I trick myself. This is really a TV. I'm watching.

Speaker 2:
[04:25] What happened in the last couple of months? You've been watching sports and way too much sports for way too long. What happened in the last couple of months that finally fed up your wife?

Speaker 9:
[04:36] I don't know. Like I said, she feels that she's got hands in the relationship right now. Like at some point, I guess the tables turn where she feels like she's in control. But can I tell you something? Because you're saying I've been watching a lot of sports. Last night was like a breaking point for my wife, because it was 8 p.m., all right? And that's when my stories come on, of course, on Monday nights. And I yelled upstairs to my son, Jordan. I go, Jordan, come on. Raw is about to start. And like he watches it with me. He watches wrestling with me. And my wife turns to me because she was watching TV in the fame of the room. And she knows that means that I'm about to take over the remote and TV. And she says, it's every single night. And I go, watch goes, I don't remember. Like you're watching wrestling six nights a week.

Speaker 8:
[05:15] Yeah, it's been a big week for that.

Speaker 9:
[05:16] That's what I tried to explain to her. But she says like, it's every night now. When did this start? You're watching wrestling every night.

Speaker 8:
[05:23] Well, make sure to treat her real good. Today is a Tuesday because right back on Wednesday, you know what that means. It's Wednesday Night Dynamite.

Speaker 9:
[05:29] I'll turn the brightness down extra low on the iPad tonight.

Speaker 2:
[05:32] Were you watching Senators Hurricanes? Yeah. You were watching that live? This was before tablet time?

Speaker 9:
[05:38] No, I was watching it on the tablet.

Speaker 2:
[05:40] Okay. That's what you were watching. What were your thoughts on that over time?

Speaker 9:
[05:44] I mean, it was wild, right? I'm rooting for the Senators, of course, because it's always after Hurricanes. Not the Miami Hurricanes, the Carolina Hurricanes. I feel like that's a given.

Speaker 8:
[05:52] Manny Diaz did ring the alarm, the siren before.

Speaker 9:
[05:55] You felt like that was a good sign for Ottawa. Yeah, the Senators, they blew it. The Senators dominated the third period. They played really well in overtime. I hate the Canes and the Canes won, so that was obnoxious. Hockey is good, man.

Speaker 8:
[06:06] That was a great game. That was playoff hockey, everybody eating pucks. Olmark was out of his mind. There was a game-winning goal.

Speaker 9:
[06:14] That save on Kachuk, oh my God.

Speaker 8:
[06:15] There was a game-winning goal, Dan, that got taken off the board after, what had happened in the build-up to the play, there was a full 90 seconds that happened after the offside. You get the game-winning goal from Martin Nook, and they go to the replay system. They decide, in this build-up before the penalty, they were offside, however, in this instance, while they pull the goal back, the penalty call stands, and they awarded a penalty shot, in which Martin Nook missed the penalty, but then later on in the game, Roy, Martin Nook gets to be the hero.

Speaker 10:
[06:47] Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 1:
[06:50] That was vindication right there for him, so good on him. Ended up scoring the game-winning goal, and now Hurricanes up 2-0 and going to Ottawa.

Speaker 8:
[06:55] This Ottawa team is so deep. I don't think this series is over. It hasn't started, because no road team has won just yet. I like the way they play, I think they're deep, and it's not a popular scene to take a lower seed down in an 0-2 hole, but I would not write them off.

Speaker 3:
[07:11] Flyers Penguins has definitely started. I mean, jeez. Poor Damishek. Fraud.

Speaker 2:
[07:17] Put it on the poll, please, at Lebatard Show. Was everyone eating pucks last night? There are a couple of things here locally that I wanted to talk about, including Mike Ryan saying with a straight face, you heard him say this, right? Quote, I know the brain of the Heat fan. You heard him say this today, correct?

Speaker 9:
[07:37] Yeah, he said it like it was his chest out, too.

Speaker 8:
[07:40] Sick, sick mind.

Speaker 2:
[07:41] And he was mentioning this because he was saying if Bam were not on the Heat, he would be the disgruntled superstar that the Heat would be trying to get.

Speaker 8:
[07:52] Tell me I'm wrong. Tell me I'm telling you a lie right now. He is absolutely the superstar in purgatory on a middling franchise is saying all the things after games that Heat fans would absolutely read into and photoshop him.

Speaker 11:
[08:05] So today he's a superstar.

Speaker 8:
[08:07] No I'm saying this is the mind of the Heat fan. The Heat fan doesn't think Bam is good enough. However, if he were on another team, he would be.

Speaker 9:
[08:14] That sounds like what you're saying though.

Speaker 11:
[08:17] Yeah that's you.

Speaker 8:
[08:18] No, look, you know where I stand on Bam.

Speaker 7:
[08:22] Where do you stand? Is he a superstar or is he not a superstar?

Speaker 8:
[08:24] I don't think he's a superstar. I think he's an all-star. He's a tremendous two-way player. He's one of the best players in franchise history. We have seen the ceiling of this team when Bam is your best player. Tell me what I'm telling last.

Speaker 2:
[08:35] How are you guys defining superstar, okay?

Speaker 9:
[08:37] Can he be your best player and you can win a championship?

Speaker 2:
[08:40] Well, how many of those are there? Five?

Speaker 8:
[08:43] Handful.

Speaker 2:
[08:43] Five?

Speaker 8:
[08:44] Yeah. I mean, there are guys that just don't have the right supporting cast.

Speaker 2:
[08:48] Jokic has won.

Speaker 8:
[08:50] Yeah. Yeah. Anthony Edwards is a superstar. He hasn't won a championship yet, but if you surround him with the right team and the right organization, you certainly will have those guys.

Speaker 2:
[08:57] When I ask you guys, though, to name the superstars, the reason I'm doing this is because I guess Jalen Brunson is now becoming a superstar.

Speaker 8:
[09:09] He's a superstar.

Speaker 2:
[09:09] Yeah, but I don't know if I can win something with him as my best player. I don't know that. And so that can't be the definition of what a superstar is.

Speaker 9:
[09:18] But I think, see, Jalen Brunson is a tricky one, because isn't the reason, wouldn't we agree, the reason we don't think that you could win with him is because of his stature, which we saw on full display last night, by the way.

Speaker 2:
[09:29] Yeah, the stature makes it that throughout basketball history, somebody that size, unless you're Isaiah, there's no one who wins at that size as the lead player.

Speaker 7:
[09:40] Allen Iverson got close, but like if we're talking about winning a championship defines you as a superstar, I don't think that's the metric. Because AI was revolutionary beyond superstars.

Speaker 8:
[09:48] AI would get you seals. Isaiah Thomas was a tremendous defender on the ball. Jalen Brunson, defensively, liability.

Speaker 9:
[09:55] He killed him last time.

Speaker 2:
[09:57] I want to talk about that game in a second, but Tony, when you mention Alan Iverson got to the finals, yeah, he got to the finals in the same way Jimmy Butler got to the finals and got swept in five games and Mike has called them a failure since.

Speaker 8:
[10:09] He did get swept in five games. That's how that Lakers won Feltman. That's how that Nuggets won Feltman.

Speaker 2:
[10:16] Jimmy Butler is a superstar, correct? Yes, he is. It can't be that I can win something with him as my best player when we had that conversation for three years and then they ran into... All right, like just...

Speaker 8:
[10:31] Amin was pounding the table that Jimmy was a superstar and I mean, he almost got there. Who knows how that bubble shakes out of everyone.

Speaker 9:
[10:39] Cary, that's in the finals twice, like a superstar.

Speaker 2:
[10:41] Okay, but the question before he got here was, can you win with him as your best player? And then they couldn't with him as their best player. And the other person we're talking about here, we're having this conversation is Bam, when I can make a pretty decent argument that Bam is as good a number two as there is in the league, but that doesn't make you a superstar.

Speaker 9:
[11:02] Yeah, so your definition of that's different than mine. It's like this idea that if you didn't win the last game of the season, you weren't good enough. And that to me is bullshit. You know, like you could lose to a team that was better. Like your team is good enough. If you're in the final round, your team's good enough. You're there. You're playing for the championship.

Speaker 2:
[11:24] Yeah, you say this, but Vince Carter got to the finals, never won anything, was a superstar, when he got to the finals, got swept, and they didn't actually have a chance in those finals. That team is forgotten forevermore because that Nets team of Vince Carter and Richard Jefferson ends up getting to the finals, and it's not remembered as a winner. The Nets are a loser franchise, and that's remembered as their best season, but it ended at the end with them not actually being closed because they got swept.

Speaker 9:
[11:50] I mean, they lost the Lakers and the Spurs.

Speaker 8:
[11:52] I mean, eye on the ball though, the mentally deranged Miami Heat fan would absolutely be photoshopping Bam Adebayo, is the larger point.

Speaker 11:
[11:59] As he professes his love to his coach after the 83-point game. Like, I understand what you're saying. There's been plenty of sound. I'm sick of being in the play-ins.

Speaker 9:
[12:07] Why do you think Mike is saying that Bam actually believes Bam is disgruntled?

Speaker 8:
[12:12] No, what I'm saying is, and you're getting to it, that the Heat fan would absolutely decontextualize. I'm sick of the play-in.

Speaker 11:
[12:18] Wouldn't take all the other stuff.

Speaker 8:
[12:19] We're not being in the teams that we should. Like, he's said enough things that Heat fans who have a supreme radar for these things would absolutely seize on and say, that's our guy.

Speaker 2:
[12:28] Tony, what happened there? That sounded like an off-

Speaker 11:
[12:31] What happened?

Speaker 2:
[12:31] That sounded like an off-

Speaker 11:
[12:33] It's fabulous.

Speaker 2:
[12:34] Mike sneezed-

Speaker 7:
[12:36] It's exactly what it was.

Speaker 2:
[12:37] Into your hands. Was it wet? It looked a little- Not wet, not wet.

Speaker 7:
[12:40] It was into my- Cause I do the crook of the elbow Dracula sneeze. That's good.

Speaker 2:
[12:44] But you didn't get into the elbow though. It looked like you were sneezing into your bare hands that they were lower and you were catching it like you would in a bucket.

Speaker 7:
[12:55] It was close, but I was able to get to the crook. The issue is Dan, that we're renovating the house. Yesterday I had to de-dust the walls. You know what that means? So you got the compound all over. I know you're a homeowner. So you got the compound all over it, right? He is. It almost got taken by somebody else, but he is a homeowner. Just close to the bone, my bad. So we got compound everywhere, right? Then I got to sand the compound, then the dust of that stays on the wall. So I had to sit there with a microfiber towel and wipe off the dust of the walls. Had a mask, had goggles, but the mask, it was kind of halfway open and it snuck in. So I got all the dust in my lungs and in my nose. So I'm battling through the dust right now, Dan.

Speaker 9:
[13:31] Sounds terrible.

Speaker 10:
[13:32] Dan LeBatard.

Speaker 8:
[13:34] I went in the margins. I'm like, I'm like your money ball of sex. I'm basically Scott Hattaberg, Stugotz.

Speaker 3:
[13:41] A lot of walks, but I'm on base.

Speaker 8:
[13:44] When it comes to sex with Scott Hattaberg. Other other dudes, they can be Giambi. You know your role, you play. I know my role.

Speaker 10:
[13:51] This is The Dan Lebatard Show with Stugotz.

Speaker 2:
[14:04] Zas, what happened to that mark on your chin? It looks like somebody hit you in the face with a cleaver.

Speaker 9:
[14:11] I mean, we already established, cut myself shaving, my god. You don't know how to, you don't sometimes shave and cut yourself, and then you walk around, everybody asks you about it. How annoying is that? Whatever. All right, see, everybody can see now.

Speaker 2:
[14:24] No, they can't see it because of the angles in here. The mics in the way, yeah, lower the mic. It is a chunk of blood that you have on the lower part of your face, and while you say, what's the matter, Dan? You never seen someone cut themselves shaving before? Never before on a national sports television show. No, I've never seen it before.

Speaker 9:
[14:43] What am I supposed to do?

Speaker 2:
[14:44] But I'm saying, you ask me a question, you ask me a question, and I will ask you, Tony Kornheiser has been an old man on television for 25 years. I have never seen his face with a cut from shaving. I've never seen anybody who does national sports television have do the show with blood on their face.

Speaker 9:
[15:00] Awesome, maybe that's why I'm here, I'm doing stuff that's never been done before.

Speaker 4:
[15:03] We seize on insecurities, but we do so in the form of a question. That makes it more palatable.

Speaker 2:
[15:11] Do you guys have for me, can you give me some sort of photo of Tony battling the dust? Did you get any of that on camera, him sneezing into his hand? There you have it, there. That looks like Tony.

Speaker 3:
[15:24] That's fighting a sneeze, if I'm not seeing it.

Speaker 2:
[15:26] That looks like Tony reacting to Mike's bad opinion. That's what that looks like.

Speaker 7:
[15:30] No, I was on board with him.

Speaker 8:
[15:32] We'd absolutely be photoshopping Bam Adebayo.

Speaker 7:
[15:35] He's an all-star, he's not a superstar.

Speaker 2:
[15:37] I didn't say that your opinion was bad. I said that the video they just showed me made it look like, if I just had to put a caption on it, I would say, here's Tony reacting to a stinky Mike Ryan opinion, because it doesn't look like he's battling allergies there. It looks like what he's battling is art.

Speaker 8:
[15:57] Why are we all being attacked by Dan today? This is nuts.

Speaker 11:
[16:01] Who I want to get attacked? I think that if you built a perfect team around Bam, the same way you've built a pretty perfect su... No, no, no, they've built...

Speaker 8:
[16:09] It's a hell of a qualifier, Jeremy.

Speaker 11:
[16:11] All right, so if you built a very good supporting cast...

Speaker 8:
[16:14] He did win a gold medal, you're right.

Speaker 11:
[16:15] Listen, if you build a really good supporting cast around Bam, the same way you've built a really good supporting cast around Brunson, you're more likely to win a title with Bam as your No. 1 than Brunson.

Speaker 8:
[16:25] Well, a lot of the guys that are...

Speaker 3:
[16:27] So you're saying they haven't done that.

Speaker 8:
[16:28] A lot of the guys that are built around Brunson are guys that were readily available via trade in the Miami Heat decided...

Speaker 11:
[16:33] Ah, it's not the conversation I'm having.

Speaker 8:
[16:35] Okay.

Speaker 11:
[16:35] I'm doing a theoretical thing.

Speaker 8:
[16:36] It's interesting, because theoretically, they have failed Bam Adebayo in doing that, while other teams in the East have built around... Plug and play guys like Siakam, the NBA has moved away from the model that Pat Riley is still married to. They're building more complete teams right now, and the Miami Heat seem to be really struggling with this.

Speaker 9:
[16:53] I always run into a problem when I have to sneeze on a plane. Like that happened to me a couple weeks ago when I came back from Colorado, because I don't want to be rude, and then like if some of the sneeze gets on the person sitting next to me, because it's just me and my wife on the plane, and I don't know how you sit on the plane, Dan, but I buy an aisle seat, and my wife gets the aisle seat right next to me.

Speaker 3:
[17:11] I do that too.

Speaker 9:
[17:12] We don't sit next to each other, because she doesn't want to sit in the middle, and obviously she'd be the one sitting in the middle, not me. And then when I have to sneeze, it's like, if I sneeze into the pit of my arm, I don't want a little bit to go somewhere, and then it gets on somebody, and it's very disgusting.

Speaker 3:
[17:26] You ever go inside shirt?

Speaker 9:
[17:28] No.

Speaker 3:
[17:29] Yeah, that's what I would do on a plane.

Speaker 9:
[17:30] Really?

Speaker 3:
[17:31] Unless it feels super like mucousy, which is rare. If it just feels like a standard sneeze, you just lift up the shirt. Boom.

Speaker 7:
[17:38] Zaz, you had Dan in economy, with three people in a seat, where he sits where there's only two people in the seat. So he's on the, there is no three. When you're in first class, there's only two.

Speaker 3:
[17:47] But if he were in economy, he'd buy all three.

Speaker 2:
[17:49] Zaz, how would you feel about us calling Tamara and having her maiden voyage on the show and just asking her what happened here that makes you now Tablet Time Guy? That like, what happened in the last two months that she has finally grown fed up with the television and its light?

Speaker 9:
[18:04] Right. Well, first of all, she has a job. All right, that's first and foremost. Gotta point that out. It's after nine a.m. already.

Speaker 2:
[18:10] I mean, so does Greg Cody's wife running a law firm and she takes time out of her day to call the show on Tuesdays to celebrate how weird her husband is.

Speaker 9:
[18:18] Good come back. My wife.

Speaker 8:
[18:20] When you're a partner, it's a little bit different.

Speaker 9:
[18:21] My wife.

Speaker 8:
[18:22] She's got one of those real jobs.

Speaker 9:
[18:23] My wife's not good under the lights. You know, she buckles under the pressure. She gets very nervous. All right, we established that many years ago when Bukshanbi tried this with her and we brought her on the air and she was a mess. She did not like it.

Speaker 4:
[18:38] Let's not take the head. Keep pushing.

Speaker 2:
[18:41] Send Chris Cody her contact information to see if we could get Tamara before the end of the show.

Speaker 4:
[18:46] My man.

Speaker 2:
[18:49] I'll get to that Knicks-Hawks game in a second because you guys are talking about, yeah, they gave up five first round picks because Bridges was the last piece they needed to win a championship and then all of a sudden, right, this happened. You guys remember that one brief moment in time where A-Rod changed everything by trading five first round picks for Rudy Gobert and then for a little bit of time, I don't know how long it was, the going rate for Bridges was five first round picks when the Knicks decided that was the last piece and then they stopped doing that. They did it for how long? Was it just a crazy spell of like 18 months where Gobert is the first human being ever that bothers Jokic a little bit every once in a while?

Speaker 8:
[19:32] He's so confusing to watch in certain series because in this series, you absolutely get why they paid the price that they did. And then depending on the opponent that they get in the next round, totally played off the court. It's just a bizarre player.

Speaker 2:
[19:44] Yeah, but there's only one human being on earth who bothers that guy. There's not a second one. Like it ain't Wembe. It ain't Wembe yet. He put up 40 points three straight times on Wembe.

Speaker 8:
[19:55] You remember when the Miami Heat made Bismark the umbo like a trillionaire?

Speaker 9:
[19:59] Oh yeah, and that's seven game series in 2016.

Speaker 2:
[20:02] Do you remember when I yelled at Stephen A. Smith for choosing Tim Duncan over Roy Hibbert?

Speaker 9:
[20:09] Everyone remembers that.

Speaker 2:
[20:11] Was that my inner monologue?

Speaker 4:
[20:14] You buried yourself here.

Speaker 2:
[20:17] I have a number of different things to discuss locally and not a lot of time to do it. I have not yet had time to celebrate the Cyclones. The Cyclones had what Mike Ryan was calling their biggest match of the year last Thursday, and they have survived. The team, the Highly team that we own as we continue to try to keep Highly alive throughout the region and internationally by owning a team, a defending champion team, what happened in the last game. The penultimate game, you were terrified, you were scared, you were mad at the television, and that wasn't even the most important game. This was the most important match of the season, was it not?

Speaker 8:
[20:56] It was because it was a win-and-end scenario for your Cyclones. Now, there was an interesting development in Battle Court, Dan. The players were complaining about the balls on this new court. The balls would get cold as the game would go on, and it would lead to some pretty unpredictable bounces. And for a team that is built via backcourt, Dan, that is a huge problem when our world-class backquarters cannot read the backbounce, the rebotes. You got to be able to read the rebotes. Anyways, more consistent play out of the pelota now, and it resulted in us beating down the Warriors, the oldest rivalry in Battle Court, and we have punched our ticket to the playoffs. This is the final week of the regular season. We are now playing for seeding, and an interesting question is being asked around highlight circles. Do you tank to avoid Go Cherry?

Speaker 3:
[21:44] I say no. Any time you do this, any time you try to win or lose for playoff seedings to avoid, to go after certain teams, just a bad omen, you just play the game, you play to win the game, and you let the chips fall where they may.

Speaker 8:
[21:56] I will give you insight into our culture. Our culture is to not tank, primarily because we have no say in the matter.

Speaker 2:
[22:03] Put it on the poll, please. Do you have to be able to handle the rebote? Also, put it on the poll. Do you know what a rebote is? Chris, do you have that sound, please? I saw it on last week tonight and we can't play that sound, but there are an assortment of Pittsburgh broadcasters who were trying, and rebote is what made me think of this, who were trying to pronounce the word boricua.

Speaker 8:
[22:28] Boricua.

Speaker 2:
[22:29] Boricua, I'm sorry, thank you.

Speaker 7:
[22:31] That's a bet, Dan.

Speaker 4:
[22:32] Abort, abort, abort. It's draft week. Transition, Ty Simpson.

Speaker 7:
[22:38] Ooh, do you see Michael to the Rams?

Speaker 2:
[22:40] Boricua is the phrase for a Puerto Rican, and in Pittsburgh they are selling the hot dogs, and I guess they're just calling them boricua dogs, but in Pittsburgh an assortment of broadcasters were trying to pronounce this word, and it's spelled at the end C-U-E, and so they were all struggling with it. Chris, do you have that sound? Play that sound of, you have-

Speaker 3:
[23:08] I have a bunch of them separated, so I have a bunch of different examples.

Speaker 2:
[23:10] Okay, so just, how do you spell, Tony? I don't know how to spell boricua.

Speaker 7:
[23:15] There's no E whatsoever. There's an E in Spanish, which is I in English, but B-O-R-I-C-U-A, boricua.

Speaker 2:
[23:22] And so let's hear the sound here from an assortment of Pittsburgh broadcasters.

Speaker 7:
[23:27] Boricua.

Speaker 8:
[23:29] That's tough.

Speaker 2:
[23:30] Boricula.

Speaker 8:
[23:32] It's almost as bad as Dan though, let's be honest. Borkean.

Speaker 7:
[23:36] Oh.

Speaker 8:
[23:38] Borkean. I don't get this. How is this so hard? Did nobody listen to a big pun?

Speaker 7:
[23:44] Boricua.

Speaker 9:
[23:45] Boricua.

Speaker 8:
[23:47] Boricua, morena. Boricua, morena.

Speaker 2:
[23:52] They were having some trouble with that. Can you guys give me some information on the Boricua hot dog? Like what makes it a Puerto Rican hot dog? What is it? Why are they selling in Pittsburgh a Puerto Rican hot dog? I don't know what a Puerto Rican hot dog is. I don't know how it's different than any other hot dog. You will get me that information at your leisure. Somebody mentioned the draft. On Thursday night, we are as a show doing a live stream, the evening of Thursday, and I don't know how long we'll be on, but you can watch the draft with us. And it's a big day locally, because it's not just that the Miami Dolphins have a whole bunch of picks, and you don't know who their players are, and they've fumigated the building. And so it's just a total reset on the franchise that we have not seen before. But also, the University of Miami is gonna have three first round picks, and that hasn't happened in a minute. I had mentioned before that the Miami Hurricanes have never really had one pass rusher off the edge the way that they had two this season. Like in the history of the program, they haven't had one guy like the two that they had on the edges this season, because Kaleus Campbell is the closest thing. I guess Daniel Stubbs was, Bill Hawkins was a first round pick, but it wasn't like this, where they're the names of the draft.

Speaker 8:
[25:18] We're so in Jalen Phillips, people sleep on them. They were highly productive players, but at the same time, I think you can say now with certainty, it was a hyperbolic take in the middle of the season and you're weighing it against history, but this was a national runner up. I think you can say with conviction that this was the best pass rushing duo on the edge that Miami has ever had in their illustrious program history.

Speaker 10:
[25:39] Dan Lebatard.

Speaker 9:
[25:41] My algorithm on Instagram is dance all boobs.

Speaker 10:
[25:46] Stugotz.

Speaker 9:
[25:47] It's a good algorithm.

Speaker 10:
[25:48] This is The Dan Lebatard Show with Stugotz.

Speaker 2:
[25:56] I really do think I can formulate an argument on these guys as just talents that you draft. Each one of them is better than almost anyone they've ever had doing that. Just how the NFL assesses these things. Are we taking you in the top 20? Miami has had guys who come up the middle who they'll take in the top 20. But not even Kaleus Campbell, not Jalen Phillips. There's not something, I don't think, I think I can make the argument that either one of these guys are as talented an edge rusher as they have ever had. But what is it that you're most interested, Mike? You were at the spring game.

Speaker 8:
[26:32] Yeah, all the prospects too for the NFL draft. Because Miami has an outside shot at four first round draft picks. We'll see if a front office falls in love with Keonte Scott. Everybody was at practice. Also, Elijah Arroyo. Jesus, he's put together. He's got that Super Bowl glow on him. They've been at all the practices. CC. Mawa-Noah, who seems to be at the center of one of the more interesting storylines right now, because it seems as though Arizona is trying to put out smoke signals that they're interested in Jeremiah Love at number three when most people have Mawa-Noah going there. Now, Mawa-Noah has a back injury that has come to light throughout this process. It's an asymptomatic disc in his back, but it does have teams a little bit worried. So it may hurt his stock. We still expect him to go top ten. Ruben Bain went through the news stream because of his off-the-field thing, and a very interesting reaction to that, because it was a sensational headline. People wrongfully call it reckless driving when it wasn't. That citation was dismissed. Yeah.

Speaker 9:
[27:35] Those are two different things.

Speaker 8:
[27:36] Well, here's what it was, an accident because it wasn't either of those things. That's what the law enforcement people decided, and he wasn't going over the speed limit. He wasn't inebriated. He wasn't given even a field test. The officers on the scene didn't feel like that was required. What he did do though, was this happened before his worst season at the University of Miami. It obviously, I asked around, it messed with him. How could it not? He was in a car in which somebody months later after the accident passed away. In one sense, I felt bad for the young man. That's a horrible thing to go through. You're refreshed that it actually did weigh on him. He'd be a sociopath if he was just able to move on through life.

Speaker 2:
[28:22] Todd McShay called the reporting on Stugotz's podcast, he called the reporter on that, called him a scumbag.

Speaker 8:
[28:30] Yeah, you don't really hear that. Although, Todd does tend to shoot from the hip a little bit, especially nowadays. But that was surprising because it's not like the report was wrong. Ali Conley was first, it was just in NFL circles unseemly. I think Ali was kind of used, and I think he was kind of used by a team that wanted to use this really tragic moment to actually perhaps tank Ruben Bain's stock so they could get him, which is an interesting move. Mezador should certainly get drafted in the first round. Kiantae Scott, who is one of my favorite players to ever put on that uniform, honestly, absolute dog. It will be interesting to see how we replace that mentality. I hope he gets drafted in the first round.

Speaker 2:
[29:10] Yes, this is very exciting. Look at this, we've got Tamara's here, and I don't want to bury her in questions, but I do want to bury her husband. Thank you for joining us, it's nice to see you.

Speaker 12:
[29:21] Good morning, likewise.

Speaker 2:
[29:23] Just want to know why it is that he's got tablet time now. He's not allowed to have the television on anymore for the last couple of months, he's got to watch it under the covers, hiding. What happened here that changed the rules in the house?

Speaker 12:
[29:34] Sleep is important.

Speaker 2:
[29:35] Yeah, but it was important before the last couple of months, and clearly you've reached a breaking point, so what happened?

Speaker 12:
[29:41] I have, unfortunately, between the snoring and the bright lights, it's just time to establish some boundaries.

Speaker 9:
[29:50] She says the TV emits too much heat.

Speaker 2:
[29:52] Yeah, but what, and forgive me for being a nosy journalist who continues to ask follow-ups as if it's an interrogation, but what specifically happened? He's been somebody who watches too much sports in bed for the entire time you've known him. Now it's a problem. Why is it now a problem?

Speaker 9:
[30:08] It's snoring, she said.

Speaker 12:
[30:09] Yes, it's just excessive, especially it's now wrestling, so I can't stand it. So wrestling at night.

Speaker 2:
[30:17] Okay, that's what it is. So you're okay with the heat, you're okay with the Panthers, it's these guys, it's these guys all lathered up in oils running around in tights that remind you that you're married to a toddler.

Speaker 12:
[30:30] Basically.

Speaker 2:
[30:31] Okay.

Speaker 12:
[30:31] It's nonsense.

Speaker 2:
[30:33] The breaking point is wrestling, Zas. It's that wrestling is, it's not that it's sports, it's specifically wrestling is the problem.

Speaker 12:
[30:40] And the snoring.

Speaker 3:
[30:42] What kind of snoring are we talking here? Just on your back snoring or even on his side too, because that's dangerous.

Speaker 12:
[30:47] It's all the time. It's a light rumble, it's disruptive. If I wake up in the middle of the night, it takes me 15 to 20 minutes to fall back asleep. I have to nudge him, he apologizes, it's a mess. So at least this way I can go to sleep by myself, I can enter into deep REM sleep, and then when he joins in the bed, I don't even know he's there. That's the best case scenario.

Speaker 9:
[31:10] That's her preference, not knowing I'm there.

Speaker 12:
[31:13] No wrestling.

Speaker 9:
[31:15] That's the best scenario, not knowing I'm there.

Speaker 2:
[31:17] She's gotta go, unfortunately. Just one last question, random, no reason at all that I'm asking. Have you ever been watching a news anchor of any kind in all of your history watching television, and that person has a cut on their face?

Speaker 12:
[31:32] I don't think so.

Speaker 9:
[31:34] I'll see that. I mean, Dan's making fun of me because you see under here, like I have a cut today, and he says who shows up to work with blood on their chin, and that's me. I'm the answer.

Speaker 12:
[31:43] How did you do that?

Speaker 9:
[31:44] Shaving.

Speaker 12:
[31:46] I'll be more careful.

Speaker 2:
[31:47] Good advice. Thank you, Tamara. It is nice seeing you.

Speaker 9:
[31:50] Thanks. This went well for me. Thank you.

Speaker 1:
[31:53] No, you snore?

Speaker 8:
[31:56] So, but we just did a zoom in on your face. There's a fair amount of hair on your face still. Did you cut yourself early on and decide, you know what, this is for the birds?

Speaker 9:
[32:06] Yeah, like I, it grows back like I'm a werewolf.

Speaker 8:
[32:11] But that's a fresh wound and you got like several days of growth, I don't understand it. Did you have this cut yesterday? Five o'clock shadow at 9.30.

Speaker 2:
[32:18] It's a great question, okay. I don't know who you guys would nominate because history of sports, Kurt Warner for me is the guy who shaves at 9 a.m. And by the 10 a.m. interview, he's already got stubble because his face just gives off aggressive human growth hormone in terms of just growing and sprouting air at a rate of speed that's unreasonable. What a great question Mike Ryan has asked. It doesn't make sense that we have what is it appears to be a fresh cut in the face of a man who has stubble. That just the timeline doesn't add up.

Speaker 9:
[32:50] Something fresh, something I touch it and all of a sudden I have blood on my hand. It's a scab.

Speaker 2:
[32:53] If I had detectives here, they would say that this is a crime scene and the evidence doesn't add up. It doesn't make sense that you're alleging this.

Speaker 9:
[33:01] I did not expect this when I came in today.

Speaker 12:
[33:05] Jonathan, don't like this.

Speaker 4:
[33:07] Beginning to know why I'm in this seat right now. Don't like it. Think it's terrible.

Speaker 9:
[33:12] Okay, the inner monologue graphic of me is offensive.

Speaker 2:
[33:20] The draft on Thursday night, when you talk about the University of Miami hasn't had one like this in 15 years, or we're looking at more than 15 years, and the Dolphins are going to have their best day of the year, are they not? Are the Dolphins going to have a better day this entire year, that feels better than whatever it is that happens tomorrow is going to feel, when you're going to be filled with hope on something?

Speaker 8:
[33:47] I don't think the Dolphins will have a better day this season. Maybe they can snipe a good team during the course of the regular season, make you feel like you're on the right track. Also, you have a new quarterback. So if he looks good, that's a huge opportunity for you to get excited for the season. That's a big unknown. Interesting stuff surrounding A-chan. There's been a lot of posturing through NFL insiders, and it's weird. If I were to read it right now and trying to read between the lines as to who this benefits, it seems like the Miami Dolphins are really trying to get out there, that A-chan is available. So be curious to see how that plays out.

Speaker 2:
[34:22] Well, they've done the opposite of that.

Speaker 8:
[34:23] Yeah, but I don't believe them. I feel like they're doing that to get attention.

Speaker 2:
[34:27] Okay, so what are we doing? So what we're saying, just to be clear, is that the new people who run the Miami Dolphins are opening the bidding on how they're going to be received by the audience by telling you publicly and loudly that the one remaining player that anyone has an attachment to is the one who's not available? Like, that's where they're going to start their introduction to Miami?

Speaker 8:
[34:49] Good point. We've seen this in the NBA all the time. This person is not available. We are not taking calls on the person.

Speaker 9:
[34:54] No, but it's a new regime.

Speaker 2:
[34:55] But we've had this discussion before, okay? And, like, I can't believe that your skepticism rises to the level that the people would start by lying on something that they don't need to lie about. They could just make him available privately or not. They don't need to go to an insider and say, this isn't available just to drum up interest. Either people are interested or they're not.

Speaker 8:
[35:17] Dan, it's been reported that they are far apart on contract talks. I think that this is part of that game.

Speaker 7:
[35:22] It's also smokescreen season. That's what we see now during the draft. Oh, this guy's not available. He's the number one prospect ever. We're never going to get rid of him. And then you come with something nice, and it's like, okay, yeah, he's gone. And also, have you not looked around? Lying is everywhere.

Speaker 9:
[35:35] I would also point out, as far as is Thursday going to be the best day of the season, if they didn't sign Malik Willis, I would agree with that. But every week now, next season, even if the Dolphins are bad, every week now next season there's going to be an opportunity for the Dolphin fan to be excited, to have interest, because you have this new toy that you're hoping can be a long-term toy.

Speaker 8:
[35:56] And part of the course of these things with the star player that may or may not be available via trade is he did the part where Yasee's on, he didn't show up to the off-season workout, so that sends a signal across the league. If you're far apart on contract talks, if you're not showing up to the workouts, and part of this could also be the new administration being to their fans, look, we tried, we said we valued him, we said he wasn't available via trade, but we can't come to terms, I guess we're gonna have to trade him.

Speaker 2:
[36:24] I understand the skepticism for a variety of different reasons. What I'm simply saying to you is that people who have earned no trust cannot open the bidding by telling us, volunteering for no good reason, volunteering the information, well I shouldn't say for no good reason, because if they're volunteering the information, they have a reason. But they're telling their fan base, the one guy on offense that you've seen play football and make plays for you, the one guy, the one guy everyone in the league knows, oh that guy can be a little bit of a game breaker, and I haven't seen one of those very often in a dolphin uniform recently. That's the guy that they're gonna say is untouchable. To do what? Get the price higher.

Speaker 8:
[37:10] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[37:10] Come on guys.

Speaker 8:
[37:13] Are you gaslighting us? This is how this goes.

Speaker 2:
[37:15] No, the price isn't gonna be made higher by, look, the part I'm reacting to is this. The draft that happens on Thursday comes with all of these players going through a full day medical where every part of their body is tested. You think these people are so flipping with these trades that Adam Schefter's information is gonna move them off of what they already think or know?

Speaker 8:
[37:35] Here's what I would tell you. If they really sincerely valued them, the way that they're projecting to their fan base, which by the way is all PR spin, they wouldn't be far away on a contract.

Speaker 2:
[37:44] No, the running back position has changed so much in value that you could get Kenneth Walker for $48 million and I'm guessing that A-chan wants to be worth something like that.

Speaker 8:
[37:52] Yes, yes, and they don't want to pay him that. And he will be available if the price is right and that's what they're signaling.

Speaker 2:
[37:59] Guys, but what I'm telling you about A-chan and the running back market and just how diluted all of the currency has become in that, like A-chan is going to be far apart with anybody because they've made the position worth very little. Like A-chan now, with that team, has more value than he's ever had.

Speaker 9:
[38:20] It's really not that bad going to sleep watching the tablet. I watch whatever I want.

Speaker 8:
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