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Our attendance was pretty bad across the city, right? There were like 50 to 80 percent attendance.
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He getting ready to quit the show. I'm gonna be the host. You can relax, mama. You can stop. You got to hit a lick, Jules. I had to call my mama back six months later. You didn't quit yet, did you? That is a fairly accurate representation of What happened between me and my mom?
Yeah, I mean, it was never a sting as much as it was, all right, y'all don't know what y'all want to do. At some point, I'm not going to be working here anymore anyway. Like, that's the inevitability of all employment. So I will just leave now. And I mean, bro, I'm blessed, man. I got the Hulu special, CNN, we're back next month, and I'm in a movie with Keanu Reeves later this year.
I'll take that.
Look, there's a lot of levels. I just left Sundance last week. I was in Sundance skiing with all the stars.
No, no, heavens no. This is, it's a comedy. It's Keanu Reeves and Jonah Hill. It's called Outcome. All I can say about it right now, it'll be on Apple Plus. All I can say is that I play a character that is essentially, imagine if Deion Sanders was a civil rights lawyer. Why is that all you can say?
Because I don't know what the hell else I can say legally right now about a film that doesn't have a trailer yet, and I don't want to get in trouble with Apple. All right. It's a comedy. That's a good reason. I'm sorry. See, that's how people get edited out of movies, talking too much. I'm sorry. They got the AI. They'll take my ass right out and put in Anthony Anderson or something. No.
Then you got to call your mom again and say, yeah. Yeah, Joyce.
Yeah, but I think somehow equality in DE&I, they've equated to welfare or a handout instead of recognizing as people as qualified or more qualified than white applicants. Statistically, white women benefit the best and the most from DE&I. So I think it's gonna be on them to lead the charge to get that back on the books once they get all unemployed. I've been trying.
I think it's that. Also, I think, bro, there's going to be like a downturn on harassment suits and trying to prove discrimination in the workplace as well. Like, it's about to get weird. I have a broader question about DE&I as we start eliminating initiatives and programs. Do big and tall stores fall under DE&I? And should we get rid of them?
No, stop.
Here's the issue. I'm at that weird threshold. And Dan, I don't know where you are on your fitness journey right now, but I feel like you're like me, where... I'm almost too big for the department store, but I'm too skinny for big and tall. So I need a 4032.
I live in that purgatory. 3832, 4032, depending on the clothing designer, right? And there's almost always only one 4032. And then you go, can you check your other stores? Yeah, we got one five hours away, you kind of chubby bastard. So I either need to gain 20 pounds or lose 10.
And I want to know whether or not I can sue these department stores for not carrying enough 4032s, because I think it's discrimination against my people. If a woman can sue Lyft for not being able to get in the car, I should be able to sue a department store for not being able, you know.
Okay. Well, then I want her on stage with that other rapper that they keep wheeling out. What's his name? Dave Bluntz? Put it with him. Yeah, you know the one. I know. The guy, he sat the whole time. And he's a great rapper. He's so big that he stood during one of his raps and got a standing ovation. Just for standing. I'm not hating. I'm just saying I want in on this inequality lawsuit game too.
And I think big and tall is going to be my play.
So bad. I saw I read that script for that episode in season one, and I think it's a five page scene that I'm in. There's probably a page and a half of dialog that they hit once for the director. Then the director gives them the Steve and Martin short do your thing magic take.
and they did everything in that scene without the dialogue that was on the page and it somehow still fit the dialogue that i had to throw back at them and they improvised all types of extra stuff and they didn't add a second of tape to the take the level of perfect it'd be literally like if i told you to wrap a song as written and then i say now freestyle that same song hit all the choruses hit all the bridges at the exact same time but use whatever words you want and make sure the song still says the same thing
Definitely intimidating. Like they're straight up gods, bro. And they're like, okay, now you're in the scene and now talk about a cactus. and you're just praying you don't mess up, but they don't let you feel intimidated by them. They have a way of disarming. It's like Steve Martin, for sure.
He's aware of how great he is and how great you think he is, that he will just kind of disarm you in a scene. Overrated, why?
You know, most disrespect that I see is about business. It's about or it's about joke theft. Like if you look at Cat Williams and the grievances he had on Shannon Sharp, none of it was about I don't think you're funny. It was more technical business related stuff. You crossed me. You wronged me. You disrespected the game in some sort of way.
but just coming out and going somebody ain't funny that's not going to be enough for you to build your career for 20 years anybody can get five years and stand up regardless of your skill set you can get a five-year runway but then as your audience's taste evolves can you evolve with them will be the question and that's the true testament so you know we'll see roy jessica asked you about only murders in the building that's one where you're going in with these comedy icons
I think setting an example is probably the weirdest thing, you know, like, cause the scene I was in was with Hassan Johnson, who, you know, we know as Weebay from the wire and you know, he's a drama, you know, he does drama for the most part. So to be in a comedy with him was like, that was dope. But when I'm around younger comments, man, I'm just here to be a reservoir of advice.
I remember when I first moved to L.A., bro, in 06, I was in this acting class, and they have all the pictures of everybody who took the class before you, and Aisha Tyler was on there. And I sent her a disrespectfully long Facebook message, just, hey, give me the game. You black, I'm black, L.A., hello.
Man, thank you, brother. I do read them, especially the stuff on Reddit. It's two places in comments I respect, Reddit and YouTube, because those people got time. Like, it's not the quick Twitter nonsense. It's going to be a deep dive into why you suck. And somewhere in there might be a very justified critique. So I'm okay with that. Love it or hate it, it's out there.
Hulu gave me my money, the check cleared. I don't care.
Yeah, because it's just me. Nobody can give me notes on it or anything like that. And I mean, I just want it's weird. I didn't write the special to talk about loneliness. But the more I wrote, the more I realized all these jokes are just about we're alone, bro. We need to join a book club or a sex party. We need to connect again. And that's where the thoughts just started flowing from.
So I didn't really even deal, surprisingly, I didn't really get into politics. Like I had Kamala and Trump jokes when I first started out, but by the time it was time to tape in DC, I was like, eh, meh.
You know what part of it was to me is that something as simple as the rise of Uber Eats and not leaving your house to go get better food. Cause like delivery used to be what pizza sandwich wings. That was it. Now you can get a whole like conversation food. You can have delivered sushi. You take your ass out the house to go get that. Whole ass T-bone steak coming to your house.
I used to work, shout out to Steakout. It was a nineties establishment in the down South that delivered steaks, solely steaks to the rich side of town. Like that was such an elitist thing. Now anybody can have a damn ribeye at their crib. You supposed to go to the store, get bad service, have a conversation and bond with people.
And like, I just think, man, the death of retail was the death of communication.
yeah dude i just think like we think about retail bro retail was the last spot when you would talk with the stranger either that or if you showed up to the game early and there's somebody close to you in one of your seats where you're sitting Otherwise, when do you just voluntarily talk to people anymore? Well, it's impossible to know where people are going.
Jeremy is aggressive about meeting people.
When I used to work at Golden Corral, there were people like you who would come in and just eat alone just to talk to the server, which you could do back in 98. But now your server has eight tables and she's understaffed and somebody else's food is late. They don't have time to talk to us either. Like nobody in our action anymore. Bro, the strippers don't even talk to you anymore.
They used to, like, come over and be like, why are you here, sir?
Um, there's one joke I flubbed, but other than that, yeah, I set out what I meant to do. Hey, we're lonely. Here's why we're lonely. Here's solutions to the loneliness. Here's where I'm lonely. Good night. Those were the three beats of the special, because I don't think you can get out there without talking about your own stuff a little bit. I think that's disingenuous in a way.
You know, I deal with that a little bit. Like, I joked about it, but I did get invited to a sex party by two porn stars, and I didn't go. And then my mother told me all they were trying to do was connect with you. Like, in what world does your Christian mother have to point out the fact that you rejected connection? Essentially is what I did.
Say what you want about weird stuff, but at least those people found their tribe.
It won't be now, bro. It'll be, I mean, it'll be like three years from now. Some stand-up that I respect and look up to, it'll just be, you did your thing with the flower shit. And then they'll just walk off. Like, it'll be the quickest, shortest interaction, and it will mean the absolute world to me, bro. Absolute.
Chris Rock complimented me one time on a Daily Show segment. And it was something I'd done like two years prior. So the fact that that was like still sitting in his mind and he was like, well, first off, why are you at home watching the Daily Show? Chris Rock, don't you have stuff to do? And I guess the answer is no. So... Sinbad watches a lot of comedy still. Sinbad knew who I was.
I met him at a Netflix party. And, like, that's one of the guys that I looked up to. It was Sinbad, Carlin, Chris Rock and Martin Lawrence, you know, when I started. And so that was really, really dope.
i did i did a thing on daily show man this might have been year two day you might remember this you remember when i did the we took the black trump um i wore a trump wig and the basic theory was that you could take any trump line and it sounds like a rap song and we took a series of trump quotes and created a full rap song comprised of nothing but actual donald trump quotes i shot a music video for it
And Martin Lawrence retweeted it. And then like then on Facebook typed the whole paragraph about why this is good and what like really broke down. This takes me back to when I was. And I was just like, wow, like that. Those those stand out like legit. I think that black Trump shit, I think it's still somewhere on YouTube or wherever. But I remember that one being one that.
that really make me feel good. I mean, the magazines are cool. I mean, they're going to rip you one day. They're going to like you the next. But when you get the respect of your peers and your people, you go see Chappelle at the stand, and he sees you in the room and goes, hey, man, go get on stage, please. That's more of a review and an assessment of your career and your worth within your craft.
You know what I'm saying? Like that to me, that will always mean more.
If Chappelle says get on this show where they're here to see me, what's higher than that? I think you're good enough that I will put you on stage in front of my audience. Like no comic is going to put on somebody who's going to lay a turd on the stage. So for me, that's the highest compliment that could be paid to a comedian.
Every prank call I've ever done. On the radio? Yeah, well, you know, for the people who don't know, I did mornings for a decade, probably amassed two, three, 400 prank phone calls over that time. I put out three CDs and then people were bootlegging me to death. Like, remember going viral over email? Like, back in the day, kids.
When you liked something, you emailed it to your friend, and then they downloaded it. They downloaded a random file from a stranger. And so, like, my pranks have found a second life on TikTok now with all the young kids who found the bootlegs on YouTube. And I don't hate on it.
Yeah, but it's also, I was 20 when I was doing those, 46. So people like will find them on TikTok. Hey man, you should do those again. I was cussing out black people. And like, there was a lady I called one time, she was in the, literally in the hospital attached to an EKG and I didn't hang up with her. We kept arguing. She could have died, bro. And so pranks are a young man's game.
And I'm happy that people have found that part of my career. But that is the past. I'll never go back to it. I'll never do another prank. I think I did an episode of Crank Anchors 10 years ago. Even that felt weird. Put it on. I just. But I love that the kids have found it and laugh at it. There's young TikTokers that have reached out to me. Is it okay if I post it? Yeah, post it.
I'm not going to copyright strike you. Monetize it. If you can figure out a way to get money off a joke I told 25 years ago, so be it. That's how I give back for all the bootlegging I did.
Let's see. Every child's dream is to retire their parents. You ain't got to do this no more, mama. I got you. Not realizing that we're creating a disconnect for our parents. But I saw you work. I saw you bust your ass for five, six decades. And it's thankless. It's education. You ain't gonna make bank on it. So relax. You've done your best. Relax. I just talked to Trevor Noah.
Do you know this one friend who just comes out of bed in the morning and then doesn't come out of his grin? Who is even in front of the first coffee, shamelessly well-groomed, and radiates the morning sun around the bed? Terrible. Disgusting. How can you just...
What about that other joke?
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We've got a penalty. Five minutes. Major asshole. Jeremy, right? Jeremy. Get out of me.
Jeremy's privilege.
Well, it's yes, blindly. But in this case, Dan, to assist you here, in this case, it was not only blindly where it just happened at a happenstance or like a matter of a second. This was prolonged blindness of I'm going to chase this guy in his car for 11 miles while I shoot.
several shots out of a .40 caliber handgun into the car that also has his mom and his stepfather and the stepfather eventually getting struck with non-life-threatening shots. But that's where the attempted murder comes in. That's where all of these firearm charges and whatnot comes in.
But the issue is, and how to tie everything together, is the man who was accused of molesting his son, the parents who were in the car owned a daycare that the son went to. And that's kind of the connection point where they were all in the car. He went out there and tried to, again, avenge his son for what had happened. And the prolonged nature of 11 miles. Right.
And we're talking about, I believe, in California, that's probably through traffic. That's a very long stretch of road.
It's really hard, especially if you get the jury pool of parents, to come back and be like, yeah, he was in the wrong there. By the law, yes, in the wrong. But there's got to be some sort of nuance to exactly what's going on where the matter of, again, I don't know the legalities of what happened on the other side, right, with the guy who was actually molesting his son.
Right, correct.
Right, so I don't know what the situation is with that as far as how long he's going to go to prison for. But if the guy whose son got molested and then acted in that way gets more prison time than the guy that molested the guy's son, there's some issues there.
The judge was incredibly lenient, too. He got time served the five years, but also time served on the back end because he was incarcerated for a majority of the last couple of years. But the judge even said it like this is a guy who did something that I think every parent would do. So the judge was very lenient.
Absolutely. And here's his quote. What I did was not correct, Velasquez says. I understand that. I paid. I'll pay whatever as far as I have to do with I'll pay it all back. I don't think I can pay it back, but I can always learn from my mistakes and help others. It's just information that you never know anybody. Trust your kids. Have that open communication with them.
But the way I handled things was not the way to do it. We cannot pull the law into our own hands.
No, he's not.
You want to go eyes up in here? Classic Dan.
So it was a real artist then.
There you go. I don't understand. Why did this reporter not see a camera crew around you guys with microphones on you?
Do they put out a retraction or a comment on this?
That was bad. You recognized Akbar. I mean, it was a bad thing for everyone involved, right? That no one here who's of note was recognized and that journalism is clearly very, very dead.
I was the only one here.
By the way, comparing this to Kobe versus Shaq is the most insane thing that's happened this entire segment. You're welcome.
Should we get Akbar? Is this where we're at? Can we call it? Should we call it Akbar? Like we're celebrating getting to 10 games under 500. Like this is where we're at gloating. I'm ashamed. I'm ashamed of my fellow fans. It's a fun night.
If it happens behind a paywall at the Sun Sentinel, did it happen?
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What's an 80-year-old going to do, punch him? This is a ridiculous scenario in which neither person is actually going to fight the other. I'd love to see them fight. I really would.
This is tough guy bullshit that they're both going back and forth. I'll fight him. I'll fight him. And neither one of them wants to actually fight the other.
I would love for... Jeremy, please. I would love for everyone to just kind of stop being the guy that holds the other one back, and everyone just would be like, you know what, guys, go. Let's resolve this exactly how you guys want to, and see what happens there. Because neither one of them would actually fight the other one. Let them fight. See how it goes.
Because neither one of them will hit the other one.
I was fist pumping my own interview skills. He said this was better than my wedding day, he said to us. Yeah, we all believe that, Jeremy.
No, they're not.
They're not taking the low road. But, like, when he puts out a tweet of Andrew Wiggins saying hi to all of his teammates and then puts something along the lines in the caption of, great to see a former player go and make up with his coach and teammates. Like, come on. You're not trying to take the high road.
That's all I brought, or else I would. If I had my snakes, I'd volunteer to do it right now.
Have a cardiologist running in step with me.
I have an athletic bone in my body.
Das ist richtig, nur einer. Das ist lustig, Will. Zum Beispiel, als Tony gesprochen hat, hatte ich einen silken J. Ich bin sicher, dass du das gemacht hast. Ich konnte einen Jumpshot machen. Back in the day when I played a lot of hoops. So I could go on a court right now and I wouldn't be as good. I'm more of a set shot now than a jump shot. That day was the 1920s.
Put me on a court right now and I will out Amin in terms of my form, my style.
Das stimmt.
All I'm saying is that if you watch me take a jump shot, after a little bit of a warm-up, in fairness, after you watch me take a jump shot, you nod like a bobblehead and you say to yourself, that's a guy who's played. Back in the day, when he was younger, that's a guy who would not be the last draft pick in a pick-up game.
So you got my email.
The Corn King. Oh boy. Works on several levels.
Ich denke auch, dass es für die NBA besser ist, wenn die Lakers und die Warriors wirklich gut sind, anstatt in Minnesota und Denver.
Yeah, but if you're the baseball commissioner, would you rather have the Yankees be really good or Seattle?
Woah, shots fired! That is the best way to make popcorn. Old-timey skillets, who does that? I haven't used a skillet for popcorn since my dorm room at FAU in 1978. Jiffy Pop.
Greg Cody sagt, dass die NIT für Verlierer ist. Yes, all of the non-NCAA tournament things are, you know, the basketball invitational tournament. There's a new one, the women's BIT, I think it's called. Look, if you're throwing a parade to celebrate winning the NIT championship, there's no bigger loser in sports than that. There's 68 teams. If you're not one of the 68 teams,
Nehmt eure Sneakers weg. Nehmt die Off-Season ab. Ihr müsst nicht weiter spielen, nur um zu sagen, dass ihr spielt. Ich liebe es, wenn du über all diese Teams redest, die die NIT verändern, weil was ist der Punkt? Du liebst das. Das ist eine seltsame Sache zu lieben. Nein, das glaube ich. Ich glaube, das ist richtig. You gotta draw the line somewhere.
You see all these sub-500 teams getting in the playoffs in the postseason. For what? Draw the line somewhere. Not everybody needs a medal after the season.
I'm just saying I fully understand why teams... die aus dem NCAA-Tournament verlassen werden, ihre Ehrlichkeit haben und die niedrigeren NITs verlassen.
You could bring that back. Tyreek Hill's watching that going, I want that. Bring it back. That's what I was saying.
You can bring that back. Say the thing. I like to be inconsistent.
Du hast eine 6-Minuten-Mile, übrigens. Mit ein bisschen Training könnte ich das machen.
I do like the concept of baked popcorn. That would be interesting to try.
I am. Laron Yeager with the dunk.
So gut.
Yeah, back when I did a blog for the Miami Herald, I had an annual Haiku challenge. And it would get 40 or 50 entries, usually the same people entering 20 times, two guys entering 20 times each. But some of them were pretty fun. Es ist eigentlich ein guter Herausforderung, weil ich denke, es ist die Form der Poesie, die dich, offensichtlich, am wichtigsten ist. Und du rymst, ist Rhyming wichtig?
Du weißt, Leute kommen in einen Haiku aus verschiedenen Angaben, also genieße ich es.
Oh, I think he's only going to give you that one. Okay, what is, in brevity though, nothing beats the haiku, right? Like I know Muhammad Ali, back when he was still Cassius Clay, I think, famously had a two-word poem, which was, me, we. So that's probably the shortest poem on record. Efficient, yeah.
Ich habe Popcorn in einem Schokolade gemacht. Okay, es ist nicht unmöglich. Was du tust, ist, dass du den Schokolade mit Tintenfleisch öffnest. Und dann einen Schlauch in den Tintenfroren, um es auszulösen.
Weil es arbeitsintensiv ist. Willst du nicht gewinnen? Ich will gewinnen. Aber die Methodologie ist nicht wichtig. Was wichtig ist, ist der Art von Popcorn, den du benutzt hast. Und ich benutze den Cadillac. Und dann die Inhalte. Und, weißt du, um sicher zu sein, dass du den Popcorn nicht brennst. Was du in einem Mikrowellen tun kannst, wenn es zehn Sekunden zu lang ist.
Today I want you to call me Greg Corny. That's going to be my name.
Der Punkt ist, es ist wie zu viel Arbeit, um nichts zurückzuholen. Weißt du, was ich meine? Ich kann meine Wand mit einer kleinen, 1-Inch-weiten Maschine malen, wenn ich will, aber ich würde lieber einen Roller benutzen und es effizienter und schneller machen. Wir sind hier nicht in einer Runde. Ich meine, es dauert länger, um dein Popcorn zu machen, und es bringt dir keine Punkte.
Ja, jemand hat ihm das gesagt und er hat es geglaubt.
Thank you.
I disagree. I disagree. I think of all of those events. Die 6-Minute-Mile und ich glaube es war die 6.06. Ich brauche diese 6 Sekunden. Ich glaube das klingt so wie die am meisten nützlichsten.
Dan, I saw the start of the game, and then my kids started crying, and then I didn't watch.
Let me explain it to Danny. So Danny, I was on the block and I was waiting for a pick and pop. Guy goes to pick. My thumb gets caught in his shirt, yanks it back. I had already had 20 at that point. Okay, he was hot. Come on, I was hot. I had already hit like four or five threes. I came out of the game, had to tape myself up real quick. But guess what?
Second half started, I came back in, had another 10, 15.
Landed on his wrist wrong, yeah.
I like how Roy gives analytical advice and I give you vibes advice, right? So Houston Rockets, game two. In Houston, they can't shoot as bad as they did last game. They can't? Dan, they can't shoot as bad as they did last game. Okay, Jalen Green's not going to play that bad. Fred VanVleet's not going to play that bad. The Rockets, they're going to come out with their hair on fire. All right.
Well, that seems to be hard to play that way. It's going to be hard to play, but they are going to play that way. Only minus three at home. Okay, against an older in the tooth, longer in the tooth. Can you say older in the tooth, or how does that work? I knew what you meant. Longer in the tooth. Longer in the tooth. They have old teeth, too.
But the Golden State Warriors, are they going to be able to compete with the Rockets with the pace that they want to come out with? I don't think so. I'm going to take Houston minus three. Against the Spurs. Against the Spurs.
I'm not proud, but I just have never wanted to take pride in that particular body part.
I don't know what they look like.
We don't want to get too personal.
I don't know how to answer that question. I have beautiful feet. I used to be a foot model. You don't have beautiful feet.
Okay, it's the truth. I happen to be proud of it.
I used to be. What year? In college age. Greg. You know. What were you doing as a foot model? I was in a couple of magazine ads. The before? Yeah. Sandals were big back then. I remember doing an ad for a sandal. You could ask my wife that. I'm not making anything. Everybody thinks I make stuff up. I say I was in a major motion picture. I didn't make that up.
It wasn't playing when I walked in, but I like Pearl Jam. I love Eddie Vedder. I respect them. And like I say, it has to fit the mood. If we're talking about the Panthers coming off a big win, that's a song that fits the mood.
No, I like that. We need somebody to set the vibe in here. I would love a song or music that is anti-vibe. You know, just once in my life I want to walk into a clubhouse, a sports clubhouse, and hear Adele, for example. You know, just something that isn't stereotypical. Hello?
There's enough heavy metal and hard rock to last the entire playoffs. We don't want to have to worry about running out of that. But I agree with Mike. It's going to go seven games. Tampa might win the next game 6-2. I totally reject the idea that it's the Panthers who made the statement last night. They're the reigning champion. It's the other team that has to make the statement.
When you won the championship. Yes, that's exactly right. And when I say the onus was on Tampa Bay to make that statement, Tampa, it was home. They scored the most goals this season. It was on them to say, hey, you're coming into our house now, champions. Watch who's better tonight. And they fell flat. That was excellent trash talk by you.
They fell flat. But it doesn't mean that the series is going to be like this. It ain't.
Yeah, well, you're too old to say that. I can still get away with it because I've got the street cred.
I think it was $75 or something. Really?
Well, this week in particular, because NFL Draft, which isn't happening a week from now, Heat playoffs, which probably won't be still happening a week from now, that could be a sweep. But Panthers are in for a long run. Okay, so it's Hell Week now because I'm juggling three things. Having said that,
Well, I mean, you know, there's a magazine ad or a newspaper ad or something. You know, you go, they shoot your foot for one hour and they give you a bunch of money. And it would seem like a bunch of money at the time. And then you go away and you forget about it for 40 years. But elbows, I just never think of my elbow, never look at my elbow, never consider my elbow.
It's also a delightful week because my favorite thing in life is to be able to bitch and moan and complain about things that I love, right? So that's what I can do this week only, okay? The journalist in me can say, wow, I am so blessed to be living in this city where there's so much going on. I have one great team in the playoffs, one lucky to be there. NFL draft, Dolphins draft in 13th.
Who are they going to pick?
Cam Ward, absolutely luckiest man on earth, Cam Ward. But I also like to complain about it because I'm too old to do this shit. You know, that's part of me. So I love both sides.
I was about to say, oh, by the way, we have the most famous athlete in the world leading Inter-Miami into the semifinals of what would be their biggest trophy. So what a wonderful time, to Mike's point. It's just terrific. But I can complain because I'm working too hard, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But I love it, sort of. Be glad when it's over.
What delineates between a great looking elbow and a below average looking elbow? I have no idea.
I don't consider it to be a rivalry. I mean, you know, I don't know. Is he still wearing backward caps? I haven't kept track of him.
Okay, he's still doing that?
Not a big fan of middle-aged men wearing backward caps. But I love Zaslow. Yeah, he's great. Do you love Zaslow? Do you? No, I mean, I respect his place in this market. Been down here a long time, leaning into a mic, longer than I have.
Well, I mean. He doesn't love him. No, I don't because I don't know him that well. You know, I know him casually. Why'd you say you love him then? Eh, you know, I'm a nice person.
Look, Zaslow can mock me all the way. I don't care if behind my back he gives you a snarky call about a column I've just written that he didn't like. Could care less. It's a grain of sand on the beachhead that is me.
I will say this. If you're looking at me saying, yeah, I'm a journalist, while you're wearing a Panthers jersey, it doesn't necessarily fly.
No, you're right. It's a gray area now where it didn't used to be. You are absolutely a Canes insider. Zaslow may be an expert on the Panthers. I'm just saying, if you tout your expertise while wearing a Panthers jersey, what you are is not impartial. That's what you are. And you don't respect that. I respect it less from a journalism standpoint.
Edward R. Murrow was the mentor of Walter Cronkite, my son.
But here again, getting back to what we were talking about a minute ago, if he's going on there for the express purpose of cheerleading the Miami Hurricanes, yet you just refer to him as a journalist?
So a journalist, by however you define journalist... Kevin Clark is a journalist. Okay, so he's allowed to just blatantly... cheerlead for Miami.
Okay, it's one thing, though, for Wilbon to be a Chicagoan who's a Bulls fan, okay? I grew up a Dolphins fan, but today, in my journalism clothes, I don't cheerlead the Dolphins. I try to be fair.
I agree with you. And to Mike's point, what he said earlier, I don't think I cheerlead any team. I don't think I'm a homer for the Dolphins or any team, but I root for my community. I write for readers, not for teams. Is it better for me? Is it better for business? Do my columns read more when I'm writing about a great team on a great run? Yes.
Okay, would I mind the Panthers being back in the Stanley Cup final? Hell no. And a lot of it segues into performance art as well, particularly on my podcast and on this show. When I write and then say and then make a whole big point of McDavid is overrated, okay, Am I for real? Am I serious about that? Or am I just joking? Is that performance art? I like the idea that people aren't quite sure.
Now, me saying McDavid is overrated in the middle of all that probably came off as me being a Panthers homer. I live with that. I'm not banging a drum at a game.
Well, it's not all about nobility, though. It's about fun, too, especially with me, more than I dare say most columnists.
Well, if Marv Levy and Don Shula were still alive, the reference would have been there are no Lawrence Oliviers in this draft. So we have moved forward on that. Progress. But it's a terrible draft for quarterbacks. I've been saying that, and I sound like a curmudgeon. I sound like I'm anti-Cam Ward. But he'd be the fourth or fifth best guy if it was a year ago.
He's the luckiest man on earth right now.
This year's is not good. We had Field Yates. Maybe this one's average in last year's was great. We had Field Yates on our podcast, The Greg Cody Show, and he talked a lot about the draft and the quarterback, and he totally agrees with me. Shador Sanders will be lucky to go ninth to New Orleans. After that, he could really, really tumble in the first round. I hate anonymous quotes.
As someone who's in journalism and occasionally has used an anonymous quote, I really, really hate them because the reader has every... a bit of entitlement to think, is that a made-up quote? Is he just making that shit up? Because it's possible to do that, you know, in journalism. So if you're anonymously quoting somebody, I take it with a grain of salt.
They did it last year. But to your point... I think if Tampa wins game two, six to two, nobody's surprised. At least I'm not. If this series goes seven games, nobody's surprised. These games are close, Greg.
But I would not put too much emphasis on the fact that they won game one easily, because I think it's going to be... Okay, but can I do this though, please?
What a pass from Sam Iskevich. Oh my God. How do you do that? A waist-high pass and he's using his stick to put it in. That's unbelievable.
I don't care what my elbows look like. I've never raised them and looked at them in the mirror. I think I've got handsome elbows, but who cares about what an elbow looks like?
But this is not a flash in the pan. The Panthers have been really good for four years. This qualifies now as sustained excellence. They have a great GM, a great coach, elite players. But to the point I made earlier about this probably going to be a seven-game series, Tampa Bay is really, really good. They led the NHL in goal scoring. They led the Eastern Conference in giving up the fewest goals.
Their goals differential was the best in the league by a lot. This is a really good team. Last night, to me, showed the impact of Matthew Kachuk. You can say that the heart of this team is Alexander Barkov. Say whatever you want. The heart of this team is Matthew Kachuk. He's the spirit. He's the spark. And, man, did that show us.
What the hell was that, Greg? Yeah, no. I love it. Stugatz. Roy, let me explain it to you. You know more about hockey than I do. And this is coming from a guy that's watched Connor play six times. Right. If that.
No, he's a talkative guy and he asks you direct questions when you're incapable of answering.
Did he ever take you to see his Hall of Fame? Oh, boy.
No, I mean the one underneath, the one downstairs.
Because, wait, he showed me an office.
No, his office was on the second floor of a building. On the first floor, in what I think used to be a garage, he had transformed it into his own personal hall of fame. Actually, an interesting guy. He played handball all his life. He was a very accomplished handball player. I get why this is your dentist.
Yeah, and he was an original fan of the NBA when it was invented in 1946 or whatever that was. So he had all these kind of signed Bob Cousy basketballs. Oh, wow. All kind of stuff. He's an interesting dude. He just retired for a few years ago. So what happens to the hall?
No, I want calloused hands. Really? Yeah. Hands that have lived.
Muscular, calloused hands.
He's pulling teeth. He's not writing a memoir or painting a Renoir.
Right. What's so weird about that?
I mean, look, iguanas are all over the place in South Florida. We got iguanas out the ass.
And so some of the iguanas are small.
They look like lizards almost. Right.
This was an iguana that looked like a dinosaur. It looked like a dinosaur.
Right. Tail, it was about, I would say, four to five feet.
Almost like a human's wingspan.
Small human. Well, I picked up a golf club in old Persimmons Wood that Paul Frankie had given me.
He bequeathed me his clubs. We played golf a couple of times. And, you know, like a lot of people in their 90s, he hit it straight but only about 50 yards. That was a good drive.
My wife and Barbara are lifelong friends.
I don't have any perspective on... Just look at the thing, man.
You know that's a giant one.
I think that was a little bigger than mine. Barbara Frankie? I don't have the perspective. Yeah, that looks a little bigger than mine.
She's still kicking it. Still with us?
Yeah, I'll tell you how... You're a golfer, so you would know what I'm talking about.
This is a long time ago, right, when drivers were really small? Yeah. The Persimmons Wood driver that I chased the iguana with, the head of the driver... Was about that big. Wow.
I prodded the iguana. I would never club an iguana.
Okay, that's my iguana. It's not even that big. It's big.
Nah, how would you know that?
It's a good guess. You can't trample that.
I'm not going to. It's already an invasion of their privacy.
Stephen A. is right about that. And another point I would make is the three-point contest used to be interesting when everybody wasn't making 10 three-points a game. Correct.
That was a novelty. That was interesting.
It's time for Against the Spread.
I know, but he's not in the worst neighborhood imaginable.
Imagine if they lost. What kind of mood would that be?
What are you going to throw a beer for? It's like liquid gold.
Did you catch it and drink it at 10 or no?
Ich stimme dir vollkommen zu.
Ich denke, dass es eine Linie bremst, wenn du Garbage nimmst.
Die Linie ist, wenn du eine Nix-Fan bist, sprich es, sprich es, was auch immer du emotional hast. Wir werden dich in der nächsten Runde kicken, was auch immer. Warum bist du hier? Was auch immer. Aber um einen Garbage-Bag zu holen und den Mann in den Kopf zu schießen, ist für mich eine Linie von Zivilität.
I agree with that, right? But he deserved to have garbage thrown at him. That's all I'm asking.
Dann lebertad. That's right. Until I say it, it hasn't been said. Okay, understand that.
I wanted a one-up Zaslow. Journalisten, die berichtet haben, dass der Heat in Yanis interessiert werden könnte. Das war ein so großartiger Bericht von ihm, dass ich ihn aufgeben wollte.
I appreciate that political analysis.
That's fair. But today happened. Yeah, making my prediction.
Have I predicted that there's going to be sunrise tomorrow? Not yet. I'm not prepared to say that.
My sources are supposed to call me back. Keep us posted. I said, looking at my watch, it doesn't exist.
Ja, ich dachte, Maurice sollte das protestieren.
And by the way, Carolina has lost 13 Conference Finals games in a row, dating back years and years, including the sweep by Florida two years ago.
Brenda Moore, come on.
Ich glaube nicht, dass sie das andere Niveau haben.
I think the Panthers team that won the championship last year is better right now. And we saw it again last night with Greer and some others.
Und Florida hat 17 Spieler in der Post-Saison gespielt. Sieben verschiedene Verteidiger. Ihre Tore kommen von überall. Marshawns Linie war die beste Linie in den Playoffs für die Panthers. Die vierte Linie schießt.
Aber Gewalt führt zu Ihrem Punkt. Gewalt führt die unmittelbare Gespräche.
What? Get out of here.
Well, this is his coming-out party for me. You know, if he gets to the final, and OKC is a big favorite, right? I mean, they should be. Yeah.
But I feel like all of the white Rodneys call themselves Rod.
Ja, und ich komme auf... Ich habe mich gerade an dieser Final Four gefreut, weil es LeBron und Golden State und all das nicht braucht, aber in Boston. Aber ich komme auf OKC und die Knicks als eine ziemlich sexy Wettbewerbsrunde.
Yeah, and if you, not to look ahead, but if you get the championship matchup that I want, it's a great contrast. The storied Knicks who haven't won in a half a century against an OKC team that is super young and could be around for years. It's just like a great matchup.
So you're saying that free throw, drawing a free throw has become sort of a lost art that OKC is bringing back because the three ball killed the art of drawing a foul.
Wenn OKC und die Knicks und die Thunder gewinnen, hat die SGA nicht eine Begründung für den neuen Gesicht der Liga?
And so that justifies throwing garbage bags at him? He got off easy.
Don't go around there. I'm blessed to say I can't think of an example.
You're 70 years old. Boy lives in plantation.
Das war eine schlechte Frage.
I really hated how to be San Diego State. Such a scrappy, underdog program. They do everything the right way. But what we had to do was put their head on a stake and remind everybody who North Carolina is. And that's exactly what we did. We're on to Ole Miss.
On to Ole Miss.
I'm back in on him. Yes.
Societal shift. You have to. Societal shift.
Er hostet die SNL nächste Woche, also das ist ein seltsamer Zeitpunkt, um das zu tun.
Cuervo. Anytime someone says Cuervo, I show up.
Cuervo.
It would be, but I'm doing too much stuff right now. Leave Roy alone. You wanted the Rodney there, didn't you?
Do you have the sound? I do, it's 52 seconds. Alright, we'll do it at the end.
Dan, it's his list and it's Black History Month.
So, you know what? Stop talking shit.
But he's doing a good job. Yeah, a great job.
I thought MJ was a good call, actually.
Yes, they were raising this banner before an Illinois basketball game this weekend. And when they unveiled it, realized, oopsies, we hung it upside down. And everyone was really sad. And now, like you said, they've leaned into it. So happy ending, I suppose, but genuinely very funny to see.
We have the athletic director from Illinois talking about it here.
No, this was before they leaned into it. But I was going to ask you, Dan, is it an apology if you say, obviously, I didn't raise the banner, but it's my fault? Like, he's throwing someone under the bus there, and they know who they are.
As if anyone thought the athletic director was the one who put the little hooks on it.
Yeah.
I wasn't sure how to answer that. Thank you for having me.
He also played at Illinois for two seasons because he transferred from Texas Tech at I even saw an interview where he was like, I'm surprised. But that's cool. What are they doing?
No, we talk about Illinois basketball all the time on this show. It's like one of our main beats. We get complaints all the time.
Men's college hoops. I mean, we spend a lot of time on it.
I was watching Kevin Hart take pictures with women much taller than him, which we also need to talk about. But we could start with the hockey.
Like a protest.
I didn't like that either, Billy. They should have done it on Saturday for tradition's sake. I know it was like a four-day thing.
But it was a Sunday that felt like a Saturday because we had Monday off.
Apparently they aired the first ever SNL episode on Saturday.
But the thing that SNL has that a lot of, like, the TikTok comedians don't have is the A-list celebrities, which is why I think they leaned all the way into making the entire show. Just, like, look at all of these famous people that have played a role in what our show's been for the last 50 years.
Like, the entire audience was all, like, Kevin Costner sitting next to, like, Bad Bunny sitting next to Adam Driver next to Julie Louis-Dreyfus.
He's got weird vibes.
I liked most the montage of all of the fake advertisements, like the fake commercials for the fake, like the mom jeans, like all of those, and that super colon blow. That was a funny bit. And then they also did a bit at the end where they did an in memoriam for all of the characters and sketches over the years that are...
not uh questionable makeup like child molestation problematic and they went category by category and i think that was like a funny way to laugh at themselves for some of the questionable things that they've done and they also blurred out every actor who was in blackface or brownface in that entire that's smart yeah i like what they did there um chappelle show key and peel um
Er war wahrscheinlich nicht da für das Rennen. Er hätte da für etwas anderes gewesen, oder? Nein. No, you went out for the race?
Ich glaube, er war letztes Jahr da und dann gab es Wetterverlust und das war wie ein Make-up-Date für Pitbull.
The World Center of Racing in Daytona, Ich bin so glücklich, dass Billy da war, weil ich weiß, dass er ein Gearhead ist. Es ist nicht sein erster Daytona, er ist in Homestead gewesen. Ich bin mehr Daytona 500s als Superbowls.
Weil du weißt, es ist Pitbull. Und wir müssen darüber sprechen, was ein professioneller Pitbull ist. Er hätte sehr einfach gesagt, ich mache das nicht. In der Tat ist er nicht mehr mit Trackhouse Racing, aber er ist ein Profi. Auch wenn Mutter Natur letztes Jahr auf den Weg ging, wie er berühmt hat, sie können nicht, sie werden nicht, sie werden nie stoppen.
Schaut mal, wie viele Leute Pippel gerade beteiligt hat.
Whoa, whoa, wait, wait a second.
Impossible. I was told in my NASCAR group chat, which Billy, if you want in, let me know, that Billy had the best interview with Joey Logano anyone's ever seen.
Look at the access that fans have in a NASCAR race. You tried doing that at Formula 1. Es ist wirklich verrückt. Jeder weiß, dass es aufgeräumt ist. Das ist wie Minuten bevor das Rennen anfängt. Minuten bevor der Präsident Zugang zu der Speedway hat.
Du schreibst deinen Namen auf der Schlusslinie.
Wir sind bereit, denn wir senden euch nach Talladega.
Das ist nicht true.
You guys really had private access. This is the biggest crew anyone's ever had for an event. Yeah. This is amazing content. Where's the Logano interview?
I'm being told the Logano interview is a YouTube exclusive. I'm just gonna watch that on YouTube. Thanks. Tast like Miller time! Bis zum nächsten Mal.
Ein paar Jahre her, unter Chip Kelly, gab es einen Moment.
Logano hat eigentlich eine glückliche Medienkarriere. Ich weiß nicht, wie gut er Billy interviewen wird.
Lugano ist der Kup-Series-Champion, reiner Kup-Series-Champion, kontroversialer Kup-Series-Champion von letztem Jahr, aber ich denke, von dem, was ich gehört habe, war Billy ein bisschen verwirrt, was für ein Champion er war. Ich hatte diese Information gerade vor. Er war so, hey, denkst du, du wirst hier zurückgehen? Und er war so, was meinst du, hier? Er war so, ja, zurückgehen, hier.
Wir gehen nicht da hin.
Er hat die Daytona 500 nicht gewonnen. Das war es.
Oh, the Ryan Priest thing? Did you guys see that? I don't know if we have that. I'll give videos some time. But either way, these next-gen cars, you'll see sometimes when they're getting real close to one another, the flaps will go up. And that's to keep these cars grounded. Es ist ein Problem bei NASCAR, besonders bei Super Speedways, weil sie so schnell reisen. Die Fahrzeuge fliegen in die Luft.
Es gab wirklich unheimliche Rettungen bei der Daytona 500. Sie gingen in die Grenzen, verletzten die Leben der Leute und die Gruppe in Gefahr. Also will jeder diese Fahrzeuge auf dem Boden halten. Der Brian Priest hatte letztes Jahr eine unheimliche Rettung, in der die Daytona ein paar Gras auf dem Infield-Bereich zerstört hat und sie auf dem Infield-Bereich zerstört hat.
weil das Gras auch die Fahrt überflüssig gemacht hat. Aber hier ist Ryan Preece, der 60er-Fahrer. Er fließt überflüssig für das zweite Jahr in Daytona. Und es war horrifisch, live zu sehen. Es ist unglaublich, dass diese Jungs einfach aufstehen und...
Wenn du dir das ausdrücken kannst, was vor 24 Jahren mit Dale Earnhardt passiert ist, was eher unheimlich aussieht als das, und wir haben Dale verloren, das ist einfach verrückt.
No, typically if a van pulls up next to me, I try to avoid it. Yeah.
Who's the leadership in the city?
I mean, he is the son of Bill Elliot.
Awesome Bill from Dawson Bill.
Howdy folks, it's Mike Ryan. I talk to you about Miller time all the time, but we're in the winter time right now and one of my favorite pastimes is to crack open a Miller light and enjoy myself some Miller time during the winter time because when there's a brisk chill in the air, it just makes everything right.
My friends and I who live down here in South Florida can actually sit outside because it's not super muggy. We can thoroughly enjoy our Miller time together. And for you listening, I know there's a lot of things going on right now. Sports, Tast like Miller time! Bis zum nächsten Mal.
Ich denke, Kenny Chesney. Das ist meistens die Wortsammlung, die ich mache. Riley Cooper, Kenny Chesney. Ich verabschiede ihn nur mit dieser Sache. Er war ein Teil von dem ganzen Gators-Team, was wirklich lustig ist im Hintergrund.
Almost made the playoffs.
Now is a good time to remember where Tequila's story truly began. In 1795, Cuervo invented Tequila. Cuervo. What are you doing here?
Und dann war es das eine Mal, wo er im Trainingcamp war und er sagte, ich fühle mich nicht mehr so gut, Tom Brady, Bill Belichick.
We've covered this a couple of times, but I thought you were going to kill it in New England. You patterned your game after Wes Welker and you're the quickest man alive. And I'd seen you in Cleveland. I'm like, finally, the world's going to learn how good Andrew Hawkins is going to be. He's going to become a superstar in New England. Was it just not going that way in camp?
Did you not feel the same? Because I kind of felt like it was going to work out.
Er ist noch nicht jemand, den du lieben würdest.
Totaler Respekt.
Well, it's much, much better now. We have gone from two toys to about, what seems to be about 15 right now. So we have gained some traction on the toy drive, or the Roy drive, as you like to call it.
This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugatz Podcast.
Well, please come tomorrow as we continue the toy drive. I heard that Billy might be the one in the Santa costume.
Thank you for all your good work out there. Appreciate your efforts. I heard wrong.
What, Billy's not showing up? Thank you. I don't know.
You never know.
This is the Don Levitard Show with the Stugatz. Stugatz.
It makes a lot of sense, Dan, and I appreciate you using my name in that. Okay. That's very smart.
Yeah, you're absolutely right. And the one thing that you pointed out is they never really signed players to long term extensions. And that's what they're doing now. They have built a core. And I said maybe three or four years ago that this team will actually win a cup in the next five years. I got laughed out of the studio and they managed to make two cup runs.
So to see this team be this successful right now. Yeah, I think that this community can actually build around this team and become bigger fans than obviously the Marlins and right now maybe even the Dolphins.
Ho, ho, ho, mofos. Everything is all right right now. Just waiting for everybody to show up with their new and unwrapped toys here at Vivo at Dolphin Mall. I've already gotten started with this bluey plush doll and this football for the kids.
I'm pretty sure Juju famously once was in this studio and was like, yeah, my flight leaves in a half hour. And we were all like, you're not making it. And then he sent us a picture and is on the plane just like, got it.
I'm aware of it. I feel like I'm the... The youngest. Anyone younger than me is probably not aware of that.
It was a cupcake commercial via Microsoft. It was like, look, it's Brian Rakpo, Michael Griffin. And you're like, who?
Zas, why don't people want to waste their good ticket guy on you?
I mean, he's missing something, though. What's he missing? He has something. He has an ace in his back pocket that he hasn't played. He hasn't thought of it yet. He's got his own name in a Pearl Jam song done by this show that he could also put out and be like, listen to this. I'm so Pearl Jam, my name is a part of the song.
He's got global entry, too. He walks right in.
Yeah.
Don't worry. We still got you.
You got it.
I'm just trying to make sure he doesn't get in trouble. Thank you, Roy. That's my job at the moment. I appreciate you.
Right.
The Nigerian nightmare was 6'1", 253. Derrick Henry is 6'2", 247.
Oh, right this way.
And when you did that a couple weeks ago, I said, you know what? I should have gone with Roy. I shouldn't have gone against him. And I did. So I'm going to take inspiration from you last week, and I'm going to take your pick. And you're taking my pick, I know, as I'm your ideas, Bill.
Not his team. Our team. Our Ice Cats. I'm watching tonight.
I'm really good at hockey. They don't get everything wrong. Like, shockingly good at hockey.
Round two, game five, Florida Panthers at Toronto Maple Leafs. The Panthers are the favorites tonight at one and a half goals.
Yes. The underdogs have covered the puck line in each of the Panthers' last 11 games at Scotiabank Arena. That's not going to happen tonight because the Panthers are the favorites and they are going to win. They are the favorites at a goal and a half against the Spurs.
Dang it. Thank you, Juju.
Whoa. You had to say kinda.
Thanks, Juju.
I can't accomplish two. That was terrible.
You got to try it.
Billy, bring us home. I'm going to keep it at Scotiabank. And I'm going to take the Maple Leafs plus one. Oh, you dog. You dog. Now, the last time we were in this scenario, I proudly took the Panthers because Chris Cody and Mike Ryan told me Panthers bounce back. That's what they do. Hello, Dolly. Yeah, they did not cover that one and a half point spread that day.
It is.
Not saying the Panthers are going to lose. I'm just saying I don't think that they're going to win by two goals tonight. I got a lot of shit for that last time I did that. What are you doing? You were right. And I was wrong because I took bad advice. So now I'm... Roy, I think of you as my muse. So when you did that a couple weeks ago, my ideas mill of sorts...
Aber zu unserem Punkt, ich brauche nur einen. Lass mich diesen Streak brechen, dann ist das eine gute Saison.
Not bad in the mix. That's just the math on top of your head?
Vergesst nicht Kader Kohu. Er ist nicht schlecht. Er hat ein paar Spiele gespielt.
I wrote a poem about the dolphins.
Guys, lay out. In waters deep where currents flow the dolphins swim with dreams aglow. Durch stürmische Tide und die Vergangenheiten sind sie jetzt ein Rallye. Sie sind gebaut, um zu am Ende zu sein. Und sobald die Saison nähert, werden die Hoffnungen des Spiels stark und klar und debatierbar wachsen. So is built to last. A destiny they've chased with might. The dolphins rise.
They're set to fight.
Stugatz Stugatz Stugatz
Dolphins are 1-6 since the 2000 playoffs. In the playoffs. Woof.
Er hat den Spann-Bewegung gemacht, dass ich halbwegs auf dem Platz gehen werde. Und er ist einfach so, oh, Scheiße.
The pressure of the in-season tournament got to them. It's only the second one.
If that's the line, how strong was our relationship really?
Es ist sehr ähnlich wie der Weltcup, wo es eine Gruppenszene gibt. Du spielst alle in deiner Gruppe und dann machen die besten zwei Rekorde von jeder Gruppe in die Single Elimination Teil der Runde. Es ist nicht so kompliziert.
Ich habe meine Korne getötet. Ja. Schau dir Tony in seinem Wohnzimmer an und denkst dir, wo ist der Ball?
Kind of like the dripping.
I'm a realist. Just trying to stay positive, Dano. I actually like the in-season tournament. I'm gonna go. The Heat play the Bucks at home. auf November 26. Ich werde die GameTime-App kaufen. Ich werde sie downloaden. Ich werde einen Account erstellen. Ich werde den Code DAN verwenden, um 20% von meinem ersten Verkaufspreis zu bekommen. Terms apply. Download die GameTime-App heute.
Was ist die Zeit, Tony?
I'm gonna deflect here. The first time you guys did the dripping thing, Roy was in this seat.
Hm. Ja, ich würde gerne wissen. Ich kann bereits sagen, wo das geht. Es wird ein schlechtes Team sein. Wollen wir hier mit diesem Thema optimistisch sein?
Cooper Rush had 13 completions for 45 yards.
Ich glaube nicht, du wirst es akzeptieren. Es gibt mehr zu einer Saison, als den Superbowl zu gewinnen. Wir haben in 24 Jahren nicht ein Playoff-Spiel gewonnen. Gib mir das Siebenseed. Gib mir ein kleines Spiel gegen die Chargers. Ich kann etwas Positives finden. Es geht nicht um... Ja, ich stimme zu. Niemand argumentiert hier, dass die Dolphins kein Superbowl-Kontender sind.
Aber das bedeutet nicht, dass sie nicht zurück in die 5 und 6 kommen können, zwei einfache Spiele, ein paar mehr gewinnen und in die Playoffs kommen und einfach Spaß in den Playoffs haben.
We like to keep the audience guessing. Some days it's on video, some days there's an open, some days the mics just go on. Yin, as my dad would say.
And how the defense looked last week. Anthony Weaver's defense has gotten better. They're getting healthier. This is a damn good 3-6 team. Can you at least agree there?
Alright, you're doing better.
Last year, late in the season, they beat the Cowboys. The Cowboys had a winning record. It's their only win last year against a winning record, I believe.
Er ist 2-3 dieses Jahr. Tua ist 2-3 dieses Jahr. Es ist nicht so, als wäre er 5-0, wenn er spielt. Okay, also er ist nicht 3-6, aber...
Solid, not enough. Elite, probably too much. How about a Kirkshin? Really good. Do we like that?
Is Purdy really good?
Never seen someone who looks more like they just need to go to sleep 12 hours ago.
Thank you, Juju. Important content.
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Ich denke, das Schwierigste an Strickland ist auch, dass er immer so ein Reise-Mann-Typ war. Und dann hatte er diesen Moment, wo er Israel Adesanya in einer überraschenden Art und Weise gewonnen hat. der gekocht wird, das ist eine andere Geschichte für einen anderen Tag, aber er wird jetzt mit Alex Pareda arbeiten, also werden wir sehen, was da passiert.
Aber wir können alle sehen, oder wir haben alle gesehen, wenn du den Sport folgst, das Video und das Visual von Sean Strickland, im Grunde genommen, schreit er an Izzy Adesanya, wie das ist es, das ist alles, was du hattest und an diesem Punkt hat er sich aufgehört, ging auf Rogan, sprach über seine Kindheit, es war ein bisschen so, okay, warte einen Sekunden, es gibt hier einen Star-Turn für Sean Strickland und dann hat jeder gemerkt, oh, warte einen Sekunden, er ist eine verrückte Person.
Das Problem, das die Leute jetzt haben, ist, dass diese Jungs Krieger sind. Diese Jungs haben ihr Körper, ihr Leben, alles auf der Linie, wenn du in den Oktagon gehst. Viele Kämpfer, viele Trainer. Wir schauen auf Shawns Leistung über den Wochenende und sagen, ja, du hast deinen Nase gebrochen. Das passiert bei jedem Kampf. Du fängst an zu kämpfen, du fängst an zu drücken.
Es sah so aus, als ob er seinen Fuß aus dem Gas genommen hätte und gesagt hätte, okay, ich kann Drikus nicht auf dem Boden schießen, ich kann ihn nicht aufstehen, weil ich ihn nicht kriegen kann. Was mache ich? Ich werde nur versuchen, Haymakers zu schießen und hoffe, dass etwas landet. Und Dana wusste, dass das in den Kampf geht.
Das ist der letzte Mal, dass er eine Karte eines Pay-Per-Views vorstellt.
We're adults here, are we not? Mit der Situation von Thug Nancy hat Bryce Mitchell in einem Podcast viele verrückte Dinge gesagt. Auch Sean Strickland, der da ist, hat gesagt, dass Bryce nur ein Idiot ist. Er ist unbefugt. Er weiß nicht, was er macht. Für ihn ist die Linie da. Mike, was ist die pünktliche Maßnahme, die du für einen Sport benötigst? Das ist kein tägliches Sport.
Das ist nicht wie in der NBA, wo wir drei Mal die Woche spielen. Ja. Wir haben 17 Wochen lang gespielt. Wie schlägst du jemanden ab, der immer ein paar Monate kämpft? Wie schlägst du jemanden ab, der in 7 Monaten kämpft?
Das Problem ist, dass es wichtig ist, auch in diesem Sport zu gewinnen. Du kannst nicht derjenige sein, der seinen Arsch gekackt bekommt und dann alles, was du willst, verspüren lässt, was nicht sauer ist. Und dann denkst du dir, oh, es ist ein Star-Turn. Nein, warte mal, du musst immer gewinnen. Der Grund, warum Sean Strickland in diesen Positionen war, ist, weil er Champion geworden ist.
Weil er gesagt hat, okay, ich bin ein gut genuger Kämpfer, um Division-Champion zu werden. Doug Nasty ist nicht das. Er hat seinen Arsch gekackt.
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Yeah, we're going up to the four nations tomorrow. You guys got the okay from your collective wives to go out of the country on Valentine's Day?
I saw a commercial for that actually during the Super Bowl, I think. It's called Peyronie's Disease.
Ihr seid Begleiter!
Ich denke, das, was mit Sean Strickland zu denken ist, ist das hier. Es ist tatsächlich viel ruhiger als letztes Mal, als wir es hatten, als er das erste Mal gegen Drakus Du Plessis kämpfte. Als er Champ war. Als die Leute herausgefunden haben, oh, warte mal, Sean Strickland ist ein absolut verrückter Mensch und sagt Dinge, die die Leute nicht in Mikrofone sagen.
Ein Jahr später machte er das gleiche, aber auf einem anderen Kontinent, auf einer anderen Seite des Globes, der nicht nach Amerika zurückgekommen ist. Es gab also viele australische Medien, die gesagt haben, dass man diesen Jungen bitte rausknocken soll. Ich denke, dass wir hier noch etwas hinzufügen wollen.
Ja, Dana White hat die australische Medien besucht, aber die Headline und die Frontpage machten einen Backtrack zu Dana being on a podcast with the Australian Prime Minister in which the opinion piece of the writer was saying that he was made sick of Dana White and the Prime Minister, the Premier is what they call it over there, being on a podcast together.
So I think Dana was calling them the P-Word in regards to how do you feel like legitimately sick that I'm on a podcast with the Prime Minister. I think that's kind of where the disconnect is.
You'd be shocked about my number. Roy? Shocked. Roy. Yes? Roy a ton.
That's not my list. No. Roy. Roy. Roy. What? You said a rapist. Roy heard it the same way.
There literally is an A. There's no R at the end.
Parappa the Raper.
It's Billy's.
Cuervo.
I don't have to carry it on my person, you know? Okay. Person.
Ich bin noch nie auf einem Kurs gewesen. Weil ich weiß, dass wenn wir das See verlieren, dann ist mein Arsch weg. Ich kann nicht schwimmen. Ich dachte immer, dass Giles auf meinem Arsch sein wird.
Ja, ich hab mich täglich geduldet.
On3 is legit. So I don't know about the report, but On3 is a real reputable periodical, Dan.
Wer würde das tun?
Ja, das stimmt. Das zeigt die Bedeutung von Kaitlyn Clarks Stimme. Wir sind in einem tabu-Zeit, in dem ich mich nicht zufrieden fühle, wenn ein WNBA-Spieler ein Lacklusterspiel spielt. Ich fühle mich nicht zufrieden, James Harden für ein schlechtes Spiel, weißt du, was ich meine? Ich glaube, es gibt etwas dazu.
Und ich bin froh, dass sie ihre Stimme dargestellt hat, weil sich eigentlich ein Veränderung ergeben kann. Und ich stimme dazu. Es fühlt sich an, wenn wir Männer Reporter sind und unsere lauten Stimmen über diese Frauen-Issue haben. Also bin ich froh, dass meine Schwester das ableiten konnte, das zu vokalisieren und die Macht zu zeigen, die sie in ihrer Stimme hat.
Danke, Gigi. Ich weiß nicht, wie das bis heute, am Dienstag, gelaufen ist. Ich habe einen Joker der Woche. Markus Freeman, du bist der Joker der Woche.
Genau, Bruder! Das ist Beijing, folgt dem Drip, folgt dem Drip. Ich habe noch nie ein wettes Beijing gesehen. Was ist da los? Bruder, du bist gebeten mit dem Geschenk der Bohnenstruktur. Und du schmierst es direkt zurück in Gottes Gesicht, wenn du das wette Lager über deinem Gesicht schmierst, Bruder. Mach das nicht, Bruder.
Wie er sagte, Recala Busa hat sein verdammtes Geheimnis überwacht, als du das machst, Mann. Kommt, Jungs, macht es zusammen, Notre Dame.
I just saw a photo of Marcus Freeman and I had to go searching for another because I assumed the one I saw was enhanced.
This is why you need honesty within your friendships, brother. Like we done got to this age where everything we say to our friends be so offensive and not know. We need to have some people set up in our lives that can have 100% honesty with us, brother. And I know you don't have them because if you have anybody who loves and cares for your hairline,
Ich weiß, du hast eine wunderschöne Frau und eine wunderschöne Familie. Ich bin nur mit ihnen verabschiedet. Aber sie würden dich nicht so aus dem Haus bringen lassen. Bitte, nenne deinen Barber an. Und wie du gesagt hast, Bruder, du bist ein wunderschöner Bruder. Du brauchst das nicht. Du nimmst nicht einen Bumper-Stick auf den Ferrari.
Und du nimmst nicht Black Lacquer auf den Notre Dame-Playoff-Coach. Ich liebe dich, Jessica Smetana. Ich liebe dich, Mike Golick Jr. und deinen Vater. Aber bitte, jemanden holen, Marcus Friedman. Zeig ihn dem nächsten Barber an. Und just pray for him. Just push him.
Du hast einfach den Joke gemacht, dass du dich nicht zerstörst, denn in der Hütte ist es schwer, mit den Barbers in der Hütte zu brechen. Das ist definitiv ein großes Nein-Nein. Also versuche einfach jemand anderen rauszufinden, bis du ihn findest. Aber kontaktiere diesen Barber nicht. Sehe nichts von ihm. Böse ihn nicht, denn das ist einfach ein Nein-Nein. Sag nichts zu ihm.
Lass ihn einfach allein. Run Marcus Freeman. Ich bin mir nicht sicher, wo ist Notre Dame wieder? Ist das in Indiana?
Yeah, I'm not sure. He needs to bring his personal barber on the road.
You too, brother. Appreciate it, man. Thank you, brother.
Okay. Du spielst mich. Es ist wie Dennis Schroeder. Als Dennis Schroeder zuerst in die Liga kam, war er nicht vorbereitet. Und dann kam er mit meinem Bruder, er kam in die Haus und kam mit meinem Bruder Kill Bill. Salute. Er hat diese Linie looking fantastic.
Tell them to leave you alone by that vacation, bro. You can't remember, you can't remember, bro. The cruise. Yeah, yeah, man. Tell them to lay off you, man.
This takes the cake, brother. Marcus Freeman, you have kicked down the barriers and you have uprooted the top of the mountain, brother. I'm giving it to you, brother. Marcus Freeman. Hats off.
David Sampson, den du vorhin erwähnt hast, ist nicht so, wie ich ihn kenne. Ich kann es nicht spielen.
Er hat das Mikrofon mit seiner rechten Hand genommen, hat es mit seiner linken Hand gewechselt, hat es mit seiner rechten Hand genommen, hat es mit seiner linken Hand gewechselt, hat es mit seiner linken Hand gewechselt, hat es mit seiner linken Hand gewechselt, hat es mit seiner linken Hand gewechselt, hat es mit seiner linken Hand gewechselt, hat es mit seiner linken Hand gewechselt, hat es mit seiner linken Hand gewechselt, hat es mit seiner linken Hand gewechselt, hat es mit seiner linken Hand gewechselt, hat es mit seiner linken Hand gewechselt, hat es mit seiner linken Hand gewechselt, hat es mit seiner linken Hand gewechselt, hat es mit seiner linken Hand gewechselt, hat es mit seiner linken Hand gewechselt, hat es mit seiner linken Hand
You don't remember how mad Juju was at me when I put my finger in my mouth at that heat game? He was furious for weeks.
Ich bin ein weiterer Level, das alle meine Freunde, meine Beziehungen, ich bin so entschuldigt, Baby, ich liebe dich, ich weiß, du kannst das hören, aber ja, Bruder, ich bin immer noch so, okay, weißt du was, wir hören und wir beurteilen nicht. Ich weiche meine Geräte immer noch mit den Sanitizer-Wipes, wenn ich sie von der Geräte-Store bekomme.
You was in bliss with your family. Yes, I was. You can't remember.
That's what I'm saying. I once got COVID in that chair next to Roy. I'm a German folk. I got COVID in that studio. So yes, it is a wild, wild west out here. But also, I like to... I'm gonna move on. I'm gonna lay off of David Sampson. I love you, brother, wherever you are, if you can hear me. You guys were talking about OBJ.
Ich denke, wenn er auf die Statlinie schaut, schaut er direkt auf seine Bankkarte und ich denke, er ist sofort über es, weil jeder mit seiner Position, wie Seine Schmerzen sind katastrophal. Du kommst nicht zurück von ihnen. Und er kam nicht zurück von ihnen.
Und ich denke, dass er, um ein professioneller Athlet zu sein, in Miami zu leben, das ist der Cha-Ching gerade, weil er verstanden hat, wofür er sich eingeladen hat. Er verstand, und darf ich sagen, du hast Odell Beckham Jr. 's Ringe in der Box und Dan Marino's Ringe in der Box. Juju, thank you for being on with us.
No!
Alright, Roy, you mentioned the bills. I'm going to take the bills. Plus two and a half over the Detroit Lions. Sunday at 4.25. Wow. Great question. We talked about this a week and a half ago or so, more or less. This is a big...
Ich glaube nicht, dass er Teams wählt. Ich glaube, er liebt es, sich aufzudrehen. Bill's lost. He does, that's true.
Statement Game for both teams, but not necessarily the statement that you want to make, because it's also the opportunity for a revenge game for both teams, should this be the Super Bowl that a lot of people want to see. Now, here's what you ask yourself. Both teams, do they want to win this game, or do they want to lose this game?
Today has been a picture of Jeremy when his teeth was taken out. We showed that to a guest. Then we saw a video of him predicting a coach would get fired, a tweet of himself and then he sang a song.
Because if you lose the game, then you create a revenge game for yourself. And both of these teams were in need for quality losses to kind of motivate them a little bit more. It would be a quality loss for both teams. And it's a game in which we discussed, you don't pull out all the stops. You leave some stops in there. So then, should you have the rematch in the Super Bowl, then you think...
We saw all the stops. They were all pulled out. No. Boom. New stop. Not anticipated. You catch the other team off guard. However, both teams are kind of in the same position where they could do this to the other team. So you wonder, how many stops will be in? How many will be pulled? Who knows? I'm going to go with the Bills. Plus two and a half against the Sprags. Second.
Das gleiche hier.
Ja. Etwas geht los, weil jemand anderes sagte, dass er auch ein Stomachschmerz hatte. Und jeder ist heute ein braver Junge und arbeitet gerade durch.
Sounds like you have something against the breakfast spread. I like it.
Denkst du, er will keine Tore, anstatt eine 9-Jahre-Rezeption?
Der 800-Spiel-Hit-Streak, ist das eine Hall of Fame? Ja.
Denkst du, dass Odell wach wird und zwölf Tore diese Woche erzielen wird?
Ja, sie erreichen keine Argumentation. Aber er ist immer noch ein Name. Sein Name hat immer noch Brand-Rekognition. Er kann nicht ein Star sein, wenn es um Statsen geht, aber glaubst du, er wird einfach vergessen? Oh nein. Die Leute werden ihn nicht erinnern.
Sein Kontrakt ist voll von Incentiven. Er bekommt 450.000 Dollar, wenn er sechs Touchdowns bekommt. Er bekommt 400.000 Dollar, wenn er vier Touchdowns bekommt. 1 Million, wenn er 55 Rezeptionen bekommt. 400.000 für 36.000. 800.000 für 45.000. Es scheint so zu sein, dass er einen Deal verabschiedet hat, mit dem er beweisen muss, dass er all dieses Geld bekommt.
Und diese Incentiven sind... Ich meine, er wird es nicht erreichen. Ich denke, er hat neun Spiele gespielt und neun Rezeptionen im Moment. I don't think they're purposely holding him down. No, no, I don't think so either. I think he also came in knowing like, hey, I'm like the fourth option here.
Aber auch, wenn Odell Beckham rausgeht und sagt, hey, Odell Beckham ist in diesem Klub, komm, sieh Odell Beckham an. Du denkst dir, oh, ein Catch, ein Yard, ich glaube nicht. Ich will heute nicht mit Odell Beckham zusammenhängen. Niemand kennt seine Statline, er ist Odell Beckham Jr.
I like Nick Tarturo just watching.
Thank you, Roy.
A foot massage?
I want to... His wife, she got the refund.
Außer Stu.
But there's a value in pitchers, no? Guys, over the last five seasons, he leads Major League Baseball in ERA. You're acting like they signed a bad pitcher yesterday. No, no.
They can afford to be reckless. Right. They can. I mean, you're right, I agree with you, and Dan's talking about the injuries with Freed, I mean, three of the last four seasons, he has started 28 plus games. I mean, I know he got hurt two years ago, but he's been, for the most part, he's been healthy throughout his career. They still also have over 500 million dollars that they didn't just
He just missed you, Roy. That's what he's trying to say. We all have our questions, but Dan is a sincere guy and he said he missed you. So I believe him.
Billy, ist es schwierig, für ein Team zu kämpfen, das einfach nicht versucht hat? Es scheint so zu sein, dass sie meistens nicht versuchen. Die Jets sind frustrierend, aber sie sind frustrierend für verschiedene Gründe.
Aber das muss dich als Fan brechen, glaube ich.
I missed you, Jess. I missed you.
Du hast mich furchtbar gemacht. David, ich frage mich, du hast Dokumente erwähnt und du regst, dass du keine Dokumente mitnehmen kannst auf dem Weg raus. Welche Dokumente regst du nicht, mitzunehmen?
Ich meine, ich werde dir das sagen. Es gibt seine Ressourcen.
I am shocked that you left that place without money, without things that have value and without a smoking gun. That is unlike you, David Sampson.
I don't know if this is getting away with it. He's sitting in a room. He's locked in a room on a couch with a makeup person.
Ich würde sagen, dass Robert eine sehr zufriedene Präsenz ist hier bei Metalog Media. Ich habe ihn nie panikiert.
Yes. A massive bag of candy as well. What is happening?
It stands to reason, if all foods are tasting the same, that would be the time for a diet. Yes. I mean, it stands to... You're right.
Ja, aber er wiegt etwa 84 Pounder.
Mhm. Drei Quadratmeter. Ich meine, er hat dir eine Frage gestellt, er hat mir keine Frage gestellt.
Das isst man, Dan.
I don't like a bacon sandwich. I just like the bacon. I don't need the bread with the bacon.
Wir machen das. Es ist eine sehr schöne Sache. Ich schaue wahrscheinlich zu tief in das, aber ich mache ein paar Entscheidungen über die Firma, Metalark im Allgemeinen, basierend auf dem Foodspread. Ich mache das.
Es ist wahrscheinlich nicht fair für mich, aber wenn der Foodspread gut ist, bin ich so, okay, wir hatten eine gute Woche, wir haben ein paar Dinge verkauft, wir haben etwas gemacht, wir haben ein paar mehr Geld. Und wenn wir keinen guten Spread haben, beginne ich, mich zu beruhigen und alles zu fragen, was hier vorhanden ist.
Eating's become a chore.
I can't believe Lewis said that to you in your ear.
What do you mean he's got good reason? No, I don't. Classic Roy, I mean.
He's eating.
Here's the crazy thing about my episode on Shaq's podcast. That was the last 10 minutes of the podcast. We talked about everything but basketball for an hour. And then just at the end, hey, do you think Biggs will evolve? I'll elbow Wimby in the mouth and knock his teeth out and make him quit. And I was just like, hey, he played. I didn't. I just need to be quiet on this one.
to be able to just sit next to him never got a chance to work with them but to just sit and listen to stories of his time and tuskegee on the radio to his time and every wild story from his world famous tom joiner cruises which is how he raises the money for his foundation um that was I mean, next to catching a game with my father, which I'll never be able to do, it was really dope, man.
It really was.
Being that that floral sweatsuit, I'm sure, costs more than my salary at CNN, I will simply say, nice outfit, Mr. Joyner. That's all I will say. Like, there's certain outfits where it looks so, it just looks so expensive, you can't even say nothing about it. You just go, I would never wear it. It's the great Bruce Bruce would say, it looks good on you.
I don't know if I return that season. I don't know if I return at all that season. But Tracy Morgan is like the unofficial mascot of the Knicks. Like, it's Tracy and Spike Lee, I guess, to a degree. So you got to have both of them back in the game. I'm just glad that...
When it happened with Tracy, like, immediately there was caring concern about him and his health and making sure he's recovering. Because we weren't always like that as a society. Like, if you had a public health episode, we would just say crack. We would just assume crack and just say you're a crackhead and he's a drunk.
And I feel like we finally progressed as a society to a point where we can just guess maybe it's Ozempic.
You know what I thought for sure? I thought for sure they were going to take, like, his vomit and put it in, like, little souvenir vials. Yeah, you have to. And then, like... Call that like the vomit game.
I was checking the stats to see what the Knicks record was post vomit, but it's not solid enough to directly point to the vomit being a catalyst for them getting things getting momentum going into the playoffs. I think if the Knicks had to Tracy Morgan had to vomit every home game for the Knicks to win, I think he would happily come out there and ruin his stomach lining for the team.
He is built like Grimace. I love you, Tracy.
It's Spike. He got caught up. It's all right. No, because here's the thing. You get on this show and talk, and then I'm just thinking of what the comments would be. What about Spike? How do you forget Spike Lee? You ain't black. That's why when you was on Jeopardy, you missed that question about geography, man. I hate black people.
Like, I'm not sure if I completely agree, but this is not the place to disagree. I'll just put it that way. Like, you know, Shaq earned the right to take these shots. I don't know why he does it all the time. I will say that.
And then I'm in an Essence magazine article, and then it just goes, oh, and the griot is talking about me, going, Roy Wood disrespects Spike Lee, and then it's all awkward.
Ben Stiller don't even stand up during the game. He can't be the mascot. He's a super fan. I give Ben Stiller credit because he was checking the score at award shows. So that's a diehard fan. Ben Stiller ain't standing up like Spike Lee with his hand on his hips like a black mama on the porch looking for her child. Show me that picture, and I'll correct myself. Wow, doubling down.
You remember when Spike was standing like this? And my camera's housing. You know the picture. It's the legendary Spike picture. Yeah. Show me Ben Stiller like that, and I'll say Ben Stiller's the mascot of the Knicks. Until then, it's Spike Lee, Tracy Morgan, 1B.
Let's wait until next time. I will say that I like what the Cubs have been doing in spite of their record. There are a couple games above 500. It's a little early, but they're third in the league in runs scored per average right now. And I think that they're doing that without the torpedo bats. Like, if I'm not mistaken, the Cubs, yeah, there we go. The Cubs got 84 runs.
Most runs scored, not average. Most runs scored. Yankees 78, Cardinals 66. So the Cubs are hitting the ball good. You just need the pitching to come together a little bit. So just put your money on them right now.
Love y'all.
But, you know, it was fun to sit with him in his element, but you could tell just being right across from him that he really is annoyed with the way the game is being played currently.
That was my first time meeting him.
Yeah, no, it was cool to just talk basketball with him for a second, but my question that I didn't get to in the room with him would have been like, everybody wants 90s basketball, but if you got 90s basketball without 90s referees, you're still like Shaq would be teed up and tossed before the second quarter. If you're talking about...
elbowing Wimby in the mouth and then taking Chet Holmgren to the hole every time. I don't know if we're going to ever be able to play like that again. I wonder if aggression to a degree has been kind of legislated out. And to everybody else's point on that podcast, these kids now, there's no benefit to being the murderous, killer, death stare college basketball player anymore.
That's going to mess up your NIL money. Nobody's going to let you do Experian tax app commercials. If you're the mean, growling person. So I don't know if that mentality will even exist in basketball at the lower levels in another five years.
I think I think I don't know how you salary cap it per se, but I think that there's a very good way to keep this down. I think it was Carmelo Anthony on his podcast that said two year minimums. But, you know, Mello was also talking about just take the student part out of it and just let these schools hire, basically, athletic mercenaries to play for them, to represent the school.
I do think that's the eventuality of where NIL is headed in another 10 years if we don't rein it in. But the idea of locking a student in for at least two years If you transfer, I think it's something that's fair. I don't think... We're never going to go back to the old days. So this idea of Mount St. Mary's punching up and beating... Done. That stuff's gone. Mount St.
Mary's got to get their money up and figure out how to sell cocaine on the side of the university. I do feel like...
Cuervo.
you have to keep the money in the sport that's fair to the kids what's happening with nil is that it's all of the outside cash and all the outside influences that are changing all of this when you got kids hawking carter here's a bigger question about nil has anybody been influenced to buy anything from any of these children you've seen on tv
I'm not here to mess up your bag, but seeing Flage Johnson tell me I can get my credit straight, I know my credit bad, Flage. Get your money, girl. But also, you weren't going to influence me any more than the next person was to buy the thing. Nine times out of ten, it's word of mouth.
I think that College Hoops is going to become D1 and D2 in a sense, where you're going to have have and have nots, and that's just what you got to get used to. You just got to hope that one school has a loyal dummy who doesn't transfer because his daddy went there or something stupid.
We got the semifinals tonight. I won last month. It's fun because you're raising money. I'm raising money for ICME Incorporated, a nonprofit in Birmingham that promotes literacy in children.
you can read you don't go to jail they got the statistics to prove it so you're excited because you're helping people but you also don't want to be the one that's embarrassed um i can't say i can't say whether or not i won or not tonight but i there was a question i got wrong that was extremely easy that i know tomorrow morning my social media mentions are going to it's going to be some chit chat and accountability that's going to be needed for me for getting that particular question wrong
You can't prepare for it. Either you're dumb or you're not, and it's too late to cram. Like, what are you gonna do, learn all the solar system moons of Jupiter before you get out there in front of Ken Jennings? And I tried to cram, because I know my soft spots. Greek and Roman mythology, because there's no reason for us to ever learn that in the first place. I'm not good with Shakespeare.
I'm not good with the Bible. And I'm shaky on U.S. vice presidents. Like when you get into Spiro Agnew, heads of chief of staffs, and who was the eighth dude on the Watergate tape, that type of stuff.
I know. And that's why I feel confident now. All I need to know is, like, what a raccoon is and recognize two statues.
I don't know if I can give away category. Can I give away? I'll say this. I don't think you can. I need to know more geography. I'll just say that. And the thing about Jeopardy, Jeopardy tricks you because it's how they word the question and the amount of time you have to answer it. And the pressure of it forces you to say something stupid. And it's not that you don't know it.
It's that the way you worded the question confused me. Like, it's like when you, I don't know. Remember, Dan, remember you come home late three in the morning and your girl is like,
so you were with the strippers and you're like what is it ah so you were like no you didn't give me a chance to and it's too late you should have just said were you strip club yes or no but they don't frame the question that way they frame it in a way where your brain can't process it and then you look dumb and then strangers heckle you
Yeah, yeah, but it's fine. I was happy to do it. I had more fun at Jeopardy than I did Will of Fortune or Pyramid. No, I had the most fun at Jeopardy because Will of Fortune, you're just setting up the next person to win, and it's luck. You've got to hope they screw up and then you get to solve the puzzle. It's got to kind of fall in your lap.
pyramid if you lose you're sitting across from the stranger who you cost 50k and they're a little mad and you know like that that i feel kind of bad about because that's not for charity that's like a regular person who needs that money. So I didn't like the pressure of that.
Um, no, but in the first round, they had historically black colleges as one of the categories. Oh brother. I was licking my chops.
Dan, it would be like if you were on Celebrity Jeopardy and the category was Cuban stuff. Just a layup. Just, oh, my God, it was beautiful. Then the next category was chess. And all I do is play chess with my son. And I was just like, yes. I ran that damn, I ran those two categories back to back. Start doubling and tripling down in double jeopardy. And that's how I won, man.
Because I went to a black college. Both of my parents graduated from a black college. If I don't get these questions right, I have to leave the black race immediately.
Yeah, Phoebe Robinson. Phoebe Robinson was there, too. And Phoebe got one of them right, too. And I was like, good. Make sure you get one right, too, so that they know you know something. You know, you got to let Phoebe get one, too. You gave her one, right, Roy? Yeah.
I don't know if there's any other race of people that are under more pressure on a quiz show than black people to be accountable to their own race when it is a topic inherent to their race. Like, as a black man on Jeopardy answering questions about black colleges, I'll be an article in Essence magazine. Like, they will slander... So I don't know if any other race has that type.
Like, if you're an Italian and the category is tomato sauces, like, is that pressure? I don't know, that felt racist, but you get what I'm trying to say.
We made a mention on it on the most recent episode. And what Amber said on our show was essentially that she intended to go at both sides. But as the country started to devolve, she felt like it was hard to ignore people getting sent to El Salvador and the recession and the measles outbreak. She just felt like there was so many things going on that to oscillate looks both ways.
She had no interest in doing that anymore. She wanted to laser focus on the administration and the correspondence people. You know, they said, well, we We can't have you do that." And once that was clear and in the open, Amber said that she just would respectfully pull out of it.
Because I think the thing, you know, everybody calls the press corps, you know, cowards for their decision to not have a comedian there, to not hit both sides. But I really feel like, in a way, They're in a rock and a hard place. Is it a sucker decision? Yeah, I think so.
But I also think that what's not being considered is the potential backlash on the backside from the Trump administration to the White House pool reporters who were there, who were supposed to be honoring and celebrating. They're probably going to lose access. Potentially, if you dare hold this event where they trash me, I'm going to give you less access to me on the backside of that.
And then this whole idea of accountability and calling out what's going on. How much how much are you compromising your ability as a journalist to hold this administration accountable for the next three and a half years? if you let Amber get up there and tell them jokes. And you don't know that. And so that's the juggling act that I think they were weighing.
I hate that comedy was removed because comedy is the way that you get people to pay attention to all of the other stuff that you want honored and celebrated, you know, on that day. But, you know, the event at its core, it is about honoring journalism. So I just hope that we're able to still bring some attention to the people. But, you know, I stand with Amber.
I support my co-hosts, you know, a million percent over. But that's just a it's a rock and a hard place right now. And it's funny because, you know, I always thought Republicans were the ones that could take a joke.
Yeah, but keep in mind, I did the event under Biden, so that was a little bit easier in terms of, is this a room that's ready to laugh and can you attack both sides? It's like, yeah, I could. I mean, there were still kids in cages, but other than that, you can still find the laughs around the chaos.
and that administration, there was... It's a room where, at best, you only go and get half the room at any given time because the other half can't laugh because they don't think you're funny or they're sitting with their boss that you made the joke about. So it's already a weird room to begin with. And I think, also,
I think part of why the correspondence dinner works is because Republicans and elected officials all show up from both sides. So also keep in mind, when Amber stepped out, when they rescinded the offer from Amber, Trump was talking about doing his own competing event the same night.
So if you have no Republicans in the room and you have someone on stage that's only bashing Republicans, then they're going to be able to flip and use that politically to do whatever they want to, you know, control the narrative about what the media, the messaging in media. You know, it's a slippery thing, man. So how do you do both sides if both sides aren't even in the room?
You know, that kind of removes the roast. The roast element of it requires you to be here because I have to do this to your face.
I grew up on the school bus listening to the Tom Joyner morning show and, you know,
for what tom joiner did over his 30 years in syndicated radio just taking money from his foundation putting kids through college i think when he retired in 2016 2017 i think the number was like 30 or 40 000 like you could take every person that received money for college from tom joiner and fill a professional sports stadium with like
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Well, clearly I know the story.
Yes. Yeah, that tone fine really got to him.
I haven't had a drink since July. So July, July, the Panthers won the cup. Amazing. That's crazy. It is crazy. Yes.
I did not have a drink.
Yeah, Billy ran across the street and tapped me on the back. That's Tag.
Yes, I am. I have hockey equipment. I'm learning how to skate. Because the Panthers are going to host the Winter Classic next season. You're playing? I'm not playing in the actual game, no. But it might be a media game. Oh, a media game.
Yes.
Yeah, but the champion is still there.
You mean to tell me the last five seasons for the Florida Panthers you haven't admired at all?
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Ja, er hat, Billy, es war seltsam.
Auf der TOPS-Insertion, willst du ein rotes Stück oder ein weißes Stück des Garments?
Wait, that guy that just spoke faced death threats and criminal charges? Yes. What criminal charges is he facing? I didn't read fast enough. Anyways, Bosh. Good prep.
Chris Lamb is a great name for an orator.
Yeah, he's the voice.
Whole Foods. She was not. Then it wasn't him. They're inseparable.
Billy! Ich gehe jetzt auf die Eis, Dano. Also, die Florida Panthers, die Toronto Maple Leafs. Die Florida Panthers sind 1,5-Goal-Favoriten auf der Straße. Ich habe mich hier gefragt, weil auch wenn manche Leute mich nennen,
Warte, können wir ein Spiel spielen? Was für Milch bekommt David Beckham bei Whole Foods? Das ist das, worauf ich mich befinde. Er muss ein obdachloses Aislein sein. Obdachloses Milch. Das ist sicher ein anstrengendes Milch-Aislein.
You know, Baby Billy from Ice Ice Baby, number one hockey podcast that we had going for some time there until the dentist retired and then we kind of were like, we should retire the show in his honor.
Warum?
Why did that show end?
In Dan's defense at F1, I thought I saw Stassi Schroeder from Vanderpump Rules. And then I was like, it couldn't have been her. And then I checked on Instagram and it was her. So it's possible. How'd she look?
Das war Kalad.
Billy, I don't know, maybe... Honestly, it was causing inner office friction and for the goodness of the lark, I said, you know what, we'll take a step back Wir geben Dorky und Roy seine Raum, um zurück zu kommen. Das ist gut, wir haben es für das Gute des Lark gemacht. Aber warte mal. Er hat einen für das Team genommen. Für das Lark. Für das Gute des Lark. Das ist immer noch der Name, oder?
I'd have more faith in the Ecuadorians recognizing David Beckham.
The man in the yellow hat from Curious George. Hat Hall of Fame.
Did we ever put him in? Of course, yes.
Okay, so that's... I'm very confused. It may have been an Ecuadorian.
Wenn du deine Tochter Evan nennen würdest, wäre es E-V-E-N oder E-P-H-E-N? Wow. Ich würde mit der E gehen. Ich würde mit der P-H-E-N.
Dude, the rehearsal is crazy this year.
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Lose the Meadow? I believe that story is still in Bargo. Let's change it to the Lark. Anywho, so back to the ice. The Florida Panthers are one and a half goal favorites today in Toronto against the Maple Leafs. And I said, that strikes me as odd. A road favorite by one and a half goals. So I asked around the room, you know, the experts here on the ice hockey. I said, what gives?
I don't know. You've seen in L.A. there's fake Power Rangers outside. That's not the real Power Rangers. It could be just an impersonator taking pictures.
Er riechte wie gestern Nacht. Oh, wow. Das wieder? Du hast es gut gemacht.
And Chris said, because Panthers bounce back. That's what they do. And I said, you know what? Good enough for me. So I'm going to take the Panthers minus one and a half on the road today against the Toronto Maple Leafs. Against the Spurs.
I was sold and the Panthers bounced back. That's what they do. And then Mike gave me additional info. I said, great. I'm gonna put that in my pocket for a rainy day. Bounce back. That's all I need.
Ich habe Karl vorhin vergessen. Du hast auch gesagt, manchmal Dominique. Manchmal Dominique. Hawk ist nicht immer da. Hawk, definitiv. Aber nicht die, ich weiß, es gibt zwei Hawks, die canon sind. Right, Hawk. Kann ich eine Frage stellen? Sie müssen ein Teen-Gist-Show machen, oder? Oder ein 30-Minuten-Episode? Ja. Sie haben all diese Sets gebaut, nur für den Show, für drei-Minuten-Segmente.
Sie müssen etwas mit all dem gemacht haben, oder? Ja.
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Ich habe ihn gegrüßt, um den Weltkrieg zu heilen.
Ich meine, du weißt, wenn du David Beckham siehst. Bist du sicher jetzt?
David Beckham and I share a tattoo artist. Really? That's a humble brag. Wow, I'm interested. Weave this quilt.
It was good editing. Good editing by the producers.
We are back.
Baby, I can tell you that I'm pissed they hit Rose with the spray. Oh, she sounded like a goose that stepped on with heels. Yeah, even though Rose wasn't due, it's Harry and Lucy laughing.
Wow! With handlebars.
Do you know this one friend who just comes out of bed in the morning and then doesn't come out of his grin? Who is even in front of the first coffee, shamelessly well-groomed, and radiates the morning sun around the bed? Terrible. Disgusting. How can you just...
Were you not listening? Did he? He's sitting right across from you.
They're flying down at noon.
Chris, the joke's already on us because your dad has infuriated Canada with a dumb opinion. No, because if we win, he can say he's right, even though he's clearly not.
Everything you're saying.
fast.
I'm already worried.
I'm just picturing you like, I'm not into politics. I don't know. Just like play it down the middle. Like just kind of like. You tried to argue, right? No, did not.
Yes.
Fondue means melted.
His son is the play-by-play broadcaster for them. That's an affiliate of the Panthers. They've won the Cup for the third consecutive season. That's a cool logo.
Nothing. It's just a shitty joke. The visual of a dock and the airboats pulling up. We didn't let it play out.
Eating area. What?
Now he's walking. I just yelled at him.
She sang the national anthem, yes.
Should we chant melting pot?
It goes on. It's overrated.
Melting pot it's always a good idea when you're on the way there when you're actually sitting there great idea, but afterwards I like the the appetizer with the bread and the cheese and I like the dessert with The main course like the meat I don't know I'm not trying to cook my chicken in front of me Yeah, I hear that Greg wasn't the the Revolutionary War arguably fought by British against British I
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Duval. Ah! How do we do this together? It's creepy.
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Did you go on the cruise wedding, by the way?
What was your excuse?
Cut the check and save your money, right?
Parenthetically.
There is no winner because everyone looks bad in this situation. Except Kevin Love. Just a bunch of losers.
Billy was cooking. I feel like we can keep going.
Now we have to change the subject because Pat Riley looks bad in this time.
Crowds aren't even that great. But Eagles started the season in Brazil last year.
Putting it on the record, I don't like that you guys just talked about right behind his back.
That's a waste of reporting. By the way, Vanata 100% knows when the Spain game is, Billy.
But Jerry Jones was not shy about chatting during this press conference. Apparently, it was just like 80 minutes of long answers. And there was another really awkward moment when they introduced Brian Schottenheimer that I don't know if people caught, but it made me cringe.
Also, the Steelers are apparently playing the Packers in Ireland next year, but they haven't announced that either, Billy. I'm just being told that.
When am I going to book my flight?
You should just go to Spain for the full three months of the season. And that way you're there when the game happens.
Do you like destination weddings, Billy?
They don't want guests. They don't want you to go to their wedding. Exactly.
Right. And then they don't have to actually do the elopement thing where they actually piss off all the aunts and uncles.
Is it multiple choice or can it be anywhere? Can they pick like Boise or something random?
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Yeah.
Yeah!
Yeah, I remember that.
What?
Against the Spread
Real quick.
We changed the rules this year?
Okay. Yeah.
I've hated the Miami Heat since the decision because Michael Wilbon told me LeBron James was going to come to the Bulls and he didn't. And then I moved here and I hated them even more because I had to sit next to Mike Ryan and Jeremy for four years.
What? He did?
I just don't think that's true or possible.
Ask him what he thought about Xavier Restrepo's 40 time and see what he says. And then we can decide who's a bigger homer. But it's really hard to beat Mike and Jeremy.
Yeah, but that was a big one, wasn't it?
You're talking about, oh, go ahead, Roy.
Yeah, the subtraction of Stephen Stamkos hasn't really affected the Lightning's power play at all. And I expect this series to be overly physical. Like if it's going to go seven, then we might lose some players in this series, unfortunately. But yeah, I believe it's going to go six myself, but it's probably going to end up going seven. Well, hold on.
You guys are talking about owning words. Do you think Carson Beck trademarks the U as Beck?
And two of them are public figures, so I think it's kind of fair game.
So I actually thought the second and third season were better than the first.
The lady saying, he's your dad. He told me this morning. That part. Well, who did you think his dad was? I thought his dad had died. I thought that that guy had killed his dad. Sort of Goggins. I mean, that's how it was set up the entire story.
Yeah, that was a weirder part. Which part?
You guys saw that part coming? Very predictable. I mean, yeah.
Man, I want to listen to the words you're saying, but I'm just so lost in your eyes. Just beautiful eyes.
One word.
The question was he's not that guy, and he said not to that. So that's too negative. So he's saying that he is that guy.
You know though. It's one of those games you hear it, you know.
Isn't John Cena, though, the face of like the PG era of wrestling?
But are we liking this? Like, are we buying this? I'm seeing some people being like, it feels like wrestling is just, I don't know, it just feels almost like lazy.
Such a good shout on that show. He couldn't have picked a better show.
It's just a polarizing show. Some people really love it, and you're just like, why? The Last of Us? No, no, no. I'm talking about Big Bang Theory. Very polarizing.
I just finished that one, by the way. And? Season two? Season three. Oh. I have thoughts.
He's much better looking than Method Man. Like, come on, what are we even doing here? You think Method Man is better looking than Andrew Hawkins? Put it on the poll. You sound old.
No, so I don't even know where it came from. I've never had a person walk up to me and say, I'm a notary. You're a secret notary. People are notaries and you just don't know they're notaries. Who are these people? You see people walking around with shirts that says notary. They wear crowns. Like, what are you even talking about? I'm just talking about when it comes up.
Method Man is, the internet in 2025 is swooning over Method Man?
Yeah. No, I mean, respectfully to Method Man. Not respectfully.
No, I mean, Mark Cuban's full of shit. He also, by the way, thought he was going to run the basketball thing. And then the NBA was like, nah, that's not how this works. So he's kind of like a bitter ex who still has enough to just be around to cause problems for everyone.
understandable though that he was pushed out of basketball ops because he sold the team i never understand that when like people sell the team or executives are like part of former administration like i was pushed out it's like that's how this works like they gave you billions of dollars to get like if you sell your house you can't just stay living in the room of the house because you used to live in this house it doesn't work like that they gave you the money now go
away yeah but this is a house that has like multiple people that own a stake in it it's not a house owned by a single homeowner that's the difference i would i would have mark cuban live in an efficiency like best case like he can live in a detached efficiency maybe one of those like things that's definitely not legal where you like turn a shed in the backyard you put like an air conditioning unit and then you spray like some foam or whatever like yeah this is safe that's where mark cuban can live
I thought that we were past the Lightning. I thought that we were better than the Lightning and we didn't give the Lightning any mind. This is loser mentality. No, no, no.
The Lightning aren't shit to me. I'm just going to come right out and tell you right now. We have surpassed the Lightning. They're not a formidable foe. They're a joke. I don't take them seriously at all. Strike me by Lightning. I don't care. Nothing's going to happen to me. Lightning are soft. I'm not giving them any mind. I'm not paying attention to them this series. On to the next round.
Yeah, I don't live in the past. I live in the present. Lightning ain't shit.
Please, they haven't taught me anything. I'd love for them to be in the t-shirt shore in the next five minutes. The problem is this. The series is going to be over by the time you get that. This thing is going to be fast and furious. I'm telling you, four, maybe five maximum. This is not going along, this series. Mark my words.
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Ich sah dieses Headline, People Magazine, sie hatten ein Bild davon zusammen. Und mein erster Gedanke war, ich habe gerade über den Dave Couillier-Kanzer gelernt. Ich dachte mir, oh mein Gott, das ist schrecklich. Was für eine coole Sache John Stamos macht, Solidarität zu zeigen. Und dann habe ich den feinen Print gelesen und dachte mir, oh, er hat das Ding nicht gemacht.
Er hat einfach nur einen Ballkapp gelegt. Schau, er unterstützt seinen Freund, aber ich stelle mir John Stamos vor, wie er es ausmacht, in den Kühlschrank geht und sagt, okay, wir sind bereit, hier zu gehen. Alright, we're good to go before we get out of here.
Wenn er mit seinen Haaren einfach nur seine Freundin unterstützt hätte... Also würdest du ihm nichts tun? Ich würde... Ich würde ehrlich gesagt... Das ist Unterstützung. Ich bin gut mit ihm, wenn er nur seine Haare hat, weil er seine Haare noch hat. Ja, aber er hat nichts gemacht.
Meine Reaktion dazu war... Oh. Meine gutte Reaktion. Ich schätze es nicht. Ich liebe John Stamos. Ich liebe Dave Coulier. Du hast es ein wenig beurteilt. Ich war einfach überrascht. Es ging von, holy shit, was für ein schönes Ding, John Stamos hat großartige Haare, ich kann nicht glauben, dass er das gemacht hat. Oh, er hat es nicht gemacht. Schade an euch.
Schade an euch.
And yes, Mike, I think that the dog... I appreciate your rigorous vetting process, journalistically. Herbie should have given a little buffer. A couple weeks between dogs.
Du und du und du und du und du und du und du und du
Es wird einfach weniger für mich, als wenn ich ihn als Assistent schreibe. Hey, kannst du mir eine Blutkappe geben?
Was war es? Sag es und wir werden dir sagen, ob es zu weit gegangen ist. Schau dir Dave Couillet an, der in dieser Foto sitzt. Er denkt, John hat alles gemacht, was er konnte. Das ist so weit, wie John hätte gehen können. Oder ist er da sitzen und sagt,
Es war wirklich eine gute Zeit, Mann.
Also Zoos sind wie Roste. Wie siehst du sie? Was ist eine Roste, die du siehst? Eine andere Zoo, die du siehst, und du sagst, das ist eine verdammt gute Roste, die sie da haben. Ich will mit ihnen was machen.
Was ist der schlimmste Trade, den du je gemacht hast? Du hast einen veteranischen Rhino gegeben, du hast einen jungen Giraffen bekommen, aber der Giraffen hat sich nicht ausgelöst.
Setzen Sie sich ein Blanket, legen Sie ein schönes Abendessen zusammen, damit Sie sich wirklich kennenlernen?
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But a Kindle is a bookshelf that you don't see. What do you mean? What are you talking about? It's a digital book show. Bunch of books in there.
Can you not have multiple books in your Kindle? If you get different Kindles. I think you guys are screwing with me here. I don't know because I've never had Kindles. What's the limit for books in my Kindle that I can have?
Yeah, that was great.
Oh, God.
Du siehst ihn jetzt etwas länger aus. Wie sind die drei Stopps auf einem Körner? Er macht dich anfangen zu denken, Dan.
Du machst ihn anfangen zu denken und musst stoppen.
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Well, you do do this. You love to just get excited about everything.
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Just some guys, like I paint.
Is Terry Rozier saying Osama bin Laden should have hooped instead? We mentioned that being, I joked that someone being tall could also be a painter. And we started talking back here. What are other jobs outside of basketball that being really tall would be beneficial? Because painting, now I don't need the ladder for this, you know, for the top of the ceiling here.
Or maybe what else being tall would be helpful with?
A stock person at a store, at a grocery store. I can stock that top aisle now. Don't need the little stepstool. See, there's other jobs they can do. It's not just basketball.
I feel like as someone who grew up, you know, red hair, freckles, I dealt with some... That's the child's play of the being. If you're being mocked for being tall, that's the best case scenario of all the things you could be picked on for. I feel like being tall... Yeah, I feel like Chris... Yeah, they deserve it.
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USA versus Canada for the Four Nations Championship. Looking at the injury front, Austin Matthews with an upper body injury and the Kachuk boys both had lower body injuries. They're expected to play. Charlie McEvoy will not play. He has an infection from the injuries sustained versus Sweden. Kael McCarr is coming back for Canada.
I think if USA neutralizes the speed of Connor McDavid and stops Canada's transition offense, I think it'll be a very close game. It might be 2-1 USA, so I'm going to have to go with Canada, who's a one-and-a-half goal underdog. Against the spread.
You guys are bullying me. I'm saying the United States are going to win 2-1. It's a good bet, though. He's right.
To cover plus one and a half. I think it'll be a close game. It'll be a close game. One and a half will go underdog.
In three days? He picked up the accent?
I slept for 14 hours yesterday, too.
Yeah, everybody knows that.
What?
About damn time.
My people. The human race.
Impartial reporter.
Leider werde ich heute Abend nicht uniform sein. Ich habe immer noch Ankleidung und Fußunterschmerzen. Ich werde heute Abend leider nicht spielen.
Nein, nicht Wayne Gretzky. Donald Trump. Genau. Der Mann, der die Geldwerte des Anwesenden verpasst hat, weil er Lapsen in der Tri-Over in Daytona machen wollte, das ist auf ihn. Weil er alle in Kanada aufgeräumt hat, über Kanada als das 51.
Staat zu sprechen, und alle Tarife und alles, dass sie Kanadier haben, auch in regelmäßigen Saison-Games, die bis zu diesem Tournament gelandet sind, die Nationalhymne. Also politisch war dieses Tournament für die Nationen noch größer.
Ich stimme dazu. In Calgary konnten sie nicht über Edmonton kommen. Und natürlich haben sie in Kanada gespielt. Jetzt gehen wir in Amerika. Jetzt ist er der ganze Gesichtspunkt dieser Liga. Du siehst ihn in den Perrie-Ellis-Kommunikationen. Er hat seine eigenen Kleidungssponsoren. Er ist der Gesichtspunkt dieser nationalen Mannschaft. Und ich bin sehr glücklich darüber.
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Then I wanted to beat the bike, and so I kept jumping on it, and I absolutely love it. I mean, I'm the only one who uses it, but again, they got it for me. I mean, I had no idea. That's a little passive-aggressive, don't you think? Find your push, find your power with Peloton at OnePeloton.com. Stugatz here.
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That's why we're going to knock out one more episode real quick, and I might even go kick a New Year's Eve with Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen. You never know.
Dan, I don't know if you know what happened to the last black man that got drunk on CNN on New Year's Eve. They kind of ran him out the door there, Dan Levitan. I'm trying to keep a job. Limited, try to limit my ass. Not a fan of the holidays, Dan Levitan. I don't mind them, but I don't love it. I don't look forward to it.
And I'm also at that age now where people are just going to get me gifts I don't need. I appreciate, but I don't need. I'm at that age now where I look at television commercials, and I'm like, I kind of need that. I finally realized there's like three stages of television commercials. There's you're in shape. And then there's here's a pill that can fix it.
And then it's here's a chair to take your lazy ass up the stairs. And I'm between two and three. I saw a commercial for a bathtub with a front door. And I was like, I might. I might get that. I saw the same one. I was intrigued.
I don't even take baths. But if I had, like, if you could put, like, a chirp, chirp, and you have, like, a chirp lock on your back, that's baller, bro. This ain't even got nothing to do with orthopedics.
But people go, what do you want for Christmas? You think I'm going to tell you? You think I'm going to say out loud, I've been thinking about that bathtub with the front door. where you can just walk into your tub. That just sounds terrible.
So I will go home for the holidays like I always do and listen to family members confess terrible secrets under their breath between bites of food and act like they didn't go. You know you got three brothers in Dallas you never met. Pass the cornbread. You can't do that to people.
yeah the boy we we always you know i'm in a co-parenting situation and it's and it's good it's a very healthy one and you know we're gonna we're gonna like get him good gifts or whatever but it's gotta be learning um he wants a drone he's eight And so he wants a drone for Christmas. So to kind of audition him a little bit, I put him in the VR headset drone.
Let's see if you can drive the fake drone. And he would have essentially gutted himself in the stomach a couple of times with the open blade drone because it kept coming right back at him because he doesn't know what he's doing. So I don't think he's ready for that. And I don't have the health care set up to be taking care of a child who's sliced his leg open. Plus, it's a bad time for drones.
You know, Roy, it's a bad time for drones.
Oh, yeah, Jack, perfect time. Go ahead and send that up in there and get everybody scared, son. That'll be nice and smart. How stupid are people? It's the aliens. It's the aliens. First off, it's too many people saying that there's aliens for there to be aliens. There used to be one designated person per year who got vacuumed up into the sky. And now everybody see the alien? Come on, dog.
It was Randy Quaid from Independence Day telling you time and time again the whole movie. I'm telling you, they vacuumed me up there and they did it with me. And now everybody in Jersey, come on. You think aliens go into Jersey? They got guns in Jersey. Aliens ain't stupid. There's too many people over there. Why would you come to a populated area like that?
So yeah, we'll take my son to a museum. That's my point, Dan Levitar. We'll take him to a museum of natural history and why I have to stand there and pretend to be impressed by fossils. Can we stop acting like dinosaurs were so great? They died. They lost. And you dig up their bones, and you exalt them. And it's not like dinosaurs got ran off by pollution or mankind intervention.
You just lost to Mother Nature. You're weak. And these museums, you hang up all of these trophies of losers who just didn't evolve, didn't figure it out. You die. An asteroid hit, and you couldn't figure it out. And now I'm supposed to be impressed by your bones. But you can't say that because he's a child and you want him to be impressed by the world. I think the dinosaurs weren't real rumor.
It was started by parents who are tired of going to these museums.
people really believe that those drones are something from another world the the problem with conspiracy theories now is that they're too easily spread it's too easy to just say something stupid taylor swift the lizard lady who supported joe biden and people just go okay if you believed in something wild back in the day you had to print it on a flyer you had to stand on the corner and you had to pass flyers out and tell people what the hell was going on you tell you have to form a cult
Remember, why do you think these documentaries about cults is all from, like, the 70s and 80s, where people would read? There's no new cults, because you're too lazy. Like, if you believed something back in the day, you had to get out, you had to take people in the forest, build a commune, have a couple kids, and then the feds would raid you and shut you down. That's how conspiracy used to start.
Now you just say something stupid.
You should be able to earn your cult. You got to earn it. You got to work for it. You have to look another person in the face and go, hey, man. Because here's the thing. For all the weird stuff that you hear about the drone and the UFO, you haven't heard it from another person.
If you were standing in line at Starbucks and someone in front of you in line just turned and just looked at you, hey, man, you know those drones that's flying over New Jersey and The UFOs, man, the government don't want that. They don't want that. I know the truth. And then you decide whether or not to go in the woods with that man.
You recruit one by one, brick by brick, and now it's too easy to just say something stupid and our minds are already jello from all of the nonsense we watch on television that it's easier to believe than force someone to prove their and show their work.
At least back in the day, at least I grew up with rotten.com where you could show me a picture of Tupac's autopsy and then I can decide whether or not Tupac is alive.
But he's so right about this. You used to have to sell someone on your idea, on your cult.
There's aliens behind the comet come to my house and drink the poison. You wouldn't have done that off of a Reddit post. Marshall Applewhite had to go face-to-face
I think it's unfortunate that two young people have to live out their relationship in the eyes of people whose business it is not. you know, they're together. And my uncle used to say, you see two people being happy, let them be happy. For a young woman to have to go on the internet and explain every single thing where people are attacking her, it's sad, man.
You know, like, it's none of our business, their relationship. But she walked in, she's like, the girl made an eight-minute video, man, walking folks through. This incident was this. It was not what you thought. This incident was this. It was not what you thought. This incident So just let them be in love.
And even if they aren't in love, and even if Travis Hunter is headed into a bad relationship, let them, you got to learn. That's what your twenties is for. The twenties is for picking the wrong person and hoping you have enough money or therapy to survive it. It's fine. He's right, Dan. I didn't realize. Hallmark card.
It's none of our business. Let them live. Let the boy catch the ball to make the money to support his family. I'm just happy that this narrative, if there's one upside to following Travis Hunter and his fiance, is that the media hasn't lived inside of the narrative of Travis Hunter's father being in prison.
Because normally, if you have a jail story to tell about a black athlete, that's all they talk about is the daddy. Yeah, there's a 15-yard completion to Travis Hunter.
As you recall, his daddy grew up in jail for drug trafficking. Yeah. Travis had two brothers, both of whom died in a tragic catfish accident. And Travis lost his arm. And his daddy went to prison selling kilos of cocaine to get him another arm. And that's why he's a top tier receiver. Second and 10 now for the Buffaloes.
I would rather be arguing about whether or not he's in a happy relationship than seeing people continue to live in that narrative, which is, I guess, in a way, a win. But I just see two young people in love who unfortunately get to have their relationship play out in social media, which is sad. We all deserve the right to argue. You think I want people to know about that argument?
I got in at a Sbarro's Pizza at Century Plaza Mall in 1997. That's not cool.
Do you think this is too much football, college football? 12 teams. It's like we won it. Like the 12-team playoff is like McDonald's breakfast. We all thought we wanted it, and now we got it, and now I'm not sure if I wanted it. I don't know. Because here's what we forgot, Dan. Those middle weeks of December were for us to miss college football.
And then they give you a couple of random bowl games on the 27th and the 28th to pull in weed eater bowl, the TurboTax bowl or whatever the hell. And then you get the bit dogs, New Year's, all the way through the championship. And I just, I don't know, man. I think it's too much football. I think it's...
This was where we were supposed to have some NBA time to catch up on the NBA regular season if you hadn't checked in until college football ends. The NFL was supposed to have a set. Everybody's infringing on the NFL's December now. It's not fair.
This is the 12-team playoff is us rooting for a bunch of sevens that we think are tens. And they're competitive teams, and they deserve to be there. But you know Notre Dame. You know SMU's not going to do it. It's fine to watch, but I don't know. I enjoy that little break of missing college football, and then it comes back after Christmas, and I can renew the relationship with it. I don't know.
At least I'm not arguing for Alabama over SMU. I will accept that as a Southerner. I don't know. I'm not a fan of it. It's too much football, man.
No, but Roy is right. Time apart makes the relationship stronger. He is right about that. Exactly. There was one week where there was just Army-Navy. That's the saddest week of the football year. I know, but we used to have a full month. I didn't think about college football, see college football, deal with college football for a month, and then its absence made my heart grow fond.
It'll be 16 teams before you know it. I like it when our armed forces are good at football because it makes me feel like we're approaching more peacetime because they're not studying war. They can actually have time to look in their playbook. Because if Army was like 3 and 10, oh, we're going to war, buddy. Rock is about to fly. They're doing extra drills. That's why they miss practice.
I like it when the armed forces are good.
Love y'all.
That's a Saturday game.
But why can't you have them both? Like Saturday is the greatest Saturday in football history because of the college football playoff. This is traditionally the weekend you always get Saturday NFL games. Now you get three college football playoff games. What a day. Lucy, what do you got?
Since you have music behind you, I want you to sing your questions. Can you do that?
Yes.
I'm going to say A, Jalen Brunson.
I'm going to say Oklahoma City.
You said it at 10. You had a zero in there. I thought for sure it was one of those two. I mean, that's how you do multiple choice, you know?
Wow.
Yeah, probably not. I know. Stugaccio, I want to tell you a story. I'm serious here. My wife and my two daughters, they begged me to buy a Peloton. So I bought a Peloton. And then I watched that Peloton sit in my office and stare at me. So you know what I did one day? I looked at it. And so I decided to get off my ass and I jumped on the Peloton because no one else was using it and I paid for it.
I'm just remarking that you could shortchange a dog and it wouldn't know the difference. No! You know, I mean, that's... And you are correct, Greg. You're right.
There is, actually. What?
Okay, here it is. Adultery.
Cruise ships. Okay, first a quick disclaimer, more like a preemptive strike. Way back in 2019, I did a Back In My Day about theme cruises, which are awful. Now I'm here to talk about an even bigger and more pervasive trend in the cruise industry. If you've seen any of the many TV ads for cruises lately, you know what I'm talking about. It's all about the action and excitement now.
You see any of these ads? Just watching them makes me exhausted. People dive bombing feet first down terrifying vertical water flumes, bungee jumping out over the ocean, surfing simulators, tidal waves, indoor skydiving, scaling a rock, Zip lines. What am I, in a marine boot camp? I didn't sign up for a thrill ride. I don't want to compete. I want to relax on my cruise.
Get my money's worth on the drink card and doze on the deck in a chaise lounge with a dog-eared paperback on my lap. Preferably pride of a lion. Can't even do that. Nowadays, the decks are a raucous boulevard with serpentining conga lines of dancers in Carmen Miranda hats and ping pong tables. Tell me the genius who thought that up.
A ping pong ball weighs less than a tenth of an ounce versus gale force ocean wind. You can't relax anymore on a cruise deck because the ship has jogging trails as health nuts who forgot they were on vacation are huffing it past, constantly checking their smart watch to see if they're on pace. On pace for what? To be a more fit corpse? And why are there gyms on cruise ships in the first place?
It's an oxymoron. It's like having a cocktail lounge in a synagogue. I don't need a gym to work out. I'm doing 12-ounce curls with a Miller Lite bottle. You won't catch Greg Cody doing anything more strenuous on a cruise than playing a couple of holes of mini golf, watching my wife lose at bingo, getting annoyed during some trivia contest, or praying at the roulette wheel.
One other thing, it's not a Broadway or a Cirque du Soleil. I'm on a big, slow boat. I don't need a concert or a show production. Just give me an open buffet and a bar every 25 feet. Make cruise ships dull again. I'm Greg Cody, and that's how it was back in my day.
Yeah, cocktail lounge, I believe I said.
Right, yeah, eight or nine months, yeah.
I didn't know they had a gym.
Same.
Or a fourth book, I should say. Yeah, counting fins at 50, which I don't really count.
If you had, you would count it. Exactly. Yes. They've approached me about another book. Nice. Yeah, I'm thinking about it. Look at you. Yeah. My plate's a little full right now, but we'll see.
I mean, I will thank the audience to the end of the earth. They've made all the books successful, including Stu Gatz's book, Personal Record Book. The great thing about books is that they age well. You put out a book and it really never gets old. People are reading it all the time, right? It's a great bathroom book.
No. I love the name Ed, so I'm going to give you a special dispensation and waive your fine. Really? Yeah, I'm going to waive the fine. Do you have that power?
All right, put in a buck. Call Venmo. That's not how it works. Call Venmo? Yeah, you know, send Venmo a buck. Eddie Ballgame. Right. Call Venmo. Whoever Venmo is. Venmo, I assume it was somebody's name. Send him a buck. You don't need two bucks. Because I've waived a dollar.
I'm not fined according to this fine system. I'm not charged by this. Oh, well, you should be. I mean, that's absolutely a fine when you misname someone. Especially one of your oldest friends. Yeah, I mean, Ed. Nobody calls me Ed. Well, my wife does sometimes, but we won't get into that.
Way to speak for me.
I have an approach to do Broadway, but that's a whole other story. Continue. You'd be good at it.
In respect for Ron, not wanting to interrupt him, I murmured. I did a low murmur.
It was half a mutter. A mutt. We knew what he was thinking. I mutted for a dog, get it? Mutt? Mutter? Dog?
Right. Out of respect to Ron. The dog's been taught to take something that the owner gives it.
You talked over him.
It was a personal aside, not meant for the air. I muttered.
I love Funyuns because they're super salty and super crunchy, which is what I love in a snack.
Do they have to be thin?
I hate the thick onion ring, though. When the onion is like that, it's... You hate that? Yeah. Yeah, too much. It's a different appetizer. You've got to have the thin...
It works with the blooming onion. The blooming onion, that was good. Those were little pieces, though. Still is. No, no, no, no. They were pretty thick. But they were small, though. They weren't big, thick rings. Yeah, they weren't rings. Yeah, they were like petals. Yeah, they were petals. Exactly.
Exactly.
Oh, nice.
Let's go.
That is the truth. I sent A.J. Brown a whole box full of Pride of Alliance.
It's funny you did that. Wow.
But why is there a war? No, it was a civil war and they went all the way back to the roots of the family. Like, you can tell what happened here. Danny McBride got extra high one day. Like, super high. Like... Höher als er wahrscheinlich je gewesen wäre, was viel sagt. Und er ist so, was, wenn wir ein Civil War-Episode machen und es ist Bradley Cooper?
Es war seltsam.
Ich denke, ist das die Lüge, dass sie uns mit dem ersten Episode verabschiedet haben? Ist das der Lächeln, hey, wir haben Bradley Cooper für ein Episode und wir spielen es direkt die ganze Zeit?
Du denkst, er würde aufstehen? Das ist eine gute Theorie. Da geht 30 von meinen Minuten. Ich habe 30 von meinen Minuten auf das verpasst. Es war ein bisschen über das. Und ich war einfach so verrückt daran, weil mein TV-Zeit jetzt prekär ist.
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Nein, das ist ein gesundes Skepsis, weil wir gesehen haben, dass die Quarterbacks ein gutes Bounce-Back-Jahr haben und dann den Markt schicken und einen schrecklichen Deal signen. Das ist ein seltsamer Zeitpunkt, um für Seattle zu resetten. Sie waren ein schmutziges Team, das im Playoff-Mix war. Aber ich glaube, sie haben ihr Team evaluiert. Das ist wahrscheinlich unser Seelen.
Also, wir müssen das alles zerstören.
Nicht, um noch einmal seinen Namen zu nennen. Nein, das glaube ich nicht. Nur weil ich Geno Smith schon länger verwendet habe. Er ist ohne Zweifel jünger als Geno Smith. Es ist ein guter Versuch, zu sagen, egal wie furchtbar oder furchtbar du auf Geno bist, wir haben wahrscheinlich sein Bestes gesehen.
Er ist ein länger in den Händen Quarterback, er ist eine Stopgap-Solution, er war eine Stopgap-Solution für Seattle, weil niemand jemals gedacht hat, auch während er diese Jahre hatte, dass sie den Typ des Teams hatten, mit dem er sie zum nächsten Niveau bringen könnte. Also ist er nur ein Jahr lang ein Lohn für Las Vegas. Und ich weiß nicht,
Ich glaube, weil der Unterschied in der Zeit ist, würde ich Sam Darnold lieber haben als Gino Smith. Gino Smith hatte ein wirklich gutes Jahr vor drei Jahren.
I'm with you. I stayed out of it because just to show before, I was arguing that Tyler Lockett, kind of sneaky, has been just as many years, like their numbers are really damn close. You could make an argument that over the course of five years, Tyler Lockett, while he didn't fit the profile conventionally, was their actual number one target.
Wir wissen, dass Antonio Brown verrückt war, bis er Pittsburgh verlassen hat.
True enough.
Und das ist ein Upgrade in Talent, richtig? Ich denke, viele Leute positionieren sich so, aber ich meine, Brees Hall und Garrett, nein, nein, nein, ich meine Aaron Rodgers, um zu Pittsburgh zu gehen. Najee Harris, ich glaube, die Abwechslung von DK Metcalf macht das etwas wichtiger, aber ich mag Wilson als Wide Receiver besser als ich DK oder Pickens mag.
Ich mag Brees Hall besser als Running Back als ich Najee Harris mag. Harris ist auch raus, er ist nicht mehr da.
Nachi Harris ist ein Charger? Old face, new place, that happened. There was something refreshing about yesterday with the X-Outage. That even front offices were complaining about it because they weren't working with all the information. Because you would get an alert and you wouldn't see the whole thing. You'd try to click the tweet, it wouldn't expand because X had all these issues.
It was a throwback. They were breaking news on television for folks yesterday.
I have a question though. Dan did the thing that I don't Ich glaube nicht, dass es akkurat ist. Er hat gesagt, dass man Aaron Rodgers und seine Mannschaften aufrufen soll. Was für eine verrückte Aussage. Er hat letztes Jahr 11 Spiele gespielt. Er war schlecht. Er ist fünf Jahre älter als Russell Wilson. Er ist auch ein schlechter Quarterback als Russell Wilson. Wenn man sich QBR anschaut.
Was machen wir hier? Wenn wir vergleichen und wir schauen auf das Alter und wir projizieren für die Zukunft und wir schauen, was sie am liebsten gemacht haben, war Russell Wilson besser. Zwei Spiele gegen die Miami Dolphins haben euch alle verrückt?
Ich bin ein bisschen überrascht. Was machen wir? Hier ist ein älterer Star. Ein viel älterer Star.
Ich sage nicht, dass es nicht eine schwierige Entscheidung ist, um zu gewinnen. Du weißt die Pros und Cons, aber je mehr du es praktisch anschaust, um Nummern zu zählen, I'm not even talking about off-field headaches. It doesn't make sense.
He has fallen off completely since trying to force a ball to Devontae Adams and missing a wide-open receiver underneath in the playoffs against the San Francisco 49ers. He's fallen off a cliff. And on top of that, he tore his Achilles. This doesn't make any sense.
Eine andere Sache, die du mit Aaron Rodgers anrufst, ist, hey, was macht dich am komfortabelsten? Al Lazard macht das. Nathaniel Hackett macht das. Der Typ hat, er ist sein eigenes schlimmster Feind, weil er so viele mediocre Leute zu Erfolg gebracht hat, dass sie es nie anders sehen würden. McCarthy, all diese OCs, die Jobs bekommen haben. Fatt Nummer 80.
Er hat einfach alle hochgeheizt, bis zu dem Punkt, dass sein Geist geformt hat, dass das, wer ich bin, ist. Gib mir diese mediocre Leute. Stattdessen. Hopefully Tomlin is different. If they do bring him in, I actually do think Tomlin would be different and I can see how it could work. Do I trust Aaron Rodgers more to not lose me a Mike Tomlin game plan than I trust Russell Wilson?
That's the conversation I guess folks should be having.
Das ist einer der schlechtesten Fits für das Team. Weil der Turnover. Sie müssen in den Margen gewinnen. Sie können nicht den Ball überstehen. Und Jameis wird es überstehen.
It is a big number.
Cousins at the end of the year is as bad as I've ever seen.
Damn, we are such Aaron Rodgers jilted lovers. He was our favorite of all time. And he hurt us repeatedly. And we just want to believe he was the best version of himself. But I think we got to accept who he is now.
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Erinnerst du dich an das Video von Alec Baldwin im Gericht, als sie einen Beobachter überprüfen, der ein paar gute Dinge zu sagen hatte über Alec und an einem Punkt ... Dann warum nennst du ihn einen Blitzsucker? Und er nimmt seinen Kopf schnell hoch, das war die einzige Reaktion, die er hatte. That was Rob Thompson's look after the third home run.
No, I saw an unfortunate video of a Trump impersonator ambushing him outside of his apartment to ask him about killing somebody. It didn't seem like a fun life.
That's also like In augmented reality. They put people in these situations. Reality shows. I'm with Greg. I want to harken back to a day when people stopped being polite and started getting real.
Which is why I don't need reality shows. Ich habe sie komplett ausgeschnitten. Ich schaue keine Realität an. Was ich mache, ist, Leute auf Social Media zu folgen. Das ist genug von einer Realität. Ich konsumiere Speed via Clips. Ich denke, okay, das ist mein Realitäts-Superstar, dieser YouTube-Streamer. Ich denke, das ist wirklich, wo die Realität weg ist.
Und es gibt diese Realität-Typen-Shows auf YouTube. Das gesagt, es gibt die Wanderpump-Ruhe und all diese sehr populären Shows. Die Kardashians sind immer noch Realität-TV-Gold, aber es macht nichts für mich.
Ich brauche keine Paul-Brothers-Show und ich bin sicher, dass es super erfolgreich wird. Es ist auf Max. Ich brauche es persönlich nicht, weil sie immer sind. Sie sind wirklich immer da. Yeah, their whole life is a reality show. So why do you need a reality show about...
And Jersey Shore. I think in terms of building an economy that set up generational wealth for that family and all the kids, it's a Kardashians.
Ich habe keine Zeit für das. Wie hast du Zeit? Du hast ein Kind. Wie hast du Zeit für Realitätsserien?
Was für ein Punkt in meinem Leben? Ich habe die letzte Saison von White Lotus gesehen. Ich habe es genossen. Ich habe meine Frau gesagt, mach es ohne mich. Ich habe keine Zeit. Indian Wells wird es nicht selbst sehen. Ich habe basically drei Dinge pro Woche. Es ist Hockey auf den zweiten TV's. Wo ich zoniert bin, was auch immer auf dem Hauptschirm ist, ist mein Weihes Domain. Cyclone Mondays.
Das war auf dem zweiten Screen. Ich musste aus dem Weg gehen für Big City Greens, weil meine Tochter ein Terrorist ist mit diesem Haupt-TV. Ich habe einfach mein Leben geschlossen. Ich kann nichts folgen. Ich habe Indian Wells, wenn ich um 2.30 Uhr aufwache, um Mon Feast zu sehen, das wird immer für mich da sein. Ich habe drei und eine halbe Stunde TV und ich spiele und schaue Left Turns.
Dude, I'm mad. I watched Righteous Gemstones because I'm like, this is going to be the show that I follow.
I'm so mad.
This is a dangerous game, Righteous Gemstones. And I'm sorry to be going at our partners over at Max. But I love this show. This is one of the few shows that I've been like, let me binge this one. I'm in. What you did to me on that first episode was wrong. Please don't do it to me for a second episode. I need Walton Goggins. I need Baby Billy.
The talent budget definitely got blown on Bradley Cooper because there wasn't a single other actor in that episode that I recognized and that's hard to do for an HBO show.
Not great, no.
Because he's injured.
No, I said he might take some ice recovery.
Yeah, he's injured. I said he was injured yesterday. Get out there, tough guy. Jeez.
Well, first of all, it was about six hours after we left this news. Well, you could have broken it early. You could have hung around. I could have hung around for six extra hours.
Well, yes. Okay. I missed the news. Thank you for pointing that out. There were no rumblings? No, no. There was no rumblings.
Well, no.
That is correct. No. No. I did not see a cardboard box with any of his belongings in it. No.
Something happened. Well, the funny thing is, the last person who got busted for PEDs and suspended for 20 games was Nate Smith. He was at Vegas. He's a Panther now.
So of course you have to go.
What sound is that? What was he doing?
Oh, he's on fire.
What the hell was that, Greg? Yeah, no. I love it. Stugatz. Roy, let me explain it to you. You know more about hockey than I do. And this is coming from a guy that's watched Connor play six times. Right. If that.
That's psychotic. That is not a rookie move. That's psychotic. That's something else. It's normal. Normal. I've done it.
He spoke for 10 seconds on the front end. I didn't understand what was happening. But I was hypnotized by the shirt. This is one day that I'm hoping that the stock market tanks just so David can lose his shirt, literally. Yep.
It's also off for the Par 3 as well.
Oh.
Vijay! Remember that? That was fun. You get an exemption, you play that thing.
That's men's college basketball for you. That's been my experience. Granted, I support a really bad men's basketball team this year. But, you know, it's trapping, lots of trapping and lots of missed shots. It's not great. But I will say, the thing I'm most impressed about is just the Florida program. As you know, the barometer for greatness is what's happened in my lifetime.
and they're tied, I think, for second for most titles in my life. I mean, it's UConn, which is the top of the heap, and then a whole bunch of teams that are in that mix, and it's Florida. Florida's randomly a college basketball blue blood now.
Forever a champion.
I was hoping for a better payoff because I didn't really have much interest in watching Florida win a title or potentially win a title, but I did love Saturday. I thought Saturday's Final Four was a great day of sports, and one that that sport in particular really needed. Final Fours, they're kind of a mixed bag, and you had back-to-back really captivating games, teams that had...
win probabilities in the 90 percentile, find a way to blow it. I thought Saturday was a really great day for the sport. I really wish that they followed it up with a captivating championship on the women's side, too. I was hoping that they followed their Final Four with a really dramatic... I mean, you saw South Carolina go down, but that game was terrible.
The championship games did not deliver this year.
But we feel like the best team won, yeah? We had a Final Four that featured four one-seeds.
It's Houston.
Not a good game. You're admitting yourself that all these teams were close. We're splitting hairs in a one-game sample. Sometimes the games turn into rock fights. I mean, it's not uncommon for a championship final to be ugly.
It's still going to be remembered as Walter Clayton's tournament, I think. I would have liked a better final for him, but when I think back on the tournament, yeah, it wasn't that great of a tournament, but you had the Texas Tech.
You had Clayton have the best moments, I think, in that tournament, and I would have loved to have seen him cap it off with a performance in a championship game where you can just point and say, that was that kid's time.
I'll join you on your side of the fence come NBA postseason time.
I'm glad you said that because I think some in our audience, perhaps even some on our show, are learning that right now.
It's the stock market. It's the stock market. The Nasdaq stocks.
You're going to have your Gators, Cougars takes now for the stock market?
They do a shadow show for 30 minutes.
Maybe your wallet.
Wherever Mrs. Muller keeps a peanut butter.
I have one of those in my fridge.
It's just to tip a pizza delivery person.
I just like it. It was a good gag gift and I'm not ready to say goodbye to it. You never know when you need a buck.
Except Tiger. Yeah, Tiger's the only one that's aging. He's struggling with it.
I like the NASDAQ buzzword. S&P.
You just said it and forget it, right? You can afford to.
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I know. Stock market's now deemed political. I'm just so tired, man.
Tired of all the winning.
You're not going to believe where Buzz Williams is. What?
And there's a lot of that around the league right now. Especially as we start ramping up to the playoffs and teams are jockeying for draft position. There are some starting fives out there, hand to God. I maybe know two of these names.
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So God's Bradmore Sean's on the Panthers now.
Wow. Have they won since? No. We had an OT win. That was one. I mean, a lot of guys are out right now. No big games in March.
A quick scan of the internet, I'd say Richmond Webb is atop that mountain.
I think because of the injuries and the fact that he wasn't here a long time, that kind of... See, Brandon Albert was actually a good player for the Miami Dolphins. He made a Pro Bowl, had left tackle, but he was only here for like two, three seasons. And I think that Armstead is in that class. Like, oh yeah, he was good when he was around.
Cuervo.
You don't see that often. A big red carpet party. Mike McDaniel's hair is very curly now. Wow. I saw that. I saw Drew Brees was there. Yeah, luminaries. There were luminaries whose careers have been affected by Teron Armstead. Really one of the greats of the modern era.
He's also a wide receiver in the NFL. Usually at 30, everything falls off. For example, Cooper Cupp, who's one of the greats in Rams history, he just turned 31. Puka's got several years to fall off.
pretty good take they do ask more of their wide receivers downfield blocking they put a real emphasis on that in the scouting process so i'm going to look into why everyone hates playing there and why every season there's someone threatening to retire instead of continuing to play for the rams or coach the rams or whatever oh they're all full of shit they're just all trying to get more money that's what it is i mean aaron donald was legit although he did draw it out like for a couple seasons he did yes
Hat das nicht alle anderen Verteidigungsleute in der Liga in Erinnerung, wenn Patrick Mahomes das Gegenteil des Verteidigungsleuten ist? Und wenn er den Ball bekommt, bist du tot?
Ich weiß alles über Sport. Ja.
Dan, this is a splendiferous and duplicitous day. I have my red and blue lights on in the background to celebrate democracy for maybe the final time, Dan.
Ich kann die Wahlen nicht vertrauen. Weil die Leute dumm sind, Dan. Wir müssen verstehen, dass manche Leute zu beobachten wollen. Es gab einige Leute, die nicht entschieden haben, welchen Kandidaten sie wählen wollten, bis sie Trump am McDonalds gesehen haben. Und dann waren sie so, okay, jetzt habe ich all die Informationen, die ich brauche. Wir sind einfach dumm als Land.
Es ist einfach so, wie es ist. Weißt du, wie es ist, wenn du eine Person in deinem Büro hast, die den Superbowl-Winner wählt, aufgrund dessen, welcher Team die beste Koordinierung hat? Diese Person wählt auch heute in dieser Wahl.
So optimism aplenty there, Roy. I will say that if there was ever a day, man, for you to flirt with a woman today is the day. Because... Michael, I'm interested here. What do you think the committee does with Indiana?
Am I the only person that doesn't like it or I get nervous when I... I feel like when our armed forces are good at college football, it's a good sign of where we are in terms of internal conflict globally. Weil normalerweise, wenn die Armee so 4 und 8 ist, 4 und 6, nie in eine Bühne, und jetzt gehen sie plötzlich raus und sagen, okay, cool, sie studieren nicht so viel Kriegsgeschichte.
Also haben die Spieler mehr Zeit mit ihrem Spielbuch. Also fühle ich mich, als wäre es ein guter Beweis, dass die Truppen nicht geplant werden. Ich bin nicht hier, um... Das ist nicht das Semishore-Bett der Woche.
Das ist die perfekte Möglichkeit, ein Spiel zu stehlen. Du wirst von Schmerzen enttäuscht. Du hast Kade Otten da draußen. Du wettest dein Herz aus. Du gibst deinem Verteidiger die Möglichkeit, das Spiel auf der Straße zu gewinnen. Wegen dessen, was passiert. Patrick Mahomes kriegt den Ball. Du siehst es nicht. Und jetzt ist deine Saison ziemlich schlecht, ohne diese Überraschung zu gewinnen.
They have to. Sie müssen. Und dann haben Sie auch, glaube ich, eine latinische Populismus, die jetzt aktiviert worden ist. Schau, wenn du Bad Bunny und Ricky Martin tweetest über Politik, die Woche vor der Wahl, gibt es definitiv etwas anderes in der Luft. Kann ich euch eine Frage über Kamala auf SNL kurz stellen? Ja, nur für den Zweck der Analyse.
You put one candidate on and because of the laws you have to give equal time to the other candidate. NBC accommodated Trump by giving him, I think, 90 seconds of free ads at some point. If you're NBC, why not just put Trump on any one of your other shows for two minutes straight? Like, I don't know, Law & Order SVU. Special episode.
Just a special episode. It doesn't have to be campaign ads. They literally could just go, hey man, do you want to be on The Voice for a couple of minutes? And that would have been way better than some Trump ad. You know the ads that kept running during the World Series where it's about Kamerlin, prisoners and all of that.
Ich mag diesen Kerl. Das eine, was ich wirklich hasse an dieser politischen Saison, ist, dass ich wirklich... I know that the candidates pay for the ad time, but no political ad during sports. It's just such a buzzkill in the middle. Like you want to go pre-game, post-game, fine, put all the ads you want.
But like a guy will just like, Freddie Freeman hit a walk-off Grand Slam, and then we'll be right back with the trophy presentation. Kamala Harris is chopping off all the genitals of the prisoners. It's like, whoa, bro. Woah! Nehmt das für die regelmäßige Saison. Jeder Sport, der in der regelmäßigen Saison ist, hat Kampagnen-Ads. Aber ich denke, World Series, ich weiß nicht, es war ein Buzzkill.
Aber die Prostate-Ads stören dich nicht? Das ist okay. The ads for all kinds of medical... I'm 45, Michael. It's about that time. I'm turning the corner. And those are the things I need to be connecting. But I'm almost at that age where them commercials on Fox News gonna be for me. So... I just gotta think about that a little bit.
Und es ändert wahrscheinlich deinen ganzen Ansatz an diesem wirklich massiven Tag.
You know, what's interesting is watching Saturday Night Live had a sketch in 2016 with Chappelle and Chris Rock and a couple of people where they had the Black people watching the election party and not being as surprised as the white people that Hillary was losing that night.
Ich denke, es ist ein bisschen so, aber ich denke wirklich, dass wir, wenn Trump sagt, dass wir die Lizenz von CBS oder NBC entfernen müssen, sind wir außerhalb der kranken Medien. Jetzt sind wir in der Lage, gesamte Entitäten zu attackieren.
Und in einer seltsamen Art und Weise hoffe ich, dass das unser Abfall wird, weil jetzt handelt man sich um Corporate Money und Corporate Money ist immer Trumps Politik. Aber das macht mich legitimiert besorgt, dass dieser Mann einfach an jemanden hinkommt und sagt, da ist er, holt ihn, das ist unser neuer Feind. Und dann ist das, was du tun musst.
Du weißt, du sprichst über das Hinknien an Liz Cheney, das Hinknien an die Medien. Das ist alles in der letzten Woche. Ich bin als Mitglied der Medien und als Stand-Up-Comedian mehr besorgt, was für eine Mallevolenz Michael spricht. Natürlich wird es alle schaden. Aber wenn du sagst, dass du deinen Job nicht magst, kann es etwas seltsam werden, wenn du mit der Kamera da bist.
LA ist im Spiel. Es ist eigentlich ziemlich auf dem Geld.
Ja, ziemlich gut. Ist es Soto due for his... Wo wurde Luke Skywalker gesendet, um all das von Yoda zu lernen? Hogwarts. Yeah, Hogwarts. He's due for his, like, exile year. He's due, like, every great player has their, like, five-year exile money grab contract. A-Rod went to Texas for an absurd amount. Who's the boy went to Seattle? Canoe. Before the steroid.
Es gibt bestimmte Spieler, die einfach sagen, weißt du was, lass mich einfach ein paar Jahre lang in einem seltsamen Markt Geld verdienen und dann komme ich zurück zu den höchsten Biddern ein bisschen später. Ich fühle mich nicht so, dass Soto auf jeder Seite endet. Er wird mit den Minnesota Twins enden oder etwas Verrücktes.
All respect to the twins, but you know you're not the right place for him. But he'll come there because they'll pay 840 or something stupid.
I show up at one. I'm only there two hours before.
Thank you, Brits. Thank you. Well, here's the thing. The show is a British remake that's been on for 30, 35 years. So they know how, they have an assembly line in order of how to ideate the content and all of that stuff. So you don't have to slave over stuff and show up every day for a whole week.
You know by Thursday what's stepped on versus what's still fresh that you can talk about and what the angles are. So it's a good time, man. It really is. And then we get to kind of
Was ich wirklich für den Show hoffe, ist, dass es wie die britische Version wächst, wo wir mehr rechte Hände haben, die eigentlich Leute sind, die normalerweise nicht auf der Netzwerke wären, aber auf diesem Show kommen würden, weil wir die Atmosphäre versucht haben, zu kreieren, wo wir ein bisschen Politik sprechen können, ein bisschen Ribi, aber es sind immer nur Lachen.
Und ich denke, das ist auch das Problem, weil, wenn man sich auf die Frage stellt, wie Komedien, Komedien wollen Freiheit von Konsequenzen. Jeder will die Freiheit der Sprache, aber sie wollen keine Konsequenzen auf der anderen Seite davon. Und ich denke, Komödie in einem non-komödiellen Setting wird immer Dinge anders interpretiert werden.
Ich kenne Hinchcliffe nicht auf persönlicher Ebene, er ist nicht ein Typ, den ich täglich schicken kann. Aber ich bin bereit zu betten, weil ich viele Roast-Comics kenne, dass sie nicht alle Sachen glauben, die sie sagen, wenn sie sagen, was sie sagen, wenn sie lachen über das Deus oder den Comedy-Central Roast oder was auch immer. Greg Giraldo war einer der Besten daran.
Er wollte nicht alle Sachen, die er an die Leute sagte. Aber wenn du es in einem bestimmten Forum sagst, in diesem politisch beantragten Zeitraum, dann wird das designiert und bezeichnet sein, dass es dein Glauben ist. Und ich denke, das ist der echte... Das unfreundliche Teil des Hinchcliffs ist, dass er von oben nach unten gesucht werden wird, weil die Jokes gesagt wurden.
Ich liebe es, wenn die beiden Verteidiger einander spielen. Sie bringen einfach das Beste einander. Seit der Schule. Es ist einfach etwas Besonderes im Luftraum, wenn Baker Mayfield Patrick Mahomes aufnimmt. Das ist wahrscheinlich warum. Nicht DeAndre Hopkins. Nicht, dass er den Rishi Rice-Spot mit jemandem, der kompetent ist, füllt. Das ist nicht das, was es ist.
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Es ist der Fakt, dass Patrick Mahomes das Gridiron genommen hat und Baker Mayfield weggegangen ist.
That was a time for me to say it.
What are they calling Heinz these days? Ooh. Aquasher? You can't get behind that. That became a field.
Oh. Touchdown Jesus is not overlooking a gridiron?
There you go. Millions and millions and millions. Ford Field, the rare indoor gridiron.
Well, they don't even have that in the NFL. What do you mean? Does Mahomes make 50 million? That seems like a lot.
Goff's making 53 million?
Es gab eine Ruhe im Jahr.
Es muss eine Tundra sein, die gefroren ist. Nein, das ist eine Tundra. Das ist anders. Du verwirrst Tundras und Gritirons. Ich verstehe es. Heute ist... Es ist viel los, aber du verwirrst Tundras und Gritirons. Ein Gridiron kann Sprinkler auf dem ersten Tag des Frühjahrs haben. Der Hund schlägt einen Gridiron. Deine Worte, ich habe Abstand.
Das ist die Grundlage.
Aber die Mathematik wird von Jungs, die 14 Millionen Dollar für die Position verdienen, nicht diese unglaubliche Menge, die ich gerade gelernt habe. Wow, wir hören das zum ersten Mal. 50 Millionen Dollar. Du kannst das gegen Patrick Mahomes nicht machen. Wegen dessen, was passiert. Wegen dessen, was... Weißt du was? Es gab Leute, die in diesem Büro arbeiten.
Ich nenne keine Namen, aber ich bin wahrscheinlich einer davon, der so schnell ins Schlafen gefangen hat, als das Spiel in den Verteidigungsraum ging und wusste, was passieren würde. Wirklich? Ja. Und das ist klar, der richtige Schuss für Kansas City wird einen frühen Schuss geben und sie werden einen Touchdown schießen.
So many bad things have happened there.
Heaven. But Dan is touting math that is currently successful at a 0% clip. They changed the overtime rules in that sport because of what happened to Patrick Mahomes one off season where he lost a coin toss and he lost it to Tom Brady. And then he won a coin toss and other quarterbacks like Josh Allen didn't get an opportunity. He is a math breaker.
So you gotta go on vibes, especially when you're the Tampa Bay Bucks, fighting to keep your season alive, decimated by injuries, and you have a quarterback that's playing hot. You gotta go for it, you gotta.
Zuerst mit der Mathematik und jetzt mit diesem. Der Typ will nur Fakten ignorieren.
But advanced math takes into account variables. And I don't know, you said it was 0 for 4. I don't know the names of the quarterbacks that they went up against.
Wie ist der Mood da? Sie haben einen für zwei gespielt. Baker hatte einen Rollen. Ich meine, das ist so gut, wie ich ihn gespielt habe, wenn man die Umstände betrachtet. Kontextuell, ein errorfreier Baker Mayfield, wenn er essentiell nur einen tiefen End hat und er nicht für zwei auf der Straße geht, das ist ein Textbuch da. Was machen wir da?
I appreciate your ability to create a spirited debate on something that you're not even on the side of. I think you're aligned with us on this one. The variables change when it's the greatest quarterback of all time.
He might have caught up to Aaron Rodgers in terms of all-time quarterback rating last night.
So what happens when another mathematician bombs in with that stat? You got two competing math stats.
Ja. Ich meine, wir wissen alle, dass er sehr gut ist. Und diese ersten und zweiten Tore, wenn du sie mit dem Rest deines Karriers vergleichst, dann scheint das ein Ausgleich zu sein. Das gibt mir den Eindruck, dass er einfach versucht, Dinge auf der ersten und zweiten Tore herauszufinden. Er hat verschiedene Personal. Und er hat nur ein paar Hacks genommen.
Und er weiß genau, wann er locken muss und der Größte sein muss.
So the Save's surname is derived from Old French, so it would have to be a Frenchman.
Didn't the Reds have someone named Balfour? Yeah. Not good. Now Strike 3, that's a good name for a pitcher. Good last name.
High Heat.
Du weißt es nicht? Nein. Ich wette, du hattest einen. Ich hatte keinen.
Oh. Keine Motorola Razor. Telegraf-Maschine? Nach dem. Der Motorola Razor, Dan, war der, der wirklich, wirklich dünn war. Es flieg über, aber es war so dünn wie ein Razor-Blade. Deshalb nannten sie es den Razor.
You're also doing this to Ron on a very special day. Ron, I want to be the first to wish you and your wife Rhonda a happy anniversary.
How heartfelt is... I'm the only one that's wished him a happy anniversary here, just for the record.
Er ist definitiv Top 20, sicher. Ich denke, er sollte in Ordnung sein, aber er scheint auch Ich weiß nicht, warum. Er macht es so, als wäre es ein Bedürfnis und er will es nicht tun. Ich weiß nicht, ob er uns bitten will, es zu tun, oder ob er uns sagt, ja, du musst es wirklich tun. Aber das ist eine coole Sache. Und für irgendeinen Grund macht er es so, als wäre es ein Wunsch für ihn.
Ich verstehe es nicht ganz.
This might just be a negotiation for him. So like he's not... What should be more valuable to you?
Es ist ziemlich exklusiv hier. Du kommst nicht rein.
Ich weiß nicht, es kam nicht zu dir, aber es gab ein bisschen Geheimhaltung durch... Deine Handler. ...die Mitarbeiter, die mit dir im Speakeasy waren.
Mit Schuentes. Nein, er war einer der Leute, die sich entfernt haben. Er war nicht derjenige, der sich entfernt hat. Vier Saison. Es war eine Vier-Saison-Situation.
Und das letzte Bild, das ich von Ethan gesehen habe, war, als ob er ein totaler Tool bei den Panthers war. Schau dir das an, wie er mit den Oberflächen, mit den vertikalen Streifen, mit den Zubas-Oberflächen anwächst.
Gute Talent hier.
I mean, Dan, I think you take the support you can get.
Well, no, we knew what was going to happen.
I'm not a speakeasy guy. I'm a man of the people. People say VIP treatment, I say, no thank you. Go away.
Just Ethan.
I don't think Ethan's really... Is he an employee? Did we pay him? What does he do?
I would have let Ethan in. If it was up to me, the door would be wide open. Saloon doors, that's my policy. Ethan doesn't get paid, he just gets to be in all the group chats. Gets paid in vibes.
Ja, da sind wir. Er hätte 60-Tore gehabt, dann wäre er da gewesen. 59-60 ist... Dantro Willis, das ist eine bessere Saison als Stanton.
Der Chuck macht mehr Einfluss auf ihn. Der Bubble Jimmy muss beobachtet werden.
Wenn du individuelle Spiele machst, erinnerst du dich an das Spiel, in dem Cody Slams Drogen bezahlt. Ja. Also könnte das da sein.
Ich war alle Tage da. Nur das eine Foto.
Okay, put that down.
Okay, schau, lass mich dir was sagen. Ich werde es an etwas sehen, weil die Bubble in Miami nicht passiert ist. Das ist das, was ich frage.
Nein, aber wir machen nur Momente. Sind die Momente in Miami zu haben? Und müssen sie bei der Heimteam sein? Weil das ist Shohei Otani's 50-50-Game-Count, weil das in Miami war. Das ist ein Klassiker, Billy. Aber er war ein Besucher. Klassiker, Billy. Ich frage nur.
Also Mike, The Rock beat John Cena to WrestleMania here. That was electric.
Very quiet. Er war so nett.
Wir hatten eine Sache, wo ich eine Stunde und eine halbe Zeit da war, nachdem wir fertig waren. Und ich war gerade auf dem Weg, um ihm zu sagen, okay, es ist deine Zeit. Und ich sah, dass er all das Equipment packt. Und ich war so, ich helfe dir mit allem, was du brauchst. Und dann kamen wir und haben eine Sache gemacht.
Und dann fühlte ich mich, als wäre es unangenehm, weil er einige seiner Sachen umpackt, um das Interview für das BIP zu machen. Aber ich glaube, er wollte niemandem zuhören, sie für etwas zu fragen.
Es muss eine Non-Championship-Edition geben, weil Championship-Games Trump alle anderen. Leon Lett ist ein Moment.
Das war in Miami. Was war das Spiel, in dem sie keine komplett verletzte Saison hatten? Wer war es, der die... Eric Cole. War es Camarillo? Camarillo, ja.
That's why it's a different category. Championship category is different.
Games, Emilio Bonifacio's opening day.
I think.
The Save. The Bobbery. Bob Save would be a great name for a closer.
Can we make this a Mount Gregmore, which we do on the Greg Cody Show, which is a top five? Then I would have Marino. There we go. Mount Gregmore.
We're just doing moments? That's on the Mount Rushmore of moments.
Older than Joey. What's Wade's moment? You kidding me? Just go outside.
Also addressing the wrong Wu-Tang member in Vegas.
Yeah.
How great is this?
Yeah, anyone can make a submission, yeah. All right, I'm on it. One of our submissions will just be Adrian Brody's acceptance speech at the Oscars.
You should have run through the stop sign. There's always that guy with the thing leading you. You should have run through the stop sign.
But he's the standard.
I do have another for a Dan moment. Does this one make the top Mount Rushmore, Mike? The first time we saw Dan put french fries on a salad.
That's a strong one. I'll never forget that.
He looks great. Really?
Three minutes in, he goes, the music starts playing, and he's like, turn that off, guys, I'll be quick, I'm wrapping up. And then he goes off for another two and a half minutes. Awful.
Just spitballing here for potential Dan moments. There was the time he made this noise.
I don't think that makes a cut.
It sounded like a baseball being hit.
Like if I'm considering him for a role, I see that speech. Nope. Someone else.
McConaughey's speech a few years ago, that was good.
Well, yeah. Thank you. He is looking good.
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Roy, you know that moment when you're out watching puck and the server comes over and asks the table, what can I get you guys? And everyone freezes up. You know what you should do? What should I do, Mike? You've got to have some confidence. Or as Jagermeister calls it, shotfidence. I love it. If everyone's struggling, take control. Just order for the whole table.
Roy, you know that moment when you're out watching puck and the server comes over and asks the table, what can I get you guys? And everyone freezes up. You know what you should do? What should I do, Mike? You've got to have some confidence. Or as Jagermeister calls it, shotfidence. I love it. If everyone's struggling, take control. Just order for the whole table.
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All I did was, I hope no one sees me and recognizes me playing this 17-year-old and sees how terrible I am now.
Little Bo? You left nothing to chance. A child into the block. It's not a child, it's a grown teenager. It's a grown teenager.
Yes, that's right. Obese topping is what they hit me with and you threw your head back with laughter.
T.J. McDonalds.
Fed Van Eat would be better there. Fed Van Eat is a good one.
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Hold on. Pablo said it was the greatest thing he's ever seen.
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I was going to say, it's three lonely people, not two.
Staring in the mirror like, I shouldn't have done that.
That's young.
Shadowin' it.
The Vikings also haven't completely closed the door on the Aaron Rodgers situation. There was a report yesterday that said, hey, we're still interested, possibly, maybe, in Aaron Rodgers.
Then there is a sum of money that would stop him from doing it.
Dan thinks people still look at their watches that way.
It does wrap it up, though. Like, if I look at my watch during a show, I'm like, all right. I mean, I didn't have that feeling.
Thank God it was a shoe.
Assault. It was on... I'm sure if that happened today in hockey, it wouldn't just be like, oh, that was fun.
No, I don't. The Kachuk brothers went into the stands and started beating on Canadians. Yes, I think that there would be. I'm not saying it would be the same. There's a lot of cultural stuff going on here. I'm not saying it would be exactly the same. But to say that we would just be like, oh, Conor McDavid and Kachuk went into the crowd with their skates on and started attacking fans.
That would be a massive story.
I'm with you.
Think about how good people thought this looked at the time. Like you're like, wow, you get a new TV, you turn it on. You're like, wow.
Allen Iverson?
Don't let him fool you. He said in the break that he's jittery.
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We want exclamation points.
I'm sure there's been plenty. Wait a minute. I thought that was the word amp.
There's a lot of ampersands.
I was not aware he had a drinking problem.
Just saw three over the weekend. I know but he apologized front-end.
Oh, without question. I think everyone would put Denzel in their top ten actors of all time, for sure. Top three, probably. Absolutely.
I mean, Popovich is doing that.
Who is it? He said she. I was going to say Roy. Willow.
Not terrible.
She has Glenn Powell in her top 10. No, I don't. But maybe someday.
Someday soon.
Clark Gable.
Oh, wow, that's tough.
Good joke, though.
Lion, not lion. Lion. Mason Dixon Lion. It's like the Mason Dixon Lion. There you go. Not the Mason Dixon Lion.
Linus.
Incredible.
Jackson Dart, one of those names. Dallas Comogies, for me, was a power forward early 80s DePaul. My favorite sports name of all time.
I can't help it.
Well, that's going to win, Dan.
I'm just broken at that point.
We've all cursed at the copy before, though, right?
How about Derrick Henry getting a 20-yard head of steam and you have to tackle him?
Are you saying Jim doesn't believe what's coming out of his mouth?
But how did that locker room of players know that song? All of them.
You know, Harbaugh has taken your whole quarterbacks, once they throw an interception, get off the field. He's taken it to the next level. Justin Herbert is not allowed to high-five anyone. He doesn't want them to hurt his hand. I mean, this guy, he is prepared for everything, Harbs.
So strange.
Let's celebrate Thanksgiving first, and then we move to Christmas.
I wasn't listening, though. Khabib's brother.
They're just people in sports and what their names would be if they were a penis. I like it. Chubby Smith. James Hardon. I'm nervous. Nervous? Yeah.
Wow. Penis Slaughter. Evan Schlongoria. Shlongo. You want more?
Dickie Thong.
You want more? Where are we? Bernhard Wenger. I think I'm good. Luol Dong. Oh, wow! Oh, man! Luol Dong.
Robert Package. Thank you.
Tommy Johnson. Mark Bolger.
Look at me, Louie. That's the one I was looking for.
Did he also want to pay the teachers and save the whales? I mean...
How about the Braves? Be happy about that. The Dodgers are dominating.
Stugatz. Yours is terrible. You just got to get a little redder. A little pinker. You're right there, man.
Oh, his is good, Dan. That's actually not bad. His is good. Not terrible. That's not terrible. We got to come together.
can you explain to me some of the intricacies of the words in highlight because there's a lot of great words in highlight uh chula and it kicks to the inside perfectly chick check reyna backhand to the outside that's saved by julian rebote line he passes about a saved by julian uh something very specific to battle court here the magic city bounce
Whatever, man. F them. To Seattle or something?
I'm just saying Ryan Langerhans. I'm just taking this thing for a walk. See how it works.
Zazz, we debated last week. You think that he'd do a video for him?
Can we make a bet here? Because... There's a difference, though. I think we all agree during the starting lineups announcements he'll get that. But will he then, in the first quarter, get a video montage? That's the extra step.
Ignoring it makes us seem like we're so hurt by this.
But just like a thank you, like a small thing will make us see like, oh, wow, they're hurt.
And he's the only one who's actually booing the crowd. Or there's boos everywhere during it, and they cut to Riley, and he's just got a maniacal smile. He's just like, that's what I really wanted. I knew they'd boo you, so I did the classy thing just to inspire them to boo.
I was kicked out. Now it's Solana.
Look at that guy. You asked if there are any women in this tournament. Our first matchup we're going to preview here is a one seed Thomas from Flanagan's versus 16 seed Sarah. Hit it, guys.
Oh, that's cheating. Lebo painting at her wedding. Wow. That's strong. Yeah, that's cheating. That's a 16 seed. So that's going up against Flanagan's guy. We move on now to our two verse 15. We have Mark's wife, Mark wife's Emmy. Try it again. Mark's wife's Emmy versus 15 seed Logan from Iowa.
Yeah, more reading. Let's go. I'm excited about this. This is our number three seed, Cincinnati Lou versus number 14 seed, Austin.
Is that a pitch clock hat? Pandering. Chugging a Miller Lite. That's strong. Now let's see what Austin's got.
That's all he needed, Dan.
A lot of show swag. There's Pride of a Lion.
Final update here. We have number four seed David from Toronto, famous show listener, versus 13 seed Will.
Great stuff, Austin. I can't believe you're doing this. That was Will, not Austin. That's not me.
How's that?
what comes back it's got wings so voting for all those matchups and all of our first round matchups will be for 24 hours right now go to our social media vote for the matchups decide who wins and we will update next week dan i will say the body of the penguin very sleek in nature right so that's why the the fish kind of thing like it's no feathers water no feathers you got no feathers to put in your cap off a penguin what
I love when the penguin goes to the holiday party.
He's dropping down into the water.
Hold on a second. I just saw something here. Can we watch this again, this replay? I see someone in the background here looking dejected.
I don't feel comfortable saying because they do a lot of good things around here and we don't need to shame them. But yes, I know who did it.
It's a jerk off.
You're both being jerks to each other. It's a jerk off.
No, what was lame was when they did the respect off five minutes ago. That was lame. No one wants to hear how much you guys respect each other.
Dan, you're putting us in a really tough position.
The problem is we sort of all work for David now, so no one wants to say what they're thinking.
We can't afford Ravel.
Don't look now at Stugazza's garage, okay? Because there might be a Mercedes and a Lambo in there. But also, while you're on the topic of Miami women's basketball, they're hosting the number one Notre Dame Fighting Irish tonight at the Wattsco Center. I will be there.
sorry no a gulf of america joke jessica what do you have there i was just gonna say can we put on the poll can you say that was a bar when you're in the middle of a jerk off between ravel and david samson is that something you can say i would vote no on that i mean the argument is kind of like antonio brown is more credible than ernie johnson because he played the game that's a
But don't look now.
Oh, we're finding some common ground finally.
Did you take one before the jerk off?
People can just give you money. Like, sometimes people just give me money, and they'll say, like, thanks for putting up with David Sampson, and they'll give me, like, 10 bucks. Wow.
Request him back. Like, get him back.
Actually, you pay me. You pay me $21.
They know what they're doing with fries.
I go syrup one. It's always syrup.
Canada has great food. Amazing food. Toronto is a great food city. Yes.
I hope she does crowd work and roasts you.
I mean, I think that's putting it lightly. Yes.
I love the back row.
Another duffel bag full of $10,000 to give to somebody that's sitting in their chair.
Not Steve Miller.
Different band. Great band, though.
I call it Baby. Baby! I love that. She calls me Roy.
It's not like she's my mom and like going Roy Anthony or something like that. Right. Just Roy. You got the middle name in there. Would you like a pet name? Nah, I'm good. Please don't give me a pet name. I don't need that. Thank you. What's yours? I kind of want to give you one. Come on, Chris. My wife calls me babe.
What is the Cadillac of Cadillacs? I don't know.
Bentley? No. No, no, you're talking American cars. Maybach? We're not talking Canadian cars, I'll tell you that much.
What?
Well, then the Panthers are screwed.
There's got to be a pro to this, right? Because farting, that's a buildup of gases. I mean, you're not feeling bloated, are you?
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He said all. We've said all.
I was just like, I could do this.
I am waiting on a bigger bowl based off Tony's recommendation, and I will get going very shortly, Dan. I'm excited.
I've been rubbing these down like baseballs for like a half hour, so we're good to go.
Rubbing it doesn't help. You're going to need it. I didn't honestly plan on doing the juice today. I'm just back row Chris again, so I thought I'd juggle a little bit.
A shot voice and coughing.
I have no confidence in this. I think he's going to screw it up. I mean, he's always going to win. So I think it's going to be funny regardless.
Wow. I still want to know what my dad's body can do that Ricky's can't. Yep. Name one. Like survive on one glass of water a week.
No. The YouTube audience hears it every day during the breaks.
How do you spell that?
Quit perpetuating that I'm a narcissist. My dad got recognized last night at bowling, and he was bragging to me. He's like, that guy recognized me for writing, not for this podcasting thing you guys do.
I was talking in Canada with Mike about how my dad's funeral is going to be the most inside jokes of any funeral ever. Like Brad's and that kind of thing. Nobody knows what that means. Ah, swipe. That's what I mean. There are going to be so many random references that people are going to be so confused.
Yes, please. That is Karen, the bowling lady. She announces at bowling, she'll just go, Storm NFL.
It's like so disconcerting. Why would he do that at your funeral? Because it's fun.
Dubal. I'm convinced he thinks he nails that. He thinks he crushes that. He did. He did crush it.
That makes me more nervous. The more we prepare, the more nervous I get. Let's hit the show open and see if he nails it.
You went rogue with the lyrics. The plan was just kind of to sing it. But yeah, you did it. Had to throw in the overrated thing in there. You had to work that in.
Can a goal be gorgeous and it should have been stopped? Yes. How can both those things be possible?
Longest rehearsal ever.
Easy song to nail.
The crowd started singing. Yes. Waiting for a song.
No, and when you did it, I wanted to immediately switch you for my dad, because we have my dad about to do something here to start the show, and you crushed it. But your dad has a great singing voice.
The wow, right on his cue. Wow.
It's more joy than it is relief. Relief that we came after that huge penalty kill where Kevin Sandlin lost his stick or gave his stick to Gustav Forslund. When they killed that off, that's pretty much when I knew they were going to end up winning this.
I think it's Chuck Brandon, my son, Sam Bennett, who's our boss and brought the cup back out. And some more beer.
Well, as you saw, they just dumped beer back down to the ground out of Santa Cup. We got some Panther employees drinking out of the cup right now.
I am not allowed in it.
No, unfortunately, I'm not allowed inside. No. And I'm not going to get beard poured. Why not?
Because I'm wearing my jersey, and it's already hot, and I'm sticky. So, yeah, no, that's not going to happen.
Yeah.
No, I'm good. I'm good.
Roy Bellamy!
Yeah.
All right, we have made it from Amber and Peg Arena to the infield.
All right, we have made it from Amber and Beck Arena to the infield, which is a couple blocks down. He can't handle his liquor.
All right, we have made it from Amber and Beck Arena to the infield, which is a couple blocks down.
All right, we have made it from Amarant Pack Arena. Oh, wow. Jesus, Roy.
One more time.
We have made it from Amarant Pack Arena to the infield, which is a couple blocks down.
Championship. We are going to celebrate a Stanley Cup championship. That hurts, though.
It says it on the board. The cup's over there somewhere. It says it all around the ribbon board. The final score, 2-1. The Florida Panthers won it in a style that they have mastered all season. You said it. You said it. What was it? What did they do? Shut down City in the third period. They completely shut this team down in the third period. A rat was just thrown at me.
We're here with Kevin Sillin, and you guys have played your asses off all playoffs. You made it to seven games here in the Stanley Cup Finals. Give us your feelings right now.
We're here with Panthers captain Alexander Barkov. You just raised the Stanley Cup. Can you believe that? I guess we're champions, right? I guess so.
This is amazing, man. I'm proud of you. As a Panthers fan, I'm proud of you. As a member of the medium, I'm so happy to see that you actually got to do this. So congratulations to you, Alexander. We're here with Jeremy Taché of Valley Sports Florida. They just want to Stanley Cup, Jeremy.
It's all happening.
You got the good seat up there in the press box, wherever it is. You took my seat, goddammit.
Thank you. We got Stephen Lawrence and Anthony Stolas, everybody. You boys just won the Stanley Cup. How do you feel?
Fucking A. Boys, congratulations. We're here with Stanley C. Panther of the Florida Panthers. This is a championship mascot. How do you feel right now, Stanley? Yes. We're at Roboto Morongo, and you have finally got yourself a Stanley Cup ring coming your way.
We don't even call him by his first name. We call him Bob.
I think the added motivation tonight was from you drumming.
Since you've taken over the franchise, you made this a first-class organization and you got yourself a new practice facility and everything. Now you're a Stanley Cup champion. How do you feel?
He was there, by the way.
Well... We've interviewed as many people as we could. And it is. Soaked it up. Yeah, we soaked it up. It's a joyous occasion here at ice level, here at Amherst Bank Arena, as the Florida Panthers have won the Stanley Cup, David.
And so was Stephen A. Smith, by the way.
We're going to get the fans' reaction at the infield.
Yeah, we got to go to the bar, and we're going to have to have drinks. But before we leave the ice tonight, we do have a very special message for a certain individual who renounced his fanship of the Florida Panthers. That is Chris Runningham, who decided to become a New York Rangers fan, who promptly got vanquished during the Eastern Conference Final. Yeah. So...
In closing, as we leave the ice here at Amarillo Bank Arena, to you, Chris Renahan, you can go f*** yourself.
That is correct, sir.
Yeah, I could probably Zoom from here. Can I? Yeah.
No, both anthems got sang by the fans.
Chris Cody. Hey, folks.
Hey, Zas.
Big game?
And a well-placed Brandon Montour hook.
Really?
No, no. And Dmitry Kulikov also. Yeah, Kulikov had the biggest play. That was the biggest assist of that night. That secondary assist.
They are not going to call a single goddamn penalty in that game. They were letting that game play out.
Of course you were.
That play in the corner, by the way, that's exactly how the Eastern Conference final ended. That's what they worked on in training camp. So cool. They ended the entire season on a play in the corner that they worked on in training camp.
It was fitting that he stumbled with the cup.
Oh, that was a gigantic kill. Monster number two.
I think all day.
All right. We have made it from Amerenbeck Arena to the infield, which is a couple blocks down.
We celebrate. Championship. We are going to celebrate a Stanley Cup championship. We're Panthers fans tonight. How did you feel about tonight's result? Awesome. Like it's a dream. Like I'm going to wake up tomorrow and none of this is real. I've waited 24 years for this. I want to tell the Oilers, give your balls a tug. Stanley Cup champs, baby. Woo! Let's go Panthers! They absolutely earned it.
I'm losing my . How are you guys doing? Done it. We are champions. We are the champions tonight. I feel spectacular.
Woo! Let's go. I feel like a winner. This rules.
Weren't you working? I was working and drinking.
No, the cup left before. They got that cup out of it pretty quickly, man. Did you touch it? I didn't get to touch it, no. Really? No, all the players got to touch it before I did.
Plumber? Remember? Remember?
Brode up. Third frog. Brode up.
Rumor. Brode up. Brode up.
That tool was going to be a concussion protocol. Very good. You're right. It does feel good to win.
I love that.
He pulled your hair.
Oh, wow. That's pretty good. It's in there.
No, it's on the track of the Miami International Airport. It's right there.
I get the reference. I don't know what that's supposed to mean. I know what he's talking, I know what Stephen A. Smith's talking about. I don't know what you're talking about.
Doesn't it show incredible discipline, Dan? Like on the opposite side of the coin, it's like, look how much I can lock in on something and do it.
Mental geniusness is great. It says rooted in ignorance.
i mean there's video of his documentary where he's there like making beats in the lab and like you see the the pure ability that he has to create music and then you see throughout that documentary where he turns the character into his reality right and that's the part that's sad is you kind of lose yourself in that in that creation
But yet the ability is so amazing that it gets lost in translation.
It's almost like severance, right? Where you have to go to work and leave your work self there and then go back home and be able to be a normal human.
Wait, Ron reads books too.
Don Levitard. Our Panther group chat, we're confident against the Lightning. This is a different team. You're a Panther group chat, though. No, but dude, you're so wrong on that. We've been terrified of this team forever, and I think there's a different energy where the Panthers, they want the Lightning.
What? We were at the Two Seasons.
I wouldn't say people were complaining. I would say people noticed that some people brought. I wouldn't say it was you, but yeah. It was just kind of like, oh, I didn't know that was allowed. No, you're like grandfathered in, Dan.
I'm a vegan now. Do you think that was my choice? And Roy was one of the last ones there. I remember looking at him. It was like close to midnight. And I'm just like, I would not still be here right now if I was sober.
On a Wednesday.
Make the rule. Mike, is he doing it? We're fine with you doing it, Dan.
That makes a lot more sense than Florida, Miami.
There's a lot of film watching of yourself to improve at your own individual level. And before a specific matchup against a pitcher, you're watching and seeing what their sequencing is. But because they play every day, it's not the same amount of film work as it would be in something like the NFL. But to your point about...
playing two different sports being something that's beneficial, you could actually argue Shohei Otani is essentially doing that.
Hitting a baseball and playing a position as a hitter is a completely different thing from being a pitcher, where Travis Hunter having to play on both sides of the ball in football in that individual game with the type of effort that that requires, it is a more strenuous thing.
Anthony Rizzo, the all-time leader for left-handed hitters.
Yeah, I think this jersey is a bit too small. It's smaller than the actual jersey I'm going to wear during Learn to Play in a month. So it's kind of tight on me right now. Why aren't you opening your mouth? Again, the chin is right here. For safety.
They're peeing again. Oh, God. Here comes Greg Cody again. It's in my eyes. Oh, no, not the lawnmower.
Don't chop down my brother! No!
Yeah, it's because I'm sitting now. I'm not standing anymore.
Yeah, it didn't take that long for the Panthers to adjust to Paul Maurice's system. And that system is very much built for the playoffs. A lot of forward checking.
I know, I know. I can't even speak. Oh, there it is again. Is Russ the thing in hockey?
No, it is very difficult. It's very difficult to speak normally as it is now with this mask on.
I can't.
You don't want to know. Yeah, you don't want to know. I lost during football season. I got word that's because of the grid of death is one of the punishments for me.
That was a punishment I had to do with the taquitos. So there you go.
That's a good one. That's a good one. Excellent, Roy. Thank you.
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I know how this game needs to end. What's three? It needs to end with Notre Dame winning on a questionable pass interference call. Oh, yeah. I'm down for that. Great. I'm down for that.
Not the really bad way, guys. Don't make this more awkward. Dan doesn't have his glasses on. I can't tell who looks older.
20 seconds is a long time in social media world. I think the news is breaking at 10 o'clock and 10 seconds. I think by that time we beat the YouTube delay.
Could have ended that sentence a little earlier.
I already told my wife the same thing.
We're that show now? Kids are stupid. You can just tell them it's 8.30. They are stupid. It's getting darker early.
Terrible negotiation. And do Roy, Mike, and I get something for this Panthers championship that happened a few months back? Jobs, jobs. We get to keep our jobs and she gets a bonus vacation.
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Es hat auch angefangen als ein kleiner Kommentar hier und da und eine Lüge und dann würden wir anfangen. Aber letztendlich ist es nur, wir haben nur über Monday-Nacht-Football gesprochen und das Sunday-Nacht-Spiel und wir machen ein ganzes Segment.
I want to try again to be liberal Joe Rogan.
That's Secretary of the Interior Alex Jones, so just watch what you say. Watch your mouth.
Yeah, the, do it as you please. I thought it was pretty good. I tried.
Wow.
Man, that's a great sequence. They expect one of us in the wreckage, brother.
But the open of that movie was so good that I remember where I was. I remember what seat of the theater I was in when I watched The Dark Knight Rises.
No, that's a means. That's the same.
Okay, this is from the New York Times, Dan, to give some context. It says, the Onion said the bid was sanctioned by the families of the victims of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, who in 2022 won a $1.4 billion defamation lawsuit against Mr. Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems.
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Yes. Oh my God, Dan. The Steelers have safeties that are talking shit. They have wide receivers that are acting weird. We got a pass rush. We have a run game. The Steelers are so back.
1000%.
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Is he doing a cold weather thing?
Well, then we all agree with him.
Ich habe keine Ahnung, was du uns erzählt hast. Ich habe alles verstanden.
Kann der Publikum wissen, wann der Show beginnt?
We should know when the show starts.
William the Fridge Perry. Dan, Mike McDaniels response was also very funny. He said, I just worry about this year's team. He said it on a podcast. Cool podcast.
He's tougher. I'm still doing a weather thing here. I think that the Chiefs won because they were mentally tougher when it was negative 30 degrees in Kansas City.
I thought you meant she also didn't like the Shadow Show.
I was about to say this was an LPGA Pro-Am that she played nine holes with Nelly Korda, who's like the best golfer in the world. So this is the shot. We're showing it right now.
So many people. She was signing autographs for like, I was going to say hours, but it probably wasn't hours. It wasn't like Dan at the Vegas show. It was slightly less time than that, but there was a ton of people there to watch.
I was picturing like a kidney shot. Bollocks. Or like a stomach, like internal bleeding because I hit you in the stomach.
It's a lower body injury if it hits you in the balls. Just kind of wrong. Midsection is an upper body injury.
Technically he is correct, I guess. It was your midsection, but it was not really a great descriptive word considering where it actually hit you.
Das ist genau das, was ich denke.
I did not see this.
As midsection.
I second that.
uh well as dan well knows you're taking me down a lane that i know nothing about so i um i think i'm gonna pass on that question okay do we have the video that's a victory for me that's a victory for me how about this how about a man who who ostensibly covers a team in the local market donning its jersey and you're watching journalism die right here in front of you
Dude, there was a point in the middle of that, Dan, where Jeremy and I were putting in the nuclear launch codes of him just jumping in the middle and saying, Josh Hart.
He did do it. Then he denied doing it.
But he denied doing it. I think that's key here. If he had been like, yeah, I had a little bit of drool in my mouth. Cover up always worse than the crime. He did it to himself.
Are you just texting... Repeating the affirmations your wife is texting you.
It's like a strictly Miami thing. From the other lane or from behind you?
You've got to mess that horn like there's no tomorrow.
Is that going around them?
To be fair, these bicyclists.
entitled hey man don't act like there isn't death machines all around you you're like i'm protected by the law like these people don't care man i don't that's what i don't like like i get it like this is a bike lane or whatever but also you have to understand but you know they could kill you at any moment right and once you have that appropriate fear you start to bicycle a little bit differently but they don't they they're like i have the right of way i'm like okay
Yeah, I know that guy. He's on an electric bike, too. By the way, if you're on an electric bike, guess what? You're not a bicyclist anymore. You're a motorist. Anything goes at that point.
Nice.
Yeah.
It's like a seven-lane highway.
Dude, I've been trapped in this circle of death. I have too, yes. 45 minutes of just going around and around.
See, show hasn't changed. I'm glad we emptied that. What a hot start to that clip.
It's horrible. Jessica, I have... solutions for you. Number one, the horn. Use it, and use it a lot. Channel that energy right into your palm and then . And the best one, I cannot condone someone getting out of the lane and around you at a left turn. That just sounds crazy. But what I can say is there are a few joys in life.
They're quite as exhilarating as watching that light and in the fraction of a second after it turns green, because I like seeing the head of the driver in front of me.
Okay, now as a pedestrian, I gotta warn you. You're playing a dangerous game. But when you're in your death machine, absolutely honk your horn, do all sorts of things. Number two, don't flip the bird. I found this out a long time ago. Flipping the bird does not give you joy. You know what gives me joy? Arm flail? No, not even. Oh, you know what I do?
I antagonize and then when they make eye contact, I do something passive aggressive like, Hi. I just wave, hi, thank you. I do that.
Yeah, the roundabout feels like 14 lanes going on in a circle. But the actual Champs-Élysées, I think, is either three lanes or four lanes. It's not that wide. Okay, I thought it was more than that. It's not a highway. It's a street.
No, that can't be right.
I only do that, I get frustrated when the people in front of me don't know. It's your responsibility, car behind the slow guy. You're supposed to honk the horn. Now I gotta do it. So if you're all scared, well, guess what? Even if there are three cars in front of me, if none of them have honked, guess what? I'm honking for all of you bastards because none of you guys took the responsibility.
Well, let me tell you something. Right now, what's happening is... Because of spring break.
They've ruined it. They've ruined spring break. There's nobody there.
You took all the anger in your life, residual anger from other things.
Just when I watched Notre Dame football.
Yes, it is the explosion. I don't think I'm angry. You don't think you're angry because what happens in your day-to-day life, little things happen. I like the fat jokes. Little things happen, and there you go. And you're like, oh, it's all right. It's okay. But it's not. But it's like what you're doing is you're being the bigger man, the much bigger man, and you're pushing all that stuff down.
But guess what? That stuff has to go somewhere. It goes in a bucket. It's called road rage. And then when you get in the car, it's no holds barred. You're not angry because this person is slow or that bike is slow. No, I am, though. You are, as all the anger of the day, coming out in a geyser of just pure fury from the ground.
Not great listening there.
Your reaction, do you think it's an overreaction by you? You know why it's an overreaction? Because your cup overfloweth from the anger of the day.
Dan only knows one pirate. Who is Chum Bucket?
There's a relatability to what we're talking about. I think everybody's been somewhere where there are traffic problems and had these feelings that Jess is espousing. And I'm explaining to them it's because you're a decent person in the rest of your life. And so you need somewhere where you can be a real piece of shit. And that's what the car gives us.
The ability, the permission to be a real piece of shit. So next time you feel angry or frustrated in any other part of your life, don't take it out on your loved ones. Don't take it out on your coworkers. Wait till you get in the car and wait till somebody...
at a red light, it changes green in that fraction of a second where they have not moved, and take all that anger and frustration from the rest of your life and channel it right into one massive... Play video games! No! Play a game of pickup! Don't do it while you're in your car! Incredible Hulk smash that horn.
I'm surprised Catholic to her accord, Jessica didn't chime in there.
Marty, I'm curious, how much of Bezos' pivot is literally just a survival of the moment, meaning that this Trump regime is going to end at some point? Is it possible he'll pivot back to what he was before? Or do you think this is just the new Jeff Bezos and this is how he does business?
Where did that come from? Oh my God, I've never been so happy to hear that music in my life.
Old English is like not, is my understanding of Old English different? I'm thinking like Beowulf. Like English that we would not find recognizable. You guys are thinking like the way Chris Whittingham talks.
That's not what I, I'm picturing like the 1100s. Oh, that's not English then. Well, it is. It's old English, I think. I mean, I took these classes a decade ago.
Have you ever read Beowulf?
Like I can't even think of an example of it off the top of my head.
My sister majored in medieval studies. She has a Beowulf tattoo. Wow.
Can we revisit something from earlier this week? I wanted to sort of like just say out loud how funny it was to hear people chanting fire Nico at medieval times. Like. At this point, I am starting to feel a little bad for the guy because they're chanting fire you at medieval times. That's rough. But the sound and the visual was so funny. There's a joust happening.
There's giant turkey legs and mead and people chanting fire Nico.
I was going to say Andrew McCutcheon.
Oh, I thought you said baseball player. Darn.
It's actually J.R.R. Tolkien's sketch of the dragon and Beowulf. Oh, that's my bad. Then it's cool.
I texted my sister, send me some old English words. It's an emergency.
Yeah.
What if it's talk like a pirate or talk like a character from Monty Python and the quest for the Holy Grail?
Okay. I like that. Sorry. I'll take that one.
Did you guys ever go to medieval times? Is there one down here?
Orlando? Yeah. What a hike.
If you're going to go all the way to Orlando, go to like a theme park. Don't go to Medieval Times.
Farther away than where Stu Gatz lives.
I was convinced when I went to Medieval Times in fourth grade that they accidentally served me alcohol because I remember drinking whatever they gave and it was dark in there. And I remember just being so like off the walls hyper the entire night. And now I think they probably just gave me something with a lot of sugar. I told my whole family I've been served Long Island iced teas.
There was a Medieval Times strike last year. Oh. Apparently, some union issues.
That's what management said too. And that's why the government is stepping in.
I mean, they got their own rental cars. They got their own stuff in there.
I got top five holes. You guys want to hear it?
Golf holes or just holes?
Golf holes.
All right. Number five. Yep. In Doral, Paul 418 on the Blue Monster Course. A Trump Course.
It's a par 5. It's just a shocking admission from down the middle Roy. I did not see that one coming. I'm a golf guy.
Right down the middle of the fairway.
It just sounds different coming off his club.
I got distracted. I'm sorry. Number four, the Waste Management Stadium Hall. Yeah, 17 with the Waste Management. People kept going there. Yep. Number three, at Augusta National, the Bar 312.
The scenic hall with the bridge. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yep. Number two, Pebble Beach, Bar 3. The eighth hole.
Yeah. You're shooting from a cliff, basically. You're shooting down. You're overlooking the hole. You're shooting down onto the ground.
I wish I could play it. Beautiful course. And number one at TPC Sawgrass, par 317, the Island Green. The Island Green.
I love this tournament. You weren't on Thursday. You weren't on Thursday.
That can use Metal Ark or can be bigger than Metal Ark. Have we had around here... Any days that we can live back to back vicariously through someone's success better than Mina Kimes being a figure who was on The Simpsons one day and then the next day announcing that Netflix, she's part of their Christmas Day NFL package because she's got freedom outside of ESPN to work on other properties.
Er wird 20 Stunden am Tag arbeiten, um zu gewinnen.
Seine Talent-Evaluation hat nicht groß geworden.
What I'm telling... Look, David Sampson just made the point of Bill Walsh. Bill Walsh did coach at Stanford, and Bill Walsh was fine and innovative, but he didn't conquer everything. I'm asking, when you mention, and he's financed, I'm asking... about the money opportunity that Bill Belichick and the economy around him has decided is the next play for him.
Nick Saban, I'm watching, be the only guy with the credibility of the way to be on Disney television and not get bleeped on live television for cursing because he's got a power and sway as a voice for college football. This is the man who taught Saban how to be Saban. Available two colleges at a time, okay?
Wenn das Geschäft von diesem, wenn ich mit euch gesprochen habe, denkt ihr nicht, dass es interessant ist, dass Tom Brady und LeBron James und Dwayne Wade jetzt alle für Content und Dollar und Millionen kämpfen, dass sie alle um Fußball und ihre Spiele kämpfen, um das Geschäft von Geld für sie zu machen?
Bill Belichick hat gerade entschieden, mit der Ökonomie seiner Karriere, die es sein könnte, irgendeine Menge Medienjobs, die er jetzt einfach zur Seite stellt, weil er sie, wenn er will, haben kann. Mit Management und mit Leuten, die die Karriere der Größten, die es je gegeben hat, haben. Er wählt in den Schatten mit einem Jahr, um sich zu vorbereiten.
I'm going to build a thing that gets me to run my own family business in football.
And I'm going to do it at a time that not everybody realizes that college sports is the new professional football and that there's a money opportunity and a career opportunity over there that will make me forsake passing Don Shula in the pros because in my 70s I can reinvent myself at being good at the business of this when all I got to do is beat Bielema.
Samson sagte, er sei finanziert.
I would not diminish what it is Mina has accomplished there.
And it's two games. Lorenzo's on it. Burt Kreischer's on it. But it's a top 100 important people who matter on Christmas Day around football thing. And you can't diminish it just because we're not on it and she is. I swear to God.
Ich möchte beide Teile davon mit euch diskutieren, weil ich glaube nicht, dass... That the people listening to this have a full fundamental understanding of how insulting it was to this man, given what he's done and how hard it is to do what he achieved, to have no job offers and have to interview multiple times in Atlanta.
If you think this person who had to watch a documentary made by Bob Kraft for Apple TV that shreds him and explains how Kraft and Brady won all those Super Bowls together, if you do not understand that he is vengeance in what his pride is right now in making sure that as a football genius and glass eater, he is going to do whatever is within his means to not be as mortal as you think he is at his age, because he's not.
He's immortal. And he's going to take that job and want to crush everybody. I walk into every room as Bill Belichick and Samson's here saying, no to 10 million in a media career for Belichick. McAfee was giving him a million to just show up. Belichick's name shows up in a room and North Carolina money's going into it. Deion Sanders just made a mint of money with a nowhere program, dancing and...
Being Dion, this is a beast coming to college football. This is not a lazy old man that you underestimate because you're forgetful about what he did before the last five years you were watching. Do you know what it takes to win in that sport? Everyone is fighting for money, for careers with their bodies.
This dude conquered everyone, had a murderer on the roster, went through cheating scandals, conquered that league again and again. Like no one has and now wants to prove it in the minor leagues of professional football. I'd be terrified to compete against whatever he's got coming my way.
It's a major hire for sports. Not just this sport. For sports. How? Brady verlässt Patriot Way und denkt sich, oh Scheiße, schau, wie viel meine Marke wert ist. Diese Art von gewinnender Wettbewerb, Leute innerhalb und außerhalb des Sportes, bezahlen 100.000 Dollar für 15 Minuten in einem öffentlichen Gespräch, um zu hören, was dieses Manns Wissens ist.
Bitte mach ihn nicht ein alter Schwester, weil er 73 ist und du denkst, er ist Mac Brown. Du hast nicht darauf geachtet, was diese Person für ein Leben tut.
Robert, unser IT-Typ. Machen Sie es, Robert, unser IT-Typ.
Okay, wir interviewen Robert am Ende dieses Segments. Robert, geh zu deiner Präsentation im Medienraum, damit wir Robert als... Er ist 70 Millionen. Er ist der fiktive Trainer. Er geht gegen Belichick, aber er hat eine 50-Millionen-Dollar-Vergabe. Es ist Robert von IT, das ist, was du mir sagst.
Und du interviewst ihn jetzt, als ob er ein Spiel gegen Belichick hat, oder er hat ein Programm, um gegen Belichick zu kämpfen?
I thought when Jim Larrañaga came to Miami that he was coming to retire, to take it easy, to take one last job, to just cash out.
And I understand, well, I wasn't right.
The last two, this one, boy, did they lose to Charleston Southern at home by 25 point favor?
Well, but you're also bad.
But I accused him of coming down here to retire and I was wrong. In the subsequent 10 years he built a program and fought the business well the last couple of years until recently. I want to talk about the entirety of Belichick's career management at this point as an enterprise. He doesn't want to lose forever the, what do you mean Brady was responsible for all my success?
He doesn't have any reason to need to do any of what he's doing, except he is built to try and win at these things. What?
Ich will nicht dazu eingehen. Und du solltest auch nicht. Ich wollte nicht dazu eingehen, aber hier sind wir. Nun was? Ich dachte, es waren zwei schöne Tage, und jetzt haben wir sie mit unserer Analyse zerstört. Ich dachte, dass das die zwei größten Tage sind, die jeder von uns hat, in Bezug auf Medienerlebnisse. In Bezug auf Tage? Du sprichst von Taylor?
I'm guessing that Belichick was making 10 million dollars a year in his media career. I'm guessing. Take the under and pound it. He was doing so many jobs, David. He did have a lot of jobs. Probably, what, closer to five? He was selling his name everywhere and people were competing for that name.
Grant me a little bit that I know a little bit about what is being done when people come into the content space and can cash in on their name. Like when he's helping Tom Brady with his pod, these guys know the value. This is a sports brand name in America's most popular sport. Better at excellence than any of them.
You will not make this a dirty old hobo who's fishing on the side and walking shirtless out of his girlfriend's apartment behind me.
Ich fühle mich, als ob er sich nicht respektiert, weil die Fragen so extrem sind auf der anderen Seite. Als ob das letzte Jahr, in dem die NFL ihn nicht beteiligt hat, eine Runde ist, in der er es für einen Vierteljahr gewonnen hat. Aber es ist ein, was hast du für mich letztes Jahr gemacht, Art von Liga.
Würdest du Greg Cody jetzt einen 5-Jährigen-Deal geben? Wenn du mir Drake May gegeben hättest... Um zu leben? Wenn du... Kannst du dir vorstellen, dass Belichick mit Drake May vor ein paar Jahren... Er hat ihn gerade auch verpasst. Warte, warte, warte. Glaubst du, dass es dann all diese Fragen geben würde?
Weil ich verstehe, dass die Patriots nichts gemacht haben, wenn sie einen ersten Rund-Quarterback verfehlt haben. Kein Team macht das. Wenn du es falsch machst in dieser Position, gibt es keinen Trainer, der es überwinden kann.
Well, let's talk about Taylor for a second, because you've been wanting... Scoops, please call him Scoops. You've been wanting to make him a star, and I'm reluctant, so let's just start... Well, no, no, I'm not gonna give him Shadow Show.
Das ist bemerkenswert.
Okay, but he doesn't, he will hire, he will be a curator, okay, and he will hire an assortment of people who can do all this connecting that people are very worried about how much Bill Belichick had in common with Richard Seymour, because that was the place, you know, they went to a place emotionally, Coach and a previous generation, you guys are doing it wrong when it comes to what I think is happening here, and I want to ask Samson what he thinks moves with Belichick.
Lane Kiffin, wunderschön, schön, wir lieben ihn alle. Als ich ihn bei FAU gesehen habe, mit sehr kleinen Spielern, war ich so, wow, sie sind wirklich gut, gut gecoacht und er ist auf dem Raufschau, weil er besser ist, er ist mehr ein Profi. Er ist hier draußen, um diesen Menschen zu coachen, der ein Amateur ist, sehr viel. Das ist Lane Kiffin. Was, denken Sie, befindet sich als Managementteam
The economy around Bill Belichick champion excellence for all time. I've seen Don Schul in this town get an expressway named after him, get steakhouses just because of that name. Wenn er in North Carolina landet, mit dem Namen verbunden zu dieser Exzellenz, dann frage ich dich, was du denkst, wie das Management-Team von ihm aussieht, auch wenn du die Höhe anschaust.
Was denkst du, was Dan Lannings Entourage of People ist?
No, let's... Settle down, alright? He's a star. Settle down. Settle down.
But this is the part I want to talk with you and Jessica and Lucy about because you have seen some of the innards on what it is to be the money management around NIL and how some of this is shifting.
The thing that I keep asking you guys when I mix the business, the economy, the legend, the name, the brand of all of these things is I want to ask Samson as an expert in business and you guys as people who know this business
Was ist es wert für einen Agent, in irgendein Raum in der Stadt zu gehen und Bill Belichick für 15 Minuten zu bringen, sodass der lokale Künstler 10 Millionen Dollar geben will, weil er 15 Minuten mit Belichick bekommt. Phil Knight hat das herausgefunden, als er das College-Programm kauft und Nike in Oregon aufbaut und er in den Skybox kann, das Remote-Control-Stuff.
Bill Belichick kommt nach North Carolina, um Videospiel-Football zu spielen, mit einem riesigen Geschäft, das Potenzial hat. Und was ich euch über die Wirtschaft und die Geldmanager frage, sag mir, wie die Agenten das in ein Geschäft verändern, weil Bill Belichick mehr wert ist, als was sie ihm bezahlen.
Wie, nur der Name, der in die Stadt geht, ist wert, wie viel sie ihm für fünf Jahre bezahlen werden.
But I'm talking with you guys about what's this all worth, because... To who though? Well, let me do it this way with you, because we've been watching over the pandemic, like this is a pretty seismic change that we're living in, in this sport, as it explodes in front of us. Streaming everywhere, WNBA is exploding, people are looking for value everywhere, television contracts, insane.
Before we get to Tua's home security, Jimmy Butler and all the sports stuff of the day, including Bill Belichick, I just want to put a bit of Metal Ark Tension business in front of the people. David Sampson is here. He's in the innards of our business because it needs a vigorous janitorial scrubbing, the innards of our financial business.
Sports is the place. There's a giant business burgeoning everywhere. College Football in the last five years is a totally different thing than it has ever been. It's pro. And it's more important, more relevant, bigger stakes, more professional than it's ever been. And it happened as soon as the players started asking for money during the pandemic.
And then everything caved in and everyone sees that there is money everywhere. When I tell you we're on the ground floor of this really exploding into a business, when it can welcome someone like Bill Belichick, when it can lure someone like Bill Belichick to compete at the top of what the money in this sport is, how much money is it worth?
Wenn Deion Sanders nach Colorado kommt, warst du das schlechteste Programm. Und seit zwei Jahren hast du nur Kassierungen gekostet. Er ist so unbezahlt. Er ist in allen Veranstaltungen. Und jetzt ist es Bill Belichick. Ich frage dich, Name, Optik, Verkauf, Geschäftskredibilität. Was ist es wert? Weil ich wirklich fühle, dass sie ihn günstig machen. Ich will dir einen Preis geben, Dan.
A Bella Check.
A Bella Check.
Es ist zu viel schreien. Es ist... Du musst... Du musst... Du musst... Du musst... Du musst... Du musst... Du musst... Du musst... Du musst...
Und wenn die Corporate-Mitglieder die Focus-Gruppen starten, kommt zu mir eine Art von zu vielen Stimmen zurück. Du hast zu viele Stimmen auf dem Show, Focus-Gruppen, zu viele Stimmen, es sind zu viele Leute, die reden. Und Mike Ryan ist hier, der sagt, gib mir mehr Taylor, während ich nach Flanagan gehe und jemand sagt zu mir, weniger Taylor. Mike Ryan ist insistent, Taylor ein Star zu machen.
Ich fühle mich nicht als etwas Besonderes, aber was er hat, ist eine Ehrgeiz, Ein Segment.
Well, let's get to the story, because he did tell all of us, and he was casually breaking news around the office. He did have this before everybody, that the most successful professional coach ever was making the shocking leap into the minor leagues of football by going to a program that's not even one of the better programs that anyone would associate with great football.
Cuervo. Anytime someone says Cuervo, I show up.
I've had the show polluted by college football. Jessica only wants to talk about bowl season starts Saturday. The playoffs start Saturday, as far as Jessica is concerned.
Well, I don't know where he is. Okay, I don't know where he is, but fine. Let's do a victory. No, not the rant. A rant?
He did run circles around Schefter. Where was Mike's hand during that? I don't know what you're talking about. That's the only way that Taylor appears anywhere in my life.
Amazing core strength. I'm pretty sure that Taylor didn't want Bill Belichick in North Carolina even as he was breaking the news.
It's not affordable to make a media career here. It's just not.
No, it is not a great place for media uprising. Belichick is going to try and dominate that sport or just hand over a program to his son. I don't know. I want to get into the details of that, but I've got to let them continue doing it.
Jessica, du magst das Forklift-Joke ein bisschen zu viel.
Cuervo.
I can't believe that Jessica piled on with the fat shaming. I thought the lowest I would stoop this week is when I claim that people, that if David Sampson got off an elevator with a woman, she would ask where his parents were. I thought that that was the cheapest, lowest, least subtle joke told this week.
Very good. I can't wait till he plays against the slow mesh. I am looking forward to Belichick against Cristobal.
All right. He's a walk-on at North Carolina Football. That's where all his information comes from.
That's another food joke. Another one. Five minutes in. I stopped listening at Kitchen. I did. I stopped listening at Kitchen. Sizzler's delightful. I will not have you shame me about loving Sizzler. Forklift jokes, I think, are a little far off.
He ran out of gas. So much spit on my microphone. Alright, enough. Thank you for all of your contributions to Metal Ark Media. The story in front of us, David, is unlike... Any that I have ever had context for in my career. So, I want you guys to walk me through something that I have found confusing.
The greatest coach in the history of football was available to everybody and the pros did not want him for a variety of reasons that have to do with personnel. You didn't win without Tom Brady. You want too much power, etc., etc. But that coach then goes to North Carolina and what breaks out is...
One of the reasons around here that we have been proud to help in the investing in talent and media building business is because we've gotten to see people like Pablo Torre and Mina Kimes and Bomani. Join us and then skyrocket to new things. It's one of the reasons that Samson is with us now and Tony and Jessica. So you can have another career that gets bigger as you go.
Eine Argumentation, in der ich sehe, dass die polaren Extrems der Argumentation auf beiden Seiten sehr ehrgeizig ausgesprochen werden. Wo die Leute fühlen, als ob sie Coaching und das neue Fußball genug wissen, um mit Gewissheit auf beiden Seiten zu beurteilen, dass das nicht funktionieren kann. Or he's gonna run over everybody. And so I'm confused how this person is available to this program.
He's gonna go in with Mike Lombardi. He's gonna go in with whatever he's got of professional Patriots way and be like, let's go, Ryan Day. What do you have? You wanna see what it's like to build a corporation in the business of football? I've done that as a football coach. So I think he's gonna go down there and conquer. But...
I'm stunned by the number of people on the other side who are like, too old, game is past and by, and they're just as strong in their opinion as I am here.
Was gerade passiert ist... Er hat eine volle Organisation, Dan. Wenn Andrew Luck als mittlerer Manager für Stanford kommt und wir sehen, dass diese Dinge in front von uns diese Multimillionen-Dollar-Businessen werden, hat Bill Belichick gesagt, okay, weißt du, was ich mit dem Ende meiner Karriere tun werde? Ich werde einfach Bob Kraft sein. Ich werde Bob Kraft sein.
Ich werde nicht sein Dokumentarfilm sehen, wie er die Superbowl gewonnen hat, wie er und Tom Brady. Nein, ich werde hier mein eigenes Spiel bauen und es meinem Sohn geben. Und ich werde meinem Sohn ein Familien-Football-Legacy geben, wenn ich es übernehme. Es ist so ein Balls-Move in deinen 70ern, um dir zu sagen, ich brauche nicht die letzten 14 NFL-Winne, um Shula zu übernehmen.
Ich werde mein eigenes Empire hier in den kleinen Ligen des Geschäfts bauen, weil ich die großen Ligen dieses Geschäfts gewonnen habe.
Und wenn ich dir sage...
Oh, ich war bereit, eine Parade zu machen. Wir kommen zu Gruden in einem Sekunden. Und Grudens Polo und Grudens Barstuhl-Karriere auch. Aber für Bill Belichick. If I were to just simply say to you, never mind what you've seen over the last five years that might confuse you about college football business and also might confuse you about, hey, who should get the Patriots credit on that?
Is it Belichick? Is it Brady? Is it Kraft? Like, is that transferable? Because it wasn't transferable to any of the assistants, but can Bill Belichick just take that with him? If I just say to any of you, hey, guys...
How good do you think Bill Belichick will be competing with $20 million at football, $20 million payroll and whatever it is that he's going to now raise because Deion Sanders has made Colorado a money-making machine. So surely that moneyed area is going to pour all sorts of money into, yeah, I want to beat Texas too. What do you say to me when I say to you,
I'm giving Bill Belichick 20 million dollars to compete at football with a bunch of other people who have only 20 million dollars at the business of football. Do you think he's going to be okay in building whatever needs to be built there to run a 20 million dollar business successfully? A 20 million dollar payroll successfully?
Wouldn't most of you say he'll figure out what needs to be figured out to be smarter than Mario Cristobal?
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Why did that room laugh that hard at that? That was not funny. Major penalty, five minutes, ruining comedy.
Serious breathing going on for my dad right now. Yeah.
What's the alternative?
So is Jamar. That's probably where you got to be.
We've all got one. Let's all go around the room. I thought Chad Henney was going to be great in the answer for the Dolphins. Roy?
But you just get distracted and keep going? Like, hey, what was I thinking about?
Fuentes just gave me the eyes.
It's very heavy handed.
Don't you dare. Major penalty, five minutes, ruining comedy.
It looks like an enye.
Thank you. I'm seeing three to four months to grow back eyebrows fully. Oh, boy.
You should clickbait this thing up. You should be like, Riley speaks. That's how you put it out.
Ja. Es ist eine Tausche.
Bullshit. I'm not scared. I don't know what you're talking about. Chichi Rodriguez.
Cuervo.
Denkt daran, dass die Edmonton Oilers gegen die Los Angeles Kings, die waren 0-2 runter und kamen zurück, um die Serie zu gewinnen. Das ist also möglich. Ich bin also ein ziemlich normaler Kollektor.
It's like green. And also there's not like an... It's not like an alternative version.
I thought red velvet was just chocolate cake dye.
On a plane? Because then that would make sense. I'm asking you, Dan. I feel like you have this information. It would make sense. Glad I got that off my chest.
feel so J.J. Redick-like confidence to say, I'm taking something away from LeBron James?
He or she should have been fired.
The plum also overrated. Think about the butterfly effect of that, though. That alone should have gotten that nutritionist fired because A, it's attributed to Pat Riley, so much so that 10 years later we're telling stories on podcasts. And B, it was the fall of potentially the best basketball dynasty we could have ever seen.
That's a documentary that should be produced by Meadowlark and then marketed by Neon Films to win Best Picture.
I think DK Metcalf has done really well. He's a great wide receiver. I don't think it's because of his body. I think you're objectifying an NFL wide receiver, and I'm not going to stand for it. I feel like a piece of meat sitting here as you talk about wide receivers. They're more than just their body, Dan. You went to Ole Miss, by the way. I didn't want to come and just jump on that.
I'm not completely colorblind, but I'm pretty colorblind.
Pinks and reds are really tough. One in 12 men are colorblind. Really? My kids, they crush me for it, man. Because I'm always like, this matches. I'm like, no, dad. You're wearing green and brown. And I'm like, oh, okay, sorry.
Yeah, it's because you're a racist.
I mean, it's mostly just clothes situation. Yeah. And I also feel like I walk around with a little more dull version of life. Like I feel like everyone else sees a lot more vibrant colors than I do. It kind of always feels like.
I might also be just depressed.
But it's kind of like, it feels like a non-color corrected film always to me.
Yes.
My version of yellow is just different from your version of yellow. I want to be in your eyes for five seconds. I confuse oranges and yellows. What?
You're going to have Quavo at the Quavo Club. Yeah, no, we're not drinking. At the Quavo Club, we're drinking Hennessy.
I wasn't sure if we were going to go there.
They have that for sure. Right now, today, you could go play in a craps table in VR and feel that heater for as long as you want.
How were they not better? They were better in the NFL than they were in college. That's the real travesty.
Oh, my God. Yo, 11. What if you had to stay in there the 23 years? You can start it, but you cannot stop it until after 23 years.
I don't even know Woody Page as a journalist. He's the guy around the horn with the sign. I know who he is, and I love the sign, and I'm like, that old guy is funny.
Oh, sports science, man.
And you singled out me and Amin, so that makes me feel like it's going in a certain direction.
What's Brinkus up to?
Wow.
Writing in black scent is crazy. What year is this? I'm going to say 99.
Story adds up. Did he change the actual quotes that you had in your article, put it into BlackScent, and then put it in his article?
And that's why I did that shit.
What's the quote?
I don't even know if I want to hear this on air because I'm trying to balance between.
I did like them.
That might be the most offensive quote I've ever heard. It's how he ended the column. It's the final line of the column. Goodness gracious. What if that's the reason around?
The level of racist to write that quote, it is not a real quote.
Yeah, that's nuts, man. Guys, it was the 90s.
Granted, nobody cared in the 90s. I don't feel good about this anymore. That's a bad one. We've got to do some more research into it.
It was the 90s.
I feel uncomfortable when he does it.
I was going to say, I've literally never heard the term if-in. Now, granted, I didn't grow it up in the South. If-in you grew up in the South, you would have known it. Finna, I use finna, like, all the time. And, you know, everyone I'm around, that's a term that we use. If-in is like... This is going to be really unfortunate.
Yeah, I mean, DK Metcalf is a specimen. Height, weight, speed, obviously, strength, a part of that. And if he gets with a quarterback, like if he does go to a contender with one of these quarterbacks who can take that ability to the next level, you'll probably see a career year from DK Metcalf.
Tell me it's about John Cena.
Who would be best to solve a train murder mystery? Who would be the killer, and why is it witty?
Can we get a new one? Who would be the best to solve a train murder mystery?
Who is the most famous person that might come to your funeral?
I know way more black Louies than Leroy's.
I know a Leroy. Yeah.
It's all offensive. All of it. Michael Jordan. Most offended by him saying it.
Michael Jordan won't go speak in Europe for 250 mil, but he's coming to your funeral? That's right.
Probably what Tony's going to do when he gets over to the U. I would never flip up.
He was pretty good at it, though.
Are Bonita Fish big? Anybody get that reference? I mean, I guess. He's just still recruiting. They're a trophy fish.
Greatest shooter in college history probably. And that was a ridiculous question from Michael Porter Jr. if he was ranked. Dog!
I went to Duke when Duke was Duke.
ACC player of the year.
Chris, tell me this. What coach's disposition do you like in the media? Like when they talk to the media. Missoula.
I like them.
Listen, I also think that for J.J. Redick, who is, to Dan's point, the head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers on a team with LeBron James and Luka Doncic... Spoiled. You have to get up there and not treat media a certain way, but... But you gotta exude a certain confidence in every room to be able to go in that room and get them to be like, hey, I gotta respect this guy. I gotta listen to this guy.
Fanta.
Don't you dare. That's crazy. Worst flavor. Best flavor by far.
Dan definitely just read a hype beast post about Taco Bell's new Baja Blast flavor. Whoever the Sham Saradia of fast food, Dan has him on alert.
Starburst. I don't know. I kind of feel like it's all in your head, man. What's the best starburst?
No. Easily.
Hold on. Juju, hold on one minute.
That's actually not bad. His is good.
That's not terrible.
stopping participation of transgender athletes in sports we should be far more worried about things that are that he's doing economically things that are happening so let's talk about can we not be worried about both though hold on a second because i don't have the bandwidth you have to pick and choose that's i have to that's the problem though right because if you are running a um for all intents and purposes sort of fascist version of the american government otherizing
groups of people is what helps you. It's what helps you keep that pulpit. And by creating a boogeyman, the percentage of people in America who think that 25 percent of our population is full of of trans folks because of the fear mongering that's been done by
this administration and its cronies are part of why you have people so dug in on that side of the aisle is because they've created boogeymen out of nowhere. And by the way, if this population is as small as it is, which it is, we should still be supporting that.
Oh, Rookie of the Year. Rookie of the Year for me, man.
What? But remember when he gets stuck between the doors, knocking on the doors of the hotel room? We'll help you.
It was premature exuberance. He should have said, hey, Kevin Love, you're in the trade. Sorry, buddy. Get up, get your thing.
Oh, come on. It's a good show. Ooh. Wow.
Venmo Bucket is presented by, you guessed it, Venmo. What? Jeremy.
I was at a bowling alley. With your dad? Yeah, with my dad. My dad actually had to leave. Three games is usually bowling. After game two, it happened midway through game two. He got a call from his boss. He's like, guys, I got to go. Wow. You couldn't write from the alley? I was like, you should just dictate it. So yeah, I was there, and I just saw people looking at their phones.
It was one of those things. Well, that was startling to see that hand enter the room. I just saw a finger pointing at me. There's really no reason for you to have been late, though. No, I mean, me being late had nothing to do with bowling. I thought you were talking to Pat. Yeah, me being late was me waking up at 7.15 and my wife being like, are you going to work today? And I was like, huh, yeah.
It was bad. Nothing to do with bowling, though.
What did I do wrong? Thong song. Make it. You guys were serious?
Touching your nipples to Andrew Wiggins? Don't answer that.
If I was going to a restaurant called Samson last night, I would have invited you.
Very plain, very unseasoned food.
Little bags of candy.
How does it feel? I see Heat fans trying to spin this as a win, as just like, okay, we got Wiggins. No, you sound pathetic, Heat fans. It's a little numbing. This was like break glass in case of an emergency, last resort, Andrew Wiggins, no? I mean, especially with all the Durant rumors yesterday, it felt like a fart. See, me and Izzy talked about this yesterday.
How many times has he gone after Kevin Durant? Wow. Okay, so it's 2016.
Let me explain something here, Dan. They're not giving you what you want. What you want is tears. They're giving you confidence.
I think a buzzer beater for me, but especially when you're up 3-1 in that game.
Wait, did someone say overrated?
You can't get right to sleep, can you? I slept like a baby. There's a funny thing that happens to you as you get older, because I don't care about either of these teams. I was just rooting for that game to be over in overtime.
It's the way you have to say it. Well, but it's because I hear dinosaur steps. Like, they sound like dinosaur steps.
Yeah. Don't let him cometh! Don't let him cometh!
What? Huh?
That's the guy. He's freezing on that guy.
It's game one.
But Dan, if you're into the game, I don't think you care. I'm not certain if this is the game you're talking about, but the Islanders' first cup was a goal by Bobby Nystrom from John Tonelli, which happened with seven minutes left in overtime, the first overtime. But you'll stay up.
When you're young and you care about the team that's playing for the Stanley Cup, you'll stay up all night and watch the game. I'm just getting old.
I'm going to say like 15-3. They're 8-10.
That's Messi saying he has no interest?
That's why you're the star that you are. So it's not bicycles. It's the biggest vehicle we have. It is.
I think they'll side with Pablo over Bill Simmons. I'm not certain the guys at the Sports Hub really like Bill Simmons that much.
It takes that.
Mike, I hate it as well. It doesn't matter that Bill moved across the country to L.A. to the place that Boston hates the most. He could still cover Boston sports in 2025 and do it very well. But that's where I knew those guys would go.
Congratulations to Pablo for winning the big trophy, huh?
If he could only win one, the beef with Bill Simmons or the Peabody, which one do you think Pablo would choose? The Peabody. Really? I choose Simmons. Fun game, though.
I've been waiting for this game and this show my entire life. I have five. I mean, how about that?
Five perfect names. Well, five cool hockey names is what I have.
You want to start with number five? Sure. Number five, Leon Dreisaitl. You need the fanfare, Roy. He hit the fanfare. I heard it. I got it. I can't hear fanfare. All right.
Number four, Darius Kasperitis. I'm glad that's on there.
That was a name. That was a name. Yes.
I've got one better than Dreisaitl. Really? Yes. Number two, Billy Smith. Islander goalie. I named my cat after him. He died.
You go Ziggy Palfey if you're going Islanders. And number one, the great one.
That's the tough part of the name to spell? It was Jeremy's birthday yesterday. You be damn careful. Yeah. No, Jeff Boogaboom is a name. It's a good one.
Happy birthday to him. I don't care. Good luck.
I've aged a lot in the last few years working here. At all 34.
The great one.
Oh my God. Wow. Look how pleased Roy is with himself. As he should, I mean.
They're 18-0 under Paul Maurice when they lead after two periods.
That's a fine. I'm not certain it was my phone. Then why are you holding it? I know, but how do you know my phone is the one that buzzed? I don't know. I always have it on silent. It was me.
Oh, I'm interested in, oh, how do the cat mechanics on how these trades get consummated?
Pineapple butter.
I'm like, at 10.15? I'm asking for a drink. Yeah. Y'all can't do one round?
I didn't hear you. You misspoke, sorry.
Not me, sir. You said perfect, and he brought it back.
Who signed where? We found out who got drafted six minutes before the pick was announced.
He's been up since 3. He's been texting for two hours.
For years back here.
That's some gangster shit.
That is a Dan. Often after a segment, we'll just lay on the floor, which we for years have been like, maybe he's sleepy. I don't know. And then we had it. Do we have his trainer on?
So we just deduce. I don't think we've actually talked to Dan about this.
But we just know now that when he's doing that, that's him being like, I need some HT. It's a horizontal time. I don't think he calls it HT. I call it HT.
The only time guilt gets me is when I have an early flight. If I have to catch an early flight, I'm worried about missing it. That's not guilt. That's anxiety. That's when I will wake up before my alarm. Like a normal work day. Do you feel guilty about making it to flights in the morning? Well, no. He was just saying he was using the phrase guilt alarm.
No, you're impressive. His ability to do the show after a red eye is wild.
We won yesterday, and we're like, get Jeremy for tomorrow. You're welcome.
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You know how I know you would never do it? Because you've never done it before.
Do you think that what I did there to get suspended from ESPN, do you think the Heat was like, that's a classy move, what Dan's doing, getting suspended there?
You waited until after he left. You didn't do it in the middle. I'm in reruns on this. It's an old joke. I've already made it.
Yeah, I'm buckled already.
Overrated? Wait, did someone say overrated?
Dan Levitar. Oh, please, no national controversy. Don't give me any of that.
That's right.
I thought I heard Poppy.
Not that this is about clicks. That was my 19th rated click column.
And then you take out the New York Rangers and we hate everybody from New York because they've come down here and infected our town with everything they do. And then who do you take out the end? The biggest, baddest giant. So don't tell me I'm not excited. I'm telling you the next two games are for my love. They're for my love. For me remembering you.
Yes or no? Overrated?
He's never won a title.
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You'd be Michael Yormark. You owe me everything.
It's a fool wrong. You're an idiot twice. You're an idiot for dismissing how much I've helped you. You are a fool. You're nobody. You are an infant.
You have messed with me, David, and now you're messing with me, and I'm more dangerous, pal. So apologize or leave.
Come on. Yeah, he's in there muttering under his butt. Let me out of here. Apologize and you go to air with it. Thank me.
That's not in any way up for dispute, but it's empirical. It's not just that they're not doing it as an eight seed last year.
Edmonton plays a style of play that doesn't win the way this one does, but they have a player that can nuke anything. They have a single player that can nuke everything historic in hockey that happens to the best teams.
Big pregame show.
You guys are assholes. This matters. This matters to me. This is my life. This matters to him. This matters to him.
They are certainly deeper. They can field five forward lines on this team. They've got plenty of players. If anybody goes down, they've got somebody to replace them.
Actually, I would say it wasn't as physical as previous series that these two teams have had. It was just three hits.
Getting back to Nikita Kucherov, who will win the Art Ross Trophy this year for most points in the league. He's gone 15 straight playoff games without scoring a goal. 10 straight against Florida. In this series, he's had no goals, obviously, and four assists. Itu Luserainen, one goal, three assists for four points. So basically, and that was in game five.
So Luserainen had a better game than Kucherov had the entire series. I'd like a thank you from all of you guys, by the way, for me.
Yes, obviously. But you know what? It doesn't matter. It absolutely doesn't matter. I know you want the smoke. I know you want the smoke. Absolutely. Who would you rather play? You know what? Let's do the Toronto again. I want to see them go down again.
No, we got to do things the hard way, Chris. Yes, that's what we do. We always do things the hard way, and we come out on top, so I say bring on Toronto.
Yes, they will be bathing in blood.
God damn, I love this team. Those two saves in the second period. Oh, good God.
Yeah, absolutely. Different philosophy under Joel Cranville and Andrew Burnett. They were a rush team. They were a transition team. Once you get them on the rush, they would end up scoring with Jonathan Huber, though. And then they blew it all up when Tampa beat them and became a floor-checking team under Paul Maurice. It was just an amazing thing to see.
Right now.
Mein Fehler der Woche ist, dass wir nach Edmonton gehen müssen, aber was kann ich sagen? Das ist mein einziger Fehler.
Es war das Beste, weil sie Antworten gemacht haben.
Oh, God. Yeah.
Oh, sorry.
Carry on.
Nein, wer füttert ihre Fische mit Pfeffer? Ich weiß nicht, was das bedeutet. Und dann sage ich, und heute waren wir ohne Pfeffer.
Of course, I did that.
Yes. Good, that's how we do it here.
Nein, und die beste Partie ist, und heute haben wir keine Pfeffer. Und dann sagt Roy, du hast einen Fisch, und du hast Pfeffer und Brot gefüttert. Da habe ich angefangen zu lachen.
I almost just dropped it.
I think it's going to be a six. Edmonton, don't hate me.
Ich denke, sie werden gewinnen, weil McDavid mit einer anderen Mentalität kommt.
Leider denke ich, ich hoffe, dass die Panthers gewinnen.
Ich denke so. Ich bin sorry. Und du kannst mich in meinen Platz stellen, gerade jetzt. Ich werde das nicht tun. Es sind nur zwei Jahre, dass ich dieses Team gesehen habe. Aber ich fühle mich wie die Panthers. Und du kannst mir sagen, ob ich falsch bin. Aber jedes Mal, wenn sie runter sind... Die Panthers. Ja, es ist schwer für sie zurückzukommen.
Lass uns nicht über das letzte Spiel sprechen, weil sie zurückgekommen sind.
Es ist schwer für sie zurückzukommen, außer wenn sie zurückkommen. Aber manchmal fühle ich mich so, dass sie zu verletzen mögen. Also es ist so, okay, sie gewinnen drei, dann verlieren sie drei und dann kommen sie und gewinnen. Also dieses Mal, ich weiß nicht. Und sie sind besser auf der Straße. Also sind wir nicht geplant, zu singen?
Das ist der Grund, warum sie nicht gut spielen, weil wir viel singen.
Stell dir den Mikrofon an.
Ja. In sieben.
Er hat den Namen verlassen, sorry.
Ein sehr langer. Aber was ich auch sagen wollte, ich habe es Edmonton gewonnen, weil vielleicht gibt es nicht so viel Glück. Also vielleicht die Pendel.
Oh Gott.
It is the end of the show now.
You can see it in his eyes. Four minutes up.
Oh man, oh yeah. But the thing is that it ended with Roy saying, she ate a gummy, didn't she?
Oh man, that would have been worse.
No, I listen to you guys. Hold on, hold on, hold on. If we're going to talk about my troubles, I'm going to say it.
Zuerst musste ich von Miami nach Houston gehen. Dann habe ich mein Flugzeug von Houston nach Denver verloren. Also mussten sie es von Denver nach San Francisco ändern. Dann von San Francisco nach Edmonton. In Edmonton gibt es einen Sturm. Also mussten wir über Edmonton fliegen. Oh, wir haben Gas verloren. Also mussten wir nach Calgary gehen. Wir haben den Tank gefüllt.
Und dann sind wir zurück nach Edmonton gegangen.
Das war die erste Runde.
7-1.
No, I was like... Into the microphone. No, I was going to say let's go to wins, but I didn't want to steal your thunder.
Oh, ich werde versuchen, mit dem zu sprechen.
Yeah. No, I'm gonna try to go to the Milan. Can you imagine that?
Oh, guys. That might happen because I am going.
Also, mein erster Sieg dieses Wochenende ist natürlich unser Junge Barky. Als er das Assistenten gemacht hat. Ja, ja, ja, das Assistenten. Schau dir das an. Das war krass. Das könnte sein Statue sein. Das war das Beste.
Und mein zweiter Sieg der Woche ist eigentlich Roy. Er hat auch gespielt. Schau dir ihn an. In der Praxis. Wow. Ja, ja. Eins, zwei, drei. Und da geht er.
Ja.
Ich mag das. Schau dir das an. Schau dir das an. Ja.
Ha ha, that's funny, high five, high five.
If... Let's be clear. This was not a collaborative effort to make this specific sound. This was one person's idea.
Yes. He also wanted to look at me, Louise.
Top five list. There's so many famous ones.
The fastest man to do what?
I've heard a lot of people say at places where YouTube's not blocked on their work computer, they'll listen to it and sort of have it in the corner of their screen while they're working. A lot of people also say they listen on their way to work or from work.
That's fine. Most common answer.
I think one of our show's biggest flaws is sometimes we get so swept up in something that everyone is just confused. And sometimes you need to reset. Agreed. Tell everyone what the assignment is.
Thank you very much.
Cuervo.
1978 was when they switched to 16.
They're going to be like, look, all the fans want Monday after the Super Bowl off, you selfish players.
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This is salty stuff coming out of my eyes. Does this happen to everyone?
You're messing around with the budget here. Roy just walked in.
Probably one at home and one in Emmett.
Probably game two. Okay.
Yeah.
Man, that's good.
We stumped him. Probably not. Roy wants to go to Edmonton.
Or you can have two layovers, one in Atlanta. No, thanks.
Oh, for crying out loud. Oh, for crying out loud.
Oh, he's on fire.
What the hell was that, Chris?
It's a team sport. If you're going to blame anybody, blame the front office. They don't have good goaltending. Skinner was good during the conference finals.
I mean, understandable, but he is a Hall of Famer.
You're going to strut.
Five feet off the ground.
Mm-hmm. Okay. I mean, I'm not terrible, but I'm not going to be in that competition, though.
Wenn es manchmal passiert, habe ich keine Beweise, dass es jetzt passiert. Aber die Leute beginnen zu sprechen. Und hinter den Szenen schaffen sie eine Reputation für jemanden, die vielleicht nicht ihre Reputation ist. Aber jeder beginnt zu akzeptieren, dass dieser oder jener das oder das nicht kann.
Nein, das sind sie. Das ist eine große Sache. Ich meine, Mr. Gott-Bless-Football ist... Einer der Mr. auf Gott-Bless-Football. Einer der Mr., natürlich, mit Billy.
Es waren nicht nur die physischen Bedingungen, es war nicht nur das Entourage. Es war, dass wenn du Shador Sanders draftest, dann draftest du Dion und all das Circus.
Yes, he is. Just came out today. Pick it up. Pick it up like a newspaper. Read it, look at it on YouTube, whatever you like to do.
Wie kann man nur so... Ausgeruht sein? Ganz einfach. Trainiere deinen Schlaf und werde auch du zum Morgenmenschen. Mit der Galaxy Watch 7 oder dem Galaxy Ring und der Samsung Health App.
He's out of the will. Oh yeah, he should be fired from the family. Seriously. I mean, what he did was literally inexcusable. And there's going to be repercussions there. I don't know what they'll be, but I wouldn't be surprised if the Falcons got fined by the league or something. Because this is a serious thing.
I didn't even know those happened. Right. This is the one everybody cares about because he's piling on a guy who's going through the worst night of his life.
Das ist eine wunderschöne Idee. Ich werde, weil ich ein Ideenmann bin, diese Idee mit dem folgen. Es muss das Geräusch eines riffligen Papiers sein. Das Geräusch eines riffligen Papiers. Es muss das Geräusch eines riffligen Papiers sein. Es muss das Geräusch eines riffligen Papiers sein. Es muss das Geräusch eines riffligen Papiers sein.
Ich mache das. I can't honor this as a great prank until I hear it. Because the idea of a 21-year-old imitating Mickey Loomis, who's like my age, it can't be a good imitation.
Es muss das Geräusch eines riffligen Papiers sein. Es muss das Geräusch eines riffligen Papiers sein. Call the patent office.
I don't think it's inconceivable that he goes back to Colorado. I know it's against NCAA rules. I know that it's against NCAA rules, but everything is changing in the NCAA and college football. There's got to be some sort of a path for him to get back to college. And that's why it's being reported, it's speculated on by several people, not just him.
Yeah, they don't have a starting quarterback. It's not like he's coming in there trying to beat out him and him and he's the third guy right away. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if Shador Sanders winds up as their starting quarterback.
And he, I think we can all agree that nobody in the NFL right now, certainly nobody coming out of that draft, is more motivated to show how good he is and to put up a middle finger to the NFL.
V.a. an dieser Position, denke ich. Aber du hast gesagt, du hast analysiert, Rennhäuser und Athleten. Racesources never give a bad interview. They never betray themselves with their arrogance when they're being vetted for athleticism. Shador Sanders did. Plainly. People don't want the headphones and the disrespect. Oh, but stop. No. As Amin said, you're not good enough.
You've never elbowed anybody in the head?
If you're friends, you say those exact same words and it comes off totally different.
Well, the print edition is not. The online edition, the digital edition is... I didn't say thriving, I said surviving.
Well, but when you say newspapers, if you mean that literally, if you mean the print edition that is still thrown onto lawns, I would agree with you.
I agree. You know, you got a bird, put a Greg Cody column on the bottom of the cage. There you go.
Yeah, I like it. I like that.
I caught myself worrying way too much about the positioning of my thermos bottle and whether or not my Greg Cody show decal would show on your air. I really shouldn't be that worried about it, but you know.
Do you know this one friend who just comes out of bed in the morning and then doesn't come out of his grin? Who is even in front of the first coffee, shamelessly well-groomed, and radiates the morning sun around the bed? Terrible. Disgusting. How can you just...
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It is time for Stu Gatz to share his game notes.
What's above a heartbeat in this situation?
He used to get in one fight a year. Now it's like one fight over two seasons. Respect, though? No.
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That finish.
Was that the best witching hour of the season? Unbelievable. It lasted two hours. It was two hours.
Walks off.
It's interesting that he gave that much, Mike McDaniel, there. Because he could have just been like, oh, we're moving on. Yeah, there's a lot of deals that almost happened. He gave voice to, yeah, that almost happened, and I threw an adult-type temper tantrum. That's his exact quote, which is pretty cool.
I'm just picturing what this league would be like if all teams thought the way you want them to think. We're the seventh seed. We're not even going to play that playoff game.
I have the same lack of trust in Miami, but at the same time, I think they can win it all. Because who do you trust? Win it all? Who do you trust? You've got to win it all.
Who do you trust?
Don Levitard. It sounds to me like everybody could use a hug because a hug is always the right size. Stugatz. All I have put in my body today is three cups of coffee and an entire cup of honey.
You trade him and the team falls apart because the culture is really just nonsense to sell season tickets. It's all about the talent. And when you get rid of the most talented players on your team, you have off seasons that are not good and seasons that are bad.
But they got rid of their star. That's what I'm saying is the culture exists when you have the star.
Yeah, and then the culture will be back.
Fight him? When he's better than you, there's nothing you can do. Yeah, what are you going to do? That's why, from an outsider's perspective, that's why they roll their eyes at the whole culture stuff. Because the culture exists as long as the superstar wants to indulge it and participate in the culture. He did not want to be participating in the culture.
And to what you guys are saying, everyone behind the scenes is like, well, we just have to kind of put up with whatever Jimmy's doing. He never did, though. Yeah. So like then there's not actually a culture.
Yeah, why are we hanging hats? Why can't LeBron just have his cookies? Fly on the plane, eat his chocolate chip cookies, and then it's fine. Oh, you know that story's bullshit.
What? Oh, okay. LeBron? Get out of here. Why would he make that up?
Culture.
We're just having a conversation about the heat, the culture, the cookies, et cetera.
It was ice cream. He had a spoonful he was about to put in his mouth, and a flight attendant slapped it out of his hand, and they opened the emergency exit and threw the ice cream carton out the airplane.
Don Levitard. We didn't get to your guys' against the spread. You're right, you're right, you're right.
You need an Ian in your life.
Defense wins championships, baby. That's show business.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Who are you to talk? Your brother was here working last week, and you weren't for some reason.
Some people get to never work and other people never get to take vacation. And I'm always here. That's how it works.
It was a big game. It brought him to 11 games under .500.
Some people have kids also on spring break and they have to come in every day this week and they don't spend any time with their family. That's how it works. And other people just went on vacation, and they're back on vacation again now this week.
Don't you?
It's a class system.
I mean, I did my job.
Looked and smelled like radio. You should have walked down the other hallway. There's a giant glass. It was like a fish tank.
Shadowin' it.
Well, last time he went four. It would be really good if he went maybe five. That damn Jordan Walker wasn't felling off so many pitches, you know? Did you just swear on the air? Oh, can I not say that? No. Let's refrain. Might have to hit the dump button back in the station.
No, I knew you were going to me because you said my name, but I was expecting more to the question. And I was listening to the question like, there's nothing more to this.
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Paul Maurice says he's going to return this year, but we don't have a timeline yet. Hopefully before the playoffs.
Oh, very well. I thought it was more to that question, actually. I know you're going to put more of a context to that question, but I think he's doing very well.
What do you want me to do? Would you believe me when I tell you that he played in the National Hockey League, but never played for the Leafs? Yeah, yeah. Was? Er war ein Leafs-Fan, aber er hat nie gespielt.
Ich glaube, ich konnte das Jersey auf dem Boden hören. Sie haben das gemacht, oder?
I did dub Paul Maurice that year, the murderer of fun.
How about anyone in South Florida telling a hockey lifer, listen pal. I love it.
Ist er verletzt? Ist Chuck verletzt? Judge Zaslow rules inconclusive evidence. With prejudice, inconclusive.
Whatever you need. Can we not talk about what we're going to do when the Panthers win Stanley Cup? You're right.
No, they didn't sweep them. Rob Binsmore said that was not a sweep.
Sie sind Loser.
It's so many goals.
Hast du gesehen, dass es einen Clip gibt, wo sie, was nennt man das, Maple Leaf Square, was auch immer sie es nennen. Oh, in meinen Wangen. Wo sie alle außerhalb der Arena schauen. Und ich weiß nicht, ob es 3-0 war oder vielleicht 4-1. Dieser eine roge Maple Leaf Fan, der seinen Weg durch den Publikum drückt, durch alle rutscht und einfach tippt.
Er ist einfach alleine, geht raus und alle schauen auf ihn in Schock. Oh, ich liebte ihn.
Ich weiß nicht, ob es die Geschichte der Serie ist, aber ich glaube, dass die 4. Linie der Panthers besser war als die Linie des Marner-Matthews. Ich glaube das. Drei Tore aus der 3. Linie, ein Tor aus der 4. Linie.
Ich glaube, die Geschichte ist, besonders mit der Art und Weise, wie die Serie endete, die zwei Verkäufe, die Bill Zito gemacht hat, Marshand und Seth Jones, in einem Game 7. In einem Game 7 hast du herausgefunden, worum Seth Jones ist.
Dan, at one point in the first period, late in the first period, Kenny Albert with a straight face said on the broadcast that the Panthers are out shooting the Maple Leafs 26 to 0. And I'm telling you after all that.
I literally said to my wife last night, after the second period, she wanted to go upstairs and go to sleep. I said, listen, you could want that all you want, you're not going anywhere. You've been sitting right there, the score is 4-1, you're not going anywhere. You can close your eyes if you want, but you're not going anywhere.
Bedtime is 9.15, my daughter didn't go to bed until after that second period.
Roy, you know that moment when you're out watching puck and the server comes over and asks the table, what can I get you guys? And everyone freezes up. You know what you should do? What should I do, Mike? You've got to have some confidence. Or as Jagermeister calls it, shotfidence. I love it. If everyone's struggling, take control. Just order for the whole table.
The tequila that invented tequila.
I thought that was totally manufactured.
Yeah, but the camera lingered. And I think even the camera... kind of focused on it a little bit. The camera goes down. I watched it. I'm like, this is purely manufactured to get people talking about it on the internet. Look, you see the camera direction. The camera was anticipating that happening.
I thought it was 100% manufactured. They were trying to make a moment and do exactly what it did. For those people that weren't watching, have something on the internet that reminds you this event's happening.
I was at a place where the signal held steady the entire time, but it was overwhelming on social media and in my group chats. Everybody was having issues with the buffering for this live event. So I'm not really sure why some people had consistent streams and some others didn't.
She's a halftime performer for that.
in their defense they did like all of a sudden the paul fight was about to start and it was fixed yeah that was good they have unlimited resources they're they're gonna figure this out they're gonna get more people familiar with live sports broadcasts and i mean the stakes go up for them because they've been doing these things sporadically live activations beginning in january they get monday night raw live every week on their platform they're gonna have to get good at it quick
I meant it comparably. But I think that they were doing a lot of unconventional things, be it the manufactured moment with Mike Tyson's ass, which I think was 100% intentional.
The women's fight, and that's where I kind of... I'm down with what Jake Paul is trying to do because his promotions really do try to get good fights on the card. And from a boxing card, I was really happy with the fights that were displayed that weren't the main event. It was just really drawn out.
And I know that's usually the deal with these big boxing cards, but maybe it was because I was watching it with my dad, but this felt like it was taking forever. No, dad, I actually think Quincy Jones is properly rated. Yeah.
Well, that's a different conversation. I think part of what ESPN is doing is not just buying it. They've been trying to replicate the formula. Their business partners always told them, why can't you be like that property? But this is also part of a settlement. So I think it's a little bit more convoluted. You lost me, though, because that's not what the pay-per-view model is.
That's what perhaps streaming model is. And maybe that's what you meant. But pay-per-views, they aren't incentivized to have time spent watching. I got your money. Middle finger to you. Just buy it. You can watch. They don't care.
He calls himself that, and he's trying to do, with his platform, good things in introducing. He made a couple of girls stars with that card.
I know this comes with baggage, but I am a fan of what... the Jake Paul and Logan Paul media machine has created. And I don't think it's without merit. Say what you will about his actual boxing skill compared to actual boxers. What he's turned himself into is someone that does deserve some respect.
Even if he's going in there against other YouTubers or bad boxers, he's turned himself into someone who is at least, at the very least, reputable. And the first thought that was going through my mind as the bell was about to ring... This guy was a YouTuber. This guy was Disney Channel adjacent. He was 17 years old, just goofing around, making videos.
And then here he is in a boxing ring, staring across the ring from Mike Tyson, the most dangerous man in the world, most feared man in the world at one point, about to engage in combat with a guy. It's just a crazy run. What is this guy's life?
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Just saying, that's who he's calling out. He also called out Conor McGregor. In an MMA fight. In an MMA where he is, like, two and a half times bigger than Conor McGregor.
There is no bigger fight that he can make than Jake Paul, Conor McGregor.
That was good.
We all like fights. Stop it with your high horse. If I told you, Dan.
But it's human to want to watch people fight, especially famous people. Dan, if I told you, hey, out in the parking garage, Danny Bonaduce is fighting Chris Chelios, you're going to want to see that.
Him versus Canelo, I think we all know how that one goes. It's a sideshow.
I'd watch it. You wouldn't like to see it.
He couldn't hang with a real fighter's brother.
Yeah, Canelo has to bulk up for that one.
It is a skill, though. Ball winning is a skill. It's not always athleticism, even though Amari Cooper is super athletic, especially compared to the normal person at this part of his career at this age. He's not really going to out-athletic guys, but he's like Anquan Boldin. Anquan Boldin hung around for several years after you would think that he wouldn't, and he wasn't burning past people.
He wasn't beating people off of routes. It was just, throw up that ball. It's not a 50-50 with me. It's a 75-25.
Correct. That's been the case for a couple of years with him.
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Wait a minute. Historically, analytics people hate the end zone fade. I can't stand it.
Yeah, but there are a couple of guys, like you throw an end zone fade to DK Metcalf, the math changes a little bit.
No one has more data than these head coaches. I'm sure there's a way to quantify the success rate if I throw it one-on-one to Steve Smith. But to my original point of calling players, I'll be playing the probabilities that my guy, my DK Metcalf, my Steve Smith, my Cooper Cup is going to be better than your guy trying to stop him in this moment.
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I don't think so. I'm going to look it up, but I think probably the worst odds that you would get on a Super Bowl matchup would be Lions-Chiefs, even with last night's result.
It wasn't exactly how we all thought. A little late, though. It was pretty drawn out. I mean, that's boxing cards, but you would have thought maybe since this is in Dallas and not in Vegas, we'd still do Eastern Standard on here.
Yes, I think everyone had the same feeling.
Chris, we also got some clarity on why this fight was delayed. There was this weird, ambiguous health issue that Mike Tyson was dealing with, and he later revealed that he essentially won that fight because of what he overcame. He had blood transfusions, lost a lot of blood, apparently had a very serious issue, still kind of trying to figure out what happened there.
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Devils at Blue Jackets tonight. I got a weird stat for you here. The Devils have failed to cover in nine straight night games versus opponents on a losing streak. The Blue Jackets on a three-game losing streak. The Devils just lost to the Penguins 7-3 on Saturday. The Blue Jackets are underdogs in this game by a goal and a half.
You were late. I was logged in at 545. A boat is a whole thing.
That's too bad, man.
Yeah.
That was an oddly specific stat. I know. It's ridiculous. And because of that stat, I'm going Blue Jackets tonight as the underdog. A goal and a half underdog.
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Sharperdance!
If you're a team that wants him, this is what you want to happen because you want him to fall to you because he just kind of starts plummeting. But no, Shador is not hoping that he falls out of the first round by any means just because he might end up on a better team. He's costing himself money. I'm just saying, does he say, okay, maybe this is not what I wanted, but this could work out for me?
Well, also the better teams all have quarterbacks, right? So he wants to go to a situation where he's going to play or there's a playing plan in place for him. He doesn't want to be a backup on the Chiefs.
I'm okay, thank you.
Apologies.
It's fine, but if you're a team looking for a quarterback, you want the parents to have given your quarterback a good arm, and we can find the belief down the road.
I... I want my children to believe in myself, but that has nothing to do with what the NFL needs at the position. Believing in yourself is great. You could also be not that great. I'm not saying that that should do her, but what they care about is talent and arm strength and all of that. They're not handing out Nobel Prizes. They're trying to win Lombardi trophies.
Who cares if you believe in yourself? Everyone's full of walk-ons. Every college is full of walk-ons that believed in themselves that just weren't good enough.
If you're good enough, you can look past it. This weekend, I don't know why, but this weekend I was watching highlights of Baker Mayfield when he was at Oklahoma.
When they refused to shake his hand? They didn't shake his hand, and he was talking the entire game. He grabbed his crotch. He looked at the other team. He was screaming at them the entire game. I think it was against Kansas. And the broadcasters were like, oh, the NFL scouts, they're not going to like that one. They're not going to like that in their locker room.
That's probably going to impact him. Number one pick. Like, so if you're good enough, you can look past all of the arrogance. It's just a matter of if the measurables aren't there and they don't think that his arm is strong enough, they're not going to put up with it as much.
I mean, it's not good for like a sports radio show, but like it's all stupid, right? Like it doesn't matter how confident you are or how good your ability is. Like the NFL draft ends up being a crapshoot anyways. We were talking about it with Laramie Tunsil last week and how people, oh my God, we don't know what to do here.
And then he ends up falling and then he ends up being like a multi-time Pro Bowl or so. Like Shador can fall and he's either going to work out or he's not going to work out. And he's going to work out whether he's the number seven pick or he's not going to work out if he's a seven pick or work out as a 28th pick or not work out as a 28th pick. It doesn't really matter all that much.
Never stuck with Brian Cushing.
It's just the sport, right? In football, no one really seems to care about anything football players do in any aspect of anything.
I'm curious because we talked about this last week in the NBA. And basically, people would care if it's LeBron. If it's not LeBron, people largely don't really care what's going on in the NBA anymore. In baseball...
they cared a lot at the beginning and now you also kind of forget the only reason you know is because the length of the suspension is so long that it's so obvious like oh 81 games like you miss half a season so like you know but otherwise you kind of forget oh this person got suspended like three seasons ago i don't even remember that football you never really care because like people are out so frequently in the nfl anyways with injury that you don't really know why someone's not playing like oh pd's like oh and they're back next year oh and like pro bowler like
Oh, can we get them now for a cheaper price? Like, okay, like, yeah, let's sign up for that. I'm actually curious how the NHL views this, since this is why we started today with ECLAD. Like, do the NHL fans care about PEDs?
That was a waste of money, if we're going to be honest. It's a crazy waste of money. That taxpayer money was crazy. Roy, I think you're a hockey purist just because I think you're the only person that likes hockey for a long time. How do you feel about the whole steroid stuff in hockey? Do you care about this?
I think the crazy thing about where we are in performance enhancing drugs, unfortunately, is now when you see someone gets pinched for performance enhancing drugs, I think the first thought most people have is like, oh, so you're just dumb. Like, because, like, everyone's doing it and they know exactly how to get around it.
And, like, oh, we have someone that's dumb and couldn't figure out how to get around it. Or is just, like, reckless and didn't do what they needed to do to properly pass the test. Which, like, is a crazy thing. But, like, as sports fans, you just kind of have accepted that everyone's just trying to get around the system and they've figured out how to beat it.
And then when someone does, you're like, oh. Hmm. Why can't you figure out how to get around it?
You're not upset that you're cheating. You're upset that they're dumb. I think that that's where we are with some of this stuff. Also, like, outside of Florida, I don't think anyone cares about Aaron Eckblad.
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Yeah. And added to that is the injury of Dmitry Kulikov, who got hurt in the Islanders game last night. So they went down a defenseman.
I mean, yeah, this schedule sucks. I mean, that was the first of five back-to-backs for the rest of the season for the Panthers. So, yeah, it's not – It's not really good.
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Self-reporting.
I'm not drafting March 17th because we're going to go play two random games to pander internationally to grow the game, and then we'll come back, and then you're still going to play spring training games for two weeks, and then the season's going to start next week. Like, no, that's fake. Okay, we can pretend it's real. It'll count in the record book. Whatever. It's fake. Not opening day.
You understand. You understand. You know you understand.
No.
No, come back after March Madness. Like, this is March Madness week. We don't need random baseball games this week. Come on, get out of here. And we have a championship game at Unrivaled tonight. Like, baseball, stay in your lane. Homestead's coming this weekend. Like, it's a busy week. We don't need real baseball games that aren't real.
The player was immediately available yesterday, and we didn't plan that. Yeah, exactly. The player?
I forgot his name.
Oh, come on, Dan. It's the biggest game of the season. First pitch, opening day, season starts. Who is it?
No, he's pitching. He's pitching?
Yeah. Okay.
Trevor Bauer says he's pitching every year, too. Then the team say, nope, no thank you.
like she's using Bill Belichick as if 70 year old Bill Belichick being with a 29 year old or whatever is not like he's getting something out of this exchange I think Bill very well knows what's going on here I think he's happy with it he looks super happy this is Did you see him at the museum? Check out the post before. Him at a museum is amazing, Mike.
But it's also coaching cycles, right? If Bill Belichick would have sat out another year or two, he would have been back in the NFL. That's just kind of how it happens. When Bill Cower left, everyone was like, Cower, Cower, Cower, because he would say no.
Eventually, just because of the NFL and the fact that they don't really give that many new people opportunities, they all eventually get another job. He just got tired of waiting, and he wanted to do this. It wasn't like he went blank. begging to North Carolina, he found a program that was desperate enough to give him everything that he wanted.
They put him in a position where he couldn't say no because they gave him everything.
Both the coaching and the relationship, if we're being honest, are probably going to end horribly. This isn't going to go well on either front. But he's having the time of his life now. Going to museums. He's doing the beach photos. He seems to be having fun. He's in the Dunkin' commercials. Let him have his moment.
I mean, it's probably not. Well, look, here's the deal, right? When you're like 28, 29, this is a powerful person, right? But when you realize that all of his friends are 70 and you're going to a 73-year-old's birthday party and you're hanging out with just a bunch of 70-year-olds. Guys, get in for a selfie. Yeah, you go and it's like, oh, what are we going to do this weekend?
Well, the Lombardis are having us over for a 5.30 dinner. Things are going to get wild. I don't know about I want to sign up for this forever, even though forever is not that long.
I hope that everyone gets out of this relationship what they're hoping to get out of this relationship. And it's 100% supper and it's 100% soup because the poly grip, not that strong.
Well, because the way that college athletics works, it's not set up for him to be successful. His success was not just Tom Brady, but it was because he was the dictator of an entire system that he ran in New England, where you came in and you knew you were signing up for that system. The way college athletics are now... you just basically have to pay the best 18 year old.
And if they don't like it, or if they succeed, they can go to a school that can pay them more than North Carolina can probably pay them with a better, a better pedigree than North Carolina. Or if you sign someone up to be the backup, they can then leave the next year. So like,
It's a different system where Bill Belichick's going to have to change the way that he's done things, and he's going to have to do that now at like 72 years old with 18-year-olds who are just looking for more money, and they're not going to buy into the Patriot way, which is what we always talked about, why Bill Belichick was successful, because of this whole system that he set up where the players didn't really have much of a say in anything, and they just had to do whatever he wanted.
And that's just not the case of college football right now with NIL money.
There's also questions as to how committed he actually is to this process, right? When we saw the specifics of, well, he hadn't actually signed his contract yet. And there's outs where it would only cost a million dollars if he left for an NFL job before certain dates. Maybe Bill Belichick falls in love with being a college coach and he really enjoys North Carolina.
You see him at basketball games with recruits. He seems to be buying in, right? But we also don't know how long this experiment is actually going to last, right?
I mean, I didn't go that strong on any of that. I said that it's just assuming that it's going to be a success is not necessarily the case. But there's also a very big difference in Deion Sanders' ability to recruit and build Belichick's. There's a relatability there that's different. It's not just they were successful at what they did. Bill Belichick
was kind of told by the NFL, you don't have it anymore and we're not going to bring you back. You were the greatest coach ever, but also time has passed you by and we don't know if you can do it without a quarterback because you haven't proven us that you can do it without a quarterback yet. So it's not me saying it. That's the message the NFL delivered to him.
What I'm saying is, I don't know that what he did successfully in the NFL translates over to present-day college football.
The 18-year-olds he's trying to recruit also, though, the last time Bill Belichick was Bill Belichick, they were probably like 10.
He was a dick, just saying. That's why he's gone.
Coach, when a player comes up to you and they say they want more money, do you call Mike Ryan directly, or how does that work? How do you get more money for the players?
It's fake. What do you mean? Here's how real it is. Every self-respecting baseball fantasy league drafts after these games are played because they're like, yeah, no, I'm not.
NBA TV host getting a beach house too? What's going on over here?
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You go out there to win every game. I don't know.
That's the thing, Dan. When you're smaller in size, you use things to try and leverage your body to make sure. You throw a chicken wing here, a hip there. All of a sudden, you're going for a layup, but then the elbow swings back. You get caught with an elbow, chicken wing to the back. And that's the thing. You can start playing a little bit tricky when you don't have the size or the speed.
Didn't the Pouncey brothers do the same thing, like matching tattoos?
Stanzik wrote a book for Stugatz before you wrote a book. Still a good one.
Let's see, is there anything else I wanted to bring up here in the beginning? Cody Bellinger got sick on some chicken wings. Cody, why would you have chicken wings from a hotel? Make yourself a grilled cheese sandwich and call it a day. I mean, geez, he got sick on a grilled cheese, tomato, and some potato chips, and a glass of milk. That should carry you as far as that is concerned.
We know about the draft. Will we stand with that?
It just feels like all year they've really struggled against the top teams, like you said, like they're 0-10 against top teams between Cleveland, between Boston, and between Oklahoma City. The Pistons are surging. At the right time. Cade Cunningham's playing amazing. Malik Beasley's probably front runner for sixth man of the year. He's second in the NBA for made threes this season.
Do you guys know who the first is for made threes this season? Steph Curry. No. Oh, okay. Mike, I know you're a ball watcher.
Anthony Edwards is the leader in three-point field goals made this season with 320. Malik Beasley right after that at 319. But the Pistons are playing really well, Dan. It feels like the Knicks are a bit of a paper tiger when it comes to, yeah, offensively they're excellent. Carl Anthony Towns. Brunson hasn't been playing because he's been hurt. How much will that affect them going forward?
It's funny when we talk about it, though, because for us, it's like Medley. The only thing that's in Medley is literally like warehouses. It's not Russia, but it's Miami's Russia.
Defensively, they're not good, and the Pistons are going to kind of run them into the muck.
Nuggets Clippers, though, Dan, like you said, one team could win the championship and one team is going home in the first round. We saw the Clippers. We've seen the Clippers be one of the best teams in the league for the last month of the season. Kawhi's been playing incredible. James Harden, for as much shit as we give James Harden, He's playing out of his mind right now.
Like he's NBA first team level star like power right now. Yesterday in the game, you know, hitting huge shots, facilitating. This is a team that could really, really make something happen. And I think the issue is more Lakers Timberwolves. And if you want to get into that, there's some issues there.
Speaking of Minnesota, too big for the Lakers. Lakers have a big size issue. Jackson Hayes is their only big, Dan. They've been playing a lot of medium-sized guys from 5'6", 5'6", 7'6", 8'6", 9", but they're going to have trouble with Rudy Gobert, with Nas Reed, with Julius Randle, with Anthony Edwards. There's a size situation there. Luke, put it this way.
If you give me the chance to have Luka, LeBron, and dare I say Austin Reeves as the third who's been playing out of his mind, you give me that three, I'll take them pretty much against anybody. What? But the size difference is going to make an issue.
Yeah, just me.
You guys know that I have been dabbling in mortality thoughts, which come with some legacy thoughts.
Oh, Dan. Oh, I thought you'd never get to me. Master's week. Rory. Congrats. Congrats. McElroy. You finally did it. Now do it again next year and do it without a playoff playoffs. Best words in sports. Top five best words in golf. Number five, hole-in-one. Number four, Augusta.
Number three, hello, friends.
Number two, playoff. Number one, it's Sunday and Tiger's in the hunt.
Okay.
That Bills-Ravens game is the Chiefs benefiting from what the Patriots benefited from to get seven Super Bowl wins where you get the first round by and then you only have to play one good team to get points.
to the Super Bowl you don't have to play two of them we would like the Chiefs chances a lot better of getting to the Super Bowl if they had to play both Baltimore and Buffalo in order to get there but like all of us are sitting there saying of both the Ravens and the Bills both of those teams can be Super Bowl champions like sure They can beat anyone in the sport in a way that's obvious.
They can go into Kansas City. Tell me Baltimore's style isn't suited for a bad weather game, wherever it is that you want to play. Man, I haven't seen Cam Hayward look like he's quitting. The Steelers are getting accused of quitting because the Ravens just leaned on them all game.
To his point, since they moved Kyle Hamilton to safety Week 11, the Ravens are all No. 1 across the board in all the defensive stats. But what Jessica's saying about that collapse of the Steelers, four of their last five games they lost by 14 or more points. Four of their last five. They lost five in a row by a total of 66 points. They collapsed upon...
the end of the season but when Mike mentions TJ Watt I don't know what he was doing in the game before last but I thought that the game plan on TJ Watt was just to have him unblocked and let Lamar decide every time as he decided to tackle Derrick Henry without the ball
to just run around to where he was, and that's how they neutralized him, by just having Lamar Jackson stare at him all game and say, you're the only person on this field who can beat me, because you're the only person on this field who can take this football from me, and if I just do run pass option the entire time,
From the very beginning of the game, they had no answers for that, and then Derrick Henry's coming close to 200 yards. Because you can make the argument, based on just statistics, that that's the best rushing offense we've ever seen, where the running backs are disposable. They've got two of them that aren't disposable.
Let's play the sound of George Pickens after the game, basically criticizing the Steeler offense that has. I did not have that one today. Mike Ryan calling for Aaron Rodgers as the next Steeler quarterback. Let's hear from George Pickens here.
He's unusual, man. Can we play the sound, please, of the commanders winning the game and the radio call? They went on a doinked field goal, 37-yard field goal from Zane Gonzalez. A lot of people have noticed that he was twitchy right before that. He was doing a lot of playing with his hair, as he often does. And it seems it does he have a clinically diagnosed OCD?
Because I don't think this is just nerves. He's done this before where he gets he looks nervous if he's not nervous because of the amount that he's playing with his hair. They they win the game at the end. And I'd like to hear the radio call of that, please. I'm not sure who these announcers are. Help me out here with the announcer.
Can I tell you something that happened to me yesterday that made me realize how my viewing habits have changed? Yesterday is the first day in my life where
that I am watching football games, and while watching football games, Stugatz, because I've always been somebody here recently that's been watching them on Red Zones, the Red Zone doesn't have commercials, I am legitimately discovering shows for the first time that promote during the NFL games, which is why it is that all of these networks are fighting over the NFL schedule, so they can introduce you, of course, on CBS to Hollywood Squares,
We're doing that again?
He can have anything made. Nate Burleson can go into any office at CBS and be like, I'm young, I'm black, and you don't have anything like this on your menu.
So he's hosting Hollywood Squares, but here, Stugatz, is something I had not noticed before. Special Forces, the world's toughest test. Here is, and can I interest you, in some Cam Newton jumping from a boat onto a helicopter. All of this seems a little bit dangerous. When I saw it, with the sound down, of course, I said to myself, is that Cam Newton? That can't be Cam Newton.
Why would Cam Newton be doing that? All of this seems a little bit scary, but he does grab onto a helicopter, and that is a lot of weight he is carrying onto the helicopter. All of that looks scary. That seems like a show. Billy, this seems like down your alley. Special Forces, World's Toughest Test?
Was that Billy Baldwin?
Mike Ryan's been wanting to talk about this. Mike Ryan has been wanting to talk about this. Decapitated celebrities? For six months. With helicopters? Helicopter accidents on the set of the movie The Twilight Zone in 1983. Yeah, you covered it.
Put it on the poll. Did you love the Twilight Zone at Levitard show? Because I did.
Let's play the interview at halftime, though, that suggests that he might sometimes get lost in the weeds on certain things. Todd Bowles is not a great interview. Todd Bowles, in all our lives listening to Todd Bowles, Todd Bowles usually doesn't say very interesting things, but here's Todd Bowles at halftime not giving you a lot of confidence where he gets stuck in the quicksand.
That's hilarious. Go ahead and play it again. And this might suggest that the coach of the Tampa Bay Bucs was slightly confused about which direction Jaden Daniels was going all night.
I wanted to ask the group based on Mike Ryan saying that the best game of the weekend was Friday night. A couple of different questions about college football. I don't know if Ryan Day has changed your appraisal since December 21st, but he's beaten two of the top three teams in the SEC and also the number one team in the country. in the last three weeks. Blew them out.
But two of the top three SEC teams and the number one team in the country. I don't know if your opinion has changed on that. You have heard me recently lament I really don't like any of the measurement systems in sports playoffs outside of basketball for being an accurate measurement. But I do believe that most of us would agree that the two teams at the end here are probably the two best teams.
And I'm just super bummed out. that Notre Dame is clearly suffering the ill effects of they shouldn't be playing 15 games a season. They've got almost double-digit people hurt trying to play this game against Ohio State, and so it makes for an imperfect measurement where they're a 10-point or 9.5-point dog playing against an Ohio State team that is healthier than they are.
What a delightful Monday surprise. Greg Cody of the Miami Herald is in. And Chris Cody, I'm going to make an accusation now that you'll be able to tell me whether it's accurate or not. I'm pretty sure it's accurate. He's wearing a Christmas shirt. Brand new. I haven't seen your father wear a shirt that's not more than a quarter of a century old. I'm telling you everything.
Jessica mentioned before the show today, Stugatz, this shouldn't surprise us too much, that she rewatched the watch. She rewatched the Notre Dame game just because it was one of the highlights of her life. The reason that I did not just kick her out of the room, though.
Because I believe that she's got to stop breaking this rule around here that we've had for a long time of telling people when something's a bit like she's the only she's the only one who does it. We pride ourselves on there are things here.
There are a number of things I could shock you right now by giving you any number of things that people think are a bit that wasn't a bit and think that people who think things were a bit.
Grandfathered bit. I just don't think we should be telling. I think we should keep things mysterious.
I'm not even kidding you. I'm telling you that every shirt he brings in here has the wrinkles of decades.
Can you guys get for me, please, the Wolf Blitzer entertainment system? Greg Cody was being mocked by his son before the game or before the show today because he was saying that Wolf Blitzer has exactly the entertainment system that Greg Cody would have if Greg Cody didn't have a wife. who takes care of these things and cares about technology and electronics.
That is stunning to see that famed media star Wolf Blitzer doesn't have a better setup than that one. Is that a VCR?
What is it? Is that a VCR? Is there a DVD there as well? Is that TiVo? Well, I've got a TiVo. Looks like a TiVo top.
I do, yeah.
Well, I'll tell you what I love about TiVo that I don't love about YouTube. My ability to pause and slow down things in football. Yeah, YouTube's terrible. My Apple controller makes that stuff much less fun than it used to be.
I will tell you that it is great fun to have the TiVo on the occasions where I can watch in slow motion Dallas Goddard stiff-arming Valentine three different times.
Not as humiliating as Minka Fitzpatrick getting one of those from Derrick Henry. Derrick Henry did with one what it took Dallas Goddard three to do, but Dallas Goddard didn't.
But Dallas Goddard, what he did to Valentine is basically what a father does to his eight-year-old son. As a stiff arm. And I love slowing down football and seeing all of the minutia that I don't see when I'm watching it at real speed.
Three times. Just three times hit him in the forehead. Humiliating. Humiliating. There were a couple of things like that that I saw this weekend. Stugatz, the Texans' D-line mauled the Chargers' offensive line. I saw the center thrown into Herbert.
No, no. Home team's winning a game. I'm never surprised. Wait, Stugatz. I don't believe. Like, first of all, the Chargers were a road favorite, first of all. I know. Second of all, there was not a team being doubted more outside of maybe the Steelers because of their last five games as being playoff worthy to go on a run and goes right back to, oh, man, that's too easy for the Chiefs.
Goes right back to, right now, everyone is saying that's going to be something that is too simple for the Chiefs because nobody believes in the Texans. Right.
Stingley is so good.
Were the rest of you as stunned as I am and was by the fact that not one but two deflections ended up perfectly intercepted by Texans cornerbacks? Where I'm just so used to defensive backs always dropping those interceptions.
How do you forget? Hold on. What was the best part of the dicker play? He thought it was a Hail Mary. My favorite part of the Dicker play. So Dicker gets the Dicker, the kicker gets the field goal blocked. And as it comes down from the sky, he tries to knock it down. It's still in play. All he's done is create a fumble that gets run the other way. But not knowing the rules.
Yes. Well, he wasn't trying to make a play. You heard Boomer and Teej in his head screaming, knock it down. Stugatz, he wasn't trying to make a play. He was trying to prevent Houston from making a play and instead made a play for Houston. But not knowing the rules is one thing. He got annihilated as soon as he did it. He should have ended up in the concussion protocol after that. Just...
before he got hit because of the decision that he made. As soon as he makes the decision to knock the ball down, they should have just put him in the concussion protocol.
But even so. Mike, they were down their top three receivers, their center, and their two left guards.
Wait a minute. So you've worn this three out of the last four days? Uh-huh.
I sure have. It's a good-looking shirt. It is a good-looking shirt. It looks crisp and clean. Billy is rushing in, and Stu Gantz is rushing in from the award-winning God Bless Football.
Put it on the poll, please, Juju, at Levitard Show. Are rom-coms coming back? The question I was going to ask Billy is, have you ever seen Greg Cody wearing a shirt that's not a quarter century old?
Well, more depressing to not have any gifts under the tree, I would suppose. And I imagine she's also a better gift buyer than you are. Do I have that wrong?
I got my father an Atari for Father's Day one time. Atari.
Jessica, how do you feel when Greg Cody mentions that he's been wearing the same outfit since Friday?
Thank you.
If you had to choose a story from the football weekend to start with, do you start with a winner or with a loser? If you can only pick one thing as the most important thing that you're most interested in talking about, because I was underwhelmed by most of the games, all the home teams winning, until I saw a rookie. winning a road playoff game.
And not just winning a road playoff game, Stugatz, but winning a road playoff game with no turnovers and no punts. These stats I'm about to read are crazy. because road playoff games are obviously hard to win. Only one team did it yesterday. Probably broke Mike Ryan's heart. But this is from OptiStats.
In NFL history, there have been three instances of a team having zero turnovers and zero punts in a game behind a rookie starting quarterback, either regular or postseason. All three games are Jaden Daniels. Week two, week three, and a road playoff game. And then this one is more stunning.
From Doug Clawson, Jaden Daniels has more games in his career where his team has zero punts and zero turnovers, three, including the playoffs, than the combined careers of Tom Brady, Joe Montana, Peyton Manning, and Patrick Mahomes. Combined.
That was stunning to watch yesterday, even if you've been watching Jaden Daniels all year, seeing him go in as an underdog on the road and beating Baker Mayfield in Tampa.
Terrible. Did he have three interceptions all season? Was it three all season? That's his first three interception game ever. I should say, by the way, two of those weren't his fault. They went right through the run. I mean, they were just little passes out to the flat.
Yes, he does. The stats here. This one's great. This one's great, though. This stat here. Are you familiar with the three leading receivers for the Chargers on Saturday? Well, one of them's definitely got to be Ladd. Yes, Ladd had nine catches. So Ladd's the leading receiver, nine catches for 197 yards. That third and 26 play was crazy after Herbert took two straight sacks.
The only touchdown the Chargers scored in the game. Can we trust Houston's defense again?
That was weird. I don't have a good explanation for you. It was weird to see the Chargers that constipated. I'd be careful if I'm Kansas City. But, lad.
Kansas City Chiefs were originally the Dallas Texans, if you happened to be listening last Wednesday when he made that joke.
So Ladd McConkie goes nine for 197. And then their third leading, the third leading receiver that Justin Herbert threw passes to was Will Disley, two for 16. And then he threw four passes for 108 yards to the Texans. 108 yards. one of them a pick six. He's not wrong when he says that was the disaster of the weekend. Do you go winner or loser?
Because a lot of people are talking about the Steelers as well. They're talking about the fact that Mike Tomlin is in this area that Jimmy Johnson used to talk about, the enemy of great is good, where you're just sort of stuck with overachieving seasons and then you get to the playoffs. And rare is that, right? A lot of people are accusing the Steelers of cheating, I'm sorry, of quitting.
That is not what happened at the game. The Ravens just leaned on them all game, gutted them, and wore them out. Cam Hayward is not a quitter, but on the first 95-yard drive, because you have to start tackling Derrick Henry, Cam Hayward is already gutted on his own goal line one series into the game because of how Baltimore plays football. It's really hard to defend them.
Billy, what did you talk about on God Bless Football as the first item of business?
How many turnovers do the Bills have this year? Because one of the most stunning things of my football lifetime is seeing the reckless coached out of Josh Allen. How many turnovers do they have this year? Do they have double-digit turnovers? All of them. I'm not even just talking about interceptions. I'm talking about... I don't think that team has double-digit turnovers.
No, on offense. Including fumbles lost? No, I'm talking about... Coaching the reckless out of Josh Allen and seeing Josh Allen and the Bills steamroll, okay, the defensive player of the year, probably, and Patrick Sertan, who allows them to have the best pass rush in the sport, and they just did whatever they wanted in the second half of the football game.
62.
Weil es ein Moment ist.
Ich habe eigentlich einen Preis gewonnen.
Wow. Did he ask you for a printout?
I gotta tell you, I agree with Mike on Mike Keenan. Having to share that elevator with him, that must have been very awkward.
Und Dimitri Kulikovs Hühnerkopf auf der Rückseite von Mitch Maunders Kopf.
Well, he's a Maple Leaf killer. His entire career. That's why we got him. To beat the Maple Leafs.
No, Bobrovsky was good last night, but his defense in front of him was exceptional.
Ich bin nicht glücklich. Das war ein Dirty Hit. Er wird wahrscheinlich nicht aufgehängt werden. Aber ich habe gehört, dass jemand gesagt hat, dass wenn es die Panthers an der anderen Seite war, dass sie verloren würden. Er wird nicht aufgehängt werden? Nein, er wird nicht aufgehängt werden.
Das ist sehr ermutigend. Ich stimme nicht. Zweite Saison in der Serie.
Er ist noch verletzt, er wird vielleicht auf dem Eis sein, um etwas zu tun. Aber jetzt wird er mit dem Team aus Boston reisen. Und dann wird er endlich an seine ehemaligen Teammäts aufrufen. Und er hat sich tatsächlich ein bisschen über seine Zeit in Boston geredet und darüber, wie das vor ihm getradet wurde. Also, jetzt warten wir auf ihn, um wieder in die Linie zu kommen.
Aber kannst du dir vorstellen, dass er auf der zweiten Linie mit Sam Bennett und Matthew Kachuk ist? Oh, die Panthers wären die teuerste Mannschaft in der Liga. Roy, er hat heute Sam Bennett als Schmuck genannt, hat er nicht? Ja, er hat es gemacht. Er hat es in einer lachenweise gemacht, ja. Er hat ihn tatsächlich geliebt und sie haben sich zusammen gemacht während des Vier-Nation-Tournamentes.
Er, Sam Bennett und Sam Reinhardt, sie haben zusammen gespielt für Team Kanada. Und es sieht aus, als ob sie die Dinge aufpasst, was letztes Jahr in den Playoffs passiert ist, als er Sam Bennett in die Füße geschlagen hat.
Ja, es ist ein bisschen unnötig, aber er musste hierher kommen, sich auf die Eigenschaften mit dem Team einladen und... David Dworky ist neben mir. Aber ja, es scheint nicht effizient für ihn, runter zu gehen und dann wieder hoch zu gehen. Aber er muss seine Sachen und alles bekommen. Aber er reist mit dem Team durch den ganzen Roadtrip. Ein 6-Game-Roadtrip für die Panthers.
Ich weiß, das ist seltsam, oder? Ich bin es jetzt schon. Wie lange ist Bill Zito als General Manager verantwortlich? Fünf Jahre. Fünf Jahre, also bin ich es jetzt schon. Eine verantwortungsvolle, stabile Organisation, die Hockey spielt. Und es ist eigentlich lustig zu sehen.
Well, considering that Brad Marshawn actually requested to be traded here, I doubt that's the case, but hey, do what you want to do, Billy.
Weil niemand hier ist, Dan. Die Praxis hat noch nicht angefangen. Und sobald die Praxis anfängt, glaube ich, ist es eine offene Praxis heute? Nein. Nein, es ist nicht eine offene Praxis heute.
Wir werden es sagen. Hör auf.
I'm not going to the penalty box when I get to the studio tomorrow, so you're not going to bait me into that.
10 oder 15? Ja, 12.
Sie haben sich in einen Exhaust-Fan investiert, also riecht es nicht so gut.
Each locker has its own little air conditioning filter that filters air.
Es sind nur 18 bis 20 Spieler im Lagerraum, anstatt eines Fußballteams, das ca. 60 Spieler hat. Es muss ein bisschen größer sein, besonders in der Panthers-Lagerung. Die Arena ist seit 1998, also über 20 Jahre alt. Sie werden nicht einen größeren Lockerraum bauen, ohne eine neue Arena zu finden.
Womit alignierst du dich? Brad Marshawn als Mensch, als Mensch, habe ich mich um ihn geändert. Vielleicht drei Jahre zuvor, als er auf Tony D'Angelo stand, als er auf die Bruins stand, um einen Vorschlag zu signen im Namen von Mitchell Miller, der einen entwicklungslos verletzten Black Kid verletzt hat, indem er ihm ein Stück Kaffee aus einem Urinal getrunken hat.
Ich habe ihn immer wieder mit dem N-Word genannt und die Bruins haben sich entschieden, ihn nicht zu signen, weil Brad Marchand und ein paar der anderen Spieler auf dem Team gefühlt haben. Also als Person habe ich ihn definitiv auf ihn gewandert. Er sieht sich wie ein Stand-Up-Mann aus. Aber als Spieler ist er perfekt für dieses Team. Absolut perfekt für dieses Team.
Mackie's not going to lead the lineup. See you later, Greer.
Yeah.
Who do you fear the most? You don't fear Ovechkin? No. No, I think they might not make it out of the first round.
Cuervo. This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugatz Podcast.
I saw the video. He went and he went out of his way to say hi to Stugatz. Like he was going to do something else and then kind of change directions to go say hi to Stugatz. I did see a video where Stephen A interrupted a live interview to go say hello to Emmitt Smith. It wasn't that.
Yeah.
Yeah. Well, I'm confused. What? What? He's asking about my stamina. His stamina? Well, I mean, Friday was a bit of an adventure for everyone involved because a lot of the people that we had scheduled disappeared because of, not the stamina, but because of flights.
That's just on the front end of this, because I see where this is going. I arrived that day.
Because of scheduling, I missed one interview over Zoom that I was scheduled to be there for. So I missed one interview on Zoom. Now, the problem on Friday was that we had a number of people guest, and we played this game where nobody knew what time the flight was at.
So we were booking guests, but we didn't know up until like 10 o'clock at night the day before what time Stugatz actually had to leave by. So when we finally got that information, we had to cancel all of the guests for the next day because none of them were going to line up with the time that he had to be out of there by. So we had to cancel a number of guests.
Now, the crew, and I don't want to speak on behalf of the crew, but many in the crew were quite peeved at this situation because there was a flight five hours earlier that the entire crew could have been on. And as a result, we ended up going at 9 a.m. that day for us to interview Bomani, which we could theoretically do at any point in time.
But we did it that day, and then all of the guests that we had scheduled had disappeared. Now, the crew, I think, is not happy because they apparently secretly recorded something that was going on that Friday.
And this was a person, after Stugatz had left, the crew had to stick around, and now they have to break down the set, which, again, they could have done the day before, or they could have done earlier in the day, had they known what time the flight was at, and gotten out of there at 2 instead of 7. So we had some help when we were breaking down the set.
And I was very bad at helping break down the set, but I was there pitching in. And then, lo and behold, a friend of the show just decided, you know what, I'm going to go and I'm going to help pick up all of your equipment for us.
And Dominic Foxworth decided, being the nice guy that he is, not to give away $5,000 if he won $50, but to literally break down and clean up Stugatz's set after Stugatz was gone out of town. Right. Even though we saw him like an hour later still just walking around Radio Row doing interviews with him. Plan to catch him.
He doesn't work for us. He just decided. He saw us cleaning up his set. He said, you know what? I'm going to help with this.
Oh, he was so good at coiling those cables. I'm not going to name names, but I had some people here that very dismissively were condescending the way I was trying to help wrap up cables. And they're like, you're breaking the cables. You guys brace things all the time.
No, no, no.
Different cables. No, that's what they told me. I thought elbow too. No, that's for like extension cables. Like an extension cord in your house? Different cables.
You have to twist your wrist.
I'm a celebrity. I tried to orchestrate. What I thought would have been one of our better social media posts, but then I cowered and backed down at the last minute. So our flight was at 7 o'clock on Friday evening. Could have been sooner, but that's a story for another day. So our flight was at 7 o'clock on Friday, flying back.
I'm getting out of town. I mean, Eagles quarterback. If you want to hear from him on Radio Row, this is the year. On a Wednesday.
Um, this year, Stugatz until Friday was very well behaved. And I don't think we canceled any until Friday. They tried like hell to cancel Funny Marco on Tuesday. Everything.
Well, we had. That's a Tuesday, Wednesday guest.
And you go and you sit down and it's just like a who's who of like celebrities and football players. Almost to the point it was like, who is this who? Because someone was walking through with a giant bounty jacket on that they got when they were going around doing radio. And we couldn't exactly place a name on who it was that was still wearing their bounty jacket on our flight.
It was the only thing we didn't have scheduled on Friday, but we did that. But that's also Buscelli's fault, Dan. We were going to get the Buscelli hit. This is no Super Bowl without Tony Buscelli zooming in.
But like Johnnie Smith was on our flight and David Njoku was on our flight and Venus William was on our flight. And there's a player from an unrivaled on our flight. All in first class, I assume. No, there were so many people that they ran out of first class seats. Like I'm not even joking. I was shocked because I booked the flight like, I don't know, a month and a half ago.
They have the best that Forrest Gump sat on. Jacksonville. Great American cities, huh?
It sounds like we're just naming New York, Chicago, New Orleans, and LA and a couple others.
So I got like row two of normal people seating. So I was like row nine or whatever, right? And like when I'm seeing some of these people walk past me and I'm like, this just does not feel right. Like I'm not supposed to be sitting further up on the airplane than these people. And like we've discussed this a number of times and I thought it on the way up because on the way up,
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
I saw Raheem Most on my flight. We had an awkward exchange. On the way up, I had Raheem Most on my flight, and I said, you know what? If Raheem's on my flight, nothing's going to happen to this airplane. I thought that.
Thank you.
Thank you.
On that one, I would have been on a note. You know what I mean?
Maybe he already did, but AI Jimmy didn't want to retire. And this was a fake Jimmy Johnson the entire time. And they're like, we can't have another season of fake Jimmy Johnson. They're going to catch on to us eventually. So then they had fake Jimmy Johnson needing to come out and retire to put an end because fake Jimmy Johnson has been doing this for who knows how long, a year, maybe two years.
Fake Jimmy Johnson? The real Jimmy, it's unknown where the real Jimmy Johnson, he may be fishing, he may be somewhere else. Not for me to say, but the question is, maybe fake Jimmy Johnson was finally supposed to retire because people were catching on to the technology, and now he has become aware, and he's making decisions on his own, and fake Jimmy Johnson didn't want to retire. If I may.
You may.
Too many people there, honestly. Also, Glazer's a chatty Cathy. He knows the truth about everything. I mean, how about some professionalism and tell if he's retiring or not? You know what I mean? All of a sudden, we're not going to report a story we may know.
Well, I said the opposite.
He told us about the Jets stuff with Aaron Rodgers. Tell us if Jimmy's going or staying. Glaze, come on, man. He would have good sources on the matter, I would think.
No, it was famously Depeche Mode. I mean, he covered Personal Jesus.
No, Personal Jesus. Oh.
You've got to be careful there. The reason why it was overdone, because I also... Felt that a little bit. I'm like, this is a little over the top. And I also realized what New Orleans has gone through.
Lacrosse went head-to-head with the Super Bowl?
Do you think that's what was at play or they didn't want people making the observation that you have end racism in the end zone while the seminal war chant is going on?
Well, he didn't know how to tuck that shirt in. He kind of went in between. That was a lovely performance by Lady Gaga.
I actually saw the value in Tom Brady having some of those restrictions lifted and being able to talk to coaches beforehand. I thought he brought some insight there. And I'm happy that a producer finally pulled him aside. He's like, hey. You've won seven of these. You've literally seen every situation. Let's have a little brief story.
Every 15 seconds or so, whenever there's a situation that you encountered when you played one of these.
So you're like, oh, that was better than I thought it was one of his better ones.
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A little cute line about Saquon bobbling the ball. I didn't mind my running backs doing that.
Greatest quarterback of all time telling you that he slept like a baby the first first Super Bowl that he played in, napped and everything, and then by the last one he was nervous, couldn't get any sleep before.
I guess I've always seen more of the novelty and more of the value in
simply the greatest of all time to ever do it i've never had access to the greatest of all time during a game broadcast during the biggest games of all time i've never had access to their thoughts like that so the novelty i do wish he were a little bit more charismatic i do wish he was a little bit that's it though like early in the game when it wasn't quite a blowout yet just vibeless it was just a vibeless open to the super bowl and i felt very melancholy and malaised
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I mean, in this case, they just sent an old white woman to chase after somebody until he got off the stage and then was promptly tackled. Well, not even promptly. Didn't catch any of that. Shout out to the directors for cutting.
I'm from New Orleans? Yeah. Are you not familiar with how this goes? Let there be a Super Bowl in Miami and guess who they trot out.
Yeah, Harry Connick Jr. is, especially to the area.
Well, it has to be where the Super Bowl was. And which area famously has Malort?
I had half of one of those Carvel football cakes.
What's the biggest sass kicking since when? I know Buck's Chiefs was a bit of an ass-kicking.
I guess Seahawks-Broncos was also a bit of an ass-kicking. I just kept hopping on Eagles live. It was obvious from the jump.
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Don Libertard. Common thread was Stugatz chumming it up with Aaron Rodgers.
Yeah. As you know. As you know. Stugatz didn't talk to Aaron Rodgers. Nope. Stugatz thought country music superstar Jake Owen was Aaron Rodgers. They had a 20-minute conversation.
It wasn't just Harry Connick Jr. No, he wasn't the first voice that we heard. That was like three hours into their broadcast. Master P was also out there. Which marching band was out there? Was it Southern? It was a tie-in to all the local music.
If he wants to hop up on there and tickle some ivories, go ahead, brother.
I think there are five cities in America that are really good and perhaps even more.
It's also very French, so I don't know. Does that make it a great American city? Because it's aggressively French.
Of all the people to take a shot at Harry Connick Jr.
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I just wish, I mean, we're speaking about it like it was obvious. I would have sounded so smart had I known that before the game. I didn't know that the difference along the trenches was what it turned out to be, and I don't think anyone did. In fact, several people on ESPN were caught within a 24-hour span switching their picks, including Dominique. This was a hard game to predict.
It was inside one and a half points.
Name another.
It's a numbers game. It tilts the math in your favor. You all of a sudden get to take what was believed to be a mediocre at best wide receiver core for Kansas City, and you get to just stack more really good pass defenders as the numbers and advanced metrics bear out all season long.
I just didn't think that that defensive line could go an entire Super Bowl without blitzing and just cave that entire pocket in. Because you mentioned Lamar Jackson. Patrick Mahomes is pretty mobile. And every time he was trying to use his mobility to escape, there wasn't an outlet. They just collapsed the entire pocket around him.
Sweat should have been MVP. And I say that as someone that was really impressed with what Jalen Hurts did. Sweat was just a demigod last night.
At least he was at the Super Bowl covering the game, right? That's why he was, right? No, no.
Yeah, that's less likely. There's plenty of Little Caesars in Canada, where he's from, around Hamilton. This guy was a struggling comedian up and coming in Canada. I imagine there were a lot of pizza nights there.
You also mentioned Jesus. He gets us. I love that he gets us, but he also doesn't get the meaning of that song. The same way that conservatives don't get Born in the USA.
What did Billy do today?
Yeah, that's true. Billy's been dealing with a headache. Sadness.
I'll start with saying this. Majority of emojis are sort of seen as blasé these days. The cool kids aren't sending them. In other words. So what are they doing? No emojis.
That's what young people tell me. I'm not a young person. I don't know.
Occasionally, yeah. I like the one that's the see-through face. I send that one a lot.
It's just like, I'm invisible right now.
Meaning I'm not going to say anything, no comment. I'm not here. I'm invisible. But I am here because I'm sending you an emoji.
That one is covering the eyes.
A red heart eggplant. Yeah. A little moisture-wicking emoji.
Are you sending that to anyone?
Well, maybe you should learn.
What about the peach emoji? Would you ever send that one?
Oh, because of the holes. I get it.
Wait, Roy, you found out at 640 you had to come in today?
MVP.
No, not at all. And so I learned so much about baseball contracts.
Well, how about being slightly concerned?
No, no, no, no, no, no. Sanford and Son. Elizabeth, I'm coming to join you, honey. No, but isn't there a Wheezy? Yeah, Wheezy's the Jeffersons.
No, George Jefferson did not say that. No, no. Fred Sanford said, Elizabeth, I'm coming to join you, honey. I love Sanford and Son. Do you? It's a big one. But I've always said Wheezy. Two different shows by Norman Lear. Well, I know it's two different shows.
No, absolutely not.
Why would you want to go to New Jersey?
Well, I mean I wear hockey skates and the ones you rent at the War Memorial iceplex is red for I think I think for the figure skates and gray for the hockey skates So it's not white anymore.
He was thinking about buying NBC at one point, but they wouldn't let him.
Correct.
Seinfeld was in the 9 o'clock hour.
Must see TV.
Well, you're not a team owner. True.
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I think I'd rather die. So that means the car is taking your data.
Well, no, the actual camera, the external camera has a little flap, but the computer camera, no.
I doubt that.
They still have a statue. They have other ways that they've honored him.
I'm blamed for you trying to change the narrative you created? Exactly.
I did.
It's a congratulations noise as well. It's got a dual purpose. You didn't let me go unscathed, though. You went and you told Donny Tebow, hey, you're starting Ichiro that day. He's getting 3,000 in Colorado, come hell or high water. We knew he would get that hit. I've never been so upset about a hit in my life. I was so upset because it was almost a fly ball. It was almost an out at the wall.
It just got over.
It was almost a home run, but it got just over the glove of the outfielder jumping. It ends up being a triple off the wall. But, God, I've never been so upset by something good happening to my team, I think, except that. Why?
Because I was going the next day because I bought one of those stupid plans that you guys were selling. It's like, oh, buy a flexible plan that you can do this and you can see it in here. We're just going to sell you 40 vouchers for $400 or whatever. Flexibility.
choose whatever games you want yeah it was good flexibility except i was going every day to see him get a hit and then he wasn't getting a hit and then i had to eat the stadium food and god knows what it did to my health on top of the stress that that that 3 000 hit stretch david you took probably seven years off of my life that you're not gonna get back to me they're the worst seven they're the diapers seven i mean when those are the seven you have left you cherish those seven i'm not gonna have those seven anymore
That one's a little different just because he needed to score three goals in that game. The fact that he even got close was crazy, and he was in there at the end. I mean, he was holding himself out.
Yeah, I'm saying. But for him to do it at home that day, he would have had to score three goals.
Oh, yeah. No, he should.
Oh, I know. I'm well aware, David. Wasn't one at-bat, a pinch hit, which is all he was doing at home. He got a full four at-bats in that game. Yes, he did. I'm well aware of what happened.
It wasn't at that point in my life to pick up and fly to Denver on a day's notice.
And said what?
Oh, no, I'm very unbiased, down the middle, not taking handouts. If anyone wants to send me anything, we're not going to say no. It's just rude. Come on, get out of here.
They would do it if we played 21 games. Oh. And did it in Pittsburgh. How about 21 hours instead of 24?
And now we're going out to L.A. to do this? He hit the homer in 88. You could do 88 hours. It's too long.
The one with 40, the pictures were in black and white, so I assume you know. I'll get back to you on the other one.
So for those who are not familiar with this theory, I thought everyone knew about this.
There could be non-baseball fans out there listening that don't know this conspiracy theory.
Tell them the story.
Why don't you give the Clementes like the opportunity to match what Surfside was going to pay to continue to honor their father in that one spot?
Who's the highest maintenance family that you've had to deal with?
Don't you? You've said they're kind of annoying to deal with, basically. So who, I guess, is the most annoying? Because I... This sounds terrible. But the more I'm looking at this, the more I'm kind of like, there's still a lot of ways Roberto Clemente is honored in this stadium. In fact, there's a number 21 about five feet away from the ad that replaced the other 21. Like there's 21s everywhere.
It's everywhere.
It's not like they erased his legacy. They sold an ad on one of the many places that they put his name and number.
What a headache. It's the worst. I don't want a boat. I want to know someone with a boat.
I watched that. It was very interesting. He had like a massive database of what everything costs over the history of time.
Did you have anything interesting to say, or was this just loneliness, like, hey, you up?
So you wanted to talk about work.
At one in the morning on a Monday morning.
Yes.
But more worse than Don Mattingly.
We're good.
You made a good decision. Dan would have texted us.
I'm just like firing people.
You might be.
Is he just a great one now?
Tell me when that record's broken, then.
Don't worry. I'll vote with my heart.
Okay.
Give me a hint. My vote is private to me.
No, never.
Yeah.
How many hours before 147?
I might be eating dinner. I'm probably not going to text you back if I'm eating dinner. And then I'm probably going to get ready for bed, put my jammies on.
Why don't you ask me the next time we see each other in person how I voted? And I'll be honest.
I'm not on the schedule tomorrow.
I don't know.
Like 5 o'clock.
Yeah. That's impossible.
In the morning?
Like 5.40.
45 minutes is nothing. I sleep like a rock.
Yes.
I could nap seven hours and still sleep nine.
I've never taken Ambien.
I clearly don't need it.
Not every day.
If you're going to tell me you're sending me an email at that point, just send it. There's no point in the warning that you're going to get an email.
He's going to give your kids Ambien.
My text window for you just got a little smaller.
You can text me between 7 a.m. when I'm leaving for work and let's say 4.30.
Yeah.
Okay.
You know what? You're right. That's better. P.M. Oh, I thought you meant a.m.
Thank you.
If it's one of my good gal friends, just call me.
If you called me out of the blue, I'd be like, huh.
I'd be like, what's this about? If Billy called me out of the blue, I would be like, uh-oh.
If Jeremy called me out of the blue, I would just hit ignore.
Yeah. No, if Taylor called me, I'd be like, what's up? Hey, buddy. What a game from OG last night. Oh, man, he's been playing so well the last couple weeks.
I think there must be, like, a work emergency if you're calling me. Hmm.
Yeah. So I'm saying if you just call out of the blue, it's like, oh, yeah, that's not good.
But 2023's team. Yeah, that's right.
150, 200?
Yes.
Yeah, but then if they find out it's a fake rabbit, they're not going to run as fast next time.
I don't like any of this.
Both of us.
I imagine we'll talk about the White Lotus season finale later on in the show. But there was a noticeable thing that happened that made me think, hmm, what if the IRS finds out about this? But again, we'll wait till later because I know everyone hasn't seen it yet.
Absolutely. Panther talk. Defending champion, Florida Panthers. Yes, they're the best team.
I believe I may have shaved a little portion of my eyebrow right around here. Trying to cut hat helps with the story.
I like it, Roy.
You know, just accidentally sliding the clippers towards the eye.
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One more time?
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Want to trade yours in?
I liken it to like an old baseball glove, you know. I've worn this one in. This one's home.
Maybe Laranega took that Enya with him.
I have to issue a correction. Now, this information about Pop-Tart versus Pop-Tarts came directly from the Pop-Tart Bowl broadcast in which the commentators said there's no such thing as a singular Pop-Tart. However, I have been texted a photo of single packaged Pop-Tart being called Pop-Tart with no S at the end. So either some bad information was given or this is a fake doctored photo.
I will continue to work.
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This is not really. I understand the disappointment of this season, but Dolphin fans love this guy entering the season. The results weren't there, and we don't have to overthink this one. The season got undone by the thing we were fearing for years would undo the season, which was an injury to a fragile quarterback. You're overthinking this one.
Chris Greer, while that player is actively campaigning to leave town right now, Just a season ago was voted the best player in the NFL. Chris Greer acquired him.
If I may, that's a staple of the Shanahan offense, and McDaniel's a disciple of that. His first year, we were all wondering, when is this run game going to explode? Second season, it did. Third season here in Miami, it seems as though in the early part of the season, defenses adjusted to what Mike McDaniel was doing.
And then Mike McDaniel, in the middle of the season, decided to change his strategy. Did a lot of interesting things with motion. All of a sudden, Janu Smith becomes the focal point of the offense. I think Mike McDaniel actually showed you a lot in terms of being able to pivot and and understand the adjustments that defenses make.
Also, this coaching staff knew it had a defense problem last season, and they corrected it. They made a pretty strong hire yesterday's game notwithstanding. They seem to be more solidified defensively. I do think there are good things here. The contingency plan thing is something that we were all confused by. Why'd you bring in Mike White just to let him go?
I know that Tua just had his healthiest season, but this is not a question mark that simply goes away because of one season. They failed there. They took a chance. The bet blew up in their face. I don't think you fire people just because the thing that we all feared happened, might happen, did actually happen. I trust them to actually make the right corrections like they've proven they can.
Because someone needs to suffer the consequence. Sports fans, when you have a season like this that ends in disappointment, a season that you're talking Super Bowl before, they want a pound of flesh. But I think they do have their explanation. It was Tua. It was the thing that you always feared. And it undid this season. And you have to do your best to address it.
Tua seems like hell-bent on continuing to play this hip injury thing is actually really concerning to me because we all know the issues that he has with concussions but this was the actual question mark that we had about him when he entered the draft it's why he wasn't you know the number one consensus pick like he was being discussed about when he was at Alabama's because it was a devastating injury in fairness to the Dolphins it's tough to have a backup plan when you're dealing with Tua this is fairly unprecedented right like it's
They bet big because of their salary cap situation. They didn't want to tie any more salary cap into that room outside of Tua, and they got it wrong. Guys.
Fashion? You know that that was the third best Jets quarterback season in franchise history? Yep. Saved his best for last.
Baker Mayfield you're saying? Burrow gets more hurt than Baker.
Were you doing it because you needed 178 yards from Marvin Harrison to cash a future?
It's part of the love of the game.
Does that take away from it at all? Dan has a great take about what should have happened on that last play because the game was in hand and there was only one thing to do. And it was a really cool way to end the game because you have the compounded emotions of we've made the playoffs, we've won this game, we've completed the comeback, and we got Mike this record. But Dan has the best take.
I guarantee you, even if they put all 11 guys on Mike Evans, Baker's still going to try to group that one. He's still going to find the window.
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Wait, Matt, are you in? Was it subtle yesterday?
Well, Tyreek just does everything fast. Jimmy, this was very clearly. Well, no, that's the thing I want to ask you guys. He's also not as good this year, right? He wasn't. And there might be reasons for that. And I'm not saying that he can't be as good as he was like two years ago again. But I mean, it seemed like a pretty clear drop off. This is a strange.
It's automatic. He didn't look like the same kind of threat, but he's still talking about himself like he's the same kind of threat. And I understand. He's probably going to play for six more seasons and for three more teams because that kind of speed straight line is still such a valuable commodity.
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Got a minor penalty, two minutes for ruining comedy. I learned during that broadcast that there's actually no such thing as a Pop-Tart. If you get just one Pop-Tarts, it's still a Pop-Tarts.
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In the alphabet, Enya is its own letter.
Well, I'm just saying it's a different letter. It might as well be a Z. So we're saying happy new anus?
No doubt. When's the last time you read a book, Chris Cody? I listened to some books.
Yeah. Das ist genau richtig. Das ist genau richtig. Alte Leute lieben das. Und ich bin alt jetzt.
A cha-cha-cha. He's right. Well said, Roy. Forgot the cha-cha-cha.
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Es ist nicht so, dass Steff oder sogar Buddy Healds große Leistung bedeutet, dass die Warriors so viel scoren. Es war der Fakt, dass die Rockets keinen Go-To-Sscorer hatten. Shang-Goon wurde geschlossen und der Moment, als Ahmed Thompson nicht auf voller Stärke war, war das Spiel vorbei.
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Stugatz hat recht. Das war die einzige Unterschiede hier. Wenn man sich die Stars auf beiden Teams anschaut, waren alle Stars zwischen 21 und 27 Punkte. Sie haben sich ausgeschlossen. Die Unterschiede sind... Vielen Dank. Aber es geht nicht um die Tatsache, dass sie sich verletzt haben. Es geht um die Tatsache, dass nach den beiden von ihnen, was noch für Miami war. Oh mein Gott.
And they can completely take the crowd out of it. That's what happened in Houston. Like when Golden State started going crazy early and it was Buddy Heald in particular, by halfway through the second quarter, Houston was completely, their crowd was completely out of the game. They knew what was happening to them and it eliminated home court advantage.
So the little advantage that you might have from having that better regular season is annihilated by these role players going off that way.
Das ist der Grund, warum es so tief geht. Du musst genug Spieler haben, die dich durch die normale Saison bringen können, um in die Post-Saison zu kommen. Die Warriors wollten nicht in die Play-Ins. Sie wollten wirklich in die Post-Saison, weil sie den Potenzial für Schmerzen riskiert haben. Ob es Jimmy oder jemand anderes war.
Und jetzt können sie sich weiterentwickeln, aber alle dieser Teams sind in einem sehr schrecklichen Spot. How do we know that we're actually the better team? Because there are so many veterans that are not really giving their best effort through the regular season.
Well, to the same point, right? If you look at the Cavs on the other side in Game 1 against the Pacers, they made nine threes. That's the first single-digit three-point game of the year for the Cavs. So they did that in Game 1 on their home floor. It didn't matter that they were at home. Sometimes the role players aren't going to show up when you're facing a new opponent.
And that's where you need moments from guys like TJ McConnell that are going to show up and give you a plus 15 Performance in like 23 minutes all the time.
If they were in the East, they could have won the conference. Perhaps.
Orlando originally tried to make him their number one.
Anthony Edwards ist lustig, ich weiß nicht. Ich würde sagen, dass Anthony Edwards gegen diese Jungs, gegen Steff und Jimmy und Draymond und diese Attitüden... Besser als Luca und LeBron? Ja, weil ich glaube, wir alle wussten, dass Luca und LeBron dieses seltsame... Es war fast dieses seltsame Konglomeration von Sternen, die sich nicht zusammenwählen wollten.
Where it felt like this Butler, Curry, Draymond thing is one last ride for it. And now you have Anthony Edwards, who's looking to take the throne from yet another Western Conference Superstar. To me, those two attitudes of teams against each other is going to make for better television than an actual series between the Lakers and Warriors would have.
Because of seeing those feet as a kid, he has foot dysmorphia. Instead of body dysmorphia, he sees his feet as his father's, even though he, according to his father, has beautiful feet.
Und ich werde da sein.
Oh, Mike McGenius. Yes. Yes, not so much. I mean, he's one in eight against winning teams over the last two years. And, you know, so if you're going to beat Buffalo, look, their Achilles heel is teams that can run the ball. Okay, du willst das Offense auf der Seite halten, dann spiel den Fußball. Aber das ist okay, weil McGenius ein Run-Game-Guru ist.
Aber wenn du die Tape schaust, bin ich so, du machst Zip. Was zur Hölle machst du? Hier ist unser McGenius-Player. Let's just pitch it to the back and let them see if we can outrun guys. No blocking issues and all that stuff. I just think it's ridiculous. And this team right here, that's why they're desperate. Who cares? You think Buffalo cares?
Buffalo's watching the tape going, you guys do nothing. You guys do nothing.
Yeah.
Roy, why are you making faces at Greg? He doesn't have to win at Carolina? Not immediately.
He's really buried under there, man. Oh, there we go.
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Sounds like it lives in the Sharknado film universe.
Well, that's not the same as journalism, though. But I think it's less that there should be a wallop between journalists and banging the drum. It's more so that if there were a wallop, you'd be on the drum side these days.
Oh, I know what you should do. You should bring your dad as like a sort of meat shield. He's more famous anyways.
Yeah, don't do that. You gotta take this one on the chin.
Weil ich es mir vorstelle. Hast du es praktiziert? Es ist verbreitet. Was, wenn du ein Drum hast?
It's a great honor.
Defending Stanley Cup champions. Ich will nicht, dass er es macht, weil dann gibt es eine 0% Chance, wenn er es nicht macht, dann kannst du es machen. Und vielleicht eine 1% Chance, wenn er es macht, dann wirst du es einen Tag machen.
Wait, but Roy, you were just saying last week how you would never wear Panthers stuff to a Panthers game. So are you going to do it in like a button-down shirt? Because that's too far of a line to cross, but you'll bang the drum?
Oh mein Gott, ich müsste heute eigentlich das Panthers-Spiel sehen.
I think that you should just do it because your job falls more in line with entertainment than journalism these days.
It's too late. He's trying to think of a good excuse to tell them no now, but it's too late. You've already said you're going to do it.
Oh mein Gott, und dann schießt es einen Spieler an und dann wird das Spiel ausgeschlossen. Oder der Veteran.
Hatte er nicht auch gesagt, dass er nichts dazu gefragt hätte?
I feel like most people would tell you last year's Celtics were not that sexy.
The Return of the King won Best Picture.
Es gab viele wirklich gute Filme, aber im Vergleich zu Oppenheimer, der großartige Schauspieler war, großartige Editing, Hall of Fame-Direktor und Christopher Nolan, haben sie eine Bombe gemacht und es aufgelöst. Es gab keinen Film wie das in der Best Picture-Kategorie dieses Jahr, aber es gab viele wirklich gute Filme, die ich sehr liebte. Ich würde...
Es wird nicht in dieser Kategorie gewonnen, aber ich würde es gerne gesehen haben, dass I'm Still Here das Gewinn gewinnt. Ich dachte, Conclave war wirklich gut. Aber ja, Nora war ein guter Film. Ich denke, die Leute, die es sehen, würden es lieben. Aber es hält vielleicht nicht komplett auf zu einem Best Picture Gewinn. Aber ich meine, vielleicht war es der beste dieses Jahr.
Ist Thunderball mit Lasern auf den Händen?
Did you watch I'm Still Here?
Well, there you go.
That was a really good movie. Yeah, I think that there were a lot of movies worth seeing in the theater this year, Billy, but there's a lot of stuff going on. So sometimes you just don't have the time to go and that's fine. And now you can stream Anora tomorrow if you feel like watching it because you found it at one Best Picture. So I thought, I don't know, it was a good night.
It was a fun award show. I think the middle part dragged, but that's when I put on my jammies and brush my teeth and wash my face and get ready for bed. So I was content having a good 40-minute stretch where I could just walk away for a little bit.
Yeah, I thought that the big winner the last night was people like Mike who were like, I'm going to watch The Brutalist if it wins Best Picture, and then it didn't. And now three and a half hours of your life, you get back. So have fun. Enjoy it. Do something fun. I think I'm going to watch Heretic again.
He should have been nominated, by the way. Stanley Tucci snubbed. But they always do that. Ray Fiennes snubbed. Should have won.
Coleman Domingo also should have won. Thank you. They both should have won.
It's very earnest, yes. But I think this year they had to change it for the Best Actress category because Emma Stone came out and then they were like, these are the nominees for Best Actress because the actress who played the main character in Amelia Perez was embroiled in scandal and controversy throughout this entire awards season. Also...
Another big winner last night, all of the haters of Amelia Perez because they won for best song and I think a couple other ones, but like none of the big awards. And so if you hated that movie, which most people did, what a relief.
Well, now you're saying the gun might not be loaded. It's a different metaphor.
Well, she doesn't like her name either, so I guess you guys agree on that. What? She goes by Annie.
Who cares? You talk way too much about politics for them.
How long has that guy been dead?
Yeah. He did. He wrote a book about Trump.
I'm a little dumbfounded because Dan started the day by being like, the Oscars are too old for me, but we've been doing this for like 10 days.
He hits the mark. Wait, it's a port in Alaska?
It's Skagway, right? No. No?
I'll keep looking.
Didn't Ariana Grande do it?
Was it Sitka, Greg?
Wasn't your fantasy football league going to start a Hall of Fame?
You said that... Yeah, I'm confused about that, too. Because you said that you feel like you're aging out of it because it's a show for old people. But wouldn't you be aging into it?
But you sort of said it... Yeah.
Well, I thought he was really funny and that his whole premise of I'm not going to waste your time, it worked. He didn't waste our time, and it didn't run late because he was just bullshitting in the middle of the show. It ran late because they did a random 10-minute ode to James Bond that probably didn't need that.
I honestly assumed it was like SponCon. It was like, hey, remember James Bond? You're going to watch it now on Amazon.
Yeah, he's absolutely right. He's the deepest and has the most talent on the team. I believe that the Panthers will win at six, but I won't be surprised that this series goes seven games. It's a big blow to the Oilers that Zach Hyman is out for the season, but they still... But they still can make this a summer game series.
Stuart Skinner has been consistent over the last series versus the Dallas Stars. We'll see if the Panthers will put traffic in front of them and get the flexions past them. But it's going to be a close series, I think the Panthers will take it.
Especially on the road for the Panthers. And they are going on the road for this series. The Orioles have a whole nice advantage in this series. And I think the Panthers take full advantage of that one.
Corey Perry's going to end up in front of that as well, and he's been getting his goals that way.
I'm going to do it right now.
They cheated. They cheated. Not good. They're not good. A cupcake win. That's a great cupcake win. Cupcake win. They probably could put me on the field. And I think I could probably throw 45 touchdowns. Michigan. Get rid of that whole state. That'd be good.
It's a big game, but that is kind of crazy to say.
Did they cheat?
Harry, we love him. He said he went to Michigan, though. That was probably not the best thing to tell us right away. Him and Connor Stallion's public execution.
Go blue.
Definitely Ben.
Speaking of lazy answers, Stu Gatz, period, is the lazy answer. Like, so are the, do you think Dak Prescott could be the answer for the Cowboys? And I want to shout out Dan Lemon, did I say it wrong? Shout out Dan, shout out Dan.
Now, how much does both Miller and Pedersen are kind of having down years, especially when compared to the last couple of years? And, you know, you could blame the beef between them, the fact that the team is kind of meandering around. But how much does that play into, I guess, their value and what Vancouver can try to maximize from it?
Considering, you know, last year they were both, you know, basically 100 point guy. Pedersen was eight points, but they're both big goal scorers. And now it's like, you know, what am I getting?
Because you have experience in front of a microphone? Yeah, well, so-called experience.
So I wanted to ask you about the Islanders and their recent fire catching. Like all of a sudden the Islanders are the team, you know, one of the best in the Eastern Conference over the last couple of weeks. But they made a move. They made a move this week. And I know Roy's not happy with it. So I'm going to kind of let him guide this one.
Ethan's a not-so-healthy scratch.
He's probably got some like-minded individuals in most of the locker rooms.
Alright, my hot take comes from out west in Vancouver, and it's not, I don't know how hot of a take it is, I think we all can kind of agree on it, but Vancouver needs to get their shit together. Look at this poor guy, Linus Carlsen scored his first NHL goal in Nashville the other night. Nobody Gave a shit. Nobody picked up the puck. Nobody celebrated. This guy just scored.
It doesn't send a good message when you're trying to say, hey, we're inclusive, we're for everybody, but you can't wear pride jerseys, or we're going to keep bringing in guys that are repeated offenders. Yeah. You know, actions are one thing, or excuse me, words are one thing, but actions speak a lot louder. And I think clear, clear actions.
Yes, no Canadian captain news to talk about. Yeah, f*** that.
The Lions was like, just going to take this puck, give it to a fan.
Yep, Bob was good in goal. It was fun, because the first period was a little tighter. Ford didn't start that game that well. Certainly turned it on in the second and third periods, which was nice to see on the road. But man, the Sharks, like, holy cow, since they traded Mackenzie Blackwood, it has been like, boom, straight down. Holy crap.
What I like about Aiden Hill is what I liked about Tim Thomas. And it's that every time the camera is close enough that you can see his face through his mask, he's almost always smiling. It looks like he has such a good time when he's playing hockey. And that's something I really like and appreciate. So in that element, I like Aiden Hill. Yeah.
We talked a lot about the beef between JT Miller and Elias Pettersson, and it goes back a long time, and it's nasty what's happening in Vancouver. The season is bad for a lot of people, but dude. What's going on? Even the worst teams in the league have appreciation for their rookies. This team is so distracted in Vancouver that they cannot pay attention to something like that.
Jesus Christ.
Yeah, that's really good. I'll take that for a road game on the second night of a back-to-back any day.
Still, Spencer Knight's January was spectacular. Three wins. Let's see. I got it right here. 946 save percentage and 1.47 goals against. And that's after two games that kind of dragged those numbers down a little bit. The last road games against the Kings and the Vegas Golden Knights.
But man, between Knight's January, Sergei Bobrovsky's last couple of games, you've got to feel good if you're the Panthers about the way your goaltending is starting to round in form.
It was also Paul Maurice's 899th win. So, pretty cool.
It was Sam Bennett's best game of the season, right? Oh, my God. Yeah, like seven shots, eight shots on goal. That line was humming. The Bennett-Kichuk-Samiskevich line, they were humming that night. Yeah. Also, Sergey Borovsky, his second shutout of the season. Yeah.
What was cool about the Kings game, just like on the road a few days prior, each game went into the third period with the Panthers winning 1-0. In L.A. last week, they had two little net-fronty, funky goals. Lost 2-1 this time. Closed it out with a 3-0 victory. The empty net goal by Matthew to Chuck. Just a strong victory. You've got to be happy about that starting homestand.
It was a get-right game. We'll see how it plays out, but that felt like it.
They really got to fix this. That was depressing to see.
Well, the speed element for Mackey combined with the confidence and the way that he's grounding into a very good two-way player, it's a great complement to that line. If he can keep it elevated, because we know what Bennett and Kachuk can do offensively. It's back-to-back weeks for that. Kachuk. You know what? Yeah. Yeah. I'm getting criticized by Rose for...
I think it's just a defensive logjam. And they're really happy with the play that they've seen from Toby Bjornfot, who came up from Charlotte when Epclad was out and when Mikolo was out and they needed that depth. I think Boquist, maybe, you know, he's young. He's RFA. He makes, you know, 775K. I just think that, you know, they're... The room isn't there. Florida's really happy.
They like that top six. Uvis Balinstas is somebody that they really like on the back end as a defensive player. And, yeah, I think it's unfortunate, but Boquest, you know, I wouldn't be surprised to see him get claimed. We're recording this. It's about noon on Friday, so we're going to find out within the next couple of hours whether he got claimed or not. But he's still so young.
He's like, what, 26 years old? So, you know, start of the year, power play one. There's an upside there. Somebody's probably going to claim him.
Even the trainers on the bench, nobody was yelling, hey, get the puck, get the puck. Are they that distracted that they can't find the smallest joys in their life? It's frustrating and it's sad.
It doesn't feel good when you don't see, like... And I'm not super following Chicago, but I don't see a plan ahead of me in terms of this rebuild. Like, they've got some good pieces. Well, they've got one really good piece, Conor Bernard. Yeah. But yeah, I don't know what the direction is right now in Chicago. And the trade... They get nothing but a draft pick out of that trade.
We'll see how it plays out with the deadline coming up in five weeks or whatever it is from now and an offseason. But they're a point ahead of San Jose at the bottom, bottom of the league right now.
Six straight games. They're 8-2-0 in their last 10. They're four points back of Columbus for the final wildcard spot. They're trying to move. But karma might catch up with them, Roy.
We'll see. I'm anxious to see how you're reacting in the press box on Sunday.
What the fuck was that?
Last week, we told her not to turn her mic off.
It's super spicy ramen. Yeah.
They put like a toothpaste tube worth of wasabi in there. Her nose is already being filled. Oh, man.
Big bite. Big bite, Rose.
I mean, even back to his first season with the Panthers when they went on that amazing playoff run, the first round against Boston, he was pissing off Olmark, he was pissing off Swayman, he was getting under everybody's skin.
Yeah, he's not malicious. He doesn't go out there trying to hurt anybody, but he does the little jabs, the little pokes. You saw even in that video of the Kings when Kemper stayed out of the net, Kachuk was looking away from Kemper, but he still threw a fist in his direction. So he knows exactly what he's doing, and he's so good at it.
She's going hard, though. Do you have to finish that whole bowl, Rose? Is that what we're doing here? Before the show ends?
She used to sound just like us, but she swore so much as a child that she developed this accent because her tongue is like permanently swollen.
All right. I'm going to win. For this week's win of the week.
I'm going to the PWHL for this one. Young goaltender, Kaylee Osborne. Yeah. uh... we don't have the video that's okay uh... but when it was good that kelly osborne rookie goaltender she was spectacular cold a university uh... in college but now her second pro start for the New York Sirens. She picks up a shutout in her hometown of Ottawa. Really cool situation.
And again, just the PW season has been really fun. The rookies have been spectacular this year, and now a goaltender is getting in on it. So good for Kaylee. Good for the Sirens getting the shutout. And just a really cool situation that I thought the video was great. I thought they celebrated her properly. Good job on that, Sirens. But just really cool. Give some goalie love to the young lady.
Kick her butt.
Wow, he didn't even move his lower hand. That's impressive.
He couldn't have done that, by the way, if he wasn't a southpaw. No. Just FYI. Most goalies, their left hand is their left hand. Yep. For Kemper there, not Kemper. For Charlie Lindgren. For Lindgren there. That was so sick, though. I mean, how often do you see a goaltender with a Superman save?
Capitals pretty happy with their goaltending. Yeah. They just locked up, what's his name from Vegas, Logan Thompson.
Six-year deal for like $6 million. That could be a good deal for them. Yeah. And then I read that they're looking to lock up Lindgren as well.
What was that, Dave? I haven't heard Rose sound this bad since she got sick after the parade. That was a disaster. She couldn't leave the house for a week. But she's not sick. She's just wasabied. Wasabi.
My fail of the week. Sorry. My fail of the week comes out of NYC. Vincent Trocek and the Rangers just having a disaster of a season. But here's Vincent Trocek on a shorthanded breakaway. Oh, my God. The Rangers are going to tie this game. Wait. He's going to make a drop pass. Oh, God. Jesus, no. No. So that's bad enough, right? Then what happens? Carolina takes the puck, goes down the ice.
Is there skating here? I'm just going to score a goal because I don't know what the hell Shostakovich was doing there. So from Vincent Trocek. on a breakaway to the puck in his own net.
That may have single-handedly derailed the Rangers' turnaround because they were 8-1-3 in January. They've now lost two straight in regulation. So I don't know, man. The Rangers, what are they? They're five points out of the wild card right now. I mean, this is a team that people were thinking was going to come out of the East this year. They were two wins away from the Stanley Cup final last year.
I feel like Nedeljkovic being the fun guy that he is, he's probably a little laughing under his mask there. I mean, you made me feel a little responsible, too, because you've got to seal that post. Yeah.
I don't know if I want her to drink that. But she's going to have to.
Watching them prepare this, because you're supposed to boil ramen in a pot, and they instead put it in a microwave bowl and just poured hot water on it and then mixed it up. No, you can microwave ramen.
I think the last time that they were good, and I could be off here, but I'm thinking early to mid-90s, like the Olympic year, the World Cup of Hockey, where the U or the A kind of had a flag thing. Going off. I thought those were okay, and I think it's kind of all been downhill from there. They tried to go to a crest. They go to color schemes. Like, what are we doing?
Fonts are changing, like, every other year.
So, like, Russia probably also, you know, ties into that, too. And Russia, too, right? Yeah. They do still exist.
Ich bekomme das oft. Genau.
Oh, nice.
Yeah, come on. Sie versuchen sich da draußen zu verstecken. Die Kamera wird sie finden.
Speaking of backing in, are the Knicks going to back into the NBA Finals here, or what's going on?
He gets his ass whooped here by Tanner Janot just like he does every time he fights. Ends up on his ass. Tanner Janot actually picks him up off the ground and is like, let's go, buddy. You're not getting out of this easy. Yeah. Fail of the week, Matt Rempe, always the fail of the week. Now he's on the injured list and won't be seeing him anytime soon.
Bucci, I've got a million questions for you. There are a million ways I could go, but I'll start here. BC has this star-studded line that basically carried the Americans to the World Junior Championship this year, right? But they also have the... The tragedy of Johnny Goudreau is affecting them as well, just like the Columbus Blue Jackets and the Calgary Flames.
The way that a lot of NHL fans are kind of, we're all Blue Jackets fans this year. Is that the same kind of thing for BC?
Yeah.
When did he say this? Because I was watching a Canadian broadcast the other night. I can't remember the game, but on Sportsnet or TSN, they had somebody on who said it around 2015 or 2016 as well.
Yeah. Top five all time. Coming out of the roof. Great spot. I'm coming up with my list right now.
Too bad on us, huh? I am confused. My takeaway from this, how good are those Ducks jerseys? Oh, boy. Yeah. Big upgrade to the Ducks this season. Love them.
Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you.
I don't remember, Matt. Yes, Justin Herbert threw four interceptions, but we don't talk about that.
It wouldn't surprise me if they get a deal done at all. And they kind of need to. He's a very valuable player. And like Dworky mentioned, Ekblad, I mean, has been just the defensive leaks in this game were crazy.
The defensive leaks since Ekblad went out have been very on Panther like they really need to try and get both of these guys resigned or else it's going to be an interesting offseason for sure.
He is so good at the shootout. It feels like every time he is in one, it's a shock if he doesn't score. You know he's going to score when he gets into the shootout. Rhino should have tucked the game away. He beat Jari, but it just went off the post. His shooting, he's had a little bad puck luck recently. But the star of the shootout for me was Sergei Bobrovsky. He saved all three attempts.
And the final attempt against Brian Russ, who had two goals in this game, I thought he was beaten. I think Goldie thought he was beaten, but then Bob Robski kind of like moved his pad and you saw the puck just sitting in the crease. It had not gone in and you were like, Oh my God, the, you know, the, the Panthers won. So, uh, that was a crazy shootout. Bob has been absolutely phenomenal recently.
Um, And it shouldn't be any surprise, right? We all kind of knew he struggled early. It'll be fine. Go around in the form come February. And since I think his number since I can't remember exactly when since January, he's got under two goals allowed per game. His save percentage is up near 930, maybe even over 930. He's been absolutely fantastic.
He's going to be ready for the playoffs once again, and he's going to have to put the Panthers, you know, he's probably going to put the Panthers on his back just like he has the last two years.
He's making his debut. Paul Maurice announced it in the press conference today.
That's right. Marshand and Bennett. When you look at these lines, all of a sudden, what these lines look like when the Panthers are at full strength, you're looking at either Mackie Samuskiewicz.
possibly evan rodriguez oh yeah fourth line yeah that's mackie on the top line ridiculous mackie up top you could have verhege on the third line or vice versa i mean either way serine and boquist on the fourth line erod on the fourth line like i don't know what the hell paul maurice is going to do with these lines but
But just like the Panthers did last year where they had five lines they could roll out there if they wanted to, they're going to have five lines that they could roll out there again. Guys like A.J. Greer, Jonah Gajewicz, and Thomas Nosek, who have been solid players for the Panthers all year long, are going to possibly be on the wrong end in the playoffs.
It's going to be amazing to see what Maurice does and what this team looks like at full strength. Because you're talking about Evan Rodriguez, who led the Stanley Cup final in goals last year, possibly being a fourth liner come playoff time. It's insane.
Oh, yeah.
His tribute video should just be... The penalty kill. The penalty kill. Correct. Just play the penalty kill in full. The minute 30 where he doesn't have a stick and he's diving headfirst to try and clear the puck and then Bobrovsky. That should just be... They don't need to show anything else.
Panthers four days off between tonight's game and Sunday's game. But the schedule just loads up at the end here. They get that tough back to home and home with Montreal, not back to back, but Sunday, Tuesday. That's still a tough trip. And then a back to back on Wednesday against Toronto and then another back to back game. the next weekend on Saturday and Sunday.
So there's three – I think they have two more back-to-backs the rest of the season. It's a brutal stretch. And it's going to be – or three more back-to-backs. Excuse me. Three more back-to-backs the rest of the season. So they needed those four days really badly. Yes.
It's been a frustrating year for New Jersey, right? And they're kind of limping to the finish line. Literally limping. Literally limping with all the injuries that they've suffered in the past, what, two months or so. Right now they're seven points back of Carolina, and they're fine in the division because Ottawa's in the Atlantic, so they won't catch them there.
But it's been a frustrating year, and it just seemed to all bubble over in the moment. I was listening to 32 Thoughts last week, and they were talking about this, And Fried was kind of saying that people were hard on Keefe about how he wasn't hard enough on his players in Toronto. And then now he takes a shot at his players and everybody's mad at him for being hard on his players.
So, you know, you can't have both. It's got to be one or the other. So we'll see, you know, how it affects them going down the road. But certainly some interesting comments there.
This is kind of the typical Torch track, isn't it? Where he overachieves with the team his first two years and then by the third year, everybody's sick and tired of him. There's been problems with his star rookie all year where Mishkov, you know, everybody was like, oh, look, Mishkov scored in the first game without Tortorella. Of course he did. So it kind of seems to be that track.
Somebody called Torts the Stan Van Gundy of hockey, where every time he coaches, he seems miserable, but he just can't stay away from the game. Torts is a really interesting character. I'm sure he'll be on a bench somewhere in the NHL coming soon.
I love Dworky saying that's such a sad thing when you're looking for your tooth as if that's something that's very relatable to all of us. That's a very exclusive to the greatest hockey players in the world problem.
My win of the week is Alex Ovechkin, and not because he's six goals away from breaking the all-time goal record. My win of the week for him is because of this incredible act of sportsmanship that we saw last night against the Minnesota Wild, where they lose to the Wild, it's a tough loss for them, and he goes to the bench as his teammates are going into the locker room. This is captain-type stuff.
Awesome Zoom background, by the way, Dworky. Awesome Zoom background. Top notch. That's some fake books in there, you know, like Ronan Farrell.
Waves everybody out there to shake the hands of old rival Marc-Andre Fleury. Fleury. Those guys did some incredible battles back in the day when it was them and Pittsburgh going at it. And to see the respect that they have for each other, there's been respect for Fleury all over the league this year. To see that kind of respect from an old rival like that, it's just as cool as it gets.
So hats off to Alex Ovechkin for that one. All right.
The lamest thing you can possibly do is break up a goalie fight. Swayman's already got his helmet off. They're ready to go at it. There is no reason that fight should have been broken up.
Oh, Lord. This guy features in Fail of the Week seemingly every time, I feel like. He deserves it this week. Tanner Janot here and him going at it for a scrap. How many times have I told you guys this guy isn't actually good at anything? He's bad at hockey. He's bad at fighting. He gets penalties pretty much every time he's on the ice.
One of the greatest movies of all time. It's a great movie. So my kids, I showed my kids Rocky for the first time last weekend. Watched Rocky for the first time. And I was worried. Because, you know, Rocky 1 is slow.
It's slow. Well, no, violent.
You know what my kids watch?
Guys, are you excited as I am for this new Statham movie? A working man? A working man. I just saw the preview right now.
I love these new Statham movies, which is always, I'm just a guy minding my business, but then somebody messes with an innocent person.
No, but someone messes with an innocent person in my life. Steven Seagal? I don't like that. I can't do a Statham. So I just do this voice right here. It's like someone messes with an innocent person in my life who really isn't in my life, is tangentially in my life. So maybe it's my neighbor, like it wasn't the beekeeper.
Or maybe it's like the daughter of my best friend, like it isn't a working man. But now that they mess with him, I've got to destroy their whole criminal organization. Just me. Just the man. I love it. Did you guys see Beekeeper, by the way? No. Oh, he was in occupation. Beekeeper was hilarious. Hilarious.
Including the lines like, most people don't know, honey is one of the most flammable liquids ever. And then he lights it on fire and the guy goes off. Is that so? Yeah, that's what he said. Really? I don't know if it's real.
Apparently it's very flammable according to Beekeeper. I gotta watch Beekeeper.
Flying submarine. It's a supermarine at that point, right? A submarine. A submarine is a submarine. And if it was just a boat, it would be a Marine. Get it? Yeah. Everything in movies is real.
Yeah, like the Ark of the Covenant. Exactly. Don't look now. Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no. We're back, baby. Where's my laptop? No, no. Kill that music, please. We're back. One of the big stories in sports, and Mike, I'm glad you're here and looking now. I want you to be looking now because this is a big story in sports. I call it the biggest Cinderella story in sports.
Not a Cinderella story. Get out to the battle hawks. The biggest Cinderella story in sports is the Sudanese national team in soccer, right? So if you don't know, I'm from Sudan, and our country has been at war. Just like Akbar. Yeah. Yeah, just like Aguilar-Domestique, yeah, has been at war for a good two years now, where there's no infrastructure, there's no safety.
It's the largest number of displaced people in the world right now, the biggest refugee crisis in all the world. And so the Sudanese national team, as a result, has not been living in Sudan, has not been playing home games in Sudan. They've had to live in Libya and play their home games there.
And everyone who listens to the show knows I'm a huge Brazil fan because growing up in Sudan, you're like, well, Sudan's never going to be good. So we all adopted Brazil as our, that's our country. And it's been an unrewarding experience to watch Brazil be awesome and excellent. But this is different.
Because now the Sudanese national team that doesn't live at home, that doesn't play its home games at home, has been on this miraculous Cinderella run over the last year and a half where they've qualified the African Nations Cup. And they're currently number one in their World Cup qualifier group. And so they had a big game last week against Senegal.
And Senegal is a team that has a lot of big-name guys. Sadio Mane, to give you an example. They've got a bunch of guys that play in the EPL, and they play at the top levels of European football.
Power, right? You talk about the biggest teams in Africa, like the perennial, the Dukes, the North Carolinas of African soccer. It's Nigeria, it's Senegal, it's Ghana. Those are the three. And then everyone else kind of get in where you fit in. Algeria, I guess you could put them in there as well.
It's risky. So I was worried that it would be too slow for them.
And so for Sudan to go and play against Senegal and not only come out with a draw, but like kind of should have won the game. And they should have won the game. It was something that was magical. And I was wondering, Mike, because you are a soccer guy, is this a story that's resonating with soccer people? I know Master Tisfacion went on Galazzo and he did a segment on it.
But for the soccer heads overall, is this a story that's resonating or is this still kind of nature?
Yes.
I want to put this out there. If Sudan makes a World Cup, and obviously the World Cup is going to be here, Canada, and Mexico in a year. Wow, it's coming right up. If Sudan makes a World Cup, I've already announced. that I am going to be the host for all of this. I'm going to take the team out to dinner. We're going to go to Fogo do Chão because we want that Brazilian energy in us, right?
And I'm going to be doing the media rounds. I'll do ESPN. I'll do Fox. I'll do everything. I'm going to make this a thing.
Because the ending is super satisfying. They were confused by the ending. They were like, wait, who won? It wasn't clear. And I was like, yeah, Apollo.
Because I want this to be visible because I think people need to understand. It's insane to not know if your family members are alive or healthy and have to go out there and compete. And again, I'm trying to think of what the American equivalent is. It would be like McNeese State playing against the Bulls.
Well, I'm just saying the war turns stuff apart. It could do so much good. The war turns stuff apart. It's also like the talent gap. We don't have anybody that's close to what these teams are bringing to the table.
Absolutely. Now, should everybody be rooting for the UFL?
The way it's shot, first of all, my kids don't watch boxing. So the idea of like, the first judge had it, 115. They don't know what's happening. Number two, the announcement is actually in the background because the foreground is Rocky going, Rocky!
That's the intro I was trying to get to. That's what he's looking for, yeah. Thank you. Is there an Andrew Hawkins of the UFL?
Like right now, Jop Pearson. That's made it. That's made it? That's the Hawk story. The Hawk story is he started there and then he made it. Turpin. Not a guy who could make it, a guy who did make it. Turpin.
Wait a second. Is this a Brian Scalabrini situation? You know how Brian Scalabrini played in the Big Three? Do y'all know that? Yes. Very briefly. Then he went to broadcasting after that because he was like, oh, I'm too old for this. But the idea of I'm a broadcaster, but then I come back and I work out and then I play? Is that what's happening?
like so and then they hug and they see Apollo jumping they don't know what they're like wait who won so I had to explain that to him the other notes that we got right number two is when's Eye of the Tiger come on and I had to explain to them guys Rocky 3 which led me to should I skip watching Rocky 2 no
I think we need CFL merch for Hawk.
I would love CFL merch. Anybody who works for the CFL, can we send some CFL merch to Hawk so he can wear it on the show next time?
Again, unchecked. That's how we like it around here. Everything's unchecked. When you guys have a cleaning person coming to your house... Do you clean your house first? We're the cleaning person.
There's part of it that is the safe face, right? Absolutely. I feel like this is a universal. This isn't a two Americas thing, right? This is universal.
Look, some of it is the safe face, right? Some of it is you don't want these people like, oh, these people are animals, right? But there's another part of this. There's actually two other elements to why you clean up before the cleaning people show up. Number one is you clean up the things that I don't want you messing with. I'm going to put this stuff away because I don't trust.
Because you don't know where it goes. I know where it goes. Exactly. And one of the things I hate about the cleaning people is when I open a drawer and I'm like, where the hell is the thing? And they're like, oh, they put it in this cabin over here. We never put the bottle opener there. Why would it be there, right? Number two, and this one is huge.
Because if it's too much of a hard work, they might half-ass it. So I'm going to get rid of the original kind of surface level stuff.
Not only do they only have to do 75%, they have to do the hard 75%. Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Oh, yeah. Well, are they our enemy? No, actually, now it's more resonant than ever. Like 15 years ago, I was like, what? Why are we mad at this Russian guy? Like now it's like, yeah, it's back. We're back. Cold War back, baby. 20 CBs.
That's six.
Six. I call it Rocky six. I'm not going to do. And I call Creed Rocky seven. And I call Creed two Rocky eight.
Yes. It's all Rocky.
Rocky VII is really good, man.
That's the one with Drago's son, right? Uh-huh. Oh, yeah. No, Rocky VIII is fire, bro. What are you talking about? Rocky IX was the one with Jonathan Majors.
Good. Not bad. I haven't seen that one, I don't think. That's the one I haven't seen. Maybe we'll work our way up.
Is Jonathan Majors supposed to be kind of like Clubber Lang? Not quite, but a little bit of that? He's more evil.
You guys are telling me Rocky II has the rewatch value, right?
Yeah, that's when they're hugging at the end of Rocky I, right?
Man. We recorded an episode of Cinephope Top 5 the other day. And we were talking about worst parents in Cinephope history. And I submitted, as one of my outside looking ins, Rocky in Rocky IV. Because he's so sick and tired of being a dad and being a husband, he decides to fight in Russia on Christmas Day. Just get me away from my family as far as possible on Christmas Day.
And then Adrienne shows up. She shows up anyway because she's CT5 or spouses. Just nagging. You're not going to win, Rocky. You can't win.
Is this shot that important? 20CB, they just give you the smelling salts. You're good. He's good.
A walking concussion.
Think about this. Rocky left his wife and child on Christmas to go to Russia, communist Russia, to go fight a dude who murdered his friend in the ring. You know how much of a bad husband and a bad father you have to be to be like, I'm going to do this over here.
All he said is he's going to go to the funeral. Only friends go to funerals. That's not true.
LeBron's not the only person spending seven figures on their body. Michael Jordan is, except it's just cognac and cigars. But still, look at George Burns. He lived to like 112 or whatever, so there it is. You, Hawk.
Let me get away from this before he decides he's not going to come up.
Mike's not drinking Hennessy, by the way. Remy? Louie the 13, baby.
Hawk, you had umbrance. You took umbrance. You took issue with something that Dan said on the show about, was it Russell Wilson?
Dude, you get to live your, like, it's like, what do you call them? When people go play, not fantasy baseball, but like when people pay a bunch of money to go play on Yankee State.
Yeah, like fantasy camp, right? Except it's real.
Except it's real. Like, that's crazy. It's like going to Westworld for Russell Wilson, right? You go in there and like, oh yeah, these robots are actually trying to kill me.
We're doing this off of follows. She was a superstar. She was a huge superstar. She's more famous worldwide.
With the meanest, leanest. Come on, man.
I'm going to tell you right now, don't look now, but I think Russell Wilson is going to do better in New York than Aaron Rodgers did. Oh, wait. I shouldn't have said that. It's time. New game. I like that. Don't look now. It's not a new game. And it's a terrible game.
I thought I could leave it alone. I couldn't because when I went out there, Ethan shoved Taylor under the bus and said, Taylor hasn't seen Raiders of the Lost Ark either.
I'm really concerned about a lot of things, Tony, before you start. Well, number one, I don't know what Mike is doing to Pat Riley.
I know that Pat Riley has a case, an HR case. Number two, you guys have recruited Andrew Hawkins into this somehow. I wish I got a real blindfold. Well, Hawkins, you've got to close your eyes at least.
This is the first piece of analysis Mike has ever offered in this segment.
Hawk, how surprised are you that the door isn't closed on Aaron Rodgers everywhere?
As you got older, was there any part of the locker room environment that you were like, I'm too old for this? Not necessarily the physical, but just like... So much of it.
Doug Heffernan. He's a big Doug Heffernan guy. Is that what you're telling me? He's a big Jerry Stiller guy. Oh, Jerry Stiller's the best, man. R.I.P. The Boca Fista. But Raiders of the Lost Ark, this is like required viewing, right?
So it loses you quick. Yeah. And you said you hang out with the coaches. How do the coaches receive that? Like, is there any part of it? Oh, okay. I got to see.
We just wanted to see how much longer you were to go. Yeah.
You still have Luka.
Get a load of this guy.
The funny thing is the next game, where is he broadcasting from? The last row in the upper deck of the arena.
Fatou, you mentioned Sarah Nurse, and we've been following the PW for the last two seasons now. How much has that league coming together and its popularity and all the exposure, how much has that impacted bringing young black women into the sport, just from your perspective?
Does this get into the old school discussion that we've had, though, of guys, the old school guys not wearing visors? Because if you would have had a visor on, we wouldn't be having this discussion.
Logan Thompson?
The whole point of them being there is they want to hear what's happening on the ice. If you can't hear, then what's the... I don't know.
Oh, f***. Yeah, it's just perfect.
If you're not watching this on YouTube or if you want to just Google Rob Ray, find a picture of him post-puck to the face.
So in terms of that progress, obviously, we have a ways to go before we get anywhere close to what we want to get. But we do have Mike Rear in a GM office right now. We do have Jessica Campbell, Brett Peterson. Brett Peterson in the Florida Panthers front office, Jesse Campbell behind an NHL bench in Seattle. So there is some progress being made. Do you feel like that progress is on a path?
I'm trying to think like a way to phrase the timing question. But like, is it happening? Are we starting to see enough momentum that we cannot look at these things as a one off? Or you know what I'm saying? Like, are we finally starting to see this as a trend?
And Razor just took another... That sounds like he's taking, like, a violent shit and he can't get... Like, that was like... Like, you know, like... Confirming!
Just going to throw this out there. The record for most goals in a Stanley Cup playoff is 19. Ovi, go break it. Good luck with that. Absolutely.
Fatou, thank you for joining us.
See you in the playoffs, Fatou.
I'm not talking about the Panthers. We'll see you in the playoffs. At some point, we're going to be on the road. We're going to meet up again.
You should have said Penn wins. I'm really happy.
A hockey player on the Tonight Show? A Florida Panther on the Tonight Show?
What timeline are we living in right now? What the hell is going on?
I feel so bad for Ilya Sorokin. He's having such a rough year.
Thank you, Marky. It's cool to see hockey in places you don't see hockey getting talked about. You see it on the Tonight Show, the Kelsey Brothers podcast, the Dan Patrick Show. People are talking about hockey where hockey is not usually creeping into. That's the biggest thing, I think, what will hopefully be the residual effort from this tournament.
when all is said and done is we're going to be talking about how much it grew the game.
It felt like the first game after a break. They just felt a little discombobulated. They couldn't get their offensive zone time to click. They couldn't get the shots on goal. Credit to Joey Decord. He played a great game in goal for Seattle. It was cool to see the welcome back videos from Montour and Mahora, and the fans gave them a good ovation and all that.
But there's something about Seattle that the Panthers just don't click.
So he didn't touch the goalie. He got pushed into the crease. Correct. And the puck was past the goalie before any of the contact. So as I'm holding up all these fingers here, like all those things did not happen. So where exactly was the interference?
I've seen such more intrusive plays. Right, of course.
Anyway, anyway. He's calling the guy draped in Panthers bias. Like, yes.
Well, no, because at the time, they had just scored to tie the game.
No, that would have given them the lead. They had just tied it. The momentum was on their side, and then that just kind of fell over it.
That is what that is.
It's a Ned Gretzky hat trick, Rose?
I would hope so. I think it's just a Panthers promotion, but I think for the sake of good humanity and good dog-anity or whatever, canine-anity, we can get that dog an extra adoption. Preds are bad, eh? I guess. Yeah. Yeah, they are. They're really bad. Just watching that game. They're undisciplined. They give up too many. They can't score. Their special teams are a mess.
Yeah. If they're going to be sustainable for a long time, they need to have cheap contracts that can contribute. They need the Lundells, the Mackeys, the Sortiffs. They need those guys to step in and supplant that bottom half of the roster.
It's getting a little close, Roy. What happens when Crosby retires? Do you still hate the Penguins?
Three games in a row. Three overturned goals, man. The Panthers are fighting through it.
That was the opposite of the goalie interference goal. That one was pretty obvious.
Rose, what do you think of Anton Lundell? Do you know what he looks like?
Anytime they get into the rush game, it's not good for this team. It was good for the President's Trophy winning Panthers team. Yeah. But not the Paul Maurice Panthers. No. Fortunately, the Panthers played very well in other areas. They limited Edmondson's chances to Sergey Bobrovsky. Really wasn't that great either. But they scored four goals and they came out on top.
Yeah, he hates lightning. This is Mike cut out there.
Yeah, one point out, actually. Look at them.
Then they got rid of Warren Fogle.
You know who's loving this? The narrative that Ethan just set up? The Los Angeles Kings. Yeah. Because they might actually have a chance in the first round this year. Because they actually might get out of the first round now. Because right now, if the playoffs started today, it's Kings Oilers again. Yeah.
Yeah. Look, maybe you've got to build in a few days of rest. Neither of the Chuck brothers have played yet.
Do you want to set that precedent, though? I'm just playing devil's advocate here, but do you want to say, okay, we're going to do this amazing tournament where everybody's going to go balls to the walls, they're going to go crazy, that's how we want it, but then we're going to give them... a game or two off.
Because everybody who's involved with the NHL that's not involved in the Four Nations, all the GMs of everybody that didn't, they're going to be like, what the bleep? Because now my NHL, you're not going to please everybody with this. So I think you can't make it a precedent, but if guys didn't just quietly take a game or two to get their stuff together, that's okay.
That's a very bad word. You bleeped that. That's a very bad saying. Yeah. I know how to say the F word in French. Thank you, Shorzy.
My win of the week comes from St. Louis. Ryan Suter played his 1500th NHL game the other night, and the Blues brought his four kids into the locker room to read the pregame lineups. And that in and of itself was amazingly cute and awesome. But if we can play it, his youngest son, when he gets to his father's name, it just melted my heart.
That's not. My dad starting suits. I love the little guy in the suit looking dapper as hell. I love it.
Tell me that doesn't make your heart melt.
As of you, as are you, because Tyler is playing hockey. Yeah, Tyler was on the other ice when Claire was on that ice. So it's pretty cool that our kids were out there. I had to look it up on my phone because I remember as she was on the ice getting a text from you, and all he said was, Dude, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, I think she might be good.
Okay, all right. My hot take, it's not a hot take, actually. It's a cold take? It's a hot mic. Oh. It's not a cold take. It's a hot mic. Former Sabres, I don't want to say star, former well-known player Rob Ray, tough guy, fighter, longtime Buffalo Sabre. Yeah, that's the word I was looking for. Yeah, there you go.
Slow down. You're getting 0-2, man. Kids on the other side of the fence. Are there any wins of the week from that side?
Rose, what's significant about a selenite wand? Because I actually had to look up how to spell it. I had no idea what that was.
What your girl was just showing. She doesn't even know what she's talking about in the video.
All right, my fail of the week, it's a referee. Justin Kia was nailed right in the bingo button the other night. Bingo button. At the end of the Vancouver-Utah game. Utah doesn't have a team name at both. Not yet. Alex Kerfoot spins around, tries to clear the zone. The poor referee's putting his hands up to protect his face because obviously that's the move, right?
You've got to protect your face if a puck's coming at you. And that left his nether regions completely unguarded. And you can hear the bells going off.
Like there's nothing the trainer can do, right? The trainer comes out there. Oh, what happened? Where's it hurt? Just don't worry about it. Give me some space. Give me a second. Don't touch it. Let me breathe it out. Just relax. He had the bottom lip sticking out like Bill Cowher. He was so in pain and embarrassed. You could see him trying to breathe it out, Roy.
Like, guys know that feeling. It's like the worst stomach ache, sharp pain. It's just, ugh. So, anyway. Yeah, I think about having kids, though, Ethan.
He works between the benches on the Sabres broadcasts, and he had his mic open and got hit by the puck.
You don't want to laugh at that. I mean, I guess 30 years later or whatever it's been, it's okay. But I mean, that's so not cool. The poor guy's on a stretcher and it's like something out of a comedy movie. Do you realize how rare it is for cameras to be in the tunnel? That's why. That's exactly why. Because they don't want something like that to happen for it to get caught on camera.
I've done it. And now, here's the marching man to nowhere, fat face, and the habitual liar.
You gotta fight that one.
I'm like, oh, sorry.
I nearly woke up in Orlando yesterday.
This is the issue.
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I think I like the Celtics tonight.
And I know it was the bubble, but individually, Donovan Mitchell, by head and shoulders, had the best playoff series out of the two.
He was dealing with something the last go-around in the playoffs, right? He wasn't completely healthy.
Yeah, that was a huge one for them.
Jason Tatum has a shot to be the most playoff experience player ever.
I agree. PK Subban acted in bad faith. You have to disclose exactly why you don't watch it at the very beginning before you make character assassinations.
And you also have to wear your bias on your sleeve. For one, the primary reason why I don't watch a sport anymore is because the Miami Heat stink. And I've seen this, and I've been bored by their approach for the last two years. They didn't care about the regular season, so I responded in kind. But secondarily...
because my team is no good it allows me to see all the other flaws in the sport and not care as much but i do want to salute donovan mitchell because yesterday we were talking about not necessarily through his own actions but it just hasn't worked out for kevin durant like the decisions he's ended up making and some of these things are out of his control like i'm sure in a vacuum he'd prefer to have gone to miami than phoenix but he gave a couple of destinations and he ended up going to phoenix there are certain things out of his control his teammates
getting injured. Although you do take that as a data point with Kyrie Irving. You have to account for Kyrie Kyring when you decide to team up with him. But it's worked out on the opposite end, I think, for Donovan Mitchell, and he doesn't have the same amount of title or bust pressure surrounding him the way that Kevin Durant does. He had the opportunity to play hardball with the Cavs.
He decided to extend. Again,
would cleveland have been his top destination he didn't have that much influence over it no he probably would have preferred to go somewhere else but it's worked he brought along a fledgling franchise became the face of it and now they're legit title contenders it's really worked out for donovan i have a different slightly different way of looking at like the way i predict like i think cleveland is going to make the finals in the eastern conference i think man i don't even know who i think is going to make it in the west probably okc if you really break it down but if you
Wow, what a huge NBA finals for Adam Silver. At this moment in time, Cleveland, OKC, that'll get him.
His game is going to age with grace because of his style. And I guess I'm always going to be worried about his ankles, but he's shown that. But I do have questions because they've played really well with Jimmy Butler in terms of wins and losses. Oh, boy. But I also look at Jimmy Butler's stats, I'm a little confused by it. He's shooting 43% from the field, he's like one for 14 from three.
But a lot of the people making, like Stephen A. Smith, If I watch first take on mute here, and I'm assuming that Jimmy Butler's lighting the world on fire because every highlight that they show is him playing within the offense, and then I look at the numbers, I'm like, this doesn't really make sense. So why is it working so well? Is it competition that they're going up against?
Or is Jimmy Butler doing things that don't necessarily show up in the stat sheet that clear things up for Steph and alleviate some of that pressure?
Point of attack defender. Yep.
It's also why you can't dismiss the Gabe Vincent, Max Struess stuff. Sure. And how that became some sort of resentment that Jimmy kept. Yeah.
Yeah, you're doing hairline.
Man, I loved it. You watched it in theater? What, Killers of the Flower Moon?
Yeah, I saw it in the Alamo Draft House. I loved it.
I also saw it by myself, which I kind of dig. Going to the movies by yourself. I like going to the movies by myself, especially a theater like Alamo Drafthouse. It's got to be a really stinky movie for me to not enjoy that experience.
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Randy Moss could hoop, right? Oh, yeah. Wasn't he high school teammates with Jason Williams?
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A little mole on his head. Yeah, a little growth. Most easy. It's a gator. Simpler time.
Are you only going during the winter? No.
Really? No.
Yeah.
Soul was very good. What? You didn't like Soul? No. Why?
Big fan. I hate musicals. I love musicals. That's my boy, Roy. I hate musicals. I'm with you. What about Disney movies, Roy? I hate Disney movies. You don't like Frozen? No. I liked Soul. Soul was great. Soul was good. Soul was awesome.
All right. All right. All right.
What the f*** are you talking about? He dies and comes back to life. Yeah, bro.
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I'm purposefully buying tickets to where this isn't going to be an issue because I'm such a pleaser that if someone wants me to sit down, I'm going to be worried all night long about upsetting that person. I couldn't be the only person standing in this section. Unless I know that everyone's going to stand up with me.
And obviously there are some shows, like even a Springsteen show, if you have an older demographic – At those shows, there are certain songs where everybody's standing up, right? And that, you know, everyone's joining you. And now, hey, for the final five or six songs of the night, everybody's going to be standing up.
But what I'll do is if I'm not going to sit on the floor or be in GA and be in that area where everybody should be standing... I'm purposefully buying tickets near the top of whatever section I'm in so that I'm causing less pain for the people behind me. So if I'm in the second to last row or the last row, I could stand up. I don't have to worry about anybody else.
And that way I know I'm not going to have to worry about the guilt of potentially blocking somebody's view. I can stand up and enjoy myself. No harm, no foul.
I mean, that's how I live my life. Yeah, I'm exhausted every day.
Yeah, that's exactly right.
Yeah, I would love that, David. I really do wish I had a little bit more of that.
Well, and the difficulty here is it depends on the type of concert because Elton John's a perfect example. There's a bunch of like fast paced, upbeat songs, but then he'll go through a stretch. Come on. You got to be standing. You got to be bopping when that's going on.
I'm standing for your song.
There's no capacity. To your point on the event, David, it even influences what you were talking about with Goodell because maybe there would have been a time where it felt like he was trying too hard. But now, like, these players all want their moment with Goodell. Like, there's a reason some of the handshakes are rehearsed.
And there's clearly, like, that's part of the moment that they're going to put on social media, on their own Instagram, on their own, you know, Twitter or whatever. It is meeting Goodell for the first time. The event has become so big. His persona at that event has become something that matters to these guys. And all of it just goes off without a hitch in the way that the NBA
Whoever has the biggest mansion in Green Bay, that's where he's staying.
No, this is why AI overview on Google is incredible. While the specific hotel Roger Goodell stays at during his visits to Green Bay is not publicly available, it's likely he stays at a high-end hotel in or near the city. The first being the Radisson Hotel and Conference Center in Ashwaubenon. That can't be right.
They actually travel through the house via bumper car.
More like broken Hegel.
Do you get what I'm saying, though, Roy? More like Brandon Hegel because we hate him.
He's going to pee first.
Every time? Because you don't pee in public places, right? I only sit to pee.
All right. Just a little fact there. I'm a nighttime sitter. I like a nighttime sit for sure. There's the occasional daytime sit. I'll take the occasional daytime sit. No, you don't daytime sit. Occasionally.
I have a question about the execution of this bit, Chris, because is this going to be just like the very first moment you think there's even a chance that you could pee? That's what it has to be. You're getting up to go. That's what it is, right? You're trying to see just how quickly it can happen, not you're waiting as long as possible until you have to pee.
He's pointing to the scoreboard and then they go on and lose 7-3. Thank you, Ethan.
Besides being big, this is what I always say about Rempe. His only thing is he's big. He's slow. He's not a great offensive player. We know he's a fourth-line guy. He hits people and gets suspended every time he hits somebody. And then he gets in a fight with Jacques and he gets his ass kicked.
I was going to make it our loser of the week, but I wanted to ask Avery about it.
I was watching this game live and it had the feel of a playoff game at the end of it. And to me, like, is this something that's getting called in the playoffs when it's a one goal game? There's an empty net already, and guys are just out there scrapping, trying to do anything they can to keep the puck away from the start player.
Avery, I heard a few weeks ago, Elliott Friedman report that there's a scenario where one gets traded, none get traded, or both get traded. So, it seems like at least one is definitely going to get traded. But what's the possibility that both JT Miller and Elias Pedersen get moved at this deadline?
That's not the question I wanted to ask.
This is the question I wanted to ask. Avery, I've got a take recently. You get to watch Conor McDavid every night. You're very lucky. It's harder for us to watch him every night over here. No direct flights. I really love – I watch Nathan McKinnon and I say, is that guy really that – is McDavid really on a different level? So best player in the league, McDavid or McKinnon?
I'm going to take his hesitation as a win because the fact that he had to even think about it means we're getting to a point where I'm not crazy for thinking that McKinnon might be bad.
By the way, Drysaddle has 35 goals already. It's crazy.
And 74 points.
You missed the biggest storyline from this one for me, Roy, and it's Sam Bennett get back on the score sheet. Yes, that was huge. He hadn't scored in 21 straight games, and they really needed him to start getting scoring again because their scoring has been too concentrated. If Reinhardt's not scoring, Boquist has been the guy that's been stepping up, or even some of the guys down the order.
But they really need guys like Bennett, Barkey, Chucky to start putting the puck in the net again and playing. And Chucky, Barky, and Rhino have been great on the first line together. But they really needed to get Sam Bennett going. So seeing him see one go in, I think, will be huge for his confidence and could get him back in his scoring ways.
It's been fun to watch.
And he has an element that's something I feel like the Panthers kind of miss from the rest of maybe the elite teams, like Colorado at Edmonton. They don't have as many guys that just kind of fly up the ice. Mackie brings this speed dimension to the second line that... Feels like the Panthers are missing sometimes, the way he gets the puck going up ice like any time.
And Bennett says he's been mentoring him. He loves playing with him. So that line, Pomo, he shook up all the lines. Erod's been great on the fourth line. He scored twice recently. The third line has been good with Verhege down there. And Boquist has been a great scoring threat for the Panthers. So I like the way the lines are playing right now for the Panthers.
I actually think they've got something going with them.
yeah they're starting to really click rhino and barky i think it was the it was the rhino goal against anaheim the play where barky makes an interception dishes it off to kachuk kachuk finds reinhardt down low reinhardt finishes like that line the way they control the puck the way they control the play like that's something that needs to stick together because it's just throw your three best players out there mcdavid and dry side will out there together all the time like
Save percentage on the season up to 907, I just saw on ESPN in the stats department. But going back to the third period lead stuff, you're talking about how it's concerning. You're talking about 18-2 or whatever it is. 5-2 on the second end of back-to-backs. It's concerning. We're nitpicking here. You know what I mean? We know the Panthers are really good.
We know they're going to turn it on in playoff time. And we're just kind of nitpicking. And it's concerning because it doesn't happen to the Panthers very often. But when you take a step back and you look at it and they're... Sometimes you're going to lose when you have a lead going into the third period. You're not always going to win. Sometimes it goes to overtime, whatever.
Obviously, you want those regulation losses to be limited when you have a lead going into the third period. But I thought the Panthers in that Kings game at the start of the game looked like a team on the back-to-back. And then I fell asleep, to be honest with you. But waking up and seeing what happened, clearly that back to back got to him because it was just they just kind of ran out of gas.
So, you know, Vegas coming up on Saturday and then San Jose, I think, before coming home.
San Jose on Saturday and then Vegas. Vegas to close out the trip on Sunday. Another back to back. Am I right, Roy?
They're a bad fun team. They're really fun to watch. They play like an up-style hockey, and Celebrini's great.
It was just bad, right?
Thank you for finally embracing that. Thank you, guys.
Rose.
Uka, Pekka, Luka.
Rose, say uka peka luka den.
And this is a big loss, David, just to touch on this Markstrom loss. He's probably going to miss the Four Nations. I don't know if we're going to be able to get any hockey analysis out today. This is going to mess with his eligibility for the Vezina, which he was probably number two behind Connor Hellebuck. I mean, Connor Hellebuck's going to run away with the Vezina this year.
But yeah, Markstrom, I was listening to 32 Thoughts this morning, and Elliott Friedman was basically saying... He's going to be out a minute and it's probably going to throw off his four nations, which for Sweden, they're now down Markstrom. They're probably down all Mark. So they're going to be on their third, fourth, fifth choice goalie possibly.
And it could that could throw off their entire tournament. Like the Swedes have a solid team that could be really competitive and all of a sudden injuries might get in their way here.
Yes. I love these swings. Look at these swings right here.
My hot take here is there's nothing more try-hard than not wearing a visor in 2024. Like, just put a visor on.
It's the shield that goes over your eyes, and it was mandated that... everybody after 2013-14 has to wear one, but there are certain guys that because they played a certain amount of games before a certain date... No, no, if you were in the league before the rule was made, then you're kind of grandfathered in.
Yeah, I think there's only four guys left that don't wear visors, and they're all just like... Just do it, man.
Get over yourself, Jamie.
Leave your mic on. Rose, try and say Uka Pekkalukkanen. Uka Pekkalukkanen.
I don't got anything, right?
We're showing WNBA basketball.
It's called the hockey show, not the Caitlin Clark show.
We need to make one, Rosie. We need to make a graphic. The Rosie Show.
In regulation. It's not just that they lost in regulation. They were down 6-5 with 11 minutes left in the third period. So from seven minutes in the second period, that's seven, about 16 minutes of game time it took for them to go from up 5-1 to down 6-5.
Kennt ihr auch diesen einen Freund, der morgens einfach so ruckzuck aus dem Bett und danach aus dem Grinsen gar nicht mehr rauskommt? Der sogar noch vor dem ersten Kaffee unverschämt gut gelaunt ist und mit der Morgensonne um die Wette strahlt? Furchtbar. Ekelhaft.
Schaut es euch an. So vertraut.
Wir machen nicht das Screen-Time. Du wirst da sein.
Du bist nicht ein besserer Vater als ich, Dominik. Du liebst deine Kinder nicht mehr als ich. Dein Zoom-Begrund muss nicht so sein.
Auf der linken Seite, das ist Jalen Rose.
I mean, you tried to get me to play for your flag football team, so I don't know how impressive traits were looking for you.
Ist das eine Situation, in der wir Jamar Chase und Justin Jefferson auch spielen werden? Oder werden sie genug Spieler haben, um auch Defensivspieler zu haben?
Jameer Gibbs, ein anderer Typ, den sie sagen. Ja, ich mag Jameer Gibbs. Javon A. Chan und Gibbs, sind sie Rennspieler?
Coach K hat keine Goldmedaille.
Der random Gator, der Nummer 21 war. Er war so ein großer Kerl. Ich glaube, er ist jetzt in den Bucks. Ich wollte diesen Kerl. Er ist so 470 Kilo. Ich weiß nicht, wie er sich nennt, aber ich wollte ihn einfach da draußen.
Oder ein DB-Nummer. Wenn das 98 ist, dann ist es nicht für mich. 21, ich erinnere mich an das.
Ich glaube, das ist ein Look, den Jodeci ausdrücken würde.
Okay, das ist ein guter Anruf.
Mosquito's real name is Mosquito. Mosquito? Even worse, yeah. Mosquito Valentine.
In the playoffs, it is. I mean, yes, the Panthers are just that dominant, so they've had a bunch of blowouts in this playoffs, but I think that just speaks to their dominance. The playoff hockey is generally really close.
Die Playoffs in der NBA waren großartig. Ich verstehe, warum du das jetzt machst. Ich würde lieber über die Spiele reden als über Mike, der heute nicht mehr hier ist. Nein, nein, nein.
Riding in today listening to sad Carolina Hurricanes podcast is just, and that is, I learned that from Mike, of just, that's what you do. After a big playoff win, you don't go to your team's podcast, you go to the other teams. And they are crumbling. They are just like, oh, we have assholes, but we need mother effers. The Panthers, they have mother effers, but we have assholes.
Slavin and Ajo, they're just assholes. We need to be mother effers like Bennett and Kachuk.
I like this. I like this game. What's the difference between a mother effer and an asshole?
Definitely know an asshole when you see it. Which NBA team has the most mother effers left? The Wolves?
Wer ist der König der Arschloch? Das ist so, du bist gut. Halliburton. Ich denke, sie haben auch viele Mutter Ephraim.
The Doug Funny fans on this show. Killer Tofu. They're gonna be killing us right now.
Do you know this one friend who just comes out of bed in the morning and then doesn't come out of his grin? Who is even in front of the first coffee, shamelessly well-groomed, and radiates the morning sun around the bed? Terrible. Disgusting. How can you just...
Do you know this one friend who just comes out of bed in the morning and then doesn't come out of his grin? Who is even in front of the first coffee, shamelessly well-groomed, and radiates the morning sun around the bed? Terrible. Disgusting. How can you just...
He is this season, though.
So, Adnan, where were you last week and where are you going this week?
Yeah, he's getting penalties called on him that are not actually penalties because he is who he is.
My fail of the week comes from Avalanche Maple Leafs referee Kelly Sutherland. Oh, no. Wrong place, wrong time. He fell. He fell forward, and the puck stopped. He fell forward fast. And that's not the worst case because Stephen Lawrence came in and scored on McKenzie Blackwood.
Well, I mean, the Panthers won after the Maple Leafs won, so technically. No, but still, you'd like to be ahead by two. Yes, absolutely. But, of course, this road trip did not help the Panthers. You got one more.
Yeah, I got one more tomorrow.
You win at Washington. You'll feel good about it. Back-to-backs, too. Away and home. That's ridiculous. What are we doing with that?
And just to tell you how bad the Sabres season has been, there was an own goal on a delayed penalty when the Sabres played the Utah Hockey Club.
No, it was a bad pass that went across the length of the ice.
Not great. Not great at all. Ant-Man, thank you for joining us. Prime Monday Night Hockey, Ant-Man Burke. Thank you so much, fellas.
David Pignotta joins us from the fourth period. And the GM meetings has wrapped up this week. And they were talking about league business and whatnot and maybe some rule changes. Maybe not. Who knows? But, yeah, the general managers gathered together in Florida to talk about what's going on in the league. But there was a major issue that came from the Devils GM, Tom Fitzgerald.
His son, Casey, was cut under the chin by a skater. Another form of cancer. Yeah, another phone, Tom Fitzgerald. Huge goal, game 7, 96. Gigantic goal. But his son was slit by a skate in a freak accident. He luckily made it to a medical facility and got stitched up. He is... Okay.
Also, what happened with the Canadians and the Senators, Josh Anderson was wearing cut-proof socks, and the back of his leg got slit. Luckily, the socks saved him. Shane Pinto, as you can see in this video, right there. That could have been career ending. That was right there.
Yeah, in a preseason game.
So Tom Fitzgerald has made an impassioned plea to institute cut-resistant protective gear for the players, kind of grandfather them in, kind of like the visors and whatnot. What are we hearing from the GMs? Is there any traction on this happening, David?
Frank Cervelli has written an article on power plays being at its lowest level since the 1963-64 season. Penalties are just not being called. There have been 747 fewer power plays this year than last year. That's a 12% drop. I shouldn't say penalties aren't being called. It's probably more of the 4-on-4 type situations where they're matching penalties on scrums and stuff like that.
And the GMs don't know why. What are you hearing out of the GM meetings about the power plays being lowered?
All right. A couple of questions before we get out of here. Did the league talk about Donald Trump's idea of having a NHL KHL all star game? And where are we on the CBA? I mean, there's an influx of money coming in for the league. So is there a league piece right now?
Well, it sounds like good news coming out of Florida with the GM meeting. So, David Pignotta, thank you for joining us. Thank you, David. Absolutely, boys.
All right, it's time for the Panthers recap presented by Jägermeister. Serve it cold or don't serve it at all. Jägermeister, damn, that's cold. For more, visit Jägermeister.com. Drink responsibly. On Saturday, the Panthers played at Montreal, and that was terrible. Terrible, I tell you. It was bad. They looked uninterested in this game.
But the Canadians, they really put their best effort into that one. And the Panthers deserved this loss. Probably not as much as the Canadians deserved that win, according to Paul Maurice, fellas. I mean, it was not a good game.
Yeah, it's one of those situations where you go down early and you go down by two goals and then you spend the rest of the game trying to catch up. And they did. I mean, they put shots on net. And they put attempts, at least on, they tried, but nothing doing. No, Sam Montabeau did look good in goal for Montreal.
I mean, it was bad. So that was Montreal. And on Sunday, again, the back-to-back, and this is a running theme for the Panthers for the rest of the season. They played the Islanders. Now, this loss, they lost 4-2, was probably the most angry I've been at this team since. In a very long time. And I'm talking about we went to Edmonton twice and they lost. We flew 10,000.
I don't want to hear you complain. I'm going to complain about this. God damn it. 15,000 miles. 10 cities to Edmonton and back. And they lost, and I wasn't as angry as I was when they lost to the Islanders on Sunday. And come on, man. They blew a two-goal lead, just like they did in Boston. And, of course— Third period lead. Third period lead.
Dmitry Kulikov got hurt. He left the game.
As far as Kulikov is concerned, Paul Murray says that he expects Kulikov to return before the end of the regular season, which is I hate that statement. I hate that statement because there's a month left in the regular season.
No, absolutely. It's a lower body injury. It's an upper body injury, actually.
If this was the NFL and Paul Maurice did that, he would get fined.
Yeah, hate the player. It's just the fact that I don't know when he's going to return, and I hate that. Because now we've got to rely on whoever the Panthers are going to send up from Charlotte.
They're going to shelter him real good. He needs a little more season, but good that he's getting... He's a former first-round pick. Yeah, you're just saying. Last night. In Columbus. That one, I don't want to say by the skin of the teeth. I mean, it was a goaltenders duel. That was as exciting a 0-0 game you're going to get. That was a great game.
How long has it been since the Panthers have gone to overtime without scoring a goal? It was at Columbus six years. Five or six years. Also at Columbus.
Manna is in the shooting lane as well.
Alexander Barkov is who he is because he's a playmaker. He's great defensively. I mean, he's bound to get another Selkie trophy and has an excellent shot, which he does not use often enough, especially his backhand, and it's very, very good to see him
Well, the good news is that Alexander Ovechkin will not break the all-time goal scoring. Probably not. Unless, of course, he scores seven, which I doubt.
Let's dive further into this matchup between the Capitals. Because, I mean, you look at that team. Tom Wilson is having a career year.
30 goals. I mean, it's a career high. He is one away from a career high in assists, and he has a career high in 57 points this season. And, of course, the Capitals are tied for the President's Trophy right now with 100 points. They got a game in hand, so they're at the top of the table. And they have one more regulation win, so they got the tiebreaker there. It's a good team.
And as much as it's been a surprise for the Capitals this season, They are a really good team, especially at goaltending.
The division of regular season stats.
Yeah, it doesn't make any sense. Back to back, by the way, between Saturday at Washington and Sunday at home when they finally return against the Pittsburgh Penguins, I have nothing to say about them.
Yeah, that's great. Ann Anverk and David Pignano was on the show. You can watch that on YouTube for those who are watching on DKN. Okay, goodbye.
Amazing. All right, let's get to the video portion of this segment. We have a video of two fans at a Capitals game. From 20 years ago and most recently. So these fans were kids when they showed up to this Capitals game in 2005 with foam eights on their head. And 20 years later, as grown-ass men, they showed up to a Capitals game. Now those foam eights have autographs on them.
And they are celebrating Alexander Ovechkin. Now, Alessandro Veskin scored last night. He now has 888 goals in his career. That's seven away from breaking the record. 888 goals for the grade eight. Is he going to hit 1,000?
I think he's gone.
Imagine if he drags it out. He's got his own private jet. In Utah, apparently Mikhail Sergachev has a chicken farm. And he's giving eggs. He's a smart guy. Yeah, he's giving eggs to his teammates. In a tweet from Bill Frazier, who's in the locker room, I just have a lot of eggs. Once we hit like 24, 30 eggs, I start giving them away to my teammates. Obviously, I feed them well.
I take care of them. Now there's a shortage of eggs, so guys appreciate it more. Now, eggs are expensive.
There was another tweet from that presser, Nick Buckstead, apparently had a comment that... Another former Panther. What's expected by chickens like that? Yeah, Buckstead said to him... about Sokachev's chickens potentially having bird flu. You should check that.
He disrespected my chickens like that. I still gave him eggs because he said his wife went to the store and there were no eggs.
And I'm going to extend my Islanders shit talk streak on this show, even though it's been a bad week. I was wondering if you were going to get to that. Yeah, I got no choice. I got to continue the streak, no matter what happened with the Panthers this week. But here's a video, and there's sound on this, by the way.
Here's a video of an Islanders fan chirping at John Tavares, who made his return on the Island.
Loser team. Loser fan base. Islanders this season. You've got to make smart acquisitions. Yeah. As soon as that one acquisition, as soon as that one release, I should say, happens, I will be on that ass. I think I saw him.
Welcome to the Hockey Show. My name is Roy Bellamy. David Dwork is to my left. He works for the Hockey News. Ethan is in the chair over there in the shipping container. Joining us is Jon Zaslow as a guest co-host of ESPN Radio and Zaslow Show 2.0. And also joining us, Adnan Virk from Prime Monday Night Hockey. He's going to join us here for the first segment.
And he deserves it. He had two assists last game, by the way. So, yeah, there's that, too.
No, I was a catcher, so I had to make sure that was maintained properly. You know, tin cup over here.
Yep, just like that. My win of the week earlier this week, the Seattle Kraken held what they called an oops all goalies game. And their goaltender, Joy Drecord, dropped the ceremonial first puck. It's really a real sight to behold to see dozens. Of fully padded goaltenders out there playing like the position players. It's a beauty, man.
You want to check?
Wins, goals against, shutouts. I mean, regardless of if... The Jets win the President's Trophy. The way the Oilers played this season, they're pretty low in the standings right now. Really, it should be a hell of a trophy.
Yeah, haircuts apparently are $50 now. Dude, they're expensive.
Nah.
Well, they kind of changed up the acronym on that now in the press release that the Department of Defense, they said discriminatory equity ideology. It's remarkable. That's incredible.
No one understands how strong Trent Williams is.
It was a bad day for the ACC. Hand up.
Louisville let me down. Will Wade, I thought he had one foot out the door already to NC State. One foot up Clemson's ass is what he had, buddy. Again, you missed that one too. But, you know, with the ACC, it's North Carolina, it's Duke. We got those two teams today. We're going to carry the conference on our back, and we're going to bounce back. Get out of here.
It's almost like they forget why he got court-martialed in the first place. He was on an Army bus. As a commissioned officer, by the way, a second lieutenant, he was told to go to the back of the bus. Right. And he got court-martialed for not doing that.
Because he went on Twitter last night.
He said that you need to separate politics from sports. And you shouldn't talk politics on sports shows. Well, that's what we're doing right now.
Yeah, Stephen A. Smith.
Literally the most important athlete in the history of sports.
I mean, remember, he did call NFL players sons of bitches for kneeling.
This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugatz Podcast.
13.
We haven't had an affiliate change in, what, 30 years?
That was the big one.
Delay a game penalty in the third period.
Teams are not used to four on three foul plays.
This road trip hasn't exactly been the best for the Panthers. And the schedule for the rest of the season, it's just.
Yeah, the grade 8.
Nah, I haven't watched a single game yet, unfortunately.
Yes, I am.
And the power play, by the way. He's going to help tremendously.
Yeah.
Wow, man. I don't like him.
What do you mean?
Yes.
Technologically, it was awful. I mean, everybody sounded bad because everybody was using their laptop microphones. But yeah, it was not a good sound. Still had to get our advertising in. Still had to do a show somehow. The fact that we got that off the ground, to me, is just a miracle. Really?
zoom the biggest winners out of all that because i'm sure everybody put money into their stock and it skyrocketed from there because nobody was using skype nobody was using teams zoom was the thing and i guess it provided the best audio out of everything so i just remembered like it was bad bad sounding microphones on a majority of these laptops and don't forget internet issues because you gotta deal with people who might have a better internet connection than others
I was on a wireless, it was fine. So it was that too. So technologically, it was a tough time for everybody to get together and have audio quality that actually sounded good.
No one knowing what a catch is.
Well, it was tough because one thing, my wife and I went through a miscarriage during that time. So it was really tough. I had to bail out on one of the shows so I can rush her to the hospital to complete the miscarriage there. Obviously, if you know our story, she was pregnant four times. The first one was Claire. Second one was no development in that miscarriage.
And then she gave birth to Aria a couple of years later, who passed away six days after she was born. So, yeah, it was it was a tough time for me and Aneed and Claire. And aside from that, from a work aspect, because we didn't have an office at that time, I set up at the dining room table. So I had all my stuff. I was the only one that really had a microphone because I bought it off of Amazon.
ESPN did not provide us with podcast mics like we do have right now. I had my little microphone arm and it's right in front of me. I'm at the dining room table. I got my toast right here, my tea. I'm looking at this Zoom screen with nine boxes.
I'm just waiting my turn, trying to make sure that we don't talk over each other, which is another thing because communication at that point on Zoom, really, really tough. You got to go through the chat box and everything. So you got to make sure your fingers up. Hey, I'm going to go here. So that was the whole communication thing. And Dan himself needed Mike for everything to work technologically.
And yeah, he didn't really know anything about it. Yeah, that time was really tough for us as a show, but then we started getting used to it.
So is Demko and Lackanen going to be sort of a Bob and Spencer Knight type of deal here if Vancouver was better than what they are this year?
Yeah, just him. Absolutely. Maybe Sanderson offensively, but yeah, definitely Slavin.
All right, one power play in this game. It was basically playoff officiating. They weren't going to call anything egregious, unless it was egregious. So that power play went to Canada. The penalty kill, that penalty kill was pretty good because Jack Eichel's play. He had his Kevin Stenland moment.
And Matthew Kachuk got hurt in the first matchup, and he gave it a go for a period and a half and couldn't do it anymore. And that is bad news for the Florida Panthers. It looks like he might be out for a little bit.
All right, we'll talk about how the Panthers did in the entire tournament. And we are going to talk to Sarah Sivian of the Civ Report and Too Many Men about the Four Nations tournament coming up next.
Sarah Sivian joins us from the Civil Report and Too Many Men. And as David's in the airport and the airport announcements continue, they were both in Boston for the Four Nations final, which turned out to be a significant event for Canada in this situation. But how is the atmosphere in the arena at TD Garden? Because it was pretty palpable for the entire week from both locations based on
the political thing, basically, that happened with the United States. So how was the atmosphere in TD Garden during the game?
That was the goal that Reimer gave up on that one.
Okay, obviously we're going to get into the four nations in a second, but apparently Rose has some sort of hot take that we actually have to get into. So go ahead.
With the politics being driven up and affecting things in both of the countries, it pretty much seems that the Johnny Goudreau memorial for the United States team got overshadowed by all this nonsense. Do you agree?
Give us a sense at how angry the Boston Bruins are at Team USA based off of the injury of Charlie McEvoy.
Yeah, you are absolutely right. And you are absolutely right. I like Ethan's idea of a best of three.
I know, you were the catalyst. You were the catalyst.
Finally, to close out our Four Nations coverage with Sarah Sivian, you're a fashionista. Why don't you give us the grades on all four of the uniforms that these teams wore?
I've kind of been saying this all week, Rosie, but it's okay.
Wow. Rose is happy. Rose is happy because of Alexander Barkov, but Sweden is classic. I mean, you got the three crowns, the accent on the sleeves to make it look like the Swedish flag. It's not an alcohol bottle. Okay. Come on.
And Swayman with the throwback rangers. Sarah Sivian, The Siv Report, and Too Many Men. Thank you for joining us, Sarah.
Four Nations final was last night. It was a spectacle. It was an epic. And, of course, it went into overtime. It was like a script was written. I was right, saying everybody take Canada as the underdog at plus one and a half. And, obviously, they went into overtime. So if you pick that one, you won money. So you're welcome. But let's start with the national anthems. Okay, O Canada was booed.
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All right, everybody, let's go over how the Panthers did in this tournament. I got some stats here, just some counting stats or whatever.
I'm talking about statistics over here, David. That's all I'm doing. I'm sorry. All right, let's go over to Finland contingent. Eetu Luserainen. Ita Luserainen with just an assist. He was a minus two. Nico Mikula, assist. He was a plus two. Anton Lundell, a goal. He was a zero. And Alexander Barkov. Jesus, I'm getting to it.
A goal and an assist and a plus one. Finland did not do well. The entire team did not do well in this tournament. But how did the Panthers do, guys?
No, we are not done. For Sweden, Gustav Forsling had zeros across the board offensively. He was basically primary defense on that one. How do you think he played?
All right. That's all you got. United States, Matthew Kachuk, two goals and assist plus three. Unfortunately, his playing time was diminished with the injury. Aside from that. I mean, it's pretty obvious.
The white zone is for loading and unloading passengers only.
It was booed from the beginning. And I'm sure it got booed louder because that rendition sucked. Absolutely was horrendous. Do you guys agree with that?
Yeah, okay. It's Canada. Sam Reinhardt, no goals, four assists. He was a plus one. Sam Bennett, a goal and no assists and a minus one. What? What'd you say?
We didn't say bye.
I'm not done. All right? Go. Go.
No, no, no, no, no, no. Go ahead, go ahead, go ahead.
The regular season starts back up again for Florida versus the Seattle Kraken at home. The Kraken, four wins in the last ten in a previous matchup. Panthers won in a shootout, 2-1, and they outshot and outhit them by a wide, wide margin. But the injuries, that's going to be significant coming into this game. And that's pretty much it. We don't really have to do anything other than that.
Bye! And Josh Mahura. We're saying goodbye now. And Josh Mahura, obviously, as well. That's it for this week. That's it for the Four Nations. We are back to regular season hockey coming up this weekend. Rose, Ethan, Dave, live from the Boston Airport, Logan Airport. My name is Roy. We'll see you next week. Okay, goodbye.
Well, this is what happens when you get international tournaments going, you know. If this was a regular season game, this probably wouldn't be an issue, but... The way the rhetoric went, I mean, obviously that happened. John Butch Gross on Twitter said, I hope Canada plays like that lady just sang for the rendition of Oh Canada. That did not happen.
Now, for the Star Spangled Banner, the Boston Pops came out there, and I got to tell you, that was fantastic. The anthem singer that sang the United States National Anthem, she knew she owned that shit, man.
Well, no, the Blackhawks do the applause. Right.
Absolutely amazing. Yeah, that was goosebumps. I'm telling you right now, I wish I had the video of the lady singing, but at the end, between Home of the and then Brave, she looked around and then gave a hit.
Yeah, she took a moment, did the head nod. Oh, yeah, I got that. That got me fired up. That got me fired up.
This is like in the WWE when The Rock comes to Miami and goes to Sunrise. And he says, finally, The Rock has come back. He stops. Everybody says to Miami a full audio, but he says home at the end because he's back home because he went to University of Miami. That's the sort of thing that happened. By the way, by the way,
If you bet the over, if you think the over hit on O Canada, oh boy, it definitely hit on the Stealth Mingo banner because that thing went, oh, it was like two minutes.
Hello, welcome to the Hockey Show. I'm Roy. Rose is in David's seat because David is in Boston. Ethan is in the EP chair. He's giving a wave. A small bit of news just happened just now. David, you have details on a signing.
I think that's a social media clip right there.
Did you say honey?
All right, going into the game now. We're going to talk about the actual game now. 55-35. The first goal for Canada, the first goal of the game, Canada did something that they really didn't do in the first matchup, which was create traffic and screen Connor Hellebuck, and that's exactly how they ended up scoring.
And Nathan McKinnon was able to skate freely and got a quick shot off, and that got past the best goalie in the world currently.
Except for Jacob Slavin, the defense for the United States was pretty awful. And they turned the puck over. And their neutral zone play wasn't exactly great either. And they left kind of hella bugged out the drive for a lot of this game, especially in front of the net. Like, dude, protect your goaltender. Clear out the crease. Like, dude, what are we doing here?
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Yeah, it came out and said, there's nothing wrong with Mark Williams. The Lakers were wrong about this. There's been independent doctors that have come in and basically cleared Mark Williams of, hey, this guy has not damaged goods. Because the other thing is, he's coming up on a contract this upcoming year.
And you look around saying, well, if the Lakers denied a trade, why do we pay him any money? What leverage do the Hornets have at all? So that post by Jeff Schwartz was like, all right, wait a second. Mark Williams is good. The Lakers just kind of had buyer's remorse.
Well, me and the boys are here in the sauna just hanging out. We got Mike. We got Mally obviously here flexing, doing his thing. We've got Ethan who's – sorry, a lot of sweat here. Ethan in a jersey for some reason inside the sauna. Just never stops wearing a hockey jersey. Yeah, a lot of jersey there for the kid.
All right, Mike, you haven't been paying attention to the NBA, but I want to tell you this, okay? SGA minus 500 to win the MVP. Really? Minus 500 to win the MVP. He's been arguably the best player on the planet. And the reason why I am going to make this a hot take is because I don't think he should win the MVP.
Shea Gillis Alexander, or Shane Gillis Alexander, as Dan likes to call him, should not win the MVP. The MVP should go to Nikola Jokic. Now, I know you're going to tell me, Mike, I know you're not watching the NBA. Obviously, he's the best player on the planet. He's the best player in the world. Of course, he should win the MVP.
The reason why, and I want to bring in Jeremy, too, to help me with this, because I know he's in on the analytics and the numbers. Jokic, when he's on the floor, a lot of sweat in this sauna.
All right, so Jokic, don't touch me, Mally. Jokic is the best player on the planet, and his offensive rating, when him and the Nuggets are on the floor together, when he's on the floor, is one of the greatest of all time, right? The best net offensive rating were the Celtics of last year. When Jokic is on the floor with the Nuggets, they are the best team offensively maybe ever, okay?
When he's off the floor, they are as good as... Here you go, Mally. Use that, buddy. But watch out. Here you go. Thank you. Okay. When Jokic is off the floor, they are basically the equivalent of the 2015-2016 Philadelphia 76ers, who were obviously the tank teams, who were terrible. So Jokic, even though he's won three out of four MVPs... Man, it's a lot of sweat. Even though it is hot.
Uh, Ethan, why don't you take off that, uh, that sweater? There you go. Ethan's gonna take it off now. Here we go. Do you think Mally... He's got another shirt underneath. Do you think Mally shaves his chest? Do you shave your chest, Mally?
Yeah, he does, he does. That's more my speed.
Oh, a little chest hair on the boy. Okay, so, with that, Nikola Jokic should win a fourth MVP in the last five years because he is literally the greatest player on the planet, and if you take him off the Nuggets... They are terrible. They are the worst team maybe in the last decade of offensive rating. Jeremy, can you back me up on these claims?
Yeah, I didn't know if it was a flush.
I didn't know if it was a dookie bomb. I don't know what happened there.
Yes. Yes. Theoretically, yes, which is why it's a hot take, right? You go full circle on, well, he's the best player in the world. Obviously, he should win the MVP, but then there's somebody who's got more. Damn it. Mally's just sweating all over the place. Mike, you want to come in here and switch plays with me so you can be next to Mally?
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How does he look in person?
No, I'm saying like statuesque? Does he look good?
It was so cute. So you say 3D printed, but what's the line between 3D printed and just like whatever we used to do that wasn't 3D printed?
No, like how would we make a little plastic figurine before 3D printed? Chat GPT.
Yuck.
It was back because Messi played in like negative 19 degrees. That wasn't MLS.
Peter didn't get the eyebrows from the family tree, the genetics.
It's great coverage. So what the hell was the game that Messi played? And if it wasn't MLS, what was it?
Oh, of course, yes.
No, it's CONCACAF. It's different from MLS Cup, which is different from another cup. League's Cup, right, which is also part of the MLS, I think.
Feels like an Atlanta United year.
What have you seen already?
He's got a big smile back there, by the way. I just kind of leaned over and looked through the window.
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It shocked me a little bit.
Well, I'm actually really loving this segment. And it sparked a side conversation continued from our conversation yesterday that Amin and I had where, OK, well, we all agree. Everyone knows something's wrong with basketball. The numbers indicate this and true leadership pushes the sport along. So what can we find consensus on? Because, yes, three is bigger than two. We get that.
Do we make the court bigger? Do we move the line back? And Amin had a very practical solution that I think you also kind of invoked a little bit here.
It also demands a lot from front offices, too. And how you build out your roster, you essentially have a division specialist because they have more mid-range three-pointers in this. I thought that was a very novel concept. What do you guys make of that?
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He's not a novice. Guys, he's actively doing this for a living on ESPN. He's doing it right now.
He's already past us.
He's not some ragtag upstart, even around these parts. He walks in, he commands a room, he's the man.
The guy that's doing it presently, actively for ESPN. I'm going Andrew Hawkins. You know where I stand. I'm going to go with Amin.
Roy brought up a good point, though. He's playing hurt. Best ones do. You know what they tell their bodies? Not today. Not today.
Well, you're hosting the debate desk, Dan. You're throwing out the football topic.
She's Italian, common misconception. My bad.
Oh, Anna, he breathed and he lets go. My name a benediction. His body pressing down on me. His elbows and his hands on either side of my face. On his lips and he finds his release. His head rests on my belly. His arms wrap around me. I just want to enjoy the quiet, serene afterglow of making love with Christian Grey because that's what we have done. Gentle, sweet lovemaking.
My subconscious remarks bitterly. In my head, I tell her where to go. Christian squirts baby oil into his hand and then rubs my behind with careful tenderness.
For a spank, he would have thought it was such a versatile liquid. Es suficiente, Papi.
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Start of the day, start of the day. It is the start of the day. Start of the day, start of the day. It is the start of the day. Start of the day, start of the day. It is the start of the day.
Start of the day, start of the day. It is the start of the day.
But this is a hockey show. We're not talking about that or One of the White Rings or Harry Potter.
See, the story about Rose becoming our producer, we covered the All-Star Game in Toronto. No, it was a Hall of Fame induction of Roberto Longo. in Toronto. That's what happened. She was our video producer and that's how she became our lead producer on this show. You know, it just happens to be that she was assigned.
Yeah, yes we did. We had fun in Toronto.
And losing stuff.
All right, yeah. Center of attention over here, Rose. How about we actually...
Can we get back to the sexy playoff talk? Oh, sexy playoff talk.
All right. Capitals and Blue Jackets last week. That's not very sexy. No. No. All right. Before we get into the playoffs, how does this happen? Dmitry Voronkov received a 10-minute misconduct with 9.42 left. So he was ineligible. He was done for the game. But apparently nobody knew. And when the officials knew when they noticed this, this is what happened. Please play the video with sound.
That's about as major of a screw-up as there is.
That was weird. Fellas, what do you think about this? Because either it's the referee's fault for not telling the team or it's the team's fault or at least the coach's fault for not noticing that there was a 10 minute misconduct on the on the on the log.
We don't have to go to Edmonton.
I do want the Kings to actually go to the Stanley Cup Final because I want to go to Los Angeles. That would be cool. That would be a great scene out there.
Yeah. Big Boston. I like it. The final boss. He's a rock now. The Stars-Avalanche matchup as we go into the Stanley Cup playoffs here, that's going to be a big one. And I think the biggest X factor here is the return of Gabriel Landeskog and Mikko Rantanen facing his old team. What do you think, Pete? Do you think I'm right?
2014.
It's the Bell Center.
You can kiss my ass. It doesn't play to my constituency. All right? That's not a show that I watch.
What are you talking about everybody's? Okay. All right.
I'm treating this Oler's King series kind of like those bad Caraco tri-star canon films of the 80s where you got bad sequels. Like this is King's Oler's Four, the Armageddon. Like they've played way too many times. Four straight years.
Police Academy 5. Oh, Jesus Christ. All right. Let's talk about Dawn of the Nurse. What are we doing here? Cross-check to the face of Quentin Byfield. And he gets one game. One game! Just happened to be the last game of the regular season. Now he's back for the first round. Should he have gotten more? He's a repeat offender. He's been suspended before. In fact...
He's been suspended three times, and two of those suspensions have been lifted. Should he have gotten more than one game?
Yeah, I watch Seinfeld.
Evander Kane has not played since game two of the Stanley Cup final, and he's listed as week to week. Do you think he's going to end up playing? Because, honestly, I don't think he's going to end up playing.
all right well shout out to aisha tyler that's all that's all i have to say uh last night was the end of the regular season for the washington capitals and alice they play the penguins all right let's just get that out of the way all right it's not it's not like we've seen the capitals and penguins on national tv enough over the past 20 years but anyway that's how the end of the season alexander veskin ended the season with his 897th goal of his career so uh
We have Marchand now. You guys are on a full rebuild now, aren't you?
That's where we're at right now. What the events can watch now is officially playoff time, so those goals do not count towards the first.
I've been to three of them.
I didn't say a word.
You honestly think he's going to play for the next two years?
I mean, look at it this way. At least there will be a one-day contract for Brad Monchon one of these days so he can retire. I mean, that's pretty inevitable, right? I mean, I wouldn't rule out him coming back in the offseason.
Yeah, we'll see. All right, DJ Pete, you can find him on What Chaos. All right, real quick, let's go over the series ourselves. Let's do predictions here. Panthers Lightning. All right, Dave, what you got?
All right, Rosie.
All right. I got Florida in six, even though it's going to end up being a seven because we have to go to Tampa and we have to celebrate. They'll win at Burns Steakhouse. I swear to goodness, I want to go to Burns to have a steak. I love that plan. It's delicious.
So if all else fails, it will be Florida in seven. But I'm going with Florida in six.
That would be a Saturday at home.
All right. For Rose, for Ethan, for Dave, for Jason, for Mike, for myself. Thank you for joining us this week on The Hockey Show. Thank our guests. Oh, yeah. By the way, DJ Bean, Pete Blackburn, we appreciate you. We love you, boys. You can find that on YouTube every single week and DraftKings Network. Thank you for joining us this week. Okay, goodbye. English.
Yeah. Real quick, what did you want to talk about the Wild for?
I wouldn't be surprised if his post-playing career is in line with Roberto Larongo. Maybe he'll be a high-ranking front office employee somewhere.
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Yeah, the Tigers, yeah.
All right, my winner of the week this year, this week, is real deserving for this guy, Gabriel Landeskog. He suffered a horrific injury in 2020 when a skate sliced him just above his knee. And he's had multiple surgeries. And now... It's time to get back in the game now. It's his first game in three years.
His first game in three years when he accepted a conditioning assignment with the Colorado Eagles. Following the game, his teammates celebrated him in the locker room. Take a listen.
Landis Gogg's next game with the Eagles, he would end up scoring a goal, so it's like he almost never left. So he is now called up by the Avalanche to play in the playoffs, and he will start with the big club against the Dallas Stars this weekend.
Yeah, so am I. Good for him. And I'm very happy for him to be back in the fold. That's going to be an interesting matchup. And we're going to talk to Pete Blackburn and DJ Bean of What Chaos about the playoff matchup. Stars Avalanche is going to be a good one. It is.
This isn't on the show. No, that's just Jason. That's Jason's way of telling everybody to shut the fuck up. Sorry. It is playoff time, ladies and gentlemen. Stanley Cup playoffs starts this weekend. This is the Hockey Show. My name is Roy Bellamy. That's David Dwork, Hockey News. Rosie and Ethan in the other studio. Playoffs! Playoffs are here. Yes! Here are the matchups.
Yes, yes. That's the other thing I wanted to talk to him. Those are X-Factors right there. The comeback of Landis Gogg and Mikko Rantanen playing his old team. And we'll talk to them about that. Rose, your win.
Yeah, that's why I went to you.
Are they going to play hockey in Toy Story 5?
No.
I have two questions. Why not wear a watch that's the accessory that goes with the phone that day? can measure those analytics. And where do you keep the phone? Right. I don't have pockets in my gear. There's no pockets there. Do you keep it in your pads? Do you keep it under your helmet? No. In the sleeve? In the locker room. Elbow pad?
You keep it in the locker room. What you keep it is the water. You keep the water bottles behind the bench. That's where you keep it. They got iPads now. You don't need it in the bench.
Sits on it.
Yeah, just leave it in the locker room. Dave's right, though. I mean, they're keeping analytics on, you know, body...
It doesn't make any sense to me.
My Failure of the Week is an NHL first for the first time in league history. We will not see the New York Rangers, Boston Bruins, or Pittsburgh Penguins in the playoffs. Wow.
It's a fail for the Penguins especially. But, yeah, I have to laugh at that. And also, for the final time, this is – God damn it. For the final time this season, I will continue the streak of me shitting on the New York Islanders because they sound racist. Because on Saturday, they lost 4-3 to the Philadelphia Flyers of all teams. Nice.
The sorry-ass Islanders were eliminated from playoff contention. And maybe they will rectify in the offseason what they did this season by, again, pulling this idiot off the scrap heap for his fifth or sixth chance in this league. Maybe they will rectify it. But for right now, ha-ha, he-he, ha-ha-ha, ha-ho, ha-ho. Rose.
All right.
Toronto, Ottawa, Tampa, Florida, Washington, Montreal, Carolina, New Jersey, in the West, Winnipeg, St. Louis, Dallas, Colorado, Vegas, Minnesota, and... Los Angeles and Edmonton.
I disagree. I firmly disagree.
All right. For those who are watching on DraftKings Network, you can find our interview with the host of What Chaos, the hosts of What Chaos, Pete Blackburn and David... Bean. That's David J. Bean. We call him DJ. So you can watch that. And the rest of the show, we're going to go over the Tampa Bay Lightning-Florida Panthers playoff matchup here in the first round.
And the fact that the people that are predicting that the Lightning are going to win this series is really making me angry. Really, really making me angry. I mean, somebody's bound to pitch against the Panthers. Yeah, I guess. Whatever. But I'm biased. What can I tell you? Play the sound! There you go. Pete Blackburn and DJ Bean coming up next.
Los Angeles and Edmonton. What year is it? Four.
As we mentioned earlier, we have these Stanley Cup playoffs happening, right? We know that.
Yeah, it is.
It's a quiet storm. That's what it is. Yeah, right? We have Pete Blackburn and DJ Bean from What Chaos is a spectacular hockey show that they do basically every single day. I can't do a daily show about hockey with Rose. I can't do it. But David Dwork was on the show last week and DJ had mentioned that his favorite person on our show is not me. It's not Dave, and his show is fucked.
I didn't even get mentioned, so I noticed that. No, his favorite person on the show is Rose. Why is that, DJ?
He's wearing a mask, right, so he can feel out the offers but not actually see them, right? The offers are written in Braille. He's playing Don't Look Now. Right.
I mean, not that we can look, but if you weren't to look, yeah, it's like, hey, don't look now, Steelers, but I'm still kind of interested. Eventually, you'll figure out once you're in training camp that you have nothing. I can come in here and take the job really easily. But don't look now.
Wow. Wait, how are you reading this? Wow.
We're using legend a little loose, right? Like, a saint's legend? Is that like saying Jonathan Zaslow is a South Florida media legend? I mean, he kind of is. Who?
Well, I mean, look, I guess you have to be a legend to just come on this show and just beg for tickets for two days. Like, I didn't think Dan allowed that, but apparently if you're a legend, you allow that.
I thought that was part of the perks.
What am I doing here, you know? Jake, I think most people know what Sunday is. It's not just Easter. It's 420. But tomorrow is Bicycle Day, which I didn't know about. It's the celebration of the first psychedelic trip on LSD by Dr. Albert Hoffman in 1943 in tandem with his bicycle ride home, which I do not recommend, from Sandoz Labs.
Which day means more in the Plummer household, 420 or Bicycle Day?
I had to walk to the front. No, Roy, that's not true. Stop. That is very much true. Did you put the mask back on? No. People wouldn't actually see your face? No. No.
What kind of response did you get?
That's like finding
Jake, do you listen to Aaron Rodgers and just sometimes laugh? Because I do. Yeah.
I would laugh with you there, but just at that moment, Chris was talking to me.
No. Did anybody ask you any questions or was it just understood? Oh, you know what?
I guarantee you the dog was saying, can I have some apples?
She thinks that that's what you do. She's like, I knew you worked in sports, but I didn't know it was this literal.
Now imagine, Jake, imagine you're on some umbo mushrooms and you're just like having a great trip and in your head, every language available. Like that would be wild. You talking to yourself in just every language available.
He could have been dressed as a dragon. What happened was they brought in this seven-foot English guy, and he told me I had to wear this costume, and here I am.
A mean big thing is he wants to walk into a bar and order a drink in any language. And that, to me, not as fun as being able to now have a hawk go fishing for me.
Now imagine you can get an army of dogs to attack him just on command.
If you're ever down 20 to 14, you want Jake Plummer on your team. I'm sorry, Jason Plummer on your team. Jason Plummer.
I think Foot Foot's saying, Dan, it's not 420 quite yet. Why was he wearing sunglasses?
We got you, buddy. Thank you. Peace. I saw a meme that said, shout out to the people who tried all the plants and died just to see which ones would be good for us to trip on.
This 11th one, though, wow. Amazing.
What a terrible choice, wanting to talk to animals.
Here's the thing. I'm pretty sure, take me back in time, go to the future after I've already talked to animals, I'm pretty sure I can tell you before I learn to talk to them what they're already saying, man.
I think there's some depth there.
No, they roll in it. It's different.
And you're like, what the hell are you talking about? Be honest with yourself. And maybe this room is not the... What does that mean? Be honest with yourself. If you are... When are you more curious? When you're sitting there thinking, man, I wonder what my dog thinks when I leave the house, or I wonder what this nail tech is saying about me before she starts cracking up.
I want to know what she's saying.
That's why I said this room is probably not the best room. I knew exactly what the reference was. Although Roy's hands always look manicured.
Mm-hmm. I don't like people messing around down there. Really? Hey, now. Not on my feet. There's just a lot of, like... Not a place you're going to. It's just, you know... I once kicked my aunt in the nose because she accidentally messed with my foot and I didn't know what was happening.
I got her right in the nose and it's just like, I don't know what's going to happen when you mess around down there. Get in there.
We don't have to put it up, but when you compare, it's like, hey, Greg Cody, not that bad.
It doesn't look like a pinky toe as much as it looks like a wart.
This is like a boomerang thing where you're like a pull up the covers and see your feet and be like, ah, this one's a keeper.
We're saving that for Jake, right? We can save it for him if you'd like. Cool, yeah. Jake the Snake. Wow, he's a plumber, right? Jake Plummer, but his nickname is also a tool that you use as a plumber.
Really? Yeah.
Yes, it's just like... Lazy. It's just stolen from a wrestler.
Or the wrestler stole it from perhaps a porn actor. Like Jake the Snake, you don't think that's a good porn name? That would be a good porn name. It's the reference. The snake being a wiener.
Oh, I don't know, an elephant plumber.
So many random lines from my life. You know what just came out? It's great. And it came in as a 100%, I think, audience score. Rotten Tomatoes just never happened. It's the Seth Rogen show on Apple TV. It's a studio, right?
Can I tell you why I have a hard time with it? Oh, please. It's just when I watch it. Like, you can't watch that show, spoiler alert, I guess, if you're trying to wind down.
because it's very, like, it's that show that puts you in the center of awkward situations, and you feel like you're in the middle of it because of the way it's shot, and, here's the kicker, there's like jazz music happening the whole time, and it's like jazz music, so it's very random, so whatever is happening, that's what it adjusts to, and I'm just like, man, this gets my heart going, like I feel awkward, and I just, I need to turn this off, I need to go like an hour before I can go to sleep after watching that.
Yeah. Yeah, I can see that. I also see that like a little bit to more of my point of just like they want to they want to relax when they watch something. Right. And this is one of those like they had a scene that I will remember forever.
And it's probably my guess is probably their best scene is when he is backstage in a movie with this woman director and they're trying to get a scene right before. before the sun goes down. Because of the light, the sun is setting and so they, it's one shot to do this.
And for reasons that he is not entirely, they're not entirely Seth Rogen's fault and some where it is his fault, he just keeps screwing up the scene and it's just so like, it's just so awkward and cringe worthy and it's just like, I had to stand up. Like I stood up from my couch, I was like, what's gonna happen now? Will they get the shot?
This Monday, bad Monday. Because all Mondays stink, all Fridays are good. That's what I'm doing. That's the game I'm playing.
When I see Izzy holding that helmet, I think of, we're in 3025. Izzy's the first person to surf on Mars. Nice. And he's joining us today to tell us about it. We finally were on Mars. We have, you know, there's a- Quicksilver's still a thing. Yeah, like- It's making a comeback.
No, is that- The waves were gnarly.
Izzy, can you hear me? Izzy, Earth to Izzy. He can't hear you, I don't think.
I can't believe they have a bathroom for elephants at the zoo. They do.
They're all... Handicaps dolls.
They have the biggest sinks you've ever seen. And they have the thing, and they have the waving thing where you put, and you should see them with their, what are they, hooves? What's the elephant foot called? Feet. The elephant foot trying to wave to get the thing going. It's a sight to behold.
Tonight's the tournament for who doesn't want Cooper Flagg.
Jeremy, if they lose tonight and then end up winning the lottery, will you take the L? I don't.
One of their biggest mistakes ever was just because he went to Duke. I want to play a game. I want Jeremy to tell me the percentage chance that the Heat have of winning the title. As of right now, where we sit right now.
I would argue it's about the same amount chance as getting Cooper flagged. Yeah, and remember when we had this conversation. Less, right?
No, the lottery decides every pick of that top.
That's actually true.
Tony said that, too. I followed him.
Which they probably should have, by the way. But they didn't do it. They had like a 10-game losing streak.
I'm watching a couple of Marlins games, and they're like, this team fights. They might not be talented, but it's just what you say about bad teams. They're going to lose 97 games. That's not what I'm saying about this team right now. That's what I said about that team.
They might not win, but they put their damnedest. Why did Eric Reid jump into this chat? Is that Bob Dylan? They tried hard. My point is they're bad.
So they have like a five times more likely chance to get Cooper flagged than win it all.
Speaking of 420, Stu Pickles, that dude did drugs. The dad?
He was like a scientist, right? He was always working on something in the garage. No, he was just smoking weed. He had purple hair. Yeah, he had purple hair. He was always frantic.
Yeah, he's the star of the show. Yeah, he really is. I don't like the hard ER there. Ginger. Ginger, yeah. But...
One of my first crushes was Angelica Pickle's mom. Charlotte Pickles.
Yeah, like, oh, I guess VeggieTales. Oh, come on, this is not her. Come on, we can do better than this. Get the full picture here. Come on, guys. We're talking about a body? What do you mean full picture?
Oh, wow. Now we're talking. How old were you, Chris? I was like seven. You should have said I was 27 years old. I was like, me like you. Me like Dan, 35 years old. God. Good Lord. More Rugrats, please, Mom. That was the mom? Look at her, very fit on a treadmill.
She's Maxie.
Don Levitard. Sugar daddies. These things, I'm telling you. I love sugar daddies. They get stuck in your teeth. You can't chew them. They're impossible to chew.
Like Gerald King. You're a hero, man. We appreciate everything you did.
Oh, there it is. Oh, there we go. Nice. Did he really do it?
Oh, okay.
I just, yes, I did. Leader of the mind.
It's going to be a big rabbit. It's going to be amazing. Every Friday is good Friday to me.
Welcome to this week's hockey show. My name is Roy Bellamy. David Dwork of the Hockey News is over here. And for some strange reasons, Rose is in the studio. I don't know why you're here. Hi, Rose.
Okay, it's time for our monthly check-in with Adnan Burke of Prime. Monday Night Hockey. Adnan, where were you last week and where are you going this week?
Well, it seems like the Panthers are keeping pace with Toronto's poor play right now. But before we get into the Panthers, I want to get into the Penguins, who have officially waived Tristan Jari. He's getting demoted, and they're going to bring up the goaltender from the Miners. What's going on with the goaltending situation in Pittsburgh?
Welcome to this side of the camera.
I don't know, Dave. I don't think Pittsburgh's the bubble team. And it makes me very much happy saying that.
It does. It does. Absolutely. I mean, come on. Your go-to and bias is just all over the studio right now.
So more Rose content includes you being in the same studio as us?
So it's a slippery slope.
Okay, so we have slap shots. I don't know if you have any. Do you have any hot takes? Do you have any wins in a week? Do you have any fails in a week?
I think we as a collective hockey community are cheering for the Columbus Blue Jackets for obvious reasons. But we did not see them doing this well. I mean, they won six in a row. They won eight games out of the last ten. I got them as the dark horse out of the East, ousting Boston. You don't see the Canadiens making the playoffs. Do you see the Red Wings possibly making the playoffs?
Who's going to get that last spot in the East?
How old are you? I was probably like seven. Good God. Eight years old. He's a kid. And he made us walk out of Wolf of Wall Street. I can see that. Too much sex and drugs and rock and roll.
Oh, my God. Sorry. All right. We are going to console Rose right now. You can find Ann Ann on Prime Monday Night Hockey if you are in Canada. If you're in the United States, I don't know. Ann Ann Burke.
There you go. Ann Ann Burke. Thank you for joining us.
Yeah, we'll talk to you then. We'll talk to you when Four Nations is.
Oh, yeah. There we go. Oscar preview. Coming up next month. Thanks, guys.
This is going up, so you better start. Let's start with Saturday's game against the Boston Bruins. That was on national television, and it was a fun one to watch until the very end. So they ended regulation with that Sam Reinhardt goal with one second left, and then they ended overtime with that. Going out, went off at Sam Reinhardt.
That was credited to David Pasternak with, what, three seconds left.
It's been a week of poor officiating as well because in that game, you saw A.J. Greer basically have to fight off four Bruins. And somehow the Bruins end up with a power play in that sequence. Which was just ridiculous. It's been a bad week of officiating against the Panthers. It's not the only time that happened.
That's too bad.
So Saturday, they lost to the Bruins 4-3 in overtime. They lose to the Flyers 4-3 in regulation. They had a two-goal lead. Yeah.
We're not done. Officer Rose on the case. Back-to-back games for Sam Reinhardt with two goals. Yeah, he's been the one scoring so far, but he did not score in the game versus New Jersey where Panthers won in the shootout. That was a stellar game by Spencer Knight in that one.
Yeah, we got to save these dogs, man. We got to get Benny's buddies over here back in the cold.
Yeah. Spencer Knight in the game versus New Jersey. What are you doing? Come on, what are you doing? I'm over here.
Spencer Knight stopped 26 to 27 shots in all seven of the doubles' high danger chances, so the Panthers' defense was very good in that game as well. The Panthers, on the other hand, offensively, only had two high danger chances going into the third. So the Devils defense was pretty good going into the third period.
Up until the very first high-danger chance of the third period, which was Carter Verhage's fantastic pass to Jesper Brovkrist.
Yeah. Thursday versus Detroit. That was one to forget. Bob got pulled. Yeah, Bob got pulled. I mean, that wasn't even his fault. You don't give up three power play goals to the number two power play in the league and expect to win.
And the Red Wings are 8-2-0 since Todd McClellan took over.
Yeah, and I don't believe any of these games had Aaron Ekblad in it at all.
Yeah, that's really affecting the power play as well. This is the first meeting of the season for the Ducks and the Panthers, and the Ducks are 4-2 in the last 10. Everybody seems to be playing well right now, except the Panthers. Except for the Panthers.
Keeping pace with the Maple Leafs. Yeah. So that's the situation with the Panthers. Thank you for basically distracting all of us in the studio.
Thank you for that information as well.
My name is Roy Bellamy. That's David Dwork. I'm Rose. Ethan, Rose, bye.
Yeah, I guess the same could be said about Cole Caulfield in Montreal, talking about best friends and everything.
Yeah, the number change kind of changed everything for him in that situation. My hot take is from the Devils-Panthers game earlier this week. The hit by Matthew Kachuk on Nico Heischer was clean. I don't care what anybody else says.
It apparently is because I've been fighting with everybody.
I had to explain the rules here when it comes to checking. In this situation, and we're showing this on video as a loop here. First, that's not interference. That was the call on the ice. It was interference. Nico, he should touch the puck before Matthew Kachuk hit him, right? Matthew Kachuk hit him up high, but it was in the chest. It was not in the head. Nope.
And, of course, they're all saying that he left his feet. No, he left his feet. After contact. That's the major contention that everybody seems to be having. That's not charging. That, of course, by the way, was not the call on the ice. It was not charging.
There's zero reason why the devil should have been on a power play in that situation considering that jump. That's the other thing. No, he was in a headlock. Yeah. You're going to call roughing on him for that?
But call it interference though, which is obviously not what happened because he sure touched the puck there. That is terrible officiating. You just made up a penalty. No me gusta, Rose. No me gusta. It's not good.
They already have karaoke battles. That's every single band at the NHL books for these things.
You could just ask me the question.
Yeah. Yeah, that's great, man. Again, go to Nebias. But this one is a good one. Dude.
I'm sorry. I apologize. My win of the week. Now, as I said before... Please be a goalie. No, it is not a goaltender. It is actually Alexander Ovechkin. Now, as I said before, humans love dogs more than they love people. And with good reason, because people are stupid. No. What do you mean no? People suck. People suck. People suck. People absolutely suck. You don't suck.
Yeah, you're good. You're a person. You are a good person. But people as a whole... The bad, bad, bad.
Deceived, okay.
So Ovechkin and dogs? Yeah, Ovechkin and dogs. Apparently, him going to the Capital One Arena earlier this week, he met up with a couple of dogs by the name of Maxine, otherwise known as Mad Max, who was put on his back in a backpack. Aww. And another dog by the name of Hammy, who he was on a leash and he walked. Now, this is just wholesome content here that you can see on video.
So Alexander Ovechkin, he's walking his dog. He's giving it a treat. And the dog on his back, Max, is wearing sunglasses.
Yeah, I mean, it's embroidered.
Dogs definitely don't shit everywhere.
No. No, it's not like a friend of mine took her dog to the office and it shit in the office and she had to pick up the shit. I mean, that didn't happen.
Does he have to be shit on before every game? It would be the shit trick. That's what that would be.
You realize you play teams, right? So you want to be the Panthers?
The situation on that empty net goal that was awarded because it wasn't a shot on goal, it was a breakaway, and it was a penalty. There was no goaltender in the crease to stop it, so they awarded the goal aside from a penalty shot because there was no goaltender in the crease. I like it. Yeah, that's the rule. That's what happens in this situation. Protecting goalies.
It makes me think about the Panthers-Islanders playoff series. I don't think that it was a breakaway that Vincent Trochek had. No. But he was stripped.
Sorry to bring up that bad memory. It's my fail of the week. And this is a story that is delivered by, quote unquote, the second best goaltender of all time, Martin Brodeur.
Oh my God. I mean, it is debatable. That was from the Cam and Strick podcast. It is legitimately debatable. It's 1-2 in this situation. It might be 1-A, 1-B.
Well, here's the situation on that, though. I mean, the counting stats, you give it to Monta and Brodeur, but when it comes to head-to-head, and they've only played each other in the playoffs seven times because that was the Stanley Cup playoff. The Stanley Cup final, I should say. That goes to Patrick Waugh. And that one, I think that was his fourth Stanley Cup. And that one put him over.
That was also the Ray Bork year, I believe. Yeah. The 2000 year. Yep. So, yeah, that one I think goes to Ra on that one, Ethan.
Was he trying to avoid... I don't know what he was doing.
exaggerated slip on the banana peel situation there. That's just not making any sense. Not going to fall for the banana in the tailpipe. You take these bananas. Coming up next, we have Adnan Virk from Prime Monday Night Hockey. We got our monthly check-in with him coming up next.
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Alright, I'm not gonna confirm or deny where I was when I sent that tweet. You don't have to confirm. I know exactly where you were. I know exactly where you were. No, but I'm saying if I was sitting on the toilet at the time of composure of the tweet. But who cares? Listen, there's nothing wrong with it. I just thought it was funny. Do any of you not sit on the toilet, tweet, send text messages?
Of course.
Ja, das war es. Ich werde es aufmerksam machen. War es lebendig?
Ich weiß nicht, ob es lebendig war, aber jeder andere Toilette, den ich jemals gesessen habe, ist in der Vergleichbarkeit. Es war ein schönes Gefühl. Ein schönes Gefühl. Und ich hätte die gleiche Reaktion wie du vor einer Woche gehabt. Aber jetzt, dass ich es erlebt habe, ist es schön. Es ist das Wasser, das rauskommt und... Ich habe das nicht gemacht. Nein, nein, nein.
You may have noticed actually. Rose macht diese jedes Wochenende für uns. Wir freuen uns auf die Arbeit und alles. Aber wir haben sie viele Male gefragt. Was ist die Nummer eins?
Go ahead, David.
Das wäre fast... Wäre es nicht sieben Jahre her?
So you're saying he's not handsome now, he was only handsome six years ago.
That's because he was seven years old.
All right, so Ethan can relax. We're going to start talking about the playoffs now. 22 minutes into the show. God damn it, Ethan. I got you. All right, Adnan, let's talk playoffs. Let's talk your home country. Are you happy now? Let's talk the Maple Leaf. Not dissimilar to the Edmonton Oilers, who went down 2-0 to start the playoffs, and I don't think they've lost since. I don't feel like it.
Toronto went up 2-0 in their series against the Panthers. This is their year. It's gonna happen. Look at what's going on. The core four is alive. The goaltending looks good. They look dead to me. And now here we are a week later. Are you surprised by what's happened to the Maple Leafs? Are you more surprised that they had the good start to the series they did?
And do they have any chance, any chance to come back in the Panthers? I'm just chuckling away, Dave.
Ich fühle mich so gut nach gestern Abend.
Yeah, we'll try to get him on. We'll try to get them on. We do have some love for the former Panthers.
Let's go, Panthers. Let's go, Panthers. There you go. Love you, Adnan. Love you too, Stitch.
Ich liebe die Bildung. Du kannst es nächste Woche ein bisschen besser machen.
Ich werde es nächste Woche besser machen. Weiter. Was ist nächstes auf der Platte?
Ich denke, das ist die Moral der Geschichte. Weißt du dich selbst auf Social Media. Du oder ich, wir könnten wahrscheinlich dumm mit Leuten reden, und wir werden nicht so viel von Ding reden.
Aber wenn du der Zweite in Kommande bist, von einem professionellen Sportteam, einer, der gerade die Champions ihrer Liga ist, vielleicht, und ich bin mir sicher, dass er das erkennt, ich bin mir sicher, dass er ein paar Tage nach seinem Post und seinem Account deaktiviert wurde, und er später von der NHL ausgeschlossen wurde. Ich bin mir sicher, dass er die Lippen ein wenig ausgibt.
What was he doing? Ethan wants to talk hockey. What was he doing?
Those guys put in the hours. Yes, they do. I don't know if people realize the equipment managers, they're the first ones there, they're the last ones to leave. They'll go in the middle of the night if they have to. The hours that they have to put in on the road are insane. Those guys put in the hours.
So we're gonna have post-game rows, yes?
We can say this on the show today, anybody watching before the Panthers game, there will be, for the first time this post-season, we will have hockey show post-game.
Unless she gets caught in traffic and forgets her stuff. Or if Rose loses the camera.
And if we happen to be very dark, she has lost the light for the camera before. But we'll all be there. If we gotta post it on our cellphones. That's not true. We all won't be there.
Weißt du, wie es in der 300er-Level-Arcade war? All die Arcade-Spiele sind in der Arena. Die sind auf der Stand-In-Room-Session. Das ist wahr. Ich habe sie gesehen. Da, wo das Organ ist. Wenn du etwas Spaßes machen möchtest, wenn die Panthers nichts machen, gibt es die. Hast du den Mitch-Marner-Schiff gesehen?
Das war verrückt. Aber er war auf der blauen Linie.
Every player has their own particular needs. You know, you're an athlete. Everybody's got to put their seats on a certain way. I want my laces, I need certain color tape. The equipment guys know everybody's intricacies. They know everything about everybody. I just want to give them some props.
Das war verrückt. Das war verrückt.
Ist das, was ich gehört habe? Ich bin heute schwarz.
Roy said we're going to the... I think Roy and Ethan both said we're going to the Leafs' funeral tonight, apparently.
Mein einziger Gedanke hier, Roy. Wir sind in ein paar Lockerräumen gewesen. Wir sind in ein paar Equipment-Räumen gewesen. Wir haben hinter den Szenen gesehen. Sie haben Klosters voll mit Gier. Ja. Scheißpile. Können wir sie einfach in neue Glöckchen holen? Nein, weil du musst sie holen. Ich meine, diese Glöckchen werden geworfen. Can't they wear in like three or four sets at a time?
Mein Winner der Woche ist der ehemalige Panthers-Defensivier Keith Yandel. Er ist immer ein Charakter, immer ein lustiger Typ. Wenn er auf dem Team war, war er in der Runde mit Frank Vetrano. Das ist immer, wo ich hingehen würde, weil das immer das Lustige ist, all die besten Quoten. Yandel hat sich nicht müde gemacht, dass er ein Panthers-Fan ist, während seiner Stanley Cup-Runde.
Er ist auf dem Podcast, dem Spit-and-Chicklets-Podcast, mit Paul Bissonette, der sich nicht müde macht, dass... Er hat den Leafs-Flag gewählt. Er geht auf TNT mit einem Leafs-Blazer und einem Pocket Square. Also sehr klar der Leafs-Guy.
Nein, nein, wir haben das letztes Jahr auf dem Eis gelernt, haben wir nicht? Ja, und Ryan Whitney, der in der Panthers-Lockerung für dich war. Wie haben die da reingegangen? So, Biz, being the pro-Leafs guy that he is, Yandel decided he was going to give it back to him a little bit. So before Game 5 in Toronto, Biz thought he was going to be the lucky guy.
He's going to go to his hometown and bring good luck to the Leafs. So Yandel went to the restaurant Houston's. Why is that important to Biz? Well, those of you paying attention over the summer know that's where Biz got... Er ist gesprungen? Er ist gesprungen. Er hat das richtige Ding gemacht. Er hat das Restaurant verteidigt. Aber das ist, wo BizDot gesprungen ist.
Von einigen trinken irischenen Jungs. Oder einigen Hooligans oder was auch immer. Also hat Yandel entschieden, nach Houston zu gehen, um die Panthers zu sehen. Und wir wissen, was da passiert ist. Aber Yandel hat das Video auf Social Media gepostet. Und ich habe es wirklich gefallen.
He was a fun guy when he was on the team and now he's so pro-Panthers. I love it. Jens, we love you, buddy. This is the last year of his buyout. This is it for Keith Yandel. I don't think he's going to stop being a Panther fan because he stopped getting paid by them.
Für all die Fans, die so lange geblieben sind.
War das vor zwei Nächten?
Ich habe schon fünf Rose-Shirts bestellt, also habe ich mich schon verletzt. Da hast du es. Leute lieben mich, was kann ich tun?
Die Shutdown City in weiß.
Das passiert nur eine Woche lang. Schaut euch das an. Und danke Rose, die diese tollen Shirts ausgestattet hat. Das ist alles du. Ja. Sehr willkommen. Auf geht's, Rosie. Fails of the week. David, bitte. Ich gehe zurück nach Toronto für meine Fails of the week. Es gab viele Fails in Toronto. Am Dienstagabend, ihr wisst, ich bin für Game 5 gekommen. Oh Mann.
Das ist der größte Spiel in der Geschichte des Teams. Ihr fühlt euch schlecht daran? Ich fühle mich schlecht.
That's good. When you combine the voice with the faces you're making, it kind of brings a little bit more beauty.
Für die Toronto-Fans. Ich fühle mich schlecht. Als ein Miami Dolphins-Fan, der mein ganzes Leben verletzt hat. Dieser Schiff von Mitch Marner.
Und sie machen alles, was sie können. Es wäre nicht so schlimm gewesen, wenn sie 2-1 oder 3-1 verloren hätten, wenn es ein hartes Spiel wäre. Aber für all das Build-Up und für das Geld, das die Leute in das Gebäude gespart haben, und wie verpackt es war, ein Gebäude, das vielleicht nicht die am liebsten faszinierendsten Fans ist, weil es so viel kostet, und die Kooperatoren und alles, das B.S.
unten. Nein, das Gebäude war rockig. Es war vier Nationen wert. Und es ging von hier bis hier, in einem Moment.
Ja, es war einfach nicht gut. Und ich fühle mich für die Toronto-Fans. Ich will nicht, dass ihr die Verdächtigkeit habt, weil ich die Panthers gewinnen will, aber ich fühle mich für euch, weil das war... Eigentlich geht mein Fehler mit dir zusammen.
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Ich wollte nicht dorthin gehen, aber ich finde, wir reden jedes Jahr über Baseball. Es ist subjektiv. Wenn du über die Grätschen gegen Spieler sprichst, wenn es um die Medien geht, dann ist das der Sport, der das schlechteste hat.
Wie kommen wir dazu, über den Fußball zu sprechen?
Wer fängt an? Definitiv Chara und Price. Definitiv Chara und Price. Ich würde sagen, definitiv Chara.
Ja. Er hat nicht gewonnen. Ich glaube definitiv Chara. Ich glaube definitiv Chara.
Do you think the fact that he's back in the spotlight because of his kids?
Yeah, so hopefully Walt gets in there. Coming up next, we got Doug Plagans from the Florida Panthers Radio Network. We're going to talk about the week that was. Coming up next.
Okay, joining us now is Doug Plagans of the Florida Panthers Radio Network. He does play-by-play and we've seen the Panthers take back-to-back losses from the New Jersey Devils after having a seven-game winning streak. Yeah, that was pretty deflating what happened this week against New Jersey.
Yes, the first time the Panthers have lost back-to-back games since the second and third games of the season was into the Senators and Sabres. Doug, what happened?
Ja, wir haben das schon oft gesehen. Kleine Hits, die zu Kämpfen führen. Ich glaube, basierend darauf, wer getroffen wird. Es ist Hockey!
The Panthers are now going to play back-to-back games against the Winnipeg Jets. And you can hear Doug Plagans give the blow-by-blow on both of those games. Dougie, thank you for joining us. Thanks so much.
Okay, we talked about the week that was with Doug Plagans. Let's talk about what's coming up with the Florida Panthers. They have a home-and-home against the Winnipeg Jets. I hate the Jets. Oh, wait. Not those Jets. That's a different sport. The best team in the league currently. And they got the Vezina winner in Connor Hellebuck. What do you see happening with this home-and-home?
Hoffentlich ist es ein guter Hockey.
I mean, there's an unwritten rule, and I'm not saying that East Mountain is at that caliber, but you're not supposed to touch certain players on the team. He's not a certain... Are you kidding me? No, he's not a rookie.
No AI. No, no, no, no, no, no. Sam Bennett missed the first game against the Devils. He came back Für das zweite Spiel sah er nicht gut aus. Er könnte immer noch verletzt werden.
You knocked yourself into the microphone already. I'm a mess today. What is going on here?
Sorry, Ethan, but just to say that we've already seen how this team looks without Sam Bennett. We saw that last season, we saw that during the playoffs, and we've seen it here. And a fully healthy Sam Bennett would absolutely change the dynamic of this team, especially considering that this second line, the chemistry between him and Matthew Kachuk,
It's hockey. Lady Bing over here. This guy. My hot take is, this is... One of the most dangerous things you can do to yourself in the National Hockey League, in the sport of hockey itself, and that's playing without your equipment. And in this situation, Anthony Storlars was in the crease and he froze the puck by taking off his blocker. Ich wusste nicht, dass das legal war.
Und Jesper hat gespielt.
He's been plug and play.
Bevor wir hier rausgehen, eine Statik von Matt Locke aus meinem Timeline. Die Anaheo-Average-Save-Percentage ist 90% gestiegen. Das ist der niedrigste Punkt in 29 Jahren. Und momentan ist Sergej Bobrovskis Erhaltungspersönlichkeit bei 89%. Und Spencer Knight ist bei 90%. Was sehen wir hier? Was ist mit den Goaltenders?
Coming up next week we have Linda Cohn of the Kraken Hockey Network. She's up in Seattle now doing, I guess what, anchor work right now. ESPN also. And she's still at ESPN as well. So Linda Cohn will join us next week. Until then, goodbye.
Ich dachte, das wäre ein illegales Spiel für dich, um den Puck mit deiner Hand zu holen. Er ist ein Goaltender.
Ja, das Rücken ist weit offen, um sich zu schlagen. Du kannst einen Finger verlieren. Was ist mit uns falsch? Wir. Ich war kein Goaltender. Wir als Goaltender.
Hast du einen Hot-Take, Ethan?
Oh, come on, man.
I'm going to treat you like Kenny Smith.
Mein Winner der Woche ist etwas, das die Liga tatsächlich ausüben will. Wir haben es vorhin schon erwähnt und das ist das Kämpfen. Aber dieses ist nicht aufgrund eines Hits, oder zumindest glaube ich nicht, dass es aufgrund eines Hits basiert, sondern es waren ein paar Kämpfe zwischen den Panthers und den Devils. Es war Jonah Gajewicz am Vordergrund von beiden von ihnen am Dienstag.
Das ist der große. Das ist der, der uns zurückbringt. Oh mein Gott. Keine Vision.
Ja, das ist, was ESPN gesagt hat. Sie haben die Punches getabletzt und das war der Knockout-Blow an Brendan Dillon. Bucci liebte es. Er liebte es absolut. Am Donnerstag hat Jonah Gajewicz gegen Curtis McDermott gespielt. Und es war im Grunde die gleiche Sache. Das sind große Männer. Ja, ich meine, das sind große Männer.
Das waren zwei schwergewichtige Kämpfe, die auf dem Donnerstag gespielt wurden. Das ist so gut. Das ist so gut. Wenn es 10 Sekunden dauert.
So good. He hit him square on the nose, probably the top of the visor, but that one knocked him down. So Jonah Gajewicz this week was basically the only winner that the Panthers had with those two big fight wins. Ethan, you have no one, do you?
That would be the conference final. Well, unless one of them falls out of the ... I doubt that.
Yeah. Alright, loss of the week. Let's go to you, Dave.
Hallo, willkommen bei The Hockey Show. Mein Name ist Roy Bellamy. David Dwork von The Hockey News ist hier. So ist Ethan. Rosie ist irgendwo mit Lucy jetzt im College Football, weil das nie endet. Es ist Hockey-Saison für uns und das ist eine gute Sache, weil wir Slapshots machen können. Wir fangen mit unseren Hot Takes an. Dave, nimm es weg. Was ist dein Hot Take?
I miss him so much. I miss him as well. Fortified on the fourth line, man. He brought the energy on the ice and that brought the energy to the team. Yeah, he was big for the past few seasons for the Panthers, but we wish him well in Calgary.
My fail of the week, the L, goes to whoever put the ads on the boards in Washington, because Ryan Reeves ended up with a portion of a Lexus advertisement on the back of his jersey, and it looked like he had toilet paper on his shoe.
Yeah, and he's a big truck.
Einer dieser großen Autos. Du hast es aufgeschrieben. Ich schaue es mir jetzt an. Es ist ein verdammter GMC Hummer. Ein großer Bruder, der von uns hört, glaube ich. Du hast was? Sag was!
Ich freue mich auf dich. Die Edmonton Oilers haben die Predators 3-2 letzte Nacht in Edmonton gewonnen. Und Conor McDavid hat das Ziel gewonnen. Das Ziel war sein 1000. Das ist ein Erlebnis, das ihn zum vierten schnellsten erreicht hat. Der vierte schnellste? Der vierte schnellste.
Ich glaube so.
Ja, also ich kann dir jetzt sagen... Mike Bossy war der dritte Fastest.
scored goals on his assists that led him to a thousand points in his career. 55 players. Yeah. That's it. Wow. And 192 of those goals belonged to Leon Dreisaitl. Yeah. That's actually the fourth most in NHL history. Goals scored Und dieser Mann ist nur 27 Jahre alt, Conor McDavid. Ja, er hat von einem Spieler gespielt und von einem anderen Spieler gespielt.
Das ist das Viertgrößte in der NHL-Historie. Im zweiten Platz ist Nick Bastroms Tor-Total, als Alex Ovechkin gespielt hat. Das ist ein interessantes Spiel.
Ja, so ist Sarah. Sarah Nurse ist auch froh darüber. Ja, die beiden Sarahs. Das war eine Verhandlung diese Woche. Lars Eller wurde zurückgezahlt an die Washington Capitals. Die Penguins haben einen 5. Rundpick im Jahr 2025 und einen 3. Rundpick im Jahr 2027. Es ist eine Verhandlung für Lars Eller in der Washingtoner Region für ihn. Das ist wirklich hervorragend.
Aber was ich jetzt in diesem Segment beenden möchte, ist die Hall of Fame. Also, die Inductees dieses Jahr, das ist diese Woche passiert, waren Shane Weber, Jeremy Roenick, Pavel Dasuk, Natalie Dawoods, Chrissy Wendell-Pohl, Colin Campbell und David Paillet. already nominees there who were just inducted into the Hall of Fame. Good for them. Brings back our memories.
Yeah, it sounds like you had enough.
It was cold. So next year Das ist der erste Ballett für diese Spieler. Hört auf. Joe Thornton, Duncan Keefe, Carey Price, Zidane O'Chara, Ryan Getzlaff, Tuka Rask, Dustin Brown und Eric Stahl. Das ist der erste Ballett. Diejenigen, die zweite Balletten oder mehr hatten.
Jennifer Botterill, Rod Brendamore, Megan Dugan, Patrick Elias, Sergey Gonchar, Curtis Joseph, Patrick Marlow, Ryan Miller, Alexander Mogulny, Pekka Rinne, Keith Kachuk, Justin Williams und Hendrik Zetterberg. Alexander Mogulny. Das ist der Grund, warum wir über das öffentliche Votieren für die Hall of Fame suchen müssen.
Denn es gibt absolut keinen Grund, warum Alexander Mogulny nicht in der Hall of Fame sein sollte.
Well, Tony is a good man. We know him around here, and you've been excellent on that show, and we are going to miss that show. So let's get into hockey right quick. It's been a long week down here. I'm tired, all right? David's tired. Ethan in there, he's, I don't know what's going on with that guy. He's got a beard.
Because the Florida Panthers got Brad Marchand and subsequently Aaron Eckblad got suspended. So yeah, it's been that long of a week. So based on all the moves that has happened over the past, I would say two weeks, who won and who lost the trade deadline?
Let's start with the good. Brad Marchand is a Florida Panther now. And I swear to goodness, it's just weird to me. First, the news. We're at the practice facility waiting for Bill Zito. And then that news happened.
Excuse me? That was not a- See, that was the worst thing that we say on the show.
Yeah, nothing. That's crazy, man. And then we're hearing.
The New Jersey Devils beat the Edmonton Oilers, and the Oilers are – we're going to get into them in a little bit because they've been bad. But the Devils also have been mediocre. They've been hovering over 500 – around 500 over the last 16 games, and Columbus is trying to catch up with them. They're six points behind for third place in the Metro. They lost Jack Hughes for the season.
Speculative.
He's not going to be back into the training camp. Jonas Siegenthaler is done for the regular season. He might come back. Dougie Hamilton, we don't even know when he's going to show up. So the Devils have lost two defensemen. Where do you see them coming out at the end of the season?
The Oilers, as we mentioned, are bad right now. They've lost 12 of their last 20. And the Kings are catching up to them for second place in the Pacific. Now, they got the Islanders.
Oh, the Kings are ahead of them now. Oh, well, that's how bad it's been then. But they got the Islanders tonight, and that should be an automatic win for them. And I say that because karma is going to get you, Islanders. It's going to get you. I got the streak. I still got the streak going, David. I got the streak going. You're okay. Thank you. Just wanted to make sure.
I don't like the Islanders this year. I'm sorry. I understand. The all is, though, what's going to happen with them?
And finally, the second wildcard spot for both conferences are jam-packed.
It's a fun race. It's like four teams respectively in each conference competing for the last spot. And not the Panthers. And not the Panthers. So at the end of the season, who do you see grabbing the last spots in each conference?
Wow. And that's really that would be fun, though. Yeah. Yeah. That would be great.
Oh.
Yeah, absolutely. Fair enough. All right, Emily Kaplan, we are going to see you when you get down to Florida because, I mean, it's Florida Panthers. They're the defending champion. They're going to make the playoffs. Can't wait to see you coming back down here. It's great to have you on the show. Thank you, Emily.
All right, it's time to go over the week that was as far as games played for the Florida Panthers. Let's start with Saturday. They won against Buffalo. It was 4-0. Vitek Panacek's first game as a Panther, he got a shutout. Now, as you can see, the differences between team defense with the San Jose Sharks and the Florida Panthers, vastly different. Vastly different.
And the Panthers played their usual suffocating style. Granted, it is Buffalo. But, yeah, I mean, they pretty much shut them down early. A.J. Greer had a goal in a fight. It was a nice, boring game for the Panthers. Nothing to write home about.
Yeah. But the complete opposite happened. In Boston on Tuesday, the Panthers lost 3-2, and all three of those goals for Boston came in the third. It was not good.
I mean, it's a very rare thing to see the Panthers blow a lead in the third period, and it was a two-goal lead at that, and they are now 28-3-0 when leading after two periods. But here's a very telling stat, since you brought up shots on goal for Buffalo on Saturday. Five on five in the third period for the Panthers. They had two shot attempts and one of them was stopped by Jeremy Swayman.
Two shot attempts. That's bad. On five on five in the third period. That's bad. That's not good.
It's like Chris Rittenham over here talking like he's British.
Nikita Zdorov is kind of a madman out there. Yeah, he finally got his fight against Sam Bennett.
I mean, between the time of Bobby Orr and... Raymond Bork. And 2011, right? No, but I'm saying they've had great teams. They've had great players. I mean, the span of time between Bobby Orr and him winning the Stanley Cup that year, where he dove after scoring on the St. Louis Blues, to the time where Brad Marchand is at. I'm sorry, Sedano Chara is left in the Stanley Cup. Yeah.
That is a very long time.
And the other team that plays in that building.
No, it could not have been.
We're talking about banners. We don't talk basketball. I mean, they occupy the same building. Thursday, last night, yesterday, the big one. That was the big one right there. That was the litmus test. The Panthers played the Maple Leafs and won 3-2.
Yes, the battle for first place in the Atlantic Division. Now, it was not a good start two minutes into the game giving up a goal like that, but they settled down. Yeah, they didn't give up another shot for a while after that. Yeah, Max Domi was a madman out there. He had a goal and an assist. It was a rush goal at that, and that somehow got passed by. I...
And that's what ended up happening. Sure enough.
Max only scoring on you in a rush on a bad line change, mind you.
Yeah, that should not have happened.
Sam Bennett scored twice. He's got two pets adopted last night. On behalf of the Humane Society of Broward, Benny's Buddies has now helped adopt 22 pets this season. 21 goals for the Panthers. One for Team Canada, so that's 22. He is six goals away from his career high of 28 on the season. I want to talk about this play that was made by Seth Jones on the second goal that Sam Bennett scored.
Got my opposition on that one based on that play by Seth Jones keeping it in because they were expecting to go the other way.
Sam Reinhart, Mackie Samuskiewicz, respectively, two assists in that game. They got two games left against the Toronto Maple Leafs on the season. The schedule makers is... What are we doing here? First of all, five back-to-back games for the Florida Panthers. That's one. And a lot of those games against the division. They still got three games against Montreal this season left.
Yeah, two more against Toronto. The reward of being the champions. Yeah. Make our lives harder. Still the Panthers. Yeah, yeah. Still the Panthers. Still the Panthers. And plenty more T.J. Luxmore games to go. Tomorrow they play Montreal, who are a point behind the Blue Jackets for second in the wild card spot. Columbus lost 4-0 to Vegas, by the way, so they didn't gain any ground.
Montreal, after losing 8-0, Of nine, have won six of the last nine games. Yeah, turned it around a little bit. Yeah, getting high at the right time. Cole Caulfield, 32 goals. Nick Suzuki, 69 points. The Panthers lost their first matchup back in December for nothing. So that's what we're looking at tomorrow. Always fun going to the Bell Center. At the Bell Center.
And a regulation one as well.
So one and one on this road trip right now. And they're looking at trying to dispatch the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday. That's David Dwork. Ethan, thank you for producing. Rosie, we miss you. Mike Malley in the back along with Jason doing video. My name is Roy Bellamy. We will talk to you next week. Okay, goodbye. Who was that? Oh, is that Danny GQ as well?
Oh, we got an engineer back there as well. How about that? And, of course, they put themselves on TV because they're important. And Gino. Don't forget Gino.
Yeah, man, I didn't see you because of Laura Third. Sorry, Gino. That's my bad. Okay, goodbye.
All right. Yeah, from the lock of souls to seeing him in Panthers gear and then seeing him on the ice in Boston doing line rushes with the first line, it's still weird.
Yeah. Going to the bad, however, Aaron Ekblad was suspended for 20 games. He's 18 plus 2 in the playoffs. Yeah, 18 plus 2. So that's not good. So that makes the Seth Jones trade even bigger. Right. So, yeah, Seth Jones. Quickly, similar to how the Panthers are playing, he has done very well so far. He's just got to get used to his other pair.
And right now, it's Gus Forsling until the foreseeable future. Well, his minutes have gone shooting up. Yeah.
That was not good. That was a great pass by Nylander.
You better not. All right. Let's get into the wins and failures of the week brought to you by Jägermeister. Serve it cold or don't serve it at all. Jägermeister. Damn, that's cold. For more, visit Jägermeister.com. Drink responsibly. David, what's your win?
My win of the week is from Blackhawks Avalanche on Monday. Nathan McKinnon became the 100th player in NHL history to reach 1,000 career points. His 1,000th point came as a secondary assist on a drop pass. And the goal was by Arturi Lekkonen. He only gets 1,000 points this season. Yeah. He needs so many assists. So many Art Ross trophies, man. Good God.
Right now, the nearest active player to 1,000 points is Brad Marchand. 976 points. He will end up doing that next year. He's going to end up reaching that milestone next year. Whether it's with the Panthers or not, don't know. TBD, don't be surprised.
Welcome to the Hockey Show. My name is Roy Bellamy. David Dwork is right here. He works for the Hockey News. Ethan is in that chair right there. And Rosie is on vacation. Steen.
Don't be surprised.
Superman punch and a Superman save. So it's him and it was Logan Thompson that made that save for the Capitals. Yes, it was. Yeah. So those are the saves of the year.
I don't see why, but she loves us. We have ESPN reporter Emily Kaplan on the show. And she will talk to us about the trade deadline and what's going on. In the NHL, if you want to watch that, for those who are watching on the DraftKings Network, you can see the interview on YouTube for the Levitar Show page. You can find our show on the Hockey Show Playlist folder.
My fellow of the week comes from Predators or Sharks on Tuesday. Now, listen, I know it's been a bad season for the San Jose Sharks. A little bit. And... Their future is bright. Yeah, their future is bright. Absolutely. Just not this season. But it's not bad enough for a fan to want to fight their mascot. This guy legitimately squared up against Sharky.
Yeah. To his credit or her credit, depending on who's in the uniform, Sharky walked away. Sharky's the bigger fish. Yeah. But I would not have blamed him or her if she or he wanted to throw punches on that dude.
Coming up next, Emily Kaplan from ESPN. She is their NHL reporter on DKN. You can watch that on YouTube on the Elevatar Show page. Find our playlist folder, The Hockey Show. That's coming up next.
We have the hardest working hockey reporter in all the land and around the horn Hall of Famer Emily Kaplan is joining us today. We're going to get into what happened during the trade deadline first. But as I said, she was on around the horn. She's been there. I would say about 150 appearances probably, and she's won 40 times, just about. It's a pretty solid winning percentage. Yeah, it's not bad.
Hey, listen, research.
Always a producer. I mean, it's kind of further, get more reach for local and national reporters that show. And it's coming to an end soon. may 23rd i believe and that show has been on for just about 20 years now so yeah great yeah it's a great show uh and your time on it why don't you uh tell us about your time on it
Yeah, there's a lot of hockey shows in the playlist. Yeah, I counted. There was 55 in that folder. I can't believe we've done 55. That's crazy. That's a lot. That's a lot. So let's get started. Let's drop the puck and talk about the news that the Florida Panthers have been in this week. And it's been a long week. A little bit of news. Yeah, a little bit of news. Good and bad.
Is this in response to Shaq saying he doesn't watch the Pistons and everyone saying they need to be on more nationally televised games as a result because they're having this fun season, everyone starts talking about him, realizing some of the most important voices in the game haven't even watched him, and yet... Here we are.
Yeah, this is instead of Pelican's Grizzlies. Ew.
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And the cream cheese is all over his face.
You're right. You know, to Tony's defense, Cade is one of two players, along with Nikola Jokic, who's top 10 in both assists and points this year. Wow.
For the audio audience, Taylor is currently picking up Mike. and walking him out of the studio. Mike was stuck behind some panels. Izzy has cream cheese all over his face. Doors are wide open. Just painting a picture.
That's why people have been lying in his ears all show.
Now it's broken.
Quote, the white people at Indian Wells, what they've been wanting to say all along to us finally came out. Quote, N-word, stay away from here. We don't want you here. So they boycotted it for 14 years.
Yeah, it was a 14-year boycott. 14-year boycott from 2001 to 2015. And then it ended.
Oh yeah, top five situational guys. No L-O-L-I's in this one.
Number five, Julius Randle. Number four, Mike the Situation Sorrentino.
What? Number three, Rudy Gobert. Two of the best on the same team. Number two, Christmas. And number one, 60-year-old Barry Bonds against right-handed pitching.
Sure. How many turnovers? He's also, yeah, he's second in the league in turnovers.
To Izzy's defense last night, if I want to just boost up your argument just for fun. Yep, last night, 9 for 25, 0 for 7 from three, four turnovers, and a loss to the Washington Wizards.
There is something funny, Tony, with the Pistons. Next week, the Pistons have now just had a nationally televised game added to their schedule. And that's here in Miami against the Heat next Wednesday. Now we know that more likely than not, ESPN is not deciding to put that game on the air because of the Heat. That's more of a Pistons thing. And when I saw that announced, I couldn't help but think,
How old were you when you lost your virginity?
Yeah, yeah, for sure. Ron's lying.
Tom Gugliotta. I mean, you said Barry Bonds earlier. You're going to go with Jeff Teague as a comparison?
The Minnesota Timberwolves are 11-0 in the last 11 games that Julius Randle has played.
You still got some stuff in there.
Exactly.
Slapping the salami.
Not by the color of my skin, no.
That's probably one of the last municipalities that I would have thought would actually cooperate.
Because they voted against their own interests.
Welcome to the Hockey Show. My name is Roy Bellamy. David Dwork's right here. He's from the Hockey News. Rosie is in the seat. And Ethan is in Montreal. Yeah, we're going to chisel him out of his hotel up there in a few minutes. Yeah, he's on ice right now. And Dan Burke from Prime Monday Night Hockey joins us here. And we're going to get started with our Snapshots.
the Sweden-Canada game, and now he's done for the tournament, and who knows how long he's going to be done for to go to Knights. So what would you say is the level of fear that the general managers have going into this tournament about an injury?
Talk about how Mike Sullivan put his lines in a blender during this game because the Kachuk boys dominated that game, and it was basically because they got paired together in the middle of the game. Mike Sullivan said he wasn't expecting to play them at all together in this game, and they finally decided to do it. I don't understand the logic and thinking.
I guess he wanted to spread things out throughout the four lines, but talk about his coaching in this tournament so far.
Yeah, fellas and lady. I'm really starting to think that this Four Nations tournament is not for the cast grab that I thought it was going to be for the NHL. No, it was specifically created. Once again, show Sidney Crosby down our collective throats. I am tired of this shit. I mean, this all started with the injury, the upper body injury that I sustained last week.
Boy, that John Cooper's kind of biased, isn't he?
Go with what you know, right? Yeah, I guess so.
And it was all, is he going to play? Is he going to play? Is he going to play? And made us wait until, what, the first day of practice to finally determine, yes, I am going to play. After saying, why? I mean, I'm trying to talk here.
You know, I really, really dislike mentioning this man, but I have no choice because the way people tell it on Wednesday, Sidney Crosby had the biggest three assists in the history of Team Canada. I mean, my entire timeline was filled with just, I was about to say the word I told you last night.
I'm not going to do that right now, but yeah, it was just a complete love fest on Valentine's Day today for Sidney Crosby. Like, how would you grade his level of play on Wednesday?
Oh, okay. No Sidney Crosby. I thought Rosie was chirping you, but she was giving me a rub.
Yeah, that must be really weird to have the cheer film on Team Canada. Quite frankly, you should be feeling the same way I do. Oh, for sure.
Thank you. Thank you. You're rubbing off. Thank you for being on my side. And the first game, obviously, Sweden versus Canada. It was just three assists, all right? They made it seem like it was the greatest three assists in the history of Canadian hockey.
Anthony DeMarco covering the Four Nations Tournament for the Daily Face-Off. Thank you for joining us.
All right, it's time to talk about how the Panthers did this week. We're going to start with Saturday versus Ottawa. It was the Kachuk Bowl, and the Panthers won 5-1. Both Kachuks ended up scoring in that game. Matthew Kachuk also had two assists. He had a three-point night, and they put the puck on net in that game, man.
I mean, it was 11 shots on goal for Brady Kachuk on 13 attempts and eight shots on goal. in 11 attempts for Matthew Kachuk. And that trend would continue into last night for Four Nations. Yeah. Yeah, it was a dominating night for the Panthers, especially in that second period when they scored four.
Ethan is currently in Montreal right now, so he was able to see, I will hope, both games. Did you see both games?
You remember that viral video of the guy who was being interviewed and his two kids end up walking in a room and he's a baby.
I didn't even say anything. Did you see how we weren't going to let that go even though you powered through that? Yeah. All right, let's go into Wednesday in the first game of the Four Nations Tournament. I'm not going to mention the other guy. Team Canada. Not the Canadians. Team Canada won 4-3 in overtime, so they got two points out of the deal. Swinton got one.
We're going to talk about the Panthers in this situation. Sam Banner was scratched. Sam Reinhardt played. He was a minus one. He was better defensively than he was offensively, obviously. Three shots on goal. He had a block to give away and one hit. Now, Gustav Forsling is getting a lot of flack about how he played Sidney Crosby.
I said I was going to mention him, but I have to mention him because I got to mention Gustav Forsling getting the flack. Now, the second assist that Sidney Crosby had in the game, Gustav Forsling played that as perfectly as humanly possible. Unfortunately, Cindy Crosby... Was able to pass the puck anyway.
Yeah. Sweden started to take over in the second period. We started to see that momentum start to rise a little bit. And then they had the two-goal period and tied the game in that fourth overtime, which we got to see the new rules.
All right, so last night, the United States beat Finland 6-1. As I mentioned earlier about the Kachuk Bowl, both Kachuk boys ended up being offensive juggernauts in that game. Both of them respectively scored two goals. They basically look like the father out there, just out there wreaking havoc.
I always have to say, just like most of the Panthers games, all the scrums happen when they're on the line, on the ice. Now, what I saw, though, was they weren't playing together at the beginning of the game. And Mike Sullivan said that they weren't going to play together during this game. He changed his mind. He absolutely changed his mind.
The coaching by Mike Sullivan in that one did not make sense to me at all.
Shut up. Matthew Kachuk and Nico Mikula is going to have a nice little laugh once they get back to Panthers practice because Kachuk's first goal deflected off a Nico Mikula stick. Too bad for him. Finland, Sweden, and Canada, USA tomorrow. The standings right now, the United States are leading on the table with three points. Canada has two points, Sweden with one.
Finland has yet to win, so they have zero points. Goose egg. Goose egg. So, the big thing is, United States, they have to win. If they win on Saturday, they're guaranteed a spot in the final. That's it. Now, if Canada wins in overtime...
Yeah. If Sweden wins, they will have four points. Correct.
Whoa. Listen, Adnan, it was a line change. It was a reset at the line. And it was offside. It was offside. What are we doing here? Get the hustle back to the bench. Oh, get out of here. And also, I'm tired of hearing the words best on best.
Yeah, and if that happens, the third game in this round-robin, the final round-robin game...
I'm done with this. All right, we'll see you guys next week. Happy Valentine's Day, blah, blah, blah. Okay, goodbye.
Okay.
Oh, for fuck's sake. Go. Winner of the week.
You're acting like I get paid around here. I'm doing this for free. Seriously. David.
I've never seen a fight in a handshake line. I can't remember either.
I guess. Too much vodka over there. My win of the week is coming from the Flames-Jets game last week. Praden Prashal caught a high stick from Mark Shifley and had some choice words from him. This has sound, Rosie, so you're going to have to put that up.
I love it. So Mark Shifley famously does not swear, unlike the three of us in this studio. So initially, he did use an F-bomb, but we didn't have the sound potted up there. And then once he saw that Shifley was there, He flipped the switch on that. So that's the winner of the week because it's funny to me.
You know this as well as anybody. Back in the 90s and 80s when they played theatrical movies on television and they had to edit out the The cursing, it sounded as ridiculous as flipping.
Yeah, exactly. Especially snakes on a play. Mother flipping snakes on his mother flipping plane. On this Monday to Friday. Fail of the week. David, please.
Yeah. All right. Bakersfield. Yeah. All right.
I have been waiting for this one. Okay. All week, boy. All right. So by now, all of you know my feelings about the New York Islanders signing of Tony D'Angelo. And you guys obviously know my feelings about... the man, Tony D'Angelo. And I won't go into it here, but... That's what spicy takes, Roy. You agree with Brad Marchand, basically. Yes, yes, yes.
The only time I will agree with Brad Marchand. Tony D'Angelo, in front of his own net, with an own goal. It wasn't just a deflection. It wasn't a deflection. It was a straight-up shot into his own net.
So allow me to laugh at this. Ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha. You're not going to do the ha, ha?
Ha, ha, ha. Ha. Ha. Ha.
I'm tired, man, all right? I'm sorry, but it's been a long week. It's been a long week for me. So, Adnan.
What do you mean, no?
Oh. Oh, yeah, go ahead. Rose, what's your fail of the week?
You saved the day from terrorism.
Well, that's how it usually is, right? It's based on a true story. It's not a documentary. There's some historical inaccuracies.
I mean, it better be about a lot of sex in this movie. It's about a sex worker, although Pretty Woman did not have a lot of sex in it, right?
And celebratory hand lifts like this is the breakfast club over there by the road. Yeah. Okay. There you go. Ant-Man Burke from Prime Monday Night Hockey. Thank you for joining us, Ant-Man.
Anthony DeMarco of the Daily Face-Off joins us here, and he is covering the Four Nations Tournament, and we're going to talk to him about that. And I want to start with the biggest fear that every NHL general manager had going into the Four Nations Tournament, which was potential injury, and that happened to Shea Theodore during the Finland –
Get on a newsstand.
Yeah, not like that crap in Tampa, I'll tell you that.
Yeah, I've been on vacation all of last week. So, that's why.
Yeah, the Zamboni floats. I was on a ship. Oh. Really? For about a week. So, yeah. I'm refreshed somewhat. Now, I'm tired again.
It actually took one.
Okay.
Dr. King holiday.
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So that's coming up next. We got Jim Fox and the Panthers recap and preview for the rest of the season. You can watch that on YouTube. Jim Fox coming up next.
David Wells threw a perfect game.
We're joined by Jim Fox, who is the Los Angeles Kings color commentator. And right now, he's looking like the Kings and Oilers for the playoffs. Oh, my God. Again. Kings and Oilers? No way. Yeah, we'll get to that in a second. But I want to start off with this goal by Clinton Byfield, which he ended up scoring with one hand. He gathered the puck with one hand. This is sick.
And somehow scored with one hand, even though technically the play should have been blown down because he was holding the stick. Technically. Now, Quinton Byfield was drafted fourth overall, and I don't think that he's reached the ceiling yet. I think he's going to be in this league for years to come. Jim, thank you for joining us. Why don't you give your description on Quinton Byfield?
Because of the assists.
Andrzej Kopitar is currently in his 19th season. 19 years for Andrzej Kopitar. And eventually he's going to have his jersey hung up right next to Dustin Brown and Luka Robitaille and the guy who just had his record broken for a goal scored all time. Oh, yeah, him. Yeah, that dude. How much gas do you think is left in Kopitar's tank?
I said no hitter. We don't talk about baseball. We talk about hockey. 895 goals now for Alexander Ovechkin. You're the one that brought up David Wells. I brought it up. I didn't know you were going to continue with the point. You bring up David Wells. You know how the attention deficit thing works with the show, right? You bring up David Wells, we get excited.
As we mentioned earlier, the Kings and Oilers are looking to have the fourth straight year of a first round playoff matchup. Four straight years. And that's what it's looking like after looking at the Pacific Division standings right now. Tell us how things are going to be different because the Kings are 0-3 so far.
You send Rose and I on a tangent, we're gone. Gosh, I mean, look at pitches. I mean, in his 20-year career, he has an 82-game average of 49 goals per season. That's crazy. That's crazy. He has league records in power play goals for 325, game-winning goals of 136, shots on goal, 6,852. Seven million.
Yeah, but the league used to have divisional playoff matchups before they switched to the 1-8 style back in, what, 1994 or something like that? The Smythe division and the Campbell Conference and all that stuff. Yeah, and there are less teams in the league. So you've got more teams in the league now. It just doesn't make any sense for me for them to keep this format.
No, I'm not expanding the playoffs, but just the fact that this playoff format is – now we'll complain about it. We've got the same teams all over again, but there are 32 teams in this league. We could actually – yeah, we could actually expand the playoffs if we actually think about it.
Seven million shots on goal. Calder Trophy winner, three-time Hart winner, three-time Ted Lindsey Award winner, That's MVP for the players there, voted by the players. Conn's my trophy winner when the Capitals won the Stanley Cup in 2018. He's led the league in goals nine times, led the league in points in 2008, and will be a first ballot Hall of Famer as soon as he hangs up his skates.
Mike Myers.
It is a funny question. He's not an actor.
He's scored 45 goals against the Florida Panthers in his career. He is better than Sidney Crosby.
You mentioned that you, I can't call it an old-timers game. That's just rude of me. But no, I would say that it's a celebrity game. It was a benefit for the firefighters who fought the fires that ravaged Southern California. Why don't you describe that game?
Yeah, yeah.
It's also crazy that the Panthers could have drafted him.
They tried to.
Thank you.
The NHL tried to draft him. Are you paying attention to the show, Rosie?
Thank you.
Thank you.
You're talking about long-term IR now?
You are now one of the bad guys, I guess.
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He's only had one season where he's had under 30 goals.
Final week of the regular season next week. They got Buffalo and the Rangers at home on Saturday and Monday, respectively. And the Rangers is the first half of a back-to-back before they go to what would be their first-round opponent, most likely. in the Tampa Bay Lightning on Tuesday. So that's what we're looking at. Fourth time in five years. Yeah.
I mean, we were talking about this with Jim Fox. Like, it's a lot of the same matchups every year because the bottom echelon of each division has not felt like they haven't gotten any better. The playoff teams have pretty much stayed the same. Yeah. So that's why we should probably look into, you know, going back to when... Well, look, we got Canadians in the playoffs, though, this year.
What are you talking about? You need to talk to the guy. He doesn't want to buy you equipment. It's not free, Roy.
You're saying that like you invited them to the Baptist Iceplex.
For David Dwork, Ethan Podowski, Rose Arias, and Mike Malley, and Jason Rosato. What is your last name, Jason? I don't know. What is your last name? Granados. Not even close, Roy. I thought I was close. And whoever else is back there. There's like eight people back there.
I don't know. I did see both Dannys. They're putting a new camera in the back, Rosie. How about that?
Hey. Danny, Gabe.
Oh, wow. That's cold. That's cold. Wow. I see how it is. We will talk to you next week, and it will be playoff time. So enjoy, everybody. Last week of the regular season.
All right, so he's got another year or two left in him, according to David. Keep pumping those Bud Lights, dude. Let's go. Let's go to the... Miller Lights, actually.
Do you feel the same way, Ethan?
Can I do the show? Can I do the show as I was about to adjust to what you were doing?
I love you guys. This is fun. We're back. This is fun.
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That's fantastic. I mean, that's a moment that you're not going to forget there for your child to play on actual National League ice. Yeah. That's very special. So good for you. Man, that kind of makes me... Kind of makes me proud, even though that's not even my kid.
That's awesome. Yeah. All right, my win of the week goes to the celebration of Alexander Obrashkin. This time, he went home. This is from the first home practice. As he's walking out, it was an open practice. Everybody was there. They were chanting Ovi's name. Ovi. Ovi has actually sound to it. But yeah, it was pretty cool seeing everybody celebrating him as he went home.
That's exactly what happened there. And Obi actually did the celebration that he did when he broke the record.
We have ourselves a new goalscoring king in the National Hockey League. Welcome to the Hockey Show. My name is Roy Bellamy. David Dwork is right there. In the shipping container is Rose and Ethan. Welcome back, Rosie. Full house. We got everybody back. It's a great thing.
Also, it was a good week for him. It was also a good week for Project Pat and Juicy J, because as you know, Ovechkin likes to sing bands to make a dance before they go out into the ice. The Capitals gifted both Project Pat and Juicy J, who made that song. Late 90s, early 1000s era jerseys. That's a good touch. That's very nice. And Juicy J posted on his Twitter account. And yeah, those look good.
Those look real good. So good for them. Ethan.
Because we don't talk about college basketball. That is my job, Ethan.
That was a disastrous end to that game.
Yeah.
Yeah, well, they're going to have to fix that before the regular season ends. I mean, that's terrible. My fail of the week for the third season in a row. The Pittsburgh Penguins were eliminated from playoff contention. Penguins, Islanders, and the NIT. They are now officially in a playoff drought. Ha ha, hee hee, ha ha ha, ha ha, ho ho. Ha.
All right. So let's just start off by saying how great this guy is who just broke this record, right? Alexander Ovechkin. The great eight. Now, the guy right now has the body of David Wells. He's plump. Just straight up. I thought you were just going to say David.
Speaking of ha-ha-hee-hee, I have another fail of the week continuing my streak of talking shit about the New York Islanders because they like to play racist. Your fails make you really happy. Yes, I love people failing. They played the Rangers last night, and as they were giving up six goals, they pulled Marcus Hogberg to put in Tristan Lennox to give him a little bit of playing time.
First NHL action. Yeah, and after one goal on two shots, They pulled Lennox and put Hogberg back in. The Rangers won 9-2.
Yeah, well, the Islanders' playoff hopes are effectively over. They have eight points to make up with four games to go. I don't think they're going to win out, and I'm very happy that that's not going to happen because I've seen enough. I'm done with them. Could not happen to a more deserving team, in my opinion.
The replay. The ref flew. He flew backwards about 20 feet. It was bad.
Yes. Ha ha, hee hee, ha ha ha, ho ho ho, ha ha, hee ha.
The man did throw a no-hitter, hungover. Yeah, he did. I'm sure Overskin just broke the record of hungover. You never know.
Great play.
I mean, my tweet was more on the positive side. Joyous occasion in that situation.
I have a shirt of it. Yes, you do. I saw that shirt. I like that shirt. Rosie.
You're welcome. That is very much a failure on your point. I appreciate you not having a fail. How's that a fail? Well, because he didn't make the playoffs.
All right. For you guys watching on DraftKings Network, you can watch our next interview with Jim Fox from the Los Angeles Kings. He is the color commentator. And we're going to talk to him about what's going on with the Kings and the potential playoff matchup and the fact that Wayne Gretzky's record has been broken. And... You can also listen to us talk about the Panthers in the third segment.
Don't look now, but Chris Cody had a celebrity sighting that he never told us about.
I've never seen this man in my life. That's crazy, Smitty.
He was named the hottest bachelor by people for 2006. Cisco? Levitard. No, this guy, Taylor Hicks.
Maybe you give your dad a $600 briefcase. Shame on you. According to Wikipedia, the thong is believed to be one of the earliest forms of human clothing. So maybe the thong put it on the map, but it's been around for tens of thousands of years.
That's the guy that fought Jake Paul. Speaking of thongs, by the way.
Remember we saw his butt.
It's a Hansel and Gretel situation.
Thank you.
Which sounder is Dan playing for him? That's the real question.
Thank you. Thank you.
But his paternal grandmother's husband was a civil rights photographer who covered the civil rights movement.
I like it. I like it. I like it.
Yeah, you look. There's no way you're not looking. Who, me?
Guess he doesn't want to play for the Steelers.
Those are skippers, by the way.
You don't know what we're talking about.
So, right rage.
Allegedly.
Somewhat.
Maybe he sounds like that because of too much fluoride.
I am frustrated. I'm frustrated with everything. And you're right. I'm trying to make people dumb. And if you make a person dumb, they are going to make the wrong decisions. You know, like, you know, your choice of elected officials.
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Hey friends, it's JerBear here, and I'm here to tell you all about Boost Mobile, which is now a legit nationwide 5G network. So I must take a break from the jokes here for a second and put on my serious voice.
Go to Rosie's Instagram. You'll get the story there. She is a klutz. Yes, very excited. I am very excited to talk to Steve.
Ja, wir hatten Linda Cohn, wir hatten auch John Butchercross auf der Show viele Male. Also haben wir die SportsCenter-Alumni. Wir sind in unserer Kindheit eingetappt. Ja, wir sind in unserer Kindheit eingetappt. Ich habe eine Verschwörungstheorie, die ich an alle drei von euch flöten möchte, auch wenn ihr nichts über Hockey wisst, Rosie.
Das war's für heute. Bis zum nächsten Mal. Ja, er ist ein NHL-Unikorn. Er ist wirklich ein NHL-Unikorn.
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Was denkst du über den Anruf von Evan Rodriguez im Spiel 2?
Okay, so this is a common thing. You're saying this is a veteran move by Rodriguez, then why even call the penalty in the playoffs?
No. We're going to connect the dots here. The National Hockey League has decided that in 2026, what would normally be All-Star Weekend, they have replaced the All-Star Game with a Winter Olympics kickoff event at UBS Arena. The Islanders were supposed to host the All-Star Game, right? And again... My Islander Streak has somehow continued into the second round of the playoffs.
I have no idea how... They just won't go away. They just won't go away. You're just staying present in your mind. Yeah, yeah. Rent free. Cat Diaco, who is the governor of the great state of New York, wrote a stony... wortet Letter to the National Hockey League, expressing her bitter disappointment about the league holding a lesser event at the arena. It was a good letter.
Sprechend von Goaltending, die Jets haben überlebt. Überlebt. Die Serie gegen die St. Louis Blues und Seven. Conor Hellebuck wurde in dieser Serie dreimal gespielt. In dieser Serie gegen die Dallas Stars wird Conor Hellebuck tatsächlich den Best-of-the-Trophy-Winner auswählen?
Yeah, that 99 season, just watching the Sabres go to the Stanley Cup final. I've heard him plenty of times on ESPN doing those Sabres games.
They put a lot of money into that arena. I understand why she is upset. The taxpayer dollars went into that letter. Yeah. And that letterhead is expensive. Mainly because the league did not have any engagement. They did not talk to any government official about changing the event. Das kam aus der Blüte. Das kam am letzten Moment. Wir wussten, wann die Olympiade anfangen wird.
Wow, schau dir das ESPN2-Mic-Flagg an. Ich liebe es, der Deuce. Schau dir mein Haar an. NHL Tonight, Baby.
Ja, das ist auch ein guter Punkt. Aber sie hat es nicht so gesehen. Sie will etwas... Sie hat es nicht geholfen. Nein.
Bevor wir dich loslassen, Steve, wir haben gestern über Joel Quenville gesprochen, der der neue Anaheim Ducks Head Coach ist. Wir haben das schon gesehen, weil Stan Bowman gerade in Edmonton ist. Aber nach dem, was mit Kyle Beach in Chicago im Jahr 2010 passiert ist, macht es keinen Sinn, dass einer von ihnen einen Job in dieser Liga hat. So, what do you feel about it?
Did Stan Bowman and does Joel Quimbyl deserve a second chance?
Das Team hat gesagt, dass sie eigentlich mit Kyle Beach darüber gesprochen haben. Und sie haben sich trotzdem mit ihm entschieden. Also glaube ich, dass Kyle ihnen seine Gnade gegeben hat.
Well, we're going to listen to you on Tuesday for Game 4 Jet Stars. It's not going to be like the good old days, because the good old days are here, still here. So Steve, thank you for joining us here on the Hockey Show.
Okay, I begrudgingly want to talk about the Panthers right now who are down. 0-2 für die Toronto Maple Leafs, als sie nach Hause zurück zur Sonnenscheinung für die 3. Spielzeit gehen. Es ist im Grunde der schlimmste Fall für die Panthers, als sie das Mikrofon eingestellt haben. Es ist einfach nicht gut. Es ist einfach nicht gut. Oh mein Gott. Okay, also. Kein Belichick, das Mikrofon.
Es war ein schlechtes Spiel. Du musst dich mit dem machen, Alter. Du musst stoppen.
Es war ein schlechter Start in der ersten Runde, aber sie haben versucht zu rallyen und kamen kurz vor. Das waren einige große Fehler in der ersten Runde, insbesondere ein schrecklicher Line-Change. Das sollte nicht passieren.
So he should have been out there. The clear cut, he should have been out there. I don't know if it's going to be an equipment issue or not, but he should have been out there. Because if Nate Smith's out there, he needs to be out there.
Das Gute an Panthers Offense ist, dass sie so aggressiv sind, dass ihre Defensiv-Unit natürlich in den Ball kommt und Offense für das Team bietet. Manchmal geht das gegen sie in der Transition mit Breakouts, Highman-Rushes passieren, Stretch-Passes passieren, wo der Puck hinter ihnen kommt und Breakaways passieren.
Okay, I want to get into Sergey Bobrovsky. David, you pointed out some stats. Toronto has. Okay. Toronto sure has. David, you pointed out some stats the night before and I got some added stats here. This is from Natural Stat Trick and Money Puck. In Game 1, the Panthers had an expected goals against of 3.38. In a 1.6 expected goals against on 5 on 5, Sergey Bobrovsky gave up 5 goals on 30 shots.
All on 5 on 5. Er hatte eine Erwartung von minus 1,98. In der zweiten Saison hatten die Panthers eine Erwartung von 1,89. Du würdest denken, sie hätten gewonnen. Und eine 1,09 auf 5 auf 5. Sehr gut. Ja, Sergey Bobrovsky hat vier Erwartungen auf 20 Schüsse mit drei auf 5 auf 5. Seine Erwartung von minus 2,26. Erklär uns die Bedeutung davon, denn das ist schlecht.
Also nicht nur ist Sergey Bobrovsky... Not making the saves that's going to steal you a win. He's not making the saves that a top-flight elite goaltender makes. Or even a backup goaltender would make.
The defensive unit for the Florida Panthers haven't done well. I'm just talking about the defensemen here. Dmitry Kulikov has had several major mistakes, including that delay at game penalty. That was bad.
Sie sagen Nico Mikula, er ist ein Minus 3, er hat schlechte Prioritäten verursacht, er hat auch schlechte Prioritäten verursacht.
Das ist schrecklich.
Alright, so we are just waiting for Game 3 tonight. Hopefully, I'm saying this like I'm not biased, so I might as well play the button right there, hit the button.
He would only be able to play if it was an All-Star game.
Ich kann das nicht trennen. Ich habe beide gewonnen. Das ist es. Und das ist das Ende des Hockey-Shows. Für Dave, für Ethan, für Rosie, für Mike, für Jason, wer auch immer es ist. Schalt die Kamera bitte zurück. Wer ist da? Wer ist da in der Videokontroll-Ruhe? Nobody apparently. Oh, hey Danny.
That's pretty much it. Have a good weekend everybody. What, what, what, what? Oh, I thought we already ended. Sorry. Time, Rose, time. Bye.
It's probably going to be like what they did in the last Olympics. It's going to be like a representation of those athletes.
Yeah. Oh, boy. Back to my conspiracy theory. Oh, yeah. We got off track there. Great start, guys. Yeah, so Governor Hochul. Das war ein All-Star-Spiel. Und Gary Bettman hat gesagt, dass sie ein Event für 2026 und 2027 organisieren wollten. So, that leads me to the NHL Draft Lottery that happened on Monday. I see where you're going with this.
The New York Islanders had a 3.5% chance of winning the lotteries. That was the 10th best odds of the group and they won the Draft Lottery. So let's connect the dots here. The NHL changes plans on next year's All-Star Game due to the Winter Olympics. The Governor of New York gets pissed. They paid a lot of money to build that arena. The Islanders win the draft lottery.
And May hosts some sort of event. Maybe an All-Star Game if they go back to it. Maybe another international event like Four Nations in 2027. As well as 2026. Ist das ein Frozen-Envelope-Szenario, den du hier vorstellst, Roy? Ja, das bin ich, außer sie benutzen Ping-Pong-Bälle in dieser Situation.
Oh no, I'm not getting into that one.
You are not going to bring that image in my head. We are not going to do that.
We're on to Chicago. We're on to Winnipeg. We're on to Winnipeg. And we are going to check out the fast food scene up there. Da gab es eine KFC, die sich in Bezug auf die Winnipeg Jets in der zweiten Runde verbrandet hat. Ich weiß nicht, ob sie einen Namen haben oder nicht, aber sie haben sich, zumindest das Logo ist verwendet, als Kyle Connor.
Kyle effing Connor. Das ist es. Ich bin nicht mehr so gewohnt, Kentucky Fried Chicken zu nennen.
Cuervo. This is the Hockey Show. My name is Roy Bellamy. Roy. That's David Dwork right there.
Es sieht so aus. Differente Haarkoloren, verschiedene Gesichter.
Um zu beschreiben, was auf dem Audio läuft, haben sie Carl- Oh mein Gott! Das sieht gar nicht so aus wie David Dwork! Das sieht gar nicht so aus wie David Dwork! Sie haben Carl Connors Silhouette. Was sie normalerweise haben, ist der Colonel. Ja, mit dem kleinen Colonel-Helm und allem. Ja, also hat Carl Connors einen Helm und er ist über dem Helm, der normalerweise auf dem Colonel steht.
Und es scheint, dass man den Kaffee-Bucket nehmen kann, den sie normalerweise auf den Kaffee-Bucket legen, und ihn auf den Kopf legen kann. That's pretty good branding.
Alright, let's go.
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My win of the week?
It's been a long-held stereotype that Canadians are... Exzeptionally nice people who don't get angry easily unless of course you put tariffs on them and try to make them the 51st state of the United States of America. But hey, that's what a hockey show is. We talk about hockey. But they can be hilariously passive-aggressive.
In the other studio, that's Ethan Podowski. Ethan. Ethan. And our lead producer. Rose.
As proven by the signs made by this Toronto Maple Leafs fan prior to Game 2 between Toronto and the Florida Panthers. One sign that he held up said, I hope every flight Sam Bennett ever takes gets delayed. Und zum zweiten Mal sagte er, Matt Dukachuk brüttelt seine Zähne mit zwei Händen. Er nennt ihn also ein Neanderthal.
Was ist dein Winner der Woche?
Rose. Rosarius. Rosarius. Kommen wir heute auf DraftKings Network. Wir haben Steve Levy, er ist der Studioleiter für die NHL auf ESPN. Und wir werden mit ihm über die Playoffs sprechen. Wenn ihr das anschauen wollt, könnt ihr auf der YouTube-Seite von Leviton & Friends klicken. Auf der Playlist-Tab. Wir sind die Hockey-Show.
Natural Hat Trick in Game 1. Giggity, giggity. That's some good stuff there from me. So yeah, you deserve the revenge tour there. Rosie.
Look at that, look at that.
Well, let's get to our fail first, because it's a giant fail.
Alright, Scott Lawton hits Evan Rodriguez from behind along the boards. That effectively is boarding, correct? That's in the rulebook. That's, yes. That's not what was called. What was called... was embellishment was embellishment Is that embellishment?
And that's top of the list.
Ich verstehe nicht, was da passiert ist. Es war nicht mal ein Doppel-Minor. Es war zwei separate Ruffing-Calls auf Scott Lawton.
Jesus Christ. Come on. You gotta be more responsible with your stuff.
Nein, das Haus des Nachbarnehmers auf Feuer gefangen hat. Was für eine Flucht war das? Es fühlte sich wie eine fliegende Flucht an, aber es waren fünf Lade-Trucks draußen, die das Ding ausmachen wollten.
Nein, ich war in der Mitte, als ein Gast auf einem Panthers-Podcast war, als Aneed kam und sagte, hey...
Well, the alibi is the funniest part because I had to leave in the middle of it because the fireman said, hey, you gotta get out of the house.
Ich war im Büro. Ich hatte keine Ahnung. Außer von meiner Frau. Das stimmt. Ich habe mich nicht ernst genommen, weil sie nicht gesagt hat, dass es der nächste Nachbar war. Ich dachte, es war auf der Straße. Aber es war der nächste Nachbar. Und ich habe herausgefunden, dass das Haus seit zwei Monaten leer ist.
Cuervo. Anytime someone says Cuervo, I show up.
Cuervo.
Welcome to the Big Sui, presented by DraftKings. Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan Levitard 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.
Carter Verhege, number one on the team, needs to do better. He needed to do better for the past few months. He hasn't done well at all.
In ihrem Hinterkopf. Die werden es irgendwann schlagen.
Das ist das Wichtigste, was die Panthers zeigen werden müssen. Sie lassen die Spieler hinter ihnen. Die Transition-Defense ist sehr gut. Und die Strecke gegen ein Team, das in den Top 10 ist und die Tore auf der Strecke hat. Das kann nicht passieren. Viele Strecke haben den Defensiv-Mann übernommen. Sie müssen die Transition-Defense zeigen. Hock, was denkst du?
No, no word yet. No word yet.
Ich war so froh, dass ich Seward Skinner zwischen diesen Pfeifen gesehen habe.
Ich meine, es ist nicht... Nein, es ist nicht, weil Stan Bowman einen Job hat. Er ist im vorderen Büro für Edmonton. Aber das ist nicht ein guter Blick.
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Well, another scenario here is Game 4 is on Mother's Day. That one I've already gotten approval.
Du musst diese Savings machen.
We've talked about her extensively a couple of years ago when this happened.
P-O-L-I-T-I-C-O. Not that.
Well, especially considering that some of the people were considered people. Slaves. That is uniquely problematic. And also...
Once again, not all men. Slaves.
Cuervo.
Kennt ihr auch diesen einen Freund, der morgens einfach so ruckzuck aus dem Bett und danach aus dem Grinsen gar nicht mehr rauskommt? Der sogar noch vor dem ersten Kaffee unverschämt gut gelaunt ist und mit der Morgensonne um die Wette strahlt? Furchtbar. Ekelhaft.
Ja, ich muss Lipps lesen.
Das ist verrückt.
It's terrible. John Scott, Tate Thompson, Zedano Chowder. These are all tall guys. And they haven't done half the stuff that this guy Matt Rempe has done.
I said the same thing about Ryan Hartman. And we're in that situation right now. Like, I mean, he's a repeat offender. And it's time that the league actually does something about this. You got to protect your players. Yeah. Rosie.
Prepare to be dazzled.
I mean, if you're going to do that, you might as well bring up the Maple Leafs-Golden Knights game.
Coming up next, Nick Alberga from the NHL is going to join us to talk about trade deadline day.
You know who does this right? Major League Baseball. Because they do trades in-game. And once the trade comes down, the phone calls to the dugout.
I think our burger works for the NHL, and it's trade deadline day, so we are going to go through the trades right quick. But before we do that, nobody talks about the human aspect of these things, of being traded from team to team. And this tweet from Alexi Brown, who's the Seattle Kraken's analyst, JT Brown's wife. Basically sums it up perfectly.
We always see these players as commodities that you can keep and drop and transfer, right? So we never talk about them being traded. So this tweet from Lexi Brown. The worst part of the trade deadline is when you get your bestie traded. Like, I don't care if her husband is almost an unrestricted free agent having the season of his career and has been traded to a cup contender.
Hug watch. And then the fielders, if they're on defense... Come on in. And then everybody, if it's a home game, everybody gives a standing ovation. Thank you for your time here.
Her and I have brunch this weekend. This is a family situation, right? The kids are in school and everything. I mean, it's the middle of February. It's the middle of school for them. So what exactly happens when a player gets traded? How does the family react to this, Nick?
Can you imagine a line change?
That's crazy. My hot take is we still don't know what goaltender interference is. That's not a hot take, Troy. No, I love it. I love it.
All right, let's talk about what the Florida Panthers did just this week. Over the span of six days, all right, it was started March 1st. They got Seth Jones in a fourth-round pick in 2026 from Chicago for Spencer Knight in a 2026 first-round pick. Now they traded Knight. They needed a backup goaltender. They had to call out Chris Drieger. Now, to do that...
They needed money in the salary cap, so they had to make a little move of Matthew Kachuk going to a long-term injured reserve. So they had to do that to get the money. They signed Jesper Bokrest to a two-year contract, and then they acquired Vitek Vanacek from San Jose for Patrick Giles. They signed Jesse Pugliavi to a two-way contract.
And then they acquired Nico Sturm in a 2027 seven-round draft pick from San Jose. for a 2026 fourth-round pick and acquired Kapo Kakanen from the Jets for Chris Drieger. Sending him back home. Sending him back home. So, yeah, kind of busy. And they're not done because they have $4.1 million left in the cap to make a move. What do you think is going to happen?
We know what a balk in baseball is, though.
I'll explain the balk rule to you later, but this is from Flames Panthers. All right. And the Panthers have a streak on of— Goals being challenged.
That wasn't a save. That was a goal. What happened with that? What was going on with Vladar? Kevin Ball forced Carter Verhage into the crease, right? Forced him into the crease. Did not allow him to exit. This has been happening recently.
Finally, the New York Rangers have scratched and clawed their way back to a playoff spot. They are tied with the Ottawa Senators. Currently, Ottawa has a game at hand. That's why they owned the wildcard spot. What are they going to do during this trade deadline? Because they've already put Chris Kreider on IR.
Behind the goal line.
It's a busy day for you, Nick. We appreciate you joining us.
And remember to check Jagermeister out at DraftKingsXJagermeister.com.
All right, so I'm going to what the Panthers did this week as far as games played. And we're going to start with Saturday's game against the Calgary Flames, which they won 3-0. And that was Ryan Lumberg's return. And that was a special one because Lumberg, they gave him the video, the trivia video, and then he did a lap.
And that was the only positive moment for the Flames in that game because, as Ethan said, they were completely dominated. I mean, look at the counting stats here. The Panthers had 42 shots on 76 attempts. The Flames had 23 shots on 42 attempts. So they knocked them down defensively. Scoring chances, it was 41-12 in favor of the Panthers and 16-9 high danger. That's just terrible.
And the Flames are not that far away. I mean, they're really, really close to the last spot in the playoffs in the Western Conference. It's been bad for them.
Yeah, we'll get to that in a little bit, but first... The big game. Yeah, the game against Tampa. It was a bit quiet in that game, though. I mean, not a lot of fisticuffs in that game, in my opinion.
All right, so do you want position players' sticks to not have black tape because that's hiding the puck?
Yeah, Seth Jones' first game with the Panthers, although his first, I would say the first period was not great for him or Nico Mikula. Mikula took two penalties in that period, and they weren't good ones either. But, hey.
And I don't care.
We're halfway done.
And there's no rule against that either. Okay, all right, fine.
All right, fine. Go. Fine. All right, the Lightning wrote an eight-game winning streak into that game.
Yeah. That's way too low. You need to boost that up, by the way. All right. Yeah. There's my hot take on your hot take. All right. Ethan.
I don't know why it just doesn't feel terrifying to me. It doesn't feel terrifying anymore to me.
I'm saying us. Biased. Yeah. By the way, Alexander Barkov, as Rosie pointed out earlier in the show, two goals.
Yeah, we need more aggressive Barkov because he needs to shoot the puck. He's been too passive. You know, he's been trying to set up his teammates. He's been trying to set up Ryan Hardy. He can do it all.
They played Columbus. That was also a big game. Another playoff team. Yeah, another playoff team. And Panthers won 3-0. And that was a special team theme to this one because... Really, the Panthers bullied Columbus. But earlier in this game, three penalties in the first six minutes.
And one of them was from a challenge, which I understand why they tried to do it, but not in that situation after giving them two penalties.
Yeah, 16 saves for Sergey Bobrovsky. I mean, you could have picked anybody else for a star in that situation, actually, how good that defense was for the Panthers.
Yeah, I think so. Jonah Gajewicz, two fights in the first period.
You practiced that in the bathroom this morning.
Whoa, that's the breaking news sound.
I'm not done. Oh, sorry. For fuck's sake, dude. The Panthers have allowed more than two goals once in the last eight games.
I don't know. I don't have that stat.
Yeah, just one goal in the last eight games.
They haven't lost back-to-back games since January 11th and 13th. And since then, they've won 14 of the last 19. They have had one losing streak this season. It was a four-game losing streak earlier in the season. They've only lost back-to-back games five times this season. So when they lose, they quickly rebound.
We got Buffalo. We. I said we again. It's okay. The Panthers have Buffalo on Saturday. That is tomorrow. Buffalo has lost five in a row, including last night when they blew a 5-3 lead.
But still, it's just bad for no reason. Bad for no reason. I mean, they have to be bad. I feel bad for them. It's just terrible. It's terrible. This is as a...
a fan of the Sabres growing up so I feel bad for him but that's tomorrow and that looks like a win for the Panthers and I said that in the first I said that for the first matchup against the Buffalo Sabres and of course that did not happen but anyway that's the show that's Dave that's Rose thank you very much for listening people I bye bye I'm trying to close the show here I mean come on
It's fireable.
No, I don't have an ego. See, that's a backhanded hot take.
I appreciate you saying that. I'm 6'2", 190. That's the perfect height and weight for a hockey player. I think Claire's going to be better than me, though. I can tell you that right now. But I appreciate you saying that. I disagree. I think I'm going to suck.
Oh, yeah, yes.
I can't wait for that.
Oh, great. So that gets started around playoff time. So that's going to suck if there's a game on the same day.
We'll figure that out.
Welcome to the Hockey Show. Thank you for joining us. My name is Roy. That's David. Rose and Ethan. All right. We are here. I don't want to hear any complaints about my intro.
Yeah, we're going to fake that. Yeah, yeah, I blocked the shot.
Yeah, you got to love a coach who chirps, man. Not like Mike Babcock or anybody like that.
Yeah. That's not a very good image to have on my head. Thanks. All right, my win of the week. Spencer Knight was traded from the Florida Panthers to the Chicago Blackhawks. He had his first game recently, and it was a special one, although the defensive front of Chicago probably should sure that up. 41 saves and a 5-1 victory over the Los Angeles Kings, and the team celebrating in the locker room.
Championship belt. Oh, yeah, it's a tool belt.
It was better. That wasn't a complaint. That was a compliment. Okay. All right. We're backhanded. Slap shots. Hot takes. David, go.
Yeah, I missed that man already. I mean, he should have been the next one. Should have been the next one, but it didn't work out. But his time here, he's a Stanley Cup champion.
Yeah.
Yeah, I was originally a Blackhawks fan when I started following hockey and then added the Buffalo Sabres to that repertoire because they're in the Eastern Conference and then we got a hockey team. How did you get the
We don't need to go into it. This is playoffs. This is all playoffs. Because I started watching hockey when the playoffs started. So that's how that worked.
It is a good uniform. Yeah. Yeah, it's a very good uniform. Ethan, your win of the week.
I'm sorry, but if you do that to a goaltender, that other team should get a power play.
2 o'clock in the morning? The guy practiced.
Rosie.
The drum?
The banger. He was the banger of the drum.
Look at his beauty.
Alexander Barkov had two goals in that game, by the way.
The sequel, not even the original.
Yeah, like Terminator 2. Yeah, okay.
Terminator and Godfather are like the top of that list. Fails of the week, David. For crying out loud.
Yeah, if that was a wrister, even if that was a snapshot, that would be a lot worse.
They didn't score on any power plays in that game. No, they did not. No, they did not. My fail of the week. The New York Islanders. This has been like three weeks in a row. Yes. Yes. We're going to start getting mail from the Islanders. Like, why are you hating on us so much? They know why I'm hating on them.
Poor Matt Barzal. I'm going to continue this into the regular season probably because embarrassing moments happen to them a lot. This is what happened to him. All right. So that did off his head. It's a great header. Yeah, I mean, exactly. That went off his head. The Islanders were at the Garden against the Rangers, and a deflected puck bounced off the head of Will Cooley and into the net.
It's a shame he wasn't more headstrong. Now, the Islanders... Now the Islanders lost to the Rangers again. They are 0-3-0 against the Rangers. The Rangers are 3-0-0 against the Islanders this season and have won by a combined score of 14-3.
So.
I still don't think he's showing up. Where's the wheel FX? I still don't believe it.
This is a terrifying look. He does look like a cat, though.
So I can try and figure out who the dad is. I think it'll be pretty obvious. A decent guy. Decent guy. Michael Thompson. If he tells his name, we're going to try to figure it out.
We got a video, actually.
There it is. Gotcha.
This guy's heard a lot of drums. I'm telling you, he nailed it. Come on, you're going to have to defer to Chris Cody here.
No, I don't listen to, what's her name again? Chapel Roan, Pink Pony Club. What are we doing?
I didn't say, of course I never heard of that. I just never heard of it.
I know your eyes did it too.
It picked up. You can't mess with Toto, baby. There was a pop. Give it 30 years, you'll get Pink Pony Club. Sure, okay.
No, no. A disappointment on your face, man.
At one point in time in the United States, the dairy industry was struggling so heavily that they reached out to lobbyists who went to the government, who encouraged them to buy an excess of cheese to make sure the stock market didn't crash surrounding the dairy industry, resulting in what we now know as the cheese case, but also something else.
While the government stores the cheese in the cheese caves, they also send out plenty of excess cheese to modern pizza chains in the United States. such as Papa John's and Domino's and Jets and pretty much every pizza chain you know of uses government cheese.
Because they had such an excess of cheese and because they were looking for a way to get rid of it to justify the cost of buying so much, the government encouraged a lot of these chain pizza places to use more and more cheese in various products. The government is why we have stuffed crust pizza.
The government is why we have stuffed crust pizza.
The government is why we have stuffed crust pizza.
Joining us now is the analyst from the Florida Panthers Hockey Network on the radio and from NHL Network, Bill Lindsey, who's been doing this for a good long while.
Yes, sir. We are good, sir. How are you?
Yeah, you're looking good, man.
Yeah, well, speaking of trying to make it work, the Florida Panthers are making it work right now. Nice segue. Oh, thank you. I've been doing this for a while. They just beat the St. Louis Blues, and now they're going into Saturday to face the Ottawa Senators before the Four Nations tournament breaks. So let's go over the Four Nations and who's going to be in it for Florida.
For Team USA, we've got Matthew Kachuk. Team Canada, both Sams. The Sams Club. The Sams Club with Reinhardt and Bennett. Team Finland. Four people. We've got four everybody. All the Finns. We've got Alexander Barkov, Anton Lindell, Ita Lusserainen, Nico Mikula, and for Team Sweden, Gustav Forsling. Now. My question is, you got all these guys going into this tournament, multiple games.
How are they going to feel coming out of this tournament? My comp is obviously the World Cup of Hockey that happened in the mid-90s, and that was tough. That one was very physical. Nobody liked each other, even if they were on the same team. So I expect them to be a little bit tired coming out of the tournament. What say you, Bill?
You can't bat the puck in with your glove either. It can bounce off your torso. It can bounce off your leg. Well, it's a little different. I think hand-eye coordination. You can't make that sweeping motion. No.
at right now is them going into this game and the fact that their teammates during the regular season it's all going to be put aside right so do you agree like is there going to be chirping is Matthew Kachuk going to be chirping Alexander Barkov when USA plays Finland uh it depends how the games go you play with guys and you win a Stanley Cup like that the chirping is going to be minimal I don't know how much you actually get
That's the other thing. Fun. I mean, you can deflect it off the skate. Yeah, that's legal. So why can't you just kick it in?
Now, you mentioned Sidney Crosby. I'm setting my very unhealthy dislike of Sidney Crosby aside. Tell me why I'm wrong for believing that Team Canada won't even make the championship game.
You know the reason why they do that, though, Ethan? No, I don't. Goaltenders. Goaltenders. That's why. Goaltenders, if they're the last to touch the puck, and all of a sudden there's an own goal that happens, the goaltender is credited with the goal. You know, the opposing goaltender.
And you talk about all those breakaways. That was before they got rid of the two-line pass. Right. So that's more amazing.
Yep.
No, no, no. We're talking about goaltenders scoring goals, actually. Not own goals, but actual goals credited to them. Because if they made the save, and all of a sudden there's an own goal on every net.
I apologize for that. Let's look at the division leaders before we let you go, Billy. The Panthers are leading the Atlantic. They got a three-point lead over Toronto right now. One of the biggest surprises of the year are the Washington Capitals. So that's the East right there. The Capitals are leading the Metro. The Edmonton Oilers have had the best record in the NHL since November 7th, 28-9-3.
And the Winnipeg Jets, who have been great all season, have won seven in a row and 11 in the last 14. Are we looking at both conference matchups there for the semifinals?
Yeah, well, I'm looking at Washington and Florida and Edmonton and Winnipeg. Are we looking at the conference?
Correct.
Billy, we appreciate you joining us from the Florida Panthers Radio Network and NHL Network. That's Bill Lindsay, everybody. Thank you, Billy.
No, clearly.
All right, Ryan Hartman got suspended for 10 games for this. Now, this type of stuff should not be in the game. And what he did looked like something out of the WWE. It looked like something out of AEW, TNA as well. I mean, Ryan Hartman basically, Did his best Jake the Snake Roberts impression and gave a DDT to Tim Stusler.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
He's lucky he didn't get hurt worse because that came down right in his neck.
Thank you. Thank you.
That's what cut him open. Yeah. That's what cut him open.
Yeah. So he had a cut over his eye because of that. He could have had a concussion. He could have had a broken neck. And he got a 10-game suspension not because of that. It was multiplied because he's a repeat offender. He's been suspended seven times prior to this. Really? Seven. That many times? Yes. It's been a few one-game suspensions, a couple of threes, and a five. Now he's got a ten.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
This is it. This is the last one. Dude's got a lot of points on his license. Yep. He should have his license taken away from him.
Thank you.
That's crazy. That's reckless play. Now, he gave the reason why I was trying to keep my balance. So I used my arm to be on top. It's still slid. What is this?
That's why you need a sled.
rips the heart out of Jim Montgomery, who took over for the Blues early in the season after, again, the Panthers ripped the heart out of Jim Montgomery early in the season prior to his firing in Boston. He does not like playing Florida. No, he does not. Tomorrow, on Saturday, they play the Ottawa Senators. One more time, Brady versus Matthew. They will not fight, but they will fight.
That play was off a face-off, by the way. That's why he complained about it. I was trying to keep my balance there. Or just fall on your ass and maybe paralyze the guy. Right. I don't know. So he's appealing the suspension. If Bettman says no, because this is... Six games or more, he's going to have to go to an independent arbitrator. And then who knows what's going to happen from there.
the other members of the opposing team, before Brady and Matthew end up joining each other for the Four Nations on Team USA. So that should be a lot of fun. And things have gotten a lot interesting in the standings right now. The Panthers are 8-4-0 in the last... 12, they lead the division, as we said earlier, by three points over the Maple Leafs. One point. One point?
Yeah, Toronto won last night. Toronto won last night. They beat Seattle. Son of a mutter. But the Senators. Mutter was a mutter. Mutter, mutter, mutter. The Senators have scratched and clawed their way into a playoff spot. They are now in a wild card spot after losing to Tampa last night.
Yeah, I mean, Ottawa had third place in the division and lost it because of that loss last night to Tampa. And Ottawa's 10-4-1 in the last 15, but they lost two in a row, back-to-back losses. And that's the situation that those two are going to have tomorrow before we go on break.
Yeah. Yeah, that's going to gain some national attention. They are going to kill each other, except Matthew and Brady, who are going to be standing off to the side.
No? No. Grandma says no.
That's how that works. Sorry. All right. That's Dave. That's Ethan. My name is Roy. Thank you for joining us. We'll see you next week.
But he deserves his suspension. Yeah, that's not cool. And I'm telling you right now, following this, if he does anything as heinous as that... I mean, he might as well go the Tony D'Angelo route and go to Russia.
Yeah.
I mean, why don't we just go back to having ties? I mean, no, no. You got first, second, third, fourth, and fifth place votes. So that's going to be exceedingly difficult for a tie to happen.
Yeah, it's got to be a tiebreaker.
Well, keep in mind, Barkov was actually injured earlier in the season. That's going against him.
Under zero circumstance were those two canceling each other out. That's ball calls.
He's got the cliches down already as a prospect. He's so hyper-focused and ready to go. It's like they teach a class
It's the hockey show. That's Dave. That's Ethan. Rosie is not here. She's at the Super Bowl. That's it. All right. So let's go to slap shots really quickly. Let's go. All right. Hot takes.
Yes, I know that. But still, you want us to pay it?
Jake Navers was like, I'm sorry, Mr. Bennett. I was not attuned to your game. That sort of thing.
Yeah, my win of the week goes to the Ice Crew at the United Center Wednesday night prior to the Oilers game against the Blackhawks. Saw a bat flying around.
Yeah, yeah. The coyote. Osborne out there. Yeah. Eventually, again, like they do with Spurs games, like we just mentioned, they caught the bat. They netted the bat down with a huge net down to the ice and safely got that flying mammal up out of there. So good job by the Blackhawks ice crew. Multi-purpose. I like that. Yeah, very good.
This is the second time. This is like the second straight week.
Well, a couple of things. A couple of games prior to that, they had their goaltender ran. They didn't do a thing. And they went into the press conference saying, hey, well, we do this, we take a penalty in that situation. We needed the win. And then Lenny Ruff said, pick anybody else. Go and fight. Like, they did that. That happened. That's twice in a row. And the second thing is,
You've got to go pretty high, and I mean pretty high, to knock down Tate Thompson with a head shot. The man's 6'8". That's ridiculous.
That's a deserved fail of the week, though, right, guys? Yes, that is deserved. My fail of the week, the bounces did not go the Kings way early in their game, but I mean, ridiculous. Mike Matheson, this was against the Canadiens, took a shot from the point, which deflected off the ass of Drew Dowdy, which then deflected off the mask of Darcy Kemper to tie the game at 1-1.
The Kings ended up winning this one 6-3, but you can't take that to a... What are you going to call this? An own goal? The butt puck.
The butthead goal. That should count against Drew Doughty. The butthead goal.
That would be a defenseman. That would be an E2 in that situation. If you go from goaltender to defenseman to forward, that would be E2, E3. Yeah. Yeah, there you go. Ethan, you are wearing a Northeastern University jersey. Yeah. Why?
Now, we did this, what, I don't know, five episodes in? Yeah, a while ago. Yeah, we got a John Van Biesbroeck statue. Oh, no, the mask. The John Van Biesbroeck mask. It's right over there. It's over there in the production studio. Like, I try. I try to get free stuff all the time, you know, and I deserve it. I worked hard over 20 years. I like free stuff.
I want free stuff right now, so please... Ethan's got the Biesbroeck mask. Yeah, so please, if you have free stuff... Myself, David, Ethan, and Rosie, if she was here to talk to herself. We did get the awesome stickers. Oh, we got the awesome stickers.
And again, as long as it's not Sidney Crosby related. I ask that you please benefit us. Bless us.
Because it's an own goal. No, no.
All eight of them. I'll take the Panthers. All eight Panthers. I'm cheering for everyone who's Panthers.
We have Bill Lindsey coming up. If you want to watch that, you can watch that on YouTube if you're watching on DKN. So Billy Lindsey is going to join us in a second.
Morton Downey Jr. to capitalize on the moment. They had TV shows.
Yeah, it has a clear phone, though.
Can you imagine the gigantic L that Drake's going to take when thousands of people in that stadium and everybody at home just say it's A minor? Does anyone know what are we talking about?
All right. The Hockey Show is hosting a live watch along at the Dead Flamingo. If you are in the area, you guys can come by and support us and watch the game with us. If you are not in the area, you can watch online with us live. That's game two of the Stanley Cup final between the Panthers and the Oilers tonight at 8 o'clock.
I ended the vacation early.
I gotta believe so. I haven't seen any lineup adjustments or anything like that. They haven't had more than Skate yet, so we'll see once they get on the ice.
No, no, no. Oh, really? Don't you feel like if it wasn't? You're not an idiot. I didn't know that, for real. Why wouldn't you?
Extra man.
How much of this is too much rest? We saw that coming off of the Tampa series going into Toronto. They had plenty of rest. We can't do Russ versus Russ when they had the same break. I had to because they didn't have the same break. They had a lead.
That first pair in game one was truly awful. Ekblad and Forsling, they did not do well at all in that game.
You don't think he's sharing with his linemen?
I'm looking at something else. Roy, do not look.
And during the postgame scrum, Patrick Raw had some ire towards Anthony Duclair. Here's the sound.
Robert Powell joins us from ESPN. And I just got to tell you, if you've listened to me, if you've watched me for the past 19 years, you've known my dislike for Sidney Crosby. It's a great place to start. Welcome to the show. I hate Sidney Crosby. I hate Sidney Crosby. I don't like the Penguins, and I don't like Sidney Crosby. And people look at me like I'm a fool because it's Sidney Crosby.
Duke, Claire played only a little over 12 minutes. He was god-awful. He was god-awful. He had a bad game. That's why I didn't play him a lot. And he's lucky to be in the lineup. Sorry if I lose it on him right now, but that's all I feel. Just what are you seeing that he's not doing? He's not skating, he's not competing, he's not moving his feet. He's not playing up to what we expect from him.
He's quote-unquote, quote-unquote. Finger guns, finger waving over here. One of the greatest players of all time. Just my ass. How about that? All right, so there have been entirely too much celebration for obscure, meaningless, pointless career stats all season for this guy. And I'm just going to give you examples of what happened here. Thank you, Ethan, for these.
Sidney Crosby's assist last night, this was last night's game, extended his point streak to 11 games, marking the longest point streak by a player age 37 or older Since Nicholas Lidstrom in Detroit in 2010-2011. What are we doing now? What's the point of that stat? On March 18th, Sidney Crosby surpassed Wayne Gretzky for the fourth most points for a single franchise in NHL history for 16-70.
That was back on March 18th. Fourth most we're celebrating. Yeah, fourth most. On March 11th. Sidney Crosby registered his 105th multi-goal game, which is ranked second among active players behind Alexander Ovechkin. Artur, what the f*** are we doing?
What are we doing?
I like that stat. That is a good stat. That is a good stat.
I would hate that set if it was Sidney Crosby.
Compiler. Compiler.
All right. He's Omar Vizquel.
He hasn't committed a single error in 15 years, this Sidney Crosby. I'm like, I'm tired of it. All right, we're wasting artist time. Can I ask him some real questions?
Just about, yeah. Come on. Yeah, yes. I mean, come on. We got Gordie Howe.
Maurice Rashard. Ned Gretzky. Like, what are we doing here?
Wayne Gretzky's brother.
E2 Lusteranian. Yager, Yager, and everybody, yeah. Yes, everybody excelled. Yeah, all right, let's move on.
Thank God.
The loss to the Canadiens did that one.
Do you feel like that's an effort thing? I think it's an effort thing.
That's not easy in the moment. The PR staff for the Islanders actually cut the video portion of that short because that didn't sound too good. So, yeah, I got to say Patrick Raw is probably right about Duclair. Seven goals and four assists for 11 points in 44 games. That's not going to get it done. But he did get injured earlier in the season with a
The Panthers murdered him. The Panthers ended that era.
Yes, they did.
Yeah. That's when the casket went down and they started putting dirt in the grave. That was game over for the Bruins in this era. So let's play the, uh, The video of the fight between Conor McMichael and Jalen Chatfield. This is an MMA move, basically. This looked like something out of WWE, actually, because look at this.
He's going to spin him around, and he looked like he ended up rock bottom, giving him a rock bottom on that one.
Yeah, I mean, we've seen plenty of takedowns in these fights, but we haven't seen a takedown like that, and that would look pretty dangerous. That's the type of takedown that you end up hitting your head on the ice. But he's not going to get any supplemental discipline. Did he deserve any type of fine or suspension for that move?
The director of the Department of Player Safety is noted pugilist George Peros. So how much of this is on him? Because it seems like a lot of these suspensions and fines are substantially subjective.
Well, they played Gloria, so yeah.
Yeah, and that's the physical side of it, by the way. The emotional side is, even before the season started, Lou Lamorello, who was the GM of the Islanders, is still going by this archaic rule of keeping your hair short and having facial hair. There's a lot more to the rules on this team that's just ridiculous. The Yankees aren't even using that.
Finally, two teams, as you said earlier, have not been hot at the right time. That's the Devils and the Islanders, especially the Islanders because of whatever. So Sheldon Keefe and Patrick Waugh have both thrown their players under the bus.
In this latest instance, Patrick Waugh ended up doing that to Anthony Duclair, and Anthony Duclair is now done for the season as he takes some time off to reflect. So what is your opinion on coaches nowadays throwing their players under the bus and embarrassing them in the media?
Thank you.
Thank you.
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Thank you.
I'm tired of this, man. This is the second back-to-back left. The two back-to-backs left in this season. So, got to get through it. So, they beat Tampa, right? They beat Tampa. Yeah, they beat Tampa.
Yeah, so there's that. They got a good amount lead for the first raw card spot, so I don't think they have to worry about losing that one.
Yeah, and now the series is split against Florida for the season. The Senators won 3-1 in October, and the Panthers won 5-1 in February. That would have been a fun playoff series.
Yeah, he built that outdoor rink north down here.
And then Sunday they go to Detroit, who is still in the race. They're still in the race for the second wild card. So they got something to play for. They'll be coming off their game versus Carolina. They play tonight. And the Red Wings won 5-2 against Florida back in January. That was their only meeting. So they got a couple of games left against Florida.
The Red Wings have gone 4-5-1 since losing six in a row. So there's that. I wouldn't say a bit of a bounce back. I mean, they lost six in a row. So, again, four wins out of the last ten. That's not how you make the playoffs. That's not how you make the playoffs. So, that's what the Panthers are looking at this upcoming weekend. Not a good week for them.
Hoping to bounce back before they head home after Sunday. So, for David Dwork, for Ethan Podolsky, for Jason, and whoever it is back there as well. Arda. oh yeah for auto cow for gino and i don't know who that was i think that was dang gq uh thank you for listening thank you for watching we'll see you next week bye
Yeah, and back to the whole coaching situation. That was not good. Now we're throwing players under the bus now. This is what Sheldon Keefe did last week, and this is not good. This is not how you get your players to respond. No, definitely not.
You do that shit in private. You don't go out into the media and just embarrass a player like this. And this is not 100% undeclared at all because this is a mediocre team, this New York Islanders club. Like the goaltending is in the middle of the league. They have the worst power play in the league. They have great penalty killing.
No, they have good penalty killings. Are they good on PK? Yeah, they're good on PK.
Yeah, and the defense is bad. The defense is bad at even strength. But they're disciplined. They don't take too many penalties. That's why the penalty killings... It's because of the lack of facial hair. They're able to stay out of the box. Yeah, the referees are looking at that. Clean players mean good discipline, apparently.
Welcome to the Hockey Show. My name is Roy Bellamy. David Jork from the Hockey News is right there. Ethan Badowski is in the shipping container. And Rosie is still out doing March Madness stuff. Ethan's over there doing the Gator Chomp with the Penn State.
But I really do hate when coaches do that to players because it's just... It's not a good look. No. And when does it work? Does that work anymore these days? It doesn't work. And then when the player goes, if the player does the same thing to the coach, ice time gets reduced. Like, straight up. Like, it's a one-way street on that one. I don't like that. And now the player has requested time off.
Yeah, it's not a good situation.
Seven points out of a playoff spot? I don't know if him or Lou. Dude, Claire's only 29. That's crazy to me.
But he's been hampered by injuries, and that's pretty much reduced his playing career.
No, he automatically changes your transition offense when he's on your club, when he's fully healthy. And he's just going to have to heal. And that's what we're looking at on the island. And just ridiculous.
And I remember the last day I saw Vincent Trocek in a Panthers uniform. We were in the locker room and I saw him and he was amazing. about as depressed as I've ever seen an actual athlete live. It looked like he was told that he was being traded. And that's eventually what happened. He was traded. So, yeah, that's one of those situations where you got to go like, man, I'm sorry, dude.
He's doing okay now. I think he's pretty happy.
Oh, absolutely. Let's get into our wins and fails presented by Jägermeister. Serve it cold or don't serve it at all. Jägermeister. Damn, that's cold. For more, visit Jägermeister.com. Drink responsibly. David, your win of the week.
Yeah, you don't have to. We don't talk about that here. This is the hockey show. We talk hockey. We got Otto Okao from ESPN on later. If you are watching on DraftKings Network, you can watch that on YouTube by going to the Levitar YouTube page. That's Levitar and Friends. Search out the playlist, and we are on the hockey show folder. So you can watch it there, or you can listen on the podcast.
I'm looking at him and he has a blank face.
Watch Major League. Don't watch Major League. Two, don't watch Major League. Back in the minors. Just watch Major League.
No, it wasn't.
All right. I can't believe you just said that.
He did okay in Boston, too. We will talk about the Bruins later. This is my win of the week. The Wild went to Madison Square Garden to play the Rangers on Wednesday, and during pregame skate, Matt Zucamrello, who was a Ranger, wore a nice little jersey that had the number 40 and the last name of Rosen on the back.
And that was a nod to Sam Rosen, the Rangers play-by-play analyst for MSG, who is retiring at the end of the season. Matt Zuccarello, as I said, was a former Ranger. So that is a nice gesture for Sam Rosen, who is going to... If he's not already, I'm sure he's probably going to end up being in the Pro Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto.
Yeah, Keith Overman always makes fun of him for some reason, but he's a Rangers fan himself, so yeah, I guess that's all in fun. Ethan?
It's an excellent explanation. Yeah, thank you. I appreciate you. I appreciate you. All right, so let's start off with the New York Islanders so I can continue. Your favorite topic. Yeah, I need to continue the streak of bashing them for signing racists. All right, so the New York Islanders have lost to the Lightning and effectively was knocked out of playoff contention basically on Wednesday.
Chelsea daggers?
No, that was not Chicago. That was the one minor league-ass goal horn, by the way.
Oh, dude.
You guys switch-flipped.
Trevor Zegers flip over the net. Yes, yes.
My winner of the week, we go back to Tuesday for Capitals and Bruins. This is for Alexander Ovechkin's 890th goal of his career, and I can tell you this is not how you defend anybody. Not a rookie forward, not Alexander Ovechkin, and nobody in the middle. He was left wide open with nobody around him five feet away from the net.
I mean, if you look at the still image, which is going to come up soon, there was zero reason. zero reason why alexander ovechkin should have been that wide open next to your net look at this look at that that's a high percentage look what's the what's the xg on this voice 0.98 0.99 nah man yeah that's uh 99 that's a 1.0 right there uh ethan you'll fail
Even though Perot has had a great year. That pass was deflected.
So we got Artur Ocal from ESPN to come on to talk about what's happened this week. If you are watching on DKN, you can watch that on YouTube and you can listen to it on the podcast. That is coming up next.
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You know, in the city of Birmingham, you know, it was love and appreciation and reverence for all of the Negro League. It's not just Willie Mays. You know, I think what Reggie Jackson said was relevant. It was poignant, but it was also important to understand that's what we're trying to remember. But ultimately, also in a way grow away from.
And I think that the fact that you could have a game of that significance in a place where things that heinous took place on a regular basis, I think is a testament to a lot of the growth that is happening in the state of Alabama. I just love the fact that the Brickwood game happened because normally when you're talking about my hometown of Birmingham is dogs and fire hoses.
So to be able to talk and at least be able to give those brothers a moment in the sun to tell them, thank you, You know, it's not going to fix everything that happened to them. But I think it's a very, very important part of growing past all of it.
You know, the one thing that was dope, I was in the stadium when they announced when Willie Mays had passed on Tuesday night and you saw strangers crying and hugging white, black, whatever. And I think that's exactly the spirit of what Willie Mays was and using the sport of baseball to bring people together.
But because you get to sit down with living griots, the whole podcast, we're talking to retired Negro leaguers, former architects of the stadium, people who lived and played during that time, white and black.
And they're just telling stories of how this stadium became the one place where you could figure out whether, like the fact that you already said it at the top, the first integrated sports game happened there. Part of the reason for that is that The Black, the Birmingham Black Barons outsold the White Barons in tickets during the days of integrated baseball.
White people would come to watch Black people play. So it became a place where integration was, there was a level of racial tolerance between both parties. So Rickwood became the perfect test kitchen, if you will, for desegregation in the South. In the same way it was the first integrated sports game, that same game was also the first integrated crowd.
So if it can happen there, then the idea of desegregation can kind of tentacle off from Rickwood. And that's partly what happened. The one thing they messed up and I found this out in the podcast, they the Charlie Finley, the owner of the Barons at the Barons at the time, they did a giveaway at the first integrated game for the crowd. And it was razor blades. Now,
I don't know if weaponry should be the thing you give to black people and white people when they sit side by side for the first time. But old Gillette made a push for the sponsorship. So it's a lot of interesting facts just about how baseball intersects with our society and just silly fun stuff like that. You know, we talked to retired Negro leaguers, man.
They told me stories of how they would send light-skinned players into white restaurants so that they could get food and then just pray that the player doesn't take his hat off and that afro come jumping out from underneath the hat.
But I think the thing that I left last week with was how much the retired Negro Leaguers, most of them that I talked to, I'd say 95%, they look back at their time playing in the Negro Leagues with a level of reverence and happiness because they were around friends and it was hard, but it was the one part of their life that wasn't completely crazy and they still have an appreciation for those days.
Never again. Never again. What? I will never. I've done it. I don't need to play in no celebrity, nothing, no more, never again. I will be the hype man on the side like that dude in those and one mixtape. Like I will attend a celebrity game and just be there in the dugout. But the idea of being on the field, here's the problem with every celebrity athletic event.
You have people who want to win and then you have people just here to have fun. I'm just here to have fun. I'm not trying to win. I don't care about winning. And they get these athletes who are just like 10 years or less since their retirement. So they're still strong. They're still able-bodied. Steven Jackson.
and this is the play that we talked to stephen jackson before we even get to me and him almost colliding in left field stephen jackson matt barnes who was the mvp of the softball game stephen jackson and matt barnes took this game so seriously and i have nothing but the highest of respect for them i knew from the locker room i wasn't going to do nothing stephen jackson was stretching his jordans matched his outfit them ain't even the jordans they gave us they gave us free sneakers that matched the uniform and stephen jackson was like nah i got this
We start losing. We start losing. We're getting our ass whooped the whole game, our team. And there is an intensity with professional athletes, even if they're not suiting up anymore, that I just, unless you've done it, I just don't think you can plug into it. I couldn't plug into it. There's a play where there's a fly ball to left field. It's my ball. It is clearly my ball.
I'm coming in and I'm looking up and I can hear Steven Jackson and I can hear him just, yeah. And I don't know if that's how he calls for fly balls. But in my brain, I could my brain is telling me he's not going to stop. He's Steven Jackson. He's locked in. Maybe you should get out of the way. And I get out of the way at the last second.
Steven Jackson catches this fly ball, turns around and runs back towards the infield and mumbles. And I quote. I got this. This is what I do.
I don't have that gear. Neither do I. Whatever that gear is for you to talk to yourself. No. So never again, man. Respect to Steven Jackson, man, but I can't play softball like that. That man was talking trash like he was going back up the court in transition on a baseball field.
He came out like Jeter and just catches it and goes, I got this. This is what I do. Clearly, this is what you do, sir. You can have the ball. I'm not trying to collide with nobody at no celebrity softball game to tribute the Negro Leagues. I'm good. Roy, did you feel confident?
Yeah, I thought so. But if I hadn't have caught the ball, now I'm face to face with Steven Jackson. So it's probably better to just get out of this man's way. These celebrity games, man, it's just people trying to prove they still got it, or it's a rapper trying to take over.
y'all got it man y'all got it and and shout out to lebron's company spring hill who helped organize it in cc sabathia with the players alliance they sent a questionnaire and they asked you what position do you like to play what's you know what's your skill level of what's your ability at this sports because they can decide how to roster you the only question they should ask is whether or not you got this do you got this or not
Were you at the – How serious will you take this game? Because I would have said three, and then you'd have put me over there maybe with Robin Thede or Kel Mitchell from Kenan & Kel. Kel was playing at a three.
Yeah, a three or a two. Steven Jackson and Matt Barnes were both on 12. And it's just Jameis Winston was locked in. Des Bryant was locked in. Terrell Owens was locked in. There's just a there is a there is a level that every athlete accesses, whether it is for pay or for exhibition that I do not possess. And I just don't know if I belong out there.
No, I missed Rhino by a day. I was there the day before where they paid tribute to the 84 team that won the NL East. So Sutcliffe was there. Sandberg was there. A whole gang of the guys from 84. And, you know, that was a great time. I mean, dude, I had a I had a hell of a week, man. I met Reggie Jackson.
I had an opportunity to sit down with a 98 year old Negro leaguer and I got Ryan Sandberg's autograph. That was in terms of baseball weeks. Probably better than me seeing the Cubs win it all in Cleveland.
So you're going to show the bad one.
You're going to show the bad one.
All them producers there. All the producers there. You couldn't find the one from last week, though. I had 44 mile an hour over the plate last week.
All them computers. Look at all them computers in there.
Terce Lone works for NBC Sports California. She is the San Jose Sharks reporter, and she's joining us right now here on the Hockey Show. We're going to talk about the Stanley Cup playoffs with her. Let's start with what's going on in Canada. The Maple Leafs managed not to choke.
Despite the fact that the fans almost jinxed them by chanting we want Florida and then them losing two straight afterwards. Now, they put themselves in that situation. And I would not have had sympathy for them because they're not learning. They're not learning at all. But now that round one is over, give us a sense of what the mood is in Toronto.
Fair. I mean, you got to worry about corrosion there. I mean, salt water is pretty damaging. That's Phil's job to keep the cup.
I mean, the other side of the country right now, we got the Edmonton Oilers, who for the fourth straight season has eliminated the Los Angeles Kings from the playoffs. And they did it this time down 0-2 and coming back to win four straight. How is this going to propel them through the rest of the playoffs?
The Montreal Canadiens, they weren't able to get past the Washington Capitals, but it was a surprise for them to make the playoffs in the first place. Do you believe that this is just a stepping stone right now for the Canadians? Are they going to get better next year?
I bet you they're wishing for a 1-8 playoff.
I counted 64 members of the media who had picked the Tampa Bay Lightning over the Florida Panthers. Now, granted, one guy, by the way, that I saw, Ian McIntyre, I have no idea who he is, and I'm sure he doesn't have any idea who I am or you or him, but he picked the Lightning in five games. What are we doing there? Somebody has to explain to me the amount of disrespect that
that the members of the hockey media gave the Florida Panthers, knowing that they were going to end up in full strength without Aaron Ekblad, who was suspended and eventually got suspended again. To me, it's just disrespectful of the defending Stanley Cup champions. What do you think, Tara?
And finally the New York Rangers have hired Mike Sullivan to be the 30th head coach today.
Did not even take a week. Did not even take a week. What do you think about the Rangers' decision?
That tells you not just how deep the Panthers are. That tells you... about their secondary scoring. They have an excellent top nine.
Tara Sloan from NBC Sports, California. Thank you for joining us. Thank you, Tara.
So we have Etu Lusterainen here for the Florida Panthers. He's currently on the third line with Anton Lundell and Brad Marchand. They just eliminated the Tampa Bay Lightning. Five games. Five games. Five games. Dispatched them pretty quickly. So the Lightning led the league in scoring. They were top five in power play. They were top five in the penalty kill.
And they had the league leader in points this season. Etu, how were you guys able to shut them down?
uh i mean i think just the way we able to shut them down there i think just playing hard against their top lines that was our priority uh the penalty kill had been excellent in this series you guys only gave up two power play goals in what 18 opportunities against the tampa bay lightning so uh Go over how the addition of Brad Marchand on that penalty kill helped you guys.
We mentioned Anton Lundell was also on that line with you, and you guys seem to have gotten chemistry pretty quickly. Why don't you go over your ice time with that third line?
It's pasta, isn't it?
You have the Toronto Maple Leafs coming up next, and that's the return of Anthony Stolarz. You got Oliver Ekman-Lawson. You got Steven Lorenz coming back to Sunrise. Lorenzo! And the Leafs fans wanted this. They were chanting, we want Florida. They weren't chanting that again, were they?
They ended up losing two straight before they ended up dispatching the Ottawa Senators. It's like they haven't learned their lesson. But why don't you tell us about this matchup? How do you guys match up against the Toronto Maple Leafs this time?
Coming off the series with the Lightning, that was a physical series. How about team health right now coming into this series with the Maple Leafs? Are you guys healthy right now? Obviously, Aaron Eckblad is suspended, but is this series going to be as physical as it was against Tampa?
Thank you for joining us.
Go get Toronto.
Get it boys.
And that's also proof how deep this team is. Mackie Samaskevich is not seeing that much time.
What are you, Perry Saturn? No respect! Oh, yeah, the map.
Panthers defense, the defensive core, I should say, the defensemen, Aaron Eckblad played only two games in the series. He served his role pretty well by knocking out Brandon Hagel. And Seth Jones has been...
Nate Schmidt has had more goals in this series than Nikita Kucherov has had in 15 straight playoff games.
But the last 10 of those 16... Came against us. As if I'm a part of the team. I did it again. Biased. Yes. 10 of those have come against the Florida Panthers. That's not good. Yeah, what are you going to do? I mean, he's going to win Art Ross, but...
He's a regular season player.
So I'm in a suit, and Dave is in a tie, and he's holding the broom because the Florida Panthers gave the Tampa Bay Lightning a gentleman's sweep. So I can tell you that I still don't understand why the members of the media decided to pick against them, but hey, what are you going to do? But the Panthers completely shut them down.
In another part of the league, this happening today, the Pittsburgh Penguins lost Mike Sullivan a week ago. They decided to part ways. You called it. It took a while, but I was right. Yeah, you called that a while ago. Yeah, that happened months ago. I was right about Mike Sullivan. I was right about John Tortorella. And the New York Rangers today have decided to...
Make Mike Sullivan, very quickly, their new head coach. It's a good hire. It is a good hire. All they need, I guess, is a real good hire. They already got the goaltender. And let's see if there's going to be a philosophy change for the New York Rangers as well. You know what's going to happen, though, with Sullivan out?
Hello, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the Hockey Show. My name is Roy Bellamy. Behind me sweeping right now is David Dwork of the Hockey News. And the shipping container is Ethan Badowski. And me and David are wearing ties. And I'm wearing a suit. And I'm wearing a 3XL.
And John Butchergross, you should know better. You should know better. Let's go to our wins and fails of the week brought to you by Jägermeister. Serve it cold or don't serve it at all. Jägermeister. Damn. That's cold for more. Visit the Jägermeister.com. Please. Drink responsibly. Dave. I've got two wins of the week.
They shut down the Lightning pretty well because when you're that good, when you're scoring that well, especially on special teams, And the Panthers' penalty kill stifles a player like Nikita Kucherov? I mean...
Knocked him down. Knocked Alexander Carrier down, and that allowed the Capitals to get the puck back. And on the ensuing entry into the zone, They might have to score. Brandon Duhame ended up coming off the bench and on a line change and was able to score on that one. The Capitals will win games four and five to finish off the series. And again, we'll take on the Carolina Hurricanes.
And speaking of Hurricanes, my win number two is coming. This is prior to puck drop. Game five. This is Steve Smith Sr., and he had the honor of firing off the air raid siren, as you can see on the video here. He did it so well that he just did not stop. I mean, the stamina. He got a little carried away? Yeah, he got a little carried away.
Steve Smith did so well on that, by the way, that again, he refused to stop. And the Carolina Hurricanes handler there had to tap on the shoulder and say, hey, Steve, Steve, Steve, Steve, Steve, Steve, easy. Ethan, you'll win.
Landis Garg is a finalist for the Masterson Trophy. Yes, he is. Dedication to hockey. So congratulations to him coming back. And now he is going to look at Game 7 against the Dallas Stars. Can't wait. Yeah, can't wait. That's going to be great. Our fail of the week comes from this weekend, and it comes from within the Meadowlark Media Organization.
Our engineer, Daniel Gonzalez-Crivedo, better known as Danny GQ, got married this weekend. Congratulations. That is not the fail.
Our fail of the week is marriage. No, no, no. That is definitely a win. Congratulations, Danny. Our fail happened at the reception. It happened on the dance floor. And it happened to Mike Malley. Ethan, you were there.
Yeah.
My plus one was at the house because I came straight from the panel. From where I was, with me. Yeah.
She jinxed them.
Play it.
All right, for those on DKN, we have Tara Sloan from NBC Sports Network, and we have Itu Luserainen from the Florida Panthers. We're going to be talking to them coming up next.
Yes, yes, I'm very proud. Being Dwork, yeah, I'm very happy about that. The hockey show was made. Dwork first, though. Yeah, hockey show coming up later. Greg's going to be outraged.
That's a tagline for World RAR 3. This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugats.
Now the Tampa Bay Lightning led the league in scoring. They were top five in penalty kill and power play, but it's like everybody forgot that once the Panthers got to full health, aside from Aaron Eckland who was suspended, that the Panthers, fully healthy,
Because. We're trying to find more people from our universe here.
are actually going to take care of the Lightning in the first round, considering what the Panthers were a couple years ago when they were just a transition team and now they're a four-track team. We've seen that that style of play that the Lightning have actually does not work in the playoffs. So explain to me why all the media decided to go with the Lightning to win this series.
They've done it. And it's the Toronto Maple Leafs. They haven't been past the second round in 20 years. What are we talking about here?
You talk about how deep the Florida Panthers are. Mackie Samuskevich only played 36 minutes in that series against Tampa. And Jesper Bochrist played 40 minutes. I mean, are these guys going to see any time during this series versus Toronto?
And talk about how big the acquisition of Seth Jones has been, especially considering that Aaron Ekblad has been suspended twice now.
I did want to... If it wasn't Michael, I'd be all over this.
Don Libertard. I had Rachel and Emma both home, and I was in a fight with Rachel. And I said, if you roll your eyes one more time, there's going to be a problem. A big problem. And she said, really? Really? What are you going to do? Stugatz.
Stu, how scared were you? Pretty scary. I mean, we were going home for game seven if we lost that game. But the Knicks tried to lose that game, tried to give it away. And Brunson bailed them out in the final minutes of that game, the final minutes of that game, final seconds of that game. And I was thinking the guard that Maverick fans should be upset about getting rid of is Jalen Brunson.
I only ask because I had no idea who Billy was talking about when he brought it up. And then, you know, he told me to ask my kids and I asked my kids and they laughed at me for not knowing who Mr. Beast is.
I have a great stat here about Jalen Brunson. Chris, give me the stat of the day.
Yes. Social media. From that act, that shtick you don't like.
This stat is courtesy of Taylor, the stolen stat of the day. The only NBA players to have 40-plus points and 5-plus assists in a road closeout win twice in their careers? Jalen Brunson and Michael Jordan. Wow. How about that?
As an engineer.
I loved it there, but not really. What did you make of what J.J. Redick had to say? Well, let's play it if we have that sound.
Because he said many things that annoyed me. Well, he didn't say Luka specifically, but we all know he was talking about Luka, and we all know that LeBron told him to say this.
So, Nico Harrison has to be watching that and smiling. Not my problem now, which is your problem. This is now two teams. He's 25, 26 years old, and two teams have told him without telling him directly, hey, you're out of shape. You don't care about this thing enough.
But players do want to play for that organization and play in that market. That market means something. It's one of the few markets and teams that mean something in the NBA.
Also not a star.
Hello, everybody. And of course he went to you.
I'm doing the speech with my brother, so I'm practicing. What is Drake May going to say?
I love the Elser. It was the guest at the Elser who screwed this up. The guest went there picking up an order for himself and took the food for 30 people.
So he stole from the rich and he gave to the poor?
Wait, so, Billy, what's the latest challenge here from the Beast? What is the latest challenge of McDonald's?
The one that I saw people talking about was, like, you have a 36-hour seat, $1,000 worth of McDonald's.
You went right after the obvious guy. You're right. You're right.
I am mesmerized because Billy just informed me that Mr. Beast has 390 million followers. Oh, he's like, that's what I mean.
Say what you want to say. He gets those jobs because he works hard.
You're not going to do a stand-up comedian routine. You're not going to try it out there. No, don't.
He presides over that family.
He's a writer.
Er hat einen Assistenten bekommen und war ein Plus-2 letzte Nacht. Und Leon Dreisaitl hat zwei Tore und einen Assistenten. Aber schauen wir uns den Bust-Status für Darnell Nurse an. Ja.
In Carolina last night, it was god awful. They sized up, they beefed up during the off-season, they gained some pounds to be more physical, but it seems like the Big Bad Bruins are just big and bad. Will Jim Montgomery...
It's not all his fault, though. I mean, the team is bad, but he has an 884 save percentage and he's given up almost four goals a game at this point. Is this because he missed training camp?
Is Jim Montgomery on the hot seat?
I get AOC Richmond stuff on right now from Ted Lasso.
Das war eine schlechte Defense. How about that? It wasn't great.
The evil empire. That's smart. Steven Stamkos is now a Nashville Predator. He had the nice comeback video and a nice tribute in Tampa when the Predators played the Lightning. Now, Am I right in saying that, yes, it was a nice tribute, but it was disingenuous by the franchise in Tampa, considering how they low-bought them in a negotiation last year?
Yeah, but he definitely showed off the skills and the skating ability there.
Finally, Macklin Celebrini had a goal and an assist in his NHL debut on October 10th and then he took a bump in that game and has been out since. He skated in practice yesterday, but the Sharks are the worst team in the league. Is Mike Greer, and I guess his brother Chris Greer in the Dolphins, are they the worst? Ist er auf der Hot Seat? Ja, sie sind beide auf der Hot Seat.
Okay, Sarah, es war immer toll, dich auf dem Show zu haben. Wir freuen uns auf dich. Sarah Sevian, The Civ Report und Too Many Men. Danke, dass du mitgekommen bist, Sarah.
Alright, we're back. Let's go over what the Panthers did this week. They did some winning. They swept the entire state of New York. They beat the Rangers, the Islanders and the Sabres this week. Three game winning streak. Und lasst uns überlegen, was in den Garten passiert ist. Sie haben 3-1 gewonnen gegen die Rangers. Das war Sergej Bobrowski's 400. Sie haben es verloren. Gute Spielung von Bob.
Gute Spielung von Bob. Er ist der schnellste, der jeden Torwart 400 gewonnen hat. Mit 707. Er hat Henrik Lundqvist gewonnen. Eigentlich hat er den König gewonnen. In den Garten. Das ist ziemlich gut.
Good talent coming out of that one. My hot take... Ich muss hier das Tampa Bay Lightning ausdrücken, weil das, was letztes Jahr passiert ist, als Stephen Stamkos seine Negotiations-Taktiken auf den Weg gebracht hat, offensiv war. Es war schrecklich. Sie haben ihn nach unten geschlagen.
Die Panthers sind dann ein paar Berge übergegangen, um die Islander zu spielen. Sie haben 6-3 gewonnen. Sie kamen zurück aus einem 3-0-Defizit und einem sehr, sehr rockigen Start für Spencer Knight, der drei Tore in den ersten sieben Schützen vor dem Tor erhielt. Er hat gesagt, du weißt was, schalte das Ding auf.
Ich habe gesagt, dass Spencer Knight, bevor er in die Spieler-Assistenz ging, dass er nur einen Ball geben muss und er wird in die Spiele gesetzt und alles geschlossen. Hoffentlich kann er in diesen Modus zurückkommen. Ich eröffne einen.
Und wenn ich als Kapitän auf dieser Mannschaft war, für 16 Jahre für diese Mannschaft gespielt habe, zwei Stanley Cups für diese Mannschaft gewonnen habe, mich verletzt, zurückgekommen bin, und du das ihm tust, I can compare it to Dwayne Wade and his contract negotiations with the Heat before he left to go to Chicago. But yeah, you can't do that to your captain.
Matthieu Kaczuk hat seine ersten und zweiten Tore der Saison gewonnen, insbesondere diesen, der das Deficit auf 3-2 gesperrt hat. Dieser Tore hat Matthieu Kaczuk kritisiert. Ich meine, er hat alle verrückt auf diesen Tore. Jetzt schauen wir uns das an. Ja, er wurde gespeert. Im Grunde genommen, das nannte man das nicht. Und dann hat er den Tore-Tender gespeert. Und dann...
Er schießt den Ball, schießt den Post, er findet den Puck hinter ihm, und er schießt ihn nach Hause, und dann der große Scrum. Und dann schießt er ihn. Ich liebe es. Ja, das ist kritiszentral.
Ja, wir feiern das, wenn wir über die Bühne fliegen.
Mackie Samaskewitsch hat seinen...
The Panthers traveled up to upstate New York to play the Buffalo Sabres. They won 5-2 and this will make Rose happy because Alexander Bogov made his return from injury and scored the first goal of the season for him. Look at the smile on her face.
Es ist ein 5-Spiegel-Win-Streak für die Panthers. Carter Verhage hat einen 7-Spiegel-Streak. Sam Bennett Er hat einen 5-Games-Goalscoring-Streak. Alles geht sehr gut, besonders die Top-6-Förder für die Panthers.
We'll get into that a little later this month.
You know, you have a microphone, Rose. And what the hell are you wearing? What is this get-up that you got over here? What's going on here?
It's like Frozone. There's an ice pack on your head, but you're wearing a blanket.
No, but yeah. I'm gonna get it off for the rest of the thing. Okay. The Panthers are 7-3-1 right now. 15 points. They lead the Atlantic Division as opposed to Boston Bruins, who are dead last. They are second in the Eastern Conference behind New Jersey. Third overall in the league behind Winnipeg and New Jersey. They are 6-1-1 since starting the season 0-2-0. That's some good stuff right there.
For your defending champion. Not too bad. Adnan Burk wird uns nächste Woche wiedersehen. Er ist ein Monat lang in seinem neuen Gig mit Prime Canada. Und er will darüber sprechen.
Yeah, it hurts, doesn't it?
Er ist immer aufgeregt. That man is a good man. He's a fun man to be around. So, good for him. He'll be on next week. That's the hockey show for this week. For Dave, for Rose, for everybody in the back. I think it's Gino and Jason right now, right? I think. I believe. If they have microphones, they would say yes. But yeah, they're back there. Hey, thumbs up!
Yeah, I know. There's Danny as well. Hey, alright. That's our engineer. Alright, folks. We are out of here. We will see you next week. Goodbye.
Es sieht nicht gut aus im Gelb.
Ja, ich meine, es ist ein Versuch für ihn, zumindest für die Fans, aber... Selbst mit dem Fittings-Tribut, den sie in dem Video, den die Lichter für ihn gemacht haben, hat das sie nicht von ihrem Rollen in der Negotiationsbattle ausgelöst.
It's going to come down to him signing a one-day contract, and that's it. Ist das so, dass wir heute alles mit einem-Tag-Kontrakten fixieren? Ja, das ist das, was Emmitt Smith, der Cowboys, gemacht hat, als er nach Arizona ging. Er kam zurück, hat das ein-Tag-Kontrakt geschlossen und ist als Cowboy verabredet. Das ist das, was passieren wird.
Ich erinnere mich nicht, ob einer der Stahl-Brüder das gemacht hat. Was, Eric Stahl? Ja, vielleicht. Er hat was gemacht, Carolina? Ja. Let's see.
Yeah, and that's how we fix everything.
You want to get taxed? Is that how you want it? Because that's what's going to end up happening.
Of course. Let's go to the wins here. I'm going to start with this one. I'm going to go with the city of Los Angeles. They won big time this week. So Crypto.com Arena during the Kings game versus the Golden Knights. Ich glaube, während des Spiels in dieser Situation, aber besonders während der Ausgabe, haben sie die World Series gezeigt.
Es war Spiel 5 am Yankee-Stadion und sie haben den Dodgers gezeigt, der die Wettbewerb gewonnen hat. Und die Fans konnten es in der Arena sehen. Sie haben sogar die aktuelle World Series-Game während des Spiels gespielt. Das war wirklich cool von ihnen, das zu tun. Das ist ein großer Wettbewerb für mich.
Geh mit deinen Freunden. Okay, ich bin fertig. Ja, du bist fertig. Du hättest das vielleicht verändern können. Das ist Geld, das die Fans verdient haben. Sie wussten nicht, was die Zeit war. Es ist ein zweiter Markt.
No, it's your turn.
Gut für ihn. Gut für ihn. Er ist ein guter Typ, oder? Ja, es ist gut, wenn du ein Kind hast, während der Saison. Normalerweise folgt dir das Glück. Der Dad-Bump. Ja, der Dad-Bump. Der alte Dad-Bump.
Welcome to the Hockey Show. My name is Roy Bellamy. David Druck of the Hockey News is to my left right there. We got Sarah Sivian from the Siv Report and Too Many Men to join us here as a guest in a little bit. Love it. Yeah. So let's get started with some slap shots here. And we got some hot takes for you. Dave, why don't you go ahead? I'm going first.
Wenn Sergey Bobrovsky ein Vater wurde, dann hat sich alles verändert. Alles hat sich verändert. Ich sage nicht wir, aber der Tag. Auf dem großen Show, wo sie beschäftigt waren, wie Sergej Bobrowski spielt. Und dann kommt ein Vater und jetzt plötzlich, boom, der Champions-League-Champion.
Ja, der größte Spell der Woche. Wir gehen zu einem Kampf, der während des Capitals-Rangers-Games stattfand. Matt Rimpey, der übrigens früher zu den Hartford-Wolfpacken übernommen wurde. A couple days earlier was promoted back up to play against the Capitals because those two teams hate each other. Legitimately hate each other. Those are two big, big men fighting there too. Rimpi 6'8".
I remember last year...
Hoffentlich kämpft Cash besser als Rempy, weil er nicht so gut ist. Er hat den Kampf verloren, kam blutig weg. In den drei Spielen, die er so weit gespielt hat, Er hat einen Kampf, sechs Schüsse, null Punkte. Er ist auf dem Plus Minus. In diesem Spiel gegen die Capitals hatte er fünf Minuten auf dem Eis.
Ja, er hat so viel Zeit in der Box gespart, wie er es auf dem Eis gemacht hat, gegen die Kapitale. Er könnte wieder ausgedrückt werden. Das klingt so richtig.
Yeah, don't play the puck when you have the opposing player resting on you. Two hands on the stick, at least. Yeah. All right, go ahead, Dave, and send us a break, please.
Alright, joining us now is Sarah Sivian from The Siv Report and Too Many Men. That's cool.
Yeah, I don't have a show named after me.
Ja, das stimmt. Anstatt eines Hockey-Shows. Es ist wie ein Autor, der ein Buch schreibt. Und das Gesicht des Autors wird auf dem Buch geklappert.
Yeah, absolutely. The Seattle Kraken have a history-making assistant coach. Jessica Campbell and Ryan Clark of ESPN wrote about her. And one of the things that they discussed was what she was going to wear in her NHL debut. She chose whites. Weil das ist die einzige Farbe, die ein Mann nicht tragen kann. Jetzt ist es nach Labor-Tag, das ist eine Sache.
That's true. That's good. And after a month, I mean, seems like a good situation for her. How would you judge what's going on right now in Seattle?
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Yeah, that's right. Kids in school right now, they're not taught an actual clock, they use a digital clock.