The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
A Massive Controversy In Greg Cote's Catchphrase Countdown List | Local Hour
12 May 2026
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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
So, I am in the company of a man who almost won a Pulitzer Prize by hiring someone who did later win a Pulitzer Prize. So congratulations to Dan Levitard. I haven't seen Dan for a couple of weeks, so I have all of this hubbub and hoopla about the Pulitzer Prize. I just wonder how Dan feels about it because, you know, are you a Pulitzer Prize? Do you get one of those coins?
It's like a small gold coin. Do you get one of those?
I don't know. We are in the episode with Pablo, me, Amin, and Samson. But you do realize everyone who is full-time here won a Pulitzer Prize. Everything that we do here funds everything Pablo's doing in New York. So everyone here who is full-time and has a percentage of this company...
is a Pulitzer winner because they're the ones who funded we're the ones who funded that work so we didn't do the work Pablo did the work, but we did the work in allowing the work to be done. So everyone here, I don't feel like you guys realize that you all are Pulitzer winners. Like, that's what happens.
Well, I'm not full time.
We're all Pulitzer winners just the way you guys would have been highlight champions. Yeah. Dan, you were a battle court fall champion. You didn't seem to care too much. Pablo doesn't really make it seem like I won a Pulitzer Prize, though. Yeah, I'd like Pablo to acknowledge my contribution. Yeah, and mine as a key twice a week temp. Amin's really elbowed anybody else away.
He's unusually proud of it. He flew to Los Angeles as I was flying back saying, we got to go have drinks. Amin is happier about this than anyone I've seen about this. And Cody is one of the few people I've noticed who cares because...
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Chapter 2: How does the Pulitzer Prize affect the show's dynamics?
I'm not joking when I say this. When I called Pablo to congratulate him, he had to do to me what I just did to you guys, which is, you realize this is yours too, Dan, right? Because I didn't do the work. He did the work, but we did the work that makes all of what Pablo's doing possible.
I don't think the people listening to this quite understand the calamity that the media landscape is actually in, where... That show, it's very hard for anyone in corporate media to actually do that show because of how compromised everyone in corporate media is with all of their partnerships.
Doing truth-telling shows that's going to bother, you basically have in all of the five companies that are running America, they don't want to actually make anything interesting. They don't want to make anything that offends anybody.
No, it's a valuable honor that was won by the Pablo Torre show. I just think that if I'm being honest, to say that everyone connected with Metal Ark Media has won a Pulitzer Prize is a bit much.
It's not, though. Metal Ark Media is a Pulitzer Prize winning media company. And Metal Ark Media is the one that paid for everything. everything Pablo's doing. So wait a minute. So when somebody wins something, anything in sports, does the owner get to win something or not?
Let me give you an example. And none of what I'm saying is belittling this in any way. But to give you an analogy, the Miami Herald has won a lot of Pulitzer Prizes. I think 12 or 15 or 18 or something. I've worked for the Miami Herald during all of those Pulitzer Prizes. Does that mean I am a Pulitzer Prize winner?
If the Miami Herald wins a Pulitzer Prize, you work for a company that is a Pulitzer Prize winning company.
Wait, so is Clay Bennett actually the NBA MVP? No, he is the champion.
He funds the operation. He's the champion owner. He's not the MVP, but he's the champion. You don't win the MVP as a team. It's an individual award.
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Chapter 3: What makes OKC the first-ever sneaky dynasty?
You do win a championship as a team.
This feels more like an MVP. At least that's the way Pablo's making it seem.
Yeah.
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Juju, put it on the poll, please. Is OKC going to be the first ever sneaky dynasty? The OKC is now in the Western Conference Finals again. They swept LeBron. First time LeBron has ever been swept this early in the playoffs. And OKC has now made the Western Conference Finals in a third of their seasons. That's nuts.
Huh.
That's really good. That's hard. That's hard to do. And they're not going anywhere for a while because they can go and get a second player and put them next to Shea Gilgis Alexander. And it doesn't even matter who the second player is. They'll just keep putting second players next to him and they will become whatever it is a second player has to become because of how strong. They are.
And it makes you feel if you're the Miami Heat, like you're a million miles from the title because of how they're ransacking people. They've they don't even trail like they've spent very little of the postseason trailing. And I understand that the Lakers are missing a pretty important piece. But to just roll through.
both of the playoff entities and do it so assuredly that Dylan Brooks is sitting behind the basket. Oh, I like him. Blinged out. Oh, you like him now because he's just laughing?
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of Stephen Ross's Super Bowl comments?
Well, I also like him because I think he's a winning player. I think he's proven that in his career. He could be a pest. He's certainly dirty at times. He could be a huge nuisance. But he's very clearly a winning player. And that stuff to me is important. I like Dylan Brooks. Such a change from where he was in Memphis where he couldn't shoot.
They cut him out right because he was a terrible player.
They blamed him for everything.
I agree, but he was also not good. No, they were wrong for blaming him for everything is what I'm saying. I agree, but for that time where he was into the regular season playoffs, he was shooting like 12%. He was terrible. He's a good player now and big time play ahead of them.
I thought that they got rid of him basically because they thought he was a bad influence on John Moran and also that he couldn't shoot at the time. But I remember at the time that the Rockets gave him $80 million. I really thought he was going to have to go play in Turkey or something.
I didn't think that he had, never mind a winning player or an important starter, I didn't think that he had a legitimate future in the NBA after everything that happened in Memphis. But for him to sit down
where he sat last night under the basket in very expensive seats blinged out and just laughing at lebron as he's on the free throw line that is just some classic player hating that you do not often see especially of someone who's a legend dylan brooks is legitimately the only guy in the nba willing to disrespect lebron this way there's no second place on this
In fact, whatever second place is, is a distant second on a pier mocking LeBron James.
No one would have done that to Michael Jordan. I mean, someone did blow in his ear. But there's not a single player who would have done that to Michael Jordan. Like, Michael Jordan's about to retire, and somebody's going to show up disrespectful like that and sit under the basket laughing at him in what could be his final game.
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Chapter 5: What is the controversy surrounding Greg Cote's Catchphrase Countdown?
This large language model says he played until he was 44.
He had them T-Rex arms.
Wait a minute. He also wore leather everywhere. All his suits were leather. Some of them red leather because... He's a fashionista.
Like Eddie. He was a good player.
Not at 44 he wasn't. Go ahead and give me all of Willis' stats post-40. Just give me all of the stats he had post-40 years old. I'll find that. I got it. I got it for you.
Matt Hickey, 45 years old, oldest player ever. Kevin Willis retired in 2005 and came back in 2006 and played five games.
Comeback. You have it in front of you? You're going to give us some Kevin Willis numbers here in the local hour? Because those were heady years for the Miami Heat when Kevin Willis, when they traded for Kevin Willis.
Terrible trade. Terrible. Louis Chafal, Billy Cunningham, what are you doing? In San Antonio, at 40 years old, Kevin Willis averaged 4.2 points per game. He appeared in 71 games at 40 years old. How about that?
Wow.
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Chapter 6: How did the Catchphrase Countdown expand from 50 to 60?
It's a bummer. I like having the Super Bowl down here. As a fan, I liked whenever it was in Miami. Even though I'm local, I know that there's a bias attached to that. I think Miami does a great job with it. And just come out and say that we have all these other things going on. But, I mean, Dan said definitively he's looking for money.
We're left to only assume he's looking for some kind of public handout here because the reasons that they gave us, which I think he kind of co-signed with Goodell because Goodell made similar comments about the Cleveland Stadium.
They always do this. They always try to get strong-arm the country and the cities. Everybody wants the Super Bowl, so they always do stuff like this where they try and get public money by using the Super Bowl to get it.
Give me the reason that we have Formula One here and the Miami Open and we're trying to get other events and it just doesn't fit with the calendar because of when Formula One's here and when the Miami Open's here. Don't tell me that we don't have the necessary facilities around a pristine sports facility.
Do not tell me that we cannot house the temporary hospitality tents because our permanent hospitality structure for Formula One has gotten in the way. El Palacio has been there the entire time. It's right there, Dan.
Zaslow brought up El Palacio, which is a funny name for a hotel. I used to call it El Palacio's friendly neighborhood crack den because it isn't quite up to Super Bowl standards.
Which is why they had to rebrand. It's no longer El Palacio. Stadium Hotel, Dan.
Well, it is the Stadium Hotel, but it's also a decent distance from the hotel. I thought of this the other day as I was driving to the airport because Inter-Miami Stadium is so bright, and the hotel that is there would make it really unpleasant on game nights, the amount of light coming into your room. There's simply not enough vision impairment or, you know...
light-blocking curtains that you can get to block how close the stadium at Inter-Miami is to the hotel at the airport.
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Chapter 7: What are the reactions to the updated catchphrase list?
So you stay at the airport and then you go to the hotel. It's right there. That's the point.
That's the convenience of it. Yes, but usually put it on the poll at Levitard Show. When you get the airport hotel, are you expecting stadium lights on your balcony? Yes or no?
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Chapter 8: How do the hosts feel about the future of the catchphrase rankings?
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Yeah. This is the Don Levitard Show with the Stugatz.
You guys mentioned MJ. How does everyone here feel about the fact that as it relates to his involvement with broadcasting and NBC, he's been on all season load management when it comes to working for NBC. They interviewed him for an hour before the season and they never got him again after publicly shouting to everybody, hey, we've got MJ. I'd love to see that contract. Did he just give them an
hour of his time and allow them to have all sorts of press releases because he gave them an hour of time before the season and then just use that interview all season.
And unless I'm not remembering it correctly, when they announced their broadcast team NBC for their first year back with the NBA. They made it sound like Michael Jordan is part of their broadcast team. Like when I saw who's going to be on the broadcast, I was envisioning Michael Jordan is going to be on the desk with them throughout the season.
You thought it would be like Gretzky. Exactly like that. Because usually that level of star isn't in broadcasting. Gretzky and Brady are exceptions, and they're relatively recent exceptions.
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