The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Origins of WFAT
Mon, 26 May
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While the Meadowlark Media offices are closed for Memorial Day, we still wanted to deliver a day of shows for you. Because this has basically been a Knicks show for the last year, we've created a day of WFAT programming beginning with the station's origins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the origin story of WFAT?
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Just because today is an off day for most folks around the country from their workplace, doesn't mean we took the day off. Here at the Dan Lebitard Show with Stu Gatz, we are always there for you, particularly on Mondays. And we've got a full show coming at you that's full of New York Knicks content. Why they had me, Jeremy, do this intro... Considering this is Knicks content, I have no idea.
Where's Stu Gatz? I don't know. But we have a full day of shows coming at you that we've specially curated because it's been over a year since we started WFAT and the Knicks have dominated our show in a way that is overwhelming and to be quite frank, very surprising. Wenn ich hier eingeladen wurde, erwartete ich nicht so viel Nix-Sprache.
Aber diese Local Hour ist tatsächlich die erste Zeit, dass wir WFAT-Referenzen haben, als Stu Gatz mit WFAN-Sprachen sprach. Das ist eine Lose in der ersten Runde des letzten Jahres für die Nix. Tyrese Maxey dominierte für die Philadelphia 76ers. Du wirst einige lustige Antworten dazu hören, wenn du den Kontext ein Jahr später anschaust. Ich habe wirklich genossen, dieses Episode zu hören.
Ich hoffe, du auch. Und ich werde dir erklären, was die Big Sui, Hour 1 und Hour 2 für dich sind, wenn du sie hörst. Aber für jetzt, genieße die Originstory von WFAT. Das ist der Dan Levatar Show mit dem Stugatz Podcast. Today's episode is sponsored by DraftKings. Stay tuned because you'll hear more about DraftKings and all it has to offer throughout the show. DraftKings, the crown is yours.
Billy yesterday yelling from the back row saying, did we become a New York show? When and how did we become a New York show? And a lot of you have noticed, and because there are so many conspiracy theories out there, you are right, conspiracy theorists on this one.
Stugatz hat versucht, diesen Job bei WFAN als Programmleiter zu bekommen, damit er alle Macht und Kontrolle hat und alle schießen kann und den ganzen Welt. Aber sie zahlten nicht genug und sie hatten nicht genug, um ihn dort zu verletzen. Also hat er entschieden, uns zu machen. Ja, genau.
He just gave them his heart moments ago this season because he doesn't trust them for understandable reasons. And if you did not see the end of that game, the big game of basketball last night, even his Milwaukee wins without two guys, that Orlando Cleveland series. You can tell me anything and I will believe you in terms of what happened in last night's game. Tell me anything, I'll believe it.
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Chapter 2: How did the Knicks dominate WFAT content?
Ich weiß nicht, ob die Nicks-Fans so superstitiv sind, wie ich bin, aber ich habe Grund, dass Taylor nicht nur durch das Gebäude getötet wurde, weil ich in der Info habe, dass er einen Prop-Cigar vor dem Spiel gebeten hat, um zu feiern, als die Nicks letzte Nacht gewonnen haben. Was bedeutet das? Was ist ein Prop-Cigar?
Not to have an actual cigar to smoke in the arena, but to have a prop cigar. But he explained to security, like, no, no, no, this is a prop cigar. I don't know what to tell you. He wanted a cigar so he could celebrate inside the Madison Square Garden. I can't get mad at Taylor. Message came in at 8pm. We were all celebrating. I looked up the Pacers roster. I mean, we were all celebrating.
How did that stack up? Did you look up your roster? Nice. No Rick Smiths? No, I didn't see the dunking Dutchman. Taylor told me he's 0-5 career at Knicks Playoff Games. If you're 0-4, why did he request to go to this game? This is on him a little bit. I mean, because he went for free. All he had to do was sit down. If I'm 0-4, I'm just like, I don't want to do this to my team.
If you're a Knick fan, you're conditioned to think this is going to end badly. That the Sixers are going to blow them out in Game 6 and then they'll go to Madison Square Garden for Game 7. It will be a close game and Embiid or Maxi or someone will wimp through the entire game. Then all of a sudden they'll be healthy in the fourth quarter and hit a big shot and we'll lose.
That's how it's going to end. If you're a Knick fan, that's how you're conditioned to think. This series is over.
You are... I'm all over the place. You're furious and you're already bobbing emotionally. I don't believe, though, that that's how Knicks fans feel. I have never heard this kind of confidence from the Knicks fans in the last 15 years that they have going into the love of this team, going into how they feel about the things that Brunson is. He's great.
Nein, aber Stugatz, diese Partie, die Partie, die ich dir erzählen werde, wo Leute ihre regionalen Sportidentität bekommen und sich wie Verlierer von ihrer Franchise machen, die sich an James Dolan furchtbar machen. Es ist eine Sache, ein Team zu haben, das du kinderlich magst, weil sie gewinnen. Aber dieses Team... Whose roster does not merit a two seed in the East. The roster.
This team that is viewed as gritty and underdog. And how can you not love these guys? Look at what they're doing to the stars in Beat and Maxi. They're doing it with grit because Thibodeau is tough and Jalen Brunson is undersized. When you feel like a team represents you personality wise as an underdog and you latch on to I like the way this team represents me and my city.
Es schmerzt, wenn man sich so kümmert. Wenn man in Hoffnung kommt, und dann wird man getötet. Deine Hoffnung wird getötet, und die Nix-Fanbase hat sich in den letzten Jahren gebrochen. Und sie hoffen wieder auf Hoffnung, weil Hartenstein sie mit seinen offensiven Rebounds besiegt hat. Und Brunson ist zu klein, und mein Gott, Josh Hart hat keine Arbeit, so physisch zu sein, mit 210 Kilo.
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