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Internet consensus, Stugatz, is always funny. So it was interesting to see a whole lot of Sunday morning or Monday morning quarterbacks the other day say the very same thing, which is, what idiots decide to jump jump Cam Newton. That is what everyone's reaction is. However, I'm here to simply stop you. No matter what I thought it would look like, I didn't think it would look like that. I didn't think it would look like Cam Newton His hat is going to be totally unfaced. That video doesn't even get as much run as it got, if not for the fact that his hat never moved while four guys are jumping him. He's throwing around one guy with one arm, and he's got another guy in a head block.

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It's like out of a movie, he is swatting kids away from him.

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The whole thing, everyone's reaction was the same. How could you be so stupid? I talked to some people who work in MMA and said he did that perfectly in a situation when you're getting jumped, what you do is you move away because everyone has the same target. If you start moving away, you use their momentum against each other. Where would Cam Newton have learned to avoid being the singular target of 11 people trying to jump him?

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You saw this fight and you said, Let me reach out to MMA people to break down his form?

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I just happened to be with them. You didn't text me. I wasn't doing reporting. I just happened to be with people who were watching the video. There were not feathers in that hat, right? That was all his hair.

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I think that it was an open hat with his hair coming out the top, but I could be wrong.

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But there weren't also feathers.

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There may have been. It was a grainy video. It wasn't great. It's a fair question. In fairness, though, video quality for incidents has gotten much up since the Zapruder film, right?

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Yes, there are more people videoing. I would say to you that when you're saying the video quality wasn't great, I got a number of angles which I wasn't expecting, which means people were very quick. If people are jumping Cam Newton around me, it's going to be many reflexive thoughts I have before I get to, Let me video this. I'm going to have a lot of different thoughts, so I thought the number of angles there was impressive as you complain about not having enough angles.

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I think anytime anything happens now, the first reaction from most people is, Let me videotape this. Are you jumping in to save Cam or what? I would have to. You better be, right? Out of loyalty. He's your bud. I don't believe I will be involving myself in a place that will get me hit in the back of the head with a bottle.

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I'm going to avoid those situations, generally. Jessica, to your point, though, One of the most shocking times that I learned that in a way that made my heart feel heavy is I heard a gunshot outside of where it is that I live. I would then later learn that a tourist in the middle of the day had been shot just sitting in front of his wife and baby. But I hear the gunshot, and all I see is people running over there with video, as opposed to running away from the gunshot. People running to the place in order to get their cameras out so they could be the one only in date or whatever.

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Big win for the TSP crew, right? Yeah. Who is that? That's what everybody said after that. I think that was the consensus. That was the biggest takeaway. Yeah, it wasn't why are you fighting Cam? It was like, who's this TSP crew? Because everyone said, Cam got in a fight with a TSP crew. So everyone immediately went to Google who they are. Bad day for aggregators. The first person says the TSP crew, and then nobody does the research to figure out who actually is. Everybody just keeps resharing the same video with Cam in a fight with the TSP crew until we all have to come in here and ask each other, who the hell is the TSP crew? The one guy that Cam has by the back of the collar, he's like, oh, this is not a good position for me. He drags him. If we can play the video again, he drags him from the tent out 25 feet to the fence on the other side.

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I know that everyone thinks after the fact that they knew how that would go. To see him be that immovable, it goes without saying. All of us, I think, understand that he's a very large human being.

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If you asked Billy Gill about three weeks ago, apologies for the voice there, vacation, driving through the heartland of North America, Dan, it's tough. Indiana, did this to my throat. But if you asked Billy three weeks ago, Cam Newton, you're fighting him? He'd tell you no. No one that sees him in person thinks it's a good idea to fight him. You have to be a to see him and think, Let me go run up and punch him from behind. It's true. The fact that he restrained himself and didn't punch anyone back is a miracle.

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That's not prime shape, Kam, and that is another important point.

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I don't know. Dan. I don't know. Dan. Be very careful.

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He's not in his prime?

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Dan, he's in incredible shape. He's a brick house.

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I'm not disputing that.

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He's outside his prime. He's still in better shape than 99% of the population. I talked to my MMA friends yesterday. They said, Don't with Cam Newton. He's He's in incredible shape. The guy is Jack. Dan, he's in incredible shape.

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Billy, I am not disputing that. He's not in prime cam shape. Don't argue with me about this. He's simply not. He's not in MVP of the League shape. What are you talking about? Yes, of course, he's built unbelievably well, and also he's out of football. I'm saying nothing shocking by suggesting that he might have been fitter when he was MVP of the league than right now. Who disagrees with that?

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I may disagree a little bit because he might have been a little bit more slender, a little bit more mobile. Now, he's just putting on the muscle. Now, he's working out to be big.

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You guys think he's stronger now than when he was MVP? He's being a champion.

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Now you get it. I think if I was on a seven-on-7 flag football team, I wouldn't think, Wow, he looks like he's out of shape. Let me go punch him.

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I didn't say out of shape.

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Yeah, this is insane logic. It's prime punching time for Cam now. He's built like a linebacker We're saying he's built... Let's just get this straight.

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Straw man.

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No, no, no. He's in better shape now to fight off these people than he was when he was either A, at Auburn doing it every game by himself or as a 25-year-old in the NFL. We're saying that now is better. He won the fight without hurting anyone, right? That's what he did. That part's amazing. He realized he could not hurt anyone on camera.

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Well, yes, that's what he was thinking about at the height of being jumped. You have to. Where are the cameras? Yes. No, I think- He didn't punch anyone. I think a lifetime rich person is careful about who he punches, generally speaking. But I also think that the point that Billy makes is a good one. Among the many things in that video, there's nothing more impressive than his hat not moving. But among the impressive things is that at no point do you see him throw a punch. He's throwing people around, using their momentum against them by simply moving them around. All of them much smaller than him. Somebody came in at the end with a haymaker that unfazed him as well. Somebody came in with a very strong punch, but it was like trying to punch the eighth floor of a building. He wasn't quite getting up there.

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Do we know if it reached?

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It looked like it had a lot of momentum on it, but fizzled out at the end when it couldn't get to where Cam's skull was.

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He looks like Gulliver fighting Lilliputians.

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But those didn't seem like small people except for being next to Cam Newton because they were not small compared to everyone else that was there. They were only small compared to Cam.

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Stugatz.

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Bluetooth, HD radio, satellite. I'll take AM, please, with Wolfman Jack talking through the static. And I'll crank the windows down so everybody can hear. I'm Greg Cody, and that's how it was back in my day. This is the Dan Levatard Show with the Stugats. 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.

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I wanted Stugats to talk about another fight, the one involving the Miami Heat against the Pelicans. Sullivan, we've got now someone in our camp, Stugatz, who does some of the stuff that Allison used to do. She used to find people very quickly for us. Can we find the fan, the heat fan that was ejected from this game over the weekend? Was it Friday or Saturday? But the fight involved choking people. It involved Jimmy Butler saying it's that time of year, which I don't think it's that time of year yet. Yeah, it is. Is it just that time of year? We're getting there. No, but is it that time of year? February. Just when Jimmy says it's that time of year.

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Pretty much, yeah. That's exactly right. When he decides he's ready to play and he wants to show up and put up 23, 9, and 7 or whatever he wants to do, this is what happens. He played really, really well through the first quarters, and then gets into a fight so he doesn't have to play tonight. Can I ask a question? Load management. We talk about this whole the best disciplined team. This doesn't seem like a disciplined team. Hardest working, most disciplined Discipline. Discipline. This isn't discipline. Running around, hitting people, throwing people around. The discipline is on the court. This happened on the court. No, no, no. In your play and playing some defense. They're 31 and 25. This doesn't seem like a discipline team to me. You know what this was called, Billy? Lighting a fire for this team. Oh, please. The same way Rick Pitino did. All of a sudden, look, St. John's, Red Storm. Big win over Creighton a couple of days ago. Come on. All of a sudden, maybe. But Jimmy, fight somebody. You know what I like in this video? You know, Jaime Hauke's Jr. In the cut, in the mix, fighting with his big dog.

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That's what you want to see when you're a rookie. You want to see a guy in the middle of a fight, getting with your best player and doing whatever he was doing here. Here, look, right there, we're going to try to get somebody through a punch? Let me get in there. He didn't do a thing.

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He's just being pushed.

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You got to be seen. Guys, you got to be seen in the mix. That's what it is. You got to be seen in the mix.

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Let me explain something to you. This is what it looks like is Jaime Hauke's is floating out to sea, is what it looks like. That the current is-Being taken by the current of the fight. The current is simply sweeping.

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The king tide has swept him. But Tony is right. The key to showing that you have your brother's back is just by being in the mix. Exactly. There's a picture of Duncan Robinson right in the and it looks like he's in the mix. He's not doing anything. He's actually smiling. But Dan, the key is you have to be in the picture. The best one was Nico Jovich because he actually ended up getting suspended a game for this. What it was is when Jose Alvarado and Thomas Bryant started fighting a little bit after this part of the scuffle, you end up seeing Niko Jowicz run over and he gets held back by somebody and looks like he wants to throw a punch. It's great because he never actually had to. That's the best part about it.

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Zion said it wasn't dirty. It wasn't dirty. I Kevin Love was trying to help him up, and it escalates to that. And then Jimmy, Jimmy loves to talk, and people with the heat love when he talks or fans of the heat. I don't know if the heat organization loves when he talks, but he says a whole bunch of different stuff. And one of the things that he said, Stugatz, it's not just that it's that time of year as he was shouting that at the crowd, but he also said, afterward, we're better than they are, and we'll beat them again that way when they come to play us, which is not something you hear very often in that sport. Very few guys will just simply say, We're better than they are. Now, that was purposeful and strategic based on the fact that emotions were high and whatever the disrespect was of having someone's hands on his neck is why it is that he's saying that. But very few people actually do that. Just say flatly, We're better than they are. When this year, they're the same as they are. But to me, I know we love the noise and the drama and that stuff, Stugas, but the single most impressive thing to me about watching that was what happened with Bam afterwards, where Zion couldn't do anything against Bam, and Bam did whatever he wanted on the other side.

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That was a little jarring to watch because I think of Zion as a unique strength specimen. So to see him not be able to do anything against the length and athleticism of Bam one-on-one, I'm used to Zion doing whatever he wants against everybody one-on-one.

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What makes Bam so spectacular defensively is his ability to bang with guys that weigh more than him. His biggest issue is when he goes up against someone like Joel Embiid or Brook Lopez, who has that type of size against him. But his length and athleticism, and then on the offensive end. I mean, he became the focal point of the heat offense for the rest the game, hitting shots down the stretch. When Jimmy Butler gets ejected to see Bam step up as the alpha dog for that team to finish that game, and the reason Jimmy says they're better than the Pelicans, by the way, I believe they've won seven in a row against the Pelicans. So he knows that come March 22nd, when the Pelicans come back down here, that's going to be one of those perfect troll games for Jimmy. But we're not surprised that Jimmy's saying that, right? I know you say it's not the norm in the NBA for players to say, Hey, we're better than that team. But for Jimmy, it is. I mean, it is. He's done it the last For a couple of years, right?

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I don't know why you're registering surprise for me. I'm not surprised. I'm just telling you that he's one of the few people in the league who will do that, and he's done it for a long time. He says whatever he wants without very much encumbrance. Can we get the video of the fan who was ejected, though? I'd like to try and see if we can find this person and get this person's story because this felt like Maximum Miami coming through the arena, walking up, pulling up his pants, pulling at a too tight wager Jersey.

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It's a little tight.

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It is, but it's just it's Maximum Miami in New Orleans just wants to be in the middle of the fight, is shouting at people, has a drink in his hand, again, pulling up his pants as he goes up the stairs and is ejected representing Dwyane Wade and Dade County, Wade County in general. Just doing it the way exactly... That's why everyone hates Miami. That guy. Perfect. Just everything climbing up the stairs there.

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That's better than the Pelicans fan who was throwing stuff into the fight. Did you guys see that? There was a fan a few rows up who was throwing drinks into the fight. We're lucky it wasn't another one of those malice at the palace situations at the Smoothie King Center. What quarter did this fight happen in? Beginning of the fourth quarter. I'm surprised the Miami guy was still there.

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That's why everyone hates Miami fans, Dan. They're used to seeing them walk up the stairs in the fourth quarter.

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We were having an editorial meeting before the show, Dan, I don't think you were there for It was, if we have this guest on, if Sullivan's able to track this person down and we have this guest on, are we just enabling bad fan behavior in every away arena, hoping that we bring them on the show? Are we just encouraging heat fans to go out and be obnoxious and misbehave at every road game in the hopes of getting on this show. And I said, yes. Good. That's what we're doing. Ep today.

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I want to know what the details of the story are. I want to do reporting It's not just talking to my MMA friends.

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I'm sure he was minding his own business, and he's a victim in this whole situation. Look at him. He looked like so. He was just behaving himself. I'm sure he said nothing. He was just saying, Hey, thanks for having me. Great seeing you guys. Oh, I'm kicked out. Oh, sorry.

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I wanted to show you guys something here because Stugatz was annoyed with me because one of the things that is fun in South Florida sports, because we do have an unusual number of broad broadcasting people who have come up through a team with a team, and not unlike Eric Spolstra, have stayed with the team. And so I've been legitimately made happy by seeing Steve Goldstein embed himself in the Panthers organization, and then to watch people who work for the Panthers get this team and this run where you're nationally relevant, you're interesting, you're annoying, you're very good team. I'd like to play for the audience here some audio and some video of the end of a game Stugats against Washington, because I thought the goal was the goal call and the goldie call. I just thought all of it was really great. Listen to the escalation here as you've got so few people on the ice, and it's late, it's over time, and the next goal decides it. And listen to this.

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Milano stripped away by Gustave Forzling. Milano again stripped away by Sam Bennett. The Panthers trying to win it. It's Bennett. It's Forzling. Let's go home, baby. Gus switched it in overtime.

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It's a cool call, and all of it, they're going to have to pay for Sling, aren't they? They're going to have to start paying a lot of money for people. I don't know. Yes, I know. I wasn't asking you. I was talking past you. But let's check. I just want you guys to watch only Milano here. Milano had trouble sleeping this night. Just watch Milano the whole way on this because it's just brutal for him. Look, he gets the fuck middle of the ice. You can win the game right here. All right, stripped one time. Then he gets it back, then stripped again. Now keep watching him. Keep watching him, trailing the play, trail in the play, trail in the play. Oh, no, Ben is going to do this. Oh, my God, right in my face. Right in my face. That's happened to me. Playing sports were the disaster. What?

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I want to see Dan on skate. You played hockey dance since when? You're in the NHL. You're on an ice hockey skate. Holy shit. We need to go skating. Dan playing ice hockey is like the people playing ice football.

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You guys were quick to pounce and you didn't even hear. I know, you said in sports. I said playing sports and you guys, what? No, I know.

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You guys play hockey.

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Yeah, for sure. Hockey. I understand what you guys did there.

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Ken Delia Serena.

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But what happened to me is funny enough without having to put me on skates. It was playing sports. It's playing basketball and seeing the thing that you feared most in your head before it actually happens, and then it happens to you as you're running, trying to chase the play down.

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That's me playing life. What happened to you?

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I'm just I'm telling you that I imagined the scenario with a lack of confidence of things being stolen from me and then it all being my fault at the end, not even being able to point to anybody else. That's correct.

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We found video of you playing sports, Dan.

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Yeah, thank you. The ice hockey football that you wanted to put up there.

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We really should go skating as a group, though. That'd be so fun.

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It would not be.

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I grew up figure skating. Really? Not really, but Did you do this spin thing? I quit by the time I was eight. I was never that good, Billy. Oh, your headphones came unplugged. Oh, he hurt himself. We should definitely go skating as a group. Billy would be excellent on skates.

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No, have you not seen? We have video somewhere of him trying to roller blade into the claypinder. Oh, I've seen it. It would not be good. That's different.

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I'm a good skater. I'm a good ice skater. You just injured yourself spinning in your office chair. Well, the thing snapped back and hit me in the twig and berries. You know what I mean?

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I I don't believe that ice skating or roller skating, both of those things seem like good ideas until you're actually doing them. Put it on the poll, please, Juju, @LevitargeShow. Is roller skating a good idea right up until you're actually doing it.

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Which one would you feel more confident doing?I think ice skating for me.

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Really? Roller skating. Why would you be more confident? Well, first of all, I'm falling in either scenario. One of them is on the cold and hard, and one of them is not cold and hard. I'll take Not cold and hard. I don't want to be sliding on something wet and cold.

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But ice skating, you probably have more clothing on for than roller skating. Roller skating, especially down here, people wear in various degrees of unclothed. If you fall, you're going to get blood everywhere.

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I stopped rollerblading. I have a pair of rollerblades that were worn a couple of times, and I stopped when I realized how high the fall was happening from. I can't do it. I'm not going to do it with elbow and wrist guards and a helmet because I'm not going to have that Dan Levitard loser struggling, not doing it well.

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Oh my God, can you imagine seeing that in the wild? That would be incredible. Only in Dade would have a field day. You better safe than sorry. The rollerbladers down here, though, are the most confident people in the world. You're absolutely right because they're wearing little speedos or bikinis or whatever, and they're on the pathway on Miami Beach that's made out of bricks. So if they fall, they're getting hurt, but they're not falling. They are so confident. They're weaving in and out in a way that I will never have that much confidence doing anything. We're like 20 miles an hour. Same. They're the most confident people on Earth.

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I have been jealous of the confidence that those people have.

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I saw God on 87th Avenue all the time. Like three weeks ago, he was just learning how to roller blade. So I'm driving down the street and he's there really trying. And then all of a sudden, the move goes where he tries to push, but the skates fall behind them. So he's I'm like, I'm in the air. I'm like a parallel.

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He's parallel to the ground, looking down at his horse. As I tried to buy my octal horse.

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Bam, bam, let's go.

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Why? When it's support? Or what?

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No, it's not support. I know you fell, but come on, just keep going, baby. And that's the least confident guy in Miami right now.

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I saw this morning on Roller Blade, somebody with the confidence to wear just a white speedo on Rollerblades. Was he an MLB player? I was thinking about chafing. I was thinking about-You think a lot, man. About esthetics. I was thinking about who makes that choice? How? Why?

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What is the rest of this person? Sweat factor.

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What does the rest of this person's life look like?

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Just like that, wearing a white speedo rollerblating.

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That's It looked like-It extrapolated that. Walter White at the beginning of Breaking Bad. They looked like-Tiny Whited.Tiny Whited is what they looked like. The beginning. It's not a spoiler.

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It's the opening scene. It's the first 12 seconds. I haven't gotten to it. Same here.

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Spoiler alert on Breaking Bad. Yeah.

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There's a whole prequel series. There was a reunion at the SAG Awards yesterday. Oh, please. Did you watch them? The SAG Awards, that guy in the speedo.

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There wasn't a lot of SAG there, to be honest with you.

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You noticed.

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Don L'Hébatard. David Samson, weirdo. Because he was not the fun substitute teacher who'd wheel out a TV and play a VHS tape of Armageddon in science class. He was the weird one who would eat an egg salad sandwich while clipping his toenails into the trash can and ranting about Ronald Reagan. Stugatz. The guy kept talking about how his His ass was smooth, smoother than a newborn's cheek. He wouldn't stop bragging about his bare buttocks to me.

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This is the Dan Levatard Show with the Stugatz.

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Juju, please put it on the poll @Levatard Show. Have you ever honk your love and support for anyone from your car? I'm not sure that what Tony was doing there was loving and supportive.

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Absolutely not.

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It was blocking. I saw that. I want you, as you to know that wherever it is your shame resides, your lack of dignity, you weren't able to do that in private. I caught that from over here. I'm going to honk so gently that you're going to be able to tell, I'm not honking at anybody else. This is not rage-based. I'm simply showing you. I saw that, and I will take it with me and laugh about it days later.

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There was nobody in front of me. I was just honking to show support. No cars around. But it's like the light honk where you hit the… How was he dressed? He was dressed not like he should have been for rollerblading. Was he going to work then? Because then it's just even worse. No, this was at, I want to say 4 o'clock in the afternoon on a Friday. People work at all times. Maybe he was going somewhere, I don't know, but he was wearing shorts. He was And a T-shirt, but no guards on his elbows or knees or whatever. So when he ate it, he ate the entire pavement.

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You have to, if you're going to go rollerblading for the first time, you have to do the helmet and knee pads and the elbow pads and the wrist pads, don't you?

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Yes, but in a very private place, if possible. Yes. Why? Who cares? It's embarrassing. Trying to win homecoming queen? Who cares? What difference does it make?

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Yes, Billy is right. Just own it and be confident. Be bold. These roller skaters and these roller bladers don't worry about this stuff, about the ones who are all over Miami, and they are everywhere. They are peacocking, and they are resplendent with confidence. We've all noticed it. We all want and envy the confidence these people have just rolling around shirtless and knowing they're not going to fall.

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The more I think about it, the more I just think everyone in Miami has an absurd level of confidence. It's just maybe other than Billy. It's part of the deal. I knew you were about to doubt me. What?

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We will get to DJ Khaled's confidence in a moment because I saw what he did yesterday. Today, and it was ridiculous and funny and amazing, really. But before we do that, Jamie and Andrade has been found, and I'm very happy about this. Wow. Sullivan is pretty good. Jamie, and thank you for being on with us. Where are you right now?

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Right now, I'm about a little less than an hour from TD Garden. That's where I'm from, actually.

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All right. I'm from enemy territory. Okay. You're a little bit cold down here right now. All right. You're Miamian living in Boston?

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I am a Miami heat fan, yeah. And I live close to TD Garden, yeah.

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Okay, so what do you do in Boston?

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I do pipe fitting.

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Okay, and so what brought you to New Orleans? What was the occasion?

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Well, I was on vacation for my birthday. My sister got me tickets to the game for my birthday, so we were out there just enjoying the culture and just wanted to catch a heat game out there while I was at it.

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And so what What happened? Take us through what happened.

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Honestly, I was just being a heat fan. I had pretty good seats. We were in the third row, and then I was just heckling the whole game, just being a heat fan. And then I guess they got sick of me after a little while because Basically, when the scuffle happened with the players, that's when they were just like, Yeah, we're going to get everybody out of here. I don't know. I really did nothing because the funny thing is that people don't know. When they first kicked me out, when you see on video, they kicked me out, sent me to security. And then when they They sent me to security. They said, Oh, you guys got the wrong guy. You got to escort them back. And then they escorted me back. And as I'm coming back down the stairs, they grab me again. So they kick me out twice in one shot.

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All right, so hold on a second. So what happened? So they kicked you out. They thought they had the wrong guy and then didn't have the wrong guy. Did they have the wrong guy?

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Honestly, I have no idea. And the crazy thing is when they first take me out, they brought me downstairs through the elevator and everything. And then as soon as I got through the elevator, they're like, Oh, that's not the guy. You guys got the wrong So you got to escort them back. They escort me back. I'm going up the stairs on the... So that row right there was row 113. When they escort me back, they're escorting me back to row 115. So then I go up the stairs to go around and come back down 113. And as I'm going up the stairs, the people from that row recognize me. I go up, go around, and as I'm going back down to heckle those same fans, I thought I was getting kicked out. Before I could even go down the steps, they grabbed me again. And when they grabbed me again, they literally brought me down to security, and they told me, oh, it's NBA code of conduct. You can't swear in the arena. So they literally told me I got kicked out for swearing. They said, I'm not banned, but I can't come back today.

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But are you the right guy?

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No, I'm the guy that got kicked out for sure, yeah, but I didn't do anything wrong. I really have no idea what happened.

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You didn't deserve to get kicked out. You were heckling and you were cursing. Yes?

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I was just saying, the Pelicans and go heat, basically. But the thing is, when they They brought me downstairs, they kept saying, No, you're good. We just want to get a copy of your ID, and we're going to bring you right back. They literally told me I wasn't getting kicked out. They told me they was going to get a copy of my ID, just sent me back, and then they didn't do that.

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Tell us how it is you became a heat fan.

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I actually became a Heat fan because of D-Wade when I was young, and then just stuck with that. Just been a Heat fan since.

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How does that go for you in Boston? Terrible.

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Surrounded by nothing but Celtics fans, but it was great last year. In the last five times, four of the last five times we faced them in the playoff. So Celtics don't have nothing for us. Did you at any point-Southerners have nothing for us.

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Did you at any point become a Bulls fan and a Cavs fan or no?

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I wasn't a Bulls or Cavs fan, but I was rooting for D. Wade when he was there, though. It was a little scary.

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Really? I lost him. He was cursing. Sounds like Pelican security had been a policy. He said after Pelican, so then he had to go.

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We will see if we can get him back.

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He has- It's a miscarriage of justice. When you say you're just being a heat fan.

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That covers a lot of territory. What is that? Put it on the poll, please, @Levitar show. When you're saying your, Just being a heat fan, is that automatically grounds for ejection from any stadium in the world?

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He's back. Did you see the video where the Pelicans' postgame show was just overwhelmed with fans chatting, Let's go heat, in the background? Like, Did we come into in the wrong arena today?

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Jamie, were you-I was one of those people. How the hell are you?

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You got to put out. This guy's a hero, Dan.

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Listen, the funny thing is, they didn't let me back in the building, but I was right by the door behind the announcement, so I was screaming right in that building. I didn't care. I was waiting for all the Pelicans players to come out so they could hear me. I didn't leave that arena until maybe a few hours after... Maybe a couple hours after the game was over. I didn't leave. I wanted to be the last one out that building. I was the first one out the building, but I wanted to be the last one out the parking lot area.

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Let's play for him this video and just give us some play-by-play. You don't have to adhere to the video play-by-play, but just take us through what it is that's happening here as you're leaving your seating area.

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So everybody kept saying, get the fuck out of here. Mind you, everybody is swearing at me, get the fuck out of here, fuck the heat, but they could swear. And then all I'm saying is, I'll be back. This is my arena now, and I said 305 till I die. I kept on I'm saying this is our arena now because the funny thing is, when Jimmy Butler was getting kicked out and then he points at the crowd and he balls his fist up.

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Yes.

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I was literally right behind the heat bench. So when he was looking up at the crowd and doing that and cheering, he was cheering towards me getting kicked out.

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Are you from Miami?

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I'm not from Miami.

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305 till I die. But I do travel there as often as I can.

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My sister's a flight attendant, so I fly for free. I'm everywhere. I'm everywhere. The heat go, I go. And the funny thing is, I'm going to that Heat Pelican's game March 22nd. They're going to hear me again. They're going to see me again. I'm trying to find a way to get free tickets if I can because I deserve it. I'm the number one heat fan there is out here. I come to work with my heat hard hat on. I don't play no games. Got them tatted on me. I just can't show that right now. You know what? I got too much layers on.

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All right. I'll get you tickets.

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That's so nice because I was going to do it, Dan, but you did it. Thanks.

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You were going to do it?

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Hey, Dan, I'm a big fan of yours, by the way, man. How's coffee doing?

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He's great. Thank you for asking. He's 80 years old, shuffling around the house and doesn't want to be around us anymore. He's done with the whole thing.

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I mean, this guy could schmooze. Big fan after you got him tickets, Dan.

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Yes, I did notice that.

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No, I was going to lead off with that, but you guys asked me questions a little too quick.

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Thank you, Jamie, and we appreciate it. Anything else that we need to know, what are your Bonafides. You got heat tattoos. What else? From Boston. What changed? How did the few minutes or the few hours after the game go when the video started spreading?

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Well, there was just people hitting me up from all platforms, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram.

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It was crazy.

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I didn't really get to get back there, but I for a few seconds, got to feel how it is to be a low-key celebrity. Just saying. It was too many messages to get back to. It was a little bit ridiculous. It still is, but not as bad as it was the first couple of days.

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Thank you for making us making time for us in your schedule today.

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Thank you, guys. Thank you, guys. We appreciate it, sir. Just look out for me in the next Miami Pelican game, and when we're facing a Miami, I'll be there.

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All right. We will get you tickets. I promise you tickets. I'll get you tickets. Are you going with him? I am not going with him. Go ahead and promise him to be- You got to go with me. You got to go with me. You know what? Stugatz is going with you. I'll buy you and Stugatz tickets.

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Nice of you. I like that.

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I like that. I'll send Papier to the game, too.

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I'm scalping mine. See you later, Jamie. Thank you.

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I appreciate you guys.

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Stugatz, can you tell me and tell the audience, please, what it is here that Mike McDaniel is wearing in this video that we're going to play of the Dolphin Coach, who doesn't give off a lot of Don Shula. He doesn't look like yesterday's Dolphins coaches.

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That same Championship mindset. I can promise you, the team in that stadium that's playing there next year and for every other year following that, we'll be chasing that Championship mindset each and every year, and bringing that to a fan base that truly deserves it. Drop the mic.

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Mic drop. So he did a mic drop without doing a mic drop. What is he wearing, though? It's like orange and white towels. It's matching shorts and shirt. Una cortina. He's got fashion sense. He's a very confident dresser. No dolphin coach has ever dressed like that. I'm guessing Vic Fangio doesn't dress like that.

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Dave wants that. I need Tony to translate what that means. Una cortina. He's wearing una cortina that my abuela has. A curtain? I have that exact same curtain. Yes, a curtain.

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It's an old woman's curtain. But how would you... Is it flowers? Is it orange flowers that's on? Matching shorts and shirt, white and orange. A Miami look.

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I think Couges owns that matching set. I don't think there are a lot of people who can pull that off confidently. He needs to win two more games this season if he wants to keep pulling that off. Hey, he's got the confidence to live in Miami, right? We were just saying Miami people, the most confident people. You're right. He lives in Broward. He lives in Broward. Never mind.

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He's talking about championship mindset, and for a while, the joke at his expense is going to be, go ahead and win a playoff game. Go ahead and win one those, and then we will allow you to wear flowered cortinas.