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This is the Don Levator show with the Stu guts podcast.

I watched Roadhouse last night. Late into the night. Two word appraisal. Bad ass.

Hell, yeah.

Hell yeah.

With a comma in between.

Oh, no.

It was so bad.

I don't trust you with this.

It was so bad. I don't trust you with Mike, I promise you.

How is this one bad? The trailer just look amazing.

Mike, I promise you. I promise you. It's bad. And it's ass. Conor McGregor is terrible in it.

Dan, I haven't seen. He looks great in it.

He looks like he's Conor McGregor. He does look great. And Valerie accused him of getting ass implants because he's nude early.

They don't test for that anymore.

Put it on the poll, please, at Lebatard show. Is it possible that Conor McGregor got ass implants?

A spoiler alert.

Small spoiler alert, Mike. That may ruin it for you. Somebody got attacked in key west. Just in key west by a crocodile.

That happens. Saltwater crocodiles and the canals. That's very dangerous.

Big problem.

This is not how that would.

This do you ever watch bloodline? Like, that's exactly how that happens.

A crocodile?

Yeah. Saltwater crocodiles. In the keys. Wow. Tell me you don't go to the keys often.

Thank you.

That's what I was trying to tell yesterday. Everywhere. It's like one of the deepest fears I have. You can't jump into a canal in a key.

You've never been to hogs heaven, dude.

Clearly hogs heaven.

The ocean is not a place that you're getting attacked by crocodiles. A canal is a place you might get attacked by.

Dan. There's saltwater crocodiles everywhere in the ocean down here. Everywhere. Everywhere. There's orcas now in the ocean. Turkey point, croc. Come on. Coconut grove. The keys. Those canals in the keys, they're very close to the open water in the ocean. That's all salt water. That's not necessarily brackish water. The name is salt water crocodiles. Yes, it does. In the ocean.

All right, I can be wrong because I did not know that.

Well, you're wrong about two things, because roadhouse has a 66 on rotten tomatoes. It's badass, Tony. One word. The original roadhouse, by the way, had 41% on rotten Tomatoes.

Also badass, Tony.

That's badass.

So, Tony, you're telling us you're the only other one here, I think, who.

I saw half of it. So I got to the point where you saw the saltwater croc.

I got just on the bad part, not the ass part.

I'm waiting for more ass to be kicked right now. Dalton has kicked some ass, but not as much ass as he needs to. He's about to kick way more ass.

Has he ripped out a trachea? Not yet, because that is essential. That is canon.

That happens later on.

Tony, you liked it so far?

Dan? I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt early. Okay. Later on, we're going to catch up and fill out the.

No way Mike will like this. The writing is so bad. The writing is so bad.

I guarantee you I will like it. Just from the trailer. The fact that it's in the keys, the fact that Conor McGregor looks like he knocks it out the park because all he has to do is be Conor McGregor.

He does it starchly, stiffly. It doesn't feel very good. He's a bad actor. He's very bad at acting.

Okay, that works.

And the writing is very bad.

The dad are also bad actors in the glass.

I love going to the keys. It's shot there. So I just think from being able to look around at the scenery, I'm going to get a kick out of it. Oh, kick. How is his roundhouse kicks? Are they good? Because that's also essential.

I will wait for your appraisal once.

I finish Madame Webb. I'll get around to Roadhouse.

I was surprised before the show. This has never happened before in terms of me having to step in to prevent a fistfight. I had to hold Lucy back when Mike Ryan called it March midnight and said that everything he saw yesterday was overrated.

The ones who get it, get it. The ones who don't, don't. And you don't get it. You don't get it.

Excuse me, Lucy, with all due respect and of everyone here, I'm probably the only blue blood and I know what March is all about, having made consecutive very deep runs into the tournament. And it's a lot of trudging through mud and sewage to get to like ah. Moment.

That's what college sports is all about.

It's bad sewage.

Crap. It is awesome. You clearly didn't watch Nevada Dayton. That game kicked out.

Dayton was down 13. Okay, late. That's like being down 50.

I'm gambling again. I had Nevada. Rest assured. I watched it all. It's just not good. The game isn't great. Would have been a lot better if Miami were in it. Yeah, I can wear that homerism on my sleeve, but it's not good. And I understand getting all super hyped up for it.

Yes, it's the best sports day of the year.

Blah, blah, blah. It doesn't match a regular old NFL Sunday slate. It doesn't match a Saturday afternoon in the Premier league. It doesn't match 05:10 p.m. Puck drops in the NHL going on simultaneously. It doesn't match these things.

It doesn't match Golkie in these things.

Golkie.

Okay, we need to talk about Golkie starts the show with Golkie. Golkie is what March is all about. A guy with that kind of hairline who's going to be a terror in rec league in two years, dropping ten threes against Kentucky. I want to be Golkie. I love Golkie.

That guy is 40 years old. That guy has the perfect first name for somebody who makes ten threes. Jack. That guy is the reason Jay Wright says the following, quote. The era of taking these young freshmen and trying to play against older players is over. I think Cal did a phenomenal job with these guys all year. You can see they're playing against grown men. The guys on Kentucky will be far better pros than any of these guys on Oakland or any of these guys in the tournament. But they're not as good college basketball.

Players and that's why we love it. College basketball is for the everyday folk.

Okay?

We're not making it to the NBA, but we're going to have fun and we're going to screw things up. In the process, we're going to hit.

Ten threes right in Mike Ryan's face.

Jack Golkey actually gave voice to this, that point there exclusively in his post game press conference.

Obviously we come in, we're the underdog by all measures, but as a player you can't think that way. You got to go out there and you got to think that you have the same talent level as them. I know they have draft picks and I know I'm not going to the NBA, but I know on any given night I can compete with those type of guys and our team can compete with those type of guys. And that's why I was so confident and going into it. And that's why I say we're not a Cinderella. Because when we play our a game, we can be the best team on the floor.

Put it on the poll, please, at Levitard show. Have you ever thought of Cinderella as 50 years old?

Looks like Billy Donovan's hair when he wakes up in the morning.

It does. It has an Eddie Munster vibe to it. There's a lot of forehead surface area.

That's what Bradley Cooper looked like in weding crashers, by the way. Something's going on there. You may want to look into it.

What was the name of? Was it Andrew Gase, the australian player for Seton Hall a million years ago? The first time I remember watching a college game and saying, wait a minute, that's not fair. That guy's clearly. He's much older than everybody else. And I agree with Mike. This part cannot be disagreed with. It's bad basketball.

It's so.

Okay, you want to watch good basketball, go watch the NBA. Dan, this is not for good basketball. There's no such thing as for Jack Golke.

There is no such thing as good basketball. In fact, maybe the ladies can come through today because today is also their day and I'm excited to watch that tournament. But according to you, there's no good basketball. I watched all the games yesterday. I need your jumper again.

What?

What?

Excuse me?

I know ball.

I need to see your jumper.

What?

Ball after a mean jumper. I need to see your jumper.

My jumper?

I need to see it.

My jumper is fine. I play within myself and I'm not going to camp out at the perimeter. That's not my game, all right? I'm a junkyard dog inside. Everyone knows this. Also, I close out pretty well. All right? I'm not going to jack up six shots on the outside just because you want to see this. I'm an efficient basketball player. I grew up know heat index Mike.

Ryan just mentioned closeouts and I will never look at them the same after what I saw in a terribly bored Clippers game here where James Harden goes through the paint, passes it in the corner to his teammate Kawhi Leonard and then closes out on Kawhi Leonard. Just pretends to try to block the shot of Kawhi. What now keep in mind they are up 20. It's the only defense James Harden has played in about five years, and he played it on his own teammate. And look at the score, incidentally, they get the rebound after this to go up by 20.

Did he get the rebound because he put himself in terrific position to grab that board.

I think that he got the ball back and then passed it again. Yeah, he did get the heads up.

Play by James Harden.

For those of you who are not watching and just listening, again, James Harden came through the lane, passed it in the corner to his teammate Kawhi Leonard, and then was the closest to close out on Kawhi Leonard and jumped toward him and stuck a hand in his face and kawhi, great defense. Missed the shot. After the game, Ty Lou just shook his head and James Harden said that we're just trying to keep it interesting. Late in the season, they're up by 25 against that terrible Portland team.

Here's why people love March Madness, and they conflate the upsets and they forget about the really bad games going on. What they love about March Madness is that it's happening at 11:30 a.m.. Eastern.

Actually, that's a great take. You know what? I got to give it to you there.

That's what sets it apart. And if you're not myopic and you watch european soccer and these international competitions, you realize, or if you watch Tennis that's played in different time zones, you realize that this is afforded to you across the entire sporting landscape. And then when you line it up in terms of excellence on the field to play, you start poking holes on March midnight.

This is where I disagree with Mike because we're having two different discussions. Okay? The bad basketball, I think we can all come pretty close to agreeing with. I'm pretty upset with Mike's general spoiled about basketball attitude, where it's gotten so good that he thinks it's all bad. Like the professional skill level has gotten so incredible that shots from the logo are normal. And now Mike is saying that it's all bad, but the place where he's right about some of this is, this is, however, what is it that are 49 ers, people who look for gold through pan.

Miners.

Miners. Okay, this is what March madness is. The pan has just so much dirt, mud, garbage and worthless in it. But every once in a while, sift it out, you shake it loose and what do you got? You got Jack Golkie making ten threes for Oakland to knock out Kentucky when all you're rooting for is for Kentucky to get knocked out. All I was rooting for yesterday was Kansas and Kentucky to lose Sanford.

Don't even start.

I had Sanford to win. I don't know if. I mean, a lot of people say this. Nobody cares who you had, who I had. But to have Sanford to win as a 13 and to lose that way when you get the perfect block at the end, the perfect block at the end, and the referees fell it up when the referee needs to not do that, the referees denied us that moment. So if there's a nugget of gold with Oakland, it gets shit on by that referee who took away from us the ability to have Sanford beating Kansas.

The only reason they called a foul was because he fell like that, to me, is the only reason that they called a foul.

I know that it's like searching for the nugget of gold, but I think the thing that's worth noting is you have this every single year, though. So you always know you're going to get a St. Peter's or an Oakland. So it keeps you coming back. Even though yes, you're going to get a bunch of duds. It's that fun Oakland story. It's that fun St. Peter's story that keeps you like. I remember where I was when Lehigh beat Duke. That's the shit that just stayed with you forever. And it's awesome. And I don't know why you guys just aren't enjoying the moment.

Put it on the poll. Do you remember where you were when Lehigh beat Duke? And by the way, if you want to experience some in this for yourself, this is being played all over our great nation. Why don't you open up a game time account, man, I hear so many great things about game time from our fans out there. Deeply appreciative. I feel like I'm providing a service to our fine people out there. Download the game time app. Create an account and use code Dan for $20 off your first purchase. Term supply last minute tickets, lowest price guaranteed. None of the silly games that are out there with all the other competitors. Game time for me is elite upper echelon. Download the app right now. Howdy, folks. It's Mike Ryan. It's springtime, and while every time is a good time for Miller Light, Springtime is among the best. I was sitting out in my backyard watching some flowers blooming, some beautiful birds swimming from royal fishtail palm to royal fishtail palm, and I had a Miller light in my hand, and I said, yeah, this is the good life. Over the years, a lot has changed.

One thing that hasn't the great taste of Miller light. It was the original light beer, and to this day, it is still the very best one. Miller Light has more of the taste that you want and less of the stuff that you don't. Oh, Miller light, you are always there for me. I thank the heavens for you every time I'm sitting on my back patio and I take a sip. Tastes like Miller time. To get Miller light delivered right to your door. Visit millerlight.com Dan or you can find it pretty much anywhere that sells beer. Celebrate responsibly. Miller Brewing Company Milwaukee, Wisconsin 96 Calories per 12oz Don Lebotard, are you back on the caffeine? Are you back on the Red Bull?

Something's wrong.

We are. Something's wrong.

It's unbelievable how manic he is. And he sort of just keeps chewing on his bottom teeth in a way that's scaring me a little bit.

Stugats. I've been up since 05:30 a.m. Producing content, and in terms of being able to be on my body needs a little boost. And that's why I turn to cocaine. This is the Don Levitar show with the Stu Gats. Again, I will double down on my point. When it comes to march madness, what you love the most about it is the time.

Can I buy you a better attitude on game time? Can I operate that?

Yeah, sure. Look, maybe it's ingrained in me to go counterculture. I also like March Madness. But in experiencing it yesterday, I realized that the only thing that sets it apart is being able to do this before you even getting home.

Getting home and putting on the games you got.

It's the amount, Mike. It's not just that you've got something at 1130, it's that you got, but that amount is going on four, six p. M. You got 20 games going on.

Any college football Saturday? Any college football Saturday.

But you said Saturday. It's the weekend. This is the weekday. This is when we have nothing. This is when we have Bengals, colts on a Thursday night.

Again. You have the NBA, you have the NHL. You have simultaneous games going on all the time. And I think a lot of what's happening with March Madness is nostalgia, because it came at a time where you weren't able to watch multiple games at the same time, and you had one network basically cutting to dramatic finish. It was a red zone before the red zone. And while it's awesome and it still remained kind of good, it's something that's more available than ever for any type of sport. So I think a lot of that shine has worn off, and you're just left with the quality on the field to play, and it's not that good.

It's the reason that I like college football so much, where if you have an upset in the NFL, you have an upset in the NFL. And if you have an upset in college football, it's the craziest thing in the world. No one can believe Alabama lost. It's the same thing with March madness. If the Pistons beat the Celtics, okay, you'll get a 32nd hit on sports center, and you're done. When Oakland beats Kentucky, everyone is talking about it. Everyone is involved with this tournament filling out their bracket. It's a community thing. It's fun. We all care. And maybe you should look at the positive side of things.

I like it. I'm not saying I don't like it.

Mike, Armando Baccott's going to be at UNC for his 10th year. You're not excited about that?

He was at UNC before Patrick Mahomes won a single Super bowl. That is a really.

How could you not love that?

You know what?

I have a top five for things about March.

Yes.

All right. Go for it.

Number five, Tom Izzo.

Hang on. Give me a second. I'm new at this. People bet changed all this.

People bet against Tom Izzo yesterday.

How dare you?

Tom Izzo in March? Are you kidding me?

How dare you?

He's so dialed in. You think about coach Cal. Great recruiter, good coach. Then he gets to march. Crap, right? Tom Izzo. The complete opposite during the season. But then when he gets to march, he's dialed in.

I really do feel the way Mike is looking at this, though, is like the person who buys a thousand lottery tickets, very excited, and then none of them come in. But if one of them comes in, if there's an Oakland in there, all of a sudden you love March midnight.

That's how the parlay business keeps it going, because it's about the one that you win. Guys, I like March Madness. After this, I'm going to a sports bar with my friends to watch March madness. What? I'm saying is, it's not the greatest thing in sports that people make it out to be. In fact, when you compare it to the sports landscape, it's kind of mid.

Number four, the aforementioned Armando Bacott playing his ten.

The player was going on at a similar time last week with two amazing holes. A hotly contested competition. The players, the players, the players.

I want better see is Armando Bakeff for his 10th season. That's what I want to see. Number three, Nevada, blowing a 17 point lead in the second half.

That one hurt. That one hurt.

You can't get that outside of March. You can, but you can't.

That one hurt. That one hurt a lot. I had a decent amount of quit on Nevada. Dayton ended that game on 24 four run.

You can't go against the Flyers Dayton in March. Are you kidding me? That's a lock.

Do they still host the first four? Is that still the tradition? I don't get that one.

Number two, the ad taking credit for Long Beach State getting.

Please put his picture on the screen here. I want to read this quote because Dan Monson was fired. And the press conferences afterward in which all of this stuff was discussed because it was funny to listen, if you don't know the story. Dan Monson of Long Beach State was fired on Monday. And then they make the tournament. They win their tournament. And the athletic director, whose name is Bobby Smitherin and looks exactly like you would think, somebody who has no respect for 17 years of building Long Beach State into what Monson built it into, he comes in after three or four months and he fires him. And then the quote is my belief, and I haven't heard him say this. I'm just reading the quote, so I don't know if there's a smile on his face. I don't know if there's tongue in cheek involved here. I don't know if tongue in cheek is even allowed anymore today. The way the Internet works.

Not the way that the Internet works. Because he's one. Because I actually saw the video in question and it looks like he's trying to make the most of it because he's got egg on his face. This is not a great look for him, despite making it to the tournament, which is an achievement for an ad. But yeah, he made what most people would call is a mistake. So he's trying to make the most of it and have fun of an awkward situation. But the quote is pretty damning when you see it.

Absent that, Roy, can you do me the favor, please, and find for me the origins on tongue in cheek, how it is that that works, and also egg on his face. I'd like some of the origins of that as well, because I don't know why someone has egg on their face, but the quote from Bobby Smitherin is my belief and hope is that by doing what I did and the timing of it, they would play inspired, and that's what they did. I'm not trying to pat myself on the back, but it worked.

That's march.

Now imagine march. Imagine that quote with a shit eating grin attached to it, and it changes it a little bit. Okay.

The shit eating grin. Let's talk about this for a second.

It's another one that we have to look at.

If you were eating shit, do you think you'd be grinning? Because a little one. But it's not a grin of happiness. Like a shit eating grin is happy. This one does not make sense. The only time that shit eating grin I've seen is my dog likes to eat. The cat turns.

Does it make him happy?

Yeah, it does. That's the only time I've seen a shit eating grin, and it disgusts me. I've lost respect for my dog when he comes out of there with Kitty litter on his face, and I'm like, how'd you get in there again? We've booby trapped the entire house to prevent the way that you disgust me when you do.

This shit eating grin is possibly a contraction of grinning like a possum eating shit later, detached from meeting, persisting due to his vividness. So there you go.

Thank you, Roy.

I don't understand what the last possums eat shit.

And then they smile.

Well, there are a lot of nutrients. Possums got to get it where they can get it.

And if animals are there, nutrients and shit. Because I thought your body takes all the nutrients from the shit, and then all that's left is the shit.

I think that if a possum is eating it, my guess is the possum is finding something in the way of nutrients from other animals having undigested things in their shit that possums can eat.

I think it's like how manure is, like, used in soil, because I think there are nutrients in it that would make sense in my brain. Right.

The possum is also. I don't know how your brain works. The possum is also not a discerning beast of any kind. It is a pea brained animal. And whatever it is that it eats, I wouldn't trust it to do what it's supposed to be doing.

Human feces is rich in potassium.

Put it on the poll, please. That lebatard show. Did you know that human shit was rich in potassium? Also put it on the poll. Did you know that in the Atlantic Ocean a crocodile could eat you in the keys?

Number one, Oakland's Jack golkey. By the way, I was just told something and I have breaking news for everybody. Oakland is in Michigan.

That was shocking.

You didn't know that there were multiple Oaklands in this country.

First time that Oakland's made a run for you guys. Yeah, we've learned that.

Not only did I learn that, I learned that the same kind of way that you learned it, Tony, but when Mike was over by the breakfast in the eating area, I wandered past him and mumbled a secret shame. I said to him, I don't want to admit publicly or privately how much I've bet Oakland the last, I don't know, seven years. Not just in the tournament, just anytime I'm scrolling through bets and I'm bored and I see Oakland is playing even if I don't know anything about them other than the fact that they're in Michigan because I learned that last time. And I discover Golkie when I turn on my television because I can't get these games. I'm not watching these games when I'm betting them. But if I see Oakland on the scroll, I'm like, I trust them to surprise some people and they're going to surprise them as soon as you don't realize that they're in, that I discovered all of that the same way you.

Learned of it yesterday, Jacksonville State. Not in Jacksonville.

What?

Well, Florida. Anyways.

Think about this. I was looking at this as Oakland, California. And I was like, Jack Golkey in Oakland. I like it. Dog making it happen.

Jack Golkie doesn't look like any Oakland I've ever seen in my life.

The tougher side of the bridge, as.

You could see how I was amused by it.

Egg on your face goes back to the late 18 hundreds, early 19 hundreds when audience would throw rotten eggs and vegetables at bad actors on stage or actors would smash eggs on their faces to get laughs from the audience.

I thought it was tomatoes that got thrown at people during that time to.

Rotten eggs and vegetables.

Yes.

So that would be included.

And tongue in cheek is the last of these because I don't. Did you guys think that that quote, when I'm reading that quote, it doesn't sound tongue in cheek. It sounds like the ad is taking credit for them making an inspired run because he fired the coach, who incidentally is working for not money.

Honestly. James Harden back again? He's up 21, so he's just joshing out there. It's against the Blazers. No respect for the other team. How's the Blazers feeling about things right now?

No respect for anything. Have any of you ever seen somebody close out a three on a teammate in an NBA?

Last week we saw Joe Missoula close out after the buzer, which was kind of weird and not talked about. That dude is OD.

Yes.

He is an OD person.

Yes. I cannot wait to see how that disintegrates in his lap because he is unusual.

Don Lebotard, all these high paid analysts, I don't want to mention names. TNt, ESPN, they're not going to make it. Even if they win in. If they lose in Miami to calm you down. That's right. If they lose in Miami, they don't get a chance in Boston or they are going to have their ass. You know what? In know stugats, they were wrong. Are they going to lose their job? No. Are they going to get a cutting paint? No. What are they going to do? Keep predicting? What is the obvious? They're going to say, oh, the nuggets are going to win. Oh, Denver, the altitude. And you know what? The heat are going to win at all. This is the Don Levitar show with these two gods.

Tongue in cheek. Roy, give me tongue in cheek, please.

The most believable explanation for its origin is that in the 17 hundreds, people were show contempt or skepticism by using the tongue to poke out a budge in their cheek. By 1842, tongue in cheek had acquired its modern meaning. Meaning take this with a grain of salt. It's intended to be humorously ironic.

Humorlessly.

Humorously.

Humorously. I want to go back to something that broke at the end of the show yesterday, and I and this show have been guilty over the years of not being great about covering women's basketball. And through that time, Katie Meyer at the University of Miami built something that not only know an enormous number of wins, but represents a kind of pioneering that none of us can possibly understand. How hard it was to build everything she has built. I gave you the stat a few days ago that in college football, only one in five coaches are still in the place that they were in 2019. Like the turnover now is crazy in those jobs to have somebody for 20 years leave on her terms. I mean, she's not happy with what the committee did and what happened with the punctuation at the end I don't know. Mike's closer to the program. He'll tell us perhaps how much that did or didn't have to do with the timing on what happened yesterday. Because she leaves pissed off. She leaves because she feels like the thing that she built at the end wasn't properly respected and was denied a tournament birth.

But I don't want to ignore the fact that this woman working in the shadows has built something substantive out of nothing because this did not have any kind of following when she got here. And it got a following only because she built it, stayed with it. Cares in a really, I'm not going to say an unusual way, but cares the way that you have to in order to have that kind of success for that long with all of the changes that have come. But that is a legitimate pioneer that retired yesterday in Miami, a name that's known nationally as a pioneer. And the only reason this doesn't stain the University of Miami is because she's just leaving and not yet taking another job. And I assume not going to take another job. But if she were to have taken another job, it would be an indictment on the University of Miami. And I just don't know enough of the details about why she left.

She bleeds orange and green. She's still going to be around the program. There's a lot that has gone on in Katie's personal life. She's newly married, a wonderful wife in Hunter. This came as a shock. She's still relatively young, but she has been doing this for a while, I can attest, 19 years. Doing one thing is a very long time to be doing it. She's done it at a level that we've never seen before. You can make an argument that she's on the Mount Rushmore of Miami athletic head coaches, and we've had a lot of great head coaches. You mentioned that she has a special relationship with her players, and that's unique. And a lot of coaches do have these really special bonds with their players. I've never seen anything quite like she.

Cares unusually deeply and has since there was no one at the game.

Yeah, she wears her emotion on her sleeve. She connects to players on much deeper levels, and Miami is a historical outlier. For them to really achieve anything in athletics as a private institution with a really low student body is an achievement. And she established high watermark after high watermark after high watermark. Developed this program after a run in the elite to something that is actually getting resources. Now, yesterday came as a surprise and a shock, and it was a little bit heartbreaking and once you pick up the pieces, you try to wonder where you're going to from here. I'm so happy that Katie's going to at least have a hand in it and I hope she basically has the ability to name her successor. I think she's earned that right here and it's my hope that it's Fitzroy Anthony, who is a lead assistant, who was lead recruiter on Miami's, what is presently Miami's greatest recruiting class in the history of that program here at Miami. I think he'd be a tremendous hire and I'm normally against promoting from within and the ad should do a national search, but I think the answer is here and if Katie wants that to be the answer, then I think we should all respect it.

Great coach. If she were available in an open market, top jobs would be interested in her. She is a pillar and it's really heartbreaking to see her go. She knows what's best for this program, though, so you got to have to trust her judgment. But an icon just hung them up and what's really a bummer about it is I feel like us as a show and we kind of are the talisman of the local market when it comes to speaking about things. We kind of just got around to recognizing this career and that's a shame because we should have honestly been touting her for a very long time.

Speaking of the local market and the local media, I want to talk a little bit about what's grown into what feels like Mike Ryan's genuine disappointment with the Miami Heats media with the been. A lot of people are annoyed in general with our show for how we're covering the Heat and it's expansive how they get annoyed that we talk about them too much, period, or that the way we talk about them is a little negative, emotional and spoiled. The Heat media, though, has been. Much of it has been in those jobs for a long time. And there is a symbiotic relationship between the heat and the media that is a little comfortable. And there's not a lot of critique in the Heat media. There's a lot more critique in Heat Twitter and in social media. There's a big giant gulf between the amount of criticism you get from the objective reporters who are paid to cover the team accurately and then only become very loud critics when it becomes clear to everyone that the Heat is done with Kyle Lowry and then the Heat media turns on Kyle Lowry. But it is interesting to watch sometimes how the Heat media doesn't feel very much all the time, like an independent arm that is loudly critical of the team.

I will say, though, that the team often doesn't deserve a lot of criticism. So that's also part of what dilutes the coverage.

So last time I decided to side swipe the Miami Heat and criticize them for a year in a season, and an approach that I think is worthy of criticism. Terry Rosier, God bless him, hit a game winner against a Donovan Mitchell less Cleveland Cavs, and Miami got a win, a huge win for them.

Wait a minute, that whole sentence. Donovan Mitchell, God bless him.

Donovan Mitchell less, Cleveland.

Terry Rosier, God bless him. And then that whole sentence.

Yeah, well, I don't want to necessarily take out the conventional media because I think the lines have blurred and there's a lot of nontraditional media that has found its way into what we can now categorize as Heat media and Heat Twitter adjacent. It's funny that as Twitter, as a platform later became X, has gotten more toxic, Heat fans have gone the other way. I missed the days of 2010 where Heat Twitter was a very toxic place. Very knee jerk, very hyperbolic. Oh, I loved it. You guys have changed. You guys have changed. And the people that are covering this, the most prominent accounts that are covering the Miami Heat basketball organization, aren't traditional media entities. And let me tell you something I have found, especially since I seem to be the only person now in the world that feels like they can criticize the Miami Heat, which is a huge sea change. Look, about 25% of Heat media is actively trying to get hired by the Miami Heat. So you got to take that with a grain of salt. They are incapable of true criticism. They only show spine when it's evident to everyone that Kyle Lowry is out the door.

Heaven forbid you say something about Kyle Lowry that might ruffle some feathers when he is here.

That's not spine, though. That's not spine.

Heat Twitter and heat media, adjacent accounts that have rightfully found their way into the conversation and do a great job of covering this team, to a degree generally spineless and some real chicken shit behavior from them. So let me tell you something. It is absolutely normal to criticize a team when they are in a run of poor form. You can also have long view conversations, but it is totally ignore certain facts and to be afraid of criticism. Guys, we were born in fire. We invented this toxic platform they call Twitter, and you've all just gone away like crabs scurrying. And now you're just all company men. Find your balls.

Put it on the poll, please. At lebitard show. Worst thing to hear about yourself. Spineless or chicken shit behavior because you escalated spineless by going to chicken shit behavior. And I think it should go from chicken shit behavior to spineless. I also think you made up that stat about 25%.

No, 25% of them are trying to get hired by.

So you made one of four Heat media members, which is fine.

God bless you.

Again with another God bless you.

I hope you get hired.

God bless you.

But you're afraid to criticize them because you're actively trying to get hired by them. That should bless you. And you talk yourselves into the craziest stuff. I mean, the craziest stuff. I see tweets like, this is why the Miami Heat brought in Terry Roser. You've been silent for three weeks. You've been silent. No, they brought him in for eight of 36 from the field, too. Do that.

Amen.

Show me that highlight package. Okay, enough of this.

I've got the God bless list here. We're doing Terry, Roger, and then Heat media, but not all of them, just.

A quarter of them. And people that like March madness, I think God bless them. And I think if I haven't said God bless Katie Meyer, add her to the list. God bless her. And Alexander Barkov. God bless you. This list is back in the line.

Because you're putting Katie Meyer and terry Rosier on the same God bless.

There's different God bless you could be sarcastic and also sincere, but they can't coexist.

You've been using it.

Just sarcastic. God bless Jack Golke.

Hallelujah.

And don't no God bless you to any of the opposing goaltenders that are facing the Florida Panthers lately that all turn into dominic hashic. Roy.

This is the worst stretch of the season for Florida Panthers. What is happening here? You guys have lamented ten days ago they're getting hot at the wrong time.

Well, then Chris Cody should be really happy. Everybody breathe. They've lost three straight after going on the best stretch in franchise history. They've had some injuries, and on top of that, the teams that they've lost to, carolina, Tampa Bay, and last night with Nashville. These are possibly the three hottest teams in the league right now.

I've got bad news.

What is it?

The Florida Panthers were plus 650 and I put a little quit on them to win the Stanley cup.

Oh, no.

And then I think that's when the three game skids.

God damn it, Tony.

They've gone down. In fact, now they are co favorites inside their own conference. Gotcha. To win the Eastern Conference.

He damned you.

I'm putting my name on it. I'm putting my name on.

He didn't bless you with God. He damned you with God, Roy. Your wife.

Impossible, Dan. I found him in.

Your wife is a holy woman. She cannot be happy with.

She's not. She's not.

This is why he's fasting.

I'm not fasting anymore. It ended on Tuesday.

So you atoned for all the. God damn it. So now you got new ones to atone for. I'm back, baby. Howdy, folks, it's Mike Ryan. It's springtime. And while every time is a good time for Miller light, springtime is among the best. I was sitting out in my backyard watching some flowers blooming, some beautiful birds swimming from royal fishtail palm to royal fishtail palm, and I had a miller light in my hand and I said, yeah, this is the good life. Over the years, a lot has changed. One thing that hasn't the great taste of Miller light. It was the original light beer. And to this day, it is still the very best one. Miller Light has more of the taste that you want and less of the stuff that you don't. Oh, Miller Light, you are always there for me. I thank the heavens for you every time I'm sitting on my back patio and I take a it tastes like Miller time. To get Miller light delivered right to your door. Visit millerlight.com dan or you can find it pretty much anywhere that sells beer. Celebrate responsibly Miller Brewing Company Milwaukee, Wisconsin 96 calories per 12oz.

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