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This is the Dan Leviton Show.

With the Stugats Podcast.

I just got the joy of the rare Friday Stugats Waddled Swagger into the room because he's-.

It's been a while.

-he's popular with young people today because of what he and Chris Cody did on Bob Does Sports. What can we tell people about everything that happened there without spoil anything? All of this content just came out. Was it yesterday or was.

It today? It came out yesterday. It's Stugots in all his Stugats glory. Bob Does Sports is a fun group of guys that do golf for a living, and Stugats seems to want to steal it. A spoiler alert there.

I do want to steal it. I want to do their show. I want to do it with you, Chris. But it was interesting for me because Chris was really on me to do this. He stayed on it. He did a great job. He got it done. I had no idea that this show existed. I had no idea what it was. We shot the show. We had a great time. The episode came out yesterday. My daughters, nearly 20 years of doing this show, they have never texted me a single thing about this show, except the one time I played tennis against a tall guy with a cigarette in my mouth. That is it. Yesterday, I got so many texts from my daughters. Oh, my God, Dad, you were on Bob does sports. The boys are so impressed. I'm like, I had no idea that people were consuming stuff.

This. Stugat, I don't think you know any of what's going on YouTube. I don't. Not with our show, not with any show. I believe that there's an entire universe of things that you don't know. There are many. Put it on the pole, did you? An entire universe. At Levitard show, are there entire universes of things Stugat doesn't.

Know about? I'm voting yes on that.

Chris, what can you tell me about the drama of the competition? What can you tell me, without spoil anything, about the highlights of what you guys made with them?

I don't want to spoil it, but I will say that Stugats contributes. As much as he golfs, you'd think he was better. I'm terrible.

This is the first time I'm learning you're terrible. You're always telling us how.

Good you are. No, but here's the problem. My course has been shut down for nearly a year, so I haven't been able to play nearly as much as I used to play, and therefore I am not very good right now. I haven't been good in.

A while. It's all relative. Stugats, he plays enough that he is better than a hack that never plays. But for someone who plays as much as Stugaz does, he is terrible, but he's fine. And so basically, we had Leroy Hoard because of how Stugat... Stugats might be the worst golfer ever on this channel, by the way. I don't want to be insulting to you, but these guys are pretty good at golf. So that's why we brought Leroy Hoard out. Leroy Hoard, he was entertaining and a good golfer.

Stugats is great so long as there are no hills and everything is flat, so you can hit it and it can just roll for.

Quite a while. Yes, I don't get a lot of air on my ball. And you're right about Leroy. My daughter texted me Leroy is lit. I don't even know what that means.

Mike Ryan, can you play a snippet of this so that we can just watch something and see what happened without spoil ing anything?

How are we.

Feeling for today?

Oh, shit. We're feeling good, man. We are. I have two sets of clubs. I have these, which are my clubs, and then I rented a set of clubs, Metalyork, you'll be getting the bill for that. Because I want to try these new clubs out. I'm not terribly confident in the clubs that I have. I'm not terribly confident in my game, is what I'm trying to tell you. I don't really like golf.

Two guys.

Ladies from the ground.

A little high, though. A little high. The ball.

I haven't found my groove yet. Bo have used my shot off the T, bold.

First to all. Chris is doing this thing where he hits a drive left, scatters it right. And just because he hits it far, Leroy is smack in the middle of fairway. Chris just drives to his ball and assumes we're all going to play it. And he's doing that so he could just say, They used two of my drives. It's total bullshit.

He said right at it.

She's straight. And I'm.

Still… If Mike… If Mike can.

Tackling me over.

There… Chris thinks we're playing at the RBC Heritage. I doI'm not going to get the locker room back. I'm going to shit like you're like, Horba.

Oh, you dumb fuck.

Really? What I think Bob wants to do is get rid of one of these two guys and hire me. It's fine. I understand why he wants to. I mean, my golf is horrible. It's not good. But I'm a lot more.

Entertaining than you are.

I said yes, Labidord.

Okay, you're under.

You did the ball well.

I.

Know, 32.

Seconds of the.

Time, Stuart takes the tea box.

You want the over, you want the under. I'm going over. Start the clock.

I'll take shots too.

Right here right now. This is not great audio for our show. You guys are just standing over a ball. Get up there. 30 seconds is what it ended up being.

The ball is too loud. Is that.

Leroy up there? Yeah, Leroy is up there.

I think it was under, though. I don't think it was, too. Cash the under.

We'll hit mine now. Just drop straight to it like Chris.

Oh, man.

Oh.

My.

God.

Am I just ripping these trees, man?

Is Greg Cody busy today?

No. You didn't hit the left. Invitation got lost in the mail.

You.

Are going to put.

That back on. He likes the prime talk. He likes the fresh.

No, I don't.

I hate it, Bob. What just happened?

I never… Jesus Christ, Leroy.

I want to apologize to the podcast audience for so much of the silence that's in this video.

Let's go.

Let's go. Wow. Let's go. Stugats with a long butt.

Stugat. Yo. Come on, Stugat.

Come.

On.

Stugat.

Let's go. Yeah.

I can't jump.

They're going to say this was the Leroy show, but Stugat's made a put. And those two drives, remember we talked about them? They said the tone? -they set the town. It's at the town. Tone center. This is my moment.

You want to see this? This is for the win.

This is for the win. This is for the win. Sure as hell. I feel like Tiger Woods. I feel like.

Tiger Woods. Clap it off, boys. -spoiler alert. That was awesome. That was awesome. And my guys. Thank you.

-spoiler alert. -that was awesome.

-that was awesome.

-my guy is still there. -that'd be great, man. -thank you. -that was.

-all right, brother. For the video audience, I was spoiled.

Oh, boy. Huge part. What makes it worse is I'm the oldest guy here. Man, can he play?

Who said you?

That.

Man, Lee-.

Who said, You've fucked? Who said that?

Big one there.

That's been another edition. Big thanks to these guys.

Big thanks to DraftKings. Bob the sports. We'll see you next time.

Golf talk. The audience on podcast still doesn't know what happened. It's not spoiled for anyone who doesn't have the video. I will not tell you what just happened there. It seemed fairly dramatic. My takeaway from that entire video is that under his breath, with a little bit of melancholy in his voice, Dugald, while watching himself said, This bending thing is hard. It is. The bending down thing.

Can't bend like I used to, Dana.

To pick up the ball. There was a lot of, I feel like we did this better when we did it with Cody in terms of what it feels like to play golf. Oh, fuck me. It could have been a lot quicker. Let's go. Bob does sports. Do it better. You can do it more efficiently. We gave you Cody, prodigy, and progeny back there. We gave you another Cody, the less talented one. And he gave you in four minutes, not the excellence that his dad gave you in two seconds. No, fuck me.

That's all golf is, by the way.

Swing and then.

Oh.

Bleep me. Yeah, but then swing your drink, I mean, of your Greg Cody.

Put it on the pole at Levitard show, please. Is golf only swinging? And then saying, Oh, bleep me. That football game last night, we don't normally come in on Fridays, a game with no puns. We came running in. What? A game with no puns. Yes, you did God bless football already. Did you not know that that game.

Had no puns? I mean, we talked about the game. It was a fun game. It was an entertaining game. I did not realize there were no puns. I did not realize that.

I'm sorry. I didn't realize, and I'm sorry to Gino Smith because some of the throws he made in that game, I never thought that man was going to be any of this. I know he did it all of last season, but that throw to D. K. Metcalfe, where they ended Daron Blans' Defensive Player of the Year chances, even though that guy had him covered, was holding him, that's a guy with five pick sixes this year. I felt bad for him last night because D. K. Metcalfe was covered on that 75-yard pass. And the thing that I realized that I did not know, I have been questioning the idea that D. K. Metcalfe is as fast as Tyree Kill. Since D. K. Metcalfe said he's as fast as Tyreeke Hill. I'm like, That's ridiculous. You cannot be as fast as Tyreeke Hill. But his speed on that 75-yard run in Stugart was the fastest time, miles per hour that anyone in the sport has had this year. He was more than 22 miles per hour. I just did not know that a guy who's eating Skittles and coffee, that's what it is. Candy and coffee every day.

I did not know that that size could remain that fast after five years in.

The League. Six catches, 134 yards, three touchdowns, that's going to catch up to them at some point. I don't care who you are, right? The Skittles and the coffee, it is. You can do it now. I thought you meant to football. I'm on the football, too. But you're young, you could do it now. Try that when you're 40 and see how it goes.

Okay, but Jerry Rice was successful in his 40s. Most receivers don't get to 40 being excellent. That body type, I don't expect to be that fast for as long as it's been that fast. It's crazy. For that to be the fastest guy, he takes a beating, no matter his size. But he has presently the coolest celebration anywhere in sport, where he talks trash with sign language, so he doesn't get fined.

It is by far the coolest thing of any of the celebrations we've seen. I know we saw the Tyree Kill backflip video. That's cool. But when you're going and scoring touchdowns like that one and then signing standing on business, or after one of his most recent games, signing number 44, my son, because he beat a DB who was wearing number 44. It's unbelievable, and it's like it's taking trash talk to a whole other level than.

We've ever seen it before. I mean, he can't be mean, right? He's still got to be nice.

No, he doesn't.

I don't like this. I believe he.

Said, Cowboy sucks.

He said, Cowboy sucks, everyone.

He could just start cursing at people and sign like, What? Well, I mean.

The middle finger is pretty obvious. What people are you?

Well, who's going to find him? I mean, what do you mean?

Yes, he has signed, among other things, number 44 is my son. But we have him talking about it here on Rich Isen's show.

I take ASL now on my updates. What's that? American Sign Language. Okay. What caused you to do that? I kept getting flags for my mouthing, so I've got to sign my talking now.

Come on.

Is that why? Really? That's what I got to do, man, to keep myself busy. But don't, I mean, okay, what happens if you get an official that knows.

What ASL is?

I'll just be talking to him on the side.

Oh, my gosh.

We can celebrate this. This is offensive to me.

What is? It's a loophole. How is it.

Offensive to you?

Because...

It's just like, we're okay with this. This is insulting. I think we should ask hearing impaired people because I don't think they'd be okay.

With this. Wait, weren't you the guy that wanted more David Pollack on Game Day yesterday? That was.

A poorly timed take by me. Who would have known that? I was going for just funny. Who's longing? I don't think we could have. -for Pollock. Then right after that, he does the most... I was like, Someone has to be... Someone texted me that. I'm like, someone's trolling me. This can't be real. It looked like a fake picture, that thing holding up. I was like, This can't.

Be real. You thought it was AI that David...

I thought someone was messing with me in particular just because what I said on the show.

You thought that after missing David Pollock on Game Day-.

They're a Pollack away, was the joke.

I know that he kept hitting.

-that David Pollack would then trend as retweeting and holding up a sign that reads that we shouldn't be allowed to use the transfer portal to have men play women's sports.

Who we tagged in that tweet was just so sad. Oh, my God. The sign should have just said, give me a job, please.

What a truly, truly small man to use that platform for that level of ignorance and then tag Clay, Travis, and Ted Cruz, and just a whole host of other... I mean.

It was one hour after I said they're a pollack away. It might be the worst timing in terms of a take, aging poorly, and this show's history.

Don Libertard, Kensley Jensen. I got to be careful here. What did I just do there? Let me start again. Stugats. He's the closer. Comes in ninth, ending, closes the game out. His name is Kenley Jensen. He has blamed his recent...

This is the Dan Leavator Show with the Stugats. Let's go.

Back to what you were just saying for a second, though, because you saying, I'm offended, and saying I'm offended and sayingis offensive to the hearing impaired. I'm not sure how it's offensive to the hearing impaired.

I mean, you tell Rich eyes it's a chuckle-fest there. They're like, Sign language. That's so clever because they.

Don't know it. I mean, in Chris's defense, he's saying it. He found a loophole, but he's still saying the things that he's saying.

That is correct. And that's why it's funny. Wait a minute. You're going to argue against the loophole.

Well, I love a good loophole.

I mean, how can.

You- I'm the guy that put Leroy Hoard on Team Levitard.

He crushed it. Here's the thing.

It's the only thing that the hearing impaired actually saw and actually understood from the game was the American Sign Language.

That's for them. What a great thing for them to take away from that game. Although I imagine they're also listening to the broadcast or watching the broadcast through the captions.

I want to ask Chris. If DK had learned Spanish or French and was trash talking in that language, would you be offended on behalf of that group.

Of people? If he was doing it sarcastically, if you're learning the -Is that sarcastic? This doesn't fit just...

He's taking the time to learn sign.

Language, though. That takes time. If he just knew sign language and this was like-But you don't just know sign language. He learned sign language just to troll people on the field.

No, apparently he took sign language in college as an elective or something, and then now he's using it and perfecting it to say, Cowboy, suck. 44 is my son. You guys suck.

Chris. This is like Taco Bell. Just doesn't sit white with me.

White? White. White.

Well, I was going to say white.

I feel like you might be a little scattered because rare is when the whole room turns on you like this, and you're entering these waters that you don't normally enter of being offended by something.

Sit white with me, huh? It's why I'm trying to defend him because I know that feeling. It's remote.

Join.

David Pollack. All right, you know what? Angel, make the T-shirts. I've got an announcement to make. I want in the next 90 minutes. I want T-shirts that say, Sit white with me. See?

Even when I'm.

Bad, I'm good. We have the merch store. The merch store is reopened just in time for the holidays. It's a big announcement. David Samson has got the merch store up and running, Stugat, levitardaf. Com. I will give you more information as soon as I go into the back room and tell Video to put up all the graphics because I forgot to get prepared for the fact that we're opening the merch store today. But I do have to do that, and I need your help and the reminder. Oh, look at that. Video is ready. The merch store is revamped. There are discounts there. There are discounts there for people who had problems with the previous merch store if you subscribe. So levitartaf. Com is where you end up going.

Oh, this throw blanket looks incredible.

But, Angel, you need to in 90 minutes. We're going to have the ability to make T-shirts very quickly. Now, I am told we will see how successful that is. What is the idea behind Stay White with me? I think we should send one to David Pollack. We should send one to Shitstank.

I think we should have a board review of this one.

This doesn't sit white with me. It was what I said.

Even better.

The second time. Tony lovesYes, that's right. Some form of that we need to put up on a T-shirt. We need to figure out.

How to do that. Do we have the touché touché T-shirt yet?

We're working on it. We are working on a variety of things. We just got the merch store running.

Tony just yelled, Shut up. Yes.

But he did it in sign language. Everyone's fine.

With it. Yes, everything. It seems like everyone is fine with sign language.

Sure now, check back in a.

Couple of years. Yeah, something feels off. I'm with Chris. I mean, put it.

To good use. I'm getting.

Ahead of this.

I look at what is happening there, Chris. And when you say that, I think to myself in general, if most people in most workplaces, if fellow employees trash-talked them the way athletes trash-talk each other, they would go home weeping and tell their partners and their kids about how awful.

It is. We do that here every day. I called Jeremy a magician the other day. Yeah, and my grandparents used to speak in Spanish behind my back all the time because I didn't understand them. We do that here, too.

Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

I just responded to you.

Tony, you cannot be looking me in the face and thinking that the trash talk around here is the same that it would be on an NFL field between people who are competing who don't like each other.

It's.

Equivalent. I've seen Billy after a bad segment.

That's just Billy being Billy, though, right?

I have thought to myself, trash talk is unsportsmanlike. It is mean and offensive. I don't have it anywhere in me, right? But it's also why I'm not good at sports. There's one of the reasons I'm not competitive that way. It's like, You want it.

That bad?

Okay. That's why, Tubby.

What are the other reasons?

In pickup basketball, you'd just be like, Good shot, to the other team.

Just pretty quiet.

You can get it.

You can get it.

You let.

Somebody else get it. It was not on me, Coach.

What are they, Stugat? You're very pleased with yourself over there. What are all the other reasons that I'm not good at sports? We just saw you have trouble bending down. How are you in a position? I would be happy.

In fact- I hit the big put, Dan O'Neill.

-producers, can we have a sports off or physical off with Stugat? I'm ready to do it. I'm 54 and he's 50. Just a little trash talk. Let's have an athletic competition with Stugats and see who does better at physical.

Fitness things. Start with golfer.

We could throw it in there.

-basketball, one on one. Listen, I will take you to the woodshed if we go one on one.

You each pick five events. How about that? Stug picks five that he's good at, married three.

It's a lot of events. To Decathlon.

Right. Ten events. They each pick three events. You're right, they're old men.

Maybe not one on one. Maybe we just do foul shots or something.

No, you don't negotiate your way out of. You're not allowed to make fun of me athleticall y in the shape that you're.

Presently in. Dan's going to back Stugots down the way Tony would back down John Amichi.

I know that all of these guys aren't enemies on the field when they talk, but there is uncommon honesty on an NFL football field. I was amused by saying Jibril Peppers go up to Saquon Barkley. They are friends after the game, after the giants beat the Patriots 10-7 because Mac Jones ended his career with a terrible interception. Here's Jibril Peppers coming up to Saquon Barclay after the game, a friend. The giants.

Defeat the.

Patriots 10-7. Lucky ass.

You're lucky we're ass. You can put that tombstone on the Patriot's season, right? You can put it actually, you know what?

You can put it on a T-shirt.

You can. You can also just remove the name AFC East and just put that on the top of the division of the Patriots looking at everybody that they've beaten for 20 years and saying, You're lucky we're ass.

Ass is the best critique. It's my favorite. Remember, we got the guy put ass. What was it? The park? I love ass.

It's just so simple. Craig Council got smeared. He looked.

At me and gave me one of these.

And I was like.

I don't know. You guys all knew what I was.

Talking about. Friday, Chris. Look, man, Thursday, Chris. Oh, who.

Didn't know what I was talking about?

Oh, that's right. You all did. Well, but the audience may not have. No, they knew. We've got more people listening than just in here.

By the way. He said, I love ass.

Speaking of more people listening than we have here today, I'm with Mike Ryan now after getting so many tweets and texts from our listeners who are really proud, Stugat, of how much they listen. Every year at this time, it buies me. No matter what it is that we're going through that our listeners like to brag about how many minutes they listen to our show in a year. I'm getting a lot of this from Rob Walden and others. Last year, Levitard show was my number one pod on Spotify with 39,000 minutes. My listening habits haven't really changed this year, and a different pod was my number one with about 9,000 minutes. So something is definitely off. Mike Ryan has accused Spotify of jerry-rigging the numbers. And some of the people who work at Spotify have claimed that we, the entity that bills more by a lot than any sports podcast, that we are fooling our sponsors by tricking them with the way that we count our numbers. But our listeners are legion, and they are loyal, and they're all telling us, Hey, I can't brag about it this year, and my habits didn't change any.

It certainly can't be because we're way worse. Right?

Your head looks like it's going to explode.

Does it hurt? Does the.

Helmet hurt? It's tight.

I can't even tell my mic is up.

Is he workshopping this?

Wait a minute.

He's.

Talked a lot yesterday. Maybe we have to.

Get him a part. No, this helmet is coming off. It's a.

Layman's bet.

We have to get Mike a permanent helmet.

I'm done. I'm done, Taylor.

I.

Quit. No mass.

Don't let me try. Don't let me try. Did you ever have a crush on a cartoon character?

Oh, can I go? This isn't my question, but I did. Jessica Rabbit, who framed.

Roger Rabbit? Yes, I think.

She was married to Roger Rabbit, even though he was a Bunny and she was a humanoid, but they were both cartoons.

Stugats. I had a crush on Betty Rubble. Oh, wow.

What?

That's pretty good. That's not what I'm telling you, man.

That's pretty good.

That's very good.

Whoa, with a surprise nomination from Stugats. I'm showing you his dirty, dirty, inner nine-year-old.

This is the Dan Levator Show with.

The.

Stugats.

Stugats, this has been a big week for us. The last few years have been hard. Everyone in this country having a conversation around the go-woke, go-broke cultural wars, we've been tested in a shaking industry, an industry that is changing. Everyone at ESPN who wasn't asked to take pay cuts was let go. And this week, we got to an island that has 97 million people on it. Max is here to support what it is that we're doing, and it's the beginning of what we're doing with Max. And so there were some announcements made on social media during what is an exciting time for us. And this was a turbulent week for me, as most are on social media. But so this was good news. I checked in, even though for my mental health, I have been avoiding to the degree I can, because I've got to stay on top of certain things if we're doing a daily show, I've been avoiding what has become for me a mental health minefield when I already feel really bad about a lot of different things. And so this was good news. And I'm like, well, surely if there are announcements being made and publicly it's saying a version of our show is coming to max.

And here's the Levitard show clearly winning 97 million people. Although I am getting some commentary from people like this, where the hell are they on max? I resubscribe to Max and have the sports dab, but I can't find them anywhere. I even searched the show in MetalArk and still nothing. Can someone help me out? Maybe Dan can walk us through how to find the show.

Yeah, Dan, maybe you can walk them through. There's a sports here, the BR section on Max where you can find us. I know there's been some frustration with some fans that video on-demand isn't necessarily available just yet. In time, we hope. But the live version, what is it? 11:00 a. M? 11:00 a. M? I saw it yesterday. Looks great.

On that. But only 11:00 a. M. A lot of people want it after it's already run, and that's why they're having trouble finding it.

They go, Let's keep performing and gaming some numbers, and maybe we can get some VOD on there.

I would like a producer, and unlike most of what I say around here, I want this followed up on, I would like a producer to film Stugats trying to find our show. Okay.

I.

Don't.

Think that he- I was going to make the same request for you.

No, I can find it. I have been concerned about how our.

Future looks. Can we make that part of the Decathlon?

Is that one of your sports?

That's a.

Good one. I would love to see him try to find a fast channel by the name of DKN as well.

I could find that one. I found it. Yeah, I have a Samsung TV. Okay, great.

Well, yeah, the Samsung TVs make it easy. Roku also. We're a lot of places. And also, YouTube. Com/atlevitardshow and loads more exclusive Levitard show content coming on the YouTube. Please subscribe. In fact, we're going to give you a special edition just for the YouTube audience. The Club comes back today. But please, reward us for making you happy by subscribing.

Also today, not just The Club, Mike Ryan has won a controversial culture war in the building because he is calling Jessica and Lucy's show over their objections, the male boss is calling the show, footgirls.

I don't like how this is being framed. I like it. We're just trying to punch up, punch up footgirls. We'll see how the maiden voyage goes today. You'll find out in a little bit their reaction to it. I'm very happy with the results. We can relive that a little bit later in the show.

You could have called it the Maiden voyage.

You could, yeah.

For the first episode.

I don't understand what's happening. Maiden? This is a very good segment. Is it a very good- You know, like footgirls? We get it. This is a very good segment. You get it? Jess and Lucy know their football. Jeremy, please stop.

Justice for.

Charlotte Wilder. Just generally speaking, just stop.

Jeremy and Mike, there's some tension here with Jeremy and Mike because Jeremy has been quiet and respecting authority around here. But Jeremy has objected vigorously to some takes that Mike Ryan has had. Recently, Mike Ryan is now taking credit for Juan Wick and knowing everything about Juan Wick. When Jeremy said he said first that Juan Wick was an excellent player before.

You did it. What? No?

I texted Mike Ryan three weeks ago saying I had a song that I wanted to bring in about Jaime Hawkins Jr. After he hit a game winner when Bam had dominated in a previous incarnation of the Miami Heat.

I sit.

And listen to the show when I'm not here and I feel like I'm being gaslit. Because on the days that I'm here, we don't talk about the Miami Heat after big wins or to give anyone an opportunity to actually break down. Relax, it's a Pacers. They score the second most points in franchise history and the regular-season game and regulation. Like, it was no, and it's a Pacers pace that led them there. But it was an incredible second half. I come in and we talk about it in the production meeting, but nobody seems to want to talk about it on the air. Yet when I'm not here, it's, Juan Wick is rookie of the year, and look at those Miami. I mean, it's unbelievable.

Jeremy, you are an ego maniac. What? You are. You want this.

I may not take.

I've been the person saying you can't trade him for Damian Lillard. I was the co-chair of the Real Hoopers Noe Society that called the Ruki of the Year earlier this week. It's okay, you can like him, too. But the fact that you want ownership over this, I mean, you've been around here for five minutes, kid.

The kid is just so condescent.

It was intended to be so.

And.

He's right.

Stugats, we have a Mexican basketball player that people are now talking about, a rookie. They're saying, and I can't believe we got here, right? I understand that we hyperventilate and do prisoner of the moment stuff, but a franchise that historically doesn't do a lot of trusting of young players, you have in Haimae Haqqaz, somebody they think might be a lead guy that we're talking about on a team that has Bam and Jimmy were talking about, Oh, that's what the future looks like. I did not have that. Cilano has been talking to me about this kid since he was in college for quite a bit, but I did not have him.

He was in college a while.

Yeah, he was.

Well, that's what I thought.

When you're- I mean, he's 22.

When you're in college a while. I don't think you're that good.

How good of a prospect can you be? Yeah, no, it breaks a lot of preconceived notions.

Because you didn't leave early? That's the reason? It's a.

Tough look. Tough look, these last couple of weeks for old Joe Cronin. As everyone was celebrating the train in the hall that they got, and no one may be pointing out that, hey, there's one working knee in this package. That turned around pretty quickly. Brogdon, I think, has been better than most people, but he was a one working knee in the package, and he's not super efficient. Haquaz, out of all the players that were rumored for the services of Damian Lillard, Haquaz looks like a guy that, if I told you right now, given how Damian Lillard is still good, still a great piece on a championship contender, and he's got plenty of clutch posties and moments for that Milwaukee Bucks team. But if you ask GMs, who would you rather have from this point forward? Damian Lillard at his cap number or Haimé Haquaz at his cap number? I think you'd be shocked at how many people would say, going forward, I'm a Hawkhead. It's so.

Interesting you say that about Joe Cronin, Mike, because I'm pretty sure I was on the show two weeks ago saying that.

For the long term, though, Mike, right?

I mean, this guy. Jeremy.

Mike, he wants to be part of the organization. I get last riding on... I get laughed at it here as the homer guy. The homer guy. I'm not actually breaking down the game. I'm the only one watching.

The game.

I'm the only one watching the game.

What are you doing?

You are the only one watching the game. I can see that. It doesn't mean you're no more ball than me.

You're repeating everything he said three weeks ago. Yep.

Thank you, Chris.

What? Which side are you on?

He's just-He's on my side.

He was baptized in my water. Are you kidding me?

During the break.

Chris said-This guy gets all his takes for my subscription platform on Twitter. Hey, come on. Pay for that.

I do pay for that because I support my friends.

Unlike Mike. Taylor, can you come in here and put that helmet back on, Mike, please?

I will not. I will not.

You know, Jamey Hawkins is shooting 52 % from three over his last six games. He shot 30 % from in college. Look, the All-Squint team also translates into basketball.

And if you squint real hard...

Don't.

Say that. He looks like a big piece.

To do it. How hard? Show me, Tony.

You know what I'm.

Going to say?

If you know what I'm.

Going to say, it's incredible. Jason Kidd?

No. If you.

Squint real hard. Squint.

There's a little bit of Luca in there. Oh, come on. I thought you were going to say, Jimmy. I thought you were going to say.

Jimmy Butler. Just a touch of Luca. Thank God. I thought you were going to say something ridiculous. Just a.

Touch of Luca. A touch. Okay. I'm on behalf of the audience. You got a really squint, though. On behalf of the audience.

My eyes are.

Wide open. Oh, wait, I see it.

I see it, too.

I.

Do see it. That doesn't sit white with me. Behind the back.

Of the move is like, wait a second. I see Jason Kidd with a better shot.

That doesn't sit white with me either, Jeremy.

Jason.

Kidd? I agree. Totally.

I.

Want... How does that one sit with you? It's always been a mystery with me.

To speak to the audience and speak for the audience about what it is that just happened on our show. Because I don't want to spend the weekend hearing from people. Did you hear them say that Jamie Haques is better than Luca?

First he said they'd rather have him over Dave. That's what Mike said.

He said long term.

Wait, hold on.

Hold on. I don't want this.

Is.

There that much pushback on that take? See, I'm the only reasonable one. I will walk it back if you find that to be an inflammatory take. I think it makes perfect sense. It's a cheating take.

It's a cheating take because you're doing the finances instead of the player.

But I'm also doing projections.

For the next.

Three years. No, he's doing age, long term, all of it, Dan.

I understand what he's doing. And what is fair to say is, hey, Cronin, you took a bunch of unhealthy pieces instead of some young ones that the Heat were offering you because you said redundant skill sets is what you had. And I'm just telling you that what we've seen so far, Stugat, from the heat this season, small sample size. I love that the Pacers are leading the league in pace. I love that Halliburton is putting up numbers this month, Stugat, honestly.

He's crazy.

It's only LeBron and Michael Jordan this month have had a month like this in terms of percentages from three and two and efficiencies and everything else.

Feel free-to-play defense once in a while.

Bam is also in the place where his numbers, it's Wilt. It's crazy. Now, part of this is the offensive explosion of the game that distorts the numbers and makes them different now offensively than at.

Other times. I mean, but prior to last night, where I guess you can credit the Pacers, the Heat aren't really playing that style of basketball where the offensive explosion, you can't really attribute Bam's numbers to an offensive explosion because the Heat play a different brand.

Of basketball. But Bam's numbers, just so you know, though- Real Hoopers know this. -real Hoopers will tell you that the names that Bam is occupying now, he hasn't been doing this where it's Wilt and Kareem and Larry Bird, statistically for now weeks.

Yeah, he's been sensational offensively, and that's already with being someone who should be the defensive player of the year. That's been the case for multiple years at this point. But the part that was fun about last night's game and seeing that he'd be able to play with that level of pace, it was in part because in the second half, they had to play without Bam, who's been one of the best players in the league, who you imagined in the second half would need to be the guy to slow down Tyrese Halliburt. Instead, they made the adjustment of putting Jimmy on him, which really changed the game and made him have to shoot from deep a lot more than he did in the first half. Kevin Love was such a huge part of that game. I think he had seven rebounds and six assists. So much of it was to Jimmy Butler. A lot of them were outlet passes that allowed the Heat to run even more than the Pacers did. To see them be able to play in both of these different styles and have Hymey Hawkins looking a little bit like.

Their other.

Version of Jimmy Butler and the pay was pretty impressive.

We're obnoxious.

As a show. That's why we don't let you talk.