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Hey, Mike, Henry Kissinger died.

Rest in power.

Amin just said right before we started, I'm not a good breather. I've discovered and I have gotten complaints recently because people have been complaining about our audio and other things that as a show and me, I think as a chief culprit not good breathers, that we breathe too heavily into the microphone. I've gotten an assortment of complaints. How is it that you arrived at the conclusion to mean that you're not a good breather?

It's been something in the back of my mind for the last few months, and it all comes down to actually doing this job but not breathing into the microphone. It's my ability to deliver content without taking a breath. I can't do it like I used to be able to do it. So now I find myself running out of breath mid sentence and trying to look for that exit ramp. So it doesn't sound like I just.

Look like that happens to Stugatt and Greg Cody a great deal. I wonder if it is a stamina issue. Charlote, have you noticed this on Oddball? Have you noticed that he's running out of breath as he sprints toward the finish line on a point?

Now that you say it a little bit, now that you say it, sometimes you'll have a pause in a place that I think is for effect. And I'm like, oh, interesting choice, but.

You'Re just trying to I'm just trying to breathe.

Okay, we should probably sharpen that up as professional communicators. We will try to do that. We will probably fail. I wanted to ask Charlote and Jessica, I don't know what their experience has been in Miami here with Iguanas throughout the seasons. I've told you the story that Pat Riley came out of pat Riley came out of his home one time around this time of year and there were still and what he thought dead. Iguanas all over the place because when it gets cold, because they shouldn't be here. They're an invasive species. When it gets cold, they freeze up and try and protect their bodies, and it looks like they're dead. And what he ended up doing is burying them. And then they were dead, but they were not dead at the time. And the reason I bring this up is it's gotten worse in South Florida, and there are a bunch of city and county commissions trying to do stuff about getting rid of them. They say humanely. And when I heard how it is that you get rid of snakes in the Everglades, humanely, it's by putting a bullet in their head very quickly.

It's not very humane, but not humane.

You got to kill them like you want it to be fast. That is the most humane and also.

Root word of humane is human.

I'd rather get rid of these delivery boxes on wheels than Iguanas. I mean, those things are far more terrifying.

They are. I discovered them in California, and I didn't understand how all of them aren't in ditches, how they aren't broken into, how they aren't causing amazing eased in traffic, that they were able to navigate traffic.

I see the same one every day walking to the Bright Line, and I'm always like, Where are you going? Same time every day.

How do you know it's the same one, Chris?

I mean, it's around my walk. I'm walking to the Bright Line the afternoon. This thing's always coming down North Miami.

Avenue, and it says, Good morning, Chris. And I go, It's you again.

They don't talk. They will in the future, but they don't talk yet.

To answer your question about iguanas, my experience has been since I moved here, when I lived in New York, I had a dog, Willow, who we all know and love except Amine. And when I'd take her for walks and you'd see something dart around on the sidewalk out of the corner of your eye, it would always be a huge rat. And so I got used to being kind of startled every time I saw something scurry by me on the sidewalk. Then I moved to Miami, and every time I see something scurry by me on the sidewalk now, I kind of, like, jump. But then I'm like, oh, it's just a lizard or an iguana and is scary to me. So I kind of am excited and happy to see them now because I just expect them to be rats and they're not.

Seems prejudice to me.

Do you like rats, Amin?

Do you like iguanas?

Yeah, because they're not rats.

Why'd? You adopt one?

Okay, maybe I will.

Got to ask.

Internet one, jazz zero.

Have you seen green orange ones, the big ones, the giant ones? You haven't been scared by any of the big ones that are much bigger than rats, so they're not quite alligators, but they're certainly not lizards. They're big.

I've seen ones in the Keys that are so big that they'll climb from limb to limb and the entire tree will shake. And you're, like, looking up, like, oh, my. That's just you just see a huge tail, and the tail is three times as long as the body. It's truly wild.

What is the natural predator for an iguana?

Pat Riley golf balls.

I would just like to say that freeze up and look like they're dead is what I do when I can't land a joke on this show.

You waited. You almost had the window before that. You waited for the time to make it.

Do you like when I repeat the joke that's now too late to say it's funny?

No, I think that I'm trying to get to this place with the iguana. I have not seen this before. It's being called the Chicken of the trees. Oh, do they take who by? Some of the people who are talking and being quoted in a story that tells me that city commissions are trying to get rid of them. And one of the ways to get rid of them is by eating them. Tuna was advertised, which was the company was it sunkissed bumblebee tuna as chicken of the seas. And now I've heard Iguanas described as chicken of the trees. I've lived here all my life without ever hearing that and without ever knowing that that would be something that people would treat as edible.

Listen to this lead from this article. Was this the Florida something or other? All right.

Nailed it.

Yep.

While many I'm glad you decided to do the sourcing on that just so that you could get the sourcing, that generally wrong.

Florida something or other. While many people view South Florida's invasive Iguana population as an annoyance at best and a pandemic at worst, ishmael asson sees something else. Lunch.

Asson.

Asson is spelled exactly like that, A-S-S-O-N-I.

Was just talking to Thomas in the other room, big show, and he was saying that he has had both iguana and Camel, and he can attest to it tasting something like chicken.

We got a quote from Mr. Asson quote, I prefer to eat it with the skin on, he said, because then I know what I'm eating. It kind of gives you a sense of humor. Like, this is Iguana, you know.

Reading voice. Put it on the poll at LeBatard Show. Would you eat iguana if it was served at a gourmet restaurant and you were promised that it was chicken of the trees?

Aren't chickens chicken of the trees? They go in trees.

Can chickens fly?

They cannot.

Chickens go in trees.

I've seen them in high places where they go up and then they coodle.

They what?

You seen a chicken in a tree? That's what they do.

They go up to, like, a little high branch somewhere.

Is coodle a word? What is coodle?

What do you call it?

I thought it clucked. I thought a chicken clucked.

No, that's a cluck.

Chickens can fly, but not for long distances. At what point is it just a jump cockadoodle?

To coodle is to cook something. And there's also a coodle pillow, which is a couple's foam cuddling pillow.

But can chickens climb trees? Because Jessica is saying that they can climb trees and I don't.

Also to treat in an indulgent, overprotective way some breeds no, that's coddle.

Not all breeds perch on tree branches. Smaller, lighter chickens with longer wings can fly better than meteor breeds. So yes, they can, stupid OD. I was going to say we need to put some respect on iguanas because they are the closest thing we have to dinosaurs, and we need to respect what came before us. But then I googled it. Birds. I Googled our iguanas related to dinosaurs. It says, Iguanas did not descend from dinosaurs. So we can eat them.

How would you spell coodle?

Also, would you not eat a dinosaur if it was available? Absolutely. Oh, my God. Some trex wings.

Some fried trex.

Oh, boy. Looks like coodle is not brontosaurus ribs.

Like, never seen Flintstones.

I slide down.

I feel like if a dinosaur showed up right now, I probably wouldn't want to eat it. I'd be like, we should protect this thing.

I'm playing point guard for the Heat.

Put it on the poll, please. At Levitard show. Would you eat fried T rex? At Levitard show? I'm glad we got to the bottom of all that since Mike Ryan mentioned disapprove the Miami Heat. Mike Ryan the reason Kyle Lowry suddenly hates the media in Miami. He's always been someone who likes the media, and he doesn't like the way that Heat fans talk about him. He's one of the most unpopular players in Heat history. Is he?

Or are we just saying that?

No.

He's Zazzlo's least favorite heat.

I feel like that's pretty overstated, though.

Me too.

I don't hear outside of Zazzlo and Mike, I don't hear this hate for Kyle Lowry.

I don't see you at the meetings.

There aren't a lot of Heat players historically who have been hated and frustrating. Jamal Mashburn is among them. Antoine Walker was before he won a championship. And so Kyle Lowry is in that class of frustrating. They expected a hall of Fame last piece type of player, and he has not been that. And so that is where the frustration.

They went to the finals.

My frustration lies with them expecting a hall of Fame point guard when he was very clearly diminishing.

Sometimes I wonder about you. Like, has the success warped your brain in the sense that I'm not mad at Kyle.

Kyle, I think, is aging at a normal rate for a professional basketball player that does absolutely have hall of Fame credentials. I was mad at the roster edition, and I just can't get mad at the Miami Heat front office every time he's coming down the court doing nothing.

Here's my thing. One, if you're asking me would I rather have drogic and precious achua than Kyle Lowry, yes, I would rather have that. But the most hated.

I said one of the most hated.

Most hated. Yeah. No, he's up there, and it's great to see him with Josh Richardson, who also occupies this precious space.

It is wild just to hear the tone around this team, because you hear Giannis the other night in the post game just praising, like, talking about last year when they beat it. Like, you just watch this team and nobody plays harder than the Heat, and it seems like we don't appreciate this. I feel like this run that this Heat team is on with the talent that they have is just so impressive. And we're sitting here talking about how much we hate Kyle Allen.

In four years, they've been to the finals twice, and they lost in a game seven.

And you have Giannis just being like, after I got eliminated last year, I watched them in the playoffs, and yeah, they're not flashy names. They just play harder than everybody. And that's pretty cool that we have that team and we're still nitpicking.

The thing that I wanted to talk to you about, because of the roster.

Construction, can you nitpick on one of the biggest contracts on the that's it's a pretty big NIT to.

Lowry. Do you hate what Kyle Lowry does, or do you hate Kyle Lowry?

Oh, Kyle Lowry is a very nice man, and he used to be a friend of the show before we started sharing honest opinions about the man. But I don't hate Kyle Lowry.

He walked through a drive through.

Okay.

He'll always be fine with me.

He seems like he's always yeah, nice.

Well put.

She's right, though.

No, he is. When he went on TNT's post game show during the postseason run last year. The playoffs. That's what you call it. I have a basketball.

You got this.

Keep going.

No, he was speaking about the team and about what they were doing with such he was so into it. He was so bought in. And I feel like is it that he's just not delivering on that?

I think that the team just could have been better had they gone in a different direction. I think that's pretty irrefutable. And this is a team, as Chris pointed out, has had plenty of success. And I don't think Kyle Lowry is having a bad year necessarily this year. It's just it ties your hand behind your back when it comes to helping improve this roster. There's a roster that has very aggressive front office members that have been trying to improve the team. Kyle Lowry's name has often been floated in trades, and thankfully, it's an expiring deal. So it has a little bit more value in the bizarro NBA, where acquiring one of those at the deadline is actually a big coup because you're trying to that's actually a chicken word. Coodle is not why are we doing.

The Kyle Lowry Show again? I didn't mean to I wanted to move past it. I've been trying to for a second, but we kind of got stuck there, and in the middle of it, Amin helpfully and something only me and Charlote could hear whispered ever so gently to his teammate on Odball. Well said. After she you said well said.

I said, nice.

I do have a take just splintering off of you.

What did you whisper to her?

I didn't hear anything from Amin.

You whispered to somebody?

Might have been to me.

I think it was Chris Cody.

It was Chris and I didn't say so.

You said.

Well said to Chris Cody about Charlote.

I didn't say well said.

Okay. I said Bryce Young, but you mentioned.

This segment is well said.

God damn it.

Don Lebotard. All these high paid analysts, I don't want to mention names, TNT, ESPM, 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.

You mentioned all the success that the Miami Heat have had over the last four years and recently coming within this.

Is where I was trying to get.

A Max Drew's heel of back to back NBA Finals is it's been reported. Now obviously many people are just learning about this, but SPO and his now ex wife have announced their divorce. And if you look at the last two postseasons and you take all of Miami's on court success, it's incredible. When you consider what the coach has been going through his personal life over the last two years has been turned upside down, health issues with a child now, his marriage now becoming public knowledge that that's no longer a thing. Incredible to navigate all of that, because these are horrible things this man has been dealing with. And this team has found a way to have Giannis speak about them in glowing terms. And in everyone's eyes, from experts to casuals, know that this Miami Heat team over the last few years has been punching well above its weight. Class and elevating. His legacy is in my lifetime. And I saw Phil and I saw Pat Riley, I'd put Eric Spolstra up there with all of them, one of the greatest NBA coaches of all time, ranked as such when the NBA anniversary stuff came out.

Incredible job, navigating all of that stuff. To have this team that is nothing really special have that much success.

I wanted to talk about the difficulties of that combined with what is happening right now with the praise of Bam Adebayo. When you take Tyler Hero off the court, when you take Jimmy Butler off of the court. And then, all of a sudden, we're left with a game where Giannis and Lillard are going against Bam. And on one end, Bam is guarding Giannis and well, and then at the end of the game, they put him on Lillard because that's where the ball's going. It's not going to Yannis. And on the other end, as Amin has been maybe the most vocal national critic of Bam adebayo, refusing to call him Bam when the other pieces are off of the floor all of a sudden and this has been all season, whether they're on the floor or not. He is shooting a ton, he's being aggressive, and he's going at Giannis, who is a defensive player of the year, a pretty impossible guard. And I thought the growth of Bam was over. Amin I go by the standard that Daryl Mori puts out there in general player analysis that is subjective, which is three years, you know, you know what a guy is.

He's only going to improve so much after that. And you've seen a very obvious leap from Bam adebayo in. And I know people around here are sick of the phrase heat culture. I want to play some sound here from Shaquille O'Neill defining Heat culture, even though he, upon arrival, tried to change it more than anyone upon arrival because he was his own economy and he didn't feel like he had. To listen to some of the things around him because he had grown very used to being a player who built jobs to his specifics and had earned it, actually, after championships and dominance and everything else. But Shaquille O'Neill now, in retrospect, even though he didn't like being pushed quite so much, has a definition for this heat culture that we talk about that endures beyond a divorce and a sick child, as Eric Spolstra tries to keep something together with Amania. Amin that I believe simply doesn't allow a human being to actually be happy. The obsession that these coaches have to abide by does not allow them a balance. It never minds supporting having a balance. It doesn't allow the kind of balance that can result in happiness.

If the way that you measure success is only by winning and all around you, your life falls apart. And I don't mean to by the way, I want to start here. I don't know, obviously what happens in that marriage or in any marriage. There are a lot of contributing factors to divorce.

Divorce, we're not talking about supposed divorce. We're talking about it's an on ramp to a conversation that's bigger than that, which is can you have a normal life and do this job and do this job well?

And can you have a happy life, can you have a happy hat? Not just a normal life. I'm not even talking about normal and balanced. I'm talking about yesterday, chris Cody objected to me saying that I wouldn't be right now, wouldn't want to be a college football coach for all the money in the world. And Billy's response was, well, well, if they get fired, then they get their money.

They get all the money in the world.

Yes. However, all of the people in that job, the way their mentality works, they can't be, ah, if I get not you're not a good coach, if you're like, if I get fired, whatever, that person has no chance of being a good head coach. I'll make that across sports, if there is a head coach that enters the job thinking, if I get fired, you will fail. You will fail as a coach. All of those people are driven in a way that is mentally unhealthy to compete against other mentally unhealthy people around their obsession. And SPO is better than any of them because he's a little more committed than the rest of them in a way that I don't believe can make people happy and I think will question will test their sanity.

Well, I think it depends what happiness means to you not to be that guy. But for some people, if you are that competitive, happiness is that feeling of being in the zone. You don't think so mean.

The Pat Riley quote is, there's winning and then there's misery. There is no, wow, that was a job well done. And even when you are at that elite level of winning, the respite that comes from not winning is so short. So what I mean by that is Steve Kerr walks in and is immediately at the very apex of not just competition and winning, but now you're competing against ghosts. As I lost my breath, right? That's it just happened right there.

I heard it, right?

So now he's competing against ghosts. He's competing against phils and reds and people like that, right? The happiest year he won't say this out loud, I think the happiest year he had was that year when everybody was hurt and they won like 20 games because it was just like, oh, my God, we're just teaching basketball now. But he gets to be that happy because he knew we'll be back. Like, when everyone gets healthy, we'll be back to doing that apex predator stuff, but for just one day, one year to walk around. It doesn't matter if we win or lose tonight because we're terrible and that's all it is. That is very rare for most of these guys. They win, they get the champagne, they get the parade, and then they're back to being paranoid for the rest of time. And that's why that Pat Riley quote is everything like winning and misery. That's true for 99% of coaches, I would say.

I have had a number of conversations with Pat Riley where he seems to find it weird that I'm always asking him about why aren't you happier? Why aren't you happier? And he's like, that stuff is fleeting. And he showed up, he surprised me, caught me off guard at the memorial for my brother, and gave me some advice that no one else has given me throughout all of this, as I've been just totally broken, totally broken. And it caught me off guard. And I'm not sure I even totally understood it because we were talking about writing, and he said, Go to the loneliness. Go to it. It's good for you. That's where greatness is. And I wonder at the end of his life as he inspects mortality and wherever it is you do the deathbed regret stuff, whether what Charlote's saying is true. That the height of it, the height of competition, the happiest feeling that these people can feel. Pat Riley says, yes. Game seven is the greatest feeling because they don't actually hang you in a town square by your thumbs. It's the height of all the things I am competing against somebody else and all the things they are all the things I've poured into the loneliness.

Like, Drew Brees talked about this, the loneliness of being in the facility at 09:00 at night because he needed to know more than everyone else. And everyone else is gone. All those other bodies that are killing each other are gone. But the greatness was where Drew Brees was in the meeting room by himself. Like, just, I got to over prepare. I got to be more prepared than everybody else. I've not heard since that advice either from everybody. Everyone's got a lot of advice on how I should deal with grief. And no one else has given me the advice of go to the loneliness. That seems scary to me. Like, I got away from writing and did this because I want laughter. I want communal shit. I want stuff that's shared. But when you share that misery with other people, it is the height of happiness in that world. But it'll get you divorced.

Yeah, well, you don't have to take every bit of advice.

It was a suggestion.

Don Lebotard teammate can't shoot from three. Now they're gonna see a different Jimmy. Now he's just playing Nickel back in the locker room. And Stu Guts, they'll play D and.

Show threes as they chase the nets.

For the six seed. These five words in his head dream. Are we winning games yet? This is The Dan Levatar Show with The Stugats.

I don't even want the Shaq culture video anymore because I know how sick people are of Heat culture. I don't think there's anything I can talk about here that's going to agitate people more.

Patan, it is a local hour and it is on Max. And this did happen on TNT. And that's what you call corporate synergy.

Yeah.

Okay. All of this happened. Well, that changes everything. I hadn't even considered that possibility. And we didn't talk about the merging of Stephen A. Smith and Michael Wilburn in TNT. We didn't even talk about how now you have public comment. Zaslav, the head of all of Discovery's stuff he's awesome. Is saying that they don't need the NBA anymore, that they're not into renting properties.

Yeah, I don't think he exactly said that. I think the question was posed to him about because the NBA rights deal is coming up, and I'm a little concerned as to why Mark Cuban would be jumping ship at this time. There's all sorts of conjecture as to whether or not they're actually going to get what they thought they were going to get a couple of years ago. But I think it kind of ties into intellectual property. The intellectual property conversation that Amin kind of started yesterday a little bit, that leasing properties and renting properties isn't really where these big content companies are going now. They want a stake in the action. I actually read way into his comments and started assuming, wait, do you have equity in some of these other sports and entertainment properties that you're putting over the air? Because in the wrestling rumor mill, are you tipping your hand that you kind of own AEW? And what do we make of you negotiating reportedly with Nick Khan and WWE and bringing them into the fold? So it's an interesting place right now with all these live rights broadcasts because, as you know, ratings are different now.

Streamers and whatnot and lives and viewer habits have changed. It's a fascinating time, and big decisions need to be made. You caught my eye amin on odball I saw one of these clips. It's not just because you're handsome, but it was because of a take that you had about Mark Cuban actually leaving at this really important time in the NBA's history.

Yeah. No, look, he went on all the smoke and said the next deal is all right, but the deal after that I'm worried about. He also said that the NFL does better than us on TV, but we do way better than them on social, and we beat them on social more than they beat us on TV. Which is fine, except TV has the money and is paying the money at this stage of the game, and social really isn't. And so until they figure out how to monetize, then that doesn't really do much. So for Mark Cuban to sell to me again, the guy who founded Broadcast, the reason why we're able to stream audio and stream things on the Internet is because of his company. He sold it shortly before the.com bubble burst. So if there's anything I know, this dude knows when to get out. And so now he's getting out. That tips me off a little.

Not only getting out, but getting out when you know him to be, among all of the basketball owners, the one who is most tethered to emotionally loving that team, like, publicly what you know of owners, most of them hide in the shadows. His love is public. There might be other guys who love it.

I think the Bus family, for reasons that go beyond casual.

NBA observer, I think you're parsing at this point. That's not a wild take from Dan He's in T shirts on the bench.

Well, I think the biggest proof to what you're trying to say is the guy sold his team and negotiated for a way to still run it, which is that's unheard of.

We will see how true that ends up being all of that because I'm with Samson. That doesn't smell right. Usually if people buy something, they want power over it, and. The arguments that start over after that get complicated. So I understand why Mark Cuban would want that and why it would be publicly stated. I don't understand if they're going to be able to make that tenable unless.

It'S because the Adelson trust miriam Adelson and her son in law and the trust of Sheldon Adelson that they're using to buy this is they're seeing it as a place to park their money. Unless they're seeing it as like, okay, well, real estate's a little messed up right now. Let's put our money into a sports team. We don't really want to deal with it. And Mark seems to love this, so have at it. You can run the basketball part and I don't think that's necessarily a sustainable relationship because I think especially if you're a competitive person, you probably want ownership over the thing you're running eventually. It doesn't quite match up to me, but I think the only way that that makes sense is if this is a strict place to park money, assuming it's going to appreciate which it's like.

Back when big corporations were buying teams, ITT Sheridan owned the Knicks and Time Warner owned the Atlanta Hawks. Right? Do they care? They don't really care. They don't want to play fantasy basketball.

It's like when Lincoln Financial enters the sports media game, it's just an investment that they're trying to flip off. And there is some precedent happening right now in the world of sports. It's international, it's Premier League soccer, but the reports are glazers are selling a 25% share to a British billionaire and that 25% would actually be a controlling interest in terms of business operations while not being the majority owner. I know it's different across the pond, but there is very recent precedent of this.

If it turns out Mark Cuban means right, and Mark Cuban is selling because he sees something other people don't see, would they call the movie about it The Big Tall because it's NBA? The big short.

I got it.

Get it. Okay.

I love you, Charlote.

It is a great deal for Mark Cuban, though, to be able to stay with all the parts of the business that you love while you wait to see if the next TV contract is the one that will become everyone else's headache. So you sell now, you make all of the money, you get the parts of the sport you still love by running the team, and you'll get out before the next if the thing falls apart financially, you don't have any of the risk anymore.

He does have because he still retains.

Some of the risk. Right. Whatever his stake is, but it's not.

Going to fall apart that way.

The idea is that he got paid, he cashed out and still retains some ownership and most importantly, retains the ability to continue to play with the toy. Right. So it's like, hey, I'm selling you my Buz Lightyear. Hold on. But I get to play with it every day, though. I get to come over your house and play with it. And you're like, yeah, I just want it to sit on the shelf. I don't want to actually play with it.

Is this what Vince McMahon did by selling 30% of his stake in the company that he formed and getting $700 million for it? Where you're selling a piece of it before things get too crazy. You're getting out so that you can get a substantive amount of cash. You're lowering your risk, but you're still staying around the thing that you want and not divesting completely. You're just taking your initial victory lap.

I mean, it's great. Get capital, retain power. Although internally, since it is a different company and this low key, might be a transition for WWE away from Vince McMahon, too. It was reported that in the recent signing of CM Punk that it wasn't a Vince call, it was a Nick Khan and Triple H call. And then there are people that follow the dirt sheets that say to this day, there isn't anything that doesn't have his stamp on it. But I think as it pertains to Vince, he had a bad investment with the XFL a couple times over. And anytime that you can cash out to that dune, I wouldn't necessarily read too much into it. But look at his age. He's certainly at the end of his time running.

It people that follow the what?

Dirt sheets.

What are dirt sheets?

Dirt sheets are Internet term for the rumor mill when it comes to pro wrestling.

I would love to recreate if we're going to make these inside references where Mike Ryan is in the meetings where they hate Kyle Lowry. I would love to have a recreation of what those meetings look like that Chris Cody hasn't been allowed to attend.

Because he's just Mike and Zazlo.

No one texting each other.

Cortez is there.

Oh, by the way, I got to chime in. I don't know if I'm allowed to say who chimed in, but the name Hassan Whiteside was brought up.

That's a good one.

Trump card all the well, I would.

Also put Beasley on that. All frustration team.

Michael Beasley. Yep. That's another one. Trump cards all.

Thank you for saying frustration team. Hate is thrown around too easily around here. What the hell is going on today? Heat culture. Mark Cuban business show. I speak for America when I say wake the hell up, everybody. It's an NFL game going on tonight. The Cowboy played the Seahawks in an important game that ain't a local topic. Give a damn what your topic is, bro.

Not my topic.

I couldn't hear you. These weak ass headphones. What I'm telling you is, brother, it's a lot of excitement going on and y'all sitting here talking about hate. Get the hell up out of here. Y'all. Wake up.

Yes.

I love you, Charlote. You ate it very hard. Like, two minutes ago. I want to tell you I love you, though.

I appreciate this.

How is she doing? I can't even look at her that.

She took the swing. I'm a dead.

Iguana I'm frozen. I've fallen out of my treat. Pat Riley's about to pick me up and bury me in his backyard. Maybe front.

You have to keep taking the swings you have toward the lonely. Go toward the loneliness.

It's funny.

Not if you have to say big short after I love you.

Shara.

I wasn't sure you all got it because it was so esoteric.

Oh, I got it. It was? Yes. Juju, you are bringing positivity to the environment as you always do. You and Amin went to a stand up show. You can use some laughter in your life, because as our social media correspondent, you have to understand juju is overseeing a toxic waste dump, and he's doing it artfully. He's creating art in the sewer because it's an acid pit. And what he has to endure is unfair. I feel for him every day. I see how, basically it is simply a place where the most repressed and the angriest of people can anonymously sort of do the things they want to do more publicly and can hide while doing it. And so it's the worst parts of everything. That doesn't mean it doesn't have its great elements. But Juju has been battered by everything that's happening. They're seeing the underbelly of America being just awful. And you and Amin decided to take in a stand up show yesterday.

It was by accident. We just happened to be at a bar, and then a stand up show broke out.

Really open mic quotations around stand up show, by the way.

Wow.

I could have got up there. You feel me? This one brother. Salute to him for having this.

Hennessy Williams. Shout out to Hennessy.

Oh, no. Salute to Hennessy Williams. He was funny as hell. And Brittany Brave, who was a guest on Because Miami up here with Billy Corbin. Check it out whenever you can. Weekdays at Friday. It was one brother. Every joke was with them charlote jokes that she told. Every single joke was that highland? I was like, one of them.

Okay, they have a name now.

Charlote memorial joke. Oh, no. Charlote. No.

Damn it.

No. One of them charlote jokes. Juju, that you salute to her, but what salute?

She understands that I love her more than anything.

Yeah, I get it.

Was he was bombing so bad that it was hilarious.

Me and Juju started dying.

Everything was coming out his mouth. You may as well been Eddie Murphy as far as I was concerned, because he was bombing and he didn't give a damn. Next joke coming up hot.

It's like Pac Man when you go on this side, and then all of a sudden you reappear on the other side. His shit was so unfunny that he reappeared on the funny side over here, man.

Amin has a deep, deep appreciation for things sinking into the unfunny. And the thing that reminds me of it is him trying ventriloquism yesterday with a fish for the first time.

Damn. It was pretty good.

I don't know what you're talking about.

It was good as hell. It.