Hour 1: Jai Alaights (feat. Ian Lara)

Summary

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Episode: Hour 1: Jai Alaights (feat. Ian Lara)
Date: February 12, 2026
Location: Elser Hotel, Downtown Miami
Special Guest: Ian Lara (Comedian)

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EPISODE OVERVIEW

The first hour of today's show features comedian Ian Lara, offering perspective on Latin sports fans, Knicks/Mets fandom, Miami vs New York culture, the Super Bowl halftime show’s representation debate, and playful debate over culinary and musical national “ownerships.” The crew breaks down moments from the Super Bowl—on and off the field—including a deep-dive into the psychology and logistics of modern-day streaking, reminisce on the Winter Olympics, and wrap up with some self-deprecating team banter and High-Ali highlights.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Latin Knicks Fans, Sports Fandom, and Suffering (00:08–04:03)

• Stugotz remarks on the “loud Latin Knicks fans” making things noisier in Miami when the Knicks are good.
  • “And when the Knicks are good, it makes for loud Latin people. And while I usually like loud Latin people, loud Latin Knicks fans make it hard.” — Stugotz (00:11)
• Dan Le Batard introduces Ian Lara and brings up the surge in Dominican Knicks fans.
• Ian Lara embraces the Knicks’ recent wins, speaks to a growing, energized Latin fanbase—buoyed by players like Alvarado and Towns.
  • “We just added Alvarado...the Latin loud fans are just going to multiply.” — Ian Lara (01:23)
  • On Towns: “Legally I’m not allowed to say anything negative about him.” (01:44)
• Discussion shifts to long-suffering fanhood between the Knicks, Mets, and Giants, with Lara reflecting on his best sports moments and the hope these teams bring.
  • “If you look at it more positively: I have seen the Mets in the World Series twice...I saw the Knicks in the finals when I was 10.” — Ian Lara (03:02)
• Lara on fandom: “I’m not going to come out here and whimper...They give me hope. They give me something to be excited about.” — Ian Lara (03:19)

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2. Super Bowl Halftime Show, Spanish-language Debate, and Representation (04:03–05:06; 13:33–14:32)

• Dan expresses surprise at social backlash to a Spanish-language halftime show.
  • “It feels naive...to be surprised that people would react to Spanish that way.” — Dan (03:54)
• Ian Lara celebrates Bad Bunny’s show, representation, and reaction among Latino friends.
  • “I had friends who were also Latino...crying because of the representation.” — Ian Lara (04:21)
  • “It’s funny that it’s controversial when the Super Bowl picks the biggest artist on the planet…” — Ian Lara (04:25)
• Stugotz jokingly laments non-English performances and whitewashed entertainment.
  • “We’ll get Coldplay next year. Everyone will forget about it.” — Ian & Stugotz joking, rapid-fire (05:01–05:06)
• Critique and curiosities about Lady Gaga joining during Bad Bunny’s halftime:
  • “Why was Lady Gaga there?...She was singing Bruno Mars’ song, who is, I think, Puerto Rican.” — Ian Lara (13:46)
  • “He gave Ricky Martin 15 seconds though. Ricky Martin...should want a little more time…” — Stugotz (14:06)

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3. Comic Life, Valentine’s Day, and Miami’s Beauty (05:10–08:15)

• Lara shares the challenges of being a stand-up comic on holidays, often working six sets on weekends.
  • “If the 14 falls on like a Tuesday, I’ll kill it [Valentine's],” — Ian Lara (06:08)
• His advice for Valentine’s Day:
  • “If you have the opportunity to work at night, take it… normally your partner would understand if you get them a nice gift after.” — Ian Lara (06:22)
• Lara and the group riff on Miami’s beauty, comparing local Whole Foods to “a live version of Instagram.”
  • “It looked like just supermodels...That’s not exactly the demographic that I bring out when I’m in Idaho.” — Ian Lara (07:09)
  • “As soon as you walk out the gate at the airport...it’s like you’re in a live version of Instagram.” — Ian Lara (07:45)

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4. “Refundedilla” Game – Dominican vs. Other Cultures (08:56–11:31)

• Dan remixes their usual game: gives Lara choices between Dominican and other cultural staples.
  • Dominican Rum vs. Puerto Rican Rum: “Dominican rum.” — Ian (09:24)
  • Salami: “It belongs to Italians...but I think Dominicans have perfected it.” — Ian (09:41)
  • On smuggling salami: “I’ve smuggled in salamis in my luggage...I thought I was getting stopped, but the dude just knew my comedy.” — Ian (09:49, 10:13)
  • Dembow versus Reggaeton: Dembow is the national sound for Dominicans.
  • Hookah: “No, Arabs. That’s not even a...It belongs to them.” — Ian Lara (11:43)
  • “You can’t go to Dyckman...you don’t show your face in Dyckman.” — Dan (11:48, referring to NYC Dominican neighborhood)

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5. Streaker Psychology, Social Media & The Super Bowl (18:06–22:44)

• Dan & Stugotz break down the evolution of streaking: from broadcast blackout to social media fame via POV tech (e.g., Meta glasses).
  • “You don’t actually need the platform of the hundred million people...there are so many other cameras now.” — Dan (18:23)
• They play and react to audio/video from a Super Bowl streaker’s perspective.
  • “The recognition in his voice...the fear in his heart...when his camera spots—oh, no, there’s a player now chasing me.” — Stugotz (20:37)
  • “Are you really a streaker if you’re wearing pants? Don’t I need to be caught being [in] underwear?” — Dan (22:09)
  • “Pitch invader is what they go with in Europe.” — Dan (22:39)
• Sidebar: discussion on “My Secret Mall Apartment” — a Netflix doc about artists living covertly in a mall.
  • “I just called them freeloading trespassers.” — Dan (23:27)

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6. Winter Olympics & Canadian Power Play Breakdown (25:53–31:45)

• Miami’s tepid engagement with the Winter Olympics.
  • “I’ve got to assume that the Winter Olympic ratings are less in Miami than anywhere else...” — Stugotz (26:19)
• Hockey is the exception—discussion on NHL stars in the Olympics, Team Canada’s “GOAT” power play unit.
  • “Sidney Crosby, Nathan McKinnon, Sam Reinhardt...Connor McDavid...Kale Makar.” — Dan (27:57)
  • “Who’s the GOAT on that line? You could make the argument for everyone, maybe except Rhino.” — Dan (28:03)
  • “Nathan McKinnon probably playing the best hockey...” — Dan (28:18)
  • Nathan McKinnon races Olympic speed skater—McKinnon is faster.
  • “There is nothing more terrifying in that sport than Nathan McKinnon on the rush on a power play.” — Dan (29:25)
  • “Kale Makar is unbelievable...you can make an argument that Connor McDavid is one of the greatest skaters of all time.” — Dan (30:28)

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7. Quick Hits: Broadcasting, Podcast Culture & Joey Porter/Ben Roethlisberger (32:23–37:57)

• Discuss Jason Garrett’s uncanny ability to “find the camera.”
• Podcast news lag vs. live reporting in sports, especially during Super Bowl week and Radio Row. The Joey Porter on Ben Roethlisberger segment:
  • “Seven definitely broke the brotherhood...He’s not a good teammate. Won a Super Bowl, win. But the person? He’s just not a good teammate.” — Joey Porter as quoted (34:22)
  • “Does Ben Roethlisberger know he’s not a good person? Because Joey Porter is saying that.” — Stugotz (35:10)
• Parade of Porter’s tabloid past: shooting, dog/miniature horse incident, DUI.
  • “He was cited for harboring dangerous dogs...after his dogs escaped and killed neighbor’s miniature horse.” — Dan (37:18)
  • “If that’s a regular size horse—not funny. Mini horse, well...better.” — Ian Lara (37:45)

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8. Show Banter, Team Plug, and High-Ali Highlights (38:03–40:01)

• The crew pokes fun at themselves about covering their own highlight team (the Cyclones), anthem tosses, and SportsCenter parody clips.
  • “Dan, what is your favorite Zuleika moment? Is it that one? I bet it is.” — Stugotz (38:58)
• Stugotz: “Did I see his ass crack?” (39:26)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Honestly…the last few years have been good…I’m thinking this is the year...the Latin loud fans are just going to multiply.” — Ian Lara (01:13)
• “It’s funny that it’s controversial when the Super Bowl picks the biggest artist on the planet...” — Ian Lara (04:25)
• “If you have the opportunity to work at night [on Valentine’s], take it. Normally your partner would understand if you get them a nice gift after.” — Ian Lara (06:22)
• “As soon as you walk out the gate at the airport...it’s like you’re in a live version of Instagram.” — Ian Lara (07:45)
• “You can’t go to Dyckman...you don’t show your face in Dyckman.” — Dan (11:48)
• “There is nothing more terrifying in that sport than Nathan McKinnon on the rush on a power play.” — Dan Le Batard (29:25)
• “Seven [Ben Roethlisberger] definitely broke the brotherhood...Is he a good person? No.” — Joey Porter via podcast (34:22)
• “He was cited for harboring dangerous dogs...after his dogs escaped and killed neighbor’s miniature horse.” — Dan (37:18)

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Important Timestamps for Segments

• 00:08 — Opening remarks on Heat/Celtics/Knicks and Latin fans.
• 01:13 — Ian Lara on Knicks, Mets, fandom, and cultural identity.
• 04:03 — Super Bowl halftime discussion: Spanish representation and reactions.
• 05:10 — Stand-up/comic lifestyle; Valentine’s Day routines and advice.
• 08:56 — “Refundedilla” cultural comparison game with Ian.
• 18:06 — Modern streaking at the Super Bowl: social media POV analysis.
• 25:53 — Winter vs. Summer Olympics, Miami’s interest, and hockey breakdown.
• 34:22 — Joey Porter’s podcast comments on Ben Roethlisberger’s teammate and personal reputation.
• 38:35 — Show’s self-referential banter about their own highlight team.
• 39:26 — End-of-segment banter ("Did I see his ass crack?").

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Tone & Style

The episode is irreverent, fast-paced, and laced with signature humor, part Miami local banter, part sports-obsessive, and actively inclusive of guest’s cultural roots. Lara’s NYC perspective and Dominican pride playfully clash and align with Dan, Stugotz, and the Miami crew’s perspectives.
The hosts use sarcasm and self-mockery, often poking fun at one another and themselves as much as their subject matter.

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For Listeners

If you missed this episode, expect a vibrant mix of Miami vs New York cross-cultural jokes, authentic discussions about Latin representation in sports and media, a rare streaker's-eye view of the Super Bowl, and in-depth breakdowns of sports fandom, Olympic hockey, and insider podcast drama—all served with Le Batard’s signature blend of humor and heart.

Transcript

[Dan Le Batard]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats podcast.

[Stugotz]

If you're not aware of where Mike's irrationally hostile and rabid fury about the Heat comes from, it's not merely what's happening with the Heat, it's also that the Celtics and Knicks are good. And when the Knicks are good, it makes for loud Latin people. And while I usually like loud Latin people, loud Latin Knicks fans make it hard.

[Dan Le Batard]

We have so many of these guys.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, they're, they're. Ian Lotta is a comedian here. You can catch his. Our special the New one material boy on YouTube and you can get tickets and available dates at ian lotta live.com look at him smirking and smiling because.

[Dan Le Batard]

He knows this an underrepresented base that.

[Stugotz]

You'Re going for, the Knicks fan base just because we got him and Sam.

[Dan Le Batard]

Dominican Knicks guys, you got marrow.

[Stugotz]

You got this guy.

[Dan Le Batard]

What's going on here?

[Stugotz]

Yeah, well, I like funny people and energetic people and I like people who are excited about their sports teams. When is the last time, Ian, and thank you for joining us that you love the Knicks team this way.

[Ian Lotta]

Thank you for having me. I appreciate it. And honestly, the last few years have been good. I feel like we've, we've advanced a little bit further every year. So I'm, I'm thinking this is the year. And we just added Alvarado. And I don't know if you saw the game he had yesterday, but the Latin loud fans are just going to multiply.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, 26 points he had. And you're. You feel. How about Carl Anthony Towns? What's your relationship with him? Because he's going to get some grande por gusto if he disappears in the playoffs.

[Ian Lotta]

I like Anthony Carl. Anthony Towns is half Dominican, as am I. So legally I'm not allowed to say anything negative about him. He played for Dominican team. I also am a fan. Aside from both coming having the same parents, but parents coming from the same country. But I do like his game. I think I don't like it sometimes I feel like when he doesn't get the ball, he's. He tends to get a little out a little bit. But I like his game and I think last year in the playoff, he carried us a lot when Brunson was down.

[Stugotz]

What else do you put next to your irrational Knicks love in terms of passion? What else in your life sort of lines up the way that, that does the Mets. Yeah. So you've, you've been suffering, right? You've been hurting. You've been hurting For a while. Your, your most joyous. Because you're still a young man, your most joyous experiences in sports are what?

[Ian Lotta]

Well, I'm a Giants fan also. I saw them win two Super Bowls versus New England. That I'll never forget that one of them being the undefeated season that New England had. So that, that'll hold you over for a while. That'll hold you over for 20, 30 years.

[Stugotz]

It might. But I feel like you like basketball and baseball more. So you're choosing the Giants just because it feels good where it is. You've had your sufferings over here while, like, you've almost. For as long as you've been alive, you've had some Mets and Nick's disappointments.

[Ian Lotta]

I mean, when you say it like that, it sounds, it sounds bad when you point out that my entire life has been a disappointment. But if you look at it more, more positively. I have seen the Mets in the World Series twice. That's something I, I never got. I saw the Knicks in the finals when I was 10. That's something.

[Stugotz]

It is something that's not up for dispute. It is something you're, you're, you're denying that it's long suffering fanhood. You're sitting here, you're saying no are fun and I'm going to enjoy my teams. I'm not going to come out here and whimper about my teams being bad. They give me hope. They give me something to be excited about. How did you feel about the halftime show? Surely you have opinions there. The reaction. I don't know why I was surprised by this. I really don't. It feels naive. It borderline feels stupid. In the America I live in, to be surprised that people would react to Spanish that way. But I've just been around Spanish so long in Miami that, that I'm, I feel like I'm numb to the idea that Spanish would be weird to people. Singing in Spanish on a halftime show would be unacceptable to people.

[Ian Lotta]

I mean, I, I thought it was, I thought it was great. I went, I saw Bad Bunny. I went to his concert in Puerto Rico. It was amazing. I think he's a great artist. It's funny, people. It's funny that it's controversial when the super bowl picks the biggest artist on the planet to perform at the halftime show and that's like, considered a controversy. That's pretty, I think that's pretty silly. But I thought, I thought it's the halftime. I, I did not know that that halftime show at the super bowl was so, like, such a groundbreaking Political event that we had to get. I just thought it was good music. I have friends who are also Latino who saw it. I had friends who were, like, crying because of the representation and how cool it meant to see their flag being represented in that way. So I thought it was great.

[Stugotz]

Ian, am I canceled? People had to endure the rap last year. They didn't understand. Now you're gonna make the rap a different language entirely. Like, it's too much. It's too much. It's fine.

[Dan Le Batard]

We'll get.

[Ian Lotta]

Look, we'll get Coldplay next year. Everyone will forget about it.

[Stugotz]

Do maroon 5 again.

[Ian Lotta]

Yeah, everyone will forget about it.

[Stugotz]

Your first special was called Romantic comedy. How do you do Valentine's Day?

[Ian Lotta]

Yeah, I mean, I'm a comic, so it's tough because I work on all the holidays. Like, I. I work. I know. I saw a meme yesterday about like, some guys are like, babe, I gotta work at night on Valentine's Day to get out of it. But I literally. And it's Saturday night. Like, I have six shows on Saturday night, so I kind of got to get like a. A redo date on the Valentine's Day.

[Stugotz]

Six shows?

[Dan Le Batard]

You have too many shows. You mean six shows, too many shows.

[Ian Lotta]

Are you insinuating that I overbooked myself?

[Dan Le Batard]

Are you Too many shows?

[Stugotz]

Are you doing a matinee?

[Ian Lotta]

What?

[Stugotz]

Are you doing a breakfast show? Like, what? How are you doing six?

[Dan Le Batard]

What's up, Denny's?

[Ian Lotta]

No, no, because I'm in. I'm here in New York, so it's not. It's not our headlining shows. It's more showcase. So it just six 20 minute spots. It's not like I'm doing six hours, like rounds.

[Stugotz]

So you stink at Valentine's Day?

[Ian Lotta]

No, no, I'm just. It just if. If the 14 falls on like a Tuesday, I'll kill it.

[Stugotz]

Okay. But it doesn't. So you're not. You're just working on Valentine's Day? Do you have any advice for broke people on Valentine's Day? Do you have different advice? Well, you must have different advice for rich people on Valentine's Day.

[Ian Lotta]

My advice is the same across all pay grades. If you have the opportunity to work at night, take it. I mean, they're looking for shifts, and you can get it. And normally your partner would understand if you get them a nice gift after.

[Stugotz]

You guys should know back there that Ian made an observation that a whole lot of people make when they land in Miami and just end up at the local Whole Foods, where it's like, holy, I'VE never seen this many beautiful people in one place in my life, which seems odd. He made this observation on Adulthood, his podcast. But you're from New York, like, yeah. So what is happening there? I understand that happening, and I agree with you. I understand why and how it happens. But I'm more used to it happening from people, for people from Idaho than from New York.

[Ian Lotta]

I feel like New York is a lot more gritty. I remember the last time I was. I played Miami. I was at the Miami Improv, and we were sitting in the green room just watching, like, the couples. Like, we were watching the people walk in, and it was couples. It was men and women together, and it was like, it looked like just supermodels, like, just coming into my show. That's not exactly the demographic that I bring out when I'm in Idaho.

[Dan Le Batard]

Just say we. We got that shit over here. And that's. That's what we do over here.

[Ian Lotta]

You for sure do people. It's almost unrealistic per square foot.

[Stugotz]

It just. It is. It is.

[Dan Le Batard]

You said the spot, Dan Whole Foods. You know what you're doing over there. You know what you're doing. Trader Joe.

[Ian Lotta]

As soon as you walk out the gate on at the airport, you're like this. This seems. It's like Instagram. It's like you're in live version of Instagram. Everybody looks like they're wearing a filter.

[Stugotz]

We said too much. Refrandel Dia is Valor's wondering why I like going to Whole Foods so much. This is where shopping is a pleasure. Refranda Gluten is something that we say you love. Val.

[Dan Le Batard]

Just covering our tracks.

[Stugotz]

Goes without saying that I love my wife. I'm happier than I've ever been.

[Dan Le Batard]

Definitely doesn't go without saying. Just say it.

[Stugotz]

Only you can hear me. We're going to play Refrand with Ian, who has to be confused. That's my inner monologue. Ian. Just ignore my inner monologue, as I've learned to do recently. Let's do Refrand with Ian, please.

[Dan Le Batard]

We do a thing called Refundedilla, which I give a Hispanic or usually Cuban dicho, and then I get the translation of it, literally. And then we kind of talk back and forth. But what I wanted to do is a little bit of a remix to that. Okay, so what I want to do is you're probably Dominican. I want to bring you something that is Dominican but also something else. And I want you to choose between the two. You ready? I'm going to give you an example. All right? Rum, Dominican Rum or Puerto Rican rum?

[Ian Lotta]

Dominican rum.

[Dan Le Batard]

What's your favorite? Come on, talk to me, talk to me, talk to me. Okay, you got.

[Ian Lotta]

That's a national run. Come on.

[Dan Le Batard]

I gotta. Come on. Okay, who does salami belong to, Dominicans or Italians?

[Stugotz]

Oh.

[Dan Le Batard]

Work it out with me.

[Ian Lotta]

All right. Belongs to Italians. I'm trying to be fair. I think it belongs to Italians, but. But I think Dominican has perfected it.

[Dan Le Batard]

And why is that?

[Ian Lotta]

I don't know. When you go, you. I. I am notoriously known. I. I've smuggled in salamis in my luggage when I fly to the Dominican Republic, and you're not allowed to. And I. I remember walking into customs, like, I hope they don't go, because this is gonna look weird.

[Stugotz]

Why?

[Ian Lotta]

I have three different salamis in my.

[Dan Le Batard]

Especially the X ray. When they see the. The shape and the size of salami, you're like, yo, put it on.

[Ian Lotta]

The one time I thought I was. I thought I was getting stopped, but the dude just knew my comedy. I was like, dodged that one.

[Stugotz]

Okay, so you were almost wandering around an imprisoned area. Somebody asking you, what are you in for? I smuggled salami.

[Ian Lotta]

That's right. I just got back. I just got back from Darling two days ago.

[Stugotz]

All right, put it on the poll at Lebatard show. Have you ever smuggled salami? And also did Italians perhaps start salami, but then Dominicans perfected.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's fried salami, Dan. That's why it's a breakfast meat. They perfected it. I know this. My grandfather married a Dominican, so I had the best of both worlds. It was made for breakfast. All right, there you go, Dembo. Reggaeton.

[Ian Lotta]

I'm gonna go.

[Stugotz]

All right.

[Ian Lotta]

I gotta go dimbo. I gotta go, Dembo. If not, I'm hear it. I got. But I love both of them. I love reggaeton also.

[Stugotz]

Where are you going to hear it? What's going to happen?

[Ian Lotta]

Oh, the Dominicans, when they see this, they're going to come at me.

[Dan Le Batard]

Dembo's not basically national music of. Yeah, Doctor, come on.

[Stugotz]

Yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

You got to take Dan down to.

[Stugotz]

Even.

[Dan Le Batard]

I know they are.

[Stugotz]

I'm just saying they. They.

[Dan Le Batard]

I mean, you've been at Whole Foods too long. We got to take you down.

[Stugotz]

Like, he's. What he's doing there is. I believe that he's telling a lie on behalf of his people when he believes something different. Like.

[Ian Lotta]

And that's okay, Dan. That's okay. You can do that.

[Stugotz]

We can take Val to casa the gumball.

[Dan Le Batard]

Last one. And this is probably the Biggest one.

[Stugotz]

Oh, my God.

[Dan Le Batard]

The most important one. Who does hookah belong to? Dominicans or Arabs?

[Ian Lotta]

No, Arabs.

[Stugotz]

Arabs.

[Ian Lotta]

That's. That's not even how.

[Dan Le Batard]

What it does.

[Ian Lotta]

It belongs to them.

[Dan Le Batard]

You can't go to Dyckmann. You can't go to Dyke. You don't show your face in Dykeman.

[Ian Lotta]

You want to hear something funny? I was actually. I just got back from the Dominican Republic, and they actually have opened up a bunch of Arab hookah bars in the Dominican Republican.

[Stugotz]

I'm going to suck the fun out of this. The music, of course. Yes. And all the joy that we're getting out of this by just playing for Ian, since he's from New York, some sound from Boomera Sias and talking about the Winter Olympics.

[Dan Le Batard]

I tried.

[Stugotz]

I just want to get Ian's thoughts on this boomerang.

[Dan Le Batard]

But I mean, like, I was sitting there watching, you know, the. The freestyle skating by, you know, our.

[Stugotz]

Ice skating team, figure skating team that.

[Dan Le Batard]

Won the gold medal.

[Stugotz]

Are they happy to represent America? Yeah, they seem to be happy to represent America. Not everybody is, but, you know, everybody should just pipe down and just do their sport and play for our country and respect the flag and respect everything that's going on. Ian, your thoughts?

[Ian Lotta]

I was watching some of that. I was watching a lot of the Olympians who. You know, I haven't seen anyone say anything that's been super offensive, but I thought you were allowed. I thought the most American thing was that you were allowed to disagree with the country and the government, and that was okay. I thought that was. I thought that was the most American thing. So I don't know. I think it's weird that now we have to just accept and agree with everyone. If you disagree, I think you're allowed to be like, hey, I don't agree with this part.

[Stugotz]

You're happy. Ianlauralive.com if you want his show and tickets. People were dancing. It's. It's as if I came on to Bad Bunny's halftime show in the middle of it while Lady Gaga was dancing and just held up a. Of Hispanic.

[Dan Le Batard]

She was not dancing. Let's be honest. That was no bachata. There was no merengue.

[Stugotz]

There was no nothing.

[Dan Le Batard]

That was stiff.

[Stugotz]

All right, did you have any critique? Why was Lady Gaga there? Did you have any theories on why Lady Gaga was in the middle of that? 100% sure.

[Ian Lotta]

Also because she was singing Bruno Mars song, who is, I think, Puerto Rican.

[Dan Le Batard]

So he certainly can pass.

[Ian Lotta]

That was just strange. I guess he might have been busy, but I I like, I like. I loved Lady. I love that he gave him like two minutes of like English.

[Stugotz]

He did. He gave Ricky Martin 15 seconds though. Ricky Martin. Ricky Martin shouldn't. It should want a little more time than 15 seconds. I feel like. No, he's not bigger than that.

[Ian Lotta]

I thought it was cool and I love, I love the song that he's saying. That's one of Bad Bunny song off the last album. I thought it was cool to have Ricky Martin. I thought it was a cool show. I. I don't know like any. Anyone who watched it. Even if you didn't understand. Some of my friends who don't understand Spanish. They was like, it looked fun. Which is a very Latin.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm surprised he played Hawaii because that's not usually one of the bangers on the album. That's like very deep track.

[Ian Lotta]

I know it's not, but I think it's one of the deepest songs on the album for sure.

[Dan Le Batard]

That are torita.

[Stugotz]

Yeah. Ian Lara live.com. thank you, Ian. Appreciate your maiden voyage with the show. Thank you, sir.

[Ian Lotta]

Dan, I appreciate you having me been a fan for a long time.

[Dan Le Batard]

Thank you.

[Stugotz]

Thank you, sir. Guys, let me tell you something. One of the greatest joys of my life was when they finally opened the White Castle in my neighborhood in Phoenix, Arizona. I lost my mind because I'm so used to eating White Castle at home.

[Dan Le Batard]

When I was in New York.

[Stugotz]

Now I can have all the time in Phoenix. But when I come to Miami, there's no White Castle.

[Dan Le Batard]

So you know what I do?

[Stugotz]

Go to the freezer aisle. Because right there they got the variety pack with all the great White Castle flavor in there.

[Ian Lotta]

You're getting a lot of slider styles.

[Stugotz]

You're getting classic American cheese, you're getting jalapeno cheese. And if you're a bacon lover, you're getting that new cheddar bacon cheese sliders. The classic cheese gives you all the taste of a great American burger.

[Dan Le Batard]

While jalapeno cheese sliders give a serving.

[Stugotz]

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[Ian Lotta]

That's completely normal. You can find each of these sliders where?

[Stugotz]

In the grocery store in the freezer aisle. Bonus. They're all in the same box. You don't even have to. Oh, I gotta get four boxes.

[Ian Lotta]

No, it's one variety box.

[Stugotz]

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[Stugotz]

Dan LeBatard what is the worst part of the life?

[Dan Le Batard]

Stugats the worst part of the life of what?

[Ian Lotta]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the stug.

[Stugotz]

I wanted to give you guys here some sound and some video on something that is bringing streaking into the modern age. During the super bowl telecast, you guys saw or may have seen that Mike Tirico and Chris Collinsworth because we've gotten very good at not giving the streakers the attention they want on the national broadcast where they have rules against televising the streaker and therefore rewarding the behavior. But the problem is with social media these days, you don't actually need the platform of the hundred million people to be watching you because there are so many other cameras now. I've often said in talking about all of this that the streaker idea might seem like a good idea to somebody who just craves attention that way. And it's. It ceases to become a good idea once the lawyer fees and the prison stuff starts happening and you're spending substantive time in jail and you're a security risk at this kind of event. It doesn't end up being worth it unless you've got some of those meta glasses on. And now you can televise your own experience. And I haven't seen this before, where we get the vantage point and the sound and the audio of what it is to be a streaker during the super bowl when you're navigating traffic. Let's see that video, please.

[Dan Le Batard]

I got this. I got this.

[Stugotz]

Come on, come on, come on. Why?

[Ian Lotta]

You guys got me.

[Stugotz]

You guys got me. You guys got me. You guys got me.

[Ian Lotta]

I'm right here. You guys got me. You guys got me.

[Stugotz]

How am I gonna get up?

[Dan Le Batard]

Get him up. Hurry up.

[Stugotz]

The thing that I want to do when we replay this, first of all, they did a good job of throwing a decoy out there. There was some chum thrown in the water. Fake streaker. That guy doesn't get any of the glory, doesn't get any of the attention or the giggling joy that this guy gets. But the freeze frame for the audio audience, where you hear something that sounds like distorted fear, that's when a uniformed Patriots player is now in the picture and part of the chase.

[Dan Le Batard]

Kyle Williams, who, by the way, runs like a four team.

[Stugotz]

No, but it's so good. The recognition in his voice and the fear in his heart that you hear coming into his throat when his camera on his head spots. Oh, no, there's a player now chasing me in uniform.

[Dan Le Batard]

The Kyle Williams part that's not caught by the meta glasses, but was caught by other people in the sands. That was so funny, was the streaker falls down on his own volition when he sees Kyle Williams approaching. Kyle Williams still walks up to him, touches him while he's down out of instinct.

[Stugotz]

Let's. Let's just play all that again so that people can see the planning of this. But the funniest part is when you hear in the. In the streaker's throat, oh, no, there's a player. And it's not even one of the big ones.

[Dan Le Batard]

I got this. I got this.

[Stugotz]

Come on. I'm not kidding, you guys. When I say the angle of the sort of referee type uniform security in front of him, when they're in front of him and he jukes them Feels like something out of a video game. Feels it feels like something that you would spot in. He's down.

[Dan Le Batard]

About the seven yard line. That's exactly what I thought it would sound like at the end of one of those. It's like, all right, you got me.

[Stugotz]

You got me. I'm down. I'm down. Don't rough house. I'm sure those cuffs you put on me will be put on me gently because that's it. I'm down. I've sacrificed myself. Are you really a streaker if you're wearing pants? Don't I need to be calling to.

[Dan Le Batard]

The bit something else?

[Stugotz]

Don't I need to be caught being.

[Ian Lotta]

Underwear to be a streaker?

[Stugotz]

At least put it on the poll at Lebitard show. Are you a streaker if you're wearing pants? And then the next question I have on that is, is what do I call you if not a streaker? You're not just an intruder. Like how do I properly identify what this person did?

[Dan Le Batard]

A trespasser. A trespasser pitch invader is what they go with in Europe.

[Stugotz]

Gotta just go streaker. I think now that Roy is bringing up trespasser. I meant to bring up something with you guys. I don't know if you guys have seen the Netflix documentary My Secret mall Apartment. Where in. Haven't gone to that one yet. In Rhode island, you had a bunch of artists living in a mall for four years, living in a mall where they would sneak into the mall. They had an apartment and they lived there for four years. And they sort of explain it under the idea of these are artists who are renegades and you know, in the name of art. They were doing an experiment, but I just called them freeloading trespassers.

[Dan Le Batard]

So when you say apart from, do you mean just like a hole in the wall? They put like a cardboard box down with a pillow.

[Stugotz]

So they found a space in a mall, okay, that was ungoverned. And it is actually interesting. They built an apartment there. Like they took an assortment of things from the outside, bought an assortment of things, smuggled them in, and for years had an apartment that worked, had electricity. And they were living there. They were living there rent free for several years in a mall. And it was actually interest. Seemed uncomfortable. Seemed like it'd be cold, physically cold. Obviously it's not a great apartment, but they had the space to live there. And they were living there rent free for years. Plural. And as an experiment, it seemed interesting. It just didn't seem like something that I've given you all the interest that you guys are gonna have on that, I don't think you're gonna go now. Seek out that.

[Dan Le Batard]

I think I got what it is.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, it seems like you have enough information. But they were law breaking trespassers. Not just merely doing it for the love of art.

[Dan Le Batard]

Play Boomera sias.

[Stugotz]

And again, I thought that was a good thing to do with Ian actually.

[Dan Le Batard]

Piped out a roll though with him doing the, you know Spanish. I know literally dancing.

[Stugotz]

My timing was I threw down the number one. You shook it off the pipe down. The pipe down is so good. It's. It's different than shut up and dribble. It's different than shut up and ski.

[Dan Le Batard]

He's got the perfect opinions for a dude named Boomer.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, he does.

[Ian Lotta]

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[Dan Le Batard]

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[Ian Lotta]

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[Stugotz]

We're gonna get that off the ground.

[Dan Le Batard]

World War three colon. Our group chat has a pretty good feeling about this one.

[Ian Lotta]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the stug.

[Stugotz]

Are you guys watching the Winter Olympics?

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm seeing clips. I'm more of a Summer Olympics guy, but I'm into.

[Stugotz]

Why'd you whisper that?

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, because, you know, these guys and girls, they train very hard and this is like the most important thing in the world to them. And to me it's, you know, I don't know what curling is. I'm 40, and every four years there's curling on my TV. I'm like, I think I get the general notion I couldn't explain the rules, but like, this is peaceful, but I can't really get up for it.

[Stugotz]

Oh, but I've got to assume that the Winter Olympic ratings are less in Miami than they are anywhere else. That we don't really have any connection points to many of the sports.

[Dan Le Batard]

Being in the Kendall Ice Arena a couple of times for a birthday party, we spend a couple weeks in LA Montana.

[Stugotz]

You guys don't think that the ratings for the Winter Olympics that. That gets less traction in Miami than it would anywhere else nationally in our country? I've never, I didn't grow up paying attention to the Winter Olympics. The Only reason that Lake Placid was something that stuck is because we had to have the, the biggest upset in the history of sports happen for it to reach my living room.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, there are about four connection points in the all Florida Panthers and three of them are playing right now in Canada.

[Stugotz]

Well, you guys were scared of the Canadian power play.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, I want to, I want to talk about the hockey because I do get up for the hockey. And NHL players are back in the Olympics and this is a big deal. Last year the Four nations was such a sleeper event that ended up being a North American and global phenomenon. And those guys played for pride. It was amazing and we were all excited because in just a year's time, they'd be playing for something real, not a made up tournament. They'd be playing for Olympic gold. And the US Kicks things off today for their Olympic journey against Latvia at 3 o'. Clock. The Tkachuks are on the same line with Jack Eichel. That's amazing. But obviously your main rival here is Canada and everybody wants to see those two teams match up, especially after their two stellar games. The Four Nations. Let me show you a graphic here. This is the power play unit. The first power play unit for Canada.

[Stugotz]

Whoa.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's. It's Sidney Crosby, Nathan McKinnon, Sam Reinhardt, who's a fourth liner on this team. But for the power plays on the first line, Connor McDavid, who I guess is occasionally manning the blue line alongside Kale Makar, the best defenseman in the league. This is the nastiest thing I think I've ever seen. Yeah, they have a combined 572 power play goals in their career. Who's the goat on that line? So you could make the argument for everyone, maybe, except Rhino. So a lot of people would say Connor McDavid is probably going to be the greatest hockey player of all time. Sidney Crosby, considered by many to be in that conversation. Nathan McKinnon's probably playing the best hockey out of all of them right now. Not even probably. Kale Makar is as good at his job that anyone is in sports at their job. You don't see blue liners the way that they make them. Like Kale Makar. I think right now the argument is probably Nathan McKinnon, which is crazy goat me. Roy, name a goat on that line. I know who he's not going to name. No, I have. I have to name him. It's Sidney Crosby. He's 23rd all time in Powell play goals in his career. Third active. And Powell played points 12th all time. Second active. I hope video team has it. There was this video that I. That I stumbled on in my algo of Nathan McKinnon racing an Olympic speed skater. Who do you think won that? Let's show the video real quick. Here's Nathan McKinnon against an Olympic level speed skater in a spring. There's like blue line. Blue line right here. Yeah. Nathan McKinnon torches. I think that's the current goat on that line.

[Stugotz]

Yes.

[Dan Le Batard]

There is nothing more terrifying in that Sport than Nathan McKinnon on the rush on a power play. You're dead to rights right now. He's faster than Olympic speed skaters.

[Stugotz]

I want to just play that again, though, so that people can see this speed skater has no idea how to start this race. And look at how slowly and goofy the speed skater starts the race in terms of running. That is not an athlete going against a hockey player like that. You can tell me that's a gold medalist, but that person is trying to swim through plasma that.

[Dan Le Batard]

That get fired up with the Olympics.

[Stugotz]

With that guy doing like that guy. Look at how that guy starts running on the spin. I'm not saying looks like me out there. I'm not saying it's easy to run on skates, but that speed skater has trouble with his starts. Like, that's a terrible start by that guy. He's trying to run, he's trying to sprint, and he's slow at the start.

[Dan Le Batard]

I think the point here is that the pro hockey player is faster, blue line to blue line than the Olympics.

[Stugotz]

But the speed skater is trying to win the race with his. The way Pablo and Amin did in that race against Billy. Like you're trying to break the finish line with your hand.

[Dan Le Batard]

Kale Makar could be the goat on that line. Kale Makar is unbelievable. This is what, like, it's so interesting about this sport because you can make an argument that, like, Connor McDavid is one of the greatest skaters of all time. Not. Not just, you know, skaters in the NHL, the ability to skate on ice. He's one of the top 10 people that have ever been created. This go conversation is presented by Frank's red hot. Make every dish the great greatest. Eat the goat.

[Stugotz]

That was seamless there. Roy had notes. Did you see that, Roy?

[Dan Le Batard]

I can't believe he said, Roy has so much stuff written down. Written notes.

[Stugotz]

He said, crosby, I can't believe you did that either. I thought your biases were going to grab you that there was no way. You guys are alleging that's the Greatest power play that there has ever been. That. There has never been a greater power play than that one. Never in any Olympics. No players have been put together on a line on a power play. Gretzky wasn't playing with. With four guys that. On some sort of Olympic hockey team at some point that rivaled those four guys.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, he played with Lemieux, but this is a five man unit here. Yeah. Do you know what it is? Have Sam Reinhardt kind of stick out like a sore thumb.

[Stugotz]

He doesn't quite belong in that class. Like, there are some names there. Sam. Sam doesn't quite fit there. No matter how much we love him down here, he doesn't quite.

[Dan Le Batard]

He was probably like, really? Yeah, I'm. I'm here.

[Stugotz]

I mean, on the fourth line, but you.

[Ian Lotta]

Okay, okay.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah. Okay. When you ask the question, like, go front lines or whatever it is that you guys are talking about. I don't have a great damage check, but I really wanted to bring out the fake damage and be like, well, Dan, in 1982, there was an incredible front line of whatever. Where's Lewis? The talent in this league, globally and in this league is just insane. Meanwhile, it's the NBA that's expanding by two teams. The NHL. We've highlighted it before on the local hour when we're talking about how difficult it is to make the playoffs. You can add like five teams and not lose. Really quality in this. There's so many good players and that power plays. Just one example of it.

[Stugotz]

I want to do a bit of a palette cleanser here in terms of video here, and forgive me, audio audience, but when I abruptly switch subjects on video, I want to use the Jason Garrett spotting the camera thing that Tony loves so much. This makes Tony very happy. The fact that Jason Garrett isn't great at television, but what he is great at is finding the camera. He doesn't say interesting.

[Dan Le Batard]

He's gotten a lot better, by the way.

[Stugotz]

And he's terrible at saying things.

[Dan Le Batard]

Tony Dungey's terrible at saying.

[Stugotz]

He is terrible at saying things. But I just. The palate cleanser is the tooth gleaming that way. Let's do it one more time where Jason Garrett turns to the camera, finds the camera, and then makes love to the camera. Yeah, always. I like that as a segue into other subjects. When we're going into football, let's start doing that around here. I did find interesting. Okay, okay. The way that radio row is changing. Twice was enough. Once was probably enough, but I went to it twice. Three times is definitely over.

[Dan Le Batard]

I think you just made an edict that we have to do it every time. How about one more?

[Stugotz]

The way that Radio Row has changed to also take podcasts makes it so that news gets to us a little slower because there is a certain slowness, snow slowness in the traffic of podcasts. This is Cam Hayward words podcast that Joey Porter is on. Diana Rossini is there making the face. You can see the face that something bad is about to come out of Joey Porter's mouth. He's talking about Ben Roethlisberger and Joey Porter. Now, this is days late. Obviously, news travels very slowly from Radio Row and the new podcast industry that is Radio Row. But here's Joey Porter talking about champion teammate and quarterback Ben Roethlisberg. Seven definitely broke the brotherhood because, like, that's the one. I don't understand the shit that seven do that did that we don't talk about. I know. Is crazy. Like out of anybody should talk. He should never grab a microphone and really talk Steeler business. Because if we talking Steeler business, his ass is foul of all foul. Like the that he's did is foul of all foul. He's not a good teammate. Won a Super bowl win. But the person. He's just not a good teammate. Like, he knows that. Anybody in the Steeler building knows that. But we protected him because I've only won one super bowl and that was my quarterback. So do I love my quarterback? Yeah. But is he a good person? No. Put it on the poll. Does Ben Roethlisberger know he's not a good person? Because Joey Porter is saying that.

[Dan Le Batard]

Noted. Good person Joey Porter.

[Stugotz]

Well, let's. Let's listen. Let. Let's let. Look, I don't know if we're going to do a bad person off, but Ben Roethlisberger has done some foul of all foul things.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, no, he's got stuff. We're gonna rank stuff.

[Stugotz]

Yes. Yeah, well. But Joey Porter's a funny.

[Dan Le Batard]

But I'm. I'm not even sure that's what he's talking about. Like, that's where my mind. But he's talking. But then he invokes the locker room.

[Stugotz]

He's not talking about that. When he's saying bad teammate. He's not saying that's not a bad.

[Ian Lotta]

Guy at the beginning. I mean, I could be wrong.

[Dan Le Batard]

I took that as he's talking about off the field. I mean, he was done. Some things we don't even talk about. Yeah, yeah. Which is we talk about the other stuff with Ben Roethlisberger. Like we have it was a big story. And he was looking at Cam Hayward there. So I'm like, no, something must have happened in that locker room that you're protecting him. My mind went like, that was the obvious place. And he gave so many context clues. And I'm like, there's something else here.

[Stugotz]

I do want to introduce, though. A new generation. Okay. Who may not know that Joey Porter Sr. Has a past that is super complicated. If you're somebody who only knows Joey Porter Jr. Because he plays in the league. Now. When I think of Joey Porter Sr. The person calling Ben Roethlisberger a bad person. You have seen that Jeff Pearlman has gotten very popular, sort of talking about players from the past and teaching young people things they didn't know about players. Players from the past. Joey Porter Jr. Has a resume. He was shot in the butt. I think it was on his wedding day. I'm not totally sure. That's a terrible thing to have happen on your wedding day. But the story that I associate with Joey Porter because he had an assortment of bad stuff around him, was being his neighbor because his neighbor had a miniature horse that was attacked and killed by Joey Porter's dogs. And Joey Porter was somebody in that league. People were afraid of Joey Porter with good reason.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah. There's A list of four incidences here. A 2003 shooting incident, which is the one that you were referencing. He was shot in the leg and the buttocks outside a Denver nightclub in 2003. But he was the victim, not the perpetrator of said crime. 2006, the dog incident. He was cited for harboring dangerous dogs, failure to confine, and licensing issues after his dogs escaped and killed him. And he was horse on a neighboring property. 2010. There was a DUI in 2017.

[Ian Lotta]

If that's a regular size horse.

[Dan Le Batard]

Not funny. Yeah, I have to laugh. Mini horse. I'm like, well, that is better. Bye bye, little Sebastian.

[Stugotz]

I don't want any of this to sound as a defense of Ben Rock. It does.

[Dan Le Batard]

Sure feels like it.

[Stugotz]

No, but it's two people.

[Dan Le Batard]

Can I go write a song instead?

[Stugotz]

Yes, please. Get out of here. Cool.

[Dan Le Batard]

Thank you.

[Stugotz]

Thank you. Yes.

[Dan Le Batard]

Which sponsor? Frank's Red Hotter. And for a moment there, I thought we were gonna get a picture perfect toss to highlights. Yeah.

[Stugotz]

Did you?

[Ian Lotta]

Yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

Like you were. You were. We were so good. And then it just, like, went away.

[Stugotz]

You wanted me to talk yet more about the Cyclones?

[Dan Le Batard]

More.

[Stugotz]

More about. More.

[Dan Le Batard]

As if you talk about the champion Cyclones at all.

[Stugotz]

And the Undertaker. I. I taker.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's how little you talk about. We we own a T team. This show owns its team.

[Stugotz]

Go ahead and throw it to the Jailites.

[Dan Le Batard]

A championship team. And I'm going to go ahead and do that. Thank you. For a conventional toss. High Alights. That's right. Spring season has started back up. We begin High Alights with Zulaika in the first match in our brand new Jam Arena Spring season. Look at this. Both feet off the ground. He looks like the logo. Unbelievable. Catch and toss. Doing SportsCenter right now.

[Stugotz]

I love this.

[Dan Le Batard]

Incredible. Dan, what is your favorite Zuleika moment? Is it that one? I bet it is. Next we shift over to the Cyclones, who in a championship rematch against The Devils yesterday, 3 o' clock on YouTube and ESPN the App. Manu, our brilliant backorder with a kill shot singles match. Look at this. This is why he's our captain. Look at the placement there. We expect a lot of points from that backcourt now that at Jam arena we have a much larger court and it sounds different.

[Stugotz]

Did I see his ass crack?

[Dan Le Batard]

He's got like a weird back. Where's your playlist taking you?

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