Hour 1: Like An Apple (feat. JuJu Gotti & Trysta Krick)

Summary

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Episode: Hour 1: Like An Apple (feat. JuJu Gotti & Trysta Krick)
Date: March 25, 2026

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Episode Overview

Broadcasting from the Elser Hotel in Downtown Miami, Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, and a rotating cast (including JuJu Gotti and Trysta Krick) deliver their signature blend of irreverent sports talk, pop-culture banter, and comedic commentary. This hour covers NCAA tournament drama, NBA conversation (with special focus on MVP chatter and wild news from the league), top 5 lists (anchored in humor), and a heartfelt—if awkwardly handled—tribute to NFL veteran Levonte David. The episode swings from fast-paced jokes to surprisingly tender moments, leaning into the show’s tone of self-deprecating chaos, pop references, and unique comedic chemistry.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. NCAA Tournament Updates & "Looks Like" Jokes

[01:38 – 04:45]

• The crew weaves through NCAA tournament results, using their hilarious “looks like” one-liners for each advancing or eliminated team.
  • Purdue advances, Miami out, Utah State eliminated, Arizona and Iowa State advancing, etc.
  • Greg Cody delivers several "looks like" classics, e.g., “Jim Rome looks like the guy who regularly takes practice golf swings in his office.” (02:00)
• The segment is punctuated with laughter and pauses, with Trysta and others riffing on the bits.

2. NBA Stat Battles: Jokic & Wembanyama

[04:45 – 09:32]

• Dan invites JuJu to present a “Stat of the Day,” sparking a contest of NBA trivia.
  • JuJu: “Joel Embiid has appeared in 91 games since he won the MVP. Nikola Jokic has 88 triple doubles since Joel Embiid won the MVP. Trust the process.” (05:20)
  • Dan counters with Jokic’s ongoing historic dominance: “Jokic goes for 23, 17 and 17... In the history of the NBA, there have been four other such games.” (05:59)
• The group dives into MVP voting, with playful shots at Nick Wright’s perpetual contrarianism about Jokic, Wembanyama, and hot takes.
  • Trysta: “[Nick] just sits in some sort of leather lounge chair of hot takes... I'm gonna muster up the strength to hate on Wemby.” (06:40)
  • Dan: “It’s a bit. It feels like whatever you imagine hell would look like: fire all around him.” (06:54)
• JuJu’s hyperbolic take: “Victor Wembanyama is the best basketball player I’ve ever seen... got them [Spurs] for the chip this year.” (07:16)
• The group debates whether playoff experience really matters in the “new” NBA, referencing anomalies in past postseasons (’77 Blazers, ’08 Celtics) and the potential for Wembanyama to alter paradigms.

3. Trysta & JuJu's Top 5 Lists: NCAA Names & NBA Surprises

[09:50 – 16:46]

• Trysta unveils her “Top Five NCAA Names.”
  • “Boopy Miller... just instills whimsy. Boopy.” (13:48)
  • Other entries: David Punch, Solo Ball (“This guy is the Han Solo!”), LeBaron Phylon (a playful riff on “pylon”), Coapeat, and #1: Chandler Bing (“He’s a black kid who doesn’t know anything about the whitest show on television, Friends.”) (16:04)
  • Show banter erupts regarding whether any name is better than “Nipples” (Con Knipple from previous tournaments).
• JuJu’s Top Five “Sentences You’d Never Believe If Told Before the NBA Season” delivers surreal NBA hot takes:
  • “Anthony Davis and Trae Young are Wizards.” (18:46)
  • “Bam Adebayo had 83 damn points.” (19:12)
  • “Chauncey Billups got caught up in a RICO.” (19:22)
  • “Josh Hart stuck his thumbs up Jalen Brunson’s behind after winning the in-season tournament.” (19:37)
  • Satirical tone, poking at the madcap NBA news cycle.

4. WNBA CBA & Trista’s David Sampson Beef

[19:57 – 21:44]

• Trista revisits her argument with MLB exec-turned-analyst David Sampson, originally about the WNBA CBA and revenue split.
  • “He said it would be the end of the WNBA if they didn’t move upon that... I would have just appreciated a little integrity from David Sampson, a little mea culpa.” (20:38)
  • The cast mock-corrects Trista (“mea” not “maya” culpa, and it’s Latin not Spanish). Everyone has fun with the correction.

5. MVP of the Day Segment & Jokic Fatigue

[22:17 – 23:24]

• The team awkwardly recycles Nikola Jokic as “MVP of the Day.”
  • “This is appearance two and a half for Nikola Jokic,” notes the assistant, reflecting recurring focus and perhaps MVP debate exhaustion. (23:06)

6. Levonte David's Emotional Retirement Speech & Show Reaction

[27:03 – 39:58]

• Conversation shifts to Levonte David, long-time Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker, reflecting on his probable retirement.
  • Dan frames his respect: “I could make an argument this is a top five Buc of all time, maybe top three...” (28:03)
  • David’s emotional speech about his parents’ sacrifices is played, with the show awkwardly balancing empathy and immature laughter at his display of emotion’s “noises.”
  • Chris Cody and Tony’s stifled laughter spurs a meta discussion about men's emotions, sports, and audience expectations.
  • Dan sharply notes: “You guys always want your athletes to care... it's what made [Levonte David] excellent.” (36:35)
  • Stats on David: 215 games played from 2012–2025, only missed 13 games in 14 years. (37:15)
  • Greg Cody argues: “I think of him as a consistent, really good player. I don’t think of him as great... One Pro Bowl in 14 years.” (29:29)
• Group compares all-time linebackers and the “devalued” position, referencing Bobby Wagner, Fred Warner, Brian Urlacher, Luke Kuechly, and shifting perceptions about greatness.

7. Bare-Knuckle Fighting & “Fart from the Ass”

[41:14 – 44:09]

• Dan and crew briefly touch on bare-knuckle fighting’s safety—or lack thereof.
  • Debate if bare-knuckle is more or less humane than gloves.
  • Hilarious lost-in-translation moment: Andrei Arlovski says his opponent’s name means “fart from the ass” in Russian, calling out sanitized translations in sports. (43:08)
  • The show revels in irreverence and absurdity: “I do not like translations in sports for that reason.” (43:34)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Juju (NBA Stat Battle):
  “Joel Embiid has appeared in 91 games since he won the MVP. Nikola Jokic has 88 triple doubles since Joel Embiid won the MVP. Trust the process.” (05:20)
• Trista (Hot Takes on Nick Wright):
  “Does he just sit in... a leather lounge chair of hot takes?... I think everything that we love about this Frenchman [Wemby], I think I hate.” (06:40)
• Juju (Wemby Hype):
  “We ain't never seen a brother wearing a size 48 shoe dunking from the three point line. So that's pretty unprecedented.” (09:32)
• Trista (Funny Name Debate):
  “Boopy Miller... just instills whimsy. Boopy.” (13:48)
  “He’s a black kid who doesn’t know anything about the whitest show on television, Friends. Just very rude for his parents to have named him [Chandler Bing].” (16:11)
• Juju (NBA Shock Sentences):
  “Chauncey Billups got caught up in a RICO.” (19:22)
  “Josh Hart stuck his thumbs up Jalen Brunson’s behind after winning the in-season tournament.” (19:37)
• Trista (David Sampson Debate):
  “I would have just appreciated a little integrity from David Sampson, a little mea culpa, because he said it would be the end of the WNBA if they didn’t move upon that.” (20:38)
• Levonte David (Emotional Speech):
  “It ain't easy, but they found a way for me. And you don't understand that until you get older, until you have kids of your own, and the sacrifices they made...” (30:13)
• Meta-reflection (Dan, on athlete emotion):
  “You guys always want your athletes to care... it’s what made You Excellent.” (36:35)
• Arlovksi’s Mad Libs: “In Russia? Perdomo means fart from the ass.” (43:08)
• On translation:
  “They always clean up the translations and make it different than what was actually said... our Cuban guy who's translating is taking care of the Hispanic guy.” (43:44)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• NCAA “Looks Like” jokes: 01:38 – 04:45
• NBA Stat of the Day / Jokic v. Wemby: 04:45 – 09:32
• Top 5 lists (NCAA Names & NBA Sentences): 09:50 – 16:46
• Trista’s David Sampson CBA Beef: 19:57 – 21:44
• MVP of the Day (Jokic fatigue): 22:17 – 23:24
• Levonte David’s retirement, emotional speech, and show’s reflection: 27:03 – 39:58
• Bare-knuckle fighting and "fart from the ass" translation segment: 41:14 – 44:09

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Episode Flow & Tone

The show maintains its signature blend of snark, quick pivoting between sports and culture, and comedic self-owning. Contributors relish playful “rule violations” (like unordered Top 5s), meta-banter about the format itself, and an unfiltered approach to both fun and the uncomfortable. This hour highlights the show’s unique ability to weave absurdity, heartfelt moments, and sharp commentary—often all in one breath.

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Fans of the show will appreciate the chaotic yet insightful ride, as well as its fresh guest energy. Newcomers will get a sense of why the show is both deeply irreverent and sneakily poignant.

Transcript

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[Trista]

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[Stugats]

This is the Dan Levator show with the ST Podcast.

[Dan Le Batard]

We are going to Onboard Juju and Trista here in a moment. They are in the queue. You can catch them on alley Oop, on YouTube, at DLS Hoops and on Good. Follow the show on DraftKings Network. Before we do that, I want to update our tournament though with them. For them, Miami is out. Sadly and also sadly, this is out.

[Greg Cody]

Jim Rome looks like the guy who regularly takes practice golf swings in his office.

[Dan Le Batard]

Purdue advances. Yeah, I know that one hurts, right Juju? But at least this advances. Purdue advances.

[Greg Cody]

That means this advances Jonathan Zaslow looks like he says oh Spaghettio when he sees someone pulled over.

[Nick Wright]

Trista, you laughed before we got to the punchline. The punchline wasn't oh Spaghettio is when someone's pulled over. Are you wearing a cardigan? What are you doing? Are you making fun of? You're making fun of Nick Wright.

[Trista]

Had to do it. Saw it, saw that. It was getting a couple of laughs. I was getting ready for the Day since I'm on west coast time and I said I got fancy cardigans.

[Mike]

Is yours Gucci, though?

[Trista]

It's. It's Farm Rio, which is actually more for the.

[Mike]

That's Fuchi.

[Trista]

Then

[Nick Wright]

Utah State. The Zaslo Conference is strong.

[Dan Le Batard]

The Zaslo Conference also advanced to this next game, but Utah State has been eliminated. That means this is eliminated.

[Greg Cody]

Kirby Smart looks like the wholesale tire rep who tells you he he didn't charge you for that alignment, even though it's complimentary, deserves to be gone.

[Dan Le Batard]

Arizona deserves to advance because this deserves to advance.

[Greg Cody]

Jonathan Zaslow looks like an off duty mime.

[Juju]

Oh, come on.

[Louis]

It's a nice headshot.

[Dan Le Batard]

Kentucky is gone.

[Nick Wright]

That means this is gone.

[Greg Cody]

Fernando Mendoza looks like he makes his animal crackers fight each other before he eats them.

[Dan Le Batard]

His coach advances, though.

[Nick Wright]

That means number two, Iowa State. Don't hurt yourself laughing and coughing, Cody.

[Dan Le Batard]

Number two, Iowa State advances. That means this advances.

[Greg Cody]

Kurt Signetti looks like the uncle who comes to your house for Thanksgiving and before even saying hello, says your doorknobs loose.

[Dan Le Batard]

That picture with that one is great. Virginia's gone. It hurts me to say. It really hurts me to say that

[Mike]

this is no Dan. No.

[Greg Cody]

Bill Plaschke looks like he's the father of Jonathan Zaslow.

[Dan Le Batard]

Crushing.

[Mikey]

No anti Virginia.

[Dan Le Batard]

Forever crushing. Tennessee shouldn't advance, but Tennessee does.

[Greg Cody]

Pete Alonso looks like a police officer who, even when he's not working, still asks why. What's your 20? When waiting for you to arrive.

[Dan Le Batard]

Number four, Kansas, is gone.

[Nick Wright]

Kansas is gone because they don't defend layups at the buzzer with no time left.

[Dan Le Batard]

That means this is gone.

[Greg Cody]

Mario Cristobal looks like he disapproves of his daughter's choice.

[Dan Le Batard]

St. John's advances. That means this advances.

[Greg Cody]

Scott Hansen looks like an orthodontist.

[Mikey]

Solid team.

[Dan Le Batard]

I can't believe this one's gone. It's a number one seed, so it deserves its ranking. But Florida's gone. That means this is gone.

[Greg Cody]

Larry Bird and Adam Silver look like the couple in that famous painting, American Gothic.

[Dan Le Batard]

I mean, that's amazing. It really is. I would advances. That means this advances.

[Greg Cody]

Mike McDaniel looks like the barista who asks if you've ever tried journaling while making your oat milk latte.

[Dan Le Batard]

I want to do some stats of the day here because I'm told juju has one and I have one to counter. And I want you guys to vote on who's got the better stat of the day. Let's make them compete.

[Stugats]

It is the Start of the day, start of the day, start of the day it is the start of the day Start of the day, start of the day it is the start of the day Start of the day, start of the day it is the start

[Dan Le Batard]

of the day what do you got, Juju?

[Juju]

Joel Embiid has appeared in 91 games since he won the MVP. Nicola Jokic has 88 triple doubles since Joel Embiid won the MVP. Trust the process.

[Dan Le Batard]

Greg, I did not know that you were going with a Jokic stat. So is his better than mine? Zaslow and Greg Cody were incredulous during the break. Nick Wright making Jokic sound like a clown. Because everyone is done with jokic winning the MVPs. They again have the number one offensive rating as they have all season. And last night, Jokic goes for 23, 17 and 17, 17 rebounds, seven assists. He's got three such games. In the history of the NBA, there have been four other such games.

[Mikey]

So he's incredible.

[Dan Le Batard]

I mean, it's unbelievable.

[Louis]

Is there a single general manager in the NBA right now that wouldn't take Wembunyama or Jokic over?

[Dan Le Batard]

Duncan Trista, where are you on this? Where are you on the MVP voting?

[Trista]

I just thought it was hilarious and impressive. Impressive and outrageous that Nick Wright. And I don't know how he does it, to be honest. Does he just sit in his, like, some sort of leather lounge chair of hot takes and he's like, you know what I'm gonna do?

[Dan Le Batard]

Yep.

[Trista]

I'm gonna muster up the strength to hate on Wemby. That I'm gonna find the most nitpicky, logical ways to say I think he's arrogant. I think everything that we love about this Frenchman I think I hate.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yes is the answer. It's the answer. The answer to your question is you do know exactly what Nick Wright is doing and you know exactly how he's doing it. It's in a leather chair that has. It's a bit. It feels like whatever you imagine hell would look like fire all around him and stuff.

[Greg Cody]

Wow.

[Mike]

Fire and brimstone.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't know if there's brimstone, but there's fire. Juju, do you have any thoughts on this?

[Juju]

Oh, no, Victor. When Miyama is the best basketball player I've ever seen in my entire life. So that's my opinion, and I want to take it further. Y agree, Nick. I think the spurs will win the championship this year. I'm gonna go ahead and go out on a limb because they have one key ingredient that you need they got a veteran that can score in the fourth quarter. Amines guy de' Aaron Fox. He is gonna play an important role in the playoffs. And then he's gonna let all those other pieces do what they do the rest of the game. I got them for the chip this year.

[Dan Le Batard]

You guys do realize though that if the spurs win the championship there is not precedent for a team never playing in the playoffs and then all of a sudden winning. Winning the championship. Like usually you have to lose sometimes in the playoffs to grow the way you need to grow in order to win.

[Louis]

The the only example that I would

[Trista]

give 1977 spirit of 77 Portland Trailblazers.

[Louis]

That's true. The other example I would give. And now granted these players had a lot of playoff experience. But the 08 Celtics were just put together and won immediately.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay. But they. It also took them a bunch of seven game series to do that. It took them longer in games than it has ever taken. And the three core players had playoff experience. It's not dear and Fox's playoff experience like that. You guys think that matters or are

[Nick Wright]

we in a new sport?

[Dan Le Batard]

We might.

[Nick Wright]

It is possible that my information is dated, Trista.

[Dan Le Batard]

Because the thing that's happened the last couple of years that doesn't happen very

[Nick Wright]

often in that sport is you've had

[Dan Le Batard]

teams in the finals that have surprised you. Like Indiana being in the finals surprised you.

[Nick Wright]

Dallas being in the finals surprised you. So maybe with threes it's a totally

[Dan Le Batard]

different sport than it has been historically.

[Trista]

Well, and. And historically we don't have a guy that's 7 foot 5, maybe 7 foot 6, maybe 7 foot 7. He keep growing. Who can do all the things that Wemby can do.

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[Trista]

I. I see him doing downward facing dog and. And the pigeon and all these different yoga moves. He's certainly very limber at that size. Which is not something that we could say for someone like Yao Ming or even Arvida Sabonis back in the day. So the things that Wemby is doing sort of break our imagination of what is possible to start with. And then you add what the spurs have surrounded him with and you say maybe this is just a new paradigm.

[Juju]

Paradigm. I was going to speak of my bad. I was going to add on to that. Like she said, we ain't never seen a brother wearing a size 48 shoe dunking from the three point line. So that's pretty unprecedented. So I would expect them his team to do unprecedented things.

[Dan Le Batard]

Do either of you or both of you have top five lists?

[Juju]

Oh, yeah, both. Trista's kicking out of Trista.

[Dan Le Batard]

All right, what is your top five about Trista?

[Trista]

Top five NCAA names. I've been making this list. I have about 20 of them, but we're gonna go one Oli, which I of course, just found out what it was, which I had to educate my mom on, but I didn't actually know, so I had to look it back up. But I have one Ola and then a top five list.

[Dan Le Batard]

All right, so any better than Con Canipple? Our favorite from last year. Do you have any better names than that?

[Mike]

It was last year.

[Trista]

Dan, you can't do better than nipples. Really?

[Dan Le Batard]

Put it on the poll at Lebatard show can. Better than nipples. Oli. Trista. Greg.

[Trista]

Oh, can you do better than Nipples, Greg?

[Nick Wright]

Baby, I have nipples. Greg. Can you milk me?

[Mikey]

Mike, you know I have one rule to live by, right?

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[Mikey]

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[Mikey]

Exactly. You're finally starting to get it.

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[Levante David]

Yo.

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[Levante David]

Oh, absolutely.

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[Trista]

Yeah.

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[Mikey]

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Don LeBatard.

[Juju]

I ain't never met nobody in the world that's gonna hate on Great nomination who don't like Blues Clues. Bruh. If you don't like Blues Clues, you're a loser.

[Stugats]

Stugarts.

[Juju]

Look, you get one paw print. That's the first clue. You put it in a notebook. Now what do you do? Blues Clues. Blues Clues.

[Mikey]

Sit on the chair and think about it.

[Stugats]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the stugats.

[Trista]

O L I, Boopy Miller. I mean, come on. That just instills whimsy. Boopy.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yes, you're right. Put it on the poll at Lebatard Show. Does the name Boopy instill whimsy? Yes or no? Number five.

[Trista]

Number five. Actually, this is in no particular order, but we're going to start with number five. What do you mean, Punch?

[Dan Le Batard]

What do you.

[Nick Wright]

What do you mean?

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[Nick Wright]

It's in no particular order. It's a.

[Dan Le Batard]

Respect the rules.

[Nick Wright]

What do you mean there's no order? It's five in descent.

[Mike]

You can't say five. Wait, you know, no particular order.

[Nick Wright]

It's, it's, it's them getting better as we go. Number four.

[Trista]

Well, I got to tell you, number five. David Punch.

[Nick Wright]

You mentioned that already. Yes, you mentioned that. But then you said, in no particular order not.

[Trista]

Not to be confused. I have to get this joke off. Because I thought of it. It's too good not to be confused with Punch. The macaque from the zoo that got bullied by the rest of the macaque.

[Mikey]

Worth it. Worth it.

[Nick Wright]

Not worth it. She didn't have to get that joke off. She should have edited herself. Number four, solo ball.

[Trista]

What? Gotta have guys with cojones on your team. But what about just one? Honey, this guy is the Han Solo.

[Mike]

You put it in the wrong place.

[Nick Wright]

It's not a hone, it's a cajoning.

[Mike]

Co does not mean two in Spanish.

[Juju]

Number three, the alley oop at dls hoops.

[Trista]

Number three, Le Baron Phylon. A French word. Le Baron. The Baron Phylon. Could be reminiscent of pylon. Could be reminiscent of the making of the band. Dylon, Dylon and dylon. I need to hear him say phylon. Phylon, Phylon and phylon.

[Nick Wright]

Number two, coapeat.

[Trista]

Sounds like something I have to go and get from Petco to add to my soil when I help my mom make tomato plants.

[Nick Wright]

Is that what number one sounds like?

[Mikey]

Oddly specific.

[Nick Wright]

Co opied.

[Mikey]

Exactly right.

[Nick Wright]

That is what that sounds like. Okay, number one.

[Trista]

Number one, of course for y', all, is Chandler Bing.

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Why?

[Producer/Assistant]

Ah, come on.

[Trista]

He's a black kid who doesn't know anything about the whitest show on television's Friends. Just very rude for his parents to have named him that when he had.

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[Dan Le Batard]

I just. I was confused the moment she said, in no particular order, it was so disrespectful to the top five. And she had no confidence in her number one when.

[Mikey]

Wait, his last name's Bing in the show? Yes, that's why.

[Juju]

Right.

[Mikey]

I knew he was Chandler. I didn't know his last. That's insane.

[Producer/Assistant]

You know my middle name is Chandler because of Chandler Bing.

[Dan Le Batard]

Is it? Yeah.

[Juju]

I can't believe his parents didn't put him on.

[Dan Le Batard]

Put it on the poll at Lebatard show. Did you know that Chandler from Friends, his last name was Bing. Juju, what is your top five list?

[Juju]

Yes, sir, man. I mean, it's the tears this season for the NBA, bruh. So I got sentences that you thought you would never hear on the brain since you said it earlier with the buddy with the. The quadriplegic situation. So it put me in the mood. Top five sentences that if you would have told me Happened before the season. I would have told you to stay off the weed.

[Dan Le Batard]

You got five sentences. So I mentioned the. The headline, quadruple. A quadruple amputee cornhole player fatally shoots man. And that inspired you to make a top five list? Any Oli or just number five?

[Juju]

Yeah. Oh, well, I have Paul, George, Ped, but y' all got too heavy on him earlier, so I'm gonna just leave my brother off the list and respect his mental health. Giannis will become a super villain slash liar slash salesman.

[Dan Le Batard]

Did you guys have any thoughts on the NBA Players association rebuking the Bucks for wanting to sit down Giannis? Did you guys have anything on that subject? Because Giannis wants to play, wants the optics of wanting to play, and now the NBA Pennsylvania saying he needs to be able to play, and the Bucks are wrong for not allowing him to play or not wanting him to play.

[Trista]

Yeah, I think this is just a. A good old fashioned standoff. And I agree with the pa, to be honest with you. Like, if Giannis is healthy enough to go ahead and play the rest of the season out, I think he should be able to do that. Clearly, it's the Bucks wanting to maintain the value of their asset to potentially either give him an extension, which I don't know if he'll ever accept, or to trade him to a team like the Knicks or the Heat or wherever it is that he wants to go, but if he has a. An hyper extended knee that turns into a torn MCL or torn acl, what is his value really this summer?

[Dan Le Batard]

Right, Juju.

[Juju]

The next number five. Yes, number five. Anthony Davis and Trey Young are war. Wizards.

[Dan Le Batard]

Lizards.

[Juju]

Right, Wizards. I would have never thought that. Number four, Jason Tatum has been back for weeks.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's funny.

[Juju]

I would have never expected that.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yep.

[Juju]

Number three, Bam out of Bayo, had 83 damn points.

[Greg Cody]

How is that number three?

[Dan Le Batard]

You got two better. Number three, you got two better than that.

[Louis]

All right.

[Juju]

Exactly. I do, bruh. Number two, Chauncey Billups got caught up in a rico.

[Dan Le Batard]

All right, all right.

[Nick Wright]

You got one better than that.

[Dan Le Batard]

All right, let's see.

[Mike]

Damon Jones slid on that one.

[Nick Wright]

Let's see what you got.

[Juju]

And number one, Josh Hart stuck his thumbs up Jalen Brunson's behind after winning the in season tournament.

[Nick Wright]

You've been obsessed with it. That does not deserve to be number one over.

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No, the shocking part was that the Knicks won something.

[Juju]

There we go. There we go.

[Dan Le Batard]

Trista.

[Nick Wright]

What?

[Dan Le Batard]

Your issue with David Sampson, beyond him saying you were dressed in your PJs the last time that he saw you. What kind of objections do you have today with David Sampson?

[Trista]

Well, the first time we talked, we were discussing the cba and I asked him about revenue share, which we had to pull the receipts on. And I feel like we should play that clip. Before I let you know exactly what my issue is. If the players are not going to move on a revenue split versus derive revenue share off of a fixed number, what is your opinion on what happens?

[Mikey]

Maybe the end of the wnba? The players will move.

[Trista]

What happened, folks? We got to a gross revenue split. And I would have just appreciated a little integrity from David Sampson, a little Maya culpa, because he said it would be the end of the WNBA if they didn't move upon that. And now I saw a new clip that he believes that the NBA got exactly what they wanted. This is some goalpost moving nonsense.

[Dan Le Batard]

I need to correct your Spanish. And it's not because I'm still bitter because of the way that I pronounced Iran instead of Iran, because it's how I was pronouncing it 30 years ago when I first got it, and it's how my fellow Americans were pronouncing it 30 years ago incorrectly. I don't think it's Maya culpa. I think it's mea culpa.

[Trista]

Oh, yeah, Mea culpa.

[Mike]

It's actually Latin, not Spanish. Mea. Mea culpa.

[Mikey]

Right?

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, mea.

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Yeah, I don't think it's any of those that Dan said you had a Spanish.

[Mike]

It's not Spanish.

[Levante David]

It's Latin, mia.

[Trista]

So it is mea culpa.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, it's not Maya, and it's apparently not Mia.

[Mike]

No, it's Maya mpa.

[Mikey]

This is an important conversation.

[Greg Cody]

At least we weren't correcting people on it.

[Dan Le Batard]

Let's do a stat of the day because we have not done this in a while, and we were supposed to be doing. I'm sorry, MVP of the day because we were supposed to be doing this with Zaz every day, and we have not been doing it every day. Let's do juju and Zaz. Zaz's MVP of the day.

[Juju]

Of the day.

[Louis]

Dan, there's a lot of good players in the NBA, and it's about time we have a discussion as to who should be the MVP of the league this year. Season's almost over. If we're gonna talk about the MVP of the NBA, we better have a conversation about Nicola Jokic. Last night, the Nuggets beat the Suns 125123 Jokic 23 points, 17 rebounds, 17 assists. I mean, I know Nick Wright thinks that Jokic is a bum, but it's possible that we should have a conversation about Nicole Jokic being mvp.

[Dan Le Batard]

You've nominated him a lot. I feel like. I feel like we can do that every day.

[Producer/Assistant]

This is appearance two and a half for Nikola Jokic. The half coming from the fact that there was one day where on Zsas's behalf it was juju saying it should be Nikola Jokic. So Zaz has only said it once. Juju said it once.

[Louis]

So it's really like the opposite. Haven't said it a lot like Dan said.

[Producer/Assistant]

Yeah, that's right. Yeah.

[Mikey]

No, you've said some others a lot.

[Levante David]

You and Nikola have the same agent.

[Nick Wright]

He needs to watch his tone.

[Dan Le Batard]

You can watch Juju and Trista on the alley hoop on YouTube at DLS Hoops and on good follow

[Levante David]

of the day

[Dan Le Batard]

on the DraftKings Network. Thank you, Tristan. Juju. They have excellent chemistry. I urge you. Their information is also good and they are excellent on pop culture. Again, alley oop on YouTube @dlshoops. Thank you. Appreciate the time, the information and the sweater.

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[Dan Le Batard]

Don LeBatard, you owe me everything.

[Nick Wright]

You owe me everything.

[Levante David]

You have added 10 years to my career.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yes, I have.

[Levante David]

This man has. You haven't. Who the hell are you?

[Stugats]

Stugats.

[Dan Le Batard]

I am.

[Levante David]

Who the hell are you?

[Greg Cody]

Me?

[Levante David]

You're a rude young man.

[Nick Wright]

You're a fool.

[Trista]

You're a fool.

[Levante David]

I already called you a fool. You can't call me a fool again. It's a fool.

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You're an idiot.

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Twice.

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You're an idiot for dismissing how much I've helped you.

[Stugats]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats.

[Dan Le Batard]

Chris Cody today greets me. This was hello today from your son, Greg. He greets me with Levante. David was blubbering is what he says. He used the word blubbering and he's

[Louis]

like a little unfair.

[Dan Le Batard]

Am I quoting you directly or not? That's verbatim.

[Mike]

You are.

[Mikey]

I may have couched it a little, but go on.

[Louis]

No, what he really said was worse.

[Nick Wright]

Well, yes, I was protecting you. I was.

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What do you say?

[Nick Wright]

I was.

[Louis]

Usually our jobs allow it.

[Nick Wright]

I was couching it for you.

[Dan Le Batard]

The blubbering made it feel like you

[Nick Wright]

were making fun of Levante David.

[Dan Le Batard]

And then you started a apologizing saying, I don't want to make fun of the guy, but once you use the word blubbering like that is the word that was mocking him.

[Mikey]

I think what we're about to listen to is a very sweet message of him. He's retiring. He'll tell you what he's grateful for. Very sweet what he's saying. But I would think he would even admit in hindsight, the noises that he makes doing this are he's. He's got to be laughing at.

[Dan Le Batard]

For those of you. You guys, for those of you who are not familiar with this sound, you guys have done this before. When Brett Fav retired, one of the 17 times he retired, whenever guys break down and you guys, can you guys do me the favor, please find Mike Schmidt when he was retiring, sort of falling into his locker. Find Brett Favre for me. And the video of him crying in a way that makes for mockery, even though it's the most sincere of emotion from a group of people that don't get rewarded for showing emotion that's not passion or violent. Because our athletes, at the end of their time, when you've been as great as this person has been, I can't even imagine how much Lavonte David has cared over the years. Because I could make an argument this is a top five buck of all time, maybe top three if I. In terms, it's a buck off. Go ahead and name them, Greg. If you think that there are 5 better in terms of allegiances to city, loved by their city, excellence at the position because he's been a great defensive player for reasons really long time, really counted on by that team, but you're objecting. You think you can name five who are more associated with Tampa Bay. I know it's a defensive position, but you think you can name five that the fan base is more connected to in Tampa than this guy? I don't think Tom Brady can count. He was only there for a couple of years. This guy played 14 years for the Bucks.

[Levante David]

My argument isn't that he's the best or fourth or whatever. My argument is that, that he's been such a great player. I don't. I think of him as a consistent, really good player. I don't think of him as great. He made one Pro bowl in 14 years. I'm sure he's beloved in Tampa. I don't know that outside of Tampa he's seen as an all time great, an immortal.

[Dan Le Batard]

I would argue like Mark Andrews in Baltimore. To Tampa. To Tampa. I would believe that the connection here. It's just really unusual to have a player play for the same team for 14 years and then retire. It's not a normal thing. And he cares about all of it a great deal. And this is what caring sounds like.

[Levante David (Emotional Speech)]

I might get a little emotional because it's always how I always get when I talk about my parents. I mean, everybody have parents, man. But you understand how much they meant to me. Growing up, where I grew up. It ain't easy. It Ain't easy, but they found a way for me. And you don't understand that until you get older, until you have kids on your own, and the sacrifices they made

[Nick Wright]

for you, the things they did for you.

[Levante David (Emotional Speech)]

It's just thinking about my dad, the sacrifices he made. He was never the breadwinner in our family, but for some reason, him and my mom made it work. And their relationship lasted for so long. And when you saw, you know, how they was compatible with each other and how they made our lives easier and, you know, we had one car. My mom took the car to work and my dad used to take me to practice on his handlebars, you know, and on a bike. We used to walk sometimes. And you know, as a kid, you like, dang, man, like, that wall was a far walk. But you realize, like, it's a sacrifice that you gotta make to help your sons, your kids dreams come true. And they did it.

[Mikey]

I didn't hear the whole thing.

[Dan Le Batard]

Let me explain to the audience what just happened here, okay? Because Tony was laughing in the back. And it might have confused you why it is Tony was laughing in the back. Chris Cody could not look at me. I've never seen him shrink quite this way.

[Nick Wright]

He hid behind.

[Dan Le Batard]

He hid the entirety of his body behind the microphone.

[Nick Wright]

All I saw was his hat, okay?

[Dan Le Batard]

Because. Well, wait a minute.

[Nick Wright]

You're not going to skate here. You're not going to skate here because as your son hid and shrunk so that all I saw was a microphone

[Dan Le Batard]

wearing a hat and Tony laughing behind

[Nick Wright]

him because Chris didn't want to be seen. Both Louis and Jeremy were saying into

[Dan Le Batard]

each of my ears, he's lost both of his parents. Okay?

[Mikey]

Another thing I didn't know.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, hold on, hold on.

[Nick Wright]

Okay? Because it seemed from the way you were hiding behind the microphone that you did know your father. And look, I would say in this

[Dan Le Batard]

case, the lack of courtesy doesn't fall far from the tree.

[Nick Wright]

The lack of decency, like an apple.

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Greg's right.

[Levante David]

The lack of courtesy and the apple are the only two things that don't fall far from a tree. A common phrase. The lack of courtesy, falling far from a tree. First time ever since this guy inventing a new phrase. Go on. What were you saying? Lack of courtesy. Not falling far from a tree.

[Nick Wright]

I didn't say apple because that's the reference. When a child. It's like his father or his.

[Mikey]

So proud.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's the joke you were going through.

[Nick Wright]

All he did was repeat it. And he's proud of himself. But. But that's not the part that was funny.

[Mikey]

No, let's stay here.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah. As you're hiding behind the microphone, he threw his coughing, raspy voice that anyone can barely understand because it's so spent. And we're broadcasting the descent of his career

[Levante David]

live.

[Nick Wright]

Barely. Greg Cody says of Levante David in the middle of that that he's squeaking.

[Mikey]

There were a couple funny noises there, I'll admit. That was very sweet. Come on. There was a few. Like, he got, like, really high pitched.

[Levante David]

There was a squeak this morning.

[Louis]

Okay. I'm the one who first found the clip because I love it. I think it's great. And this morning, Chris walks in the room after hearing it or watching it for the first time, and he says to me, zaslow, is it wrong that I laugh throughout that entire thing?

[Mikey]

Throughout is probably not a direct quote.

[Dan Le Batard]

Let me get the entirety of this again. I said that I was softening it for you, and after you just merely

[Nick Wright]

dismissed him with a blubbering.

[Dan Le Batard]

This man is getting emotional immediately after saying he doesn't want to get emotional, and it grabs him pretty hard. But it's his parents.

[Louis]

He cried several times throughout this speech.

[Nick Wright]

It's his late parents that he's thinking

[Dan Le Batard]

about and the sacrifices they made so that he could get to where it is that he is now. So let's hear that again.

[Levante David (Emotional Speech)]

I might get a little emotional because it's always how I always get when I talk about my parents. I mean, everybody have parents, man. But you understand how much they meant to me. Growing up, where I grew up. It ain't easy. It ain't easy, but they found a way for me. And you don't understand that until you get older, until you have kids on your own and the sacrifices they made

[Nick Wright]

for you, the things they did for you.

[Mikey]

All right, I'm gonna go to the penalty box.

[Levante David]

Yeah.

[Stugats]

Yeah.

[Producer/Assistant]

Well deserved.

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Glad you faded.

[Producer/Assistant]

I'll never forget the look on your face when you were giggling in the microphone. And then I told you, hey, both of his parents have passed away. That was when you disappeared behind the microphone.

[Dan Le Batard]

To be fair to him, he did not actually know, and he probably should

[Producer/Assistant]

have looked it up.

[Dan Le Batard]

Ignorance is not quite a defense.

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Most people would.

[Producer/Assistant]

Ignorance doesn't fall far from the tree.

[Jagermeister Ad]

When you see someone react like that. And the words that he used, my natural instinct would be, like, to Google what's going on there.

[Producer/Assistant]

Came in and flipped me off.

[Dan Le Batard]

You guys always want your athletes to care. It's one of the complaints that you have on top of everything else with Levante David's career. Can you look up for me how many games he missed? Because when I think of that guy, I always think of him not unlike Bobby Wagner. Being in the right place all the time. On knowing where it is that football requires, requires you to be and always showing up because you're incredibly tough and you care in a way that's unusual, at least in part it would seem, because you appreciate what it is that your parents did in raising you. And it's instilled in part of your fiber. It's what made You Excellent.

[Producer/Assistant]

From 2012 through 2025, he played 215 games. The the fewest games he played in a season was 12.

[Louis]

Back in 2021, he missed 13 games in a 14 year career.

[Producer/Assistant]

It's unbelievable.

[Levante David]

I feel sort of bad. I feel sort of bad. He's a Miami native, a Miami kid. He had a great career. I just pushed back a little bit at the overarching opinion of who he is in NFL history. I don't think he's an all time great outside of Tampa Bay.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, let's do this. He's got an unusual connection to his community and his team. You're going to find very few players with the longevity of 14 years. You're going to even find a great many fewer with the longevity of 14 years in one place, retiring at the end without any movement. But let's go ahead and do this because when it comes to all time greats, I don't think that you can name very many at linebacker. There are some, but my guess is that we will run out after about 10 on linebackers. And for the modern day, how many are you giving me right now outside of Fred Warner and Bobby Wagner? In terms of people that you're watching right now that you say are all time greats at the position, Brian Urlacher gets a lot of credit for being an all time great. And I understand it, it was in Chicago he was following some people. But I think of Levante David as being something very close to all time great. Even though as you mentioned, one Pro bowl isn't the standard for that measure.

[Levante David]

Yeah, Luke Kickley just made the hall of Fame. He was great.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't, I don't think of him as one either. Incidentally, I was surprised that he made the hall of Fame. I wasn't surprised he made the hall of Fame. I wasn't. I was surprised he made it on the first ballot.

[Levante David]

Well, he was a. He had a short career. I don't think people were blaming him for an Injury that ended his career.

[Dan Le Batard]

But when you think of right now, all time linebackers playing presently, if you're not willing to extend the distinction to Levante David, who are you extending?

[Louis]

Yeah, I mean, I don't think you could extend it to Levante David. He's been all pro once.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, that's what he mentioned and that's the indictment. But give me the guys that you

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position has been devalued in the NFL, right? I mean, Roquan Smith is considered one of the best. He was made available. Anzalone, he moved teams like you don't see many legacy linebackers anymore other than Van Ginkel.

[Mike]

What do you do with Micah Parsons? Is he a linebacker? Is he an edge rusher? Is he a hybrid? He's an edge rusher, plays linebacker.

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Yeah, I mean he plays all over the line.

[Levante David]

Line edge. No, again, great career. But I, I think he's a regional great career. I don't think he's a national great

[Louis]

career, but got a little squeaky there, right?

[Levante David]

Yeah, it did. Yeah. Thank you. Not like Levante David squeaked.

[Dan Le Batard]

But how do you feel about what's going on with your voice? Because I'm not sure it's ever sounded quite as ill as it does.

[Mikey]

I think another coffee will help.

[Nick Wright]

I don't.

[Mikey]

Whatever you do, don't drink any water.

[Nick Wright]

I don't. Look, that's. To me, it's called coffee.

[Mikey]

I've been saying it for two hours. It just sounds like he's in a desert.

[Levante David]

Greg, coffee.

[Mikey]

Get this guy. I get you. I bet we get him a glass of water, he will sound instantly better.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, you think it's not great for

[Nick Wright]

his voice that he drinks tar all day?

[Juju]

That's what I'm saying.

[Mikey]

Dad, you should pour that out. You should see the sludge that is his. Have you considered royalty here caffeine through tea? We did the throat coat thing with him a few years ago.

[Levante David]

I don't, I don't like tea. I'm not a big tea drinker.

[Dan Le Batard]

You guys don't agree with me that this is the worst he's ever sounded, just in terms of quality, quality of his voice.

[Mikey]

There was a couple years. We're forgetting how bad it was with him. I listen back to old Greg Cody show podcasts, like hear clips and you hear him and it's like I, he sounds so good nowadays compared to a few years ago.

[Dan Le Batard]

This is good.

[Mikey]

This is very good. Night and day. Better than him at his worst right now.

[Nick Wright]

Get me that video. I didn't think I would be Saying this sentence.

[Dan Le Batard]

Please get me the video from that bare knuckle. I'm going to call it a press conference. I'm not sure it's a, it's sort of just, it's not a press conference.

[Mike]

It was a pre fight in the squared circle, Dan.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, and, and I want to get to this because Arlovsky's been doing this for a while. How old is he?

[Nick Wright]

How old?

[Mike]

Arlovsky's got to be 42, 43. He's fighting on the Netflix card by the way.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't know if you saw Dan Orlovsky.

[Mikey]

My mind went right. The quarterback.

[Dan Le Batard]

I, I, I think this Arlovsky is older than that Arlovsky. Do I have it right? This fighting Arlovsky is older than Dan.

[Producer/Assistant]

47.

[Nick Wright]

Okay.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah. Look, he has been somebody who has been muscular and feared in the combat sports for a long, long time. And this as they start a new venture, a bare knuckle venture which seems unsafe, seems dystopian, seems really dangerous in a way that's uncommonly dangerous.

[Mike]

You could say that.

[Dan Le Batard]

But you know, we fight on well, bare knuckle sports. There's a reason there's padding on boxing clubs. Like there's reason that all of that is in play. It's hard enough as a sport and the brain chemistry gets rattled enough going, you know, the brain moving through the liquid protective buffer.

[Mike]

Some would say that the, that the knuckles, bare knuckle is actually more humane.

[Stugats]

That's right.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, put it on the poll at Lebatard show. Is bare knuckle fighting more humane than

[Nick Wright]

having cushions, tender cushions on your face?

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That's often cited. And then you watch the fights and there are absolute bloodbaths which is hard to like put those two things together because it looks worse. It's not, but it's safer for the brain.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay. But this, this particular conflict amid the conflict is pretty funny.

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Any words for perdomo

[Juju]

in Russia? Perdomo means fart from the ass.

[Nick Wright]

So smell any.

[Juju]

Kick him away.

[Dan Le Batard]

I do not like translations in sports for that reason.

[Nick Wright]

They always clean up the translations and make it different than what was actually said.

[Dan Le Batard]

Arlovsky said that his mouth smelt like

[Nick Wright]

farts from an ass. And that's not what, that's not how it was translated in Spanish.

[Mike]

That's right. Because our Spanish speaker, our Cuban guy who's translating is taking care of the Hispanic guy, Dan. That's exactly what he's doing.

[Jagermeister Ad]

That's a great translator because he's taken liberties to put his own little spin on it. And also, he didn't need to translate. Relax, Grandpa. Orlovsky definitely understood that part. But for the audience. Audience, he cleaned it up.

[Louis]

You know about that. Far from the ass,

[Mikey]

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comedy movie event of the year Mike and Nick and Nick and Alice. Now streaming only on Hulu and Disney plus.

[Dan Le Batard]

Time to party. That's a great attitude.

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It's a time traveling ass kicking movie event.

[Dan Le Batard]

You sound insane.

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Starring Vince Vaughn, James Marsden and Asa Gonzalez.

[Dan Le Batard]

I thought you were a clone. Well, clones aren't real. And time machines are super grounded in reality.

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Mike and Nick and Nick and Alice. Rated R. Written and directed by Ben David Grabinski. Only on Hulu and Hulu on Disney plus for Bumble subscribers.