Hour 1: The Good Hang-Off (feat. Nick Wright)

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Episode: Hour 1: The Good Hang-Off (feat. Nick Wright)
Date: December 10, 2025
Main Guests: Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, Nick Wright, Pablo Torre

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Episode Overview

This episode, broadcasting from the Elser Hotel in Downtown Miami, dives into the unique chemistry and comedic banter that makes the Dan Le Batard Show iconic, with a spotlight on an extended and genuinely awkward (but entertaining) exchange between media personalities Nick Wright and Pablo Torre. The centerpiece is a friendly-yet-contentious debate about who’s the better “hang” and the relative value of their brands of sports media, veering into questions of ego, skill, and the essence of great content creation. Listeners are treated to quick wit, glimpses into the personalities behind ESPN’s sports talk landscape, inside-joke lingo, and candid reflections as tensions manage to both flare and amuse.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Source of Studio Tension

• [01:35] Dan immediately points out a “tension” in the studio, riffing on both Nick Wright’s arrival (and recent struggles with his beloved Kansas City Chiefs) and a mysterious “ban” supposedly placed on Nick by Pablo.
• Nick’s Perspective: The “ban” was a “fake ban for Internet applause.” (03:14)
• Pablo’s Perspective: He’s trying to build a studio culture of camaraderie and careful access management, frustrated by Dan and Nick's disregard for the so-called ban.

Memorable exchange:

• Nick Wright: “It was a fake ban for Internet applause, which it clearly was. … Pablo will be there, is that gonna be a problem? And I replied, ‘I'd do anything for Dan.’” (05:04)

2. The “Filler” vs “Killer” Debate: What Makes a Good Show?

• [05:45] Nick outlines his views on broadcast value, separating shows into “filler” (general conversation) and “killer” (high-value, must-listen segments).
• He claims he brings the “killer” but sees Pablo’s show as centered on investigative “killer” content rather than casual hangs.
• Pablo objects, suggesting that casual conversation isn’t inherently filler and is part of the broader media tapestry.

Noteworthy moments:

• Nick Wright: “When I go on Dan’s show, I’m part of the killer… I’d rather be on Pablo’s podcast where, like, Nick, we’re doing an investigation about you and we have some questions.” (05:45)
• Pablo Torre: “I object to ‘filler’ being the characterization of everything but the investigations.” (08:04)

3. Can Nick Wright “Do” Pablo Torre’s Job? (and Vice Versa)

• [10:10 - 12:28] Pablo challenges Nick’s assertion that given effort, he could do Pablo’s journalistic genre, but the reverse isn’t true.
• Nick: “Do I think if I put all my effort into doing what Pablo does, I could do it? Yes. Do I think that if Pablo tried to do what I do, he could? No, that’s true.” (10:15)
• Pablo finds this both arrogant and deeply revealing about Nick’s confidence.
• Dan attempts to moderate but ultimately leans into the meta-humor.

Sharp Quotes:

• Dan: “He’s also, though, self aware enough and transparent about where his ego resides that he did just tell you to your face—he’s not filler.” (07:42)
• Pablo: “You said the fact that I could do it…as if that is not a disputed characterization.” (12:18)

4. The “Good Hang-Off” – Audience Participation

• [15:10] Dan suggests putting it to a poll: “Who’s a better hang, Nick Wright or Pablo Torre?” Prompting both mock embarrassment and competitive posturing.
• Nick, tongue-in-cheek, concedes the audience will side with Pablo in a setup he views as friendly but loaded.

5. Behind-the-Scenes Reactions & Segment Self-Evaluation

• [16:14, 23:22] The show self-references the awkwardness of spending 15-25 minutes on a meta-debate. The “shipping container” (behind-the-scenes crew) is exasperated:
  • “Chris Cody…wanted this to stop for 10 minutes.” (23:22)
  • Nick and Pablo accept the critique but defend the bit’s worth.

6. Nick Wright’s Chiefs Heartache and Gambling Losses

• [29:06] Nick, humorously self-deprecating, details how the Kansas City Chiefs' struggles have hit him both emotionally and financially.
• “Every time the Chiefs lose, I feel awful and I lose money. So those two emotions are so wrapped in themselves…it's just a whole collection of suck…” (30:54)
• Describes a somber trip to Philly to recoup with high-stakes poker, but only finds “a kind of depressing medium stakes game.” (29:41)

7. Reporting Credentials Debate

• [20:05 - 22:12] Pablo questions whether Nick’s ever broken real news, prompting Nick to recount one major investigative coup in his past about Adrian Peterson’s legal trouble:
  • “28-year-old…radio host in Houston, Nick Wright…had the police report, his audio-taped confession, every single piece of evidence, and his reporting led to them impaneling a new grand jury…” (20:29)

8. Lighthearted Register Switches & Show Bits

• Throughout: The crew plays with silly voices, breaks into laughter about Mad Dog’s viral basketball mishap, and roasts themselves and each other.
• Zaz (show regular) provides comic relief, having his opinion on LeBron’s scoring streak called “all time dope” by Nick. (34:34 - 35:37)

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Notable Quotes & Timestamps

• Nick Wright on media “bans”:
  “[The] ban was a fake ban for Internet applause…so I didn't feel actually banned from your studio that Pablo works in...” (03:14)

• Nick’s take on his own value as a guest:
  “I feel like when I go on Dan’s show … I’m part of the killer … one of the highlights be the hit with Nick Wright was really good.” (05:45)

• Pablo pushing back on being called “filler”:
  “I object to ‘filler’ being the characterization of everything but the investigations...what Nick has done inadvertently is characterize the entirety of what is a non-investigative episode in our industry as filler.” (08:04)

• Nick’s assertion of capability:
  “Do I think if I put all of my effort into doing what Pablo does, I could do it? Yes. Do I think that if Pablo tried to do what I do, he could? No, that’s true.” (10:15)

• Dan summing up Nick’s approach:
  “He is also telling you I star or not at all. Like, I’m going to come in and be the showcase.” (08:31)

• Nick defending his one “big” reporting scoop:
  “Was it a 10 out of 10 on impact, exclusivity, accuracy? Yes, of course. … If I actually made it my vocation, I’d be good at it.” (20:29)

• Nick on Chiefs heartbreak:
  “Every time the Chiefs win, I feel great and I win money. And every time they lose, I feel awful and I lose money.” (30:54)

• Meta commentary on show’s direction:
  “I have been smiling at the genuine awkwardness of it…but also I’ve been getting running commentary in my ear from the shipping container and an exasperated Chris Cody who’s wanted this to stop for 10 minutes.” (23:02)

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Important Segments & Timestamps

• Start of Nick Wright/Pablo Torre Banter: [01:35]
• Filler vs. Killer Debate Explodes: [05:45 – 09:41]
• Can Nick Do Pablo’s Job—and Vice Versa?: [10:10 – 12:28]
• Who’s the Better Hang? Poll: [15:10]
• Self-Evaluation/Behind-the-Scenes Cut-In: [23:22]
• Nick’s Painful Chiefs Poker Story: [29:06]
• Reporting Credentials / Adrian Peterson Story: [20:05 – 22:12]
• Zaz vs. Nick on LeBron’s Scoring Streak: [34:34 – 35:37]

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Style and Tone

The dynamic is quick-witted, often sarcastic, and self-aware. There’s playful arrogance (Nick), deadpan moderation (Dan), sensitive pushback (Pablo), and a parade of comedic interruptions from the supporting cast. The episode walks the line between genuine tension and performative humor, giving listeners an unpolished, authentic look at sports media’s ego battles and legendary banter.

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Summary Takeaway

This episode is a microcosm of why The Dan Le Batard Show stands out: a blend of serious sports and media discussion laced with hilarity, ego, true self-deprecation, and meta commentary about the industry itself. The “Good Hang-Off” between Nick Wright and Pablo Torre is less an answerable contest and more a living demonstration of why both personalities excel—depending on what flavor of chaos or insight you’re after.

Transcript

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There's an uneasy tension that I have in this room right here. I don't know what to do with it. Perhaps these two men will sort it out. They will explain it to me. It's not the only tension we have around here because Nick Wright has something for Zaz too. But I've got to get to that in a second. Yeah, he's here. Nick Wright is here in our presence. Always happy to see him. He's doing so at a time. He's got to feel very vulnerable because publicly his Kansas City Chiefs after a run of dominance, have made him look bad. And they never make him look bad. And they've made him look bad here for a couple of weeks now.

[C]

I actually think they've made me look great.

[A]

Dan, that's not even the tension I'm talking about. We'll get to that tension in a second. Pablo just told me before you got here that I had lifted a band. You were Banned from this studio. And I didn't even tell him I'd lifted a band. I didn't know he was banned from the studio. And so Pablo just told me that I big footed him, that I sat in his seat and I allowed you.

[D]

To come out in my seat and bigfooted.

[A]

I allowed you to come in here when he had banned you. And I don't know the nature of this band. And I disrespected him by lifting it without.

[B]

Without knowing.

[C]

I mean, if we're gonna just get right into it, this could get awkward.

[D]

It's already awkward. You're wearing a cardigan in my studio.

[C]

It's a, it's a. I'm pretty. I, you know, the, the. I'd be careful on the. My studio part in the room with Dan, but that's neither here nor there. Um, I don't, I don't check the books.

[D]

The.

[C]

It's a fake band that was done for Internet applause. And that since this band. Here's, here's the context of it. Pablo invited me on the show along with Wilds. We came at our own expense, mind you.

Created what I think is your own expense.

[A]

Did he not send a car for you?

[C]

Of course not.

[A]

Did I send a car for you today?

[C]

Yes, of course you did. And so that's. Again. But that's fine. It's no problem.

[D]

I'm just impartial as a journalist.

[C]

Yeah, Wilds and compromised mind. Wilds and Pablo are longtime friends. Pablo and I are longtime acquaintances. And so we came and it was. I don't want to call the experience unpleasant, but it was so fun. It was, it was. I, I came in and Pablo's like, hey, remember this thing you said to me at a Christmas party once? I'm like, not really, but I guess this is where we're at. Whatever. It was content. It was fine. We did it. Pablo then asked, you know, texted us again, like people liked it. Come on again. And I kind of put it off. And then I came on your show and I, I think I made fun of him a bit. And then Pablo did a thing with Katie Nolan where he's like Nick Wright and, I don't know, Liza Pippen or something, the two people who have been banned. He's like, he's banned Larsa. Ok. And then post banning. If I showed you the text thread between me, Wilds and Pablo, it's a lot more. Hey, you guys want to come on again? And me not replying. And Wilds, I don't know if he did it. Or not. And so to that, I would say it was a fake ban for Internet applause, which it clearly was. And so I didn't feel actually banned from your studio that Pablo works in because.

Because.

I have been invited here before. Now, your great staff, when they asked me, they said, dan's going to be in town. Would you like to come on? I said, of course. I'd do anything for Dan. That person who I think does a great job, but I don't want to name he or she because I don't know if this person would want me to. Said, just so you know, Pablo will be there. Is that going to be a problem? And I replied, I'd do anything for Dan. So there's the full context.

[D]

I would say a bit of missing context is that Nick sucks up to Dan so hard that it's hard for me to parse when we are or aren't beefing. Because what I try to do is make sure that acquaintances can become friends and they can share in the, you know, in the studio that, yes, Dan has fully fronted and paid for, but that I hope to return the value on over time.

[C]

I think you're doing a great job. Every time I'm asked about the podcast, I say, pavel is doing a great job. It's not the line I swim in, but I think you're doing, you're doing a great job. Which is another one of the reasons I. I don't want to come on. Because everyone understands in the media business there is filler and killer. So I feel like when I go on Dan show that segment that day that I do, I'm part of the killer. Like, hey, highlights of the show. If we did a, you know, a after action report, one of the highlights be the hit with Nick Wright was really good. When Pablo's entire motif of the show is Pablo Torrey finds out we are getting the NFLPA guy fired, we're doing the scandal in the NBA. At some point, I'm sure we'll get to the really shady solitaire business all his colleagues were in. But, I mean, I know that's happening later. Then the filler piece of it is Nick and Kevin Wilds hang out for a bit. I don't want to be like that. I don't want. I'd rather be on Pablo's podcast. We're like, Nick, we've got. We're doing an investigation about you and we have some questions asked.

[D]

And it's funny you request that.

[C]

Yeah, go ahead.

[D]

No, I don't want to spring in a manila Folder open full of your poker history. I don't want to do that. The thing that I object because you.

[C]

Don'T have it, but go ahead. Yeah, please.

[A]

Well, I was a job daring him to find out about you. Are you.

[C]

What I am saying is I have led my life from the creed of don't send this text, don't be in this room if you would not be okay with it being on the front page of the New York Times. And I stand by it. So, yeah, I mean, I am. I am as all of my vices, foibles, anything the public has seen. So I. I am a man without the skeleton. So, yeah, you can do whatever you want.

[A]

He's also, though, self aware enough and transparent about where his ego resides that he did just tell you to your face. He's not fil. He's not someone who comes on to someone else's show so that you can have an easier show that day and get on to what it is that.

[C]

You actually want to do. You want to do investigations. Oh, I take a lot of time.

[D]

I, I object to filler being the characterization of everything but the investigations. I love, I love when my friends and acquaintances and new friends can come on the show and have a fun time.

[B]

And.

[D]

And I think that what Nick has done inadvertently is characterize the entirety of what is a non investigative episode in our industry as filler. That is, you're referring to an entire genre of people talking as filler.

[C]

Well, he's.

[A]

But he is also telling you I star or not at all. Like, I'm going to come in and be the showcase.

[D]

And you did have a rhyming phrase to describe the philosophy. So I do understand the.

[C]

Listen, I. The. I am not saying that all podcasts that are people chatting are filler. What I am saying is every podcast or media media venture has an identity and the identity of Pablo Torrey finds out is that you are going to do investigations. You're going to be nominated, but not win Peabody's and you are going to. And you are going to do real journalism. That is the. If the serial. I'm sure the lady who did serial would be a sick hang. But if it's like, hey, in between figuring out what happened, Nick Wright become.

[D]

The good hang arbiter.

[C]

How did Nick walk good?

[D]

Hang on.

[C]

I'm not, I'm not saying that. What I'm saying is that person, if they were like, hey, in between adnon episodes, we'd love some LeBron takes. I'd be like, you know, I think I'M going to pass. I don't think that's what your audience.

[D]

Wants, but I didn't ask for your LeBron takes. I think, look, at the risk of being too, too real about this, I don't want to talk about my show this much. Even though Nick had previously said in one of his very kind interviews with Dan that if he wanted to do journalism, he could do absolutely everything that I had been doing, which is a thing that's on tape. If we want to play that at some point in the. In the proceedings here, I don't know.

[A]

What he's talking about. And he hasn't prepared our production staff for what that is. They're not going to have it instantaneous.

[C]

I'll just recreate it. Do I think that if I put all of my effort into doing what Pablo does, I could do it? Yes. Do I think that if Pablo tried to do what I do, he could? No, that's true.

[D]

I think that's one of the most.

[C]

It's arrogant, but it's how I.

[D]

But it's beyond arrogant. I think it misunderstands the lanes you're describing. Everybody. Everybody tries to do what Nick does, and Nick is really, really good at it. He's really good at it. I think I'm pretty good at it. You know, whatever. You know, it. PTI is a show that exists. I think I'm pretty good on it. All of which is to say that I would like Nick to show me. I do the thing that Nick does and I do the thing that I do.

[C]

Nick talks about wanting to do the.

[D]

Thing or not wanting if he were to hypothetically try.

[C]

No, but it's so that. But that's.

[D]

But this is.

[C]

I have no interest.

[A]

But it's a take with no teeth.

[D]

You've never. It sounds like you're a little afraid to try. I have been trying to do all this stuff. I hang out with my friends, argue about sports. I investigate people in the Epstein files. Nick Wright, as far as that sounds like kind of does one of those things.

[C]

It sounds like someone says, hey, here's a crocheter. And I'm like, yeah, I think I probably could do that. They're like, why don't you? It's like, because I don't want to. I have no interest in it. I am not denigrating, by the way.

[D]

I'm someone who crocheted.

[C]

I just want to make this clear. I don't think it's easy what you do. I don't think the fact that I can do it is a testament to that it not being difficult. It's a testament to what I think my own ability and intelligences are. And again, I said this was going to get awkward and we thought I wouldn't.

[D]

I think the fact that you just called it a fact is a testament to what your skills, Jack.

[C]

What do you mean?

[D]

You said the fact that you could do it and you entered that into the available evidence as if that is not a disputed characterization and then you just steamrolled into whatever it is coming next.

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Dan Lerd the Hoy is Captain Slappy STS is this chum bucket.

[C]

This is the D? Ler show with the stuff.

[A]

You are saying that facts are not facts when you say they're facts. Pablo is accusing you of thinking that facts are not facts because you have said you simply can do what he can do. You have no proof of that. Before I go any further, put it on the poll at Lebanon. Show who's a better hang, Nick Wright or Pablo Torre.

[D]

And I mean this conversation to be the evaluation of my ability to hang. I'm embarrassed.

[A]

I mean, I need an independent arbiter here, please.

[C]

I mean, I mean, it's going to be on Pablo's side.

[D]

I would hope so.

[A]

Well, I just. I just trying to figure out how we spent 15 minutes talking about this whole. Did I miss it?

[B]

Did I miss it? Did I miss Jess's hit? Did I.

[A]

Did we trade Tyler hero yet?

[B]

Did I miss that? Am I on time?

[C]

Did it happen?

[A]

Where did he come from? I thought he was gonna be yelling about Notre Dame earlier in the show. Where have you been?

[C]

I had a dance recital for my daughter, but I. I left early because.

[B]

I remembered Jess is on. I came in sad.

[A]

All right, you can talk to Jess in a little while. You have not missed Jess.

[B]

She will give me nothing, but it will be all right because I'm here.

[A]

Please, somebody send him out. Get back so I can get back to the awkwardness between Nick and Pablo. I mean, you were saying before Mike thundered in, you thought this was a bad use of 15 minutes of our time, of Nick's time. I won't lie. Like the beginning, I thought, oh, this is a fun little bit. Right? Then I looked up and it's 1047 and we're still doing this.

[B]

I mean.

[A]

All right, guys, let's move on. Let's talk about other things that have happened in sports. We've been doing it for months. Look, this is an interesting. The reason that I will get back to sports in a second. Nick's got plenty on that subject. The reason that I find it interesting, though, is because you've got Two of.

[F]

The best in the the Pirates and left handed pitcher Gregory Soto are in agreement on a one year 7.75 million dollar contract. Sources tell ESPN SOT had a 4.18 ERA and 70 appearances for the Orioles and the Mets last season.

[A]

You've got two of the best in the business and they do very different things. And I believe that Pablo's a little bit insulted that Nick doesn't totally. Doesn't totally love.

[F]

Does.

[D]

No, no, no. It's not about whether Nick loves it. It's not about whether Nick loves. It's whether Nick can do it if he really tried as hard as he possibly could.

[C]

And I, and this is where. And again, this is where we probably. Okay, I mean this is where we probably shouldn't go, but we're here, so I'll just land the plane. My argument would be this is mean. We don't know whether or not I can do what you do. I think we do know that you can't do what I do.

[D]

That's not an answer. That is exactly what Nick does.

[C]

I mean, sure it's. But it's.

[D]

I would say this, I would say in Nick's. Nick's report cards. Nick's report card. I will, I will. The crime of assigning myself Dan, and you know how painful this is for me to give myself a B plus in the sports hot take game.

[C]

They do do great inflation at the Ivy League schools, don't they? They really do.

[D]

I will, I will grant, I will grant that that is what my 13 years at ESPN has resulted in is a B plus, which is a horrifying concept to me.

[C]

Nick.

[D]

I. Nick can get an A and I, you know what I would say.

[C]

Nick is one of the best at.

[D]

Making it seem like things that are not facts are facts. It's really a skill. And it's happened so many times in.

[C]

This conversation with like the turn of phrase. The fact of the matter. No, no, no.

[D]

You said the fact that I could.

[C]

Do it and that's, that's just okay. If you would prefer on the pod or on re. Listens, just drop in opinion for where I say fact because you're right, I use the word liberally in conversation, not as if we were in court. And because I am not the style of investigative journalist you are. I have said that repeatedly and if you, you are 100% correct that when I say the fact that I could is being fast and loose with that specific word, the belief that I could is what it is.

[D]

But I think this is everything you've said there, which I totally understand. And you're nuancing in such a way that gives you the ability to have your cake and eat it too, which is fine. What I'm saying is that you keep on saying that you could do it.

[C]

Yeah, I don't, I don't.

[D]

I just think that's, I think that is factually incorrect based on the available evidence and I think that the idea of me answering the question with.

[C]

Now we're going to dive into it. What's the available evidence?

[D]

You've never reported a single thing in your life.

[C]

Okay, well first of all, again for Pablo Torre finds out it's. That's a little embarrassing.

[D]

So what's the thing you've reported if we're going to do the game, I.

[C]

Mean to report off.

[F]

Marlin's 2016 fourth round pick Sean Reynolds has signed with the Yokohama Bay Stars, per Sean Heyman.

[C]

Hold on. No, no, no. I'm gonna, I'm gonna actually answer this and then we can move on to more important things. Who is the only person in the country.

[D]

It was a little mean. It was a little, it was a little mean.

[C]

No, it wasn't mean. It was embarrassing because who's the only person in the country who when Adrian Peterson was about to skip on a no build grand jury for beating his kid, had the police report, his audio taped confession, every single piece of evidence and his reporting led to them impaneling a new grand jury and his season long suspension. The answer to that question is 28 year old as a side project radio host in Houston, Nick Wright. So the again is that the only reporting I've ever done? It actually might be. Was it a 10 out of 10 on impact exclusivity, accuracy? Yes, of course. So does that inform the fact that I think if I actually made it my vocation, I'd be good at it? Yes. But your, your argument that the lack of evidence is evidence is quite ridiculous. Your argument that anybody.

[D]

Not that exactly the argument it again.

[C]

If you ran back the tape my friend, it would be the argument that anything that anyone has not done is evidence they can't do it as opposed to void of knowledge on whether they could do it is just a logical fallacy. And so the point I'm making, if we're really diving into it, is I believe with a skosh of evidence that I could be a great investigative reporter. I am not interested in doing it. You seem to believe, not even knowing my own investigative reportage history, which is not that hard to know. It's one story and it was a big one.

[D]

Logically consistent, it's not that hard to know. It's also literally one thing that happened when I was 28, which I believe is like 13 years ago.

[A]

I'm gonna, I'm gonna stop you guys for just a second.

[F]

The Los Angeles Angels are acquiring infielder Vaughn Grisham in a trade with the Boston Red Sox, sources tell espn. Additionally, the Orioles match the Phillies offer to Kyle Schwarber. Reds were also at five years. So if the Cincinnati Reds out of hitter, it won't quite be at the level of Kyle Schwaber. But the Reds are not shopping in the bargain aisle just yet.

[A]

Dan I am going to do something that I try not to do around here just to include Nick in everything that's happening around here. Jeremy and the shipping container have a device they've been using to try and run me off of subject matter that I've been talking about for 10 minutes too long. The entire time you guys have been talking, I have been smiling at the genuine awkwardness of it. But also I've been getting running commentary in my ear from the shipping container and an exasperated Chris Cody who's wanted this to stop for 10 minutes. I trust the judgment of Pablo and Nick better than I trust that room's judgment. But but they've been sitting here.

[F]

Closer Kyle Finnegan and the Detroit Tigers are in agreement on a 2 year, 19 million dollar contract.

[A]

Commentary from the room so that Pablo and Nick can give get your assessment of this segment, which is good. I don't care what you the last.

[C]

10 minutes felt like at Radio Row when Gary Ve and Rob Riggle just.

[A]

Talked to each other.

[D]

Oh, I remember on our show talking.

[A]

Great interview from how many years ago because how good it was.

[C]

Oh, just enough guys.

[B]

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[A]

Don LeBatard.

[C]

Doesn't matter anywhere.

[D]

We could do it in Buffalo or Baltimore.

[A]

Eva, you say you could do it. Where?

[B]

Anywhere.

[C]

Oh, whoa.

[B]

Oh, that's crazy.

[A]

That's crazy.

[B]

That's crazy.

[A]

He could do it anyway.

[B]

That's crazy.

[A]

Murder.

[C]

Murder.

[B]

Tell him.

Stugach. I had no idea.

[F]

Mean.

[B]

Had that in his locker. That might be his death.

[F]

That's crazy.

[C]

I'm not kidding.

[B]

That's crazy.

[A]

Killer. It's two America's dead. You don't get it.

[C]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugach.

[A]

Let's move on to sports time. Thank God.

[E]

I think I'd rather hang with Nick.

[F]

Oh, yeah.

[D]

He seems like a great surprise.

[C]

I mean. Yeah.

[D]

How surprising.

[C]

That's just a Rorschach test for what you enjoy, of course, there.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I mean, Pablo's a great hang. There's groups. I'm a great hang for certain groups.

[A]

You're both great.

One of you better than the other. Neither better than the other. Get the still images, please, of Nick earlier this week giving the people what they want, which is his national and international tears. Were you brought in on a gurney? What happened?

[C]

I was brought in on a gurney, and I pulled out a Newport 100 and tried to smoke it. And Wilds correctly said on the air, I think that's been frowned upon on television for 50 years.

[D]

And so this is the man you bring into my studio. Yeah.

[C]

That's uncalled for, guys.

[D]

That. This is the journalistic objectivity you bring into my studio.

[C]

No journalistic objectivity. Just entertaining on tv. And so the. The. Yeah, I mean, that's.

[F]

That's.

[C]

That's where I said the chiefs have done me a favor. Because if the audience, you know, the. As the last 20 minutes might be evidence of, I can be a little pompous and grading. I know it'll shock People. So seeing me beaten down, seeing me beaten down like that and defeated, I think humanizes me in a way the audience appreciates. So that's another favor that my hometown team did for me.

[D]

But I see.

[A]

But you're hurting. You're.

Rarely this attached to a take.

[C]

I'm hurting and in every way possible. And it has been so financially devastating that I. My wife was in Miami this weekend for Art Basel. My daughter had a sleepover, dropped her off at her friend's house around 1. So Saturday I'm like, that's the good stuff right there. 12 hours I drove to Philly and then tried to crowdsource via Twitter, a high stakes card game to try to come back up and. But all the high stakes players in Philly are down in the Bahamas for the big tournaments. So I just sat in a kind of depressing medium stakes game for 12 hours, made some money, and drove back home that night.

[A]

You've done this a couple of times, though. I don't believe that whatever the financial costs of this were hurt you as much as the emotion of it hurts to be this invested in a team, this invested in being right and having, you know, Patrick Mahomes fail you with the worst performance we've ever seen from him.

[C]

Sounds like a man that hasn't lost consecutive weeks of $20,000. Moneyline bets Dan.

[A]

So I have it wrong. It's. It's, it's money.

[C]

And not all of the above. I don't know how to unwrap, untie it. Like, I don't. Every time the Chiefs win, I feel great and I win money. And every time they lose, I feel awful and I lose money. So those two emotions are so wrapped in themselves that I don't know what one would feel like without the other. So it's just a whole. A whole collection of suck. And then I find myself in this perverse place where a team whose fans have, in person for six months, heckled me at restaurants. And when I'm out, when I'm with my family, Eagles fans, I have to root for them on Monday night to beat the Chargers for the Chiefs playoff path. And then the quarterback who I, despite him beating Mahomes in the Super Bowl, I'm like, I don't really believe in Jalen hurts. I watch him prove me right in a way that damages my team. It's been awful. It's been truly awful. Which is maybe why I'm lashing out.

[A]

It just seems to me, though, like you've had a three year run at a craps table and are now complaining that you're finally seven out like you've been.

[C]

I'm not complaining. I'm just saying you asked me and it's painful.

[A]

I just can't imagine how much money you've won over the last three years that has made you this emotionally invested in everything that's happened. Because you continue to be right about this team. Except for one or two bets over the last three.

[C]

No, no, no. That part, that part is true. But like any of those great runs at the craps table, they usually press their bet the more they're winning, which is why it's hard to walk away a huge winner. Because even if you win 80% of your bets, the bets you lose at the end usually cut into a lot of that. But again, I, I, I'm fine financially. I, I, the, my, my money management plan has always been the same. I'll just make more money next year and it'll be fine. The, the, the, it is a lot of. Just the pain of them being the team I love, plus the shame of the certainty that I had that this team was great as of five weeks ago. And the money, all of it sucks. Sucks.

[A]

So Mike Ryan has rushed into the studio.

[F]

Miami Marlins progressing in their efforts to trade right hander Cabrera are talking with the Baltimore Orioles, among other clubs, according to Ken Rosenthal. And I happen to know that that's true.

[C]

Oh my God, he knows. He happens to know. Come, everyone, come and listen. He happens to know.

Well informed.

[F]

I happen to know that the Marlins are trying to trade Edward Cabrera over Sandy. All contra. Zaz. You don't know anything about happening to know about that. You don't know about the Marlins. You're not a reporter.

[C]

Okay, well, first of all, to come out and no, this guy's not a journalist.

[F]

It's ridiculous.

[C]

Okay? It's really difficult to argue with someone.

[A]

Who talks like that.

[F]

Oh, you think it's gonna take sounding like that?

[B]

I can beat you with this voice too.

[C]

I can beat you in any argument. Okay, now you're definitely. Now you're screwed. Now you got a big problem because no one can understand what you're saying. And if no one can understand what you're saying, you don't have a chance to, to win an argument with anyone. No one takes you seriously anyway. And now you sound like Minnie Mouse. No one wants that guy over there.

[E]

Wow.

[D]

Big ahead.

[B]

It's big. All head.

[A]

Zaz, Nick Wright texted me that you're an all time dope the other day. Based on.

He Said it was on the record because.

[C]

I mean, because I don't have to explain when I'm on the record, everything.

[B]

That comes out of this mouth's on the record or.

[C]

I don't play any games here.

Your take was just.

[E]

I don't.

[C]

I can't understand. Can we go back to the other voice? I can't understand that one.

Your take was that Braun hoped the shot missed, which under certain contexts would make sense, but of course makes no sense under the exact context that that play happened, which was. He has eight points, it's a tie game. There's four seconds left, and he has the ball. So if he wanted to keep the streak alive, all he had to do was shoot the ball. Because if he makes it, the streak stays alive, and if he misses it, they go to overtime, and the streak will stay alive.

[D]

The. The.

[C]

The mere fact. I hope I use that correctly, Pablo, that he passed means that he was putting winning ahead of the streak by definition. And you're a real dope if you can't just follow the natural linear progression of time to understand that. Nick, he was 4 for 17 in the game. Yeah, you act like he was out there. He was three for five, and he decided the end of the game to pass. He was 4 for 17. Like he wasn't trying to get double figures.

[A]

He was 4 for 17.

[F]

What the hell's going on?

[C]

That's unfair. Oh, you know what you should pull instead of. To defend the meme there.

[E]

Mad Dog.

[C]

You guys can probably pull it. Mad Dog, My guy. But I mean, that is my guy. But Mad Dog should not have allowed that to be filmed.

[A]

Would have been a nice setup for them.

[C]

I mean, this Mad Dog's an all timer, but how do you let this get filled?

Dog's on the IR now.

[F]

Come on.

[C]

It looks fine up until the aftermath.

[D]

Oh, God. Best part is that he charged up for it.

[A]

He injured himself on that?

[C]

No. Is that his version of a crow hop?

It's interesting that he crossed over. You don't usually see a crossover before. After a shot.

[A]

Wait a minute.

[B]

He did.

[A]

He did injure himself and then hobbled off. Wait, let me saw. Let me watch that whole thing again. Because the dribbling was terrible, and then it got worse. How does it get worse after the dribbling? The dribbling was terrible.

[C]

The dribbling might have been the worst part, bro.

[A]

Oh, no.

[C]

Oh, oh, oh.

[A]

Double dribble.

[E]

Clear.

[F]

Double.

[A]

Hold on, hold on. He staggers off.

[C]

Terrible camera work.

[A]

I started my law practice specifically for instances like this. This is viral decontextualization, folks. This guy has one bad moment on camera, all of a sudden, we're going to just paint his entire athletic experience with just that one moment. Mad Dog, you don't have to fall.

[C]

For it to a means wrist. Why does that go that way?

[A]

We don't need to rel.

I did a whole video on West 4th street about this. We're gonna throw it back to Miami here in a second. Our thanks to Nick Wright for stopping by. We will continue this awkwardness with. With Pablo at a later date. But Jessica. Mike, you got something for Jessica? You got something for Jessica?

[B]

She's got nothing for me. We all know what this is gonna be like. Like trying to draw blood from a stone. But I am thrilled to be here.