Local Hour: Eminent Domain is a Son of a Gun

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz Episode: Local Hour: Eminent Domain is a Son of a Gun
Release Date: July 30, 2025

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I. Miami Pro League and Michael Beasley

The episode kicks off with Stugotz sharing his recent experience attending a Miami Pro League game. He praises Michael Beasley's performance, describing him as "the goat" (01:35). The hosts discuss Beasley's talent juxtaposed with his team's disappointing loss by 20 points, highlighting the disconnect between individual brilliance and team performance.

Notable Quote:
Stugotz (01:35): “I saw Michael Beasley play and it's like real.”

II. Players the Hosts Were Wrong About

A. Michael Beasley and NBA Potential

Dan LeBatard admits he was highly optimistic about Michael Beasley's NBA career, stating, “Michael Beasley is the most wrong I’ve ever been about anything in sports” (03:45). The discussion delves into how expectations were misaligned with Beasley's actual performance in the league.

Notable Quote:
Dan LeBatard (03:45): “He was so good in school. It’s the most wrong I have ever been about anything in sports.”

B. Greg Cote on High School Mixtapes

Greg Cote reminisces about the era of high school mixtapes on YouTube, recalling his admiration for John Wall, who he believed was "incredible" (05:04). This nostalgia underscores the uncertainty and unpredictability in projecting young athletes' futures.

Notable Quote:
Greg Cote (05:04): “This guy is great.”

C. Chris Cote on Brady Quinn

Chris Cote reflects on his incorrect prediction regarding Brady Quinn's draft prospects for the Dolphins, expressing frustration when Ted Ginn was selected instead (21:55). This segment highlights the challenges in forecasting NFL success.

Notable Quote:
Chris Cote (21:55): “I was told it’s not the manliest of cuts. It’s not the manliest.”

D. Stugotz on Tyreek Evans

Stugotz discusses his misjudgment of Tyreek Evans' potential, noting that despite Evans' athletic prowess and fitting Memphis' marketing needs, his NBA career did not pan out as expected (05:18). This conversation emphasizes the volatility of draft predictions.

Notable Quote:
Stugotz (05:24): “He’s six six and he’s a point guard.”

III. Draft Picks and NBA Expectations

A. Justice Winslow's Draft

The hosts discuss Justice Winslow’s draft selection, with Stugotz expressing initial optimism that he would be a valuable NBA player. However, Winslow did not meet these expectations, leading to disappointment among the hosts.

Notable Quote:
Dan LeBatard (07:03): “No, Justice was not served. You are not good.”

B. Tyreek Evans' Unexpected NHL Career

Stugotz shares an anecdote about anticipating Tyreek Evans' NBA success, only to see him not make a significant impact, reinforcing the unpredictability of athlete development.

Notable Quote:
Stugotz (12:08): “It was literally to the point where it's like. I mean, I guess at that point you just take him. Just to take a flyer on him.”

C. Other Draft Picks: Ryan Leaf and Jadavian Clowney

The conversation shifts to other athletes like Ryan Leaf and Jadavian Clowney, who were also high on expectations but did not achieve the projected success. The hosts reflect on the common theme of overhyped prospects failing to deliver in their professional careers.

Notable Quote:
Stugotz (20:35): “Look at Izzy Devault’s sources immediately.”

IV. Baseball: Stephen Strasburg and Jeremy Hermita

The hosts transition to baseball, discussing Stephen Strasburg's performance during the Nationals' World Series win (09:26). They also critique the Marlins' handling of Jeremy Hermita's contract, considering it detrimental to the franchise's future.

Notable Quote:
Amin Elhassan (09:34): “They also like crippled the franchise with his contract.”

V. Comedy Interlude: "The Naked Gun"

Amin Elhassan introduces the upcoming comedic film "The Naked Gun," praising its ensemble cast and directing team (13:04). The hosts express excitement about Liam Neeson's unexpected foray into comedy, drawing parallels to Leslie Nielsen’s role in the original "Naked Gun" series.

Notable Quote:
Amin Elhassan (13:04): “It's glorious. They've got Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser, CCH Pounder, shout out to the Shield, Liza Koshy, and even Cody Rhodes.”

VI. Eminent Domain and Miami Live

The core discussion centers around the concept of eminent domain, particularly its impact on Black communities, referencing the Barclays Center as an example (43:15). Stugotz emphasizes the negative consequences of eminent domain, describing it as “a real son of a gun” (43:15).

Notable Quote:
Stugotz (43:15): “And especially if you're black, eminent domain is like. It’s a real son of a gun.”

The conversation extends to the development of Miami Live outside Loan Depot Park, with the hosts debating the effectiveness and inclusivity of such projects. They compare it to similar venues like Vivo outside Dolphin Mall, underscoring the need for these spaces to become true destinations rather than just extensions of stadium experiences.

Notable Quote:
Amin Elhassan (37:52): “It's a bunch of restaurants and like a PBR and live music and stuff like that. I think that's the general idea for Miami Live.”

VII. Steak Dinner Discussions: Masculine vs. Feminine

In a lighter segment, the hosts engage in a humorous debate about steak preferences and the notion of "feminine" steaks. Stugotz recounts being shamed for preferring filet mignon, sparking a playful dialogue on what constitutes a "masculine" or "feminine" cut of meat.

Notable Quote:
Dan LeBatard (28:53): “I was shamed that filet is a feminine steak, not a feminist. I never heard that.”

The discussion evolves into personal preferences for various steaks and cocktails, with Tony Kornheiser advocating for the filet’s flavor and others expressing their tastes for ribeye and New York strips.

Notable Quote:
Tony Kornheiser (30:12): “I’m saying the filet is the best freaking part of the cow. I don’t like the kill in the first place. It melts in your mouth.”

VIII. Closing Remarks

The episode wraps up with the hosts sharing their dinner experiences, discussing favorite TV shows like "Boardwalk Empire," and briefly touching on upcoming sports events. The segment maintains its conversational and humorous tone until the end.

Notable Quote:
Dan LeBatard (35:01): “I ordered … chicken fried rice. Excuse me, chicken fried rice.”

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Conclusion

This episode of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz offers a blend of sports analysis, personal anecdotes about misjudged athlete potentials, humor regarding everyday topics like steak preferences, and a critical look at urban development issues like eminent domain. The hosts' chemistry and candid discussions provide engaging content for listeners interested in South Florida’s sports scene and beyond.

Note: Advertisements, non-content segments, and repetitive ad reads were excluded from this summary to maintain focus on the core discussions.

Transcript

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[Amin Elhassan]

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[Stugotz]

Wow, guys, I did a very Miami thing yesterday. I went to the Miami pro league. Yeah.

[Greg Cote]

How was that?

[Stugotz]

It was good. Michael Beasley played the goat. Yep. Josh Minot from the Timberwolves was there. My man. What's Book Night from Formerly the Charlotte Hornets and UConn.

[Tony Kornheiser]

UConn.

[Stugotz]

Yeah. James Book Night.

[Tony Kornheiser]

It's a very difficult name to figure out how to pronounce because it's B O u G, B O U K. Yeah.

[Stugotz]

And you're like, is it Boonight? Yeah. Is it Boo Knight? Is it. Is the K silent?

[Tony Kornheiser]

Boo Knight would be great.

[Stugotz]

Boonight. Man, his career would have been better if his name was Boone. But I saw Michael Beasley play and it's like real.

[Greg Cote]

Hooper's always new, right?

[Stugotz]

But it's the entire Michael Beasley experience. It's like part of it is like, geez, this guy's so talented. And also, how did your team lose by 20?

[Mike Ryan]

It's like the.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Does it happen in that league too?

[Mike Ryan]

Draisaitl and McDavid played in a beer league and lost like 6, 1.

[Stugotz]

Oh man. Oh yeah.

[Tony Kornheiser]

But he probably had a bunch of nice moves.

[Stugotz]

I don't know what the. I still don't like. I think playing in a pro am inherently like an open Pro Am. There's no benefit to being an NBA player doing that.

[Tony Kornheiser]

What about former NBA players? Cuz Michael Beasley, I mean this sort of stretch he's going through, he is more popular now amongst the kids than he's ever been in his life. Like I have a 17 year old nephew that talks to me about Michael Beasley all the time. I was like Miami Heat fans didn't talk about Michael Beasley this much when he was the number two pick.

[Stugotz]

It's funny because I think the current generation, the current atmosphere is most not only forgiving and accepting, but enthusiastic about these kind of renegade outlaws that operate outside the mainstream systems. Like you watch the NBA. I watch these guys play one on one on, on Twitter, on you know, Instagram, that's.

[Tony Kornheiser]

And what cracks me up is like Beasley, all these guys, Beasley mostly making all these moves, hitting crazy like fade away mid range shots that only like 1% of NBA players are allowed to take. So like the rest of the NBA not doing this. Michael Beasley out here doing this and in his bag and everybody's like this is amazing. I love this basketball. Bring that back to the NBA.

[Dan LeBatard]

Michael Beasley is the most wrong I've ever been about anything in sports.

[Stugotz]

You thought he was a sure thing.

[Tony Kornheiser]

You and I had a conflict.

[Dan LeBatard]

I thought he was like, I thought the Miami Heat were going to be his team. And, and this is.

[Stugotz]

You thought Dwyane Wade would have to bend.

[Dan LeBatard]

Already had Dwyane Wade on it. I thought it was going to be his team I was all in on. Like I said watch him in college. And the Heat, they had the worst record that year. But the Heat did not win the lottery. So he dropped to number two. And I was like, good, now they're going to get Michael Beasley because the Bulls here to take this Derrick Rose who got hot in the tournament, you know, good. I'm glad we have the number two.

[Stugotz]

Pick that Derrick Rose got hot in the.

[Tony Kornheiser]

I remember watching before I ever saw him play in college. I watch same nephew by the way, I'm about to mention I watched Derrick Rose high school footage footage and I said, yo, this guy's going to be the number one pick in the draft. And then every time I watched a Michael Beasley game I got super unlucky because that dude was in foul trouble in two minutes. And I was like, well, not going to see Michael Beasley.

[Dan LeBatard]

He was so good in school. He was so I. It's the most wrong I have ever been about anything in sports.

[Greg Cote]

High school mixtape, Era of YouTube was such a beautiful time. And my like sophomore, junior, senior year. So like 080910 where we were watching John Wal and his high school mixtape and I was like, this guy is incredible. And then he would hit the doggie after and I was like, yeah, dude, this is it.

[Stugotz]

Who were you?

[Greg Cote]

This guy is great.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Who are you most wrong on your favorite team?

[Chris Cote]

So many people I've been wrong about. Chad Henney though comes to mind. I thought he was going to be like the same Dolphins.

[Stugotz]

Michigan.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah.

[Chris Cote]

He just had that big arm, man. He's stiff.

[Stugotz]

I would say for me it would probably be Tyreek Evans.

[Dan LeBatard]

I. I like Rookie of the year.

[Mike Ryan]

Can you be wrong if they won a Roy?

[Stugotz]

Yes. Because like that was the maximum weak Michael Carter Williams. Williams is another one, by the way. I like Michael Carter Williams, man. I was everything. He's all like, it doesn't matter.

[Greg Cote]

He's six six.

[Stugotz]

He's six six and he's a point guard.

[Dan LeBatard]

And it just triple double against the Heat opening night.

[Tony Kornheiser]

I've. I've like had these judgments on a million players for other people's teams because I've been on TV this whole time. So what was the Josh Rosen as a quarterback, I thought very much like ucla. Dan Marino for the Miami Heat. I don't know if I thought he'd be great, but I thought Justice Winslow would be something.

[Stugotz]

I.

[Dan LeBatard]

We were all super excited when he dropped the 10.

[Stugotz]

Amen.

[Dan LeBatard]

Cuz Danny A wanted to trade every pick for to move up for Justice Winslow.

[Mike Ryan]

You know, let's drop to number 10, Devin Booker.

[Tony Kornheiser]

I thought you going to say Karam.

[Stugotz]

Butler was Devin Booker that same draft.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, yeah.

[Stugotz]

They.

[Dan LeBatard]

Well, he ended up going after 10 though.

[Chris Cote]

You about to take 10 a victory lap there on Justice. I feel like you were about to be like, I kind.

[Stugotz]

I kind of like. I was like, he's all right. And I remember there was a Dwayne Wade comparisons. I'm like, he's not Dwyane Wade. There was in college. Oh at Duke I was like this guy, I said he'll be a decent NBA role player.

[Tony Kornheiser]

You know the main drawback with him or the main like physical trait that.

[Dan LeBatard]

Didn'T work out that he wasn't good.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Little hands, not big hands. Couldn't really.

[Stugotz]

I'm With Zaz. I think it's because he was a big drawback.

[Dan LeBatard]

When you're not good, if you're trying.

[Stugotz]

To put together a great NBA career. Prereq. Can we call it a prereq? You. You got it. Can't be not good, right?

[Greg Cote]

You gotta be good.

[Stugotz]

You gotta be good.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's the starting point. Is he good? Okay. Moving forward.

[Greg Cote]

So justice was not good.

[Dan LeBatard]

No, justice was not served. You are not good.

[Mike Ryan]

Nice.

[Stugotz]

So wait, I'm not. I want to think about football players because I think this happens a lot in football.

[Dan LeBatard]

Oh, yeah.

[Stugotz]

I thought, I thought Ron Dane was gonna be just like a monster.

[Chris Cote]

I have a memory of Dan thinking Mike Glennon was going to be really.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Good with that neck.

[Stugotz]

Almost career, very good athlete. Oh, oh, I, I got it. I, I know mine. Football of all time. You could not tell me when I was in college that Peter Work was not going to be the next Jerry Rice.

[Greg Cote]

It was him.

[Stugotz]

I, I, I seen it with my own eyes, man. That dude.

[Dan LeBatard]

A decent career.

[Stugotz]

That dude was Jesus.

[Dan LeBatard]

No, he had decent career.

[Mike Ryan]

He didn't have a decent career, but he was in college as well. Players we've ever seen?

[Dan LeBatard]

No, no. Comparative, of course, but he had a decent career. Well, I think he was a bust.

[Stugotz]

What was it? The wide out from Ohio State. That was Teddy Ted Ginn Jr. That was another one.

[Greg Cote]

And his family.

[Mike Ryan]

There's one brewing right now.

[Stugotz]

There's another Gin.

[Mike Ryan]

No, no. There's another Ohio State Buckeye wide receiver that I thought was going to be incredible. And he looks like he's headed to bustle.

[Stugotz]

What's his name?

[Mike Ryan]

Maserati Marv.

[Stugotz]

Yeah. What's his full name? I don't, I'm not familiar.

[Mike Ryan]

No, you don't. Maserati Marv. He may be Mazda Marv. When it's all said and done.

[Stugotz]

What's it say on the back of his jersey?

[Dan LeBatard]

You think he's gonna be a junior?

[Mike Ryan]

Disappointing for a season. He's put on a lot of weight. He's put on a lot of muscle. There's videos of him getting absolutely clamped by a seventh rounder right now. Wow. The guy's nickname is Maserati Marv and he's slow. How did, how did that happen?

[Greg Cote]

I think there's an issue, though, Mike. He wears all black cleats. Makes him look a little slower with the highlighter cleats.

[Mike Ryan]

You know what makes him look a little faster?

[Tony Kornheiser]

I think that the cornerback sticking on his back makes him look slow, probably.

[Mike Ryan]

No, no. What makes him look slow? Is that he's slow.

[Stugotz]

Yeah.

[Chris Cote]

Common theme here.

[Mike Ryan]

I don't understand how he was nicknamed Maserati Marvin.

[Tony Kornheiser]

It's a terrible nickname, by the way.

[Mike Ryan]

No, it was a great nickname. Especially when it's said by Gus Johnson and exciting voices.

[Dan LeBatard]

Peter Warrick never had a thousand yard season. So I think I gotta probably pull back on the editing career.

[Mike Ryan]

He wasn't.

[Stugotz]

I think he had an injury in my defense, like he had an early injury and it was like misdiagnosed.

[Dan LeBatard]

I mean his first four years in the league, he only missed two games.

[Stugotz]

Also, he played for the Bengals. That's not his fault.

[Mike Ryan]

I mean, you can have a solid career as a pro. Like Reggie Bush ended up having a solid career. Had a good start. Absolutely weird middle, cool end, but still disappointing.

[Stugotz]

Let's do baseball now. Baseball guys. What was the guy from. From the Nationals? Stephen Strasberg.

[Dan LeBatard]

Strasbourg in a World Series. He was. And he's really good. When they won a World Series.

[Chris Cote]

Good when healthy.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's not a possibility.

[Amin Elhassan]

He was very hyped though.

[Stugotz]

They made like.

[Amin Elhassan]

They made it seem like he was a first ballot hall of Fame.

[Dan LeBatard]

Won a World Series. Yeah.

[Amin Elhassan]

No, he did win a World Series.

[Stugotz]

Congratulations.

[Amin Elhassan]

He also like crippled the franchise with his contract.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

For the Marlins. Billy.

[Amin Elhassan]

Jeremy Hermita.

[Mike Ryan]

There it is.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's the one answer. It's the only acceptable answer for the Marlins. Remember, they wouldn't trade Jeremy Hermita for Manny Ramirez.

[Tony Kornheiser]

That's when I realized, and this is no offense to this guy because I didn't read him that much, but Keith Law.

[Stugotz]

Oh, shout out to Keith.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Jeremy Hermita.

[Mike Ryan]

I was like, was it Hermita or Stanton? I believe it was Stanton that was bandied about.

[Chris Cote]

Hermita was a big prospect, but not.

[Dan LeBatard]

As big as maybe. I'm thinking of a different trade. You might be right that the Marlins did not want to include Stanton in the Ramirez trade, which obviously was the right move. But there was a year with Hermita too where they were unwilling.

[Mike Ryan]

No, no, no doubt there were.

[Dan LeBatard]

I think you're right.

[Mike Ryan]

Several offers on the table for her. But I think Stanton was one of the sticking points. But I think we asked Sampson. We'll ask him later. Yesterday there was a moment. There was a moment where Sampson kind of refuted like that. They could still have done the deal without Stanton. I think what.

[Greg Cote]

There was one where I knew the guy was going to be not good.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, I was going to play the opposite.

[Greg Cote]

The opposite game.

[Stugotz]

The opposite game.

[Greg Cote]

I knew Hashim the beat was going to be gouged.

[Dan LeBatard]

Really.

[Tony Kornheiser]

The Worst pick.

[Dan LeBatard]

I thought he was good.

[Stugotz]

I've never told you the story. Okay, so the 2009 draft.

[Dan LeBatard]

I loved him as a pro.

[Stugotz]

The story of Steph Curry without the 2009 draft. Right. There's. I'm working for Phoenix. We have a deal in principle with the Golden State warriors to have their pick, which is seven. Steph Curry is a guy that we have on our board that's like number one on our board. And every permutation we do is like, there's no way he falls to seven. There's no way he falls to. Minnesota has two picks. They need a point guard. There's no way he falls to seven.

[Dan LeBatard]

Even, you know, even Minnesota were five, six, I think, right?

[Stugotz]

Yeah, five, six, even. Like, there's no way he falls to seven unless something crazy happens and Blake Griffin goes one. And everyone thought that was going to happen. And then number two was Memphis. And we thought Tyreek Evans, who played in that building as a collegiate player, who's. That was when the Grizzlies couldn't sell a ticket. But then the Memphis Tigers were. Were sold out every night. And, like, this guy fits the way they, you know, everything they want, marketing wise. And he's good, and he's good, and. And like, it's what they need basketball wise. Clearly, Evans is going to. And. And then simultaneously, we having a conversation. We. Our pick was like, in the. In the second round, I think was in the mid or late 40s. And we're like, if the beat falls to us, do you take them meaning really? Second round? That's how, like, we knew this guy's not an NBA player. That's crazy.

[Dan LeBatard]

It was.

[Stugotz]

It was literally to the point where it's like. I mean, I guess at that point you just take him. Just to take a flyer on him.

[Dan LeBatard]

So you think Memphis was the only team that had, like, a first round grade on him?

[Stugotz]

Yes, or a lottery grade, for sure. Wow. Lottery. Nobody else.

[Dan LeBatard]

But I don't remember it being a shock when they took him.

[Stugotz]

It was a massive shock. Tyreek Evans sold out every night in their building.

[Dan LeBatard]

Oh, okay. No, you're saying it's a shock that that team took him at 2? Yeah, but like, I'm. I'm saying that if they didn't take him at two, wouldn't he have still went, like, top five?

[Stugotz]

No, no, no. The other guys were James Harden and Ricky Ruby.

[Dan LeBatard]

Ricky.

[Greg Cote]

Ruby Flynn.

[Stugotz]

Well, Johnny Flynn.

[Dan LeBatard]

Well, Romeo and Flynn were 5, 6.

[Stugotz]

Johnny Flynn was a name. Like, the thing about Johnny Flynn. This is the. The revisionist history I got to correct. If they had taken Johnny Flynn and someone else good, I don't think anyone would have batted or not. It was that they took Flynn and Rubio.

[Dan LeBatard]

Wasn't that when they had, like, the former sportswriter was running their team?

[Stugotz]

Yeah. David Khan, Wrath of Khan.

[Amin Elhassan]

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[Stugotz]

They call him Puka.

[Amin Elhassan]

His quarterback is not named Tua. Yeah, he is Puka.

[Dan LeBatard]

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[Tony Kornheiser]

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[Stugotz]

His first coach and they were the.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Grind Grizzlies with Steph Curry wasting away.

[Dan LeBatard]

Hashim Thabit, people, do you want to guess? Okay, so he went number two overall. You want to guess how many games in his career he was a starter.

[Stugotz]

Start less than 100.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Less than 20.

[Dan LeBatard]

20.

[Stugotz]

Oh, there it is.

[Greg Cote]

Attaboy.

[Stugotz]

Good job.

[Dan LeBatard]

Went number two overall pick. 20 starts in his statue.

[Stugotz]

But we knew it like in the moment. Like it was. This wasn't like, wow, who could have thought? Like, but. But Tony, the game I want to play isn't that it was like I knew he was going to be bad. He turned out to be bad. I knew he's going to be bad. And then he turned out to be really good because I have a lot of those. I got a lot of Michael Redd.

[Greg Cote]

I was like, love Michael Redd.

[Stugotz]

I was like, this dude, he's not going to be an NBA player.

[Greg Cote]

What a lefty shot.

[Stugotz]

Killed it.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Speaking of lefties, I did not think James Harden would be very good. I saw him twice in person at Arizona State, and I was like, what.

[Dan LeBatard]

Is this guy's game?

[Tony Kornheiser]

I don't understand it.

[Stugotz]

I saw him a lot at Arizona State. I was there all the time, and I was. I was the most down in the office.

[Tony Kornheiser]

He played here at the AAA back when it was the triple. Yeah. I watched him win a game and I was like, I don't. I don't know if he was the.

[Mike Ryan]

Third I saw him. Cleveland State.

[Stugotz]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, here's the crazy.

[Mike Ryan]

I saw a guy died in front of me when I saw him lose.

[Stugotz]

Oh, that was that game.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah. They were doing CPR and, like, his. His left shoe flew off. He died.

[Dan LeBatard]

Norris Coles, Cleveland State.

[Stugotz]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

And they had a power forward that I think tried his hand at the NFL.

[Stugotz]

Yes. He was like. He played tight end or whatever. Yeah.

[Chris Cote]

I thought shoes just fly off, like in car accs. Like when you get hit by a.

[Stugotz]

Car, sometimes you have a heart attack, man.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Really?

[Stugotz]

You know, a lot of times.

[Chris Cote]

I'm not joking about that. I didn't know that that's a thing.

[Dan LeBatard]

No.

[Tony Kornheiser]

When you're in public spaces like that and they are doing compressions, a lot of time they're just doing it for show. So people think the person's still alive a lot of times.

[Stugotz]

Really?

[Mike Ryan]

Really.

[Tony Kornheiser]

People out.

[Stugotz]

No way.

[Tony Kornheiser]

They just carry out a dead body.

[Mike Ryan]

Really?

[Chris Cote]

The compressions are out. I'm not. Not freaked out watching chest do this.

[Amin Elhassan]

So paramedics go to acting school.

[Tony Kornheiser]

They. They. If you've got somebody dead, there's a bunch of people around you. You don't want people thinking, oh, my. That person's already dead. You want to keep the compression.

[Chris Cote]

Nothing calms me like chest compression.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Nothing calms you like the idea, oh, this person's still got a chance that he just walked by.

[Chris Cote]

I see chest compressions, I'm like.

[Stugotz]

So when they. When they put, like, a oxygen mask and put them on the part.

[Tony Kornheiser]

I don't know all that. I'm just saying the part with the chest compressions, you want to make it look like there's at least some chance that this person's still alive.

[Amin Elhassan]

Not tapping, like, until everybody leaves, instead.

[Dan LeBatard]

Of 40 minutes like that. We got to keep doing chess.

[Stugotz]

All right, guys, go ahead now. He's fine. I promise.

[Chris Cote]

Imagine catching a guy. It's like he's clearly faking.

[Mike Ryan]

He's not.

[Tony Kornheiser]

It happened to Me, I was at. I was at a parade in Chicago, a pride parade, several years ago. And there was a gentleman behind us, this big crowd. Heat stroke and, like, older age, whatever. And they were giving him compressions. And AJ Looked back, and he studied the guy for a bit, and, like, they stopped for a second, and then they kept going. And he's like, oh, that guy's dead. They're just doing that so people don't freak out.

[Greg Cote]

That's kind of like an American gangster. Remember, he gets trapped up in the trap and he shoots the guy.

[Stugotz]

Yep.

[Greg Cote]

And they have to prop him up and then put the thing on him. He's like, no, he's good.

[Stugotz]

He's alive because he dead. Because if everyone outside know this guy.

[Mike Ryan]

Over.

[Stugotz]

It's over.

[Dan LeBatard]

Now.

[Tony Kornheiser]

It might not be just for the people around. It might be just a, hey, we have to potentially do everything possible because we never know what could happen. But from what I was told, a lot of it is for the crowd.

[Stugotz]

Billy, you don't seem to be sold.

[Amin Elhassan]

It just seems like this information in this nugget is based on. AJ Thinks this happened once. So this happened.

[Tony Kornheiser]

He was a medic.

[Dan LeBatard]

He did it.

[Tony Kornheiser]

He trained. He was told that that was the case.

[Stugotz]

Look at Izzy Devault's sources immediately. It started with, well, I know people were professionals. AJ It's AJ it's the person I'm with. So who else. Who else did you guys think was going to be that guy? Ryan Leaf. We have any Ryan Leaf takers here? No. T. Martin. Anyone had T. Martin on the board? No. I hope for T. Martin you did. I had hope.

[Mike Ryan]

I mean, maybe he just entered the league in the wrong era.

[Stugotz]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

I mean, I would say most recently, if we're talking with the NFL, wouldn't you have thought any. Still free agent right now, I believe. Wouldn't you have thought Jadavian Clowney was gonna be, like, the best defensive end ever? Okay. Definitely had the highlights for it.

[Mike Ryan]

Had a nice career, though. He's like, in the Reggie Bush class of. Didn't quite match the hype, but had a really nice career.

[Stugotz]

There are a lot of those guys.

[Dan LeBatard]

If we want to do locally, too, you know, for Dolphins, I mean, I almost gave up my Dolphin fandom when they passed on Brady Quinn.

[Mike Ryan]

I was way wrong on Brady Quinn.

[Stugotz]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

Way wrong.

[Stugotz]

Golden boy.

[Mike Ryan]

Man, I was so pissed when the Browns initially pass on him and took Joe Thomas. And then I had to run to Miami Dade College to graduate. And I wouldn't have gone normally, but George W. Bush was the active president at the time, and he was speaking at my graduation at Miami Dade College.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, he did President.

[Stugotz]

How the hell did they land that one?

[Mike Ryan]

So I didn't. I couldn't bring my cell phone, so I wasn't able to follow the draft. And I just figured, the Dolphins are going to get Brady Quinn. The Browns miss out on it. And then to my surprise, when I turned on my phone, I thought we were definitely going to make a Super bowl because we got Brady Quinn.

[Dan LeBatard]

I literally shouted at my television when the Dolphins drafted Ted Gimbs. We're all counting down the picks. Oh, my God. Brady Quinn is dropping. Brady Quinn is dropping. And when they drafted Ted Ginn, I literally shout out, I'm done with this team.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Got to put those thumbs this way. I don't know if I'm just doing this with Duke, guys, but there was a guy I watched play in person at Cameron, and he had one dunk where I swear the entire ball was over the box, over the square in the backboard. Corey McGetty.

[Dan LeBatard]

Oh, he had a good career.

[Stugotz]

Corey. Corey had a good career, man. Right.

[Tony Kornheiser]

But I thought he might have been one of the greatest to ever do it just based on one game. That's how crazy athletic.

[Stugotz]

Gerald Henderson Jr. That's who I thought you were. That's a crazy athletic. Thought he was gonna be what he was. Yeah. You know what's funny? He and Kobe Bryant had the same thing, which is because their head is sloped backward. The hairline, like you can get away with hairline.

[Tony Kornheiser]

You don't notice how big the forehead is. Yeah.

[Stugotz]

Same thing with Steven A. Stephen A's hairline with him. You notice, I mean, just the shape of his head, though. It kind of disguises it more than what it would look like for a.

[Greg Cote]

Regular person, you know, playing the opposite game of the opposite game that we were playing. The guy who I thought was going to be great, Xavier Henry from Kansas, ended up not being that guy.

[Amin Elhassan]

He was playing the opposite game of the opposite game. You're playing the same game.

[Greg Cote]

The opposite of the game that we were playing.

[Mike Ryan]

Double negative.

[Stugotz]

The opposite of the game we're playing now is I thought he was going to be trash. He turned out to be really good. Yeah.

[Greg Cote]

The opposite of that. I thought he was going to be good. He ended up being trash.

[Mike Ryan]

Josh Allen, the best example of it. Oh, everyone shouted out, nina's really smart at football. Everybody thought that Josh Allen was going to be overhyped. How much of that was part of my take. He looks good in shorts.

[Stugotz]

How much of that was because he played at a small school and like, we didn't respect the resume.

[Mike Ryan]

I think. I think a lot of it was. We watched him too, because this was a guy that played an entire college football season at Wyoming with this guy could potentially be number one pick. Buzz. So as a Browns fan at the time, I was perennially locked in on those types of guys. Didn't know he could run. That was like a. That's a big part of his game. And I didn't really hear people say, like, this guy is going to be the greatest goal line threat maybe in the history of the game outside of Cam Newton.

[Stugotz]

Jalen hurts. I thought that shit was over for him once TUA took his shit. That's a good one. Hey, buddy. It was nice. You had a nice little run as a college game manager, quarterback.

[Tony Kornheiser]

But I thought it was over for him in the NFL up until he won a Super bowl because it was just like, oh, they're exposing him. He can't really throw that much. He's got to run. Maybe they're offense. Oh, just did it. Never mind.

[Chris Cote]

Looked like a slow release. It'll just look like very.

[Tony Kornheiser]

It's a handful of things.

[Stugotz]

You know what's funny is playing this game with movies. And I have a bad feeling that I have a movie that I think is going to be good, but it's going to end up being actually awful.

[Dan LeBatard]

You better not say weapons.

[Stugotz]

Naked Gun, okay? Oh, man.

[Chris Cote]

Doesn't look great to me.

[Stugotz]

Look, man, I'm looking at it and I'm like, it has all the makings. Because here's the thing. When it's not out yet, it's not out this August. Oh, this weekend is August.

[Mike Ryan]

That's right.

[Stugotz]

Oh, shit, man. That's how calendars work. But Liam Neeson is like the perfect guy for this role, man. Because if you think of the original Naked Gun, right, It was basically off the success of Leslie Nielsen. Wow. Similar names in Airplane. And before he did Airplane, he was not a comedic actor. He was a serious actor. He was like a. Doing dramatic roles. And that's why they cast him for that role in Airplane was because they wanted like the most serious actor to just deliver these ridiculous.

[Dan LeBatard]

Has Liam Neeson ever had a comedic role like this before?

[Stugotz]

Other one time there was a show called Life's Too Short. It was on hbo, it was Ricky Gervais produced and it had Warwick Davis, who's the guy that plays wickedly.

[Mike Ryan]

I love that show.

[Stugotz]

That show was amazing. One of my favorite episodes is Liam Neeson comes. Cause there's a lot of cameos from Google.

[Mike Ryan]

Val Kilmer at all time.

[Dan LeBatard]

Warwick Davis from Willow.

[Stugotz]

Yes, yes, Val Kilmer.

[Mike Ryan]

There's a great Val Kilmer episode that if you watch one episode from that show, that needs to be the one.

[Stugotz]

So. No, no, the Liam Neeson one is the one you need to watch.

[Mike Ryan]

That was pretty good.

[Amin Elhassan]

Liam Neeson also did a team which was like, not a super serious.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, yeah, but that's not a comedy.

[Stugotz]

But it's still not this, right? So in this show, Warwick Davis plays himself and he's down on his luck. He's trying to get acting roles, but he's friends with Ricky Gervais and he's always like, hey, can you guys do anything for me? And he's in their office all the time. They're like, yo, you're bothering us. Liam Neeson drops by and he's like, I want to make the transition to comedy. And Ricky Gervais is like, not bad.

[Dan LeBatard]

Liam Neeson.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Nah, it's a great one.

[Stugotz]

No, no, no, no, no, no. You've come too far.

[Dan LeBatard]

No, no, no.

[Stugotz]

So like Ricky and Stephen Merchant are like, okay, so what do you like? Let's play a little improv. Like, I'm a shopkeeper and you come into my store and it's like, okay, ring, ring. Like, hey, good morning. How can I help you? I've contracted the AIDS virus. And they're like, no, hold on. I think lighter, impromptu. A little lighter. But he keeps going back to that. And he's dead serious, deadpan every time he delivers and it's. I laugh so goddamn.

[Dan LeBatard]

Okay, I don't know if you guys know I'm a bachelor this week. I'm gonna watch that one again.

[Stugotz]

Oh, yeah, life's too short.

[Dan LeBatard]

That sounds really cool.

[Tony Kornheiser]

How was dinner last night?

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, dinner was great. You know what I did?

[Tony Kornheiser]

You ate whatever you want.

[Dan LeBatard]

Whatever I wanted.

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[Stugotz]

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[Stugotz]

Don LeBatard.

[Dan LeBatard]

I've never stepped foot on that campus. If you told me right now your life depends on it. Go to Santa Fe University and just, just, just take a picture.

[Stugotz]

Stugats.

[Dan LeBatard]

I would die. I don't know where it is. This is the Dan Levatar show with the stugats.

[Stugotz]

Well, okay, so night one was the steakhouse. Date night by yourself at the bar. Old girl, college shirt.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's right. Delay. No, no, I've been told. I. I was shamed. Well, last year, I was shamed into the kind of steak that I eat. That I eat a feminine steak because I like filet mignon. And I was shamed that filet is a feminine steak, not a feminist. I never heard that.

[Tony Kornheiser]

You guys, I gotta pause, right? You guys were so good yesterday. You were trying really hard to get through that Christian Wilkins conversation. You were, you know, asking for my help, and I was like, no, they're doing all right. Amin's hanging in there. And then later in the show, Zaz called a steak feminine. And I was like, I didn't call it feminine.

[Mike Ryan]

I was told it's not the manliest of cuts. It's not the manliest.

[Dan LeBatard]

I never even heard.

[Amin Elhassan]

That mean, like, your steaks have dicks. Like.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, yeah. A bone and ribeye. Yeah, it's actually like the bonus if.

[Tony Kornheiser]

You like to work harder to eat your steak. Okay, you do that.

[Mike Ryan]

A tomahawk. A tomahawk. That's a pre. Slice, too.

[Greg Cote]

They slice it.

[Stugotz]

Come on. What am I.

[Greg Cote]

Don't slice, slice.

[Stugotz]

Do I work in a kitchen? Am I a butcher? Of course they got A pre Slice. No, but. But.

[Dan LeBatard]

So I went by my.

[Stugotz]

Okay, filet isn't feminine. It's just flavorless. That's why I don't. It's not a good cut.

[Mike Ryan]

Lean. It's not a good cut.

[Amin Elhassan]

I don't like.

[Mike Ryan]

Like, if you go to your mouth, if, you know, if you go to a place, you don't order the filet.

[Tony Kornheiser]

You realize that my point is that feminine is not an insult, right?

[Dan LeBatard]

No, I know it's not an insult, okay? I wasn't the one who told this.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Even first day kids.

[Stugotz]

So anyway, you're saying the filet shouldn't be like, how dare you?

[Tony Kornheiser]

I'm saying the filet is the best freaking part of the cow. I don't like the kill in the first place. It melts in your mouth.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's effing delicious.

[Tony Kornheiser]

You can make it.

[Greg Cote]

However, I'm a New York strip ribeye kind of man.

[Mike Ryan]

I don't need a dude with those type of abs.

[Chris Cote]

All right, what about me? I don't want all this fat. Get the fat out of you.

[Greg Cote]

That's the best.

[Stugotz]

Amazing.

[Tony Kornheiser]

You guys like chewing a lot?

[Stugotz]

Yes.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah.

[Chris Cote]

Flavor is. I hate that.

[Stugotz]

I don't know.

[Mike Ryan]

You take your abs and you. And you take your steak.

[Dan LeBatard]

Takes the good fat.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Melts in your mouth. You don't have to chew it. I'm with you, Chris.

[Dan LeBatard]

So ever since I was told that I order a less than masculine kind of steak.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Same thing. You're doing the same thing.

[Greg Cote]

There's no fat on a filet, so there's no good fat. Like Chris is saying, it's completely lean.

[Tony Kornheiser]

There's enough fat to create the flavor fat. Do you just cook your steak with no seasoning whatsoever? You don't put any herbs on it or anything like that.

[Mike Ryan]

Okay, steak.

[Greg Cote]

I'm getting primo steak, buddy.

[Mike Ryan]

That's fine.

[Chris Cote]

Garlic.

[Tony Kornheiser]

You get the right steak. All right, so I haven't ordered a.

[Mike Ryan]

Filet mignon since, like, Sarah Palin was on the. On the.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Well, I haven't ordered a steak at a restaurant a long time because I can make it at home just as well most of the time. So I'm not trying.

[Stugotz]

Wow.

[Tony Kornheiser]

It's just not that good. It's not that. Culinarily speaking, pressed by a good steak. I don't make the wine.

[Greg Cote]

No cocktails better at your house.

[Stugotz]

Oh, yeah, Come on.

[Greg Cote]

What do you order now? You go to the restaurant and be.

[Dan LeBatard]

Like, no, no, no.

[Greg Cote]

Hey, can I get a water cocktail?

[Chris Cote]

A cocktail at a nice bar is better than a cocktail.

[Tony Kornheiser]

You haven't had my espresso martini.

[Stugotz]

Come on, man. What are you talking about? It is. What are you talking about?

[Chris Cote]

Take this nice cocktail over to my couch. Like, no.

[Dan LeBatard]

Give me a.

[Chris Cote]

Give me a nice setting, a nice music. Like, what are you guys talking about?

[Mike Ryan]

Bartenders hate making espresso martini.

[Stugotz]

That's what TikTok tells me.

[Mike Ryan]

That's why Chili's has had a comeback, in part because of social and the matzi sticks, but also famously, their head of mixology never wanted to make espresso martinis because it takes so much time to make. It's an annoying order. You look at a bartender, a lot of times they'll roll their eyes, which is poor form, but it takes a long time to do it. And then a salesperson just sold them on. The idea is, here's your mixer. It's a canned espresso martini, and it's like their highest selling drink outside of the.

[Stugotz]

Wait. So they. Espresso martini coming right up. And then like, oh, I did it.

[Mike Ryan]

And it's been huge for their business.

[Tony Kornheiser]

They roll their eyes. The hardest when you ask. Not for an espresso martini. When you ask first, do you have actual espresso? And I'm like, they hate that.

[Chris Cote]

My dad's the worst. He'll be like, what kind of beer do you have? And then he's just going to order a Miller Light.

[Mike Ryan]

He wants to hear, that sounds lovely. I'll have the Miller Light.

[Tony Kornheiser]

What beers do you have?

[Chris Cote]

It's just like, dad, you're going to get the Miller Light.

[Stugotz]

My pet peeve at bars is the pre mixed cocktail. When it's like, hey, old fashioned cool. And then they go to like a. I'm like, no, man, y', all, you gotta make that thing in front of me, man. I'm not getting that thing out of a barrel.

[Chris Cote]

If I hear like, oh, it's smoky. It will come in a thing. And we'll like, just get.

[Dan LeBatard]

Oh, I love when they hear. I love the smoking. Such a stupid action.

[Chris Cote]

They're like, they're gonna lift the thing.

[Dan LeBatard]

At that bar at the Panther Games now. That cool bar they have there. And I get that really good smoking. It tastes good.

[Stugotz]

I got Old Fashioned with Charles Barkley during the finals. And the place that they did it. Yeah, hold on, I got you. They take an orange peel and then they light it on fire.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah.

[Stugotz]

And I was like, what is going on?

[Tony Kornheiser]

Carcinogens, baby.

[Stugotz]

Apparently, orange peel is very flammable and it does something to the drink that makes it amazing.

[Tony Kornheiser]

So for like the first two minutes we're easy, that the smoke is gone.

[Stugotz]

Of course, we are one of the easiest people in the world.

[Dan LeBatard]

Does it make any difference, Israel, if the person who told me that I order a feminine steak was in fact a female?

[Tony Kornheiser]

Oh, no, no. It just means that she was improperly patriarchy.

[Dan LeBatard]

All right.

[Stugotz]

That's what happened.

[Dan LeBatard]

So I've been very affected by that label. And the first night, I want to get caught on.

[Stugotz]

Caught on number one night. Night one was a steak night.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, I ordered.

[Stugotz]

Night two was pizza night.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yep. Yes. Whatever kind of pizza I wanted.

[Stugotz]

Right.

[Dan LeBatard]

I got meatballs. Meatballs on that shit. Nobody could tell me different. All right, three last night I got Thai food. That's right.

[Stugotz]

What'd you get?

[Dan LeBatard]

I got some chicken fried rice.

[Stugotz]

Okay.

[Dan LeBatard]

And I also got honey chicken. And I got egg rolls, too. I didn't eat it all, but it's like, hey, this is all for me. And now we got leftovers. And no, you cannot have an egg roll because I ordered it all for me.

[Greg Cote]

That sounds like Chinese food.

[Dan LeBatard]

All right, whatever, man. Like, you know, I ordered.

[Greg Cote]

I thought you're gonna get a little pad Thai.

[Dan LeBatard]

Little Patsy is very good.

[Greg Cote]

Tom Kagai, a nice little.

[Dan LeBatard]

You get the fat noodles or the thin ones for Patsy?

[Stugotz]

I get the fat ones.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Tony Kornheiser]

It's a fat drunken noodles.

[Dan LeBatard]

But that's not what I got last night.

[Greg Cote]

I got donuts, I got Thai food.

[Dan LeBatard]

Fried chicken. Chicken fried rice. Excuse me, Chicken fried rice. I got the egg rolls. All right. And I got honey chicken. That was good.

[Stugotz]

You got Chinese food express is what he got.

[Dan LeBatard]

And I started and I ordered it. Guess when I ordered it right when I got home, because dinner's whenever I want it to be. Dinner tonight was 4:00pm all right, there you have it. Well, I got home from doing ESPN at like 4pm and I. I ordered dinner immediately? Yeah, why not? What am I waiting for?

[Greg Cote]

I had to go a snack later though, right?

[Dan LeBatard]

No, it's pretty. I was pretty good.

[Stugotz]

I can't. That's why I don't like going too early because I don't want to come back and eat more later.

[Dan LeBatard]

I was okay, though. I have self control.

[Stugotz]

4Pm is lunch to me.

[Dan LeBatard]

You look at me, you say, that guy's got self control.

[Stugotz]

He does.

[Amin Elhassan]

When'd you go to bed?

[Dan LeBatard]

When did I go to bed?

[Amin Elhassan]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

I don't know, like 11ish?

[Stugotz]

Yeah.

[Chris Cote]

Seven hours.

[Greg Cote]

Hungry.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm watching shows, you know, I don't have to worry about what anybody else wants. Watch. No, I'm watching my show.

[Stugotz]

What were your shows?

[Dan LeBatard]

Well, I just started Boardwalk Empire. You know.

[Mike Ryan]

There'S a couple. I guess that's a weird show to jerk off too, though.

[Stugotz]

Zaz, what's Miami Live?

[Dan LeBatard]

Oh, okay. So Billy maybe can help me with this because you're watching the Marlins every single night. I'm not watching the Marlins every single night. Matter of fact, I'm hardly watching the Marlins. And last night I took like a small break from watching Boardwalk Empire and I put on the Marlins game on the big TV in the Zazzle Mansion family room so I could hear the broadcasters and they mentioned last night that they're building a Miami Live outside Lone Depot park early 26, you know, to be ready for world baseball class.

[Stugotz]

LA Live.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yes.

[Stugotz]

God.

[Dan LeBatard]

And I thought, you know, because you have all those, you have the building surrounding and they're all empty. I mean, what do you say? There's a urologist in one of the.

[Amin Elhassan]

Yeah. And there's a subway or there used to be. I don't know.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah. And there's nothing else. And so it sounds to me like. Oh, like they're actually going to do something. That sounds like a fantastic idea. Like. Billy, was this something that people know about? It was the first time I heard about it last night.

[Amin Elhassan]

I mean, they've mentioned it. I was talking to Jeremy, who, you know, is Marlin's insider, slash.

[Greg Cote]

And I paid by the club to kind of.

[Amin Elhassan]

And he was. Yeah, like, I think that they're building like an outdoor like thing that you can go. And there'll be, you know, restaurants.

[Dan LeBatard]

Sounds like a great idea.

[Amin Elhassan]

Yeah. Well, if people go well to start.

[Dan LeBatard]

It though, for the World Baseball Classic, people will go to it.

[Amin Elhassan]

Yeah, no, I mean, I guess the thing with that, right, is you want people there that aren't at the Marlins game. Like. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I'm saying like for it to thrive, you need people to just become a destination that people kind of. I think it's similar to like, like where we did a watch party for a Dolphins game this year outside of Dolphin Mall. It's called like Vivo.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Yeah.

[Amin Elhassan]

It's a bunch of restaurants and like a PBR and live music and stuff like that. I think that's the general idea for.

[Mike Ryan]

Miami Live that is actually like a scaled down version. The one in Dallas is awe inspiring. First take has been out there. The one in Philly is really good. Locally, there was a team of the Florida Panthers are playing the Winter Classic out there and they were behind the scenes very upset with the Marlins because they Hid the fact that there would be this active construction site during the Winter Classic from them.

[Stugotz]

Like it's. I went to Marlins game, was it last week. And I was shocked by every new stadium in America.

[Dan LeBatard]

Right. This is the last time we talked about it.

[Amin Elhassan]

Yeah.

[Stugotz]

It has like something around it because like Billy said, it's not even for people who are a drink before we walk into the game. It's people who aren't even going to the game, just hanging out. Whether it's deer district. Remember when we were out there in Milwaukee, Tony? Like, it's just bar after bar just facing the arena.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah. There's a Wendy's across from Lone Depot Park. That's it.

[Greg Cote]

There's a pine crust bakery down though.

[Chris Cote]

Even that Wendy's is always empty. Like you think that would have a line before games.

[Mike Ryan]

It's an old construction Wendy's. The only thing that it's missing is that. That like greenhouse. Remember those?

[Stugotz]

That was. Yeah. Like the little glass you like to say. You take your tray, you sit out there. Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

It's like I'm eating al Fresco.

[Stugotz]

Yeah. Oh, man. Oh, you know what? I feel like all these newer fast food buildings, they've lost their soul elect farm.

[Chris Cote]

They don't do player do they do new McDonald's have like the play area?

[Stugotz]

Dude, new McDonald's don't even have cashiers anymore. Have you seen this? It's just a window. Just a window. You pick up your order and that's it. Like you got to order on the touchscreen.

[Tony Kornheiser]

You think you're trying to save time because there's a long line and a drive through. Nope, it's a walkthrough now. And there's people in line for the stupid screen.

[Mike Ryan]

There is that random Burger King by Brickell City Center. That's like, we're just going to hold on to this real estate until you give us an offer we simply cannot refuse.

[Stugotz]

The Burger King, the sandwichery, the pizza place, like that whole old construction.

[Greg Cote]

A cigar bar I think is about.

[Mike Ryan]

Come here and sign up for Burger King Kids Club with that. Dude, that looks like Cyclops. That's. We still have the same crowns.

[Amin Elhassan]

The thing though with those is like, eventually they just build around you and it's like, well, now what are they gonna do with this? Like, you just have this little plot of land and they've built like skyrises around you and like they can't like connect their own building and build up 50 stories.

[Stugotz]

That's that Burger King right now.

[Mike Ryan]

It's become undeniable. Yeah, that's what that Burger King's plan is.

[Greg Cote]

It's like the guy that had the house that's in between the lows in the. In the gables. He's like, I'm not gonna sell. And we're like, perfect. I'm just gonna build around you and choke you out.

[Stugotz]

That was an Instagram favorite, right? He keeps coming around, around. This guy refused to sell, and it's.

[Greg Cote]

Like, oh, have you seen it? Have you been in.

[Stugotz]

I've never seen it in person.

[Greg Cote]

Okay. So we went the other day for. I don't remember what we were there for, but we walked in, and I was like, huh.

[Dan LeBatard]

So this is it.

[Greg Cote]

I was like, this is kind of sad. The guy's, like, in the front yard, like, there's no sun at, like, 3pm all the sun is gone. He's just sitting there in a lawn chair. I was like, what's the store?

[Chris Cote]

What's the store right next to him?

[Greg Cote]

No, it's an entire hotel. They created, like, an entire world form.

[Mike Ryan]

The area, and it's sick. Mm. It looks like Vegas.

[Stugotz]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Amin Elhassan]

Construction is weird to me because, like, you were saying how, like, this Live Miami. They didn't tell Miami Live. Miami Live that they didn't tell the Panthers that this construction is gonna be going on, and they want it by the World Baseball Classic, which is, like, in March or something. Right. I was at game not too long ago. I didn't notice active construction. If you want some massive thing built, like a soccer stadium that can go up in, like, five minutes, apparently next to an airport, because that thing looks like it's almost done.

[Mike Ryan]

I think there's a lot of prefab when it comes to the. The live venues, because they all look the exact same way.

[Amin Elhassan]

Well, so, like, that's gonna go up quick, too, and that's gonna be done by March. Like, if I want something done in my house, I didn't wait, like, six years for that shit to get done. Like, how is it that. Like, a little addition or something? Or, like, I want to put a terrace in my house, and that's gonna take me a year and a half to get approved and done.

[Stugotz]

Wait a minute.

[Amin Elhassan]

But you can put up this entire building.

[Stugotz]

Oh, my God. We've got it on the screen right now. Could throw it on the screen. That's the house that Tony saw. Chris, you've never seen this before?

[Chris Cote]

I think I've seen it on Instagram, but I've never seen this angle of it.

[Stugotz]

It comes up on my Instagram, like, every like, six months. Like, houses that'll blow your mind. And it's like this one. They built a Lowe's around it.

[Greg Cote]

You're like, oh, cool. And then you see the store, and you're like, oh, not that cool. So the front of the hotel is to the right. Right. Front of that house. Right. So where the car is parked is actually the back side of the house. The front side of the house is where the hotel is. So you have, like, people checking in. You have cars, you have valet. You have a thousand things going on in that street. You can't even park your car in the front of your house.

[Dan LeBatard]

And so they. Are they at a place where if they hated it and wanted to sell it to the developer, with the developer even still give them anything for it?

[Chris Cote]

How much did they offer?

[Tony Kornheiser]

I don't know, but I would troll this guy and have a force on my lawn the entire time.

[Stugotz]

I never actually.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Never actually sell it.

[Amin Elhassan]

I mean, have you seen the one where it's, like, in Asia somewhere, I think, and they built a highway around someone's house? Because I thought the one person that decided, you know what? I'm not gonna do this. And, like, well, this highway's going here whether you like it or not, buddy.

[Stugotz]

It's. First of all, yes. It's part of the same Instagram thing that keeps going viral every six months. Like, houses that'll blow your mind. Number two, that was the premise for the movie the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Right? They were building an intergalactic highway, and Earth was in the.

[Mike Ryan]

Never saw it.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's the premise for the movie.

[Stugotz]

Up.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Stugotz]

Up. Yeah.

[Greg Cote]

Developer.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah. Mr. Frederickson. He won't sell.

[Stugotz]

Yeah. Up. Overrated movie.

[Mike Ryan]

How about. Oh, my imminent domain's a real son of a gun.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, For Up.

[Mike Ryan]

No, just general. Like, hey, we need some power lines here. Get the hell out.

[Stugotz]

And especially if you're. If you're black, eminent domain is like. It's a real son of a gun, huh? Like Barclays Center. It's. A ton of people have to move and build that thing. Sad. Sad. That's how we're ending this segment. Sadness.

[Mike Ryan]

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[Stugotz]

Anytime someone says Cuervo, I show up.

[Mike Ryan]

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[Stugotz]

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Stugotz]

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