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Tony
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Billy
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Billy
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Stugotz
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Tony
I am delighted to see this face again so soon. I hope that she comes around all the time. Elle Duncan, someone at ESPN that Zaslow is not feuding with and has never said anything bad about. I wanted to talk to her because I have been negligent in this first hour of, like, this was definitely. This was a bit of a devastating injury last night. I mean, not a bit of like, when. When everyone's watching the sport and the best player in it, Juju Watkins, goes down with a knee injury and gets carried off the court. March Madness becomes like, oh, e, how am I supposed to talk about and feel about all that? That just stinks. That's just a body breaking down. And I wanted to watch her win everything because I know she can. So, anyways, Elle, thank you for being on with us. And yeah, the heartbreak in that. How. How did that go down last night?
Elle Duncan
Well, it was it was really brutal. Probably tmi, but I was in the bathroom and, you know, I'm still wearing my ifb. We do have to take pee breaks. And I had my IFB in and I thought I lost the broadcast because it was silent. And I was like, what's going on? And then all of a sudden, I started getting text messages. I'm, like, trying to furiously wash my hands. My producer's like, get back to the studio. Juju just went down. It's bad. It looks really bad. And I was like, what? And so I run into the studio and you guys. The stud is normally, you know, especially with Cheney. Andrea is so joyful, so loud. Like, we're yelling, we're reacting. It matched the silence of the Galen Center. It was like everyone was just sort of in a little bit disbelief from what we do from a professional level. It's devastating because it's Juju Watkins, because we wanted this Elite Eight matchup rematch with UConn because to your point, like, she's going to be the national player of the year, and they're ahead of schedule. On a personal level, it's devastating because of everything that juju's given to the game, how hard she's worked. Choosing to go to a USC program that a lot of people scratch their head. Like, why they. They haven't been relevant since Lisa Leslie and she strapped her city on her back. Like, she made LA a basketball town again. And she just. To see that happen in the way that it happened, to see someone who is so famously unemotional, like, she puts up a 30 piece, no emotion, like, to see her screaming in pain and writhing on the ground, it was horrific and devastating, and it absolutely changed the entire tenor of the tournament. It did.
Tony
Okay, so you're offering a lot of context there that I want to follow up on because of how this story hurts the connection, specifically to usc. Walk us through the history of all of that, culturally, generationally, what that program means to those people and what it means to have this player, this. This hope go down like that.
Elle Duncan
Yeah, I mean, she has like a giant. Her. She has a giant mural in the city of la. When she chose usc, she actually, on her signing day, or her announcement day, whatever you call it, she actually came on SportsCenter and talked to me, and I've, in a very soft way, kind of asked her that same thing that I just said, which is like, okay, I mean, I. I get it, you're from la, but, like, you're the number one prospect in the country. Everyone wanted you why not go team up with Yukon? Why not go to South Carolina? And she was so adamant that her entire goal was to, in her own backyard, make basketball relevant again, to make that USC program a powerhouse like it was in the early 90s before she was born. You know, like, she wasn't born when Lisa Leslie was doing what she was doing at usc. And when we talked with Lindsey Gottlieb last year at the final four after they lost to UConn in the elite, I was like, I know that you knew juju was a prize, but did you know that she would get your program here this quickly? And she was like, no, I didn't know it would happen so fast. You know, like, she thought it would take some time and maybe some transfers that would get them there. And she has, like, I've talked to L. A friends who are like, l. A is buzzing with basketball at a college level. Right? You're always going to have the Lakers and sometimes the Clippers, but at a college level, like with UCLA being a powerhouse again and with USC and juju, she's the face of basketball, and she is. She has strapped that city on her back, and they love her so much for everything that she's done. I mean, USC has become, you know, place to go, watch games. We see every super megastar. We just saw Jaden Daniels there. It's just incredibly disappointed to see it go down like this. You know, you lose on the court, you get out, battled fine. But, like, to see their chances suffer greatly because of what happened is just. It just can't come up with a better way to.
Tony
I believe that's a good way to clip that there. It just sucks. I can't come up with a better way to say that. And then she cuts out. But that. I mean, that. That's a good way to describe it. We could use a lot of words, but those two work.
Zaslow
Yeah. You talked about USC's chances. I want to get to that in a second because they are still a one seed, and Kiki Areafen obviously is one of the best post players in the country, and she had a really great game after juju went out last night. But this is unfortunately such a common thing in women's sports to see knee injuries. It's happened to other great players right before the tournament. Liz Kitley comes to mind. Olivia Miles, obviously, and it really impacted those, both of those teams chances of winning a national title. What do you think will happen next? I mean, there's obviously a tough matchup in the Sweet 16 round for USC now against a really good Kansas State team that just got some of their players back from health stuff. So do you still see them making a deep tournament run?
Elle Duncan
So I do think they can beat K State. We talked about this yesterday. Like, what does this USC team look like without Juju? Because they haven't had to experience that. She averages 35 minutes a game, so they basically played five minutes a game without her. And so I do think it's going to force. I mean, listen, it's still usc. Like, they still have Talia Van Olhoffen who transferred there, Kiki Area Fenn, who you mentioned had a career high. And, and I do think that there was definitely a galvanizing sort of moment for them yesterday and having her back. We heard Lindsey Gottlieb talk about that. But ultimately, like, to be honest with you, just like, I didn't think that USC was gonna get past UConn with juju, just because, like, if you've watched UConn play the last two games, like, I'm not sure anybody's going to beat UConn if they keep playing that way, but I do see them getting to an elite. It just obviously changes the entire scope of that matchup of juju is not in it. They're going to have to lean on everybody else. But she's going to be national player of the year for a reason. And we saw what happened for UConn when Paige was out. I do think really quickly too, though. Like, life sometimes is really interesting. The ironic symmetry of. On a day that Paige Beckers played her last game in stores and tied a career high after what she's been through and her devastating injuries too, that we then see the same exact thing happen to juju. Like, it just. I hope that that is in some way inspiration for juju, that you can suffer these really great setbacks, but then you can, you can come back better than ever. I mean, Paige hasn't missed a beat and she's going to be the number one overall pick. But it's, you know, I don't, I don't see them making it past UConn either way. Honestly.
Zaslow
I was about to say the same thing, actually, that the pay going from Paige giving the interview at. In stores and then Gino talking about Paige's legacy and then it happened like five minutes into the next game. It was the last game of the, of the second round. It was really kind of strange to see. So, I mean, obviously it's still early. We don't exactly know the nature of the injury, but like you would say, we probably will see Juju Watkins back 20, 26, 2027 season.
Elle Duncan
Yeah, well, I mean, again, it really just depends, right? Like for Paige Beckers when she tore the meniscus in her knee, it was in the summer and so she did miss that entire season because of it. I don't know how USC is going to play it. You know, if there is any blessing. It said it happened in early March and maybe not in the summer as they were doing their off season training. I don't know if you say let's, let's medical red shirt her, right? Like she' only 19 years old. She's not eligible to go to the WNBA draft until she's 22 years old anyway. So I don't know. You certainly don't want to cause any long term damage for someone who we believe is going to be one of the greatest players of all time if she projects the way that she is now. But yes, I would say the getting used to a life potentially without juju next season would be, that would be, you know, that would be a fair assessment.
Tony
I'm wondering, and I don't know if this is overly simplistic but and or reactionary because of whatever the emotion of the moment is. But what level of unsatisfying is this going forward or what needs to happen in terms of storylines to take the pall off of what had felt like a giant celebration and a coronation at a time where we know more of the women players than we do the men in college basketball.
Elle Duncan
It's true. I tried to say this to someone last night. I was like, imagine if on the men's side if they lost Cooper flag in the same way. Right. Like it would change the enthusiasm for the tournament in some way. The good news for us is that while juju is one of the faces of women's basketball and will be national player of the year, we do still have really great storylines. We have Notre Dame, who has the best backcourt in the country, finally sort of figuring it out and rounding into form, we have tcu. Haley Van List story is amazing. TCU story is amazing. I know they're not like a major open. They couldn't even field a roster. They were horrible. And now they're headed to their first sweet 16. People made fun of Haley for choosing TCU, like, wow, that's great. What a basketball powerhouse. And to see her story like that's still a story. We still have South Carolina, right? Like trying to go for, to be back to back champs for the first time since UConn did it. And then we still have UCLA, like, who is a huge program again, sort of a return to prominence, a return to glory, if you will, looking for their first Final Four. So if there is any blessing is that this happened last night. It gives us a few days to compartmentalize and process, and then we sort of get to look ahead to the sweet 16, which is still rife with storylines. Yes. Like, did I want an elite eight that was going to put up enormous numbers, Personally, as someone that, like, benefits from that at espn. Yes. But we do still have a lot of meat on that bone.
Tony
I would like to El, because I remember when, soon after we met, you had mentioned that you had. That you loved my brother's artwork and that you loved what I did with my father. And we did co no on Highly questionable. And I'm just wondering if I can get you to play with us. The game in honor of CO No. L. Yes or L. No. L. L. Okay, you're gonna. Okay. So you know.
Elle Duncan
You know I love to pun my name.
Tony
Yeah, but you didn't. You didn't even play it right off the top. If I said l yes or hell no. You can't say hell yeah. It's gotta be L yes. Like, hell yeah. Thank you.
Chris Cody
There it is.
Tony
All right. L, yes or L no. Ripped jeans.
Elle Duncan
Ooh. I actually do like ripped jeans. I'm into them. Like, my kids have ripped jeans. I think they look cool.
Tony
So how do you play the game.
Zaslow
L. Yes to yellow pants that Elle was wearing the other day that I texted her about? Elle, Those were phenomenal pants.
Elle Duncan
Thank you.
Zaslow
They're very bright, but I love them.
Tony
You guys aren't playing the game correctly.
Zaslow
I just said l, yes to her yellow pants.
Dan LeBatard
Hello.
Billy
Yes.
Dan LeBatard
L, yes or El not women empowerment.
Elle Duncan
L. Yes.
Zaslow
I feel like it's a no brainer.
Tony
Okay. Excellent work playing the game.
Zaslow
But I'll know to Billy.
Tony
It's got to be right on the line. L. Yes or I'll know to racism. Like, what?
Dan LeBatard
I mean, what are you doing, Dan? L. No.
Elle Duncan
Come on, Dan.
Tony
Oh, I'm sorry.
Elle Duncan
Lately, in this country, I don't know.
Tony
Kind of up for debate not putting your cart back in the cart corral at the grocery store. L. Yes or E.L. no.
Elle Duncan
L. No. It requires no work. It's so rude. Like, you're potentially damaging people's cars. Just. You've been walking around a grocery store. What is it? I live in Connecticut. It's freezing. It's like three degrees. And I will still take it to the thing or I'll take it to the front. Like, that's so rude and not considerate for everybody else.
Tony
Irish goodbye. L, yes or El no.
Elle Duncan
L, yes. Come on. Like, I've reached the age where I'm like, do I need to say bye to everyone in the room and make it a whole production? And no, I'm just gonna ghost you.
Tony
Bringing a Bluetooth speaker to the gym and playing your music out loud. L, yes or El no.
Zaslow
Okay.
Elle Duncan
As someone that literally carries my little JBL speaker everywhere she goes and forces people to listen to my music, I'm still a hard L, no. Because people need different things when they work out. And it's not necessarily your trap music.
Tony
Signing your emails. Cheers. L, yes or El no.
Elle Duncan
L, no. Although the email sign off gives me a lot of anxiety. I never, you know, sincerely or appreciate you or I just kind of do a thanks, but L, no to the cheers.
Tony
Sending your food back at a restaurant. L, yes or El no.
Elle Duncan
El no. I've worked at too many restaurants. I know what they can do to the food in the back. And also, like, apart from having an allergy to it, I went out to eat with a girl one time who sent her burger back because it came with lettuce on it. Take it off and keep it moving like. El no.
Tony
Buying a woman a drink that she didn't ask for. L, yes or El no.
Elle Duncan
El, no. And ladies, don't ever take that drink because you don't know what's in it. No.
Tony
Dan Hurley.
Elle Duncan
As someone that needs people to while the out for my job. L, yes. To Dan Hurley and all of the many personalities he has.
Tony
Oh, I trapped you. I think I trapped you.
Zaslow
L, yes or L no to LSU upsetting NC State.
Dan LeBatard
Oh.
Zaslow
Tricked her.
Elle Duncan
I'll say. L, yes. I'll say. That's tough. I'll say L, yes. Just because they have the experience of being there before. So does nca. NC State, obviously. But I put their big three probably above NC State.
Stugotz
L, yes or L no. Jimmy Butler sticks it to the heat tonight.
Elle Duncan
Ooh. L, yes. Yeah. L, Yes. I think he's going to have his Haley van lift game, you know, where he's just like, you didn't want me. I see it.
Dan LeBatard
L, yes or El Not a traveling with your own bar of soap in a container.
Elle Duncan
Yeah. El no Again, unless you have, like, some kind of severe and sensitive skin thing. When you put the soap in the container after it gets wet, it becomes a disgusting petri dish of smush and it's Just no use at the hotel. They're fine. Like, it's fine.
Stugotz
L. Like, I. I want my soap. All right. I like my brand of soap. I don't want to rely on the hotel that.
Elle Duncan
That.
Stugotz
That I get set up in in Norman, Oklahoma, or in Athens, Georgia. I want my soap. I bring a soap dish.
Elle Duncan
What's your soap like? What's your soap?
Stugotz
The one my wife buys for me.
Elle Duncan
Okay. Well, unless it's some kind of fancy soap, it's not any better than the crap they have at the hotel, guaranteed.
Tony
The reason I said I trapped you is because you love the content of Hurley. And so I'll leave you with this, okay? L. Yes. Or el. No. Mulky. Gotcha.
Stugotz
Gotcha.
Elle Duncan
You completely trapped me. I, I. I'll say. I'll say. Same thing. I like all of the histrionics, and she's so memeable, and, you know, she's unapologetically herself. So I guess, you know, L. Yes to.
Tony
You're gonna separate it. You're gonna separate her personality and Final Four Dan.
Stugotz
It's so hard to see Dan Hurley.
Elle Duncan
So, yeah. Oh, yes. I love it.
Tony
Okay. No, it's. I did something unfair to her, but I'm actually curious how she n. Navigates the labyrinth in these political times. As someone who has strong opinions.
Stugotz
She doesn't navigate well now.
Tony
I mean, yeah, like, but the monkey thing is hard because you can respect her and also, like, be wildly put off by a lot of other things. She does.
Elle Duncan
Yeah. I would say that. Yes, there is. I have a great respect for her as a coach and also as a former player, and she gets the best out of her girls. And, you know, I never played for her. If you were to believe a lot of the things that came out, that's problematic. But ultimately, like, I don't know her personally. I do think that, you know, she's a historic type of figure in this sport, so. And I love. I love lsu. Like, I love her girls, so it's also hard for me because I think, you know, they love her and I love them, so. By proxy. Sure. Yeah. But you do, like, you have to compartmentalize, and that can be, you know, I don't know her well enough to, like, make a snap judgment on her, but just based on some of the things like, yeah, that feels. That feels. I had someone say that to me the other day. They were like, you picked Florida to win? I was like, yeah. Cause I don't know anything about men's basketball. I don't really watch and and they were like, oh, you know, their coach. I was like, what about their coach? You know? And they were just. They're like, yeah, there's. There's some. There's some headlines. So I Googled, and I was like, should I have chosen? You know? But, like, ultimately, I think they're a really good team. So that's kind of the journey.
Chris Cody
L. Yes. Or el. No.
Elle Duncan
The.
Chris Cody
The dap that Moki gave that guy that one time coming out of the huddle.
Elle Duncan
The dap. Is that you talking about the clipboard or the real dap?
Chris Cody
No, I'm talking about the real Dapper. She's walking out of the tunnel, and there was a guy there, and she daps him up, like, very nicely. L. Yes.
Elle Duncan
Or. Yeah, I mean, I'm into that. I really appreciate.
Tony
No, he ruined the game. He ruined the game with that. I know.
Chris Cody
It tells me she hasn't seen the dad.
Tony
I know, but I haven't.
Elle Duncan
I know, but was it an aggressive dab.
Chris Cody
No. We need the video team to pull it up.
Tony
Okay, but that would have been good, right?
Chris Cody
But Dan, she covers the. The league now.
Dan LeBatard
Have you seen Tony?
Elle Duncan
I mean, I don't see. I don't consume everything that happens in the league. I do have three other jobs that he is.
Chris Cody
I pull up. I pull up something. That's classic from Kimoko.
Tony
Don't get defensive here, Tone. Crazy Tone. I need you to go to the penalty box and just sit there.
Zaslow
How about L. No, for Tony? He's on my.
Tony
Like, Tony, Jesus. Like, go ahead.
Chris Cody
Have you seen a damn tone?
Tony
Tone?
Zaslow
Are you saying tone or like, tone like Tony? I can't. Honestly, I wasn't doing.
Elle Duncan
He's doing that thing.
Zaslow
I feel like.
Elle Duncan
I feel like Jess can feel me on this. He's doing that thing. When, like, a dude at the bar finds out you do sports for a living, and then he's like, oh, yeah, who won the 1937 Home Run Derby?
Zaslow
No, Tony would never do that, ever.
Elle Duncan
Tony, you don't know.
Dan LeBatard
He said oh, no to women's empowerment earlier.
Tony
He did. God, man.
Zaslow
And he hates my dog all of a sudden. I don't know why he's on my shit list. I don't have time for him. This week.
Tony
It's. It's. Elle was on fire There we were, soaring into the sky, and Tony decided at the very end to throw the ball off her face just by. Hey, Elle, try and pretend that you've seen this thing. I'm talking about Al. I'm sorry it ended that way. I Will try to raise better broadcast professionals.
Elle Duncan
Okay, we definitely ended on a high note. Can you just give me, like, one more for shits and giggles so that we can end on our.
Tony
Because he ruined it. So.
Zaslow
Okay. L. Yes. Or El. No. Me bringing my dog to work that everyone loves.
Elle Duncan
Oh, hell yeah. So long as it's not a great. You don't work at a grocery store. Right?
Zaslow
You're right. This is not a grocery store.
Elle Duncan
Then we're good.
Zaslow
Although someone should tell Gino and Jason that.
Tony
Elle, good seeing you. Thank you for being on with us. Always delightful.
Elle Duncan
Please have me back. Love. You guys are the best.
Tony
Thank you. Let's get to our sound. I feel really bad for doing that tournament. Why?
Zaslow
I normally don't pick on Jason and Gino. I just had just. I feel bad.
Chris Cody
And everybody out there laughing, Man.
Tony
I can hear the laughter through the walls. And you feel like you've bullied them. And I can hear people laugh. I can hear people.
Zaslow
I mean, it was a funny joke.
Tony
That's all. That's all it needs to be.
Zaslow
If you listen to Mystery crate.
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Chris Cody
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Tony
Oh, wow.
Dan LeBatard
It's in there.
Stugotz
It's better.
Chris Cody
You think I haven't been practicing stugats?
Tony
I didn't realize we had a substitute complicated legacy brought to you by headquarters of road.
Billy
Huh?
Chris Cody
441 Powerline Road. Second down to nine.
Dan LeBatard
This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugach. What happened with Tony?
Tony
Yeah, Billy, I saw that. You enjoyed that. You really roared to life there. Like I haven't seen since back when you were prohibited from saying things that Zaslo doesn't want to hear.
Dan LeBatard
I was just trying to get honestly us to show Elle a video of Tony's jumper, but I unsuccessfully did that.
Tony
I know. Thank you for the help there. But you enjoyed that. Tony Made that drown. You came to life like when Tony threw that anchor on the proceedings. My God, I haven't seen such life in you in years.
Dan LeBatard
I feel like he was about to hit us with a real Hoopers know, but we didn't get there quick enough.
Tony
Billy. Billy loves nothing more than to my family than to Cat. Now I believe that what you love more than your family is seeing Tony fall on his face.
Billy
Oh, here he comes.
Chris Cody
Fall on my face. Cause something that everybody's seen on social media, the six people here haven't seen it. Okay, sorry. That's hard. So then why did everybody look at me so stupefied? Oh my God. I don't know what you're talking about.
Zaslow
Well, it's the kind of thing if you're gonna bring up, you have to kind of be sure that the guest knows exactly what you're talking about.
Elle Duncan
Have you seen it?
Chris Cody
You're. If you've seen it, you're online. If everybody's seen it, who's online? I figure the guest who covers the sport, who's also online and sees things about the sport, has seen it before.
Zaslow
She probably saw it and forgot about it. Cuz it wasn't like that big of a deal.
Chris Cody
If I tell you Kim Moki Depp, you know what I'm talking.
Zaslow
I remember the video.
Chris Cody
Okay, thank you.
Zaslow
But that doesn't mean that someone that covers the sport for a living, it's probably the 5,000th thing she'd think of.
Chris Cody
When she cover the sport.
Zaslow
Also you cover the sport.
Dan LeBatard
You're right. El Duncan is so dumb person that's.
Chris Cody
Online a lot like I don't cover the sport.
Tony
I remember.
Zaslow
Whether you know the DAP video or not doesn't mean like you. You're good at covering the sport.
Billy
It's just like you.
Zaslow
Maybe it wasn't memorable.
Chris Cody
Exactly. Not what I said. My point is you implied that I felt that way. That's. What are you talking.
Zaslow
You were like, she covers the sport.
Chris Cody
Yeah, because she covers sports. She knows what it is. That's all I'm saying.
Dan LeBatard
Well, I feel like we could move on.
Billy
What other weird things do you do?
Stugotz
Yeah, I mean, how about I. I thought l was gonna back me on that one. As someone who travels a lot, you want your own stuff. I mean, look at this. This is sensitive skin. I want my own soap.
Jeremy
You know, this is what happens when.
Zaslow
You shit on my dog.
Dan LeBatard
How do you feel about body wash when you go to a hotel? I mean, you have your own soap. But like let's say something Happens, heaven forbid you forget your bar of soap or whatever. And it's one of those body wash pumps that's in the corner, like affixed to the wall. That's another thing that's happening now before you walk in and you have your own little shampoo bottle, your own little conditioner bottle, your own little bar of soap. And you know, you say to yourself, I'm probably never going to use these again, but they're just going to toss them out. Let me just take these home. In case of a rainy day, I run out of shampoo, conditioner, whatever. I have the little bottles from the hotel. Now they attach them to the wall. You can't even take them home. They're like industrial size, right?
Stugotz
Yeah.
Billy
Why?
Stugotz
But I bring my own soap, so.
Dan LeBatard
But if some. If something were to happen, heaven forbid something were to happen or, or your. Your soap gets lost or whatever, would you use the body wash? You're not a body wash man.
Stugotz
As opposed to not using any kind of soap.
Dan LeBatard
Well, you could go just buy another bar of soap, I suppose.
Stugotz
Nah. Yeah, okay.
Dan LeBatard
Maybe it writes, didn't know if you're strictly a bar man or if you're a body wash man.
Tony
I don't like how defensive Tony was.
Zaslow
I don't either. Now I feel weird.
Chris Cody
Okay?
Tony
So here's. Here's the thing, okay? See, Tony's not wrong here. And I know why he feels alone, okay?
Chris Cody
Because nobody helped me. Oh, yeah, of course.
Tony
Tone.
Dan LeBatard
You're making it better.
Chris Cody
Thank you. Tone.
Tony
I'm doing that on purpose. Yes.
Chris Cody
Fine.
Tony
You don't know whether it's my tone or his tone.
Chris Cody
No, I know when he says tone, I know it's me. I know I need to stop talking.
Tony
No, it's not just that, okay? Because we're going to reach into the underbelly of what's been happening around here between you and Billy.
Dan LeBatard
I have nothing to do with what's going on today. I'm just sitting here talking to Zaz about soap.
Tony
So the delight.
Zaslow
I'm a Dove guy.
Dan LeBatard
Really?
Zaslow
Scent free. I'm actually allergic to a fragrance called Linalool.
Dan LeBatard
Really? Yeah.
Zaslow
I found this out last summer. I did one of those patch tests on my back and it's in every product. Oh, I have to go scent free on like every soap and shampoo and conditioner. Couldn't find a purple shampoo without fragrance in it.
Dan LeBatard
Your life seems difficult. You can't eat anything. You can't use certain soaps. You're a woman.
Zaslow
Dan's the one that can't eat anything.
Tony
I'm a dove gal the way you are.
Zaslow
I am just sent free, and I can't have wheat, barley, or rye.
Tony
Tony, this is the part that I found funny about everything that happened there. And that was wonderful, truly wonderful, including you being enraged by the fact that you're mentioning something that should be obvious to all of the people in this room, but you got no help.
Dan LeBatard
Help.
Tony
And were left by teammates to feel like you were drowning by our ignorance when you're mentioning something that a million people in our audience would have seized on and will now support you because they'd be enraged on your behalf that none of us went and grabbed your alley. Oop.
Chris Cody
Correct. And I feel it's because it was Kim Moki. If it was somebody else all of a sudden, everybody would have jumped in and joined me. But it was Kim Moki doing something. Everybody's like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Billy
Are we making this because Kim Mulkey is Kim Mulkey.
Chris Cody
Who's who? Who's who spoke first here? I don't know. Jeremy came out of nowhere. Left field.
Dan LeBatard
Didn't.
Billy
Didn't say left field is right. Are you seriously? You're going to make this political right now?
Chris Cody
Hey, you're making it political. But you just did it.
Billy
None of us did it. We were having a good time laughing at you, and then you made it political. I mean, whatever, man. It's fine. But, like, it's just a video. It's okay. We were all laughing.
Dan LeBatard
How do you feel about zaz? The, like, shampoo conditioner combo bottle? Because, like, that's. It can't be both.
Stugotz
This head right here needs special treatment.
Dan LeBatard
Yeah.
Stugotz
Rocking. Any combos?
Zaslow
Wait, aren't you bald?
Dan LeBatard
Whoa.
Stugotz
I can't grow hair I shave on. It's my preference. I'm asking.
Zaslow
I don't know. I've never seen.
Stugotz
I have hair. I shave it. It's like, I can't grow any hair. I shave it.
Dan LeBatard
The hypothetical I threw out there earlier.
Tony
Was emotions are high. This Jimmy Butler shit is making everybody crazy.
Stugotz
Dare.
Dan LeBatard
If you could be Magic Johnson or Michael Jordan, who would you be? And I looked at like I had two heads, like it was the dumbest question in the world.
Tony
Okay, so this is coming back now. You guys are just allowing everything to spill into the show.
Dan LeBatard
I'm trying to move us along.
Tony
You're okay. No, I don't want to move along now. We're stuck here. Okay, we're gonna stay here for a minute.
Chris Cody
Did you finish what you wanted to tell me?
Elle Duncan
By the way.
Zaslow
Or.
Tony
No, no, Tony, I wanted.
Chris Cody
Boy, no, you wanted to say something. I didn't know.
Tony
But Tony, I would like for you to tell us what you think here.
Dan LeBatard
Trap, don't do it.
Tony
Because you believe I didn't see this from your vantage point. You believe that that was multi triggered. I believe that everyone in the room is ignorant to the meme that you're talking about. And it makes us us, all of us. You must have felt alone with something that is fairly common knowledge.
Chris Cody
Absolutely. It's very common knowledge. You see it come across your timeline, whether it be on Instagram, on reels, on TikTok, on whatever it's Kim Mulkey doing. Yes. Having an incredible. No look dap with a dude as she's walking into the tunnel waiting to go to a game. And it's an incredible dap by anybody's measure. There's a lot of people in this office that don't give good daps. And Kim Mulkey gave us sideways right here. Billy, I'm.
Dan LeBatard
No, I mean, you're setting me up. I know I'm not going to do a good job here.
Chris Cody
Okay?
Dan LeBatard
You're just setting a cyclone. Makes fun of me.
Zaslow
Well, Dan.
Tony
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Just slow everything down here for a second.
Zaslow
But we have a new game to play.
Tony
I don't want to play that game right now. What? I don't want.
Zaslow
Marlon.
Billy
Are you ready, Dan?
Dan LeBatard
I don't think so. He just left.
Billy
But he's the contestant.
Dan LeBatard
Oh, well, we're in trouble then.
Zaslow
Do you think you would be good at this game?
Stugotz
I do. I am good at this game.
Zaslow
Well, then it's not fun.
Billy
We should wait for Dan. We can do a next segment.
Dan LeBatard
Well, he left, so we're here now.
Billy
What do you guys want to talk about?
Chris Cody
I don't know.
Dan LeBatard
Is it really that obvious that Michael Jordan is the answer? People were looking at me like I was crazy.
Zaslow
Well, people are going off the A, net worth, B, greatest of all time, C, Air Jordan, Nike, like coolest shoes ever.
Dan LeBatard
I think a lot of people are going into the hiv.
Zaslow
Well, I think that's a reason to not be Michael or a Magic Johnson. But there's so many reasons why you'd want to be Michael Jordan. That's all I'm saying.
Dan LeBatard
Yeah, but Magic Johnson to me looks a lot happier than Michael Jordan.
Zaslow
I agree with you.
Dan LeBatard
He seems to be enjoying life a lot more.
Stugotz
Michael Jordan had twins like a few years ago. Oh, no. Idiot.
Dan LeBatard
Yeah, I'm with you. Magic Johnson had his kids, and they're all grown now, so now he's living the life. Oh, Zaslow. That's the dream, right? Love kids. Happiest moments of your life. Can't wait for them to get out of the house. You can go back to enjoying life.
Stugotz
So I'm saying, man, I'm a few years away.
Dan LeBatard
Really?
Stugotz
At the dream house. I'm almost there. How close are you from both of them being gone? I am five years away.
Dan LeBatard
Okay, and what's the tactic? Do you, like, try to tell them, like, you really should go away? Like, you really got it. If you want to experience life, you should go away to college. That's how you'll find yourself. That's how you'll figure it out. Is that what you're doing? Are you just, like, annoying them a little bit more to drive them away?
Stugotz
No, they're. They're going to be ready to go.
Dan LeBatard
Okay.
Stugotz
Time is right.
Dan LeBatard
All right.
Stugotz
And then it's all about me and my wife. Life in the Zazlow mansion, just doing what we want.
Chris Cody
When did it change from mansion to manor?
Stugotz
When do you change?
Chris Cody
Yeah, yeah.
Stugotz
I've always had a mansion.
Chris Cody
Oh, because he said. He said Zazlow, man.
Dan LeBatard
No, I make mistakes.
Stugotz
I'd have never been there.
Zaslow
Like the meerkats.
Stugotz
No. No mansion.
Dan LeBatard
Okay, so support. I'm trying to figure out, is the. Is the tactic support or is it annoyance of my children to get them out of the house when the day.
Stugotz
Comes, I think support's okay.
Dan LeBatard
Yeah, Yeah.
Stugotz
I try to set them up in the right place, and then they wind up being ready to leave. You don't. You don't want your child to not. You throw them out there. It's like you open up the car drawers and go ahead. You're free.
Jeremy
Yeah.
Stugotz
They gotta be ready.
Dan LeBatard
Yeah. Well, that's the thing that I'm wondering, like, is if. If I push them too far, then they'll rebel against me, and then maybe that's not the effect that I wanted. You know, it's not like we're leaving empowered. We're leaving out of spite. And now let me do something crazy.
Zaslow
I feel like an important thing here is your kids have to respect you, but you also have to trust them. It's a two way street, right?
Stugotz
Yeah.
Zaslow
I don't know. I've never had kids. I'm just thinking about my own parents.
Dan LeBatard
My daughters have started calling me by first name because they. Hilarious.
Stugotz
Oh, that's respectful.
Dan LeBatard
And I need to. I need to really put my foot down on here because they're three and one and I can lose control very quickly.
Zaslow
Your one year old's like, billy.
Dan LeBatard
Yeah, my one year old repeat everything that my three year old says. Sometimes they'll say Guillermo to me.
Stugotz
All right, so respect is something valued in your house.
Dan LeBatard
They'll say Guillermo, Lewis, Gill. And I'm like, whoa, hold on a second. This is funny and adorable, but we're getting close to the line here.
Chris Cody
So that's training you like Chris Cody treats his father basically right?
Dan LeBatard
Well, not that poorly. No.
Stugotz
Does he call his father Greg?
Dan LeBatard
He does. Greg.
Billy
He calls his wife Kyle.
Dan LeBatard
Yeah, he does call his wife Kyle. That's not her name. What do you mean it's not her name? She's not. Her name's Christy, not Kyle.
Stugotz
So why does he call her that?
Dan LeBatard
He's an idiot. I don't know. It's an inside joke that they have. And then every once in a while, he'll just call her on the phone, unbeknownst to her, and I'll just say, hey, Kyle. And then ask like a weird question of her, and then she'll just be kind of annoyed with him.
Zaslow
You don't strike me as the discipline guy in your house.
Dan LeBatard
What?
Elle Duncan
Yeah.
Chris Cody
What is that?
Dan LeBatard
I'm a disciplinarian. What are you talking about? I run a tight ship.
Zaslow
I feel like you're the kind of dad that's like. Like, you know, don't call me Billy, but like, you know, like.
Dan LeBatard
Well, my wife laughs. That's the thing is that I'm getting undercut all around. You know, I. We're supposed to be in a relationship here where we support each other and she constantly sides with these children.
Stugotz
I'm 0 to 60. I'm very relaxed. If you want me to get involved, there's no middle ground. I go. I go right to, you know, I. If you want me to get involved, I'm going to take care of this. You're not going to like the way I take care of it. It's happened fast.
Chris Cody
You don't do it half ass.
Stugotz
That's right.
Zaslow
You're zero to 60.
Stugotz
Yep.
Dan LeBatard
So they go to your wife.
Zaslow
Never seen that from you before.
Stugotz
Yeah, that. See, I'm a very relaxed person.
Dan LeBatard
Yeah.
Stugotz
I'm very nonchalant. I'm easy to be around, measured. If you want me to get involved, I'm gonna get involved. Yeah, it'll be quick.
Zaslow
I was being kind of sarcastic because sometimes you can go from very relaxed person to no, but it's social in real life.
Stugotz
Social Settings.
Elle Duncan
I'm.
Stugotz
I'm a relaxed dude. All right? Now, if you want to talk about serious stuff, like the Miami Heat or the Florida Panthers. Okay, then I, you know, I ratchet things up rather quick, but around the house, the discipline, I'm. Either I'm chilling or, hey, I'm going to take care of this lickety split.
Dan LeBatard
Yeah. And do you ever get a situation where your children will say, I'm going to go tell mom.
Stugotz
No. No, because I'm. No, they don't do that. They don't play us against each other like that.
Zaslow
What's the origin of lickety split?
Dan LeBatard
I don't know. Look it up. So my. My daughters, now that I've been saying stuff, they'll come up to me and it's like, I'm gonna go tell Mom. And I say, go ahead.
Chris Cody
Wow.
Dan LeBatard
Powerful. But it's really. It's really a dare. That means nothing. Cause usually sides with them over me. So I'm signing my own death sentence by doing that.
Zaslow
Okay, so I was right, was I not?
Dan LeBatard
In what sense?
Zaslow
You're not the one doing, like, the hard discipline of your daughters.
Dan LeBatard
I try, but I'm constantly undercut. So at a certain point I'm like, what's the point? Why am I gonna be the bad guy? I wanna be the good guy. I wanna be the favorite. So I will let them get away with certain things that maybe they're more likely.
Zaslow
Like what, calling you Billy? What else do they do? They seem like good girls.
Dan LeBatard
Well, we put on a good front there. Really. Terrors behind the scenes. My house is in sham.
Zaslow
Not eating their vegetables.
Chris Cody
Apple doesn't fall far.
Dan LeBatard
Well, sometimes they discovered drawing on walls, which is not good. Not great at all.
Stugotz
Decorating. Well, not the worst.
Dan LeBatard
Well, this. This one, this one of the bunch is. Is maybe the rotten apple, because she's. She's defiant. She'll draw on the wall, and then you say no, and she laughs. And you clean it up, and then you turn around and in the exact same spot, there's more artwork.
Chris Cody
Use the Sharpie.
Dan LeBatard
Try to. One of them use the older one. Eldest daughter used a Sharpie the first time around. The other one so far has used pencil and things that we can get rid of with a magic eraser. So it's been fine. Use chalk one time. Sidewalk chalk. I don't. My kids love chalk so much.
Zaslow
My sister used to eat chalk.
Dan LeBatard
Chalk can't be good for you. No, there's something in there that can't be good for you. Chalk. I don't Understand how it works? Can't be good. What?
Chris Cody
It's calcium.
Dan LeBatard
What does that mean?
Chris Cody
It's made of calcium. Chalk.
Dan LeBatard
So you can eat it?
Chris Cody
I mean, technically, yes.
Dan LeBatard
I don't think so. You let your. You let your daughter eat chalk?
Chris Cody
No. Okay, we have actual food in the house. I wouldn't do that.
Stugotz
But what if she's low on calcium?
Dan LeBatard
Yeah, exactly. Right? What if the doctor says, like, she has a calcium deficiency? You go and you get her tongue. Well, you could buy Tums, or you can buy, like, chalk for, like, you know, 15 of them. For 99 cents, you break off a little piece. You make it roughly the same size as the pillow. There you go.
Chris Cody
Yeah, but the Tums are flavored.
Dan LeBatard
Down the hatch.
Zaslow
That's true. The Tums flavors, they've really innovated.
Dan LeBatard
Let me tell you something. And Zaza will back me up on this. Kids are dumb, okay? You give a kid a pink chalk and you say, that's flavor, like strawberry. They'll say, I like that. You give them one. You say, this one tastes like asparagus. A green one like, ew, yuck. And it's like dummies. It's chalk. It's not flavored. What are you talking about? Take your calcium tablets.
Chris Cody
That's why they go to school and be like, we.
Zaslow
Well, that's a good point, Roy.
Chris Cody
Thank you, Jess. Can I show you guys the video just in case?
Billy
No, I actually really would love to see it.
Dan LeBatard
Honestly. In Tony's defense, he was failed on this front because had we seen the video, maybe this would have made sense, right?
Chris Cody
Yeah, but I was banking on you.
Zaslow
Could have given a heads up that the video would come up, though. That's a fair.
Chris Cody
All right, well, here's the video for the people watching.
Zaslow
Jeremy doesn't want to watch it because it's Kim Mulkey.
Billy
Oh, you're right.
Chris Cody
That's fine. Just put it on the screen. So again, she's walking out. Boom. Crazy dab. Not even looking. Yeah, and in slow motion. And in slow motion.
Billy
We should probably censor this.
Chris Cody
It's a perfect dap.
Stugotz
Yeah, See, dap always confuses me because you don't know what the extent of the dap is going to be. And that looks like that was a dap in three parts. Yeah, and she nailed it. How does she forget the not looking? How does she know that? Okay, this could be like a. Like a three part dap kind of deal. That's why I get confused with dap. I never know how long the dap is going to last.
Zaslow
David Sampson can teach you because he famously was very good at it when we asked him to do it. No, no, he was really bad at it.
Chris Cody
Real hoopers though he's got aids.
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Podcast Summary: The Big Suey: Elle Yes or Elle No
Episode: The Big Suey: Elle Yes or Elle No
Release Date: March 25, 2025
Hosts: Dan LeBatard, Stugotz, Elle Duncan, and Team
The episode kicks off with the hosts introducing the main topic: the recent injury of Juju Watkins, a star player for USC, and its significant impact on the Women’s College Basketball Tournament.
Notable Quote:
Dan LeBatard [01:17]: "Why are you listening to this show the podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan LeBatard podcast? I'm sorry. I'm not gonna apologize for that."
The hosts delve into the brutal knee injury suffered by Juju Watkins during the tournament, discussing its immediate effects on USC’s performance and the broader implications for the tournament.
Key Points:
Elle Duncan’s Experience: Elle recounts receiving the news during a broadcast break, highlighting the shock and devastation surrounding Juju’s injury.
Notable Quote:
Elle Duncan [02:36]: "It was really brutal. I was in the bathroom and thought I lost the broadcast because it was silent... It was devastating because it's Juju Watkins."
Impact on USC: The injury not only jeopardizes USC’s hopes for a deep tournament run but also affects the morale and performance of the team, which heavily relied on Juju’s prowess.
Notable Quote:
Elle Duncan [04:08]: "Seeing someone who is so famously unemotional... to see her screaming in pain and writhing on the ground, it was horrific and devastating."
Elle provides a comprehensive background on USC’s basketball program, emphasizing Juju Watkins’ role in revitalizing the team and her dedication to making USC a powerhouse akin to its glory days in the early '90s.
Key Points:
Juju’s Commitment: Juju chose USC with the intent to reignite the basketball culture in Los Angeles, drawing parallels to Lisa Leslie’s impact in the past.
Notable Quote:
Elle Duncan [04:31]: "Her entire goal was to, in her own backyard, make basketball relevant again... she made LA a basketball town again."
Generational Impact: Juju’s presence has not only boosted USC’s performance but also inspired a new generation of players and fans in Los Angeles.
Notable Quote:
Elle Duncan [06:18]: "You lose on the court, you get out, but to see their chances suffer greatly because of what happened is just... we can’t come up with a better way to describe it."
The discussion shifts to USC’s potential trajectory in the tournament without Juju, weighing the strengths of other players and the challenges ahead.
Key Points:
Team Resilience: Despite Juju's absence, USC possesses other talented players like Talia Van Olhoffen and Kiki Areafen who can step up.
Notable Quote:
Elle Duncan [07:12]: "I do think they can beat K State... It's still USC. They still have Talia Van Olhoffen and Kiki Areafen."
Comparison to UConn: Drawing parallels to UConn’s performance when Paige Beckers was injured, the hosts express skepticism about USC advancing past top-tier teams without their star player.
Notable Quote:
Elle Duncan [08:53]: "If you've watched UConn play the last two games, like, I’m not sure anybody's gonna beat UConn if they keep playing that way."
The hosts explore the recurring theme of significant injuries in women's sports and how they shape tournament outcomes.
Key Points:
Prevalence of Injuries: Highlighting past instances like Liz Kitley and Olivia Miles, the discussion underscores how injuries can dramatically alter the landscape of the tournament.
Notable Quote:
Zaslow [06:30]: "It really impacted those teams' chances of winning a national title. What do you think will happen next?"
Storylines Beyond Juju: Despite the setback, other storylines and teams continue to offer engaging narratives for the remainder of the tournament.
Notable Quote:
Elle Duncan [10:38]: "We still have really great storylines... Notre Dame, TCU, South Carolina, UCLA... there is still a lot of meat on that bone."
The episode transitions into a lighthearted game segment titled "L Yes or El No," where the hosts take turns presenting scenarios or questions, and participants decide whether they are an "L" (bad) or an "El" (good).
Key Highlights:
Ripped Jeans:
Elle Duncan [12:44]: "I actually do like ripped jeans. I'm into them... I think they look cool."
Returning Food at Restaurants:
Elle Duncan [14:56]: "El no. I've worked at too many restaurants. I know what they can do to the food in the back."
Jimmy Butler’s Performance:
Elle Duncan [16:30]: "L, yes. I think he's going to have his Haley van lift game... you didn't want me. I see it."
The hosts share personal stories, highlighting their relationships and interactions both on and off the air.
Key Points:
Parenting Styles: Dan LeBatard discusses his approach to parenting, balancing being a disciplinarian with being the favorite child.
Notable Quote:
Dan LeBatard [36:02]: "My daughters have started calling me by first name because they're three and one... We're getting close to the line here."
Humorous Banter: Light-hearted teasing and jokes about each other's habits and personalities foster a relaxed and engaging atmosphere.
Notable Quote:
Tony [29:18]: "In this part that I found funny... trying to make the whole festive moment a bit of fun."
As the episode wraps up, the hosts reflect on the discussions, emphasizing the resilience of teams and the ongoing storylines that keep the tournament exciting.
Key Points:
Future Outlook: Optimism remains for USC’s potential to overcome challenges and for other teams to make meaningful runs in the tournament.
Notable Quote:
Elle Duncan [10:07]: "We do still have really great storylines... I just hope that this gives us a few days to compartmentalize and process."
Engaging Closing: The episode concludes on a high note with more interactive fun and reminders to tune in for future discussions.
Notable Quote:
Elle Duncan [21:44]: "Please have me back. Love. You guys are the best."
This episode of The Big Suey offers a comprehensive look at a critical event in women’s college basketball, balancing in-depth analysis with entertaining segments that highlight the hosts' camaraderie and expertise.