The Big Suey: It's Friday, No One's Listening

Summary

Podcast Summary: "The Big Suey: It's Friday, No One's Listening"

Episode Release Date: May 30, 2025

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1. Florida Panthers' Triumph and Stanley Cup Final

The episode kicks off with an exciting update on the Florida Panthers’ remarkable achievement. Having clinched their third consecutive Eastern Conference championship, the Panthers are set to compete in the Stanley Cup Final next week. Host Roy discusses the team's journey and their prospects in the finals.

Roy [00:30]: "Florida Panthers have won their third consecutive Eastern Conference championship and will go to the Stanley Cup Final next week."

Additionally, Roy shares his conversation with Bob Rashuzen, offering insights into the Panthers' strategy and key players contributing to their success.

2. Miami's Political Landscape and Cuban Influences

The discussion shifts to Miami's vibrant political scene, featuring former congressman Joe Garcia. The hosts delve into the decline of Cuban exceptionalism and the significant number of Miamians advocating for deportation measures.

Billy Corben [01:39]: "On the hockey show, former congressman Joe Garcia talks about the end of Cuban exceptionalism and Miamians who overwhelmingly voted to deport themselves."

The hosts also highlight the ongoing drama at City Hall, where tensions flare between Commissioner Joe "the Joker" Carollo and Miami's own "dark knight," Miguel Gazette Bella.

3. Personal Health and Immunity Jokes

Dan and Stugotz engage in a lighthearted conversation about feeling under the weather, leading to humorous exchanges about the infamous five-second rule.

Dan LeBatard [02:15]: "You haven't done anything different. So that can only mean one thing."

Chris Cody shares a relatable anecdote about unknowingly contaminating a spoon, sparking a playful debate on the validity of the five-second rule.

Chris Cody [03:16]: "I dropped a spoon on the floor and I picked it up and I... did show, so I'm not really thinking about anything."

Stugotz and Roy banter about sounding sick and the challenges of maintaining health amidst parenting responsibilities.

Roy [02:25]: "I have lost a little bit of muscle mass since the baby was born... I don't like the way that things are looking."

4. Navigating Parenthood and Grandparenting Aspirations

The conversation naturally progresses to the joys and challenges of parenting, with the hosts expressing their thoughts on becoming grandparents. Billy Corben reflects on his daughters approaching college graduation and his contemplations about future grandparenting.

Billy Corben [07:03]: "I've thought about being a grandfather, and I can't believe that sentence just came out of my mouth."

Stugotz humorously fantasizes about the reduced stress and freedom that comes with grandparenting, envisioning minimal interaction with grandkids paired with leisure activities.

Stugotz [10:19]: "Imagine a world where your kids' kids are just dropped off. You deal with them for, like, an hour. You give them 100 bucks, you send them back to the parents, and then you go golfing."

5. NIL Deals and Lacrosse Sponsorships

Billy Corben provides an update on NIL (Name, Image, Likeness) deals related to his daughter Rachel's lacrosse program. He discusses the significant sponsorship from Guzmani Gomez, a Mexican restaurant chain expanding into the United States, highlighting the global reach and financial impact of such partnerships.

Billy Corben [12:13]: "There is an NIL deal that has been done with that lacrosse team with Guzmani Gomez... They've made hundreds of millions of dollars, and they are the team sponsor now of the Northwestern women's lacrosse program."

The hosts tease about the origins of Guzmani Gomez's branding, leading to a humorous exchange about the likeness of the restaurant mascots.

6. Stanley Cup Superstitions and Team Performances

A spirited debate ensues regarding the superstition surrounding the Stanley Cup touch. The hosts discuss personal anecdotes and the idea that touching the cup before winning may jinx a team's chances.

Roy [16:22]: "I think the NFL is going to win the game for the Knicks game six, and then the building will win the game for the Knicks in Game 7."

Dan LeBatard weighs in on the strategy behind team performances, particularly focusing on Connor McDavid's prowess and the Panthers’ potential to sustain their success.

Dan LeBatard [16:37]: "We've got Connor McDavid... What he’s going to say? It's time to get them all."

The conversation extends to the dynamics of team leadership and player versatility, emphasizing the need for two-way players to build championship teams.

Dan LeBatard [22:08]: "He follows up with a triple single, and now it's all about, oh, the Knicks defense did this... There's definitely a storyline here with this series."

7. Interactive Segment: Blind Rankings Game

In an engaging and humorous segment, Stugotz introduces the "Blind Rankings" game, where each host ranks their top radio and podcast hosts without prior knowledge of the others' lists. The playful tension arises as each participant tries to slot their favorites into the rankings, leading to comical disagreements and strategic placements.

Stugotz [27:48]: "Have you guys familiar with blind rankings? You guys want to try this game?"

Despite initial hesitations and playful chaos, the hosts proceed to rank figures like Colin Cowherd, Dan Patrick, Shannon Sharpe, and Bill Simmons, sharing laughs and playful jabs throughout the process.

Billy Corben [31:10]: "I'm just scratching off Rich Eisen."

The segment showcases the camaraderie and dynamic interplay among the hosts, adding a light-hearted twist to the episode.

8. Final Sports Analysis

Returning to sports, the hosts analyze the ongoing Knicks vs. Pacers series, debating the offensive strategies and defensive capabilities of both teams. Roy emphasizes the Pacers' superior firepower and speed, while Dan highlights the Knicks' potential to replicate strong defensive performances observed in recent games.

Roy [41:08]: "I think it's a thing of pace... the Pacers just running and gunning, everybody's flying and Haliburton's doing all this stuff."

Dan critiques the reliance on key players and underscores the importance of team-oriented play in securing victories.

Dan LeBatard [42:37]: "The Pacers actually have movement and they find the open person if there's an obvious mismatch... It just showed up in making their firepower look a little better."

9. Concluding Remarks

As the episode draws to a close, the hosts reflect on the day's discussions, maintaining their trademark blend of humor, insightful commentary, and engaging banter. They tease upcoming segments and express anticipation for the final games in the Stanley Cup series.

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Notable Quotes:

• Roy [00:30]: "Florida Panthers have won their third consecutive Eastern Conference championship and will go to the Stanley Cup Final next week."

• Billy Corben [01:39]: "Former congressman Joe Garcia talks about the end of Cuban exceptionalism and Miamians who overwhelmingly voted to deport themselves."

• Stugotz [10:19]: "Imagine a world where your kids' kids are just dropped off. You deal with them for, like, an hour. You give them 100 bucks, you send them back to the parents, and then you go golfing."

• Dan LeBatard [16:37]: "We've got Connor McDavid... What he’s going to say? It's time to get them all."

• Stugotz [27:48]: "Have you guys familiar with blind rankings? You guys want to try this game?"

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This episode of "The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz" offers a lively mix of sports analysis, personal anecdotes, and interactive fun, encapsulating the hosts' unique perspectives and dynamic chemistry. Whether discussing the Florida Panthers' latest victories, navigating the complexities of parenthood, or engaging in playful games, the hosts deliver an entertaining and informative experience for their listeners.

Transcript

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[Billy Corben]

Welcome to the Big Sui presented by DraftKings.

[Dan LeBatard]

Why are you listening to this show.

[Billy Corben]

The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan LeBatard podcast? I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just.

[Jeremy]

Walking past tables to grab somebody's fries.

[Billy Corben]

That if they're just there.

[Dan LeBatard]

That hasn't happened to you guys.

[Billy Corben]

I've done it. And now here's the marching man to nowhere, Fat face and the habitual liar.

[Roy]

Florida Panthers have won their third consecutive Eastern Conference championship and will go to the Stanley cup final next week. We talk to Bob Rashuzen about it.

[Billy Corben]

On the hockey show, former congressman Joe Garcia talks about the end of Cuban exceptionalism and Miamians who overwhelmingly voted to deport themselves. Also, the telenovela at City hall continues with another near brawl between corrupt commissioner Joe the Joker Carollo and Miami's dark knight Miguel Gazette Bella.

[Dan LeBatard]

All this week on because Miami.

[Chris Cody]

That seems fun. This episode is presented by DraftKings. DraftKings. The Crown is yours.

[Roy]

Mean thing to say.

[Stugotz]

Well, since I produced the damn show, I.

[Roy]

It's not about you, Roy.

[Stugotz]

Ah, okay. Wow.

[Billy Corben]

Wow.

[Stugotz]

I signed a stugach today. Before the show. I was talking to Tony too. I told Tony he was looking thin, which I meant as a compliment.

[Roy]

I took it.

[Stugotz]

You took as an insult.

[Roy]

It wasn't that it was an insult. It's just. I know and I feel self conscious about it. I have lost a little bit of muscle mass since the baby was born. I haven't been going to the gym as regularly and I look myself in the mirror and I'm like, huh? I don't like the way that things are looking. And then I stepped on the scale and I was like 10 pounds lighter. And I was like, I haven't done anything different. So that can only mean one thing.

[Stugotz]

Well, I have bad news for you. Because. Because the conversation I was having with Stugots before is he said, you sound like you're. You're sick. You sound like you have the sniffles. You sound like you're, like, catching something. No, he was telling me this.

[Roy]

Oh, yeah, you always sound like that.

[Stugotz]

Well, that's exactly what I told him. I go, I always have.

[Roy]

Jeremy kind of sounds like that right now too. If you buy. By the way, if you want to talk.

[Jeremy]

Yeah, I'm just mostly exhausted.

[Stugotz]

What's happening? Why is everyone just taking shots of Jeremy today?

[Roy]

No, it just sounds a little today.

[Billy Corben]

Just today.

[Chris Cody]

The funny thing is, is I woke up this morning feeling a little like, meh. And I was like, what happened yesterday with where I was around germs. Could anything have happened? You guys weren't here yesterday. Yesterday I did some gross stuff on the show.

[Stugotz]

What'd you do?

[Chris Cody]

I dropped a spoon on the floor and I picked it up and I.

[Stugotz]

That's good. How many seconds?

[Chris Cody]

Less than five. Thank you.

[Roy]

You're good.

[Jeremy]

Wait a second. Because what it was, he had already put it in his mouth, so now it's a slightly damp spoon. It falls to the floor of the.

[Dan LeBatard]

Carpet like a piece of ham.

[Jeremy]

He picks it up and he doesn't look at it. And I did look at it.

[Roy]

We got the video of it.

[Billy Corben]

You guys have blizzard yesterday.

[Roy]

They had blizzards on Monday.

[Billy Corben]

Okay.

[Stugotz]

All right, hold on. Let's see here. Falls.

[Chris Cody]

I pick it up.

[Stugotz]

Okay.

[Chris Cody]

And then I'm like, doing show, so I'm not really thinking about anything. And I. Yeah, I just go right to my mouth a bit.

[Dan LeBatard]

Well, cleans it off with his mouth.

[Chris Cody]

I wasn't thinking off.

[Stugotz]

Here's the question. The five second rule. Is it like five seconds from when it hits the ground to back in your mouth, or is it just five seconds?

[Chris Cody]

I think it's how long is it on the floor?

[Stugotz]

Okay. Because I was going to say it was. It fell and then it was still there collecting potential airborne germs, you know, in your other hand, for a couple seconds here. But I think you're fine. Who discovered that, like, whoa.

[Chris Cody]

They were.

[Stugotz]

Who's the person that saw this?

[Chris Cody]

The whole room pounced on it.

[Stugotz]

Jeremy's not looking. So Jeremy doesn't realize that he's not the one that Snitched on you. He's. He would be good in the crime. I would never.

[Chris Cody]

Mike Ryan was to my right. I think he saw me or Jason State, according to himself. Right now, I guess Jason is being.

[Roy]

Happy about being the snitch.

[Stugotz]

It's weird.

[Chris Cody]

And also. But there was. There was actually. If that's where no one takes pride in being the snitch, that's not where it ended.

[Roy]

Don't like that.

[Stugotz]

Where.

[Chris Cody]

Then Mike came in with a wet, damp rag or. No, he got a paper towel. Got it a little damp. And then to test how dirty the floor was, he put the. The damp paper towel on the floor and then lifted it up.

[Jeremy]

No, no, no, no, no. He didn't just put it there. He scrubbed the floor.

[Chris Cody]

Well, he, like, pressed down.

[Billy Corben]

That's unfair.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, that's not what your spoon did.

[Chris Cody]

And it proved that it wasn't that dirty. Like, then he lifted it up, and there was nowhere. Because they clean these floors.

[Billy Corben]

You just got to drop it and pick it right back up.

[Chris Cody]

And so then, I mean, we did the bit where we crumbled it up, and then Dan was like, you won't put that in your mouth. And I may have put crumpled up.

[Stugotz]

You know, you don't have to just do whatever Dan says.

[Chris Cody]

Part that I.

[Stugotz]

You don't need to give into pressure.

[Chris Cody]

From the room of, like, I'm a showman. Like, everyone want. Like, I can't.

[Roy]

Like, what are we, like, Timothy Chalamet?

[Chris Cody]

Is this bit gonna end with just like, nah, I'm not doing it.

[Billy Corben]

Sometimes it's just easier to do it.

[Stugotz]

The reality is, if you didn't do it, the bit wasn't gonna.

[Chris Cody]

It was one of those things where I was just like, probably right, I'm gonna do it.

[Stugotz]

And it would have.

[Dan LeBatard]

Dan did the vomit sounding thing, which, honestly, it's really gross. He needs to stop.

[Stugotz]

That's what made me vomit the Day of the Onion. The vomit sounds.

[Billy Corben]

Was it the Onion?

[Stugotz]

No, honestly, it was when he was doing the vomit sound. It was a combination of things, but I was fine. I was plowing through the onion pretty good. And once he started over and over again, that's when, like, it started coming up, and that's when the vomiting started.

[Roy]

So you're. If somebody else barfs, you're gonna barf kind of guy.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, I mean, I guess. What are you guys? You guys.

[Chris Cody]

I can watch people burning in bathtubs.

[Stugotz]

While people are vomiting.

[Chris Cody]

I can watch you barf.

[Billy Corben]

Yeah, I can watch you barf and not. And not feel Like, I need to barf.

[Chris Cody]

So I woke up today with a little. Just like, oh, it's my throat. Does my throat hurt?

[Billy Corben]

Tickle?

[Chris Cody]

So I was just like, it's not that.

[Stugotz]

It's not that. If anything, that made you stronger.

[Billy Corben]

Thank you.

[Stugotz]

So we were talking to Gods, and he's like, you sound like you're sick. And I told him, I'm just always different levels of sick. And I was like, I don't think I'm ever gonna be just healthy again until my children are gone. Because kids are just always sick, bringing in germs until my children are gone. And then once my children are gone.

[Chris Cody]

Like, out of the house.

[Stugotz]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

Thank you for clarifying then.

[Stugotz]

Well, once my children are gone, then I will probably still just be sick because I'll be older and my immune system will be.

[Roy]

Then the grandkids come.

[Stugotz]

Yeah.

[Roy]

They start getting.

[Stugotz]

I'm just going to be.

[Billy Corben]

Yeah, but you get the grandkids in small doses.

[Stugotz]

Sure.

[Roy]

But still, I mean, you know, they're there now. Sudden you got to cough. And then I got a cough.

[Stugotz]

Well, are you looking forward to being a grandfather?

[Billy Corben]

Oh, my God. I'm getting close to that. Neither of my girls are pregnant. None of them are getting married, but they're both about to graduate college. So I am getting closer to that. And I have thought about being a grandfather, and I can't believe that sentence just came out of my mouth. I have contemplated being a grandfather.

[Stugotz]

And what would you do?

[Billy Corben]

I'd be a great grandfather.

[Stugotz]

Yeah.

[Billy Corben]

Oh, yeah.

[Roy]

Well, you're just regular grandpa.

[Chris Cody]

How are you handling. How are you handling just dating? Because I'm not looking forward to that.

[Billy Corben]

Nope. I mean, one of my daughters has a boyfriend, a very serious boyfriend.

[Stugotz]

Yeah.

[Billy Corben]

I'm okay with it. Emma does not. Rachel has a serious boyfriend. I'm good with it. Like, he's. He's a good dude. Plays quarterback. Oh, okay.

[Roy]

Does he play? Or is he on the.

[Stugotz]

So is he a glaze? Does he play quarterback? It's the question.

[Roy]

Northwestern.

[Billy Corben]

He's a great dude who happens to play quarterback.

[Stugotz]

Now, if he, you know, was a flautist or something instead of quarterback, would we still think that he was a great dude?

[Billy Corben]

Everything else is the same. He's just.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, I don't.

[Dan LeBatard]

I don't think he thought this one through. Like, it's. We're already going to be judging him because he's dating your daughter, but now you're going to be judging the shit out of him as a quarterback.

[Stugotz]

No, I don't think I think that. I think just being a quarterback is enough. I don't think he has to be a good quarterback.

[Billy Corben]

He doesn't even need to start.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, I mean, well, does he?

[Roy]

Does he has a good.

[Billy Corben]

He started a bunch of games last year.

[Dan LeBatard]

You know, backup is the place to be.

[Billy Corben]

Everybody loves the backup.

[Roy]

What was the TD interception ratio?

[Stugotz]

That's a great question.

[Billy Corben]

I'm not certain it's a good question.

[Chris Cody]

That I was in the pocket, I.

[Billy Corben]

Saw some potential quarterback and he plays baseball at Northwestern.

[Stugotz]

It's just.

[Roy]

How does he do against a high cover two?

[Billy Corben]

Yes, he plays center field.

[Dan LeBatard]

Is that a euphemism? High cover 2?

[Roy]

If you want it to be.

[Billy Corben]

Big bat.

[Stugotz]

What? Oh, power hitter. All right. Jesus.

[Billy Corben]

What I was just saying uses an oversized bat.

[Stugotz]

Crazy. This is a really weird conversation.

[Chris Cody]

That's your child side view mirrors.

[Billy Corben]

You guys asked me if I thought about being a grandfather. I said, yes, I have.

[Stugotz]

Well, I mean, I didn't. What I said, have you thought about being a grandfather? Meant, like having a grandchild, not the act that would make you a grandfather.

[Billy Corben]

Well, I'm not thinking about that. You guys.

[Chris Cody]

Everything was normal until you mentioned a big bat. I think.

[Billy Corben]

Really?

[Roy]

Well, you said pocket press. Really? Yeah.

[Chris Cody]

When I said pocket, that's.

[Roy]

That's a.

[Chris Cody]

That's on me.

[Billy Corben]

Then you got me going. And then I was like, wait a second. This is my daughter talking about.

[Dan LeBatard]

I hope she doesn't listen to the show.

[Stugotz]

Why on earth would she.

[Jeremy]

I don't want to dox the guy, but I did find him.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, and big bat.

[Chris Cody]

Let's not say. Let's not say.

[Roy]

Let's not say his name.

[Jeremy]

I know. I'm not. I'm not going.

[Billy Corben]

Definitely not saying all the information.

[Jeremy]

You gave out every piece of information.

[Billy Corben]

Northwestern has multiple quarterbacks.

[Jeremy]

Well, now you don't play center field.

[Billy Corben]

And now you said, you know what?

[Roy]

Northwestern has multiple center fielders.

[Stugotz]

It could have been anywhere.

[Billy Corben]

They have multiple guys on the football team that are also playing on the baseball team. It's Northwestern.

[Stugotz]

Several backup quarterbacks, Big Ten.

[Chris Cody]

You gave all this information.

[Billy Corben]

Could be Mike Wright. I mean, thick neck.

[Jeremy]

For those who have already googled. That's a great joke.

[Billy Corben]

Thank you. So, yes, I've thought about it, Billy. I like to. To not think about it because I'm getting old.

[Stugotz]

Really?

[Billy Corben]

Yeah.

[Stugotz]

I kind of want to be there already. I'd like to fast forward to just.

[Roy]

You are.

[Stugotz]

I know, I know.

[Billy Corben]

You want to fast forward to being a grand.

[Chris Cody]

What an odd thing.

[Stugotz]

Why?

[Chris Cody]

Because most people are like, I Want to spend as much time with my kids, like, when they're. You're just like, get me to be in a grandpa.

[Stugotz]

Yeah. It seems like it's a less stressful existence. Exactly.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's when you cash in when you're the grandfather, when you're just with the kids every once in a while, and then you just back off and you're their favorite. Yeah. The parenting place of God.

[Billy Corben]

I think I'm with Billy. Yeah. There's something cathartic about. Hey, you're done. I'm done here.

[Chris Cody]

You guys sound ridiculous.

[Billy Corben]

Just bring the. No, Billy's right.

[Chris Cody]

I want to get to that, but I want to take my time getting there.

[Billy Corben]

Yeah.

[Chris Cody]

Joy every moment.

[Billy Corben]

I know.

[Stugotz]

Destination, Chris.

[Billy Corben]

Imagine a world where your kids are. Their kids are just dropped off. You deal with them for, like, an hour. You give them 100 bucks, you send them back to the parents, and then you go golfing.

[Dan LeBatard]

Now you got to give them 100.

[Billy Corben]

Got to give 100 bucks. Yes.

[Stugotz]

How often are you seeing these kids?

[Billy Corben]

I mean, I don't have them yet, but I'm just saying when I do, I'm going to give them $100 every single time. Yes. That I see him.

[Roy]

I, like, go play golf.

[Stugotz]

I like the idea of, like, dropping off my kids at, like, the grandparents now, knowing that $100 is coming and they have no idea what the hundred dollars.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's the best now. Like, it's just. It's almost like an itch you want to scratch. You got $10 in your pocket, and your nieces and nephews are there. It's like, take my money. Here you go. And they love it. They're like, wow, how much money do I have now? And they put it in their piggy bank, and they have, like, 60 bucks.

[Jeremy]

It's this poor kids about to get thousands of followers on Twitter and have no ideas and idea.

[Stugotz]

That's Friday. No one's listening. That's why I'm here.

[Billy Corben]

He just wants the followers big, bad.

[Roy]

And I own stuff.

[Stugotz]

How's nil work?

[Billy Corben]

You know how it works.

[Stugotz]

I'm saying, like, do you, like, has Rachel got in any nil situations? They can sell, like, their names now, right?

[Billy Corben]

Like, clothes with their names and their likeness. The lacrosse program, because it's very good, and they've won so many national championships, has had an influx of ni. Nil money. Sure.

[Stugotz]

Yeah. But you're a mover and a shaker.

[Billy Corben]

I haven't done anything on that front.

[Stugotz]

Really? Yes. That's surprising to me.

[Billy Corben]

Why?

[Stugotz]

Because you're kind of someone that, you know, likes to figure out how to make things happen again. A mover and a shaker. And if there's deals to be made, you like to be making them.

[Billy Corben]

That's fair. I just. I haven't. I've tried not to get too involved in what is going on with Rachel.

[Stugotz]

And that lacrosse program, aside from being there every day.

[Billy Corben]

Well, I go to the games because I want to support my daughter, and I enjoy it. Like, it's fun. It's fun going to the games, but I've just tried to. I've tried to stay out of it for the most part. There is an nil deal that is. That has been done with that lacrosse team with guzmani Gomez, which is the Mexican restaurant that my friends own in Australia and Japan. In China. They've made hundreds of millions of dollars, and they are the team sponsor now of the Northwestern women's lacrosse program because they're expanding into the United States, and they have a store that just opened in Evanston. So I did not put that deal together, but it was a nice deal for Rachel.

[Roy]

And they went across the world. They're in all these amazing places overseas. They came to the United States and they're like, evanston, Illinois. That's where we're going.

[Billy Corben]

So they wanted to do a test state in the United States, and they chose.

[Chris Cody]

That's where you do it.

[Billy Corben]

They chose Illinois.

[Stugotz]

Nothing says Guz Gomez like Illinois.

[Billy Corben]

They're crushing it. Naperville, crushing it. Evanston, crushing.

[Stugotz]

Who are the two guys whose faces we're looking at at guzmani Gomez? Because it's not your friends faces.

[Billy Corben]

It's Luis Guzman and Michael Gomez. They were two kids who used to smoke cigarettes in the back of our high school.

[Dan LeBatard]

Stu do the. They have no idea.

[Billy Corben]

Their names and faces are plastered all over these restaurants.

[Stugotz]

Wait, wait, wait. Your friends named a Mexican restaurant after two Luis, maybe Mexican kids that were in the class with them?

[Billy Corben]

Luis Guzman. Michael Gomez smoked cigarettes back of Schreiber High School.

[Stugotz]

But these are, like, I'm not sure.

[Billy Corben]

They went to school.

[Stugotz]

These are older people on this picture, like the logo. One of them looks like Dwight Lauderdale. Honestly.

[Billy Corben]

Wow. Yeah.

[Stugotz]

Yeah. Like, who are the. Who are these faces? Because they're not teenagers. They just said, let's draw what maybe what they might look like.

[Billy Corben]

They think they look like at the age of 50.

[Roy]

Yeah, right, exactly. You know, when you have those missing kids and it's like, this is what they look like when they were little. But now this is what we think they look like 18 years later, I'm like, yeah, I don't like st. Did.

[Chris Cody]

You say earlier that Harlan missed the broadcast last night?

[Billy Corben]

I did say that.

[Chris Cody]

He was on the broadcast.

[Billy Corben]

Stan sounded a little bit under the weather. Harlan sounded a little bit under the weather. Reggie sounded fine while losing.

[Chris Cody]

Did he?

[Billy Corben]

Yeah, he sounded fine. I. I'm telling you, I think this is getting to Kevin Harland. That did not sound like Kevin Harland. It did not. It was either that or the 40 milligrams. I mean, I'm not certain.

[Stugotz]

It's probably that. Is it exhausting now having to pay attention to the Knicks like this late in the season, trying to catch up and figure everything?

[Billy Corben]

I liked it better when they were bad.

[Stugotz]

Yeah. Sometimes, like, the Panthers are entering that territory and, and Roy will disagree with this, but the Panthers are entering that territory that, like the Big Three were at the end were like, enough. A little bit of fatigue, right. It's kind of like, oh, you're already.

[Dan LeBatard]

There with the Knicks first.

[Stugotz]

First round exit. You know what I mean? No, I'm not there with the Knicks. He said that it's exhausting to have it go on this long, but once you have like the continued success, like back to. Back to back Stanley Cup Final appearances, it you are kind of thinking like, maybe, maybe next year first round exit.

[Chris Cody]

This is like you saying you want to rush through your daughter's childhood.

[Stugotz]

Yeah.

[Chris Cody]

This is such a weird take. Like. No, this is awesome.

[Stugotz]

And I mean, let's get over it. Well, I mean, LeBron James agrees with me.

[Chris Cody]

At the end of a playoff run, my liver needs a Brett, Needs a break. A Brett, but that's a brat. This is fun. Billy, I do not wish this to be done. I want to go back next year to the final as well.

[Billy Corben]

It's only fun if you win though, right?

[Stugotz]

Yeah. If you lose, complete waste of time.

[Chris Cody]

No, if we lose this round, I can still, I still own the East.

[Stugotz]

I can still look at.

[Chris Cody]

I can still look at the lightning. I can still look at Toronto, I can still look at Carolina, I can still look at the Rangers, I can still look at the Bruins and be like, I'm your daddy.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, but you also failed America. And you were the team that allowed Canada, not just because of present, you know, American Canadian relations, but just in general you. Now Canada ends the streak of 30 plus years of not hoisting Lord Stanley and it's because of the Panthers.

[Chris Cody]

I'll spin it as a win.

[Dan LeBatard]

There's a lot at stake with this one, right? I mean, it's the rematch. You've got Connor McDavid. Was it Yan's Yandel that said he's the greatest athlete right now? So the greatest athlete going for a cup. You've got the Greg Cody situation, right? He's back. What's he going to say? It's time to get them all.

[Chris Cody]

I'm trying to get him to come up with a funny nickname for Dry Seidle. Just so it can be Mick Overrated. And, you know, can we.

[Stugotz]

No, that's fine. Can we get ahead of this?

[Billy Corben]

You haven't thought of it yet, huh?

[Chris Cody]

Give me good. Like, let's do this. Audience send us in.

[Stugotz]

Overrated. But, like, do it now. Because what happened last year was we put up a MC Overrated billboard, like three months after the thing was done, and it was like one with Greg Cody on it. By the time it went up, everyone had forgotten about it. So, like, if we're gonna do this billboard thing again, like, decide now. Yeah, Think about it now. More like now.

[Chris Cody]

Lee off Dry. Seidel.

[Stugotz]

Huh?

[Chris Cody]

Leon.

[Roy]

Leon.

[Billy Corben]

Keep working on it. Yeah.

[Roy]

Drawing board.

[Chris Cody]

It is a white Leon.

[Jeremy]

Dry. Sad.

[Chris Cody]

Maybe workshopping.

[Stugotz]

All right, I think we saved that.

[Billy Corben]

Connor has to win this one.

[Stugotz]

Let's save the billboard budget this year.

[Billy Corben]

Keep getting to the cup and losing.

[Stugotz]

I mean, I'm kind of be considered.

[Billy Corben]

The greatest athlete in the world. You can't do that. I mean.

[Chris Cody]

I mean, you can make the argument the Panthers are as deep a team as that's been in this league in a long time. Like, he. It's not like he's losing against two bad teams if he loses this year. But yes. No, no, that noise will get ratcheted up.

[Dan LeBatard]

But if he wins, then every team's gonna touch it from now on. Right? Because they touched it.

[Roy]

No, that superstition is too strong.

[Chris Cody]

Well, it depends on the team. As you saw the Panthers, the first time they won it, they touched it. So it just kind of depends on, like, the captains of the team and.

[Billy Corben]

The coach are just trying to reverse jinx.

[Chris Cody]

Right?

[Billy Corben]

See, that's it. They didn't touch it last year. They lost the cup. They touch it this year, figure they're gonna win the cup, you know, so.

[Dan LeBatard]

Wouldn'T that be breaking the tradition? Wouldn't that be changing the superstition?

[Chris Cody]

I think it's just one of those things. Some teams do believe in that and some teams don't. Like, I. I think there are examples of teams like winning after touching.

[Dan LeBatard]

I always want to touch it same.

[Billy Corben]

Would you touch the cup before Winning the Cup.

[Chris Cody]

No. Well, that's. I don't think anyone does that. Right, That's.

[Billy Corben]

Someone's done it.

[Stugotz]

Roy's held the Stanley cup here in the office. It was the fake Stanley Cup. But you've held the Stanley cup here in the office.

[Roy]

I did not touch that.

[Stugotz]

You touched it.

[Roy]

I did not touch it.

[Chris Cody]

Not before they won.

[Stugotz]

We've touched.

[Chris Cody]

He touched it since they won.

[Roy]

Yeah, I touched it after they won.

[Stugotz]

I did not touch.

[Jeremy]

It's like a moratorium period. Right. Like where you've got a window where it's okay to touch it.

[Stugotz]

Yeah. What is your window?

[Jeremy]

Won it. What's that window? When does that stop? Right where now you're cursing the next season.

[Chris Cody]

Like right now. Tkachuk could not touch. I think once Chucky won it.

[Jeremy]

Game one.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, once.

[Jeremy]

The next full off season.

[Stugotz]

The full off season.

[Roy]

No moratorium after you win it.

[Stugotz]

So you can touch it now. Yeah. And it doesn't jinx this season. Correct.

[Chris Cody]

No, I disagree.

[Stugotz]

That's ridiculous.

[Chris Cody]

Absolutely. In here right now.

[Dan LeBatard]

That cup was absolute. In here before they won the Cup.

[Roy]

Yeah, but I didn't touch it.

[Chris Cody]

No, we didn't. Like, I'm with Roy. We all did not touch it before.

[Stugotz]

We. Thank goodness. Cuz you touched it.

[Jeremy]

But you sure touched it after you won.

[Chris Cody]

I have not, actually.

[Billy Corben]

It's.

[Chris Cody]

I. I'm like one of the few people that have not gotten a picture with the Cup. Like everyone I know saw the cup at some point and got a picture with it. I never did.

[Billy Corben]

Roy, is Edmonton better this year?

[Roy]

Yes. Yeah, they are better this year.

[Chris Cody]

Are the Panthers.

[Stugotz]

So are the Panthers. Wow. So something's got to give.

[Chris Cody]

What makes Edmonton better this year? Because they look a lot very similar to me, actually.

[Roy]

Zach Hyman is injured. He's not going to play in this series. So that's a big blow to them. But yeah, they definitely better this year. And Stuart Skinner, who had questions about going into the west final, he wasn't consistent.

[Chris Cody]

I mean, he still got questions about him.

[Roy]

He wasn't consistent going into the west final, but he did really well against the stars. So I kind of expect him to keep that consistency going into the cup final.

[Jeremy]

Do we think just pivoting to the NBA real quick, do you guys think that the Knicks defense, speaking of consistency, can have that type of effort in Game 6? Because to me, the only difference last night was that their defensive intensity was on another level and they were able to prevent Tyrese Halliburton, who's been facilitating the entire Indiana Pacers offense from getting into the lane at all. It'd be like if Minnesota had been able to prevent Shea from doing that for more than one game. Do you guys think that it's. It's possible that they can repeat that effort and slow down Indiana that way?

[Roy]

It's hard to repeat desperation, right? Like, yeah, the desperation meter. You can only go so high before you start revving in. All right, We've kind of given it all we have.

[Jeremy]

And when the other team doesn't have desperation, right, Tony?

[Billy Corben]

Still desperate, though.

[Jeremy]

Pacers are feeling a little desperate, but.

[Billy Corben]

Can you feel that these are nervous. Are a home loss away from going back to the Mecca for a game.

[Jeremy]

Right, which is why they had to.

[Billy Corben]

Tell you what that building will win. That building. That building will win that game. That's what I was trying to say.

[Chris Cody]

Who's more desperate?

[Roy]

I think. I think when you look at defensively, they've probably played the best defense they have in the last couple of rounds, right?

[Jeremy]

Just last night, because they're playing Jalen Brunson less.

[Dan LeBatard]

This is what I love, slash hate about, you know, assigning people their superstar status. Right, Because I love Tyres Halburn. He was absolutely masterful in that previous game, but he follows up with a triple single, and now it's all about, oh, the Knicks defense did this. And, yeah, the Knicks defense did do something different to Tyrese. Took a while. Took long enough for them to finally try to get the ball out of his hands. But it does give them some hope of being able to replicate that and do that, you know, maybe when the pressure's greater on Tyrese at home to close it out, because he obviously doesn't want to go back to msg. So there's something there. There's definitely a storyline here with this series.

[Roy]

It's definitely not over, I think, to the point. And we talked about it on audible yesterday, how well Kat's been playing Yesterday only took 1 3. Everything else was at the hoop. I think you went like, 8 for 12 inside the restricted area. Like, that's the recipe for the Knicks to be good is Karl Anthony towns. Wait, you're seven foot two and you're, you know, 290 pounds. Go get the bucket that you need to in the paint.

[Jeremy]

Well, and that's why the Brunson Towns pick and roll had been so elite during the regular season, and they've really shied away from using that in the postseason. Like, it's not been something they've gone to, and because they haven't gone to it a lot it also hasn't been efficient. You don't know chicken and egg in that scenario. But that's been something that throughout the year was getting Towns more easy buckets. Last night it was just his own assertiveness with the ball at the top of the key to decide. I'm just going to drive to the hoop and I'm going to make this happen or I'm going to back guys down. But to me it's so funny because you look at this performance from Halliburton, you can be like, oh, now the pressure's on. But at the same time, just like the one bad Shea performance in this series against Minnesota where they got blown out. If Indiana wins in six, you're not even going to remember this game and this performance because of how spectacular he's been in the rest of the series.

[Dan LeBatard]

The crazy thing about Cat to me is if he didn't have the ridiculous fouls and maybe, you know, didn't sort of move the way he moves, people would be like, this guy is dominating because it's, it's 26 and 12 and shooting 52% and well, up until last night, it's every night, 45 from 3 and it's every night and it's just like, oh, okay, well, we're just going to give him a hard time. He's doing it. The only problem is Jalen Brunson, Karl Anthony Towns, your two team leaders, your best combination are one way players. They are both defensive liabilities. You don't really see champions built that way. One of them's got to be a two way player.

[Stugotz]

You don't think that the field house is going to win the game for the Pacers to go?

[Billy Corben]

No, I don't. I think, no, I think the NBA is going to win the game for the Knicks game six, and then the building will win the game for the knicks in Game 7. I think the Knicks are going to the NBA Finals. That's why, like, Dan wants my tears. Throughout this series, he's wanted my tears and I haven't given him my tears because. Because I do believe the Knicks are a better team. Like they are a ridiculous shot and bounce away from being up 3, 2, headed back to Indiana.

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[Stugotz]

I may take it one step further. Wait a minute.

[Chris Cody]

Wait a minute.

[Billy Corben]

You're getting sexier by the moment. Slow down. We haven't even gotten stugats.

[Mike Ryan]

I'm gonna.

[Stugotz]

Jason Sanders, you're unnoticed.

[Billy Corben]

Wow. Oh, my God. One in spite of him.

[Stugotz]

Oh, wow. I love you, dude. Duke, this is the Dan Levatar show with the stugats. I forgot that we had a game that you wanted to play this segment.

[Billy Corben]

Yes.

[Stugotz]

Have you guys. You guys familiar with blind rankings? You guys want to try this game? It's called blind rankings. So, Roy. Roy, are you.

[Roy]

Do we need pencil and paper for this?

[Billy Corben]

For us?

[Dan LeBatard]

Don't look now.

[Billy Corben]

You got to put pen to paper.

[Stugotz]

Hold on. Only if Roy wants to play. Roy, do you want to play blind rankings? No. Okay, well, then never mind. We're not gonna get a blind rankings today.

[Roy]

Maybe later.

[Dan LeBatard]

You know what? What do you want to do now?

[Roy]

Yeah, I changed my mind.

[Stugotz]

This is this about the time that you just get up and walk out and leave and then.

[Roy]

Famously don't go.

[Jeremy]

Tony, want to throw me a marker or a pen or something?

[Roy]

Yeah, give me a pen.

[Billy Corben]

Let me know when everyone has a piece of paper.

[Chris Cody]

We're only doing one list, though, right? We're not doing, like, I have this at 6. Like, that'll get way.

[Stugotz]

So hold on.

[Chris Cody]

We all have to agree on where something this is.

[Billy Corben]

No, no, no.

[Stugotz]

This is the way.

[Roy]

This is my list.

[Stugotz]

This is the way that this works. Friends, for those of you who are new to the. You know the game blind rankings. Two guys is going to give us 10 of some category. We play this on godless football a number of times. We've done yet this week we did coaches on godless football. If you want to check that out. Subscribe.

[Billy Corben]

Quarterbacks last week.

[Stugotz]

Backup quarterbacks Last week is crazy. Yeah, that's a good one. So blind rankings works like this. We don't know who's coming up next. You put a list 1 through 10, and then when you go the thing, you have to assign them a spot 1 through 10 without knowing who is coming up next. You got. You wanted to play blind rankings today. You were motivated to do this. I don't know why. What is the topic you wanted to do? Blind rankings?

[Billy Corben]

I'm doing radio and podcast host.

[Stugotz]

Wow. Oh, wow. Local national of all genres.

[Billy Corben]

Just radio. Sports. Okay, sports, but just radio and podcast hosts.

[Chris Cody]

So you'll say one and we as a group.

[Stugotz]

No, no, you just kind of. You assign the number yourself.

[Chris Cody]

That's. So you'll just say seven different rankings.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, that's fine. It's your own personal rankings. It's fun.

[Jeremy]

Just sign it and then we can go through.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, you just say the thing and then you just say five, four. Yeah, it's great. Yeah.

[Chris Cody]

No, this is going to be easy.

[Stugotz]

Classic rules guy. Chris Cody over here. Well, just.

[Chris Cody]

It could be so simple.

[Stugotz]

It is. You're the one complicating.

[Chris Cody]

No, the way this is fun.

[Billy Corben]

Are you making it a team game?

[Stugotz]

This can be so much faster.

[Chris Cody]

Say Jim Rome. And we're like, oh, that's a two.

[Stugotz]

Hold on.

[Chris Cody]

No, that's a nine.

[Billy Corben]

No, that's.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, that's fine.

[Chris Cody]

Whereas if we all just get to do our own, it's just not interesting. I'm putting them at like, exactly right.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, you say it's a three for me.

[Chris Cody]

We're not doing.

[Stugotz]

Because there's a strategy. You don't get it.

[Billy Corben]

Wait, so you want me to throw out a name? And then all of you discuss where you get a slot.

[Stugotz]

That'll take forever.

[Jeremy]

That'll.

[Stugotz]

That'll take forever. That's why March Sadness would take six days to put together the rankings. Is this song is this looks like a 16 or a 2?

[Dan LeBatard]

Rule with an iron fist. Tell us the rules and then we start.

[Stugotz]

God says the thing and then we just say what number you think Stugot's first name.

[Billy Corben]

Oh, we do. Everyone.

[Jeremy]

Are we saying it out loud or is Stugot saying a name? Nobody Stu got says the name. Yes, Everybody writes down in the slot and then do we go?

[Billy Corben]

You tell me where.

[Jeremy]

Around the room.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.

[Chris Cody]

Feel free to play along.

[Stugotz]

At home, the SAT nerds.

[Billy Corben]

Jeez.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, for real. By the way, tweet at us.

[Billy Corben]

Does everyone have a piece of paper.

[Stugotz]

With your top 10 paper?

[Roy]

And a pen.

[Billy Corben]

Does everyone have a pen?

[Stugotz]

I don't know why Chris is so annoyed. He's not open minded to this game whatsoever.

[Chris Cody]

Have you guys ever seen this on the Internet? It's always like a consensus debate. Yeah, you throw out something and then everyone in the room debates the time.

[Billy Corben]

Where you want to.

[Stugotz]

This isn't the Internet check.

[Billy Corben]

I mean.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, just saying it's cleaner. This is actually a fun bit to do. If it's clean.

[Stugotz]

You delayed.

[Billy Corben]

This has everyone written down.

[Stugotz]

We could have been by number seven already. Here. Jeez Louise.

[Billy Corben]

Here we go. All right. Colin Cowherd.

[Stugotz]

Oh, the herd.

[Roy]

That's a good one.

[Stugotz]

I gotta put him at three.

[Roy]

Me too, Billy.

[Stugotz]

Whoa. Well, I already slotted him at three.

[Chris Cody]

So I've got him at six.

[Stugotz]

Okay, there you go. That's a safe play on the first one because you don't know who's coming next. So you put him right in the middle.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's saved one spot underneath for him.

[Stugotz]

Wow, wow, wow. He had him at nine.

[Billy Corben]

Okay, Roy, where'd you put him?

[Roy]

Eight.

[Stugotz]

Eight.

[Billy Corben]

Okay, Jeremy, where?

[Jeremy]

Six.

[Billy Corben]

Wow.

[Chris Cody]

Roy has his disrespectful. Roy has his list. 10 at the top, one at the bottom. I put one at the top and 10.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, yeah, it's fine.

[Billy Corben]

I also have counting down Roy.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, that's what we usually do.

[Roy]

I have it too.

[Stugotz]

Yeah. All right.

[Billy Corben]

All right. Shannon Sharp.

[Stugotz]

This is a wow, difficult one.

[Chris Cody]

Thanks for putting him in there.

[Stugotz]

Yeah. Presently this makes it a little tricky here.

[Dan LeBatard]

What if you've never actually heard him?

[Roy]

I got him at five.

[Stugotz]

I got him six. I think I'm going to put him at six. I was going to have him at five, but I want the same as I'm putting him in highway.

[Billy Corben]

All right.

[Stugotz]

Yeah.

[Billy Corben]

All right.

[Stugotz]

Eight. Wow.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's the guy that has sex all the time. Right?

[Stugotz]

Okay, what's the next one of them?

[Mike Ryan]

5.

[Billy Corben]

If you were wondering, Dan Patrick.

[Stugotz]

DP.

[Billy Corben]

DP.

[Chris Cody]

We all know where Dan Le will put him.

[Stugotz]

I'm going to put 4.

[Roy]

I'm putting DP at 4.

[Stugotz]

3. Me and you were like super aligned today. I'll put him at five. Just, just, just. Cuz. Three for me, man.

[Chris Cody]

Seven.

[Stugotz]

Problem is they're gonna Ouch.

[Chris Cody]

Because of Fritzy.

[Stugotz]

Oh, that's Fritz. He doesn't have a problem with you.

[Billy Corben]

Right.

[Chris Cody]

I'm just kidding.

[Billy Corben]

No, he's fine with you.

[Stugotz]

He likes you. He told me. I've never spoken to him, but he follows me on LinkedIn.

[Roy]

Oh, that's nice.

[Chris Cody]

Why are you on LinkedIn?

[Mike Ryan]

Never know.

[Stugotz]

It's the smartest way to hire.

[Roy]

I've always been wanting to add you on LinkedIn, but then I think, you know what? I don't care. I don't remember my password. I always see you there on, like, the 6.

[Stugotz]

Co workers on LinkedIn is a dangerous game.

[Roy]

Yeah.

[Stugotz]

We can be co. We can be friends on LinkedIn once we're not co workers.

[Roy]

Okay, good.

[Billy Corben]

Right. Bill Simmons, everyone. Be careful.

[Stugotz]

Damn.

[Chris Cody]

Five.

[Jeremy]

I'm nervous.

[Stugotz]

I have him at four. You should be, cuz. I don't know. I don't know who's coming.

[Chris Cody]

Should we all say at the same time what our list looks like right now for people?

[Stugotz]

No.

[Jeremy]

Yeah, I think we should just say.

[Stugotz]

That you're just now.

[Chris Cody]

Now I want to get crazy.

[Stugotz]

Now you're making a mockery of this game. Wild card. This is a fun game. Look, the people in the chat are loving this. Just throwing out numbers here. This is great.

[Roy]

I think. I think I'm going. Simmons.

[Jeremy]

I was thinking about it.

[Stugotz]

I was gonna do two. I got him a seven. I was gonna do.

[Jeremy]

I was gonna regret.

[Roy]

Seven.

[Stugotz]

I was gonna do two, but I have had four. Right now.

[Billy Corben]

No one has slotted in number one.

[Chris Cody]

No, I have 1, 2, 3, 4 available, and 9 and 10.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm hoping I'm on the list.

[Roy]

9, 10, 5, 4, 2.

[Stugotz]

Dangerous game, Chris, is we know where our bread is butter, dude. Tops and bottoms.

[Billy Corben]

Big cat and pft together. Yes.

[Stugotz]

Wow.

[Dan LeBatard]

Was that about top combo guard?

[Stugotz]

Yeah, I'm gonna put him at two.

[Billy Corben]

Wow.

[Stugotz]

Wow. Wow.

[Jeremy]

I regret some of my decisions.

[Chris Cody]

I'm going number one.

[Billy Corben]

Yeah, well, that's. That's the reason we play the game.

[Chris Cody]

I went 119 for those guys.

[Billy Corben]

Huh. Wow. You don't want to leave that open for someone.

[Stugotz]

You just don't know who's coming up.

[Roy]

Next for the apartment.

[Stugotz]

It's the problem with leaving one is because you're always waiting. Because you think I might have a one.

[Jeremy]

Yeah.

[Stugotz]

And then if the person doesn't come, then what do you do?

[Chris Cody]

Are you and Dan gonna be in this?

[Stugotz]

Well, we don't know.

[Chris Cody]

This is amazing.

[Billy Corben]

Until they come up on the sheet here.

[Stugotz]

Yeah.

[Billy Corben]

No coming on the show.

[Stugotz]

Even though I see a lot of markings on that paper now that I'm looking at it.

[Chris Cody]

All right, let's go.

[Billy Corben]

I'm just scratching off rich Eisen.

[Stugotz]

Eisen. 4, 10, 10. I have Eisen at 1, going 7.

[Roy]

Verizon.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, I got 4.

[Billy Corben]

Just waiting for the next name to pop up.

[Stugotz]

It's a friend of stews. I have 7, 8, 9, and 10. So far. These been some good names.

[Jeremy]

I'm going to have some better blind rankings next time. I feel like I need to get used to playing the game.

[Stugotz]

It's a fun. But are you having better?

[Billy Corben]

Having a blast my first time. It was tough. Yeah.

[Stugotz]

Yeah. It's difficult. You figure out there's a strategy there. But the thing is, is that most times those names are put in a randomizer, so you don't really know this one is typed out. So I feel like there's some. Tom Fool.

[Jeremy]

You watch people do stuff like this on TikTok and you think, I never would have messed that up. I would have known.

[Stugotz]

Wait.

[Jeremy]

And yet here I am.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, it's not as easy as it looks.

[Billy Corben]

All right, here's a big name, guys. Big name named Christopher Mad dog Russo.

[Roy]

Thank God I left number one open. Thank God number one is open.

[Stugotz]

So we can't change now. Mad Dog 7 for me.

[Chris Cody]

Roy goes.

[Stugotz]

Can we change like 10 minutes ago?

[Jeremy]

That's the whole point.

[Stugotz]

No, you can't change. It's locked in. I'm going doggy at one.

[Jeremy]

I'm going doggy at number one.

[Stugotz]

Roy. Pet got stuck in the ceiling.

[Chris Cody]

Threw his pen up and it got stuck in the ceiling. Please tell me we can get a shot of that. It's stuck in the seat. That's all right. Bring the live view in, guys.

[Dan LeBatard]

Roy, it's not a game. If you can change your mind.

[Stugotz]

Yes.

[Roy]

Limited amount of changes. How about that? No, no, no. There's no changes.

[Billy Corben]

Talking about it. Damn it.

[Stugotz]

Look at that.

[Billy Corben]

Respect the game, Roy.

[Stugotz]

I want to.

[Chris Cody]

We're trying to find it.

[Jeremy]

Dan will be okay not being three names left.

[Billy Corben]

Mina Kimes.

[Stugotz]

Oh, my God. I only have eight.

[Billy Corben]

Nine.

[Roy]

I'm gonna go eight for Mina because I only have.

[Chris Cody]

I'm gonna put her three because it's the high.

[Stugotz]

That pen is going to fall like on Tuesday right in front of Dan.

[Billy Corben]

Dude, and he's going to freak out.

[Chris Cody]

Please, let's just leave it there and see when it falls.

[Stugotz]

That's just going to fall in the middle of his show one day.

[Chris Cody]

That would be great.

[Jeremy]

Need a number two.

[Billy Corben]

Who has one left?

[Jeremy]

Nine and ten open.

[Stugotz]

I have nine and ten open. I'm ten and one.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm waiting on you.

[Chris Cody]

St Four and nine. I have four and nine left.

[Billy Corben]

Okay. Jim Rome. Wow. Ro Ro.

[Chris Cody]

Going nine.

[Roy]

I only have nine and ten open. I got to go. Nine, nine.

[Chris Cody]

He played the game bad.

[Stugotz]

I gotta go too.

[Roy]

I played the game great, guys.

[Chris Cody]

This list is great.

[Dan LeBatard]

I've only got one open, and I'm gonna be so pissed at the last one's day.

[Billy Corben]

Hold on. Let's go around the room. Tony, what slot do you have open?

[Roy]

10 only.

[Billy Corben]

Okay. Izzy, one, one. 10, 10. Roy one.

[Chris Cody]

Why'd you say that? Like Michael Biamani talking to a road team. It's a fair point. Four, one.

[Stugotz]

Four. All right, Billy, I only have ten available.

[Billy Corben]

Oh, okay.

[Chris Cody]

What about you? You? Oh, you're not playing.

[Billy Corben]

I'm not. I'm not playing.

[Chris Cody]

All right, go ahead. What's next?

[Billy Corben]

Mark Hockman.

[Stugotz]

Yes.

[Billy Corben]

Yes.

[Chris Cody]

I like this, actually. That's perfect.

[Roy]

Thank you.

[Stugotz]

Number one.

[Chris Cody]

I mean, I have him a ten.

[Roy]

Yeah, me too.

[Dan LeBatard]

I was laughing the other day, too.

[Chris Cody]

Let's do a sports update with Alejandro Solana.

[Dan LeBatard]

This show has been around long enough to have two hawks in it.

[Stugotz]

Yeah.

[Billy Corben]

Well, a hawk and a hawk. I mean.

[Chris Cody]

Ah, my schmuckums.

[Billy Corben]

If you have two hawks, you don't have one.

[Chris Cody]

Is he just the time of our lives here at this brunch?

[Stugotz]

How did Andrew hawk tokens buy hawk.com and, like, get everything? Like, his, like, ad is at hawk. Yeah, I'm pretty sure his website is hot.com. it's crazy, right?

[Billy Corben]

He had to pay a premium.

[Roy]

Good investment.

[Billy Corben]

Someone owned that, right.

[Stugotz]

Maybe I was wrong about that. Hawk.com says this site is under construction.

[Billy Corben]

Because you would think A.J. hawk probably has that right.

[Stugotz]

No right.

[Roy]

I like my list.

[Billy Corben]

Or Andre Dawson Austin.

[Chris Cody]

So should we all read what our list is?

[Dan LeBatard]

I've got Hawkman as the number one podcaster in America.

[Billy Corben]

Gotcha.

[Chris Cody]

My list is Big Cat, PFD Russo, Mina Kimes, Hawkman, Bill Simmons, Cowherd Dan Patrick, Shannon Sharp, Jim Rome, Rich Eisen.

[Stugotz]

Wow. So, like, next on the list. 11, 12, and 13. Because it was random. Biz was 11. Dan's 12, Matthew Berry is 13. So those are the Olis on this situation. Wow. You see, you didn't think. You thought that it'd be a consensus we did it.

[Chris Cody]

As reckless as you could have.

[Stugotz]

I don't know.

[Chris Cody]

Not reckless, but we just did it.

[Billy Corben]

Why do you care about this game so much?

[Stugotz]

That pen is gonna fall.

[Dan LeBatard]

Okay, everybody say where they have Mina 3.

[Chris Cody]

Because it was the highest spot.

[Stugotz]

I only had eight because I only had eight available.

[Billy Corben]

Well, if you had to recede now.

[Dan LeBatard]

Knowing what you know, Hockman stays at one, right? I think I flip flop Big Cat. Pft with Mina. That's about it.

[Billy Corben]

Okay.

[Roy]

I like my list.

[Billy Corben]

I wanted some Joe Rose in there. I like him.

[Roy]

I was waiting for Big Dog.

[Billy Corben]

I know.

[Roy]

I was waiting. But then we got Mad Dog, and I was like, all right, I got one.

[Stugotz]

I don't love Eisen at one for.

[Roy]

Me, I don't know why you picked.

[Chris Cody]

Why you put him at one.

[Roy]

Dude.

[Stugotz]

I was trying to just bother sts.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm surprised how high up I have Mad Dog, and I think that's you st gods. I think it's a stew effect because I was never a mad dog. I wasn't a New Yorker coming up. But now I love this dude.

[Billy Corben]

Well, what's changed? You've gotten to know him. You've heard him on the show. You realize he's a great dude.

[Dan LeBatard]

What's changed is that he is. It's almost like he's zagging while everybody's digging, like he is himself this whole time while everybody else is trying to be this nuanced person. He's just still being Mad Dog and just hitting the notes, and I absolutely love it.

[Chris Cody]

You guys want to hear Mad Dog trying to say names in this Knicks Pacer series?

[Billy Corben]

I mean, Bridges had a terrible game.

[Stugotz]

Owen, Obi played well and did a good job, and he played well in the game. Don't get me wrong, he played well in the game, but the Pacers have more firepower than the Knicks.

[Billy Corben]

That's all.

[Stugotz]

The, you know, they got nothing out of Nebhart last night, but Naismith, bad.

[Billy Corben]

Ankle and all makes a huge contribution.

[Stugotz]

They got a lot of guys who can do that.

[Chris Cody]

What do you call Obi?

[Roy]

Oenobie.

[Billy Corben]

Can I hear it again, please?

[Stugotz]

Double game. Owenobie played well and did a good job, and he played well in the game. Don't get me wrong, he played well in the game, but the Pacers have.

[Billy Corben]

More firepower than the Knicks. That's all there is to it.

[Stugotz]

You know, they got nothing out of Nebhart last night, but Nesmith, bad angle.

[Billy Corben]

And all makes a huge contribution.

[Stugotz]

They got a lot of guys who.

[Billy Corben]

Can do that that.

[Dan LeBatard]

He's trying to figure out what sound the B and the H make together. It's like, wait, no, never mind. That's just nem hard.

[Billy Corben]

Izzy. I know the pacers were up 3:1, but why did so many people go to that same exact take as doggy? Like more Firepower because they were a lucky bounce away from being down three, two, headed back to India. The Knicks are just as good as the Pacers.

[Dan LeBatard]

Well, even without the lucky bounce, just look at the close games. Like more firepower than you would assume. They've won each game by 20 points. No, I assume just the Knicks defense hasn't been there. The Pacers look better and because they've won more games, it says they have more fire.

[Roy]

I think it's a thing of pace, right? They look like they have more firepower because they're faster and they play faster than the Knicks, who play a half court offense, want to play a lot, a lot slower. But the Pacers just running and gunning, everybody's flying and Haliburton's doing all this stuff. That's why it looks like they have more firepower. But when you look man to man, it's like now they're kind of even.

[Jeremy]

It's just that they have more offensive options that they can rely on.

[Stugotz]

On.

[Jeremy]

Because it's just Brunson and Cat are the reliable offensive bridges sometimes, right? But you can only go to him on occasion. Where with the Pacers, we've seen Miles Turner has gone off in moments. We've seen Benedict Mather in. Well, the difference is run that stuff, right?

[Dan LeBatard]

The Pacers actually have movement and they find the open person if there's an obvious mismatch. They go to the mismatch with the Knicks. Up until last night. Because last night there was a lot more offense, there was a lot more plays that ended with just one final assistance. But up until last night, it was always okay if Johnson, if Brunson's not going, if Cat's not going. Once I'm Bridges and I get the ball, I feel like I've got to do something. Now. Last night they were a little bit more team oriented, a little bit more ball movement oriented. And it just showed up in making their firepower look a little better.

[Stugotz]

I'm excited for a big Saturday night basketball game.

[Billy Corben]

Are you really?

[Stugotz]

Yeah.

[Billy Corben]

Surprised to hear that.

[Stugotz]

Why?

[Billy Corben]

I don't know. You don't get fired up for much these days, man. I mean, you heard it.

[Roy]

That's true.

[Billy Corben]

You want to sprint and be a grandparent already? I mean, missing out on life.

[Dan LeBatard]

I mean, it is kind of lame that the. The two games, three and four, the Panthers home games here for the Stanley Cup Final are on a Monday and a Thursday.

[Stugotz]

That's like.

[Billy Corben]

I don't like that.

[Roy]

Doesn't make any sense.

[Billy Corben]

Terrible, right?

[Stugotz]

Yeah.

[Billy Corben]

And game seven Would be Monday, right? Knicks, Pacers, Yeah. Yeah, I don't like that at all. I don't like a Game seven on a Monday.

[Stugotz]

When would you do it?

[Billy Corben]

I mean, Thursday, a Sunday?

[Roy]

3:30.

[Billy Corben]

You would wait from Sunday 3:30?

[Roy]

3:30?

[Stugotz]

Game seven is great. The day after?

[Roy]

No, but I'm terrible.

[Stugotz]

3:30?

[Roy]

What are you talking about? No, what are you.

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