The Big Suey: Sue Me, A**hole

Summary

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz – Episode Summary: "The Big Suey: Sue Me, Ahole"**

Release Date: July 31, 2025

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1. Main News Highlight: Gilbert Arenas' Arrest

The episode kicks off with a deep dive into the recent arrest of former NBA star Gilbert Arenas in connection to an underground poker game. Dan LeBatard critiques the Justice Department's sensationalized press release, suggesting it may have exaggerated Arenas' role in the operation.

Dan LeBatard [01:09]: "They made it seem like he was the mastermind. I'm not saying he didn't commit a crime. Maybe he did, maybe didn't. They're making it seem like he was the mastermind."

Jon Weiner echoes Dan's skepticism about the portrayal, emphasizing the potential overstatement in the press release.

Jon Weiner [01:13]: "At least based on his explanation, it seems like it was a little sensational."

The hosts express their concern for Arenas, highlighting their personal connections to him.

Dan LeBatard [01:53]: "I know Gilbert. And I know a lot of people were also... By the power of... What's it called? Friendship Six degrees."

2. Personal Connections and Reactions

The camaraderie among the hosts is evident as they share their personal relationships with Arenas, showcasing the tight-knit community within the podcast.

Jon Weiner [01:54]: "He's my friend, too."

Mike Ryan humorously remarks on Arenas' situation, blending light-heartedness with genuine concern.

Mike Ryan [02:40]: "Of course how he had to come out of jail. That's Gilbert Arenas."

3. Accents and Celebrity Interactions: The Aaron Rodgers Segment

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to dissecting Aaron Rodgers' recent comments about Pittsburgh's Terry Bradshaw. Roy Bellamy introduces an audio clip where Rodgers responds to Bradshaw, which sparks a lively debate about Rodgers' accent and authenticity.

Roy Bellamy [08:12]: "I whisper to the gods every single day. Damn right. I've known Terry for a long time..."

Dan critiques Rodgers' attempt at capturing a Pittsburgh accent, finding it unconvincing.

Dan LeBatard [08:51]: "He sounds like he's doing his best Charles Barkley accent, right?"

Dave Sampson provides context on Rodgers' intentions, suggesting it might be a strategic move to smooth relations.

Dave Sampson [07:10]: "He wanted to be on the Minnesota Vikings. So now that he is singing songs about how special it is to be a Pittsburgh Steeler is a little hard to accept."

The discussion culminates in analyzing the implications of such interactions on fan perceptions.

4. Traffic Tales: Merging Mishaps

Jon Weiner shares a relatable morning traffic story about merging onto I-95 South, highlighting the frustrations of dealing with uncooperative drivers.

Jon Weiner [23:31]: "I ended up having to essentially cut someone off because they weren't letting me."

The hosts debate the etiquette of merging and the appropriate responses when faced with obstructive drivers.

Dan LeBatard [26:03]: "When you're stopped, you roll down the window and you lean out, you say, thank you."

5. Tennis Chat: "Sue Me, Ahole"**

Transitioning to lighter topics, the conversation shifts to their tennis chat group humorously named "Sue Me, A**hole." Roy explains the origin of the name, stemming from an altercation at the US Open.

Roy Bellamy [37:56]: "Some guy tried to get one of our guys to move from his seat, and that was the response."

Mike Ryan recounts an incident where the group's name almost led to a confrontation.

Mike Ryan [39:02]: "I was just like, tennis. And he goes. And I was just like, no further questions, please."

The anecdote underscores the playful yet edgy nature of their community interactions.

6. Sports Video Games Nostalgia

The hosts indulge in a nostalgic discussion about classic sports video games, reminiscing about titles like NFL Blitz, NHL '94, and NBA Street.

Dan LeBatard [34:02]: "NBA street has a place in my heart... I can't stand Madden."

They share fond memories of gameplay mechanics and favorite teams within these games, reflecting on how video gaming intersects with their love for sports.

7. Team Management and Sports Gaffes

Roy and Jon delve into criticisms of sports team management, particularly targeting figures like Dale Talon and his tenure with the Panthers and Blackhawks. Their spirited debate highlights the complexities of sports administration.

Roy Bellamy [40:13]: "He won Stanley Cup, Vegas Golden Knights by terrible decisions. Letting Marcus Shaw go."

8. Odd Behavior in Sports: The Dante Jones Incident

Towards the end of the episode, the conversation shifts to a bizarre incident involving Dante Jones. Mike Ryan describes Jones' unsettling behavior in an elevator, leading to a discussion on workplace appropriateness.

Mike Ryan [40:50]: "He goes back inside the show... digs in there, sniffs and then swipes on the wall."

The hosts express their discomfort and speculate on the implications of such actions within professional settings.

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Notable Quotes

• Dan LeBatard [01:09]: "They made it seem like he was the mastermind."
• Roy Bellamy [08:12]: "I whisper to the gods every single day."
• Dan LeBatard [08:51]: "He sounds like he's doing his best Charles Barkley accent, right?"
• Jon Weiner [23:31]: "I ended up having to essentially cut someone off because they weren't letting me."
• Roy Bellamy [37:56]: "Some guy tried to get one of our guys to move from his seat, and that was the response."
• Dan LeBatard [34:02]: "NBA street has a place in my heart... I can't stand Madden."
• Roy Bellamy [40:13]: "He won Stanley Cup, Vegas Golden Knights by terrible decisions."

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Conclusion

In "Sue Me, A**hole," Dan LeBatard and Stugotz offer a blend of serious sports news, personal anecdotes, and humorous banter. From dissecting Gilbert Arenas' legal issues to playful debates about accents and video games, the hosts provide a multifaceted look into the world of sports and beyond. Their candid discussions and relatable stories make the episode both engaging and entertaining for listeners, capturing the essence of South Florida's vibrant sports culture.

Transcript

[Dan LeBatard]

Welcome to the Big Sui, presented by DraftKings. Why are you listening to this show.

[Jon Weiner]

The podcast that seems very similar to.

[Dan LeBatard]

The other Dan LeBatard podcast?

[Jon Weiner]

I'm sorry. I'm not going to apologize for that.

[Dan LeBatard]

In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries that if they're just there.

[Mike Ryan]

That hasn't happened to you guys.

[Roy Bellamy]

I've done it.

[Dan LeBatard]

And now here's the marching man to Nowhere Fat Face and the Habitual Liar.

[Roy Bellamy]

This episode is brought to you by DraftKings. DraftKings. The Crown is yours.

[Dan LeBatard]

So, as I teased earlier, a lot of. Lot of news stories from the world of sports. Gilbert Arenas arrested in connection to an underground poker game. Basically, he provided the facilities, I guess, for it. Yeah. And the Justice Department put out this press release, and they made it, like, from what they were saying to then what I then ended up reading about, like, this feels a lot more sensationalized. I'm not saying he didn't commit a crime. Maybe he did, maybe didn't. I'm just saying they made it seem like he was the mastermind.

[Jon Weiner]

Yeah. At least based on his explanation, it seems like it was a little sensational to have.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah. I mean, all right, like, was this necessary?

[Jon Weiner]

His explanation was that he, like, he rented a house to people who were doing God knows what with it.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah. Yeah. And again, I don't know the extent of what he knew was happening and the legality of that. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about. Here comes those words again, Mike. Pomp and circumstance of the Justice Department and say, we got Gilbert Arenas and this Israeli crime lord. And I'm like, what in the world is going on? And then you hear him like, yeah, I guess that technically fits, but it feels kind of trumped up. And so I. I was wondering, you know, I reached out to a couple people. Yo, is Gilbert all right? And then I saw this video.

[Jon Weiner]

Oh, is he your friend?

[Dan LeBatard]

I know Gilbert. Yeah, I know Gilbert, and I.

[Mike Ryan]

Fellow podcaster.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah. And I know. I know a lot of people were also.

[Jon Weiner]

He's my friend, too.

[Dan LeBatard]

There you go. By the power of. What's it called?

[Jon Weiner]

When, like, Friendship Six degrees.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah. Power of grace. Call. Yes, Roy.

[Mike Ryan]

Thank you.

[Roy Bellamy]

Trivia night. Roy's back.

[Dan LeBatard]

But so I was worried, like, oh, man. How's guilt handling this? And then he posted this video.

[Dave Sampson]

You better not.

[Dan LeBatard]

Can't hold me, baby they can't hold me. Hello. All I can say is this. If I ever get arrested in. Knock on wood. I never get arrested for anything, but if I do, I hope I'm not in flip flops and skimpy shorts. That's just, I, I mean that's, that's.

[Mike Ryan]

Of course how he had to come out of jail. That's Gilbert Arenas. And plus, like, you look cooler when it feels like jail. Who cares? Look at me. But man, I love a good high stakes poker room. Like as soon as this story came out, I was like, man, I hope there's like a handful of NBA players that were just in there, like, just to like paint the room, right, like LeBron in there. And then he has a reputation of like playing super tight but then telling people, yeah, I would have won that. And I had like a 3, 7 like every single time. I just love it. And the fact that, that I know I saw a photo of. And who knows when this table was made. It could have been for something else. You never know. But Gilbert Arenas Poker club with the guilt, with a silhouette of a player wearing number zero over here. A little bit of a dead giveaway.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm sorry, but one of the things I really hated about the Justice Department press release, like they were saying like the names of the, like the co defendants or whatever, the people that they're accusing. And it's like you have guinea between air quotes, their nickname, Giora Gershman, right? And then all these other names and then it said, Gilbert Agent Zero. I'm like, shut your corny ass up, El Chapo lame ass. Whoever wrote that press release, just so corny, man.

[Mike Ryan]

But this is the part about this, the details that bothered me the most. So reportedly they had a bunch of things like, you know, people offering massages and valets, chefs. Valet and chefs and everything else. And then they say here, prosecutors say the group hired chefs, valets, and armed security guards to staff the games, as well as young women who served drinks, provided massages, and offered companionship to the poker players in exchange for tips.

[Jon Weiner]

What's that mean, companionship?

[Mike Ryan]

Here's the part that I hate and that the co conspirators took a cut of the tips they took. Not just, you know, they're taking a cut of every single hand making their money. They're taking a cut off the tips.

[Roy Bellamy]

Of these trouble people.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's the role of Molly Israel Gutierrez. Have you ever, first of all, you ever seen Molly's game? Yeah, I did, actually. Number one. Number two, have you ever seen the inner workings of how strip club works?

[Mike Ryan]

Sure.

[Dan LeBatard]

Have you ever seen players?

[Roy Bellamy]

I have Never Players club. Explain it to me.

[Mike Ryan]

I did not.

[Dan LeBatard]

They get a cut of. Of the. The dancers.

[Roy Bellamy]

That's what they. I'm always.

[Gina]

I'm always skeptical of this. You go to different places. That's all I've heard. And it's just like, what's really going on here?

[Mike Ryan]

But that's running a strip club like this is running a poker game. You're already making money. You're raking it in from the poker game.

[Dan LeBatard]

Why do you got to take the.

[Mike Ryan]

Tips from the people that are coming to work for you?

[Jon Weiner]

Companionship.

[Mike Ryan]

Come on.

[Dan LeBatard]

Again, there's. There's a way that.

[Mike Ryan]

What I mean by taking the tips at.

[Dan LeBatard]

But. But Izzy, like that. The idea here is again, for the employees, this is way more income than they'd be making at any other kind of service job. So, like, yes, you're. You're happy to pay that percentage in the same way that I'm happy to pay a percentage to my agent because he negotiates better for me than I do for.

[Mike Ryan]

Happy to give away any of that, buddy. I would numbers and be like, you guys are getting plenty. Give me all of my tips.

[Dan LeBatard]

Plenty is relative.

[Jon Weiner]

So it feels like he's not. I mean, look, we're on the outside looking in, looking at headlines and looking at videos. It feels like it's probably not going to amount to a huge thing for him.

[Dan LeBatard]

This is for the press release. Arenas, AKA Agent Zero of Woodland Hills. Are you out of your mind?

[Dave Sampson]

Agent Zero, by the way, is a neighbor of mine and C knows where these games were going down there. No invite for me.

[Mike Ryan]

Wow.

[Dave Sampson]

I think it's because my minimum would not meet theirs. That's what fascinates me. We know from Phil Mickelson, and otherwise, it's not like he's making a $10 parlay. What is the level going down at this to make it worth Agent Zero and his peer group that they're conducting these and like you say, raking loot away from the other rich people. I mean, what level of money are we talking about here for it to be worth his time?

[Mike Ryan]

Dave, how long have you been In LA now?

[Dave Sampson]

25 years.

[Mike Ryan]

Wow. And you still sound like that. That accent is strong.

[Dave Sampson]

I could talk more like I'm in la.

[Mike Ryan]

No, no, you're good.

[Roy Bellamy]

Right.

[Dan LeBatard]

I could end everything a little bit high, right?

[Dave Sampson]

People did. People have. Once in a while, more than once, people have come to me and said, we're gonna put you with our talent coach, our voice coach. And I said, to what to get me to a C Voice so that I talk a little bit like this.

[Dan LeBatard]

Now here's the thing. Can you do it while doing the Pittsburgh accent?

[Dave Sampson]

Can I? Aaron Rodgers throws it deep to DK Metcalf. Touchdown, Stillers.

[Jon Weiner]

That's how they sound in Pittsburgh?

[Dan LeBatard]

Well, only if They've been in LA for 25 years.

[Dave Sampson]

Rob Ryan over there keeps asking, is that what it sounds like in Pittsburgh?

[Roy Bellamy]

You can pick up an accent pretty quickly. Madonna, she was with Guy Ritchie. She had an accent. And it seems I want to play a clip. It's actually a pretty good response. It's pretty well known. Terry Bradshaw, over the course of his media career, not a fan of Aaron Rodgers. He takes every opportunity. Even he's found a way to criticize the way his footwork, like they're on opposite sides. It's pretty clear. But Aaron Rodgers had a pretty classy response to Terry Bradshaw. But that wasn't my takeaway from this bit of audio that Roy's about to play. Aaron Rodgers now has an accent.

[Dan LeBatard]

Terry Bradshaw says Rogers to the Steelers. I wrote it down because I want.

[Mike Ryan]

To get it right.

[Roy Bellamy]

It's a joke. Stay in California, chew on bark and.

[Jon Weiner]

Whisper to the gods.

[Roy Bellamy]

I whisper to the gods every single day. Damn right. I've known Terry for a long time, being a part of Fox. Terry's a legend. He's an absolute legend. He won four Super Bowls. He's had a legendary career in the media. But Terry, like a lot of people, doesn't know me. And so he's got an idea of what he thinks about me based on what I've done, the documentary, what I've said, darkness, retreat, whatever the hell you want to. But I'd love to get to know Terry on a deeper level if he's open to it. And maybe we can go chew some bark or whatever the hell he's talking about together.

[Dan LeBatard]

Let me tell you something, Kenny. That's what he said. He sounds like he's doing his best Charles Barkley accent, right?

[Mike Ryan]

That is so terrible. Was it? Didn't, didn't. I think that was the word that just kind of give it away.

[Roy Bellamy]

Courtesy of Cal Brandt, by the way. It was actually a longer answer. And he does give Terry plenty of flowers for allowing all the modern day players who make so much money, but I just couldn't get over this accent. The guy's been in Pittsburgh for what, like a couple of days? That's not a Pittsburgh accent.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm not.

[Roy Bellamy]

I'm not sure what kind of accent that was. That's something.

[Dan LeBatard]

Buckley. That's Leeds, Alabama.

[Roy Bellamy]

He grew up in Valley.

[Mike Ryan]

Hanging out with cowboys lately. Like, what's.

[Roy Bellamy]

I think he is hanging out with cowboys lately. I don't, I don't know what's happened.

[Dave Sampson]

I do, I do think though, it's a smart move obviously by Aaron Rodgers to say, to say good things about Terry Bradshaw, who has become by choice not the favorite son of Pittsburgh because he refuses to come back and has an ongoing rift with the late Chaz Noll, who departed the planet Earth a decade ago. At least the two things that are vaguely disingenuous to me. One, it's known that he wanted to be on the Minnesota Vikings. So now that he is singing songs about how special it is to be a Pittsburgh Steeler is a little hard to accept. The thing that he's doing that I find annoying is the same thing Russell Wilson did a year ago, which is announce as though it is such a winsome state statement to make to people from the region that, hey, blue collar work ethic, that's what it's all about here. As though. And really, I guess it's flattering to the populace. But how do people in Miami feel about that? How do people feel about, hey, this team represents the city and its blue collar work ethic. That's what this defense, the Steel Curtain defense is all it reflects as they.

[Mike Ryan]

All dance around on the Pat McAfee Show.

[Dave Sampson]

Right.

[Mike Ryan]

Tomlin had to love that.

[Dave Sampson]

Right. By the way. By the way. Yeah. But you know, people still sing songs about the blue collar work ethic and all of that. Would people in Miami not enjoy a good defense? I mean, that's.

[Dan LeBatard]

That they don't have a blue collar work ethic.

[Jon Weiner]

We want our team to be soft like us.

[Roy Bellamy]

If we were a seal town, the Florida Panthers would have that blue collar work ethic that is so synonymous with sunrise. It doesn't. We don't get those.

[Dan LeBatard]

I feel like a team that represented Miami would be a team that wins a lot of games in the fourth quarter. Like they show up late and then they make a massive comeback and then they act like they had it all along.

[Jon Weiner]

Can I just add, like Aaron Rodgers, he does take the high road there. And for the most part what he is saying there is like very positive about Terry Bradshaw. But first of all, but when you say he doesn't know who I am, he only thinks he knows who I am based on the things that I've done. That's how you find out who someone is by the things that they do.

[Mike Ryan]

Even the documentary, didn't he have say in this documentary, didn't he say, that's what I want to project out there? Wouldn't you think it was himself with.

[Roy Bellamy]

The documentary, which he was all over because he's like, this is how I finally get to reveal the real me. There's still ambiguity around it. Like, that's bad production, brother.

[Dan LeBatard]

You know, that sounds like it. Sounds like a guy who once said I was misquoted. My own autobiography. Charles Barkley, man, I'm telling you, the dude's hanging out with the Chuckster. If he starts talking about old fashions.

[Roy Bellamy]

They were in Tahoe. He was fresh from Tahoe.

[Dan LeBatard]

Hanging out with Charles Barkley.

[Amin Elhassan]

It rubbed off.

[Roy Bellamy]

It's like you go to a Red Sox game and you start talking about.

[Dave Sampson]

The Boston person doing Mike's. Aaron Rodgers sounds like Obama.

[Mike Ryan]

Everything sounds like Obama. Maybe if you listen close enough.

[Dave Sampson]

Is Roger. Does Roger sound like Obama?

[Dan LeBatard]

Okay, well, hold on, let me do this. This is Barack Obama. As someone from Pittsburgh. Jens.

[Roy Bellamy]

Who?

[Dan LeBatard]

That's all I got.

[Roy Bellamy]

Quite limited, but that's very limited.

[Dan LeBatard]

Steelers. Penguins.

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah, you're just naming teams. Howdy folks, it's Mike Ryan.

[Amin Elhassan]

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[Gina]

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[Roy Bellamy]

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[Jon Weiner]

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[Jon Weiner]

Football, football.

[Roy Bellamy]

Football, football. Stugats.

[Mike Ryan]

Football.

[Jon Weiner]

Football. This is the Dan Levatar show with the St.

[Dan LeBatard]

Crosby.

[Roy Bellamy]

Okay. Oh, that's right, said the kid. Oh, we can. I'd rather. Rather than the 9966 debate. You're familiar with Roy Bellamy's utter disdain for Sidney Crosby?

[Dave Sampson]

Yeah, we got into that just a little bit.

[Dan LeBatard]

You guys was there. Was there? Oh, you're. Oh, yeah. You know what, man? I didn't even do the math. Not just a Steelers fan, but also a Penguins fan.

[Dave Sampson]

That's right.

[Dan LeBatard]

Roy's sworn enemy, Sid the Kid.

[Gina]

He got there before the show. They already did. Roy did Dirty Player. And then he was like, nah, he just. He has. He has a backbone. When people go after him, he can stand up for himself. That's where we left it.

[Dan LeBatard]

Unlike Mike Madonna.

[Jon Weiner]

I just like the revelation from Amin where he's just realizing that someone from a city may like all the teams from that city.

[Dan LeBatard]

It took me a while. Last horse crossed the finish line.

[Jon Weiner]

Wait, Dave, you like the Steelers, the Penguins and the Pirates?

[Dave Sampson]

Don't push it.

[Roy Bellamy]

Who's your NBA team?

[Dave Sampson]

I have dignity.

[Mike Ryan]

Who's your basketball team?

[Dan LeBatard]

The.

[Roy Bellamy]

You a Clippers guy?

[Dan LeBatard]

The fish that saved Pittsburgh.

[Jon Weiner]

Favorite movie?

[Dave Sampson]

The Pittsburgh Pisces.

[Dan LeBatard]

Of course.

[Dave Sampson]

Of course. I know. I remember. They opened up the igloo and then came the balloon with the whole team in there. Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

And favorite movie? Sudden Death.

[Roy Bellamy]

Oh, yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

What a movie.

[Dave Sampson]

Wow.

[Roy Bellamy]

That is a film.

[Dave Sampson]

That's a can of worms in my book. For some reason, Hollywood. Hollywood has a beef with Pittsburgh sports teams and it goes way back. Sudden Death. The movie is, you know, the terrorists come in on the Goodyear blimp into Super Bowl 10. Who's playing in that game? The Pittsburgh Steelers are playing.

[Dan LeBatard]

Oh, no. Sudden death was game.

[Dave Sampson]

I'm not sudden death. I'm sorry. What was the name of the 1976 terrorist attack movie?

[Dan LeBatard]

Heaven Can Wait, Roy.

[Dave Sampson]

Well, Heaven Can Wait.

[Roy Bellamy]

I wasn't in. That was Warren Beatty.

[Dan LeBatard]

I know.

[Dave Sampson]

Heaven Can Wait. Warren Beatty is a millionaire who buys the Rams so he can install himself as the starting quarterback. It foretells what Tom Brady tried to do with the Miami Dolphins just a few years ago. It's the exact same story.

[Dan LeBatard]

Wow.

[Dave Sampson]

Basically, I'm telling you, there's a movie for everything.

[Dan LeBatard]

Let's play this Longest Yard.

[Dave Sampson]

But, well, but also. So Warren Beatty goes to the Super Bowl, Tom Pendleton and all of that. And who do they vanquish in overtime of that Super Bowl? The Pittsburgh Steelers. Sudden death terr. Terrorist attack on the Pittsburgh Penguins.

[Roy Bellamy]

Black Sunday.

[Dave Sampson]

Black Sunday is the movie I was talking about.

[Roy Bellamy]

Robert Shaw. Bruce Dern.

[Jon Weiner]

Robert Shaw.

[Dave Sampson]

That's right, Robert Shaw. Robert Shaw from Jaws. That's exactly right. And in Gotham. But it looks very similar to Pittsburgh.

[Jon Weiner]

That was the Steelers.

[Dave Sampson]

Heinz Ward runs back a kickoff return and behind him the stadium is destroyed.

[Dan LeBatard]

What goes on?

[Jon Weiner]

Pittsburgh's on the sideline. Roethlisberger was on the team. So was Pouncy, I believe.

[Dan LeBatard]

Let me. Let me. Let me clarify some things. Number one, sudden death. You're in game seven of the Stanley cup and you're hosting seventh game. Excuse me. The seventh game of the Stanley cup finals and you're hosting final. That's a compliment, right? Number one. Number two, his finals back then. It was back then. 1995. Yeah. Correct. Yep. Trivia night right here. Number two. Black Sunday. Right. Super Bowl. You're in the Super Bowl. Number three. Dark Knight rises. Hines Ward Stadium blew up behind him. What was in front of him? Nothing. He was in the end zone. It's all compliments to Pittsburgh Sports.

[Dave Sampson]

Glass half full of me. You turned me around on this. Thank you.

[Roy Bellamy]

Glass half full of.

[Dave Sampson]

I've had a chip on my shoulder for too long and you just knocked.

[Dan LeBatard]

It off all along, patting you guys on the back.

[Dave Sampson]

You know who else has a chip on his shoulder? And I'd like him to replace it with a note of thanks. Who is Roy? Because there Might not be an NHL without Sidney Crosby.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, get the.

[Roy Bellamy]

Get out of here.

[Dave Sampson]

I don't know if you know what happened, but they.

[Dan LeBatard]

But, but.

[Dave Sampson]

But they held out and they didn't go on strike. What did they do?

[Roy Bellamy]

What's the lockout?

[Dave Sampson]

Lockout? They locked themselves out. Whatever they did. Without. Without 87, the sport does not return, at least on the level that it has.

[Mike Ryan]

Is that Sydney's number?

[Roy Bellamy]

What do you mean, 87?

[Dave Sampson]

Yeah, I mean, you. Maybe you just don't know him like Terry Bradshaw doesn't know Aaron Rodgers. You just need to get to know him.

[Jon Weiner]

Maybe you're only basing your thoughts on Cindy Crosby based on what he does.

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah, there's still a guy named Stupid.

[Mike Ryan]

Way to do it.

[Dan LeBatard]

The note. She calls Dave obnoxious. And I was like, I think he's pretty pleasant. And now in this last maybe five.

[Roy Bellamy]

That was on the research, that he's obnoxious.

[Dan LeBatard]

Obnoxious Pittsburgh fan. Catch Football America starting August 7th, right here on Meadowlark. Oh, football. How do you pronounce it? Because there's an exclamation point. Is it Football America, or is that just the note taking?

[Dave Sampson]

We gotta get an Aaron Rodgers pronunciation of it. I haven't mastered it quite yet. Can we get a means version of Mike's Aaron Rodgers?

[Dan LeBatard]

Hold on. Football America. Now, Mitch McConnell doesn't want that. Mitch McConnell wants football to be somewhere else. Wants soccer America. Wants Baseball America, not Football America. Some folks across the aisle.

[Roy Bellamy]

We stumbled upon your listening audience being called Football Americans. We got the hall of Fame game starting today, which is, you know. Yeah, it's a terrible thing. Terrible thing. Where are you on the hall of Fame game?

[Dave Sampson]

I. I'm on the record. I hate to be a curmudgeon about it, but it's exciting for football to come back, and it's no wonder that we all are excited to see it. And then you see the uniforms out there. But preseason football games are Civil War reenactments. They only look real. They say, there's the uniform. Those are the guys. Like, wait a minute. Who are these people wearing those uniforms? It's kind of like watching a movie. It's unsatisfying. Hey, wait. Civil War reenactment.

[Roy Bellamy]

Look, here we are.

[Dave Sampson]

We're at Gettysburg.

[Roy Bellamy]

Look at that.

[Dave Sampson]

They're the Confederates. Wait a minute. That general's drinking a Mountain Dew. This stinks.

[Mike Ryan]

Which team is fighting for what now?

[Roy Bellamy]

We got a bad color clash today. Chargers decided to go with the powder blue pants and the white tops going up against a Honolulu blue. Detroit Lions. This is an assault on the eyes. Why would they do this?

[Dan LeBatard]

Honolulu blue.

[Roy Bellamy]

That's what the Lions wear.

[Dan LeBatard]

Honolulu blue.

[Dave Sampson]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

What's the connection to Honolulu?

[Mike Ryan]

It's probably, like, the most recognizable color of their water, maybe. Nice color, blue.

[Dan LeBatard]

Wow, what a stretch. That's the closest body of water they could get to Honolulu.

[Roy Bellamy]

Also. Lions are not blue, by the way.

[Dan LeBatard]

What?

[Roy Bellamy]

Lions are not blue.

[Dan LeBatard]

Lions are not blue at all. Why? Why are they blue?

[Roy Bellamy]

Bears aren't navy and orange.

[Dan LeBatard]

All kind of orange. A little.

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah, a little bit orange.

[Dan LeBatard]

A little bit of orange.

[Gina]

It's the shade of the Pacific Ocean.

[Jon Weiner]

Colors of charge.

[Dan LeBatard]

What is Pacific Ocean?

[Dave Sampson]

That's just what they really should have named it after. Lake Michigan. Lake Superior, One of those. Right.

[Gina]

It was named after the shade of the Pacific Ocean seen during a trip to Hawaii by the team's original owner, George A. Richard.

[Roy Bellamy]

There you go.

[Dan LeBatard]

All the old reasonings for names. It's always something different.

[Gina]

I've got him, like, with like, a bat, like a pipe, and he's just like this. This water's blue here.

[Dan LeBatard]

I got him, like, the dude.

[Gina]

Honolulu Blue.

[Dan LeBatard]

They say from Jurassic Park. Welcome to Honolulu. Look at that blue. Zaz.

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

Have a good drive into the work today.

[Jon Weiner]

Okay, so let's. I. I need some help here.

[Gina]

Terrible transition, dude.

[Dan LeBatard]

Hey, man, I'm doing the best I can.

[Jon Weiner]

I need. I. No, I think you're doing what I.

[Dan LeBatard]

Was supposed to do just fine.

[Roy Bellamy]

Dusty Rose building you up. You're doing great, man.

[Jon Weiner]

I need some help here. All right? So I. I come. I come from, you know, northwest of here, all right? And so my route to get here, I take the turnpike, and then I eventually have to merge on to 95 South. Now, there's a lot of construction where I have to merge. Well, yeah, there's a lot of construction where I have to merge. So what winds up happening is I have to merge into a lane to get on to 95 South. But it's not a merge lane.

[Dave Sampson]

It's.

[Jon Weiner]

It's a regular lane, but I end up having to merge because by the time I get to that interchange, if I'm explaining this properly, that lane to get on 95 south is already way backed up. So you essentially, you're not skipping the line.

[Mike Ryan]

You literally get there, and you're already in the middle of the line. What do I do?

[Jon Weiner]

Yeah, I have no choice. So, again, it's not a merge lane, all right? But we got to use some common sense, and people should really be courteous and let you in. You know, as opposed to you having to cut people off. So here's my question. I do this every morning, and this morning in particular, I ended up having to essentially cut someone off because they weren't letting me.

[Mike Ryan]

They were doing that thing where they were just staying as close as, oh, yeah, Cody, move.

[Jon Weiner]

But here's the thing. They don't scare me because my car is bigger than their car.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm coming.

[Mike Ryan]

Once you got the front headlight in front of them, you've got the, like.

[Jon Weiner]

I'm in an suv, you're in a sedan. Here I come. You know, you're going to stop and you're going to let me in. And of course, that's exactly what ended up happening. You can't be scared, Roy.

[Roy Bellamy]

Well, it depends on where you try to get in, right? Like, did you go in, like, that triangle area where you can't pass?

[Mike Ryan]

No, no, no.

[Jon Weiner]

Like, I, I, I'm, I'm trying to get in. Eventually it gets to a point of no return. It's like, all right, this is happening. I have to get in.

[Mike Ryan]

Now, it's not like you can just put the car in park and wait till somebody lets you in. You got to keep creeping up and. Right, you're into the front.

[Jon Weiner]

You're into the front. So I, I get in. Now, normally in that spot, what's the courteous move? Thank you. You know, you give the little hand, you put the hand up real quick, maybe you wave it for a second, and that's it. You give a quick thank you.

[Mike Ryan]

But do you put your hand out of the window or do you trust?

[Jon Weiner]

No, no, I put in the middle, you know, right by my, my rear view mirror. They could see I'm not putting my hand out the window. All right, a little extra.

[Gina]

If I saw a hand out the window, I'd be like, that's doing too much.

[Jon Weiner]

Yeah, it's too much. All right. I'm not that thankful for it. Okay. I was coming no matter what. But anyway, I'm putting my hand up, I want to give a thank you. But on a day like today where they weren't letting me in, I had to force my way in. I didn't give the thank you wave.

[Gina]

That's when one finger goes up.

[Jon Weiner]

So, like, am I supposed to give the thank you wave when I cut them off? They forced me to cut them off.

[Dan LeBatard]

Jonathan, let me show you how to do this. When, first of all, is it bumper to bumper, like we're stopped? Yeah, that's when you roll down the window and you lean out, you say, thank you. Oh, I go over the top. Nice. When I know. Oh, man, you try to get me back.

[Mike Ryan]

Because they did put this entire effort into looking like an asshole. Like, he's not going to get past me. No, no. If you do it anyway and give him a thank you. He didn't even notice what I was doing.

[Dan LeBatard]

No, no, it's not even that. It's. It's worse than that. It's. They're angry and they're like, oh, no, no, no. And then you beat them, and they know they've lost. And it's. It's the Mike Tyson kiss. You. After I beat you, it's like, okay, you can whip my ass. You're not going to also be magnanimous and gracious?

[Mike Ryan]

And you got to look in the rear view to make sure. Like, how mad they are. It's like if they're steaming, you're like, all right, Izzy.

[Dan LeBatard]

Sometimes I blow kisses. I Little kids. Oh, thank you.

[Gina]

I always. If someone's mad at me, you just smile.

[Dan LeBatard]

Oh, it's so.

[Gina]

Just like you're enjoying it.

[Dave Sampson]

That's the correct move. That's right. It really. That. That amps up their anger.

[Dan LeBatard]

Don LeBatard.

[Jon Weiner]

I want to talk about a team that I actually want to see come playoff time. I want to see the Chiefs.

[Roy Bellamy]

Oh, Stugats.

[Jon Weiner]

I want Patrick Mahomes strolling into my stadium with max confidence. I want Travis Kelce. I want Taylor Swift. I want the team that lost to Jordan Love. I want the team that lost to Aiden O'. Connell. I want the team that trailed 17 to nothing to Jake Browning. That is the team that I would like to face in the playoffs. That's the team, indeed, that I would want to face in the playoffs, because that team is not very good. This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugach.

[Dave Sampson]

As far as that goes, I was once in the, you know, Dark Knight and all of that, where Joker goes down Lower Wacker in Chicago. I was once merging it in Rush Hour, and I worked my way.

[Jon Weiner]

That movie wasn't really filmed in Gotham.

[Dave Sampson]

We'll talk about it later. I'll explain it to you a little bit. But the. Yeah, so I merged in, and the guy behind me was laying on the horn, but it was just one car in. Then you go, one next car. This guy didn't like that. The same guy who violates getting off the airplane rules.

[Gina]

Gotta break. Check that guy.

[Dave Sampson]

We used to live in a society that's exactly right. These terrible people. So this guy didn't like it. He's laying on the horn and I'm doing my usual bit of waving at him and laughing and all of that. And I look in my rear view mirror one last time to see what he's doing, and I realize his car door is open and he ain't in his car anymore. And so I go to lock my car door, and before I can, my car door is open.

[Jon Weiner]

No, it's a real story.

[Dave Sampson]

This is a true story. Tell me what you think about this as a man. What should I have done?

[Gina]

I'm scared.

[Dave Sampson]

He opens the car door.

[Dan LeBatard]

What's he look like?

[Dave Sampson]

And he. Yeah, I'll be honest with you. This is 20 years ago at least, so I don't really remember. He's younger than I was.

[Dan LeBatard]

Young guy, generally.

[Gina]

No, it's fine. I like this threatening. We don't have to play this game anymore.

[Dave Sampson]

No, not terribly threatening. But everybody is threatening now.

[Jon Weiner]

All you did was wave and smile.

[Dave Sampson]

All I did was. Yeah, I was being a jerk. I was, you know. Well, I was, you know, I was getting his goat.

[Gina]

I mean, you're not getting a color. I know. I know you want to mean you're.

[Dan LeBatard]

Not getting a color.

[Dave Sampson]

He opens the door. He opens the door and does a spit thing at me. Oh, but air.

[Jon Weiner]

He spits air like Iron Jack.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, right.

[Dave Sampson]

And I felt the air, but I realized it wasn't. He didn't actually still get on me. Walks away. He opened the door. Am I supposed to get out of the car and throw hands with this character now?

[Mike Ryan]

Well, I think what happened is he intended to spit on you. He just choked. He didn't have enough saliva.

[Dan LeBatard]

He was like.

[Mike Ryan]

And then just walked away. And I felt the air and laughed even more.

[Roy Bellamy]

We're already at throwing hands territory. When he opens your car door.

[Dave Sampson]

That, I mean, I agree.

[Gina]

But if you're tough, if you're not tough, you whip your phone out. I'm recording you.

[Dave Sampson]

You guys have.

[Jon Weiner]

Well, this was before Salvo got it all on record.

[Dave Sampson]

You guys all have at least one eyeball. And you can see that anybody who I get out to throw hands with, how this ends for Dave. Dave winds up unconscious on the car.

[Gina]

I'm with you, Dave.

[Dave Sampson]

I don't want that.

[Jon Weiner]

Then you gotta really be honking Dave.

[Roy Bellamy]

Bike dirty man.

[Dan LeBatard]

I can give you a solution, but it escalates the situation. And if it escalates beyond that, you're screwed. But I don't think it would escalate beyond that. Right. This is what you do. The door opens, you immediately lean over and start fiddling with your glove compartment. There's a 98% chance they're like, oh, shit.

[Mike Ryan]

No, I didn't mean to run, but you have nowhere to go. You're stuck in traffic.

[Dave Sampson]

This is forced seconds, though. I'm talking. This was not. Yeah, if you have time.

[Dan LeBatard]

Door opens. I'm im.

[Jon Weiner]

I feel the door opens, right? Yep.

[Dan LeBatard]

Like, do this. Because anyone who's opening that door and sees you leaning for that, they're like, oh, my God, they're running away.

[Dave Sampson]

Sure.

[Dan LeBatard]

Unless they go back to their car.

[Roy Bellamy]

And get their gun.

[Dan LeBatard]

Not go back to their car.

[Jon Weiner]

They have it on them. Oh, bad idea. I mean, you went from good idea to very bad idea.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm telling you, that's. That's the downside. It's a high risk, high reward play. It's a high risk, high reward play.

[Jon Weiner]

At that point, someone might have to get shot. That's not a great plan that you just. Right.

[Dave Sampson]

And then the police, when they're my death, as I'm sitting there and they're doing the chalk outline inside the driver's seat of my car. What was he going for there? He had a gun. No, it was spree. He had a half eaten pack of spree candy.

[Jon Weiner]

I was so in on your plan at first, Amin, and now it's a terrible candy.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm just saying. You know what? It's my belief that more fake punts should be run in the NFL. I think a lot of them will be successful. Everyone's just scared, like, of what goes wrong. But I think you got to think about what goes right.

[Dave Sampson]

You know, I think when you run a fake punt, what you never would do, what I would, I'd be. I'd be willing to guess that it's never happened in at least the super bowl era, that a team has run a fake punt twice in the same game. Because that's. People always say, well, you know, they're not going to do it now. They already did it.

[Jon Weiner]

Do it again.

[Dave Sampson]

Now. There was a team, a high school team, or maybe it was like a Division 2 college football team that onside kicked every time.

[Jon Weiner]

Yeah, yeah, that was a thing. I remember that. It was a team. They don't punt. They go for every fourth down. They do onside kicks, I think punted.

[Dan LeBatard]

Every single time on NFL Blitz. Every single time. I was like, what do we do? It's NFL Blitz. Why are we pretending like I have to, like, I gotta follow the regular rules of football. I'm like, nope, it's not even Madden.

[Roy Bellamy]

It's NFL Blitz.

[Dan LeBatard]

Oh, yeah. Nf. I can't stand Madden. NFL Blitz. Great. No pass interference. Let me just hit people across the field. Oh, what a time.

[Roy Bellamy]

The jumping pass.

[Dan LeBatard]

Oh. Oh, my God. You know who's great at that?

[Roy Bellamy]

Brunel?

[Dan LeBatard]

Brad Johnson.

[Roy Bellamy]

Oh, really?

[Dan LeBatard]

Oh, my God.

[Roy Bellamy]

Didn't think he had it in him, man.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm telling you. You give me the Tampa Bay Buccaneers with him. All Stott work done. And who's the one I can't remember.

[Roy Bellamy]

Bobby Ingram, John Lynch.

[Jon Weiner]

Keyshawn.

[Dan LeBatard]

It was. Yeah, it was Keyshawn.

[Roy Bellamy]

In blitz.

[Dan LeBatard]

In blitz. Well, I think it was Keyshawn.

[Dave Sampson]

Joe Jervicious you might be talking about.

[Dan LeBatard]

Oh, my God, what a name, man. I was working people left and right. Oh, my God. Who was your team on NFL Blitz?

[Jon Weiner]

Probably Dolphins.

[Dan LeBatard]

I always loved, like, you play with your own.

[Jon Weiner]

Yeah, like NBA. I played with the Heat, you know, Cowboys.

[Roy Bellamy]

Because you'd get Dion on both sides.

[Dan LeBatard]

Of the ball on NFL Blitz. Dion was on NFL Blitz?

[Jon Weiner]

No, I like playing with my team.

[Gina]

Were the Falcons.

[Dan LeBatard]

Good.

[Gina]

Then I remember, like, there was that. The Dirty Bird.

[Dan LeBatard]

Chris Chandler and Jamal Anderson. And then who was the wide out? It was Roddy. No, no, not Roddy White.

[Dave Sampson]

Andre Risen.

[Dan LeBatard]

No.

[Roy Bellamy]

Tony Martin and Terence Mathis.

[Jon Weiner]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yes, it was Terrence Mathis. Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

Tech Mobile guy.

[Jon Weiner]

Oh. Best game. Technoball. Best game.

[Dave Sampson]

Well, best video game. Sports video game of all time. Sega 90, NHL 94. And if I had the pet, in fact, my pals forbade me from. At some point I had to be cut off because if I had that Penguins team, I was unbeatable.

[Jon Weiner]

You have NHL 94 over Tecmo Super Bowl.

[Dave Sampson]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's what they played in Swingers, right? Yeah.

[Dave Sampson]

Yes.

[Roy Bellamy]

Make his head bleed.

[Gina]

MVP05.

[Roy Bellamy]

Oh, yeah.

[Gina]

John Dowd. John Dowd playing Bonds.

[Roy Bellamy]

And greatest soundtrack ever, too, in that MVP baseball game. But I liked NHL 94. It's not so much me as it is Roenick.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, man, that Blackhawks team, man, I'll tell you right now, NBA street has a place in my heart, man. Off the hezy, around the world, like all those stupid little moves. And you go to the park, like, just rolling around on the ground like, oh, I got him. What a time. I don't. My barber was shocked. He's like, you don't have 2K. I'm like, I got to an age where buying the same game every single year is the dumbest thing ever. I just can't. I don't want to do this for what for updated rosters? I don't do it. The only sports game I play now, Topspin. And let me tell you something, your boy is top four in the world right now.

[Mike Ryan]

Really?

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah.

[Roy Bellamy]

I did love Virtua Tennis on Dreamcast and the arcade game. One of the better sports arcade games. By the way, the wide receiver for the Tampa Bay Bucks in NFL Blitz was Reed Elliot Anthony.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, Gator.

[Dan LeBatard]

Good name.

[Roy Bellamy]

You know, I found out that if you have a EA Play subscription, you can get the year prior for all those sports games for free.

[Dan LeBatard]

For free. But that's for EA.

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah, it's definitely for EA because it's not for 2K. 2K 25 you can get for like 699, but nobody likes 2K 25, so I bought 2K 24 and that was like 69.99.

[Dan LeBatard]

What?

[Roy Bellamy]

Mamba Edition.

[Gina]

Your top four in the world.

[Dan LeBatard]

What was that on? On? No.

[Gina]

Oh, your guy is right.

[Dan LeBatard]

My God.

[Gina]

Okay, my bad.

[Dan LeBatard]

Like, I'm playing nerds online all day.

[Gina]

I was shocked as well.

[Dan LeBatard]

No, man. Like my created character, Trafalgar Ali, you.

[Gina]

Can'T get up to number one. That's like you're bragging about being top four.

[Dan LeBatard]

Dude, let me tell you something. That game is hard.

[Roy Bellamy]

What if he's.

[Dan LeBatard]

Let me.

[Roy Bellamy]

What if it's a golden generation? He's got a Federer. He's a Brinka, basically.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm gonna call. I'm gonna call your kid in here. You tell your old man, facing Carlos Alcaraz service on clay. And then to come back to me about.

[Gina]

But you're on veteran mode.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, I'm on, like, whatever the highest thing is.

[Gina]

Yeah, man, you're on All Star. Whatever.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm on the difficult level. Yeah, man.

[Roy Bellamy]

I'm trying surface.

[Dan LeBatard]

What? My hardcourt, man. I can't like the clay because you hit something and then you're sliding for like five feet.

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah, that's what happens with clay.

[Dan LeBatard]

And then. And then you gotta run back like. Cause that jackass over there. Their placement is precise. I'm gonna tell you my biggest rivals. Alcaraz, Sinner, tfo. Those three give Medvedev. I'm waxing them. Waxing them.

[Mike Ryan]

You got his number.

[Dan LeBatard]

Waxing him out.

[Roy Bellamy]

Imitating life right now.

[Dan LeBatard]

What's up?

[Mike Ryan]

What's so tough about Tiafo?

[Dan LeBatard]

I don't know, man. I just. Every time I'm even sometimes I'll be up like, oh, 40 love. I'm like, this is gonna be a quick one today. And then all of a sudden, it's like, Deuce, deuce, deuce, deuce. Playing tiebreakers and stuff. And every time, if I don't whoop his ass, if it gets to tiebreakers, he beats me every single time.

[Mike Ryan]

I did not have a mean playing tennis.

[Roy Bellamy]

Do you want in on the tennis chat?

[Mike Ryan]

Sure.

[Roy Bellamy]

You're a tennis guy?

[Dan LeBatard]

Of course I'm a tennis guy. I play against these assholes every day.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, speaking of assholes, what's the name of the tennis chat? Mike?

[Roy Bellamy]

Sue me, Asshole.

[Mike Ryan]

Sue me, asshole. Could you explain why? Because I never. I don't think I ever got the full explanation of why it's called sue me, Asshole.

[Roy Bellamy]

Apparently, like, some group members went to the US Open a couple of years ago, and some guy tried to get one of our guys to move from his seat, and that was the response.

[Mike Ryan]

Sue me, asshole.

[Roy Bellamy]

Which is, I guess, one of the plans that you could go with the next time someone tries to open your car door and just say, sue me.

[Dan LeBatard]

Asshole, and then it says, my fault.

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah. Chris had a brilliant idea of just pretending that you're deaf.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's like. Well, that's like the Larry David when they went in the bathroom and he's in the. In the disabled stall.

[Gina]

That would be jarring to him if he opens the door and just not gonna do the impression.

[Dan LeBatard]

What would impression?

[Jon Weiner]

I would have to do it.

[Roy Bellamy]

Shopped it.

[Gina]

In that situation, I would have to bust.

[Dan LeBatard]

How would that go?

[Gina]

I'm not gonna do it.

[Dan LeBatard]

No.

[Roy Bellamy]

Bust it down. Nope.

[Gina]

You could imagine.

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

Hey, asshole. And I open the door.

[Roy Bellamy]

Nope, not doing it. It was authentic.

[Dan LeBatard]

So what it should be is this just. That's the impression.

[Mike Ryan]

Like, oh.

[Gina]

Not doing it. I want to do it, but I'm not doing it.

[Mike Ryan]

So shortly after joining the chat, which has been pleasant, they're quite horny on this chat.

[Dan LeBatard]

What?

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, there's a lot of discussion about the people play. That's why we call Tommy Paul pleasant.

[Gina]

Can't be as horny as the golf chat is.

[Dan LeBatard]

Hornier than the way hornier.

[Jon Weiner]

Really hornier than the pro wrestling chat is Ethan.

[Roy Bellamy]

And both of them. Pro wrestling chat's the horniest one. But tennis is right up there in terms of horniness.

[Mike Ryan]

Right. Well, so that's one of the details about it, but obviously being called sue me, asshole. Right. And so at one point, I had my phone. I was on my texts, and I just sort of put it down over here and put it down. And as it's crossing in front of Anthony, he sees a text thread, and he goes, why are you in a group chat called Suck my asshole. Wait a second.

[Dan LeBatard]

What? Context clues. I don't blame him.

[Mike Ryan]

I said, I'm not, first of all. You could look at it. And he goes, oh, sue me, asshole. What the hell is that about? And I was like, tennis. And he goes. And I was just like, no further questions, please. And, yeah, so that nearly. Nearly got us into a little bit of an argument.

[Dan LeBatard]

I just got added. Wow. Real time.

[Gina]

My wife always asks when we're driving and these texts pop up.

[Dan LeBatard]

What's Puck?

[Jon Weiner]

Dale Talon.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, that's the hockey chat, that one. Yeah. Not as easy to mistake for something.

[Gina]

Dale Talon, former gm, The Panthers.

[Dan LeBatard]

Panthers. Okay. Okay. Is that the guy that Witty thinks should still be running it?

[Gina]

Probably, yeah.

[Roy Bellamy]

It's the guy that built the Blackhawks before they fired him. It's a guy that won Stanley Cup, Vegas Golden Knights by terrible decisions. Letting Marcus Shaw go.

[Jon Weiner]

Yeah, he's. He's stunk for the Panthers.

[Roy Bellamy]

Terrible person. The blueprint.

[Dan LeBatard]

So he's been bad everywhere? Is that what you said?

[Jon Weiner]

No, no. He helped build the Blackhawks. Who won several.

[Dan LeBatard]

Steve Martin with him. What. What team did they build?

[Jon Weiner]

The Blackhawks.

[Dan LeBatard]

The Black.

[Roy Bellamy]

No, don't do that to him. I mean, you're Chicago. Is it the chair that makes people stir?

[Dan LeBatard]

Shit, It's a little bit. A little bit.

[Mike Ryan]

Speaking of stir and shit, you guys see that video of Dante Jones?

[Roy Bellamy]

Oh, that was gross. One of the more foul things I've ever seen.

[Jon Weiner]

Oh, go explain it fast.

[Gina]

I didn't see it.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, man. He was in an elevator bank in a hotel hallway. He goes back inside the show.

[Jon Weiner]

I didn't know his name.

[Gina]

I've seen this.

[Mike Ryan]

Digs in there, sniffs and then swipes on the wall.

[Dan LeBatard]

What the hell is that?

[Mike Ryan]

Like, what kind of behavior is that?

[Gina]

How could you be work.

[Jon Weiner]

How could you keep working in the NBA after that?

[Mike Ryan]

I mean, is he.

[Jon Weiner]

Yeah, he's assistant coach.

[Mike Ryan]

Okay. Didn't even know that.

[Dan LeBatard]

All I know is next time I see him, the apps are like this, all fist bumps.

[Mike Ryan]

I thought you're gonna say something about him being a dookie.

[Roy Bellamy]

It was weird when he picked up your fists. Next time I see him. Howdy, folks, it's Mike Ryan.

[Amin Elhassan]

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[Roy Bellamy]

Well, crack open a Miller Light.

[Amin Elhassan]

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