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Mike Ryan
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Dan LeBatard
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Dan LeBatard
Welcome to the Big Sui presented by DraftKings. Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to
Jeremy
the other Dan LeBatard podcast? 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. That hasn't happened to you guys, I've done it. And now here's the marching man to nowhere Fat face and the habitual liar.
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Amin Elhassan
Today's NCAA Saturday is. Duke has never won a national championship without beating St. John's somewhere along the line.
Jason
Really?
Amin Elhassan
So. 91. Excuse me? 90. 91. They beat him. 91. 92. They beat him.
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2000.
Amin Elhassan
2001. They beat him. 9, 10 they beat him 14, 15. They beat him and then they play this year in the Sweet 16.
Dan LeBatard
Rick Patino is still alive. He was so pissed yesterday as he will be forever.
Jeremy
Shout out to my guy Kaz, he said that the world could end, you know, nuclear war, whatever, and there could be eight people left and Patino will get them to the sweet 16.
Dan LeBatard
I've made the joke for years that the only three things that will survive a nuclear holocaust are cockroaches, Twinkies and Drew Rosenhaus. I'm going to, I'm going to add, I'm going to add Rick Pitino to that list.
Jeremy
Wow.
Mike Ryan's Co-host (possibly Mike's brother or friend)
Mount Rushmore.
Mike Ryan
Also keep an eye on the doomsday clock, Kansas. A little self reflection from Bill Self after that game. I don't like what I'm seeing.
Dan LeBatard
What did you make of the way that game ended? There were a lot of great finishes in college basketball, but the way that one ended, where you're allowing a layup at the buzzer, you never with that amount of time is anyone ever allowed to get right, roll right to the basket and just make a layup at the buzzer.
Jeremy
I remind everyone you're watching children. That's what I always think about. It's like I get president, like, oh, that's right. They're kids, they don't know what they're doing. They get excited and they forget and all that stuff. So that's, that's. I think that's kind of part of the beauty of March Madness in college basketball is it does come down to, hey, who keeps their stuff together as opposed to the pros where a lot of times it's just, I'm better than you and we can just end it there.
Amin Elhassan
I mean, in on that play, their rim protector goes to the three point line because they have a pin down screen against somebody else and he's just like floating to the three point line. And then buddy just takes it, hits an incredible layup. By the way, like having the momentum under the basket and then finishing with the English. That he did was a great shot. But like the rim protector you're supposed to. I don't care if the guys over there, you stand like a tree and you do not let him stand with
Dan LeBatard
that amount of time left.
Jeremy
There's kids. That's all I could tell you. They're kids.
Dan LeBatard
I heard my dad.
Mike Ryan
Big NFL breaking news. JSN has extended with the Seahawks for four years. $168 million. Of that 120 million is guaranteed. It is the largest such guarantee for a wide Receiver in NFL history, a good player.
Dan LeBatard
That's twice as much as the going rate for a Kittle or a Saquon Barkley annually. That's how they're valuing.
Mike Ryan
Saquon Barkley's not that good. I watch him lose to a bunch of Amazon delivery drivers.
Jeremy
What was that about?
Money Lion Announcer
That was fun.
Jeremy
Did you talk about that?
Mike Ryan
Dude, the first two games were like, all right, I'm into this. And then like, one thing that Fox hadn't accounted for was like, Team USA was going to smack these guys up so bad that it would become boring. Shout out to Hoosh. He talked all that shit and he backed it up.
Dan LeBatard
For those of you who don't know what Mike is talking about there, the flag football. Our Olympic flag football team dragged Gronk and Brady and Stefan Diggs and a bunch of different pros because flag football is an entirely different sport. It doesn't require strength or power. It's all quickness.
Amin Elhassan
It's a completely different sport than what they. They're used to playing. The quarterback. Nico Caceres is a really good friend of mine. I can have him here tomorrow, Dan, if you want to talk.
Money Lion Announcer
I do feel like midway through, they kind learned, oh, we may have picked the wrong guys. Like, I do feel like the NFL could pick a team that if they trained for months, could compete. Like, we had the wrong guys out there. You need the smallest and the, like, twitch muscle. And like, it was just. I feel like we just had our. We had the best players out there where it's like, no, no, no. You got to go with the quickest players in the NFL.
Jeremy
This is a little irresponsible of me. I was inundated with all sorts of things happening this weekend, but I thought I saw a quote where after one of those pick sixes, the guy said, welcome to flag football. He did.
Amin Elhassan
It was on Jalen Hurts.
Dan LeBatard
Yeah, it was Logan. Was it Logan Paul.
Mike Ryan
Ironically enough, Logan was one of the best selections that the Wildcats made. There was a Wildcats and the Founders. I got to tell you, I had the chills watching Tom Brady, who was watching sidestep him running out of the locker room after, like, the NFL guys got their asses kicked. And you could see, like, all right, competitive juices forming. I don't know why we're playing. Jalen hurts. Stop playing Jalen Hurts over Tom Brady.
Money Lion Announcer
Brady was better than Jalen Hurts. Can we just play just that first play in.
Mike Ryan
Tom Brady steps aside, evades the pressure.
Money Lion Announcer
The only missed sack by them all day.
Mike Ryan
We got to see Gronk Brady one last time before Gronk on the touchdown catch slides and pulls his hammy out of bounds.
Jason
Can you tell me what's going on with Tom Brady and Logan Paul?
Mike Ryan
It's a Wrestlemania.
Money Lion Announcer
They're setting it up for sure.
Mike Ryan
It's a Wrestlemania thing that they're setting up here.
Jason
Like what are they doing?
Mike Ryan
What's.
Money Lion Announcer
They're just doing the thing on the Internet where they talk crap to each other.
Dan LeBatard
They're doing what the Pauls do. Perhaps you're familiar with their work, their professional troll.
Jason
I like them.
Dan LeBatard
He.
Money Lion Announcer
Oh, this, this what you're about to play though, is not what they're doing. This is Logan Paul's sarcastic apology.
Mike Ryan
No, no, this is part of the program. It started on Impaulsive. There's reports out there suggesting that Tom Brady is going to be involved somehow some way with WrestleMania in Vegas. It being in Vegas, WWE has started selling some Tom Brady merch that's not so far out of left field because of the fanatics partnership. WWE does a lot of weird marketing partnerships. Halliburton has some stuff, but it seems pretty clear that they're working towards some kind of payoff. And the expectation was at this flag football tournament that there would be some advancement in that storyline. And there was. Now, Logan Paul plays a heel quite well in wrestling and here this is more of him keeping up in line with his character, but he does give a little breakdown from his perspective.
Logan Paul
I'd like to take this opportunity to apologize for some of my actions in yesterday's flag football game.
Jeremy
Game.
Logan Paul
First, I want to apologize to the United States flag football team for taking Duchet's glasses off of his face and throwing them at the ground. That happened because after he scored a touchdown, he kind of got in my grill and said to me, welcome to flag football.
Dan LeBatard
Welcome to flag football.
Logan Paul
Which upset me because it's comments like that that I just can't tolerate. Second, I'd like to apologize to Jalen Hurts for sacking you and later deflecting a pass that then got intercepted by my team, allowing us to score on the very next possession. If you get traded or your contract gets cut down. Now we know why and it's probably pretty embarrassing. So I am sorry. And of course I'd like to apologize to Tom Brady for applying so much pressure on you play after play after play that had you literally fearing for your life. I understand you're older. It's not like you could go anywhere and you got frustrated, which is why you threw the ball at Me. And I want you to know that I forgive you for that, because that's what real men do. And lastly, I want to apologize to everyone that said that I was not a great athlete, because you all look stupid as hell right now. Thank you.
Dan LeBatard
To Chris Cody's point, okay? We all saw Gronk as the last line of defense on that lateral Kenyan Drake play where we all learned, oh, that that Frankenstein monster doesn't move that great when it comes to quickness and laterally. I was telling this story the other day to a couple of people in college. Our intramural football team made it to the semifinals of a flag football tournament because the University of Miami players like Cortez Kennedy, they were on our sidelines, and the referees were intimidated by them because they would be very menaced. We didn't deserve to be there. But once we got to the semifinals, we promptly lost to a team that had audibles and wristbands with plays on them. And we're like, Izzy, we're like, nobody's going to beat that team. That team's going to obviously win. That team got smoked, okay, by a bunch of Asian kids from the business school, one of whom actually came to the game with a briefcase, because quickness is all that matters in flag football. Like that. And. And their quarterback, the guy who came out with the briefcase, they had two rushers, and they couldn't get it like when they had two rushers. And so your friend Tony is probably impossibly quick.
Amin Elhassan
He is very quick, but has a great arm. You could see he was leading throws. He was putting, you know, the ball in excellent places.
Mike Ryan
He's not even QB1, by the way.
Amin Elhassan
Like, I think he.
Nick Wright
No, no.
Amin Elhassan
I think he's made the determination that after play against NFL, you know, quality guys, he's QB1. Some of the throws that he was making were.
Mike Ryan
He was like 11 for 11, like, midway through game three. But who also plays quarterback. And he's far more twitchy than, like, almost anybody else on the field. But Tony knows these guys because it was really funny. The coaches were wired for sound. Team USA's head coach is a Miami guy.
Jeremy
Yeah.
Mike Ryan
And you could tell right away when someone was screaming oye. To get people's attention.
Amin Elhassan
He also doubles up for Team Cuba in the flag football world, which I'm going to try out for.
Jeremy
Wait a second, man. Hold on.
Money Lion Announcer
What?
Amin Elhassan
He Cuba from Miami?
Jeremy
No, but he get for both teams.
Amin Elhassan
Well, no, this is the offseason. This world. So this is different. This is the Olympics. I mean, come on.
Jeremy
This is amazing, man. Have you ever lost anyone with a briefcase? No, I just said briefcase ass, Dan. That would traumatize me for life. That, like, I got my ass handed to me by someone with a briefcase.
Mike Ryan
It was so abundantly clear that this is just a different game. And Bob Sala did not have any answers for it. They didn't know the rules. They would, like, anytime one of these twitchy Team USA dudes would come by, there, they would just grab them, which is against the rules because they don't know how to pull the flag. It was really tricky for them. And I realized, like, man, who should set? And Team usa, like, they know what they were talking about. Totally different sport. Who should probably more likely to be effective in the NFL than Mahomes is in this sport because it's just a totally different thing.
Money Lion Announcer
The Bengals could not have enjoyed watching Joe Burrow play that game. He was a crazy person out there. There were four or five plays where it's like, oh, he could have got seriously hurt right there. Like, I bet you that their owner was probably like, you know, he's offseason. Let me let him do his thing. They probably didn't put much thought into it. I guarantee you they regretted that instantly.
Dan LeBatard
Before we update our tournament, when I heard my father's voice there on the stat of the day, it reminded me of a story that my mother just told me about the end of that Lakers he the other day. Doncic. Just crazy how good he was. That guy's really good. And just crazy how good LeBron still is. That doesn't make any sense. There has never been a human being like that in the history of Earth like that. That has never existed before. The idea that he could have a triple double as the oldest player in basketball, it's just insane. But my father was complaining because there were Laker fans in front of him, and he was yelling and screaming about the fact that he couldn't see the last five minutes of the game. And an usher came over and tried to get those Lakers F to leave. They ignored him. They would not leave. And so my mother is telling my father the entire time to settle down, which is making him even angrier. And I'm like, dad, they didn't have seats there.
Money Lion Announcer
Sorry, just to clarify.
Dan LeBatard
No, my parents.
Money Lion Announcer
No, I know they did. The people in front of them.
Dan LeBatard
No, they were. They were. They were just standing, but there was. They were making a lot of noise. My father was getting mad.
Jason
And your parents don't stand.
Money Lion Announcer
They're allowed to make noise, though. My point is, I thought you made it seem like there were people that weren't supposed to be there standing in their way.
Dan LeBatard
No, I did not mean to say that. There were just simply people in front of my father who he was asking for a long time, please sit down. I can't see the game. My father was not able to see the last five minutes of a really good basketball game.
Mike Ryan
But they're just following orders, Dan. Michael Biamonte tells you to stand up and make some noise and make.
Money Lion Announcer
Well, that's for the Heat. They're supposed to, not for the Lakers.
Jeremy
Yeah, that's true.
Dan LeBatard
So an usher came over and they ignored the usher as well, because evidently it didn't elevate to ejection status. But my mother was telling my father, please, please stop making a scene. And my father was complaining about that, which made him all the more agitated. I'm like, dad, mom is afraid that in these situations, when people in opposing fan bases have too many drinks, fights start and you're going to get punched. And my father says, and what? I punch back.
Jeremy
Oh, wow.
Dan LeBatard
And I'm like, dad, you're 82.
Mike Ryan
Hey, Roy, buddy. Yo. You know that energy shift when the game gets good and everybody all together in unison knows to stand up on their feet? Oh, absolutely, Mike. Yeah. You've been at many big time sporting events. You know that moment quite well. That's what it's like when you take your first sip of Cuervo.
Amin Elhassan
Oh, delicious.
Mike Ryan
It's the signal that says, we're not checking the time anymore, pal. It's when small talk turns into stories. Cuervo, man. It's that high five. A random stranger effect. That's right. The game is popping. You're hugging people you never met before. That's the kind of energy that Cuervo brings. It's so smooth, so delicious. That's the Cuervo effect. Keep it Cuervo.
Jeremy
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Dan LeBatard
it's just his titties are sitting on the shelf that is his belly stugats.
Mike Ryan
He said titties shocked me a little bit. I wasn't quite prepared for cities.
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This is the Dan Levatar show with the stugats.
Money Lion Announcer
Dealt with this before my dad trying to get tough and yeah, I'm gonna have to end up on golf courses. This happened before.
Jeremy
Tell the story.
Money Lion Announcer
Well, I mean I think it's just it's happened in it's happened driving with him before because he's very angry at other people where he wants to up you at somebody and then all of a sudden they're like breaking and we're level with us and it's like, oh, now who dad you're gonna. You just told them you.
Jason
Does he roll down the window and say that?
Money Lion Announcer
My dad. The road rage. My dad is the angriest I've ever seen him for real in person and stuff. On golf courses he's had little things never on. Like my dad is if you cut my dad, hey, look at this. Like my dad is like he'll get up on your like on the car. Like he'll pull like if you cut him off he he's then going to pull up behind you. So you see him behind you like, oh, this guy that I just got in front of doesn't like that.
Jeremy
I just did that Greg Cody, full of bile and venom. I can't imagine that. And then you've known him a long time, obviously.
Dan LeBatard
Oh, no, I've seen him angry a lot. Yeah, he's. And it's unreasonably angry. His anger. His anger doesn't deal with logic. It's.
Jason
It happened once in here with me, at least it wasn't.
Jeremy
But no, not, not like the way he saw.
Money Lion Announcer
No. But even with me and my brother, like throughout my life, my dad does get really angry. But he's the king of a half hour later. Oh, yeah, hey, sorry. Like, sorry about it.
Jeremy
Oh, he'll apologize.
Money Lion Announcer
Like, just like, hey, I know I may have overreacted here. I'm not happy with what you did.
Dan LeBatard
I doubt. I'm sorry. I doubt it's. I'm sorry. He may. I'm doubt. I've not heard your father ever say the words, I'm sorry.
Money Lion Announcer
He may. He'll just be like, I may have over. And maybe he won't say that. I don't know about the exact phrase, I'm sorry, but he definitely will give a. Hey, I, I acted so. I acted pretty heated a little bit ago.
Amin Elhassan
I feel like in a fighting situation it would turn into like Don Zimmer going out to Pedro Martinez.
Money Lion Announcer
Just kind of like.
Dan LeBatard
Well, that would certainly be my father. Like, he's. I mean, he's 82.
Money Lion Announcer
Yeah, he's not at this point, but
Dan LeBatard
what put it on the poll at Lebatard show. Does every 82 year old man think he's 22? When it comes to fighting, I need to add, when it comes to fighting,
Jason
he's going to punch back.
Jeremy
I punch back as a bar though.
Dan LeBatard
Let me update our tournament here because we've lost a lot of winners, a lot of things that are going to break the hearts of some members of our audience to find that some of these teams are now out of our looks like tournament.
Money Lion Announcer
This is our first round losers here. Notable, before we get to the round of 32, we're going to get to just some first round losers.
Amin Elhassan
So they're not winners. Dan, you said we lost a lot of winners, but we would lose a lot of losers.
Mike Ryan
They're all winners in his book.
Dan LeBatard
We had a lot of good ones in this tournament and it hurts to see all of these go. Number five, Wisconsin is gone. That means this is gone.
Nick Wright
Jonathan Zaslow looks like your big toe after hitting the corner of the bed.
Dan LeBatard
Lost to high point, 12 seed. Also gone, number six, BYU, represented by Dave Damaschek.
Nick Wright
Looks like a Realtor that would buy a billboard that reads license to sell while posing like James Bond.
Dan LeBatard
Absolutely lost to number 11, Texas. Miami would have gotten Texas in the next round. South number six, North Carolina's gone. Their coach might be gone, too, which kind of surprised me. North Carolina was represented by Chiefs owner Clark Hunt.
Nick Wright
Looks like the director of a funeral home that makes candles out of its surplus of embalming fluid.
Dan LeBatard
That was VCU advancing. You can't tell me that guy doesn't look like that. Amin. You can't tell me that. Clark Hunt. What? He doesn't look like that. I could look at the way he's wearing that ring. That guy wears that ring that way and takes that pose because he's so pleased that he's getting away with. No one knows that the candles are made out of embalming fluid. Number seven, St. Mary, somehow ended up losing that game. I'm sorry. St. Mary's didn't lose to Kentucky. St. Mary's was represented by Buster Olney.
Nick Wright
Looks like the dad who doesn't want to confront another parent in the carpool line, so he flips them off under the steering wheel.
Dan LeBatard
The gracudi Villanova is also gone. That means this is gone.
Nick Wright
Paul Skeens looks like someone who tried to draw Josh Allen from memory.
Show Intro/Outro Voice
Dang.
Jeremy
That's a good one.
Logan Paul
Great.
Jeremy
That's a good one.
Dan LeBatard
It's crazy how much he looks like Josh Allen with a mustache. George is gone. That means this is gone.
Nick Wright
Ron McGill looks like your recently divorced mom's first date, who, when you answer the door, is vigorously chewing his gum and combing his hair with a palm comb as he leans ever so slightly back to gander at the size of the home while never once acknowledging you with his eyes.
Dan LeBatard
Miami knocked out Missouri. Missouri was represented by Andy Reid.
Nick Wright
Looks like the guy on the bowling team that everyone calls Old Twinkle Toes.
Jeremy
Absolutely.
Dan LeBatard
Miami of Ohio also lost. That means this is gone.
Nick Wright
Jonathan Zaslow looks like the guy in an arcade who puts a stack of quarters on the Pac man game to send a message to any kid that he's going to be there a while.
Mike Ryan's Co-host (possibly Mike's brother or friend)
Hurts to lose that one.
Dan LeBatard
Akron. That's why I told you these winner. They're winners. They're losers. But they're winners. Yes.
Jeremy
Oh, that picture looks like Zaz is literally. He just put the quarters on, and they're looking back at the kid like, don't even try it.
Dan LeBatard
I really liked this one. Akron's gone. That means this is gone.
Nick Wright
Tom Thibodeau looks like the 64th person killed by Liam Neeson in the movie Taken.
Mike Ryan
No,
Dan LeBatard
Hofstra is gone. That means this is gone.
Nick Wright
Dan Marino looks like the third place finisher in a David Hasselhoff lookalike contest.
Dan LeBatard
North Dakota State is gone. That means this is gone.
Nick Wright
Nick Wright looks like a Geico caveman.
Amin Elhassan
Such a high seed for a great. Looks like.
Dan LeBatard
Yeah, well, I think it's too obvious, though. My guess is he's probably been getting that his entire, you know, since that ad campaign was. Or since he. His hair out.
Jeremy
Yeah, that's. That's the line of demarcation.
Dan LeBatard
Queens is gone. That means Nick Wright is gone again.
Nick Wright
Nick Wright looks like Adam Driver if he wore his Kylo Ren helmet for a month straight.
Jeremy
Oh, man.
Dan LeBatard
Furman's also gone. That means this is gone.
Nick Wright
Adam Silver looks like a torpedo bat.
Dan LeBatard
The NBA has rescinded the 16 technical found foul of Luka Doncic and the quotes. And I don't know what happened here. They were speaking in Serbian, and so he has an argument, and I don't know the opposing player who. So he was having an argument with
Jeremy
Golgo Batadzi of the.
Dan LeBatard
Yeah, you could say it 10 times. I get it wrong every time. And he said that that person said to him that he was going to bleep his entire family back home. And that person says, no, Lucas said that to me, and I was just repeating it. And now that 16th technical foul has been rescinded. He's a baby, by the way. It's one of the reason that Laker fans are a little bit frustrated with him. It's fine when you're winning all the games, but he is a baby. Like, he behaves unbelievably immaturely for a superstar. Unlike, I'd say, just about anybody. Right. The 16 technical foul.
Jason
He's the worst in the league.
Jeremy
League.
Dan LeBatard
Is he the new Rasheed Wallace in terms, no one's that bad. No one is as bad as Rasheed.
Jeremy
I'll put a pin in it. Weekend observations.
Dan LeBatard
Okay.
Jason
I don't think Rasheed was a baby, though. Like, Luka comes off as a baby.
Mike Ryan
Who will history say was worse in terms of antics on the court, Draymond or Rasheed?
Jason
Oh, Draymond. Rashid wasn't a dirty player.
Mike Ryan
Yeah, no, I mean, the antics.
Jeremy
But the antics of Draymond were all directed at opponents, whereas Rasheed's antics were directed at officials.
Mike Ryan
It's just my entire life, Rasheed's kind of been that gold standard. And I'm suggesting maybe we move to Draymond.
Dan LeBatard
The distinction that I was making, right? The reason I went to Rasheed and just bypassed Draymond is because Luka's just going after refs all the time. It's the same thing that Zaz was just saying. But Rashid had a temper problem as it related to refs. I think Rasheed was worse. How many can you tell me?
Jeremy
Jeremy, don't do it. Don't do it. Weekend observations, please. Let's.
Dan LeBatard
So I can't ask whether Rashid is the leader. Don't look up any information.
Jeremy
Don't look up any information. But I will tell a fun Rasheed Wallace story because even though he got a lot of technicals and was really, really harsh with the refs, there was a game we're playing up in Detroit and Rasheed is just running commentary. Everything is every cuss word under the sun. The go back to LensCrafters, everything. He's doing the whole thing. So Amari goes up, he gets fouled. They don't call it. He misses the layup and he goes, fuck. Right? Tee him up. And they're like, what was that for? He's like disrespecting the officials. Like Rasheed has been doing standup the whole game. And I swear to God, the ref said, yeah, but that's just how he talks. It reached the point, no matter how many technicals he got, it reached a point where they just. This is like a humdrum for them. They just kind of glossed over it and he had to really go above and beyond to earn his technical foul.
Jason
And that happens with Draymond too. Like, the reality of it is Draymond and it sounds like Rashid did as well.
Dan LeBatard
They.
Jason
No one gets more tolerance from the officials, right, than those guys.
Jeremy
It's a volume game for them.
Amin Elhassan
It's kind of like you a jury duty. Like, what are they going to tell you?
Jeremy
They do nothing.
Dan LeBatard
Andre Drummond just got fined $25,000 for making like a gun shooting gesture at the opposing bench after making a three. And I think if Andre Drummond makes a three, he should be allowed to do whatever he wants. He now shoot.
Mike Ryan's Co-host (possibly Mike's brother or friend)
This is a good take.
Dan LeBatard
It's one of the weirdest things I've ever seen. Like he. He had no mid range game and now he's out there shooting threes. Explain to me what's happening there, basketball expert. Explain to me how it's possible that Andre Drummond is now someone who shoots threes.
Jeremy
Oh, you've been working at it. He's been working at it since he was in Detroit. It just never translated into games. And now he's finally got to a point where he can catch and shoot. But again, it's like. It's one of those things where if you're playing them, you're like, all right, let him shoot the three.
Jason
Is he the player who. It's the most shocking that you've ever seen that all of a sudden now he shoots three pointers.
Dan LeBatard
Manute bowl was weird because it was
Jason
first, but he always did.
Dan LeBatard
Yeah, but it was. But. But it was first. I'm watching a 7. 7 guy shoot threes, and it was confused. Like, that's the first guy I think of when I think of what the hell's he doing all the way out there. Yes, that is what he. That is all he did.
Jeremy
I'll tell you. To me, it's one of the greatest triumphs of player development. Development. It's Derrick White, because Derrick White was on the scouting report. Leave his ass wide open. And for him to go from, we don't even worry about you at the time.
Jason
That was Jason Kidd, too.
Dan LeBatard
Jason Kidd too?
Jeremy
No, but Jason Kidd wasn't doing step back threes. Like, Derrick White shoots threes. Like he creates threes. Like a guy who's been able to hit threes all his career. And in reality, five years ago, he was. We don't guard you. We run the other way. I can't right now in the league. I can't think of anyone else who's been better in terms of that.
Mike Ryan
That's such a great shout. He went from a dude that I was happy to have the ball in his hands to, this is one of the 100 greatest basketball players I've ever seen.
Dan LeBatard
Jayson Tatum has returned and Tracy McGrady says the Celtics offense has not been the same since he came back. You mentioned earlier Amin, that they lost to Minnesota at home without Anthony Edwards. Mike Ryan and Jeremy were saying that Jayson Tatum would come and make them worse. I don't believe that that's going to be the case in the playoffs. I don't believe that adding Jayson Tatum is going to be something that makes that team more playoff less playoff savvy than it already was. Solid misrepresentation of what Mike said. All right, see, that is not my voice. That's you talking as me as well.
Mike Ryan
I'd like to talk for myself because you spoke for me and you totally miscategorized it. No, I said don't talk to the monologue. I said that there would be an acclamation point for them, which was the most obvious thing. And I Was attacked for like the most obvious take. Yeah. And also I saw the schedule. I cheated. I looked ahead and they had some difficult opponents. Now they've been playing pretty well and winning the games that they were supposed to. Last night was a 92.
Jason
Last night.
Mike Ryan
Yeah. Last night was a change in that. No doubt. But the way that Jayson Tatum plays would naturally suggest that he would demand that you re acclimate a little bit. I'm sure they can figure it out in the postseason. We'll see if they end up running through the East. I remain skeptical of that because I just think the east is better and it's not the foregone conclusion. But this is what is the most obvious thing in the world to me.
Jason
He's been shooting like we have eight games now. Okay. Which still it's not, not a lot of games. But he's been shooting very poor since he returned. Very poor. And as a result, if you have a player who now you are including in the lineup who's taking 17 and a half shots a game. Game and shooting poor.
Jeremy
Yeah.
Jason
Like those are 17 half shots that weren't being shot 39%.
Dan LeBatard
Yeah.
Jeremy
I mean, but I think the idea is that, hey, he's got to get this out of his system now. That's why he comes back in mid March as opposed to the last week of April. So that we have a whole month and a half, six weeks of get all the kinks out your system, get the rust off by the time we get to the playoffs. And hopefully for them, they're going to be in a position where they don't have to wait to see who they're gonna play. They'll know who they're gonna play. So basically a three seed. That gives them all the opportunity in the world to prep and get ready. I like, to me this is never. This is a no brainer.
Jason
Oh, you think they could drop to three?
Jeremy
Yeah. Like Mike said, their schedule is real. They have.
Dan LeBatard
I don't, I think, I don't feel like I was misrepresenting though, what Mike and Jeremy were saying about the idea that you guys were celebrating that Jason, that Jayson Tatum would return and he would foul up what was a 50 plus win team by returning when they were a 65 win team when they won the championship.
Mike Ryan's Co-host (possibly Mike's brother or friend)
What we were saying, and primarily Mike, definitely not me, unless it ends up being right, was that Jaylen Brown is having an MVP level season. And the concern was that if you have Jason Tatum come back, play poorly, change the way that the ball was moving around a team that was shooting just about as well as anybody in basketball. Moving the ball, having body movement, putting up a ton of shots from three that if the ball sort of started staying in Tatum's hands and he wanted to take shots toward the end of the game, that the personalities could be combustible because you have Jaylen Brown who who tweets like a wide receiver. But Brown has embraced the fact that Tatum is coming back. It's just a matter of whether or not that ultimately works in the long run.
Amin Elhassan
But to a means point, that's why they brought him back in March and not in April to figure out those kinks now.
Mike Ryan's Co-host (possibly Mike's brother or friend)
Yeah, but we were right about the kinks.
Amin Elhassan
Okay.
Dan LeBatard
Sure.
Jeremy
But.
Amin Elhassan
But now they're looking at it like, okay, Cade is now out of the picture for we don't know how long. The Knicks are always going to be the Knicks like they have a legitimate shot to be the representative for the east in a season that they thought was going to be completely washed.
Jeremy
Yo, Jalen Brown tweets like a wide receiver is a great line.
Mike Ryan
Thank you.
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Mike Ryan
Don LeBatard, you getting started on the breakfast flan?
Jeremy
Oh man, I've been singing a song to myself all morning long. Breakfast Flan stewgats Have you never Heard the Breakfast Flan song? No.
Mike Ryan
Hit me with it.
Jeremy
Okay. I wish I had some breakfast flan. Breakfast Flan. Where can I find a breakfast like that? That.
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This is the D? Ler show with the sts.
Dan LeBatard
Let's do. I mean, Weekend Observations so that we could speak freely about Rasheed Wallace.
Show Intro/Outro Voice
It is time for Amin to share his game notes. No one in the media will tell you what happened better than my boy Amin.
Jeremy
Weekend Observations is brought to you by Miller Light Legendary moments. Start with the light, Dan. It's that time of year again when all across the country thousands of man hours of labor are lost to people hitting Alt tab on their computers to change the screen to an Excel spreadsheet when the boss walks by the desk. March Madness. Flynn Clayman, head coach of High Point University, said nobody would play us. Just like they wouldn't play Miami Ohio. Neither of those schools have won a game since he said that. Low Point University. By the way, that includes the High Point women's team. They also lost. Flynn Clayman sounds like the name of a down on his luck character in a romcom played by Ben Stiller. Ring, ring, ring, ring. Wow. Pick up the phone, Dano.
Dan LeBatard
Hello?
Jeremy
It's Fred Hoiberg. He wants to know where your fat daddy is at now. He'll be at the Sweet 16.
Dan LeBatard
He'll be at the Sweet 16? Yeah.
Jeremy
LSU women beat Texas Tech like they stole something. How does a 7 seed lose a game by 50 plus points? Did they outsource the game to the Wizards? Washington, D.C. what's the point of bike lanes if none of the bikes or scooters use it? I'm in D.C. this weekend. They're all over the sidewalk. They're in the middle of the street. You have dedicated bike lanes. Nobody uses them. I'm like, what's the point? Point. We could have made these into car lanes.
Amin Elhassan
You should walk in those lanes.
Jeremy
I should. That's what I should have done.
Amin Elhassan
Nobody's using it. I'm here.
Jeremy
Amaya Battle clinch the Sweet 16 for Minnesota with a buzzer beater against Ole Miss. I guess for the Rebels, you could say it was one battle after another. Where's my camera? One battle after another. Little Oscar hum. The Wizards got into a fight with the Thunder on Saturday. Guys are like, two weeks too late to this to show that you won't get pushed around. Should have been fighting. Bam.
Dan LeBatard
They're fighting. That is. They just delayed reaction to all the televised commentary on the bam thing.
Jeremy
Luka doncic got his 16th technical foul Saturday after getting into it With Golgo Batadz of the Orlando Magic, that triggers an automatic one game suspension. Dan, do you know why we have the suspension rule for the 16th tech and every other tech thereafter?
Dan LeBatard
I don't actually. Is it the Rasheed rule?
Jeremy
Because Rasheed Wallace set the record in 2001. Can you guess how many he had in that season?
Dan LeBatard
I'm gonna guess 32.
Jeremy
Anyone else want to hazard a guess? How many technical fouls did rasheed have in 2011?
Amin Elhassan
36.
Jeremy
Okay. Any other submissions?
Amin Elhassan
61.
Jeremy
Okay, thank you. He knows how to play the game. Is there an asterisk on it?
Dan LeBatard
No.
Jeremy
41.
Jason
Whoa.
Jeremy
He had a technical power every other game. On average, 41 texts.
Mike Ryan's Co-host (possibly Mike's brother or friend)
That's awesome.
Dan LeBatard
Does he have more text than anyone ever? Is he the career leader in tech?
Mike Ryan's Co-host (possibly Mike's brother or friend)
You got to give me a second because I wasn't allowed to look it up.
Jeremy
Now you can look it up. But while you do that, I can tell you the top five most unbreakable records in basketball. Number five, John Stockton. 15,806 assists for a career. Chris Paul, who just retired would literally have to average 8 assists a game every game for the next 5 years to catch him. And Chris Paul's old so like.
Dan LeBatard
And was good at. Was good at assists.
Jeremy
Number four, Wilt Chamberlain. 55 rebounds in a game. The most since the ABA NBA merger was 37 by Moses Malone. That happened two months before I was born. That record's not getting broken. Number three. Tony knows this one. Steph Curry career made three pointers.
Amin Elhassan
It's a lot.
Jeremy
We thought about Khan Canip who's having the best rookie season ever shooting 30. He merely has to have like 250 three pointers.
Amin Elhassan
284 for the next 15 years.
Jeremy
The next 15 years. Every single year to catch where he is right now to catch Curry. That's if Curry never makes another three point.
Dan LeBatard
He might not.
Jeremy
Number two, Rasheed Wallace. 41 technical pals in one season.
Dan LeBatard
Keep an eye on Luke Kennard for Steph Curry's record.
Amin Elhassan
A weird thing that was.
Jeremy
And the number one most unbreakable record in basketball. Wilt Chamberlain averaging 48 and a half minutes per game in a season.
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Dan LeBatard
They're only 48 minutes.
Jeremy
They're only 48 minutes in a game. The guy averaged more minutes per game than there are minutes in a game.
Dan LeBatard
So I guess Chris wants some bunch of overtime. Overtime.
Money Lion Announcer
He played every second of the season.
Jeremy
He played every. Yeah, he basically never came out. He played every game. He never came Out.
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Now I get it.
Jason
Can I guess some of these guys?
Mike Ryan's Co-host (possibly Mike's brother or friend)
Please?
Jason
Rock Rodman.
Mike Ryan's Co-host (possibly Mike's brother or friend)
Rodman is number five.
Jason
Karl Malone.
Mike Ryan's Co-host (possibly Mike's brother or friend)
No, number one.
Jeremy
Really?
Jason
Of course. He had a lot of technical fouls.
Jeremy
Really?
Dan LeBatard
He's number one. He got more than Rasheed.
Mike Ryan's Co-host (possibly Mike's brother or friend)
377 total. 332 in the regular season.
Jason
Rasheed obviously is top five.
Mike Ryan's Co-host (possibly Mike's brother or friend)
Number two total. But number three in the regular season.
Jason
I'm gonna start struggling now.
Jeremy
Is Draymond. Is Draymond ascending?
Mike Ryan's Co-host (possibly Mike's brother or friend)
Draymond is number six.
Dan LeBatard
Oh, man.
Jeremy
Who are the assholes?
Mike Ryan's Co-host (possibly Mike's brother or friend)
Keep thinking.
Dan LeBatard
Yeah.
Mike Ryan
Keep thinking of someone that is always angry looking.
Amin Elhassan
People love him.
Mike Ryan
Now it's just someone that always looks pissed.
Jeremy
Thomas,
Amin Elhassan
Kevin Willis.
Jeremy
What?
Amin Elhassan
David West.
Mike Ryan
It would be Russell Westbrook.
Jeremy
Oh, yeah.
Jason
Kurt Signetti and his Duncich in the top five.
Jeremy
No, no, he hasn't played long enough.
Jason
So who's the other guy?
Mike Ryan's Co-host (possibly Mike's brother or friend)
Number three or let's do number four. Number four, Gary Payton.
Jason
Oh, I was gonna say him.
Mike Ryan's Co-host (possibly Mike's brother or friend)
And number three, Charles Barton.
Jeremy
All right. Saw. Saw an alert that Jeremy Grant will be out for Blazers vs Nuggets. I'll be honest, forgot he was still in the league. New segment for Inside the NBA. He's still playing. Purdue versus Miami, AKA an alcoholics delight. Boilermakers versus Hurricanes. Give me six more of that, please.
Dan LeBatard
What is a boilermaker? Not the drink. What is a Purdue? Put it on the poll at Lebatard show. Do you know what a boilermaker does? Yes or no?
Jeremy
It's got to do with like trains, right?
Mike Ryan
I think it's an engineer that makes trains.
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Jason
Isn't their logo like a train?
Jeremy
Like the steam engine?
Mike Ryan's Co-host (possibly Mike's brother or friend)
You know, like a tradesperson who fabricates steels, iron or copper into boilers and other large containers intended to hold hot gas or liquid.
Dan LeBatard
Amazing. You know that off the top of your head like that.
Jeremy
Good news, bad news for the Hurricanes. Good news, Jay Lucas turned the program around with a great regular season and a respectable showing at the tournament. Bad news, Kentucky got smacked by Iowa State. You're gonna lose your coach, Mike. Kevin Durant passed Michael Jordan on the all time scoring list after the game. He said MJ was on a different planet, a different galaxy. When asked for comment, Jordan declined, saying he was focused on Nets vs Kings. Said he knew the guys at the Dan LeBatard show were really eager to hear his thoughts on the Daquan Plowden versus Malakai Smith matchup. You disrespectful bastards. Speaking of disrespectful bastards. New season of bar rescue and we've got you covered at here's the science A bar rescue podcast hosted by real life bar and restaurant consultant Chelsea Restaurant Reynolds, commercial kitchen and food truck vet Colin Cassard, and two guys who enthusiastically consume boilermakers and hurricanes at the Toledono Street Comedy Festival, New Orleans, me and Zach Harper. Wherever you get podcasts. Tony messing up Mo Ali Cox. In the words of comedian Brittany Miggs, no piece of comedy is as funny as your friend accidentally saying a word a little bit wrong.
Amin Elhassan
Mo Ali Cox.
Jeremy
It's amazing. Like, you can bring me Chappelle, Chris Rock, Carlin, Richard Pryor, and I'll laugh, but it's never going to be quite as funny as Mo Ali talking. Yeah, somehow that's still the peak of comedy. Dan, you know what the K in Luke Canard stands for?
Dan LeBatard
Killer. Wow.
Jeremy
Well done, Cinephobe. Episode 33004 My Boss's Daughter starring Ashton Kutcher, Tara Reid, Terence Stamp, Michael Madsen, Molly Shannon and Carmen Electra. Oh, my God, she's amazing. A movie that must hold a modern record for the usage of the R word in a major motion picture. They say it a lot. Terence Stamps says it like six times in 30 seconds. That's a bingo. Oh, man. WNBA. Hey, got the deal done. You know how Sense of urgency. I told you guys last week, create a fake sense of urgency, you get your thing done. I don't have an ending for this because I forgot to end it. So those are the weekend.
Dan LeBatard
What the hell? Forgot to end.
Amin Elhassan
Hell of a job there.
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Dan LeBatard
What the hell is the matter with you?
Jeremy
I know. Weekend observations.
Dan LeBatard
I. I was told that we have a nomination for a laugh to replace the Hakeem Nicks laugh. Truth be told, I wouldn't have given amin the loser game show sound if I had on my console the Hakeem Nicks laugh, but I do not have that on my console.
Mike Ryan
So, Dan, this was incredible because we had Tommy Hutton on and that's a friend of Jeremy's, and Tommy Hutton said something that wasn't very funny, but Jeremy was being very helpful in trying to move the interview along and he gave. Gave a great fake laugh. No, but we all recognize together. Why does that laugh sound so familiar?
Dan LeBatard
Yeah, it's Kawhi's laugh. It is.
Mike Ryan
Here's Kawhi's laugh. That is overlaid Jeremy's laugh with Kawhi's laugh. It's the exact same laugh.
Dan LeBatard
So you want to replace the Hakeem Nick's laugh.
Money Lion Announcer
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Mike Ryan
I want to raise it to the rafters. Honor Hakeem Nix for all of his incredible contributions. But he's been replaced.
Jeremy
Is he replaced by Jeremy or by the overlay?
Mike Ryan
By the overlay.
Dan LeBatard
I think the overlay has to be the overlay. Yeah, put it on the poll at LeBatard show. Should we replace the Hakeem Nicks laugh with the overlay of Jeremy and Kawhi Lena?
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Jeremy
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Dan LeBatard
That's a great attitude.
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You sound insane.
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Dan LeBatard
I thought you were a clown.
Jeremy
Well, clones aren't real, dummy.
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And time machines are super grounded in reality.
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Podcast Summary: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Episode: The Big Suey: The Withheld Rasheed Wallace Stat
Date: March 23, 2026
This episode, recorded from the Elser Hotel in Downtown Miami, delivers the classic blend of irreverent sports banter, personal anecdotes, and pop culture riffs that fans expect from Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, and their ensemble. The show dives deep into postseason college basketball, NFL news, flag football’s Olympic moment, basketball’s most unbreakable records, and the curious case of Rasheed Wallace’s technical foul legacy. Laced with playful mockery, comedic digressions, and meta-commentary on sports fandom, it’s a quintessential Big Suey ride.
“First, I want to apologize to the United States flag football team for taking Duchet's glasses off of his face and throwing them at the ground...I'd like to apologize to Jalen Hurts for sacking you and later deflecting a pass that then got intercepted by my team...”
Segment filled with comedic relief as the crew reads aloud the humorous “looks like” eliminations from their bracket pool.
“The only three things that will survive a nuclear holocaust are cockroaches, Twinkies and Drew Rosenhaus. … I'm going to add Rick Pitino to that list.”
– Dan Le Batard [03:02]
“You remind everyone you're watching children...I think that's kind of part of the beauty of March Madness in college basketball.”
– Jeremy [03:44]
“And lastly, I want to apologize to everyone that said that I was not a great athlete, because you all look stupid as hell right now.”
– Logan Paul [09:32]
“No matter how many technicals he got, it reached a point where … they just kind of glossed over it and he had to really go above and beyond to earn his technical foul.”
– Jeremy [25:54]
“The guy averaged more minutes per game than there are minutes in a game.”
– Jeremy (on Wilt Chamberlain) [40:02]
“Does every 82 year old man think he's 22? When it comes to fighting…”
– Dan Le Batard [19:37]
True to form, the episode is an energetic, funny, self-aware dissection of not just sports headlines but the oddities, personalities, and running gags that make fandom fun. The chemistry, the interruptions, and the fearless roasting keep the conversation brisk and meta. Whether you want to know which NBA records are unbreakable or hear old men threaten imaginary brawls in the stands, this Big Suey has it all.