Trysta Krick Does Not Like Victor Wembanyama | Hour 2

Summary

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Episode: Trysta Krick Does Not Like Victor Wembanyama | Hour 2
Date: May 13, 2026
Location: Elser Hotel, Downtown Miami

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Overview

This lively episode sees Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, and the usual crew joined by Trysta Krick and Juju Gotti for a deeply irreverent, funny, and opinionated trip through NBA narratives, workplace dynamics, voice uniqueness, awards confusion, pop-culture references, and more. The conversation hops from a gleeful takedown of Victor Wembanyama as the NBA’s next “overexposed” star, to a heated debate about Daryl Morey’s legacy and the role of looks in NBA executive hiring, to musings on whether anyone has a truly unique voice, to a running segment about classic movie quotes—with plenty of detours, laughter, and memorable one-liners.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

The Uniqueness of Human Voices

[00:08 – 03:37]

• Dan opens by asking whether every human who has ever lived truly has a unique voice.
• Trysta jokes that she thinks her voice, and Juju's, are unique, questioning whether there could possibly be another like hers.
• Ethical/Factual humor: The group riff on whether it’s acceptable to use the internet or AI (Claude specifically) to fact-check this, ultimately embracing “ignorance over being wrong.”
• Greg Cody admits he still has old encyclopedias in his garage.

Memorable Quote:

“We prefer to be ignorant than wrong.” — Dan Le Batard [02:35]

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Trysta Krick’s Wembanyama Hate: Subverting the Narrative

[03:37 – 04:46]

• Dan highlights how media is framing Victor Wembanyama (“Wemby”) as a conquering hero, asking Trysta for her take.
• Trysta launches a candid (and funny) rant: She finds Wemby’s “smug” face and “psychopathic” smiles off-putting, and thinks the coverage is setting him up for eventual backlash.
• Trysta, Juju, and Mike Ryan are noted as early “Wemby haters.”

Notable Exchange:

“I already hate Wemby. His face is smug. The memes. He's kinda psychopathic ... in a way that makes me feel like there's something not right upstairs.”
— Trysta Krick [03:55]

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Daryl Morey’s Legacy and NBA Executive Aesthetics

[05:38 – 13:06]

• Juju presents “Top 5 Moments from The Process” (in Philadelphia), using a humorous, biting lens (e.g., “You drafted Markelle Fultz over Jayson Tatum”).
• Trysta argues the conventional wisdom ignores Morey’s talent evaluation skills but roasts his inability to realize when “ingredients have expired,” likening his strategy to overpaying for expiring groceries.
• Controversially, Trysta surmises Daryl Morey’s “ugliness” hurts his media perception and hiring, contrasting “good-looking” guys like Bob Myers and Neil Olshey who, to her, failed upwards.

Notable Quotes:

“The problem for Daryl Morey is he doesn't know really when the ingredients are ready to expire... He goes to Wegmans over Trader Joe’s.”
— Trysta Krick [07:50]

“I think it's because Daryl Morey is ugly that he gets as bad of a rap as he does.”
— Trysta Krick [08:20]

“You can't come after Daryl Morey this way and just say he can't have these jobs because he's ugly. I've never heard that analysis before.”
— Dan Le Batard [09:33]

• The crew debates whether looks impact NBA executive success and recycling, especially given how Bob Myers and Olshey resurface despite underwhelming records.

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Toxic Workplaces & the ‘Silver Fox’ Test

[19:53 – 23:55]

• Dan presses Trysta on the rumor that the Sixers could hire Neil Olshey (fired from Portland for a toxic workplace).
• Trysta describes the “Silver Fox” archetype, someone who’s “good looking, calls you babe, says he’s going to hit the head, pats you on the back”—and how charisma can obscure red flags and fuel executive mobility.
• Trysta shares an infamous Olshey line: “We could swirl a dead cat in the arena and throw it against a fan, and that fan would be a better player than Nick Batum,” illustrating Olshey’s abrasiveness.

Notable Quotes:

“He’s got a big smile. He calls you babe. He says, ‘I'm gonna hit the head.’ … When that piece of news came out, I was like, this makes all the sense in the world. I could have told you…”
— Trysta Krick [20:24, 22:09]

“Ugly men get to get jobs, ugly women not so much.”
— Trysta Krick [09:56]

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Flopping in the NBA – Juju’s Radical Fix

[18:44 – 19:53]

• Dan tasks Juju with fantasy-commissionering a flopping solution.
• Juju proposes a five-minute bench penalty if caught flopping on replay: “Bro, sit down.”
• The group agrees it’s more enforceable than hockey-style power plays.

Memorable Moment:

“Flopping. If you get caught... Five minutes, bro. I don’t give a damn, you’re out.”
— Juju Gotti [18:44]

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Movie Quote Game: Greg Cody’s Cultural Gap

[23:47 – 44:10, recurring]

• The show intersperses movie quote guessing games for Greg Cody, who struggles with even the most famous lines (“Braveheart”, “There's no place like home”).
• Running jokes about confusing Mel Gibson with Danny Glover and the crew’s amusement over Greg’s missed references.
• The segment is used to riff on generational pop culture gaps.

Highlight:

“That is Daniel Glover in Braveheart. Daniel Glover.”
— Dan Le Batard, jokingly [25:20]

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The Pulitzer Problem: Who Gets to Claim Journalism’s Top Prize?

[33:59 – 41:11]

• The crew debates whether their company, Meadowlark Media, has the right to claim Pablo Torre’s Pulitzer win for his show (which is licensed to The New York Times).
• Dan is baffled that his team doesn't see themselves as “Pulitzer winners” even though they own the show.
• Team members equate their participation to showing up for a group project but not doing the work; Dan contends that providing the “coal” for the train is just as pivotal.

Notable Quotes:

“How am I supposed to explain to the audience how to care about this when the people most invested in it don’t seem to understand it?”
— Dan Le Batard [40:43]

“Tony owns a percentage of Pablo Torre finds out because he owns a percentage of this company. Hard stop!”
— Dan Le Batard [41:26]

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Notable Quotes & Time Stamps

• On Wembanyama Love:

  • “We’re just waiting for this to become super annoying like it was with Shaq. I already hate Wemby.”
    — Trysta Krick [03:55]

• On Daryl Morey’s Reputation

  • “I think it’s because Daryl Morey is ugly that he gets as bad of a rap as he does.”
    — Trysta Krick [08:20]

• On Flopping Punishments

  • “If you get caught flopping ... Five minutes, bro. I don't give a damn, you're out.”
    — Juju Gotti [18:44]

• ‘Silver Fox’ Test for Toxic Bosses

  • “He’s got a big smile. He calls you babe. He says, ‘I'm gonna hit the head’ … This guy’s trouble.”
    — Trysta Krick [20:24, 22:10]

• On the Pulitzer Conundrum

  • “How am I supposed to explain to the audience how to care about this when the people most invested in it don’t seem to understand it?”
    — Dan Le Batard [40:43]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Unique Human Voices: 00:08 – 03:37
• Wembanyama: Trysta’s Critique: 03:37 – 05:07
• Process/Morey Analysis: 05:38 – 13:06
• Looks Bias in NBA Exec Hires: 07:50, 08:20, 09:56, 10:07
• NBA Flopping Fixes: 18:44 – 19:53
• Toxic Workplace & Olshey: 19:53 – 23:14
• Movie Quote Game Highlights: 23:47 – 44:10 (recurring)
• Pulitzer Prize Ownership Debate: 33:59 – 41:11

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Tone and Language

The episode is fast-paced, maximally irreverent, and self-deprecating. The hosts and guests blend real sports debate with comedic roasts, pop-culture riffs, and absurd tangents—always weaving earnestness with satire and sarcasm. Trysta Krick and Juju Gotti’s voices stand out for their candid opinions and bold humor.

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Summary

If you haven’t listened, this episode delivers the distinct Le Batard blend: subversive sports takes, zany what-if scenarios, challenges to groupthink, and hilarious dissection of sports, culture, and media. Whether poking fun at NBA stars, mocking the politics of awards, or lampooning generational divides, the hosts and guests never shy away from saying what others won’t—even when it’s about how ugly executives supposedly don’t get second chances or “Silver Foxes” fail upward with a wink and a grin. The result: an unmissable, original hour of radio.

Transcript

[A]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats podcast.

[B]

Historically, I have tried to do professionally in whatever is the ridiculous clown car of the second half of my media career, something that zigs while others are zagging. And so I will tell you that I am very excited that we are having success selling journalism in the modern age, because it's not really something that people are looking for to make profit. And we're on in more places than we've ever been. So I tell you, if you want to do podcasts, it's Apple Spotify, Amazon Music. If you want to do radio, it's Sirius XM channel 85. If you want to do mainstream stuff, it's Peacock and NBC Sports now, Monday through Friday from 12 to 3, or YouTube. And if you want to join us in the Future, it's Draf DraftKings Network, it's Samsung TV plus, it's the Roku Channel, it's Vizio Watch Free plus and others. Also, you can get Juju and Trista after games. The remaining playoff games are going to have a lot of Juju and Trista after them at DLS Hoops on YouTube. They're going to join us now here because I want to have a lot of basketball conversation. But before I do that, did we find any facts on whether or not other human beings have the exact voice somewhere in the world that you have or do? Does every. Every human being who has ever lived have a unique voice? Because it's not something that I'd considered before. Trista, do you have any thoughts on this?

[C]

Yes. I think that guy who's like, yeah, see? Yeah, got me copper. I think that's Adam Shine.

[A]

I also think nobody in the history of Earth has my voice, but I guess we'll read the polls on the postgame show to determine.

[B]

Both of you have super unique voices. It's one of the things I always think of this thing as an audio thing more than a visual thing. And I love how distinct your voices are. But did we get factual answers to my question about. It seems implausible that every single person who has ever lived, there's never been anybody who has had my voice. I'm more willing to believe it with Tristan Juju, actually.

[D]

Dan, you scarred us like you scarred us. And we're afraid to trust the Internet. So we're not going to say anything.

[E]

Ethically, I can't look it up. So, okay, morally, I can't either.

[B]

All right, so we prefer to be ignorant than wrong.

[E]

No, not ignorant. Be ethical.

[C]

Oral and Are we using AI? Are we gonna. Are we gonna consult Claude on that? Is Claude trustworthy? Where are we. Where are we at on using AI for these types of things?

[A]

Also, do we get to use some of Greg Cody's wgs? White Guy Syndrome.

[F]

That's right.

[A]

Use things.

[F]

Yeah. Anybody get a set of encyclopedias? Go to the V, look up voice and the encyclopedia, and maybe that has the.

[E]

He's right about that. That's. That's what we have right now. Because he said we can't use search engines. We can't use large language models. So where we at, Dan? Encyclopedias.

[D]

Dad, you just redecorated and, like, you're cleaning out your office. Did you get rid of those encyclopedias that you still had?

[F]

No, I still have them. They're in a plastic tub in my garage.

[G]

Whenever I didn't know anything when I was a kid, my mom used to always tell me to go to the encyclopedia and look it up. I hated that shit.

[B]

A plastic tub. Tub. Your encyclopedias are in a plastic bathtub. That is in a bathtub.

[F]

A plastic. What do you call it? That? Storage. Storage bin.

[B]

Let's talk about what it is that we were talking about before Tristan Juju came on. Trista, did you find odd the conquering hero status that Wemby was framed in last night?

[C]

Yeah. Are you kidding me? Everybody is talking about, oh, yeah, we love Wemby.

[F]

We.

[C]

We're just waiting for this to become super annoying like it was with Shaq. I lived through the first round, guys. I already hate Wemby. His face is smug. The memes. He's kind of psychopathic when you think about it. He smiles. He immediately changes his. His facial expressions in a way that makes me feel like there's something not right upstairs. The elbow. I know, but smirching. It's 7, 27:30, and my time and the besmirching is already right there. I don't like Wemby. I don't like what he's about.

[B]

I think, oh, no, thank you, Trista.

[E]

Come to the dark side.

[F]

We like you.

[C]

I've already been there.

[B]

Oh, no.

[C]

I think because he reads, people are giving him more of a benefit of the doubt. They're like, oh, my God, he reads books in the locker room before that game. How civilized is Wemby?

[B]

We've got two of the largest Wemby haters anywhere. You guys have beaten everyone else to the rush on hating Wemby before.

[E]

What's the water filter you're using, Gobert? Like if. Go bare nose.

[D]

Give me a break.

[A]

He got. We got three of them because remember, Mike Ryan was the first on the mountain. He said Wimby is going to ruin basketball, bro.

[B]

These juju. These are different criticisms, though. And I know you don't like. You like to keep it positive. You don't have very much hater in you at all. But these are different criticisms to say he's going to ruin the game and to say I don't like his personality, I don't like who his essence is.

[A]

Right. But I definitely agree, though, that my boy should have got a game. Because now if I'm the Timberwolves, if I'm the Knicks, it's elbow time. Because I see the precedent that's been set. I'm going through your chest, sir. And I better not be suspended.

[B]

I want to get from juju some thoughts here on Daryl Morey and what his legacy is going to be. What are your thoughts there?

[A]

Every time y' all say Daryl Morris, I think of that play he was in because we had video from that play y' all play earlier too, and he was celebrating. And I'm like, boy, boy, boy. But I came it up with a top five moments from the process that I think Daryl Morris will be remembered as even if he wasn't responsible.

[F]

All right. Oh, well, I.

[B]

All right, let's do it, bro.

[A]

Oli, you got swept by the Knicks in a home court takeover. That is the worst. But number five, you drafted Markel Fultz over Jason Tatum. Number four, you drafted Ben Simmons over Jalen Brown. Number three, not the first time he said it, but when James Harden repeated that Darren Murray is a liar. Number two, Joel Embiid crying his ass off when the Raptors won the Dame.

[B]

That's going to be as close as he gets, isn't it? That's going to be as close as Joel Embiid gets to the championship.

[A]

And the number one moment for me, for the process, Ben Simmons holding up that fish on the boat as if it is all over.

[B]

What are your thoughts here, Trista, both on juju's list and how this will be remembered because I don't think Maury gets a top job again.

[C]

I like the list a lot. I think the list we have to define what the process is because I feel like it's pre Mori and it's post hiring Maury and like the things that were super egregious were really the Brian Colangelo things. To me, I feel like Maury is one of the best talent evaluators in the leak and if you look at it like a grocery store, the GM's job should really be going out and getting the best ingredients for the chef, AKA the coach to cook up. Daryl Morey knows how to pick ingredients. Y' all like, truthfully, some of the best draft decisions. Tyrese Maxey, VJ Edgecomb, Jared McCain. The problem for Daryl Morey is he doesn't know really when the ingredients are ready to expire. And, and he doesn't care about sale prices. He doesn't. He goes to Wegmans over Trader Joe's. He's getting Paul George at a premium, like it's peak. Paul George. I think it's because Daryl Morey is ugly that he gets as bad of a rap as he does. And I think that they hire Bob Myers who honestly, like, if you look at what Bob Myers did after Jerry west left, has been trash. We can go down the list. And they're also now rumored to be hiring Neil Toxic Workplace. Olshe. You're talking about two good looking guys, just like our guy, the serial killer as well, who is good looking. Ted Bundy. And I just think that we need to start evaluating people not based on how they look, but the decisions that they.

[B]

Okay, I need to stop her on a number of different fronts and I did it way too late here.

[D]

First of all, she's right.

[B]

Dan, did you answer my question as to whether he will work again in the league? You're thinking that he does because of what you're saying as the top guy in the league, the, the full power position.

[D]

Thought she said no because he's ugly.

[C]

No, I don't think he gets the top, top, top job. But I would keep Maury on just in terms of like draft evaluation because both of those guys can't draft worth of shit.

[B]

Juju. Why did you throw the penalty flag? Because she's sitting here having analysis that none of us could have. This is not fair. This is not equality.

[D]

You can't have it.

[B]

I second, you can't come after Daryl Morey this way and just say he can't have these jobs because he's ugly. I've never heard that analysis before.

[A]

Can you imagine? This is why I love having Trista as a partner. Because she can say things I could never dream of saying. Could you imagine if I had this take on anybody in the wnba? No, I will be canceled.

[C]

Well, that's because women juju are highly sexualized and men are not sexualized. So that's just the way it goes. Ugly men get to get jobs, Ugly Women, not so much.

[D]

Yeah, Juju.

[B]

I'm saying I think, I think, I think this is a lane for. I think we should have Trista on as Elaine, a correspondent. Whether or not this person or that person should have a job based strictly on whether they're good looking or not. Because Bob Myers is getting chances.

[G]

You're saying that the resume hair Taliban go like Quasimodo. You think he has his job?

[C]

Come on, come on. Look at, look at what Bob Myers did after Jerry west left. He drafted James Wiseman, who was a bust. And really there was no real reason to draft James Wiseman because he didn't even play that much in college. He drafted Nico Manion. He just drafted Justinian Jessup. Do you even remember that guy? Drafted Jonathan Kaminga and then they didn't use him. Drafted Moses Moody. That's probably the one that you could say, okay, he's all right. Did the signing. Trade with Durant for d' Angelo Russell. Got Kelly Oubre. I just feel like, why are we talking about Bob Myers? Like he's some sort of genius when it was really 44. That was the genius.

[A]

You better preach.

[E]

Tristan, I'm going to read you a couple of transactions here over the Daryl Morey lifespan in Philadelphia. Traded Mikel Bridges. That's already.

[C]

No, that wasn't him.

[E]

That.

[C]

No, no, that was not him.

[E]

That was Colangelo.

[C]

That was Colangelo. 2020, the Tyrese Maxey year is Daryl Moray's first year.

[E]

Okay, so cut isaiah Joe for 40

[C]

year old Dwayne Dedman, but drafted Isaiah

[E]

Joe the mechanic, but not, but not there anymore because he traded him.

[C]

I said, you don't know. He doesn't know when the vegetables have expired. There's still two good corrections.

[B]

Keep going, Keep going.

[E]

Correction. The second was a correction. The second he moved off of Isaiah Joe, who's now a big time.

[B]

But she's saying he had the insight to see that player. Not everyone's.

[E]

I agree, but this is the cold, hard fact of the transaction. Not that he knew a guy was going to be good and then ended up.

[B]

She's. She's making. I think she's making an important distinction that I'm not hearing a whole lot today in the coverage of Daryl Morey. What I am hearing is failure. I'm hearing all over. I'm not hearing all over the place. One of the best talent evaluators in the game. She's saying something most people are not saying.

[E]

Traded McCain for a bad 22nd first round pick.

[C]

Sold high on drafted Jared McCain which a lot of people thought was not a good draft pick. And now we see what he can become. Nick Nurse. For all of the things that we say positively about him, maybe he's not a very good chef. He wasn't using Jared McCain that well. Now Jared McCain goes to a place with a great chef, and you see what a star ingredient that is when you have a guy that's buying the ingredients and the chef can't cook worth the. He's like, maybe I'm just getting the bad. The wrong ingredients. It's like, no, no, no, Daryl. You get the ingredients great. It's the people around you that are not doing a good job.

[E]

It's okay. And I got it right here. I got it right here. He cut Julian Champagne so Mac McClunk could participate in the slam dunk contest.

[C]

That was a bad one. That was a bad one.

[A]

There we go. There we are.

[E]

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[H]

Tony, you know that moment at a party or at a tailgate where everything just sort of clicks?

[E]

I know it well. It's usually when I show up, everybody goes crazy.

[A]

Yeah.

[H]

You usually take all the credit for it, but it's because Tony usually walks in with Cuervo walking like this.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[H]

Cuervo is a thing that turns hanging out into this is the night.

[E]

It has that effect on people.

[A]

It does.

[H]

You usually take the credit for it, but again, it's the Cuervo effect. It's like that moment in a big game where everyone in the crowd just starts standing up, hooting and hollering. Keep it, Cuervo.

[E]

Keep it Cuervo, baby.

[H]

Chris, Cody, when you come over to my house and we put on the games, I got basketball, I got baseball going on. But what do I lay out for you and the boys for entertainment and drinking Miller Line.

[D]

Uh huh.

[H]

Those beautiful white cans or on draft or the bottle, if you prefer.

[I]

Oh.

[D]

When you open that with the can though, and you one of the best

[H]

sounds on the planet. You pair that with the ripe game. You take that first sip, we both look around. It's not a bit.

[D]

I have goosebumps thinking about the first sip.

[H]

We take that first sip, we open it up and we're looking around. There's just that five seconds of almost eerie silence where you're just soaking it all in and you're like, man, did we make the right call or what? That's why we reach for Miller Light. It's clean, refreshing, easy to drink, brewed for taste with simple ingredients.

[A]

Wow.

[D]

That golden color.

[H]

Just 96 calories and 3.2 carbs. The original light beer since 1975. And it still hits different.

[D]

I love you, Miller Lite.

[H]

Cheers to legendary moments with Miller Lite. Great taste. 96 calories. Go to millerlight.com dan to find delivery options near you. Or you can pick up some Miller Lite pretty much anywhere they sell beer. It's Miller time. Celebrate responsibly. Miller Brewing Co. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces.

[A]

Don LeBatard.

[B]

Billy, somebody has written in here. I need way more.

[F]

I'm sorry.

[D]

I just said in his headset. Haven't you been to all of them too?

[F]

It sounded like you were speaking aloud.

[B]

My bad.

[F]

Totally on me. That's 100 on me.

[B]

All right, stugats.

[F]

But that goes without saying, right? That it couldn't.

[B]

Well, now he said it, didn't he? Didn't say it yet. Greg.

[F]

My apologies, Greg.

[B]

Why Greg? Yeah, Greg. He apologized. Greg, sincerely.

[A]

This is the Dan Lebatar show with the St. Speaking of a bad one. A couple weeks ago we was making fun of my brother Dave Damshek and how he was holding his arm when the Pap Narduzzi photo.

[C]

This is tough.

[A]

Brother Dan, you got some nerve. Look at my boy Dave. First of all, yes, that arm is awkward as hell. My sister Lucy and Rose and bit brother Pat. But Dan, you had a picture with Kevin Hart. Brother, I think you forgot about Video Team. What is you doing with your arm, big bro? Is there a ghost?

[B]

I feel like that is an arm. That's not proportional with the rest of my body.

[A]

It's too long.

[B]

Your honor, the arm, it reminds me.

[D]

Skinny arm.

[B]

It reminds me of like a Chris Elliot character. Do you guys know what it is that I'm talking about? The Chris Elliot character with tiny hands and very scary movie. What is wrong with what is happening there? My germs put it on the poll at Lebatard Show. Do you know who Quasimodo is? Because Zaz made a reference there that I think is dated enough that most people don't know what you're talking about. Does everyone here know what Zsas is talking about when he says Quasimodo as a famously ugly person? Greg?

[F]

Yes, I do. I know Quasimodo.

[B]

Everyone here knows. Yes, Trista.

[C]

Yes, I know Quasimodo.

[D]

I've heard the name Quasimodo, but I don't know if I could pick him out of a lineup in terms of.

[A]

That's who I thought the. The Notre Dame mascot was, right? This guy?

[G]

That's right. The leprechaun. His name's Quasimodo.

[B]

At Le Batard show, if you want to vote on the polls, Juju, can you fix flopping, please, for me in the NBA? Come up with a solution you're good at coming up with. With ways that we can get rid of some things that everyone. That the American people would enjoy having removed from the landscape.

[A]

Exactly. My sister. Video team, y' all crazy. My sister, she. She made a great point on the alley oop yesterday, bro. Like, if the referees could get it right, we wouldn't have none of these problems. But it's so much faking and flopping going around that y' all tricking the damn refs from thinking he it's a file when it's not. Chet. Hongreen, I'm looking at you. So I think that moving forward flopping, if you get caught flapping on this damn instant replay. Five minutes, bro. I don't give a damn. You're out of the game. Somebody can come get you, but at the same time, you're out of this game. So in crunch time, five minutes left in the game. Sga. Good luck. You feel me? What do y' all think about that?

[B]

Any thoughts? What do I have here?

[F]

I like the idea. Seriously. It be because it walks a fine line. It's not. You're not ejecting them, but you're doing more than just getting a couple of free throws out of it. You're making them sit for five minutes. I think it's a brilliant idea.

[D]

You're not talking like hockey, right? I'm making sure I understood you like, they're not. They're not down a man. You can put someone else out there, but just. That guy's got to get off.

[A]

Yeah. No power play. I'm in on power play. Might be a little too extreme. Too much, right? Yeah. We got. We got to get somebody else in for you because. Brother, sit down.

[B]

I'll keep working on it. Let's see if we can get it to a place where we can bake it and have it ready for Adam Silver. In a way that has it. Because that's good. That's better than yesterday. Four on five. Nobody was going to accept it. That's better than yesterday. Trista, we skipped right past something that you said. How real is the rumor that the Sixers are going to hire Neil Olshi, who comes from. Fired from a Portland toxic workplace? Like, what are the details here that people need to know on how it is these guys get recycled no matter where it is. They're coming from Nepetiz.

[C]

Nepetiz is how it happens. Bob Myers and Neil o' Shea are friendly or friends. Both came from the agent to GM route. But again, like, Neil o' Shea is, you know, a silver fox. He's got a big smile. He calls you babe. He says, he's gonna hit the head. He pats you on his shoulder, and. And you're like, oh, yeah, this guy. This guy's kind of fun, but when you hit.

[B]

So wait a minute, Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I just want to see what your character assessment is. So someone slaps you on the back, says, I'm gonna hit the head. And you're like, this is a fun guy.

[E]

Those in a babe, too.

[B]

He says, hey, babe. He slaps you on the back. I'm gonna. Fun guy.

[C]

This guy's trouble, is what I really said. He's the kind of guy that I could get to say anything.

[B]

I'm going to hit that. Why is he. Why is he announcing that he's going to hit the head? And why does that give off fungi to you?

[C]

It gives off machismo like Neanderthal. And those guys are notoriously up to no good. Like, those guys like to have a good time, in my opinion.

[E]

Let you know he's leaving the building. He wants to let you know he's

[B]

going to the bathroom.

[A]

What's wrong with that?

[C]

Yeah, he's like. He's courteous. He's telling me, hey, I'm going to. I'll be right back, babe. I got to hit the head, but I'll be right back.

[B]

All right? Put it on the poll, please. At lebaton show, if the Silver Fox calls you babe and says, I have to hit the head, is he allowed to have a toxic workplace? Because. Or it does that make it a toxic workplace by itself?

[C]

Oh, that wasn't. If he does that. When that came out, when that piece of news came out, I was like, this makes all the sense in the world. I could have told you that the first moment that I met Neil o', Shea. And he said, hey, babe, I'm going to hit the head. Like six months into his tenure as Portland Trailblazers gm, and I think he gets a lot of credit because of the Damian Lillard draft pick. But that wasn't him. That was Indiana Pacers GM Chad Buchanan and Kevin Pritchard. Well, I was actually Chad Buchanan, who was the interim GM at the time. But, yeah, like, Neil o' Shea is the kind of guy that will curse you smooth out. There's a famous story about him talking about Nick Batum, who's now on the Clippers. He would say, we can. We could swirl a dead cat in the arena and throw it against a fan, and that fan would be a better player than Nick Batum. Again, just more data for the toxic workplace. That Neil o' Shea will say anything, do anything. But he's good looking. Like, look at him.

[A]

Why the cat got to be dead?

[C]

Who knows?

[A]

My boy. Get him out of here.

[E]

Can't swing the cat alive. Try to swing a cat alive.

[B]

No, it's got to be that in order to hit someone between the eyes like David would have. Goliath, you've got to swing the cat. A cat that's dead. If you throw it, that's alive. That's a workplace violation. That's dangerous. You can't be doing that. I'm sorry. I heard the music the first time. Here is a movie quote that Greg Cody is not likely to have heard. Greg Cody. Do you know what this is from? One chance to come back here and

[A]

tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom.

[F]

But they'll never take our freedom. Lord of the Rings.

[B]

No.

[E]

Close.

[A]

What's the hint? Atlanta Braves.

[F]

Remember the Titans?

[E]

No further.

[B]

You think that's a football movie involving Denzel Washington?

[F]

Remember the Falcons?

[B]

One chance to come back here and

[A]

tell our enemies that they may take

[B]

our lives, but they'll never take our brave.

[F]

Okay, that's a bad Irish accent. Who's known for a bad accent? I don't know. I. I just don't.

[C]

I. I'M Ten Commandments.

[B]

Do you recognize. Do you recognize the voice? Do you recognize? In keeping with our conversation here about voices being distinctive, do you recognize this voice? They may take our lives, but they'll

[A]

never take our freedom.

[F]

Yeah, I'm picturing that actor. I can't come up with his name. He's a full of himself, that actor.

[G]

He's not that well known.

[B]

That's not narrowing it down.

[F]

I think he's like name a full of himself actor.

[B]

He was in Lethal Weapon. He was in the Lethal Weapon movies. That's not gonna help you at all. He was in Mad. He was mad. He was in Mad Max, one of his first movies.

[F]

No. Was there a horse in that?

[B]

That was obviously that Juju got it right. That is Daniel Glover in Braveheart. Daniel Glover.

[F]

Dan Lewis is who I was thinking of, the full of himself actor.

[B]

Do you still not know who it is? I just said the movie. Do you still. What is the name of the movie? I don't know, but I just said it.

[F]

Say it again.

[D]

Braveheart.

[F]

Braveheart.

[B]

Thank you, Trista.

[F]

Thank you.

[B]

Thank you. Juju again. That's a good looking man, lsu who also.

[C]

Who also has gotten away with atrocities because of his looks.

[F]

There you go.

[G]

What do you say?

[E]

Hit the hat, baby.

[B]

Juju.

[A]

Throw that wham in a circle. If it's little, make it jump like a hurdle man. Show.com man log on.

[B]

Lshoops. Yes. Famed anti Semite Mel Gibson. Not Daniel Glover. Daniel Glover was not the star of Braveheart.

[D]

You are right, dad. There was a horse in here.

[B]

Take our lives, but they'll never take classic Winnie. Also, as Danny Glover put it on the poll, would Braveheart had been a better movie if it had been Danny Glover instead of. Instead of Mel Gibson Jr. I can't believe that we have stumbled correctly on the idea that no one in history has had a voice like anyone else in history. It just doesn't seem possible and I don't feel like we've gotten accurate information. There has to be a guy in Bangladesh who sounds just like Tony. You just. You can't tell me. You can't tell me that there are no. How is it. How would it be possible for no one to have exactly this whiny of a voice that someone out there sounds as annoying as I do when I get to this pitch.

[E]

Can I ask the large language model Dan or no.

[B]

I would like some information here. And even if it has to be acquired unethically, I'm willing to take what it is that. But you could Just do research. Better than that, you could also do

[E]

the listen everybody's voice on the entire planet. No, sorry, I can't do that.

[F]

Get back to us on that.

[G]

I'm being told your voices are like fingerprints shaped by unique anatomy, including the larynx, larynx, mouth shape, sinuses and vocal cords.

[D]

It sounds very aie.

[A]

Aie.

[D]

You know what I meant.

[B]

Okay. Aie is spelled Y, isn't it? Aioli. A I. E is spelled with a Y.

[D]

Put it an only hey listeners, as

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[A]

Don Lebatar the judge coach Sweetie Stugats.

[B]

I just go say hello.

[A]

This is the Don lebatar Show with the Stugats.

[B]

What movie is Leave the Canal, Take the Gun, Leave the con.

[F]

That was the. We already did that.

[B]

I know. That's why I'm asking you. I don't think you remember.

[F]

Of course I don't. Why would I? It's dispensable information. I don't have the bandwidth to remember every detail.

[D]

Can I give him an easy one?

[F]

Extraneous detail? Movie lines?

[D]

Because I have here. I have one more for sure that I don't think he'll know. I have one more that I do.

[B]

I'm bothered by how good you are at selecting terrible music that I don't like at the beginning and then I end up liking. I don't. I. You have been consistent in finding just the cheapest possible music.

[F]

You have to go like this when you hear it.

[D]

He's dancing for people not listening.

[B]

That's just generic game show music that's not actually on any game show, even though it's game show perfect.

[D]

To give myself a little credit here, that's me taping, taking like a snippet of this long song. And I'm like, dude, that's my. That's my little. That's my moment right there.

[B]

Well, credit to you. What is the movie clip that you're saying? Is this the easiest one we've got?

[A]

This is.

[D]

This will be hilarious if he doesn't get.

[B]

Okay, but I. Wait a minute. I want the best one for the end. I want the easiest one for the end so that we can ride the zip line. This is what I want to know. Okay. Jeremy is, I think, making his first road trip with the Marlins this week. And so I want to put him on a zip line and I want to do with him what it is that we did with Mina Kimes. And I want to do it successfully with him, but I'm worried about doing it successfully with him because it's been done as well as it can be done and I don't want anti climax from it. I want our very best and easiest one that Greg Cody can be wrong on. I want that to be our last one one.

[D]

So I'll go with the second easiest one here because I have three more in the holster. I'm gonna go second easiest one that I think he'll still miss and then we'll go easiest.

[B]

I also want to play this game again next week, so get another batch of them because I'm fairly startled by how bad he is at this, even though I know he doesn't know anything.

[D]

A little update on Jeremy. We have been efforting all week to do exactly what you just said, apparently. Either he's lying about this because he doesn't want to do it or it's not running currently like that. That zipline is just out of order at the moment according to Jeremy, so luckily for us, we won't get a shitty sequel.

[B]

Mina is doing a new job before we get to this movie segment. She's got a new job now. She's got a new job now. Mina is hosting the national spelling bee. I loved that as a choice for her. It made me happy when I saw Nick Wright's nemeses, Mina Kimes, you know, be in charge of the national scripts spelling bee. And Pablo Torre has won a Pulitzer as well.

[E]

You think Nick Wright looks at the spelling bee thing and is like, damn, she got me?

[B]

I don't think so. But I think it's because he's in more of the common man lane. And I do enjoy Vegas. Yeah, no, I love how Nick Wright is winning by not doing what it is that Mina and Pablo are doing because he's being more of the everyman. I did want to ask you guys though something based on yesterday's conversation because I have been both confused and frustrated by the fact that not only do I believe that America at large does not care about what the Pulitzer award means anymore, but the people here in this media company who own something that has just won even the most prestigious Prize in the history of journalism didn't seem to understand yesterday what our ownership of this means. When I ask you, did the New York Times win a Pulitzer for Pablo Torres show? Yes or no? What's the answer to that? Yes or no? Did they win a Pulitzer?

[F]

Yeah, I think it's not.

[B]

Well, they're celebrating as if they want a Pulitzer, and everyone is saying they won a Pulitzer. They license our show. How can they win a Pulitzer? And you guys don't understand that you want a Pulitzer. How can the employees of this company think that the New York Times won a Pulitzer when they lease that show? And we, this group of people here, doesn't feel like it won a Pulitzer when we own that show.

[A]

Show.

[B]

Like, how does that. How does that even happen? Explain to me yesterday when we were talking about this, you guys were saying, well, the owners don't get celebrated in sports. They hand the owners the trophy. Like, they come at the end of the championship, they go and give the trophy first to the owner.

[D]

Right. The custodians not on stage, though.

[B]

Yeah, but you guys made this. You guys made the award. This is not the custodian.

[D]

I'm saying not. You know, you're not.

[B]

Speaker 1. You guys are owners, though. You guys are owners in the company. Do you or do you not own a percentage of the company?

[E]

That's right, I do.

[F]

Yeah.

[B]

So when you guys were saying that the Pulitzer Prize is the MVP award, I think it's the championship. I don't think it's the MVP award. The MVP award is an individual award. I think this is the championship. I think Pablo Torre has won it in name, but Pablo Torre has a newsroom. Pablo Torre has a team. Pablo Torre has an assortment of people who are making it so that Pablo Torre wins the Pulitzer. But you can't tell me the New York Times can claim it and you guys don't.

[E]

No, I agree with that. I think what we're having is, even though I loved it when I was in high school, we're part of a group project where we really didn't do anything. Right? Like, they did all the work.

[G]

I love.

[E]

We're standing in the front of the class like, zaz, can you believe it, buddy? We got an A.

[D]

Let's go. My Twitter bio says Pulitzer adjacent.

[B]

You guys, we are the ones throwing the coal in the furnace so the train can move without the coal being thrown in the furnace. The train just doesn't travel. It just sits there. Like, you're saying that we didn't do the work. Work, but the company provides the resources that other media entities are not willing to pour into the idea of journalism. So you're making the sacrifice so that it can exist, so that that kind of work can remain something that's rewarded, which ends up carrying the legacy of our media company like it's. So we've won an Emmy. I know that awards aren't the reason to do this, but this particular award, when I think of. Of the highest civilian honors, whether it's Purple Heart or, you know, Congressional Medal of Honor, Nobel Peace Prize, Pulitzer is in the hall of fame of whatever it is, all honors American honors can be to me. Do I have this wrong? Because I'm talking to Greg Cody, who's a journalist, and so he believes in the idea of this. But I was startled that most of my journalism friends, almost all of them, not only didn't reach out to me, had no idea it happened, just didn't know that Pablo had even won.

[F]

Yeah, that's surprising to me because whether it's lost prestige or not because of the downturn of journalism, it's still the most prestigious journalism award. I think part of the problem with the Pulitzer is that it's fractured. It's not just journalism. It's for the arts. It's for poetry. It's a myriad different categories. An example would be me winning a Pulitzer for Best Catchphrase Countdown. But.

[D]

You want credit for that one, too, Dan.

[F]

Okay, true or false? You're miffed at the New York Times for taking credit.

[B]

Not at all. No, I'm just confused.

[F]

Sounded like you were.

[B]

No, I'm confused. No, not that. Us. I'm confused by you guys.

[D]

Damn.

[I]

We're humble.

[B]

I'm.

[D]

Let the other people say we're. We're Pulitzer winners.

[B]

The part that I'm not understanding is it's super rare for a group, group of people who own something to not take pride in what represents one of the great prestigious in the history of American awards. Like, I'm not getting it. And the only reason I'm bringing up the New York Times example is because no one, I think, disputes that the New York Times won a Pulitzer Prize because they license Pablo Torre's show.

[G]

I mean, if. If an actor wins an Oscar Oscar, how far down the list does that go? Like, does the whole studio believe they won the Oscar?

[B]

I think that the studios that win Oscars take great pride in being the studios that win Oscars and then get a ton more work because of how the industry regards the winning of that as it regards media companies. It's an extraordinary accomplishment. That one that has been alive for five years has won a Pulitzer. But it's more extraordinary to me that the owners of that company don't seem to understand what they've won.

[D]

Well, it kind of work. It feels like we work for Modern Family and we're like, under the ABC umbrella. And Papo, the other show won an Emmy.

[G]

That's a good example.

[D]

It's like, yeah, I work for the same company and I love Pablo, love that show, but I'm not going to do a victory. I work for Modern. Modern Family, so. But we're the better show than that other one.

[B]

All right, so when Metal Arc media more popular show. But when Meadowlark smaller one. When the wins the sports Emmy for the comeback movie, one of the documentaries we've made. None of you understand the personal pride involved with, like, you're. Do you not understand what you own here when you're making things that are winning awards? It's just, how am I supposed to explain to the audience how to care about this when the people most invested in it don't seem to understand it?

[E]

I think that's a distinction, right? Like, we. We made an incredible thing, but, like, we is like certain people. So I, like, feel. I feel like for us back here, it's like we can't claim that we worked on certain things or that we are part of certain things. That one.

[B]

It can't exist unless we're making money. It's like, which part of this you guys invent? This company invented that thing that won that award? It can't exist otherwise. It doesn't exist otherwise. How are you not getting that?

[D]

I just feel like if I was, like, doing radio hits, taking a victory lap, you'd be making fun of me for, I think. I feel like I can't win here.

[G]

Yeah. I feel like people object to the idea that Tony won a Pulitzer.

[E]

Can I tell my wife?

[B]

Tony owns a percentage of Pablo Torre finds out because he owns a percentage of this company. Hard stop.

[E]

Thank you. Tell my wife today, babe. I'm a Pulitzer Prize winner. I'm going to go hit the head.

[B]

Give me some more movie music here so we can do another movie here with Greg Cody. He's ashamed and embarrassed. We've got three of these left. He is O for all of them except the one that named the movie three times in the quote. Let's see what we've got here. There's no place like home. There's no place like home.

[G]

Oh, get the hell out of here.

[B]

Greg.

[F]

Greg. Okay. Greg, it's the wizard of Oz.

[E]

Okay, There he.

[B]

What's your favorite movie of all time? Why did you pause?

[G]

We win.

[D]

Just for how long that took you.

[F]

No, no, no. The. The hesitation was that it didn't sound like Dorothy. It sounded like a little six year old boy.

[B]

There's no place like home. There's no place.

[H]

You know what?

[B]

He's not wrong. It sounds. It does.

[D]

I get the wrong. That is the old boy. That's the one at the end when she's like, like coming about to wake up, essentially.

[B]

I can't tell that that is Dorothy. I. I hear the kid from Sixth Sense. There's no place like home. There's no place like home.

[F]

Okay, but the line is from the wizard of Oz, so I got that right.

[D]

No, that is from the wizard of Oz.

[F]

Okay, that can.

[B]

That ambient music, by the way, just pulsates. 1950. There's no place like home. There's no place like home. Is that a weeping violin? Is that. What. What is the sound of that? That is just profoundly sad and gives off black and white television. Give me another movie, please, before we get to what it is you're alleging is the easiest of all.

[D]

All right, here's the last hard one.

[B]

Houston, we have a problem.

[F]

Oh, everybody knows that one, but do you. I'm not sure.

[B]

Do you know the voice? Do you know whose voice that is? Houston, we have a problem.

[F]

Houston, we do have a problem.

[D]

He didn't say we do, but.

[F]

Houston, we have a problem. It's a. Obviously it's the movie about the, the NASA and, and the space program, right?

[B]

Houston, we have a problem. But who's. Who'? The actor. Do you recognize the actor's voice? Houston, we have a problem.

[F]

It sounds like Lewis.

[B]

It sounds like Lewis. It is.

[F]

It is.

[B]

It is. Yes, it is. He's. Yes, he started up. It's Tom Hanks.

[F]

That's Hanks.

[B]

Houston, we have a problem.

[F]

Not sound like Hanks.

[B]

And the movie is Apollo 13.

[F]

You didn't give me a chance to answer.

[B]

Oh, okay.

[F]

I was fixing to say Apollo 13.

[B]

Houston, we have a problem.

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