John Amaechi
Appearances
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Dirk Nowitzki And Stump The Meech
This is the Don Levitard Show with the Stugatz.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Dirk Nowitzki And Stump The Meech
You have not won. Debatable. Maybe a couple. This is the problem. Anyway, I've won many times.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Dirk Nowitzki And Stump The Meech
Is this the easy one that we're starting off with? This is the easy one.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Dirk Nowitzki And Stump The Meech
That's not fair to go this hard. One more time, one more time, one more time.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Dirk Nowitzki And Stump The Meech
Plumber? No, I've got nothing. I think Plumer, but that's all I can hear. Plumber?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Dirk Nowitzki And Stump The Meech
Roy got it right. Hey!
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Dirk Nowitzki And Stump The Meech
No, it just sounds like a frog.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Dirk Nowitzki And Stump The Meech
Everything's fine. Pizzit. Pizzit. Pizzit. Pieces? Is it one word or two words? One word. Pizzit. Pizzit.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Dirk Nowitzki And Stump The Meech
This is the same swamp scene. The frog is outside. That is a mosquito hitting one of those electrical things.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Dirk Nowitzki And Stump The Meech
He's got his nuts in a vice or something.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Dirk Nowitzki And Stump The Meech
You're going to lose. Thank you for this word. Thank you for being my friend.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Dirk Nowitzki And Stump The Meech
That's because I've won many times. He's very competitive. Listen, I'm fine. All right, number three. Dot. Dot. Dot. Dot. This isn't fair. That's not a full word. Is that one word or two? It's one word. How is that going to be two words? No, no, no. Don't do that. Don't gaslight me about this.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Dirk Nowitzki And Stump The Meech
We've had many times where there's been an utterance that sounds like he's been shocked, and it's ended up being a complete sentence. Dot. Dot.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Dirk Nowitzki And Stump The Meech
And then just occasionally a mosquito getting hit in the background.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Dirk Nowitzki And Stump The Meech
That's exactly right. That's exactly right. You got a guess here? Down to business. Dot, dot, dot.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Dirk Nowitzki And Stump The Meech
That's not fair. No, but listen to what he's saying. Even when you give me the sentence, I didn't know that was doctor.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Dirk Nowitzki And Stump The Meech
I don't understand how he can make the noise. That's the piece that's odd because it's almost like I need to see his lips moving to know. How do you make that? What happens to you?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Dirk Nowitzki And Stump The Meech
It's bouncing around on the ground. It's just a very happy frog.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Dirk Nowitzki And Stump The Meech
What two words did you say? Is a. Oh, no. The is is not in there. Danism is a more relaxed person. In the small sound he played, is is not in there. Danism is a more relaxed person. You've missed a piece of it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Dirk Nowitzki And Stump The Meech
He absolutely does not. I would have been on the bench. He would have been on scoring and I would have been on the bench.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Dirk Nowitzki And Stump The Meech
I think I may have been last year in Orlando.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Dirk Nowitzki And Stump The Meech
One of the two of us talking has a statue, and the other one does not.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Dirk Nowitzki And Stump The Meech
That's why I beat his ass. I noticed that Tony is not brave enough to suggest he could beat you in one-to-one.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Dirk Nowitzki And Stump The Meech
This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugatz Podcast.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Dirk Nowitzki And Stump The Meech
I feel like that's a pretty indicative matchup.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Dirk Nowitzki And Stump The Meech
What's amazing about that is that that 2.3 points, that must be almost higher than my actual average. It is.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
I mean, it's not about who's right. Almost everything this man is talking about is the gaps in his knowledge. He's reading papers. He's not there in medical rooms with him. And I don't know whether... Joel is kind of phoning it in or not. I can't tell.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
But when anybody utters a sentence, well, you know, we can talk about his injuries, but and then they want to talk about the way he holds his face as if that ameliorates whether he's actually injured or not. It's just ridiculous to me. Plus, the thing I just find distasteful about this man is the fact that he replaces reason with volume.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
Any time he thinks his argument is lacking, he just gets louder. And to me, that is the sign of the belligerent drunk at the end of the bar, not a kind of seasoned reporter on this type of stuff. So you're saying he had a dry take? Okay, that's got to be one of those buzzers. It's got to be. What are you talking about? I wasn't even talking about alcohol. Instantly. Instantly, it's got to be.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
The penalty starts.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
He's a good broadcaster, I'll grant you that. He's the greatest. The GOAT. The GOAT. Okay, I wouldn't know what to compare him with. He's uncomparable. Yeah. Okay, good. No comparison. No comp. Again, he can be really good at something. Most of my Twitter feed at the moment is me arguing that people who are very good at what they do are also terrible people.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
So you can be both things at the same time. And to me, I'm always amused by tiny people who like to say that seven-footers are soft, but only when the seven-footer is a continent away. He's in Philly, though. I'll tell John to be into his face. See, everybody says that until they're in the room. So it's interesting to me.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
The closest we've got here is the gentleman here who wanted to challenge me to a basketball game and insisted I wouldn't be able to back him down. We've got the court upstairs, by the way. He still wants it. He still wants it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
There's a slight. There's a W. It seems like you're spelling it with. It's a speech impediment. It's temporary. It'll go away. Leave the poor man.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
He didn't interrupt. It's just we're so cavalier about, you know, if you sit out to protect yourself and get injured, why don't you just get in and get injured? That's an incredibly cavalier approach to somebody whose entire career and life and livelihood depends on his ability to prolong this. No job should have a body count. No job should leave you unable to function in your old age.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
And we've no idea what the impact of these repeated injuries will be on him. I pulled my back playing paddle the other day. It's six weeks ago. And even now, I'm on 2,000 milligrams of some ungodly anti-inflammatory just so I can walk and sit. MARK BLYTH, And you think you can back me down? MARK BLYTH, We've got Tony now. MARK BLYTH, There are difficult jobs, and then there are lightweights.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
And you are in that latter category.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
It's just annoying. I agree with you. I am on the front end. I've never watched him. I haven't watched him play, frankly. Oh, you'd be so annoyed with him, dude. That thing about if he is flopping on the floor, then there's a legitimate target for the irritation that people have in that action and saying, why haven't you changed that?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
But the targeting of the fragility or not of his body as if we can all understand what it is to carry the amount of weight. Have you noticed the number of big guys who just don't make it that long? The number of league players, people I played with who popped their clogs, far earlier than you can imagine. And so...
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
I'm not that cavalier about the health of people who I know already have shortened blood.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
I was definitely considered soft, but it was for all the wrong reasons, right? It was because of the way I talked. The only reason I have a goatee is because my team said, if I'm going to talk this way, I need to have something that at least shows something. I agree. This is part of the problem with, I mean, I'm listening to this and I don't understand the context, right?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
I don't watch very much of football, of your football, or my football, actually. But it's just, the language, it seems like it's being chosen because it's purposefully denigrating of the masculinity of the people on the teams. When you could just, if what you mean is,
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
you think their effort level is lower than it should be for someone who is not injured and paid that much, then let's target that because I think that's really legitimate. The idea that you would have people who are paying a disproportionate amount of their salary to either pay to watch ridiculously priced cable or to be in a stand and watch you and you're not giving everything, no, unacceptable.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
But to me, the idea that soft is the language we use for when we mean something different, say what we mean, and then you can actually get to the heart of the problem.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
i am here with what looks like a truly horrified john amici uh you don't understand what just happened there with my father and 50 shades of poppy right no that was madness it that was madness who thinks of this that's the part that's amazing to me who thinks of this and says that's what we'll do that combination of things and the visuals the exploding watermelon Yeah.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
It's a hugely bad choice. Thank you. What's wrong with Fridays? That's a great question. What's wrong with a Friday? I was wondering the same thing. I thought today was Friday until right now. Let's just do this knowing that the pain on... I mean, I've seen some colleagues in here. It is not a fun day for some people right now. Low energy.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
Low energy and also just that face that says, I'm like a millimeter from vomiting in a bucket. That type of thing. That's fine for me.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
See right through me. I'm a vegan now. Sorry, you were dry again? Yes. Okay, good. Good to know. This is one of those vegan things. I have to tell you. God damn it. Minor penalty, two minutes for boring.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
Or just people take it for granted that you can't bring a plus one.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
Well, what's right is having a decision that you make that everybody knows, right? So either everybody knows it's plus ones or everybody knows it's not plus ones. I think no plus ones. We just had our holiday party on a Friday, by the way. On a Friday. Novel.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
So that people can be pained on their own time. Right. Which I think is better.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
That does seem a bit convenient. Why don't you just make a rule about this? Well, there is a rule.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
Except for Dan.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
No plus ones. No plus ones. It's the work family together. Chance to let your hair down. That's it. Hear that, Izzy?