The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Limited Fake Stephen A. Smith Runs For President
Thu, 06 Feb 2025
How did everything go last night at what our show is lovingly referring to as "The Last Dans?" We check in on the action out in New Orleans. Then, what movie is Daniel Stern most known for? Also, we check in with limited fake Barack Obama and limited fake Stephen A. Smith to hear what they have to say about the news that Stephen A. is polling at 2% for the Democratic Presidential Nominee in 2028. Plus, Pablo and David dive into one of the latest Executive Orders from the Trump Administration banning transgender athletes from participating in sports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stukas Podcast.
So Dan versus Dan was last night? Or Dan and Dan?
I've been seeing photos. The last Dans, I've been calling it. Whoever wins, we lose, I think, is what the Alien vs. Predator movie poster used to say. Also applies here, potentially.
It went great. Why are you? Did it? Yes. Did you watch it? I was getting reports the whole night from people on the ground.
There are photos of the crowds.
The crowd size, guys, very big. That's Dan and Dan.
There it is. Dan's melting into the chair.
The only negative is that we had people in place, and I think that all of you will appreciate this more than I did. Dan showed up pretty much just to get on stage. Dan Patrick or Dan Levitar? There was no green room situation. There was no prep. There was no anything. No mingle? No, nothing. Now, after the show, he did major meet and greets, major VIP stuff. No, no, no.
But when you're on tour for a show, he did a full, even Springsteen, Mick Jagger. You're getting there early. You're sort of getting set up. Dan went car, stage, stage.
That photo is just hilarious. I can't tell where the chair ends and Dan starts. It's just his head popping out of a chair.
I was just trying to think if that's the outfit he wore to do the show on Tuesday, that he recycled again for Wednesday. But it actually went great. It was sold out. There were a ton of people who got to spend time with Dan after the show, which was Dan...
Our Dan loves taking photos with the people. Will the people love to be with him? Not really.
He doesn't love it. It's just a way to get out of whatever situation he's in. Come take a photo. Okay, now leave. He doesn't have to talk that way.
Oh, is he?
I think he actually loves being with people. He would rather have 1,000 small talk conversations. than one conversation. He feels the gratification from the fans. No, it's legitimate. At MAS every year, he does this.
Well, listen to the thing. Dan is genuinely appreciative of the love and support But also, Dan is the anti-Amin. Amin will go and give someone 15 minutes of show if it behooves him, right? Dan is like, I don't want to do any show. That's why the photo is such a great opportunity. It's I gave you the most meaningful interaction possible that also cost me nothing.
Dan will do show with them, but it'll be South Beach Sessions. And he'll be like, when have you cried last? Are you in a happy place when you listen? He really wants to get in there. Do we know what they talked about?
I just know that... I like how the one thing we need reporting on is our own companies. Which we don't have clips on for some reason.
I could tell you what Kevin Durant is thinking this whole time, but I can't tell you what happened. You're allowed to talk about that?
David was mad that we hadn't said the word Super Bowl.
Pete Alonzo is actually what he was mad about. Well, I was upset about both because it's Thursday and I was picturing Adam Silver doing the Snoopy dance. because Roger Goodell is on the back burner. There's shows, and we're sort of looking, it's been 40 minutes or 84 minutes, and there are other shows just getting to Super Bowl now, having started with Jimmy and the Warriors.
I'm just going to read the chyron on first take. What will the Super Bowl come down to?
This is my favorite thing because I saw someone tweeted at us either yesterday or earlier this morning saying, please don't spend the show talking about Jimmy Butler and the Lakers trades and all that stuff. It's Super Bowl week. And I said, the operative part of the word news is new. What's new? Super Bowl.
If you tell me right now something we didn't know about the Eagles or the Chiefs that we've learned in the last 24, 40 hours, I'm pleased to have that conversation. If it's just the Chiefs have no injuries. That's new.
Yes. There's no one on the report. Okay. It's pretty amazing. That's what it's coming down to. That's big news. All right.
Okay, they're not hurt. And we covered it.
What I would like to tell the NFL in this moment is you got to earn it.
Earn it. Outcompete. Eugene Robinson, go out there. Get arrested doing something. We don't want to earn.
I'm just saying, I'm happy to not talk about the heat, trust me, but the NFL, so far Dan looking like a couch is the number one story coming out of New Orleans.
Look at that.
Look at that picture. It's like that Always Sunny where, you know, Danny DeVito's climbing out.
He's all greased up. If he had gotten there earlier, we would have changed out the chair or his pants. Can we do that? Oh, you can do anything with time.
Or money. Well. Always. I have a couple questions. What decade do you have to be from to know what the Snoopy dance is? Also, Pablo, why do you think that people think you're a food delivery person?
Do you not see how he dresses like a schlep? Oh, that's why. That's why. He's a member's only windbreaker. He's got the onset of a potential paunch for someone of his young age. I do have early onset paunch. Paunch was a cop on this television show called Chips.
That's not true.
Oh, it's Eric Estrada.
So he's growing an Eric Estrada.
Yes. But it passes as Italian for some reason. We're doing a show for Greg Cody only, right?
And he always walks around with bags. So Pablo's like got stuff and it's not organized. It's not like a briefcase. I'm busy finding out stuff. Sorry. Well, he walks around the city and he's sort of collecting food and bags. And then I picture walking into a lobby and being stopped like you're heading into Tiffany with the trophy. Like people looking, you're like, what apartment's that?
I picture you walking into Tiffany's and then thinking, where's the tall one from the wet bandits? Daniel Stern. Well, they're looking for Daniel Stern because... Right.
More of a Joe Pesci guy than Daniel Stern.
You just referred to the Home Alone robbers by their gang name. The Wet Bandits. Is that how Daniel Stern is known? Number one, yes.
Home Alone by far. Yes. More so than City Slickers? Not Bushwhacked.
Oh, Rookie of the Year. Rookie of the Year for me, man.
I'm just glad we got Roy in here. Roy got lured out with... Hot ice.
Celtic pride. Heat up the ice cubes.
It's the best of both worlds. You know what? It might be rookie of the year. It's home alone. You guys are high. It's a better role, though. That rookie of the year role is fantastic.
This is like what's Arnold Schwarzenegger known for? And you guys are like, jingle all the way? No. Good flick.
What? But remember when he gets stuck between the doors, knocking on the doors of the hotel room? We'll help you.
A paint can hit him in the face. And then he stepped on a nail with no shoe on.
Hold on, hold on. Amin got some Obama in his paint can hit him in the face just then. A paint can hit him in the face. Now that's SNL-worthy.
You just learned that I do a really good Obama?
No, but I hadn't heard it in person before.
Can we get to Stephen A. being a Democratic candidate for president as Barack Obama has learned the news?
Got a couple presidents in here, too, if you need them.
Let me be clear. When I heard the news that Stephen A. Smith decided that he should run for office... I said, that's a great American. Now, some folks across the aisle don't like that. They want Skip Bayless to be the nominee. But I told my family, Sasha, Michelle, Malia, that Stephen A would make a fine candidate. Now, Stephen A, wait, hold on. Joe, Joe, what did you agree with me?
Listen, man, he's a good guy. He's got it. He's got real pizzazz. I like him. Now, Joe, Stephen A. Is he from Scranton? It's the hands every time, right?
Is he from Scranton?
It's the hands and the losing breath as soon as he starts talking.
What does old Donald Trump believe about Stephen A.? Who does a good Trump here?
I don't. I've tried and I realize I can't do a good Trump.
He talks sports, all right? He talks a little bit and he doesn't do it well, okay? He talks way too much if you ask me. Okay. It's not terrible either. I mean. It's the only option we got.
Not terrible is a real binary equation you're giving approval to.
No, we didn't do the lips part. You got to do the lips.
You have to have the flair. And the fingers. A lot of fingers. You know who does a really good Trump? Brad Williams. Brad Williams is a really good Trump because he does the hand movements really well. A lot of people do good Trumps. Godfrey does a good Trump.
There's a lot of Trumps.
Our buddy Josh Rosen obviously does a great Trump. He actually makes money, has a Trump impersonator. How much money does he make? Enough to pay his bills. You know this? You've seen the W-2? I've seen Josh Rosen and I've seen him play places. You think he gets a W-2 for $10.99 probably? Yeah, he's not... He's not getting benefits on this shit.
And Brad Williams and Donald Trump, same size hands.
It's true. Nice. Well done, Roy. But guys, you guys aren't talking about the real president. We're talking about 2028, baby.
2% Stephen A. is polling in this one.
What's the plus or minus? What's the margin of, I'm blanking, someone please help me. Margin of error. What's the margin of error on that poll?
Please tell me it's more than 2%. I'll give you some of the details.
It's a McLaughlin and Associates poll. Kamala Harris is still leading the pack, 33%. Pete Buttigieg, 9%. Gavin Newsom, 7%. Stephen A. Smith, 2%.
I've often said that if the fires happened on my watch, they would have been put out immediately. Because the fires don't want to make an enemy out of me.
Do we really see him as a Democrat? Because he said that he was an independent years ago.
We heard that from him. You certainly can't come out as a Republican running for 28 at the moment because the thought is that there's going to be a third term in there. Is that where we're at? Oh, that's not where I'm at, but that's been classic. Oh, please. We're not in the last four years. I definitely didn't try to warn you guys.
Stephen A. Smith, I just want to tell you, picturing him at a debate, a presidential debate, thinking that he's doing one of his shows on ESPN.
That's all it is now. That's what Trump did at the debates. That's all it is. That's a reality show.
You want to talk to me about taxes? Come on. Let me tell you something about taxes. I'll trade them. And then never actually say anything about taxes. No, because all he's got to do is just name out the resume of taxes. Now, we've had taxes since Eisenhower. He had them at 90%. We dropped them, and they've been very, very beneficial. Roads, schools.
He'd be almost the richest president. Almost the richest president? Yeah. Almost. For real? I mean, he's about to sign and become the highest paid employee at ESPN. He'd have more money.
He's not already?
In theory than even Trump himself.
Maybe I'll take his spot at ESPN. Oh, my God.
He did just sign with the major Hollywood talent agency.
Yes, he did. They did a whole announcement about it. The Speaker Series. Now, you can make a lot of money. Of course. There's a lot of 1099 Obama. Yep. Ooh, cashing in. Bill was cleaning up on that circuit. You make appearances when you've been president.
Some people, I'm reliably informed, write books to go on the speaker circuit. Of course. Like that's the actual game.
Have you met Stu Gatz? He's going to go on a liar circuit. No, he's just going to cancel. He's going to make appearances and then cancel. By the way, I got a report from New Orleans here. Everyone at Super Bowl week talk? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let me straighten up in my chair.
Does anybody do a George W. or George H. Bush impression?
You work on that? Well, I give you this update from New Orleans. Stu was looking for another Stu to do a competing Stu vs. Stu show. He put out an ask for Stu Feiner. Oh, my God. There it is, our New Orleans update. Is that news? It is.
Is that Super Bowl news because it's new? Well, it's new and it came from New Orleans. And who's the source of that? I can't reveal my source.
Can we talk a bit about the thing that we saw at the White House yesterday?
I didn't see anything at the White House.
I want to show you, actually, I want to show you a clip that caught my eye. If we can play, play something that Chris Cody is very cleverly. There it is. Very good. And play.
And Tommy Tuberville, a great coach. You know, his quarterback was named Mahomes. He was a great college coach. And I said, how good was he? He said, you don't want to know how good. He made me into a great coach. He's a pretty good quarterback, right? Yeah, he was a good guy, too.
I just want to be very clear about this. This is not a political take. Donald Trump does not know ball. Donald Trump does not know sports. He's around sports. He has spent money on sports. He shakes hands with people who play sports.
He has no idea what anything is. Do you believe that someone writes that speech?
No. No, that's him winging it. They do write speeches for him. He wings it, though.
That is him looking at Senator Tommy Tuberville and saying, you're the guy who coached Patrick Mahomes famously. We all know that.
How come no one in the background noticed that it was wrong? No one sets up a sound after we've listened to it better than Pablo. Hold on.
Let me just point something out. You said... And play. Nobody... corrected him. How about Tommy Tuberville didn't correct him. He said he's a pretty good quarterback. He said, very good. Tommy Tuberville went with it. Yeah, I coached him in 2012 when I was at Texas Tech.
This is why I bring it up. This is what's happening. Again, I'm not trying to do a political argument here. I am just saying this is happening in one million different ways across all sorts of stories that are not actually anything this dude cares about.
There are way more important things we could be talking about, but there's plenty of other presidents. When they welcome teams to the White House, there's speeches that are prepared. And when they try to go off script, George Bush did that and made a mistake. You're not going to correct him.
What did he say?
He said something about a game that he said that he had watched of our World Series, and he hadn't watched it. You didn't correct him? Are you kidding me? You're with the president in the White House. I would have sworn that you would have. Like interrupt. Yeah. Interrupt the remarks while presenting.
It was Brad Penny that started, not Al Leiter.
I could absolutely hear Samson's voice from the background. He's standing behind.
I respect the office. I wish people in the office respected the office, but I respect the office. Would you have corrected him after he was done speaking?
I may have. There you go. I appreciate the kind words, Mr. President, but, right? You did that?
Now, that's funny. I didn't call him Mr. President. Yes. How did you address him? President Bush. Should I have said Mr.? Mr. President, yeah. It's interesting. I did not do that. I did not do that. But you did correctly.
I wish you hadn't just done that.
We talked after.
You made all the Marlins employees call you Mr. President. No. David. You'd know that if you had worked for the Marlins. You would also wear a tie.
Just David. For at least a couple months. Only until June. Only until the first sign that, oh my God, is it hot in this freaking town.
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Don Levitard. No one else here is willing to do a Trump or a Biden. That's not true, Dan. Okay, Tony, you can catch up. Man of a thousand impersonations. That's not bad, man.
Not terrible.
Pretty good. Stugatz. Yours is terrible. You just got to get a little redder. A little pinker. You're right there, man.
Yours is not. You're biting me. What do you mean? Oh, his is good.
That's actually not bad. His is good.
Not terrible.
That's not terrible.
We got to come together.
A little Southern twang there. A little George Bush in that one. This is the Don Levitar Show with the Stugats.
I'm down on Trump and what he's doing with the transgender and all the executive orders. But I just want to point out that what he did with Tuberville. Tuberville. Tupper. He said Tupper. Tupper.
Like Tupperware.
Keep saying it. You'll find it. I'm having a hard time announcing it, except to say that I give him a pass on that. I do not, in the least. I know, but I don't want him to know that. I'd prefer my president not to actually spend time on that type of stuff.
Sure. In a... In any other timeline, the idea that a president tried to make a sports reference and face planted would be otherwise not symptomatic of a larger trend. Agreed. A troubling trend insofar as the background of that video, which, to Chris's point, I did not do a great job of setting up. Play. He surrounded...
He's surrounded by girls, young women, for what the C-SPAN, Chiron describes as the no men in women's sports executive order. Speaking of telling people to play and to not. It's a ridiculous thing.
workplace it's a ridiculous thing uh... and i say that because uh... look i'm i'm at all times with what david referred to as the transgender i'm trying to be somebody who you want to hear from even if you think i'm going to be the guy who was in the tank for one side i'm not in the tech for one side i'm just here to remind people that when you say this is a deeply unpopular issue eighty twenty a winner
for the GOP, 80-20 a winner for the mutated Republican Party, which is true. Just please stop pretending like Democrats had been shoving this down people's throats. The idea that everybody, everybody on the left was so pro-transgender that finally Donald Trump is gonna stand up to the big bully, it's just not what was happening.
But we're not saying pro or anti-transgender. What the executive order was was about participation in sports.
Yes, and the good news is that there have been rules regulating participation in sports on the basis of hormones, testosterone, which is, look, an arguable debate. Sure, we've done episodes about it, but they've existed. There have been regulations the entire time. There are fewer than 10 college athletes...
who are trans at all, meaning that we're debating issuing executive orders, fearmongering about less than 0.02% of the population while also casting that population as the bully.
The most effective straw man of all time.
It's in 80-20, Izzy. 80-20, it's a winner. And I'm not disputing that. It is a winner for the Republican Party. What I'm saying is that this is something that I can't abide by because of a misrepresentation of the reality of it, right? I'm not saying that it's not unpopular. I'm saying that we here who have cared about this issue saying, actually, let's consider this population of people.
Let's consider that if they were to go through with these regulations, these hormone therapies to decrease their competitive advantage conferred by male puberty, if they were to do all of that, that they deserve a right to play. What I'm saying is that people who have been saying that and believing that, like me, have not been
platform to the point where everybody is saying, let's celebrate the trans athlete. It's been a relatively lonely journey for those people in particular. And so for those fewer than 10 people who are just trying to participate in sports, them being cast as Goliath, as the bully, as the big bad wolf by the president surrounded by these women as props, it's insane to me. It's just insane to me.
Is this a Title IX issue? Is this something that can be appealed in the courts?
Roy, there are so many legal pathways shooting out of this, Title IX being one of them. And I guess I even hesitate to go to that point because I want to make the argument even more basic. The boogeyman you have created is not an actual concern. And it's just the most overblown political issue of our time.
It was a platform issue that was used by Trump and it gets people riled up and he was able to take care of it. And then he was able to say that this is, I'm doing what I said I would do, which by the way, is a whole nother subject. All the things he's doing, he said he was going to do. Yes, he campaigned on this. This is what he campaigned on and 70, was it 70 million people voted for him?
And he's doing exactly what they want. And this executive order on transgender participation in sports was one of them. And he's going down the line. This was just a press conference. That was one of 10 that he had.
All he's been doing while Elon Musk has been doing the actual work of being president has been
holding press conferences and signing executive orders which in reality are pieces of paper that just say here's a take I have yeah, that's that's my favorite part is that this is his favorite part of the presidency is feeling like he's doing something by signing pieces of paper that say
I think you're underselling an executive order. Now, it is true that you cannot unilaterally implement certain things in some of the executive orders, but all presidents on both sides of the aisle use executive orders.
There are consequences to them. I am just saying this is the theater of this is this is first take. This is Stephen A. actually being very qualified for this part. I can sign an executive order now. What about me?
Yeah, but a majority of them either have to really have to go to Congress or are wholly unconstitutional.
There's a reason why he's not going through Congress. One of them is because it takes actual work of governance. Another one is which another reason is which he does not have a huge majority in Congress. He is a very narrow, like the thing that I am frustrated by is just the way in which we have lost any sense of proportion, right? The smallest population of helpless people
who are contemplating suicide at a rate of one in three are the big bad wolf. That's who you should worry about, those people. Meanwhile, the victory that Trump won, again, it's crowd sizes, right? The whole premise of this is he won so overwhelmingly that this is what the people wanted. He's just doing what they wanted. Look at how much he won by.
We are misrepresenting basic statistics all of the time. And it's infuriating to be purely just on a counting level. We're really just going to eat all these lies.
Yes, for four more years. And more. And maybe more after that.
Holy unconstitutional.
But when you pack the Supreme Court, you have and you assign the way he has, then you feel a little more emboldened with that branch of government. When you've got the tiebreaker, which he has with J.D. Vance. in case there's a few Republicans who fall astray, which happened recently with one of the appointments.
You feel emboldened as the president that you can use the three branches of government. What he does with these press conferences and the off-the-cuff sports references and various things, that's just appealing to the ignorant, and that's fine. All the presidents do that. What we should be far more worried about is the ramifications not of the executive order
stopping participation of transgender athletes in sports we should be far more worried about things that are that he's doing economically things that are happening so let's talk about can we not be worried about both though hold on a second because i don't have the bandwidth you have to pick and choose that's i have to that's the problem though right because if you are running a um for all intents and purposes sort of fascist version of the american government otherizing
groups of people is what helps you. It's what helps you keep that pulpit. And by creating a boogeyman, the percentage of people in America who think that 25 percent of our population is full of of trans folks because of the fear mongering that's been done by
this administration and its cronies are part of why you have people so dug in on that side of the aisle is because they've created boogeymen out of nowhere. And by the way, if this population is as small as it is, which it is, we should still be supporting that.
So look, I think there's a the reason why it's been really hard to talk about the trans debate
in the context that David is trying to get us to is because it is a bit over nuanced thing we're talking about a tiny population of people and therefore if it's just gonna be a tiny population people less than 10 college athletes why are we prioritizing them and losing it 80-20 issue as they say and what I'm here to remind everybody is that the point love
rights in this country is not that it's a popularity contest it's what is right or wrong and at the same time david i want to acknowledge when it comes to the terror alert scale of how worried we should be about anything because it's a relatively small population what's happening say to us aid is something that yes we should also make room for if we're gonna power rag
The actual levels of concern, while also noting briefly that USA is also 0.2 percent of the budget. Right.
So another population is having worldwide the diplomatic impact it's having. The fact that no one's talking about this or no one's whether we're a sports show or not, if you're not paying attention to what is happening with. the USAID and the fact that it's disappearing, then you're not paying attention.
It's as you're saying. You've got to pick and choose what you want to put out there.
But there's a through line here, Roy, right? Here we have in USAID and the trans population of athletes, two groups that are relatively very small.
I don't agree with your premise.
But budgetarily... USAID is 0.2%.
The impact of USAID is so much larger than the impact of banning transgender participation athletics. It's not even... How can you mention them in the same sentence?
I'm mentioning them in the same sentence because what we're doing here... is forcing nuance into a false binary. It's not either or. What we're saying is USAID, 0.2% of the budget, also massively impactful for every foreign relationship we have, for all of these people who got into it for the right reasons. For everybody with AIDS, everybody with HIV around the world.
For everybody who's affected by disease globally, it is a massive catastrophe. I am also saying that even though there are less than 0.02% fewer, I think we'll agree to disagree, percent of college athletes who are trans also worth considering.
It was obvious back in whatever year that was, 2018, 2017, with the bathroom bill in North Carolina. It was sort of a test there. It's like, hey, my base, we can agree men should go to men's rooms and women should go to women's rooms, ladies' rooms, right? And yeah, but then that one shockingly sort of failed for them. So then the new one was, oh, boys should play boys sports.
Girls should play girls sports. Let's protect our kids. And that one just hit like, you know what? And so it's just been obvious what's been happening.
It just happens that they have currently succeeded. Do you see a problem? I mean, I don't know that we should debate the concept of I'd rather talk about the executive order and talk about the reason why he's doing that and how that is manifesting itself in issues that are far more impactful to way more people.
So I just take umbrage with you saying that it's point, like USA .02%, therefore we have to consider it in the same breath.
But this is why it's in the same breath right now. It's because what Donald Trump and what this administration is doing all of the time is celebrating that they are defeating the bullies. The bullies in this case are trans athletes, And they're the workers trying to get people AIDS medication, who are actually a tiny percentage of the population he's trying. David, it's a numeracy thing.
What part of budget is Gaza? I mean, are you going to start breaking down the defense budget and what we've done?
I'm walking you to a place of agreement. I'm walking you to a place of agreement, which is... Oh, God.
Oh, guys, the NBA trade deadline, it never stops. This according to Bobby Marks of ESPN and Tim Bontemps. The Washington Wizards are acquiring Reggie Jackson. and a first-round pick from the Philadelphia 76ers in exchange for four second-round picks and Jared Butler. Mike Scotto of Hoopside also was reporting.
A natural segue from D.C. politics to D.C. basketball. Well done.
I mean, Reggie Jackson! That gives them a good bet. You know, the Wizards have won three games in a row. They're a season high in win streak. You said they're the worst team.
Worst team ever. They were my pick of the day. Last night was the Nets over the Wizards. Coming off the win over the Rockets. Russell, two threes, back to back. Great game. You then get to play the Wizards. Get some momentum. They're only given a point and a half under the DraftKings line as of yesterday morning.
And they got smoked. They got smoked. The Wizards smoked them. Yeah, and guess what that means? What does it mean? The Brooklyn Nets are the worst team in the NBA now.
Wait, you said the Wizards are the worst team.
No, no, no, no. Whoever loses to the Wizards.
It's the opposite of a championship.
Whoever loses to the Wizards is the worst team in the NBA.
Who are the three teams they've beaten? Is it the latest loss that becomes the worst team?
The latest loss, always.
So now the second to last loss, they're off the hook. You're off the hook, exactly. That's so awesome.
Because the Brooklyn Nets have taken the mantle as the worst team in the NBA. Look, for a little bit there, the Denver Nuggets were the worst team in the NBA. That was when they lost when Nikola Jokic had 56 points. Oh, right. Yeah. Nikola Jokic has 56 points, and they still lost to the Wizards. I don't agree that you can keep changing your mind every day who the worst team is. It's very easy.
If you lose to the Wizards, you are the worst team in the NBA. Absolutely. So Minnesota is like...
thank god we're off the hook the nets were a nightmare last night that was awful that was awful but yeah four second round four second rounders the second rounder is a fun thing to me my favorite part of all these deals when they said they're sending a pic they're sending two seconds for i don't know if this is a thing that happens in any other sport but in the nba it's so much fine print so for instance
The pick that they're sending Washington is the less favorable of Oklahoma City, Houston, if between 5 and 30, and the Clippers in 2026.
I never read those. I just ignore anything like that when they talk about pick swaps.
That used to be my job, Izzy. I had to write on a whiteboard where all the picks were going. How much does that pay?
Wait, why? Was your handwriting the best of anyone in your position? No, because I was the one who knew. Couldn't you have told someone who had better handwriting? No. Does anybody notice?
Our front office wasn't that big, David. We didn't have a calligraphy guy.
28 grand a year. I want to cross the streams here, right? So Elon Musk is sending all of these people, these programmers in to get into the budgetary software. What does the budgetary software of a pro sports team look like? So far, it's Amin. So far, Amin is the budgetary software.
Yeah, of course. Everyone's got software for accounts payable and accounts receivable, and you've got spreadsheets and a lot of Excel. There's a lot of Excel. There's a lot of people doing formulas so they can keep track of expenses, like of your show. and they can then calculate how much a show is and then you have revenue associated with it. It's a whole megillah.
And then it generates books, plus there's budgets. So there's about 250 budget departments.
But is there a guy who's just yelling at some underlings and the underlings are the people actually keeping track of everything?
I'd say 12 people are yelling and 15 people are being yelled at. It's about a one-to-one.
What a massive front office you are. Everybody gets an underling? The underling to overseer ratio at this college is fantastic.
It's funny you say that. You can't be an hourly employee and have direct reports. That's exempt versus non-exempt. We can talk about that at any time.
I'd love to talk about that. Does anybody else get excited when a means like New York accent slightly comes out? It's the best. Like when he says all, and I'm like, that guy's cooler than he's letting on. Because the New York accent, I think, is the coolest of all the accents.
I don't think I have an accent. No, it comes out just a little bit at a time. Usually when I've been drinking.
There's nothing cooler than your Stephen A. Smith imitation. That, to me, is the coolest voice you have.
The ultimate New York accent. No, the coolest voice is always going to be 44. That's the coolest voice.
You don't think that's a cool voice? It is good. But when you have a New York accent, you just get away with saying things that other people. Sasha Malia, I think. Michelle definitely thinks. People can't get away with. All right. You say with a New York accent. You're mad corny for that. You say that with a New York accent. You sound cool as hell. I can't do the New York accent.
You sound cool as hell. Say that the way I just said it, and you sound like an idiot. You're mad corny for that, Pablo.
It's funny because... I grew up in New York and I don't have that accent. So I, I felt that actually hypothetically and realistically. Right.
It's also weird that people just talk different. I feel like the Southern accent is the coolest accent, right? Like draw. Yeah. Because it always, maybe I'm just always thinking that Seinfeld episode where the Astros come up to New York and, and George is entertaining them. And then after they leave, he starts talking like them, calling them bastards and sons of bitches and stuff like that.
And, uh, What's my man name? His boss at the Yankees walks by in the hallway and thinks George is blowing the deal by calling them bastards. You tell those bastards when I get down to Houston, I'm gonna kick their ass or whatever. And instead it's a language of kind of love. But it's not cooler.
You can't be a hip-hop artist with a Southern accent, but with a New York accent. Oh, come on.
The Southern accent is all it's at now.
All the big artists are Southern.
The New York accent test to me is around water.
What's that? Water?
Is it water? Water. Water. Not Water Long Island.
Water Long Island. You went a little too far east. Too far east.
On 495.
It's true. I don't think of the Long Island accent as a desirable accent.
People do not want to have that. And it's very easy to tell. It's as easy as the Southern drawl is the accent off the LIE.
The Southern drawl has like, it's like easy going. You can't rush me, right? Well, I'll tell you what, you know, that going, it's like, oh, just get to the point. Like, no, I'll get to the point at my pace.
There is a study recently that I wanted to cite here. About accents? Yeah, it was about British accents and how we consider, of course, all of them, any British accent to be of a certain, you know, stature, right?
The standard British accent and the posh British accent, yes. Well, this is the article. We're not talking about Geordie's accent. And Manx they sound more important.
I would say that to the untrained American ear any British accent no way is a sophistication I Would tell you right now to the untrained American they've never heard of a Geordie What is a Geordie? What was that?
Geordie is people from like Newcastle and You can look this up. It's a show called Geordie Shore. It was their version of Jersey Shore. You cannot understand a word they're saying. There's no way that sounds sophisticated. That's what it sounds like.
That's a good one. You need to put that one in the Rolodex.
I'm looking at the differences, the socioeconomic connotations of different British accents. And Amin is right. This is a thing. This is a thing.
Geordie's?
Yeah, look, there was a study that tested how these things sound. Right. And I'm going to get to it in a certain way. Okay.
In the next episode.
Take your time.
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