Transcript of Connor McDavid's Oilers & The Controversial Call | Hour 2 New

This is the Dan Levator Show with the Stugatz Podcast.

The 20th century's greatest pigskin dynasty. Akershire used to be called Heinz Field. Heinz, so named because Heinz ketchup.

Dave, is Pittsburgh considered Appalachia?

It is.

It is, in fact, the largest city in Appalachia. We don't want to get stuck in the Liberty Tubes. The Liberty Tubes, once you're on them, you can't get out of them. Look at the beautiful views. This, Lucy, I felt was an important view for you to see.

Very pretty.

Again, yeah, I mean, I don't know that there are many views of a, uh, of a city. Do you know, uh, Pittsburgh used to be, um, the 9th biggest city in these United States, were it not for the steel mills of Pittsburgh, which you can still see some off in the distance there, not functioning but still there, an important part of the history of Pittsburgh in America, because without them forging the material that was used to make the tanks and the artillery that took down the Nazi scourge, you know, Mussolini—

I will say this is our first off-roading with the Mussolini record today.

Is that right?

Not our last, for sure. I hope not.

Men don't get the benefit of wearing makeup, and we rate women after makeup, and you That gives you a pretty distinct advantage, like steroids, right?

Disagree, because one, you could do it if you wanted to.

Hold your thought.

I wanted you to see this. It's the greatest statue of an athlete in North America, and it's fitting because it's of the greatest athlete in North America, or at least in hockey history. That's of course Mario Lemieux.

What makes it the best statue?

Look at that.

You don't think that's the best statue you've ever seen?

How long do you think a thing like this takes?

Great work, Bruce Wolfe.

You did it.

The greatest statue.

This whole thing has just been tape running off.

Let's go through here, Lucy. Let's make like my forefathers did. I always thought this was just a roller coaster, but as it turns out, it really was a transport because there were no roadways. It's not, in fact, a roller coaster. I mean, you wouldn't want to be— when you start your work day, you wouldn't want to start it out terrified, right?

No, you got to get that adrenaline pumping. How are you going to make money for the stockholders if you don't have the adrenaline flowing through your veins.

Oh, now we're cooking with gas. There were no roadways up and down Mount Washington here, so this is how they would do it, you see. And I mean, I knew at the time, like, Phil Rivers might be good, but they're better off with Ben Roethlisberger. Where the hell are we? Are we at the pit facility? You know what? While we're here, may as well see if we can talk to Pitt head coach Pat Narduzzi.

I wonder if he knows what this is made out of. So this is actually my first time in Pittsburgh, which, how crazy is that I get to spin this with you? What recs do you have for me? Oof.

You got to get to the Cathedral on campus.

Okay.

Okay?

And we got to get someone—

we got some people in the building maybe even get you to the top floor and get some video up.

Wait, I want to go to the top floor so bad.

Here we are, top of Cathedral Learning. Coach Dews oversell it for you? Pretty good view, eh?

He didn't work You didn't warn me about the ear popping. Strike one.

There are a lot of things I wanted to show you, and this was my opportunity to introduce you to my Pittsburgh, and instead Rose is in there playing ping pong with the football coach. Can we go, please?

The synthesizer part!

Yes!

Dave, this is your first trip with Rose. Yeah. This is like my 50th. That's her on a good day. That's her on a good day.

Oh my God, look out!

—As it turned out, Cliff Stout was a bum, and that was mood anyway, because Cliff Stout, um, he went to the USFL when that started in 1983, so he made himself— he took himself out of the running. That's awesome.

Um, the question I asked was where are we going to lunch?

You want to learn my Pittsburgh or not? I— what? Lunch! When Franco Harris finally ended his Hall of Fame run with the Steelers, they had— anyway, when Franco Harris, he went to Seattle.

Be honest, is this what I sound like when I talk about Iowa? Dave's talking about t-shirts when we got donuts. He doesn't understand the priorities.

You can eat donuts while wearing a t-shirt in Pittsburgh. This whole thing, this is where all the 18-wheelers would pull up and then they would walk across the street to Pramanti's. But then they'd get back into their 18-wheelers because they had to get on the road. You need at least a hand to drive, but you couldn't be eating fries, so they put them all on the sandwich so that the truckers could hit the road again and eat it all in one hand.

He's just explaining driving while eating roast.

And when Neil O'Donnell signed away, I mean, it was really his fault that they lost, but Who knew that they actually already had the quarterback on the roster in Cordell Stewart?

You know, he would have been—

I agreed with you when you told me that 6 hours ago. I feel like the most true Yinzer experience ever is going and seeing Pittsburgh with Dave Dameshek and just hearing words and words and stats and facts and a whole lot of other things.

"Yinz is officially now A Jens-er.

I would like to officially declare you a member of the off-roading crew. And in honor of that, as a true off-roading tradition, is when you become a member of the off-roading crew, Rose sings you a song about your day in Pittsburgh. So Rose, take it away. We're here with Dave. He showed us Pittsburgh. He didn't like that I played with the deuce.

I won. The deuce, the deuce, the deuce, deuce, deuce!

The deuce. You're gonna hate this, Dan.

So much. Greg, you've been to Pittsburgh before, I would imagine, right? I have. I mean, you've probably been like, have you been to every state?

Uh, well, I mean, been to, does it count if I fly over it? No, no. No. I have not been to every state.

No, you have to contribute to the state's commerce. Okay, no, I have not.

What about like a stop on a plane?

Like I'm in their airport, but I don't leave the airport.

No, no.

Buy a bag of chips in the store.

No, no.

Does not count. You have to be in the, the state. You have to leave the airport. Absolutely. And, and preferably, like I said, support the commerce. Buy something.

It counts if you're in the airport.

No, it— are you listening to me?

It does, because I'm, I'm contributing to the commerce. I'm buying a pack of gum, uh, in, in a Montana airport.

50-minute layover in Montana does not mean you've been to Montana. That's terrible grammar. What if I buy a pack of gum? No, it does not. That's in the airport. That has nothing to do with the city.

So the airport is not in the city?

It does not count as having visited the city. It does not count.

I would debate that.

How many states do you think you've been to, not counting that bobo rule that you want to impose? I would say 43.

Wow, that's pretty incredible. Yeah. I don't think I've been to Montana. I'm not sure that I have been to both Dakotas. Um, yeah, most.

I like keeping track of how many states I've been to. I've been to 27. You have like a map with pins? No, I know in my head. I keep track.

I'm the kind of guy who would ask my wife, "How many states have I been to?" I'm the kind of guy that— She would know better than me.

22. Yeah. Speaking of which, do we have an update to your sayings?

Do we have the catchphrases?

Catchphrases? Yeah, do we have it? Because you had a new episode drop this morning, right? The Greg Cody Show featuring Greg Cody. 7 AM this morning it dropped. Thank you, Roy. What numbers are we on these days?

We are on numbers 18 And 17.

Now you did say that you have 17 that are worth— worthy of like, you know, being number 1. Yes. So we're now at that point, you're saying?

Yeah, the problem with this countdown is that there are— You're doing it as you go. There are going to be sayings that were graded— We've already realized that he screwed this up.

That's what he's getting to right now. He's realized looking at the full list that he has screwed this up, that there are good ones that are gonna get left off. Yeah, that's true. We've been telling him that for weeks, but he has now just had the realization of, I only got 17 spots left, and I got it tough because instead of just writing down every phrase that he has and then sorting out the numbers—

that's right, you're, you're constantly doing it as you go, counting backwards.

You know what, I'm a small private individual. I'm doing the best I can.

All right, well, let's, uh, let's get to it here. Do we want to— do we want to recap from 50, or do we want to Oh, he does it. All right, let's go.

Take us down, Greg. Let's go.

Number 50, I'm Fullerton Verne Fuller. 49, where's my click click? 48, hey Butterfinger. 47, punt. 46, Scranton. 45, I'm visiting a one-armed paper hanger. 44, Georgia, Georgia. 43, I'm the kind of guy that— 42, ballin' the jack. 41, hey hey with the monkeys, baby. 40, thank you Billy. 39, I love him like a pet. 38, who made it a salad? 37, we're rolling now, huh? 36, your brain beating me. 35, let's go States. 34, driver comfort is paramount. 33, dummy up, say bop. 32, catch as catch can. 31, doesn't make it right. 30, so on and so forth. 29, very good. 28, the Little League theory. 27, nice hat, asshole. 26, the others, they all learned from me. 25, don't go showering. To try to please me. 24. Look at that jerk. 23. Like a packing house in here. There should be hams hanging from hooks. 22. What'd you learn? 21. Hee haw. 3. Bada bop. 20. I'm not going to take a quiz. 19. Sassafras.

All right. Now, of those—

take a breath.

Take a breath. Of those, do you feel like there's been a breakout star? Because I do think there's been a breakout star. Like, do you think that Well, for me, there's one clear.

I mean, you might have the same as me. You can say yours first.

I think Who Made It a Salad is clearly the breakout star.

It is. I would say the breakout star is Very Good.

Very Good was well received, and we've used like Very Good now, like we use it at the, at the High Life Fronton anytime there's a point. Like, that is, that's up there. But I think Who Made It a Salad.

I don't know, I've been saying don't go showering every other day now.

Thank you, Juju. Put it on the poll. Is Who Made It a Salad the breakout star. All right, so we're on number 18 here, right? This is, this is new. And, and then at 17 we get to the real heavy hitters. So let's go 18.

Okay, should we give them both, Christopher? Are you asking me?

It's, it's your show.

Yeah, we're going to do both.

I think we should just do one. No, just do both. Or both. All right, uh, number 18. What, we break a window?

This is like a family one. This is not one he's really used on air a lot. This is any time the check comes at a restaurant. Yeah, the bill shows up. Would we break a window? Right.

That's just— oh, okay.

Just a Greg Cody-ism. He's been— I say it now. It's one of the things that I'm turning into my dad. I'm with my family. The bill comes. Would we break a window? Right. I'm kind of proud of it. Kind of ashamed. But it's just— it's a staple. Like, that one had to be on this list.

Do you make sure you say it within earshot of the waiter?

Usually not. You know, it's my private shame that I'm cheap and I think everything is too expensive. Okay. All right.

17. Hello. Oh, the classic. Maybe he's right. Maybe we are the heavy hitters now. Said we got 17. That could all be number 1.

The Sweet 16 is ahead. Was made famous by his hello.

Hello. Now, you tried to say on the pod, your pod this week, that there are different variations of the hello?

Yeah. Sometimes it, it's, it turns into a Hello Dolly. Okay. Sometimes it's just hello. Sometimes it's hello.

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This guy comes in as the next Wayne Gretzky. His nicknames include the Chosen One and McJesus. Okay, he's a great player. He scores a lot of goals. He scores a ton of assists, but it hasn't translated to making Edmonton a powerhouse in the league.

They're in the finals. Stugatz. What's your nickname for him?

McOverrated. This is the Dan Levatar Show with the Stugatz.

Now guys, before we move on from this, I have located the radio call that you guys were talking about, so we can get to that at some point if you guys want to.

Oh, nice. No, you know what, I want to hear it now then. So this is at the end of the This was the fracas at the end of Game 4, Nuggets and Wolves. Wolves take a 3-1 lead. Jokic sprints the entire floor. So here is the Denver Nuggets radio call. Layup on the other—

uh-oh, Jokic was pissed off that McDaniels shot a layup. Now he's getting into it with him.

Everybody just let the game go.

Yeah, why? I'm not sure why McDaniels, the bonehead, made a layup.

Because he hates you.

Second left, and Jokic runs all the way across the floor to get into it with him.

And Julius Randle was going after— he had to be pulled out of the scrum. He was like going after Bruce Brown. Jayden McDaniels, of course, classless, but he runs out. Joker just sent the message. I was trying to watch Bones get in there, see if there was anybody he wanted to go after.

Well, just when you thought Jayden McDaniels couldn't be a bigger D-bag, he is now.

Yeah, I didn't know you could say that on the radio.

Can't, that's why I said D-bag. Oh, but Jokic sending a message, I think he got it backwards. I think McDaniels sent the message.

He said a lot of messages, he's been sending messages non-stop the whole series.

Uh, Jokic is easy to dislike, but you think so? Yeah, I think so, I think so. I think he's a hothead, you know, I think he's always looking for trouble, but the brothers don't help. It is a breach of sportsmanship to make a layup when you're way ahead with a second left, is it not?

Isn't part of what we love about the Stanley Cup playoffs is the teams clearly hate each other and they are all willing to do whatever it takes to win. Mm-hmm. And we love that about the Stanley Cup playoffs.

But what did they do after the game?

Did they shake hands like gentlemen? Yes. Mm-hmm.

That's a big difference. I— Greg, Look, for children, for even up to college, I think yes, it's important that we enforce these, these kind of unspoken rules. Hey, if you're up, just dribble the clock out, whatever. These are pros, man. They get paid. And again, more than that, they don't like someone I don't like. Yeah, I want to be disrespectful. Yeah, I, I, that was the point. The point, it was like, why? I had no idea. I just thought I was gonna, you know, pad my stats.

Yeah, the radio guy says, why would he do such a class thing? Because he hates you.

He doesn't like you. Yeah. All right. And it's like, to me, I always draw the line dirty. You don't want to do dirty plays, right? Because guys could get hurt. And we're talking about people's careers, their livelihoods. But in terms of like disrespectful acts, like, oh, he took a layup despite not running the clock out. Dude, again, if you don't like it, just beat me and then you won't have to worry about it.

But okay, let's say instead of a layup with 1 second left, It was an overly flamboyant slam dunk.

Don't care. Don't care. More disrespectful, the better.

Like in this situation that he's— that's what he's trying to do.

Yeah. Like the more disrespectful, the better.

They're like, he's not going to lose sleep. Like, hey, Nikola Jokic doesn't respect you anymore and neither do the Nuggets announcers. Jay McDaniels is like, mission accomplished. Yep, yep.

He's been punking them the entire series.

He's not going to turn around and ask for a letter of recommendation. Like, guys, you know, I'm up for this big job. Put in the good word for me.

You see the finish of the hockey last night, Greg? The Ducks—

now, when you say finish of the hockey, you mean like the end of the hockey or like from Finland hockey?

No, the hockey game. Okay, so not— yeah, yeah, not, not the actual country. The finish, uh, the finish of the hockey last night, not the Finnish hockey.

I watched a little of the Buffalo-Boston game mid-afternoon, but that's the only hockey I watched yesterday.

So last night, the late game was Anaheim taking a 3-1 series lead over the Oilers. And can you imagine, like, the Oilers now on the brink? Two straight years the Oilers losing the Stanley Cup Final and all the McDavid conversation, and then this past offseason McDavid signs that small extension, which like, all right, I'm giving you a small window. And can you imagine now they're about to get bounced out of the first round of the playoffs by the Ducks. He's clearly hurt, isn't he? I'm not— I mean, look, I'm not saying that McDavid's doing anything wrong. I'm just saying, like, this was— it was a conversation about McDavid leaving Edmonton after they lost in the Stanley Cup Final back-to-back years. Now they're about to lose in the first round.

So that's going to be ratcheted up. I saw McDavid hasn't had— and he might be hurt, but he hasn't had a positive plus-minus in a playoff game since, like, Dallas Game 4. It's been 11 games.

It's these 4 games and it's the 6 games against the Panthers last year. And then the last game against Dallas, the last 11 games. But look at this, Amine. So they're, they're in overtime, the game's tied at 3, and that puck right there, which— where's the puck? Oh, that's a question. Good question. The puck looks like it's across the line here. Sure does.

I know how circles work. That's, that's across the line.

You know what I thought? I thought it was like a rollerblade. I know, it looks a little bit like a rollerblade.

That's right, he's missing the—

where are the other wheels? Yeah, so the puck looks like it might be over the red line, but you cannot tell for sure because Tristan Jarry, the Edmonton goalie, his skate is covering the top of the puck. So odds are the puck is over the line.

It has to be completely over the line. Yeah, completely.

That is. And what was the call here?

The call on the ice was that it was a goal, which is kind of crazy because, Roy, correct me if I'm wrong, the referee who called it a goal He was like up against the boards, alright? There's no way that he can actually see that, and that makes a difference because if that puck was called— if it was called no goal on the ice and then they go to the replay, I don't know if they then call it a goal, but they called it a goal on the ice and they then called it a goal after the replay, and now Edmonton's down 3 games to 1.

There should be a math way of doing this though, right? If you— if you— maybe not real time for them, but if we throw that image back up. Yeah, there you go. You can draw the line, like we know where the line is over here on this side of skate and this side of skate. We can draw the line through it. You got that telestrator?

And then right here, I'm gonna bring this in for me.

You see the center? All right, I mean, he's gonna—

Chris is bringing in the telestrator here for you.

All right, so you're gonna be able to wait. Now, do I have to make several apologies to the audio audience that I'm going to be using? It's okay, it's okay.

All right. So here's what I want you to do, all right? I want you to draw the bottom of the red line first, okay? Draw the red line across the screen.

And I'm gonna be as generous as possible because I don't know if you guys can see, it is very hazy at the end of the red line. So I'm gonna take the hazy—

So draw the red line. There you go, yep. That's a good— it's a little wobbly, but that's okay. It is wobbly.

That's not the best drawing. Wow!

That's a bad drawing.

Wow, you wanna try that again? I never said I was good at drawing, so—

Give us the red line again. Let's try and be a little bit better, okay? Here. We're trying to be fair and we're gonna, we're gonna determine if we believe that the puck is completely over the red line because it's being covered by the skate.

I'm not gonna lie, I thought this was 1,000% a goal until Amin is starting to bring the—

right, Amin's drawing the red line for us and now I'm not so sure this is a goal.

Well, he's below the red line though.

No, because it's hazy. Like, I'm not going off— yes, I'm not going off of like the, the deep red. I'm going off of this haze because I don't know where the line ends and begins.

So now draw us the part of the puck that we can't see and let's see if we think that it's below the line.

I'm going to draw around the puck, which you can see.

All right. You're tracing the part of the puck you could see. Now, that's an oval. That looks like no goal to me. I mean, that's touching.

That's an egg-shaped puck, right? Let me hold on. Let me, let me undo this. Right. If you see right here, this is the center of the puck. And, and we're trying to— this is the radius right here going outward.

Yeah, right. Diameter though.

Yeah. So if I, if I go back this way, see, that line is shorter than this line, meaning that, that it's got to be longer. Yeah, it's got to be longer.

That's actually a really good explanation.

I also think Amin has broken news here. There it is. Oh no, no, no. Okay. An owl? It looks like a bird's face.

I'll tell you, extrapolating is not good.

If, if, if I'm, if I'm an Oilers fan, like, it's such a devastating way to lose. Like, think think about it, Greg. The Panthers, the last 3 seasons, played so many high-stakes playoff games. Yeah, they got to the Stanley Cup Final 3 years in a row. They didn't lose a single game that was like soul-crushing. Like, that's a soul-crushing loss right there for Edmonton. And the Panthers lost some— a couple games in overtime. The Rangers, okay, uh, they didn't lose any games where it was like, I want to jump out the window.

Yeah.

Yeah, and how did that happen? You know, years we weren't crushed.

I take no satisfaction, uh, meaning I take a lot of satisfaction in knowing that my coining McDavid as McOverrated, he has done very little since in the past couple years to refute that. If you're McDavid, you got to win a Stanley Cup. You can't go out in the first round of the playoffs. I know he's only one man. I know he's a great player, but he's going to be judged for what he didn't do if his career continues like this.

I love it. You were the first one on that island. Yeah. That's what I love. You're Christopher Columbus. No, well, that's a bad example because he wasn't the first one on it. But like Captain James Cook or one of these other guys, right?

Thank you. I'll take it.

Yeah, you got there. You got there. There was nobody. Nobody. It was uninhabited. He planted his flag. Planted your flag and everyone said, "That guy's crazy. You think you're gonna make a living out there?" And next thing you know, it's the hottest new vacation property. Everyone wants to go there. Greg's Island. Yes, that's right. Greg's Island.

Greg's Island, baby. It's becoming populated, but not overly populated. There aren't many people with me on that yet. They'll get there. They'll get there. They'll get there in some time. We're 2 years later and he still hadn't won anything. Dave Damanek. Yeah, Connor McDavid is definitely a regular season player because once again he led the league in points and assists.

Don Lebatard, you have some hot takes today.

Joe Chestnuts. Oh, he's on fire. He calls Connor McDavid overrated before the show. What the hell was that, Greg?

Yeah, no, I love it.

I love it. Stugatz!

Roy, let me explain it to you. And not that you need to, you know more about hockey than I do.

And this is coming from a guy that's watched Connor play 6 times. Right. If that.

Um. This is the Dan Levatar Show with the Stugatz. So I know Greg brought it up earlier that it'd be fun if the Sabers win a championship before the Bills. And it's important to point out that the one game this series that the Sabers have lost, Josh Allen was like the special guest before the game. That was the only game that they've lost so far. But I want you to take a look at this. Speaking of the Bills, so this is in like round— I don't know, it's like round 4 over the weekend, round 4 or round 5. And it's one of those deals where the team—

are you saying like the 4th round or you're saying around 4, around 5?

No, 4th round.

Got it. Okay. I got to be sure.

All right. I'm not trying to—

and we're not talking about Finnish hockey either.

But this is one of those deals where like the team sends out a fan or something, you know, to announce the pick. It's, it's late in the draft.

No, no, this is actually second round. Wow, second round. This is the 35th pick. You're gonna hear him botch that. This is correct. 35th.

All right, so, so I don't— I'm not sure who this is. All right, for it to be in the second round, because I don't feel like they're sending fans out in this. That feels a little early to start, you know, goofing off.

Alums, do they send out— I know, like Uh, this is Shane.

This is former Bills O-lineman Shane Conlon.

Oh, okay.

So he used to be bigger. Now he's like one of those guys got a little smaller.

All right, you got to listen to this, uh, announcement.

With the, the 35th pick in the 2006 2016 draft, the Buffalo Bills select linebacker TJ Parker from Clemson.

As a time traveler, it's time— 2016 draft, the 35th.

I'm not saying Shane was hammered. I am not saying that. Clemson.

Now, when we're dealing with football players, should we be a little nervous here that that's going on?

Fun CTE. We've coined the term. It's fun CTE. Can we hear it again?

The 35th pick And of course, like I said, he might be a time traveler. He could be. Let's hear it.

With the 35th pick in the 2016 draft, the Buffalo Bills select linebacker TJ Parker from Clemson.

You know what, having heard it a second time, He's clearly nervous, so we can laugh at this. Yeah, like, this is not just him.

Fun CTE.

But it could just be nerves, which is—

we could take the CTE away and we just have fun with it. I like having fun with this.

I can see, I can see glancing down at the notes to make sure it's the 35th. Uh-huh. But do you need to look at the notes on the year? If you're very nervous, yes.

Really? 2016?

That had to have been handwritten.

How nervous can you be to not know the year you're living in? Right? I, I could, I could, I could have the worst— I could be in the middle of a panic attack. I've had a panic attack before. I've had— have you? I've had many panic attacks.

I'd pay money to watch a Zazz panic attack.

Well, you're not gonna get him anymore. I, I, I take medication to make sure it does not happen anymore, but I've had panic attacks, all right? If you asked me what year I'm living in during the panic attack, I'm gonna get it right.

Has it ever happened during the show, like in the middle of doing radio or whatever? Yeah. Really? A panic attack during radio?

That's why I had to make sure that I take care of it.

What happened?

I just— it's what happened. It just—

it just— like, you don't know? Like, there was nothing that triggered it?

Uh, I don't know. I don't know. It's one of those deals where probably if I went to, like, therapy, we can get to the bottom of it. But I'm not really interested. You should go to therapy. Like, I just— I just want it to stop. So give me the medication. Like, that's all I care about.

Pop them pills, baby.

That's it. I take my feelings, my emotions, I take them all and I shove them way deep inside where they belong to never come out. And one day You'll die.

Pop a couple of pills, right, just to make sure they don't come back up.

Yeah. So, but if you— again, if you asked me in the middle of that panic attack, I know what year I'm living in.

So, so could we recreate it? Yeah. All right, what is it? It's, uh, 46 ahead of the hour, and, uh, the— got the NFL Draft and all the other stuff coming up. And hey, Zazz, you okay over there?

Yeah, like, I, I would, I would lose my train of thought, you know, like I'm recreating Oh, well, I mean, that is not—

that is not a good recreating.

Recreating is gonna be really boring. Like, I'm not gonna be able to talk.

Yeah, that's what I want. Here, do it with me. All right, okay.

All right, all right. Uh, it's 47 ahead of the hour, and we got the NBA playoffs going on.

And, uh, Jeremy, your radio voice. Yeah, that's my radio voice, right?

Mike Kramer, back better than ever, every Sunday, 10 AM to 1 PM Eastern, right on SiriusXM NBA Radio Channel 86 in the car or on the SiriusXM app. Yeah, Jeremy, what's the latest we have with this Pat Riley press conference?

What was that?

What's the latest we're having with this Pat Riley press conference?

Uh, it's his, um—

It would go a little like that, yeah.

Really?

It's his 35th season.

So just me talking. There's a bunch of panic attacks that happen on this show apparently.

Well, that has to be terrifying to be prone to that and to realize you're live on the air.

Yeah, and you just have no control over it and you don't know what's happening.

I mean, it's one thing—

Like, I didn't know what it was when it was happening.

It's one thing though if you're alone in your house.

But knowing you're live on the air, it happened to me on a Miami Heat broadcast. No. Yeah, one time. Yeah. Oh my God. Yeah. Playoff game or regular season?

Regular season. Okay. Yeah. All right. Bobcats are in town and it was a big game. Bobcats are here. Well, Steven Jackson really been doing things. And Zazz, what's the latest with LeBron's hamstring?

Yeah, like I was able to put— I was able to push through it, but it was like, I need to get out of here.

No, that's— we're having fun with this, but I'm glad you're over that.

That's— he's not. He just takes pills.

I just— I just took the pills. That's okay. That's okay. American way. Pills are fine. Pills are good. I found the way to deal with it.

Yeah, pills are good.

Pills are good. Uh, I mean, I heard you have a top 5.

I sure do, man. So I, I sent the note and said, hey, I got top 5 word abbreviations that just need to be the word from now on. And I realized that might be confusing, so I have a great example. This one is an emeritus. It's happened, it's already crossed over. And we just accept it. Greg, spell the word donut.

D-O-N-U-T. Right. Wow. That's not how you spell donut.

I would not have went that way.

But now that's how everyone spells donut. We've just accepted it, right? Because Dunkin' Donuts basically came out with that and we just accepted, hey, no one wants to see the U-G-H of dough. Right. Just donut. D-O-N-U-T. Fair. These are all words that we have abbreviations for, but if you ask someone how to spell it, They probably give you the boring regular spelling. So I'm nominating that these words, this be the new spelling of all these words.

You've excited my dad, by the way. This is it. This donut thing, like he is smiling over there.

He's loving this. I know my audience. All right, we got the fanfare ready? Got one O-L-I. The word season should be spelled S-Z-N. Sizzin'. Say it. Pronounce S-Z-N. Sizzin'. Sizzin'. Nah, I'm into this. Sizzin'. No vowel. No vowels. Season. Season. I don't have the right—

But not the seasons like when we're talking about spring, summer, fall, winter. No, no, no. Sports season. Specifically in sports. Sports season. I like that.

Yep. Like salt and pepper. Oh, that's a good one. I gotta put that on. Put on salt and pepper. Some Lowrys. Yeah, push it good.

All right, number 5.

Easy.

Easy. Easy. Call it a day.

Easy pass. E-A-S-E-C, no, E-A-Z, easy. Number 4, T-H-O, though. Again, I don't need these extra letters. Is it thuff, is it tha? Though, T-H-O, it gets it across.

You're just coming after O-U-G-H basically. No, no, I got other ones.

Okay, maybe not. Number 3.

Through.

Oh yeah. T-H-R-U. That's an obvious one. Drive through. That's a good one. But that's an actual word though. What? Through. T-H-R-U. Through what?

What does that mean? Through. Exactly, but so it's a— T-H-R-O-U-G-H. That's what it means, but we should just get rid of the T-H-R-O-U-G-H just like we got rid of donuts, D-O-U-G-H.

I think that's accepted. I think T-H-R-U more than the previous few is accepted right now.

Yes, that's right. S-Z-N has not been universalized.

That's why it's a list. That's what's a rank. We get better as we go on.

I've accepted easy. Easy's a good one.

Though is also good. Number 2: throat. Why do we need that extra H? We're saying, oh, he kicked him in the throat. It's T-R-O-A-T. Throat.

Throat? Yeah. Jamaican? It's in his throat.

But you've just changed the word now.

No, no, no, it's the same word. We're just gonna spell it how we say it. Throat. Oh, I got something caught in my throat. I'll give you a punch in the throat.

Pardon me. Okay, so T-R, just no H.

No H.

So you're saving one letter. Is that really an abbreviation? Of course. Yeah.

Okay, and the number one abbreviation that needs to be the official spelling of the word forever— and now I'm saying this, I'm realizing that Chris was right all along— it's lite. L-I-T-E. Yeah, why are we spelling light any other way? There you go. L-I-T-E. That's the word. That's how we should spell it.

Miller Lite does set the standard. Not bad.

And I just, I just had a war on the letters G and H, basically. So, oh no, I didn't even think of it. I really put together this list like thinking, oh yeah, these are good words.

Not bad. Uh, I mean, last night the 76ers, or yesterday afternoon, the 76ers got Joel Embiid making his debut in the first round.

That's good news.

Is it good news?

It's good news. He's back. He played. Well, the bad news— mm-hmm—

they got bashed over the head. Well, and, and he took 21 shots. Got to. By far the most shots of any— well, he had to.

Yeah, you got to.

I mean, they won, they won Game 2. Game 3 was a close game. He hasn't played in weeks, and he returns and takes by far the most shots on the team.

Buddy, I watched an Oklahoma City game game versus the Suns where AJ Mitchell led the game in field goal attempts. AJ Mitchell.

I don't even know who that is.

Exactly.

This does feel like a situation where you might crush him if he took 4 shots. You finally come back and you only take 4.

Like, he's their best player. You know, AJ Mitchell, he spells it AJAY.

He should just spell it AJ. Just AJ. Abbreviation. The idea that Joel Embiid shot too much kind of takes away from the bigger storyline, which is they couldn't guard anybody. They let, they let these guys go crazy. You got Jaylen Brown saying that we call Peyton Pritchard Big Shot Bob, which doesn't make sense because his name's not Bob.

I hate watching this Celtics team play. Game 1, 3, Game 3 and 4, they shot great from 3 and they won. Game 2, they shot terrible from 3 and they lost. It's like when they win the NBA championship, why don't you just give them like a math trophy? Like, that's, that's how they win, is with math. They win with math. If they hit their 3-pointers—

That's not even math, that's just—

Well, it's just 3 is better than 2.

That's how they play. Oh, when 3 goes in.

Yeah, like they're just, like, they're a math team.

The real math is how many times can you shoot well? Well, not—

yeah, can you do it 4 times out of 7? And so far they've done it 3 out of 4 this series. So they won.

They're playing against a team that is substandard. Yeah, we'll see how it goes.

But that's still their formula against whoever they play.

It's been their formula forever. Yeah, like that was the case in the— they almost came back from 3-0 against the Heat because they shot poorly in the way they were defended in the first 3 games and then shot very well after that.

Clyde Drexler.

I also saw someone say that Peyton Pritchard This is from Dropkick Murray. Peyton Pritchard. It's a good name. Yeah. Looks like a cop who turns his body cam off.

Absolutely.

I've never seen anyone who looks more like a thing than that.

Let me tell you which cop he is. He's the one that approaches the scene with his thumbs under the belt. Oh yeah.

But like after the other two.

Yeah.

Yeah. He strolls up. What's up guys? What's going on here, fellas? Everything good? Absolutely.

And Sam Hauser's the first one that shows up. Yeah. Yeah.

And he's a little nervous. Right.

Which is why Peyton Pritchard has to walk up.

Walk up and do some ACAB type activities, right?

I do want to talk a little bit more about what's going on with the Pistons and Magic. They play tonight. That's tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern as the Magic are a home win away from going up 3 games to 1.

Zazz, we were literally watching them get their heads bashed in by the Sixers and saying, Jamal Mosley, pack your bags.

Yeah, and I fired him that the Wednesday of that week.

And now they're on the cusp of taking a 3-1 lead against the 8— against the 1 seed as an 8 seed.

And, and, and we all had them losing to the Hornets in the next playing game. They won by like 30.

They beat them like they stole them. Yeah. And now they're gonna beat the Pistons. Did they lose the Sixers on purpose that game? No, no, everyone was checked. They was— I'm telling you, people were telling me this team is checked out. They're checked out. Yeah, that's what I thought.

And I'm like, ah man, it looked like dead team walking going into that Charlotte game.

I feel bad because I think Jamal Moses is a good coach. I think he's got them to this point. When he got there, that was a terrible team.

Well, they win this series, not going anywhere.

Well, the— so at the time, the report was, doesn't matter what happens in these playoffs, he's out.

It's crazy that either the Pistons, the Magic, the Cavs, or the Raptors are going to make the Conference Finals.

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