Transcript of Hour 2: Jessica's Leeancé (feat. Jessica Smetana)

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Look at the radiant bride to be here. We're all thrilled for her. We learned yesterday, I don't know why she's smiling. Do you think that my happiness is insincere. What do you mean? What's happening there? I am thrilled for you. The breaking news during the show yesterday, they told us that you had announced that you had gotten engaged, and we were all thrilled for you, so we immediately played the audio of you snoring.

Everyone's being way too earnest. It's making me uncomfortable. The last six days have just been nonstop. People saying how happy they are for me, and I don't like it, Dan. It's too earnest, making me feel things.

Okay. Cool.

I'm happy for you guys.

Whatever. I don't care. That tends to happen around weddings and love and the important things in life. I am thrilled because I am told also that we have a video of you surprising your grandma with your news, and it has been too long since I've heard from your grandmother What is the context that this video requires?

Well, Lehman proposed to me on Friday, as you all heard yesterday. And so I FaceTime my grandma, and someone was filmed. I think Lehman was filming her. Also, should I say Leonce? Are we going with that, Chris Cody? Leonce? That checks. Okay. My Leonce was filming her reaction. So this was my grandma's reaction that I wanted you guys to hear first. I have to show you something. I've been watching you.

Oh, my God.

Did you make me? Son of a bitch.

Oh, my God.

I never thought he'd do it, got it? I told you he was going to do it. Oh, my God. Let me see. That's gorgeous. Let me see. What the hell is that? The yellow diamond.

Oh, my God.

It's like a sailor.

Yeah, we love about grandma. What are the details that you can share or are comfortable sharing, even though all of this requires feelings?

I will give a special shout out to Lucy, who was integral in the planning and execution of the proposal and was a witness to the proposal. I was very surprised. I'll post pictures at some point next week, but Lee surprised me in our apartment, and Lucy brought a lot of props hops from Hobby Lobby, and so she was there. And I was so surprised that I didn't really have anything to say. He asked me to marry him, and I was like, okay, yes. I had nothing planned. It was very disorienting, Dan. As you know, there was a big snowstorm in New York this past weekend. So that was the only thing I had thought about all week was, Oh, my God, this weekend is going to be terrible. And then I walked into my apartment, Lucy's there, and there's a bunch of flowers and Lee's on one knee. So it was very, very jarring for me.

And no inkling? Because you knew that eventually he would propose, right? Or you felt like he would? You told your grandma that you knew he would.

Well, I did pick out the ring. I'm not going to pretend like that was a total surprise. But yes, we've been dating for eight years, so we knew we were going to get married eventually. We were living in Florida. We were like, We don't really know that many people down here. Maybe we'll wait till we're back in New York where his family is. And so, yeah, long time coming, but there it is.

How'd you have no idea then?

Because it was like a disgusting cold Friday in the middle of January, Zaz. I thought I was just going to be... My friend Priya, everyone I know has lied to me for the last week. By the way, it's honestly pisses me off. I've been asking people for months. I'm like, What are we doing this weekend? What are we doing here? What's the plan for here? When are we going to go down and see my parents? Everyone's been lying to me. They've just been passing the buck around like, Oh, well, let's do this. Blah, blah, blah, whatever. So for weeks, I've just been lied to.

Was Lee really Was he sick? Because you said on Last mystery Great that Lee, you guys have been separated because he was sick for a couple of weeks.

Yeah, he was really sick, which I heard almost jeopardized a month's long plan to propose on Friday. So luckily, he recovered Chris. But I was with my friends all last weekend, and I was like, What do you guys want to do next weekend? We were making plans. And the whole time they knew I was going to get proposed to. And Leonce surprised me. It sounds like Beyonce. But Leonce surprised me with a trip to come see my parents, so I didn't even I've been complaining about the snowstorm for weeks, and I'm not even in New York right now to deal with it. So that was shocking also. You seem angry. I just don't like being lied to, Chris. You know the whole thing, how women will be like, Oh, I want to make sure my nails are done. So when I get engaged for the pictures, my nails look nice. Well, my friend took me to get my nails done on Friday, and I was like, I'm just going to get a pedicure. And she's like, You should get a manicure, too. And I was like, No, I don't really want to get a manicure.

I'm off Gel-X right now. I don't I like the UV lights. It's too much UV exposure on my nails. They banned it in Europe, apparently. So I was like, I'm not going to get it.

She's like, No, we're doing this. I really want to do it.

I'm not going to get one. It makes the nails brutal, Dan.

Exactly. It's terrible for your nails. The nail health is suffering, Tony. So I've been going, Oh, Natural, for about a year now. She was like, You really should get a manicure. I mean, why not? We're going to this event tonight. There's going to be photographers there, which that was bull, by the way. And I was like, I don't want to get a manicure. Whatever, I don't care. So my nails look disgusting in these engagement photos. And she was like, Well, if I If I had been more forceful, then you would have known something was coming. I was like, Maybe it would have been nice to have 5% of a clue instead of negative 20, because I just sounded like a babbling idiot when this thing happened.

Greg, are you bothered that you weren't able to break this news and ruin this engagement?

I am. That's what I was thinking the whole time.

I thought about feeding it to my dad. I know. I think I knew a day or two before I thought about feeding it to my dad. Wait a minute.

Did everyone know before Jessica? Is she the real No, I meant before Jessica announced it.

I knew before Jessica announced it.

Okay, I had to make a decision in terms of content. I'm hemming it up right now. I'm very happy. I do wish my nails were done. But Dan, I decided, should I tell people? Should I post something online? Whatever. I don't know what to... I don't know what I'm supposed to do. It's the first time I've ever been engaged. Hopefully the last. I thought, You know what? I'm going to record with Gojo on Monday for the ECHO's pod. Check it out wherever you get your podcast. I'm going to surprise him camera and get his reaction. So I could have gone with Greg and let Greg break the news, but I went with my co-host instead. Sorry, Greg.

That's okay, Jess. I forgive you, and congratulations. I got to ask you an honest question, though, because my future wife and I dated a long time, about the same seven, eight years, six years before we finally got married. And I'm wondering, in your relationship, did it ever reach a point where you're thinking, When's this guy going to ask me to get married? Like TikTok, did it ever come up in as a subject, even kiddingly.

It was more so the opposite, where he was like, I've been saving for a ring for five years. When are we going to get married? And I was like, Let's wait. He's a little bit older than me, Greg, so he was ready. And I was like, I'm a child bride. I think I need to at least turn 30 first. No, I think we're on the same page. And that's something that really shocks both of our sets of boomer parents is that we communicate with each other.

This is a weird South Beach session.

It really is.

It's true, though. I was like, I don't know what to make this caption on my Instagram. My dad was like, You should make it say, I finally succumbed to the traditional societal norms of marriage. I was like, Yeah, that's probably not romantic enough. I made it open instead.

What's the worst part of the life?

Honestly, right now, the fact that I have to go back to New York in a few days.

It's eight degrees. It's eight degrees. A lot of people are shoveling snow twice a day. I wanted to talk to you a little bit about all the football stuff going on here. Before we get to the professional stuff and Mike McCarthy becoming the Stealers' Coach.

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Dan Levatard. I don't think I ever got that many roses in my whole life. Stugatz.

Certainly not from your lovely grandfather, God may us all rest in peace. This is the Dan Levatard with the Stugats.

College football changes. Your thoughts there are what? What's most interesting to you there?

What's most interesting to me is the fact that there keeps being all these reports about the fact that no one reads what's in any of the playoff agreements that the conferences and the commissioners are all agreeing on. There was a story yesterday from The Athletic where Chris Vanini said that, Apparently, next year, the highest ranked G6 group of six team doesn't necessarily need to be a conference champion to get into the CFP, and that no one was aware of this until yesterday, I suppose. I guess my question is, does no one read the fine print? Everyone's just agreeing to stuff, and they don't know what that stuff is. And also, do conference championship games matter? Do they not matter? Because under this agreement, I guess, theoretically, you could have a 12 and no team that gets upset in their conference championship game, and they would still be safe to get into the playoff as long as they're still ranked in the top 25, I suppose, ahead of another G6 team. And then what's the point of playing the conference championship game. So some conference championship games matter and some don't. Last year, the Big 12 conference championship game mattered because BIO lost and they didn't get into the playoff.

But the SEC one didn't because Alabama lost by three touch downs and they still got in. So now I'm just What are we doing here? And does no one read?

Did you have any thoughts on the idea that Miami has just bought Duke's two best players?

I think it's great for Miami. You have two conference champions that now can teach you how to win a conference championship. But no, Dan, I think it's like the transfer portal giveth and the transfer portal taketh. Duke was able to lure Mensah away from Tulane, so I guess you can't be that mad when the game gets played to you. I do think what is, I guess, for lack of a better word, lame, is if you're a player and you announced you're coming back, you're resigning with the school you play for, and then you enter the portal later and transfer, that That's lame. I know that they had to go through a settlement, all that, and I'm not even concerned with the legal aspect of it. I just mean purely from a fan perspective, if my favorite team's quarterback is like, Yep, I'm sticking around, and then two weeks later, they change their mind, it's like, Why even announce it then? If you're going to wait around and possibly leave when you get a better offer, just wait and don't say anything, because I think that that sucks as a fan.

We just had the breaking news of the unence- What he comes down to is ultimately these pics that the Pelicans, the Hawks, and the Blazers have, guys, because the Blazers, those pick swaps in '28 and 2030, as long as they have that '29 first-round pick as well, they really control the future for the Bucks.

And the Bucks have this first-round pick right here that's likely their own. It's best for them if they're bad this season. So what do they want to take on for Giannis Antetokounmpo?

Maybe- The name itself, Todd Monken, is not very inspiring. Nobody wanted that Brown's job. But Mike McCarthy to the Steelers, I can't imagine that Steelers fans are very excited by anything happening there. Do I have it wrong?

I think, Dan, when I heard the news, I felt like I had been punked. I thought, This is probably not... This can't be. I mean, last week, we were joking about the AI high slop photo where he had a cigarette sticking out of his ear. And the fact that what is the connection here? The connection is that he's from Pittsburgh. The last time the Stealers did this with, oh, we got our Pittsburgh guy was with Kenny Picket. That didn't work out. So I didn't like that. And I thought that that probably wasn't going to happen. I thought they'd go with the young DC route, which has worked well for them in the past, Dan. But then, yeah, they hired McCarthy. I thought I was being punked. I was pretty down about it. I mean, did it ruin my engagement weekend? I I'm not going to go that far, but did it make me unhappy for a few hours in an otherwise happy weekend? Yeah. And then he did his press conference, and look, Dan, I know you're going to hate this, but he won the press conference. He won the press. There's that cigarette sticking out of the ear.

Love it. He just said all the right things. He got choked up. He was emotional. And I was like, You know what? Maybe we can make this work. I don't know how he's going to be coaching a team without a quarterback. That's not something he's really had to do for a while. I'm not sure what that offense is going to look like. I do not want Aaron Rodgers back. It sounds like that's probably going to happen now, but I'm willing to make it work because prodigal son is coming home, Dan.

How does this work with people giving good coaching?

The biggest thing to pay attention to is which team has firing deals because potentially, you have Karl Anthony Towns here who could be moved as a piece of this to get Giannis to the Knicks. Or do the Warriors have enough themselves? Does Milwaukee want to be bad? And then you have Jimmy Jamie Butler being shifted into that space for them to be bad right now because if you work out a three-team deal with, again, New Orleans and Atlanta, those teams are the ones that control Milwaukee's pick next year. So if they could get their own pick back-Potential.

Joe braided to the Bills. That feels uninspired as well, given everybody that they were talking to, but it at least keeps continuity there. Did you have any thoughts there?

Just basically that. It seems like Bills fans that I've talked to feel like, Okay, we thought maybe there was a bigger plan if you were going to let go of McDermott. Because I think letting go of McDermet, it's different than the Stealers thing because hiring Mike McCarthy just reasserts that. That was Tomlin's decision He probably caught everyone off guard by it because they had no plan, so they just hired another Tomlin-esque coach. But the Joe braided thing, it's like, Well, what? But then, Dan, the whole press conference with Terry Pagula, it just seems like from the top down, they're not really sure what they're doing. I guess from that standpoint, it makes a lot of sense, and you could have done worse. But yeah, it just seems like uninspiring, not a huge plan for how to move forward, and especially a team that does have a quarterback that is in win-now mode with their quarterback. I can see why people are a little underwhelmed.

Were you surprised?

You're looking at Drew holiday, Karl Anthony Towns, DeMar DeRosen, DeMontes Sabones, Jonathan Kaminge, Jimmy Butler, Yanes Antetokunpo, Terry Rozier, Andrew Wiggens, Norman Howell, Kalehwer, Tyler Hero, Anthony Davis, DeAndre Hunter, John Marant, LeBron James. There's all of these players that could be a play. Heck, Chris Stapps, Porzingis could be at play when we're talking about the trade deadline. All of these players and everything that they're doing, all of This movement hinges on Giannis Antetokounmpo. And now, with eight days to go, what does Fauci have to do with it?

Were you surprised that you were surprised by the good coach talk making you turn even slightly on McCarthy? Because I can't believe that a savvy veteran, even though you're still a child, bride, a child, I can't believe a savvy veteran like you could be fooled by coach talk.

Yeah, I'm an idiot, Dan. I think that's the long and short of it. I believe everything at face value. That's why my friends have been able to lie to me for a month, and my fiance has been lying to me for a month, and I haven't noticed because I just... Maybe I'm too trusting. Maybe I'm not stupid. Maybe I'm just too trusting, and perhaps a tad naive.

Do you have the sound for your Internet Minute that produced... Yeah, there it is. Okay, very good. You don't have it. Time to get in it.

It's- Jessica's.

Internet Minute.

I may be naive and take things at face value, but when it comes to internet conspiracy theories, that is not the case. And yesterday, I saw a post that Brittany Mahomes had reposted this video on her Instagram stories of a thing that is going around the internet where people take a lighter and burn a ball of snow, and the snow turns black from the soot from the lighter. But they're claiming that it's actually plastic snow, and the government has created a fake snowstorm. So she posted this video, which is debunking that. So I'm like, okay, that's good. She's posting a debunking video. But then the caption of this video was like, This is real snow, but it is still manmade from the government. So then I was like, oh, no, Brittany. But I did some googling, and this is a very popular thing that's going around right now, Dan. So the explanation I read was that the lighter doesn't burn cleanly. So that's why the snowball's turning perhaps a sooty shade of black. But also there's this thing called sublimation happening, where a solid goes straight to a gas instead of turning into a liquid first.

So that's why it's not just becoming wet water and dripping all over the place. So I don't know. There's a scientific explanation for it. I don't think the snowstorm was manufactured, and I don't know why it would be. That's the part of this conspiracy that I'm still trying to hammer home why there would be fake plastic snow. And that part I can't figure out. So if you are part of this conspiracy theory community, why would this happen? I don't understand.

I don't mean to be cruel.

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Now, listen- I don't mean to be cruel about this, but your nails look spectacular.

Thank you, Dan. Oh, wow. Emergency manicure on Saturday morning at the airport.

Those pictures are going to be mortifying to you forever because they're always going to remind you that your friends lie to you all week.

Making sure that it is cold in parts like Texas. It's snowing in Savannah. No one's talking about that. No, it's not. It's snowing in Savannah, guys. I'm in Savannah. You know why we're doing that? So the beast can stay asleep. We don't want to usher in the end times until the timing is right, and we're almost there.

How did Mike take the microphone away from somebody less annoying? How is it possible that that happened while it is that Jeremy was doing the bit? All of a sudden, we end up on Mike giving us conspiracy theories that nobody cares for. Says.

You know about that Leviathan?

I know about that Leviathan.

Now you do. Fouchy. Fouchy.

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They did very well in the portal, Dan. Thank you for asking. We broke it all down last week. Like I said, if you want to check out Gojo's live reaction to me surprising him, I thought it was very cute.

Was it great? He is a good friend. He also is an uncommonly sweet human being just like his dad. Doing that to him, I imagine that he would give you shared joy/delight like very few.

Yeah. Like I said, it's making me very uncomfortable. I don't know where we go from here. Dan, Lucy's watching my dog right now in 20 degree weather. She's so nice. Everyone's so nice.

It's been wonderful to watch you and Lucy become friends. Is he I before the E in Peter Thiel?

Either way, give him everything that he needs. This is huge. This is a huge part because nobody has been on the Antichrist more than Peter Thiel. I got to say this LaVine thing, it's got traction.

Jessica, thank you. It's good seeing you, and congratulations. Everybody here is thrilled for you.

Thank you.

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Dan Levatard.

I don't like smutty either.

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This is the Dan Levatard show with the Stugatz.

I need all of those people back in here in order to do a show with them while Roy and Chris are lovely to do the show with. The rest of those people need to get in here. I cannot be left to my own devices here. You know that I will just be talking about freedom and democracy. Let's go. Everybody back. I have to get back to sports. And I also need somebody. I was trying to draw a penis. Do what now? Telestrate a penis on what it is Mike was doing. But I need the code to the telestrator because I don't know it. And everyone had left the room and I was trying to ask somebody for the code. So alone. For the code. For the code to the telestrator. I didn't even ask, Jessica, and I should have, because I don't know that we've talked enough about it today. Do you feel like we have the Belichick's story is a beast. It's a monster, all of it. It's It's not just Belichick's legacy, it's the being able to recycle again what the Hall of Fame is supposed to be. Is it a place where facts and merit are measured, or Is it a place for the gatekeepers to apply judgments outside of that?

You heard me say during the refereeing segment that we were talking about, you heard me say that I don't want my judges doing letter of the law. I want them applying judgment. Good judgment. Not judgment I agree with, just expert judgment that's better than my judgment because they have more information than I do and more tools to do it. In this case, and this is my objection, Greg, for as much as you and I argue about me losing my Hall of Fame vote, this is where I lost it. It was over the principle for me of, I believe the gatekeepers shouldn't be applying independent morality to something that should act more metrically as a merit-based system for accomplishment. I think it should be a museum, and it's not a museum of art. To me, it should be more like a library. It should be a place where facts are, where I can get my history in a way that is unencumbered by the moralities of others. You want to let Belichick in with an asterisk? That's fine, but you got to let him in.

Well, I've said that for years, that let Barry Bonds in, but include on his eternal bronze plaque the reason he didn't get in right away. Include the word steroids. In Belichick's case, put him in the Hall of Fame, but on his forever plaque, include the blemish. Include spygate. I think voters have not only the right, but the obligation to make a distinction between first ballot Hall of Fame and second year Hall of Fame. And I know you disagree.

Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

nick Wright said it.

You say not right obligation? Yeah. You say the voter has an obligation. So what you guys just did to Jason Tatum, I'm going to trust you with someone's forever legacy on that? I make him second-tier because I don't like him. That's not right. That's just not right.

I didn't say I made him second-tier because I didn't like him.

No, but I'm saying that's part of what's in play with Barry Bonds and all of these voters. I don't expect my voters to be that emotionally biased. Then let It's a man's vote. If you're just going to make it that emotionally biased, don't make the gatekeepers have more sanctity about what they're doing. Then just do it by polling. Call and poll.

Then don't make the gatekeepers human beings. Have AI select your hall of famous.

The human beings are obligated to apply or aspire to objectivity. You don't agree, right? This is the problem, I think, with the gatekeepers. It's why I lost my vote. The gatekeepers think that that museum is for them. You give them the power and they abuse it because they think, Here's where I show you how important my judgment is. Then it stops being about how hard it is to be... Mike, I want this to always be about how hard it is to be Bill Belichick or Barry Bonds.

That's not why you lost your vote. You didn't lose your vote. You lost your vote due to hijinks and shenanigans.

Yeah, we all know it. It's okay. Both of those..

Yes. And the lebitard hat trick of making it about himself. Yeah.

Natural hat trick. Dan, Yannis is about to get traded.

What are we doing?

Who cares? You know how funny this is, though? Okay, because you read the Sham Shrani tweet how two-time MVP, Yannis Antetokounmpo, is ready for a new home at the February fifth NBA Trade Deadline. He refuses to ask for a trade, refuses to request for a trade, refuses to demand a trade. He is, Have you heard this phrase before? Ready for a new home? Yeah. He refuses to actually ask for a trade.

Yeah. But getting Come back to the Hall of Fame, if you don't mind. Can I second there?

I do, actually. I thought Zad showed good judgment there by pulling me off of that. Fine.

Okay. A lot more to say, but that's okay. Yannis. Yeah, Yannis. Two-time MVP. I hear you.

And he's going to come here. I hear you. Greg, It's the heat.

He's got the one thing that he's got expertise on. He can't talk enough about his own Hall of Fame. I'll do this. You know what I'll do? I think he can. No, this is what I'll do. At the end of the show today, on the postgame, just attached to that, Greg Cody gets to give you all his thoughts on this, and we will all leave the studio and just let him talk until he runs out of breath. But we also have to get to whether or not he remembers what he voted for earlier in the show. Do you remember the number of votes on this test of ours where we said, Will Bill Paulian remember, or should he remember at 83, something that he did two weeks ago in voting? You said that he should remember that, and obviously, he remembers that, that he's lying when he talks to Don Van Nade. Zaz has his ballot. Well, Zaz explain to us the nature of this test here that we did before we get back to Yana.

Bill Paulian flat out denies the story from last night that claims he led the charge of Belichick having to wait at least a year to get into the Hall of Fame. He claims he voted for Belichick, but he doesn't know for 100% certainty, which seems crazy. But hey, it was a couple of weeks ago.

But he knows for 100% certainty that he did vote for Robert Kraft. That one he knows with 100% certainty. He doesn't know with 100%, that's such a great- I think that's what's actually happening here.

My eyes have been opened by David Samson. This is a craft thing. He does not want to share the limelight with him. He does not want the awkwardness of them having a big Patriots, Glory Days field trip. That guy in the Super Bowl right now on his own as he sees it, I think he uses influence to be like, That's going to be my weekend, and I'm not sharing it with him.

Chris does not believe, forget a couple of weeks to remember, Chris does not believe his father would remember by the end of the show today who he voted for.

Something he did a couple hours earlier. It has not even been two hours since Greg Cody did what?

Okay, so I'm not even going to tell you how many people you voted for. I'm just going to ask you some names here, and you're going to tell me if you voted for.

Well, wait a minute, but hold on a second. How many did you vote for? Do you know?

You're going to criticize for me. I only voted for four.

That's it. That's what he did.

I only voted for four.

He's going to remember them all then.

I didn't have a chance to do due diligence on the borderline.

You didn't have a chance.

Did Did you vote Tori Holt into the Hall of Fame? No. Did you vote Eli Manning into the Hall of Fame? No.

He's going to nail this test and ruin all of it. Just tell me the four. Who'd you vote for?

I voted for Drew Brees. I voted for Frank Gore. I voted for L. F. Larry Fitzgerald.

L. F.

Now, he's just showboating. That's what I call him. This right here is him showboating. Look how good my memory is. I can't remember all the guys I voted for 90 minutes ago.

All four. I also voted for Jordan Hudson's boyfriend.

I'm surprised he only voted for one, so he just has to remember one.

I mean, that's what you did here.

Such a trick that he pulled on us by only voting four.

I mean, you know.

I feel hoodwinked.

That was a trick. Those were the four automatic first bell up guys.

I'll ask him again this Friday when we record The Great Cody show.

Eli Manning is not a Hall of Fame of You?

After Happy Hour.

Borderline.

Let's do it two weeks from now.

That's why he didn't get in.

Let's do it the same way that Pauline did. Let's set an alarm somewhere that goes off during the show, two weeks from now on Wednesday, and ask him again who he voted for. I got a reminder on my phone already. Let's see if he remembers 100% or 95% the way Paulian.

I think he's definitely going to remember L. F. Yeah, L. F. Of course.

L. F.

The reason he did that was to showboat on memory. It was such a weird flex. Son of a journalist. I know this so well that I'm going to give you a nickname that Larry Fitzgerald does not have, L Fitts, because I'm going to parade around here with a Rhythmic Gymnastics ribbon and show you guys how good my memory is from 90 minutes ago.

That was so disappointing.

You know what else it does?

Major penalty, five minutes, squooming comedy.

It doesn't help us for him to get everything right there.

It doesn't- Whose fault is that? It doesn't- Yeah, but he's our most genuine guy. We can't have him doing bits. He has to just be him.

No, but he did do a bit because I'll bet he believes that there's more than four. That's true. But he only picked four because he know he's going to remember.

Yeah, how do you know that?

You know what? My sources. Someone told me.

Okay.

This guy. Okay, nice hat, asshole.

Okay. So Yana is doing this. Zazlo's takeaway of this guy refuses to demand a trade. It's such a funny place that Zaz is getting stuck on the idea of Yana trying to slither around. Trying to do it with respect. He's right, though.

Have you ever heard anyone say, I'm ready for a new home?

So here's the part where he's not right, okay? I understand why he comes by this opinion, okay? There is no right way to do this with the fan base with whom you have a community connection after winning a championship. There are zero There are no right ways to do it. Every single person who actually wants this is going to do it wrong, and they're just degrees of wrong. There is no right. The customer here wants his feel good, her feel good, and Yannis is going to take it away, and Yannis Yannis wants to treasure that and doesn't want to disrespect the organization. Yannis has been in public until now, not unlike Damian Lillard, who also didn't want to do this, a model citizen in every way who carries himself as the utmost of professional pillars. He has nothing in his past that is not exemplary. That relationship with that community matters to him and should.

He did boo his own fans.

Okay, Greg, he's a long resume of stuff that is simply positive.

Agreed. But he did boo his own fans.

Because there's no right way to do this. Because there is no right way to break up with a franchise that loves you and a franchise you've loved back.

I'll tell you, I think he may be actually going about this the wrong way. Instead of saying that he wants a trade to a new team, he's telling you he wants a new home. He's telling you he doesn't want to live in Milwaukee anymore. Milwaukee is his home. He wants to live somewhere somewhere else. He doesn't want to play for a different team.

He's not telling us anything.

He wants a new home.

He's not telling us anything. Shams is reporting something.

He also doesn't even live in Milwaukee, I've heard. He lives in Chicago and just makes the commute.

It's his new home. That's a long commute. That's a two-hour commute.

Phillip Rivers drove 17 hours from San Diego to. You think you're making that up?

Have you ever done that? You think you make it what up? You think he drives two hours to a game?

It's only 90 minutes.

Stugatz did that with work every day. Why do you think he got so tired? Yes, every day he was driving For two hours.

Every week, you got a new home somehow. He refinanced a lot.

I will tell you that if the heat somehow come to a deal for Giannis that involves Terry Rozier- Somehow, but it's already happened. And then the NBA turns around and says, You can't trade that contract. What are you going to do? And someone else swoops in, I'm not going to do it. I know some heat bands that would storm the NBA headquarters that makes January sixth look like nothing. I know people that would do that. Definitely not me.

You're a coward. January sixth, It was nothing. Talked to him.

Could you imagine?

The doors were wide open. Casual brisk walk. They let him in. There's a tour.

I will lose my voice. I'm just telling you right now. If that's what happens, as is one of the ones. It's going to be him. If that's sewing needle-You're going to make January sixth look like-Dubera resemblance.

Too many checks out us that were there.

Like a puddle puddle. See if you can find a Sherpa outfit for him during the break in an American flag.

We don't like that guy anymore. He turned his back It's on us.

Matter of fact, Adam Silver, if the heat make this trade and they include Terry Rozier's contract and you avoid it, Adam Silver, I dare you to do that.

You have not talked to a camera that way since the scarred head of Craig Berube.

I'm a little worried now about our funding of Pablo's operation. Yeah. This is going to be the-Now you're worried about it?

Adam Silver, to where?

Miami. Clippers are good now, by the way. I'm waiting for you to turn on the Clippers, Dan.

Pablo's in Because you do this midway through the season, you're like, wow, the Clippers are the best team I've ever seen. Wait a minute. You did this last year.

You did it last year.

I saw them the first team ever to, at one point, lose 16 out of 19, and at one point, win 16.

And the Clippers fan ate the tweet, by the way. Did you see that? E ate the whole thing?

The Clippers last year lost in the first round in game seven, and that team was absolutely good enough to beat OKC. And I end up being wrong for eternity because James Harden, I I trusted him in a game seven. But Zuback and Kawhi and James Harden is a... Zubatz, yes. Excuse me. That is a threesome that is formidable. It didn't make any sense to me that they were so bad the first 20 games of the season because that team is good. It's just old.

It takes them a little bit to get going. But 16 and 3 in their last 19 games, Kawhi Leonard is playing the best basketball we've seen in his career.

But when you say, though, it takes them a little bit to get going. A little grease in the wheels. You're describing Nicolas Batum trying to get out of bed in the morning. You're describing somebody. Those are some miles on those long, long legs. That is an old basketball team. Did you not know that?

No. Brook Lopez is a flipper. He's still doing it? Yeah.

Wow. Adam Silver, I double dare you not to allow the heat to trade the Rozier contract.

You know what's funny about all of this is that if somehow the heat were able to pull off a trade for Yannis, you could ultimately We thank the fact that Damian Lillard wasn't traded to Miami because him tearing his Achilles in Milwaukee is the thing that finally sent them into tank mode and struggling that led to Yannis finally asking out. So it might have been a couple of years too late. It might have cost you the end of a run with Jimmy Butler, but theoretically could end up in a Giannis Antetokounmpo situation between the heat, between the Knicks, between the Blazers and Pelicans and Hawks. What a fascinating day.

Jeremy, you did an okay job today in a lot of different realms, but how do you feel about this?

They could take off the... If Yannis-I don't feel great.

Professional broadcaster, Jeremy Tashay, reacting to the breaking news because he's nimble when things are live.

They could take off the... If Yannis-Well said.

I'll be on the heat game tonight.

My helpful hit. If you'd like to tune in, we'll be reporting live on Kalele wear his probable return. Three times. They could take off if Yannis-Emy winner, Jeremy Tashay.