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The oddball guys made it about themselves yesterday. Like it couldn't be about Jimmy Butler.
It couldn't be about Miami. It couldn't be about the story.
It had to be about oddball. It had to be about how can oddball trick a journalist? How can oddball make a name for itself on basketball's big stage? Oh boy, this is how we're starting.
That's not even close to what we set out to do. What we set out to do was to honor and commemorate Jimmy Butler, and we wanted people to come up to us and share their thoughts on what a Jimmy Butler statue should look like if there should be a Jimmy Butler statue which most people agreed that there should I don't you're saying us I mean I don't remember you there well I produced the show oh okay I'm just saying like what that was the show objective was to have people come up and talk to us about a statue should there be a statue I feel like most people as you were supportive of a statue very supportive nobody said no i mean we're looking at the options where did you find the gentleman the artist where did you find him oh he's known he's known in circles he's from the opposite side of the world he came from all the way across the world he's he's made very uh he's made statues from very famous people right I don't remember the name.
One was Abdel Khalif Mokhtar and then the other one was Sharon Stone and so diversity yeah he's been he's been around he's done a lot of great work around the world and we got him and he was gracious to do it to I mean you know it's just a look book it wasn't really he wasn't like sculpting right in front of us Sharon Stone because stone I mean you got to ask him I don't know but the point is then the point is is that that's what was the aim and then the team was approached by a journalist who was very fascinated by the work of Akbar and And so he talked to Akbar. Well, but this was Jeremy's friend.
And this was embarrassing. Like what happened...
For whom? For whom? It's never whom. What do you mean? For Jeremy's friend.
This is... I thought you were saying it was embarrassing for me because Jeremy's friend, a South Florida journalist, did not recognize me.

That was bad.

You recognized Agbar.

I mean, it was a bad thing for everyone involved, right? That no one here who's of note was recognized and that journalism is clearly very, very dead.

Maybe we're not as famous as we think we are.

I was the only one here.

Well, Agbar's very famous.

He got interviewed by the media last night, so he's famous.

He had a giant sign in front of him that basically said, come interview me. I don't know.
How know it's oddball. I know I get it.
It's oddball. I get it.
But how could you guys make Jimmy Butler about you the way that you did yesterday by by creating news, by creating news that appeared in the Sun Sentinel, doing so making the day about you. Allow me if I may.
Dan is seeing this through his Dan glasses in Dan's world, how can I make the, oh, guys, I gotta dress up like a chicken and then say something controversial and then people pay attention. That's how you do it.
The way we do it is we actually go out and try to do the show and then accidentally this is how it used to be, guys. Things would go, remember Boom Goes to Dynamite? That guy didn't show up that night and say, I'm gonna to say Boom Goes to Dynamite, and then everyone on the internet is going to talk about me.

He was just trying to do his job,

but the way he did his job was so magnifique that it went viral.

Now you got guys like Dan Levitard clickbaiting,

trying to go viral.

Let me say something crazy now.

I'm dressed like Pirates of the Caribbean.

If it happens behind a paywall at the Sun Sentinel,

did it happen?

Wait, but you can read it for like five seconds before the paywall comes up. So you can get like a different graph each time.
Put it on the poll, please, Juju, at Levitard Show. If it happened behind the Sun Sentinel paywall, did it actually happen? That was a surgical slice by Billy Gill.
What do you mean? You know, the crazy thing is there were comments underneath,

and I thought for sure the comments underneath the tweet are going to be like,

dude, that's not Akbar Domestique.

That's someone else.

And no, everyone was like, I don't know why Jimmy Butler should have a statue.

This is the Dan Levatore Show with the Stugatz Podcast. Does the audio not work? Okay.
See if you guys can get the audio up there so that we can. Jessica, why does that delight you? You've got a little Billy in you on a wild Willie Wednesday.
Billy. That we can't get even the simplest things right.
Is that what's making you laugh? Yeah. Yeah.
Okay, so sound is important in this medium, as you guys know. So if you're trying to set up a joke, you need to have sound with the video.
We've been working hard on the video. So perfect.
The sound is sort of a problem at the moment. Jimmy Butler last night, that that entire spectacle the entirety of it uh was sad i was made sad by all of it and which part specifically um that a relationship that was good with everyone involved can't even shake hands at the end like that can't be that the money would get that corrosive look i'm going to tell you a couple of stories here because allow me here to get here because it's going to take a second.
But the nature of competitive people. OK, my father, my brother was very competitive.
OK, that's an impossible industry. Art selling shit out of the back of your car, fighting for money because you want to do what you dream about.
And at the end of his career, because somebody was getting in the way of his money, there was an 80 year old man who runs a company that my brother was ready to fight physically fight because of whatever competitive is at the most competitive. Jimmy Butler is a million times more competitive than my brother and I think Pat Riley is more competitive than that and those two dudes want to fight and I imagine the marketing meeting where Riley's coming into the room and telling everybody I know we want to be class and everything, but can we say at the end and also bleep you, Jimmy, at the end of the video.
I don't know. I want to know who talked Riley into doing that.
It had to be the Arisons. I'm going to find out because I don't know what you guys made of the emotion of that, but it wasn't just that the game was a bummer.
It's that, man, that was a was a good relationship for everyone involved and the money gets in the way like that competitiveness is overrated as just a value to have like because it ruins a lot of things it ruins relationships it ruins a lot and when you talk about somebody like Steph Curry for example who's kind of in you know the the center of their universe what do people say about him I mean what do people say about Steph all the time? First thing they say. Nice guy.
Great guy. Jimmy Butler said in a story by Anthony Slater in The Athletic, he's real real, right? He just treats everybody really nice.
You know that's not like a skill, right? You know that's something that you can just do to people, right? And so when you watch the end of that game or beginning of that game, where they don't shake hands, I mean, nobody, like Bam walks past him as if he was a stranger. And then after the game, they have, you know, not only does Jimmy just kind of slink off and go back to the back without talking to any Heat players, what does every single warrior do that played with Andrew Wiggins, including Steph Curry, who had already gone back to the locker room, came back out to talk to Andrew Wiggins.
Why? Nice guy. People love him.
Like, how is that not so telling about as much as we enjoyed this Jimmy Butler experience for five plus years? It was always going to be that because that's who he is. And I'm sorry for the Warriors, but at some point he's going to be that there, too.
Wow. are you calling the shot now? Well, I mean, you know what? I take that back.
Steph Curry could be that powerful of an alien that his power of friendship is just more stronger than everybody else's. But it's just, it was the relationship between Miami and Jimmy Butler in a nutshell last night.
But, like, what are we doing? He didn't leave on good terms. He didn't leave on good terms.
And, again, we've made it about the root cause, which is true, I think, the money. But in his pursuit, he burned bridges.
Before he was out of here, he burned bridges with people that he played with. And so, like, I didn't look at that and go, they're not saying hello.
I'm like, yeah. But that normally happens.
The issues between the player and management, it's usually, hey, I'm dunking and I'm yelling at the GM on the sideline. This was just icy.
This was worse than Kobe Shaq because it was nobody on that team that Jimmy wanted to talk to. Nobody on the Miami Heat team.
Can I talk to you guys about the idea of proud men being disrespected? Because when I tell you that Shaq wanted to fight Pat Riley at the end over money and disrespect, when the conversation is, and all of this starts with Jimmy saying, and I would have taken us to the finals if I hadn't been injured, and Riley publicly saying shut your mouth shut your mouth

the word shut your mouth on on disrespect of a proud man when I tell you that my brother wanted

to fight an 80 year old and Jimmy Butler it Jimmy Butler whatever he was doing in private

that's where disrespect started and so he enters the game yesterday saying I've got nothing to say

to Pat and he better not have anything to say to me what what is he gonna do punch an 80 year old like what is that what's an 80 year old gonna do punch him like this is a ridiculous scenario in which neither person is actually gonna fight the other I'd love to see them fight I really would no you wouldn't I would absolutely love to see them fight this is tough guy bullshit going back and forth. I'll fight him.
I'll fight him. And neither one of them wants to actually fight the other one.
What's Pat said? I would love for... Jeremy, please.
I would love for everyone to just kind of stop being the guy that holds the other one back and everyone just wouldn't be like, you know what, guys, go. Let's resolve this exactly how you guys want to.
I agree with you. See what happens there.
Because neither one of them would actually fight the other one. Let one let him fight see how it goes because neither one of them will hit the other one jeremy was so excited about today and with two words in seven minutes you have crushed him billy not me nothing can crush me he was so annoying i walk into the makeup room this morning and he's like this was the best night of my whole year and i was like you were fist bumping a buzzer beater like a month ago.
Don't act like this is the only heat game that's made you happy this year. I was fist bumping my own interview skills.
He said, this was better than my wedding day, he said to us. Yeah, we all believe that, Jeremy.
I told my wife that last night. Honey, are you watching this? Isn't this better than our anniversary? No, look, I don't know if the word fight came out of anyone's mouth.
You guys are making a leap here, right? When he says, you better not have anything to say to me, it's not or I'll punch him in the face. It's or I'll say things that have been behind the scenes that no one has revealed that I will reveal.
And I think both parties kind of feel like, hey, you know, I could have made this a lot worse if I talked about the way you guys did this or the way you did that. But I'm trying to take the high road.
They're both trying to do that. And, you know, it is what it is.
No one's trying to take the high road here. Yes, they are.
No, they're not. Get out of here.
Dude, they're not taking the low road is what I'm telling you. They're not taking the low road.
But, like, when he puts out a tweet of Andrew Wiggins saying hi to all of his teammates and then puts something along the lines in the caption of, great to see a former player go and make up with his coach and teammates. Like, come on.
You're not trying to take the high road. Well, they definitely didn't.
I mean, look, that intro video was half-baked. It didn't have the play-by-play.
It didn't have the celebration. Oh, Miami Heat win the Eastern Conference Championship.
It didn't have quotes from Jimmy Butler showing his personality and everything else. I wonder why the quotes weren't there.
Is it because they were all lies? They also don't normally do that. Jeremy, please.
They also don't normally do that in the intros because they want it to build up a little bit, right? And they do that after the first break. You're coming back.
And also because no one's there. Because no one's there.
That's another reason. That building was packed.
Now, 40% of them were Warriors fans. There were a lot of Steph Curry jerseys.
Can we talk about that? Look, we thought the Warriors fans were going to be like, yeah, Jimmy Butler's going to... No, they're like, Jimmy who? No, Steph Curry.
90% of the Steph Curry fans didn't speak English. This man is an international megastar.
Jimmy Butler's just another teammate to them. It's still the Beatles.
Dan, I get it. They're like the seventh seed or whatever they are in the West.
They're still the Beatles. People still show up, and they show up early to watch that guy warm up.
But, I mean, come on. If I told you in some incarnation of the future there's going to be a bunch of human beings who are unbelievably athletic, but one is an actual wizard, floats around the court and does something that no one's ever been able to do.
Like, everyone who comes internationally to watch Steph Curry, just because you watch the games every night and know that you're no longer amazed by something amazing doesn't mean that you're watching something. It's not in sports.
It might as well be God coming to life and appearing before you because it's unlike anything you've ever seen before, and you can't imagine anything better than that either at that size. I'm not desensitized by his magic, but I am surprised that a team that has fallen from grace, you know, relative to where they once were, still attracts the traveling caravan of people from across the globe to just glimpse him.
He doesn I would- They don't even have to, he doesn't even have to play.

There were so many, there was so much media at the game that PR had to seat us like in the stands.

That's how many people were there.

And as I'm sitting there, Dan, as I'm sitting there, I'm hearing people, they know he's not playing.

When he came to sit on the-

Hey, there he is.

Where?

Look, over there.

Look, over, over to the left.

And like they were losing their mind at just glimpsing him sit down. I didn't recognize that nationality.
Well, it's on the side of the world. Foreign.
Global. Global.
International. It could be from anywhere.
Do we have the oddball clip here of, and I just learned before the show that, I mean, the Sun Sentinel reporter did not know that this was you. I just want to be clear.
Let's play the clip there. All right, go ahead and play the clip.
You make show? I do, I make a show, yes. What's the name show? Oddball.
Odd, like strange, weird, like, ball. Oddball.
Ball life art is life life is art i do a show

with somebody called amin el hassan amin el hassan i mean is your it's a very good name i mean it

means trust trust i mean trust oh okay trust yes and i mean we trust yes yes very good very good hello he's magical tell us the Caribbean magical Akbar's magic was that Borat no that's Akbar the. Just to be clear, I know he's got some French accessories.
I don't believe he's French. Not French.
I don't believe he's French. Not French.
I asked him a million times. He's not French.
I was, remember we had some guys from Congo. That's right.
Approach him and... Jonathan Kaminga's cousin.
Jonathan Kaminga's cousin came up and tried to say what's up. But Jeremy, what happened to your friend? What happened to your friend from the Sun Sentinel? Well, it seems like he wrote an article about, according to Amin, a very real artist that was out there trying to get a Jimmy Butler statue created.
And if that artist wasn't real, then it might have been a bit mean-spirited to go unrecognized and fool a journalist. Well, since Amin wasn't there, I'll explain what happened.
You know, Akbar and I were sitting there trying to get fans votes on which Jimmy Butler statue pose we should pick, right? Because I told everybody, hey, things are going to ease off between the heat, cool down between the heat and Jimmy Butler, and they're going to put a statue up there. And so what were the options again? They were, Jimmy Butler was tired.

Yeah.

So first of all, Akbar worked tirelessly on this.

Nobody, we should take a second to thank him for all of his work that he did pro bono,

by the way.

It doesn't, until the statue actually gets made, he doesn't get paid.

He made all that money from the Sharon Stone statue.

Thank you, Akbar.

Yes.

Thank you, Akbar.

Thank you, Akbar.

Thank you, Akbar. So Mr.
Domestique came up with five different options. Monsieur.
Oh, no, he's not French. Oh, my bad.
Let's be clear, Jess. I just said that.
Thanks. It's okay.
He's from Kazakhstan. No, he's not.
It's confusing. It was confusing.
Wow, you guys are so jingoistic and nationalist. Where are you from, boy? Where do you come from? What country? Is that Dan? That's what all of you sound like.
Demanding to know his national origin. Do you want to see his papers, too? How about that? Hey, Akbar, show us your papers, your passport.
We want to see. What's your visa say, boy? Huh? You want to go I something here? Classic Dan.
I mean, it seems like maybe the that interviewed akbar should have asked these questions to confirm he was a real person that's usually what editors do when you do an interview with a random person on the street and now i'm kind of like i feel bad for this guy he got fooled at the same time someone probably should have caught it someone should have googled is akbar domestique a real person well i tell you what before they publish the story google jimmy butler statue let me know what the number one The result is... It's Akbar Domestik.
Akbar Domestique a real person? Well, I'll tell you what. Before they publish the story.
Google Jimmy Butler statue. Let me know what the number one result is.
It's Akbar Domestique. Akbar Domestique.
Spoiler alert. Number one on Google, baby.
Okay. It's really hard to do this whole bit now because like half of us are.
You're right. I'm sorry.
I'm confused. Like when we started the show, it's like.
Oddball, Monday through Thursday. We want to talk about this thing that happened, but now we're like, this thing never actually happened because this was a real thing.
Did somebody get fooled or not get fooled? I'm lost in space right now. Well, this is what happens with Oddball and when you start a show with no audio.
Like, this is part of what it is that happens when you're trying to communicate with people. Just like the Miami Heat did last night.
Oddball is odd. And if you want to explain to the audience what it is that you guys were doing yesterday and what you did to a journalist with a clip that would show us what happened to that journalist that would probably be the correct way to do this but they're odd well i would say first of all watch oddball to get the full segment number two not now though not later it's not out yet i know but our audience would like to understand what happened here what happened some of it's confusing it's not.
It's not confusing. No, I'll explain it.
Trust me when I tell you. Trust me when I tell you.
Let me give you a quick note. No, trust me when I tell you.
I mean him. It's confusing.
I can explain it or not, right? Like, explain real quick. We wanted to get a Jimmy Butler statue commissioned.
We had the artist out there. His name's Akbar Domestik.
He sat out there with Izzy. Izzy was soliciting people to come give us their opinion, which one was the best of the designs.
One of the people who came up to us unsolicited was a reporter. We did not know from which outlet.
He said, I'm a reporter. I identified himself as media, so Akbar granted an interview.
He never does this, by the way. So it was a real artist then.
Akbar Demestique, yeah. I don't know.
Jessica thinks it's a bit. Thank you for explaining it.
It's not a bit. There you go.
I don't understand. Why did this reporter not see a camera crew around you guys with microphones on you? Not only did he see a camera crew around, I had a microphone in the reporter's face.
It was reporter Inception. And he still didn't know what was going on.
And so, yeah, next thing you know, there's a story in the sun sentinel but it's a real story it's a real story so then we're fine right the journalist did his job but this is this is the problem with the real story like jeremy's friend is the journalist who who wrote this who did a great job apparently writing about this real artist is this a real journalist or a real journalist. And it might be fake news, but it's a real journalist.
Do they put out like a retraction or like a comment on this? Like, hey, we were duped? Well, why would they have to do that? Apparently, Akbar Domestique is a real person. There it is.
Right, I mean? The lead is, does Jimmy Butler deserve a statue outside the Kaseya Center? Most Heat fans would likely say no, considering why the star five-and-a-half-year Miami tenure ended. But Akbar DeMestique, an artist from Khartoum, Sudan, oh, so that's where he's from, says yes, and he set up a tent outside the arena before Butler's return to Miami with the Golden State Warriors on Tuesday to advocate for the cause.
Quote, Jimmy Butler, great Miami Heat player. He wins very much.
He great things for the organization. You don't have to do it in his voice.
Oh, I didn't. I just read in my voice.
By the way, great reporting. Now we know where he's from.
See, we should give this reporter some standing ovation, maybe? Not great reporting. Not great reporting overall.
Got to the bottom of something. Well, I'm glad that Jessica is protecting journalism here.
I genuinely am. I'm not.
Honestly, I'm not. I'm just, I think people listening probably are just so confused right now.
Yeah, this is incredibly confusing. Because I'm confused right now.
Is it confusing? How about this? Let's do Q&A. We'll answer.
We're the oddball representatives here. We'll answer any questions.
Q&A, Tony. We're opening up the press conference.
Q's? Any Q's? Yeah. How did the guy not know that there was a guy with a fake mustache and a beret in front of the stadium? Well, the beret is a sartorial decision.
I think a lot of people around the world will look at that and say, that's a snazzy hat. Particularly the color scheme.
Red for Miami Heat, red. Yes, brilliant.
And the scarf too. The scarf is matching.
Little hints of black there as well, but mostly red as well. Also heat colors.
Also heat colors. How about the fake mustache? Well, the mustache is a little gaudy, but, you know, some people like to put in a little bit more product, a little bit more extra.
I'm sorry. There are people every day that I see with fake eyelashes.
So what's wrong with a little bit of an extra enhancement of your mustache? There's more hair to the mustache than there is the eyebrow. Plus, I saw a little bit of the glue, I think, on the backside.
Well, look, first of all, shout out to my guy from White Lotus. Women have full frontal nudes all the time and nobody cares, but when a guy does it, all of a sudden there's all sorts of questions.
You saw he walked that back, right? He's like, I shouldn't have said that. That's my bad.
I'm sure Akbar will walk it back one day, too. Any other questions? Questions? So the journalist.
I'm forgetting his name, by the way. With respect to him.
What's his name? It's still confusing. The journalist's name? Barry? Was it Barry? I don't know.
It's a Barry. Jeremy, your friend's name is what? His name is Adam.
Adam, okay. Adam, okay.
So Adam got very close to Akbar. Yes, he was.
Did he not look at his lookbook, right? Yeah, showed the lookbook. That's close to me and Dan right now.
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Dan Levatard.

Amino Hassan.

Stugatz.

Amino Hassan.

This is the Dan Levatard Show with the Stugatz.

I have a question.

Amin, are you embarrassed that no one recognized you considering that just looks like you but has sunglasses and a beret? Was Amin there? I was in the vicinity. I mean, how are we supposed to do this show, Dan? No, but that's Billy right there.
That's what a wild Billy Wednesday is. You were trying.
What do you mean? What do I mean? I was trying to get to the bottom of this. We're pretending this artist really exists.
I cannot believe this is is what we're doing and not talking about Jimmy Butler not showing up. For that game.
Billy, thank you. Jessica, that was Billy simply doing the show for just you there.
He wasn't doing it for anyone else there. No, he's doing this for the millions of people sitting at home right now that are like, what the hell are they talking about? So check out Oddball.
Check out Oddball. It's a bit of a mystery.
And that's the reason that you should listen to it. I'm guessing, though, that many people would like to hear your serious basketball analysis on a dumb night that did not live up to anything, but allowed us to do the thing that we love to do more than anything in sports, which is just gossip about whether people like each other or not.
Didn't live up to anything. And how much do they, how much do they dislike each other? And how much disrespect was there? And what's wrong with that? I mean, what, what do we do? What do we watch all day on TV? It's just that drama.
And I think after five and a half years of them being together, to go from even the fake platitudes and the fake niceness and just, hey, that's my

teammates, those are my boys, to just absolute nothing, that has to be a falling off, one of

the worst you've ever seen in the NBA. Kobe Shaq wasn't even, I mean, I know it was you know, people figured, hey, they'll get over it.
This one, it just feels like this is just the end of any relationship he could possibly have. And he said they didn't want to burn any bridges with the organization.
It seems like he has. I think, so we keep bringing up Kobe Shaq.
I know we have to consider the source, but according toq it was all marketing like shaq like took

something that was real and inflated it for the sake of theatrics shaq is a master of this of going in there and like taking something and making it way larger than it really is just out of sheer entertainment of himself man i think that's some revisionist history from a guy who's in the tank for Shaq.

Like Shaq was on his...

Shaq...

Hold on.

The big fella.

I don't remember

beating a drum at Shaq's games. Shaq was on a stage in a New York nightclub singing, hey Kobe, tell me how my ass tastes.
It was funny. I mean, come on.
By the way, comparing this to Kobe versus Shaq is the most insane thing that's happened this entire segment you're welcome I mean it is it is the relationship like the ended it's not like it's it's dissimilar but I think the best part about this to me was all the pettiness from the heat it was um not just not talking to him I think Alec Burks might get in trouble by the way actually did go. The only guys who Jimmy spoke to last night were Kevin Love, Terry Rozier, and Alec Burks.
If that doesn't show you everything about Jimmy, I don't know what does. Shout out to K-Love.
K-Love said he posted the clip before the game. I don't got a problem with these guys.
My beef's not with them, never will be. But I'm not going to go acknowledge them.
I'm not going to look in their direction. I'm not going to speak with them.
It was, I could not believe the way that that all ended. Can I ask you, did you see Bam and Tyler going, Jimmy, Jimmy, wait.
Who's the one that left? I'm just saying, you're saying like, oh, he didn't say what's up. It's like when people say, you didn't call me.
MF, you didn't call me either. What are we doing? Oh, like it's only on me to call you.

I got to be the one to pick up the phone.

But if you don't pick up the phone, I never give you any problem.

But he did call people.

Call Kevin Love and Terry Rozier.

But the relationship didn't end when he left.

The relationship was over while they were here.

So they don't, I mean, they're not happy with Jimmy as well.

I'm just saying, I don't know if, look, if they had done the, look, I've seen it before.

It's happened to me where I went and reached my hand out to shake hands with someone that I'd had a strained relationship with. And they looked at my hand and walked away.
And I just stood there with my hand out and I looked at everybody around like, see, I tried. I reached out.
They didn't do anything. That's not what happened.
No, you're right. Look, I'm not saying Jimmy's an angel.
I'm just saying, oh, poor Bam. He didn't even say hello.
He didn't look at him. Neither did he.
Neither did he. Yeah, one guy showed up for the game and the other didn't.
It also feels like if this score was opposite, Jimmy would have been center court waiting to say that's exactly right. He would have been there.
Where's Bam? Let me give him a hug. Where's Tyler? Let me pat him on the ass.
I'm going to tell you right now, I don't think so. I don't think so.
You think he would have said all the glowing things he said after the game if he would have won? He had to get his butt kicked by the team to be able to go say anything nice? Look, man, there are some guys when the lights are on on national TV that show up for big games, and other guys don't, and Jimmy's just not one of those guys. He just doesn't show up when the lights are on.
This is fake, right? This is acting? He's wearing glasses. You need a you need a mustache? We'll get Ackbar in here.
Should we get Ackbar? Is this where we're at? Can we call it Ackbar? Like we're celebrating getting to 10 games under 500. Like this is where we're at gloating.
I'm ashamed. I'm ashamed of my fellow Heat fans.
You know what I'll say? I will say, and this will be the most embarrassing thing that I say. I was so proud watching Heat fans last night know to boo every time Jimmy touched the ball.
Because before the game, I was talking to other people in the media and saying, the most passionate of fan bases would know, right? Oh, it's cheers and boos during the intro. And then every time that guy touches the ball, you boo him.
That's what happens, honestly did not expect it i didn't expect it from the crowd and then it happened there was a guy heckling him and he got a five second violation you couldn't have drawn that night up better for the worst of people like me you speak for all of us jessica it's embarrassing i know it's embarrassing i don't care well uh that's okay and i understand that you don't care But I legitimately left yesterday's embarrassing. I know it's embarrassing.
I don't care. Well, that's okay, and I understand that you don't care.
But I legitimately left yesterday's show thinking to myself, and not knowing the answer because the Heat were coming off of a 10-game losing streak. I wanted to ask you guys, which is harder to do in that league? Winning 10 straight or losing 10 straight? Honestly, losing 10 straight ain't that hard.
Well, I mean, Cleveland's won 10 straight three times. Like, 10 straight losses for the Heat.
It's confusing to me where we've lived for 15 years that makes everyone crazy around here and makes Jessica put her head in her hands when Jeremy does what Heat fans do. It was just fun watching Jimmy stand in the corner during a regular season game and it not affecting the Heat in a negative way.
Okay, and so Heat Homer Jeremy has this to say about Miami fans. It was great for them to be knowledgeable enough to know to boo Jimmy every time he touched the ball.
And then there's Steve Kerr saying this of Miami fans. I didn't know what was going on pregame because there was a video with no sounds.
So I was wondering what was happening.

Miami is a great place to live.

And so people don't ever seem too amped up around here.

They're living a good life.

So it really wasn't that rabid of an environment.

It was typical Miami.

So, I mean, hold on. Hold on.
I mean, respectfully, respectfully to Steve Kerr. He does a great job.
He has no idea what he's talking about. Nobody in Miami's amped up.
Brother, have you been to La Calle Ocho during traffic, during primetime five o'clock rush hour? Please. That was the strangest part of the whole night because as the beginning of this show had no sound as soon as you're supposed to hit the music They played this one part and it was like I think it's this part of Eminem right where he's just like it's the return of just kidding And I was like wait a second that seems like a shot at Jimmy Butler But it was like the vice jersey thing right? So that was the beginning of that one and then the music just didn't play the video was playing but no music There was a popping sound that happened and I thought oh they got fireworks but then there was no fireworks, and then the music just didn't play.
The video was playing, but no music. There was a popping sound that happened and I thought, oh, they got fireworks, but then there was no firework and then the intro video plays exactly like how we started the show today.
I would say that we were doing meta stuff and I'm not blaming the video department. I'm saying the video department was Johnny on the spot.
It was a tribute. Because they played the intro video to complete silence and it took like a strong five or six seconds before like the game ops people were like start a chance or something people start saying let's go heat and then that like it couldn't i was like wow they can carry this throughout the entire video that'll be an insane environment tnt will love it and then like three three goes let's go heat let's go it was a feeling of oh jimmy butler's gone and everything goes to shit the energy was so weird to start yesterday's game because you had like the mixed cheers and booze right during the the intro video then you have the heats intro video where the sound goes out and the speakers go out then a minute into the game draymond green is hurt and laying on the ground and you're wondering what's going to happen then not two minutes later jim Jimmy Butler himself has a five-second violation where there's a fan behind him yelling, you're a bum.
Andrew Wiggins. Yeah, Andrew Wiggins immediately gets an eight-second violation after that.
Then there's a backcourt violation. Then there's back-to-back 24-second violations by the Warriors.
It was all in the first eight minutes of the game. It was one of the strangest starts to a basketball game, including Jimmy Butler having two points at the half.
I'd like to explain for one second. Everyone was like, it was mixed cheers and boos.
At first, I was like, wow, so there are a lot of Heat fans that are still happy about Jimmy. Then I realized, oh no, that's just the Warriors fans because 40% of the building had Steph Curry jerseys on.
That's the thing that I think people are missing. You guys are thinking the Miami crowd was split.
No, they weren't. It was just a bunch of Warriors fans.
I'm surprised that you're surprised by this. So last night, yeah, the Golden State starters, did they have 10 points by the half, the five of them? The starters.
Oh, it was insane. I mean, their starting lineup got dominated, and Jimmy was basically taken out of the game from the jump.

Like, Bam Adebayo shut him down last night. He just did.

I would say that Jimmy did.

Like, I've seen people who are trying to force the issue.

I've got to prove a point tonight.

He did the opposite.

Yeah, he didn't show up.

He seemed very passive.

Yeah, he didn't show up.

Very passive.

Okay, but can we just examine?

Look, I don't want to talk about this anymore than Jessica does anymore. Well, hold on.
No, time out. Let me stop you there.
You and Jessica. I'm sorry.
What the hell did you guys think today's show was about to be about? Golf? Thank you. Tennis? It's a spoiler Wednesday.
Thank you. You're not here every week.
This is what every show has been about for years. This is literally the last day that we could do Pete and Jimmy.
And it won't be.

No, it will be. It will not be.
This is it.

They're not going to face each other in the finals.

I don't want to talk about this.

It's the funniest thing that has ever been

uttered on the show. Yesterday also, by

the way, we were talking about should the Heat be tanking

for the lottery? So like now

the question is, you had your NBA

finals today.

Making sure they're not tanking. Maybe this he tanked the game.
You know what? Maybe that is what happened is Jimmy didn't want them to get a higher pick. But we were talking about yesterday, should the Heat tank for the lottery? So now that the Heat won their championship last night, the Jimmy Butler revenge game, are we now back to tanking with this Heat team? Sagan for a flagging? I don't know if it's a serious conversation, but look at the standings.
There's just no chance. Pooper for Cooper? They're stuck in this play in purgatory.
I don't even think they can move into 7-8. They're just in that 9-10 land right now.
Bailing for Bailey? You know what? I'll let you guys have today. If you can promise me you will not say the name.
This is for Jeremy and Dan. You will not say the nameimmy butler for the rest of the nba season can you do that dan i i gotta figure out what i gotta trade jessica for that oh that's a boy look at there's gonna be a negotiation i'm not gonna just just just say a week a week is gonna be hard enough like a week you're a bad negotiator i i will figure out what it is i'm gonna let me think about it want it to be a thread throughout the show, and at the end, we will make a bet on whatever it is that is.
Don't let me forget. I want to have stakes on this, because I also want stakes on yesterday's bet, where there was an oral commitment there.
Billy said for a raise, he'd have another kid. So we've got a deal.
Get on that. Get on that.
He might have. Last night.
I don't know. Oral commitment.
Be respectful. Oral commitment.
I'm sorry, what? Can't have a kid that way. Be respectful.
You and me have made a deal. Everyone heard it.
Well, if I have a child. That's right.
Well, have confidence in yourself, man. If you have a child, you can have a raise.
We made a deal. I want there to be a huge...
I don't think that this is binding

in any sense of the word whatsoever.

The words being spoken right now are an oral commitment.

Oral commitments are not...

They're oral commitments.

You're backing down. No, I'm just saying.

He's scared, Dan, is what it is.

You put the money up and he's like, no, I don't want to do it anymore.

But how much money are we talking?

It's a good question.

Well, I just had a kid, so me and you could talk after, right?

Oral.

And what if you have a fake baby?

Wow.

Oh, a fake baby.

But you get the million dollars.

Adoption.

Like, let's work this thing out a little bit.

Let's figure out what the consequences are on that bet.

Kid's going to have to be named Cash, right?

Obviously.

Yeah.

Because I'm going to be willing to make the bet of, it's just the name Jimmy Butler correct? Just the name. Yeah already lost You just can't you just can't talk about him probably Say his name, but you can also can I have an idea for this bet and I'm just if we're figuring out bets if If Dan wins you have to wear a costume of some sort.

If Jess wins, Dan can't wear

a costume for a year. Oh, wow.

That would kill him.

You know what's frustrating about this? I was undefeated

last year.

Undefeated. It's the reason I didn't wear

a costume all year. I was undefeated

at the grid of death. I went every

single week and never lost again.

And hated it.

How about if he loses, he shaves the beard? Oh. Oh.
And if he loses, Jess has to grow a beard. Oh.
I've got a mustache for that. Not a bad trade because I can't grow a beard, so.
You can wear a mean ridiculous beard. Akbar.
Apparently, that was not a mean, so now we're back to square one. Yeah, who was that? The beard is mine.
What are you talking talking about akbar uh well the way the show should have started i saw in preview the clip of uh jeremy's friend being uh fooled by akbar and i i just am curious where we are with journalism because jessica asked uh where are the editors here and the answer to your question jessica is is WPLG in Miami closes down with ABC after 80 years and has to go totally local. Is there are no editors anymore.
We can't pay anybody anymore. So Greg Cody has to write his own headlines on his own stories because the editors are being all chewed up and bad things are getting into newspapers.
And hey, I thought Akbar was quoted warmly and accurately. Well, also like that story.
So ABC is still going to exist. But WSVN now is going to have Fox and ABC on their like second channel.
And then WPLG announced that they are focusing on journalism and they're reinvesting all of the money that they were going to be asking for to get the ABC license into local journalism. And they're going to do more local journalistic shows.
And they're going to have longer news days in the morning.

And they're going to have different programming that's specific for local because they thought

that ABC was asking for too much, I believe.

Billy, hold on.

Are you PR for WPS?

No, I'm just going to.

Oh, he's got it right.

He's got all this.

You know, heaven forbid, I read a story before we talked about it.

You don't read journalism, yeah.

The guy that runs the network doubled down on his commitment to local journalism and covering local stories. So it's not a situation where the network is folding.
Billy, let's bring back SportsBang. Sell it to them.
Local journalists, Billy Gill, Tony Gladiou, all of a sudden take on sports. Wait, who is the second person that's doing this? Me and you.
Me and you All of a sudden, take on sports. Pass.
I love that idea. It's like they've been covering like politics and like Wall Street.
And all of a sudden, we're going to take on sports. Yeah.
With sports bags. We both wear like suits.
We'll be Jim Barry. Jim Barry keeps jumping back and forth between sports and news.
Why can't we? He can be the third guy. Ooh, I like that.
Me, you, and JB. Okay.
Roy must be wounded in the history of WPLG. That's 79 years.
Dwight Lauderdale. Yeah, and Bishop.
That's what, I mean, they taught me about news. Like, that was television news when we were growing up.
And then ABC comes in and says, no, it's going to be network. And, yes, they're trying at Channel 10 to do something that is a special thing where they take care of local news.

But to answer Jessica's question, there are no editors.

There's not money for editors.

There are like five newspapers in the country that can afford editors.

Also mentioned in the announcement, they will still have Wheel of Fortune.

So don't be worried about that.

Jeopardy?

Good lead-in for us.

I think Jeopardy 2.

Excellent.

And Kelly and Mark or whatever the Kelly show is called now. I never really liked Wheel of Fortune that much.
Really? It's fine. It's just, like, I think Jeopardy is so much better.
I haven't seen any of the Seacrest episodes. Yeah, me neither.
Not a one. It is Jeopardy.
I guess that sort of, we agree then. Yeah.
You know, speaking of 10, when's the last time you saw number 10 Jimmy Butler show up for a big game, huh? Oh, boy. Lights are on and shrinks.
I don't think Dan's allowed to talk about that. He's got his boys in matching joy shirts.
How has Izzy already ended my negotiations? Beard's coming off. Weather is starting to warm up.
Regular season's starting to wind down. Games of consequence in sports starting to ramp up.
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