The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: R.I.P Dikembe Mutombo

Episode Date: September 30, 2024

LUCY IS HERE! She shares her experience from the epic Alabama-Georgia game over the weekend, a game that Jeremy wanted her to skip out on for UCF Colorado. We also go over some of the other headlines in College Football, and discuss how expansion of the College Football Playoff has not taken away in the slightest from the lore of a big regular-season matchup in college football. The crew turns to basketball for the rest of the hour as they discuss the Karl Anthony Towns trade to the New York Knicks for Julius Randle and Donte DiVincenzo and ESPN's lead MLB insider, Jeff Passan, reportedly being a lead candidate to replace Woj. Then, Dan and Stu react to the sad news that NBA legend Dikembe Mutombo has passed away at the age of 58. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Lucy has emerged. I don't know where it is that she was, but it now... The game of the weekend. Pearl Jam. It now gives us... no, I was at Pearl Jam. What's the point of saying Pearl Jam there? I love Pearl Jam. Don't lash out at me. Don't lash out at me. What's the point of saying Pearl Jam? Why would she have been at Pearl Jam?

Because I love Pearl Jam. She loves Pearl Jam, I knew that. I made the joke right after Mike said what he said. The timing was a little bit off, I apologize. I watch football this weekend. Lucy, you were at the Alabama-Georgia game and you were as far from the interception at the end as you could be while still remaining on the field.

You had the worst view in the entire, on the field, on the field. You were as far away from the game changing, game finishing interception as anyone who was on the field. What was your experience like after seeing Georgia go down 28-nothing? Well, that was, I was like happy first because I've been kind of anxious

about how many people keep telling me that I'm a curse and that I'm bad luck for the home team and I really want home teams to invite me to their games. But when the game went down 28-0, I started cheering for Georgia. I wanted a competitive game. I, as an Iowa fan, have sat through many games where we have been down 28-0

and it never turns out like that. It was very much like, and we all watched the game, it was a slow burn, and then all of a sudden at once, there was never really the vibe around the stadium that like, oh, this is gonna go poorly, things are changing. Everything was great, and then one second we all looked around and we're like,

what the hell has just happened? It was hard to describe, but genuinely one of the coolest sporting atmospheres I've ever been a part of. It was awesome. And I didn't need to be close to the interception to know it was going to happen. Why is that?

How is it that you knew that that was gonna happen? Everywhere you go, the home team loses. I knew it was gonna happen because like, Carson Beck was two completely different quarterbacks in this game. Like the first half and the second half were completely different. But there was just something about like how in this game. Like the first half and the second half were completely different, but there was just something about like

how Alabama's defense did in the first half. Like just the weird vibes of Georgia were like, if that game had been played in Athens and gone that exact same way, Georgia would have won, but it was in Tuscaloosa. I just had this like inkling, like Carson Beck is going to end this game on a pick and that's exactly what happened.

It was so awesome. I left that game being like, is Georgia better? I don't know. I kind of think so. It was just like, and I was talking to Tony about it this morning. I think the craziest thing is we watched that game. It kicked ass. It was so cool.

Those still might not be the two best teams in the SEC. It could be Tennessee or Texas that's better. And this, Stu, that's the whole time I thought about you. This proves that the playoff is not gonna kill college football. It has never been more alive and it has never been more well. Well, that game was such a special game.

It's such a great game. And I understand what you're saying, but in years past, usually Georgia would have a very difficult time coming back from that loss. Now they're a lock to make the playoffs. That's all I'm saying. It takes a little bit of the sting away from the regular season game. I'm serious, it does. Like both teams are to make the playoffs. That's all I'm saying. It takes a little bit of the sting away from the regular season game.

I'm serious, it does. Like both teams are gonna make the playoffs. They deserve to make the playoffs. And I'm with Lucy. I'm not certain the team, the Georgia team that we saw in the second half is not the best team in the country. I believe that if that game had gone into overtime,

Georgia would have won. Like there's not one question in my mind and the Alabama defense just came up big at the end of the game. But like being in Tuscaloosa the day of, which is an awesome place to be, a crazy tailgating scene, like there was nothing that I was like, wow, the excitement is lessened.

Like it doesn't matter that both Georgia and Alabama have a very, very good shot at making the playoff. Like everybody really wanted to win. I don't think it like even softens the blow a little bit because if you're Georgia you can't seem to beat Alabama during the regular season like it's worked out for you one time for Kirby Smart in the last like five six years so like they wanted to win really really bad I don't think they give a shit right now whether they're a lock for the playoff because they still have Texas on their schedule and they still have

Tennessee on their schedule. Lucy I don't believe that your coverage can be I had an inkling that was going to happen and wasn't surprised at all when it did happen. I'm reporting that I knew it was going to happen. I texted my friends, tweeted out a screenshot. I said, Carson Beck is going to end this game on an interception. I didn't tweet it because I cared more about telling my friends about it. We have a great college football group chat.

Then I tweeted it out, proved to everybody I was right. But then also you're reporting that not a doubt in my mind that Georgia would have won in overtime, which I don't believe that you can do that. Makes all the sense. I absolutely believe I can. Yeah. But I didn't say I thought the game was gonna go to overtime. I said if it did, then Georgia would have won.

No, you said not a doubt in your mind that Georgia would have won in overtime. I said if it went to overtime. would have won. No, you said not a doubt in your mind that Georgia would have won in overtime. I said if it went to overtime. You're leaving it up to if. She knew it wasn't, it's a hypothetical. Right, but you'd have to have a doubt in your mind because there are two teams playing and the other one can win.

Because she didn't say when it goes to overtime, she said if. I said if. Yeah. She texted her friends. What did you take at Pearl Jam? Like why are you so out of it? You need to listen.

I don't know how you watch that game and are like, yeah, the college football playoff got it wrong. Because in any other college football season, if this were not an expanded college football playoff and just not expanded conferences, like we got this year with these mega conferences. That's probably the biggest game

of the college football season by a wide margin. And now it's not even the biggest Alabama football game of the next couple of weeks. It's not the biggest Georgia game of the next couple of weeks. The college football slate week in and week out, I will say this weekend it's week. There's a reason why game day is going to Berkeley.

But the next two weeks, you're right. It's say this weekend it's weak. There's a reason why game day is going to Berkeley. But the next two weeks you're right. It's a drug. It's heroin. These matchups like count me I guess as an outlier opinion. But I think more good games between big time programs routinely is a good thing. I think if we're at home and we get to see a banger of a game by gigantic programs I think that's a good thing that we get to see a banger of a game by gigantic programs, I think that's a good thing that we see more of. I like it. So I don't see where the argument that this whole expansion thing is bad for the sport because the sport has never been hotter.

Obviously if you're playing in the SEC and you're one of those top five teams, any Saturday, any one of those can beat another one but don't you guys feel like what has pretty clearly happened here over the last couple of years is that Oklahoma has been left behind by Texas that that Texas is somebody that you look at and maybe they lose maybe they can lose to one of these you know Tennessee looks exceptional and obviously anyone can lose to Alabama and Georgia but don't you think Texas has separated itself as something that belongs in the SEC where Oklahoma is a second tier team or program in the SEC.

Yes, sort of Oklahoma is pretty bad this year. Their offense is genuinely horrific. But I think the thing that we forget is when Texas and Oklahoma play, there are no rules. Like, it doesn't matter who's good. That game is weird. And Oklahoma will always be able to compete with Texas just because there is something weird in the air at Red River. I don't think that's good analysis either. Everyone agreed here with me. No, you're right about those two teams always play not around the ball.

Play games that are close, but something strange in the air as analysis is not concrete analysis. You've never been to the game, I have, and I'm telling you, there's something strange in the air. She knows the air. Like what, a pollutant?

I think it's like all the funnel cake fumes from the state of Arizona. Is your video ready? Can we go to your video? From the Alabama, Georgia game are you claiming that this is the best atmosphere you have been in this year? Yeah Best tailgating atmosphere I've been to this year Wow all right. Let me see this video Next question okay. Okay. Tighten up. Tighten up. Let's go. Alright, alright. Dan, still, all the listeners of the show, got one thing to say to you. The Lucy curse is over. It's broken. We're back! It's broken. We're back! ROLL TIDE or GO DOGS?

GO DOGS! ROLL TIDE! ROLL TIDE! ROLL TIDE! ROLL TIDE! ROLL TIDE! I don't give a piss about nothing but the tide, baby. GO DOGS!

GO DOGS! Are you nervous about playing Georgia today? No! We kicked the sh** out of the dogs. What are you talking about? Why would we be scared of the dogs? I've never been scared of a dog. The towa-was? No. Scared of a dog? What? What are you talking about? I ain't nothing about a dog. I don't know what a dog is today. I am a dog. Roadside.

But I ain't no Georgia dog. Dog sh**! So this is the punishment board. And this is based off of the bucket of death. If you lose, you gotta pay the glizzy straw punishment. That's what I got today. So all my beers have to be drinking out of this today. Does winning ever get old?

No. Winning, no. Oh, you know, it never gets old. You always want to win in life, in football games, in basketball games, in gymnastics, in rowing, in and track and life. And how does it feel to have the last 10 years of actually having a quarterback? I mean I love it. It's nice having to do it like I can throw. It's really really nice.

God I've seen what you've done for others and I want that for me. You see what I'm wearing? Go dogs. I got, my friend goes here, he's making me wear this. Go Dogs. Go Dogs! Well Todd, you're wearing your Bama jersey! How much do you miss Nick Saban? Don't miss Nick at all. I love Nick. What? Do not miss Nick at all. I'm proud of Nick, love Nick. I'm glad he's where he's at. He's in retirement, it's an awesome feeling. This trip to T-Town was presented by Powerade, it takes more. Are you here to join the band? No, look, I got my hat on, I got my buttons, what do you mean? She's alive.

Who do you think my favorite team is? Jamie. It's not James Madison. I don't know what about me says James Madison University, but all right, well. I ain't gonna lie, like, **** Alabama, **** World Title, all that bull****. But like, I love Alabama.

Like, this is fun. It's fun. You can't be Athens. It's not Athens. You can't be Athens, baby. This is my first Alabama tailgating experience. I think my big takeaway is that fashion is crazy. How do you feel about Alabama tailgate fashion?

It's crazy, bro. I mean, they go all out. I mean, this is like their sht. This is the, everyone prepares for this. This is everything. Yeah, we're the two most underdressed people here right now. How do you feel about Georgia fans barking all the time?

It's gross. Woo, woo, woo. Ah! They sound like poodles. It's weird. Poodles. It's kinda weird. They're poodles. They're poodles. It's weird. Poodles. It's kind of weird. They're poodles. Hey! Come on, doggies! Is there anything else you want to say to the show?

I feel like until Greg Cody dies, Tuesdays should be all him. He should be just Greg Cody for Tuesdays. Greg Cody Tuesdays until he passes away. I'm a big fan. Big, big fan. I love Dan. Love Stu passes away. I'm a big fan. Big, big fan. I love Dan. Love Stu Gotz. Big Stu Gotz guy. Awesome.

Great. He is really a fan. He didn't just name Dan and Stu Gotz because they're both in the name of the show. I love Billy. There we go. Have you ever heard of the Dan Levitard show? Do what?

Do what? And Jeremy wanted us to go to UCF Colorado. He has been tweeting at me for weeks to get me to go to UCF Colorado instead of Bama, Georgia, which we were told was going to be the game of the year so far. And guess what? It was! Are you drunk? This was so awesome! Life is worth living. No. College football rules. I'm drunk on life. Thank you for letting me get to do this. I feel great. I feel awesome. I don't even care that I was stuck in the airport for like 15 hours. And none of this would be possible without our friends at Game Time who hooked us up with great seats to watch the best game of the year so far.

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I'm not like, go f yourself. I'm like, I hope you have the day you deserve. It's a great kind, it's a great kind insult. Yes. It's beautiful. It's leaving it to the cosmos to sort it out. That's a less Southern bless your heart. This is the Dunlapatar show with the Stugats. basketball stories from the weekend that I thought were interesting. This Carl Anthony

Towns trade has not gone through yet to the Knicks, correct? The one that Shams was reporting. Officially it has not gone through. Julius Randall and what did I call DiVincenzo? Did I call him? The Italian kid from Ohio? The Italian, DiVincenzo. That is a trade that makes the Knicks immediately better and is confusing to me, even though I understand from the perspective of the Timberwolves, it's confusing to me that you would make your team worse to save money when you just had what might be considered

the best Timberwolves team we've ever seen. And when Carl Anthony Towns and Rudy Gobert played together last year, that team was great. And you've made yourself worse. Like that's not up for debate. Carl Anthony Towns, whether you like him or not or whether you think he's worthy of being a number one

option, he's clearly the best player in this trade, and the Knicks get better by acquiring him, and the Timberwolves make worse by being cheap and trying to stay under the luxury tax. Perhaps the best T-Wolves team I have ever seen. Right, it's interesting because Nick fans, while getting the better player, while improving the team and the roster, they fell in love with last year's team. And so there

are some Nick fans who are upset that Dante Di Vicenzo who's from Delaware, by the way. He's not from Italy. He's not from Ohio. He's just from Delaware. It is I have found the reaction to this to be very, very funny because New York falls in love with guys who do, who overachieve. And that's what the Knicks team did last year. And Knicks fans are upset that they broke up that team. They wanted to see him running back with a healthy Julius Randall, which is absurd to me because the Knicks, they got a superstar. They got a former number one pick in the NBA

draft who averages like 25. He's a double-double with a couple of blocks and hits threes. I don't think he's a superstar. I don't think a lot of people- It's a major upgrade for the Knicks though. It is. I'm splitting hairs with you. I don't know that he's a superstar as a star, but he is the best- He will be now. He's the best player in this trade and I I'm just confused if you're the Timberwolves why you would do that to your fan base that

overtly being cheap when you have finally put together something that is special the Timberwolves in their entire existence have only had a run with Kevin Garnett teams those are the best correct they've ever had and it was a long time ago. And so to watch, I was bothered on behalf of Minnesota fans that they would make that trade that way and that they would get so little for him. The contract is onerous. I guess that is why they got so little for him. But that seems like very little to get for someone who I don't think is a superstar or a star,

but he is an all-star. He's like, I don't think, we haven't seen him be a number one, but as a- Well, he's not a number one, but he doesn't have to be a number one in New York because Jalen Brunson is the number one. I mean, I don't know either, Dan. I was pleasantly surprised.

I had no expectation of getting Carl Anthony Towns. I'm happy that we did. I think the Knicks are a good deal better with him and Bridges. Like, I know you can fall in love with the Josh Harts of the world and the Hartensteins. Like, that happens a lot to fan bases. You fall in love with the lovable little guys.

But I mean, Bridges and Carl Anthony Towns are a major talent upgrade over what it is that they were putting out there last year. That was an overachieving basketball team last year that had hit its ceiling. They were not gonna beat the Celtics that way. No, they weren't, but you could say maybe the Timberwolves hit their ceiling with that team. They went to the Western Conference finals last year.

But make it better, but get better around those two guys. It's hard to get a one and a two that are that strong that can win you 60 games in a basketball season. Like it's a, the Timberwolves, the Timberwolves, weren't they the one seed last year? Weren't they? I believe they were, Dan, yeah. And they end up losing because Dallas upsets them,

but it was a hugely young, it was a young team. Like you've gotta give a you gotta give a team like that a little bit of time to mature. Carl Anthony Towns is still a young player. Yes. It's interesting also because Dante DiVincenzo was reportedly upset with a reduced role this year. I like that.

Because they're gonna play Bridges. Well because they got Bridges, which is so funny because that's what happens to these guys and their ego when they do it in the Mecca, when they do it in New York. Diva Chenzo, he gave Nick fans one of the great all-time great seasons. He did. Him along with Jalen Brunson, the rest of the guys from Villanova. It was an amazing season. The bar has been set so low that last year almost felt like a championship to Nick Vance because we were

so deep into the season and now the guy wants he thinks he's a superstar Dante Di Vicenza was not a superstar and he's upset at a reduced role and so the Nick said okay enjoy your reduced role in Minnesota have fun with that I mean this is great we're a better team today. The other basketball story that I thought was also a little bit weird. Jeff Passon is considered a front runner according to the Athletic to replace Woege. Shams is also considered a favorite that would make more sense. Adam Schefter briefly dallied

with trying to be a basketball insider and played around with it, but doesn't have the kind of sources that you need to be a basketball insider. No. I love Jeff Passon as a person, as a writer, and as a reporter, but you have to build sources to have that kind of job over 30 and 20 years in a sport. I don't know how Jeff Passon would even do that job if you don't have basketball sources. Let's correct ourselves before the buzzards come in. They're already here. The T-wolves were the third seed in the West last year. It was Oklahoma City, then Denver, and they

were the three seed. No, thank you. But I know the last week of the season they were playing for the one seed. I know Passon and Woege are very close. I don't know if Woege always imagined, hey, if I step down this thing will go to Jeff Passon. I don't know how that works, because how is Passon gonna gain all those relationships that Woege gained over four decades

or three decades of doing this? You're saying it's a passing of the torch I think so. Yes. No, come on again. He can't control that button We can't we can't allow him to control that button We pass into the contacts Oh, wow. or spoil your family. Earn them on your adventure and use them how you want, when you want. That's the powerful backing of American Express. Learn more at mx.ca slash ymx, terms apply. After decades of shaky hands caused by debilitating tremors,

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I feel like there's legs. I tried at the beginning and then I lost confidence in it. Why? It was good. You got this. There's nothing official. Yeah it's so good. Conversations are still ongoing. Stugats. It is trending towards Nick Sirianni, remaining the head coach of the Yeah, you got this. There's nothing official. Yeah, it's so good. Conversations are still ongoing. Stugats! It is trending towards Nick Sirianni, remaining the head coach of the Eagles. This is the Don LeBattar Show with the Stugats! We have a bunch of folks today who are out at Heat Media Day. I suppose at some point here somebody is going to bring us back some information about what

kind of costume, Halloween costume Jimmy Butler decided to wear to Heat Media Day so that all of the pictures all season long used by all telecasts involving Jimmy Butler have him in some ridiculous outfit. We will get reports over the course of the week about what Jessica and Tony and Chris Cody found out at Heat Media Day. Amin is out there as well. Billy, were you jealous that you got left behind here and put in charge of today's chaos instead that involved a couple of 80 year old Mets from the 1962 team?

No, that was delightful. I didn't tell Stugatz, I offered for me and Stugatz to go cover this, but. God bless basketball? Yeah, you know. Why not? God bless hoops, who knows? Yeah.

Talk to Bam, talk to, what's his name, Hyme or whatever? You know? I feel like we were the guys for the job. We went in another direction though. I mean whatever. Yeah, whatever that team is. I mean once they got rid of Cole Swider, honestly, punt it on the season if you ask me.

Swider whoop! All right. But what am I gonna do? Thank you for all your contributions. We're gonna get to Stugatz's weekend observations here in a second. I do wanna pause, Stugatz, because the news just

came in, and I don't know how you experienced this, but to me it felt like a punch in the stomach to learn that Dikembe Mutombo, a really effervescent personality who was a bit of a pioneer really out of Georgetown, just sort of this pipeline in Georgetown of big guys that went Ewing, Mourning, and Matumbo, and then Matumbo gets to the NBA, and he's more colorful than either one of the other two, you know, brooding giants who came out of Georgetown, had, you know, the offensive game he didn't have, he wasn't the player on offense that,

I'm sorry, Mourning and Ewing were, but as a personality, he was so much fun to hear that he has died at the age of 58 of brain cancer, three years older than me, when I really do associate matumbo Stugats with life, with living large, with being somebody who was not just an ambassador on behalf of helping the game become more international, but with a single finger, a single finger, he had more personality than so many players in that sport when he would block

shots and he would tell you no no no and anyone who knows what Matumbo was off the court knows how giving and fun he was to to have that big of a life extinguished so young, landed wrong, felt wrong, and just seemed to me uncommonly heavy for someone I've only talked to a handful of times, but had a personality that sort of jumped off of your television screen, had learned our language, okay? So he was always doing all of his interviews

in his second language, doing it through a- Did them well, by the way. Yes, excellently, through a heavy accent and allowed us to, God, when you say did them well, just so that you understand how difficult the degree of difficulty was on how it is that Matumbo achieved stardom as a defensive player and as a life force. Think of how you have trouble connecting with even someone like Jokic or Dankic. When they're trying

to introduce you to who they are in a second language it can become difficult to feel like you know those players that you feel like you're rooting beyond the basketball for someone whose personality is something that you like to be around. It's usually uncomfortable because as you pointed out they're doing it in their second language but Tumbo started off that way it wasn't uncomfortable because he was so full of life. I honestly had no idea that he was sick, Dan. But you're right. We lost a great player on the court. We lost a great person off the court. He did a lot for a lot of people in need off the court. He was fantastic.

And forgive me because we're just getting the news now, okay, so I don't know that I can properly eulogize him. I'm only doing the eulogy in a way that is fresh because the feeling is fresh. So, Roy, if you can look up for me just some of the big charitable work that he did because he, I don't think it's a stretch. I know we tend to overinflate people sometime in eulogies, but I don't think it's a stretch i know we tend to over inflate people sometime in eulogies uh... but i don't think it's a stretch to say that he was a pioneer in terms of uh... bridging the gulf uh... between here and international basketball uh... while meeting us where we were

in his sit i don't even think it was a second language actually, if I had to guess, my guess would be as educated as he was that English wasn't even his second language. It might have been his third, but he did big work that I don't have the details on because the news is just coming in now, so we will more properly eulogize him because I'm just talking fresh off of the feeling of just I don't even know how to explain this because it doesn't happen to me very often to God's with celebrity where I feel like I'm punched in the gut because I feel like I know

someone a little bit better than I actually do just because of how big his personality was not because of any kind of interaction that I was personally having with him a great deal you just felt like you got to know him throughout the the course of time because he was warm because that's the way he kind of presented himself Roy will get us the charity work but it is fast it is a lot he has won many many awards awards for all the charitable work that he did. And I'm not familiar with the details,

but that is a good word to use, because I do associate him with a warmth that I don't, and I don't mean this, I really don't mean this as any kind of disparagement of mourning or ewing, but this was very much of a pipeline for what was coming out of Georgetown. What came out of Georgetown with John Thompson, it wasn't just the coach John Thompson,

who was viewed as a giant who wasn't seen as warm. It was Iverson, it was morning, it was ewing. These were not, warmth is not what was being given off there. And Matumbo learned under those. The toughness was. Yeah, yeah, for sure. You know, menace and people, it wasn't, Georgetown wasn't a cuddly program,

and look, there's some racial undertones on all of this, and those were men whose defiance was sort of earned by how it is that America treated them. But Matumbo didn't seem to have any of that coming from the same place and the same Georgetown family. Didn't seem to be anything much other than warm in a way that people could feel. Some of his charity work includes his own foundation, the Kimbe Mutombo Foundation,

which he started in 97, and it was to help improve the quality of life in the Congo and to give them education and better health. He named a hospital after his mom, Bionba Marie Mutombo, 170 bed hospital. He opened the Samuel Mutombo Institute for Science and Entrepreneurship. He has a Mutombo coffee company, which aimed a close agenda gap in African coffee production. And he's a part of many boards for the Centers of Disease Control Foundation, Special Olympics International, United States Fund for UNICEF.

So yeah, he's been pretty big in the charitable aspect of his life. As was morning, by the way. This is something that was important to all of them at Georgetown to help some people who were disadvantaged. Again, we will regroup and try to talk about this with a little more detail because the news is just coming in now and I don't, I can't really explain to you beyond what it is that I've already explained why it is

that this has landed on me this way, but it's because he was such a different personality. It's just an unusual story. Well, it's too soon. He was young and it feels too soon and he was very, very young and I had no idea. I'm a bit shocked because I did not know he was dealing with brain cancer and so this is a very sad day for a very amazing player and person. As Roy pointed out, all the charity work, but this is one of the great players, one of the great defensive players of all time in the NBA. And so we lost a great person and a great player today in Dikembe Mutombo.

The upset that the Nuggets pulled over the Supersonics when you saw him in just an immense amount of joy near the free throw line while he's holding that basketball at the end of the series. That is what I'm gonna take from him. There are two images that you associate with him, right? It's the wagging of the finger whenever he would block a shot because Stugats is right. He was one of the great defensive players of all time.

But the joy in that moment when he's on the floor and it's a great upset and he is holding the ball and you just see on his face just a sheer delight that you associate with how big his personality is. I honor him every single day, Dan, with a finger wag. When someone tries to cut in front of me at I-95, they try to get into that lane, there's not enough room and I speed up, I don't let them in, I wag my finger at them like Mutombo just blots a shot I do it every single I'm gonna do it today

In fact, everyone do it when they're driving around South Florida today to honor the great the Dikembe Mutombo Why do you feel the need to lie every second of your life? That's what I do I've told you that for 15 years lying is what I do I also like I I don't don't know Takembe personally, I feel like maybe he wouldn't be as aggressive a driver and he wouldn't be wagging his finger at people, he'd just let them in. So you're not actually honoring him

because you're not behaving as he would be behaving. Well, it's my way of blocking someone. It's the only, I can't do what Matumbo did in a court and so what I can do is block you from getting in my lane. And what I do, I wag the finger. And you think he'd like this? Yeah, you're honoring him. I do.

In a way that's not fitting to him, probably. It's a little too soon for that kind of lightheartedness around what it is that we're talking about. And you think you're honoring him by making South Florida traffic even worse and meaner than it already is, while we're talking about all his charitable efforts.

He had, and I'm hoping that we play it for the club on Friday, one of the most interesting and emotional eulogies I've ever heard of anyone, which was why it's sad that Dikembe passed away, and it's, you know, it's because he's young and it's too soon, and he's young and it's too, too soon. I mean, listen, I'm trying to fill here. It feels like-

Trying to fill. Fill. Fill. Trying to fill. I mean, Dan was going back to me. There's only so much I could say about a guy I've never met in my entire life other than he's a great person on and off the court.

Hold on. You cannot pin this on me, man. You cannot. I mean, I tried to just listen. I cut someone off today, you wag a finger. I can't pin it on you. Of course You can not, I mean, I tried to just, listen, you cut someone off today, you wag a finger. I mean. I can't pin it on you, of course we can pin it on you. Just a moment.

Am I to believe you don't actually honor Dikembe every day when you knock people out and you do the finger wax? You're just saying that? I'm trying to fill. Or is that just filling also? I'm trying to fill during the eulogy. It went on like a couple minutes,

you came back to me a third time and I ran out of things to say, I'm sorry. I mean, I feel terrible for him. Unbelievable. Terrible for the entire family. I just, it's just the verbiage there. You're trying to fill while we're honoring. It's just, I don't under.

Yeah. Do you miss him or not? I mean, of course I miss him. As much as Dan? Well, I don't wanna talk about this anymore. I don't know if Dan, listen. You guys have ruined this. It appears no one misses him more than Dan.

You guys, stop, alright? Just stop. You know what? Get out of here. I can't believe I'm doing this during a eulogy. No, I don't know what penalty to give you here. I'm going to... Being an asshole. Major penalty on the ice, five minutes for spreading propaganda. Spreading propaganda!

Good morning. He said he's on the streets five minutes for spreading propaganda. Spreading propaganda! Good morning. He said he's on the streets in South Florida. Too young, too soon. Remembering, yeah, useless, just fundamentally useless. We're talking about somebody legitimately emotionally, and you blurt, I'm trying to fill here, Dan. Just get out! Just quit lingering around here like a bad smell in a bathroom and just get out! Thank you, like just wandering around in circles. God almighty, it's frustrating.

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