The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: Damian Lillard

Episode Date: June 8, 2023

So...Damian Lillard to Miami, huh? Tony says he can't watch games at a sports bar, and Mike is completely unhinged with fury at the refs and also calls Dame Lillard a loser. Amin tells us about the horror of finally seeing the Jokic Brothers in person. Plus, we have a special guest here in studio: the Stanley Cup. The crew is mostly overwhelmed by seeing her...mostly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. This is the Dunluba Tarshall with the StugatSpotCas. Gamer and Lillard? Oh, man. What a time in South Florida sports. I can't do that today in good conscience. I can't do it. I can't start talking about the transaction in the middle of the finals in a studio across

from the arena. I can't do it. No, no, no, no, then again, I am enthralled by the idea that women's U of M lead eight men's final four U of M Florida Atlantic men's final four The Panthers in the cup as an 80 the heat in the cup as an 80 Leo Messi coming to Miami And maybe Damien Lillard if there's no championship out of any of this can Can this be the greatest year in South Florida sports history? Okay, let's play the sound here. You guys will help me here. He's a friend of a means, the Showtime podcast.

The last stand podcast. Yeah, last stand, we got BC, Brian Custer. All right, so Damien Lillard, I can't believe we're starting here after that game. No, I can't believe we're starting here. Literally the first two words out of your mouth. We're Damien Lillard on your show, and you're complaining now. I can't believe that I was there. Literally the first two words out of your mouth. Were Damien Lillard on your show. And you're complaining now.

I can't believe that I started there. You better believe it. It's irresponsible of me. What I would have bet, Lionel Messi, is the first two words out of your mouth, but no, they were Damien Lillard. So let's go. We're in this now.

Ryan Custer was blind. Tony Brothers were my first two words. Well, you said the game was fixed. It was. We have a sport. We have a sport that can be fixed easily and manipulated. We also what happened last night. It changed how the Miami he played defense. There were two back-to-back fend-of-fandom calls on Gabe Vincent that should have been at least the third foul on Yo-Kitch. By my

count, Yo-Kitch should have fouled out by the third quarter, two minutes into it. It was bullshit. It was bullshit what we saw last night. Mike, how did you watch the game? We were at a watch party yesterday, and when I'm at a sports bar, I can't pay attention to the game whatsoever. I'm glad handing, I'm hanging around, I'm talking to people, all of a sudden, I look up, I'm like, oh, it's the third quarter,

they're down by 15, what happened? I was locked in. I don't, A and plus, I don't like people talking to me. So don't come up to me, I'm locked in watching this iPhone screen. You could have actually watched the heat game at this bar three times in a row because of the hell uneven the TVs were you could watch it on one screen and then it's like all Let me see that replay I'll watch it again on this screen and then there's another screen two laps Gotta gotta get your shit together with that. No, no, no, no, no

I like that because no, it's the worst No, no, it's the best because sometimes you're glad so when you miss something and I know I can look at that screen right there Catch it but for split set but the audio was not on the quickest feed. So that's the, that's the word. This was the bad part. The bad part is the giant television is about six points behind. And so you can't have a roar in one part of the room. And then the other part of the room is a really severe delay where you're changing from one TV to the other and the score is different. Like that's not okay. But Tony...

Brothers, fix that game. Mike, I don't want you... What, man? You saw? I... What a joke it's just allowed to do that. Alright, guys, 400 pounds that able to throw it... You know, there was a thing called the Shaq rules. and it was a great equalizer because he sucked from the line

If this guy who can make free throws and every goddamn shot on the court is gonna be a fish-gated like that It is wholly unfair. He's too good. All right, Jessica. Welcome back. You were boycotting the heat and you have returned to enjoy That was my first word of the show. The nuggets victory here as Mike now goes full. I mean, it's game three, okay. He's crazy. No one told me I'm wrong. He's been crazy. I'm about to.

You haven't had a chance. No one else saw the game, I guess. I haven't given anyone that handing. Well, go to my world there. You haven't given anyone the room to talk about what you're lamenting. Gave, it was a couple of bullshit calls. However, I will not diminish that two players produce 30 point triple doubles, which is not something that has never happened in the finals. It's not something that has never happened in the playoffs. It's not something that's ever happened. And you're going to talk to me in a double digit game about Tony Brothers,

get the plea bad of here. Look, I understand losers lament that second half deficit was manageable. And honestly, I didn't have that much of a problem with the officiating in the second half. I thought the officiating in the second half was fine. In that second quarter, the heat had an opportunity to put the Denver Nuggets in the dirt. That was a double digit game with Yokech should have had at least his fourth foul in that second quarter. It totally changed the complexion of how Miami approached the defensive game.

Yet, Spulcher talking about in the post game, we couldn't defend the paint. You couldn't defend the paint because everybody was afraid to get a foul called on them. It was just horrific. If that officiating happened in game two, we're looking at a three zero hole. They were outplayed last night. Like this is not one of those games you can blame the officiating. No, it's the second quarter and it changed a complexion of the game. The third quarter though, the heat, it's one of the worst quarters all playoff. Right. Listen up. Just real quick. Okay. Yes, we could do this to any NBA

game. If I put a referee in the game and you get the star in foul trouble, especially if it's the MVP, yes, you can alter the way the game is played. However, Mike Ryan, the Miami Heat played a clinically beautiful game where they had to four turnovers all game. Jamal Murray, we're going to be talking triple doubles. He had seven by himself all game. The heater playing their style of ball and they can't do much of anything at the rim.

And I mean, I would say to you, probably because that giant guy's in the game. Well, he's a lion to play in different games. He's a, but it's not just that he's a lion to play a different game. He's a cement mixer in the paint. And if you're wondering, why are Jimmy and Bam all of a sudden inefficient at the rim?

He's a giant person. He's a giant person that can get full extension with his arms on rebounds. And all of a sudden inefficient at the rim. He's a giant person. He's a giant person that can get full extension with his arms on rebounds and all of a sudden gets pushed to the ground by Kyle Lowry. It's a assinine. One team was allowed to play the game a different way than the other. Mike is still freaking out about the refs while the rest of the room has moved on to let's tank for day now because apparently he said if they won the championship he doesn't want to come to Miami. So now it was, take for Wemba Miyama the 0.05% chance. Now Damian Lillard's coming next year.

Well Chris Cody was trying lame for Dane. Let's be lame for Dane. Lame for Dane. That's a bad one. That's my favorite player in the league. I Damian Lillard's my favorite player in the league. I got really optimistic because I think the Miami Heat have it.

Yeah, I've said this, I've maintained this for years. He's the real point of realization. This is crazy. You said outside he was a loser. Yeah, he's got a loser mentality. You said outside he was a loser. Yeah, but he's my favorite player in the league. What are you talking about, Mike?

The same thing I've said on in front of this microphone for years, welcome to the show. Juju, you got my back. I've heard him say that for years. Daming Lillard's my favorite player in the league. And also, puts Wendellie bringingillard's my favorite player in the league. And also, it's just Wendellie bringing in outside conversations and put it on the ass.

That's what we're doing. Have Juju, did you just get here? Tony. No, Dan, don't, Dan. Don't get out of here. Tony, two minutes. Yes, two minutes for Get Out of here. Yeah, you broke the street code.

You get, you get, you get, you get, you get, he is a loser. This is not the problem. He's a loser. Tony, Tony, get out of here. He's great, and a loser. What? Tony. The's great and a loser. What? Tony.

The nuggets were good last night. They blew them out in the second half. Also, footnote game was fixed. It can be both things. Jessica, I'm going to need your help here, OK? Because there is no raining in my car. Really mad. I'm not really mad at how this show's going.

OK, first off, you did say that. Tony probably shouldn't have put it on blast until you were ready to say it yourself. Because things that happen in the pre-production meeting are a bit sacred. Sometimes we're testing out bits or takes, but Mike had this take in the entire room with silence. He's a loser.

And that room is never silent. Not a single person is created. It's just weird to hear right out there. He's my favorite player in the league. He's a loser. He's a killer who's been his own worst enemy. Because people should know how great Damien Lillard is. Arguably for my money, a top three shooter of the basketball I've ever seen.

And unfortunately, I don't get to see him enough because he's not playing meaningful games because he's trying like hell to make it work in Portland. So when he gives this sound, where he's like Miami's the obvious choice, and I finally get excited because we've recouped some trade value from some of these bad contracts on our roster that we can actually make this happen without giving up BAM. And he says I wanna play with BAM.

And then the next breath, he says, but if they win the championship, I'm out. Why? Brit being a loser, damn. Qu- come on, let the world see your talent. What I would like is to just have the take on spool and not go wire to wire on the tapestry of why Tony and Micah arguing about a take that Tony told everybody, Micah had given us and no one else. So no one knew that Micah came in here roaring today with Damien Lillard is a loser and

Tony doesn't know enough show history to know what it is that Mike thinks about Damien Lillard. I don't think Tony likes us. I don't think he likes our show. I think Tony's here for Tony. That's what I think. Well Tony is here for Tony. There's no disputing that. But I mean, he's in New York, in the picture, in an orange New York.

Oh my god. Oh oh no that's marz now that's okay look at that back and then we'll get to we'll get to our i believe that's Chelsea will get to orange smoking new york in a second but uh... let's just play the sound of damian lilyard on showtime uh... basically saying very quickly something i wasn't expecting him to say like they did you usually don't do like this but he's been asked for so many years already. Hey, you're going to be one of the guys that gets tired and born in the now. He's just casually. Yeah, I'm interested.

He usually never does is he avoids it. And I was like, wow, he's ready to play ball. Finally, all right, let's go. He's out of Portland. And then he couldn't help himself from being a loser at the end. Oh, come on. Let's play the sound. Everybody keeps saying Damien Lillard is going to be traded to the Knicks, Damian Lillard is gonna be traded to the Knicks. Damian Lillard's gonna be traded to the Heat. Damian Lillard should be traded to the Celtics. Damian Lillard's gonna be traded to the Nets. If one of those trades went through

out of those teams, which one will you be like, ah, that's not too bad? Miami obviously. My amy is the obvious one. And bam is my dog. Bam is my dog for real. But I mean, I think Miami the obvious one, Brooklyn is the obvious one. Is another obvious one because Michele Bridges is my dog too. So many dogs. And both both are you know capable?

He went on to say but if they win the championship we could off the most important part yeah, but if they win a championship That's obviously done if he thinks bam's good. I think bam's good if he thinks bam's good Then he's gonna love being traded for him because oh, that's a good player that I got traded for Because don't get me started on BAM. Why is BAM touching the ball more than Jimmy Butler? Do you mean Idris Elbow? I'm sh- Oh my God.

He was, this thing where, oh, we gotta aggressive BAM, where it just puts his head down and he goes up to the free throw line and he takes a carnival top shot from the, from the top of the key. Mike, listen to me. I just need, you know what what I need a minute you do Yeah, well you need it like go take a five-minute major

Okay, you're not giving anybody room to talk other people have opinions here It's gone to your head the messy thing has gone right to your head because you did crush Everybody with the messy news. But is this what it's going to be with Mike? We were already in a bad place. We're only halfway through the finals. We're up to our neck and feces in South Florida right now. Do you realize what's happening around here?

They're about to laugh at us. The panthers might get smoked at home. And right now everyone saw last night. Holy shit, joke it's just going to have triple doubles whenever he wants. se me hagas la casa y las criaturas están por todas partes a raíz, escuchéis lo que escuchéis tapados los ojos la calle vamos todos a cieras pero lo más aterradores no saber en qué confiar huí de las personas que os piden que mireis si queréis seguir convido. Seguir el convidio. It's two gods. Well, it's the quicker path. I mean, it's just you know. VCC Don Limita Show with this two gods. Draft King Sportsbook, an official sports betting partner of the NBA has a limited time

offer for new customers. Use code Dan when you sign up on the Draft King Sportsbook app to check it out. I'm having a bit of an existential crisis here. I mean, as a leader and as someone who's trying to keep metal arc media from being unhinged. There's a lot of sports in town, a lot of meetings, important people, parties. Well, this is another thing, right? And you're part of the problem.

Right. But right now, my biggest problem is Mike Ryan. You're part of the problem because you come in here from Denver. You're chasing around the Yoke-age brothers. You don't find them. You come right back here and organize a party on Metal Arts Dimes. Am I allowed to talk about it or just pay for it? Like, can I tell anybody where it is? And no, nothing, because it's a secret party. Okay, so you tricked me into free alcohol. I can't tell people the time, anything, right?

All right, so I can't last so this thing. This thing that I'm supposed to be leading, Jeremy has been wanting to talk for nine days. And there's no room around here because at least in part, the bloated swelling ego of Mike Ryan, Hollywood insider, Hobnober, newsbreaker, information guy, DJ. He is now saying, because he's saying my rules, I'm instituting a five minute gag order on myself is what he said. Because he thinks he's in charge. Like, I sent him to the penalty box. I tried to give him the five-minute gag order. And now he's like, no, I'll just sit here and not talk. And I don't believe him.

Because he's a yammering, manic, loon, and both of his teams are in deep shit. Like deep, deep shit. And he scared, and he should be, and not of Tony Brothers, of the Brothers, the Yokeh Brothers, because a mean saw them last night. Oh man, let me just say guys, everything I said in that video, I'm sorry. To them, I'm sorry to whoever, to anyone I might have misled, because I was, we're

setting up to do the post game show, me, Juju, Charlotte, and Taylor. And they said, I mean, look, and I turned to look at the family section where those players are going out to meet their family members after the game. And I saw the one, which I had seen the other day. And I'm like, all right, so what's the big deal with this guy? He looks like a regular guy, he's tall, yes. He tell me his MMA fighter is undefeated, but I'm like, look, a lot of different levels of MMA.

Am I right, Tony? Okay, sure is. Okay, but so the weakest of the brothers is an MMA fighter who is undefeated, who you are not afraid of. Yeah, not impressed by. I would say, I looked at him, I was, all right, what's the deal? And then I turned to his left.

And I saw a real life monster. And all the things that David Aldridge and Mark Spears and Jason Jackson and all the old and old black men at the media availability warned me about. Like I saw it. And I felt like thick rugged, big hair that looks like fire tattoos up to the skull. He's eight feet tall, first of all.

Menace, just general menace. He's eight feet tall. Can't be true. I'm telling you. It's not true. It's not true. It's real. It's not true.

It's real. It was a foot of your fear. He was standing on. Dude, is eight feet tall all and then like from here Which is I'm for the podcast listeners. I'm pointing to right behind my ear all the way down It's just one big tattoo what Jason Jackson said. It's a tattoo you'd be fighting a tattoo a bone a tattoo made of bones and muscle That that changes and says things as these Jackson pointed out. It's just high. I mean it was like Maui Yes, like that right

shout out to a moana right and then but here's the kicker he's where I'm looking at him and I'm saying what is he wearing he's wearing a yokus jersey and I said oh cool he's wearing his brother's jersey but it's not a nuggets jersey it's a Serbian national team jersey with all the sponsor patches and what they don't sell out when i said oh my god that's neco yoke which is jersey and you say well me what's the big deal is his brother dude when i tell you that thing was like an extra medium on him

i mean it was bursting at the seams neco yoke it's the man that we call a lot of bread and this guy's huge and i know his brother is so whichever one the Ectomorph, his brother is If he's just a white loaf, what kind of bread is the brother? Dangerous game, dangerous game. The post game. What's the first thing I say? The post game show that laughter was unnecessary should have been

in the penalty box because that's your, you're not speaking for five minutes. They're talking to me. I was like, wait, what? No. You forgot what show you're doing, Mike Ryan. It's just a call.

Mike Ryan needs to not be laughing in the middle of our show. Like, what? No, you forgot what show you're doing. Mike Ryan, Mike Ryan needs to not be laughing in the middle of our show. Like, what are you doing? You're supposed to be gag ordered. The post game show incidentally is something that I mean, as he was mentioned, did with Ju-Ju. It is in the feed now. If you want instantaneous reaction to what it is,

they saw in the game, X's and O's, instead of our silly nonsense every day. We had a really great post game discussion on the game, X's and O's instead of our silly nonsense every day. We had a really great post game discussion about what happened with the heat, what went wrong, how nuggets made this thing back. What was more than that? It was points in the paint and more and more point of the points of the paint shooting in the paint.

They were smothered. But I mean, but can we talk about this part for a second? Like, okay, Mike. Mike. I'm not talking on the mic. What? He pulled my mic on. Sorry about that. talk about this part for a second like okay Mike Mike Sorry about the it's a five minute embargo okay we've got your thoughts on the matter okay Lillard's a loser You want him anyway, but the game last night was fixed all right that analysis is emotional. It's came three I can't wait to hear him after game six or seven because the fear is here and it's great It's game three. I can't wait to hear him after game six or seven

because the fear is here and it's great. It's all the time. It's definitely going that far. Let me just say right now. Mike, if you're talking that big stuff, don't come to the mixer, please. I don't need that. I don't want you to come to the mixer.

I don't want to be here. I don't want you to come to the mixer. Why are you talking? Why is the embargo not working? Why have I lost control of everything happening here? Before we get to the Yogi's brothers, do you have any more information that you care to report because you've given up your investigative report?

You spent money looking for them and drinking in their honor in Denver, didn't find them. You found them here, now you're scared and you're shutting down your reporting. So originally my plan was, we're gonna track them down, get them down for a sit down, do like a five minute interview,

and I was gonna be cheeky and ask a lot of silly questions. I saw that dude, I was like, you know what, never mind. What a grift by you, man. So you don't get them, you end your assignment, but you got a mixer. I mean, undetermined time that I'm paying for, but I don't know where it is, what time and what I can tell people about.

That's on Taylor, Taylor's gotta go up to him for you. No you guys need to get the yoghurt brothers. We said dude you by the way we said juju and juju came back literally three seconds later the hell y'all got me doing. What? You. You. It's good. It's good. I couldn't hear nothing going on on the post game show so I'm about going around regular. Tell the hell me your phone and say go get the yoghurt brother. I'm like bro who the hell you the head of me a phone and say, go get the yoke as brothers. I'm like, bro, who the hell are you talking to first, the furmost? You bein' me second about what I look like. I got a suit on my brother.

Like, I'm not walkin' in the crowd doing errands right now, look at me. That's what I say. But, dude, you took five steps over there. You saw what was in that section. You took a right back. Yeah, COVID-19. I'm not going in that crowd.

I want to talk about the first part of this is I continue to not be able to last so anything. You have to understand that stupid mixer. We haven't worked with Tim Kawakami. Shut up. I'm supposed to be impressed. First of all, Tim Kawakami's not here. I wish he was though. How was your microphone working? Five minutes in his defense. How is your mic? What would he talk if you commit another foul while you're in the penalty box? I want to go back for a second. I forget right with how dark I need to point out I'm not gonna skip past What it is that happened with juju because I want to get to

Why we can't get the yoki? Is that a burlowe and Rick Kamla'silaz hand who let me let me go talk to him But the first part of this is Very much juju in the right and I don't know who this Taylor thinks he is But to come up to juju Who is representing us at the games better than anybody is representing us at the games in every way. And to have him go run the errand sending him to the monsters, Taylor, that's a me call and I wouldn't make that call.

That's a very bad call by you, Taylor. Why do you think you're in charge? I feel like Juju might have the best chance at getting him though in Taylor's defense. But you don't go up to dead. Are you aware of how? Juju, he had a juju append basically. So he'll go fight that monster. It's an ackee. Like, what? First of all, I'm a player. Like, you got to talk to players in a certain way. Like, you got to ask me, do I feel like going over there? It's a whole protocol. You feel me? But it's a little bit of my brother telling, like, no, no, no, no, no,

you're very positive and you're very nice. but you know, you're not tailors intern You'll go get the yo get your brothers Somebody get the yo get your brother, man. I'm telling you the what's in this maniac monster Mike into him with his teeth Yeah, we got fixed games. I ain't scared Dan I'm telling the funniest thing was it took I saw you do you might disagree It took you a full couple of seconds to realize what had happened. Because you started walking towards there and then you looked out and you thought,

wait a minute, why am I doing this? He came right back to hell, huh? So you're original move though? You're original move. What are you guys, why are you open to your? It's your good boy here. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, she, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no uh... charlotte wilder uh... is out today she also could have got the yoghurt brothers and jesus

yeah right absolutely not my sister is a queen how did we ask for the performance ask of that nature and no idea you were were related alco you know you get go be by the

by her go be by her uh... jessica can you see her from there I can see her right now I think she's on the video if you're watching this from home um how does she get here gorgeous it's not my first time in a while just like I remember her I I've met her before too it's the Stanley Cup uh Jessica was so eager to get out that boast that she's the only one who is actually, I think, before now, spent time with the Stanley Cup. A ten, he understand, we have a history. Sorry to burst your bummer.

Roy and I met her in Toronto, too. No. Regardless. She's gorgeous. She's here. The one and only, the most famous and cups and the most famous trophy in sports What is Mike on the ground? I'm not sure why she's here now But I think we might get to see her up close pretty soon. Yeah, that's it. Are you guys?

I mean again, I saw the first Panther game two days ago when they will lost 17 nothing. That's it, that's what we're playing for. Is that? Tony, yes, what do you mean that you're not in place? Why is Mike on his knees like reading stuff? Ha, ha, ha. You don't know the tradition of that trophy.

No, I do, but like, who cares? Like, Jessica, this is it? Jessica's your age and she was impressed by being near it because her sports fandom isn't sick. She comes from the North though, Dan, it's different. She puts, she actually watch hockey like I've never seen hockey before. This is what we're playing for.

Yeah. Us Cubans really don't understand this show. Thank you Jeremy. Don Lebatard. You keep mentioning Lou Harris and, I, I, I, I, Lou Williams and Montrel Harris, you keep mentioning. Harold, Harold, excuse me. Yes, Stugatz. Nick, thank you so much for being on with us.

Really enjoy your work. Thanks for having me. Have a great day. Yes, yes, we are. VCC Don LeBathar Show with a Stugatz. Draft King Sportsbook and official sports betting partner of the NBA has a limited time offer for new customers. Use code Dan when you sign up on the Draft King Sportsbook app. I have a really different set of feelings coming through our studios here.

I mean, just left the room and I'm not sure what happened, but I think it's because he thought he was underdressed. I think. I'm not totally sure. He wanted to dress differently because the Stanley Cup is here and there is some real reverence in the room. Now, Jessica, you seem sort of like, this is old hat. I've already seen this old thing. I've- First time. I've seen this old lady and I enjoyed it the first time, but the rest of the room right now is an interesting collection of odd and reverent in a way, man, come on.

Sports will make you cynical if you work in the business. You see a lot of things. Mike Ryan is star struck. He is, and that's just by Mike Bolt. That's just by looking at the keeper of the cup. The keeper of the cup has the hair you would want protecting the cup, and the name you'd want protecting the cup. Mike bleeping Bolt protects the cup. Mike Ryan was genuinely flexing out there. He genuinely flexed before nothing. That he go before nothing these days because he

knows what he's in the presence of history the teeth that have been lost the blood that has been shed everybody out there you're right everybody out there in the next game is playing with broken femurs everybody because they want that cup the thing that's outside our door I don't know how it got here I also oh I know how it got here. I also. Oh, I know how it got here, Dan. They told us that since this is the last time the couple ever be in South Florida, they let us bring it into the studio so that we could all see it up close.

Oh. That's true. Can we bring Lord Sanleon, please? Can we bring it in? And here or in there? Well, I'm there. I had my moment. I had my moment, but you need to witness what we witnessed

because I don't get star struck often. And I got star struck around Lord Stanley. And Mike Bolt. Yeah, well, his hair is incredible. Feathered, beautiful. He looks like Anakin Skywalker. Okay, and he keeps the cop. You can see on video right now that he means business.

Just the way he's holding his belt, he's just like. He really does. Wait a minute, but that's just thing I'll break your limbs. What kind of business does he mean? I think he's got martial arts training. He's just like, wait a minute. But that's just thing I'll break your limbs. What kind of business does he need? I think he's got martial arts training. That's just, I got there and tried to touch it. That hair is resplendent. The hair or the, or the cup.

No, you can't. I want to touch the hair. I want to touch the hair. All right, let Mike Bolt in here. The keeper of the cup, he is protecting him. Look at him. Oh, he's whipping that thing around. It's heavy too.

He looks so cool. Uh, I'm like, yes, this is wonderful here, right here. Thank you. This is the actual thing. Wow, it's so big that I can't see dance face, which is an upset. Oh, there is. You do the John Taffer. Let's mic bolt.

Turn the other way. Can we mic bolt please? Mic bolt is getting that, uh, the mic, um, the headset. We got, we got the Joe way. Mike Bolt is getting that. Mike the headset. We got we got the Joe Chris. We got we got we got the Miking Mike. You're just trying to make it obvious for video. You're trying to make oh here comes a mean. He was he was underdressed. Look at him. I mean, you are awed by this thing. You are dressed appropriately. But Tony and Jeremy, young Cuban boys who didn't grow up, you know, with hockey as a first love, you guys seem wildly unimpressed by not Mike Bolt, but this cup he keeps. You guys have assholes.

It's Lord Stanley. The temperature of the room changed when that thing came in. Still cold though. Don't worry about them. They like to have fun. How have you been though? Really honestly. It's been a while.

What was the LA last time? And, ooh, I mean, look, you look great too. I thank you though, I mean. Are you talking to Mike Bolt? No. Oh. Catching up with an old friend, sorry. All right.

Mike Bolt, I have so many questions. Oh my, hey, what's going on? I'm right back there. I'm right back there. The keeper of the cup is kind of like a defender of the North wall. Like, it's a big deal. You have stories for days, you've probably signed non-disclosure agreements.

There's hundreds of names, legends, fourth liners, everybody. It's a walking museum. And you probably have a story about everybody there. And I'm sure they will always want the wildest ones. But I'd just like to pick a random name and see if you have a story about them. That's a fun game. Okay, who do you got? That's a fun game.

I've been known this for 24 years. I've done over 1,500 cut parties. No, I don't do every single one of them. I do get days off. So it usually during the summer we do a week on week off because I think it's about 19, 20 hour days. I've got. So we've spoken to a keeper of the cup before.

Was it Phil? Was it Phil that we talked to before? And there was all sorts of debauchery associated with it. But I do want to try out this game where I just look at the cup. I say a random name and you tell me if you have a story about them. Colin White, current Florida Panther, won the cup with the New Jersey Devils. Do you have a Colin White story?

Colin White, yeah. I mean, I remember we were in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. Took it all over the area, but I just remember going through the drive through it about 2.30 in the morning and the limo with the cup and everything like that. And when we rolled up to go pay for it and get the food, the girls are hanging us and they're like, holy crap, that's a Stanley cup in there and eating cheeseburgers with a cup at like 230 in the morning was, it was pretty cool. Team Mousselani.

Team Mousselani. I remember that one, in no seven, that would be, I remember we read his, this one was pretty wild. They drank just bottle after bottle, after bottle of Scotch out of there. They had it for about an hour and a half. It wasn't his actual day, they was gonna have him Finland. So we just spent a little time there there. They had it for about an hour and a half. It wasn't as actual a day they was going to have in Finland.

So we just spent a little time there. We had it all as finished buddies. And there's names inside the cup. And they were signing each one of the names that were inside the cup like PUDGlass and Stracken. And that was kind of names. And so PUDG, you're up. You got a drink out of it.

And they went through like four or five bottles. And the thing that amazed me most is walking, Timo walked the cup out to the car, perfectly straight, no problem. Most people will be on their butts. Mike, I'm curious because that's the thing that people tend to do a lot. Pour liquor in it, air or champagne,

or whatever, and drink out of it. How do you wash it? How do you clean it out? Yeah, soap and water. Usually every day we start off with like breakfast in the cup, whether it's... When I got suyola, when I got suyola. It's the best way to clean silver is soap and water.

But yeah, they'll drink and eat out of it. Like in the morning, it's breakfast either scrambled eggs and bacon out of the cup or cereal. Maybe midday, it's a big ice cream sundae and a lot of adult beverages by the evening. What's the weirdest thing or strangest thing that's ever been consumed from out of the cup? I mean, I've seen so many different things.

Poutine spaghetti and meatballs, chicken wings, jello pudding, a much a nice cream, sushi. The Dallas stars did spaghetti, right? And had like rock stars. I've heard that Eddie Belfort did spaghetti and meatballs. He was a gold tender for a little bit. He got tasered once. Yeah, so he's a one.

That was a cup he didn't, but yes, he did. I've heard legendary stories about Mike Modano having it. Yeah, I didn't do that year. I came on for the 2000 Devils was the first game. But you've heard the story. I did, the guy that I started kind of working with, he's not with us anymore, but he told me a couple stories about Dallas.

Dan, to me, it just looks like a Tormendo Salten. I hate you kids. So you were on board during COVID. What was being the keeper of the cup like during COVID? Like sure, there was like more sanitary precautions. Oh, there were. I actually did not. That dude COVID, I got laid off actually.

So Phil actually took care of most of the work. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, this doesn't happen. Yeah, I got laid off. What happened? Like the cup keeper doesn't get laid off, cup keeper lays off. Well, we didn't have as much travel, so feel basically handled. We were basically stuck in the bubble out, in Ebb and Tinn and...

This is gonna be a part-time job that doesn't have benefit. I know, but do keepers up the cup? I have a union, I feel like we should get one, but no, we do not. How many of you are there? There's four of us all together. And you can't leave the room that it's in, right?

That's right, that's not allowed. We're with it 24-7. What is the closest you have come to being separated from the cup from when we fly? We do check it. Really? Yeah, we do check it. You have Thomas Hayden church here. It's great here.

I get a lot of comments about the flow and the salad that I got. Yes, I got a question for you. When you go to sleep at night, do you wear a do-rag and what's the first, what's your process in the morning with that hair? It's feathered fantastically. I get up, watch it, blow-grab it, leave. Yeah, blow-dry. Moose? You a moose guy?

A little hairspray. I've been on the road for a month now. You're a moose guy. No, a little hairspray. I like to put a hat on after I get out of the shower because that's how I get the flips. Oh, okay. Yeah, I don't do the hat thing very often, but. I'm gonna do it right now.

Very strong. Do you do keeps? What? Yeah, I don't know about it. Well, no, he says obsessed. You're all natural. Mike, you're pretty natural, yeah. I did something called Cretchi Peugeot.

Okay. It's from Brazil and it really brought my hair line back. My hair line is all right. It's like, no, it's the top line back. My hair line is all right. It's like, no, it's a cup ever been to Turkey? No, but it's come close. What's a close up? It's come to Turkey.

You have to look at a map, but I mean, we've been to Belarus to Slovakia, the Ukraine, Russia, been in the Middle East with it. I can't wait to eat in Finland. Are you training the martial arts? Yeah, I just dropped the wake gloves. I'm used to play. Wow. That's a bar and a half right there. What's your go-to move if someone does something they're not supposed to do with the cup?

Is it a karate chop or you roundhouse kicking them to the neck? I skip that crap out of them with my voice. Yeah, it gets a little bit. I've done it before. I've scared it. I've scared it in the entire room. And we all play a little bit of mean

pretending like touching an appropriate. You gotta have to have it. It has to be the moment. I can't pretend Okay, but the other side of the cup I just scream really loud put that down a means touching it right now on the other side of the cup I mean, I mean here's the thing we let people come up We let them touch it. We let them hug it We let them kiss it, but you got to earn the right to hoist it So when we catch people trying to pick it up that don't have their name on it We get pretty angry. Where you You want the bread hole parade?

The bread hole? Yeah, the Gorya. Gorya. Okay, Lewis, yeah, I mean, yeah, we were there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bread said I had no one bread a long time since 02, so. I have a friend that talks a bread hole regularly. They still haven't heard from him since that parade.

I'm not sure if he's okay. I haven't seen him since the beginning of the season. The same, Lewis. You do not allow, Are there photographs of people hoisting it who have not earned it? It has happened absolutely. But that's the one thing we try and prevent. Your code, the thing, that your job ultimately,

that they laid you off of because you should have a union because the cup keeper needs to be respected, is to make sure that no one who has not earned the right to hoist that trophy ever gets to hold it over their head. That's the job. That's a sacred job. Yeah, and keep it safe, trying to keep the next and bangs out of it and make sure it's

respectful. It's kind of what we're doing. We live in a world where everybody's got a camera so things can get a little out of control. But we're basically kind of the eyes and ears for the NHL and the hockey all the fame and making sure that Lord Stanley stays safe for another hundred years. Now, Mike, you said the only time it leaves your side basically if you're with it is when you check it in when you're flying. What about when you have to go to the bathroom? Does it come with you?

Yeah, I mean look I mean if I got out of the washroom I might trust somebody go hey Dan can you keep an eye on it? I trust you and you're in charge you're the keeper of the cup for five minutes. I can I Got to be on eBay I got news for you. I don't have to go to the washroom anytime soon How low are we on the list of coolest places you've brought this coming down to Miami and seeing you boys? Yeah, no absolutely you're right up there He is lying

You know what one of the coolest things we got to do is when we got to bring it on the space shuttle. We didn't get a date. And now you're here. And now I'm here. Like the space shuttle one was cool. When I found out we actually shot more than 99% of NASA employees, that shows me the power of the cup and the kind of doors it opens up. I was shocked at 99% of NASA's never seen the shuttle and I was on the friggin' thing.

La Ria! Oh! Ha! And I was on the friggin' thing. Gloria!