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A William Engle writes in Stugatz, willpower is his Twitter handle. And I think he speaks for all of America right now when he says it sucks that Dan Lebitard and all those dorks are happy.

I believe that it is something that the rest of North America feels whenever someone other than your fan base is celebrating anything. The Internet is a wildly divided place. I don't believe that people are happy for each other on the Internet. And I believe that more people would be listening to this show by double today if not.

the Panthers had lost. That would attract more people in today's North America than happiness. Oddly, the only people that were happy for Florida Panther fans were Tampa Bay Lightning fans and their organization. I don't believe that the fans of Tampa Bay were actually happy for Florida. That is simply the organization of Tampa trying to be magnanimous. I don't believe there is anybody in hockey today anywhere outside of a

50 mile radius of here that's happy for the sport of hockey today because of what happened last night. And you know what we say to those people? It is annoying to sound like you are gloating. Chris Cody, after wanting to throw up for 12 straight hours, just shouting obnoxiously into his camera how great he is and how he believed all along, how it was never in doubt that

how he was the only true supporter of everything that the Panthers were this season. And the only reason that he couldn't take more credit is because he was second place in his own family on being able to take credit for why it is that the Panthers won. What a series for Greg. Yeah. You know, I hate to brag. You know that.

I didn't read your column after the game. Apologies. Did you hit him with the con, Smythe, like you said you were going to? I made a fleeting reference to it, but that was not the emphasis of the column. I'm going to come back with a column today that will be online later today about the whole past couple of weeks and the McDavid-Morris

About you? About you, yeah. About your face? Squeeze it a little more. I think your original column should be your last word on the topic. That's it. Like, that's it. You don't have to say anything more. You won. Your column should be, I was right. Yes. Yeah. Well, you know, that may be essentially not just that, but that may be essentially what I write today. But the column I wrote last night had to be a celebration of this epic achievement. You were not right.

Oh, yeah, I was. No, he's right. Yeah. I mean, read more about it later today. You were wrong. I was not wrong. You're the best kind of right, which is you're wrong. No. No, I disagree. I'm familiar. Like, McDavid just did something that's only happened five times prior in the history of the National Hockey League. He was terrible five out of seven games. I don't want to hear about it. He won the Conn Smythe.

that on a losing team. Terrible is a stretch. NHL is trying to make him a thing. And only the second time that a skater, not a goalie, won the Conn Smythe on a losing team. Yeah, Bob should have won it.

Let me tell you what should have happened. McDavid missed an opportunity. He squandered an opportunity after the game. He squandered many during the game and during the series, but he squandered one afterwards. You accept the Conn Smythe. You skate it over to Bob. You hand it to him. That's what you do. That's what you do. That's what you do. That would have been classic. Thank you. Greg, what if you were in front of, because we know that Conn and McDavid's father, not a fan of the Greg Cody column, what would you say to him if he were in front of you now?

What would he ask me? I mean, I'm not going to blow it. No, no, no. You see him. You're face to face. Like he was here. Do you say I didn't mean any disrespect or do you say I was right? What do you say? I would say, Dad, what I said originally, I stand for, which is your son is top tier in expectations, in hype. Top tier. Top tier of almost all time with the possible exception of Gretzky.

He hasn't lived up because he hasn't won a Stanley Cup. His stats are great. Hasn't lived up to what? Hasn't lived up to those lofty expectations and hype. He just finished his ninth season. He has to win a Stanley Cup. And I thought this postseason was a perfect mirror on his career, which is the stats are great. The numbers are great, particularly the assists.

But what's missing? What's missing from this career? I'm not here to argue against the topic, but I would say if you look at the entire playoffs, the award is given to the most outstanding player. Literally no one did more for their team in pursuit of that cup. That's what they voted on. That person, by definition, can't be overrated. No, he can't. That's not true. They didn't win the cup, but the voters just said...

He did everything humanly possible to win that cup. They said he's the best player in hockey. They voted that nobody did more to help their team win a cup. They made that decision after Game 5 because he did nothing Game 6 and 7. Right, nothing at all. He disappeared in the last game. Well said. At least he didn't say it right into his hand while rubbing his face. What you should be saying is who did the most...

to help his team win the Stanley Cup. But that's not the award. That's not the award. But I was saying earlier in the other room, there should be a NHL final, a Stanley Cup final MVP award. There should be both. Con Smythe is fine. They should listen to you. They should. In Greg's defense, Charles Barkley agreed with him last night on the broadcast. A lot of people did. Thank you. I'll tell you. Stephen A's doing it right now. Going into the third inning,

Period. Subban and Messier were, Subban especially, adamant that it should be Bobrovsky. I was stunned. Adamant that it should be Bobrovsky. Yeah, no, that's true. PK said that? He gave himself a little bit of wiggle room. He said, if Connor wins it, I won't be that upset, but it should be someone from a winning team. Yeah, I think so too. Was PK wearing a bathrobe when he said it or no?

I'm just curious. Again, you cannot be right when the voters who have a winner's bias choose the loser to give the trophy to on here's your mere value, an independent measurement of your value. We think you're the best even though you're the loser and we have a winner's bias. You can't

be a lot more wrong than that while still claiming to be right. His talent jumps off the screen. You can tell he's the best player in hockey. That's not what Greg is saying. He's not even debating that. He's saying if you're going to be that great, you need to validate all of it with a Stanley Cup. I think we're all clear on what Greg was saying. It's just after that playoff performance on the heels of the greatest season in NHL history, arguably, that

My opinion of Connor McDavid has not diminished. It's enhanced for me. I only think he's better after that.

It is not surprising that Stugatz would take the position. It is one of the few consistent ones that he has had. You are not validated in his eyes until you win a championship. And even if you do, as Kevin Durant, he will not validate you in his eyes unless you win the championship the way that he wishes for you to win the championship. Stay in Edmonton. So it's not surprising that Stugatz would side with Cody. Also not surprising.

that Cody would double and triple down on what is one of the more hackneyed things that can be done anywhere in sports journalism, which is to establish a rating that cannot be reached by any other Raiders, where you're putting the rating where it is that you want,

and all the other Raiders are wrong because there's no way to actually measure the Raiders. It could have been reached last night. What you just said is complete bullshit. If Edmonton wins 2-1 last night, I'm standing right here going, he's properly rated. He has caught up to the expectations everybody had for him. So if they don't hit the post, and if Reinhardt doesn't score a soft goal, then you're wrong. Kulikov!

doesn't fall into the net defending the second goal. Things that don't have anything to do with McDavid. McDavid was not on the ice when one of those things happened. Welcome to sports. We live by the bottom line. The puck did hit the pipe and didn't go in. Skinner did not stop the very equal. That's because McDavid's overrated. Greg is saying they just had to win the game. McDavid didn't have to do anything. He didn't have to

play. I mean, Greg has actually been pretty consistent about this and hasn't deviated from it. So I get his point. And the way that we cover sports in this country is, yeah, Greg, Greg gets to be right tonight. I will say, though, in all of this, you mentioned Kevin Durant, who many people blamed Russell Westbrook early on in his career for his failings. If Connor McDavid is not in this series, all the hype gets attributed to Leon Dreisaitl.

Everyone calls Leon Dreisaitl the best player in this series. You'd have the talking head say, is Leon Dreisaitl the best player in hockey? He did not show up this series. He is worthy of criticism. Greg, if you're still sticking to McDavid is overrated, they didn't win, he didn't show up in the last two games, doesn't that take away from the Panthers?

No, because the Panthers defended him. Because Barkov... But that's the reason why it happened. Not because McDavid's overrated. It's because the Panthers did their thing. Yes, yes. I'm not taking anything away from the Panthers. They richly deserved it. And my co-MVP, along with Bob, would be Barkov, who proved for everyone that he's the two-time... You're giving it to two guys instead of McDavid. Two guys. Yeah, because they won the cup. Co-MVP, yes. What about Reinhardt's Stanley Cup winning goal? Mm.

No. No. He had a disappointing final until last night, in my opinion. Game winner. If you're the greatest of all time, the Panthers can't shut you down. That's Greg's point. And they did, so he's not the greatest of all time. This was Conor McDavid's first final. This was his chance before the world, before North America at least...

To prove that all of the hype is real, this is how good I am. I can lift a team that isn't quite as good as Florida, and I can make them Stanley Cup champions. He didn't do it, okay? Maybe that's harsh for some people. He's a great player who in almost 10 years hasn't won a Stanley Cup, overrated, hasn't lived up to the hype.

You know, the hype is way up here, but he has not lived up until he wins a Stanley Cup. I just love the visual of Greg Cody telling Conor McDavid's father to his face his son is overrated. He knows.

Does he? Dad knows. Mr. McDavid knows. That's why it hurts, Dan. You only get offended by things if they have a slight tinge of truth to them. And when he hears it, he's like, ooh, you know what? What you do is you go up to Mr. McDavid and say, you raised a good boy. Not good enough. Well, what's he got to do with the next 10 some odd years of his career?

Let's see. Let's see. Is he going to win a Stanley Cup? Pucks in his court. Ovechkin played in the same conference as the greatest player of his generation, Sidney Crosby. Ovechkin, great player, may catch up to Gretzky's record. He only had the one crack at it. He won it. But he only had the one chance. You can't take these things for granted.

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Don Libetard. Our Panther group chat, we're confident against the Lightning. This is a different team. You're a Panther group chat, though. No, I think... No, but dude, you're so wrong on that. We've been terrified of this team forever, and I think there's a different energy where the Panthers, they want the Lightning. Stugatz. I want t-shirts made for this Panther run. What could be this Panther run? Our Panther group chat...

We're not afraid of the lightning. That's a tagline for World R3. This is the Dan Levitas Show with the Stugats. Stugats and I are laughing at the same thing together, which is...

Just degree of difficulty on how it is hard to be as good as Connor McDavid. Like, whatever it takes of all the world's skaters and people who do things professionally for money and fight for money, how hard it is to be McDavid. Too hard, apparently. And for Greg Cody...

to wander over with the criticism that's just lazy at his age, that he's overrated, and he can't even get through it without coughing. The criticism, he can't get through his criticism with his breath functioning properly to criticize one of the greatest athletes any of us have ever seen in a sport is just so sports media. It's just in general, the entire sports media community

capitalistic system whereas i can't i can't breathe but i'm gonna take money and attention off your greatness by diminishing you even though my criticism can't come out without a cough but you're a top one percenter right like you you are essentially the connor mcdavid of local columnist you can actually say these things let me tell you what's ridiculous about what dan just said okay

Levitard referred to my opinion as lazy. Okay? A lazy opinion is one that everybody else has. Nobody else had this opinion. This was bold. Nobody else had this opinion. It is the opposite of a lazy opinion. A brave opinion. Take it back. Take it back, Jack. It's the coffee now. Take it back, Jack.

All right. It's not a lazy opinion. Trust me. All right. Thank you for your bravery. It's just because I cough. Talk about ageism. For real. I have asthma, and he's making fun of the fact that I cough. I think that's sicknessism. Do you still have your counsel? Unhealthism. Yes. Have you responded yet? I haven't yet. Has your attorney responded? I'm busy. I want to be clear about a thing when I say it's a lazy take.

If I were to somehow not be able in any form to explain to aliens 300 years from now what sports radio was at its dumbest, the argument and opinion I would put in there is someone is overrated or underrated. I don't know what else I'd put in there to rival. Maybe somebody should be fired.

Somebody should not have their job anymore. That's why I say it's a lazy opinion. Did he choke is a good one. Did he choke? That's good.

He did. I've seen that on the lower third already. So what are we supposed to do? Just give him the Stanley Cup because he had a good half a playoff run and not celebrate the Panthers? I don't understand. He's so great, so let's just give him the Stanley Cup. No, not the Stanley Cup. Why play the games? He's one of the best all time. All you have to do is not say Greg Cody is right. You don't have to give him anything. But he was right. He was right. You're literally trying to put a billboard saying that, though. You guys are changing Greg's argument. You are trying to do that.

You are saying he's right. That's because that's nothing worse than his mouth. Again, it's why it's the joke I want to make. It's specifically the reason that this is the joke I want to make because he's the most maximum wrong and gets to be right. It's amazing. It's the stupidity of this medium.

In all seriousness, that billboard's going to go up in Edmonton, and someone's going to burn it down. They are going to vandalize that. No, no, no. They're going to burn it down. Yeah, Canada typically handles it that way. Well, Canadians are too nice to vandalize. Did you watch Vancouver after they lost to the Bruins? Yeah, that's true, but that's in the East.

Isn't it? No, very west. Very west. As west as you can get. Greg, go sit in the penalty box. I was thinking of Montreal. It's east of Asia. That's east. I just got in here. Go sit in the penalty box. You can't. That's east. It depends where your starting point is. East of the Pacific Ocean. Yeah. I was right, by the way. I don't know whether you've heard that. You mentioned that.

What we didn't get right, and I don't know what you guys can get for me in terms of information on this, because I would like to continue to cover this throughout the show today. I thought we were going to have billboards up already. I was dealing with this late on midnight last night, and then I'm told, oh, our dimensions are wrong. Where are we on getting billboards up that I wanted up a week ago? This is not that hard! Right?

Like, what is the latest on why we can't get these things up in Edmonton? Why are the dimensions wrong? And when is this going up? Is it going up before the end of the show? Are we going to have a payoff before I'm in Africa? Zaz, you have an update for him? Yeah, I feel like Dan was looking at me for a lot of that. Dimensions. I just, I don't understand. Not on this assignment. Why we're so incompetent as a group. What does the billboard say?

Well, I think that should be a surprise. Oh. Well, then how do we know when it goes up? It's an unveiling. Well, you'll know. You'll know. All right. Okay. I just got word that we are fingers crossed that it goes up today. Okay. There you go. That'd be good timing. Fingers crossed. I don't believe that Metal Ark has fingers. I will not believe it until I've seen them crossed. I will not believe that Metal Ark is a finger, an operation that has fingers, that comes completely.

With fingers. You guys want to hear Roy drunk again? Yeah, sure. All right, we have made it from Amber and Peg Arena to the infield. Let me hear Charles Barkley not drunk, but you would understand if throughout South Florida this was how people were describing what they believe should have been the winner of the Kahn-Smythe Trophy.

All right, we have made it from Amber and Beck Arena to the infield, which is a couple blocks down. He can't handle his liquor. He can't handle his liquor. It's way worse just audio because you can really fixate on the slur. All right, we have made it from Amber and Beck Arena to the infield, which is a couple blocks down. That's the billboard, right? We are made it. All right, we have made it from Amber and Beck Arena to the infield, which is a couple blocks down.

You waited 30 years to say we are made it. That billboard is going to be awesome. We are made it. How did we feel about the cheering in the press box last night? I love it. It was funny. Because...

What do you mean? Very professional. That's an auxiliary press box, though. He was in actual seats. Really? He wasn't in the real press box. So that's different? I think it's okay. Yeah, I think it's okay. Zaslow allows it. Allow it. It was unusually emotional for Roy. I don't think any of us have ever seen him that happy. There are times in the drink where he gets a little exuberant and gets emotional, but I have not seen him as obviously happy as he was and visually happy.

The comedy team of Roy's charisma with David Dwork, the comedy team. Stugatz muttered under his breath during one of the breaks here, that guy looks like a murderer. He does. Which one? I mean, if there was a murdering spree throughout South Florida and Dwork's name, his face came up on the television, would you be surprised? He let out a squeal when the Panthers won that I've never heard before. Because he's like super serious professional hockey broad, hockey news. That's David Dwork.

Not when that clock hit double zero. It was interesting to hear and watch the objectivity thaw away from both a drunk Roy and an intoxicated by the feeling David Dwork. All right, we have made it.

I'm scared around that guy. He does look a little murderous. Throwing a shave every now and again. A little murderous, yes, he does. Roy says he was happy that he could now shave his playoff beard, which just grew in his playoff patches.

Little small tiny pieces of real estate. He was growing a playoff beard? He says he was, yes, and he's happy that he can shave it. Is he now gone? Has he taken Stunt Danny and headed toward the elbow room to see if we can get Kachuk and Barkoff and whoever else? This is a perfect time. My God, those guys haven't slept.

Fort Lauderdale right now has to feel and sound lovely, has to be sunny and warm, and they're going to be surrounded by at least 14 or 15 people out there once people find out they're at the Elbow Room.

There aren't that many there right now. Those people are just there. Yeah, those are just people who would otherwise be at the elbow room, which are not people you want to be around on a Tuesday morning at 11 a.m. if they're already at the elbow room. I don't think that's company anyone wants to be keeping. Sazzo, did you sleep at all last night? Yeah, but I obviously went to sleep late and I had a really hard time falling asleep. Like, if we lost, no chance I would have fallen asleep. It had been really, really rough.

But yeah, I laid in bed for a while before I was able to fall asleep. I was so jacked up. I'm wearing the same exact clothes I wore to the game. I was at the arena until 3, had a spicy McChicken. Wow. Set the alarm for 90 minutes from that moment and went to bed in this and got out of the bed and...

Went on the train. I'm sweating my ass off. I got home at 3 o'clock and watched the end of the game because I had recorded it. Just replayed it. Got to watch the final like 10 minutes. Being there is great, but I do think there are things you miss. You miss a lot of the experience. You watched the puck up against the boards for two minutes. McDonough. I heard they're tired. Look how gassed they are. It was a cool call. Yeah, can I say something about McDonough too real quick? He was getting a lot of criticism because he was really sick throughout the series. He was excellent last night. I really enjoyed the final call.

I think he's great in general. That sport's tough. It moves so fast. I don't think people know how hard it is to do that sport. He was really upset about the criticism throughout the series. I thought he was excellent, and I just don't know how anybody does that sport well. I'm telling you, when I watch, and this is not new, I mean, hockey's gotten a ton better on television, but it's been a plague for a while how quickly the sport moves.

the announcers always know before I do that the goal has been scored. They always get it. And it's the horn and some of the help that they have inside the arena. But I find very difficult listening to people try to do that sport because the fourth line's got a bunch of names that are tough to pronounce and we're just skittering past them real quick because we got to get to the action on the other side of the ice. And there's so much nuance in the game that is just like you pick up

If you're around the game for 10 years, you pick up something new every day and tactics change. But think about this show. We have a larger ensemble, but we've talked over each other plenty before.

McDonough and Ferraro aren't in the same booth. Ferraro is on the ice. Yeah, it's great. And it's them too. They don't have nonverbal communication. They have to have that chemistry down. And they never get the numbers wrong either. In basketball, you can memorize seven or eight guys on each team. You're going to know everybody's number. Everybody plays on the hockey bat. You've got to know all 18 guys that are all over the ice for both teams. They never get it wrong.

Let's play for people the sound of McDonough at the end of that game, because I did think it was a good call, and I did think he was right to identify how tired the Oilers obviously looked. 20 seconds to go. One last gasp for Edmonton. Bouchard's pass didn't click with Dreisaitl. 12 seconds to go. Florida trying to end

against the wall, which would be fitting. Three seconds to go. Bears have won the Stanley Cup.

One of the things, Dugatz, that I thought was interesting about that, as the puck was in the corner and there were two Oilers, McDavid was one of them, skating in circles in front of Bobrovsky by themselves. And it was just like, yeah, that's not coming out of there. We're not, that's going to stay in there. But that's where they have to be. If it did, oh boy. No, I know, but there were five Panthers in the corner with the puck and

and it wasn't going to come out of there. That's where it was going to stay. It's where Edmonton's season was going to die. But McDavid was just skating in circles, exhausted in front of Bobrovsky. He had to be the outlet. That's our Philly special. You knew that once they went to the boards with 12 seconds left, that was it. They were Stanley Cup champions. It was the perfect ending. How about you get the puck? I mean, best player in the world.

There you go. Instead of skating around the net, how about you go get the puck? Waiting for someone to bring it to you. That's a really unfortunate take by you guys. Greg, not how the game's taught. Can you give us your honest, because you left here yesterday. I want your honest appraisal of what the last week has been like for you. You told me leaving here yesterday, Dan, I'm sorry. I'm just generally more emotional about everything these days than...

Well, had they...

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Dan Levitard. Florida claws back from down 2-0 because they were getting their asses handed to them by Toronto to then get lit afire underneath them by their head coach, Paul Maurice, who did the thing. Remember how the run was sparked last year? Stugatz. He called them a bunch of peas and bees. He did the thing again. Called them a bunch of peas and bees, and then boom, five unanswered. You win the division. This is the Dan Levitard Show with the Stugatz.

Roy has arrived very quickly at the Elbow Room. I didn't think he could get there that quickly. It's not particularly close. It seems like the crowd has filled out there a little bit now that people are hearing that the Stanley Cup is there and the Panthers are there. Roy, what can you tell us from the scene? What do you have for us in terms of vibes? Well, the Stanley Cup is right up there behind the guy in the white shirt right there. It's on the table. They poured beer...

I understand the cup down below to the fans. It is packed. Media cannot go into the building now. That is over. It's now friends and family. So a lot of fans are outside.

And friends and family are inside of that. All right. So friends and family, it's a private gathering. We're getting there too late. Greg, we had something set up. We were trying to get everyone in position and you were going to go to McDonald's and I think you were going to over, you were going to, you were going to order a McOverrated. Yeah, I was going to order a McOverrated chicken sandwich.

And if they didn't have that, I would have said, oh, you're all out? I'll have a Barbaroski burger with some Sasha sauce. Okay. It's too bad we missed out on that, that the technology didn't work so that we could actually do that at the McDonald's. So you had a whole thing worked out? Yeah. And then I was going to order a Frosty just because I was smoking. It was so hot in there. That's Wendy's, though. It's a long place. We were at Wendy's waiting to order. Okay. I thought you were at a McDonald's. No, we weren't. No.

The whole Mick part. Yes. You can only do it at McDonald's. All I can tell you is that we were at Wendy's to no avail. Okay. None of it worked. And it's not surprising that it didn't work. We'll come out to Roy in a second and see if he could get any closer to what's happening over there. He seems to be right next to Barkov's golf cart. You have to work your way into that thing. You do. If you're Roy, you have to. Perhaps I should have went with him, but you have to work your way into that. You have to be friends and family. Roy, get in there. I can't get in there.

You're walking away from the Stanley Cup right now, Roy. You're walking away. No, I'm not. The Stanley Cup is going to the ocean. Oh, you're following? It's being carried by Sam Bennett, I believe. Go touch it. Get close to it. Yeah, you've got to get over there, Roy. Roy, get over there. I'm in sand right now. That's an Android camera.

Oh, you can kiss my ass with that Android camera comment. Tackle Bennett. Make some news. All right. This doesn't seem safe. The Stanley Cup is in the ocean. All right. So go in the ocean. Get us a shot, Roy. I am not going in the ocean. Get us a shot, Roy. Roy, get us a shot. I am wearing jeans and a jersey. Get us a shot. Get us a shot of it. Don't just let me get the goddamn shot.

Get rid of the lower third. A little lower. Lower, lower, lower, lower, lower. Lower your camera. Lower the camera. Lower your camera. There it is. Go touch it. Go touch it. All right. Ship ahoy. Get in there, Roy. What? What? Chips ahoy is right. What? Championships. Chips ahoy. That's what you say, Dan. That's what you say. Chips ahoy. Chips ahoy.

And it's a boat thing, too, with the ocean. Chips Ahoy is perfect. Check out this hockey town, huh? What were you saying? Chips Ahoy. Chips Ahoy. You're saying something differently than what he's saying. He's not saying Chips Ahoy.

He's saying, for some reason, ships ahoy. Yeah, champion ships. Do you think the keeper of the cup gets nervous? Hell yeah. Of course. It's his job. Lord Stanley was just fully submerged in the Atlantic Ocean. I would love it if a shark ate the cup. And believe me, a shark could. Yeah, that's a good question for McGill. That is a good question. It is a great question. Is he on today? An adult shark could take a bite out of the cup that would render it useless.

All right, we'll ask McGill that. I don't think it's a good question for McGill. Fair question today, though. There are no bad questions, only bad answers. That's right. You know what? On a day like today when you're a champion, you can tell anyone, ships ahoy, and it makes sense. The San Jose Sharks, they bit a hockey stick and went right through that. Ships ahoy makes no sense. Championship. Championships. Ships ahoy. That's what the kids call championships. Ships with the dips. We're going for the ship. We're going for the ship. Tell everyone your media, Roy, and that you need to get through. Yeah.

You are going for chips. That's the problem. We do have someone on the scene. You're right there. Touch it. Roy, can you describe what you're seeing right now? Was the cup indeed submerged for a brief moment in time? Yeah, that Stanley Cup is what it is. It was in the ocean. It was submerged.

I believe Aaron Eckblad actually did the backstroke. Roy, your terrible microphone is exceeded only by your terrible camera work. Thank you. I can leave now, Dan, if you want. Yes, please. That's enough. He's getting us good stuff. That was an exclusive, dude. No, no, no, no. Stick around. We need you there. Crazy shit like that's going to be happening all day.

Yep. You follow that cup. I just get better at the camera work and get better at the chasing. Dude, I have a cell phone. I have a professional camera. I'm sorry. You're doing great, man. No one else is doing this stuff. That's right, Roy. You're good. We don't congratulate ourselves enough when we actually get stuff to work. Yeah.

This is stuff working? Yeah, man. No other live show of our stature is doing shit like this. This is an achievement. Andy's got a droid. There's a lot of shit working against us. It is an achievement, just like going to Wendy's and trying to order an overrated McDavid.

Bask in the glow. We are Hockey Town USA. Roy was on the scene. He got to the elbow room in seven minutes, and he caught video of the cup submerged. That is exclusive video of the Dan Levitard show.

That is great stuff. More than six people, too. He did get there very quickly. Something that happened during the break that I want to share with you all, because I wrote down what Greg Cody said, because I want everyone to hear what he was saying to me right at that point. Fun. I've been in the elbow room, believe me. Oh, yeah. Talking to the mic. Yeah, you have. Here I am. Who needs me? Come on. You're going to go to Buffalo. Bernie Carmelite?

Back to hockey. Back to you at the elbow room. It's a real tourist spot. Normally, it's just tourists. Been there forever. Are you winded from your last couple of sentences of trying to talk? I could run a 100-meter dash right now and beat half of you. Yeah, no, I certainly could. Yeah.

You would beat no one here in a foot race. Not a single person. You never know. No, I do know. I'm very well aware that there's not a single person here that you... Including the next room? There's not a single person that you can see right now who you would beat in a foot race. Who won? Me. Me maximum. 100 meters.

What I wanted to get to that actually happened with Greg Cody during the break is that Stu Gatz and I were laughing at how funny visually his private personal parade looked when they panned out from it. And it was just clearly just one car and no one around him. And he was acting. Your father was acting for one of the rare times in his life. He was acting.

acting well. It seemed like he was a beauty queen in a pageant waving at people. He's got that rolled down there. Accepting praise. Pretending that he was in a parade and this is what he actually said. I'm not making this up.

It was not really under his breath, but it was just for me. But your brother, your father and I talk during the breaks in a way that he doesn't totally know whether I'm paying attention or not because I'm writing stuff down. But he keeps talking. So I just wrote down what it is that he was saying. He didn't know I was writing it down. He said, you could cast me in a major film. I'd be fine. I'd be good at a recurring role. Maybe not the star role.

or second person, but I could be the third person in a major film. Yeah, the guy who gets credit in the scroll, but not major credit. My name is a third of the size of Dustin Hoffman, or the actor of the day. Right. Gyllenhaal, that kind of thing. But a third actor. Yeah. I mean, I've been an extra in a major motion picture. I've done that. Is that so? Yeah. Yeah.

Really? Absence of Malice. Yeah, early 80s with Sally Field. Wow. Yeah, that was a good film. Classic. What did you do? I played a newspaper reporter. How'd you do it? I am seen sitting on a desk with a newspaper...

Reading a newspaper an open newspaper, but you can see my face on camera Greg please speak into the microphone you I know you can master a major film But for 20 years you haven't been able to master just where you're supposed to speak well the voice carries. Yeah like that song Voices carry right we got video here of Kachuk and Bennett just Pouring beer on this wise man once said we are made it just drenching this guy. That's great. I

Are we going to go back out to Roy? I saw him again just sort of hovering. That's the camera angle I want. Yeah, landscape. Him totally sideways. Yes. Roy, what other updates can you give us about everything that's happening sideways at the Elbow Room? We should celebrate when Metal Ark Media does things right, the way that they're doing this right now.

The Stanley Cup is back in position right now. The Elbow Room and the Falcons. I believe that is Alexander Barkov right there next to it. As he's walking in, they are now officially taking photos with the Cup and they are playing the Florida Panthers' goal song right now. The Elbow Room has never quite been this vibrant and lovely and colorful. It is usually just a bunch of concrete and cocaine. Yep, just white.

That's usually what's there. But right now, because I can't explain to you how bad those bathrooms are and how much sort of cinder block feel it has as charisma from its interior decorator. So, Greg, you're saying you couldn't be Maverick, you couldn't be Goose, but perhaps you could be Ice? Yeah.

From Top Gun? Yeah, I don't speak that language. He's the third guy, the third star in that movie. Iceman. I think, honestly, at this age, I'm a character actor.

Okay, I'm the guy you cast as, you know, the creepy neighbor. You know, maybe the creepy neighbor. Radke type. Yeah, maybe the accountant in the office who's nearing retirement as in embezzling on the side. You know, that type of thing. Yeah.

Can we get back to what we were talking about before, which was your honest feelings before you were cut off by the break in terms of how scared you actually were about being blamed eternally for costing the Panthers the Stanley Cup? Right. That would have been blame sown by this show. Okay.

Quite frankly, just because you said it here, Greg, and all we did here was shine a light on the thing you said and wrote. I know, but but but you had Zaslow on here saying that if if the Panthers lose this series, everybody's going to blame you. And Mike Ryan has said something similar.

That is what foments the atmosphere for potential harm to me if the Panthers had lost. Luckily, they didn't. In terms of my reputation, I don't give a crap whether people hear my name. They think, oh, that's the idiot who wrote Marino should be traded and McDavid is overrated. That's fine.

That's fine. That's, that's perfectly fine. But, uh, you were scared though. You seemed emotional and you seem like you were pinballing emotionally all over the place. It seemed, I don't find you to generally be someone who is introspective about his emotions. So you might have some lash out because I don't find you to be somebody who's totally comfortable with exactly what he's feeling emotionally at the moment. It,

it tends to leak out in all sorts of other places. And so I thought what was happening this weekend with you hitting us with enough is enough and I'm tired of it was at least in part because we're annoying, but also because you were under it. I was never scared. No.

No, I never felt any physical harm. I was joking last night that had the Panthers lost Game 7, I would have needed a bodyguard to walk to me with my car. Greg, you weren't joking. You said during a break here yesterday, are you concerned about liability? I might get hurt otherwise.

after the game. Yeah, that's true. Had that happened. But I wasn't fearful that it was actually going to happen. That was a big what if. But yeah, the worst case scenario happens, and three disgruntled Panthers fans, you know, Zaslow, Mike, and one other guy, beat me up as I'm leaving last night's game after a heartbreaking loss. That would have been great. Yeah, and I come out looking worse than I did a few weeks ago in that photo. We were under a lot of pressure.

I think we were all a little anxious. We were all super emotional. One day you will see that I was trying to do the exact opposite in terms of fomenting what you feared. One day you will see that I was trying to stop all of it from happening. I was shining a light on what it is that you had said and done. Our show was shining a light on what it is that you said and did. But you said it and did it.

Right. Oh, and as all of you will attest, I have never done anything but double down on my opinion. I've been unwavering in my opinion, and I continue to believe what I wrote. And I think to a large degree, the result did vindicate me. The thing that I got mad about was, A, the...

invasion of privacy photo of me in a hospital bed and B, using that photo of a naked guy on Bourbon Street and saying flat out that it was me when obviously it wasn't. There's a lot of people tuning into this show for the first time and I'm glad that sits out there with zero context.

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