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October 31, 2025 38 mins

Doug and the crew talk about scary things and scary teams. Doug and the crew partake in this week's version of The Gambler. Doug welcomes Knicks guard Josh Hart onto the show to talk about his career and the start of the NBA season. Plus, Dan Beyer takes Doug through The Press.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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(00:23):
Welcome in the Doug Gottleb Show broadcast live sort of
by coastal. I'm on the coast of northeast Wisconsin. There
on the coast of southern Californi. It's a happy Halloween.
Apparently Matt Lafloor, coach, the head coach of the Packers,
doesn't like Halloween.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
M M.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Josh Hart's gonna join us, upcoming in thirty minutes. Thirty
minutes to Josh Hart. Good so, Josh hartle join us.
We got the Gambler. I'm coming for you as well.
One pick that will have you live in large, Live
in large, and of course we got the Press. It's
the Doug Outlap Show Fox Sports Radio. I'm guessing Jason

(01:05):
Stewart doesn't like Halloween. I know you don't like Halloween
in the office, but I'm guessing you kind of don't
like Halloween period.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
I'm in one of those positions where I'm Generation X so.
I lived before Instagram. I knew what Halloween was, I
knew what place it had in our society, and then
Instagram happens, and the interest in this holiday has increased exponentially.
You know, there's that there's that movement online to make

(01:33):
Halloween a national holiday. I don't know why, why, it's.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
True, there's a movement online.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Yes, it's structured as this. Kids go to school and
right before dark they go trick or treating. If you
take the whole day off, what are you doing? Are
you trick or treating for breakfast? Why do you need
the entire day off for Halloween? That's ridiculous, But yeah,
you definitely. Grown men should never wear costumes at the workplace,
with one exception, if you are a part of a

(02:00):
digital presentation, podcast or you're on TV, that's acceptable. But
other than that, grown men do not work costumes at work.
As Sam has a mask on right.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Next week, okay, I'm the devil. This is there's a
lot to there's a lot to digest here. I mostly
agree with you. My only thing about the digital and
TV shows that get dressed up like they look really cool,
but it's it's really about your makeup artist, not about you.

(02:31):
I always thought Halloween was cool where you could figure
out a way to make a costume and somebody goes, oh,
I know what it is. I know what it is. Right,
what is the age when? Because there's a window there.
I do think adults can go to adult themed Halloween
parties and they can be quite fun one because guys

(02:53):
can get dressed up as something funny and girls can
get dressed up as something slutty. That's when did that happen?
By the way, we know when the switch was made.
I have this kind of running joke with my daughter Harper,
because Harper loves Halloween. She's nineteen student Oklahoma, stage's on
the Question team. She loves Halloween, and you know, she
has a she has a limit, spending limit that for

(03:16):
each month, and she's like, Dad, I bought three Halloween
costumes online. Three but it's a yearly thing for her.
She likes three. So I'm always like, Okay, I know
there's gonna be one or two they're inappropriate. Please send
them to me so I know their level of inappropriateness, right,
and so one she was a character from it, and

(03:36):
then today she was Papa Smurf, which was actually pretty
good and like her whole body was covered. So we're good.
We're good there. We could we Papa Smurf. You could
be Papa Smurf anytime you want. We're great. I do
shudder at whatever the whatever the outfit is for tonight's party,
I don't know, and I'm not sure I want to know.

(03:56):
But she has a boyfriend, she's a good girl, so
we're we're fine with it. But again, there's a there's
a level of class that we When did the switch happen?
Dan Byer, I don't remember when I was in college.
I don't remember Halloween being hey, lets everything get dressed
up as sludy librarian, sluody nurse. You know whatever I thought?

Speaker 3 (04:17):
I just said Instagram, I do.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
With the gram the grams when it happened.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
Yeah, two thousand and nine.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
I'll believe it. I'll believe it. I don't know if
somebody else knows a different date.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Go ahead, Dan, Yeah, no, I was going to say,
I do remember, you know, college roommates dressing up for Halloween,
but it was just never never the you know, how scandalous?
Can I get?

Speaker 1 (04:42):
It?

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Wasn't that? So it has one in the last twenty years.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
And I will admit that as as older men right,
as committed men in relationships, we're actually a little bit
jealous of the current the current crop of college students
like you guys have no idea how you got it
good because we did not live in an era where
every woman tried to wear as little as possible as

(05:07):
part of their Halloween costume. I don't believe Sam, what
about you was in your era when you were in
your twenties. Is this how it was?

Speaker 4 (05:14):
Yes, yes, I want to say this started like I
want to say this started in the eighties when women
started wearing these.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
They didn't start in the eighties, because again we're telling
you it didn't. We're all older than you know, we're
all about the same age. I'll tell VS.

Speaker 4 (05:25):
I've seen the movies where like there's a Halloween party
and they're all dressed up, you know.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
All dressed up, but not dressed up in the least
amount of material possible. And again I'm telling you. I'm not.
I don't find anything wrong. I mean unless it's your
daughter or your wife, your girlfriend and they're not with you,
then it's hey, I'm not I'm not good with that.
I'm just saying that's what it's become. Jay Steward admitted
in his opening, soal Boy's like, I don't know when
it became this. I mean actually said Instagram would have became this.

(05:53):
But it's a very different holiday than the one we experienced. Okay,
how about this one part of it was when I
was growing up, I was always playing tackle football this
time of year until I was like fourteen years old,
and that's when you stop get dressed up and going
out and trick or treating on Halloween. So we would
just go in our football uniforms after practice and go
as football players and use our helmet as bags fire.

(06:17):
Did you have the same You do that because growing
up in Wisconsin and you played football.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
Yeah, our season was usually done by mid October unfortunately.
Really yeah, yeah, the playoffs are underway. You weren't making
the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
No, I'm talking about did you play tackle football as.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
A kid, Yeah, but yeah, football is that was done.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
That was done early. Yeah, I didn't know that. I
do know. Playoffs start this upcoming week.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
It started last week. Yeah, Merrill won their first game.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
It did start less y, yes, Jase do. I just
remember going out and there was there's just that there's
a thing when you move into a house, and you
got to make that decision very early on your first Halloween.
If you're owning your first home in a residential area
and it's your first Halloween, this is a big night,
a big decision because if you go lights out, don't

(07:07):
come by, right, you're saying we're anti Halloween house. If
you do, let's just leave a big tub of candy
and have the sign take one. And of course you
know most areas that sucker's gone in thirty minutes or whatever.
Or are you gonna be party central, We're gonna give
away the king size candy bars. King size candy bars.

(07:31):
You got to make that decision. And I just I've
never been a guy that's like, hey, I want to
sit by the front door and hand out candy every night,
so I usually have somebody else do it. I'd like Halloween,
but again, my kids are out of the the the
young Halloween era, and I've never been big on sitting

(07:52):
on that front porch passing the Halloween candy? Do you
stay in or do you? Guys? Do you and you're smoking?
My girlfriend go out? What what's the plan?

Speaker 5 (08:01):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (08:01):
No, we're staying in and our townhouse almost never gets
uh trigger treaters, so we're good. They go to the
rich neighborhood next door.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah, it's always good. Let let the rich people buy
all the candy. Let the rich people buy all the candy.
But you guys, you do know that you always had
that house. You're like, man, you got to hit up
that house. That house always has the king size candy.
All right, last last thing before we get back to sports.

(08:31):
Worst worst candy, worst candy, the one that you're like,
I don't even want this. Mike and Ikes. I don't
like Mike and Ikes. Uh. But there's there's another dots
one right that's like that as well. I don't like dots.
I don't like I don't like hot tomalies.

Speaker 4 (08:49):
Do anything like gooey and and and fruity fruity gooey
or a spicy cinnamon goo.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
Gelatinous sham talking for the microphone with the mouth. Yeah,
I really don't like that. This is steaming up my
face and I can smell.

Speaker 4 (09:07):
No, you know what's great about it? So I got
this mask at Party City. I have a tradition now
of buying the cheapest mask I can find at a store.
This was six dollars, so worth it. It does no, no,
It has like a mesh kind of like hood thing
that helps keep it on. Actually stays on really well.
But it's you can see the glue and stuff like.
It's very cheap. And it came with a what is

(09:28):
it prop sixty five like the carcinogen warning. The cancer
Warning in California even had one of those on it.
It was like, yeah, this contains this chemical that might
cause cancer. But no, it has completely open air eyes
and mouths, so I can breathe and ventively to quite
well in this.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
So ventilate, breathe, in ventilate quite well.

Speaker 4 (09:52):
I'm not we talked about this yesterday on Kavina Rich.
I'm not a big candy corn fan, and people are
very divided on candy corn.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
That's fine. I mean, it's only available, it's it's only
really available at Halloween. It's it's it actually doesn't exist
the rest of the year except for like for like
a five day basis buyer worst candy as what whoppers
good call?

Speaker 4 (10:15):
Yeah, I'm not big on wop. What is about whoppers?
Like it's it's multed milk on the inside, is it? No,
it's on the outside, isn't it.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
No, it's chalcoling the outside. And then it's like a
wafery type. I don't know what that is.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
That's Sam's right, it's like a malted milk.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
It is malted. No, malted, that's what it is.

Speaker 4 (10:31):
But it's firm.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
It's not he said it was gooey. It's firm, he said, right,
the malted, I said, malted milk, which is malted milk. Yes,
it's like it tastes.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
By the way, when I get a chocolate milk and
they leave some of the malt mix, it's delicious. But
I don't like h like.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
I get it. I get it. What was didn't when
there there used to be a malted mix that we'd
have to drink? What was that called? Chase? Do I
know you know this one? What was the malted mix
that they would they sold? Watched, drink it hot, make
it cold.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
Nothing, I'm not thinking of it. I just looked up
malt drink. I don't know oval tine.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
Ovaltine.

Speaker 4 (11:11):
Oh, I love ovaltine.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
It's malted. That's the same malted sort of taste.

Speaker 4 (11:16):
Really, I just thought seine was just sort of like
a cocoa powder mix with a bunch of added vitamins
in it.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
It's a it's a that's the if you look it up,
it's it's the taste.

Speaker 4 (11:27):
Hard to find ovaltine these days. I drank a lot
of ovaltine as a kid because I think my parents
growing up in the fifties and sixties, they drank it
because you've got the decoder ring, you know. So I
drank ovaltine, cow added calcium.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
Okay, favorite candy. I'm just telling I like anything sour.
I rank mine last night and I did it really quickly. No,
I mean sour patch kids are kind of new to
the game. I'm still a sweet tart guy, still a
sweetart guy. Sw yeah. And then I go Reci's peanut

(12:01):
butter cups, which is I know not which is sweet
peanut buttery, savory, all those things.

Speaker 4 (12:05):
I have always been a Skittles guy, Skittles and Starburst,
But now you know, with all the dies, the artificial dies,
in them. I'll still eat them, but not like a
treat I only really once in a while.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
Okay, but those.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
Are my jam Okay, what's the scariest team in the NFL?
Is there anybody who you think is frightening in the NFL?

Speaker 4 (12:30):
The Chiefs are becoming frightening interesting coming. They're they're, they're
they're they're going from Jeff Goldbloom the scientist and then
turning into the fly.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
I feel like there is a there is a Chiefs
Dodgers parallel that's that's approaching us, where where Jason is said,
this Dodgers team isn't the Dodgers team that everybody thinks
that they are. And I feel like we totally gave
the Chiefs in the first couple of weeks of the season,

(13:03):
and now over these last couple of weeks where they've
been good on both sides of the football, we are
just saying, all right, this is Chiefs are inevitable. And
I just think that we are bypassing a lot of
other teams because we because there's a narrative that, oh,
it's just going to be the Chiefs.

Speaker 4 (13:26):
They are playing very well, Yes, I mean they're they're really,
really gelling right now, like the gel in the candy,
you can't pronounce on the ingredients list.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
Okay, So if the Chiefs aren't your scariest team, who.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
Is the Colts? Yeah? The Colts are.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
Well. I think Shamestike in his he wants he won't
he win a Super Bowl? Were they in the Super Bowl?

Speaker 2 (13:55):
In the super Bowl?

Speaker 1 (13:56):
In the Super Bowl. But he was a quality play
caller when he was with the the Chargers before he
got that job. He was like eight or nine games.
Everybody knows he's good. And you have a dynamic running
back who can run it and can catch it. They
have a good offensive line. I just the hard part
is are you really going to buy into Danny Dimes
in the playoffs when he's done nothing to speak of

(14:17):
in a big game in the NFL to make you
think he can do that. On the other hand, if
not him, I think the scariest team in the NFL
is the Packers. I don't actually think it's all that close.
They're young, obviously getting Matthew Golden, who hasn't done much
of anything after kind of early returns being pretty good,
but they're starting to get healthy kind of all around him.
They just have a really good wide receiving corp. They

(14:38):
got a good running back, they have a good quarterback.
They've been in the playoffs, they've been deep. Now they've
lost games in the playoffs, so it's not like they've
had ultimate success. And I think the defense is pretty
good and it got better with Michael Parson. Do I
think they're great?

Speaker 5 (14:50):
No.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
Do I think they're dominant, No, But I do think
there's some substance to it to this team. One that
would I would say, Hey, they're they had a week
off and they need to wake off, and they seem to.
They seem to look different in the fourth quarter against Pittsburgh.
I will grant you I don't think I think Pittsburgh
is the phony of the scroup.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
I'll tell you who also is scary of the New
York Giants, And that's because Jackson Dart wears that that
face paint over a good point. Oh man, what is
that for? I have no idea. I didn't even bother
to look it up, but it just is the one
eye face paint. It's on his eyebrown, it goes on
his cheek. Is that like? Is that a gladiator thing?

(15:34):
Is that because Aiden Hutchinson also paints his face or
paints part of his face.

Speaker 4 (15:41):
It's not necessarily you're saying to absorb the sun's rays.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
Not at all. No, it is not don't do it
for that to strike fear into your opponent that the
rookie quarterback with no weapons will now go on to
the field and dominate you.

Speaker 3 (16:01):
I can't think of like any scary head coaches like
coming up in the eighties and nineties, it was always
those old crutch crotchety scary head coaches like Jane Stallings.

Speaker 4 (16:12):
Like, you know, crusty, crotchety.

Speaker 3 (16:15):
Now, what is any any old head coaches.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
Jerry Burns think Jerry Burns.

Speaker 4 (16:22):
Tom Coughlin was kind of scary looking.

Speaker 1 (16:24):
No, uh, I mean Cara had had had the look,
I mean Gruden had and you know had the chucky
face that was probably the most Halloween like face. Right.

Speaker 4 (16:38):
Mark Davis's haircut is scary.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
Mark Davis looks like he's wearing a helmet. Helmet.

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Speaker 1 (17:04):
I do kids do watch videos on YouTube.

Speaker 5 (17:06):
Now.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
I don't know if you guys know that's Doug Gottlieb
show here on Fox Sports Radio. But I was explaining
to my kids the other night so on facetimes, like, man,
you guys have no idea. What's like Back when this
this video came out, Thriller came out. If you listen
to podcast, we're playing Thriller in the background. It was like,
must see viewing, must see viewing. Josh Hart, who of

(17:30):
course plays for the Knicks ninth season in the NBA
won one of the NCAA Championships with Villanova, got a
lot of stuff to ask him as as he's gonna
join us here about five six minutes. We got a
buyer update to get to. But first we do this
every week, Like I don't know how no good do

(17:53):
you think you are at betting games? We are great
at giving you suggestions on just one game we feel
I can get you out of a hole or get
you a weekend. Right. We call it the Gambler. Set
to the Dulcet Dunes sounds of Kenny Rodgers. The Gambler.
We go around the room, everybody gives you one pick

(18:14):
except our steam leader Jason Stewart, who gives us the
Jay stew Team parlay.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
Heke a, Doug, I'll take it from here. Doug was
wrong about two things. These are not good. These picks
aren't good.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
Dog.

Speaker 3 (18:26):
I'll take it from here, and I'm gonna give you
actually two picks. It's two Jay's stew team parlay. And
you got a race to the bedroom window for this
one today the early games starting here in a couple hours.
Rice is going to be hosting Memphis, and I like
getting fourteen points at home. If I'm Rice, and if

(18:48):
I had a choice between brown and white, I would
go with White Rice. And then I want you to
parlay that with Bill Belichick getting two points in Syracuse.
In just a quick memo to Syracuse fans, Ernie Davis
is not walking through that door tonight. N C to Rice,

(19:11):
Jason two team parlay. Thank you, it's already been undressed.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
To our heels are playing better.

Speaker 4 (19:19):
This might be their best chance to pick up a
winning the ACC.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
I mean they've dropped two right the right at the
end of the game, so they've had opportunities.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
Dan, Doug, you look at the slates in the NFL
on Sunday and there are two things that jump out.
That huge number with the Rams is a home favorite
against the Saints, and then another huge number with the
Packers against the Panthers.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
Oh are you gonna double up? Are you gonna go parlay?

Speaker 2 (19:48):
No? But I can tell you this dog excited.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
I got excited.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
I know. I don't trust a rookie quarterback and Tyler
Shook going into La and doing some damage despite him
being forty two years old. However, trap game time for
the Packers. I think Carolina plus thirteen is the play

(20:11):
as green Bay coming off that big win against Aaron
Rodgers and the Steelers, the Eagles come to town next
Monday night. Maybe you're kind of peeking ahead. Panthers, get
Bryce Young back and keep it close to cover against
Green Bay.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
I am gonna go to the college ranks and tay
the Texas who has survived two games on the road
in overtime. Kentucky will win sixteen thirteen and Mississippi State
forty five thirty eight where Lake comes from behind win.
It's pretty amazing they haven't played a home game in
Darryl Royal Stadium in the entire month of October. It's

(20:50):
been since Sam Houston. I know they lost to Florida.
I know they're not perfect, and I know Vanderbilt has
just been awesome this year. What a great story with
wins over LSU, Missouri, South Carolina, Virginia Tech. I just
think Texas is a little bit different way class and
playing on the road, and the number is reasonable, the

(21:10):
numbers three if you can get up for two and
a half even better. I like the Horns laying the
three at home.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
Arch manning a game time decision for Texas because of
his concussion.

Speaker 4 (21:24):
Sammy, let me get this music started again. Well, a
game that's even Saturday evening on ESPN, A game I
will not be able to watch now that the YouTube
TV and ESPN are a standoff that is already underway.

Speaker 3 (21:41):
It is I'm not going to be able to watch
my John oh Man.

Speaker 4 (21:45):
That stinks. But Cincinnati number seventeen. Cincinnati is at number
twenty four Utah there in Salt Lake City and looks
like the Bearcats are about a ten and a half
point underdog. I will take the bear Cats with the
points there, let's go. It's gonna be a closer game,
and that two good teams give me the Bearcats to
cover that ten and a half. Take the Bearcats to

(22:05):
pints drinking pints.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
I like that. I like that pick since Stanny better
than anybody they had. They played poorly first game of
the season.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
Last in the conference.

Speaker 1 (22:15):
There you go. So you know what we should do
after that?

Speaker 7 (22:18):
We should sing, when fold, when to walk, Wait, run,
show money when you're sitting in that.

Speaker 4 (22:36):
Table timing up the count.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
Stuck gott Leap Show here on Fox Sports Radio, and
let's welcome in season nine. Season nine after an unbelievable
run last year with the Knicks, Josh Hart joins us
and Josh, how many group chats do you normally have,
like a daily weekly basis? How many group chats you're in?

Speaker 5 (23:04):
I'm probably in about four or five.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
Okay, so this cold water chat, this is like you're
the people you grew up with.

Speaker 5 (23:12):
Yeah, it's yeah, Mad, who's like my brother, who's also
on my podcast, his wife, my wife now, one of
my best friends past all really basically from from high school.

Speaker 1 (23:27):
Okay, So how long has this group chat been going?

Speaker 5 (23:33):
Oh? I don't know, probably quite a while. It's hard
to give it an actual actual time, but obviously I
know all these people. Themar Is the newest one who's
my wife's for my Matt's wife, the newest one who
came about box four years ago, so it's been going

(23:54):
for a couple of years.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
Yeah, I think. I think the problem with those is
what happens if somebody leaves the chat? You're like, ooh,
what happened? What happened? They did they but nobody nobody's
left the chat. I bring it up because what Heineken's
doing is your group chat is is going to take
over a bar in New York? Is that right?

Speaker 3 (24:10):
Yep?

Speaker 1 (24:11):
Yep, So it's there. You're changing a bar to the
cold Water Bar. But only the people, Like how many
people get invited to this thing? If there's only like
a handful of people in the group chat.

Speaker 5 (24:22):
No, it's it's just us. It's just us. It's a
it's a way for us to kind of just come
together obviously, you know group chat, you know what I mean.
It's it's cool, but you know, being able to hang out,
you know, in real life and just kick it, you
know as friends in person and me it's note to
the memories. So you know, it's that's just for us.

(24:44):
You know, we're the only ones that invited so this
is kind of a time for us to kind of
hang out and you know, make new memories that laugh
at old memories.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
It's a pretty cool thing. Following the lunch of the bar,
heiney Ken and Josh are going to be issuing a
a wide contest selecting a special group chat between your
very own Heineken group chat bar experience designed to turn
the digital banter into an unforgettable in person memory. And
of course Josh Hart's joining us on behalf of Heinegen
here on the Doug Gotlieb Show on Fox Sports. Trade it.

(25:16):
You've been through a lot of things in the NBA.
You know, traded obviously, you know, drafted by the Lakers.
You know, this is your fourth team you play for.
You guys get to the conference finals and your coach
gets fired. What what what is that like to see
such team success and yet such turnover on the bench
after such team success.

Speaker 5 (25:39):
It's definitely a little different, you know, something that you
don't really see often. But you know, I think the
core of the core group that we have is, you know,
is a great group. And obviously, you know, you add
someone like Mike who's who's one who's been a winning

(26:00):
situation and those ware takes to win. You know that
that's uh, it's a great it's a great you know,
it's a great fit. So it's definitely a little difference,
gonna take a little time to you know, everything to
jail and everyone to get actimated with each other. But
you know, I think it's a recipe for success.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
You know, there there's a there's a world there where
you look at you and and Jalen mckel you know
all the time and the wins and the friendship together
where outside looking in and you're like, are those guys
welcoming to new people? What is that like? To play
with guys that you have such a strong bond with,
but then you have to be cognizant of new people

(26:41):
also want it not just be teammates, but have those
type of relationships. How do you handle that?

Speaker 5 (26:49):
Yeah, I mean you never you know, you never want
to have, you know, new teammates and people come across,
and I think that you got to kind of like,
you know, it kind of clicked up because obviously you
guys have a great relationship, but I think we're just
we're extremely welcoming. I think all of our characters that
we're all extremely outgoing. We're all very very talkative, you know,

(27:15):
but we always want people to feel comfortable, and I think,
you know that's something that we try to go out
of our way to do it make sure everyone is
comfortable with, you know, the new situation. Obviously with new
people that come to the team, that's the hardest part
is just kind of like the uncertainty of like how
the guy's going to welcome me and those kinds of things.

(27:36):
So we always trying to put an emphasis on, you know,
communicating and being as welcoming as possible.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
When you guys have been as good as now you
are with the Knicks, everybody in New York wants to
come to seeking. There's nothing like a game at the Garden.
Has there been a moment where you've looked across to
the front row and even you've done a debt because
like Bro, you played in l A, you played in
New York, have been this league for a long time.
He won national championships as a minimum, where you looked

(28:05):
across like I cannot believe they're here to watch us play.

Speaker 5 (28:13):
Now that I can think of, I was like, you know,
it's New York celebrity. Row Is it's unmatched. But it's
all I always look at it like, oh, this is
this is super dope, like having you know, we've had.
I mean, obviously it's it's hard to you know, obviously,
fight's always there. Denzel's you know, comes to games. He

(28:39):
wants like bad bunnies there party be like you can
just go down the list. So I always look at
it like, man, this is just this is a super
col experience, you know. And you know he's trying to
have to think of a granted, Josh.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
Hart joining us on the Doug Otleeb Show on behalf
of of Heineken because they're they're trying to create a
true social off social moment with the official season start
and of course, uh Josh part of that that three
some of Villanova Wildcats, part of the New York Nicks
to go to the Eastern Conference finals. And you see
him kind of all over on billboards, you know, electric cars,

(29:14):
you you you name it. Uh, but you're also you're
you have this unique skill, Josh, where you're the hard
playing dude that kind of can annoy the other team
and draw charge or get an offensive rebound. But you
haven't crossed over to where you're the villain, right, you know,
like you look across the teams, everybody has a villain.

(29:35):
How have you maintained the status of being the hard
playing guy without being the villain the other other fan
bases hate?

Speaker 5 (29:44):
I don't know, man, I always you know, I always
trying to play the game, you know, as as hard
as I can, with as much respect as I can.
You know, I always say it obviously, you know we're
here talking abouhind again, and and it's he's fitting. But
like I always wanted to be as like, you know,
the hardworking guy but extremely relatable. I want to feel

(30:06):
like I'm kind of even go you know, come to
the bar with the crack over there, you know, cracked
over a hide again or something like that. Like That's
how I want people to view me as just like
someone who is playing extremely hard but also is extremely relatable.
But I think, you know that kind of that kind
of helps a little bit, you know, because I don't

(30:27):
really try to, you know, be disrespectful or try to
you know, put myself and my teama on a pedestal.

Speaker 1 (30:36):
Well, Josh listened, last year was an unbelievable year. What's
your level of confidence, especially you know, Pacers, how he
gets hurt Celtics. You know, Tatum, Tatum may come back,
may not like it does feel like if not now
when this should be the year? What's it like to
prepare for this season knowing that you're really not judged

(30:57):
until May and June. How do you how do you
mentally get ready for the fight knowing that what you're
really judged by is months and months away.

Speaker 5 (31:07):
Yeah? Man, it's at times it's tough because obviously, you
you know what the goal is and uh, you know,
at times you want to you know, hit hit hit
a button and fast forward and get to April or
gets to May or something like that. But you know,
you you kind of have to take it one day
at a time. And I know it's kind of cliche
and it's you know, people kind of looking at like, okay, yeah, yeah, sure, sure,

(31:32):
but you know it's the truth. You know, you got
to take you know, these kind of things that day
and time and continue to progress and continue to build
because if you don't do that and you you know,
automatically think you're going to get to where you were
last year or take that next step, uh, you know,
there's complacency that sits in and that's something that we

(31:54):
don't want UH to be associated with that, you know,
that word complacency. As as a team, team at the individuals,
as an organization, we want to be you know, people
who work hard, people who continue to build a you know,
game by game by game, and when you do that,
you know success. You know it's found to happen. But

(32:17):
you can't rest success.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
You can outrest success. And you guys have built it
and continue to build it in New York are thanks
to heinding again for having you on plus this really
cool your group chat, cold water, all your people from
back home, your wife and your friends. Of course I
know you're taking over bar in New York City. This
is a really good, really cool social campaign to launch
the NBA season. Josh, best of luck, continued health and
thanks for joining us on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 5 (32:39):
I appreciate it, my man.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
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(33:35):
the press.

Speaker 6 (33:36):
Here's Johnny.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
The Press, or Dan in this case, Doug. Big news
from the NFL today, The Baltimore Ravens find one hundred
thousand dollars by the league for their handling of the
injury report last week regarding quarterback Lamar Jackson.

Speaker 1 (34:00):
You heard about how big of the issue it was. Again,
it's not that Lamar Jackson didn't play and went out
and said I don't feel right. It's with how he
was listed in these report And of course this all
comes back to gambling, So about gambling and fantasy football
and how the lines adjust to it. So that's how
powerful the gambling industry is and how much the NFL

(34:23):
knows they need to get it right.

Speaker 2 (34:24):
He practiced fully with the scout team, just not with
the first team. The Ravens, by the way, fully cooperated
with the investigation. They will not appeal, but the NFL
ultimately found that they weren't trying to deceive. They were
just negligent.

Speaker 3 (34:40):
All the money that went on the Ravens after it
had been determined that Lamar was going to play. So
you heard about all this money dumped on the Ravens
and the line went down. Didn't they end up covering?

Speaker 2 (34:53):
Yes, they won by two scores I think last week.
So yes, no one was hurt. Miami Dolph Ravens were hurt.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
No, no Ravens were hurt in this episode.

Speaker 2 (35:06):
Yes, there actually maybe maybe helped the Miami Dolphins parted
ways with general manager Chris Greer today. Mike McDaniel it's
going to stay on as head coach until at least
the end of the regular season.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
Dan's got that thing going that I had in my voice.
He's not sick. I think it's dry. I think it's
the Yeah, I've.

Speaker 2 (35:23):
Had it all today. It's really grabbed me. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (35:26):
Yeah. Look I said it before. I mean, if you change,
if you change uh gms, you're going to change coaches,
your gym, change quarterbacks. It's only mattered when not if.
Guess is Obviously McDaniel's done at the end of the year,
and then the question with Tua is can they find
something to take him or does he become lame duck
next year for a new GM and then ultimately get

(35:48):
a new quarterback. That's what happens when you get a
new GM.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
We've seen Travis Hunter more on offense than on defense,
and now we're not going to see him at all.
Jaguars placed the rookie uninjured reserve after he suffered a
knee injury in practice yesterday. Now tests say that his
ACL remains intact, so there's the opportunity for Hunter to
return this season. But Travis Hunter going to be out
a while for the Jaguars.

Speaker 1 (36:13):
So what he what did he hurt? It's his knee,
but it's torn.

Speaker 2 (36:17):
It's not a torn acl but uh so the severity
of that injury has been ruled out, but they are
doing an additional testing and no answers are expected before
next week. Was the phrase used by Adam Schefter.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
You know, no one ever gets the second opinion on
good news. You whatice that they don't say that, mister Gottlieb,
you don't have cancer, doc. I'd like to get a
second opinion. Doesn't happen? Right, that happened.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
So the returns on Travis Hunter's rookie season is mayh
Yeah if that traded up to draft him, yeah, misused
him and now he's done.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
Yeah, they don't have a first round picnict year belongs
to CLEVELANDO believe they're not a buy this week, here's
your quick quarterback update. Commanders quarterback Jad and Daniels. He'll
start against the Seahawks, Bryce Young and the Panthers to
start against the Packers. Niners will start Mac Jones against
the Giants. Rock Purty could be available. Bengals quarterback Joe

(37:19):
Flacco questionable to face the Bears, Michael PENNOCKX Junior set
to start against the Patriots. Well, it's not a foregone
conclusion that Kyler Murray starts Monday night for Arizona against
the Cowboys. M and that it is the press.

Speaker 3 (37:33):
Yes, by get out there and pressed, that was the press.

Speaker 1 (37:39):
What's your feeling, Jay Stue negatively positively about a game seven?

Speaker 3 (37:42):
Yam Mamato gets beat tonight. Congratulations.

Speaker 1 (37:47):
I think the young motto comes through tonight and we
have a game seven. Baseball needs a game seven, right,
doesn't it feels like to me? Have a good weekend.
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