The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: A Second Greg Cote "Zip Your Lip"

Episode Date: March 18, 2025

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You're listening to DraftKings Network. This is the Dan Leventar Show with Stu Gotz Podcast. This episode of the Dan Leventar Show with Stu Gotz is presented by DraftKings. DraftKings, the crown is yours. This art show is Dugats, presented by DraftKings. DraftKings, the crown is yours. Many years ago, I was talking with Kevin Durant about being tall as a child. And he said that as a fifth grader,

he used to pray that every evening that he could be shorter because kids wanna fit in. And he was being gawked at because he was tall and it felt awkward for him. About a year ago, we talked about a Florida player, a player who had decided to go to Florida, Olivier Roux, who was seven foot nine, but wasn't one of the top 50 prospects in America,

even though he was seven foot nine. He ended up going to Florida. Florida obviously is good enough to win the tournament this year, a very deep team. He's not playing for that team, but he was cutting the net the other day. And there's video of him cutting the net without having to get on the ladder

where he just reaches up there and cuts the net. He also, there's also video of him on the team plane, a team plane filled with ostensibly other very large people and he just looks very much bigger than everyone else and sports is a great confidence builder for a number of people, success in sports. But when I see someone of this height and think of all the things that are problematic, including just trying to take a shower in a hotel room, just in just any hotel room in America, that person cannot take a shower.

And when, when, or sleep in a bed, I imagine, I imagine a normal bed is not something that a seven foot nine person could sleep in. So when you add the combination of he's seven nine and he's obviously a basketball player and anyone who talks to him or sees him is going to see him as a basketball player, but he's not a good basketball player

because he can't move around very well at that height. I remember the stories about Andre the Giant and the pain that he was in and it just when I see someone of that height it generally fills me with a sadness about the unknown because of I imagine that person to be in a great deal of pain. Yeah, because that's not just tall, that's freakishly tall, right? Like, if you're 6'6 or 6'7, you're really tall,

you stand out, but it's sort of normal tall. When I see somebody 7'9, I feel bad for them, and I thank the stars that I'm 5'9, to be honest with you. I mean... The stars you're thinking for the uh... you know what i did the other day chris i think i've told you that i do this occasionally there's a step stool in my garage

it's two steps so it's like this occasionally i stand on the steps to just to imagine how it would be to be seven feet tall and it is so weird because your whole perspective changes. You are a different person. If you have a step stool, stand on it, put yourself in a seven footer's shoes for just a minute. It really changes your outlook.

I've never, I've never bet, when you say six, seven is a normal tall, I have legitimately never met a seven foot human being who's not a Basketball player I've never I've never seen what one of those look like who doesn't play basketball in the wild Anyway guys like I paint no Anywhere I remember Amici said to me one time because he's like though He's one he was the first player in his country to make it to basketball, and the way that he started was so primitive

in that the first basket that he played on, there was a wall right behind the basket, so there was no place to land on the other side of the basket when he was playing. He said to me, there are plenty of seven-foot people, because I'm talking to him, well, you had certain gifts being seven foot. And he's like, there are plenty of seven foot people who work at Subway.

And I'm like, no, there aren't. You guys are just begging someone to talk about the Terry Rosier, Osama should have hooped tweet, right? You guys remember that one? Go ahead. It was just, he should have hooped, he's tall as hell. No one remembers that?

So it's an all time NBA Twitter moment. Is Terry Rosier saying Osama bit? You guys remember that one? Go ahead. It was just he should have hooped, he's tall as hell. No one remembers that? So it's an all time NBA Twitter moment, is Terry Rozier saying Osama Bin Laden should have hooped instead? We mentioned that being, I joked that someone being tall could also be a painter, and we started talking back here. What are other jobs outside of basketball that being really tall would be beneficial?

Because painting, now I don't need the ladder for this, you know, for the top of the ceiling here. Or maybe, what else would being tall be helpful with? Fixing lights. Yeah, electrician maybe, because then you can fix lights while still standing up and not needing a step stool. A stock person at a store, at a grocery store. I can stock that top aisle now,

don't need the little step stool. See, there's other jobs they can do, it's not just basketball. Yeah, I think it's interesting though because when you're growing up extra tall, you're made fun of. Not always, obviously, but it's a common bullying technique if you're freakishly tall.

I feel like as someone who grew up, you know, red hair freckles, I dealt with some, that's the child's play of the being, like if you're being mocked for being tall, like that's the best case scenario of all the things you could be picked on for. I feel like being tall. Yeah, I feel like Chris,

this is kind of, I feel like this is Chris's expertise. Yes, I know bullying. As a ginger case. Okay, but I've talked to Ron McGill about how he was bullied for being taller than everybody else growing up. Your mother, your mother grew very quickly. She was like five,8 at age 13.

It was terrible for her. And my mom's a ginger. Man, that must have been tough growing up for my mom. You should talk to her about that sometime. Seriously. Okay, so Billy is informing me that as part of our March Sadness tournament that involves the fans of this show that we have someone who's very tall, that he can't figure out whether that person is standing on a chair or not. So do we have rankings and seedings for these people who are in our tournament? We do, and they have been informed via email today that they have made the tournament

and they've gotten the next prompt. So should the fans vote for them to make it to the next round, they have a deadline that has been set, for them to make it to the next round, they have a deadline that has been set, they need to send their follow-up video, and then if they have moved on, we will have their video so that they can move forward.

Now, our competition committee met, and this is a 16 seed in one of the regions, and I'm gonna, full disclosure here, tell you that when we were talking, there was a number of criteria that were met, there was the quad wins, the quad losses, all of that, right? But this one kinda got through if I'm being completely honest with you,

because we could not figure out if this man is just exceptionally tall or if he was standing on a chair the entire time. My name is Jordan and I think I should win the Biggest Band Award because I have been listening for over 12 years, so I get the show. I've actually visited Miami twice and I stayed at the Clevelander and at the Elser so I'm definitely very invested in the LeBata show. And number three and most importantly I'm a Minnesota sports fan so I never win anything.

My teams don't win any tournaments whatsoever. Dan is always talking about how the Vikings are frauds and the Wolves are going to get rid of Anthony Edwards so it'd be nice to win something for once. I mean you got the gist of it but he said he's the biggest fan and his head is nearly hitting the ceiling so we said you know what this is up for the fans to decide if this is actually the biggest fan or not but he seems to be a giant that man. Also the Lynx have won four championships in the last like two decades. Well he's a sexist obviously. He could be in a tiny house. That's true. He doesn't deserve to be in our tournament based on that. Well he's a 16 seed, he's a sexist, obviously. He could be in a tiny house. That's true. Very tall sexist.

He doesn't deserve to be in our tournament based on that. Well, he was a 16 seed. Let's be real. He's going to be bouncing the first round, because the number one seed against him is a monster. Wait, did Greg see the video of the guy, the cameo that Greg was in? Because that should be a one seed.

So if that guy is against really tall guy, the one seed obviously is going to be a blowout. We will get that in a moment, and we will play that again for the audience that wasn't listening on Sunday night because Greg Cody enjoys nothing more than people who reference Greg Cody. So we will get to that in a second as soon as the video team gets to it. But Greg was wearing me out during the break because he was saying, Hey, Dan, the West Virginia attorney general is now involved, they're formally investigating everything that's happening with this North Carolina

being allowed into the tournament. This is so much work and ways for them to get bounced in one game. Yeah, also James Comey was 6'8", and people used to say he shoulda hooped too. Wow. Lee and I will walk up and down with our dog up and down the trail and be like,

wow, that person was, when we see a tall person, we always say you should have hooped, and it's like a reference to that. And now, if you guys were there, you wouldn't even understand it, but now you will. Do you think that tall people that are bad at basketball feel worse? Oh yes.

Because there's just this assumption, you know what, because I'm sure they get it all, oh, you should have played basketball, yeah, but I can't, because I'm unathletic and my body is a waste, respectfully. Yeah, I'm sure there's been plenty of people who were tall and gave it a shot just because everyone was saying,

you should play basketball. Like Ron. But they tried and they were awful, just terrible. Greg Cody, your thoughts on the West Virginia Attorney General now summoning an investigation, because I keep hearing it wasn't just L it was also you and you wore me out during the break saying that it should just be understood that if the school that you're competing against

has that kind of history in basketball all of the things being equal including merit you should be okay with North Carolina making the tournament. And it's the opinion of someone who doesn't actually care about the team being wronged. Because if it was your team, nobody would be making the argument of, yeah, it's fine. It's not about this season, it's just about,

and I'm with you on the idea that much of this is just for television you have to understand that's not about merit it's about entertainment but if it were my team i'd be mad that it were about entertainment instead of merit that's not supposed to be how it works in sports so you i'm sure everyone listening to this is all west virginia's being ridiculous with its governor its attorney general except for people who care about the west virginia program and except for any of you who care about any program

and if it happened to you you'd be this kind of mad as well you have a bad outrage presumes that west virginia has a strong argument uh... which is extreme not a strong argument just a stronger one the north carolina it's extremely debatable on that, okay? And television ratings do matter, program heritage does matter, and North Carolina is incomparably higher than West Virginia. The analogy I used when we were talking off air is that if you're the college football playoff committee picking that 12th team and the choices are Alabama and Tulane, that's

a no-da decision, all other things being equal. Again, though, if Jessica's Notre Dame is wronged in that situation, or if Mike's Miami or Billy's FIU or Jeremy's UCF, it's already happened. Well, Mike's Miami was wronged in the women's bracket last year. They're the first team out, and they had some really, really bad losses last year. And it's a field of 68 teams. So it's a lot different than college football,

where it's four teams and now it's 12 teams, and there's automatic bids and everything like that. But you're really arguing about a really, really small, select number of teams. This is a lot of teams, there's obviously 31 automatic bids, but then there's a bunch of out-large bids, over lot of teams. There's obviously 31 automatic bids, but then there's a bunch of out large bids, over 30 of them. And it's like, okay, you gotta make some choices.

Again though, you guys don't care enough about the, nobody here cares about West Virginia basketball. Well I think it's cause they're mediocre, right? Like we're not talking about, again, like when we were talking about four teams for FSU or UCF, you're talking about Undefeated teams that feel they've earned their way to be in a playoff. This is a field of 68 So we're talking about you know, there are automatic qualifiers So you're talking about what the 44th and 45th the best teams in the country potentially?

There's an understanding of really you're gonna have gripes over the minutiae when we're splitting hairs, 45 teams into this field. I understand March Madness' whole thing is anybody can win it because of these one game samples, but I mean, what are we really talking about here if you're the governor of West Virginia? Also, more people don't care about West Virginia basketball than do just statistically in the world.

So we represent the majority. And they lost their last game. Had they won, they would have been. To a three and 17 team, but I would just say that in the era of gripes, you saying that the minority that feels wronged gets laughed at by the majority, it's why the minority ends up feeling even more alone

with their wronged because no one cares about this enough Except for a politician who's out here trying to grandstand. Yes. Yes. He does not care about that team either Just cares about his constituency and it's wise to care about that particular constituency This is the easiest possible issue for a politician to get behind and summon his attorney general to help him with because the people, what are you shaking your head know about? It's just this... It's patently ridiculous. L. Duncan agreed with me. It's beneath the office of the governor and the attorney general was appointed by the governor so that's his puppet just moving like a marionette to whatever the governor says it's just

it's a waste of taxpayer money like Jeremy said you're talking about the 68th spot in the tournament it's not even worth any outrage whatsoever just grow up take take defeat you lost to a 3 in 17 team, zip your lip, move on. Another, a second zip your lip. Yeah, I don't say that nearly enough. Okay, and another thing is that somebody mentioned the 35th ranked education system in the United States. How about turn your attention to that and don't worry about the mountaineers.

There you go Greg. Okay very good. Greg's got a lot of opinions I want to get to most of them. I also want to get to updating our tournament which we will do in a second but I wanted to put before you guys some information that I did not have, I did not know before yesterday. Sean Baker the director of Enora that won so many Oscars, and also the director of The Brutalist whose name escapes me right now. Both of these people have said, this stunned me, that the Hollywood film market and independent movie making has taken such a hit in the streaming age. The business of it has taken such a hit where DVD sales and

money you can make after making a movie is no longer available. Both of them have said they're broke, that they didn't make any money on those movies, that that the director of The Brutalist told Mark Maron, I made zero dollars making that movie and Sean Baker is saying something very similar. I could not believe that the industry that independent movie making is in such peril that Enora, which cost six million dollars to make, is unable to pay Sean Baker what he believes is, nevermind a decent wage for an obsessive project that requires a number of hours, but that you're talking about people who are struggling to get any kind of paycheck for exemplary work.

I knew the moviemaking industry was in some peril. I knew it was hard to make independent films. I did not know that both people who had made the best film of the year would be saying, hey, zero dollars are close to broke. But like, when you do independent films, that's always kind of been how it works, right? Like you never really make a ton of money

off of independent movies, and if you're the director and you direct an independent film with such a claim, that's how you kind of get your name out there and then you move on to less artful projects where you make the money. Like now, he'll be doing a Spider-Man movie or something in the future and he'll make $800 zillion dollars.

And you know what? You sell out, but you make all your money. You made your art, you win your award, and then you go on and make all the money. Also, speaking of Hollywood, Vince Vaughn, shoulda hooped. He's like 6'5". Wow. He's taller than that. Big guy. He's taller than that. Well, the internet says 6'5". also speaking of hollywood vince fun should have yes six five you know i was told that guy he's torn up

the internet says six five christopher lee also six five i was dwarfed starting next to him i i felt small i don't feel small around a whole lot of people i was surprised by how tall he is just goldman six four nicholas brawn is six foot seven i think you can do this on both ends. Find, you can shock us right now. You can shock the listening audience on both the high end and the low end by telling them some actors who are impossibly small

and some who are larger than you think they are. Tom Cruise plays roles that are six foot six. He's five foot six. When you Google tallest actors, half of them are NBA players that have been in movies like Shaq and LeBron James. But then you also get a Ted Cassidy, who I believe Greg knows, right Greg? No.

No? Was it a different Cassidy we were talking about? Who dat? Okay. Feel free to find both on the high end and the low end. The low end can be funnier old-timey actor Uncle Phil was 6'5 Isn't

What's his name Dustin Hoffman really short? Yes, five six something like that tiny five five five five Jason Alexander five five Seth Green five four Patton Oswalt five three all of those I'd like some that are surprisingly small because you think of them as taller. Al Pacino, five, six. Mm-hmm. Well, there are pictures of Al Pacino and Robert De Niro walking around in like clogs and stuff and high heels on a set meant to make them look larger.

And they'll often- I'm wearing those same shoes right now. Like literally this- Wow. They'll often find, get actors who are similarly small to make them appear larger. There are any number, I think that Emilio Estevez is stunningly small.

I think that you can find a number of actors that you will surprise the audience because they look on the screen like they're bigger. How tall is Tom Cruise? He's about five six, is he not? The internet says five seven, but I don't quite believe that. I've stood next to Tom Cruise one time

at Blizzard Beach in Orlando, and I towered over him. Look at me move. Wait, Tom Cruise was at Blizzard Beach? Yeah, this was right after the divorce or as the divorce was being finalized. So he brought his daughter, who was like a little kid at the time, to Blizzard Beach and was walking through.

I was there with the camp that I'm volunteering for. I was talking to one of the counselors and he looked right past me as if he had seen a ghost. So I turned to my right and I was like, who's this short guy? It doesn't matter. I turned back and then I looked and it's Tom Cruise. And then all of a sudden,

because he realized that we noticed him, he starts speeding up and he's dragging his daughter along, and then I realize there's a security detail behind him, and they all ran up, and we tried to throw a Camp Fiesta bracelet at him and tell him, hey, there's this camp and it's really cool, and then we lied to everybody at the camp and told them that we actually talked to Tom Cruise,

but we only told one person, and then by the time we got back to the base where everybody was hanging out at camp, all 80 people at the camp thought that we had met Tom Cruise. We kept that lie going for like five years. It was really awesome. You lied to kids with cancer? I lied to the counselors who used to have cancer.

Danny Trejo, five, six. Big difference. Verne Troyer, two, eight. They lied to the kids with cancer. Jeremy. Put it on the poll at Levitard Show. Are you surprised that Danny Trejo is only five, eight? Five, six.

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Okay, jr. Stugats. I had to school you and explain to you. He was gonna take you to Augusta When I was 17 years old Alan Sherry, and I used to haunt the Bueller Planetarium This is the Don Lebatar show with the StuGuardz Let's uh, let's play for Greg Cody what promises to be or I'm assuming already is a number one seed in this tournament and just please put in picture in picture the look on Greg Cody's face so you can see how radiant he will get at any mention of his name or any reference that is anywhere near him. Why do I deserve the crown for this year's March Sadness?

Well if I've learned anything watching the show, it's always side with Greg Cote. So I spent a lot of money on Cameo for this endorsement. I hope you like it. Who needs me? It's the manager, the Lobos. Just want to support this guy because he gave me money through Cameo. And I do want to say in all seriousness, back in my day, we used to take our Alex. It's Dan, Stu and and Greg Cody on ESPN.

Billy, how many more tournament teams do you want to unveil to the audience? Have you, you have already got the 68 videos? You've organized them? Yeah, we've organized, we've ranked, and we've informed the 64 teams that made the tournament. So they'll know, and fan voting will start, I believe we're trying to go along along Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

64, not 68. Well yeah, because then we'd have to add an extra round. Dan, you don't want to know the logistics of this whole thing. Trust me. I really don't. 64 is better. And it's one of the rare instances when I do trust you.

Well, anywho, so here's another one of our submissions. I'm not gonna tell you the number or the rankings, but this is another submission to the tournament. When again was asked, why should you watch a game with Dan? Dan is talking to Vince Will for today. So many things that he wants to say. Then he asked about his wife Bianca. I just got a brand new wife tonight

Don't ask me about my own wife tonight Trying to stop dance face from reading the silence from will fork is deadening dangerous man I love him. I still hear the echoing laughter of Vince Wilfork and his new wife in the New Orleans airport outside of the bathroom when they saw me. So if you'd like we have another one here again. The question was why should you watch the game with Dan or why are you the show's biggest

fan? And here is another submission. You and me, Dan, talking about your great turn on phrases or eating your fantastic popcorn. Why did you watch the game with Dan or why are you the show's biggest fan? And here is another submission. You and me, Dan-o, talking about your great turn on phrases or eating your fantastic popcorn. We can talk about how the band Korn popped back in 1999. 99, how the media game has changed since then. Media, me, dia, my day? Back in my day getting your jersey retired meant something.

Retired? Read tired? Is Eric Reid tired of Greg Cody trying to make fun of him? Him? Hymns? Like what they sing in churches or cathedrals. The cathedral of sports. What journalists are trying to save running around like freaks on a leash. The song that topped corn. Wow! Nice! A poet! I need to text Charlie Kravitz right now. Greg, how do you feel? Because you've got a number of different opinions here today that we have not yet gotten to.

And I'd like to spin the wheel of Greg Cody issues, if you guys don't mind. I'd like to spin the wheel right now. And I will tell you what it'd like to spin the wheel right now and I will tell you what it is that's on the wheel. We've got Tommy John is on the wheel. The NIT tournament. Aaron Rodgers is on the wheel. Let's see what it lands on. What did it land on Greg? Oh I get to pick? I would think so. No just read it off the wheel. Look at the wheel and pick the thing it landed on. Oh right okay I think NIT it landed on NIT. You think so? It was wavering and then you know the paddle and then it went over at the last second.

Okay. The NIT tournament and and the other pretender tournaments others even a new and i think there's three now but the n a t and those people they need to disappear sixty eight teams is enough everything else is a leftover if you win the n i t tournament don't cut on that don't act all happy about winning that trophy it doesn't matter you your leftovers sixty eight teams is enough.

All the other tournaments should be disbanded. I really believe that. And if I were a self-respecting head coach who missed out on the NCAA tournament, I wouldn't accept a bid. I would tell my players, we weren't good enough. We didn't make the only tournament that matters. They make money off of going.

I know they do. And money drives everything, unfortunately. And now we're so mad for content we're so desperate for content that there's always going to be a market for the secondary tournament and the third tournament and the fourth tournament. It's like giving out a ribbon for finishing last in a race. You don't deserve it. You didn't make the NCAA tournament. You've had a less than successful season. Let it be. How many years in a row have you done this? Just this take? I mean, it's a take I believed in for a long time. You know, I didn't pick it. I mean the wheel picked it.

You are against the NIT in a way that's most, that's strongest among all media members and I can't wait until the governor of West Virginia and the attorney general are invited to West Virginia winning the NIT tournament and celebrating it with their local politicians. Did you guys see that there was a controversy with South Alabama over the weekend. Okay, so what happened was is UC Riverside had committed to being in the CBI tournament, which is a third tournament. So therefore they were left out of the NIT tournament because of their commitment to the CBI tournament.

So because UC Riverside had already committed to that tournament, the NIT needed another school, so they invited South Alabama to participate in the NIT tournament. Now what happened was UC Riverside was then able to get out of their commitment to the CBI tournament, so the NIT tournament rescinded their invitation to South Alabama after inviting them and informing the players that they would be part of the NIT tournament. I'm telling you what, it's a nightmare, it's a landscape on fire. The NIT used to be, used to have that lane to itself, right?

The NIT was the also-ran tournament. There was no competition. And now there's the one you mentioned, there's a new tournament. There's at least three and perhaps four, you know, big level tournaments now competing. And so the NIT is getting this backup. The NIT is saying, hey we were the also ran

tournament for a long time, didn't have any competition. Now we have other made up tournaments competing for our also ran teams. It's ridiculous. And the CBI is different than the CBC, right? Which is the college basketball crown. That's another tournament happening in Vegas. Too many tournaments. And the CDC is the center for disease control. Also the NIT used to be the premier tournament, right? Like back in the 50s before the NCAA took over. The NIT, and then, that's, it was very prestigious

to play in the NIT. Yeah, the NIT. Call it the not. N-O-T. Spin the wheel again. When my cap was the manager of Duquesne, they won the NIT, I believe. What did it land on there Greg? Oh wow I am thrilled by this getting to talk about Tommy John.

Tommy John is known for two things surgery and underwear okay Tommy and 288 wins. Tommy John wait a step on my punchline. Tomi John surgery, uh... How could I have known what your punchline is? It's like Garrett Cole, you know, Tomi John surgery. A couple of things. Number one, Tomi John did an interview, he's 81 years old, still alive, God bless him. He did an interview with AARP Magazine a couple of years ago. He's against Tommy John surgery, which they named after him because Frank Job, the surgeon, you know, wanted to give it a name that people would remember. Tommy John rightly thinks that

there's too many Tommy John surgeries now. They're too routine and the majority, like 60% of Tommy John surgeries are to high school age pitchers. He's against that and I think he's got a point. The other thing is- He's against their arms getting hurt? He's against his name being associated with it?

He's against too many surgeries. He's against the surgery named after him being used- The play through the pain. Well no, he's saying probably if you're a high school kid and you might need UCL surgery, man it might not be worth it for you to go through that surgery, is what I imagine he's saying,

because of the thousands upon thousands of high school kids getting reconstructive surgery with Tommy John, I would imagine five of them maybe make it to even professional ball, let alone the big leagues. You're 100% right, he's certainly not saying play through the pain, which is ridiculous. Tommy John underwear comes out, and poor Tommy John, he's like, he's thinking of su play through the pain, which is ridiculous Tommy John underwear comes out and poor Tommy John

He's like he's thinking of suing Tommy John underwear Which is unaffiliated with him only to find out that he couldn't afford the lawyer in that case But as Levitard mentioned stepping on my punchline Tommy John and take it from a baseball Hall of Fame voter Tommy John deserves to make the Hall of Fame the only other pitcher in since 1900 with that many pitching wins not to be in the Hall of Fame is Roger Clemens because of steroids. So Tommy John is is Hall of Fame worthy on just about every level. His career ERH is like 3.3 which is really really good. So instead of just knowing him for surgery and underwear

put this man in the hall of fame while he's still alive. Did you guys notice, I don't know if this story is something that has gotten traction or if it's something that's happening outside of South Florida, but my wife was very confused recently because it is taking her months to try and get a DMV appointment. That one of the things that's happening with all of the chaos in some American systems failing and the government being actively broken, the DMV is not functioning correctly, but now people have done some

reporting to find out what's happening there. The appointments, the free appointments, are being booked by people who are affiliated with like the driver school or the traffic school and then the appointments are being scalped. If you want to get a free appointment at the DMV, you have to pay someone who is hogging the appointments because there are scalpers who are taking the DMV appointments and then putting them on the secondary market so that you have to pay for them.

Genuinely, it's insane so that you have to pay for them. Genuinely, it's insane, and if you have to go to the DMV in Miami, good luck. Lehman drove to Vero Beach twice last year to get his car registered. That's like 150 mile drive both ways. It's where Wild Bill's from. We could not get an appointment at the DMV here. It's crazy. I just did not have a circumstance in any scenario

non-apocalyptic where DMV would be something that I have to pay for because people are scalping DMV reservations. Is that only because we're a corrupt banana republic or is this happening throughout the country with DMV? Well, you can also just wait like three weeks. Like you just make the appointment and you wait. No, no.

No. No appointments. I drove to the Keys when I needed to renew my passport. Made a day out of it. But like if you wanna go to the one at like Magic City, you can't get an appointment. Like the last time I tried, which was like two or three years ago.

You guys need to know a person. Complete, exactly. You know a person, then they tell two or three years ago. You guys need to know a person. Exactly. You know a person, then they tell you which one you go to and you go to like someone, you drive like 25 minutes in there, it's next to like a post office, you go in and out. Okay, but some people can't do that because they have work and they can't be like out standing in a line at 4 a.m.

to get into the DMV just to get their license renewed. You know, it's too bad Dan's wife doesn't know anybody really important who could like make a phone call and sort of circumvent some of these. Or can't afford $25 to get the reservation or is making some sort of principal stand about. But it's taking months, Billy. It ain't a week thing. It's not waiting for weeks.

She can't get an appointment for many months. The Miami-Dade tax collector is named Dariel Fernandez, and Fernandez said in a statement that in the three weeks since their office opened up in downtown Miami, a suspected 200 appointments came through with suspected scalpers. I mean, in three weeks, 200 of the appointments they think have been booked by these people

who are reselling them for, can we just, we just start everything over can we just press over I mean this just this is the end of all of society this is this is going the tickets are going or the reservations are going for anywhere from $25 to $250 yeah let's just end it yeah it should be against the law scalping government access like that. It really should be, but the secondary market changed the music concert industry. When I was growing up, you'd wait, literally wait in line overnight to get a Rolling Stones ticket as soon as they went on sale. Now you know, you can barely get one and you end up having to pay

a lot more on the secondary market let me ask in the wheel uh... real quick here one last time here see if we can get what does it say there okay i had to wait it was a sweet way during uh... erin rogers still on sign uh... he's holding the NFL hostage. He's going to wind up with the Giants or the Steelers. Some people still want to float that Minnesota Vikings.

Namely him. Well, he does, but they're committed to J.J. McCarthy, assuming he's completely healthy from what kept him out all last year as a rookie. But it does make you wonder though that if the Steelers, if Aaron Rodgers has been, is good enough for the Steelers and the Giants, why wasn't he good enough for the Jets? Is Justin Fields better? I think that's something in retrospect that you can ask. But Aaron Rodgers, he's on f fumes but he's still a big name and

if he goes to the Giants I think that's where he needs to be you know do for the Giants what he never could do for the Jets his ego needs the big city so it's at his age 41 42 he's still a major player in this league who's he holding hostage he's holding the team's hostage, that Pittsburgh and the Giants make a decision already. Make a decision. They need to move on before, the draft's right around the corner.

Make a decision so that the team you don't pick can move on already. Why wouldn't he just try and wait out the preferred option of Minnesota? Why would he, so he can stop inconveniencing you and you can, because you're accusing him. You care so much about the Giants and the Steelers being held hostage that you think he should choose one of those lesser preferred scenarios to the one he prefers

to satiate you? No, no. When I say he's holding hostage, he's holding the two teams that really, really want him. They need to move on. They need to get another quarterback if he's going to say no, and most of the quarterback options are gone now. But why does he owe them anything? He's trying to get the best spot for him. The best spots are available for him now, and they were two weeks ago. There's only, I sat on this air a couple of weeks ago,

the options for him are dwindling, and now it's down to two or three, if you believe the fibs about the Vikings. So make a decision already. What are you waiting for? So you have them being fibs, you have them being fibs, Vikings fibs. It is being reported by people I trust

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