The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: Joey Bladder

Episode Date: November 6, 2024

Steve Kornhacky is getting into the brown and starting to sound like Greg Cote on a Sunday night. That leads Dan to give Greg Cote's bladder an award and also crown it as a superhero. Why does Sepp Blatter not go by Joey? Then, the crew dives deep into Joel Embiid receiving a three-game suspension for shoving a journalist after writing an article that referenced Embiid's brother's death. Dan and Greg regale us with some of their closest calls in getting in fight with athletes, as well as other stories about journalists almost fighting athletes. Plus, more from Kornhacky, Tom Hanks thinks being 35 sucks, and Billy has a new Bet The House (Senate) of Representatives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Tom Hanks has said something truly shocking. We'll get to that in a moment. Corn-hacky continues to get into the brown liquor. He hasn't eaten breakfast either and that's what he's drinking is real. So, corn-hacky is uh... you know, I know you get confused sometimes. You think it's Jeremy but you don't know if it's a bit or whether it's corn hacky and Jeremy's not even there I know you get so deep in I'm truly drinking this alcohol Dan yeah I know you are and he hasn't had breakfast you know Dan have you noticed is it 11 of the 12 teams in the college football playoff that's my camera the 11 and 12 teams in

the college football playoff from red states have you noticed that I had not know you think about that recently then We have not broken down college football enough today Cornack I don't like your attitude. I don't you don't like my attitude. I don't like your attitude sounds like me in a late Sunday Anytime I've called you over the last 25 years. Listen to the last 10 minutes, which is our Sunday night recap from the Greg Cody show this past week. How many beers was he in? Oh my god, me and my mom were texting about it on Monday.

She told me, your mother. And Yeti and Christopher on the air are telling me I was drunk on my own podcast. Yeah, because it was obvious. It wasn't obvious until I listened to it afterwards. But in the moment. In the moment. It felt great.

Yeah, it was fantastic. Paul Simon. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to derail the show. Wow. That's a good one. Paul Simon's a good one. Yeah, it is a good one. Yeah.

Greg Cody is somebody who I, and Chris can speak to this, you know what, you recognize it on the phone. Your dad has a distinctive slur that after 10 p.m., you know whether he's gotten into the 10th beer or not. I've told him many times on the podcast that a Sunday night football recap when the Dolphins are on the road, scary proposition. When they're at home, he's worked the game, so he's fine. Those road games?

And he wrote a column. Your father's bladder is Something that's superhuman. It should be its own superhero Former FIFA president's set bladder is the joke you made even though it's a good one Well, but it's and it's bladder with two T's Chris get the president of everyone, because that was his most famous. It's gonna hit different today. Is he still in charge?

What's he up to? I don't think he's in charge anymore. I think he resigned in disgrace, but there's hope for him. Not in disgrace. His name's Joseph Sepp Blatter. Why don't you go by Joey? As Sepp is, yeah.

The Joey Blatter. Not a common one, but. I like Sepp as a. He would be.atter? Yeah. I like Sepp as a... As a... Joseph? Yeah. Let me tell you, I like you.

You brought me again into the FIFA. I stay with you. You have voted for me. All those that have voted for the Prince Ali, I congratulate you. It's a good candidate. But I am now the president of everybody. So I'm the president of everybody. There is no retentance. That's just president of the whole FIFA. Voila. Told you that was gonna hit different. Yeah. Voila. He got married for a third time in

2022. Voila. This is bladder. Voila. Your bladder should be a superhero because the regularity with which you drink 10 beers before I've taken, late in life here, I'm not as late in life as you are and I will not drink much liquid after 6 or 7 p.m. because I don't want to be waking up multiple times to go to the bathroom. I don't understand how you do it. I've never understood how you do it. Yeah, I mean, you know, obviously you exaggerate when you talk about how much beer I drink, but.

I don't think I do exaggerate, actually. Yeah, you do. Chris, do I? Because I feel like he's been a prodigious beer drinker for my entire life. That garage, clearly that garage has thousands and thousands of beers that have been consumed. I will say, I don't think he drinks 12 beers every day.

But a lot of days, a lot of days though. Most days. But it takes that to slur. That's about, the 10 beer mark is about where your dad's got an amazing ability to throw down beer. He also doesn't eat. Like on Wednesdays, I become a parent to him, like before we go to bowling,

because I know we're gonna have a couple buckets. I'm like, did you eat? Like we'll go like sometimes I'll order food at a restaurant before bowling and order extra food and like feed my dad sliders just to get some food in his system. Unnecessarily. Fasting, intermittent fasting. Yeah. Yeah. Joe Blatter got married three times. Billy is right. But the last time was when he was 86 years old. What's the point of getting married for a third time when you're 86 years old? There's a cap right there's a max like look this is I love my wife let's get

out in the front end right now not falling for this trick again another marriage thank you what I wanted done for me I hope it works out if it doesn't what it done we have another. I don't need that. Do you need that? So you're saying at no age, nevermind 86. Definitely not, well first, not to be morbid, I don't know that I'm getting to 86. I drink a lot of Coca-Cola, you know?

Look what's gotten to 70 drinking 10 beers a day. Hello. By the way, tis the season. Coke cans have Santa Claus on them again. And I had a marketing idea. Same Christmas again. I had a marketing idea. Same Christmas again. I had a marketing idea for Coca Cola and I don't think that they're gonna take it

but if they do, they can have this one for free because I think that it's fun. I feel like Diet Coke or Coke Zero, sexy Santa. Right? You put in a Santa Claus there with abs or whatever, shirt off, sexy Santa on the Diet or the Coke Zero. And then you know, this is the one that's healthy for you. Like that new Santa movie where J.K. Simmons plays Santa?

I'm excited about that movie. I think I wanna see it. Dwayne Johnson, isn't it? That's like, I saw this the other day and I walked through the theater and I saw this the other day. I'm like, really? Dwayne Johnson and J.K. Simmons?

That's the one that they wrote the Vanity Fair piece on where the rock being late made that budget swell over $200 million. What's it called, like Red Santa or Red Christmas? Red One. They're playing this game now where they just throw the word red at things and like every action movie has the word, well.

That wins today. Big. Bad name for a movie though. That wins big today. Big Lee. Do you guys feel ridiculous at all discussing today Joel Embiid's three game suspension? Like, things like that?

Do you? Yeah, I do. Do you wanna talk about it? You threw it out there. I mean, he put his hands on it. I just don't know, I honestly don't know. We've been fooling around a lot for the two hours and I know that people expect a reprieve from me and from this show and very often don't want it all

what we give you politically around here would prefer none of it to be anywhere around what it is that we're doing and I have been over the last few years willing to pay the tax on a lot of people, especially in Miami, wandering away from whatever their lifelong loyalties have been because they don't find me to be representative of what the politics of Miami are. Now more than ever, more than I've ever seen

as my people have spoken very loudly and chosen a candidate that I view as dangerously anti-freedom. The only kind of freedom that I believe that Trump cares about is keeping himself out of jail, and now he has done it successfully in a way that leaves me feeling very alone in my own city and surrounded in my own city.

So I don't know the tone to take on today, even though we've been fooling around plenty because I am I am legitimately saddened. I am wounded by what has happened today and last night in this country that so many people think that that's a solution to their problems. And no one thinks Vanderbilt is any good. Yeah. Stu gots here from my friends over at Simply Safe. The holiday season is right around the corner. That means you're away more and burglars know it. That means you need to protect your

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and then all of a sudden, people are looking around and going, where's Shelly? Like, nobody screamed. Every friend group has a Shelly though, that if they go missing because a shark ate them whole, you wouldn't notice. Classic Shelly. Exactly, right.

Yeah. Stugots. She went quietly, apparently. If I'm swallowed whole by a shark you're gonna know it. This is the Don LeVatar Show with the Stugats. Speaking of Joel Embiid. Yeah. He put his hands on a journalist so you can't establish a precedent where that goes with impunity. No matter how gratuitous, and I appreciated Jamel's perspective on this and Belmonte did some stuff on there, it felt extra gratuitous.

So I understand Joel Embiid having a problem with it, having not been privy to that locker room and what the general understanding is as to what the real topics are regarding that player. But he certainly took offense, but he can't be putting your hands on somebody. A three game suspension doesn't sound as bad. Like they could give him the exact same punishment and phrase it differently.

It's a million dollar fine is what he got, which sounds a lot more extreme than a three game suspension because his salary, the three games is gonna be over a million dollars. And by the way, and like, I don't want to poke the bear here, but like probably want to play those three games anyway. So like the suspension is not really a punishment. It's the million dollar fine that he's getting. And if you put, I wouldn't have suspended him to three games. I would have said like,

Hey, you got a million dollar fine for, you know, putting your hands on a journalist. And then I think that adds to the severity of it. And you kind of send the message. You should make him play the three games that that adds to the severity of it and you kind of send the message You should make him play the three games that that adds to the severity of it, but that should be the punishment Enjoy your calf strain Should Joel Embiid's punishment be that he has to play the three games because that will quickly turn into 15 games Yeah, and 48 minutes each night by the way But in all seriousness, I think I think the degree of the altercation matters now I don't is there a video of it because I haven't seen it There hasn't been oh if there were if there were video it would be all the worse

because Generally speaking when we see athletes put their hands on anybody if there's or when we see video of anything Anything that you've read about tends to get worse I mean that guy though a seven feet tall and he's putting his hands on a reporter But I do think there's a difference though between Somebody you know poking me with an index finger and somebody shoving me where I lose my balance It was reported as shoving me where I lose my balance. It was reported as shoving no punch.

Shoving no punch is how it was reported. I'm with my dad though, like was it a poke in the, like why are you, why'd you bring that in there? Cause if that's what it was, I'm kind of wondering. I don't think of a shove with a finger. No, but if- Can you shove someone with a finger? Well you can, but I don't think, well if Joel does it to a reporter with a finger,

the reporter probably moves off his stance, right? Physically off of his stance or if he did it to a teammate well off his stance Is very strong. Yes, but I don't think we're talking about a finger here a single finger Metal I mean not seen Joel and be play if you lay a finger on him, he goes flying. So he knows exactly how powerful that can be. The idea that it would be over the line, I don't believe is up for dispute, but I also believe the line on cruelty

has just generally moved, right? So while Balmany and Jamel are longing for a different time in whatever it is, is locker room decorum, I don't know that Joe Ellenbead or the league is making any distinction between this is a reporter from a serious newspaper outlet that has mainstream credibility, or this is a blogger who says mean things about me who also has locker room access on certain occasions under a different set of media rules as to what's allowed in the locker room I know this has been a very difficult thing for old-school public relations people to handle in a new changing

journalistic market who's who and what's allowed on decorum and decency because the journalism standard of mean has always been you don't do this particular personal thing to a Joe Ellen beat unless you're like Skip Bayless or Jay Marriott who doesn't actually then go into the locker room after doing that so doesn't risk the confrontation because that used to be something that journalists had to go in there and account for what it is that they had written. Give the person credit for going in there. I mean terrible power. But there are a lot of people the way that the discourse around this has hardened it's not not just first take, it's not just sports radio. The internet is cruel. The line has moved on what is the common decency

that Joellen B. deserves to be treated with. I mean, you're not a traditional journalist. You come from a front office, old-timey front office place where this would have never happened. What's the this that would have never happened? The columnist wouldn't write this about the family and. What's the this that would have never happened? The columnist wouldn't write this about the family and then what would happen after that

would not be the reporter putting the hands on the columnist. So let's start with the columnist, Marcus Hayes. He's not a young puppy. This guy has been in that market for a long time. You mentioned Jay Marriott, you mentioned Skip Bayless. Peter Vessi would be another one. There have been these columnists

since the beginning of time. Guys who were rabble rousers, a little bit prickly, a little poking, and crossing lines at times. You mentioned those guys wouldn't have been in the locker room afterwards. As I understand it, because Joel was so upset by this, Sixers PR I think did the right thing.

They were saying, hey, let's get these people together and clear this out. Because afterward, he wrote another column, by the way, where he, and I don't know if you guys talked about this with Jamel, first of all, the line where he said all that stuff, he had removed it. Because of the public backlash. Well before seeing him beat in that locker room. Because of the public backlash, he removed that stuff, he had removed it because of the public backlash.

Well before seeing Embiid in that locker room, because of the public backlash, he removed that line, that lead out of his column. So then he wrote another one a few days later saying that Embiid let the city down. And that's where Embiid in the press conference says this Marcus whoever guy told him I let the city down and he starts listing all the injuries and all that stuff. So clearly this thing with Marcus Hayes had bothered Embiid. PR had sought to bring them together. I don't think it was meant to be in the locker room.

I think the guy went into the locker room not expecting to see Embiid, and Embiid starts yelling at him about stuff, and like Jamel said, that's normal, dude. Every person I know who's been a beat rider or a columnist has had that experience of an athlete yelling at them, right? So it seems like Embiid just wanted to get it off his chest. The line that seemed to set it off to cross over from just yelling at him to shoving him was Embiid said, I don't care about reporters anyway. And Marcus Hayes in a moment where he could have defused the situation. Clearly you do care.

And by the way, hell of a line. Look, hey man. Yeah, good line. It's a great line. And it's, cause it's true. It's true. We wouldn't be here if you didn't care what reporters say. Not saying that what Marcus wrote was appropriate or Or that Joel was wrong to be Angered or upset by it. I'm just saying you can't then say I don't care what anyone says because if you didn't care I wouldn't even be here. So mark that's what got him show that's escalation. Yes. That's what got him show I don't think it bead

Had the idea that when I see this dude, I'm gonna smack him or anything like that I don't think he had that thought the idea that when I see this dude, I'm gonna smack him or anything like that I don't think he had that thought in his head, but you're already upset. It's heightened and then this dude basically taunts you That at that point he kind of lost control. I think two things are worth noting one if you're a columnist This is not bad for business being on the end of This is not bad for business being on the end of a high on shoe situation. This is not bad for business. If he continues covering that team in that locker room and doesn't turn this into something else,

isn't it bad for business? Because it depends on how he handles it. Hear Greg out. Hold on a sec. I will hear him out, but the currency can't be so cheap that all it doesn't matter how you get the attention all that matters is you get the intended that she these days my immediate rebuttal is that hasn't he just made his job a lot more difficult to handle but but the the controversy is not a bad thing if you're a columnist

okay it it it can be good for business good for the brand depending on what you want your brand to be. The other point I would make is that nowadays, where the old school journalist is less and less and the quasi-journalist, the blogger, whatever, who's there, he might love this. He might want to instigate it. It is good for some business if you're the guy who is getting the viral story because of this okay, but so may I though? Do you guys not understand how this becomes provocative for the sake of proctor provoc?

For of provoking like how it is that it's just Gratuitous if this is how we're gonna do it and and don't make it just some blog blogger Let's make it you know There's all sorts of new media out there, all sorts of new media doing it well in a democratic meritocracy landscape. I'm happy that all sorts of new media is allowed in the locker room. But there has to be a standard on you can't just go in there to provoke someone so that you can get the provoking reaction and then that's good for business.

That's not a good way for anybody to do this. Dan, you keep saying new media. This guy's not new media. I know, I know, but I'm just talking about a lowered, yeah, forgive me. He's reacting to an old time columnist, but I'm reacting to a general reduction of a standard that now

involves players pushing journalists when that's not what it used to be. That's awfully rare. An athlete putting their hands on a journalist. Yes, that's right. Sorry, Greg. That's right, of course. To cross that line is rare. But when, like, we have to take into account the facts. The facts is this guy was Legacy Media, Philadelphia Enquirer, the number one paper. This guy's a columnist and a columnist who's been writing for a very long time. I just told Mike he was writing articles like this about Allen Iverson. So this isn't like, hey, oh, this is where the media is going.

People are being rabble-rousers. Let me try my hand at this. This is a guy who's, like I said, the Jay Marriott, the Skip Bayless, the Peter Vesey provocateur role is not something new to this guy, right? The question is, what is the impact, right? Because the impact, I talked about this on Vinnie Goodwill's podcast, right?

The impact is this, the polarization of media where it's either, hey I'm gonna be a provocateur and talk shit and get get a rise out of people and Greg's right, it pays the bills. If that's your brand, it pays the bills. He's right, I mean but this forgive me because this is the part where it is that I'm objecting. You're right that this is old media, but do you realize that what Greg is voicing there, it's the only way for old media to keep up. To stay relevant, Dan. If the standard that he's describing is the columnist has to provoke, that's good for business, it's all that's left for the columnist that we've reduced the standards so much.

Not to put words in Greg's mouth, but Greg said it's good for the brand. That guy's brand, yes. If you're a different columnist, not so much. But the problem is the polarization, because on the one hand you got this, on the other hand you've got glad handing, everything is awesome, you're the best ever, oh nothing wrong, like it's the chuckle fest, right? It is, and so not objective in any way.

Nothing's wrong, nothing to see here. And so these are the two kind of see a lot, especially for younger media people, right? The old guard or whatever, but the people are breaking in, they're either, I gotta talk shit and get a reaction, or I gotta be everybody's friend and it's not his fault and there's just a lack, a void of just objective reporting, objective opinion work. And when it does happen, oftentimes it's misconstrued by these subjects that, oh, it's another provocateur. Like, no, sometimes they're saying something that's actually true I I need to make clear that that the column in this case provoked and bead

because it referred to a brother who had passed away right Joe and his son he met he just he made it personal by bringing family and okay and that's a line that was crossed and and that is something that, something has to be sacrosanct. And for me, I'm never going to write a critical column on an athlete that uses as some sort of an excuse the fact that he has been through this personal tragedy. I'm going to let this go after this, but I just, I want to ask you guys as it relates to where it is that we draw these lines. It's subjective for everyone and I would say

in the coarsening of the general discourse and where it is that the athlete has less humanity than he used to have even as perhaps young fawning media applaud Joellen Beatt and he's grown up in a different sort of social media age where he gets the extremes. It's either calling him all sorts of names or just universal your famous applause because he's been, he is a social media athlete. He enjoys the villainy.

He's been uncommonly comfortable sort of going back and forth with people because he doesn't mind going into madison square garden of illin the thing that i'm finding strangest about this is go ahead and tell me all the other times you guys have you'll be able to find certain examples but you won't have many of an athlete putting their hands on a journalist and getting a million dollar fine because they were on they physically handled a journalist Jim rome Chris Chris Everett, okay?

Chris ever that's one of those he did on on TV wasn't even where their cameras rolling We were on television. We're watching it and it happens, so that's that's the number one example helped his career I mean big time absolutely because again that was his brand yeah, Dan I think the more concerning thing to me is the number of people who are saying, I can't believe Joel Embiid got punished. I'm like, what? Even Joel said, as he's yelling at this dude,

I don't care what the consequences are. Meaning, if I cross that line, I do it willingly, and full knowledge of what's going to happen to me. And for people to say after that, I don't think he should have got suspended or anything. I'm like, what are you talking about? That's the part where people see like a carte blanche. Well, he said something about his brother. That's not an acceptable response.

Violence is not acceptable response other than violence being beget upon you. But that's not for you to decide. That's for Joe be no no no no no no violence is not I'm willing to take the fine I'm willing that's my I'm gonna push this guy sugaat's or speaking the same language yes yes you're right I'm gonna take the fun I'm gonna take the suspension the penalty I'm talking about people say I can't believe he got penalized right the place that I would just stop you guys on is there shouldn't be a different standard for professionalism for joel and be then there is for the

journalist it can't be good line good line in the locker room when you've escalated something to provoking joelle and being i'm fine for both of them being held to a professional standard But it can't be good for somebody's business and bad for somebody else's when the journalist is in there stirring up the provocation Like the standard of professionalism has to be the same for both of them. Absolutely

But it's kind of a byproduct right there that like Greg said that this might be his most red column ever that like Greg said, that this might be his most red column ever. I'm saying you only make it worse when that, when you make it that. Forgive me again for putting new media in here, but when I make sports debate television that, and when I make the old columnist like Cody, Cody, how are you going to keep up with the young people? How are you going to keep up with the diminished standard on professionalism that makes it okay to provoke Joel Embiid? Makes it okay to have a good line in a locker room where Joel Embiid is already

Emotional and escalated and we're trafficking in dead brothers stuff. Like it's not just Provocation it's this deeply personal a provocation. I'm curious Greg What was the closest you felt like an athlete was gonna put hands on you because of something that you wrote When I when I covered the Dolphins full-time in the early 90s for a couple of years There was a postgame altercation on the road somewhere I don't even remember where it was where a linebacker started yelling at me and it never came to fisticuffs because the PR guy at the time was very diligent and right there but it happens occasionally. I'm picturing Brian Cox. That's exactly who I was thinking. It's a possibility. Well

you kept the name out for some reason you didn't mention the name. It's been 30 years ago. I could say a name but I would only be about 80% sure I was right you forgot Hold on is it happened Logan Logan Roy almost hit him You forgot the name of who it was It's not that under 30 years ago. Did he have the neck guard on during the altercation? Were you ready to go like what like you said it got come to fisticam It was a like hold me back Cody how have you yell back look in this case if Marcus Hayes shoves Joel Embiid Marcus Hayes employer is gonna suspend him okay there was an

Indianapolis reporter who get into a cheeky exchange with Caitlin Clark he was suspended for a short time and then banned from covering that team for a short time. There are consequences on both sides and you're entirely right. It can't just be the athlete who's penalized. The journalist has to be held to his standard as well. Fists to cuffs involve the fists of you and others, right? When you describe something as fist to cuffs, it means that the linebacker was involving his fists and your fists, correct?

I've got Hal Habib holding my dad back. If I use fist to cuffs that I misspoke, it was him yelling at me. Right, but only- You felt like it was close? Did anyone have to step in? Only he, yes, he says that, but only- Did you take a step forward?

No, I don't remember. Neutral? Oh, you did. He doesn't remember the name. He can't remember the name. Greg, listen to me, it's 30 years later. You say, I stepped up. Yeah.

I stepped up and said, go ahead, I'll even let you get the first shot. I dared him, yeah. I think, can you look this up? I believe that, I had asked this question before, that Will McDonough in the Patriots locker room did hit a defensive back and left him crumpled in a clothing hamper.

I have to cut that guy right after, right? I'm pretty sure you can find me the details of the fight where the reporter actually won the fight in the Patriots locker room. I'm gonna text Ryan McDonough right now and I'm gonna ask him, did your dad punch a linebacker in the locker room? A defensive back.

1979, he did indeed do it. It was Raymond Claiborne. Wow. So Greg Cody can't remember, Will McDonough certainly remembers that from 1979. Will McDonough's not with us anymore. The late Will McDonough, I get $50 from somebody for keeping him alive even though he's dead.

No, don't I get it? Is that how we're doing it now? I like that. Is Abraham Lincoln. Keeping him alive. But in that locker room in 1979, Will McDonough remembered when he was alive punching Raymond Claiborne. Greg Cody does not remember the linebacker.

I remember when a physical confrontation in a locker room scared me. I remember the participant. I shouldn't have been laughing. I remember all the details of being in a Denver Broncos locker, in the Denver Broncos dolphin, I'm sorry, dolphin locker room at a Broncos game in Denver because I was that scared of laughing at an inappropriate time.

And OJ McDuffie was furious about it. Wow. OK, so give us details. Give us context here. No, I give us details, give us context. No, I was just scared because he was escalated and I did think it was going to escalate to him being physical, not me being physical. Fisticuffs, sir. No, fisticuffs have to involve both parties.

I don't think it's fisticuffs if it's only one person's fists. So he was yelling at you? Yes. For something that you wrote? For laughing in the locker room after a loss. Oh, that's it? You walked in the locker room, they lost, they're morose, you had a chuckle, and he was like, how dare you laugh in here?

Well, he was mad about other things I'd also written. Stacking. But yes, that was the moment that got him angriest, is that in the middle of how much they cared, I was being careless. Yeah, you don't do that. Dan, you know what you were missing right there? A great line like Marcus Hayes, if you had one of those, mwah.

I believe I was also mouthy in that circumstance. Oh! Oh, really? Okay, well you said, what was your line? More than a chuckle, wow. I don't remember the line, but I shouldn't have been. What do you mean, Greg Cody? I wasn't happy with him telling me

how to behave in his locker room. Now in fairness to Will McDonough, Claiborne had this coming because Claiborne poked Will McDonough in the eye first. One finger or two. And then he leveled him, one. I believe it was one, an index finger. Should have done this move.

And he was snapping and bumping into a bunch of writers. So Will McDonough kind of was just like, hey, there's no need for that. And then he got poked in the face and he reacted through two punches and he ended up in a laundry cart. Stanley Morgan. Oh wow.

Wow. Dan. Great receiver by the way. That's a great one. When you say you were mouthy, did you say something along the lines of, he says, hey, stop laughing. Like, hey, I didn't get my ass beat out there.

Did you say something like that? I don't think it was, I don't get my ass beat out there did you say something like that? I don't think it was like I don't I don't remember the details I just claimed that I remembered all of the details while not remembering. How many fights are you guys getting into that you don't remember the details of athletes getting into fights with you? I didn't remember my retort I'm remembering who was mad and why he was mad and it was not somebody that I wish to be trifling with because I've told the story before when he was fighting with 320 hundred twenty pound darryl

gardener who nobody fought with he went to to his car to go get a gun in the practice facility parking lot well it's not someone i wanted angry at me to be fair than they were on the roads i don't think you've got a gun thank you for that fairness it was important not how i was thinking is a time but that's a little for that fairness. It was important. Not how I was thinking at the time. But that's right, Dom Ratte had his gun in Denver. Nevermind, Dan, you did the right thing. You guys made the one finger push of Joel Embiid a shove,

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Yes I have! This man has! You haven't! That man! Who the hell are you? Stugatz. I am! Who the hell are you?

Should be thanking me! Bullshit! You're a rude young man. You're a fool! You're a fool! I already called you a fool. You can't call me a fool. You're an idiot again!

It's a fool on! You're an idiot twice! You're an idiot for dismissing how much I've helped you! This is the Don LeBathard Show with the Stugats! Do you flop if you get poked by Joel Embiid? One thousand percent. Of course. Early retirement. I sew up the next day to the practice facility with one of those neck braces.

Oh yeah. And a lawyer. Calm with you. I will get to the shocking thing that Tom Hanks has said in a moment, but let's check in with a despondent and kind of drunk Korn Hackie here. What do you have for us as an update on a bit that has gone awry that was supposed to be fun today that is instead sopping in alcohol and depression? Well, before I bring Steve Korn Hackie back in here, Dan, just Jeremy here for a second. You're sure you don't want to have a conversation about how the Electoral College is essentially

a form of voter suppression because it forces the Democrats to go more right, leaving Democrats unmotivated to show up and thus tens of millions of voters not showing up to vote in this election, or how Latin men swung so far to the right and thus impacted this election, including here in Miami-Dade County because they were motivated by misogyny and racism? No? All right, Steve Kloonhag is back. So we want to have, this is right here. Alright, Jeremy will go to the penalty box in just a second.

We're going to have, this is Latimore country right here. And then they're really making moves in the middle of the country right here. And over here on the west coast, they think they're fine. So if you look at it, we can just FML. Major penalty on the ice, five minutes for rambling. He was up and hard. That wasn't rambling. Everything's fine with me.

I'm doing fine. You're not fine. You're bad. You're not doing okay. Everything's bad with you. Well, it's fine with me. I know he's off because he would have done word play with a wry.

Billy, do you have a bet the house this week? It's still undefeated and it's as close as I wish to come to politics the remainder of the show. Can we do a bet the house? No, just today. Oh, man. Forever? You wanted to do so close, Mike.

Hey, let's get the message. What do you say? You wanna do forever? Let's just, yeah, come on. Bunch of dudes hanging out, talking sports. So many dudes. So many dudes. And I don't know if you watched last night,

but we're in charge now. Yeah, dudes are in charge. Yeah, that is what happened. Men, men, men. That's not the chance. I didn't know about this. Let's not do that. Well, we can squeeze in a reproductive rights, but that seems popular still. Boo men, boo men, boo men, boo men, boo men, boo men.

Boo men, boo men, boo men, boo men, boo men, boo men. What is the Bet the House imaging that we have this week? I bet the house remains undefeated somehow. I'm a little nervous about this one, if we're gonna be honest with you. We have one for next week, and then we realized, oh, it's a bye week, so it's next week, not this week. What are you nervous about, that you're gonna not be undefeated anymore? Yeah, it's three and oh right now, oh, it's a bye week, so it's next week, not this week. We get a little calendar mix up. What are you nervous about,

that you're gonna not be undefeated anymore? Yeah, it's three and oh right now, bet the house. So this is a big game, and you know, it's a time that you reach out to friends, and you say, hey, can you help us out here? Because we looked at the calendar wrong, and some other people didn't get back to us as we were expecting.

So we thought we had a big fish on the hook for this one. We thought we had the Speaker of the House from the state of Utah, but that didn't end up panning out. So what did pan out? What a sell. What did pan out? Fish. Okay, so we almost got the Speaker of the House

from Utah. We got canceled on? Okay. Did you watch what happened on The Daily Show? You know how I knew everything was going sideways last night? Fetterman canceled John Seward 30 seconds before his hit We also got left on read by who I described as a dream guest for this segment George Santos It's time to pray! The city of... Bethesda! The city of... Bethesda!

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The city of Representatives! This week's guest from the great state of Vermont, friend of the show, Senator Peter Welch. We got a big one this weekend with two beautiful implications. In the Patriot, it's the Holy Cross Crusaders and the Lehigh Mountain. Peter Welch, who ya got? Well, you know, I don't stray outside of the East, so for me it's Holy Cross. This is not a good use of everybody's time.

The Crusaders. Wait till next week, Dan. Big get. Billy has said with a straight face to my face that he is never trying to annoy me. That's true. It's not true. It is true.

Billy, when you were under the blankets, in your house, when you were under the blankets, fearing that you were waking up your family just making all sorts of noises into your computer equipment, it is not because you weren't hell bent on annoying me. Why would that annoy you? I'm just trying to, I feel like the country needs us today

and want to smile, so I'm trying to deliver some smiles. Just inefficient, can't they be efficient smiles? Dan, if you outside and you get sunburned, the sun didn't wake up to sunburn you, you know what I mean? You just got sunburned. I'm not waking up to annoy you, I'm waking up to bet the house Senate of Representatives. Bet the Senate.

So it's on Dan. I'm not saying that. Tom Hanks has said that the worst age to be is 35 years old. And I think it might be the best age to be. Like I think more people would vote. Well it's not the best age to be. I think more people not the best age to be I think more He has good rationale. All right. Let's see. Let's hear what Tom Hanks has to say you see this cool

Technology where you da was there an age where you're like damn it. I'm good with this. Take me right here. Take me back No, you know I'm 68 years old the hardest for us was when we were playing 35. That time where your metabolism stops, gravity starts tearing you down, your bones start wearing up. You stand differently. I think I'm in better shape now. You look great. I was going to say that. You look good. Because, you know why? Because my kids are growing up, I'm getting decent exercise, and I can eat right.

You can't do that when you're 35. Life is such a burden. Everybody needs to get on your plan right now. No, dude, I'm just doing what my 68-years-old type 2 diabetes, just maintaining the temple, baby. That's all I'm trying to do. Maintain the temple. He's so right. My back hurts.

My ankle hurts. Mm-hmm. I mean, I feel like the eating unhealthy, that's just on me. I'm not going to blame 35 for that, but he was speaking to me there. What an ass kisser of an interviewer. I mean, that's a terrible age that he's nominating for the worst age, don't you believe?

Put it on the poll, Juju, at LeBotard Show. Is that Kevin Frazier? 35 years old, 35 years old, best age. I mean, regrets that. Or worst age, 35 years old. I don't feel like anybody listening to this thinks that's the worst age, 35 years old. I don't feel like anybody listening to this thinks that's the worst age. It was pretty bad if you remember,

well I remember when I was 35, not a great time. Come to think of it, 39's kinda shitty. Yeah, but Dan has never had kids. I mean, that's what Tom Hanks is talking about is you can't eat healthy because you're just eating whatever you give your kids. It is a tough age, Yeah, it is tough. Yes. I saw the beginning of Tom Papa's most recent stand-up special and all he's talking about is how thrilling it

is to get the kids the hell out of the house and not long no longer have the responsibility and have a martini at two o'clock in the afternoon because you can. Counting down the days, Dan. because you can. Counting down the days, Dan. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Howdy, folks. It's Mike. It's football season.

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