The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: JT's on the River

Episode Date: November 14, 2023

Chris Cote wants to know what the most frustrating penalty is in the NFL, and the rest of the crew has some strong opinions. Then, Greg's wife, the Unnamed Attorney, mother of Oliver or Charlie, Earleen Cote joins us to discuss all the ways Greg has been gaslighting us throughout today's show. Plus, our conversation on tipping continues into the nuanced places, Bally social media, and our favorite new restaurant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. These side marios all you can eat is all you can munch a soup, salad, and garlic This is the Dunlabel Tarshall with his two-guts podcast! Chris Cody thinks that one football penalty above all others is the most frustrating penalty. I don't know what his nominee is going to be for this. But what I would say has to be the most annoying penalty in football, even beyond the ridiculous roughing the passers that aren't roughing the passers is when you know you've stopped a good offense on third and long and all of a sudden a flag ends up on the field because somebody touched somebody's jersey and there's defensive holding.

And now it takes first down. Do you have, what would you nominate for the most frustrating penalty in football? Without question, I would nominate delay of game. I don't think that there's ever a good excuse for that. If you have to use a time out, use a time out. I don't like a delay of game penalty. It just implies confusion and ineptitude.

Right. Now after last night, I feel like we could say 12 man on the field because God that had to be frustrating for bills fans but kind of a spoiler alert here. My dad got my exact answer. It is 100%. Really, that's a lie again. Sorry. He definitely undercooked a little bit.

Wish you would've gone to me first, Dan. Oh, but we can do that next time. What are the odds? What are the odds that Greg Cody, you thought you were coming in with a hand that was strong that no one else would have? But you're asking, what are the odds that a father and son have discussed this at some point in their lives? We've never discussed it about it being the most annoying.

But he's so right. It is because it has at least like a defensive pass interference There's a lot of fast movement going on so I can I can explain someone bumping into someone This is just I see this thing going down five four and I see my quarterback and I'm like in my living room I get I get like why is the center not looking up when there's one second? Let's just hike it to the quarterback because it's gonna be a penalty anyways. It is the most frustrating penalty. I think there's two different games to play here.

Yeah, I dropped the accent because I want to actually help in this conversation. I think that there's the one game which is the most frustrating as a fan of your team, which is an aptitude like that, or 12 men on the field. But then there's the other game which is the most frustrating like that or 12 men on the field. But then there's the other game, which is the most frustrating call that a referee makes, right? So where there's a roughing

the passer where it's like he really didn't touch him or the illegal man down field or holding which is made from the play. Those are just creating. Wait, you've changed now? No, I'm just saying, of I understand the difference he's making and the one that is not a delay of game. It would be well, legal man down field. It's like I just had a run. This offense, while I am being three feet up field had nothing to do with this play. And because he was a little further ahead as where he should have been toly negated. Greg, what was your official stance on the delay of game?

That it's inexcusable that, but I don't mean to cut you off, but Dan literally had a clock on his head for years Counting down to the end of the segment like now you can argue that there's a clock that you miss that's not in a good position Dan had one right in front of your face The thing that I was laughing about as Chris Cody spoke is do you realize how hard it would be for us to execute Anything in a timely fashion? Never mind. Never mind what those people are processing is data and information, getting people on and off the field. We don't know what we're doing around here.

Ever, we don't keep to any schedules and also we vastly underestimate just because professional teams do it well, how difficult it is to get on and off the field in a timely manner. We would be off sides, fall starts, something about every single play. I am stunned all the time that people think it's a normal thing for the clock to be at one and all of that to get executed when it's supposed to be in truly panic situation where who's that? Oh, it's Miles Garrett that's going to chase me on this play and he knows the clock is ticking down too. It's a fair point. Mine is passing interference for this reason.

I think college does it well. I don't think the NFL does it all. I'm good with passing interference if you're preventing a guy from doing his job, which is catching the ball and you're doing it illegally, then fine, there should be a penalty. It should not be spot of the foul penalty. I hate that. I mean, that's how Denver got into field goal position last night. Rush just chucked it up. A guy, you know, got to the receiver before the ball did and boom, you got to feel goal attempt and you win the game.

I think it's over. I think Chris Cody was terrible. He was asking me the other day, was there some coach in the 90s who was going for it on Fort down all the time? There had to be. And people were like, that guy is blasphemy. We don't even remember him because we kicked him out of the league. But that didn't happen.

They were all copycats. They were all afraid. They were all parcels. They were all one step. They were all punters. There had to be one guy. No, no, no, no, Jerry Glanville was the craziest and he would pond on fourth and short as well. The whole things changed now. I told you yesterday,

Dan Campbell is done at a hundred times, gone forward on fourth down in his lion's career. But I do believe we're going to look back at this time. I don't know, 15 years from now. And say, why didn't people throw deep more often just to get the pass interference given that it's a 50 yard penalty? Right. Why was James Franklin simply refusing to throw the ball anywhere downfield trying to get a call from an athletic receiver just running into a defensive back who's not paying

attention to the football? I think we're going to look back on it and be like, wait a minute, there was a 50 yard penalty that they didn't take advantage of all the time in that sport. I'm of the belief that the Giants offense would be better off if they ran no plays and just through bombs trying to get pass interference calls. They'd be better, Iowa would be better,

even with just 15 yard penalties in college, I think that there's some teams that should probably take advantage of this. You say that, but the problem with it is now the average release time is 2.7 seconds in the NFL. Three quarterbacks are doing it better than 2.5 seconds, and it takes time to get down the field to make those throws. And the reason you don't see more of them is because, again, Garrett is on the other side and he's getting to the quarterback very quickly, but Russ didn't even wait last night. He just threw it up as high as he could and let the defensive back run underneath the

fence. We can agree that was he was not intending for that to be a touchdown pass. Correct. He was trying to throw that one. He was trying to get P.I. He was trying, no, not even get P.I. He was trying to just throw that away and they were going to settle for a field goal on that drive. No, I heard that the defense they were in, okay. Jeff Saturday broke this down this morning on my ride in. The defense they were in, you send guys deep and just throw the ball up because the debacks have to just sprint back like they did last night. There's a good chance you'll get PI.

Jeremy, uh, whisper, Jeremy said in my ear there, Stugat, that you heard that on the way in as if a friend had told you it, and it made me wonder as you were saying it, how it is that your listening habits had changed, because I was curious how you were getting informed on the way in these days. Is that all going out over the air? I believe so. No, we can just hear a power through. There might be a fire in the building.

Is that person speaking in Spanish? No, Creole? I can barely hear what they're saying. I hear the beep and I hear talking, but I don't really make out what they're saying. I've never run a building before, so I don't know the proper way to're saying. I've never run a building before, so I don't know the proper way to do this. Wait or go handle it for us. You got it, baby. Put out that fire. Put out the fire. That's his job today. I took, I learned a lot from

the boy who cried wolf, and when you have this many fire drills, like we're never going to take a fire seriously in this building, And it will be our ultimate demise. But every like other day, there's a fire drill going on here. Be good for clicks though. Us dying? Yes. Us matching through. We're dead.

Us doing show. Yes, no, of course it wouldn't matter. But one way to go out. Yeah, that would be good. It was clicks. Hardly depressing. Yes, I agree. A fire at the lesser day.

It's super memorable. Yeah, more memorable than it'll happen in real life but however it is that this ends it's not going to end as something that will be remembered more than the show physically catching fire i thank you i've got a fire extinguishing they go too far with these all so by the way because like it's a fire job right like i get it we're pretending but you don't actually have to shut off the elevators There's not a real fire like I had to walk up eight flights of stairs one time because

Everything okay. Well, I'm just trying to figure out how to spray this I don't I actually think that's a crime This is how we go viral right in my dad's face Well, if you spray that into someone's face, I don't know how it is that you am gets away with doing it and run through Like that can do real damage to your lungs if you inhale that stuff damn right it can What are we talking about? I feel like I had a thought on what we don't know It's just right. Oh, I was enjoying the heat was off of me

What you what he thought he heard on the right end is what we were talking about But I was thinking about using this fire extinguisher to like blow out a hot take when, like when Stu got's, when it gets too hot, just blowing out a bunch of fire extinguisher on him. But your listening habits have changed. You are no longer listening to Mike and Mike in the morning on the way in or ESPN radio's morning show on the way in. You're listening to Jeff Saturday on Get Up,

the radio version. You know, Jeff Saturday was on the new ESPN Morning Show. Micah Micah had been done for years now. Okay, but that's used to be how you got your information. I didn't know if you've gone through all of their Morning Show changes. You were the KJM guy. You were listening to Callermint.

Now you're listening to what they're doing in the morning now? It's the same show, different people. I mean, I don't mean to insult the people working at ESPN, but what that morning show does, it does a fantastic job of giving me all the important sports stuff that I missed the night before. I mean, that's what it does.

That's what it does for me. I go more local, I go big dog. Really? Why? I like to catch up on the dolphins, make sure I'm not missing anything. I go Tobin. Well, that's in the morning, he's not on in the morning.

Oh, no. I like that change. And Tobin's in the morning, he's not on in the morning. Oh, no. I don't like it that change. And Tobin's like 10 to 2. Oh really, midday, huh? What are you doing? Ha ha ha ha. F***ing it. The only reason he's listening in the morning is I go Tobin.

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on the Wondery app. Or wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen to over the top early and add free right now by joining Wondery Plus. In front of the record, this is not a wrestling podcast. It's just inspired by wrestling. Isn't everything? Don Lebatard, do you realize that for 30 minutes, now we might not have been doing good show, but we were doing show for about 30 minutes. And then you just decided to tell the story as if we were in the eating area. Stugats. Many refer to it as a kitchen, right? Eating area.

Who calls it an eating area? Nobody. Nobody. Right. Eating area. What's the bedroom? The sleeping area? Let's hang on.

I gotta go to the urinating area. I'll be right back. Eating area. This is the Don Lebatar show with this two cats. She's a very busy person. She does not have time for this nonsense. She's out there dispensing justice throughout

the land. She's a law partner but we have reached the hard to get Erlene Cody to ask her some important questions. her son, the executive producer wants to put his imprint on the show. Make his mark has demanded that she be honest here, that she not protect the love of her life. Greg Cody, that she simply answered our questions honestly.

Something tells me that won't be an issue. Don't be gentle, Erlene, but your husband has made a couple of uh... dubious claims here on the show i don't know which is the bigger lie but will start with what i believe is the second biggest lie which is he is claiming that his nickname is the big dipper and that he is a big tipper i would say both of those are incorrect uh... uh... what can you tell us about his tipping because for years i have said he's cheap he said he's frugal and now all of a sudden he's just saying that that waiters and waitresses throughout the land love when he's coming around

as chrysalis is that he's always got a look at the check a double check on the check because he needs to make sure his father's not embarrassing him with tips. Oh, 100%. I mean, I took over the job of tipping many years ago only to not be embarrassed. I mean, because he blames servers for things that are not their fault. You know, he's going to teach everybody a lesson. You know, he wants to make sure that the math is there any reason to go over 15 percent? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's wrong, right? That's wrong.

If it's good service, I'm a 20 to 25 percent guy. Oh, 25. You've never done 25 percent. If it's bad service, I might dip, I am the big dipper. I might dip to 15% for bad service or annoying I think we're keeping this to the tipper part but no that's not true I mean I thought this is old news honestly I

can't even believe we're still talking about this because I just it's common knowledge. Yeah he will pretty much try to get the check and you know I you know and just and I'll blatantly just do exactly opposite what he told me to do. What percentage of time is the tip deducted

because he believes he's gotten bad service? Oh well, his desire to do so is probably 42%. Oh my God. I don't know if he would like. Less than half. Great yeah point that's not the point the point is whether there really was bad service is he looking is he looking for

bad service is he looking for it? I believe so I believe he's waiting to be wrong because he doesn't believe that he's being given the the proper you know care and treatment that he deserves. I have great respect for the wait staff in this room. It doesn't sound like it could be.

No, it does, but here's the big dipper. But here's the thing. And I'm gonna speak right now directly to our listeners who are waiting on table. Oh boy. Beautiful profession. Here's a quick tip. Oh no.

Be extra vigilant on the back end. Okay, here's what a lot of way staff does. It's said like a true part. He harps on this all the time. I harb it because it's the truth. He claims that waiters and waiters says, after you get your food, they kind of check out. And it's kind of like, I've done all the hard stuff.

Now I'll just come back when I'm ready. Like my dad, he starts to complain that after the meal's finished. Yes, play to the final whistle. When I am looking for my check because I want to get the hell out of there and nobody's around, where's my waiter? I haven't seen him helping other tables. Okay, but I'm the guy about to pay him money. Give me my check please. Check please. You know, but I really has nothing to do with the service. Like it would have been perfect for 98% of the time. It has everything to do with the service like it had to go been perfect for 98% of time. It has everyone to do with the service

You're serving me back to front to back. Okay serving giving me My check with punctuality is every bit as important as bringing my Menu at the front end. Well, what's the line Greg between, they're trying to rush you out after, as soon as you eat, they're trying to get you out of there and they give you the check right away or they're giving you the right amount of time. Here's the thing, you know what I love? I love when the weight just comes over.

Volunteers the check. No, I don't have to ask for it, but says no rush. That says no rush. I always feel a little rush though at that point. Well, but she says no rush. And that's what I'm gonna, you know, I'm gonna Rifle off a couple of ones and add it to the tip He is you're saying he's looking to be wrong. He is

Vigilantly guarding the table assuming the service is gonna be bad and looking for it Of course, but you forget that there's another aspect of his terrible tipping and that is to the valet driver Oh my god. No. Oh my god. No. No. Go ahead. His head is in his hands. He's feeling real shame right now. Is it always a single dollar or sometimes a couple of times? I have had to beg him to get to $2.00. Okay. If you say $5 to my dad and that's about, he'll be like, what? No, like $5. They already paid, we already paid for parking. We shouldn't have to pay $5. Okay, all right.

All right, let me, let me mention something here. Okay, the valet, I have great respect for the valet. Let's use a hypothetical. The valet is spending how much time going to get my car. Oh, dad don't play this game. No, I'm asking you. Let him finish. Let's say five minutes at the most.

Okay, five minutes at the most. If I give the guy a $2 tip, how much am I giving him, what's his hourly rate based on my $2 tip for five minutes work? Right. If I had a job where I was paid two bucks every five minutes, you know, that's not bad. I'm not gonna be complaining about that

or call my boss cheap. That kind of thing. I believe you're doing it's $24 an hour. It's not bad. I'm just saying it's not you're acting like that is some huge thing you're doing for them. I put it on the pole, please, Jude, you at Levitard show. Do you ever go over a dollar on tipping the valet, Billy, what are you reading back there? Well, I have a number of things that I'm reading. In my planner, I have a planner. I found the other day, there's a chart for gratuities. So I can tell you according to my planner, what the appropriate amount is.

And in Greg's defense, I guess it says parking valet, $2 to $5 when the car is retrieved. So the low end, no, she says she's got a bag in to give $2. I mean, literally, I do give $2. It's you safe. I'm a $5. That's me. If I have a $5 bill there, I was getting the five.

And my dad acts like, whoa, if I'm given the value $5, he better have detailed my car and polished the wheels for that money. Do you guys ask? There's a low launch for $0.50. If he if there's a more long for 50 cents? If he only has one, I'll say I only have a five and he'll like just give him the one. Just give him the one. I'm like, no.

You'd rather go one than five, do a valet. Usually. That's terrible. You're plus four dollars though. I mean, Greg is right on this. Do you ask for change? Because if I have, if I don't have, like, I won't break a bill. I'll give him a 10.

If I have a 10, I can't ask for change. They end up with a 10. Just the other day, I gave a 22 of Alley driver, specifically because I was afraid to ask for change. Because I'm like, no, man, you're working hard. And I'm gonna make you take out all this other cash. And I don't even carry cash really. So what am I gonna do with that?

It's a nightmare. You're tipping him in your shame because you're not. You're me cash. Exactly. You guys ever do the thing where you finally. Do you ever do the thing where you don't have cash and you have to do the, do you have Venmo?

Give PayPal. And then all of a sudden, I'm taking a phone number down of some stranger. Would you mean I feel, I'd rather than stiff them. No, I avoid valing. If I don't have cash to give them a way out, I don't valay. Well, I was just gonna ask though, you guys have gone so cashless on this

that you must do this electronically all the time where you're putting in, Greg will be putting in a dollar because I'm always tipping in cash, I'm never tipping electronic. You have to have the barcode at this point. If you're in any kind of tip industry, it's actually so true. No, I'm saying the workers should have a barcode

where it's like if you want to tip electronically, it's super simple. And you know what, I'm probably gonna give you a bigger tip because I think it's so great that you've had this barcode and made's like if you want to tip electronically, it's super simple. And you know what, I'm probably going to give you a bigger tip because I think it's so great that you've had this barcode and made my life easier. We are running out of segment here and I've got another question for Elaine that I think is the bigger lie than he's a big tipper. But what is in the book you're reading from the Pride of a Lion, a bestseller in three or four totally obscure categories?

Well Dan, I have my copy here of the Pride of a Lion, Quasis story and I was curious and a bestseller in three or four totally obscure categories. Well, Dan, I have my copy here of The Pride of a Lion Quasis story, and I was curious, and I started looking at the back where it says about the author, and I saw Ron McGill's about the author was here, it was a page and a half, and then I saw Greg Coteys was quite short,

and I was told that Greg was asked to provide 300 words, and by my count, there's 103 here, words about Greg Codey. Tell me he mentions Greg's lobo. Well, okay, so here's what it says. Greg Codey is a longtime Miami-Heroed sports columnist who has been honored multiple times by the Associated Press Sports Editors as a top 10 national columnist. Greg has covered Super Bowls NBA Finals, World Series Stanley Cup Finals, and most recently,

the arrival of Lionel Messi to enter Miami. A previous book, Fins at 50, was published in 2016. Just a fact. A podcast begun in 2020. The Greg Cody Show. No. Is that, is steadily not with Greg Cody or featuring. How featuring Greg Cody, just the Greg Cody Show.

That's it. Easy way to add words to. The Greg Cody Show is steadily ranked among the most popular on the Apple podcast National charts. He's also a regular on the top rank Dan LeBittard show with two guys top ranked how about that Greg lives in South Florida with his wife an attorney no name Wait, wait and their dog Charlie and cat Oliver. The dog and cat, we're gonna have to get his name recognition. I don't know how to write a forward. It's not a forward. Look, I had spent a year on that book.

The last thing I want to do is write several paragraphs about myself. Oh, get the handle here. Break the humble man. Seriously. You would have written the whole book about him. The mom is cackling right now. That is the unnamed attorney. Is gay. The father of Oliver and Charlie. How long have you been married, Erlene?

And he doesn't mention you by name, but Oliver and Charlie get named checks. I only have one wife. Everybody knows who I mean. You only got one dog and one cat too. How long have you been married, Erlene? wife, everybody knows who I mean. You only got one dog and one cat too. How long have you been married, Raleigh? It'll be 43 years in January. Too long. The last question I have for you.

And I think you might laugh out loud at this because I just can't believe he said it. Your husband alleged that he is good at admitting when he's wrong. Oh God no. No. No. He'll jump all around it. You have to be so gentle about, you know, even trying to point it out. I can't even point it out when it happens, you know, he's just, oh, and then he just immediately says it's me, not him. No, he doesn't admit it. You may be right. Is this move? That's my business. When I think I'm right, but I just don't want to argue anymore. I say you may be right.

By the way, in the dedication, in the forward dedication, I mentioned my wife by name. I spelled her name correctly. That kind of thing. Okay, excellent work. Erlene, I was alleging that there, I want you, that in my life,

I've met very few people I've ever met Worse at admitting they're wrong than your husband so I defy you To name people in the entirety of your life that you have met that you would say are worse at admitting they're wrong Than the person you're married to Well in his defense I'm a lair around him all hell of a lot more than most people so you know it makes it uh... but he's got he's got to be he's got to be in the top three of anybody i've ever met for sure but definitely more constant but his sons aren't much better so i'm just i knew that was coming

i knew that was coming see you later unnamed attorney okay goodbye I knew that was coming. See you later, unnamed attorney. Okay. Good boy. Don Lebertard. That's how it's going to end. The mailing and end of the retirement, Chris go get me this. It's just an A B him coming out and hitting the one or two notes of that kind of thing. And you know it. And then just giving us finger guns and leaving.

Baby. You should listen to the great Cody Show podcast because that's all we do for 55 minutes a week is just say catch phrases. We even make songs about them. And you know it is a song for crying out loud. That's great. Hopefully that's a Sui nominee for best song.

And you know it, baby, and you know it. Still gots. And you know it, baby, and you know it. And you know it, baby, and you know it. Stugats! Baby and you know it. Baby and you know it. Baby and you know it. Baby and you know it. Baby and you know it. Baby and you know it. Baby and you know it.

This is the Don LeBotar Show with a Stugats. Today's episode of the Dan LeBotar Show with Stugats is brought to you by Peloton, party on a bike, a roller, for treadmill, or app, or walk, or weight room or anywhere, Peloton. There was some sound yesterday we played Stugots of Brian Domeris. He's an NBA analyst who just scorched James Harden and the sound was worth replaying, but now there's been a news element added to it, and before we get to back in my day, and before we get to a generally sensitive Greg Cody right now, because he is a little bit bothered, I don't know if it's with us, if it's with his wife, if it's

with his son, but right now we've got a, we've got Greg Cody is in the red. We are dangerously close to a raging Greg Cody because he doesn't like that we've called the big dipper a bad tipper. And he doesn't like that we, uh, we have said that he's terrible at admitting that he's wrong. He implied during the break that we portrayed him incorrectly. And I was trying to tell him that this is who you are. So no, I mean, I'd rarely tip below 20%, rarely. Okay. And the one misconception that does hurt me is when I come off as being rude to the wait staff. And you're telling, you're going to sit

there and look at me in the eye and say, when you get below average service, that you don't let them know, that you're upset. I will let them know in a nice way. A nice way, really. Right, right. I'm gonna videotape it. And here's smoke is coming out of your ears.

What is the nice way that you do this? That's how are you interpreting something is nice that isn't meant to be nice, that your son thinks is bad to staff. Okay, everyone at your table besides you always feels uncomfortable. Okay, what I will say is to let's say it's a nice young lady who's been working on,

serving my table but not very well. I will say something to the effect. Services a little slow today, are you understaffed? That way, I'm not blaming her. I'm blaming her manager perhaps. In fact, service is a little slow today, are you understaffed? That way, I'm not blaming her. I'm blaming her manager, perhaps. How do you play? I love how calm and nice you have yourself saying that. When in these moments, you have steam coming out of your years.

Your chin, like, putroods out, and it gets this, like, the jaw's out, he's just like, a little late, huh? Like, very sarcastic, you get like condescending. It's the worst version of him. I never go a little late. I might go, I've been looking for you for a while. We're ready to, could I get the check? We're gonna admit that.

We're looking for you. This is going to happen. I've covered this, he's not going to admit it's wrong, but he was looking for some sort of apology or elaboration on air that made it clear to others He's not going to admit his wrong, but he was looking for some sort of apology or elaboration on air that made it clear to others that he's not rude to staff when Chris is saying you're but you are You know what great well. I'm not dead. You're not rude from the jump If you get service if if something takes a long time if something comes out wrong You turn into someone that can be a little mean

I'm not saying you're mean from the jump. You're very nice and friendly, but if you feel wronged, you have this, you see red, you get emotional, and you make people uncomfortable with how you interact with them. Isn't that normal though? No, I think so.

What do you mean? I do the exact opposite. I always, even if I'm frustrated, I'm always just gonna be like, thank you, no problem. Like I'm always just gonna eat it and swallow it and be respectful. It isn't just an restaurant. In any walk of life, if I'm being wronged,

if I'm being treated rudely, or I'm not getting decent service for something I'm paying to get decent service for, I will probably let you know that I would appreciate better service. We have very different approaches. Pigeon for admitting that. Two boundaries is what's happening here.

We have just very different approaches. Greg Cody, I know he was framing that, cushioning it in a softness that does not exist as he passive aggressively asked a wait staff member a little busy and they were overstaffed not not not not or yeah excuse me short staff because the service was so bad but also we can come a couple of steps from where it is that Jeremy resides giving $20 to the valet because afraid to ask for change and Chris Cody who gets

insulted by his waiter who brings in extra mac and cheese because the fat guy has asked for a larger mac and cheese portion. I think I think a big part of this that like is being overlooked and I don't mean to be insulting by saying this is you guys have never had those jobs so you don't know what goes into it like I don't feel bad over tipping because I worked in retail for like seven years, so I know none of them want to be there doing that. And if I have the ability to give them a little extra and it avoids an awkward situation for me, like, I'll do that.

I come from a massive amount of privilege, so I never had a job in high school like that or in college, but you know, my dad worked ballet at one point. And he was like, hey, give good tips. I think it is. I worked in a restaurant, so'm always gonna over tip my dad never has so you don't have you have this You've said this before too and I'm gonna review like not that hard You've like you that's what hit in the moment when he's angry when he's seeing red He'll hit you with he doesn't say to them. He'll say it to like the table like what there?

It's not that hard to bring me my diet coke. Don't worry, Greggy, baby. That would never happen at JT's on the river. I know that. That's why you're my favorite waiter. My restaurant now has a name. My father, my father, this part I don't get. And he's a restaurant owner.

It is something that is mystifying to the entirety of my family. My father was a waiter and is a terrible tipper. All of us are super confused by that. Like you hated the job, it was his second job, he had to work it during college and you would think that he would be a good tipper, terrible at it. Just he loves money. Dreadful. See, part of that is the age group. Okay. You know, people, your dad's age, my dad, late in his life, these are people who, if you grew up with how much money, you saved scraps of soap. Like, these were a lot

of people who didn't grow up with a lot of money. Like, my parents didn't. And so, you tend to go through life being cheap. My dad, to his dying day, would give $3 tip for breakfast, $5 tip for lunch, and a $10 tip for dinner, no matter how much the bill was. I didn't hear half of what you said, because Billy barked in my ear. Ken Dorsey has been fired. Same. I got it. Wow. Wow.

See, they're crumbling. The window is shut right on kendore sees fingers Ken dorsi the offensive coordinator of the bills famous why they call it window pain. All right, seeing Shuffling papers and throwing computer Computers around they was so frustrated at the end of a game against Miami He has been fired as the offensive coordinator for Josh Allen and the bills. And I have never been more publicly sports ashamed. And this is covering some ground. Then seeing on first take moments ago, Stephen A. McAfee and Shannon Sharp were all yelling at each other about whether the bills window had closed. And I I thought to myself we beat them by 90 minutes

to that. And I was ashamed of us as an entity. I just mansplain windows. Did they say window pain? Being shut to my gulaxeanure because you've all poisoned my brain so much. I wanted to talk to you guys quickly about what it is that is happening before we get to back in my day and before we get again to this ballie sound that has been apparently been banned to God's I need to find out what the controversy is here but it seems like ballie sports out to west executives have taken down the viral video that that Brian de merris you know played out we played it on the show yesterday that he just scorched scorched James Harden in a very civilized way

uh... but that the fact that it was taken down is something that's uh... a bit bizarre to me like is that is this a is this kind of they probably just realized that this isn't great that let's just delete the post as someone who deals with the mentions on valley social media i can tell you they have been a bit of a dumpster fire as of late and that might have just made the social media managers job a little more difficult. Let's go ahead and take that video down.

Or just play it again on our show. That's the producer to pipe this into the clippers locker room if I can talk to you, James. I hope you're taking notes. I'm telling you in advance, you're welcome for the wisdom I'm about to spew. Because listen, I get on my knees every night and pray for someone to believe in me, like Dariborri believed in you. You wanted a certain coach that brought in Mike Dantoni.

You want to play a certain style, they played it. You want to Dwight Howard, they brought him in and got rid of him when you were tired of him. You want to Chris Paul. They brought him in and got rid of him when you were tired of him. They brought in your old friend Russell Westbrook. You want to go to Vegas on off days? They looked away.

You wanted the team to stay over so you could go out at night. They changed the schedule and it didn't work. And you know what, you said, I'm gonna break up with my woobie, not good enough. I see the bright lights in New York. I wanna go there by old pal Kevin Durant. It's gonna work, the big three.

And all after one year, you won it out. You realized, oh my gosh, I took this guy for granted, the guy that believed in me. I went back to work. The big three. And all after one year, you wanted out. You realized, oh my gosh, I took this guy for granted. The guy that believed in me. I went back with Darryl Mori. They tried to bend Simmons for you. How did they pull that off? And you know what? You went there and you got a partner who got the MVP. He won the MVP. And what did you say afterwards? You said they didn't hand me the reins. You're the point guard. You're holding the reins. And what did you do when you had the reins. You're the point guard. You were holding the reins and what did you do? When you had the reins, you scored nine points in game seven

against Boston, you blew a three-two series lead. So they fired their coach, not good enough. You broke up with your guy believing you again. You said the bright lights of LA, that's where I want to go. Let's see if that works. Listen, James, have you ever had those friends who had bad roommates over and over? They complained about their bad roommates. This guy's terrible. The bad roommate here. They never thought to be self-aware enough that they're the bad roommate. They're the problem.

Hey, James, you're the problem. If this doesn't work this year, in this system, with this team, then you're going to go and point fingers at everybody else, and you're going to go back home and you're going to start swiping right for another team There's not going to be anybody left because James you're not the beard. You're not the system. You're the problem. Oh Why would you take that down? Do you bring more attention to it by taking it down and to me the more interesting part of the conversation where all of this resides is Adam Silver was just on JJ Reddix podcast saying he wants broadcasters who are broadcasting with expertise and with love of game with love of players with not that

with get that away from my players. I'm going to make sure they're talked about like human beings. Honesty. Yes. Let's honesty. Okay. Well, but this is where we're headed. Is it not if if Valley sports executives are saying, you know what, we don't like the

look of this. A broadcaster in a sports coach, just talking down to a player, just talking down to an employee, a star in the league, one of our highest paid employees, talking down, talking down, no, we're gonna take it down. I think it makes it worse to take it down. You take it down, all of a sudden you bring it more, now it's banned in the USA.

Right, it's now it's censored. I'm gonna go outside and shoot a bunch of ballies gear with a machine gun. I'm imagining a social media person for ballet right now, just like decided to delete it and now it's like a storm because they deleted it. So I just feel bad for the social media person. I don't know why you're looking at me. I'm just JT, JT in the river.

I find myself feeling badly from that fry. He was my freshman roommate in college and I left him and went to a different dorm because he was dirty and he was a bad person. And now I'm starting to think, you know what? Maybe it was me and it wasn't him. That's what I've been thinking about since you played that sound yesterday.

I owe an apology to Matthew Fry. I'm starting to wonder if Lucio's Emily an apology. No, you've gone too far. You owe an apology to Matt Fry who you just called dirty on the Pablo and a bad person.