The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: Billy Breaks

Episode Date: September 30, 2025

"I felt the hip go, 'Mmmmm, not today, Papi." Tony attempts to nail five field goals during his Tony's Top 5, but the results are not quite what he expected. Also, Jeremy has a new best friend, Zaslow delivers an MLB playoff edition of Big Game or Not a Big Game, and the gang reacts to how the Clippers handled their media day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This is the Dan Levatore show with the Stucats podcast. Yesterday I advertised a Jeremy Tashay live stream today in honor of the baseball playoffs. He has run off with an older woman and decided he's not going to do that. So we will get to his explanation in a second before we cover the baseball playoffs. I'm told that Mike Ryan is going to give baseball a shot today, that Jonathan Zaslow, is going to declare whether something is a big game or not a big game today, even though I thought the playoffs were always big games, but Jonathan Zezzo is the judge of these things.

And we've got Tony, who's out in the field, about to give us a top five on football. I wanted to give you guys a couple of statistics here. The two touchdowns Darren Waller scored in 34 minutes last night with the dolphins represent what he did in 12 games with the Giants. 12 games with the Giants. It took him to get the two touchdowns he had last night with the Dolphin. That was a big dub for you.

I'm happy for you. That is a big win for Dan Levitard, colon, ball, nowhere. I was a little off in my assessment of Darren Waller going into this season. And really through the first couple weeks of the season, I think it's important to point that out in case you guys got out. You were going to be gas bag of the week until Don Legreca knocked you off. I'm sorry about that. You almost got that.

Another stat, though, for you, Greg Cody. you were a little uneven today whether you were assessing that Tyree killed injury was season ending, and then you made it career ending. It could be. I hope I'm wrong. By the end of the Rusini interview, I believe you killed Tyreek Hill. We've come quite a way. Right.

I believe that it could be career ending, and I sure hope. But Local Hour, you said it could be season ending. Possibly season ending. So there's quite a variance. There are also to clean something up. There are three teams that allow a higher rushing average per attempt to their opponents. It's Bears, Ravens, and Giants. Is that it?

No. Bill's. Bills, Bears and Giants. Keep an eye on that Bill's defense. Stinky bad. They've been playing bad teams. I think they're just too bad. Ed Oliver has been out.

That changes things. It really does. Their pass rush is good. I understand why it is. People think that. They haven't beaten anybody. I should also mention none of Tyreek Hills $36 million next year is guaranteed. So that's one of the reasons that he'll

probably not be around. Oh, his dolphin career feels through. And it's another thing beyond the humanity of it and seeing a leg, you know, twisted that way. It's another reason. It's disastrous. He did have trade value. And now he no longer has trade value. And he's a human, so it's horrible to see a human being go through that pain. That's what I said. He did say that on the front end, but you were just positively reinforcing. Ring of honor for Tyree Kill? Where? Kansas City, maybe. Before we get to baseball, however, and before we get to the Clippers,

because they started talking yesterday, and they shouldn't have. Let's go out to Tony, out in the field. I don't know where it is that Tony is. Where is Tony as we get to his top five? I have not seen him. I've not been told anything here. I've been told that it's top five in the field,

and they've concealed him from me, but they've said that he's sweating a great deal because it's hot out there, even though the mornings have been nice in South Florida the last. Nice little breeze. There's been a breeze because all it took was a couple of hurricanes

forming right off the coast in order to get us a little bit of breeze. Tony, where are you joining us from? Welcome, Dan, to Doreau. I know this is the first time you've probably ever been to D'Ralv electronically, but we were at Derao Legacy Park. A beautiful day out today,

and we're going to be trying to kick some field goals in between the top five. So I'm very excited. This is a bit of a physical act, so we'll see. I actually lost one of the balls, kicked it over the net over there, so we have to actually go find that one. Or maybe I can't expense it. You let me know.

How many field goals are you going to kick after every one? How many field goals are you going to attempt? We started with five, because I had the top five, one kick for every bullet point. I lost one, so now we have four. So we got four kicks. This Tony top five is presented by Smirnoff, the official VACA sponsor of the National Football League.

Football League. Smyranoff, please drink responsibly. The Smyranoff Company, New York, New York, 40% alcohol by volume. Why are you laughing, Greg? Because he's lost one of the footballs? Yeah, yeah, I am. Also, it doesn't look like he's trying a 50-yard field goal like Greg, Cody. How long of a field goal are you

trying, Tony? Dan, right now I'm at 40 yards. We tried it from 35 and I kicked it over the net. So I'm at 40 right now. If you want, we can move back at the last one. We can try a 50-yarder. but right now we're at 40. We're comfortable at 40.

You're not getting help from Mother Nature. That looks windy out there. It's a bit of a win. I'm going to have to hit it with a bit of a draw. So that's what I'm practicing on right now before you guys, while you guys were talking to Darren Waller. Great interview, by the way. Let's have a bet here.

What's the over under on field goals made? Billy, you're always a positive supporter of all things, Tony. Yeah, I think he can nail them all. I think six out of five if that's even possible. Greg, what would be your assessment here? I only have four balls, though. What are we betting over under? He's going to kick four of them.

Do you think he's going to make? What's the over under on the bet? Half? Over under is 1.5. I think he's going to make two. Okay. I mean, some would say that he's kicking off a T, and that's not exactly kicking field goals.

You need someone to hold it. That's more of a kickoff. Some would say. A T is an advantage. It feels a little bit negative what you're doing there. I didn't say it. Some would say that. Some would say he said.

Yeah, maybe you. He doesn't have a holder. What were your thoughts on Priests earlier? Do we have OLIs here, Tony? We've got two OILIs, Dan. We'll run through them real quick to get to the top five. Number one, OLLI, don't be fooled by the Mirage of the Chiefs offense. I'm going to lay that seed in the ground right now.

Do not be fooled by the Mirage. Okay, I think they took advantage of a bad Ravens defense. I don't know if we're going to see that output offensively throughout the season for the Chiefs. Maybe whenever she rice comes back, we'll see a little bit better. I think this is a bit of a mirage, though, Dan. It's more than that. That's the first time since the middle of 2023 that he's thrown four touchdowns in a game and we all expected him every game to throw four touchdowns in a game.

That's how he got past Marino at such a young age. It is a mirage. Go ahead. What do you got? What's your other OLLI? All right, my last O'I here. I'm going to toss to a video. J.K. Dobbins has become my new favorite player in the NFL.

Roll the tape. Searongue one, a Latino, a Latino, va cantal in the Super Bowl. Bad Bunny. Yeah, me do the bad bunny. What does it mean that a Spanish singer is going to sing in the Super Bowl? It means a lot. I just, just I listen reggaeton and dimbaud and bachata.

So, I mean, I guess much. That's bad money, and that he's bonito. The bonito. The bonycho, malo. The borgico. Yeah. I mean, Dan, what can you not love about J.K. Dom? Guys, I've overcome 8,000 injuries and only listens to regentone.

Lembo in Batchata. Oye, Primo me, it's the Mio! Come. Mike, would you do me a favor, please? Rodriguez from Washington. Can you give me the nationality? Because whenever I've got in the backfield, a Hispanic guy, I'm always surprised by it.

I need to know the guy in Washington, Rodriguez. What is his nationality? Let's start with number five, Tony. All right, number five. Hold on. Okay. Wow. Okay, this is, okay, this has never happened before.

What just happened with Flint? We just happened with Flint. Yeah, I don't know. This is very important. I just got a message. Joe Zagaki wanted me to say in the top five. Camp Scadabobo plays football the white way. I mean, right way.

Excuse me. Why did Flentis come into the screen to whisper a joke to you as if he's not on camera? Joe Zagaki had mentioned two Fuentes to tell it to me, so that's how that worked. Why can't he get the ball that you lost? Because it's over the fence You see the fence back there About 45 yards away Billy I kicked it over that fence

So it's in the bushes in the house We've got to go find it Chris Rodriguez is Puerto Rican Which too many in the audience Just to clarify Given the tweets around the halftime show Is also American Oh Rico stand up

All right number four Dano Seattle is a sneaky playoff team I like what Seattle's doing Dan Best defense in the league right now According to DVOA, McDonald's a defense. They are good. Sam Arnold looking good in more ways than one. Nice body on the kid.

Did we get a number five? Did he do number five, or did he start with number four? Number five, Dan, no, number five was Cam Scoutable plays the white way, I mean, right way. The Fuentes note. That was Joseph. I got distracted by Fuentes being out there. Are you going to now try, are you going to kick one now? You're going to try and kick this?

Here we go. Yeah, I'm going to kick this one right now. I'm going to give the Mike to Fuentes. I'm gonna let it rip, okay? I can still hear you guys so you can make fun of me. All right, let's see here. He's gonna try this.

This is, uh... He didn't do the thing where you take like three steps back and two the left. Oh, that's wide right. That looks good. No, wide right. Short, too.

Short. You think, yeah, that was short. It was short. Yeah, I bet's looking good. He's wearing leggings, though. How is your bet looking good? I mean, I picked two, and he's already needs one. He needs to get two of the next three.

You need to make two. You needed him to make the first one. He was short. right now, though. I think he's going to get one. It's win, too. It's tough. It's tough. It's really easy from the studio. No, it's hard. 40-yard field goals hard. Greg Cody, one of the most ridiculous things ever said on the show is a 65-year-old

Greg Cody saying he can make a 50-yarder. He would have that day. I did. I didn't know. I wasn't old at that time. The hips look good, though. Fluid. I like your gate, pal. Number three. Got that gate? Number three. Yeah. What do you? Well, first of all, what are you even doing here? Well, after the take you had yesterday, what are you even doing there? What are you doing about the punching?

Why are you doing a day after the Monday at football? What are you doing? You still believe that players should be allowed to punch other players during the game. Are you crazy? Yes, the ball. Yes, the ball. Punch the ball. But if you miss the ball and you end up punching a player, that's got to be a penalty.

You can't run around punching guys. Bad take. Bad take. Number three, speaking of playoffs, the Ravens are still going to win the division, guys. Whoa. Still going to win the division. That division sucks. That division sucks.

The Steelers are not that good. I think the Ravens are going to come back. They're still going to win the division. They're still going to make the playoffs. Rusini says no. Take off your headset and try again. Let's see if Greg Cody will say he's looking good after he misses this one too. Tony, try the three steps back.

Yeah, you got to measure the left. Measure, dog. Oh, you're just going straight. There we go. Come on. There we go. There you go. Yes.

Yes. Yes. Oh, yeah. He did skip a step. Yeah. Your foot is going to be. Counting's hard for some, some would say. Is that negative from the movie?

Oh, man. That was all wind. That was wind. Yeah, that was far to the left. This is very hard, though. The bit of thin to here, guys, as you can tell. How close were you when you kicked it over the fence? Good job, Fentez.

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I think I haven't been practicing? Stugats. I didn't realize we had a substitute complicated legacy. Brought you by headquarters Toyota. 441, Powerline Road. Second down to nine. This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats. Number two.

Number two, Giants landed a bullseye with Jackson Dart. Did they? I don't think. Did they? Yeah. No, they did. They did. They upgraded at QB1.

It could have been worse, Dan. They upgraded over Russell Wilson. It could have been worse, Dan. 100%. Let me explain to you something before you go here, Tony, about Jackson Dart because I didn't say this about what he did during the game

yesterday. I mentioned that he punched a dude with a stiff arm. He danced in the end zone on his touchdown. He had a moment in the concussion protocol. And also on a third down call, running play that he didn't like, he started screaming on the field at Dayball.

That on a rookie is balls. The attitude, he's got attitude, but they ran the ball an awful lot. I don't trust that. I bet the Saints and your beloved Spencer Rattler to win his first game as a saint this weekend. Number one, number two. What are we on? Number one? I got a kick for number two. Here we go. Yeah, I got to kick for number two. He's got to make this. He's got to make this. He's got to make both of these. Greg, your bet's not looking good. He's got to make this. I don't think he's going to make any of them. It's a vibes thing. He thought that it'd be five. I think he's getting this.

No, that's far to the left. Very short, too. No, I don't think it's short, but he's hurting because he is an athlete. He fancies himself our best athlete, even though Chris Cody has his objections and so does Billy. Yeah, look at him. He's doing that thing where he's holding his back now. Be careful. Yeah.

Careful, Tony. You don't want to get right. You have a baby. What if he goes old school and kicks it straight on? Yeah, my dad tried that with a 50. It didn't work well. Or a drop kick. Like drop it on the ground and then the old bled so.

Throw it? Throw it? That's a pooch punt, right? I can't do that. The old Bledso? Yeah, he did that in a game against the Dolphins. Was it? Drew Bledso did? That was Flutie.

No, I think that was Doug Flutie, yeah. Yeah, you know. Okay, the Bledso, as I like to call it, when Flutie does it. He said, she said. Number one, Tony. Number one, Dan, the old dog Matthew Stafford still has it. And what I mean by it is, everybody? Balls.

Balls. Still got balls. The old dog. Matthew Stafford, still getting it done. Dano. That's Tony's top five. Here we go. The old dogs still got balls. Come on, Tony. Let's finish. Put it on the poll at Levitart Show. Does the old dog still have balls? Here it is. Come on, Tony. Come on for you, pal. Tony's already going to do straight on. I honestly think it's easier if Fuentes held with a finger. I think it's honestly the T. I don't think helps them here, if I'm being honest.

Yeah, it gives them elevation. It's important that you'd be honest about these things. It's not enough for real. It's a beautiful day. Come on, make one, Tony. I could make one. What happened? That's okay.

That's okay. He didn't like it. He didn't. It's okay. Yeah, he's just pointing at his leg. He hurt himself. Did you pull something? Yeah.

Oh, no. You can't do that. No. Oh, no. Switch leg. He's pulled something. How? No, don't make him do it.

Don't make him do it. Can not be real. That he thought he could do this. Was he even on a kick. Cardam off, blow kisses. How? No. No, this can't be real.

That's, you still kick, pal. No, that's a human resources issue. We can't have him injure himself more. I'm already probably liable. For those of you in the audio audience, he went up to the ball and then just walked off and hurt himself and now is laying on his side. on the 45-yard, or 35-yard.

Pointed to the lower point of his hip. That is soft. I'm sorry, Tony. We'll check it. Boyin injury. Was that a bit? Is he trying to fool us? I think he's legit.

I think he's hurt himself. Come on. Do you not know, Tony? His ego's hurt. He would never back away by that. He's hurt. I don't care if I'm hurt. I'm still kicking that ball for the audience.

I will tell you that this is dad body situation is what's happened here. He used to be. You got to blame the kid on that. I'm with you. A young man and an athlete. and it's just it's not he's not resting enough he's not getting enough sleep he's not he's not eating correctly and he's not the athlete that he used to be pathetic great teammate dan you are i'm sorry to say all of that is that positive yeah he said that positively as a matter of fact great teammate and i'm

sure tony's warm-up kicks were amazing he's wearing spikes this is pathetic custom spikes it looks like too those are spikes those are jordan's yeah those are jordan spikes those are really good shoes. All right, can you play the song that makes fun of Cody about the time that he delusionally thought he could make a 50-yard field goal and then just injured himself? I've never seen Cody in the flesh. But he sounds like he's 80 years old. I know he's not proud of how he dresses. In an 80 shirt and a 70s hair. air cut, but on the show he's like, knuckleball, curveball, I can hit a home run, Kirschauverlander, don't matter who is throwing, I don't care, I'll hit them 400 feet in there, and then break all he's like, I can take D, Wade and Bosch on the double team, find the open man, and even if they're guarding me, I don't care, I'm draining threes from everywhere, and I can kick field goals, like my idol, Ford Revees, I'll hit from 50 yards at least

Even though I'm missing PAT's I'm good enough to place Wagers Wages And win the money from Labatard And then I'll I'll I think I just want my quad

Tony's legitimately hurt I don't think he's faking any of that No no Look he's too proud He's got that Cuban machismo pride That's why you don't go up and miss the last attempt Yeah you can take the last kick No, he doesn't, he's not a quitter.

He looks great. He's still with us if you want to talk to him. Yeah. Tony, I'm worried about you. Guys, yeah, no, on the last kick that obviously I pushed wide left, I felt a little bit of a click in my hip. You tried to play through. It's not a big deal.

He tried to play through. I did, I did. So the last one, when I marked back, I was like, all right, I'm going to have to give this one all I got, but my leg might go further than the ball kind of situation. Like my leg might rip off from the hip and, like, dangle off into the other. into the end zone and um as i was going for the approach i felt the the hip go i don't think so bobby and that's how i had to pull up i had to pull up guys i'm sorry

no i know i know the great ones do that didn't feel very positive yeah no i'm just letting him know what the great one said that implies he's not a great no i'm trying to motivate him it's not that positive man what do i think you're going to have to do this you're going to do this again tomorrow no falsehood i said the great one say i'm trying to motivate him. I don't know. That was not positive. I didn't feel very positive. You tried to be positive today. You failed. You're out. You got to do it again tomorrow. So what you get? So I'll say zero words. It's what you get. It's a wild pittly Wednesday. Well,

that's okay. Reap what you sow. You've got to say something positive. You reap what you sell. You, there's consequences. You keep thinking they're not consequences to things. You didn't say something positive there. He kicked three balls out of five that he decided himself to kick Here we go. Just rip off the mustache. Just let it go. Welcome back. Just rip it off.

Go kick the ball. Get up and kick the ball. What are you doing? Or Fentz just kick the ball. Why do you have 15 people out there? Someone kicked. We were promised five kicks. Someone kick a ball.

I knew you couldn't do it. I'm proud of you. Someone put the ball down and kick the ball. Man up. Who's there? Or woman up. Whoever's out there. Is Rose out there?

Rose, kick a ball. We need a payoff, pal. Someone. Where's Danny? Kick a ball. All right. Fuentes, you want to give it a try? Fuentes, he's going to kick a ball. He's been waiting for him. No, he's going to kick. If he kicks this ball, he gets Tony's family.

Let's Fentis do it. Look at that lettuce, though. Let's great. Let's go ahead. Look at those cats. Fuentes wasn't ready for this. Do you realize how great it would be if Fentz's made it? Fuentes, I am begging you to make this kick. Oh, he's got good form.

He's doing it. You're about to have two injured employees. If he put the right arm up here, here we go. Come on, Flintz. Oh, wow. This is just like Luke Rosa. Just like pot-bellied Nick Folk. Oh, don't think.

You loser. You loser. Great effort. Good job, everyone. It's hard to do. Do you like belly boy? Gelly boy. Slicing it.

Whoa. Slicing it. Jeremy, why did you make me a false advertiser? I said you were going to do a live stream. We were going to cover baseball correctly. We weren't going to have baseball totally segregated like we totally do around here too often. Why are you not now doing a live stream when we've got four playoff baseball games today? So I was going to do a live stream.

We were trying to bring in different friends of the show to be a part of it, started getting some wishy-washiness. And then I got a call from Jane Levy saying that unfortunately she couldn't make it. She was given tickets to the Yankees Red Sox game in New York. And I said, oh, man, that's such a great decision. Obviously, go do that. Don't worry about the live stream. Did he say, like, oh, I wish I could go? No, but she did then say, well, that's part of the reason I'm calling you.

I have an extra ticket. Would you like to go? And I said, are you serious? And she said, it would have been great if she's like, I'm just with you. I'm not taking you. So I'm about to head out of here. And I bought a last second flight to New York. And I'm going to go to the Yankees Red Sox game with my new best friend, Jane Levy.

I love that for you. I'm so excited. She's so wonderful. He's got to put out, Ray. That's a big first date. He really is. Pressure's on. How bad do you want these?

tickets, pal. Yeah. I already have the tickets. It's the implication, though. No, we're just best friends. I don't... That's odd to start, yeah. The best relationships start as friendships, right? It's true. Yeah. I met my wife when I was 12. There you go. How old was she? 16.

Really? That's what's up, right? Wow. Why did you guys start dating? I was a little bit older. How much older? How old was she? Don't pin him down on this. Well, it's the same age difference, four years. And how old was she when you started dating? Inter-20s. How old are you?

Yeah. Four years less. 14. Oh, boy. All right. Everybody just piped down. That's what so. I'm proud of you.

Thanks. It's good stuff. Anyway, I'm going to have a great time at this Yankees game. Go to Yankees Red Sox in the playoffs. Which state were you in? Florida. A state of bliss. Do you want me to do the baseball live stream?

I can do that. Who's playing? Big game. I want to wait first pitch, right? We got guards tigers. Yeah, scoble on the mountain. All right, I'll do it. Scooble.

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Thank you. And plus, it doesn't matter who's hitting it. Like, you're not tailing it to a particular name. You know, all that jazz. You know, you don't got to do that. Oh, that would be a great call. That kind of swing, that kind of thing. This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats.

Big, big game or not a big game. It is time for some new imaging that we have around here. This is part of Zaslo's legacy here. He has been doing this in the South Florida market for a very long time. Zazlo 2.0. You guys have made it skyrocket up the charts, as you always do, when we tell you to support something. So his own podcast, mostly local.

but not all local. If you're more interested in Miami sports and if you're more interested in him crushing the Dolphins, Zaslo 2.0 is... Zaslo Show 2.0. Sorry, Zasloo Show 2.0 is where you go. Are you ready for big game? Not a big game. What are we doing this on? Zaslo, are we doing it on each game?

Are we doing it on just today? Because I assume all baseball playoff games, wild card or not, are big games. Dan, we're dealing with what's in front of us. We have four Major League Baseball Wildcard games. Howdy folks, welcome to big game or not a big game with Jonathan Zaslow. First up here, Dan, one o'clock on ESPN, the Detroit Tigers at the Cleveland Guardians game one American League wildcard. Now the Tigers, Dan, they have a starting catcher called Dylan Dingler.

You know that, fool? I'm writing this down. It'll be hugely helpful for my live stream at 108. The Guardians, they have Jean-Cenzie Noel. He might not start for Cleveland. He might only be hitting 162, but his nickname is Big Christmas. That's right. Don't be surprised if he hits a big home.

run today or, or if he has a big series overall, Tigers, Guardians, game one. That's a big game. Ooh. That's a big game. I will be surprised if he hits a home run. Isn't Scoobble the pitching today? That's gonna be really interesting. He's got a .68 ERA against the Guardians this year.

But third straight start against him in about a week and a half. Oh, I'm sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. Say that for your game. You made your choice. Big game. Next up, 3 p.m. 3 p.m. ABC. Padres at Cubs. Game 1 National League Wild Card Series. Now this game, like you heard me say, it's on ABC. That's a little bit weird, right? But you know what that means.

Padres, Cubs, Wrigley Field. That's a big game. Big game. Can you name some players for me? I'm just trying to follow. Is that Tatee still around? Andre Dawson. Big game. Sean Dunstan. Big game. Mark Grace. Big game.

Next up. Tatees does lead off for the Padres. 6 p.m. Did Kyle Tucker figure it out? ESPN. Red Sox at Yankees. Game 1 American League wildcard. Both starting pitchers have a last name.

That's a verb, Dan. You got Garrett. Crochet and Max Freed. That's right. Those are verbs. Very important grammatically in the English language. Now, these two teams, they hate each other. You know about pesky pole, Dan?

I do. It doesn't matter because the game is in Yankee Stadium. Red Sox at Yankees. Game one? Obviously. That's a big game. Big game. I got one.

I'll be there. Big game. Where are you sitting? Did you ask where you're sitting? It's not a really good seat. That would have been a funny follow-up. Like, where are the seats? What are you wearing?

What do you wear to this? I'm just going to wear a t-shirt and jeans. Thanks for asking. Are you coming up with a list of like conversation pieces? You don't want any like downtime, you know? A bottle of wine for her parents, maybe. You're going to want to wear some sweatpants if you catch my dress. I'll have her back home before curfew.

Good Lord. I got one more for you ass here, Dan. 9 p.m. ESPN. Reds at. Dodgers. Now, the Reds, they kind of stink. They got in because the Marlins beat the Mets.

The Marlins did them as solid. The Dodgers, they shouldn't stink. You would think the Dodgers with their payroll would have had a buy. But nonetheless, here they are. If they lose in the Wild Card Series, the Reds, oh. Reds Dodgers. Game one. That's not a big game.

It's not a big game. That's not a big game. Wow. That's not a big game. Nope. Toges are going to smoke them. Reds don't belong. Not big games. Not a big game. Okay. Big surprise there at the end. I thought all playoff games were big games.

You didn't know that. I was going to say that. A real surprise there. Put it on the poll at Lebitard show. Aren't all playoff games, big games. I want to get to some of the Clippers' reaction here from Media Day to all of Pablo Tori's reporting. But first, we've got Ray Hudson's call of the day. Ray Hudson Ray Hudson Ray Hudson

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This is what day is right, right, right yawks it, right, right yawks you. Right yawks you're right. This is what day morning. Hots you come. Oh, but this is what day wanted. Here's a whipped in ball beautifully delivered again. They think they've cleared it. They think wrong.

Mickey, under it, like Dracula, under a plant of liver. And he absolutely detonates this. One touch the control. Second one to send it home with a dozen roses tied around it. Have Roy just say the word weak, and let's make it call of the week. We're going to run out of calls to try and get to the World Cup. No, that's crazy. We've got to just put Roy's voice in there just saying weak.

That reminded me on my dad's podcast this week. He called the Monday night game last night between Jets Dolphins, the game of the week, W-E-A-K. Good line by him. It's a writer. The Greg Cody Show featuring Greg Cody. With. What's on there?

What are you doing with the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody? We actually have a guy, you may remember. He used to be on this show. Stugats is with us on the Greg Cody show. That's a good guest. How's he doing? We had some fun. Good pull.

He's good. Of course, we ask him all the questions you'd think. think we would ask them. And so you've got to listen to that. Christopher interviews me and got some information out of me that I barely remembered, such as starting a field on fire, to the point where the fire department had to be called. Here, I have this story, actually. I was very young at the time. Let's let the audience listen to this. I think we actually once started a field on fire. It was the summer and everything was, you know, lightable. Everything was going to light. And we lit a fire in a field.

No structures were damaged. Nobody was hurt. I mean, it obviously stopped. Well, we took off and watched her from a distance. I think the fire truck did come. A fire truck came. Yeah. Wow, that's intense.

And you guys didn't get in trouble? No, because nobody ever knew. You know, I mean, I don't, I don't mean to imply that there was a big bonfire covering a whole block. I mean, it was probably put out, you know, within 15, 20 minutes. As a kid, Greg and his friends, starting a fire in a field. Yeah. Well, he asked me if I had gotten into any trouble. I didn't really get in trouble, but that was a mischievous kind of thing to do.

You said you also stole gum from stores? I never did that. Who didn't? People don't steal. You go in a store, you put a pack of juicy fruit in your pocket. No. I mean, I was like six years old, seven years old. So this started a really young age for you.

Well, they didn't continue, but it started, yeah. When you met your wife, Zaz. That's what I was just going to say. That's when you started dating your wife. That's what's up. Greg Cody. featuring Greg Cody. Check out Greg Cody's show. That's a good guest. Stugats is going to be there with Greg Cody. Can you get for me, please, some of the sound from Clippers Media Day. Lawrence Frank talked

and also Ramona Shelburne, was this a back and forth with Kauai Leonard? Because Ramona was asking difficult questions at Media Day. And I have noticed, and surely, the audience that is making Pablo's numbers explode because Pablo's the only one with good information here, the audience has noticed that no one is covering this well because they can't. I don't even blame the media. I'm not even saying that this is about partnerships or compromised conflicts. It's just too complicated a story for much of the media to be able to cover it correctly. And so you've got a whole bunch of people refraining from covering it and it's conspicuous in its absence. How is it? Pablo's laid it all out there in really digestible ways. I don't think it is. I think what makes it difficult for these media companies to cover this is because the NBA basically has partnerships with all of them and they don't want to talk about this. But in terms of being easy to follow and report on, the reporting's been done for them. It's not like networks don't talk about stories that aren't reported initially by them. So I don't buy that. I think something larger is that plays as.

I found myself really, I don't know if angry is the right word, but I was, I was certainly annoyed watching the response from not just the president of the Clippers Lawrence Frank, but also specifically Kauai Leonard. So they're doing media day and Kauai Leonard is up there, you know, on the podium. And Ramona, like, it's not a one-on-one, it's in the regular press conference setting, but she clearly, it's like, hey, everybody kind of, you know, step aside. Ramona's got a few questions here. What is your understanding of the endorsement deal that you had with the company that there was this being talked to aspiration and did you perform any services for them? When you say understanding, what do you mean?

Like, of the contract you signed and how much money you were to receive, what you were supposed to perform for those services? I understand that full contract and the services that I had to do. Like I said, I don't deal with the conspiracies or the clickbait analysts or journalists or journalists. that's going on. So that's what it is. I think the allegation was that they didn't perform any services for them. Is that accurate or? I don't think it's accurate, but it's old. This is all new to you guys. The company went bankrupt a while ago. So we already knew this was going to happen. You were named as like the largest creditor in the bankruptcy filing, right? Did you actually get the money that was owed to you in the contract?

No, but the company went belly up. It was fraud. As everybody, you know, if you want any more questions or more details about that company, you need to ask the owner or whoever else is involved in the fraud that went on. I think they said they owed you $7 million or something, right? I'm not sure. I got to look back at the books, but no, it's more than that for sure. Do you have any idea of how much you actually made on that? No, it was a, it was like, like two, three, four years ago. Yeah, like the whole thing made me really angry. I mean, first off, he understands the full contract,

but then, you know, when he's asked did he perform or not perform what he was supposed to do for the endorsement deal, I don't think that's accurate. Well, listen, man, if you understand the full contract, you know if you performed or did not perform what was asked of you. And then the whole, you know,

this is old news, this is just new to you guys. Kauai, we're all just finding out about it now, all right? You know, not to compare it to a crime, because in his case, like a crime was not committed here, but if we find out about a crime from a couple of years ago, you knew about it, we're just finding out about it now. So we're going to treat it as such. It doesn't matter that you knew about the crime that took place, and it was a few years ago. Like, who cares ago was a few years ago? You can't say not to compare it to a crime and then call it a crime.

Well, he was given ample opportunity to detail and outline what he did to earn some of that money. and he didn't. Like, if you actually did, if this is a false story and you actually did stuff for this company to ostensibly earn all that money, you have every opportunity

to say in detail what you did in a way that would be verifiable. It's all playing dumb. It's just playing dumb. Well, this was interesting to me. The Clippers had plenty of time to prepare for what they did yesterday,

and I understand Kauai being clumsy around this because he is not a good spokesman, not a good public figure. Not someone you would want who endorse your product? Not somebody that should be speaking about around accusations like this in a way that is sophisticated. Maybe he's just sparing us boring details. Like, Greg, what did you do day to day four years ago at the Herald?

Like, you don't want to tell us everything you did. He's just sparing us. Here is the Clippers president, Lawrence, being the opposite of Frank. Which was, has Dennis Robertson, Kauai's uncle ever asked for any extra benefits that wouldn't be allowable under the NBA settler cap directly to you? that there's not coming out of his asks. Yeah, look, Dennis knows the rules, Kauai knows the rules, Mitch Franklin knows the rules,

and we know the rules. Is that a guess or another? Yes, we all know the rules. What? What? That's with preparation. Like, they had weeks to prepare for this day, and that's the best they could do.

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