The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: An Embarrassment of Riches

Episode Date: November 16, 2023

Comedian Brad Williams joins the show today...as does Lucy, who was shamed back into the studio after taking a couple of days off for self-care. Also, do you like street poets? Plus, the Useless Sound Montage barely makes in time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. Stop that. Stop that. I hear I'm chatting with lies. No two good can't stop for the talking. I hear I'm chatting with the party. I'm talking with the party. Walking up. Just too shot with the prize.

Fight girls, let it tell me I'm awesome. Yeah. Like fire on the pine. If you wanna touch my piece, you's crushing. I like the world to move. I'm not the case, gotta let out the piece piece Who's crushing, call like the world to do I'm not the cage gotta let out the peace Revolutionary guy, let out the streets Not gonna cage, I'm a let out, let out, let out Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, rise, look to quick, can't stop for the top in. I am chapped with the rise, not so tough, but my eyes keep walking, yeah.

Just too sharp with the bass, my ears, let it tell me I'm awesome, yeah. I'd like to die on the pine, if you want to touch my issues, come. Stop that, stop that, stop that. Look at this rag tag group we've got in here today. Our old friend Brad William. Easy to say. Danie M. Prop this weekend. Lucy has returned from her high jinks.

A ton. She brought me back a terrible gift. What? It was a poem written with love. Not by you, written by a street poet. Put it on the pole, please, Jude Jude do you hate the street poets Levitard show she was great the poem was not

yeah she tried her best she didn't watch sports so I asked her she came up to me and was like do you want to buy a poem I was like oh yeah I want to buy a poem thank you this is a great opportunity I said I didn't get to anything in Seattle can you write a poem about my boss Dan and then she said I don't know your boss Dan I said well this is a great opportunity. I said, I didn't get to do anything in Seattle. Can you write a poem about my boss, Dan? And then she said, I don't know your boss, Dan. I said, well, that's a great point. So you probably can't write a poem about him.

So I asked you to write a poem about sports, because I know you like sports. She didn't know sports either. And so she did the best she could. But I thought it was beautiful. Okay, we'll all test your judgment right here. The competition of my desire. They crawl, I dance, I pray upon

a moment of pure truth. My dear understand that I yearn for something beyond. A win in which I exist. Is there more to life than this success? Success is misspelled. Tell me the truth beyond this moment. I know nothing if not where my passion leads me. I am alive as I pray, see me for more than what I appear to be. That just sounds like you. Woohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoo way more than their killing it so definitely they're they're doing better today and my the only one who detected notes of tension in that that was a very I mean you told her it's for your boss but she didn't know Dan and so that's like she does it's still fit it's got to be a tough way to make a living poetry gotta gotta gotta be gotta be really hard let's just break um

got to be going to be really hard. It does drink. Um, you mean to a, he looks more like Anthony Anderson. Put it on the pole does to look more like Drake or Anthony Anderson. That's really good. Um, he surprised me with the cornrows caught me totally off guard. As a white guy from Orange County, California, I don't feel like I can, I can comment on this. You can be caught off guard by it. No, I can be caught off guard But I just feel like any opinion I have is gonna be wrong

Mike you're making faces as if you knew tool was gonna go corn rose I'm making faces as if I don't care at all Okay, excuse me fair enough sorry to bore you. No, it's just what am I gonna say about him? Hey corn rose Well nice talking to you Fair enough sorry to bore you. No, it's just what am I going to say about him? Hey, cornrows. Well, nice talking to you. You don't have any more subject matter. No, for the record, I don't think he looks like Anthony Anderson either. Is this the heel turn?

Is this what this is? Like this is the remember when like when Brent Hill was like, he's too nice and as like he turns into the bad boy or whatever. Is this his bad boy phase right here? I think his bad boy phase is when he went after Ryan Clark. I think that was, yeah, put some respect on my name. Yes, he was legitimately pissed off. I want to start though, before we get to some

of the things in local sports, I just want to talk for a second because I've not yet figured out how to do this in a way that's not unpleasant to everybody. I want to talk for a second because I've not yet figured out how to do this in a way that's not unpleasant to everybody. I want to talk about the weather because in my lifetime, living in South Florida, what has happened over the last 24 hours and my experience has never before happened with a storm that doesn't have a name and goes unrelentingly for 24 straight hours of 40 mile an hour wins that were you know shaking the windows in my home and it was like there was clearly debris flying all over the place and when I drove in

today there was all sorts of stuff in the streets and all sorts of flooding because from Broward County where they canceled school today, two key West, six inches of rain everywhere. I've just never seen a map, a weather map like that, that for 24 hours is just 40 mile an hour winds the entire time. And I want to figure out how to change how it is that we talk about this because I haven't done it successfully yet. I know we feel hopeless in the face of it I know that impending doom is coming because scientists will all tell you they underestimated all of their worst calculations and that doom is headed this way in a way that's obvious. It's not gonna get better from here if we don't stop with the fossil fuels It's only going to get worse and what I'm telling you is what I experienced over the last 24 hours in South Florida

is something I've never experienced in all of my life living here. Now Dan, I imagine what you just experienced being a six foot whatever man. Now put that in a four foot man as I'm trying to cross the street last night looking at certain puddles going, this could be it. This could be where I go.

Because the water was moving very fast. I forgot my floaties. I can't swim. I have a very large head that sinks. I have a very fat butt that floats. That's not good for swimming. I'm very nervous. Florida is not a good climate for me.

He instantly goes upside down. I do. I turn into a fly girl in a club just by his down. I ask, oh, like that's me. Instantly in a puddle. Here lies Brad, killed by puddle. That could happen. You were worried about the water.

For me, it was the wind. I was trying to bring things in that had broken. I started the wind off my balcony. And I am 240 pounds. And I was scared that at any point, a gust could come that I could not maintain. If I randomly opened my jacket I could have turned into one of those squirrel suit guys. I wish I had the visual of Dan like bracing as if he was gonna be left to be swept away by the wind. I've got the wind going up to Dan's it.

Oh, excuse me, pardon me. How did you guys sleep last night? Ju-ju, how did you, I mean, how did you sleep last night with the amount of wind, the howling of the wind? I thought Casper, the friend of Gus, was in my room last night. Every five minutes, I woke up throughout the night because the wind was hot enough to glass like 1,000 hours

an hour. I ended up going to the living room and clutching my pearls because I was afraid. I thought Casper was getting some. Casper's spread. That's what it sounds like. It was moaning. I was like, hey, get a room. Not mind though. How am I to discuss this in a way that doesn't make everyone feel both helpless and hopeless because the only thing we can do, and keep in mind, I'm spending, I'm not going to bore you with the details, but very often on weekends, I'm talking in these conference calls to activists who are

talking about civil disobedience around the globe because our leaders are failing us here. So, no, it's something I'm doing on the weekends to see if there's anything that can be done, if there's anything that can be done that would make me feel slightly less helpless with what's approaching this way. And it's not, it's just not far away. Like to me, I don't understand climate science deniers when the wind is howling that way outside your window. Who else is on these conference calls? I mean a whole lot of people. Adam, okay. Picture you're just like random celebrities

from around here. Oh no, I can't. We gotta do something. We'll revile the ram. Handle from succession, Mark Ruffalo. Yeah. And the short one. What can we do?

Let's all get on a call. You're in a climate change support group. John and Anne. With Mark Ruffalo. Yeah, John Ham puts him a Chad Hambone in the house. Hambone. Where's Calcado? She's got to be in this one too. Eduardo Nahara is awesome.

So no one has a way for me to discuss this. I mean, you were doing it. Nah, I pacified myself by saying, hey, Hurricane season was pretty chill. Sure, we had a blustery storm, but that's happened. Before 2000, the no name storm, that did more damage to South Florida than most hurricanes had had brushed against it

at the time, you know, we're all gonna die. Hurricane season was pretty chill other than that loss of Georgia attack. Yeah, exactly. The part, can I just get some floaties? I just want some floaties. The way that I get scared here though, is these things used to come with warnings

is the other part, like nobody, it used to be somebody was telling me what was approaching, what just happened in Ocapolka where it goes from something that they're just telling you as a storm to a category five. Like the thing that has always made me feel safe in South Florida during hurricane season is that I'm allowed to have a brace for it. I'm allowed the warning of you need to get out of here. I think we're losing whatever that time was because this didn't have warning.

Nobody was talking about the meteorological map looking like that yesterday. I mean, we have really bad thunderstorms down here that just pop up and it's a part of the summer. I think the only surprising thing is that this happened in mid-November, but I mean, that's what happened last night was no worse than your very rainy thunderstorm season down here in South Florida.

The wind part was normal? Yeah, down here and downtown. When you've been saying with us doing the show, you haven't really been downtown for a big thunderstorm. The wind tunnels here are insane, which is why that book fair just got totally leveled over there because the wind over here, when it's going through all those buildings,

goes like five times faster than it actually is. That is true. What is unusual though, Mike, and what I haven't experienced before is it going for 24 hours straight. You're talking about wind tunnels downtown. I'm talking about off the wall on the beach where it's 24 straight hours,

where it doesn't let up. That's not something I've seen before. Yeah, that was surprising. And I can only draw a comparison to that to the no name swarm, which did far more damage in terms of flooding. That was a really wet swarm. It took out a book fair?

Yeah, the book fair. Yeah, the book fair. Yeah, the book fair. Perfect timing. Not a good time for books in Florida. That is a sign from God, folks. Also, Stu God's was out there celebrating because he loves the destruction of anything that is books and reading and information and learning I I don't

believe that Miami Beach I I used to laugh with people at the idea of Miami Beach has one bookstore I don't think that even exists anymore I think the one that was there is the book store over, or the book fair over here, people aren't reading as much, correct? The book fair has to have taken a hit the other way. They've been set up right at a college. You would think that that's the audience.

I need to make a formal apology to Mike Ryan. I've discovered the world of audio books now. Oh my God. Oh, this is, what haven't I been doing been doing this look at you so well read now walking around Just learning a book. Yeah, no, this is a intellectual. Yeah, if you read recently. Oh, just stuff on Spotify. Little Spotify audiobook action. Never's now. It's free. So if you guys I'm almost done with heat to it. I won't take me a good eight months Damn, how long is that book? I mean, we made the playoffs in finals

and both sports, so I kind of lost track. But the guy, the voice talent that does the fake bachino and that is incredible. To answer your question, no people don't read anymore, not just because of the magic of audio books, but also because people are reading on tablets and on phones, people aren't buying physical books anymore.

And if they do, by the way, they're not going to a bookstore or a book fair, they're going to Amazon. Again, it delivered't buying physical books anymore. And if they do, by the way, they're not going to a bookstore, a book fair, they're going to Amazon. Again, it delivered some time same day delivery. Again, why are we mad at Jeff Bezos? This guy's amazing. I know he's done awful things to awful people, but look, he makes my life so much easier.

And if I don't like it, I send it back, and sometimes he says, keep it, I'll give you your money back. I know when I am now available in the bookstore is everywhere. I know he's done awful things to good people or an awful lot of people. Okay, okay. Yeah, well you skipped over that. In terms of evil billionaires, I got a lot of people. He's lower, maybe he doesn't even make the medal soon.

Hey, my first two specials are streaming. My name is on prime, fun size, daddy issues. So you can go there, watch those if you want to. He's lower. Maybe he doesn't even make the medal soon. Hey, my first two specials are streaming on Amazon Prime, fun-size daddy issues, so you can go there. Watch those if you want to. Got Elon, and people feel that some kind of way. I'm not Bill Gates, Jerry Jones. No, he's not top. Terms of evil billionaires?

Three? No, get out of here. Go ahead and see if you can put together a list with the help of the internet on evil billionaires. I'm assuming some dictators, I'm putting an assortment of oligarchs are probably in the mix there. To that. To get some evil billionaire credits. Don Lebertard.

All of us who were watching college football elevated everything the weekend was because we missed football in general so very much You didn't watch the ending of you tap Jacksonville state. It was awesome. A dizzy boom. Mm-hmm still got such a lame for you Just everything in college football is awesome any single thing that happens she gets deliriously happy about Don't you miss viewing sports through that, that prism though? Like, I'm envious of Lucy. Like, I wish that I could still be happy.

This is the Dan Lebatar Show with this two-gats. locally in sports here while we have a mean who will be leaving after the first hour and then returning. I did want to talk about Samayami Heat Basketball and the idea that the Miami Heat seemed to play and I understand that the schedule recently has been filled with bad teams. But sample size isn't small, I mean, that the heat have decent success. Whatever Tyler Hero is out. That's not a thing we're making up. I know for a long time Bill Simmons, I think, invented the Ewing theory, which is your best player leaves, and your team is still sort of good, or can on occasion look better than when your best player is there.

And it's a bit of a confusion, but Tyler Hiro, when he's out, the heat have made the finals twice. And they just ran off six straight games, explain to me what's happening there with your expertise of what, why it is that when Tyler Hiro misses some time, we've got a sample size that suggests the heater pretty okay. Just a quick correction. They did make the finals in the bubble with a healthy Tyler Hiro. They made it to game seven of the Eastern Conference finals two seasons ago when Tyler

was hurting obviously the NBA finals last year. Thank you. I think to my eye, defensively, they just get a lot better. But offensively, they do struggle. That's the part that I think people gloss over. If your math is just wins and losses, binary, one or zero, then it's like it's easy to come to that conclusion. But the reality is, this is is still even with this 68 Winni Street, one of the worst offenses in the league, not just overall, but in the half court,

the 24th in the league in offense. They're just not good at scoring points. And now we're going on two seasons of this, of they're not good at scoring points. So there's no world where you can tell me we're better without one of our best offensive players for a team that's starved for it. The thing with Tyler that's interesting is they went seven and eight in last regular season. They went five times.

Yeah, I got it. I'll get it. Five times. They went seven and eight last season without him when he didn't play in the regular season. You get to the post season and you get one of the all-time great individual performances and the history of the league from Jimmy Butler to beat the Bucks. You're better than the Knicks because the Knicks were not actually that good. And you only beat the Boston Celtics in large part because Caleb Martin went crazy. You had a guy step up and nearly when the

Eastern Conference finals MVP who played instead of Tyler Hero in that respect. But I would make the argument that the reason the heat didn't go to the finals the year before is because Tyler Hero wasn't playing against the Boston Celtics. Their offense struggles mightily when he's not there. He's their best creator for others and for himself as an isolation player. And yes, their winning games without. In the regular season, it's a shame that last year's playoff sort of confirms a false narrative because you had some

of the greatest individual performances of all time. This is what the heat scored game by game against the nuggets in the finals. Ninety three in in today's NBA. Ninety three points, right? 111 points. That was the win. Ninety four points. Ninety five points. And in an elimination game, 89 points. It's all good. Everyone's a defense win championships. You also have to score. It's not one or the other. It's a balance. And so, yes, you can say, hey, we held the nugget to 94 points in an elimination game.

That's great. We scored 89. It's also better than most teams did against Denver the last three years. Sure. And it wasn't enough. Sure, but we scored 89 points. We scored 98 points per 100 possessions.

This is atrocious. It's atrocious by any metric, but it's atrocious by the standard of today where offense has all the advantages. You still, and by the way, that number's inflated by a Jimmy Butler heater that happened at the end of that game that was over with like five minutes ago. It is an interesting narrative though,

because I think the evidence is beyond circumstantial. They played, they've never had a win streak like this and over the last couple of seasons and they made an incredible run of form in the last postseason. These are all without Tyler Heroes so I don't think that you can ignore the talking point although you guys are pretty convincing.

For me, with the recent run of form for Miami has a lot more to do with the opponents. There's, depending on your thought of the Los Angeles Slakers right now, I think they're a game over 500 or maybe at 500. The best win on this recent streak is probably Atlanta, right? There be enough on bad teams. Atlanta is not something that you go home

and put on your fridge. We didn't land on it. Right, I think when you apply the context of who wasn't available to them in Atlanta, then you can talk yourself into it being more impressive victory. So I think this probably has more to do with who they're playing than Tyler here.

This part is fair. Obviously you always have to look at the schedule, but I would say to you, okay, because I don't think, I don't think it's fair to do this. Winning road games in the NBA is hard, and they had a tough stretch that they were starting. After starting, whatever it was, one in four, they had like 17 of 19 days,

they were gonna be on the road, and they won all of them. So, like winning all of them, bad teams are not. Winning all of them went So like winning all of them bad teams are not winning all of them went from you were yelling and screaming that they're not even going to make the play in tournament to they went to third in the east by winning all of the road games. The thing that also matters here is that the role players have stepped up Duncan Robinson's playing the best basketball we've seen him play in years. We've talked about it on the show. Josh Richardson has played a lot better than he did in those first handful of games.

Kyle Lowry stepped up in a couple of games where he became their primary ball handler. Do you want to get in? Well, Jaime Hock has junior has been fantastic. And offensively, he's really already grown into a guy who he probably won't leave the rotation. And now the heat are just looking almost at an embarrassment of riches when it comes to their rotation. Because now the Caleb Martin comes back tonight. This team is really deep. Yeah, I mean or really lucky to be playing the Chicago

Bulls and two out of the next three and then after that the schedule gets really difficult And yes, it's cool to say that they're third in the east there are also two games away from being 11 But winning four games on the road in a row with a scheduled loss in back-to-back nights Where you're going from Charlotte to San Antonio is. It matters. No, of course not. The loss of the Charlotte Hornets. And the back-to-back was first.

You lose back-to-back road games. Every good team in the NBA loses that back in my worst. Not even me at my worst, Jeremy. It also looks like BAM has, I'm going to say it, taken a step. He has taken a step. That's a huge part. It's offensively. It grease no more. What? He has taken a step. Dude, offensively. It's grease no more.

What? He looks bad, dude. He looks really good. Wait a minute, I'll tell you what I mean. Hold on, I mean, are you ready to do this? Because I would have made the argument that the story of the last six games for this team has been Jaime Hakez.

They're trusting him in the fourth quarter. He's playing all fourth quarters. You, but if you're here to tell me that BAM has taken a step. If you're here to tell me that BAM has taken a step, if you're here to tell me that Amin is willing to call him BAM again, I will say that that is the biggest story with the heat in the last six games. It is small sample size theater, Dan. I'm gonna admit to that I'm a patron, but I think this is real.

I think he's finally made that leap of understanding of, oh, I have to do it every night. And that's the burden of startup. It's not, I'll do it when I can, or I'll do it when you need me to. So I do it every night. That's what we pencil in. And then everything else happens around that.

And I think that's kind of what is required to be that guy is you have to have the scouting reporters all about you. We know they're going to try and stop you from doing these things and you're still going to do them. And so far, he's done those things. So I salute, bam, autobi, oh, not Idris. That is crazy. What he just said. He is willing to call him. Bam. I wanted to go back to one thing that Jeremy said, though, embarrassment of riches. I always love that term because I imagine someone sitting in a room full of gold and, you know, platinum.

Josh Richardson over here and Jaime Hockett. That would ice myth. And then, Hey, it's okay. You haven't been watching. And then I'm doing the thing where I do every year where there's a role player. I'm like, well, there's $15 million right there. We did it again. You got a guest who comes in and say

hey Jeremy how's it going oh please don't look it's such a mess I just have too many riches here I'm so embarrassed if you don't think that that's how Eric's bolster feels right now I don't know what to tell you oh let me move my coal switer sorry that's just laying there the thing that Mike is saying that is funny is I too am am i am imagine treasure chess and pirate booty and bobbles and a magic carpet and i'm and he would heisman and it it is it embarrassment of riches is slightly over it's slightly overstated when what you're doing is just going through the heat bend he

absolutely locked down the mellow ball after bothering victor when banyama that i before we are not slander the riches are two way contracts i've been on the highest mid train for quite a lot last year i i said spoke why you stop playing them when he was one of the few affected people in that final you remember when he scored eighteen points in the abby finals it's crazy one of the strangest flexes in the history of this program is a mean saying he was the first on the on the Haywood High Smith train wasn't the first

I was early though. I was early. I got my seat nice and early. Okay, but embarrassment of riches I think of the Golden State Warriors with Durant not Orlando Robinson Thomas Bryant looks like a genie I could see like Robin a bottle and Thomas Bryant comes out. I know no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no He look Martin comes back to the guys Steve Martin also Like many don't mind the RJ when Jeremy's talking Don't let a TARD I'm still got to top everyone with the space to my way, please more than you do Stugats, I always like leaving the head on the chicken Because he's so vulnerable, I just unfairly fade down the chickens, he just will leave him by himself

This is the Don Lebatar show with this Tugats All right, I'm feeling slightly less crazy now as I read about this because we got 80,000 people here locally without power this morning and the winds were in Miami Beach and Dania Beach 75 miles an hour and- That's named Sorensuff. Key Largo was 86 miles an hour. I knew. No, so when I say I was worried on my balcony, I was not imagining this.

What I was looking as I was watching all these things fly by and what are your measurements? I'm 240 Kosa violation come on Tent just whisper really what are you you want to get a scale? You can go find a scale here. I'll step on it. That's a dance that stands version of look it up If we not have a scale here, somebody has a scale. Surely somebody will have a scale here and then we can embarrass me as a fat liar. We do have a scale and don't call me Shirley.

A big fat liar is what it is that you could literally call me by bringing a scale. Well, we call GMOD. We just had different experiences with it because I live more westward in word and I wasn't getting that kind of wind. So I'm sunned to find out that there was 85 mile per hour winds in the keys. No, I saw on my way in was I just a bunch of trees and the street and garbage and the street and and things that had collapsed. Like you know just fences and stuff that had collapsed.

It felt like driving, it felt like driving after a hurricane that we get down here. And again, the thing that's strange about it to me is these things have always had warning. They never catch us by surprise. You saw Jalen Brown dribbling with his left hand in the street? I'm seeing that in average person.

So we gotta remember, average person can be moved by seven miles per hour wind. An average car can be moved by 90. This is terrifying to me. 67 miles. What the hell? Oh my god. Oh, a strong fan has got to send me across the room. Rads in orbit. By the way, perfectly safe inside the Danium Probe this weekend to see me do stand-up comedy. Get your tickets now. Bradweibs comedy duck. Think the bad weather's gone tonight gone tonight so it should be good for your show. He's also

got a theater tour starting in 2024. He's got new special star fish. It is out December 21st. And if you want more information, Brad Williams comedy dot com for all things Brad Williams, but your ass floats in your head sinks. Are you writing lyrics right now? I mean you wrote them before. I thought you were reading the poem. Can you guys get me the useless sound that has never been later? We are closer to next week's games than we are to the previous week's games and we have used a game tonight. The next week's shirts tonight. But we have the useless sound. Finally, it got in here very, very late. Billy's not even

here today, but let's see what him and Taylor put together with an assortment of useless sound from the NFL weekend. You know, the most important thing for us, man, I wanted us to play fast physical and

violent, and I did feel that way in all three phases. We made it necessary splash plays on defense. I say all the time at halftime, you know, winning losing or it's time. I think he's played well at times, and then at times he hasn't. Our guys fought their tails off to give themselves a chance, but can't keep digging yourself into these holes and think you're going to be able to come back all the time. We challenge our team to go out there and compete for four quarters and I felt from the opening kickoff to the final whistle.

We did that and I'm confident we continue with this, that we will end up on the other side of this. We obviously got to look at ourselves in the mirror and figure some things out. You have your football team all looking in We're trying to be the best versions of themselves for that greater good of trying to accomplish something special I am of the belief that we can continue to go out and and Write our own story when we're holding the pen. We came off the sideline and guys are talking about it I'm like, oh man. I'm like dang it like I was mad sort of

Every Sunday not on me. I didn't know today. I wasn't you know throughout the week I tried to just stay calm cool, you know collected This is a national football league you get knocked on your ass and it's not whether you get back up It's I get up and losing's never fun, but you know, I thought we'd be able today I got to be better for the guys for the team everyone battling. We're not there yet But I always choose the by week to evaluate myself and the team and everyone battling. We're not there yet, but I always choose the by-week to evaluate myself and the team and everything I can do better. And there's a lot of things clear I need to do better.

And I'm always going to work. I know that. Really appreciative of the effort. I thought I'd be ex-fronted on office, did a really good job of kind of controlling it. I thought we were able to run the ball effectively and that's a good posture to play for them. Obviously a lot to work on, a lot to be better at. Every loss is the moralizing. Later in the game, man, when it gets a little bit thick, I thought we would have our opportunities

and we did and we made them. You know, set the standard of who we should be and who we can be and who we're going to be. You know, we just got to find a way. Dig deeper. You know, we're in this thing together. You know, we're battling together, we're fighting together. And, you know, we believe in us. It's about us.

It's not one individual. It's not quarterback. It's not the safety. It's about us. I didn't do enough job for us today. I mean, that was just us as a whole. We were able to execute and do the things that we capable of doing. We get good results.

This is about us. This is about us running our own race. And no matter what the score is, the other opponent, what they're going through, what's tough for them, young quarterback, whatever, we're trying to build. We're trying to build and become a better team. And as I said, to our best performance and best versions of ourselves each week.

You don't feel it on the field. It's not something that affects my play. That's not a reason. I have to be better because me, it's not something that affects my play. That's not a reason. I have to be better because of me. It's not something else. It's not how seeing circumstances not a cause. It's not, I have to be better. I have to push my side.

I have to be better. There's no excuse. There's no external. In the game, you're not thinking about that. That's not something that's going through your mic. Like me speaking of tie-ins. Did we just get it? Wow.

It's a Tommy DeVito. And it's Bryce Young. Oh. Let's go back for a second and dissect this, because Bryce Young is under it in Carolina, because at least in part, because CJ Stroud looks so good. And Carolina looks ostensibly just totally lost and hopeless. Let's hear, because this is the verbal manifestation

of what he looks like in the pocket. You don't feel it on the field. It's not something that affects, it doesn't affect my play. That's not a reason. I have to be better because of me. It's not something else. I'm saying circumstance is not a reason. I have to be better because of me. It's not something else. I'm saying circumstance is not a cause. I have to be better. I have to push my, I have to be better.

There's no excuse. There's no external. In the game, you're not, you don't think about that. That's not something that's going through your mind. I saw it. In my mind's eye, I saw the delinement swallowing him up. I can't. I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't. He should have been sacked in the middle of that as he as he as he stutter stepped and if somebody had somebody giant had run into the room and just tackled him it would have put him out of his misery as he tried to keep making more reads. One more time on this because this is some real big time NFL stammering. You don't feel it on the field. It's not in it. It's it's not something that affects. It doesn't affect my play. That's not a reason. I have to be better because of me at this.

There's it's not something else. I just out saying circumstance is not a cause. It's not it's I have to be better. I have to I have to push my I have to be better. That there's there's no better. There's no excuse, there's no external. In the game, you're not, you're not, you don't think about that. That's not something that's going through your mind. I do feel very relatable. I do feel, yes, it felt like you're reading, but it's also the way I would talk in regular life after I left the stadium, if all of those people were chasing me the way they're chasing, Bryce, yeah. They sound like they're chasing them in the press

conference. You think we close his eyes? He still sees them? Yes. I believe there are very few things more haunting in professional sports than playing that position when you know you're not playing it well. Like that has to be terrifying because it's not just that the other guys can feel that and sense it. It's that the people in your own huddle can look at this. In fact, it surprises me that I had taken this long to get to it. It is breaking news in South Florida that we have not had this century. It is being reported that a patriot has lost the locker room.

Mac Jones, this never happens with the patriots. We are never given, you tell me the last time. The lawyer maloie trade, where Bella check lost the locker room. Is that right? Who reported that? When they cut lawyer Maloy. Yeah, no, it was all crashing down. That was the first time we wrote the Patriots off. Not the Richard Seymour trade.

The report here is, and I wanna get it right, who it is that's reporting it, because you're getting the schisms in the locker room, it's Andrew Callahan is reporting that the players schisms in the locker room it's uh... andro cala hand is reporting that the players this is the report players are done with him that mac jones is going to third string

and that uh... and god almighty can you imagine think about what i was just saying about the worst thing in sports is being the quarterback who knows he can play and everyone around him as the swirl is happening, no, he can't play, but there is a step that's worse than that. You come right after Tom Brady. An article from 2003, four time pro bowl, a refused pay cut. And here's a quote from Teddy Burschke. Has it ever been this quiet in here? I don't think it has. Linebacker Teddy Burschke, Maloy's roommate in 1996 said in the locker room, I think shocked is it has. Linebacker Teddy Brusky, Maloy's roommate in 1996 said in the locker room, I think shocked is the word. You sort of just shake your head and ask yourself

why. Brusky is on the record on ESPN saying, Belishek, should walk away at the end of the year. He is saying win seven or eight games this year, which is not possible, really, with that team. They're at two and eight and walk away at the end of the year and now people are talking about whether or not he will survive the year whether he'll be fired or or not, but when Bruce when you've lost Baghdad, bruski, I've told I've told the story before Mike's told the story before this happened at ESPN They were furious. The NFL people were that we were calling him Baghdad, bruski, and then they asked my crying why do you call him back dead bruski that's how it happened they were mad because he was a minister of disinformation for the Patriots franchise but when you've lost him when he's saying Bella check needs

to walk away I had to give someone a dissertation on operation Iraqi freedom no wait so we went to the rack and there was no oil there. Look, even Rob Gronkowski is joining the free. He says, Mac Jones should request a release and he incline with the Browns. It is over in New England. Gronk is going the opinion route. Gronk has also said that Stefan Diggs, he's like, what do you mad about Stefan? You're the number one receiver what is it that you want out for any saying that he's leaving uh...

buffalo after this year i did not have grog in the opinion lane grog has spent his entire career not saying interesting things what he does i mean don't know the only opinions i trust grog on her like what size cagerie getting for the party Remember when he gave us the term spicy man He's always says interesting things forgive me on the hot take on he does say I

Yes, forgive me. He says funny things accidentally funny things on purpose But hot takes haven't been grunk thing. He doesn't give you strong opinions on when, on other players and what it is that they're going to be doing, you never asked the sexy bodies. Yes, he's good for the sexy bodies. He's good for the specimen. Did you see him do stand up? Did it's the worst stand up? If you ever see your entire life, Brad Williams, am I correct or not? You are not wrong, you know. Don't look it up, guys. Blake Griffin is good though.

He's legitimately good at stand-up comedy, correct? Blake Griffin is good. I mean, he's a hybrid. He's a basketball player. He's a red head. He's a standard comedian. He's everything. It's hard to believe that I wouldn't think

that Blake Griffin would be good at that. Oh, he's incredible. I've seen him. Jeff Ross gave him the highest praise. We talked to him at the comedy store. That had came next laugh. Nicky Glazer's joke about Blake Griffin is still one of my favorites.

Blake Griffin looks like a printer that ran out of black ink. Thank you.