The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: Dope Fiends

Episode Date: July 14, 2025

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Shadowin' it. I just walked into the studio and as I was walking to my seat I caught a glimpse of what was on Greg Cody's computer Greg do you want to tell the shipping container what just happened or would you like me to? Well, at least it wasn't porn. No, you can you can tell it I think I'd like to start the show today Chris with you just going through your dad's browser history, because I think you guys will be fully unsurprised by what it reveals. So I walk in and on Greg Cody's computer is a photo of Greg Cody making a funny face.

And as I'm coming in, that photo disappears. And I'm like, oh, let me see that again. And I'm like, no, not that tab, the one before it. Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody. No, no, the one before it. Greg Cody Show featuring Greg Cody. No, no, the one before it. Greg Cody's Miami Herald column. The one before it, Greg Cody Show featuring Greg Cody. All his tabs were himself.

All of his tabs were him just checking in on himself in a variety of different ways. No, I mean, that was coincidental. Chris, you think your dad still does porn Shockingly vote no, I don't think so either or if he does like he'll do it like analog There's a does porn well just that you watch porn not that you star Be careful there yeah, we say do Yeah, no, I don't think he does

You don't have to answer this at all. We're just talking around. I you at. I knew where you were. Yeah, no, I don't think he does. No, I don't think so. You don't have to answer this at all. We're just talking around you. You noticed I didn't answer that. There is an age where I would guess that people tap out on that, and I'm gonna say that that's Greg Cody's age. Maybe like once a year when the house is empty. I gotta tell you, once the hub was like, verify your age,

I'm like, I don't wanna do this, and I just stopped. The verb does is the wrong verb to use when asking anybody about porn. Yeah. You could use any other verb, I think. I don't know, stars in would also be problematic. But, but. Any action verb feels bad.

Wait a minute, you guys aren't amused by the fact that I'm not kidding when I say all five of Greg's tabs were just him checking in on himself. It was an inception of his narcissism. Like that his computer only exists so he can check in on himself on things he's doing. Well, the photo you saw happens to be on my YouTube, the Greg Cody Show YouTube channel. And so I have that listed. Just happens to be up. Yeah, so because my new episode dropped this morning and so I'm tracking how it's doing, that's all.

It dropped an hour and a half ago. Tracking how it's doing, it's not even 9 a.m. yet. I understand that, it dropped at seven. How many people you believe roll out of bed at 7 a.m. like, God, it gets that Cody pod. Yeah, it's hundreds. You're right. I get choked up when I think about Cody.

Thank you, Zed. The five tabs though, doesn't strike you as excessive? Like it doesn't strike you as excessive that every tab we went to before that was just you checking in on yourself. Look, I'm looking at my tabs right now. I have my dashboard of Miami Herald stuff. I have my Greg Cody Show podcast tab. I've got my Twitter account. It's always going to be Twitter to me. You know, my threads account, my Facebook account, my blue sky account.

Facebook. Yeah, I do Facebook. We know. Your YouTube is up there as well? My YouTube channel is doing really well. Last week we, the the family Olympics where I competed against my granddaughter has almost 5,000 views which is good for for my YouTube channel so it's good. But enough about me. Hey everybody, it's Mike down here in South Florida. As the audience well knows,

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coming in here with finger guns and saying, hey Dan, Wimbledon won by a couple of dope fiends. That's right. I love that phrase, dope fiends. It harks back to my ute. Love that phrase. Yeah, I used to read Mad Magazine all the time and dope fiends is like one of those phrases that you associate with the 50s and the 60s the beatnik era and what's your word association like what's the face you picture yeah what do you pick first with with the two dope fiends like when

someone says who's a dope fiend oh a dope fiend implied somebody in the 50s who was on the early side of like shooting heroin or something so when you close your eyes right what does the avatar look like? What do you think does it look like a specific person when you close your eyes and think of a dope fiend? Do you think of anybody? No, I don't. Okay, just a generic archetype. Thanks for playing. Thank you It's always great when he comes in here and all he's got is a phrase. Like he doesn't have any elaboration. Want to build out this world with you? We were trying to work with you, but he just started getting confused by your question.

This is a fun playground. Let's play in it with Greg. No, I have more to say about both Wimbledon champions having been suspended for doping. It's an embarrassment to Wimbledon. And here's the thing about dope fiends. Once they serve their time, it's as if we forget that they cheated. You know, like in the coverage of Wimbledon, nobody says, you know, Swiatek is coming back from a blankety-blank penalty.

She used to be the number one tennis player in the world, number one female, now she's number eight. Why? Because she missed so much time after doping. Same with Yannick Sinner, of course, the appropriately named Yannick Sinner. The center chief for Echled. Well, you know what? He did his time, but he can't make it go away. In other words, if I'm writing the history of Aaron Echled, it's not the lead paragraph, but it's certainly mentioned. I just realized that Greg Cody on a Monday morning

after a weekend of porn, that he is like a car that doesn't start so well after 70 years. Like you're just trying to turn it over, words don't come and so he's a professional Broadcaster talking about Wimbledon and it's the first words of the show in sports analysis and he's like yada yada Whatever or whatever and he just doesn't have the words that he needs to talk about Championship sport well swyatt tech I I couldn't recall exactly how long her doping penalty was, but it was scandalous

as was Sinner's because they're at the top of their profession and they're both cheating. And so, you know, I don't, that doesn't sit well with me. You know, if I'm talking about the Wimbledon weekend, that's a major thing with me is that these two people, you know, everybody's saying, oh, Sinner, the Sinner and Alcara's, you know, rivalry saying oh center the the center and Alcaraz you know rivalry is so wonderful no to me the thing is both Wimbledon winners are convicted cheaters. Dope fiends. Why this is coming from the same person who last week came in here and said I missed the Tour de France having dopers. Well I was kidding about that I mean that was a joke. That one's fine. There are certain sports where it helps.

I mean, Lance Armstrong. Baseball. All of them. And certain sports as in all of them. I mean, the illusion of it not being there in the NFL I guess helps. Okay, we're never having a Lance Armstrong by the way. I want to do this. Well, Lance Armstrong's got one of the top sports podcasts in America. He does? He does, yes. He's, well he was covering the Tour de France. What's it called? I don't know, you'll have to tell me. Livestrong. The thing that I find interesting about everything that's happened in sport is that you're one of the few still clutching on to this.

you're one of the few still clutching onto this. I think it's become so normalized that everyone thinks that everyone in sports is trying to get some sort of competitive edge and many of them are being caught. It doesn't stand to reason that somebody is beating all the cheats cleanly right well that's the problem though that we've painted ourselves into a corner as sports fans

you know cal cal raleigh hits thirty eight home runs before the all-star break and it's natural to wonder when will he be convicted of doping you know what uh... what what kind of steroids has he been using i'm not saying he is he may be as clean as as the driven snow but uh... what what kind of steroids has even using i'm not saying he is he may be as clean as as the driven snow

but uh... it's natural to wonder and and that's too bad it's too bad what i wonder i wonder if many people are doing much in the way of wondering anymore i feel like all of this is largely gone away that wimbledon is they're very few people doing what you just did with don't change i don't think about this at all anymore. Like you just mentioned Calralli, you saying that is the first time I've thought about that this season.

Really? I just don't think about it. Wow. So it doesn't occur to you that a relative no-name player comes out of nowhere, hits 38 home runs on a record pace, and what about him? So are you doing that? Are you doing that anytime that you see anything marvelous? I know Amin got mad at me on LeBron doing unprecedented things that are an unprecedented age when I'm not even accusing him of anything. I'm just saying if you have to bet and

be right whether the best people in sports are beating all of the cheaters clean, do you know how much better you have to be than everyone? That everyone else is cheating and you're doing it right and you're beating all the cheaters. They can't beat you. Like that doesn't make any sense. What sense does that make? I'm assuming that everyone in sports is way out ahead of everybody who is monitoring testing because they have the science and the economy of the science around it. Aren't you? No, I don't assume Cal Raleigh is dirty. You just brought it up! You made me think about it for the first time! None of us were thinking about it except you! Look at that. He's not telling us how to think. I brought it up because in an age where we're just, it was only one baseball generation ago that the

biggest names in the in the league were convicted. Well thank you for bringing that up because I will tell you guys that I don't know whether this is happening to you at all, nor do I know if you guys take any inventory of when some of your patterns and habits had changed. For example, I don't know if many of you have any idea when you started using the telephone to simply text, that you didn't use it or or as a computer, but never as a phone. I don't know if you have a time and place when this happened to you, but somewhere along the line in streaming, I'm gonna say in the last four years, five years, as we've changed what we've done around

here and how it is that you guys access it, my viewing habits have changed a lot. And one of the ways that it's changed is the YouTube algorithm absolutely knows how to feed me. And so I get caught this weekend in just a flume of Jose Kinseko interviews. As you mentioned, steroids, and I'm just looking at multiple documentaries, poorly made documentaries, okay? The documentaries that start with like seven houses, studios that have horses running, like there are seven of them. Some of them are in foreign lands and you're like, this can't be any good. But Konseko was actually, it's hard to explain Konseko

to people when you think about what we were just talking about, because Konseko brought in the advent of steroids, really did. Standing in right field as Fenway Park is heckling him and yelling about syringes and stuff, and he's just making muscles in right field, because he was the first one who got to the stuff. He's just flexing like Hulk Hogan? Yes, like they're all booing him and stuff, and he's just making muscles in right field because he was the first one who got to the stuff He's just flexing like Hulk Hogan

It's like they're all booing him and stuff and he's a villain but it's really hard to explain to people the one of the documentaries I was just watching was so sad because they're talking to his girlfriend and what she's saying Makes it clear that three minutes later. They're going to break up like what she's saying to the camera about oh He's just a baby without baseball He just cries and doesn't know how to do anything else and he just reminds me of almost every Cuban man I've ever met and it was just a Cuban meathead had 4040 in baseball and it was majestic He just didn't know what to do. Like the man was a toddler. He's like, let me date Madonna that he's just running around as just Cuban meathead Tony your father his friends my father his friends

They all loved can say I know the archetype They loved can say go 16th street by the way in in what's in southwest? It's named after him that street anymore. Oh, no, they took it down. That's right used to be r.i.p Think about how few chances the cub-American male has had to have one of his fellow meatheads at the very top of a sport. What got us there? Dope feet. Like there was no way to it.

Like he stunk compared to Tardible and Palmeiro. How did he get ahead of him? He's been using steroids since he's 25. And he's been using it for 25 years. And now he's on camera talking about, I have no sex drive, I can get no testosterone on my own, my body has forgotten how to make it. When I was a kid, so we're talking like late 80s

with Konseiko, Konseiko, he came off as a superhero as a kid watching baseball. He was like so much cooler than everybody else. He was a superhero if you're kidding. It is strange though to see how much baseball bodies have changed that he was the superhero and now look at Aaron Judge. And I don't think people are assuming Aaron Judge is on steroids. I think they think that he naturally comes by that physique.

You think most people know that the Rock is on steroids? Do you think because he denies it and he's in his 50s, no one looks like, like. Wait, are you, you're sounding like you're an authority on this matter. You just said he denies it, but you think, you said, you think most people know that The Rock is on steroids? Look at him, is what I'm saying. Look, look, just look at him.

He's 50 years old, people don't look like that at 50 years old. Hold on a second. Time to throw away all journalistic credibility and get reckless. Here is something we like to call reckless speculation. You're good. Happy dad. Good enthusiasm there. Takes a while for the car to crank up in the morning. to crank up in the morning will make you think he's on steroids that guy right there

i see that some people are surprised recently by the total disintegration of the liver king whose entire story unraveled as soon as people found out that he was denying steroid use even though again i think it's a credible accusation to just say, look at him! You don't look like that! He spent like 30 grand a month on steroids. 30 grand a month! While denying it the whole time and now he's just, well, not that he hasn't always been off the deep end,

but now he's talking about killing Joe Rogan and has just gone full lunatic because they've taken his what was his identity do you know the liver king is unlike that guy you know you'd have no reason to know that no there's a but i'd just assume if i'm looking at somebody who's over fifty years old and they look like that i'm gonna go ahead and assume that that's not natural and that's not

because he's eating egg whites assume that that's not natural and that's not because he's eating egg whites. That's that's not or liver That is the liver yes, because he claimed that he looked like that by just eating liver just eating meat Mortals my ancestors used to eat liver all the time Nana Dougie I'm I'm not even saying this as a joke, but but it real. I grew up, chicken liver was all over the house. I love chicken liver. Not so much the other. Nana used to eat any animal liver, she would eat it. I confine myself to chicken livers, which were really good.

I endorsed liver. Why'd you stop? What happened? It sounds like you retired it without knowing. I really do enjoy liver. I love how he just pulls away from the microphone and he's just talking directly to jazz gotten so much worse And what's funnier about it as it gets worse is I can't help but smile because look at how patchy that mustache is this week

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Stugats! I'm a grown ass man who's not filthy rich. I can't afford a Lamborghini. Well, I probably can, but that's beside the point. Hey! Wow! Wow! Wow!

Wow! Wow! This is the Don Lebatard Show with the Stugats. How does Erlene feel about the fuzz on the top of your dead upper lip? Yeah, it's funny you should ask that because I talked to her about that on the Greg Cody Show podcast which dropped today just a couple hours ago. So many downloads already. 9.13 AM. Hockey sticks, just hockey sticks.

Suffice to say, she does not approve of my mustache. Oh no. But there's a means to an end. Spoiler alert. It's a means to an end because it's socially acceptable when you have a pencil thin mustache to dye it. So that's the plan here with Greg, that it's not just going to be grown for you to see Apache mustache.

He's going to go full Arthur blank. Full Clark Gable. Why are you doing this? Mike actually brought it up a couple of weeks ago and I'm like, why the hell not? Clark Gable? Yeah, like Vince McMahon. He looked great when he did that. You're giving Greg this advice. You're doing it with a straight face from under your ridiculous mustache. You're ridiculous. It's not ridiculous, it's just mustache.

Good looking mustache. I saw an Esquire article, it's a summer of the mustache. Put it on the poll at LeBittard Show, and I may be outdated making fun of these things because I know how popular they are, and with young people, but just put it on the poll anyway at LeBittard Show. Is it redundant to say the words ridiculous mustache?

He really is starting to look like Arthur Blank. Like we should do a side by side like is. No, I'm going for Clark Gable. You know, I'm trying to attract Audrey Hepburn. Go for whatever you want. Just go for it. You know. I just don't think a lot of people are doing that particular mustache.

For example, he's mentioning Arthur Blank. We first discovered that mustache 15 years ago. There have been no newcomers on that front. Clark Gable had retired it because that kind of mustache, I don't believe, is something that had been in style in any way. Who are you emulating right now? I love that he sees a photo of Arthur Blank with a pencil thin mustache and he's like, yeah, points to it. I like that. That's a good looking man. It's distinguished.

Yeah, he does look like an actor from the 50s. Yeah, he really does. That's the look I'm after. But don't judge the mustache yet because it's not fully grown. We haven't dyed it yet. Yeah. I mean, I can't grow a beard in a week and a half like some guys can. You know, it takes me a while.

It might be helpful if you became a dope fiend. It might, it helps things grow faster. Does it? Yeah, that's a thing. It's dangerous. You got to get like a full body scan before you do the HGH because it grows everything that's in your body. So if you have cancer cells, like that's...

Multiply. Yeah, that's not good. That's my man right there. Greg, that's the preview, okay? So when you're looking at that, that's not yet up on the TV screen for the viewer our video team has kind of followed his cadence and knows immediately put it on the main feed now Clark Gable and Arthur blank both look more regal than you do they have ties they have they have a distinguished sort of dignity that no

offense I don't have it either I don't have it either the picture isn't complete and to hear this coming from Dan is just absurd I just I just mentioned I just started wearing collared shirts six months I know right he still wears t-shirts and you know thinks it looks good it's okay it's fine look how good Mr. look at the defense looks there you know it's fine uh... thank you for bringing up vince mcmahon it allows me to segue seamlessly into some of the uh... stuff from the weekend in combat sports uh...

can you look up for me please i want to get to some uh... connor mcgregor sound here in a second i don't think i'm a gregor's fought since twenty one I, the sport, UFC misses him desperately because it doesn't have... See, socially acceptable when you have a pencil thin one to dye it. Gotta be on the lip, yeah. You gotta dye it. And people like don't hold it against you. If you're gonna go for that, that type of look.

That guy's crazy looking. John Waters? Is it? Oh, that's John Waters? Who is that? Avant-garde director. That is a mustache though that is way too close to his upper lip and it does not have the proper proportion to the nose. The mustache needs to be centered. It looks like it has been put up by a carpenter who's no good at putting things up correctly. That needs to go in the middle.

It doesn't, it doesn't. But you're going for, you're going for what? You're going for Clark Gable? You're going for 60s movie star? Cause you, the, the, uh, back in my day, music was queued because you started talking about Mad Magazine and I wanted to ask you, a magazine, what's that? Oh, well, Mad used to, they still publish Mad Magazine. You know, the

magazines never quite go away, you know, people, life, they're all still around. Not true in any way. Yeah it is. Magazines go away all the time, like what are you talking about? Well, but they still publish though, they have, it's like newspapers, they still publish but they also have an online thing you can, like Rolling Stone's another one. I happen to subscribe to Rolling Stone online, you can like rolling stones another one I Happen to subscribe to Rolling Stone online you can actually get the the magazine Are you positive that mad magazine is still printing you're positive? I am as sure as I can be without really knowing You're on one of the great yes mustache Greg is different semi-positive Yeah, okay, because I i can imagine that mad magazine

is selling well uh... very very well anymore but i wanted to ask uh... mike specifically because i'd on hulu i was watching i haven't gotten through all of it but a documentary uh... about uh... wane rooney and his wife colin rooney's uh... court case and situation where allegedly a teammate's wife was revealing some of what it is was on Colleen Rooney's Instagram privately and the betrayal ended up in the court system. But the thing that it got me to thinking about is tabloids because Wayne Rooney had some bad behavior

in public, had some bad behavior with drinking, and I was surprised that he participated in this documentary. It's three parts about just how crazy it was in this situation to be Colleen Rooney. Wayne Rooney, by the way, is the same age as Ronaldo and Messi. Those are his contemporaries, but he hasn't played

in like a decade, basically, because of how hard he went. Yes, he was a partier, and it was pretty clear from this documentary that there's one Wayne Rooney when he's not drinking, and then another one, his wife doesn't recognize when he is. But the thing that it got me to thinking about, I don't know if this is still true in England,

what Greg Cody is saying about tabloids newspapers etcetera i imagine england tabloids are still a big deal still now today whereas i don't think of new york anymore as that being a big deal do i have that wrong in no longer thinking that it matters at all to play in new york city because the tabloids are mean have things changed so much in how it is that we cover things and has the newspaper become such an artifact that the tabloid city and the tabloid pressure is no longer a thing

in the United States? I think it's still alive in Britain. Well, it's different and I have to check, but I think what happened around Princess Di kind of changed the laws around there. They have very strict libel laws over there. Slander is a big deal. For example, and this has happened several times in world football, a player will get arrested for a sexual assault allegation. They'll get processed through the

system and their identity, there's some online hearsay, but it's kept secret. When people go through these things, largely they do so in private over there because there's such strict liability laws now for these tabloids. This getting to a slander case was kind of amazing because Colleen Rooney was taken to court for simply accusing on Instagram a teammate's wife of leaking her private Instagram photos I would assume that I think you're right about the New York tabloids in the sense that I think social media has Probably taken some of that away because it's not just like hey New York tabloids. It's crazy to play there It's kind of like that everywhere in this country now because of social well put this on the pole to do at lebatard show has social media made Has social media made tabloids or social media replaced?

Tabloids like that just what you're talking about right now when I was working with Chelsea We kind of had to follow the UK governance and there were certain issues that were open fodder on social media by the Chelsea fan base and you could not discuss it because of liability. Well this is the poll question I meant to put up. Has social media made every sports city a tabloid city? I still think of New York as the exception to the rule. Maybe it's wishful thinking on my part but I think the Post and the Daily News are what they've always been. They still have the crazy funny headlines uh... i think when you go in the new york city subway it's still fairly common to see people

reading a tabloid i'd now i haven't been in an n.y.c. subway in in a couple of years but i think it's the exception i think sports radio still plays a major role in that regard up in new york city but tabloids when i think it's the exception i think sports radio still plays a major role in that regard of the new york city but tabloids when i think of tabloids i it made me wonder whether or not that is a thing that could even happen in the united states anymore the thing that happened in britain because i believe the tabloid war still keep people competitive like crazy whether there's uh... rigorous slander laws are not do you

guys are agree like crazy whether there's rigorous slander laws or not. Do you guys agree that Arthur Blank looks like the mayor and the arch villain in every DC comic movie? Both the mayor and the arch villain. Do you believe that he looks like the famous prized art thief who gets persuaded by his old crew to do one last heist? Yes, I love that, It's always one last one. Does Arthur Blank look like at any minute he'll steal 101 Dalmatians?

Does he look like a retired vampire who trains young up-and-coming vampires so he can give back to the community? His house does. If I told you his house was haunted you wouldn't be surprised, right? Not one bit. If I told you his house was haunted, he knew it and took pride in it, you would not be surprised either, correct? Several rooms in his mansion that have chairs that have sheets over it. Sheets? I thought we went with plastic and we put an actual knight in the house in armor next to the grandfather clock.

That's definitely, grandfather clock does not work. Plastic couches don't give off haunting. Yeah. Sheets though. Yeah, sheets do. Sheets give off haunting more than... Draped over the chair. We've draped over the furniture in this haunted room.

Yeah, that's the set of the Addams Family is what you're describing. One of the great shows of haunted room. Yeah, that's the set of The Addams Family is what you're describing. One of the great shows of all time. Every time. And a paper thin mustache in that one. Yeah. One of the great shows of all time, huh? It is, The Addams Family.

I'll put that one on the poll. I think you're going to have some buy-in. Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da What do you mean you don't know how to you don't know everyone knows how to snap their fingers I mean like I guess I guess I know how to but like I can't do it try Yeah, that's bad. You're in the wrong way. Yeah, you gotta go this way It's the finger that hits the palm that makes the noise not the thumb I'm trying And warmer that is crazy that you don't know how to do that. Yeah, I can't snap.

I can't blow bubbles either, bubble gum. All my friends, like when we were in school, in middle school, elementary, they would blow their bubbles, and I'm like, I can't do that. They were having so much fun. They look like it was fun, like it pops, gets in your mouth sometimes. Not me.

It's simply shocking to learn that an adult human being I've known for a very long time does not know how to snap his fingers. Nah. You got some idiosyncrasies to your game. At LeBittard Show, put it on the poll, do you know anyone who doesn't know how to snap their fingers at LeBittard Show? According to the internet, apparently 67% of people can snap their fingers. That's actually shocking. I can't whistle either

I don't know how to whistle really That's man. Well, if it's a perfect day, what if it's a temperature? Like cold day that do you think you can do it a little bit better? You don't know how to whistle either I don't know how to whistle either what I don't are you an expert whistler? I can whistle the Cody's whistle. Yeah. My dad used to whistle all the time. Dick Cody. He'd walk around with a hand in a pocket.

Oh, whistling Dick is what they call it. Please tell us. Uncle Dick will whistle in his backswing during golf. No, he has. He has done that. He literally has done that. That's gotta be hilarious to watch. It is every time.

We're like, what are you looking at? He also hums in his backswing. Yeah. He literally has done that. That's gotta be hilarious to watch. It is every time. He also hums in his back seat. He'll just be up there like, da da da. I'd Venmo you like 30 bikes and watch this. People don't snap anymore. They don't snap, they don't whistle, they don't hum. Finally I'm fitting in. Yeah, I mean people don't, that's a lost art.

People are doing it less, for sure, I mean that's a lost art. People are doing it less for sure. Yeah, it's a lost art. Put it on the poll please. At Lebatard show is whistling a lost art. It absolutely is. At Lebatard show. Don Lebatard. I heard that as a woman faking pain. I didn't think that sounded real. I really didn't, you know know it was not fake. It was in no way Yeah, you can spot a woman faking it two gods. Yes. I can Jess expert. I've been married 40 years This is the done libertar show with the two gods I heard the other day something after we spoke about July 4th and the dangers of July 4th and how it is the most dangerous day in America where people get hospitalized and hurt.

I heard a Bill Pollian interview where Bill Pollian was talking about during his executive days that he and all the other executives would just wait by the phone all weekend Knowing that somebody was going to get in trouble Something bad was going to happen a player was going to have an issue of some sort the firework Incidents usually take a few days to arrive. You don't hear about it on July 5th So I don't know did you guys see what happened with Najee Harris? Where I read it and I'm like, fireworks accident, eye injury.

And I'm like, oh no. Like, what does that even mean? I immediately hear that and I'm like, fireworks accident, eye injury, how bad is that? And I was also surprised to learn learn although perhaps i should not have been that the pittsburgh steelers were done with my jerry that that happened very quickly i thought it was useful i thought it was good i thought they were very limited offensively for reasons that didn't have

to do anything with him and then the running back is disposable so they don't want to just keep paying that that contract after it is expired and so a first-round pick I thought was pretty good for them serviceable is now so expendable. Tony, did he sign a one year deal? He's in LA now, he's a charger for those that don't know. He signed a one year deal. Yeah, a prove it deal obviously.

Obviously they've had a couple of guys come in and out that have had those prove it deals like J.K. Dobbins last season, but it said the eye injury was superficial, which I didn't really understand. That means he's gonna be really ugly next time we see him. Like he's gonna play, but it was superficial. It's like, is that his eyelid ripped off? Does he have an eyelid to close?

Like, what's going on? The Chargers would rather have what happened than a knee injury. Well, it depends. I mean, if you lose an eye, it's, you know, that equals a bad knee injury. I really don't think we have to do comparison shopping on what the Chargers would want to hear them do the math though like what kind of knee injury is it? If it's a torn ACL collateral now we all we rate injuries right like an Achilles is worse than a yes We do we rate injuries right and so when am I backing away from the mic again? This guy's obsessed with the microphone this guy I wish you were a little more

I do what I do Speaking of fireworks. I will tell you guys that you will not be surprised by this Okay So I told you guys that right before July 4th I was just driving driving past one of those giant fireworks places I'm like, yeah, I'll go in there and then everything was two for one or three for one So I leave with just my arms filled with fireworks. The visual of you walking out of that store.

I wish we had security cam footage. But like I said, they asked for my license and stuff. So I'm legitimately now driving home with a car full of explosives. I like the idea of someone seeing you walk out with your arms full. That Leviton gets after it on 4th of July. Yeah, so I go in there and I just got, I got $130 worth of fireworks

and it was an enormous amount, okay? But then July 4th came and I was a little scared. I'm not kidding you. Another visual I'd like to see. Well wait, wait till you see, wait till you see where and how my fear escalates and where it goes. Do you plan on shooting it off your balcony? Well, here wait wait till you see wait till you see where and how my fear escalates and where it goes because you're Planned on shooting it off your balcony. Well, here's the thing I did at one point but then I realized no this is these are these are explosives that are gonna leave char all over the

Balcony like they're good. I can't these are explosives like I can't do this off of my balcony any of my balcony and And so I tell my wife I'm gonna go to the park and she's like don't do that Yeah, and she's gonna she's like you're gonna get arrested and I'm like what for being too patriotic. I'll go to jail July 4th to patriotic I would go bail you out But but so to balance out the narrative around you so she says don't do that don't do it on July 4th And she's also looking through them and she's like I think these fireworks stink There's something in there called the disco turkey and stuff Whisk or doze, whisk or don'ts?

So I go to the park all right, and I just take the smallest one the very smallest of the explosives and I like the fuse and I walk away walk away power move what happens next is such a bombardment of neighborhood machine gun fire and smoke that I run out of the park because I don't want to be seen by anybody in a neighborhood where won't stop. I get to my car, it's still going. And anybody who's listening to this, because it's like seven days after July 4th,

I didn't do it on July 4th. Oh, I thought this was on the 4th. No. I was too scared to do it. And so I did the smallest one, the very smallest one. And it was such a rat-a-tat-tat of like 90 seconds of neighborhood machine gunfire on an otherwise tranquil sunny afternoon that I immediately came home and gave my fireworks away to a couple

of my friends who had firework friends like my teenage they have teenage kids my teenage kid friends but yes my fireworks friend wait a minute you shot off fireworks in the afternoon? I did, yes. Who does that? Well, I needed a park that was empty. I needed a park that had no people in it. This is so strange. Most people wait for people to be around life fireworks.

And I wait till nighttime so that you can see them. You're just fiending for the fireworks. I'm going to be alone at 5 PM on a Saturday. You're a fireworks fiend. Need it. I needed to test the smallest one and it frightened me. So I cannot imagine what the Mississippi missile does because that was a big ass box that had a bunch of rockets in it that I believe that I could take out an area code with. Fireworks are dumb.

They're so dumb. Oh my god. I love them though. I'm with you. I don't know. They're also... What's the appeal? What fireworks are dumb so dumb? They're also what's the appeal male yeah, I guess that's that's all it is like something on fire watching Fireworks you know I'm in damn right you are well don't say fireworks are dumb. Well. They are like I'm Myself we don't like dumb. They're dumb movies that we love. Speaking of which, the algorithm also has me, like I told you guys last week, on shark stuff,

and I'm just getting a bombardment of the celebration of Jaws at 50 years. Dude, same. You know there's a great white shark in a lake? Nowhere is safe. These killing machines are everywhere. Can you believe that that movie is 50 years old? 50 years old? And yeah, the practical effects maybe not hold up these days, but the terror does. It's really, truly one of the greatest, most impactful movies of all time.

We talked about this the other day. It's the best horror movie of all time, if it classifies as horror. But I'm gonna give you a handful of facts that I've learned. I think you're gonna find all of them interesting, okay? Steven Spielberg was in his 20s when he made it. Panic attack, so far over budget and didn't know how to make a movie on water, thought he'd never work again,

feared the entire time that he was gonna get fired, and thought that he would never have another job. Did he have anything else under his belt at that point? Nothing big. Nothing big. He was in his early 20s. Also the shark didn't work 80% of the time. They had three sharks and they built it in fresh water and it immediately started breaking when they used it in salt water and can you imagine this I'd like to see some of the outtakes it would all often come out of the water tail first which would which would screw up the movie but you can imagine how hard it was to make something that looked

that realistic because it's it's before any special effects they had to do everything on the water for real it it was not only the first blockbuster Mike I could think about how truly was not only the first blockbuster, Mike. Think about how... It truly was the first ever summer blockbuster. Yes, well... Fifty years ago. What a time, Greg, especially for you. Miller Lite was invented and John. The same year!

Yeah. No, I remember that movie, watching it in the theater. With Miller Lite. I'm going to say something that has to be viewed as shocking and yet I don't think any of you will disagree. A shark movie is responsible for the single most famous music ever to appear in movies. Yeah I think so. Ahead of Star Wars? Ranks up there. I think so. In terms it makes you feel something if someone plays that music it there's something foreboding there's something bad that's gonna happen. It's instantly recognizable Yeah, 50 years later for really simple to from from you for 50 years later for music like that to endure from a shark

Movie, I hate to say it. I don't think jaws holds up that well. I think it's a very fake looking shark I thought it was then and don't get me wrong, the scene is scary, but it's fake. It's like going to Disney World and their version of a shark coming up out of the water. I just, you know, I don't think it was well done. It was for the time. You don't think Jaws was well done. No, not the shark itself. You don't think Stephen's, a movie that we're talking about for 50 years was well done? The fake looking shark was almost laughable, if I'm being honest.

Under that mustache. Traumatize a nation.