The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: The Place For Ribs

Episode Date: June 26, 2025

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I don't know if Amin has had problems with the draft. I understand that Jeremy is tired because he and I have done three shows in 24 hours but I don't know why the rest of you are so spent and I'm gonna need some help from you on the draft because Metal Arch Media again a failure at scheduling didn't realize that after the NBA season after the NHL season as we picked a dead spot to try and do a baseball show that we chose the date of the NBA draft to do it. So I didn't watch anything last night, the watch. I wasn't able to see what happened in the draft.

Do you guys have the good stuff? Oh, we got the good stuff. Got the good stuff. Just as a word of advice for the future. Say, hey, let's do XYZ on X date. Number one thing,Z on X date. Number one thing, just Google X date in sports. That thing happening?

Yeah, have people to do that for me. Have a lot of people to do that for me. Yeah, I was hoping not to have to do that for myself. You know what they say though, Dan, if you want something right. Well, that's not what they say. That's not how they say it. You gotta do it yourself, Dan-o.

You're missing a letter there on how they say, or a word there on how they say it. It's like there's a stop before, hey, is Kirkshen available? Hey, is Kirkshen's son available? Hey, is Samson? Before you get to all those, oh, far away, hey, let me pick up a phone and reach out to people.

Just start with, something happened on that day? Let's get Jeremy to explain himself. He's busy trying to cut up sound of Tim Kirkshen. We went four straight hours last night. Thanks to everybody who participated in that. It was great fun and I actually believe your contributions were really minimal, like surprisingly minimal.

Mine? Look, I provided a boost in the beginning. People were like, do I really wanna do this or not, the draft is on, and then I appeared. And everyone was like, whoa, let's get excited. He couldn't have done less than Greg Cody. He did. Somehow do less than Greg Cody. Greg Cody went on boldest strike and did something

that was entertaining. Mean walked into the room, used a microphone that wasn't his, mumbled poorly before the draft, and then left. Like, it was nothing in it. I mean, came in, gave us nothing, and then left. It was just his face. What did he say? I broke the news, because Dan doesn't pay attention,

I broke the news that John Collins picked up his player option, $25.6 million. Wow. And I shook my head in disgust and disbelief at the collection of people, and then I walked out. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is called efficiency. Is there a bigger story from the NBA draft, I mean, than what are the Pelicans doing?

Not that it is a chief story, but what are the Pelicans doing? Not that it is a chief story but what are the Pelicans doing? The Pelicans have not been a relevant franchise their entire time in the league. They have spoiled and soured whatever it is that Zion Williamson was supposed to be and one of their best runs in terms of leadership is when David Griffin brought his credibility there and he has since been fired, Stan Van Gundy also gone. Don't know what that franchise is doing. Don't know if anyone cares. I mean, look, Joe Dumars comes in and he's got an edict to kind of like fix this thing,

but not trade Zion, I guess, because he's come in and he's kind of thrown his support behind Zion Williamson and draft day, I just, let me just say, put it this way, it was confusing trying to figure out what they were trying to do on draft day because for one, they gave up a lot, I felt, to move up to the 10 pick, to the pick where they took Dairy Queen, right? Which it's not lost upon me,

that name is incredibly close to Dairy Queen. But they gave up an unprotected first round pick next year, which is a very, very bold statement, right? In the NBA, when you trade your unprotected future first round pick for any future, and you're banned, let's just say any future, no matter who you are. The bet you're saying is, I bet you, this guy's gonna be so good, it won't even matter.

By the time that pick happens, oh, it'll be something that we're okay with giving up with, because this guy's so good. But the Pelicans are awful. They don't have an identity, they're in flux, the roster's in clear, and they traded next year's first round pick. So in essence, you're basically saying,

oh no, right now, this pick right now is gonna change everything. So then you say, okay, well who'd you got basically saying, oh no, right now this pick right now is going to change everything. So then you say, okay, well who'd you got? You got Cooper Flag, right? You got like a transformational player. You got Derek Queen, a guy who a lot of people like, has a lot of talent, but kind of have, if you read the scouting report, it's almost like we're talking about Zion Williamson. Hey, conditioning is an issue. Hey, he's really skilled but is he a four? Is he a five? Everything you see about him is like, wait a second, we already have one of those. So now we've got two guys who don't know what position they play and they can't shoot well enough and the conditioning is an issue and we're betting that right away it's going

to be perfect. This pick isn't going to be any good to where unprotected status is an issue. You figured that if they would have offered protection status on the pick, Atlanta still would have said yes at some point, right? And like you look at Derek Queen and what he's able to provide. It really does sound like Derek Queen. It really does.

DQ can I come to you? Does that work? I'll do it right now. Derek Queen has to sponsor, the Pelicans has to sponsor. I have no choice. I want other names in sports that give off restaurants I'm gonna I'll get back. That's a good one. Okay, that's a good one Chris

You look at his skill set though, and it's like basically just a less athletic Zion Williamson So now you've got dare Dairy Queen running out there and you've got Zion Williamson who wants Dairy Queen running out there at the same time The spacing is gonna be weird They both kind of can't shoot. The team is weird in general. And then you give up probably the most coveted asset of the next year's draft for 10 spots from 23 to 13 to pick a guy who you have already. And then you're going to trade Zion Williamson this year?

Dairy Queen playing at the Smoothie King Center. Oh, boy. Synchronicity. I mean, it's perfect. He has no choice. I can ask a question here? If the most interesting story from your draft is about the Pelicans, you had an uninteresting draft right? No, the most interesting story like the mainstream people talk about. Cooper

Flagg went one, wow that's amazing. Ace Bailey is a good story. Ace Bailey going to the Jazz despite him not wanting to go to the Jazz. I mean there are other things but Dan asked me a basketball question and I answered like a basketball Jazz. I mean, there are other things, but Dan asked me a basketball question. I answered like a basketball guy. I did ask you that question because I am trying to figure out, again, three shows in 24 hours, and I'm explaining to the audience why it is

that I'm not as informed as I need to be on the NBA draft. If you've been listening to this show for a while, you know that the draft in general, all the drafts are meat markets that I find a bit offensive on how it is the owners figure out how to control themselves by fixing the costs and then just turning these all into auctions.

Don't like them as entertainment and don't like the information that comes out after them because so many people are guessing, but more so than ever in basketball. When I got all these people telling me how good the Heat's draft pick is, when so many of us have not watched the Heat's draft pick, and I just asked Amin before the show, how do I pronounce this person's name and didn't have confidence in the way he pronounced it?

No, I pronounced it right. Again, I'm not blaming you. You got it Yeah, you got it, right I didn't have confidence in the way that you pronounced it But as we go all over the world now something that was already subjective becomes this okay Because I know Bill Simmons is saying the pelicans making that pick That's one of the five dumbest trades of this decade But Jake Fisher is getting roasted because after the Blazers picked Yang Hansen from China a nugget source Texted me Chinese yokich They took him out of the stands Dan he was in the stands with the commoners

They didn't even put him on the floor He walked out with his white suit on saying if it was unknown before that if the draft was a subjective stupidity before That confounds even the executives who run the Pelicans and the executives who get fired for this subjective thing that we treat as science, how much more arbitrary is it now that you're grabbing an assortment of players, because there are more foreign players now than there have ever been, that literally no one who's watching the draft has seen play at all? Yeah, so, all right, it's always dangerous when people make these kind of player comps

before the draft. One of the most famous ones ever, there was a draft website back in the day that had Deshaun Stevenson's player comp as Michael Jordan. So, this is real, you can look it up. And so, but this is the danger you get in Yang Hansen, or Hansen Yang, however you pronounce his name.

He's basically 20 years old. He turns 20 today. He just turned 20 today, right? Played in China professionally, but we know that playing professionally in China has kind of certain boosters to it that you might look a lot better than you actually are. And the way that-

Yes, Stephane Marbury goes over there and scores 90 points a game. If that's what you mean by certain boosters. Boosters, I mean, Marbury's a bad example. A boosters. Boosters, Marvara is a bad example. A better example is like Emmanuel Moudier is a dominant player, stuff like that, right? So there's a lot of questions. Whenever people make these comps,

I always go back to wait a second, do you remember what this guy was like in the draft, right? Jokic was coming from playing high level basketball in Serbia, this guy's coming from China, right? And that's not to say you can't play whatever. I'm just saying when you make these comps, they're dangerous. In the same way that Jeremy was trying to tell me about the heat draft pick, oh, this guy's Dragic.

I'm like, Jokic is defined as a six-six guy with questionable athleticism, right? Dragic was an out-of-the-gym athlete, front to back, side to to side vertically, right? He was an incredible athlete. So it's like the comp we're making here is in this case two international white guys Yeah, well, that's what you get in a lot of scouting reports because the scouting reports on Casper's Yaka Jonas were Austin Reeves and Goran Dragic who I don't know if you guys know this not the same player

No, I mean the only thing they thing all three of them have in common is they're roughly six five and one. And I understand why we do this. But he is Goran Dragic. Over the last couple of days, we have had people saying a number of different opinions about how stupid it is that the Miami Heat wouldn't trade Jovic for Kevin Durant.

And when he got to the league, the Miami Heat's assessment of him is he could be Danilo Gallinari, which is a very nice NBA player and also someone you would trade for Kevin Durant if he becomes Danilo Golanari. We like to do this with the unknown. This thing that we're presently watching is more unknown than it's ever been because of

the number of foreign players in the draft. But I do want to check in with a couple of the highlights from last night. Now this is before last night. I know a lot of people have been pointing out the viral tweet that the n h l has wayne gretzky on its broadcasts and e s p n has kendrick perkins and there's a bit of a difference obviously in terms of stature from wayne gretzky to kendrick perkins but kendrick perkins is there because he says things and it doesn't matter what they are he just says things like this about cooper flag this is how

I look at Cooper flag if LeBron James and Kevin Garnett had a baby you get Cooper flag and why I say that is because when you think about it let me ask a question is Wayne Gretzky good or is he just Wayne Gretzky on the broadcast I don't know he's not good as he is not good as a broadcaster he's gotten better over the years but he is pretty boring. He's Wayne Gretzky, right. That's right, but he's doing the same thing that Tom Brady's doing,

that they're gonna pay Michael Jordan to do now. Yeah, he was like Magic. When Magic did TV, Magic was incredibly boring and obvious with all of his analysis, which is crazy, because you think, you know, this Magic Johnson, dude, some of the smartest players ever played. And my theory on that, Dan,

is if everything was child's play to you, how would you know what's difficult needs to be explained and how would you know what's not? I know two stories involving Magic Johnson thinking the rest of life would come easy for him and it did not. One of the stories, read for me, how long he lasted as Lakers coach because the famous story of Magic becoming Lakers coach is that one day in a meeting he got frustrated and I think his career lasted like 11 games

or 11 days, something ridiculous like that. Vladi Divac, this is how old this story is. Vladi Divac's beeper went off while he was giving a speech and Magic took it and threw it against the wall. There are people listening to this who don't even know what a beeper is, correct? 16 games Magic lasted. As long as the Magic Hour.

Well, this is what I was going to say was my second point. He also had a late night television show, and it really is a celebration of Famous and Do You Smile Well? because he's simply charming. They gave him a late night show. The ESPN just gave one to Jason Kelsey as if it doesn't take monster talent to host a late night show. How long did that last? How long did the magic hour last? Talk about cutting the line based on just fame and charisma.

He had 16 games as Lakers head coach. That's a pretty good job. Late night television, those are hard jobs to get. From June 8th to September 4th. So the coaching. I'm not one to talk. television those are hard jobs to get from June 8 to September 4th so the coaching I'm not one to talk as the host of the you know art of conversation I can't say very much it beats you but mine wasn't a daily show and mine wasn't earned on fame and charm it was just that I worked at ESPN and a smile you

don't have those either don't have anything that makes me like eyebrows I do have eyebrows but nothing that people anything that makes me likable. You got eyebrows though. I do have eyebrows, but nothing that makes me likable. Nothing, I don't know how to be likable. I don't know how to do it. Jeff Dan's got fame, right guys, guys? Yeah! Yeah!

Ballers, yeah. He's famous, yeah. Ballers, yeah. Eyebrows, yeah. He used to be. Yeah, eyebrows. Dairy Queen is gonna be tough to beat, boys. Well, find others though but

like Lanny McDonald's Tony Romas oh that's really good still around is Tony Roma still around this list that I'm looking at of chain restaurants it's still around still around there's no no there has to be one there have to be a couple of Tony Roma's look I'm on a Roma's is where I had my first drinks oh yes they place for ribs they had life they had live music in a place for ribs it will surprise no one that I was going to live music where they had ribs in college KFC J Stroud okay Tony Roma's I believe is there still one in South Florida there is none in Florida Dan we're looking at here 86 restaurants worldwide

With only 10 remaining in the United States peaked at over a hundred Hold on you mean that internationally Tony Roma's is big. It's huge. It's bigger than it is in the United States You 70 six restaurants around the world where tell me where Right now that's green. Please tell me Sydney. That's not Sydney. Please tell me. Melbourne. The Chinese Jokic has a Tony Romas that he was going to. Tell me where else. Tell me where else. Brisbane. There are Tony Romas anywhere in the world. There's one in Bangladesh, Japan. There are actually one, two, there are six Tony Romas in Japan. What about that? Chiles Davis. There's one in the middle of the ocean right there, Dan.

Look at that. Duncan Robinson. That was no good. That's how you say his name. I mean, it's just the best one yet, you could argue. Chiles Davis is pretty good. There's one in Curacao. I've been told that Columbia has the fanciest

Tony Romas you have ever seen. Wow. They got the fanciest everything, don't they? But make sure you check out the ones in Germany, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic, and Chile. Que lo que. My, Brooks Reed played live music on Thursday nights and it's how I was introduced to the Long Island Ice Tape.

Guam and Guatemala. Those ribs can't be good. Roy said through in there, Tony Roma's good ribs. They can't be good. It's the place for ribs. That was the slogan. Indonesia, Malaysia, Krispy Kreme. Oh, so you didn't know it was the slogan.

You just thought that Roy was saying that it's the place for ribs. He's like, that's a fun little nugget. The place for ribs. You didn't realize it was the slogan for Tony Roma's. You thought that that was Roy's personal endorsement. Just an aside of a defunct restaurant. He was saying the place for ribs. Ten locations still in the United States and those gotta be hanging on. There cannot be, I'm guessing that if there are ten remaining in the United States, it's because they're holding on at the end of life and they're like, they're importing whatever it is,

the Boots were at Red Lobster because they've gone bankrupt and they're just trying to keep alive everything that's there. Food courts and malls, man. Fred Baskin Robbins. No? How about Cream, Krispy Kreme Hunt? They're everywhere. Oh, that's good. I like that. Okay, I'm working here. Wendy's Yama?

Oh, Victor Wendy's Yama, yeah. Now we're going back to the names that we gave Dan, right? That's right. Just fat food names is all we're gonna go to. Can you guys get me some sound from last night, a couple of the different sounds that we wanna play from the draft, and some sounds, again, from our livestream that was baseball related somehow during the NBA draft.

Just a terrible choice by Metal Arch Media. I think it's Jeremy's fault, I'm not sure. Amin said to me, you gotta check the schedule before you do things. And so I said I had delegated that one. I wasn't looking at a calendar I should have. Popeyes Jones. I feel like that's us though.

Like we zag. You guys are talking NBA, we're talking baseball. Yeah, I totally did it on purpose. I'm not complaining. It was fine. It is, it's totally on brand. I was just pointing out to the audience why it was done. It wasn't zigging while others are zagging.

It was not looking at a calendar. So it- Tomato, tomato. I mean- It was looking at a busy calendar and deciding, ah, here's one of three days we could do it. But next time we'll do it from one of the four locations at Tony Roma's in the United Arab Emirates. Jeremy, this is not a busy time in sports.

You picked eight like we're headed toward the hot dog eating contest. I'm not a busy time for you. Okay. Jeremy, do you think you're busier than I am? Like that's a thing that you think no I'm saying it's not a busy time in sports It sounded like you thought right there that you think you're busier than I think that last week. I might have been

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Don't let him fool you. He said in the break that he's jittery. This is the Don LeBathard Show with the StuGuts. So here we are. So let's just have this out now. Let's just do this now. Jeremy's had a different experience with how it is that people receive him in the world and how it is that they receive him here. He's had two different lives in the world. They like when he comes out and talks like a broadcaster to get going before he gives his point as a transition. Here, that's not liked as much. What's the whiplash been like? Limited fake Jeremy was strong. Yeah, that was. I like that.

That's a story. It just takes 13 syllables before he starts, and that's just a television contrivance. Mm-hmm, it is a television contrivance. It's not how human beings speak. Well, it's how I speak now, because I was training my whole life to do this. So when you're trying to really be a broadcaster and tell a story, you need to be able to maneuver

whether your voice needs to go to a powerful place up here or if you need to slow things down, enunciate properly, and put a period at the end of a discussion. Orange Julius Randall. I think the objection around here is that you put a lot of commas at the end of a discussion. Orange Julius Randall. I think the objection around here is that you put a lot of commas at the end of the discussion and then just keep going. I believe that that's probably a part of the whiplash.

Yeah, the issue is I just like stuff, you know? So I just wanna give you all the information that I have about it. And that works for some other people. Like the Miami New Times was really excited about me and wrote up this really nice piece and it was after yesterday's show That was a little beaten down and then I went and I sat at the desk out there and I found out

Oh, man, cool. I've been named best sideline reporter in Miami by the Miami New Times for best of 20-25 Giving those away and I read hold on Jeremy. Yeah, I'm looks like the seven. Aren't you all of them? There you go. Thank you Thank you You just eliminate all the competition. Yep, that's how you do it nominate as one person yeah that was one of the probably six options but it felt good and the nominees are for the Florida Panthers 2024 season Jeremy Tashay for the Miami Heat 2024 season Jeremy Tashay for the Miami Marlins 2024 season Jeremy Tashay and what's the for the for the 24th season of the Miami Marlins twenty twenty four season jerry dash a and what the for the for the twenty four four season of the

bob i'm going to all the two knows and the winner is jerry cash and i'm going to read from the miami newt times uh... he does have a different experience away from here they're much kinder there's more praise people throw flowers adam it is gone to his head if you're even remotely paying attention to the landscape of south florida sports Jeremy Tashay is everywhere. In a single day, you can turn on your TV to see him on the Miami Heat sidelines or your recommended YouTube page as a mainstay member of the Levitard and Stugatsk group and all over your Twitter timeline dropping interviews of Miami Marlins players.

It's like the best episode of Black Mirror. He's everywhere, always, all at once. And that's a good thing. Tashay does it all with charisma, professionalism, and a unique South Florida sun's style of energy. He earned his reputation as one of the most versatile voices in South Florida sports media by doing what few can, blending sports knowledge with authenticity and a touch of cheerleader.

Touch. It takes six people to replace Tashay in the workplace, but no one could ever truly replace what he's brought to the Miami media landscape Was this written by Ethan should have said the worst episode of that would be the worst episode of black mirror, right? Best episode if they not watch black mirror the best episode. Come on Jeremy That would be really good boring black mirror episode That made me cry when I read it. It did? Yeah it did, it brought an actual tear to my eye.

It's nice, it's touching but it's also undercut by Amin's contention that it's just cost cuts all over the industry, AI will replace you soon and then that's what will be celebrated seven years from now because you've taken all the jobs. David Boston Market. Have you guys seen these AI videos by the way? Like the ones where it's like man on the street? Yeah. Like Dan I don't know if you remember this maybe like four or five months ago I told you hey I found the tell how you can tell that something's AI versus real and you're like what is it? I said the AI videos never change their intonation. So it's like Draymond

Green on the press conference when the AI alter it's just like him talking like this and LeBron James is awesome, I wish he was my dad. But it's like, it's always monotone like that. I wish he was my dad is what you had, Draymond? That's how the AI guys do, they always wanna make fun of that stuff, right? They say things that are wacky. Wacky, and people are like, oh, you know what Draymond said?

I'm like, this is not real, it's AI, you can tell. It's so monotone and flat. And now, in like the last month. It's over. It's over, dude. They've got people, the man on the street stuff is so freaking good. Not only like the language and what they're saying

but just the intonations, the way they turn away, like hey man, y'all hit, like it was crazy. The way I know that it's AI is that it looks too good. The picture quality. The picture quality is like 9K. I'm like, nah, there's something up with this. That's the giveaway now. But it's the picture quality's like 9K. I'm like, nah, there's something up with this. I don't like this. That's the giveaway now.

But the picture quality's too good. But just in terms of how it is mimicking human behavior, human speech patterns, the stuff that Jeremy was talking about lifting his voice, lowering his voice, all that stuff, man, we're hurtling towards a time where literally I can't trust anything unless it's right in front of me. Well, everyone's gonna be me, right?

I got fooled by the internet before it was trendy. I got fooled by the internet back when the internet wasn't very good at fooling people. He's got a shark on the turnpike. But now you're all gonna be me. Now you're all gonna be me. Your kids are gonna be making fun of you because you got fooled by the equivalent of the shark

on the turnpike. Wait a second, are you serious? How'd it get there? It's gonna be less lonely then. I will tell you that I felt a little lonely last night as everyone was enjoying the three players they could name from the draft and Jeremy and I were here alone with Robert the IT guy as the Cody's were bowling and Greg Cody said he couldn't come in but he didn't tell me why he just said he had a Wednesday thing and then I like then I learned of course Greg Cody would choose the bowling league

Chris this is his priority now in life, correct? There is nothing that's getting in the way of your father bowling on Wednesday nights, correct? It's, he's the first one in the group chat on Mondays. I'm in Wednesday right away. Oh, I love that guy. He's the, like, I don't need it Monday. Let me know Tuesday, maybe Wednesday morning. Monday morning, he's like, I'm in this week.

Who's in? He'll give like a rah rah speech. Like we got it this week, boys. I love that. Sometimes our basketball group chat of the team that we play on Thursdays, sometimes people trickle in Thursday afternoon. Like I'm in,, I need the guy a Tuesday. I'm already lacing them up I'm running around. I'm ready to go but late in life. It's been interesting to watch Chris your father

Cares about very few things. It's beer in himself That's the list to see bowling added where it seems a priority in his life and it's the perfect priority. Well bowling has beer. That's right. That's the key. That's correct. Instead of beer in the garage, it's beer and he can throw things and watch things break and scatter.

Like, that's what the whole thing is. Last night we did a lot of looks like with Tim Kirch and as part of our celebration, one of the best ones we got was Adam Silver and Scott Van Pelt look like a 7-10 split in bowling. And also good there because people were pairing the two is that Adam Silver looks like Scott Van Pelt 15 seconds after someone has opened the Ark of the Covenant. I laughed my ass off on that one. That was the 10 seconds I saw. I turned it up and was like, let me see what the boys are doing. Like SVP looks like SVP touching the Ark of the Covenant. I died. Then I turned that up, I was like, let me see what the boys are doing. Like SVP looks like, it looks like SVP touching

the arc of the company, I died. Then I turned it off. That's art, whoever came up with that one, that is art. We had a number of good ones, it suggested, I saw a lot of them, so it suggested that we're gonna be able to do that tournament again next year that you guys missed so much. But you speak of AI, I got caught in this recently.

You tell me how fake this is right here and see if you can tell me what the controversy was that was created by this fake thing. Here's how this NBA analyst just told Michael Jordan to stay silent during his new NBC gig. And Eddie Johnson wasn't having it. Now, Dan Lee Bataar shocked fans by saying he has zero interest in hearing Michael Jordan speak on NBC's NBA coverage next season. Now that take didn't sit right with former Phoenix Sun star Eddie Johnson, who fired back with sarcasm,

mocking LeBattard's dismissal of the goat as he said, Dan knows more about basketball than MJ and does not want his opinions on anything. This is the USA 2025, scary. What do you make of this? Lebatard's always gonna be tough for AI. Lebatard. That's the part about the USA in 2025 that's scary?

I agree with him. Lebatard. I mean, there is very little anywhere in America or elsewhere that would be dumber than the idea that I know more about basketball than Michael Jordan. So I would say yes. That is, I worry about America as well,

that that is out there and that the AI machines are feeding on it and they are putting out into the world that I want MJ to shut up and dribble when no, I want MJ to just speak and say things that are interesting, which he never does. I don't want him to shut up and dribble. I want him to dri speak and say things that are interesting, which he never does. I don't want him to shut up and dribble. I want him to dribble and talk a lot.

Like, I don't want him to shut up. I want him to just say things again and again and again, but he won't. And as a broadcaster, he'll be Tom Brady and Dan Marino, who don't say anything. The CEO of the company makes ChatGPT said the worst thing you could do is trust chat GPT. Like this. Excuse me? Like what do you mean? I learned the other day something I did not know. I mentioned it to you guys. You don't need school and kids are going to throw away all of their

parents' money at school by just cheating their way through college by using AI. In fact, I shouldn't say are going to. They're already doing it, they're already devaluing the college experience by inundating the professor with a bunch of things that computers wrote. This is a quote from Sam Altman. Quote, people have a high degree of trust in chat GPT, which is funny because it hallucinates. It hallucinates, ladies and gentlemen.

I also don't like that. Let's keep a pin in that. What does that mean? Keep a pin in that. It means that mean? Keep a pin in that. It means you should not be trusting this thing for information. Well yeah. Which is, like you're saying,

oh people are wasting their money sending their kids to school. No, kids need to go to school to know when the AI doesn't know what the hell it's talking about because what AI is ladies and gentlemen is just an aggregation of all the dumbass opinions that we've already had. It's not coming up with the right answer.

It's coming up with the answers people think. Again, the quote is, people have a very high degree of trust in Chad GPT, which is interesting, because AI hallucinates. It should be the tech that you don't trust that much. When the guy that created that is the CEO of that and is like the spearhead of the AI movement across the world is telling you it hallucinates, worry I'll tell you what I'm worried about also I read a story where this woman apparently I don't know if it's chat GPT but some AI tool like that she was talking to it about her relationship and her problems

whatever and it was like divorce your husband like you're crazy if you don't get divorced and it struck me not that AI would make that suggestion, that there are people out there who are talking to like chat GPT and Gemini, Google Gemini, asking it, what should I do with my boyfriend or my girlfriend? Like, what's happening here? There's people who have left their families

for their AI partner that they've created and confided in. There's people who have been convinced to die by suicide because they were confiding in this AI machinery that's then telling it, hmm, sounds like you don't really have a choice. There was a guy who's a meth addict who, no joke, was confiding about the issues that he was having with struggling against staying sober,

and it told him, you deserve one hit of meth this week. These are all stories that have been reported in reputable papers. It's insane what's happening there, and what it is is you're right. Kids don't know how to find real information right now because they're relying on chat GBT. When we were kids, it was the emergence of Wikipedia

that was the big issue because we just needed to make sure that sources were cited on information. So we all knew to go down to the references and be sure you could from there. References. This is a totally different element. I am disturbed by the information and darkness that Amin is spewing with a giant smile on his face. Like this is just horrifying, scary stuff that the computers are, with our help, with our assistance, as all of the people who have made these computers say,

please be careful, they learn too fast and they're going to destroy humankind, all of them say this, Amin has the right attitude where he gives you the dark information with a giant smile on his face that is frozen in terror because the robots are coming. My kid was fascinated that I knew how to do signs and cosines of angles off the top of my head.

Like, without a computer or a calculator? Why, your kids are Arnold Schwarzenegger? Yeah, that's true. You went to Georgia Tech, you should be able to know how to do that. No, everyone who does trigonometry should be able to know how to do that. They're teaching them right now,

oh, just put it in the calculator. Well, kids can't write cursive now, right? Cursive has died. That one died a long time ago. Cursive, cursive, a long time ago. Yeah, a long time ago. Long time ago. There are kids graduating high school now

who never wrote in cursive in third grade. I was the tail end of having to be taught cursive, and I was terrible at it, and my assertion all along, which I turned out to be right, why the hell are we trying to make things harder to read? Could never figure out that Z. No point.

What Z? We're trying to communicate via the written word. Why are we trying to make it look harder to decipher? Is that an S or is that a? When did cursive die? There was not a memo, when did that die? K looks like an R. What other things ended up dying? Again, during the NBA draft last night,

in which people knew the names of three or four players. We were doing something different. We were, I'm going to say watching the baseball games, but we didn't actually watch any of the baseball games. They were all on in here and I didn't see almost any of them, but we did have a good time. One of the highlights was Tim Kirkshine, as he's known to do after dark when he's got a couple of pops in him, just going crazy.

Look at me. I married a hooker. I got no front teeth. What? Ha ha ha. OK, that might have been more fun than to drive. Yeah, yeah. Again, snippets were great. What do you mean, snippets?

Snippets, hold on a minute. That feels undercutting. No, because I saw in snippets, in snippets, they were great like that. He's cosigning. Exactly right. Thank you. Cosign.

OK, well, just play that again, please, so that people can understand that this is Tim Kirchian just going biographical and just telling us about his life. Look at me, I married a hooker, I got no front teeth. What? I didn't know that he had veneers before that. That's when I'm learning that Tim Kirchian has fake teeth. Mike Ryan hadn't reported that he happens to know.

I'm just learning about the divorce. How does Jeff feel? It wasn't a divorce, it was his first wife. Oh, okay, so a change of professions. This also happened with Tim Kirch and last night where he was very proud, unbelievably, of his very limited movie knowledge because he correctly got a movie question right

with Ed and Ann Virk. He was feeling himself and then this happened. This director is known for movies such as Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and Goodfellas. Well, it's the greatest director of all time. It's Adnan's all time favorite. You forget his name? I forgot his name.

No. No! You didn't! Stick to landing! He was so confident! He was so bad! He was so bad! Adnan has told me a thousand times, this is the greatest director ever.

I've been there. You just lose it. Adnan was the coach running on the sideline celebrating the touchdown run and then Kirkchen just fumbles in. Yes, just the outlet. the touchdown run and then Kirkchen just fumbles in. Leon Lein. The other thing that ended up happening there is that I learned later that the Kirkchens are cheaters because the only way he got the name is because his son, his producer on his own podcast, is this a great game or what? I urge you to support it.

It is very good. It is lovely. It is innocent. It's from a different time. These two people sound so much like each other, love each other so much, and unlike my father on Highly Questionable, enjoy working together. I need to see the pins. We need to see the pins, Chris. Nah, we'll hear the pins.

Alright. Oh, look at that form. That's Greg Coding. No! No! We don't know what he did. No! I mean, are you for joining us, Greg. We appreciate it. Thank you. Hey, how about that baseball game, huh?

I mean, are you still claiming that you gave the broadcast more last night than Greg Cody did? Because he bowled a strike while we were watching. Was he wearing bowling shoes or boat shoes? I couldn't tell. Bowling shoes. Rentals or he owns his own? Well, he wears the boat shoes to the bowling alley,

puts on the bowling shoes, and then wears the boat. No no socks to either yeah, no socks in the bowling shoes gotta get good grip on the bowling shoes Yeah, I don't think I don't think he wears socks Nostradamus is what I made it close Nosferatu feet in the bowling shoes. You can't do that without sneaker without socks. You're worried about other people For war that I'm worried for other people He put his foot is his gnarled ass foot in that shoe and then they hand it back even a little bit of spray Guys you and then they hand it back, you think a little bit of spray is gonna take care of that? Guys, guys, guys, you, this is a league bowling. You think he's, he's not, he has the shoes.

Oh, he owns his own? Yeah, those are his shoes, but it's still gross. It's still gross. Oh. Oh, what do I do? And it's just like, you can't. John does it. Get his foot out of there, guys.

Put it on the poll, please, at LeBittardShow, would you ever wear any bowling shoes without socks? Is this here? Is this anyone of these countertops? Cause I don't wanna touch anything now. Was that the Cleveland area, I believe.