The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: Lucy's Trip to the CFB National Championship

Episode Date: January 22, 2025

A miracle occurs at the start of today's Big Suey: Greg Cote admits he was wrong. Then, Lucy joins the show after a hellish experience at the Atlanta Airport, but she refuses to tell us who skipped the TSA line (outside of herself). She also tells us about the antiseptic NFL feeling at the College Football National Championship game, tries to decide which punishment she needs to fulfill to get to go to the Super Bowl, and delivers her Off Rohd-ing. Plus, a revelation about Jeremy's bachelor party, Stugotz's Father's Day edition of his book, and the pettiness of the Jimmy Butler saga leaking into the locker room has Dan intrigued. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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And for more heartburn relief fun, be sure to follow Tums at Tums official on Instagram and Tik TOK. Welcome to the big suey presented by DraftKings. Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan LeBattard podcast. I'm sorry, I'm not gonna apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging.

I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys? I've done it. And now here's the marching man to nowhere, fat face and the habitual liar. This episode of the Dan LeBattard Show with Stu Gotz

is presented by Smirnoff. We do game days. Please drink responsibly. The Smirnoff Company, New York, New York. Chris, you and me know like very few people, except perhaps your mother, Greg Cody's wife. very few people except perhaps your mother, Greg Cody's wife. How stubborn he is about admitting when he is wrong.

Greg Cody just muttered under his breath in a shocking statement I could not believe that I was hearing out loud. Yeah, Martin Short, I think I'm full of shit on that one. Yeah, I have to admit it. I did a little research. I do think his acting in Only Murders in the Building is theatrically overacting.

That's what he is, like he does some of that. Yeah, okay. It's not my fault. Right, yeah. But why are you now full of shit? Well, because he's an accomplished, he's been around a while. You didn't realize that before?

Yeah, I mean he's bigger in, the more I talk the more I'm gonna start criticizing him again, obviously he's much bigger in Canada than he is stateside. Well have you seen him in the Canada Pavilion at Epcot Center in Disney World? I have not, no. Oh my god, he takes you on a tour,

it's 360 degrees around. Really? Yeah, I think that maybe they removed that. But it was a 360 degree thing, you'd see. Was that the Ellen thing? But I never got to go. Is it Ellen now? Ellen at one point did something. No, I remember the Ellen thing.

That was different. It was like dinosaurs or something. Enough with dinosaurs. Is Martin Short an immortal? Juju, put it on the poll please, at Levitard Show. He's not. He's been nominated 29 times. He's won three awards.

He's like, and the three times he won, everyone was bored, they were yawning. No one wanted Martin Short to win. Awards are the, that's the way we're, you know, he's invited to the dance, but no one wants to actually see him dance. I would like a personal record book of entertainment with Stugats, who actually deserves the Oscars and who does it well

speaking of that's two gods I don't know I'm assuming you don't watch only murders in the building no I don't well you know who's been in the last two seasons of only murders in the building nominated a bunch of times no we're not doing this again no change the subject Merrill yeah I guess who she's dating on the show Martin It's a rumor her husband got divorced recently Wow did you hear that that can't be what's tinseltown telling you Dan? Oh, yeah, I don't want to offend anyone in Hollywood I'll keep my opinions on the tape help on tea. I am happy that we have found Lucy. She has returned from the national championship. I am told, and I don't know, I don't want to

pit Lucy against Jessica here, but somebody's got to break the news spoken out loud of who cut this TSA line. What media member cut this TSA line? I don't know Jessica wasn't willing to smoke the person out in shame But did say that we would all know who the person was Hmm Lucy. Do you know who the person was? There were let's just say there were a couple what I saw Wow I saw two people, but I'm not gonna throw anybody under the bus I will throw myself under the bus and I believe that I accidentally cut the line. How do you accidentally cut a line?

How do you play? Yeah, no, let me tell you. So I get to the airport two hours early. Talk slowly, I'm writing it down. Okay, I probably should have gotten there a little earlier. I walk in and there's no line. It is just like, felt like thousands of people just all herded together.

There was like a tiny semblance of a line. So I got in what I thought was that line. No one knows what's going on. It's almost all Notre Dame fans. So everyone's kind of in a bad mood to begin with. And then they're telling you like, hey, you're gonna have to wait three hours for security. I'm like, fine, whatever.

I know there's another flight. I'm very chill about flight stuff. It goes wrong, what are you gonna do? And then they start like putting, kind of trying to put lines together. It's not going well. I see two media members, they're behind me in line. I'm like, oh, I know who they are.

I turn around and I see them just go ahead and say, whoa, you can do that. I did not do that. I stayed where I was. Then all of these people came together. So many people were cutting me in line that I just cut a couple of people in line because they cut me in line.

And then there was this one woman with blonde hair and red pants. I don't know if that rings a bell for anybody, she was atrociously cutting the line. I almost said something to her, but then I realized, you know what, I don't care that much. What was your cut strategy?

Looking at the phone, looking up, acting like you were looking at the flight? There was no strategy other than me turning around and saying, oh, I think those people were actually ahead of me, my bad. Lucy. Like it was totally accidental. It was the worst I've ever seen in airport.

I felt like I was in war. It was insane. All right, Lucy, that's aggressive language. Lucy, I think you- Have you been to Hartsfield? I think you and Jessica are reporting nationally total shit show. That's what you're reporting.

Just enormous shit show. Commerce comes to college football, corporate comes to college football shit show it got worse after i left so like i i think it took me like a little bit like an hour our fifteen minutes to get through security and it got more organized after i left but it got busier to when i was there there were no lines outside there were s lines outside by the time I boarded my plane were like you were in TSA pre-check line Which was like 90 minutes long where general boarding was three hours long and you were outside in Atlanta Which was like in the polar vortex. So it was like 15 degrees outside. I've never seen anything like it

I did make my flight. I got it. I got to my gate five minutes before boarding. First class was empty. Like the plane was completely empty because so many people missed their flights. First class. Dan, I know you're feeling this, but is someone gonna name names? I mean, anyone?

Yeah, name names. I named myself. No, that's not good enough. It's not good enough. I need at least give us some hints here on who we can shame, who we can chase as a line cutter And a security risk to to all of us if we make guesses. Will you guys tell us if we're right?

No, but I'll give you a what okay? This is awful like the fact that you guys won't get us closer to the truth as media members is why people hate the media My money's on Kevin Negandi. Ooh, that's a good one. No. Wow. But I'll give you a hint, I'll give you a hint. This one's not gonna be shocking.

They were men. Wait, that, like, reporting college football? That doesn't sound right. White men? No, it's crazy, they never act like that. White men? Yeah. Classic Lyles. They were like that. White men? Yeah. Classic Lyles.

They were white men. Trevor Maddich. He would never do that. He honors the line, he does. He takes the line seriously. He would never do that. I don't blame him, if he weren't in favor of that one lady in red pants.

I insist right now that you take that back. Thank you. I have to apologize. Chris, you will not disrespect the honor of Trevor. Until this moment. Trevor Manich would never. Ever. I had no idea.

Would never cut a line. No one takes a line more seriously than Trevor Manich. Nobody. No one. Nobody. He'll keep everyone else in line. That would never happen on Trevor Manich's watch. Never, no one would cut a line.

You wouldn't have all of these prepubescent Lucy's running around in the media. What? I don't know if you're allowed to call me prepubescent. Or so. I'm doing it through Trevor Maddich's eyes. Well, I don't know if he's allowed to call me that either. How bad was it?

How bad was the entire coverage of everything? Like the, just the airport was terrible. The game experience was interesting because it was so cold. It was freezing. You guys are lucky you're talking to me today. I got windburn on my face. I looked like I had terrible blush for days.

It was awful. But the game was fun. They had a speaker too loud my face. I looked like I had terrible blush for days. It was awful. But the game was fun. They had a speaker too loud, which was kind of annoying. And they had an in-game DJ. Is this the DJ complaint that Jessica was making? How bad was this? DJ was bad. DJ was, I'm a firm believer that,

especially in college football, you should never have like a DJ. It's fine to have someone in the back, like putting on music. The University of Georgia had the best music I've ever seen at a football game. They were very, very good. But like, I don't want to be hearing from a DJ throughout the game. And it would go from like, they did a lot of like, good sort of timeout hits about, you know, MLK days. So they had like black historians come and talk about these famous black athletes who kind

of paved the way Notre Dame in Ohio State and then it would go to the DJ began singing along to like hot to go or something just he wasn't just playing music he was singing at and this and the speakers were so loud. It was just it was too much and he was trying his best so I don't I don't want to shit on him, but like, try less. Are we that show now? Does this sound bad to people,

the idea of you get to go to the championship game, but it becomes such a logistics nightmare that even Jessica, who's going to celebrate her team, might have had a bad time, even if that team had won, just because of how everything outside of the game felt. I don't know if that I wouldn't go that far but it was definitely not a setup for a city that was 20 degrees and people like there was so much outside walking and it was freezing and it was there needed to be more bartenders per capita. That's my main complaint. We needed like, we need to bring in the bartenders

for the national championship game. There's like thousands of Irish Catholics descending on your city. They wanna wake up at 8 a.m. and they wanna drink, and they wanna drink Guinness, and they wanna drink all your beer. Yeah. Let them have that chance.

I think Jessica could win a political campaign on the slogan more bartenders per capita. How was the energy? Lucy, we've sent you to some bad ones, right? We've sent you to some atmospheres that get corporate and that some of the soul of college football gets lost because the higher you get to the money, the colder some of these things can be. Were you able to get some access on this one that felt like you were a part of a big energy? Jess actually watched the first half of the game with us and she said something where it was like, I feel like this is kind of an NFL energy where I felt that too.

And I don't know if it was just like the stadium or like, sometimes I think that when they go to these neutral site games, they play so much into like, okay, it's a neutral site game. So we need a DJ. We need, you know, these like silly little games during these, these media timeouts or whatever, where I kind of wish they had introduced more of like, okay, here's a song Ohio State likes to play,

where when we went to the Big Ten Championship game, they did like a pretty decent job of, you know, each sort of break would be designated to a certain fan base. So it kind of reminded you of being in Happy Valley or being in Eugene. And I didn't really get that here. It ended up being a much better game than I anticipated. By halftime, I was like, oh buddy, we're in for one.

This is not gonna be good. But obviously it turned around, so the energy stayed up. But it was like, you risk that every single time you go to a neutral site college football game. I think the only real neutral site college football game that's like awesome is Red River. Brock Osweiler. No.

Honestly, like not far though, for one reason. But I won't say what that reason is. But yeah, I don't know, the in-game entertainment I think does like, it had weird NFL energy to start because there was a lot of like, you know, just show us the marching bands. Like, I don't know, like I love the marching bands. Maybe I'm alone on that one, but.

No, love them, they're awesome. Brock Heward. Tim Tebow. Tebow cutting the line would be amazing. Tebow would be great. That would have been awesome. Tebow flying commercial. Put it on the poll.

Funny here. At Levitard Show, marching bands. Do you love marching bands? I'm assuming, forgive me for this, because I'm guessing that Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreet go wherever they want in whatever city they're in, right? That's a whole nother class of flying. Different airport, Dan.

That's a whole nother class of flying. You guys are talking about media members you're looking to shame who aren't actually from the top of the food chain in media. You guys are looking to smoke out somebody who's not a power broker. Like Joel Clatt. I feel like he's a power broker.

Really? I know it wasn't him. It wasn't him. How about the bear? Not him. The bear? Nope. No. Huh.

Joe Tess? Hmm. Nope. The first drive was also so long that we had so many commercial, long commercial breaks in the second quarter. And that really, really dragged things out, Lucy. I don't know about you. I'm like, we're doing back to back to back, like, video board, which helmet is the football undergames? Oh, God. I'm like we're doing back to back to back like video board which helmet is the football under games love that worst stadium game ever what no

just inane mm-hmm you guys like someone can't figure it out to me Tom Lugan bill who wants to pay that much attention you have to you're the one you hear the crowd shouting it and then you act like you watched, you can't. I knew it. They move so fast. I knew it. You're the one, you hear the crowd shouting it and then you act like you watched it. I don't want... I act like I didn't watch it even if I did. Dave Fleming? You can't keep up, Greg.

I don't want to keep up. Lugen does a power broker. Really? Why are we ratting out whoever this was who cut Lugen? Yeah. Why are we... Gotta be someone important. Out with it.

Why are we protecting people? Fine, Bam. I gotta tell you guys... No, but he sat behind me on a flight. And I was so nervous because I knew he was gonna be watching my screen. I don't want to, I really don't want to grandfather this, but I do want to ask. I don't want to sit here and be syrupy

about nostalgic romantic times that didn't exist. I don't want to be pastoral or precious about football. But when you tell me the College Football National Championship feels like an NFL stadium, that doesn't sound right to me. And maybe it doesn't matter. Maybe at the altar of capitalism we sacrifice all things. And so the atmosphere at the stadium,

the energy, none of it matters because all that matters is what's televised. No, atmosphere I think matters more to college football than any other sport. You can't take a college board, I know it's professional, they're paying the players, and bring it to an NFL indoor stadium in a city that's really not prepared for something like that. You can't do it. I propose the Rose Bowl for every national championship game. What I would say to all of you is that if I took Notre Dame's fan base and threw it against most major cities, they would be able to handle that party in a way that would be

a lifetime party. Like I don't know what happened, but to me what you're describing, I've been to national championship games and they do have a corporate feel, more antiseptic going way back but for you guys to be to be to love college football this way at least in part because of those atmospheres how corporate was that like what's this video that I'm tossing to here Lucy is it a celebration of the sport is punctuation or is it you walking through a strip mall sad because the corporate sponsors have bought everything it's see none of the above.

So we went to the SEC championship game at Mercedes-Benz last year and we were shocked by how like crappy the atmosphere was. Right. You had the same complaints last year. Yes. Yeah. Atlanta is also like the way, the way that stadium is kind of located and like what's around it. It's just not ideal for tailgating. And you combine that with the weather. So we were like, well, this is a tough situation

that we're in. We knew what we were going into. Plus we knew it was the last off-roading of the year, so if I messed up, there wouldn't be that many consequences. So we went to the aquarium instead. safe place. It was awesome. This is what you did with the expense account.

You went to the aquarium with Rose instead of going to the National Championship game. No. We also went to the World of Coke as well. We went to both. The World of Coke? I thought that was in Miami. I found Dan. Just a joke.

Ha ha ha ha. I need a job please. Don't fire me. Hi Dan. It's Lucy and we are at the National Championship, the last game of the season, the last off-roading of the season. Now I have some good news and some bad news. Bad news is it is like 12 degrees outside and I'm not exaggerating it is literally so cold no one's tailgating no one's doing

anything. Good news is no one's tailgating no one's doing anything and it's the last off-roading of the season so we're gonna do whatever we want today so I think we're gonna go to the aquarium maybe the World of Coke we're really we're really just gonna live Atlanta up like the tourists that we are. This is what I look like after 20 weeks on the road, 20 college football games. Any predictions for the game today? Notre Dame or Ohio State?

How does it smell? Like fish. Oh my gosh, it's so gross. No, they move fast. These guys would go for at least a meal on the portal. Do you agree with Chris Cody's take that you should switch sport allegiances? That dolphin has a very foul mouth.

Jesus, they do not agree. We're at the World of Coke now. We're gonna try a bunch of soda. This is roast before the soda. Yes. Nothing beats a Diet Coke. Too sweet for me. Bad.

Too sweet. Cough medicine. Not bad. I don't love it. I don't think that's half bad. So, so far no one from Notre Dame has wanted to talk to us, so this is how I imagine an interview with a Notre Dame fan would go. Hey, do you think Marcus Rumi is super hot?

Yes, I do. He's so hot. Do you miss Brian Kelly? Not even at all. I hate that guy. He's the worst. Do you like dressing up like a leprechaun? Yeah, it doesn't make, it's not weird that I'm a grown adult dressing up as a leprechaun.

It's really cool and awesome. Do you know Jessica Smetana? Yeah, I do. She's perfect. She's the love of my life. She's amazing. Awesome. Do you watch Jessica Smetana? Yeah, I do. She's perfect. She's the love of my life. She's amazing. Awesome. Do you watch the Levitard show?

No. And that's it. How confident are we feeling today? A thousand percent confident. I mean, we're here to play, but it's not really competition. I mean. What's the deal with the hat?

The hat was first made in 1987 in Keenan Hall on campus for the national championship season then. We didn't know it at the time. Does Ryan Day dye his beard? No. Yes. That's what it's supposed to look like. I look like I kissed a skunk and look at Ryan Day. No, he dyes his beard. I think he might use just for men, I'm not gonna lie. No, he's perfect. That man has never made a mistake in his life. But dyeing your beard is not a mistake. What do you guys miss most about Brian Kelly? Absolutely nothing.

Not even how red his face got? Is losing to that team maybe a good thing? Hell no. God, losing to that team up north is never a good thing. If there are any takeaways from this, the expanded playoff works. Still, it matters. With a loss to Michigan and Oregon, Ohio State wouldn't have made it. And now they're here and they're national champions. And they're going to go down as one of the better national champions of all time.

So this ruled. I am so tired in general and from a long, fun day in Atlanta. Thank you for this opportunity. It never feels real. I don't know what I'm gonna do until August. I vote nothing, but I don't think Metalark will approve that. Wow.

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Finance your car with Garvana and experience total control. Financing subject to credit approval. Don Lebatard. I want to address Tony and all men who would wear that shirt in public. Stugats. Don't do it. This is the Don Lebatard Show with the Stugats. All right, we got a problem on our hands. She's a rising star and diva, and so she goes to these things,

and she just spends a bunch of money and goes to an aquarium, but while I was- In the world of coke. Yeah, being outraged by that as a frivolous expense on behalf of the company, us funding her and Rose just doing things together, Stu gots whispered in my ear during that segment something that was at once truly, truly shocking

and not shocking at all. Which is that Jeremy had his bachelor party at that aquarium. I did, yeah, part of my bachelor party. We went to the Georgia Aquarium, it was a dream. He said part of, nice. Part of, nice. How was it a dream?

Oh, have you ever seen a 10 foot whale shark stugots? Give a lap dance. Baby! It was amazing. I had the time of my life at that Georgia aquarium on my bachelor party. So Lucy is. Definitely didn't ingest anything

to make it a little more fun. She should get rid of your best man. I mean just get him out of your life. Seriously. My brother. Put it on the poll. That LeBretard show. Do you fire your best man

if the bachelor party's at the aquarium? It is shocking until you realize it's Jeremy. No, not at all. I knew it wouldn't be. It is a rare, rare thing to have something be truly, truly shocking and then, yeah, not surprising, not surprised. Lucy, I can't handle what's going on

with uh... you're coming now between the money between corporate uh... metalwork would like to have a good relationship with then mo they would like then mo would like to be supporting a fine bucket that is working because it accrues money uh... greg cody hasn't paid his fines. He owes $11 or $12 from the other day. I have now installed Venmo and I will historically make my payment as soon as you guys tell me the handle. I need the handle. I don't know where I'm sending this.

You did it yourself? The installation. No, I told you already. Valerie installed it for me. Oh, she did it. Okay, good. Sorry. I've never used Venmo before. I know you're there for me to make fun of me at any time. I was just wondering. I'm not really doing a good sell for Venmo. It's great. It's very easy to use. We all know how to do it.

It is. It couldn't be easier. You want me to set up the handle? I'll send myself some money. I don't want it. Just as a test. Just to make sure it's working. Just to make sure it's working. $1,800 Stugots. We're not allowed to say what the handle is on the air. 1,800 Stugots. Let's do that.

That's the Venmo number. Stugots, get on that right now. Buy that. Make sure to buy before somebody else does. 1-800-STUGOTS. I'm sure it's too late, but I'll give it a try. What year was the peak for those 1-800 jokes? Are we still doing 1-800 numbers?

Yeah, some of them are 1-8-8 now, 8-8-8. Put it on the poll at Levitard Show, are we still doing 1-800 numbers? Yeah, some of them are 1-88 now, 8-88. Put it on the poll at Levitard Shower, we're still doing 1-800 numbers. Lucy and Chris, where are we with the Venmo fine bucket, which right now doesn't have money in it, and I would like for people to start paying their fines, Lucy killed a person on air, owes $50, refuses to pay it.

That's right, and? We came up last week with the idea, Lucy wants to go to the Super Bowl and she hasn't paid her fines. So we partner with Venmo and we came up with the Lucy Super Bowl challenge. Did we partner or did we pardon her? Did we partner with Venmo or did we pardon her with Venmo?

Okay Oprah. Yeah. Topical joke. Both, the answer is yes to both those questions. So the internet we did hashtag Lucy challenge You can still send in submissions if you'd like but I have some here Lucy for you to you know I don't know who's deciding this I guess Dan is the one that I like the most is that Lucy in order to go to the Super Bowl on behalf of Venmo Needs to spend an entire day with the real Emily

Kill me that would not go well. I can't do that. That would not go well. She's also blocked me on everything. I wouldn't be able to get a hold of her. She even blocked me on Vimmo! A whole day? No, you'd have to have a phone call between them.

A soul-bearing conversation to see if there can be any connection. They're not gonna be in each other's presence for a day. That's very harsh. Lucy says- Her name in my phone is the literal's presence for a day, that's very harsh. Lucy says- Her name in my phone is the literal worst human alive. Okay, hold on a second, I have a question about this relationship with Emily, did she block you

before you did stuff like this on air? Because I think an argument can be made that you are more of a bully to Emily than she ever was to you by publicly shaming her. I do sort of agree with that take a little bit. However, she blocked me the second we moved out. So I don't think she knows any of this is happening. Let her have it.

She sucks. We don't even know if her real name is Emily. That might be a lie. I may have given you a fake name. You would never cyber bully. That was something, and we can't trust anything you say. I would cyber bully. It's why you're a rising star in this business because

It's disinformation and then you go and do things at the national championship game that aren't about the national championship Stanford Steve No Good guess though So do we want more submissions here? How do we fit so is the Emily one not happening like that's not happening Oh, no, I'll quit this job before I spend time with her. Okay, excellent. So we're negotiating down on this one. Do you have something else here?

I don't think it's for Lucy to decide, but I guess she, like, how does this work? Because the audience is deciding. Ben Moe is deciding. I saw some great submissions that I'd be happy to read, that people submitted, that I said, fine, I'll do that. Well, it's like Lucy gets a shopping spree at Neiman Marcus. Is that the one that you like?

Yeah, I saw that one. I thought that one seemed really fair. I saw one that said, Lucy's punishment should be she goes to a bookstore and has a lovely day. And that kind of feels like a good choice, right? I saw one that said Dan should pay my student loans. And I said, well, that feels like a really good challenge. That'll teach you, yeah.

What about- Yeah, I really will. What about in one day watching all the Rocky movies and live streaming it? That's heaven. How many movies are there? What is it, eight now? Yeah, you don't have to watch five, though. Is it eight or nine?

Because those are the Creed movies, too, right? There's Rocky one through four, you could skip five, and then I think it gets to Creed, so there's two or three Creeds, I think. Doesn't count. Attend a UM game and tailgate with Mike Ryan. Oh, there's no tailgate, so you can't do that. Eat mayo covered pop tart.

Not doing that. Oh, I like that idea. Why not? You like that idea? Because I don't want to. Yeah, I like her eating that, not me. I wouldn't eat that. Lucy gets a spa day?

That was a really good suggestion. I don't know who sent that in. I wouldn't Lucy gets a spa day. That was a really good suggestion I don't know who sent that in sure this is gonna work So we're still spitballing send us your submissions hashtag Lucy challenge remember. It's presented by Venmo We want to get Lucy to Super Bowl send us good challenges all right Lucy. Thank you I touched a little stingray. I feel like that shit back out her life was on the line We are gonna have to negotiate this off air. Another disaster. We do not know how to take care of our sponsors on anything.

It's a rambunctious group of people that cannot be controlled. But that stinger did a hell of a striptease for Jer-Bear. That... You wouldn't believe. It's just ridiculous. What a stinger that one had. Sting isn't only murders in the building, too. I thought he was a good actor in that. Oh, come. I didn't know he was in it. I must have missed

that episode. It was several. So Lucy did the first part of the challenge. Check off that for putting your life on the line with the stingray. What's next? What a stinger that one had. I enjoyed it. I had such a great moment yesterday, Dan, that you would love speaking of bookstores. That was like the most genuine and honest moment that was the least surprising thing ever. Where we were in the commissary over there and Tare walks up to Stugats and goes,

Stugats, congratulations, audiobooks out today. He goes, it is? I had no clue that it was audiobooks out. Wasn't expecting it, to be honest with you. It has been a stunning thing to witness next to him, him just taking everything for granted and still cashing in. It is a marvel.

It's one of the best jokes ever told. I forgot about the date. I could not believe he had no idea it was the release date for his own audio book. Billy, Billy, it's the joke that keeps on giving because I would say in general, Stu gots publishing a book. The starting point on that is,

my God, what a magical gift. Taylor wandering in and finding out that he's not only not read his own book, but couldn't be bothered to do the audio book in time for the first time in Random House history and, but couldn't be bothered to do the audiobook in time for the first time in Random House history, and because he couldn't be paid to even read his own book that many of us wrote for him. And for that to be a cash cow is an amazing gift and an amazing grift. All true, except I read the book. I mean, listen to the audiobook, StugotsBook.com.

I had to read it. The audiobook is out. So finally they cornered Stugots. This was supposed to come audiobooks to gots book.com. I had to read it. The audiobook is out So finally they cornered Stu gots this was supposed to come out when the book came out. Yeah They were supposed to happen simultaneously Yeah, and just teaching you the book game because you've never written a book Greg and I have We have another edition of the audiobook a special edition coming out on Father's Day Speaking of grips Your book coming out on father's special edition. Yeah. Wow grifts. Very nice. A special, of your book coming out on Father's Day?

A special edition, yeah. Wow. Why is it special? You're reading it. Okay. Did you just call your own book a grift? I'll get right on it. I mean, isn't it obvious?

It is. But don't say that part. No, but I'm just saying, that's what they teach you in the book industry, okay? I learned this a long time ago, right? They teach you, hey, the book is never, ever finished. It's never done. We never stop selling the book industry, okay, I learned this a long time ago, right? They teach you, hey, the book is never, ever finished, it's never done, we never stop selling the book, there's always a Father's Day, a Mother's Day right around the corner. Yeah, Valentine's Day, you know, Happy New Year, you know, Harbor Day special.

Stephen King's gonna like shoot you or something, you cannot be putting out these author secrets. Billy, I will tell you that we have done very few things better than have Greg Cody and Stu Gott be vigilant protectors of the written word in 2025. Caretakers for written causes in 2025. You have two wonderful soldiers here, literate people, keeping bookstores and reading alive. Not like your parents or grandparents did it in an old-fashioned book. here, literate people, keeping bookstores and reading alive.

Not like your parents or grandparents did it in an old fashioned book, only in a book that you can hold in your hands in the bathroom. But also available by Kindle if you want to read it that way. Available in all the ways that you get books. I have seen them in Canada. Stu Gatz's book has genuine giant distribution. Some people sent us books from a grocery store somewhere.

I was sent a picture from a Key West bookstore. Thank you to everyone at Key West that the book was sold out. The guy who took the picture was purchasing the final book in that store. It's amazing. Thank you to everyone, seriously. Stu Gotts and Greg Cody protecting the written word.

I mean, they're not though. They're betraying the written word. They've called it a grift themselves. You guys are like the magicians that go and reveal the secrets on TikTok. While they're doing the act. It's me, it's not Greg. I want Greg to distance himself from this.

They are live streaming the grift right now. StuGotsBook.com. He's giving you play-by- play on how it telestrates. What's special about the special edition? I said it's special. Here's another secret, okay? If God forbid, it's not gonna happen, but if the Phoenix Suns make it to the NBA Finals,

do we start promoting the book like it's new again? I mean, Kevin Durant, championship rings, this is amazing. Let's hope it happens. It won't, but let's hope it happens. Off of the news, well, they might get Jimmy Butler. Jimmy Butler came out yesterday wearing Phoenix Sun sneakers. It is the lamest escalation of these things that there has ever been.

Tripling down. Did the Suns acquire a bunch of first round picks? Like, they don't trade for picks. They don't value picks. I'm doubling down. Did the Suns acquire a bunch of first round picks? Yeah. But the Heat don't trade for picks. They don't value picks. That's not the move to get him. I think they've run out of options though with Jimmy Butler, no?

If they have to take picks, they have to take picks. He doesn't wanna be here. So the picks will be in part the package for them, but it's probably more to sweeten the pot for someone else to take on the Bradley Beal contract, and that's why they acquired three. So their 2031 first round pick that they traded will probably be a really good pick. This is what Danny Ainge does. He essentially shorts other teams and says, you're going to be bad by this point, and that pick is going to be valuable to me. It's how he

got Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown. So he was willing to trade three of the worst picks of a whole bunch that they already had over the next few years so that those can just be distributed out from Phoenix. Let's do this though because I know, I know everyone listening to this is good and tired of stop talking to me about a 35 year old malcontent from Miami who can't get joy. Mike Ryan? From playing for 40 and 50 million dollars a year. He was the first 35 year old I could think of. It wasn't a personal attack.

He nailed it. When he wishes he was 35. Yes, his Instagram knows he's about to be 40. The way Dan wishes he was 50, like he said before. Yes. The Jimmy Butler parts of the story though, the one part that I would say now graduates to interesting to me, right?

Not the silly pettiness is, once you get to Stugats, it's pretty rare, the owner needs to meet. Yeah. Like you've got to bypass Riley because now we're gonna go. It's Pat Riley, yes. We're gonna go talk to

the owner about like how do we figure out what works here. You got Bradley Beal's got a no trade. You can hammer us from every angle if you wish to make this messy. But this part to me is where I take the information that Jeremy is giving me about super awkward locker room now where all the other players know they have this thing that used to be running the team. We were all good when that conflict was running the team and the fuel to the team. But then when Bam and Hiro get more of the team and he doesn't like that so much, more of the usage rate, now all of a sudden this is a really awkward workplace.

And I dare say outside of sports a toxic one i'm guessing that there's going to be a lot like that if we weren't in the world of sports this would be a workplace right now that's awkward enough that it creates the following in a language of only the people in that locker room would understand on the court when you're losing to portland that way can you tell if jimmy butler is trying his hardest when he gets no free throws and doesn't get any

steals is are we really playing defense the way jimmy butler plays defense when he cares the most and do you bench that if you're supposed to make more of the scene because you're going to make this work because we can't tell if you're trying your hardest on every possession more comparative to what it is you've done in the past but your teammates can and when you lose at home to that Portland team Stu gots an embarrassment of a Portland team yep 15 and 28 when you but you lose at home and you're giving up a bunch of points and your credo is defense and Jimmy Butler has played aggressive defense for four years when he really cares about playing defense

can you tell if he's trying his hardest when i've lived long enough to see a whole bunch of people watch the broad james at the end of his calves career see him get a triple double in a loss against the celtics in the playoffs and say he quit in the game because he can put up the numbers any damn way because he's that good and trick you into believing that he's playing as hard as as he can the Miami Heat still don't believe stugots that last Spurs final where the Heat got

blown out by the Spurs and LeBron had good numbers they don't believe he was trying his hardest in that series to win that series I agree with the Heat I said it then I still agree with them I mean I put up those numbers in his sleep. Do you think you can tell? To me that's the... Well, no. So what happens is when you have this type of work environment where the best player, the star player, your biggest star is disgruntled, then what happens is you're left to ask those questions. That's the product of the workplace environment. You are now left to question, is Jimmy Butler actually trying his hardest when he's playing basketball and I don't have the answer I know no but to Dan's point players know like you

can't tell it from the box score you can't even tell it from no steals right but the players know they they feel they see it in a way that we don't you know and I think this preceded his suspension you know when he's missing five games because of an illness that sounds like he didn't want to play. Yep. And they were giving him the option to not play before they suspended him. The heat forced zero turnovers in the first half yesterday against the Portland Trailblazers. That shows you just about everything you need to know

about where their entire team's energy and effort level were in the second and third quarter in particular, but it is, this is wearing on these guys. Like Dan said, like the locker room is awkward and uncomfortable, both Eric Spolster and the players are having to do press conferences where it's acknowledged, but they won't really talk about what's going on with Jimmy.

You know, we don't know as media whether Jimmy's gonna speak, whether he's not gonna speak, he doesn't speak after yesterday's game despite wearing the Sun's Colorway sneakers. The players after Friday night's game, there were players in that locker room as the media's standing around going, he's not gonna speak, he's not gonna talk to you guys,

what are you doing? Before he then just comes into the locker room and starts speaking to everyone about how much he loves his teammates and some of them are giving us looks like, what is this about? It's an uncomfortable working environment and yet there are still players who I've spoken to

who want Jimmy there. That's the awkward part. There are still relationships there. It's not just that though. This is the part that gets lost in the noise of the day when the Celtics run away. When you were right there with the celtics run away when you're right there with the celtics when and how were you right there with the celtics when you played a style of basketball led by jimmy butler that they're going to get nineteen deflections

in the first half on your passes because they're playing regular season basketball like if it matters and and and and it's going to be super precise that's what how are they winning it's twenty three free throws and these guys are hitting from three and they're doing it with no margin for error because they're not all that good they're all over achieving and so that's the way they got a win but they did it but but if jimmy's not trying like that what i'm saying to you is that's not perceptible to our human eye

like not to most of the people analyzing this and that's where it gets super interesting on if you're already in a workplace where you think the guy next to you isn't working as hard as he can because you're all playing for your for each other's careers and your money and all of the the things that make up team that your business partners with Jimmy Butler he's bleeping with everybody's money. Like even if it's guaranteed money the workplace is filled with all we care about is let's make that money. He's also the guy though, and I think his teammates would probably agree with this, that you know made them relevant. Brought them at a time where the

heat weren't supposed to be relevant, Jimmy Butler became a player we never thought he'd become and he led them to the NBA finals and a couple of trips to the Eastern Conference finals. Like that's fairly amazing. But he's putting himself before the team, which in Miami is... Most players do, Greg. I know, but this is the antithesis of Heat culture, right? I mean, what he's doing, everything that Heat is going through right now is the opposite of the culture that... It's the result of the last 15 years.

It's not the antithesis. Heat culture birthed all of this. But what if Jimmy is saying, I did the Heat culture thing, the result of the last 15 years. It's not the antithesis. Heat culture birthed all of this. But what if Jimmy is saying I did the Heat culture thing, you may be the best player I've ever been at any point in my career and the reward is what? Guys, the result of the last 15 years is Jimmy Butler's better than he's ever been. The Miami Heat profited greatly and these breakups are super messy and now it's in their locker room in the way that's an infection and Jimmy control with sneakers and Pat Riley must be like you clown like this is how you disrespect everything we did together when it was really hard but Jimmy didn't make them champions so has he succeeded by heat standards by Pat Riley's

he has yes he has succeeded winning the championship is not the only measure he it was like I never thought I'd see Jimmy Butler be the best player in a team that went to the NBA finals ever. I don't want to talk about it anymore either, actually, because I understand where it is that we make this stuff weary. But don't disrespect the last five years like you did Martin Short. Greatness is hard to achieve, OK?

They were right there with the Celtics. It's really hard to be at the top of a conference for five years. To almost achieve, then. Okay, to almost achieve. Fine, to Greg Cody's standards. Yeah, sure thing. Hey, you sold that car yet?

Yeah, sold it to Carvana. Oh, I thought you were selling to that guy. The guy who wanted to pay me in foreign currency, no interest over 36 months? Yeah, no. Carvana gave me an offer in minutes, picked it up and paid me on the spot. It was so convenient.

Just like that. Yeah. No hassle. None. That is super convenient. Sell your car to Carvana and swap hassle for convenience. Pick up these may apply.