The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: Reporting Live From the 7th Ring of Hell

Episode Date: June 13, 2023

Domonique says Dan wants to have his cake and eat it too in regard to the culture around the Meadowlark Media studios. Domonique also offers a home-and-home with Greg Cote. Meanwhile, Dan doesn't trust anyone to get anything done right. Then, Mike Ryan is reporting from the courthouse where Donald Trump is set to be indicted, and it is SWAMPY out there. Plus, do you ever root for someone in a coffin to be alive? And Amin is furious with Paul Pierce for stealing The After Dark Ethos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. Welcome to the big suite, presented by Giraffe King. Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan Levitard podcast. I'm sorry, I'm not going to 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 that 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, that face and the habitual liar. Dominique, you know what it's like to win at the highest levels of professional sports, to win at life, to win at competition. You have been urging me to run a tighter ship around here,

ship, a tighter ship around here. Mike Ryan has been out of control for months now, just screaming, the analysis that this show had after one of the NBA games was just rigged that that was the analysis and he's been on hand she's been manic there's too much going on at metal art media he doesn't respect the rules and now he's been kicked out and his punishment was supposed to be penalty box was supposed to be go cover the indictment

but he was just at the heat Serena doing whatever he wants to do with the camera crew because he's not actually doing the punishment that he's supposed to be serving. It's you, Dan. Like I think you have to understand. The point I was trying to make to you many years ago when I told you I couldn't work for you

because I would fire everyone is you want what we all want. You want to have your cake and eat it too. And I think that the fact of the matter is, you run a culture around here that is kind of loose in lack of daisicle, which leads to a fun, loose lack of daisicle show. But if you want a tight-ship culture, that's gonna permeate the show also.

I don't know that that's the show that you want. So you kind of got to take the good with the bad. So like, great code is lovely wife. She wants a guy who can throw down in the bedroom. But you know what comes with that? You kind of guy who doesn't really listen that much. So you get what you get. You don't get upset.

If she wanted a guy who listened to a bunch, then she have a lot less fun at night after 6.30 p.m. John Sally's not walking through that door. He has referred to them before as nocturnal meandering since this was 25 years ago and I said to him, you know, people do have sex during the day and it seemed like a revelation to him. Like it's something he hadn't considered. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. That man is a prime time player. You think he doing matinee sex? Hey, well, no matinee sex. have them stay it up past 6 30

Put on the pole please at Levitard show is Greg Cody doing Matt and a sex I'll go one further one of my two kids and I won't say which one was conceived in the morning time How about that? Wow, it's not one further. It's just daytime. I'm not used to be a morning man. Yeah. What? Sean Marion's not walking through that door. Matrix. The best part of waking up. Enough.

Greg Cody in your cup. Thank you Dominique. That's great. I tell you, I'm more of an up to Dominique. He's not that bad. The Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody with something you can get wherever it is that you get your podcasts. He has all your local coverage, all of his son's actual work goes there because I. I do pay him handsomely. Chris Gatling's not welcome to the door. Well, not handsomely, but I do pay him handsomely. Chris Gatling's not welcome to the door. Well, not handsomely, but I do pay him occasionally.

No, I pay him every week, actually every month, but per episode type thing. He did mention that he's going on a cruise that's on your dime, so that's payment, right? It's true. There's a long story behind who's paying for that crew but that's for another time. Yeah, I can be for now. You okay? Five dollars. I know. I left my wallet at home but you know, I don't have any money. I do this show for free.

So paying me, I'll have the five dollars up there. He's paying for a cruise, I mean, it's a great thing. I'm paying for a whole cruise. So are you going all the cruise? Yeah, yeah. It's an Alaskan cruise. We've done two prior. This'll be our third. And we love Alaska.

We're getting it while the icebergs are still there before a global warming kills everything. So it's great. The rail rights will not walk into that door. Can I be a guest on the great Cody show? I would love that don't it Can we do a home at home you want to come on my podcast? Yeah, I'm telling you I am Making amends with all my enemies

That's one thing I'm doing late in life. I am making amends. I Zazlow and I shook hands Sunday in an event. I didn't like that Greg. You need to keep that that beef alive. I saw that picture and I was like, Greg folded. He's making amends though. No, we can re we can rebife. The rebife is sometimes better than the original. The rebife button. Yeah. That's what I find anyway. Lafons of... Lafons of Ellis isn't walking through that door. Ooh.

Jesus, $5. Wow. Lafons. I mean, honest to God, this is the chaos that I have, I mean, all right. So God's is on some sort of laughing gas from, as he has been for 20 years, it's a metal arc expense. Yes. Greg Cody. I've thought about that.

Greg Cody is totally delirious, crazed, he's looking at the clock. We're four minutes in the segment. He doesn't know where he is. I don't. I don't. I'm going on here. We've got a few blocks from here. I am told Mike Ryan has landed. However, i've also been told our camera doesn't work our audio works for our camera doesn't work and in typical metal arc style i don't know if the cameras off because they've turned it off for a second to it's not that distract me the way it distract me last segment uh... billy's in charge but that can come with a bit of peril because there's a lot going on around here including a mean had one job hour, one job and couldn't do it without flim. Mark Blum's not walking through that door.

Billy, are you in control of things? Give me your level of confidence that we can go to wherever Mike Ryan is and just go to him and get a report. There are a lot of news trucks there, but not a lot of people, a ton of news trucks that might be the safest place on Earth if there's going to be a monster amount of security there. What's happening here? Well, okay, so the camera is on now. The camera has been off. No, I'm not going to him until the audio and video is right. Like I'm not doing this. That's the issue. Okay, keep muting themselves and then they just start talking. All right, well, let turn it down, turn it off, get it out of here until it works. Okay, like honest to God, it's not that hard, it's not,

it's not that hard to just get audio and video from somebody walking around. I don't need 17 employees and everybody talking into phones and no audio and no video. Real soul butler's not walking through that door, rest in power. Dahmer, you sure you can't come down here and help me fix this because it's an

ever living mess every day. Billy's just yelling at somebody on the phone right now. It's the video department. I'm paying security. We'll walk with Mike Ryan who I can't hear and get a report from. Frankie has an umbrella. Is it a parasol? Is it does he have a security parasol? Is metal art paying for that as

well? He does seven of them. As an added bonus, the video is also grainy. It's like the 1900s, early 1900s, original video capacity. Is it Greg? Greg Thomas now walk into that door. It's an umbrella weapon like the Penguin, right, the original Batman on JD.

Yeah, they're gonna come at federal agents or now confiscating Mike Ryan. Is it brain on delay? Wow. Isn't it always? Billy, please give me some sort of update here that can salvage what is happening around here. I'm told that they can now hear you

and they're waiting for you to prompt them to go. So if you wanna go get a report, they can hear you. I don't trust this video. I'm not doing this now. Okay, well, it's frozen and gonna be choppy and I am simply not gonna do this in a way that's totally incompetent

because when incompetence is the joke that you have and the only one you have, you're not funny, you're just bleeping incompetent. Hey. I trust this. I'm not doing it. No, I'm not doing it. No, I'm not doing it. I'm about to keep you out.

I need to know why Frankie has an umbrella. I mean, I'm begging you. Yeah, I'd like to know, except I don't trust the audio or the video from our report blocks away. I'm not doing it. You guys can keep staring at the camera. I will do it next segment. I am not doing it now.

Turn it off. Shut them down. I am not going to do it now. Hey, Greg, where did you get that shirt from? I don't know, Dominique. I've had it years. Who bought it for you? I think my wife probably did.

Yeah, revenge. It might have been a Christmas gift. I get a lot of my clothing in and around Christmas. You know, pants. You got a lot of your clothing once a year? Yeah. I'm not I'm not a close buyer. Ricky D. I wear shirts for decades. Oh man. I just stepped on it. Yeah. You really did because I've

asked you 17 times during the first hour to please pay attention to a mean. It's the only thing I've told you. I've said don't look at me. Just look at a mean. It's the first time. I mean, I'm not the first time you've stepped on him. It's the first time. Maybe you mean stepped on you. First time, not a charm. I mean, what was that name again? It was Ricky Davis.

He's not walking through that door. Damn, right, he isn't. Take a swig, yeah, you earned it. No, no, you earned it. It's not a reward. It's not a reward. You earned it. It's not a reward.

You earned it. Take a vigorous swig. No, I refuse. I'm gonna take a casual swig. it's not a reward you earned it take a vigorous swing I refuse I'm gonna take a casual swing Deon waiters not walking to that door Schokiner Marcus Banks not walking to that door Schokiner You're out of them. No. Try not to laugh.

The umbrella. Glitter rice. Now I can do that door. Shelfier! Cloud in the sky. Modern day penguin Sherman Douglas is not walking through that door. I wish a lot. Sure. We should go out to Mike. I feel like Dexter Pittman's not walking through that door. Shocking her. Great.

We should go to move. Wow. In what sense? Great. Come on. Don't be coy. Don't be coy. The mornings.

From what you're getting in from what you recall from what I recall. No, we're not going there. Bump chick a bump bump. I'm trying to get better. I'm trying to learn. I want to add to my repertoire. I mean, what, you're walking here. Wasn't a loser game show sound. Yeah, bump, shake a bump, bump, bump. I believe it's called shaving a haircut. Yeah, that's exactly. Bump, shake a bump, bump, bump, bump.

Splash. So you have just to be clear, you have porn bouncing and morphing into shaving a haircut, too bitch. Too bitch. Then a haircut, too bitch. My dad used to always sing that. And Chatternougatiu, too. How does that song, those words too?

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from three blocks away in 2023, as artificial intelligence comes to replace us all, and we cannot successfully execute audio and sound from where it is, Mike Ryan is at the center of the chaos. And as I walked through the room complaining about it, a mean said to me, a mean said to me, something that I had not considered. You will hear, did you sound? You will hear grainy video. You will hear profound incompetence because it's all we make around here.

I don't think you can hear the grainy video, which is going to be grainy. Okay. I think you're going to be able to hear it. That sounded the way grainy video might sound. If it had a sound, if it belched and farted, that's what it would sound like. In the middle of me, trying to explain why a multi-million dollar media operation, cannot execute the simple act of going out to Mike Ryan because there's chaos, three blocks from here. We will try to do that in a moment, but what a mean said to me that is correct, that I had not considered is, Dan, this is what happens when everyone else has television trucks and you're trying it with Verizon.

Is that at the Verizon? Let's be careful. I mean, it's no offense to Verizon. It could have been anybody other than a television truck. Okay. Now, of course, we go to colored bars here because we cannot get the video up. TV truck.

From wherever it is that Mike Ryan is where there is electrical interference, chaos, anarchy, and possibly the fall of democracy. Can I ask you a question because that is quite the setup, but it appears to be very calm where he is. So if the technological side doesn't work out and then at the end of the day, it's like, well, it's just a very calm day and we couldn't even get that.

Well, no, there's calm. Do you want chaos? No, no, no, God no, God no. And sense of people over, you know, we don't want chaos. There don't seem to be many people. There Mike Ryan is walking again for some reason is because the audio and the video are bad, where it is that he is. Is that the problem? I'm just saying a very respected journalist said if there is no news you can make the news. No journalists should have said that. But one did on the show. Be the news when necessary. I mean he could you know talk to a Trump flag.

You know, right? What? Maybe, uh, Ariodzer is there. Ariodzer from NBC6. Yeah, to think about that, huh? Yeah. I don't think Dan wants chaos. He just wants the ability to go out to Mike Lotts. Yeah, but that ain't happening. This is mindful of when all the lights went on, on band Patrick. Which did you prefer more that day or this day? D.P. They're very equal. They're not equal.

I'll tell you why this one is worse. Hey, the world is watching. B, we didn't have a day to plan for the power going out. Like, we knew this was coming here last week. We executed something that resembled a plan to me and this is the most incompetent thing we've ever done. I mean, I say that. Well, often find myself wanting to defend

the Metal Lock media team against dance, calling out their incompetence, but seriously, guys, we had a whole day Almost 24 hours Build a damn truck in satellites Launches satellite. Yeah lazy So in so's well said my right. Yeah well said. Yeah well said so and so is so what happened Did you just fall apart at the end there? You didn't have the proper insult for lazy whatever life eyes down. I mean yeah my eyes

Granny video in my brain so good. We've now got colored bars again on the screen Because we can't connect with my grand that is as protests I mean what else will we put up to protest the Maga group other than colored bars? In all seriousness I mean and bars. In all seriousness, I mean, and Dominique, in all seriousness, as I will go back to him at some point, not, it will not be now. We will wait for the video and audio to be functioning as a media company.

We've got an umbrella. The umbrella is definitely functioning. That's working, yes. The umbrella is functioning. Okay, you know what, I'm gonna take my chances with this. Let me try this. I don't think it's gonna go well. I'm gonna take my chances with this. Let me try this. I don't think it's gonna go well. I don't have any confidence in this, but let's go out live to

Mike Ryan who continues to move around. He seems very frustrated. Mike Ryan, please take it away from the fringes of whatever it is you're seeing at the height of the chaos. Reporting live from the seventh ring of hell,. There's a lot of Cuban people that have made me really embarrassed with my heritage. A lot of people out here, skirt honking and playing reggaeton, and I've been told, as you know, I'm a big ally of the LGBTQ community,

and I hear something called the proud, the proud boys are gonna be out here, which really, you know, Riles me up because that seems like a cool pride month activation Outside of all that it feels like I'm I'm genuinely privileged to be living in this dumb timeline It's a million degrees and if your whole idea was to punish me for the heat losing as if that wasn't punishment enough I am surrounded by technical mishaps and humidity all around my bullsack. So I'm going to come back upstairs now and promptly

resign. No, not yet. You're not allowed to do that. You got to stay there for a while. This is the first time the heat has been winning in the last 24 hours where it just grabs a hold of him and makes him quit. That's a victory for all of us. Just 24. where it just grabs a hold of him and makes him quit. That's a victory for all of us. If you've listened to the last two months of this show, we will see if we check back in with Mike Ryan at some point that this stuff works. I am glad that Mike...

No, you will not be checking back in with Mike Ryan. Mike Ryan is actually checking out forever. It's safer for you over there, Mike. Trust me. Well, I mean... Yes, an excellent report from over there. I'm like trust me. Well, I mean, yes, an excellent report from over there. Thank you for all the hard work and the planning that goes into being the giant that metal-lark media will one day become while winning awards at Tribeca. What did we make Frankie? Great idea. Great

idea. Kiss my ass. What else is out there? Do you feel like there's danger out there? Does it seem like it's dangerous to you? I mean, there's a lot of Crocs and bad fashion and People that say they respect the flag but put it on on t-shirts and and a truck keeps driving around with Morocco Bama behind bars and I You know, it's just it's just stupid all of it is stupid I feel like I'm in danger, not because something bad will happen,

but I get dumped by proxy. I hate it here. And by here, I mean, this planet. Get me the f*** outta here. Okay, very good. We don't need cursing from there. We don't need irresponsible, yes, look at Tony. Tony, what's the matter?

It's unnecessary effort. We got a skeleton crew back here. He's very frustrated. He's well. The effort, I have a microphone that's not even plugged in. Let me show you. The effort is so necessary. It's working well though. I gotta be honest. Uh, so far we can hear him. If I, if what you mean is we can occasionally hear him, it is working well the the umbrella is work Indesputably working well

Mike looks like one of those 80s the umbrella is actually nice Michael looks like one of those 80s NFL highlight videos or it's like yeah Dan marino He's leading the charge and it's like this weird slow motion. That's choppy and as he's running around on the beach or whatever though in a Pickskin not what it's like at all. No you guys don't remember those. I was saying this allowed. Yes, what's happening? How is any of the house? Which part? The fact that we sent you out loud. Who's he yelling at? The guys, the guys caught in a lie. It's obvious to everybody. There you just, this is, it's like two gods that someone could be just this fraudulent, this dishonest, and still have throngs to people,

hang on everywhere and support them. It's, I can spot the dumb people quite easy, they're wearing it on their head. But also, I think the joke is ultimately on me because we're given the attention that they crave. Let's just let the justice system take course. Let me resign in peace. Dominic, how do you feel about where we are as a company?

Just look at that. Oh no, we don't want to look at that. No, no, that is the most Cuban of things. It got so clear to the people. As all is as all of a sudden the video works. I mean, what you want to send the cameraman to the panel? I'm sending myself. Why are you sending yourself to you can't do that. That's not something that's a thing you've got to stay here.

That was the most Cuban thing that's out there. A hairy swampy Florida belly. That looked damn Mike. That looked unpleasant. I can assure you I am by by far the least Cuban thing out here is my hairy damp belly button. There are so many people that embarrassed our great people the Cuban people out here right now. It is like 90% Cuban households out here and I just feel like walking the crowd and asking them will they want to see an opening weekend Barbie or Oppenheimer because that's the only thing actually worth talking

about over here. Dan, a lot of ingenuity there in that mess because there's people selling mongos, it's mango season right now. My amused people selling flags out there. People are just trying to make a buck. I saw that there was a hustler that walked past my grind with a whole bunch of very small American flags that I just imagined it over price. But if you're there without an American flag and some guy walks by with one, like that's that guy sells mangoes in his part on part time, right on the street. That guy does. We all know that guy.

That guy always has a hustle. Everyone's in a while you're sitting in a stop line. You know, I'm some peanut M&Ms. Hey, what are you? Whatever. Like that guy's got nothing right there. That's the last time you made that burger. Oh my god.

There's five bucks who cares. All right, wait here. Stop moving the umbrella. I'm trying to get into the shade. Stop moving a goddamn umbrella. Yeah. Frankie, just state, this is where the umbrella is casting shade. So rounded by the work, actually, you know, you were right the first time. Mike Ryan is part of your penalty before you come back. I do think you should just start interviewing. There should be brief interactions with some of the people who are out there, even though it's a bad idea. Billy is shaking his head. That's not up because this is gone so great. So far, let's complicate things even more. That's not. It's just bringing complicate things by bringing a single man on the street. We can- Well, the microphones not plugged in, so they have to scream into Mike's ear. We cannot execute a man on the street interview. I will not accept this, Dan.

This is time for celebration. You know, far off we were an hour ago, and we have accomplished it. We just went to Mike. It was grainy, it was fun, it was swampy, it was weird, it was entertaining, it was fantastic. We accomplished this with a cell phone, with all these people out there with trucks and satellites and millions of dollars.

Apologies. We got a cell phone, a unplugged microphone. It is so sweaty. And we nailed it. Mike Ryan, explain to me your level of dampness right now. Yeah, I feel like I'm in the shower. I feel like I'm in the shower. I feel like I'm in the shower. I feel like I'm submerged in water and stupidity. This is my professional life. And honestly, considering the state of US history right now

at this very moment, maybe the worst day of all our lives. Yeah, I'm coming back upstairs. I want to leave. I want to leave right now. I want to leave right now. I want to leave right now and I want Brandon Montor to get going and the forecheck to be effective and for the the panthers power play to come online. If you're that if you're that sweaty, the umbrella is not working. Imagine how sweaty he would be if the even even the umbrella is not working. Imagine how sweaty he would be if even the umbrella were working. Don Lebertard. How do people always go missing in the mountains?

Don't go to the mountains? And by the way, I don't want to bring racing. This is the most white people thing ever. Going missing in the middle of the mountains. It's the strangest thing. You go by yourself, you don't take a radio, you don't take a phone, you're missing for four days and they find you like 10 years later covered in snow. And it's like, don't go by yourself. If you're going to go on a trail, don't go by yourself, you don't take a radio, you don't take a phone, you're missing for four days and they find you like 10 years later covered in snow.

And it's like, don't go by yourself. If you're gonna go on a trail, don't go by yourself. Still gots. Put it on the pole. Is it the widest person thing ever? I believe is what you called it, going into the woods by yourself. Is going into the woods by yourself.

I can't disagree with that, man. So black people don't camp? Yeah, black people don't hike, they don't camp, they don't go on to the woods. This is the Don Lebertar Show with this two gods. I don't know how many strange thoughts the rest of you have when you are grieving or uncomfortably close to a coffin at a funeral, okay?

But I have had some strange thoughts that I wouldn't normally have, illogical thoughts, because passing can be so final, I sometimes expect the coffin to come open and want somebody to be living in there. I know it's illogical, I know it doesn't make any sense. It's one of the dumbest things that I do. You're wanting this, you're wanting this to happen. I want someone to not be gone. And I'm wondering, can it be some sort of mistake? Can it possibly?

And it never happens, obviously, but it just happened in Ecuador with a 76 year old woman. And I've got to think that's a prank meant to go viral, right? Like that's not a real thing that a woman popped out of her coffin because everyone had gotten it wrong. And her body was showing simply death-like symptoms as opposed to being actually dead. That are you guys believing that that is real?

That a funeral in Ecuador has someone popping out of the coffin. It's been reported and aggregated everywhere. So you want to be clear, the person that you lost did not have died, not you want zombies. I want there to be some semblance of life. I'm not saying any of this is logical. I'm ashamed to admit it, honestly. I just, it's one of these things. It's not a hot take to say you don't want loved ones to die.

It seems like you just want to be at a funeral where it happens. That's where it definitely sounds like. We're someone's in the coffin and they pop out of the coffin. They're still alive. There's been a horrible mistake Well, but Tony just came out for some reason and made it a ghoul meant to scare people popping out of a coffee Well, I mean, I think the popping out of the coffin enough without your hands going out like you're doing panther claws

I think just coming out of the coffin would be horrifying enough to everybody that you don't need the ghoul to also rise With an aggressive posture. You know it would be even worse, right? You go to pay your final respects to the person in the coffin, right? You're leaning over. It's just you and them. Nobody else is around. They kind of look up at you.

Yes, and I'm curious. I don't know why it's gotcha. I don't know what you're doing. It has to be a tongue out. It was a tie. I mean, no, again, horrifying. But you can't tell anybody because nobody else is around. They're like, guys, it moved.

Oh, so wait, sir. Get money. OK, so you're talking about you want this to be a private moment that no one believes that the corpse played a prank on you. You were trying to pay final respects, but they would not be fine. We got you. You're the only one who saw it.

That's it. You're the only one who turned around. God, you see that? What? A great prank from the beyond. If you were the corpse in the coffin and coming back to life What would your go to be because my would be like Yawning I didn't see that would be something that would scare people less right if you just wait or you're waking I saw a video on the internet that was the opposite. It was a prank and it was like this guy that I guess it's like some sort of prank for with his friends and this guy got super super super drunk and

Then they somehow put him in a coffin and all of his friends and family showed up at a fake funeral and the guy woke up in the coffin His parents were there. Love ones were there, a spouse was there. And kind of prank is that? Everyone pretended like he was dead. A great one. A great prank. But like how drunk do you have to be in like on how short notice is everyone like the person presumably had a drinking ball right?

And like, okay, like we know this is gonna happen this weekend. We get to get this ready. They got a crowd gathering or the drunkenness lasted for like a coma like five days On a scale of one Nepal pierce where we're we're we're talking What do you guys make of the latest with Paul pierce what happened? I'll tell you what I make of it find your own lane Like What the hell this is a total infringement. This is like someone coming out with mickey mouse.

Like, no, nobody. This is the exclusive domain of one amino acid. And I'm not gonna stand here and allow for some copycat to come here and for everyone to be in thrall, the Ella look how he's acting on the live stream and he was all drunk and all, hey, been doing that. Okay, so the your take as it always is, weird, you had a Saturday the other day

is how many people in the finals you've worked with. Shout out to Ella's Val Carcell who wanted to have Bishop. He's Cuban then. He's Cuban, you should be happy for him. All right, you're very self-. You should be happy for him. All right, you're very self-involved and you're whole take on what Paul Pierce said and did.

Let's play this sound in a second here for the people is that you did it first. You have the corner of Drunken Public Commentator guy and that's your take. Did it first, second, third, fourth? I can't even keep count how many times I've done it. Okay, but you didn't think. I mean, is that the flex you think it is, though?

Absolutely it is. You know the worst part? Like eight years ago at ESPN, I had a show called a mean after dark. Yes, after dark, that was my thing. And here comes Paul Pierce, stealing the after dark moniker, stealing the after dark ethos, stealing every bit of, look, haven't you had enough Paul Pierce your finals MVP

You don't see me walking around trying to be a finals MVP. Oh, but Paul Pierce is in his branding right now He just got fired from a job at ESPN that he doesn't need or want that paid a lot of money He's going for a dirty or brand He's doing all of this better than you did it first though I did it first okay, but he's doing it better and he's doing it with sex workers and he's doing it in a style that is unapologetic. Let's go ahead and play this sound for the people.

Again, Paul Pierce left the ESPN disgrace because he parties too much, because the party was too much for Disney. Can't have that commentating on our games. Let's go get Greenberg. That won't happen with him. Let's play that sound of Paul Pierce. Over the one. This is our girlfriend for the day. They got a website that you got her girlfriend

for the day. Oh man. And so I got a girlfriend. Oh man. You got her girlfriend for the day. I went on the website and I had a girlfriend for the day. I went on the website and I had a girlfriend for the day. Look at look. Look. Collins, pick up Collins. Look at D. Look, Collins, they're going Collins. They're going, look at D-Wayne at the game. D-Wayne at the game. You're going to work in such a way that's a lot for them. We're live. We're live.

We're in Christina. Whatever you're saying that you're here. Shout to everybody who joins on the live stream. Show me the live stream. It's right here. Look. Move, move, July. Show me. It's right here. Look. Move. Move. The show me is right here. Look right here.

This is the likes and the comments and all that on that. Give us some questions. Show us. You want some fans questions? Show us. You want some fans questions. Show me now. You want some fans. Show me. You want some fans questions. Give me some fans questions. What's the first question? So this live right now, which I'll ask?

Oh, this is it. He didn't realize that he was just telling someone that he was renting a girlfriend for the day then. Yeah. friend for the day then. Yeah, for the day. And I'm guessing that Zion probably wishes that he had gone that route. Zion went to buy. Dominique, I mean, your thoughts, because I have gone to full fledged feeling bad for Zion Williamson. I feel bad for him. We wait-chamed him. He seems to be a kid in a muscled body. And now we are shaming him because he doesn't know how to not get manipulated like a boy toy

by sophisticated manipulators. It's a heavy situation, Dan, really. Oh, boy. I think I honestly, like, boom. It's not that it's not funny, Oh boy. I think I honestly, like, boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. It's not that it's not funny,

because it obviously is funny, but ultimately I end up feeling sad. Why is this? Because who among us have not made some poor decisions when it comes to women or sex in general, and like it feels unfair for a 20 something year old guy for us all to be laughing at him because he's doing the things that most of us at that age were probably trying to do a wish we were doing. It sucks it's terrible

it's embarrassing especially since he can't play like he hasn't played a long time and what's tied to his name at one point was potentially the next best thing the guy who the NBA will be oriented around, like the future of American basketball, playing Superstar. Shakyel O'Neill, a physical specimen. Something to challenge the evolution that brings us yokich.

And now what he's known for is not being able to stay on the floor being overweight and having his sex life become the joke of the internet. Although that guns and buns, that's pretty funny. I'm overcame with that when it's outside, you know, actually riding. Don, I'm like, it is, it's hilarious. It's hilarious. But when you're in the thick of it, it's not. It's a very serious situation where he's trying to figure out basically, like you said, how do you get people talking about my play and not about all the other extracurricular peripheral things?

And the reality is, like this must feel like a ton of bricks for him to have to deal with this stuff while rehabbing from an injury. It sucks. I feel bad for him. You're gonna keep making these silly jokes. Ton of bricks, these silly jokes. You're gonna keep making these silly jokes. Tone of bricks, these silly jokes. You're gonna keep making.

Grow up, guys. But the internet mocking you seems like something that would be really unpleasant and the internet mocking you about this, about this. You're peers seeing this. I mean, he's a giant economy. I think one of the things that we liked about Zion

was he was like a little bit different when it comes to the basketball and I mean correct me if I'm wrong But he didn't do like the traditional a a u system He wasn't professionalized at a young age in the way that we've come to see a lot of these players, right? Yeah, so I think it was a YouTube donker right in like he was playing against in his high school He was like just really good and then he went to Duke and we saw that he was better than the guys who did go through that System but what comes with the early professionalization is also the off the court professionalization and I think oftentimes in NFL We got have these symposiums where we talk about it We learn and even when I was at the NBA we had these

Corriculum where we teach guys how to operate in this world and it sucks because he's a country boy who can dunk real good Who has not gotten the professional maturation or the people around him to help him do it because he's not the only one. I guarantee you that's all right. Oh, I just feel like this is, this feels to me, the reason it, one of the reasons it's making me sad is because this really does feel like the corruption

of an innocent. Like I don't want to infantilize him, but the whole, I'm talking about all of it. I'm talking about becoming a professional and not being equipped for it. I mean, I don't, I don't see this is the thing I don't subscribe to. I think with Dominique is right. They do these programs. It doesn't matter, man, because at the end of the day, you're 21, 22,

and you got a bunch of money in your pocket and a pretty girl comes up to you and expresses interest. I don't care how cool you are, how out there you've been. That's how hard adjustment to make to be like, maybe she doesn't have my best interests at heart. It ain't happening to everyone else. I mean, Greg Cody, back when you were coming up as a minor...

As you recall, as you recall. And you had all the ladies throwing their attention your way, how'd you handle it? Just like Zion. ladies throwing their attention your way how'd you handle it. Just like Zion. Exactly, lugs. What? Who needs me?

Well said. With a glass of cool aid. I'm liking Dominique Moore and Moore. That was a pretty good who needs me by the way. It sounded like me. Who needs me? Let me try again. Who needs me?

Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha! Okay. You're trying to set you up. Yeah! Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha!

That's pretty good. That was damn good. That was damn good. And you know it. He doesn't know. No.