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Dan LeBatard
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Greg Cody
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Stugats
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Stugats
The poll plays a couple of things. Are you stunned that after next week the Dolphins will have the same number of wins as the Chiefs? And does it hurt more if at the end you lose to a guy named Lutz at Lebatard show. Also funny. Yesterday was on a tush push. Mark Andrews, the immortal, lumbering 35 yards in the open field. He can scoot. He can still scoot.
Greg Cody
He can move.
Stugats
I expect at this age, with the beating he's taken as the Ravens career leader in touchdowns. For body parts to fall off and WD40 to be required because things are creaking, but not tush push fake. And he just lumbered 35 yards with the ball. I want to get to a couple of things here. The Jalen Ramsey, Jamar Chase spitting incident. Draymond Green being Draymond Green. A gambler confronting Jimmy Butler. But before we get to any of those things, the Greg Cody show, featuring Greg Cody, is now out. And in it, he laments, and Chris told me he got sad in a way that made him emotional. He laments the death of the U.S. petty. The U.S. penny.
Mike Ryan
Yes.
Chris Cody
It proves he'll get emotional about anything because he had Yeti make us. Like, I don't know if Yeti did.
Stugats
It on his own.
Chris Cody
I don't know how it came to be, but Yeti made a song about the death of the penny. And you. If you watch our YouTube channel, you legitimately see my dad getting emotional.
Stugats
The penny take the penny costs more to make than it is worth.
Mike Ryan
Yeah. Almost four times as much.
Tony
Why is that emotional for you?
Mike Ryan
Because the penny is. Is one of the foundations of Americana. I used to collect pennies when I grew up in one of those little blue folders with, you know, you'd slide a penny into the hole. And that was a big part of growing up to me was the scent.
Chris Cody
There's a little nugget here, though, that you're leaving out. It's not. You can still use the penny.
Mike Ryan
Oh, it's in circulation.
Chris Cody
They're just not making new ones. Like, you could still pay for stuff with a penny. So it's like nothing is really changing.
Stugats
Like newspapers.
Mike Ryan
It's the death of the penny, though. It's the death of the penny.
Chris Cody
I can still go to McDonald's and with 100 pennies, spend a dollar.
Mike Ryan
Fine. Do you have 100 pennies? No, because nobody collects pennies anymore.
Stugats
All right, put it on. The poll at Lebatard show is the pen. Yeah.
Mike Ryan
Look, the whole idea of nobody carries change anymore, you know, walking around. Everybody used to have a load in their pants. You know, you'd reach in your right pocket, you reach in your right pocket, there'd be a handful of coins. And now nobody carries a coin anymore.
Dan LeBatard
You know what you did and the.
Mike Ryan
Penny is part of that.
Dan LeBatard
Do you know what you did?
Mike Ryan
What's that?
Dan LeBatard
The load in the pants.
Mike Ryan
Yeah. Correct.
Ryen Russillo
Proud.
Chris Cody
Do you guys want to celebrate the penny and song?
Mike Ryan
Oh, I sure do.
Stugats
Do we?
Dan LeBatard
How.
Stugats
How do you feel about Yeti's song? Oh, that's the face that you're making. All right, let's hear a song on the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody. Let's hear a song that Yeti made about the death of the penny. The penny, of course. One of the foundations of Americana. Thank you. All right, that's enough.
Mike Ryan
What?
Stugats
You want to hear the song? It's on the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody.
Mike Ryan
That's a good tease by you as.
Chris Cody
Long as this intro.
Ryen Russillo
I do like that. R.
Stugats
All right, that's enough.
Mike Ryan
It's a great song. It's not a banger. Right. It's a sentimental song and appropriately so. Thank you.
Stugats
Yeti feeling me sounds like Fountains of Wayne to me. I will only talk about the Giants and Packers in this way because I thought Bart Scott had the best analysis before the game. Before the game I thought he had the best analysis and it ended up coming to fruition which was just, you know, with Jameis Winston. It's trick or treat now. It was. It was a couple of weeks after Halloween, but it's still. It was. It was still good analysis because it absolutely is with. Put it on the poll at Levittard show with Jameis Winston. Is it trick or treat? And that concludes our Giants coverage, Packers coverage for the day. And it don't make sense to say goodbye. But let's talk about this spitting incident from this Steelers game. And I wasn't aware of this till yesterday. I did not know that the Steelers had a 300 pound tight end named Darnell Washington. I thought that their tight ends were Friarmouth and John New Smith. Thank you. The former Dolphin.
Greg Cody
You never seen Washington dude.
Dan LeBatard
Once you see him once you are locked in. Yes, well, Aaron Rodgers is so locked in because he has eyes.
Stugats
He's got to be £300, right? He's not listed at £300, but he's got to be £300. That guy in the open field was just wrecking people.
Dan LeBatard
He reminds me a lot and probably Aaron of Jermichael Finley. Just a giant put together, cut out of stone type of dude.
Greg Cody
They got him at 6 7, 264, but that's.
Dan LeBatard
You want to talk about a load, Greg?
Stugats
That guy loading his pants.
Mike Ryan
Tell you what. Damn right. Jingle jangle, right?
Stugats
So Jalen Ramsey. Jalen Rams I don't think Jingle Jangle is the same kind of load.
Dan LeBatard
It's just dawned upon me that he doesn't understand what a load means.
Mike Ryan
We're talking about coins.
Stugats
Said he was doing a couple coins, but he was.
Dan LeBatard
I don't think so. Yeah, I think he was lying.
Chris Cody
Gaslighting.
Stugats
When you did load in the pants, we thought you knew what you were saying, but you were just saying change in the pants. But that's not what a load in the pants.
Dan LeBatard
You know about that jizz.
Mike Ryan
There's more definitions to what that means. What do you think I'm referring to a baby diaper?
Stugats
You know what? I'm not gonna allow Mike Ryan.
Tony
That was a scene, right?
Dan LeBatard
Yeah.
Stugats
He's got a. He's got a minor penalty. 2 minutes for a contribution.
Chris Cody
This will work out with the green shirt.
Stugats
That's also a load of hands. Yeah, the green screen and the green shirt isn't gonna work. So you can go sit in there and make bad television like you made bad audio.
Greg Cody
He was right. It's right.
Stugats
It's unnecessary. I don't need uncouth was what it was. Yes. And I'll get to Shador Sanders in a second, but let's do. Do Jalen Ramsey and Jamar Chase. What's going on with spitting on people? Like, what is happening? And Jamar Chase just lied about it afterward. And what should the penalty for this be?
Tony
He's going to get suspended.
Stugats
You think he's going to lose an entire game?
Tony
Yeah, it already happened with homeboy from Jaylen Carter.
Stugats
Yeah, you so. But Jaylen Carter was suspended for the game that he was in. He was ejected for the one game. Right.
Tony
Like, wasn't he also suspended after that?
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Chris Cody
No. I believe he got. It was like, early in the game. I think he just.
Tony
It was before a single play.
Ryen Russillo
Right.
Chris Cody
So I think he just. That game was.
Stugats
That's what I think that got him suspended for the game. You think Jamar Chase is going to miss the next game? Yeah. What is happening with people spitting? What happened? So Jalen Ramsey punched him. Right. And then. And. And the referee. Did the referee see that Jalen Ramsey had been spit on?
Greg Cody
No.
Tony
He must not have.
Chris Cody
No. He get Jalen. The punch gets seen. Jalen gets kicked out. And then we, of course, see afterwards that it was all triggered by a.
Greg Cody
Spit, a big loogie that he said he didn't spit. You clearly see, like, a massive spit.
Stugats
Wad from flying through and hanging off of his face.
Chris Cody
We have the back and forth here. First, here's Jalen saying, he did spit.
Stugats
He spit on me. So it's up. Football after that. Respectfully.
Greg Cody
He added an important caveat.
Stugats
You know what? I think most people understand that, though. I think most people say, you know what? I'm with Jalen Ramsey on that. So it's up. I don't get football after that. Respectfully.
Tony
Which gets the point across better, the respectfully or the quite frankly?
Stugats
Well, the quite frankly before bleep you has a bit of song in it. It respectfully looks like he's just trying to dilute what he said before. I think that quite frankly builds up and then bleep you is the big puncture.
Chris Cody
Here's Jamar denying it, even though there's clear video evidence that he did spit.
Dan LeBatard
Just. You did not spit on him.
Stugats
That's what he's saying. I spit on nobody.
Tony
What a liar.
Greg Cody
Massive hawker.
Mike Ryan
Maybe.
Chris Cody
Maybe he was just talking crap and, like, spit out not that amount of crap. So enthusiastic about what he's saying.
Stugats
Okay, but you guys are telling me, and I have not seen video or photographic proof of this, you guys are telling me that something was hanging from Jalen Ramsey face mask. If that's the case, that's not spittle. Like, that's not that. That is from the throat. If it's something that's hanging, that's like. Like a. A fern that's hanging from the face mask.
Ryen Russillo
Look.
Chris Cody
Look how scary Mike looks right now.
Mike Ryan
Wow.
Stugats
That's too.
Mike Ryan
He's in a graveyard.
Stugats
It's too big of a disrespect. And I don't understand why it is that people continue to do this. And I wonder if the penalties need to be stiffer. Because if you don't want things to escalate. Right. Like, I think one of the things with punishments that is preventative is the consequences have to be to avoid escalation.
Tony
That's why he's going to get suspended.
Stugats
And when you have, like, let's say, whatever you believe to be the greatest escalations in sports history, the malice at the palace comes to mind. It starts with, you throw a beer on Ron Artest. That action creates the escalation that ends up in the biggest suspensions you see in the history of the sport. I think the suspensions have to be pretty stiff on this as a disrespect, because what can escalate after that can get a lot messier than what happened in that game. If your teammates see it, then I know that, Greg, after the game that was marred earlier this season by punches being thrown after the game that involved the Lions. You were lamenting and you were saying that that had to be big suspensions. If other players on your team see that you have a loogie hanging from your face mask and it's Jalen Ramsey who's feeling that level disrespect that he tells you after that he's like, football doesn't matter. My job doesn't matter. My paycheck doesn't matter. I'm on television doesn't matter. My team's in the playoff hunt doesn't matter. Aaron Rodgers last year doesn't matter. Nothing matters after that. Like, it's just not something that you can have in the sport. You can't abide that level of disrespect. Suspending someone a game is something that matters in that sport when there are 17 games. But I do wonder if there are enough deterrence. Given the amount of spitting we've seen recently. It seems like there's not enough of a deterrent.
Mike Ryan
Well, I think it's going to depend on the NFL really rethinking its whole punishment system and adding this, because right now it's the physicality that they're after. In other words, if you spit at me and I punch you, I'm more liable for punishment than you are, even though you started it. And my other question is, the ref.
Stugats
Couldn'T have seen that there was spit though. That couldn't have been seen, otherwise they'd both be ejected.
Mike Ryan
But my other question is, what if the disrespect is spoken? What if instead of spitting at you, I say something that's really.
Stugats
I don't think there's. I don't think there's anything that you could say honestly, as disrespectful as that. Put it on the poll at Lebatard show. Is there anything anyone can say to you as disrespectful as spitting in your face?
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Stugats
Don LeBatard.
Mike Ryan
He called me on my own podcast. He called me full of shit, claiming that I'm faking interest in the solar eclipse.
Chris Cody
Well, you do do this. You love to just get excited about everything.
Mike Ryan
Okay, junior stugats. I had to school you and explain.
Tony
To you he was gonna take you to a Gusta.
Mike Ryan
I mean, when I was 17 years old, Alan Sherry and I used to haunt the Bueller Planetarium.
Stugats
This is the D? Ler show with his two gods.
Greg Cody
Clarification on the Jaylen Carter situation. So he was suspended in the game that he was in. I was. He kicked out. The NFL said, we're not going to suspend you for another following game after that.
Tony
So it was literally a whole game that he was kicked out.
Greg Cody
It was again one of the first plays of the game.
Tony
No, it was before the first play. It was after the kickoff.
Stugats
Yeah, it was on the field. Yeah. Dak Prescott had just come out. But I would say, honestly, I'm not kidding about this. I'm serious about what I'm about to say. The punishment should be worse if the expectoration is worse. If there's a loogie hanging from your face. Math. Like with Jalen Carter, there was some question about, like, did he, didn't he? We got to go to the video. But if there's a loogie hanging from your face mask, the punishment needs to be worse than that.
Tony
So do you just have to leave the loogie hanging on your face and run to the referee and say, see?
Stugats
Yes, yes.
Mike Ryan
It takes a skill to spit through a face mask, I would imagine, because you've got a bar here or a bar there. How do you have to raise your lips to, you know, guy who's never.
Greg Cody
Had his hand in the dirt? I don't like that. From Greg Cody. I don't like that.
Mike Ryan
Look, it's skillful though.
Greg Cody
Yeah, but you got to know, you got to put a helmet on, throw a hawker out there just like Dan last week. Not, not a fan of having his hand in the dirt. Greg Cody showing your ass right now.
Mike Ryan
Okay, But I'm respecting the ability to spit through a face mask. I don't condone spitting, but I'm respecting the ability to accurately.
Tony
Sounds like you're not condemning it either, though.
Chris Cody
You ever spit on someone?
Mike Ryan
I have not. Nor would I.
Chris Cody
Me neither.
Mike Ryan
Nor would I. But if I do spit on someone, does it justify him punching me in the face? I don't think so.
Tony
Respectfully, you get a disease from being spit on.
Mike Ryan
You're thinking, five years ago, have you.
Greg Cody
Seen the spit offs that they have in like, in like the East?
Tony
They got rid of that.
Dan LeBatard
Respectfully, never forget, it's a big breakthrough five years ago to us.
Stugats
So five years ago, I really. Us. Just, just for the record, okay, I want you guys to now imagine Jalen Ramsey out for the rest of the season because of the disease that he got.
Dan LeBatard
Yeah.
Stugats
From the mouth. From the mouth of. Of Jamar Chase.
Mike Ryan
Yeah, yeah. Pandemic.
Stugats
Respectfully.
Mike Ryan
You kidding me? You spit during the pandemic. They put a white suit on you. You couldn't even, you couldn't even see.
Chris Cody
Through coughing just now is back.
Tony
Jaylen Ramsey out two weeks. Spitting disease.
Mike Ryan
Right.
Stugats
What is the disease you believe that people can get from spitting, just out of curiosity?
Mike Ryan
A spitosis.
Dan LeBatard
All right.
Stugats
Respectfully.
Dan LeBatard
I mean, they should both be gone, you ask me.
Stugats
Yeah, it's my mistake. I, I want to ask you guys this because I don't believe that there's any circumstance under which we're talking about the third string quarterback who's a fifth round pick on a terrible Browns team. Unless it's Shador Sanders. Like it's legitimately not in my lifetime. A story that I'm ever going to. Talked about a great deal on a Monday after the weekend's games. How bad and unprepared did the fifth round pick who's the third string quarterback for a truly terrible team? This is the only guy famous enough to have ever registered on anyone's conversation scale. He clearly wasn't ready. The Browns obviously knew he wasn't ready. He showed yesterday why it is that they thought he was not ready. And yet I believe a lot of people will still be talking even though he's an irrelevant person in the league.
Tony
Can you hype up the crowd when you're running onto the field and then go 4 for 16 with an interception? That's tough.
Mike Ryan
Yes, you can.
Stugats
It is tough. I rethought my position from a month ago where I was arguing on behalf of the Lego helmets. Romeo Dobbs, when you drop the ball that much, you can't be wearing a Lego helmet. Like, you got to catch the ball if you're wearing the LEGO helmet. I'm fine with you running around wearing the Lego helmet and not dropping the ball, but if you're going to drop the ball and look ridiculous with the LEGO helmet, I'm going to, I'm going to be embarrassed on your behalf.
Tony
Am I supposed to believe. Because the big, the big story is that Shadur Sanders was completely unprepared and it's not his fault. It's Kevin Stefanski's fault because apparently he has not taken a single snap with the first team since preseason. How could that be true if he goes into this game as the backup? Not a single practice snap with the first team and he's the backup quarterback. I mean, is that. Is that even reasonable to believe?
Mike Ryan
Well, he was only the backup because Dylan Gabriel got a concussion.
Chris Cody
But wouldn't the backup. Wouldn't. Every week a backup gets some reps with first team.
Tony
He's literally a play away from playing.
Stugats
No, he's not here. He was the backup.
Dan LeBatard
Yeah, he was a backup. Once they got rid of Joe Flacco, I think the argument for not giving Chador any reps as a. As a number two quarterback on the depth chart is they took another quarterback in this draft class that was higher. And that quarterback needs all the snaps that he can get with the first team. And clearly they've seen enough throughout their evaluation process that leads them to believe they have a better chance of winning with Dylan Gabriel than Shador. And so probably they decided no snaps for Shador, all the snaps for Dylan Gabriel.
Tony
I mean, I'm sure that's true, but like, when. And when the Dolphins threw Quinn Ewers in there a few weeks ago, like, no one was saying he hasn't had a single snap with the first team in practice since training camp. Right.
Dan LeBatard
I don't think anybody was making excuses for him at the time. And I imagine Quinn Ewers did get some first team snaps.
Tony
I would think so.
Stugats
But it's. But it's also not the same thing. Not the same situation. Tua doesn't need more practice snaps. Dylan Gabriel needs all of the practice snaps. He's not. He's not a veteran quarterback. So just to correct things, because it's important. Important that we get things right about all the Bears defenses. But also diseases spread through spitting. Aids. Not one of them.
Ryen Russillo
That's right.
Stugats
So just to be clear, who had.
Tony
That double check on that?
Stugats
It was just double checked. There aren't a lot of diseases that can be spread through.
Ryen Russillo
You can find out those, though, if you'd like.
Mike Ryan
No, but I said half jokingly, and it's true that during the height of the pandemic, if you sneezed in public, people looked at you. Crazy papola.
Ad Read Voice
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Chris Cody
Coughing was the real thing.
Mike Ryan
Coughing. I'm a professional cougher. I know that it was tough going through the pandemic. Coughing.
Stugats
Believe me, before we get to Bill Belichick being cold in the handshake with Wake Forest after the game, after losing to Wake Forest, I do want to get to this Draymond Green story because we were just talking about Jamar Chase up and down, lying about spitting on a face mask where there was clearly a loogie. Draymond Green is also not telling the Truth about whatever it is. What are the details? I need to know about what he was reacting to in regards to Angel Reese.
Tony
Yeah. So yesterday, the warriors were playing at the Pelicans. Boy, Pelicans are terrible. Dan. The warriors were at the Pelicans. Zion never plays, Dan. And they fired Willie Green, their coach. So the Warriors. That's a rundown. Everything you need to know about the Pelicans.
Greg Cody
Things are going well in New Orleans.
Dan LeBatard
Keep interrupting yourself. I like that as a character.
Mike Ryan
A lot of parentheticals there.
Greg Cody
You know about them.
Tony
So Draymond Green, in the middle of the game, walked over to, you know, behind the basket. He confronted a fan. And by the way, that fan is tall. They were nose to nose, all right? And Draymond Green and the fan are having a back and forth, and then eventually they get split up, and the fan got warned, you know, don't do it again. And so turned out what happened was Draymond Green was then asked after the game about the incident. I believe we have the video. So here was Draymond Green's explanation as to what made him confront the fan.
Dan LeBatard
What happened in the second quarter with that fan?
Stugats
He just kept calling me a woman. It was a good joke at first, but you can't keep calling me a woman. You know, he got quiet, though, so it's fine. Yeah, he just kept calling me a woman's name. I am not official.
Greg Cody
Came over.
Stugats
I mean, were you guys discussing. Yeah, he just told me. I got it.
Mike Ryan
I've heard him over and over and over again.
Stugats
Don't get yourself in no trouble. I'll take care of it. Accordingly.
Greg Cody
Was great.
Tony
Okay, so first, Draymond Green is saying that the fan kept calling him a woman, which you would think means one thing. Then eventually he was called a woman's name. Well, as it turns out, the fan was calling him Angel Reese because he kept missing shots and getting rebounds, and that's all he could do. He keeps missing layups. Being called Angel Reese and being called a woman are not the same thing. Which is why Draymond Green never actually said what he was being called, because it's stupid.
Stugats
He was offended because he kept missing shots and grabbing his own rebounds. The way that rebounds, Dan, and the way that Angel Reese does. So. So the fan was complimenting him by calling great player angel. Great offensive rebounder is what the. What the fan meant in that situation.
Tony
He's being called a woman.
Mike Ryan
Thank you. Well, come on. You know, there used to be a saying, I don't want to be the. The Old.
Chris Cody
All right. I don't like where this.
Stugats
We don't want it.
Dan LeBatard
Oh, I like where this is heading. No, this is not something he'll regret. Come on.
Mike Ryan
The saying used to be, sticks and stones break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
Ryen Russillo
That's a good one.
Mike Ryan
Actually calls me a woman or called me Angel. Reese, what am I supposed to do? Get all macho and punch the guy? Come on.
Dan LeBatard
I need your support.
Mike Ryan
Take an insult like a man and move on. You know?
Chris Cody
You know, the actual saying.
Stugats
Sticks and stone like a man, you.
Mike Ryan
Know, or like a woman, as the case may be.
Chris Cody
Say the saying that you're talking about.
Mike Ryan
What saying? What do you mean? Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
Chris Cody
I thought maybe you'd screw it up after saying it's a great saying.
Mike Ryan
I grew up with that saying. We used to always say it.
Stugats
Back when the penny mattered.
Mike Ryan
Yes, the US Sent. Bring it back, Jack. Let's go.
Stugats
He was not the only warrior. Who was. I'm not gonna say. Was this a confrontation? Was Jimmy Butler. What happened here? What happened with Jimmy Butler and a gambler? Before we get to this Bill bel check moment, Jimmy Butler. The warriors beat the spurs twice with Steph Curry going crazy. With Steph Curry so good right now.
Greg Cody
I think he might be my MVP right now.
Stugats
Really?
Greg Cody
Might be my MVP of the day.
Stugats
Really? Yeah.
Greg Cody
He's playing that well right now.
Dan LeBatard
He's wearing Nikes.
Greg Cody
Yeah. Wearing Kobe's. He's a sneaker free agent, by the way.
Ryen Russillo
Dan.
Dan LeBatard
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Ryen Russillo
Folks.
Chris Cody
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Stugats
Don LeBatard.
Mike Ryan
I want to address Tony and all men who would wear that shirt in public.
Dan LeBatard
Stugats don't do it.
Stugats
This is the Don lebatar show with the Stugats. Did you guys hear what Greg Cody said? When MVP talk came up, he just muttered under his breath, Norman Powell. He's right. All right, let's. Let's hear and watch Jimmy Butler in the street having an interaction with a gambler. I'm sure athletes love being in the street and hearing from gamblers or fantasy players on how they ruined everything.
Jimmy Butler Fan
Green Apple looking at stupid big ass Tim's on Jimmy Butler. Man, they don't give a you in that city.
Mike Ryan
Look at him.
Jimmy Butler Fan
Mo P looking ass. Yes, bro. I put 3,000 and win 30. Why do we have 30 perks? Jimmy Butler?
Ryen Russillo
Why?
Jimmy Butler Fan
You did not have a 30 perks. You were supposed to go over. You work for Vegas. You work for Vegas.
Chris Cody
Seems reckless.
Tony
It's a fair question.
Stugats
No, it is.
Greg Cody
Green Apple Looking ass a good one.
Tony
We're not Timberlands.
Stugats
You can't talk to people like that, man. What. What do you. Who do you think you are?
Dan LeBatard
Keep doing the impression. I like it. Who do you keep using that voice.
Stugats
That's great. For those of you who cannot see this, Jimmy Butler is wearing. What is the color? Somewhere between yellow and lime. Is it green apple?
Dan LeBatard
Like a pale green Garish.
Stugats
It's not. It's very colorful, I guess.
Ryen Russillo
Yeah, it's a highlighter. It's a yellow highlighter after you've gone over black pen just one time. So it's just slightly darker than the yellow highlighter.
Mike Ryan
It's got a little vomit quality to it.
Tony
I like how Jimmy. He wasn't necessarily offended by the things the guy was saying.
Ryen Russillo
Saying.
Tony
It's that. Can't you see I'm on the phone?
Stugats
This is admirable restraint from Jimmy Butler. You really shouldn't talk to people like this 100%. You should not do this. Play the whole thing.
Jimmy Butler Fan
Jimmy Butler, man. They don't give a you in that city. Look at him. Mo Prain. Look at that. Yes, bro. I put 3,000 to win 30. Why you have 30 perks? Jimmy Butler? Why you did not have a 30 perks? You was supposed to go over. You work for Vegas. You work for Vegas.
Tony
It's crazy.
Stugats
Would you guys. Funny. Would you guys. If Jimmy Butler reached into that man's car and slapped him? If just. If Jimmy Butler reached in the car and slapped him. Most athletes know better than this. Know they're being provoked. Know that a lawsuit can come from the video. Know that this person can be videoing them in order to get the provocation response. But if he had slapped him, would you guys have the similar reaction that you did to Jalen Ramsey when he's like. Yeah, I understand why it is that he. What? Why it is that he punched Jamar Chase?
Mike Ryan
I think it relates to our earlier conversation. If Jimmy Butler reaches through that window and punches that man, Jimmy Butler gets suspended by the NBA.
Chris Cody
This feels a little more playful than a spit.
Ryen Russillo
That guy sucks.
Stugats
No, you can't. That feels playful to you when he calls him over ass like that? That feels playful to you because you guys cut that off on the second part. Like the. That's the one that was like that when. When it. Once it got to there one more time. Because if someone talks to me this way, I'm not taking it as playful. I'm not receiving this. What are you doing? I'm not receiving. I'm not receiving. This as playful is what I'm telling you.
Jimmy Butler Fan
Green Apple looking at stupid big ass Tim's on Jimmy Butler, man. They don't give a. You're in that city.
Mike Ryan
Look at him.
Jimmy Butler Fan
Mo pain. Look at that. Yes, bro. I put 3,000 and win 30. Why you have 30 perks, Jimmy Butler? Why you did not have a 30 perks? You were supposed to go over. You work for Vegas. You worked for Vegas. Green Apple looking at.
Tony
Without the profanity. Why didn't you go over 30 points? Fair question.
Stugats
Well, the way he said points was funny.
Mike Ryan
Perts.
Stugats
Pert.
Jimmy Butler Fan
Mo Pain looking ass. Yes.
Greg Cody
Bad bet, though. Three grand on Jimmy over 30.
Stugats
I don't like that.
Mike Ryan
Isn't over 30 always a dangerous bet?
Tony
Maybe he may be getting off.
Stugats
Not. Not in today's NBA market. It'll give you 47 every night.
Greg Cody
It's good.
Chris Cody
It was. Yeah. To win 30, he said so. It must have paid really good.
Ryen Russillo
You work for Vegas is crazy.
Stugats
What is propane looking ass like? What?
Greg Cody
You know when you see it?
Stugats
What? No, I don't know. Is that. Is he alleging that the color of the outfit is propane colored?
Ad Read Voice
Play it again.
Stugats
Play it again.
Greg Cody
See, it's not propane.
Chris Cody
The text said propane. I thought it was propane too. It's something else. Moped looking one more time.
Jimmy Butler Fan
Mopane.
Mike Ryan
Look at that moped.
Dan LeBatard
Totally comfortable with this. Yes.
Tony
Jimmy doesn't seem very amused.
Dan LeBatard
Nor should he be.
Stugats
He just was on the phone.
Mike Ryan
I think he handled it admirably. See, I credit Jimmy Butler.
Greg Cody
Yes.
Stugats
For sure. These guys are used to it. But it is dehumanizing in a way that's super strange. Like, I don't know how it is or why it is. Well, I kind of do, actually. Why it is people are that comfortable being that disrespectful.
Mike Ryan
I think athletes are more and more comfortable with living with the gambling and the fantasy element of what they do for a living. Quick example. AJ Brown, who spent the entire season complaining that the Eagles aren't throwing them the ball in the.
Dan LeBatard
Enough.
Mike Ryan
Was quoted the other day as saying, I wouldn't have me on my fantasy team. I'm not getting the ball enough. Nobody should have me on their fantasy team.
Dan LeBatard
If I could be for real for a moment. That's a scary situation. If you're Jimmy Butler walking down the street. A dude pulls up on you in the car. You don't know what he has.
Chris Cody
I would argue that this guy did not cross the line. But I'm with you that you don't.
Dan LeBatard
Know there is nobody that is comfortable with anybody driving up to them, screaming at them. You don't know what is happening.
Stugats
Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. The only reason you don't think he crossed the line is because you, too, think that you're entitled with gambling fantasy or whatever to be mad at an athlete because he cost you money. That crosses the line like that. Absolutely.
Chris Cody
You don't talk for me like if the scale is zero. Like, if 10 is. I'm legitimately fearful that I'm about to be attacked. If that's a 10, to me, this is like a six or seven.
Stugats
You can't call him a ass, and you can't do that, like, harassed in public.
Chris Cody
But he's saying it. Play like, I get it. Like. But he's not. I don't hear this guy's tone and being like, oh, my God, this guy's. I'm with you. I don't know where the line is either. I'm not saying, let's have.
Dan LeBatard
Let's have a car roll up on you and say, hey, Chris Cody, in that tone like, you look, I've been.
Chris Cody
Heckled walking to my car before.
Dan LeBatard
That's not. Like, I don't think, like, you cost me money.
Ryen Russillo
You work for Vegas.
Dan LeBatard
Calling him a B word, like, he's. I mean, you don't know what he's asked.
Mike Ryan
I think it's a fine line here. I think that Jimmy Butler absolutely is being insulted. I don't think he's being threatened.
Stugats
It seems like it's not a fine line. Don't talk to people that way. That's not a fine line.
Ryen Russillo
This is pretty cut and dry. Like, this should not be happening. No, I'm not saying that you should be, like, cowering in fear. But I also think that, like, to have someone drive up, roll down their window and start yelling at you, no matter what the context, by the way, on the phone. Right? So he doesn't know at first what this guy is yelling at.
Mike Ryan
Him.
Dan LeBatard
Him.
Ryen Russillo
That's not. And by the way, even given what he is yelling at him, not. Okay, you should not be approaching people saying, you work for Vegas. That's not how this works.
Tony
The York for Vegas was the least.
Stugats
Offensive thing he's ever done around.
Ryen Russillo
It's the.
Chris Cody
It's like he's. He's being playful. Like, there's no point there where Jimmy thinks this guy's getting out and I'm with you.
Dan LeBatard
That's worse.
Ryen Russillo
That's why this.
Chris Cody
I'm with you. That this is Not a good thing.
Mike Ryan
Thing.
Chris Cody
Because someone might go past the line. I think that this guy was like, close to the line, but on, like, the playful side. But I'm with you. That guys. I don't know.
Stugats
He's criticizing both his appearance, his choice in shoes, a funny joke. Accusing him of fixing games and calling him a ass. Where do you think the line is?
Mike Ryan
I think the line is getting out of the car and being physically threatening. Guys, guys.
Greg Cody
He started with green apple. Looking at it. We're fine, guys. We're fine. You guys are sensitive on this.
Chris Cody
It could have escalated. And it is a slippery looking ass.
Dan LeBatard
Wait, is this in San Francisco?
Greg Cody
Fentanyl capital of the world.
Stugats
Not big Tim's. It was stupid ass Tims.
Dan LeBatard
It was big stupid ass Tims.
Ad Read Voice
Funny.
Chris Cody
Which is a funny burn.
Ryen Russillo
I can't believe we're debating it.
Tony
Were they big stupid ass Tims?
Ad Read Voice
Yeah.
Greg Cody
Did he look like a green eye apple propane tank?
Dan LeBatard
I thought Jimmy handled that exceptionally well.
Ryen Russillo
Perfectly.
Mike Ryan
Me too.
Stugats
You guys have. You guys have a different.
Chris Cody
So you think that I should be arrested? To me, it's just like.
Stugats
Yes, yes. Shot in the street. Yes. That's what I think.
Chris Cody
You literally just said that. He went way past the line.
Stugats
Chris.
Tony
Okay, like arrested.
Stugats
Chris. Arrested. Like there. So what's that?
Tony
Crime.
Chris Cody
What do.
Stugats
There are no detours. Wait a minute. So your line is crime, commit a crime against. No.
Chris Cody
You guys are the ones freaking out over this. And I'm asking you, like, what should they call the cops? Like, what I'm doing.
Stugats
Not freaking out. I'm saying that's wildly disrespectful to do to somebody you don't know. It's disrespectful.
Mike Ryan
What should Jimmy Butler have done? What would you.
Ad Read Voice
What he did.
Ryen Russillo
Exactly what he did.
Stugats
But that's. That's calling on the athlete to show vastly better behavior as the victim of this than it is of the fan. Which I'm not surprised when I say, oh, I'm not surprised why this happens. Yes. More and more because you're in fantasy leagues with these players. Players. And because they cost you money. More and more fans, the customer feels more and more entitled to dehumanize the athlete. But that is not a person you talk to that way. You heard Draymond Green say while he was talking, you heard him say it was fine. I handled it. As soon as I confronted him face to face, that stopped. Everything stopped. Because that's not something that you do to Jimmy Butler. Unless you're trying to provoke some sort of Response if Jimmy Butler does slap you in the face, you were looking for it by talking to him that way.
Mike Ryan
Right, but who gets in trouble? Jimmy Butler.
Stugats
That's correct. But who got in trouble in the Jalen Ramsey thing? He was disrespected. And then Jalen Ramsey got in trouble. Like that's. But, but the better behavior is required of the athlete in that spot because I assure you the conversation. If we had video of Jimmy Butler slapping that guy or worse, just putting his fist repeatedly in the car, Jimmy Butler would be the one that's in trouble there. When the thing that happened was the disrespect escalated to that point and I'd be sitting there saying, you know what? I don't blame Jimmy Butler for doing that. Don't, don't talk to Jimmy Butler that way. If you don't know Jimmy Butler and he doesn't know, you're being playful.
Greg Cody
And also the responsibility is on the athlete. They know they have more to lose than a guy who's gonna pull up on the street and make a joke about you looking like a green apple wearing stupid ass tims like you know that going into it, hey, I make millions of a year this like I can't do anything.
Mike Ryan
If Jimmy Butler leans into that car window and starts yelling back at that guy. The escalation is on Jimmy Butler. He's the athlete who needs to take the high road there. I give him all the credit in the world for the way he handled that Butler.
Jimmy Butler Fan
Why you did not have a 30 per. You were supposed to go over. You worked for Vegas. You worked for Vegas.
Stugats
We've got breaking news here with the Atlanta Falcons. Michael Penic's potential season ending knee injury. So it looks like Kirk Cousins will probably be going the rest of the way there. I'm assuming that Aaron Rodgers wrist is broken. I don't know if Aaron Rodgers can play or would want to play with a broken left wrist. Like they. If it's not his. Does anyone have any earthly idea, any earthly idea whether or not he could play with a broken left wrist? Given that it's not really. I don't know whether you can hold a snap. Can you even take a snap without fumbling? If you've got a bro, if you got a cast on your left, on your left hand, I would think that's.
Mike Ryan
Going to remove him from the game. Generally when a, when a right handed quarterback has the opposite arm injury, whether it's a shoulder or anything like that, it, they're out.
Tony
I mean it wouldn't be A cast tape it up. I. I think he probably plays.
Mike Ryan
Yeah, but you got to take a snap though.
Tony
Aaron, shotgun. It's not like the ball is going to be, you know, pushed into your hands like.
Greg Cody
But he's not in shotgun all the time though. Like he's got to go under center with their offense. He's got to go under center. But the thing is it's not even that. It's just the act of football. All right, I'm fine. I throw the ball, I get tackled and then I land on my wrist. Like the way I broke it the first time.
Chris Cody
It's just going to us trying to break down. This wrist injury is one of like this last 30 seconds.
Tony
I did good analysis.
Dan LeBatard
Yeah, Greg like that Zaslow. So did body 90 year old man and a guy that imaginary football started.
Chris Cody
Talking about the wrist. Tony like mimed a hut to like. All right, let me text.
Greg Cody
Yeah, because I was thinking, all right, you go right as a right handed quarterback.
Stugats
You right over left, right here we are the worst that I don't know.
Dan LeBatard
Damn. I don't know. Boom, I'm up here. I don't know. It seems like it hurts.
Stugats
Neither do I. But do you know how hard this.
Greg Cody
Guy'S a green apple looking at?
Stugats
What are you talking about that says.
Chris Cody
He might put play.
Stugats
Do you know how hard it is for us as a show to be worse than we were with Chris Cody saying No, I don't think that's close to the line.
Chris Cody
You guys are okay.
Stugats
I mean you.
Chris Cody
I think you guys are off on this one.
Stugats
This guy getting heckled, by the way.
Greg Cody
Come on, give me a break.
Mike Ryan
Multiple times and stones, baby.
Jimmy Butler Fan
Yo, chicken thigh. Complete fraud across the streets.
Chris Cody
Carl's seen it.
Stugats
They call you a big faced red faced bleach ass mother. Big ass tits. I like it.
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Stugats
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Dan LeBatard
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Stugats
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Stugats
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Stugats
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Episode: Hour 1: The Foundation of Americana
Date: November 17, 2025
Location: Elser Hotel, Downtown Miami
In this brisk and irreverent episode, Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, Greg Cody, Mike Ryan, Chris Cody, and crew dive into the intersection of sports, nostalgia, and social trends—anchored by debates over petty change, respect (and disrespect) on and off the field, and the blurred lines between fan passion and unacceptable behavior. The group’s familiar blend of South Florida flavor, wit, and lively debate is on full display, dissecting NFL chaos, the "death of the penny" as a cultural touchstone, spitting incidents in sports, fan-athlete confrontations, and the existential comedy of modern American sports fandom.
[03:39–05:51]
“The penny is one of the foundations of Americana. I used to collect pennies...that was a big part of growing up to me, was the scent.” ([04:01])
“Everybody used to have a load in their pants...now nobody carries a coin anymore.” ([04:45])
[01:43–02:21, 05:51–07:59]
“Are you stunned that after next week the Dolphins will have the same number of wins as the Chiefs?” ([02:21])
[08:27–13:54, 17:15–23:14]
“If there's a loogie hanging from your face mask, the punishment needs to be worse.” ([17:30])
“One of the things with punishment...is to avoid escalation. The malice at the palace comes to mind—throw a beer, escalation ensues.” (Stugotz, [11:03])
“What if instead of spitting, I say something really disrespectful?” ([13:32])
[24:16–41:58]
“He just kept calling me a woman...then a woman's name. It was Angel Reese, because I kept missing shots and getting rebounds.” ([25:08–26:23])
[31:14–40:51]
“Athletes are living with the gambling and fantasy element more, but it’s dehumanizing in a way that’s super strange.” ([35:34])
“Don’t talk to Jimmy Butler that way. If you don’t know Jimmy Butler and you’re being ‘playful,’ that’s not for you to decide.” ([40:51])
"This is pretty cut and dry. Like, this should not be happening." ([37:35])
[19:46–23:14]
“Can you hype up the crowd when you’re running onto the field and then go 4 for 16 with an interception? That’s tough.” ([20:48])
“The only reason we ever talk about a third-string fifth-rounder is if he’s Shadur Sanders.” ([19:46])
"The penny is one of the foundations of Americana. I used to collect pennies...that was a big part of growing up to me, was the scent." ([04:01])
"The punishment should be worse if the expectoration is worse. If there’s a loogie hanging from your face mask...the punishment needs to be worse than that." ([17:27])
“He spit on me. So it’s up. Football after that. Respectfully.” ([09:39])
"I spit on nobody." ([10:20])
"Like, if 10 is, I'm legitimately fearful that I'm about to be attacked, this is like a six or seven." ([36:45])
"It's not a fine line. Don't talk to people that way. That's not a fine line." ([37:30])
Breezy, quick-witted, and irreverently insightful, the show repeatedly returns to themes of respect, nostalgia, and the absurdities of modern sports culture. Segments oscillate between playful teasing, heated arguments, and genuinely thoughtful reflections, cemented by classic “Le Batard Show” humor.
This episode offers a quintessential sampler of the Le Batard universe—where sports analysis is inseparable from social commentary and high-level nonsense. If you want pointed commentary on evolving fan/player relationships, sportsmanship, and Americana (from pennies to pro athletes), this is your episode.